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cibttie xol 73 no 35 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday february 1 3362 ten pages community mourns popular businessman late l e oneill the village of stouffville suffered a distinct loss lwrt week with the passing of l e tim oneill popular businessman and a sports leader here for the past thirty years his illness during recent weeks had been followed with anxiety by his hundreds of friends throughout the town and district and the announcement of his death on friday was felt most keenly through out the community l e tim xneill came to stouffville as a port perry boy in 1929 and was employed here for three years bythe latewj matherjn 1932 repurchased the funeral and furniture business on mr mathers retirement mr oneill was highly respected in his profession as funeral director and hundreds of families in town and district found him a most sympathetic and trusted friend in time of trouble over the years he has enlarged and improved the business block at the church st corner and only last year completed a further addition to the building adding greatly to the funeral chapel facilities mr oneill was a member of richardson masonic lodge and a charter member and past president of the stouffville lions club always in the forefront of any worthwhile community project it was in the field of sport in which he was most prominent he was manager of both intermediate baseball and senior hockey clubs both of which won provincial honours- in 3958 he was elected to the executive of the ontario hockey association an office he still held at the time of his death he was most active in the stouffville arena project of 1950 was one of the original directors and a past president of the company in the field of municipal endeavor mr oneill headed the stouftville cemetery commission for many years and his interest and attention to the cemetery grounds did much to bring the local burying place up to the splendid condition in which it is kept today lisgar e tim oneill was in his 54th year a son of mr and mrs fred oneill his wife who survives him was the former mildred goode to the couple were born two daughters joy mrs george ross of halifax and fay mrs gordon minton of stouffville two brothers jack and alvin also survive the public funeral service conducted from the stouffville united church on monday afternoon was most widely attended rev gordon cruikshank was assisted in the service by rev douglas davis pastoral friend of the deceased for many years he spoke of reverent consideration which the late mr oneill had given to so many over the years and it was with this same sympathetic understanding that they now came to pay their respects to him the pallbearers were messrs geo stark donald hodgins reg button don lehman elmer daniels and murray daniels and honorary pallbearers were messrs telf rennie harry stouffer dave stouffer don lewis harry lee k r davis and les wil3on entombment was made at the stouftville cemetery vault inaddition to the hundreds of friends who attended the service there were also many professional asso ciates and prominent men in the sports field including w a hewitt father of foster hewitt and pat patter son prominent referee flowers were gratefully de clined in favour of contributions to the cancer fund toronto train was filled sat morning dozens of adults and children took advantage of the saturday morning passenger train serv ice to toronto and filled the weekend southbound unit to ca pacity all passenger trains were removed from the local line after jan 30th with the exception of an evening unit that will come only as far as markham village although additional coaches were acquired to cope with the saturday crowd many passen gers had to stand in the aisles and some were accommodated in the baggage car the train was right on time the stouffville station was buzzing with activity on recent weekends the cnr has been promoting special excursion rates from stouffville to tor onto and return one adult fare would cost only 133 for many of the children it was their first train ride and possibly their last embezzled 6000 from unionville firm man picked up in montreal two markham township po lice officers sgt harvey cox and sgt bob hood journeyed to montreal recently to arrest a unionville bookkeeper on a charge of theft jack delaurier 41 was alleged to have embez zled close to 6 000 from the un ionville firm of raymond pile co over a period of va years sgt cox and sgt hood located the accused in a montreal apart ment delaurier pleaded guilty when he appeared before magistrate o s hollinrake in richmond hill court on january 18th on mrs hilda wilson heads park board for 62 mrs hilda wilson is the new- president of the stouffville park board she accepted the post at a special meeting in the committee room of the munici pal building on monday night in addition to this position mrs wilson will continue to take charge of picnic reservations in the park during tvro suffer broken bones on icy streets two stouffville residents suf fered broken bones through falls which they sustained on the icecoated streets here sat urday mrs jas wells a resi dent of albert st south fell on the sidewalk suffering a broken right arm she was treated by dr h b