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markham may queen fake caller creates problem at local store several local and district women were inconvenienced on saturday when an anony mous telephone caller in formed them that they had won valuable giveaway pro ducts from the main street store of crest hardware the ladles many of them elderly and some from a dist ance arrived at the store ex pecting to take home mer chandise that ranged from electric mixers to refrigera tors and home freezers they were immediately informed by the staff that the call was a hoax business proprietor mr keg stouffer wishes to in form the public tliat give away gifts are made avail able only through the distri bution of coupons or through newspaper advertising stouftville police have been informed of the incident and are attempting to trace the origin of the call oufftriuc uribiiue vol no 49 the tribune stouffvtjlle ontario thursday may 16 1963 fourteen pages reeve urges policy on water main extensions seventeen year old karen madsen a pretty blonde blue eyed grade 12 student war owned may queen at th- annual semiformal dance it the auditorium of the mark- ham dist high school on friday night her attendants were nancy comfort 18 and bonnie jones 17 last years winner is year old bette beare officiated at the crowd ing ceremony some tax sale property is sold under the present act own ers failing to pay their munici pal taxes for three years in suc cession may have their proper ties sold the former owner is given one year to redeem his property at the present time some in terest is being shown in whit church township in several such properties on monday of this week council received an ofter of s500 for lots 1 and 2 in plan 270 from an adjoining pro perty owner who wished to en large his lot another offer of s2000 was received for 10 acres for lot 35 in concession 7 in both instances the offers exceeded the total taxes owing on the properties council ac cepted both offers final appro val to such sales must be given by the ontario municipal board fred binsted was cpr sectionman 40 yrs on sunday may 12th mr fred binsted a wellknown and highly respected resident ol claremont for the past 26 years passed away suddenly in the oshawa general hosptial he was stricken with a heart nttack on saturday and failed to recover he was 65 mr binsted was born at rath- burn ontario the son of the late fred and alice binsted prior to taking up permanent residence in claremont he liv ed at norwood he was an em ployee of the cpr and a sec tionman for a period of 40 years the deceased was identified with the united church but attended the baptist church while in claremont he was a member of the orange lodge at uhtholt ont he is survived by his wife the former lillian chandler i two sons maurice and william both of claremont and three daughters velma mrs john wallis of uhthoff lillian mrs john quantz of claremont and violet mrs ron clarke of greenwood four brothers wil liam of uhthoff charles of peterboro bert of belleville frank of orillia and one sister mrs david payne of uhthoff also survive there are nine grandchildren the baptist church in clare mont was filled for the funeral service on tuesday afternoon a tribute to the respect held for the deceased rev geo davison a former pastor was in charge with interment in the claremont union cemetery the pall bearers all former sec tion workmen were ben moore mac middleton basil graham geo beverley evans benson and garnet freeman mrs ada robinson buried at peachs mrs ada robinson widow of the late charles c robinson and onetime resident of peach- es 7th con of markham was bu ried in the family plot there on monday afternoon the funeral conducted from the jerrett fu neral chapel yonge st was largely attended by relatives and friends including a number of residents from the peaches area mrs robinson who was the former ada williamson had lived as a girl on the family farm now owned by stan wat son mr robinson operated tho general store at cashel prior to the couple moving to toronto the family lived on mcfarlano ave for many years mrs rob inson moving to charleswood dr downsview following her husbands death 17 years ago surviving is one daughter isa- belle two sisters miss elizabeth and minnie mrs a reynolds both of toronto and two broth ers garnet of markham and ormsby in saskatchewan reeve timbers called on the public utilities commission last week to go on record with some policy for water main ex tension on some streets from which owners desirous of ob taining a supply could tap in his statement arose at wednes day nights meeting when a request was received from the department of highways for permission to run a one inch copper line along the highway to service the department prop erty which is now in town im not in favour of filling up the area with one inch pipes and in this particular area some people are already being suppli ed this way said the reeve he added that it usually re mained for someone else to dig them up in years to come to put in a proper size its up to the subdivider to take care of all such expense why should the older resi dents who have paid for serv ices have to share in the cost of providing water to an area in which they have no interest said chairman ed neville secretary daniels explained that this was not a subdivision and it was quite understood thai in case of such develop ment water would be required as well as sewers commissioner atkinson sug gested that as the highway de partment was going to the ex pense of digging in a one inch pipe line it might be advisable for the commission to have them put in a larger pipe and the commission pay the differ ence in the cost as the land a little farther west is owned by the catholic church and other development can be anticipated in this area in the next few years it seemed only short sighted not to prepare for serv icing chairman neville told the commission that the catho lic church already had 70000 pledged towards the erection of a separate school the matter was left for the chairman to negotiate with the highways department markham man jailed two months for assault suspended grant gomart license for vivian park by resolution on monday night whitchurch township council renewed the license for vivian gokart track to heath er