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tfu vol 30 so 42 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday march 24 1960 fourteen pages party time this pretty party dress mo delled by grade 11 student beverley irwin won the praise of a large audience at the fa shion show conducted at the stouffville high school spring concert on friday evening the clothes were the product of each girls own handiwork this twopiece luncheon out fit was displayed by grade 9 student beverley little the fashion show was one of the feature attractions at the high schools spring concert held on friday night staff photos university a burden on taxpayer claims markham deputyreeve a suggestion by york county council that the site of the pro posed new york university should be located at some point within the county has not been enthusiastically received by members of markham twp council each municipality with in the county has been asked to submit information with regard to desirable sites deputyreeve wilfred dean charged that in ward 1 there were already too many non- revenue producing properties and any more would only con stitute an additional burden on the taxpayers a university is tax exempt councillor mcneil said that there had been some talk that the langstaff jail farm prop erty contained sufficient land to accommodate the university buildings the site contains 700 acres but only 400 acres are re quired reeve wm clark stated that the matter had never been re ferred to the township plan ning board council agreed that the area selected would have to provide sufficient housing ac commodation to look after the needs of students not in resi dence markham police salary in line with opp a salary schedule arranged by the police committee of markham township has receiv ed the approval of the police department and members of council it was presented at a regular meeting on monday night the new 1960 schedule for the thirteen member force and the chief will total s6277699 this is an increase of 414358 over 1959 the township salary scale has been placed on a par with the wage schedule for the on tario provincial police the adoption of this plan will elim inate the annual review of sal aries and will not be subject to change unless the schedule now in force with the o p p is changed the wage schedule is as fol lows prob constable 3400- s3750 police constable 3900- 4600 patrol sgt 4800- 5000 sgt 5400 metro planning board suggests immediate storm sewer survey for town needed for years says deputyreeve unlicensed pheasant hunters pay 19600 in buttonville court a pheasant hunting trip prov ed to be a rather costly outing for 4 unlicensed youths when they appeared before magistrate kelley in buttonville court on friday morning fines and court costs levied against the accused totalled 19600 each youth was charged with hunting pheasants in a closed season and being unable to produce a gun license the charge was laid by mr nor man sitwell a conservation officer the officer produced a dead hen pheasant as evidence a min iature arsenal of firearms was confiscated ranging from 303 rifles to dart guns one of the boys ronald mercer 19 admit ted shooting the bird he said he mistook it for a hawk ger ald cadman garry cadman both of milliken and frank hogg admitted having no lic ense mr sitwell told the court that the shooting of hawks and owls was also an offense as such birds were protected by the law he said that there had been no open season on pheas ants in scarboro for a number of years you just cant go out in the woods and take potshots at any thing said the magistrate each youth was fined 40 plus costs of 900 mr murray jones metro planning commissioner has sug gested that stouffville council should embark on an immediate storm sewer sjrvey to resolve the drainage problems that now exist with in the municipality mr jones accompanied by an assistant mr peter martin attended a special meeting with council and planning board on thursday afternoon he con tended that the initial cost of such a project should not ex ceed 600 the survey should have been completed a number of years ago commented deputyreeve kenneth wagg he suggested that at least seven or eight homes in the town wouro be en dangered by flood waters with in a few weeks time pinpoint ing one particular location mr wagg stated that the main st culvert at stouffer street was inadequate to handle any ex treme runoff or flash flood i feel that such a survey is most urgent at this stage he continued he noted however that the matter would have to be discussed in council railroad not vital mr martin advised the coun cil and planning board against being too hopeful of attracting industrial growth along the cnr line north of main st he suggested that sites at the west and east ends tf town would be more suitable depend ing on the type of industry its not absolutely necessary for industrial land to be served by a railroad he said he con tended that adequate highway facilities were more important he noted that it was rather re grettable that the dept of high ways had acquired ten acres of property near the westerly bor der of town it constitutes a it is a deterrent to any thing commented commission er jones deputyreeve wagg suggest ed that the laneway at the rear of the stouffville high school would have to be developed into a satisfactory road extending from the 9th concession through to no 47 highway residential land commissioner jones recom mended that 130 acres of resi dential land would be required to cope with an expected popu lation of 8000 residents within the next twenty years council suggested that this figure would be included in the proposed an nexation of 1200 acres mr a g thompson a mem ber of the stouffville planning board questioned the proposed new route of no 7 highway he contended that the bottleneck in markham village would be relieved if the route was re directed north of unionville and markham mr jones agreed that the suggestion had merit and would be passed on to the dept of highways board excellent relations deputyreeve ken wagg in formed the commissioner that neither the council nor the plan ning board had any complaints with regard to the operation of metro we have enjoyed ex cellent relations to date he said he agreed that the over all picture did not affect the town of stouffville to the same