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antique auto award at the speedsport 63 show held at the queen eliza beth building toronto on saturday this gleaming 1931 ford touring model a 4- door deluxe sedan owned by harvey bunker of goodwood caught the judges eye in the antique class he was present- eel with this beautiful trophy by miss canada of 1961 staff photo rural organizations divided on pickering assessment dispute a suggested division of inter ests between two rural farm organizations in the twp of pickering was widened this week with the announcement that no representative of the pickering farmers committee executive would attend a pub lic meeting in brougham on wednesday feb 6th the gath ering has been arranged by the pickering twp rural ratepay ers association the farmers committee is headed by mr joe tran the rural ratepayers are promoted by prof eugene labrie and robt g roy in a statement of policy sub mitted to the tribune by mr tran it was pointed out that his committee wished in no way to malign the character or posi tion of anyone in township of fice the firing of mr goslin assessment commissioner and the upsetting of the present council will in no way help help our present situation and in no way change our assess ments said mr trail mr elliott harrington pres ident of the parent scarboro and associated township farm ers said that the organization did not wish to engage in a personal attack against anyone the policy stand is published on page 9 of this issue call for dismissal prof la brie and mr roy on the other hand have called for the dismissal of mr goslin from office in addition in a published pamphlet mr roy has also criticized some mem bers of council and former municipal leaders mr roy has arranged for two ontario cabinet ministers to attend the public gathering in brougham next week mini ster of health hon m b dy- mond and minister of munici pal affairs hon j wilfred spooner have agreed to be pres ent speaking in regard to the meeting mr harrington said that the pickering farmers committee could decide for themselves if they wished to attend mr tran told the trib une that he definitely would not be there he said that the or ganization had already made their wishes known to premier robarts at a special meeting at queens park on feb 23rd and had also explained their assess ment problems to dr dymond and mr spooner markham sells debentures to yield 5v2 markham township disposed of approximately 150000 in waterworks debentures on mon day at a price of 98359 to yield 54 for twenty years greenshlelds incorporated and the canadian imperial bank of commerce took the entire issue the debentures were for a local improvement program for wat cr lines in two west side sub divisions 50 doll f-vjv- toiiffwlk ftrttmne vol 71 no 34 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday january 31 1963 twelve pages town police acting to break wage freeze rr tile three officers of the stouffville police department are taking action to attempt to break the municipal councils wage freeze which was agreed upon at the last council meeting council members took the stand this year that thete should be no increases in salary in any department tne three policemen are ask ing for an annual salary equal t that being paid officers in markham township it is un derstood that they are not per mitted to become members of a union but may seek to have their wage grievances arbitrat ed the policemen have engaged legal counsel locally and their case is expected to come before council at the first regular meeting in february council members met in committee to discuss the subject last week but took no action to reverse their earlier decision that wages in 1963 should be main tained at the 62 level hold inquest into milliken fire deaths a coroners inquest was conducted by dr john flem ing of markham on wednes- day night into the death of three milliken children in a tragic house fire on sunday jan 6th the hearing was held in the municipal chambers at buttonviue in markham twp clara judy and cathy oday family of mr and mrs daniel sowiluk perished in the blaze the parents and two other children escaped the inquest jury compris ed messrs harry boadway robt morrow klson miles james smith and james bacon investment firm plans to build neighborhood shopping place plans have been presented to coffey hartley ford agency leslie rowbotham was resident here 58 yrs dr helen abell was the guest speaker at the annual lions club farmers night banquet on monday dr abell who has performed worldwide service for government and united nations departments is a stouffville girl daughter of mr and mrs j l abell cows climatized to loafing barn system fortytwo head of milch cows have become climatized to the open air freedom of a loafing barn system put into practice on the farm of mr gordon cox cone 9 markham even the subzero temperatures of the past week had no adverse effect on the hardy holstcins that continue to produce a half can of milk per cow per day mr cox embarked on the major changeover after a dis astrous fire levelled his historic round barn on may 9 1959 he visited many farm premises before finalizing his decision to adopt the present plan now in use i was a little