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vol 72 no 50 the tribune stouffvtlle ontario thursday may is 1961 sixteen pages fatal evidence the grim story of a fatal casliel james edward hick- wide area the victim was a auto accident is portrayed son cone 2 whitchurch was mechanicinstructor at the here in ribbons of twisted killed in the crash his vehicle t ui 1ij1 locust hill airport an in- steel hanging from a bridge was almost sliced in two by abutment on the sixth con- the impact which scattered 1 has been ordered cession of markham north of pieces of wreckage over a staff photo driver killed when car is impaled on bridge abutment a twenty year old whitchurch man was instantly killed dur ing the early hours of saturday morning when his northbound car rammed headlong into a cement bridge abutment on con fi markham township james edward hickson eonc 2 whit church was returning home from the locust hill airport where he was employed as a mechanic and instructor the car literally exploded on im pact and wreckage was strewn over a wide area parts of the auto were found hanging from distant trees and other portions of the vehicle fell into a small stream the noise from the crash awakened nearby neigh bours the accident occurred be tween cashel and melville it is believed that the driver may have fallen asleep at the wheel the path of the vehicle indicated that it sideswiped a mail box and three guardrails before veering across the high- wry and hitting the bridge the momentum of the auto carried it almost 200 feet further up the road the car was almost cut in two two fenders and two doors were sliced off the vehicle pc john mccague of mark ham township police investi gated assisted by sgt bob hood an inquest will be held fifteen ladies face whitchurch tp council demanding dust layer the confines of whitchurch township council chambers was the scene of a fifteen lady delegation at a regular meeting on monday night to register a verbal protest concerning tlie existing dust conditions on the bloomingion sideroad mrs marion wells was the spokes man for the deputation mrs wells urged the council to art immediately to control the dust nuisance rather than wait until july when the sea son is half over she criticized the use of calcium chloride only in front of individual pro perties and suggested that the dust layer should be applied over an entire eight mile dis tance tlie speaker charged that pas lure lands fronting on the road were being ruined she contend ed that a lack of visibility pre sented a danger to both the school children and drivers washing placed on the clothes line on monday morning was more laden with dirt after it had dried than before it was washed would com s3200 road superintendent ernest davis informed the group that the cost would amount to about 100 per mile or approximately 3200 for the eight mile area one ratepayer suggested that the 100 figure would only equal the taxes on one farm property mr davis pointed out thai the road bed had not com pletely settled and the dust layer if applied under such con ditions would not likely last throughout the summer season he said that the townships sup plier of brine materials had not yet begun operations on a full- scale basis but could likely look after whitchurchs needs if so advised admits problem reeve clifford wallwork ad mitted to the seriousness of the problem he said that the dust nuisance that plagued the residents on the bloomington road was also irritating to other people in the township he agreed however that heavy truck traffic aggravated the complainants situation he sug gested that the council and koad department would take some action to relieve the prob lem within the next few days the delegation assured the councl that they votild ajain return in full force if the mat ter was not given some immed iate attention over 2000 markham pupils in safety campaign more than 2000 public school children in the township of markham are now enrolled in the elmer safety program the project has been promoted by the markham township po lice department and is under the supervision of pc donald dukes ss no 22 mongolia is the latest school to take part in the campaign thirtyone children took part in a flagraising cere mony at the school grounds on thursday morning on the com pletion of the june term it is expected that every school in the municipality will be enroll ed safety talks are also pro vided at nursery schools any school that can maintain an accidentfree record for one year will receive a plaque this award is usually donated by an individual or a service club a plaque for the mongolia school has been offered by mr arthur latcham should an accident occur the safety flag is lowered for a period of thirty days and the program must start anew with increased travel on some country roads the police are attempting to impress the need for a steppedup safety cam paign in the rural areas as well as the urbanized centres the majority of children now ride bicycles which increase the ac cident hazard remand markham youth in custody for observation robert galbraith of markham village has been remanded to the don jail for one week to undergo psychiatric observa tions following his conviction in newmarket court this week on a charge of assaulting a po lice officer on a second charge of assaulting f r beard 11th avenue markham township the defendant was given a one- year suspended sentence on pro bation galbraith pleaded not guilty to both charges and was defend ed by solicitor harry rose of toronto mrs margaret galbraith the youths mother testified that when her son returned home from the police station his head face and client were badly bruis ed when questioned by solici tor rose officers darrell dew- ar wm gunn and sgt william shearn said that they had only acted in self defence mr beard told the court that galbraita sot out of bis car three doctors lose battle to save baby in spite of valiant efforts by three stouffville doctors a 14 month old baby boy died en route to the scarboro general hospital on saturday doctors donald petrie john button and doug brodie worked over the unconscious form of david pen- ton for almost two hours after he became violently ill at the home