extent as a rural municipality he said he was desirous of hav ing future development promot ed in a sound and systematic way mr henry ogden speak ing on behalf of the stouffville planning board agreed that the metro board had been most co operative in past dealings with the town we have no com- little interest evident in businessmens assoc president resigns president ken wagg submitt ed a verbal resignation from the stouffville businessmens asso ciation on wednesday evening of last week after only five members attended a special meeting in the masonic hall mrs catherine sutherland the secretary had mailed out a total of fifty notices and others were notified personally although the election of officers and the setting up of summer store hours was on the agenda due to insufficient attendance these issues were not discussed mr wagg agreed that inclem ent weather conditions might have prevented a number from being present it will make a l reise anyway he said as far as im concerned its wasiied up he continued im finished other members of the executive contended that unless more support was evidenced they too did not wish to carry on the possibility of being el- ected to an office in the associa tion probably frightened some sway declared pres wagg some members of the executive intimated that they would at tempt to summon another meet ing mr wagg said he would not take the responsibility the secretary reported that the payment of membership fees had met with poor re sponse she presented an out standing account of 140 with a balance on hand of only 67- 25 mr ccc hendricks informed the imeeting that he was confi dent that this deficiency could be covered disappointed deterrent to industry he said i plaints he said brawl halts game the opening- game of the community league hockey finals was marred by a mid- ice brawl on tuesday night in the stouffville arena the skirmish broke out between stouffville and clarcmont players after centrestar bob cherry scored on a penalty shot with less than fifteen seconds to go the officials immediately halted the con test claremont were the vic tors 86 it was the first major out break of fisticuffs since the league was organized two years ago four of the main participants were wcs evans and vern ferguson of clare mont and geo martin and george third of stouffville third was partially stripped of his uniform before the com batants were finally parted the two clubs will resume playoff action- next tuesday at 815 pm fine a lot of coffee caterer tells magistrate remember the good old days when you could go into a 10cent store and buy something xor 10 cents garbage disposal on markham umi brings 50 fine two scarboro youths were severely reprimanded and fined s50 and costs in buttonville court on friday morning when they pleaded guilty to dumping refuse on a markham township sjderoad joseph shipton 16 and paul stockton is were each ordered tt pay an additional 550 in court costs the charge was laid by pc clifford cox of markham twp police dept its hard to believe that two boys of your age would do such thing said magistrate kel ley pc cox told the court that the refuse was dumped on the 14th avenue sideline be tween concessions 1 and 5 the source of the garbage was trac ed to a shopping centre in scar boro shipton told the magistrate that a store owner had paid him 300 to dispose of the refuse wc only wanted to make some money he said the officer said that the boys had later cleaned up the waste after the charge had been laid j surely you realize that you shouldnt take refuse from met ro toronto and dump it in an other municipality stated mag kelley this type of thing is practised far too often and rep resents a menace to both motor ists and pedestrians he contin ued he noted further that it was often quite difficult to trace the cuprits it is persons like you who put township officials to a great expense he said its a deliberate breach of a bylaw and a very serious mat- that represents an awful lot of coffee mr thomas haver- kort 32 of markham village told magistrate kelley after he was fined 35 and costs of 1740 in buttonville court on friday morning he was charged by pc cliff cox of markham twp police on feb 14th with pro viding a catering service in the township without the required license pc cox told the court that a number of employees from assinck bros factory had ob tained orders from a small de livery van mr haverkort stat ed that he was merely deliver ing the goods that had prev iously been ordered by tele phone the township bylaw ap proved in 1953 requires that the operator of such a service should procure a license for a fee of 25000 a witness mr edgar bishop testified that he had purchased some food and drinks from the van mr joseph assinck stated that he had requested the de livery by telephone pc cox stated that mr ha verkort had been cautioned on a previous occasion with regard to sales outside the village lim its magistrate kelley contended that some other type of vehicle would have to be used than the business van he suggested that the law wouldnt affect any de liveries mad by car i will never enter the town ship of markham again said the accused thats what wc want re plied the officer he said that the bylaw was a protection to restaurant owners in the town ship who paid a business tax building problem for rural schools by 1980 warns planning comm ter he suggested that the township of scarboro has a proper garbage dump for such refuse people like you must be punished he concluded the garbage was deposited on the road allowance on march 7th it was reported to the po lice on the following day and quick action by pc cox had the articles traced within a mat ter of hours the accused agreed with the evidence as presented ip- the officer metro planning board com missioner mr murray jones has suggested that every rural school in the township of markham will be required to erect an ad dition to their present structures within the next twenty years mr jones spoke briefly at a large gathering of trustees at the annual budget night con ference held in the buttonville hall on tuesday evening he warned that according to pre pared statistics the accommoda tion in todays schools would be totally inadequate by 1980 inspector maynard hallman touched on the problem of the gifted child he said that it was regrettable that