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p5 the stourryhle tribune tborjy koe 9 i960 uxbridge pickering tp news brougham museum at a meeting of the executive and museum committee repre sentatives last week members agreed that a general meeting scheduled for thursday june 9 1960 at 815 pro be held at me museum building brougham schoolhouse on highway no 7 west of brougham rather than the township hall a number of articles included in ihe exhibi tion which will be opened this summer are now infthe build ing and it was felt that visitors might like a preglimpse mr robert m fuller of windsor who resided in the township many years ago and who has studied the history of the twp of pickering through out the years will be the guest speaker he will have many tales of earlier days to relate and his presence promises an extremely entertaining and en lightening evening the meeting is open to the public mr and mrs gordon mc- grath and family motored to meeting iii niagara falls on sunday to visit with mr and mrs ken bird and family mrs bird is a sister of mr mcgrath mr earl beare has returned home from hospital in minden he was stricken with a heart attack recently while on a fish ing trip mr wm palmer has return ed to the oshawa general hos pital on sunday he was report ed to be slightly improved mr and mrs doug arksey of brooklin were sunday visi tors with mr and mrs jim tay lor mr and mrs wm ticks of whitby visited with mr and mrs wilmot hill on sunday mrs j anonby has been play ing the organ in the united church for the past few weeks mrs peters from toronto has been enjoying a visit in clare- mont with her daughter mrs hazel carruthers and other rel atives on wednesday thirty members of her family which included four generations gath ered for a picnic a miscellaneous shower for pat nixon and ken cox will be held at the home of mr and mrs ralph norton on june 17 congratulations to mr and mrs stanley slack who will be celebrating their fortieth wed ding anniversary on thursday june 9 mr and mrs w gliddon and lynn spent the weekend with mr and mrs thurston at their cottage a number of legion men went to streetsville on sunday to attend the parade and drum head service this being their centennial year in streetsville special services were held a number of ladies from cla- remont who had canvassed for the red cross attended the tea on sunday afternoon held at the home of brig spragge the monthly meeting of the wms will be held in the sun day school room of the united church on thursday june 9 at 230 pm mrs henry johnston and mrs hammond are to be in charge of the programme roll call is to be answered with a verse containing the word fellowship mrs loyst and mrs g tay lor visited in toronto on sun day at the home of mr and mrs pyatt thanks the claremont hockey club would like to express its thanks to the legion branch 483 for the assistance given to the team during the past season approve purchase op tank truck pickering township council has given its approval to the purchase of a water tank truck for the claremont fire brigade the matter was discussed brief ly at a regular meeting of coun cil on monday night the cost will bo approximately 52000 councillor harvey spang in supporting the motion stated that the purchase represented a sound investment it will pay for itself in the saving of prop erties he said he noted that the firemen had to depend al most entirely on farm well wa ask grave truck ban in whitevale a delegation from whitevale has requested that pickering twp council should make some attempt to ban heavy gravel truck traffic from the hamlets main street mr leonard coo per was spokesman for a depu tation that appeared before council at a regular meeting on monday night mr cooper stated that one truck every minute had been counted on the fifth concession he charged that the drivers showed little regard for either stop signs or speed limits do the people of whitevale have to put up with these conditions he asked he informed the coun cil that the recentlypaved road on the westerly outskirts of whitevalewas badly broken up mainly due to truck traffic he said that the majority of ve hicles which once used the al- tona road were now using cone 5 reeve sherman scott stated that if the trucks were properly licenced there was little chance of banning them from the road he noted however that the speed could be regulated its a question of which road is the worst the 5th concession or the altona road said the reeve he suggested that in most cases the truck drivers would usually take the shortest route road supt jack chapman agreed that the fifth concession was presently in poor condition he informed the delegation that 900 ft of pavement would have to be rebuilt the work will be started within two weeks rural fires he suggested that the area presently served by the claremont unit could possibly be enlarged reeve sherman scott praised the work of the persons respon sible for the erection of the new claremont fire hall he suggest ed that the village obtained good ter in fighting the majority of value for its money five heifers ashhurn farmer mr g m brawley ann brae farm ashburn ont purchased two fine heifers of the ayrshire breed at the elm manor dis persal of j grant whyte hunt ingdon quebec last week quality cattle plus a large number of enthusiastic bidders combined to make the national sale the top ayrshire auction in canada for all time the 39 animals offered sold for an av erage of s962 the first animal sold was hammonds master piece the twoyearold son of the worlds record holder ha mmonds top primrose and