of his parents dr and mrs alexander renton east of town mouthto mouth respira tion was applied and when the child lailed to respond he was rushed to the scarboro general hospital accompanied by a po lice escort he was pronounced dead on arrival a neighbour mr willis davis brought the mother and baby to dr petries residence after the child lapsed into uncon sciousness following a choking spasm dr renton is taking post graduate work at the uni versity of toronto and was not home at the time the parents have one daughter linda 3i expect 126 new students at high school in sept routine business occupies puc at latest meeting the stouffville public utilities commission dealt with a great number of routine items at their latest regular meeting prior to moving this week to their new building on main st the commission was advised that d b ireland has been ap pointed director of consumers service and his place as super visor of this area will be taken by charles e crease who has had 32 years experience with the hydro operation eskimo the hydro department is con tinuing to promote operation eskimo may 15 to june 30th the program was announced in a display adv in last weeks tribune issue it gives 20 in frozen food to the purchaser of an electric refrigerator or re frigerator freezer between may 15 and june 30th six local ap pliance dealers are cooperating in the scheme adequate wiring the local commission was ad vised that in many localities danger exists from inadequate wiring and consumers are urg ed to examine their wiring in this regard a survey of the lo cal system shows that there are 1066 customers the cost of power purchased from the on tario commission in 1960 was 7894995 and the net income was 1485625 water check ok a report on the stouffville water quality was received from the ontario water resources the analysis showed the water to be hard high in alkalinity but quite pure in other re spects the stouffville horticultural society requested the commis sion to place the fountain near the cnr station in working order the water pipe supply ing the fountain was cut off in changes which have taken place recently in that area the members were quite willing to reinstate the fountain which was originally built in memory of the late j r hodgins for mer horticultural president however they admitted that keeping the apparatus in work ing order was a difficult task forecast second addition to school in 1963 stouffville high school con tinues to grow and tlie latest figures prepared for presenta tion to the school board indi cate that additional accommo dation will be required by the fall of 1963 the present school is built to take care of 400 stu dents and the survey shows that this number will be cxeeedtrj in september 1953 the board will begin planning for such addi tional accommodation in 1962 four new classrooms can be added to the latest wing only recently opened and this entire wing is constructed to make possible a second storey the estimated enrollment at the school this coming septem ber is 375 and by 1965 the num ber of students will have al most reached 500 the number of new students expected to en rol this fail is 126 with sixty of these coming from the stou ffville and ballantrae public schools principal wm duxbury pre pared a most comprehensive study of the past present and future growth of the school which the board studied at their meeting last week inspector johnson in speak ing to the board commended the staff and stated that the school was fortunate in contin uing to have a number of senior teachers he gave particular commendation to principal wm duxbury stating that he was a most capable teacher and ad ministrator and highly regarded by the department of educa tion inspector johnston was ques tioned regarding the new fed eral government program o underwriting the cost of techni cal high school wings where desired the inspector advised that at present the government was restircting the offer to schools with an attendance of s0o or schools which would reach the s00 figure within five years however while stouffville district high school will not reach the required figure with in five years the inspector said that the new program was fluid and subject to change and there would be no harm in making the request councillor criticizes markham police for laxity in fire call the markham township po lice department bore the brunt of a scathing verbal attack lev elled by one member of council at a regular meeting on mon day night councillor aiian sumner was highly critical of the police action in response to a fire call on the evening of sunday may 14th councillor sumner said that the police were informed of a blaze in a tree on a golf course but instead of notifying the dis trict fire department they elect ed to send only a cruiser to the scene the officer later report ed that he was unable to locate the blaze councillor sumners criticism was not shared by some other council members the munici pality shouldnt be put to the expense of 12500 to put out a mere tree fire countered deputyreeve lawson mumber- son i feel that the police depart ment exercised good judgment agreed reeve wilfred dean the council members feel this is some sort of a joke lashed back councillor sumner i wish to go on record as con demning the police for their action in this instance he declared that a party should not be required to specify the need of a fire truck when he submits a fire call its a slipshod arrangement he continued he said that the officer entered the golf course area circled and drove out he said that persons on the scene were able to douse the flames with a garden hose deputyreeve mumberson said that the telephone message should have been more explicit he said that the arrangement that all fire calls should be chan neled through the police office had been satisfactory in the past since the office provided 24 hour service reeve dean said that the us ual procedure was for the police to first summon the brigade then proceed to the fire scene with a cruiser he suggested that new recruits on the force should be familiarized with this arrangement councillor sumner said that he had been told by the police chief that the practice was to send an