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well fed orphan rtbitne vol 76 no 35 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday february 4th 1965 fourteen pages omb gives markham twp control over gravel pits when the mother of this little hlaclc lamb died a few hours after giving birth the whole family on the geo baldwin farm rr 1 goodwood agreed to help out with an organized feeding ichedulc the lively little fellow receives its formula of milk eggs and rorn syrup every two hours from early morning until late at night seven year old susan baldwin holds the bottle for her wellfed orphan pet staff thoto thirtynine roman catholic families in stouffville population figures j stouff- ille as compiled by local as sessor lloyd turner indicate a total of 39 families of the ro man catholic faith in town the total number of children arising from these thirtynine is 10b the breakdown is as fol lows 3 yrs old and under34 4 yrs old12 5 yrs old7 and over 5 yrs 53 it is difficult to obtain an ex act child population figure since in several instances there is a division of faiths between the parents according to the assessment act the husband is considered to be the head of the house and his religion is ta ken as the basis for the famil ies faith this rule does not always hold true however eight of the thirynine cath olic residents in town have no children at all seventytwo of the 106 children reside in the northwest section of the vil lage this information as prepar ed by the assessor is most ben eficial both to the present pub lic school board and the new separate school trustees both of whom are contemplating ci ther new or additional student accommodation markham firm has low bid on big hiqh school job the markham village firm of konvey construction co ltd has been awarded the contract to erect a large addition to the pickering dist high school that will include 34 classrooms and a gymnasium the konvey company bid was 1825534 the lowest of seven tenders submitted the top price was 2006434 the tenders were opened in toronto board members in at tendance included chairman gordon h bray bidg chair man harold mitchell finance chairman burnett tamieson and the business administrator a r irwin the konvey co price was later approved at a special meeting of the entire board the bid was 50000 be low the estimated figure set by the engineering firm of shore nnd moffat to begin soon work on the project is ex pected to begin within two months with a contemplated completion date of dec 15 1905 it will be a two storey struc ture and will provide the pick ering dist high school with a science technology and trades institute in addition to special ized courses now available konvey construction is cur rently working on a 1800000 technical and vocational train ing addition to the district high school at markham big crowd enjoys adult skating the presence of the east york concerl band in the markham arena on saturday night brought the adult skaters out in full force a total of 320 paid- customers 21 and over took advantage of the music and the majority remained lo the very end arena manager chuck mc carthy was pleased with the turnout another adult only nigh is planned for saturday evening feb 27th band mil- sir will again be provided death crash hearing mar 9 the preliminary hearing in to the twocar accident on dec 21th that took the life of gormley postmaster charles milsted has been set for tuesday march 9th in rich- mnnd hill court charles robertson of rich mond hill has been charged with dangerous driving by markham twp police he will he defended by solicitor john lawlcr of richmond hill the defence hopes to be able to call on the services of 11 yr old kafhy robertson sister of the accused as a witness she has been confined to hos pital since the crash along with 10 year old charleen milsted daughter of the vic tim magistrate o s hollinrakc will preside at the preliminary hearing when evidence sur rounding the collision will be presented few objections filed before hearing the ontario municipal board has given mark- iiam twp council the right to control the opening of new gravel pit excavations within the municipality chairman r l kennedy assisted by vice chair man james ludgate handed down their decision on monday following a fifteen minute deliberation the hearing was held at buttonvillc solicitor j d lucas representing the township said that the council had been working toward some control over this type of industry since 1954 he said that in june 196h the omb had ruled that a bylaw passed in 1963 was discriminatory since it allowed exemptions on certain proprctics for thit reason it was turned down in october of last year the council passed an amended bylaw taking in all land in the township with no exemptions except for pits already in opera tion with the amendment included the bylaw was approved few objections most outspoken against the bylaw was the solicitor for james sabiston ltd he argued that there was a need for gra vel within the township and he considered it unwise for mark ham to acquire its gravel sup plies from another municipali ty mr harry burford charged that the bylaw would tend to drive business elsewhere he said he owned a pit for fifty years but it was no longer an active operation favouring the bylaw was mrs maude wilkins she said that such excavations tended to re duce the value of homes on ad jacent properties mr richard jones said that gravel pits cre ated unsightly holes in the ground and often ended up as garbage dumps solicitor paul mingy of markham represented clients nora moncton and j b han cock solicitor r s campbell represented lome and roy grove and charles horner both spoke in favour of the new bylaw as amended chairman kennedy in hand ing down his decision made it clear that although the new by law placed a ban on the opera tion of new pits it would have no effect on those already in ac tive use whitchurch officer praised by court official a whitchurch twp police constable has been commended by a senior official of high court for his presentation of evidence in a recent case be fore chief justice gale ill a letter to chief fred mason from ucp crown at torney w 11 langdon pc donald hillock was praised for his competence and co operation similar remarks were also