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mrs levi steckley of gorm- ley was killed and her five jcar old grandson was injur ed in a tragic cartruck col lision on the don mills rd an thursday afternoon her car left was hurled 110 ft stecklcy had planned to pick from behind by a heavily up her daughter at a public loaded gravel truck mrs school south of heise hill the truck was driven by floyd housser of stoufiville who was not injured the gravel truck was not badly of markliam twp police in- over two hours to clear the damaged pc clifford cox vestigated it took tow trucks wreckage staff photos ujdit v 3ureaw jrculations vol 72 no 49 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday may 11 1261 sixteen pages large turnover in public school teaching staff for next year there will be a large turn over in the teaching staff for the two stoultville public schools this year resignations have presently been receive from six teachers six new teachers have already been en gaged and two more are requir ed to complete the staff in dealing with the staff changes chairman of the board mr c w hendricks stated that the tide had now definitely turn ed and there was keen competi tion among the teacher ranks lor the available positions in the local case the board re ceived no less than fifty writ ten applications for the posi tions in addition many others came to town to make personal applications without writing in one instance four applicants arrived in one car mr hend ricks said those already resigned are miss stouffer of summitview staff and mrs brillingcr miss griffiths miss carpentier mrs murphy and mrs wideman into orchard park the new teachers engaged are robt stover stouffville miss mary harwood r r 4 stouffville mrs annie noble gormley bruce mickleburgh of newmar ket miss diane brazier of warkham and miss christina i parllnson markham rr 2 markham twp tax rate is down slightly markliam township general tax rate decreased by 18 mills for this year as a heavy increase in assessment took up the in creases in actual money which will be required for the various departments the farm and resi dential rate in 1961 will be 148 as compared to 166 last year the commercial rate will be 178 as against 20 last year the assessment increased by one and a quarter million dol lars during the year this took up the increase in cost of ad ministration which amounts to ss000 and general office ex pense increase of 8400 engagement mr and mrs harold jarvis arc happy to announce the en gagement of their only daugh ter doreen gertrude to mr gary james alexander the son of mr and mrs gordon alexander of hamilton the marriage will take place on june 17 1961 at 3 oclock in i st andrews united church markham read bylaw for street paying program town council gave two read ings to a bylaw for a street con struction program to cost 91- 26200 thursday night of this amount the towns share will be s50000 which will be debon- tured for ten years the balance of the program will be paid for by the highways dept subsidy the program includes the pav ing of a number of residential streets including tenth line south montreal and edward and the reshaping and drain ing on other streets the consumers gas co was granted permssion to lay a new gas main from 9th line to win ona dr and north on winona asks paved boulevard a request was received by council from scandia landscap ing on main st cast to have the boulevard in front of their place of business removed and paved it was pointed out that this was highway department property reeve lehman stated tiiat he doubted if council could find any more money in the budget to do such a job and councillor lehman commented that if this boulevard was hardtopped council would find many more places on the street making the same request dog control officer found desil in truck the dog control officer for the township of whitchurch and the village of stouffville was discovered slumped over tile wiieel of his truck last week and was pronounced dead by coroner patrick greaves of newmarket arthur henderson 4s of r r 1 cedar valley had been an employee of whit church for 4 years and only recently his services had been acquired by stouffville he had been dead for about four hours before the discovery was made by a passing motorist death lias been attributed to a heart seizure a routine investigation was conducted by the ontario pro vincial police of the vandorf detachment the funeral serv ice was held on saturday after noon m grass fire calls concern uxhridge twp members of uxbridge town ship council expressed concern over the mounting total of grass fire calls answered by district brigades within the past month the matter was the sub ject of some discussion at a regular meetitng on monday night reeve earl dowswell suggest ed that insufficient precautions were taken by many local resi dents he noted that on one par ticular day three grass fires had been set in spite of an ex tremely high wind the reeve noted however that since no recent bills had been submitted the council could take no posi tive action he said that one party had agreed to assume the cost of one fire call and another was under investigation i feel we should go all the way he hated councillor alvin redshaw said thai he- was not particular ly anxious to see a fine levied but would favour the ratepayer councillor charles forsyth said that in at least one in stance a neighbour had sum moned the brigade but the fire in question was tinder control he contended that it would be unfair for either the resident or the township to absorb such costs legal action the council will take legal action in an effort to prosecute the person or persons respons ible for dumping a quantity of refuse on the road allowance rodanz cattle going to pei ten bred heifers the proper ly of geo rodanz ringwood farms have been sold to prince edward island it marked the fifth such shipment during the past year the purchase was concluded recently when eighty farm tour ists from the eastern province visited the rodanz property reopen case of suicide driver the case of an admitted auto- suicide attempt aired in button- vilie traffic court last dec 9 was reopened in the supreme court of ontario toronto last month wm windsor of willow- dale was fined an additional within the township evidence 100 by judge moore the de- was discovered in the garbage and