he sold for s1so0 to establish a record price for an ayrshire auction in canada before the sale was over 12 of the females sold in four figure prices the 11 milking females averaged 916 and the 27 bred heifers av eraged 839 bankend quaker seedling con signed by j j and w steven son bankend cumnock scot land was the first female sold and the top selling female at 2400 to mr brawley she is a very typy heifer with exception ally good udder development her three nearest dams have 16 records that average 135s0 lbs milk 5gs lbs fat 418 percent in 331 days mr brawleys other purchase was dunlops gerda 7th con signed by robert dunlop mid- keltdh castle douglas scot land this heifer was the young est of the group being 22 mos of age and therefore smaller than the other heifers the ger da cow family are very high yieldcrs and her dam and grand- dam have seventeen lactations that average 11573 lbs milk 590 lbs fat 405 percent she sold for s1500 mr brawley also purchased de verchercs gracieuso 46th consigned by roland pigeon verchercs quebec for 1100 slaughte worst ev a medical officer described conditions at a locust hill slaughterhouse as the worst he had seen since he took the job during a precedentsetting trial friday of ray vivian locust hill and frank vivian scar borough the pair are charged with processing dead animals at the slaughterhouse and thus carry ing on an offensive or obnoxious business and disobeying an or der by the medical officer of health the court was told there are no similar cases reported in the law books dr w e macbean a director of the ontario county health unit and medical officer of health for pickering township told the court when he visited the premises there were pies of dead animals and parts of ani mals abound the yard there was also a shed filled with ani mal heads he said he said the condition was def initely offensive and an oreer written by him april 3 to cease this type of business had not been complied with by june 1 a large dead sow partly chew ed by some animal entrails strewn over a bank dead dogs sheep and goats were described by chief r parker of the pick ering township police depart ment when he told of a visit to the premises in march g robson sanitation inspec tor said vivian had complied with an order to bury the dead animals around the yard in 48 hours however as late as june 1 he saw dead animals and hides on the slaughterhouse floor as evidence an advertisement in a local weekly seeking dead animals in cluding dogs and cats was in troduced as evidence no evi dence was introduced in court to show what was done with the dead animals after they were processed gilbert murdoch conducting the prosecution for the ontario county health unit claimed that the failure to comply with dr macbeans written order was evident and the business was a flagrant contravention of the public health act he asked for the minimum penalty of 20 per day for every day the business was carried on after the doctors order was re ceived this would be a fine of approximately 1000 defense counsel william law- son asked to have the case dis missed on a technicality the public health act reads that it is illegal to carry on a business declared obnoxious mr law- son contended that neither the township council nor the board of health have officially declared that handling of dead stock is an offensive business former claremont couple married for 25 years mr and mrs donald mccul- lough celebrated their 25th wed ding anniversary at the home of their soninlaw and daughter mr and mrs graeme mason rr 3 newmarket on satur day may 23 in the afternoon there was open houe for their relatives when about 45 enjoyed a deli cious buffet supper in the evening over 70 friends called to extend congratulations when mrs douglas mcclure poured tea guests were from renfrew orangeville sudbury oshawa toronto stouffville elmvafe port perry brougham claremont whitby newmarket and mount albert the happy couple were mar ried at claremont june 1st 1935 where they lived until 1950 when they moved to a farm on don mills rd near newmarket last august they left to make their home at rr no 3 mt albert the couple have two daught ers and two sons frances jim eunice and terry paint sale 4 season outside pittsburg house paint special 395 per gal while it lasts claremont cooperative phone 201 202 claremont two youths who pleaded guil ty to breaking into a pickering twp cottage where household goods valued at more than 800 were stolen were last week sent to jail for six months magis trate f s ebbs in whitby- po lice court sentenced ralph can dler 19 of pickering twp and william henry howard 17 of elliot lake for the breakin at the summer cottage of nor man townley magistrate ebbs told the pair that this was a very serious af fair not only was s0o worth of goods taken he noted but damage to three doors had tot alled 150 he said that this could not he tolerated and is altogether too prevalent he noted tiiat it was a first offence for both of thorn but said he felt he could not give them a suspended sentence as he sentenced ihe pair to six months in county jail he told candler that he hoped that at the expiration of his sentence he would place himself under the supervision of an older bro ther who had spoken to the court on his behalf police told the court that near ly all of the goods taken had been recovered evidence in the case was given last week a third man raymond galla gher of ajax is scheduled to appear in magistrates court this month for a preliminary hearing on the same charge he has elected trial by a judge scratch pads from jumbo size