expressed verbally by ilia chief justice from the bench it is my opinion that this officer has a bright future ill his profession the letter read chief mason said that such a tribute from the courts in the form of a letter is very unusual landlocked owner seeks aid from whitchurch council a toronto couple who purch ased a tenacre building lot in the ratcliff subdivision cone 7 whitchurch twp several years ago now find themselves land locked since the property does not front on a township road mrs christine speight said that fhe and her husband had an si 1000 investment in the land but had been refused a per mit to build a house she ap pealed to the council for assis tance reeve ross farquharson said that a bylaw had been passed i and he considered it good legis lation he said that he person ally would oppose making an exception in spite of the hard ship that had occurred mrs speight said that they would have to vacate their home in toronto by april 15th she assured the council that they would never demand any services to their property such as snowplowing sand or dust- layer reeve farquharson noted that no problem might exist while they retained the lot but difficulties could arise in the future if the property changed hands he agreed that the is sue would be discussed further by the council auto repair shop is cleaned out loss over 5000 priest tells court of problems with teenaged youth a priest at the st johns training school in lxbridge testified in richmond hill court on tuesday that a 1g year old inmate of the institution had caused officials considerable difficulty during the post two months of his stay there father francis said that mi chael kelly had left the school on dec 27th and while absent j c had stolen eight cars following his return he said that the boy was uncooperative and was placed in detention he said the lads conduct seemed to im prove but on jan 29th he es caped again this time he and his compan ion stole a car but it broke down on xs 4s hwy when an attempt to steal two other cars failed they took a panel truck belonging to mr lloyd cox- worth of r r 2 markham kelly was also charged by the stouffville police with stealing gas from the main street b p station operated by mr geo foote stopped in markham in connection with the gas theft police chief orland kea ting told magistrate o s hol- j linrake that the accused order ed 200 worth at central gar- but drove away without paying for it following the theft of the coxvvorth truck the pair were arrested in mark ham village and taken to the buttonvillc police office in markham twp loads of bananas but no licence court told when sgt wm shearn of markham twp police stopped john brash of r r i rich mond hill on jan 7th he dis covered that he had a truck load of bananas but no permit to peddle them this is contrary to a township bylaw that re quires such vendors to pur chase a licence brash admitted to magistrate russell pearse that he had been selling his wares for seven years and had never purchased a permit youve been lucky com mented the magistrate when the banana vendor ag reed to purchase a licence ma gistrate pearse handed down a suspended sentence plus s250 i in court costs when brash i couldnt raise this amount of money he was given two weeks to pay markham twp police are ex erting every effort to uncover clues that will lead to the ar rest of persons responsible for the break entry and theft at ken jones auto body repair shop no 48 hwy near dick sons hill entry to the premis es was made on wednesday night of last week and discov ered by the owner the next morning a side window had been broken the loss including a custom ers truck has been estimated at over 5000 the interior of the shop was practically cleaned out of all tools police believe that the equipment was loaded into the rear of the truck and driven off the vehicle a 1065 red mercury pickup is owned by wm bosworth of jacksons point the initial investigation was carried out by sgt robt hood and p c allan chadwick but since every officer in the force has been assigned to the case any person who may recog nize cither the truck or the tools is asked to contact the markham twp police depart ment at buttonville immediate ly- scout promoter receives award mr jack pearce rupert ave stouffville has been presented with the long service medal of the boy scouts of canada mr pearce has been a scout- cr since 1312 in england mon treal and now in this area he is the late district commission er for the bendale district and presently is the district com missioner for the south lake simcoe district mrs pearce al so holds the long service me dal the presentation was made by mr j jelbert field repre sentative of the boy scouts for the lakeland region at a dis trict council meeting held at the optomist hall keswick on january 21st don mclennan of ballantrae and harvey hunker of good wood raptured 1st prize awards for their auto entries in the speed sport show queen eliz abeth bidg toronto last week markham mathematics teacher honoured howard cosburn markham fair president for 65 mr howard a cosburn 16th ave markham twp is the new president of markham fair for 1065 he was named to this post following a meeting of the ex ecutive on wednesday night he succeeds mr walter gould other members of the execu tive for 65 include wally rccs- or 1st vice president bill su therland 2nd vice president fred spring sectreasurer and geo robson livestock direc tor junior and senior directors were also elected senior offic ials are mrs a shadlock el- son miles joe tran charles reeve donald brodie and bert guardhouse junior directors arc frank barkcy david haw thorne ivan reesor bob gra- little and bill mr w winston bales wash ington st markham a director of mathematics with the toron to board of education will be honoured on friday evening at a banquet in the royal york hotel he has been selected by the association of professional engineers of ontario for an a- ward of merit in the field of mathematics and science in ad dition to an engraved plaque he will receive the opportunity to take a longdistance trip of his choosing possibly to new york or california mr bates was the mathemat ics teacher at markham high school and later served for fourteen years on the staff of danforth technical school he was