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Stouffville Tribune (Stouffville, ON), November 3, 1960, p. 1

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rttmne vol 72 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday november fourteen pages ft iwmmmmm a work of art mrs norman oboyie har- paintings in oil mrs oboyle sented o some lucky ticket- business and professional old st stouffville has be- is shown here with a recent holder in a draw to be held on womens club of stouffville come wellknown for her art- sample 01 her work rliis istry in the completion of particular scene will be pre- dec 3rd sponsored by the staff photo ireak in towns history stouffvilles waterworks sys tem suffered the most severe break in its seventy year his tory on monday when a bell telephone construction crew sliced through the main 12inch feed line coming from the reser voirs never before has this lifeline been severed except to install chlorinating equipment n few years ago the break pointed up most forcibly the towns dependence on this sin gle pipe line to the source of supply the accident occurred on the fit ji concession of whitchurch near the corner of he first side- road telephone workmen lay ing cable ran their heavy digger along the pipe line and then through it with the full co operation of the works depart ment the puc commissioners and the phone company a new section of pipe was installed wul service restored at 10 pm monday night after a shutdown of more than half a day unfortunately tiie digging machine had cracked a second section and a second shutdown had to be made on wednesday morning in order that another new section could be installed stouffville council convenes in regular meeting this thurs day evening plans progressing for santa claus the executive committee of the newlyorganized stouffville businessmens association met again this week to further plan for the santa clans parade dec 3rd the prize list and all the details that go to make up this gala christmas affair will be announced shortly the extension of shopping hours for the christmas season was also agreed on ard shop pers will find local business places giving ample evening shopping time as christmas nears poppy day on saturday the canadian legions pop py fund is the answer lo thousands of war widows or phans and disabled veterans- you can remember the dead by helping the living this saturday will be poppy day give generously runnerup pr vui georgia forsv union beauty contest held at moafonl recently place sec ond in an entry of eight girls the winner was marie harri son of aurora cadieuxuitudio fines totalling 13500 were registered against two partici pants in an allnight house par ty after the residence was raid ed by officers of vandorf de tachment ontario provincial police on sunday morning oct 9th the tenant ronald barry jones was fined 100 and costs for illegal possession of beer and 1000 and costs for per mitting drunkenness ray ma- dill stouffville rr 2 was fined 2500 and costs for keeping liquor in a place other than ids residence a further charge against jones of keeping liquor for sale was withdrawn char ges against three foundins douglas lloyd stouffville rr4 gladys alexander stouffville rr 2 and grant burkholder stouffville were also withdrawn the residence in question is lo cated on the southwest corner of the bethesda sideroad at con cession 9 whitchurch the raid conducted by pc st john and cpl pettigrew was made at 320 am under observation pc st john informed the court that the house had been kept under observation for a number of hours prior to the raid he said that two cases of beer were seized from a car parked in tiie laneway there are lots of cars with two cases of beer in the trunk suggested magistrate hollin- rake this was not obtained in tiie proper way pointed out crown crown attorney sanders i only know what im given in evidence said the magis trate the officer stated that he found four men and one lady in the living room he said that three men had been drinking two were asleep and one was intoxicated a small quantity of liquor anil beer was seized in the house the officer testi fied that it had been purchased for a party for a previous fri day night that didnt come off how it got there i dont know lie said he observed that one occupant ray madill was discovered in a slouched position in a chair in a drun ken sleep we had quite a time trying to wake him up he noted playing cards the defendant ronald barry jones said that the group had been playing cards when the officers arrived he said that the party had not disturbed neigh bours the nearest being one- quarter mile distant he denied that one occupant madill was drunk why was he asleep asked attorney harold sanders tired i suppose answered the defendant jones under questioning ad mitted that lie was a heavy drinker but had no previous convictions he is a drover by trade hard to awaken cpl pettigrew testified that it took the officers from 3 to 4 minutes to awaken madill he said his speech was thick he had a part bottle of beer on the chair beside him and some was spilled on his clothes i never saw him take a drink but lie was staggering one hour later he observed there is no question in my mind but that he was dead drunk lie concluded students at stouffville dist high school are reminded that friday nov 4th is tile dead line for editorials to be printed in the tribune during educa tion week november g to 33 they should be submitted to the principal mr w e dux- bury stolen tree