down to note size the stouffville tribune the ontario county health unit this winter completed its first program of tuberculin test ing in tiie four high schools of ajax pickering whitby and uxbridge this program receiv ed great assistance from the ontario county tuberculosis association who provided edu cational material equipment and financial assistance for transportation and xrays the method of testing used was a new simple painless skin test known as the heaf test the majority of the students polled at one high school said they did not even feel the test as it was applied almost 90 of the parents of the students gave their consent and a total of 1718 tests were carried out of these 34 were found to give positive reactions a positive reaction means that the individual person has at some time during life taken tuberculosis germs into the body it docs not mean that he or she has or ever will have tubercu losis if the reaction is negative there is reasonable evidence that the person has never been so infected positive reactors were offered chest xrays in addition since a positive reaction offers an in dication that active tuberculosis might be present in a member of his family the public health nurse visited their homes and arranged chest xravs and tuber culin testing for the family as necessary no cases of active tuberculo sis were found as a result of this survey but it is felt that valuable knowledge and educa tional experience has been gain ed as a result of the program expect more than 60 children to participate in swim programme more than sixty junior inter mediate and senior students from the claremont and cedar creek public schools are ex pected to take part in the an nual swimming program to be conducted this month in the pool at bakers acres tne lessons will start on monday june 13th and conclude on june 24th if weather conditions are unfav ourable the program will be ex tended for three additional days the tests will be held on thurs day june 30th a red cross in structor will be present to judge the entries mrs k vizely a qualified in structress will be in charge each pupil will pay 100 for the training period plus 25c for in surance coverage the swim course includes ten lessons the claremont school board do nates a grant of s50 toward the project final plans were com pleted at a meeting of the rec reational committee on wed nesday evening june 1st the committee is also spon soring peewee and bantam soft- ball clubs assisting with this program are messrs henry des- jaidins al roszell harold red- shaw bob madill lloyd pugh and other interested promoters ancient plow donated an ancient plow which was used in the days of the early settlers in pickering township has been donated by mr milton parkin along with other pio neer relics to the pickering township museum mr parkin says that the plow arrived in the area by boat before the stage coach was in the picture accompanying the plow was a complicated structure which was revealed to be a sheep yoke a type used by the farmer of long ago mr parkin brought to the museum a turnip knife used on thepengelly farm one of the earlier settlers in the town ship the museum committee are asking that any objects to be donated or loaned to the picker ing township historical society be brought to the museum brougham schoolhouse next saturday june 11th between 1 and 4 oclock due to publicized requests a number of interest ing objects were brought last saturday for which the com mittee are grateful there are still more showcases and tables required the museum committee are desirous of having as many ob jects as possible in the building by june 18th so that sub com mittees and the cataloguing committee can work on the dis plays purchase 9000 machine for office approval has been received for the purchase of a 926500 bookkeeping machine for the municipal office in the town ship of pickering it will com pletely eliminate all pen work in the preparation of tax bills water bills etc the national cash register co will place a field manager in the brougham office to train the operator emolished by train driver fined 100 a fairport beach man who was forced to stand clear while a freight train smashed into the car he had purchased that day was fined 100 and costs or 10 days in jail last week for im paired driving oliver charron 30 appeared before magistrate f s ebbs in whitby police court charged with intoxicated driving a charge arising out of circum stances which resulted in his car being hit by the train on the fairport beach road on april 10 sgt john pugh of the picker ing police department said that he arrived at the fairport road cnr crossing at 819 pm on april 1g and found a car strad dling the south tracks of the line its motor still running he said that it was about six feet east of the planking on the crossing about three minutes later he said charron arrived and re ported that he was the owner and the driver he said that the accused appeared intoxicated moments later said sgt pugh an castbound sgcar freight bore down on the crossing and struck the car the car he said was carried to the liverpool cross ing as the train approached he said he had to grab sharron by the shoulder and pull him away from the tracks to prevent him being ssruck by the train the court was told that sgt pugh was the only crown wit son has since deceased the accused told the court that he had consumed two bot tles of ale that day after work he had purchased the car that day he said and as he approach ed the crossing in the fog he saw the lights of another car approaching from the other side he said