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9 th uuftvllk vol 69 no so the tribune stouffville ontario friday may 22 1s53 fourteen pages planning board approves commercial lots for westend stouffville planning board meeting on thursday evening approved the rezoning of lour large lots in the westend of town from industrial to com- mereial three of the lots are on the west side of west lome cres and one lot is on the east j side of winona dr mr win timbers owner of the lots ap- peared before the planning board requesting the change i three of the lots he told the board could be disposed of im mediately for retail properties the board after some discus- sirm agreed that the single lot immediately north of the hamil- ton automotive store should j also be changed to commercial zone rezoning is presently being asked of mrftro and the dept of j planning for several acres ofi land at the east end of town including a commercial lot at the corner of north st and highway 47 also opposite the brierbush hcipital where the zone is being changed from ag- 1 ricultural to residential k w i betz co plans to erect an apart- j ment house on this latter site new developments the bourne construction co plan now baraven develop ments on the 17acre cain property was scrutinized by the board and the owners have been advised to present a new plan which will conform to an overall plan which has been placed on the entire east end vacant land south of main st and including the a e booth farm the commercial area on this land which fronts on main st has been enlarged by several hundred feet and only a few changes are necessary to bring the plan into line with the over all east end layout the board has also asked that several lots which will be taken as park land be added to the present summitview public school pro perty a new plan has been filed of northview acres which is the 15 acres of land immediately west of the high school fifty- six lots are contained in the new plan however this proper ty is not presently within the stouffville boundaries and the board took no action hydro linemen poll driver from overturned truck at dicksons hill wm bruce mcclellan 29 of scarboro was freed from the wrecked cab of his overturned sod truck on tuesday morning after the vehicle went out of control on no 48 highway south of dickson hill hydro linemen harry commandant and e f arnold both of mark- ham released the driver he was admitted to the markham medical centre and later trans ferred to the scarboro general hospital his injuries were not serious i markham twp police said that mcclellan apparently lost control of his truck on slippery pavement gasoline spilled out of the tank but the vehicle did not catch fire the truck was not loaded at the time pc bruce findlay investigated townline accident stouffville police were called in to investigate an accident on the markhampickering town- line on tuesday morning a panel truck driven by john steadman cone 10 north of stouffville flipped over but landed on its wheels the driver suffered head chest and knee lacerations he was admitted to the scarboro general hospital but later released constable h vankoughnet investigated deliver new cruiser the stouffville police dept received delivery last week of a new cruiser purchased rec ently from edgevale motors the 1959 ford is all white in colour with black lettering pictured here mr jim mont- of the car to police chief gomery hands over the keys frank edwards construction work begun on locust hill airfield few bowling tmlm mr harry watson a veteran performer in the nhl and last season a coach with st catharines in jr a ranks will be the manager of a -mod- w gam davison tony queen of canada rr construction work was start ed last week on the new private airfield at locust hill a report that appeared in a previous is sue of the tribune that approv al had been received from the dept of highways and dept of transport was confirmed on friday by one of the directors dr james w harper of aurora the site is located on the how ard hagerman farm the pro perty has been in the hagerman family name for five genera tions the main barn will be reno vated and used as a repair han gar a modern clubhouse com plete with uptodate recreation al facilities will be built dr harper said that he expects the project to be completed early in 1960 the brick residence will be retained mr hagerman in tends to erect two new bunga lows near the site of the present pea vinery installation dr harper said that the fly ing club will be open to paid membership or would operate on a payasyoufly basis an amphibioxis plane will be avail able to transport persons to cottages on northern ontario lakes or on private fishing ex cursions a number of local residents have already enjoyed brief flying stints over the dis trict lions to blitz town n stouffville lions club mem bers will conduct a ticket blitz early monday evening next may 25th in aid of their many worthwhile local chari ties the lions will be selling tickets on their wildwest cir cus which they are bringing to town next month tickets are 1 for adults and 50c for children and there will be both afternoon and evening performances the local service club has ern new bowling alley now un der construction in the mark ham shopping centre it will contain 20 lanes and is expected to be completed in september league bookings are now being taken according to reports the former hockeygreat plans to retire from active participation in the sport harry watson broke into pro fessional hockey ranks with the new york americans he later performed with detroit