strikes boy on head man fined 25 a tree taken without per mission from a premises near victoria square proved costly for a rexdale motorist in but- tonville traffic court on fri day morning edward john mai- ion 10 was charged with oper ating a vehicle requiring a maximum width of more than 9g inches the end of the tree was protruding from the trunk of his car it struck a 13 year old boy james shearer on the head sgr bob hood of markham twp police department inform ed magistrate n p keliey that he saw a young twy crying on the side of no 7 highway when he stopped to investigate he was told that he had been hit behind the left car the officer stated that the tree ex tended tj feet beyond the width of the auto i cant understand how any one in his right sense- would do such a thing said magistrate keliey it might have killed the boy the magistrate sug gested that the defender should have been present in court he levied a fine of 2500 and costs cement in mixer no penalty was charged against alan lester weatberill cone 6 markham when he pleaded guilty to driving forty- miles per hour in a 25mile zone at inionviile he informed the court that a quantity of ce ment had been prepared in a mixer when the belt broke i was in a hurry to get a new one too big a hurry he ad mitted i can sympathize with you said magistrate keliey to be auctioned the last remaining real opiate belonging to the bethesda stouffville telephone co will be sold by auction next wednes day afternoon nov 9th the property is a threelot parcel of land on blake street south of main st having 165 ft frontage sale time is 2 pm and the auction will be conducted fry w d atkinson auctioneer for reeveship sparks nteresi in whitchurch deputy reeve clifford wall- work added fuel to the local election fire this week when he tossed his hat in the ring as a candidate for the reeveship in the township of whitchurch he will be opposed by the pres ent incumbant mr geo rich ardson the nomination meet ing is scheduled for friday eve ning nov 25th the election will be held on monday dee 5th i just cant stand still year after year and expect an accla mation said mr wallwork in conversation with the tribune a member of whitchurch town ship council for the past six years lie has served in the office of deputy for two terms it has been suggested that councillor frank williams will seek the post made vacant through mr wallworks decision to move up the laficr geo richardson succeeded p s legge to the reeveship in 195s and successfully defended his position in a twoway elec tion fight last year during his past term of office he was chair man of the committee on roads and bridges the construction of a new 50000 garage has been one of the mai accomp lishments promoted by reeve richardson in the county field he was chairman of the york manor board and a member of the building committee for the new york manor he was also a member of the police com mittee the recent election announce ments put forward by messrs richardson and wallwork has sparked new interest in a here tofore dull campaign forecast with nomination meetings in local municipalities only throe weeks away there have been few predictions presented stouffville co- op declares 5 per cent div in purchases on t oppose service stouffville municipal council will not oppose the discontin uance of tiie canadian national railways passenger trains on this line council took this stand on thursday morning when meeting with railway officials reeve lehman stated that it must be apparent to everyone who ever goes near the station that it is foolish to be running passenger trains up and down the line practically empty as they are doing it was pointed out tc council that the basic yearly operating cost of the passenger trains on this line is 350000 while all the revenue that is returned from passenger fares is 02000 by substituting truck service for mail and express th- i ail- way could effect an annual sav ing of 283000 it was interesting to note that on an average only two passen gers are left on the train when it reaches tiie end of its run north from toronto and only two people on an average are on the southbound train when it starts mr breau of ihe passenger dept said that while the train can be filled when it leaves the union station 82 of these passengers get off by the time it leaves scarborough deputyreeve wagg said that he would be interested to know if any thought could be given lo a commuter service mr breau said we will be giving every consideration to commut er service but it too is very hard to operate on a paying basis with so many communities to serve what would be a good time to pick up passengers in stouffville would not suit ux- bridge or markham j a breau represented the passenger department a r wilson belleville superintend ent n s eaton express depart ment and m s shaw public relations were the men who met with council they assured council that there would be no impairment of express or freight service freight mr eaton said was the big moneymaker on the line and it would be continued the cnr hoped for many years councillor laushway said that it was believed two to three hundred persons left stouffville each morning for work in the oily its hard to say how many of them would use a commuter service if it didnt go close to their place of employment said deputyreeve wagg everythings high enough to day without running empty trains up and down comment ed reeve lehman the cnr representatives said that a national survey showed that s0 of all the