freel at the east end of town mr gordon kennedy a resident of montreal st tumbled on his way out street and suffered a triple break in one leg stouffville works dept sand- er was on the job for about ten houts during the day but it re quired most of the day in order to coer the entire town a dis tance of some fourteen miles the summer thursday he was sentenced to months mr jas thomas is the one year definite and one year indefinite the unionville company dis covered the shortage a short time after delaurier had left their employ they notified the markham township police and a warrant was issued for his arrest new policemen for markham township run into opposition gas leak causes concern at rink three members of the stouff ville fire department equipped with oxygen masks entered the ammonlaaucd engine room of the rolling hills curling rink at bcthcsda on friday night when it was feared that an em ployee charles kirk 21 might have succumbed to the gas he was later found at oak ridges fire chief walter smith as sisted by wm malloy and fred castle entered the confines of the freezing unit as the cutting fumes spread throughout the ice area curling participants remained in the lounge until the air cleared play was re sumed later in the evening authorization for the employ ment of two additional police men was given at markham township council meeting this week following a recommenda tion by the police committee the new men who will start in march are glenn forrester and albert hudson employment of the new men will end the pay ment for oveitime to markham police officers the police com mittee report adopted by coun cil specified that in future any overtime worked by police offi cers was to be compensatedfor by time off eightyfour appli cations for positions on the po lice department were on file it was said the police committees report also recommended the conclu sion of a longtime arrangement with the chief of police regard ing mileage and proposed that he be given a monthly car al lowance of s50 the report also recomrtjvireplacirfg of j of the three police cruisers a routine arrangement by which equipment is kept in good shape a new pay schedule is likely to be discussed with markham po lice and in that event the re port suggested telephone cost at present paid for police offi cers might bo discontinued the staff sergeant is to be in charge in the absence of the chief constable the report said mumberson objects the police committee report was handled in council by councillor charles hooper in the chair councillor charles hoover and councillor al sum ner reeve wilfred dean was absent through an attack of pneumonia and deputy reeve lawson mumberson was at a county council meeting and did not return until halfway thro ugh the council meeting on his return he objected to the ap pointment of glenn forrester who he claimed was a nephew of the chief of police drawing on his long experience as a po lice inspector in toronto he de clared that such an arrange ment if it did not cause trouble at the present time would do so in the future i am definitely not against the man himself declared the deputy reeve but my experience shows that there is a real danger deputy reeve mumberson tangled with councillor hooper in a continuation of a fight on police matters which flares ev ery now and again in township council meetings on the appoint ment he declared that he knew even at the time of the election that the chiefs nephew was to be appointed he had been told about it on several occasions there was no picking and choos ing of candidates asserted the deputy reeve and there might well have been because of the 84 applications on hand this makes it difficult for other men on the force said deputy reeve mumberson i hope that you realize what this means councillor al sumner said that he was sorry about the situation but did not know about the relationship says administration poor continuing his attack on po lice administration in markham township deputy reeve mum- berson declared that ninety- nine and a half percent of the troubles are due to poor admin- istration this is adding another ten or twelve thousand dollars to costs because of poor admin istration he asserted and now the chief is adding his nephew to the force did widemar disclose that this man was his nephew ask ed other councillors and was told not although councillor hooper admitted that he knew it its entirely your responsi bility he told other members of council it isnt a matter of how good a man is its the problems you are creating this is the first time i have been away an hour and this was slipped through in my ab sence the deputy reeve de clared a statement which was resented by councillor al sum ner who again claimed that he did not know of the relationship did you see the applications asked mumberson forcing other council members to admit that they had accepted names pre sented by the chief constable when do they go for train ing he asked now or years from now he claimed that time of training was poorly ar ranged and slack time was not employed properly secretarytreasurer mr wilf mcwhinnie is the grounds sup erintendent two council rep resentatives deputyreeve ken neth laushway and councillor gar lehman were in attendance the board agreed to advertise