that he swerved to one side and his car dropped off the planks onto the rails first he said he tried to lift the car off the tracks then fail ing to do this he ran back to a garage on highway 2 a quarter mile away but he said the gar age operator insisted on notify ing police before going to the scene he told the court that he was afraid a train would arrive and be derailed after the towtruck arrived at the scene he said a train came while the truck was being turn ed around at a driveway a short distance away he said that he was attempting to flag the train to a halt when police pulled him away from the crossing a friend who had accompan ied him from his place of em ployment to within a quarter- mile of the accident scene said that the accused had consumed only two bottles of ale he said that the accuseds condition when police saw him was prob ably caused by having run a quartermile and the excitement his worship termed the inci dent unfortunate he said that he would reduce the charge to one of impaired and levy the fine charrons license to drive fire brigade to buy 2000 gal tank truck the claremont fire brigade will enter into negotiations for the purchase of a water tank truck chief jack norton in formed tne tribune this week that the members favoured the additional vehicle over a central alarm system both items of business were discussed at a meeting on thursday evening of last week the tank truck will cost about 2000 the cap acity of the tank will be over 2000 gallons the brigade members will re ceive payment for all fire calls they will be paid 300 per call and 200 nir hour after the first hour previously the members received no remuneration chief norton has obtained an appropriate nameplate for the new fire nail it will be installed in the near future brougham the regular meeting of the womans association was held with an attendance of twenty- three including six visitors the meeting was held at the home of mrs h miller the presi dent mrs willson took charge themeeting opened wdth hymn 328 the devotional was taken by mrs pascoe while the pro gram was in charge of mrs geo gray who gave a wonderful paper the secretary mrs philip was unable to be present but mrs pascoe ably filled her place during the business per iod an invitation was received and accepted from st georges anglican church pickering to be their guests on june 25 from 3 to 530 pm it was also plan ned to hold a bake sale on the church lawn on friday june 10 at 7 pm meeting closed with the theme song and prayer fol lowed by a lovely lunch served by the hostesses mrs h miller and mrs robt miller the sacrament of the lords supper and reception of new members on profession of faith will be observed next sunday june 12 at 10 am in st johns church brougham womens institute celebrated their fiftieth anniver sary on tuesday may 31 with a good attendance guests were present from claremont mount zion myrtle brooklin whitby ajax pickering stouffville and markham mrs milne gave a good account of the work done by this group during the past fifty years mrs e johnston the oldest charter member present cut the lovely birthday cake mrs w knox mrs h shea and mrs a hamilton also charter mem bers were called up to sit ar- ound the table and were pre sented with corsages mrs l w johnston favored with a lovely piano solo and mrs jackson two vocal solos which were appre ciated by all a lovely lunch was served followed by a social hour with many old friends and neighbors mr and mrs w a knox spent a few days last week at a cottage on balsam lake mr a m crocker and daugh ter janet of agincourt visited their aunt mrs matthews on sunday remember the sale of home made baking to be held on the church lawn on friday even ing june 10 at 7 oclock mrs stolks of whitby had tea one evening last week with mrs matthews mr and mrs bent and family of oshawa visited her mother mrs w hamilton on sunday the regular weekly euchre was held last tuesday evening when the following were win ners mrs n jarvis mrs holl- inger mrs davies mr b lot- ton mr rois carlton and mr williams mr arch davis called on mr and mrs chas burrows one day last week congratulations to mr and mrs jordon freda philip on the arrival of a little daughter at scarbora hospital mr gerald middleton and lit tle daughters of ashhurn called on mrs lemmon on sunday mrs john newsom and fam ily have moved into the house latelv occupied by the late mrs w gray sympathv is extended to mrs thos english on the passing of her father the late mr crow- der miss gladys witter of toron to visited with her aunt mrs matthews on sunday masking tape from 1 vz inch rolls down to 3 inch 39c to 98c the stouffville tribune 1 1 cess the other cpl don mathe- was suspended six months recreation committee to receive grant the pickering township rec reation committee will receive grants from the community programmes branch of the de partment of education accord ing to a letter received from mr jack c eilbeck dist represen tative it was reported recently by mr clare holter chairman of the township softball league that this department had with drawn its financial support from the township committee mr eilbeck said that the state ment was incorrect and had re sulted from a misunderstand ing he agreed that the town ships recreasitnolcmfwypshrdl ships recreational program in 1956 had not met with the ap proval of his department he noted however that the entire organization had been overhaul ed and was now eligible for sup port mr bert cane the town ships recreational manager presented the report at a regu lar meeting of council on mon day evening atha