tra vel in canada was done in pri vate cars that only leaves wr to divide up among the rail ways air lines and busses said mr wilson deputyreeve wagg said that he would definitely like to see the cnr study the commuter possibilities and council agreed that this suggestion would be included in their resolution but they would not oppose the dis continuance of the service as it now exists mr breau passenger repre sentative explained that even the crowded toronto to oakville commuter line was not a money maker since the rail fares had to be in line with streetcar fares and it was difficult to make money at such small rates since trains were expensive to operate the officials are meeting with municipal official in all the communities on the line and an application will then be made to the board of transport com missioners at ottawa this board will hold a public hearing somewhere in the area to hear public objections before grant ing permission to change the service trains commenced running on the stouffville line ninety years ago and forty years ago a line branched off at stoult- ville lo give service to sutton this was in years when the members of the stouffville co operative association gathered on thursday evening for their annual meeting they heard a 5 dividend declared on gen eral purposes and 3 on petrol eum products sales for the year of general goods totalled more than half a million dollars the financial statement levell ed a net saving for the year be fore patronage returns of 2- 110 an increarse of nearly ten thousand dollars over last year guest speaker at the banquet was dr h l patterson farm economics branch of the de partment of agriculture in presenting tiie financial re port the directors pointed out that while total sales had de creased slightly net earnings had grown a result of revenue from grain marketing and in- creased patronage returns from the united cooperatives of on tario during the year the stouffville cooperative accepted fiftytwo new memberships bringing the total to 1070 members members business increased from 74 of the total turnover to 77 feed sales climbed due to the facilities for handling bulk grain enabling the coop to better serve large feeders president of the stouffville coop is s b watson and the secretary is c o james car slams into horse sadly injured a nearly new 1960 pontine with less than 9000 miles on the speedometer was almost completely wrecked on satur day night when it slammed into a run away horse north of claremont the driver ross redshaw of claremont came out of the crash with only a minor cut on ids head the horse was killed two animals were on the road when the redshaw car came over a hill in spite of a de termined effort to avoid the collision one horse was hit on the passenger side of the auto rolled up on the hood and against the windshield accord ing to reports the animals were the property of messrs hay- ward parker and neale owners of the former dawson farm on the pickering uxbridge town- line one mile west of the brock road fortunately mr red shaw was alone at the time of the accident any passengers in the front seat would undoubt edly have been killed november 10th the annual commencement exercises of stouffville district high school will be held in the high school auditorium next thursday evening nov 10th the program will include the presentation of diplomas and awards as well as musical num bers reserved seats at 25c are on sale from any of the stu dents program commences at s15 only little children should be satisfied to sit and blow bub bles and wait for the breaks automobile was in its infancy and bus lines were nonexistent in this area the railway enjoy ed capacity patronage particu larly on weekends safety record public school pupils in mark ham village have established an amazing fiveyear accident free record according to police chief fred while only one other com parable town oakvillc has equalled markhams safety cam paign in the entire province the safety program was insti tuted by chief while in cooper ation with the elmer promo- lion and the ontario safely league hitrun charge an east york driver will face three separate charges when he appears before magistrate o s uoliinrake in newmarket court on thursday geo young 35 virginia avenue has been charged by markham village police chief fred white with drunk driving failing to remain at the scene of an accident and having alcohol in a public place the young auto sideswiped another car on no 48 hwy on tuesday the impact ripped tiie entire side out of an auto driv en by john stephenson of tor onto pc evan keliey of mark ham police assisted in the in vestigation the accused was lodged in butlonville jail over night and removed to the don jail on wednesday morning mrs christie armstrong al bert st n returned home on wednesday after spending a few days with her nephew mr murray nendick recuperating from her recent operation at shouldice hospital commuter service although this is rot the type of commuter service that has been suggested to the cnr by a number of local munici palities i screi as an ex cellent means of transporta tion for rsilroad officials who visited with council represent atives lastfweek on the line between jjellevilic and tor onto shown here on a siding in markham village are left to right messrs m s shaw n s eaton j a kreti and a r wilson they cvntend that the passenger demand wous not warrant a quarter- million dollar dayliner unit staff photo

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