elevated to a position on the board of education four years ago and was made a dir ector last june he visits schools throughout the city and provides instructional super vision over grade from 1 to 13 in the same way mr john j del grande head of the mathe matics department at newmar ket dist high school will also be honoured police unable to verify attack on 8yr0d boy the chief and four officers of the markham village police department have been unable to verify the facts of a reported attack on an 8 year old boy working overtime on the case the constables have questioned the lad on several occasions since the alleged assault but his story has remained unchan ged the boy a grade 2 pupil said he was tied up in the basement of a vacant house in markham beaten and sexually molested he claimed that he was freed by a workman police checked the location of the reported at tack but could uncover no clues to support the tale and no one in the area knew of the incid ent the lad was given a physical checkup by dr robt scaver and admitted to the scarboro general hospital for two days of further observation he bore no outward signs of any injury parents hearing of the al leged assault have called the police office to substantatc the story one officer said that he received five phone calls with in one hour chief fred white told the tribune that his de partment will continue their in vestigation but unless more in formation is revealed he must consider it only as a hoax the boy is now back in school father francis said that the boys parents had made every s ham barry effort to straighten the lad out pearson but without success the fair was a tremendous magistrate hollinrake asked success last fall with large for a presentence report on the j crowds on both the friday and i costs were quite close in corn- youth and remanded the case to j saturday dates this year areprison approximately 200000 feb 16lh sept 30oct 1 and oct 2 details of how the sutfdins united church congregation votes to establish a building fund tt the annual meeting of the stouffville united church on wednesday the congregation voted to instruct the official board to establish a building fund several months fund is to be established arc to be worked out e a meeting of the board scheduled to be held on feb 17th statistics the the church statistics as pre- church purchased a fouracre biilding site on edward st op posite the high school for the erection within five years of a new church building the plan ning committee under the chairmanship of mr walton todd presented a report show ing comparative figures be tween repairing and enlarging the present facilities and erect ing a new building on a new and larger site the sented at the annual meeting re vealed a membership of 495 an increase of 44 lst year this in crease was reduced by death and transfer down to 23 ieav- ing the present membership at 479 there were 17 marriages performed during the year and 21 baptisms finances the annual report presented revealed that a total of 26951- estimated 9 was raised for general pur poses during the year and in addition 577597 was contribu ted lor missionary and mainten ance work officers a number of new officers were installed at the regular sunday morning service fol lowing their election on wed nesday evening the new eld ers arc douglas bacon james harris walton todd and har old wright and reelected arc fred campbell william ford charles james albert king and stewart stouffer seven new members were elected to the board of stewards being mrs g birkett ralph corner mrs h davis kenneth hamm elgin hastings clifford lynde and keith sutherland ross winter- stein was elected to the board of trustees local skier runnerup in s ont alpine meet fourteen year old linda couse of stouffville a member of the georgian peaks ski club and grade 10 student of stouff ville district high school plac ed second in downhill competi tions last weekend in the sou thern ontario ski zones alpine meet held at craigleith ski club near collingwood linda also drew third slot in the slalom race the young student had been skiing in the c class but be cause of her performance was promoted to the b section allowing her a crack at the all- ontario meet to be held at os ier bluffs near collingwood on february 1314 in the downhill run a gruel ling hill of 3960 feet lindas time was 59 seconds even she conquered the slalom course in 596 seconds missing second spot by half a second the slalom run one of the har dest ever attempted by the ju nior skiers consisted of 47 gat es meaning that she had to en ter a gate every 127 seconds linda daughter of mr and mrs james couse of falrview ave has been skiing since she was four years old her parents are both avid skiers eightyear old hit by car suffers broken leg an eight year old stouffville girl suffered a broken right leg on saturday morning when hit by a car at the corner of main street and orchard park blvd patricia dedlow main st w was returning home from a brownie meeting in the angli can church when the accident occurred the westbound car was driven by kenneth roberts 34 of harold st stouffville the intersection contains a marked crosswalk but on school days a guard protects the children at this location the little girl a grade 3 pu pil at orchard park school is presently confined to the scar boro general hospital where her leg will remain in traction for about one month it will then be placed in a cast for six to eight weeks the break oc curred in the thigh bone be tween the knee and hip police chief orland keating investigated the accident no blame was attached to the dri ver pggwcg rubber match an important peevvee playoff game is scheduled for the stouffville arena on thursday evening tonight at 645 pm markham will he the visitors each team has one victory and the third match will decide the winner at 8 pm stouffville midgets will host markham in the opener of their omha group series top salesman eleven year old kevin acton biirkholder st sfnuffvule was the top ticket salesman during minor hockey week in town and for his efforts he has been awarded iwo passes to the viif game at maple leaf gardens on feb 13th since his 6 year old brother keith is the avid hockey fan in the acton family he will attend the game along with hu pad staff rhoto