associates limited of sear- boro they had previously turn ed down an application of faal associates who were propos ing to purchase the park at lot 30 concession 7 the original company spent considerable funds building the track and have operated within he law covering such tracks so that council members looked with favour on the second ap plication in applying for the permit the company stated they would not operate at night and not until afternoon on sunday ah cars would be muffled a markham man convicted in richmond hill court last week of assault on his father- inlaw was sentenced to a two month jail term on tuesday keith couperthwaite had been charged with assault after he was alleged to have entered the home of mr reg kirk church st markham and knocked the owner unconscious to the floor prior to passing sentence on the accused magistrate russell pearse permitted further evi dence to be presented although conviction had already been registered solicitor w b thomas of unionville asked permission to present two cha racter witnesses to speak on the accuseds behalf the re quest was granted rev schmucker said he was acquainted with both mr coup erthwaite and his wife he test ified that the two had experi enced some trouble with the re sult that mrs couperthwaite was continually going home to her parents he suggested that a discussion with a marriage counsellor might assist them mr clarke couperthwaite brother of the accused said that to his knowledge he had not been involved in any trouble be fore he charged that parental interference was partly to blame for the friction between the husband and wife in reviewing the case magis trate pearse said that he could not deal lightly with a man who would enter an others home and assault him kenneth v young peter st markham has joined the law firm of button and coon in stouffville a graduate of carieton university and os- goode hall mr young was called to the bar in april 1963 his wife gloria is a kindergarten teacher on the staff of franklin school markham both are natives of ottawa friday evening may 24th will be a big night in stouff ville memorial park with the fireworks display and the lions white elephant sale in the arena ask for revised plan barry farm property sixteen year old ian mont gomery a grade 11 student appears to be suspended from the celling of the stouftville dist high school gymnasium during a recent workout on the trampoline the local gymnast was stopped in mid air by the camera at 1 3000th of a second cadieux studio banquet to aid camp the stouffville and district christian mens fellowship will hold a banquet on monday eve nmg june 3rd at the site of the willow springs bible camp cone 7 whitchurch south of lemonville the entire proceeds from the dinner will be turned ever to the camp for improve ments a program has been planned that will include mr cyril red- ford and his ambassador choir from toronto the public is cordially in vited and tickets are now on sale they may he purchased from stewart stouffer at hen dricks hardware bert stout fer at aikens drug store geo smalley chas ratclilt lamb ert stouffer and walter byer the willow springs gimp is located on the former chas ratclift farm its facilities will be available to children of all age groups throughout the summer it is operated by the canadian sunday school mis ston many furnishings are still required including cottages beds etc stouffville planning board meeting on thursday evening advised mr femson of cedar pines development recent pur chaser of the jas berry farm 9th concession and main st that they could not consider any project of development in this area until he had scaled down his present plans and made them conform to the towns of ficial plan covering this area the cedar pines plan covered more than a hundred acres and home store searched alter police officers from three de partments were placed on the alert saturday night after an anonymous telephone caller threatened to blow up a home and a auto supply store in stouffville the calls were received at s pm one direct to the police ollice and the other to the home of jas thomas rupert ave the editor of the tribune the bombs were slated to go off at 830 pm both the house and the premises owned by mr bel fry hamilton winona drive were searched but nothing was found portions of both streets were blocked off to traffic for a thirty minute period until police were convinced that the call was the work of a crank p c dennis davies of stouft ville was in charge of the in vestigation he was assisted by both markham twp and mark ham village police embraced some fifty acres in lot 35 of markham township mr femson told the board that napanee investments the firm proposing a shopping centre just west of the 9th was now out of the picture and the land had a new owner asked if it was still the intention that such a centre should be built on this site he said that it was but he was not at liberty to divulge the name of the new owners all the land fronting on the highway west of the 9th con cession has been zoned for commercial and industrial property the board had pre viously advised mr femson that it was not interested in the erection of any more homes other than those provided for in the present subdivision cedar pines proposes an indus trial road on the line of the lane leading to what was for merly the mortens farm horse show races at markham markham fair will hold its first spring horse show and race meet on saturday may 25th the races will begin at 130 pm with 800 in purses the horse show will com mence at i pm there will be fifteen individual classes a monster dance in the general exhibits building at night will round out the pro gram if this most recent venture proves n financial success it will likely be made an an nual event the markham fair president for 1963 is mr dalton rumney its graduation time is there a graduate in your family this spring if so the tribune would be pleased to hear about it photographs should be sub mitted to this office by satur day for publication in the newspaper issue of the fol lowing week kither fullsize portraits or smaller glossy proofs are acceptable there is no charge for this service but all photos should be picked up again at the owners earliest convenience complete information pre ferably typewritten must