for a park caretaker to be em ployed on an hourly wage basis for a six month period commeii- cing on or about april loth the members praised the efforts of mr louis slack caretaker for the past nine years due to ill health he has been forced to resign mr slack took over the post in 1953 replacing mr bert batt five members of the stouff ville lions club swimming pool committee attended the meet ing including messrs neil pat rick tat aida bob hammond and jim ogilvy the operation and maintenance of the pool for 1962 was discussed at some length and a recommendation pertaining to this project will be presented to council on thursday night careless hunter fined 100 man loses eyesight a toronto hunter was fined 10000 by magistrate o s hol linrake in richmond hill court on tuesday on a charge of care less hunting while in possession of a firearm donald r austin empress avenue discharged his shotgun in an area south of markham village on oct 18th pressure on whitchurch tax delinquents those whose taxes are in ar rears in whitchurch township some for several years are hav ing increased pressure applied by th tax collectors office in a number of cases the property has been taken over by the township and similar action is pending on others most troublesome has been the collection of business tax which is the responsibility of the owner unless piior agree ment is made with the tenant tax collector jack crawford reported to council on monday that the court of revision had taken no action against such delinquents the township has a large number of gravel pit businesses operating and at least two of these were liable for tax pay ments in one case of more than 1500 the collector report ed whitchurch to check tax arrears before pushing water project and one of the pellets struck another hunter in the face fred williams 29 underwent an em- to the ground by the blast ergency operation in the scar- boro general hospital but lost the sight in his left eye markham township police were not called in to investi gate the matter until two days after the incident when the ac cident was reported to their department pc clifford cox pieced the stories of eyewitness es together and austin was later charged the victim was in the line of fire whertthe accused attempted to bring down a pheasant in flight although he killed the bird the area where williams was standing was sprayed with pelletsthe victim was knocked us killed in mysterious explosion the cause of the explosion spector of the ontario fire mar- that touched oft a lire in a pri vate garage in unionville and killed a 51 year old insurance salesman remains a mystery according to pc clifford cox the investigating officer with markham twp police the body of wm t gundy was released by the attorney generals de partment on monday following an autopsy the victim was dis covered in the charred remains of the frame structure on wed nesday evening after the blaze had been extinguished by union ville firemen the fire mar shalls office was informed of the fatality by sgt harvey cox of markham township allan williams assistant chief in- shalls dept sifted through the ashes in an effort to arrive at the cause of the explosion and ensuing fire an inquest will be held neighbours in the immediate area described the initial blast like a cannon two other mi nor oxplosions have been attrib uted possibly to the gas in the victims car and the antifreeze in the radiator the unionville brigade was summoned by mrs sybil fisher the deceased a devout mem ber at the anglican church is survived by his wife a son to ny 13 and twins john and jan et 15 whitchurch township coun cil members agreed on monday that the tax arrears should be checked at oak ridges before any further action should be taken concerning the installa tion of a domestic water system it was pointed out that tax ar rears on the west side of the township were two to one in comparison with those in the farm area to the east it was thought that if those desirous of the water were found to be heavy in arrears council would hesitate to en gage an engineer but if this did not prove to be the case more consideration would be given opposing petitions a delegation was present at mondays meeting from oak ridges james smith presented a petition signed by si residents requesting council to proceed with obtaining a water supply from king township mrs bunii another member of the group presented a petition sign ed by 31 ratepayeis lequesting that no action be taken in re gard to water the whitchurch side of oak ridges will never develop until some services are available said mr smith he noted that the property on the king side was now moving more freely since water was available he said that the persons signing the petition weie only asking that council obtain a report on the possibility of obtaining wa ter cleik jack cravord read a letter from the ontario water resources stating the project could be extended to the whit church side if the residents and council so desired taxes stumbling- block mrs gibbs councillor touch ed on the real stumbling block to the issue taxes she sug gested that no action be taken by council until the petition had been examined and it was de termined what arrears of taxes were outstanding on their prop erties mr jack blyth