these pupils were being held back because they were not able to receive special instruction he said he hoped that some new course of study might be arranged to take care of the future needs of these students he told the audience that dur ing the 1959 year markham township schools had lost an estimated 1000 in grants by not utilizing the funds made avail able by the government large share of budget reeve wm clark of markham township informed the meeting that education costs in the muni- cipalily represented over fifty per cent of their annual budget he contended that the present government grant paid on land purchased for school sites was unrealistic since it was paid on a basis of assessment and not on the actual purchase price to the school board reeve clark suggested that budge night meetings had been very success ful and he hoped that a similar discussion could be held again in 1961 buy school sifts dr gerald ridge a member of the north york board of edu cation advised that in the inter ests of efficient planning it was wise for schol boards to keep ahead of proposed subdivisions in the acquiring of adequate school sites he noted that quite often the land could be pur chased at a reasonable rate if the sale was completed before it was actually required he warned that if the transaction was not completed until after the residen tial development was underway the site price might possible double at the present time in north york 40 undeveloped sites have been purchased and set aside for future use dr ridge noted that if the land was not needed it could always be resold for a comfortable profit owner of stolen car notified a wilson avenue man was notified that his car had been stolen before he himself had noticed it was missing from his driveway pc john mccaguo of markham twp police dept arrested a 16 year old toronto youth after his ear was discov ered stuck in now near the observatory cast of yonge st the driver claimed that the vd hide belonged to his father a sum of 350 had also been stolen from the clothing of the observatory technician frank hawker david young was convicted of breaking entry and theft in magistrates court newmarket on friday he was remanded on bail for sentence referee uses necktie or tourniquet a quickthinking campbell- ford referee pulled off his neck tie and made it into a tourniquet to halt the flow of blood from a deep skate cut in the right hand of stouffville midget play er roger forsyth the accident occurred late in the second per iod of a semifinal playoff game in the campbellford arena on saturday night the stouffville centreman was hit hard at the campbellford blueline when he attempted to split the defence as he fell to the lce a players skate blade punctured his hand severing a vein referee bill mulholland momentarily stopped the bleed ing by wrapping his tie tightly around the boys wrist six stitches were required to close the gash dr john button of stouffville dressed the wound on monday and he predicts that the local forward will be back in action in time for the championship finals the midgets will meet either durham or ridgetowri for the provincial title cigarettes brave drifts to attend qame hockey interest will never die in this area as long as there are fans like ten residents on cone 4 uxbridge on thursday eve ning of last week three families waded through kneedeep drifts in order to attend the playoff game in stouffville between the 750 stolen five cases of cigarettes were stolen last week from a parked transport truck owned by mr chas feasby george st stouff ville the theft valued at 75000 has been reported to the stouff ville police department pc hugh vankoughnet told the tribune that such thefts are hard to trace contrary to previous reports no local per sons have been picked up about two years ago a similar theft occurred in uxbridge when some 2000 worth of cigarettes were removed from nobles transport local midgets and campbellford the group comprised mr gor don wilson and three children mr and mrs garfield bennett mr chas hill mrs russell feasby stan and sister laura on reaching the county road one mile north they were given a ride to stouffville in spite of his trek stan feas by defenceman with the stouff ville club turned in his best performance of the entire sea son it was the same story at campbellford on saturday where he again excelled on the blueline yfc director in accident mr ken campbell director of the stouftvillc youth for christ organization suffered a broken nose and facial lacera tions last week when his auto was involved in a headon crash on leslie street south of high way 401 most seriously injured is mrs campbell who remains unconscious in the branson me morial hospital she suffered a broken leg a brokcn ankle and head injuries mr campbells brother and wife were passen gers in the car the latter is still hospitalized the foursome were returning to stouffville from the ice fol lies in maple lcf gardens mr and mrs campbell had been staying at the home of mr and mrs don ratcllff while they were in florida they returned on saturday whitchurch township road budget set at 195200 the proposed i9g0 road bud get for the township of whit church has been set at 195200 to date the dept of highways has given its approval of only 110000 but members of coun cil agreed that this figure would obviously not bo sufficient an additional 85000 will be re quested through a supplemen tary bylaw the total for i960 is only slightly more than the amount in 1959 one of the major projects planned for this summer is the erection of the new township garage at vandorf which will cost over 50000 last year a paving program at lake wil cox cost a similar amount road supt ernest davis stat ed that he would be in a better position to arrive at a figure for maintenance in i960 when all accounts for snow removal had been received increase minimum size h uxbridge the minimum size of new homes in the township of ux bridge will be increased from 720 square feet to 810 square feet according to an agreement reached at a regular meeting of township council last week the change has been made in their proposed landuse bylaw that has been presented to the ontario municipal evinl the bylaw was prepared by solicitor wm parsons of stouffville a public hwrnr h- vrnnfted at a later date before the bylaw is given final approval