toronto and chicago he joined buffalo expended heavily of its wet of the ahl in the season of fare funds during the pastgg he took ovcr coac ing job at st catharines last winter mr and mrs watson and family will take up per manent residence in markham village season and ask you to help with their work by purchas ing a couple of tickets for this special entertainment members will be coming to gether for their regular sup per meeting at the masonic hall and will then go out to cover the town in teams on the sale of tickets bs telephone co shows substantial business gain in 58 a financial statement show- creased as to equipment and the ng a substantial business in- number of subscribers is contin- rease in 195 was presented to ually increasing the program he shareholders of the b s of reducing the number of sub- elephone co at the annual scribers on rural party lines jiareholders meeting held on continued throughout the year ipjpfs mrs g a m davison of unionville known as the pony queen of canada passed away quietly on thursday in her 91st year mrs davison despite her great years was active to the very end the former nancy ma- filda canning she was the last member of this irish family who came to canada over a century ago and settled on the hagerman sideroad mr davison who passed away in 1935 had been post master at unionville for many years and mrs davison car ried on in her husbands foot steps for some thirty years she also conducted an ontario motor vehicles license bureau for fif teen years and for a long period was the only one serving the public locally in this capacity the davison family was known across the dominion for their breeding and raising of hackney ponies and mrs davi son who was also a prominent judge became known as the pony queen of canada she had the distinction of exhibiting at the first royal winter fair in 1923 and was the only con tinuous exhibitor in the horse classes right up to and includ ing last year her granddaugh ter betty rae did the showing for mrs davison in 1914 mrs davison organ ized the unionville womens in stitute and was the organiza tions first president she was associated with the anglican church survivors are four daughters eleanor mrs g fraser to ronto marie mrs r b rae unionville dorothy mrs h g young montreal and margaret mrs c f windham oak- ville the funeral on sunday was conducted bv rev w s butt and the pallbearers wore jeffrey jarvis of burlington carl wynd- ham oakville mathew rae milliken gordon fraser tor onto chas reeve markham and wm armstrong kitchen er interment was made in the anglican cemetery unionville d n reesbiv pioneer miller and farmer the death occurred at tor onto east genera hospital on friday may 15th of david n reesor pioneer miller and far mer of markham township he was in his 90th year mr ree sor despite his age had been ill only two weeks when he was stricken mr reesor was born in scar boro township where he farm ed for a time and took over a milling business from his fa ther simeon reesor which was conducted for over a half cen tury the deceased also oper ated a sawmill in markham township he was associated with the markham milling co and later with the present mar- mill company in markham vil lage he had been resident in markham for a dozen years the late mr reesor was mar ried originally to the late sophia rittenhouse and is survived by his second wife the former may meyer one daughter mary e toronto and three sons chas and russel of markham and lome j of maple one son al- foi best puc moves rapidly on extension of waterworks system expansion projects pertaining to increasing and improving the stouffville waterworks system moved rapidly at a special meeting of the commission last week authorization was given to engage k w betz construction co to construct a new and enlarged reser voir providing his own plans and specifications for approval of the commission and ontario water re sources commission at a previous meeting the esti mated cost of the new reservoir was given at between 20000 and 25000 in addition chairman dr ball and secretary elmer daniels were authorized to negotiate for a site on the edward davies farm for installation of a pumping station this farm is immediately north of the cor- poration boundary on the 9th concession keeve lehman and the secretary will secure prices immediately on two new pumps for installation at the reservoir and the necessary equipment for the pumping station on the line at the entrance to town a large new meter is to be installed by june 1st by the veterans construction co on the main feeder line from the reservoirs commissioner neville doing the supervising reeve lehman said that the detailed water report from hisey barrington engineers recommended a pumping station and he proposed the resolutions on their recommendations there were fourteen violations that the pair attempted to run of the game fisheries act j through the marsh however the 14th annual auction of the toronto and district ayrshire club was held last wednesday in the new cow palace at the stouffville sales arena the 48 head were in top shape and interested buyers came from british columbia manitoba eastern ontario and locally the cattle were in demand and sold at good prices the club reports the best average in the past five years w c morris bought the top i open heifer at 33000 with sev- eral head going to manitoba and eastern ontario w d atkinson was the auc tioneer assisted by frank ben nett in the ring the sale was concluded in less than two hours vin is predeceased the late mr reesor was ident ified with the mennonite church at cedar