sceptical at first admitted the owner but if i had to do it over again i would do the same thing he pointed out that the expense involved in tearing down an old barn moving it to the desired site lebuilding it on a new founda tion and installing the necessa ry services would have cost may thousands of dollars at milking time the cows line up like so many soldiers and walk into four separate stalls where they are milked fed and then released through runway exit it takes about lib hours to milk the cox herd no sick cows veterinary calls have been reduced to almost nil on the cox farm udder accidents that plague many farmers who keep their cattle in permanent enclosures have also been cut we hardly ever have a sick cow anymore said mr cox he noted that before exposures to drafts in the warm stable had stricken several of the stock witli pneumonia he noted too that siice the changeover he had only one cow with hardware in its stomach such operations had been quite common before he said that since he had adopted the loaf ing barn system many new im provements had been perfected in laboursaving devices he ad vised that anyone contemplate ing such a move would be better to do a complete job one should go all the way for better results he said the milk is picked up by taylor bros transport at markham and shipped to markham dairy room for 60 cows the buildings are so con structed on the cox farm that the cattle are provided with an adequate windbreak at night there is room for 60 cows to take cover in a wellst rawed enclosure a feed trough is located in the centre of the yard and two water howls are electrically heated at the pres- tnt time brewers grains are carted to the troughs by wheel barrow but mr cox may install ap automatic auger this sum mer the animals sleeping quarters arc cleaned out once a year with a tractor and power loader there has been quite a trans formation on this markham township farm in the past four years the owner is satis fied with the results of his venture and the highlevel pro duction figures on the milk ehait would indicate that the cows have ro complaints on thursday evening to night some lucky ticket holder will win this doll dress ed in fifty s100 bills the draw will be part of the local program to mark minor hockey week in stouffville staff photo fiftyeight years a resident here and in his 85th year w leslie rowbotham died sudden ly monday night following a seizure mr rowbotham whose wife nettie reesor of altona predeceased him by 20 years is survived by a son donald r and a brother frank born at victoria square and growing up in his fathers wheelwright shop and cousins adjoining blacksmith shop mr rowbothams early training produced a lifelong interest in a wide variety of skills which he has continued to enjoy as a hobby since retiring an expert mechanic in later years his first trade learned from his father was painting and decorating specializing in woodgraining which may still bt- seen in many wellpreserved gormley area homes after coming to stouffville in 1905 mr rowbotham was successful in several businesses including stouffville bakery company which he operated in partner ship with his brother frank until latter part of world war i he then turned to storekeep ing owning the grocery and confectionery stores later sold to mr and mrs porter mr rowbothams final enterprise from which he retired 10 years ago was woodworking and repair for which he became wellknown in 1950 he con structed a residential elevator in his home and even in periods of uncertain health has continu ed using the equipment which he moved to his basement the funeral will be conducted by rev bass of stouffville congregational christian church at 200 on thursday with interment at stouffville cemetery the regular meeting of stouffville municipal council will be held next thursday night feb 7th few changes made in whitchurch assessment judge weaver sitting at whitchurch twp council chambers on monday to hear several appeals against the township assessment made few changes in tlie figures sot up by assessment commissioner robt kennedy jos fcder of toronto was allowed a rebate on tax on a property which he claimed was vacant for a portion of the year miss audrey leary had disposed of 11 acres of her us- acre farm to the highways department and the judge in structed that she be relieved of the assessment on this portion mr and mrs t trent had the assessment on a musselmans lake cottage reduced by 100 it had been increased 300 due to winterizing the appeal of morris and david vanek on wilcox lake property which they valued at 35000 was rejected vanek stated that due to business pressure he had failed to appeal the assessment last year he said that the property had been offered for sale but there had been no bids solicitor lucas asked if there had ever been appeals before on this property and was advised by clerk jack crawford that the list revealed appeals had been made each year over an hour was spent on the case which was finally dismissed by judge weaver the case of mr peter posnl- koff created considerable inter est since at the township court of revision the owner said he had ambitions to make his fifty acres a pushbutton farm mr posrikoiy had originally