stated that having a water supply had re duced the fire insurance in king area by forty percent and he doubted if the whitchurchresi dents could depend on the con tinuance of the well supply of water mrs bunn who had brought the opposition petition said were not against having water but against any inciease in taxes she said many weie living on pension which was be ing extended to the limit any increase in taxes would mean a loss of homes she said would charge all jos gibbs said lie favored the aiea being supplied with water by the township and the whole project be chaiged against the cntiie township he noted that the township was putting more pressure on tax delinquents and thought this was a good thing councillor faiquharson took a dim view of mr gibbs sugges tion stating that he didnt think mr gibbs would be in favor of paying for such a water system if it was located at ballantrae while he lived at wilcox lake twelve high school students form part of a model un twelve students from the stouffville dist high school formed part of a model united nations assembly conducted re cently at the parliament build ings in toronto altogether 900 studentsfrom the metro region took part the stouffville group included dawn grose pat o connor susan ogilvy david stephens sven christensen joanne stouffer janis oster- dahl bernadine terwoerds lome grove ron patrick and tim wees local organization was in charge of staff teacher mr h j waite early in the fall each high school selected a country to rep- lesent in the model assembly a trip to the united nations in new york was then arranged where each delegation met the actual l cpresentative of the country they had chosen stouff ville higli school selected col umbia they were entertained by the columbian delegate and provided with information on the countrys stand on world problems after months of preparation and research all the students met together as a united na tions group they occupied the seats of the provincial legisla ture problems concerning dis armament the berlin question and human rights were argued and debated throughout an en tire day at the conclusion of the eventful gathering the stu dents had acquired a valuable insight into the problems now facing our world leaders old steam engines expensive the price of 57000 was re garded as too high by the town of lindsay for a discarded cnr steam locomotive lindsay has made a request to the victoria county council for financial as sistance in the project it was understood that a year ago an engine could have been t had just for the asking warden john alton said ho thought lindsay should have an engine as a historical relic these municipalities have paid a lot of money into the railways in the past years they should give them an engine he said the matter of obtaining an engine was suggested by reg mackay chairman of stouffvilla planning board at a recent meeting steal 100 the theft of a cash register containing about 5100 was re ported on wednesday morning from the restaurant premises of mr hal dafoe main street stouffville entry was gained through a rear door the thieves carried off the entire till but no other stock was touched stouffville police are investigating schell lumber co completes forty yrs en business here for the past forty years the firm of schell lumber limited has operated from the same site on edward street in stouffville the thriving business has be come a family affair one son harry joined his father sixteen ears ago and the association was enlarged to include another son percy two years later the plant was originally known as the canada bee and honey supply co in 1922 mr wesley schell and the late clay ton stouffer entered into a part nership which was dissolved six cars later when mr schell took over the sole interest in the business mr schell had been employed with the bee supply company for 3 years before the partnership was formed the firm was known as the stouffville planing mill but this nameplate was altered to schell lumber limited within the past decade the schell company has en joyed an enviable relationship between employer and employee a record that can be certified by the length of service of their staff the late arthur farthing worked with the firm for 28 years and their bookkeeper mrs gladys badgero was employed ir the office for a period of 22 years mr orville eurton is the next in line with 15 years to his credit followed by mur ray rcdshaw with 12 years kenneth smith has been a mem ber of the staff for five years to mark their fortieth anni versary year from 1922 to 1962 the schell firm has provided their most regular customers vith unique calendars complete with staff photos model u n students twelve students from stouff ville district high school rep resented a country at a model united nations assembly in the parliament buildings to ronto about 900 participants from the metro region were portion of the stouffville group and sven christehsen the io- in attendance and current pro- is pictured here they are cal delegation represented co- blems now facing world pow- left to right dawn grose lumbla six other members crs were discussed and dc- jamie ogilvy pat oconnor will be pictured in next weeks bated throughout the day a david stephens susan ogilvy issue staff photo ft