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the onlv reminder these four children have of their pet labrador retriever is a picture in the famllv photograph album the dos disappeared ocr two week ago from the home of mr and mrs desmond kerr and it is feared that it may have been stolen the chddren are left to lent paul 8 linda 9 diane 5 and cathy 12 staff photo altona family pray for return of their pet dog charcoal the finest christmas gift that could come to the home of mr and mrs desmond kerr of al tona would be the return of the childrens pet dog charcoal the 4year old black labra dor retriever mysteriously dis appeared from the kerr prop erty on nov 28th while the fa mily was away on a shopping trip an appeal both by news paper and television has pro duced several reports but none has located the dog since two hunters were seen near the pre mises it is feared that char- kie may have been stolen and the family think it is just lonely anyone seeing a labrador black in colour with a collar and tag is asked to phone 640- 2693 charkic four prayers are said here vry night said mr kerr the children are heartbroken the family include diane 5 paul 8 linda 9 and cathy 12 mrs kerr said that the dog has never before strayed from home the kerrs second dog prince a miniature collie is now sick 9th line drag strip given permit for 65 with markham twp council divided as in 1964 a vote was passed on monday to grant to ronto driveways ltd a license to operate a drag strip on the 9th concession in 1965 when the renewal question came before council councillor hoover immediately moved that the application be refused due to the petition of ratepay ers against the operation dep utyreeve rumble said he would support mr hoover and further that this was 1965 bus iness which the present council should not be dealing with i took a stand on this issue last summer and havent chang ed my mind said councillor palmer nor have i replied councillor hoover reeve hoop er said he didnt see how coun cil could refuse the application and councillor sloane said he would support the request in the vote which followed the 1965 license was granted with councillor hoover and dey putyreeve rumble being re corded as opposed reelected in markham stuck accelerator wins acquittal for local driver a stouffville driver won him self an acquittal in richmond hill court on friday after he told magistrate n p kelley that he couldnt slow his auto down because the accelerator was stuck robt hathaway of main street was clocked at speeds up to 90 miles per hour by markham village police and stopped just east of the 9th cone he was fined 500 for driving without a licence p c rod junkin testified that he and sgt wm vance were parked in their cruiser at the intersection of no 7 and 48 hwys he said that another car pulled along beside the hatha way vehicle and at the turn of the light both took off at a high rate of speed strange car hathaway said that he was a- ware that a cruiser was follow ing him but the gas pedal was stuck on the floor he said he was not familiar with the auto and couldnt get it stopped i turned off the ignition but it just backfired he said he de nied that he had engaged an other motorist in a drag race i dont think a married man does things like that he re plied magistrate kelley in dismis sing the charge told the driver that his car should be in al condition at all times he ord ered him to have it repaired before driving it again faulty speedometer in another case karl kilpper rr 2 stouffville wasnt quite so fortunate he was charged with speeding at 50 miles per hour in a 35 zone on main st in stouffville he claimed that his speedometer was faulty your car must be kept in perfect driving condition to en sure the safely of other motor ists and pedestrians said mr kelley kilpper was fined 10 and costs alma walker reelected in markham village ree alms walker was rcelecled in markhani village on saturday with a majority or sit votes she will hold the office or a two- ear term staff fboto jt reeve alma walker will head the council in markham village for the next two years she was reelected on saturday with a 247 vote majority over deputy- reeve harold lawrie the final count was 949 to 702 a e ab laidlaw is the new deputyreeve defeating councillor thomas mather 818 to 743 there will be two new mem bers as councillors in 196566 public school principal lloyd abcrnethy was accorded strong support and rolled up a total of 1236 votes councillor paul horton was the runnerup with 1090 and douglas allison coun ted 745 keith brown received 603 and douglas pierce trailed the field with 310 served 9 years mrs walkers rather amaz ing career in village politics goes back a total of 9 years she has served 3 years as a council lor 3 years as deputyreeve and 3 years as the reeve she has defeated some very respected opponents including paul min- gay in 1961 by 51 votes doug mcharg in 1962 by 482 votes joe fry in 1963 by 245 votes and harold lawrie in the cur rent campaign by a majority of 247 during her nine year tenure of office the town has exper ienced tremendous growth the increase in population how ever has been accompanied by a favourable influx of both commercial and industrial as sessment to help balance the tax scale vol 76 no 2s the tribune stouffville ontario thursday december 17 1964 fourteen pages saddened companions attend funeral for car accident victim saddened school friends companions and relatives paid a final tribute on thursday af ternoon