farmed in vaughan but had sold out and purchased fifty acres in whitchurch i establ- dent and general manager as the owner of the farm is en gaged in a business outside the farm the house on the place was assessed as a separate unit from the land mr posnikoft stated he had 50 head of cattle a full line of implements and operated with hired help he said that in the summer he was able to spend many hours on the farm mr lucas said that whit church had a large number of gentleman farmers judge weaver stated that in such cases he always considered as to whether the land was bought for speculation he said that in this appeal this was not the case and he instructed the residence and land be assessed as one property mr r p leggctt who told the court his farm on the 3rd concession near the buchanan dump had cost him 10000 appealed because of thj proxi mity of the dump which he said devalued his property by 20000 mr leggett admitted to mr lucas that he knew the dump was located there before he purchased the property judge weaver said he could find no grounds for appeal and dismissed the case army band entertains a crowded assembly hall of more than 400 students were thrilled last week with a varied and colourful fifty minute pro gram presented by 38 members of the royal canadian corps of signals from kingston their attendance at the stouff ville dist high school was ar ranged by the principal mr w e duxbury early in the fall term their leader capt adams was introduced by war ren hendricks president of the students council regaled in uniforms of scar let the unit filled into the audi torium in precision drill and overtaxed the accommodation of the platform this army band is widely travelled having performed across canada and in the united states and europe they played at the worlds fair in seattle wash fire destroys workshop at conservation pk a park workshop at the claremont conservation area cone 7 pickering twp was de stroyed by fire on tuesday morning the structure erected only one year ago was levelled in less than thirty minutes the blaze started in a tractor and fed by containers of var nish and other combustible materials it quickly enveloped the building a number of pic nic tables power tools and pieces of park equipment were lost firemen from brougham were summoned to the scene a large water tank truck was called in from southwest pick ering but it became marooned on a hill west of the park en trance a park employee jas mur- dock was working inside the shop when the fire started he was able to escape from tlie building without injury stouffville planning board for a sevenstore neighborhood shopping place on main street west the plan was approved by the board on thursday eve ning and t h now go to the municipal council for further scrutiny and final approval the company planning the development is the napanee investment corporation and re presentatives told planning board members that they would make an early start on the project this spring if approval was granted the plans call for a land scaped highway entrance with paved parking for approximate ly two hundred cars the stores the representatives stated would be chiefly of a service type with the exception of a large grocery and a two thous and sq ft restaurant with banquet facilities the corpora tion has puchased seven acres cf the barry property located between patrick motors and the the large barn now on the property would be demolished and there would be access to the south in case of residential development in that direction the representatives stated that the area had been intensely surveyed with the results that the company and the major tenants believed there was am ple shopping being drained away from the nearby area to provide a good market during the discussions it was stated that the proposed type of neighborhood shoppin would enhance the town en courage further development including industry and would do little to damage the existing economy of the municipality the napanee company has also purchased some two dozen lots remaining in the watson subdivision and expects to have twenty new homes completed by next fall they will erect two model homes in the sub division as soon as weather permits offerings over 15000 second markham baptist the 114th annual business meeting of second markham baptist church was held on wednesday evening jan 23rd rev bruce hisey has been pas tor of this church for nearly seven years and this past year has in many respects been the greatest in the churchs history total offerings reached an all time high of 1533600 and mission offerings also set a new mark of well over 700000 among forward steps taken during 1962 was the commence ment in july of regular sunday evening gospel services these have been very well attended even throughout the summer months missionaries bob and hazel clubine returned to jamaica in the summer after spending their furlough in this district other missionaries the cookes and the wellers will be soon returning to their respective fields in ecuador and the phil- lipines evangelical baptists are now preparing to enter in dia and this church is looking forward to having the privilege of sharing in this work also deacons of the church for 1963 are