many happy birthdays to lor raine draper who will celebrate her birthday saturday june 11 mrs fannie sharp from shar- den wyoming is home to at tend her brothers funeral the late gardham tran she is also spending some time visiting her brother mr david tran here mr and mrs frank robb of markham called sunday eve ning at the carruthers home mr and mrs murray dun- keld were guests at the hodg sonstover wedding on saturday afternoon mr and mrs donald dunkeld entertained on saturday evening mr and mrs james loree and friend from toronto also mr and mrs clifford dunkeld and family mr and mrs john williams from altona spent saturday eve ning with her parents mr and mrs joe tran mr and mrs earl brillinger and ruth ann carruthers spent sunday afternoon at lake sim- coe mr and mrs murray dunkeld and shirley also mr f bielby were guests with mr and mrs donald dunkeld on saturday evening mrs r macdonald visited her daughter in stouffville one day last week mrs allan meyers was taken to scarboro general hospital last week and underwent a suc cessful eye operation alone meyer was rushed to newmarket hospital on mon day to be operated on for appen dicitis would like h s board elected the question concerning the possible election of the picker ing dist high school board rather than the appointment of its members was raised again at a regular mcetingof picker ing twp council on monday night mr munroe spoke briefly on the subject reeve sherman scott inform- ed the ratepayer that the board comprised twelve members there are three representatives from the township and three from the county the reeve suggested that the formation of a board of education was not practical at the present time referring to the possible with drawal of ajax from the area mr scott contended that such a move was unlikely for this year he noted that approval would have to be received from the minister of education and county council to hold fun fair at green river the green river home and school association will sponsor a fun fair and strawberry fes tival at the school on saturday june 18th the organization will green river mr and mrs w chafen were saturday evening callers at the home of mr and mrs j fraser of malton mr and mrs r hamilton spent saturday evening with mr and mrs a percy of mark ham misses muriel and myrtle gos- tick are holidaying at the home of their parents mr and mrs f gostick mr and mrs h ridge of to ronto spent sunday at the home of mr a hutchings mr and mrs d colyer of scarboro were sunday guests at the home of mr and mrs w chafen mr and mrs r hamilton call ed on mrs t robinson of ux bridge on sunday the junior teens will hold their next meeting in the form of a picnic on friday evening next at the home of mrs a pearse for further information contact one of your leaders next sunday morning the sun day school will be under the leadership of mr wm binsteds class come and support these boys at the usual hour of 945 am the memorial day service for brunswick hill cemetery will be held in the church here on sunday june 2gth at 239 pm full particulars next week mr and mrs allan mlchell entertained mr and mrs j ata- leer and family of manilla on sunday attempt to raise funds to pro mote various student programs not covered by the board the fun fair will include a team room a bake sale pony rides and games for the youngsters a teen dance and other promo tions mr tom f bowles pub licity chairman is anxious that visitors from the surrounding districts should attend in addi tion to residents within the green river area the fair will open at 2 pm ontario hospital insurance paid benefits in 1959 totalling 158000000 75000 gallons dust layer for pickering pickering township council has approved the purchase of 75000 gallons of liquid chloride at a cost of approximately 10- 12500 this amount is in addi tion to the 108 tons of calcium approved last week at a cost of over 500000 the road dept will also purchase 15000 gal lons of prime at a cost of over 350000 passes course mr doug plitz an employee in the township municipal of fice has completed and passed his second year municipal clerks and treasurers course his accomplishment was an nounced at the regular meet ing of council on monday eve ning dangerous area reeve sherman scott advised that something should be done immediately to drain the water from an area under a hand stand in the claremont park he suggested that a child could eas ily drown in the pool removal of green river school brings problem it was announced by the pick- cring township historical so ciety last week that the transac tion for the purchase of broug ham schoolhouse has been com pleted and a cheque has been issued to the trustees of broug ham school the one hundred year old schoolhouse will be opened as a historical museum this summer the township of pickering will automatically take over the building and it is now covered by insurance the log house on the site will be restored and fur nished by a special committe convened by mrs k h j clarke and will be opened at a later datc thc proposed moving of the old green river school to the brougham location has been de layed owing to difficulties which arise from the 32 foot height interference with hydro and telephone lines will make the moving of the old building a costly proposition it has been suggested that the school be dismantled and rebuilt on the site but no conclusion has yet been reached the green river school fits into a plan designed by e c pctitjean together with other anticipated buildings and it re mains to be seen whether the difficulties which attend it can be surmounted