grove the funeral on sunday was conducted from the reesor mennonite church by louis fretz floyd schmucker and p j lehman pallbearers were willis hoover grant burk- holder louis coffman and three grandsons herb reesor don reesor and geo reesor inter ment was made in the cemetery adjoining the church heard before magistrate kelly in vandorf court on tuesday of this week and a total of 375 paid in fines jack boyington charged with taking pike out of season was fined 50 and costs or ten days magistrate kelly stated that the government had spent large sums of money in stocking wai the water was too deep and they were forced to return they had eight fish all bearing evidence of having been speared they were fined 50 and costs passed school bus fined frank adamo charged with failing to stop at a standing school bus stated that he did ters to give people pleasure in i a ashing sig- fishing and it must not be foiled in securing a natural increase by persons taking fish out of season and in an illegal manner while the fish were on the spaw ning beds the officer testified that he found the accused carrying a lamp a spear and a bag contain ing one fish which gave evidence of having been speared maxi mum fine for this offence is 1000 william trout was also fined 50 on the same charge archie smith who was apprehended with a spear in hand but no fish was fined 25 joseph ward walter bertram and norman walsh were charg ed jointly with taking fish il legally they were in possession of a bag containing fish that bore evidence of being speared the officer said they had no spear but returning the next day he found one on the exact spot norville mallett and norville hollingshead charged with tak ing fish illegally were approach- nals officer asschuetz who laid the charge stated that both flashers at the rear of the bus were operating accused was fined 24 and costs t gorman and lome pryde were each fined 24 and costs for failing to observe a stop sign and robert may was fined 24 for travelling at 70 miles an hour ed by officer ross who testified i village concert assoc disbands due to a lack of interest the canadian concert association programme for next winter has been abandoned only six out of eighteen directors were pres ent at a meeting held on tues day night a telephone poll was taken to get the opinion of other parties and the majority favoured dropping the project mr w e duxbury acted as president of the local organiza tion for two years following his resignation no one was will ing to fill the position mrs t wedseltoft was secretary of the association the scheme suffer ed a similar fate in markham friends will regret to learn that jim harris wellknown farmer on the townline just east of town has been suffering from an arthritic condition and unable to operate his farm his friends and neighbors have been rhursday afternoon in submit ing the annual report presi lent f g ratcllff pointed out directors returned the annual election of officers resulting ii all directors being hat revenues for last year had i returned for 1959 and at the hown an increase of 228 i directors meeting which fol- khile expenses rose only 94 flowed the shareholders meeting he company continued to de- the officers were elected as fol iar its 6 annual dividend lows f glenn ratcliff presi- nd to increase the company dent r mancwell vice-prcsi- urplus j dent n a baker secytreas a reissue and extended bond j directors s n doner f c sue was made during last year pugh t b rae h r button 150000 which was success- and c h nolan this was the illy sold at 5 53rd annual meeting of the the local plant has been in- 1 company j new building authorization was given at a special meeting of stouffville public utilities commission last week to engage an architect to j assstwg prepare the plans and specifica tions for the new office building j serve for extra storage mr ire- and storage warehouse to be land pointed out that while built by the puc at the corner their suggested plan might ap- of blake and main sts commis- 1 pear to provide large office sioner neville was authorized space stouffville was bound to to engage the architect and the i enlarge and the accommodation plans are to be presented at j would be needed in future the earliest possible date for he stated that no heating approval space would be required as he the special meeting presided i presumed the commission over by commission chairman would heat the building with dr s s ball was amended by electricity mr don ireland andmr wright the estimated cost of the new of the ontario hydro commis- 1 building is 25000 sion the commission secretary mr ireland presented a was authorized to purchase 30 sketch plan of a building to the additional street lights as re- commission which they were quested by town council to in- asked to study for possible stall in some of the more poor- ideas the members discussed j ly lighted sections of town the the plan at some length it was lights are to be of a standard agreed that the building should bulbglobe type not to cost over have a basement which could 16 each foster mother blitz a large german bling service station operator stantly her recent litter of antl w them warm with shepherd dog has become a near buttonviile his pet pups died when she met with p warm wlln foster mother to four orphan- watchdog has taken a strange an accident prior to their a heat lamp liis worrie are ed raccoons they are the pro- liking for the ringtailed anl- adoption the owner had been now ovcr as ha lhc pcrty of mr richard trib- mals and guards them con- feeding them out of a bottle situation well in hand