to a wellliked young claremont district boy 17 year old alec skip bell who died in a tragic car accident on mon day evening dec 7th the oneill funeral home was filled and many of those present included students and staff teachers at stouffville dist high school where the deceas ed had attended the victim was killed instan tly when a car driven by 17 year old glen fretz a close friend and neighbour went out of control on the 9th cone of pickering and rolled over the fretz lad was one of the pall bearers along with four cous ins jim larry and rick spang and bill harper another friend brad jakeman also attended floral tributes were most beau tiful flower bearers included ron sargeant fred moore rick mckcnney john heaton brent weldon and bill goudie rev douglas davis was in charge of the funeral service the deceased was identified with the united church he was an active bowler in the mens league at stouitville and had also played hockey here besides his parents mr and mrs alec bell he is survived by his grandmother mrs j o spang and a sister beverley interment was made in the stouffville cemetery tv program from here christmas eve the cbc television program across canada which will originate in stouffville next week will be seen on channel 6 at 630 pm on christmas eve cbc crews have been in town several times in the last couple of weeks preparing portions of the program while some of the telecast ill be done live on the night of the program stouffville was selected for televising a small town on the day before christmas clippers clipped for 80 in court four members of the stouff ville clipper hockey club were each fined 20 and costs in richmond hill court on tues day for drinking while under age james hood robin hood robt mustard and i charles doyle were charged by stouff ville police after their car was stopped on main sheet the in cident occurred following a hockey game marks 90th birthday prize winners in lucky draw ten more local winners are announced this week in the wishing well lucky draw pro gram promoted by merchants of stouffville each will receive merchandise awards valued at s1500 the winners this week as drawn by miss linda priest ley are gail fretz stouffville donna lewis stouffville jenny carruthers stouffville geo wedage stouffville debbie cochrane goodwood jill jack son stouffville mrs william topper stouffville mrs t johnston stouffville mrs greta alsop goodwood and jacob hoover stouffville the third and final draw will be made on saturday dec 19th coupons may be obtained from any of the merchants dis playing wishing well banners in their windows they are de posited in the wishing well in front of santas chalet on main st credit union appeal to be test case the stouffville credit union will take its business assess ment appeal before a county judge this move was revealed this week after their initial ap peal was turned down before a local court of revision no date has been set for the hearing the credit union opened an office on main street this year in the former telephone build ing the appeal will take the form of a test case and several oth er similar organizations are watching the results with inter est in this particular instance the assessment act is not en tirely clear a judge will give his inter pretation as to whether a bus iness assessment can be applied nab armed robbery suspect in town breakin at markham p c edward grimshaw of the stouffville police dept ar rested two suspects in an arm ed robbery at markham during the early hours of wednesday morning after he spotted the car at ringwood the driver es caped on foot the officer took up the chase after markham village police reported a holdup at the bp station on no 7 hwy the auto turned down albert street and the pair were cornered on the property of the goldfish supply co a loaded 22 cal revolver was recovered the two men still not identified are believed to be residents of lake wilcox take 5 the holdup victim was mr sam mckuen of markham he was assaulted but not injured the thieves took about 558 from the office markham village officers were at the scene minutes after the holdup and the entire ar ea was immediately sealed off chief fred whife praised the work of constable grimshaw who held the suspects until more help arrived the pair were taken to buttonville jail in markham twp store hours with the exception of satur day dec 19 and thursday dec 24 stores in stouffville will be open daily from 9 am to 9 pm on dec 19 and christmas kc the stores will close at 6 oclock pleads guilty to four breakins a stouffville youth entered a plea of guilty to four separate charges of break and entry when he reappeared before magistrate o s hollinrake in richmond hill court on tues day lome marshman admitted entering a home in whitchurch twp and three homes in mark ham twp he was represented by solicitor paul mingay o markham magistrate hollinrake ad journed the case to dec 17th in order that he might study a presentence report on theiboy police overtime causes concern in whitchurch cedar beach at mussclmans lake will hold its first new years eve party and dance mr vern davics reports that reserv ed tickets for this event are ai ready completely sold out miss priscilla pipher of ringwood celebrated her 90th birth day on thursday of last week she received close to 100 visitors staftrhoto miss priscilla pipher 90 is long time ringwood resident miss priscilla pipher of ringwood celebrated her 90th birthday last thursday amid a group of 90 friends and rela