officer to the fire first and then summon the brigade councillor hooper suggested that chief wideman should at tend the next regular meeting in an effort to explain the pre sent system council to consider bylaw officer appointment discuss public school area system at meeting all trustees of public school boards in markham township will be invited to attend an im portant meeting at buttonville on wednesday evening june 7 at s pm inspector maynard hallman will enlighten board members on the feasibility of breaking down the present sys tem into onetwo or three areas the announcement of the meet ing was disclosed by reeve dean at a regular meeting of town ship council on monday night theyre not going to stuff it down the peoples throats like they did in vaughan said the reeve councillor chas hooper not ed that it was nice to see that some form of democracy was still being practiced oppose road closing the council has registered op position to the closing of 16th and 19th avenues at highway 404 councillor hooper suggest ed that the members meet with dept of highways officials at the site of the suggested cut offs councillor stan watson urged that council should re ceive some assurance from the department that their roads should be returned to their pre sent condition control of fireworks councillor allan sumner pre sented a notice of motion to deal with the control of fire works sales within the munici pality he suggested that other towns and townships were at tempting to enforce such by laws clerk harry crisp informed tha members that a bylaw to con trol the discharge of fireworks was presently on file with a penalty not exceeding 300 1 hate to spoil the kids fun but theres a limit he said deputy reeve mumberson agreed that the misuse of fireworks could have serious results especially in builtup areas tax payments the first payment of township taxes will not fall due until july 31st acording to a decision of council the second instalment will be due on oct 31st mr nelson smith con 7 has been appointed to the township cemetery board mr smitli was recommended by councillor s watson started yelling and kicked in the side of the beard auto that was parked on a township side- road the witness said he made a note of the accused mans lic ense plate number and he was later arrested markham township council will give further consideration to the appointment of a by-law- enforcement officer for the municipality reeve dean open ed a lengthy discussion on the matter when he informed the members that the planning dir ector mr ron forrest was pre sently assisting the police in the enforcement of bylaws its not very profitable to pay a man 6500 a year to go out to catch such offenders said the reeve he suggested that mr forrest could be used to better advan tage in the office preparing by laws i think that it is ridicu lous for him to be out hunting up evidence concluded reeve dean deputyreeve mumberson con tended that the enforcement of township bylaws was he duty of the police department ke noted however that such inves tigations often had to be side lined due to more important police work the first duty of a police officer is to protect the life and property of our resi dents he said reeve dean charged that there were at least four wreck ing yards operating within the township without licenses i think something must be done about these things he said we must put some teeth in the enforcement of our bylaws he continued mr d miklas the township engineer recom mended the engaging of a full- time officer for this work deputyreeve mumberson charged that the police depart ment should not have to be prompted into enforcing the li censing of wrecking yards ser vice stations etc they should do it automatically he said its a ridiculous state of ar- fairs that shouldnt be allowed to exist mr mumberson went on he pointed out however the sifting of roadside garbage for possible clues and evidence was no job for a police officer we should have someone who can concentrate on such work drys muster forces to oppose liquor in markham township the opponents of liquor sales outlets in the township of markham are mustering their forces for an allout campaign prior to the vote on the plebis cite scheduled for wednesday june 21 a representative meet ing of township residents was held in the lutheran church unionville on monday evening a vote no committee was formed comprising the follow ing executive chairman hugh boyd vice chairman rev allan lavis manager a g little secretary ewart sti ver finance chairman lome wideman campaign chairman donald deacon publicity chairman fred patterson although the machinery has been put into motion the com mittee is seeking the volunteer support of as many workers as possible a public meeting has been summoned for all interest ed township citizens in the kennedy clinic unionville on thursday evening may 25th at 8 oclock other similar gather ings are being scheduled throughout the township lake man acquitted a 2g year old musselmans lake resident has been acquit ted of two charges involving the possession of an offensive weap on and the discharge of a fire arm frank wm kemp of rr 2 stouffville was involved in a prechristmas fracas with his fatherinlaw at which time a shot was fired he had visited the home of mr john rich on the pretext of seeing his wife when the skirmish occurred kemp admiltted firing a shot at the house hut said he only wished to frighten the man ha said iris fatherinlaw had threa tened him fireworks a giant fireworks display will be held by the legion br 459 on may 24th at 9 pm in the memorial park stouffville tractor demonstration on atha farm attracts wide interest p m4 krj l t i- c the pirkerinpt township farm of mr norman lehman presented a scene typical of midmi rrmrr jhomog mitca on friday afternoon when al- tractor line under actual furrows with each trip acros with interest in spile of hi tnna ford agent mr fred working conditions these the field farmers in the area rather brief connection vith lewis presented a practical five ujts pictured here are were impressed with the show the ford agency mr lewil demonstrauoa oi hi cew isoi turning a total of seenteea and viewed tha many model his already sold 3 tractors