floyd ratcliff keith hutchinson neil conner doug las wood earl brillinger and bruce hisey trustees are al- mour clarke arthur paisley floyd ratcliff and harry clendenning the general treasurer is mrs harry clen denning and the missions treas urer is jack clubine charles ratcliff is church clerk floyd rodin is general super intendent of the bible school which had an average attend ance of 123 in five departments there has been a definite up swing in attendance at worship services as well as in bible school during recent weeks barrie firm to build school addition the firm of m and d ken nedy of barrie ont submit ted the successful tender for the erection of a new addi tion to the stouttvillo dist high school the decision was finalized by the board this week the bid of s22ss2400 was the lowest of eight tenders received this figure does not include architects fees or tho cost of additional equipment there was a difference of 36000 between the high and the low bid the work is to be complet ed for the opening of the fall term in september 1963 400 damage to car which hit cow a car and a cow collided on 17th avenue markham twp on monday evening and the car suffered an estimated 100 dam age the cow struggled to its feet and walked away the auto was driven by rus sell holder elm road stouff- ville the cow was owned by miits johnson rr2 gormley action on bloomington corner coming soon whitchurch township coun cil expressed hope monday night that negotiations on the widening of the bloomington sideroad corner which began in 1960 would soon be completed the job must be finished this year declared councillor ivan mclaughlin present holdup is the obtain ing of a piece of property from mr and mrs carl insley on the northeast corner council agre ed to wait one more week for a figure from mr insley on what he would agree to accept for the land there appears to be some doubt as to the location of a number of roadside trees whether they are on township property or on mr insleys land reeve frank williams said that the township held a deed to ten ft additional land both on the west and south so that he was almost certain the trees would be on whitchurch land council agreed without- mo tion to await mr insleys final offer before proceeding with an expropriation there have been several fata lities at this contentious corner which is a heavilytravelled truck route running cast and west and a main line to mus selmans lake north and south local boys leave on trip around the world hilyard manuel of mussel- mans lake and presently of agincourt terry wise of mark ham and douglas hatch of tor onto left this week from new york aboard the hollandameri can liner ryndam on a hitchhiking trip around the world hilyard manuel who at tended high school in stouff ville is a son of mr and mrs harold manuel the three young men expect to be away for two years and will work their passage from place to place they are headed initially for woking in surrey where they have a construction job waiting for them they also have employment lined up in australia would keep chemicals out of detergents the county of wentwortri has presented a resolution to the provincial government re questing that legislation ba brought in to prohibit the tisa of a chemical base in the manu facture of detergents as it i3 found that they have an adverse effect on the treatment process of disposal plants it was sug gested that a vegetable base be used markham township council agreed on monday to support the resolution 30 families on relief the welfare officers report for the last half of 1962 re vealed that there were 30 heads of families on relief during this period of this number 24 were unemployable the total num ber of dependents receiving as sistance was 106 and there were 28 single persons don deacon heads markham twp liberals donald deacon was elected president of markham town ship liberal association at it annual meeting in buttonviue other members of the 1961 executive will be harold cowl and stuart rumble vicepresi dents and walter craig secro tarytreasurer although all of tho township is in the provincial riding of york north the southern part is in the federal riding of york- scarboro head table guests included john addison mp and mrs addison maurice morcau fed eral candidate for york-scar- boro and mrs morcau and do nald plaxton richmond hill provincial candidate in the last election and mrs plaxton honour students three students of grade 13 obtained honour standing on the christmas examinations held just prior to the christ mas vacation period helen busato came first in a class of 12 her average was 829 per cent gerald dawson was second with an average of ished an electronic firm in new- j 81 per cent joy wooller was market of which he was presi- third with an average of so7 guard of honour welcomes premier premier of ontario hon john robarts paid tribute to more than 1000 students of two pjblic schools in markham on monday ailernoon for their seven year accident- free record no other school under the elmer safety pro gram has equalled this per- trol members formed a guard formance in the entire prov- of honour at the entrance to iree on the occasion of thchoblnson school premiers arrival safety pa- staff photo s