ac company each graduates picture drunk driver arrested was going at 95 mph fined in court 150 assault charge is dismissed a charge of assault filed against pickering twp welfare administrator albert cane by a relief recipient charles mor ton of freticimians bay was dismissed in magistrates court whitby on tuesday a counter charge of assault against morton was withdrawn morton remanded one week in custody following a convic tion on a charge of making an indecent telephone call was given a six month suspended sentence he was submitted to a mental examination and later released magistrate crawford guest heard the case gormley has top ayrshire eight ontario cows have re cently qualified for gold seal certificates by producing 100- 000 lbs of milk or more the award is given in recognition of meritorious lifetime production to date 662 canadian ayrshire cows have qualified for this honour one of these is sunshine hol low shirley owned by mr fj barker gormley rr2 in nine lactations she produced 109187 lbs of milk 4304 lbs of fat 394 in 3208 days she has been classified as good plus her best record was made as a seven vear old in 305 days she produced 12007 lbs of milk 518 lbs of butterfat at 431 test a 2s year old stouffville dis trict man was fined s150 and costs when convicted by magis trate russell pearse of drunk driving at the conclusion of a case aired in richmond hill court on tuesday brenton willis mason rr 2 stouffville entered a plea of guilty to the charge in addition to the fine his licence was suspended for a period of one year the chase that reached speeds up to 95 miles per hour was started at ringwood when p c dennis davies of stouff- ville spotted a southbound ve hicle race through a red light at the busy intersection a warning was immeditaely issu ed to police in markham vil lage and markham township and officers converged from three separate directions in an effort to stop the auto at 16th ave north of mark ham village the car turned west but failed to complete a sharp turn at the 7th cone and flipped over on its side neither the driver nor the two passengers was injured the accused an employee in a metro auto body shop had taken a customers car home for a test run it was dam aged to the extent of about 350 constable davies testified that although he pursued the car at 95 the vehicle a 1956 ford station wagon continued to gain on the cruiser he said that the accused could barely walk when taken to the opp station for a sobriety test markham twp relief payments slashed 44 govt helps road costs hitherto the road subsidy of 50 paid to municipalities for road expenditures from the de partment of highways has been received in the form of one fall payment and the balance the following spring whitchurch township council was advised on monday that this system has now been altered immediately the township will receive an advance payment of 2245000 which amount is bas ed on 25 of the average sub sidy over the past five years since municipalities previously had to borrow heavily to meet current road expenditures the change was welcome the efforts of markham twp welfare administrator nor man lewis were praised by members of council on monday when his quarterly report was presented for consideration figures showed that from jan 1st to march 31st in 1963 there were 113 welfare recipi ents in the municipality these persons had received 133600 in the previous year 298 resi dents were on relief and pay ments had soared to 774700 during the same period the reduction in the welfare roll is in excess of 44 mr lewis was appointed to the markham welfare post in mid1962 the report showed that only ten of the relief recipi ents were employable out of the total of 113 on welfare 62 are female and 51 are male the net cost to markham township is 99811 no firearms for constables at lake whitchurch township council on monday evening turned down a request from two parttime constables who patrol the town ship lakes in the summer mos that they be provided with side arms the request came to coun cil through the reeve and clerk neither officer being present deputy reeve farquharson was most emphatic that thess parttime men not be given fire arms for their patrol work ha said that they were doing a good job but did not believe it advis able that they be armed reeve williams supported th deputyreeve in his contention and council by resolution refus ed the request town water supply a- ontario water resources commission reported to the stouffville public utilities com mission last vxek that the town water supply tested a grade for the past month the professor a smith honoured by u of professor e a smith rest- dent of the don mills rd south of vandorf and auditor of whitchurch township for many years has been honoured by the university of toronto with appointment as professor emeri tus of chemical engineering professor smith retured from active teaching at the univers ity nine years ago he is a strong supporter of the whit church township conservation club a member of the holland river conservation authority iron content appeared to be running about the same each month chairman ed neville said he had had a few com plaints during the time tho supply was switched to the old reservoir when cleaning opera tions were in progress and for many elections chair man of the progressiveconserv ative party in york north the property on which is located mr smiths ranchstyle bungalow is part of a hundred acres which has been owned by mrs smiths family for over one hundred years mrs smith is the former edna forester professor smith commuted for over twentyfive years from his home which was then on the 3rd concession to his teach ing duties at the university ernie smith as he is popu larly known attended public school at white rose and took his bachelors and masters degrees at mcmaster university the couple have one daughter mrs peter eiscnstads at red rock near fort willam there are three grandchildren horse and buggy a redwheeled buggy pull ed by a prancing shetland pony attracted the attention of pedestrian traffic on main street in stnuffville during i recent sunday afternoon the driver and his passenger mr and mrs albert brown of mongolia had taken their rig for a spin around the block horses and buggies are not a common sight in this area any more