solicitor wm parsons will be instructed to send the party a lawyers letter road superin tendent stan slack informed the council that he had caught one culprit redhanded in the act of depositing refuse in the ditch mrs peter watson john and jeffrey of barrie spent a couple covering the cost of the fire call t iter parents mr and mis lambert stouffer new building proposed for youth work r s lewis maytree ave nppeared before stoultville mu nicipal council thursday even ing with sketch plans for a new building for the accommoda tion of boy scouts he said the building would also be used for other youth work such as cubs brownies teen town etc mr lewis who is one of the scout workers appeared to ask jf council could make available park land on which to locate the building we will want to make this a communitysponsored ef fort he said reeve wagg commended the fcout leaders for their interest end proposal mr lewis said the scout leaders would want some as surance that the building would alwayi remain for the purposes outlined and not be turned over in later years for a warehouse or similar purpose he said the proposed building would be 30 x 10 ft he sug gested such a program may take several years to complete councillor lehman suggested that the using of park land would be a matter for the park commission and suggested that mr lewis should come to a meeting of this board reeve wagg said that the plan certainly merited some study and if there was not pres ently land available for such purpose there could be in the future as the town was dispos ing of certain park lots money from which could be used to enlarge the present park fondant did not appear the shocking details of the case were brought to light late last year by pc evan kelley of the markham township pol ice department he told the story of trailing the accused a- long yonge street at speeds ex ceeding eighty miles per hour in a forty mile zone he said that for a portion of this dist ance the defendants auto was in the wrong traffic lane it was raining extremely haul at the time and visibility was almost nil the driver admitted that he had planned to involve the car in a collision and kill himself pc kelley was able to stop the vehicle after a lengthy chase magistrate a d barron levi ed a minimum fine of 10 and ordered the driver to undergo a reexamination by tiie dept of transport he also suggested phyrhlatrie treatment if nec essary judge moore took a more serious view of tiie inci dent and ordered a 100 fine engagement mr and mrs john gandier of markham ontario wish to announce the engagement of their only daughter alice jean- ette to mr graham frisby son of mr and mrs john frisby of stouffville ontario the mar riage to take place in markham united church june 3 1961 at 1 oclock for mothers day specials be sure ard read the main street merchants ads on pages 6 and 7 j weeks work to be done right council road comm criticized for inactivity criticism was voiced at the regular meeting of stouffville municipal council on thursday towards inactivity of the road committee reeve wagg called for a report on the work of road committee and the chair man councillor henry slack said he had nothing to report at this point deputyreeve laushway declared its not my committee but its high time we got a little organization into this load work weve got roads lull of holes and the dust at the western is terrible there was supposed to be a survey made of the roads and walks after the last meeting and it still isnt done people are get ting fed up with this sort of thing im advising council right now said reeve wagg that therell be a meeting of council on tuesday morning to see about these streets and walks i thought this was the com mittees job said councillor lehman well i would expect the committee would have some suggestions of what work should be done to bring to the meeting replied the reeve councillor lehman said he was quite willing to attend if the reeve thought it was neces sary deputyreeve laushway stat ed that dollars could be saved or park drive if some patching was done now and a fresh coat of tar and chips applied if this was not done right away the whole road would have to be torn up next year the deputyreeve said that he had found the rond men doing work at the disposal plant that should have been left until a bad day they should be patch ing the holes in the streets and not drawing material they could he doing on a wet day he said mr fosiick has au thority to hire men if he needs them without taking our road men when they should be tak ing care of the streets we seem to need closer co ordination between our com mittees commented reeve wagg its a funny thing that all these things seem to be wrong every time just before thurs days council meeting said councillor lehman theres nothing funny about it its the first dry day weve had to get this work done re plied deputyreeve laushway council agreed that a grader should be hired immediately from mr femsor it was be lieved there was at least a mrs levi stecklcy 5s of gormley was almost instantly killed on thursday afternoon when her car was rammed from behind by a loaded gravel transport and tossed 140 feet into a ditch at the side of the don mills road mrs stecklcy was en route to the public school south of heise hill to pick up her youngest daughter mary elizabeth when the col lision occurred her grandson 5yearold john steckley mir aculously escaped serious in jury he was a front seat pas senger in the vehicle that was completely demolished he was admitted to the branson hos pital for treatment of cuts and shock the truck a tractortrailer was owned by howard storry of ballantrae and driven by floyd housser 28 of stouff ville it carried a 20 ton load of gravel following the impact the transport veered off the highway snapped off a tele phone pole and ground to a halt part way into a field the driv er was not injured he has been charged by markham township police witii criminal negligence it took almost two hours for tow truck crews to clear the wreckage pc clifford cox conducted the investigation as sisted by pc john mccague mrs steckley was a well known and highly respected resident of gormley she was the former mable irene cober daughter of mr and mrs ben cober she had been a lifelong resident of the district her main interests were con nected with activities in the heise hill brethren in