tives she was elated at the number of persons who sent cards of congratulations miss pipher was born dec 10 1874 at the pipher homestead in dicksons hill at the age of seven she moved to stouffville for six months then to her pre sent location in ringwood she has lived in her ringwood home for more than 80 years with the exception of a few years spent in nursing in toronto attending the party were her sister louclla and brother har vey the three of them make up a total of 240 years priscilla pipher was a tailor- ess in stouffville in 1896 she walked back and forth from ringwood to stouffville for six and a half years she worked for john bray john woodgatc and frank rac all tailors she was also a practical nurse in a boys home in toronto a hockey fan priscilla is a very opinionat ed woman has acfinite vicvs on many things and sticks by them if she feels she is right her ninety years do not hinder her from speaking her mind about the canadian flag miss pipher says the union jack should stay but if there has to be a change then it will have to be one maple leaf she doesnt like commercials on tv but believes most prog rams are beneficial she claims the best thing about it is the fact that you can turn it off priscilla like all hockey fans has her favorite players she claims red kelly b the but continued on page 13 deputyreeve would restrict residential bldg r deputyreeve stewart rum- fole pressed sfafkham twp council to keep residential building in the large new sub division at unionville in i line with industrial development at mondays meeting he said it was his understanding that the area was zoned for both in dustrial and residential and he wanted to know if the council members on planning board had given any thought to the percentage of industrial devel opment that should proceed the residential he pointed out that almost any area could secure new homes but not new indus try construction siartcd the discussion arose when engineer miklas reported to council that 36 new homes were now under construction and uie ontario water rcbouices proposed to approve the pres ent plans for the disposal plant and the wells to be drilled for water councillor palmer who sits on the planning board told mr rumble the area was zoned and could not be changed and what ever was done to keep homes and industry in balance would be done in the subdivision ag reement dcputyjrecve rumble was not satisfied with this answer in the seven months of oper ation this year officers on the whitchurch twp polite de partment have rolled up a total of 2380 hours of overtime in chief masons report for the month of november 300 hours of overtime were recorded these figures were received with some concern by members of whitchurch twp council on tuesday afternoon the chief noted that there was little opportunity to give his men extra time off to com- pensate for the extra hours put in it will be necessary there fore to pay outadditional mpr neyfdr the overtime service councillor alvin farmer suggested that it would be more practical to add another man to the force and rcducethe ov ertime cost tn court i some members r expressed concern also for the number of hours spent by officers in court in november this figure alone totalled 96 or comparable to 12 days for one constable on a question raised by coun cillor stuart burnett concern ing two officers ina cruiser chief mason explained that un- less they were en route to court only one man wasusual- lyvin a car at a time and suggested that now that houses were going up they would likely continue to be built until stopped r reeve hooper said that coun cil was out of order in discus sing the matter that had prev iously been agreed- should be contained in thesubdivision agreement l are youtying to apply clo sure asked councillor hoover mr and mrs george rodanz of ringwood were hosts on tuesday evening to the stouff ville fire brigade lady bootlegger fined 200 ida g peterson sold a case of beer to the wrong fellow on october 17th donald hillock a stranger to her purchased a case from her for 500 to her surprise mr hillock turned out to be constable hillock of tha whitchurch twp police depti and subsequently miss peterson was charged for the illegal sals of liquor f innewmarket coiirtmonday she appeared v before magistrata o s hollinrake who fined her 200 and costs or two months ii jail i bottles everywhere j const hillock testified that upon entering the home of aitchesonhe found 1 25ouncs bottle and 4 126unce bottles of rye in 24bottle cases of beer on the f full pintsin the kitchen and 12 pint in the refrigcrator the case he purchased the police officer also sjated thatjhera were countless bottles of emp ties strewn throughout tha house jhetdld magistratehol- linrake that a similar casepur chased legally sells for 231 ct0 profit in deciding how to handle the matter magistrate hollinrsks heard the crown suggest100 as a fine the magistrate said that 100 would be- sufficient if she had made 75 profit how ever ida was clearing100 profit and she should pay a lit- tie more he doubled the fine and ad- ded 4150 court costs robert whalcyoaki ridges who was on the premises at tho time and had been for about a week was also fined 10 and costs r christmas umbrella this nntisnal figurine is located on he front lawn at he home ofjhtr and jim dons otvelll falrvlew ave stouitville it is an old umbrella covered with chicken wire and plastic and r sup ported by an iron pipe in the ground it took two weeks to complete start photo