christ church where she was a mem ber and a regular attendant at sunday services she had con ducted a sunday school class for many years besides her husband she is survived by one son bruce and five daughters margaret mrs john eyer of fort erie alma and reatha both of toronto carole and mary elizabeth at home there are two brothers john and george cober both of gormley and three sisters mrs ralph baker of gowanstown mrs j r steckley and miss ella cober of gormley rev william vanderbent of richmond hill conducted the to 600 friends neighbors and relatives completely filled the heise hill church a silent tri bute to the respect held for the deceased in the community it was one of the largest funer als held in the area in many years interment was made in heise hill cemetery the pallbearers were three neighbors messrs james dennie herbert moreby elmer leek and three nephews messjs 7stsr erfjfcger met vin vtsssibsm and osti steckley lee co gets gravel tender lee sand gravel co was the successful bidder for the supplying of gravel to the mu nicipality of stouffville this year four firms tendered on the contract the delivered price will bo sac a ton stouffville council meeting on thursday night also opened ten ders for the sale of the used works department truck and sale was made to vera preston for 225 four bids were re ceived for the truck to erect stop signs depreeve laushway chair man of the property committee presented a committee report recommending a number of stop signs to be erected at var ious intersections the intersec tions named were montreal and stouffers park dr and may- tree market and somerville harold and william rupert and william second and william rupert and 9th rupert and fairview a corporation speed limit sign was also recommend ed for 9th line south as well as school crossing on sunset in presenting the report the deputyreeve stated that traffic was steadily increasing on har old and fairview and fast driv ing on both streets made it necessary to take some normal precautions about crossstreets clditor ketommenas engagement mr and mrs frank recsor announce the engagement of their daughter esther may to harry j lewis son of the late mr and mrs allen lewis of markham the marriage to take place on saturday june 3 funeral service on sunday af- 1961 at 2 oclock in locust hill ternoon at one oclock close united church turn down deer shoot m uxbridge tp ol this issue away members of uxbridge town ship council expressed some pessimism concerning a sugges tion by the dept of lands and forests that a short open season on deer should be considered within the municipality in a letter from the district forest er a w leman of maple air ed briefly before a regular meet ing on monday night it was pointed out that threeday deer shoots contributed to the control of high deer populations which are known to exist in many townships the suggestion met with opposition from d mem bers present reeve earl dowswell said that the council had received only one complaint of deer crop damage throughout the past year i would hate to estimate the number of complaints we would receive if we opened the township up he said deputyreeve robt ncsbitt expressed a fear that too many hunters would resort to the use of highpowered guns council agreed that no action should be taken youth remanded alter assaulting police officer robt galbraith of markham village charged with assault ing a police officer and a civil ian in addition to a charge of escaping custody was granted a further remand when he ap peared in newmarket court on tuesday he asked that the case should he laid over until may 15th in order that he might ob tain legal advice galbraith has been accused of assaulting robt beard of i 1th avenue markham township ami pc wm gunn of the markham village police depart ment bail has been set at s10o0 mr roy tindall has returned home after spending several weeks in uxbridge hospital nigh due to the ccrsdirib comp lications presented for school boards in the paying by the government of the new 3 grant auditor e a smith has recommended to whitchurch twp council that a budget night be held each year mr smith considered that the coun cil would be rendering a serv ice in holding such a night an nually where the inspector could explain the various forms required to be completed council members meeting on monday night expressed favor for the suggestion and it is quite probable that such a meeting will be called in 19g2 in presenting his annual re port the auditor spoke of the increased costs of education he pointed out that in 1918 the total bill was 31000 while in 1960 this same bill had risen to 232000 mr smith commended the whitchurch staff for their co operation but expressed a de sire to see the constant increase in tax arrears the total at present is 209000 of this am ount 119000 is current while the remainder goes back for several years taking over properties clerk jack crawford assured council that he was taking the required action to register the amounts of tax arrears against h kv3 n iwjj escfc ftrpertr rten the time exceeds three years already this year he said 12 resigna tions had been approved and he had a total of 50 to complete in these cases the municipality lakes title on registration is responsible for the upkeep fire insurance etc and may sell the property after one year it the tax arrears have not been paid off the auditor commended mr crawford for his action in this regard and expressed hope that council would give him full support in reducing the arrears by this method floyd e housser 23 of stou ffville driver of a tractortrailer gravel truck involved in a fatal accident south of gormley last week has elected trial by judge and jury lie has been charged by markliam township police with criminal negligence in the deatii of mrs levi steckley of gormley he appeared only briefly in newmarket court on monday the preliminary hear ing will be held on may 29th mrs steckley was killed al most instantly when her car was rammed from the rear by ho loaded transport on thurs day afternoon queen is crovned a pretty eighteen year old grade 12 student was selected may prom queen of stouff- vjllfi dist high school at the annual semiformal dance on friday evening daphne chew- ins was the popular cholc from a group of ten entries last years queen elaine for syth officiated at the crown ing ceremony staff photo