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5100 copies this week ribnne classified ads on pages 6 and vol no 21 thk tribune stouffville ontario thursday october 28 1965 fourteen pages a little red brick building on main street in stouffville the former anglican church is up for sale again town council has placed a price of 8500 on the building and lot staff photo town puts 8500 price tag on old church building on main st two groups have asked per mission to use it the town council is anxious to sell it to date no one appears interested in buying it this is the longstanding story of the old anglican church building a kind o ugly ducking structure on main street in stouffville on thursday night the coun cil received requests from two separate groups both anxious to acquire the premises for different purposes ivan bell of stouffville said that five local families would like to establish a full gospel chapel in town and he felt that the site would be satisfactory they would rent the building for one year at 50 per month with option to buy at a price of 7500 miss sandra swash of stouff ville a member of christ angli can young peoples society asked that their group be allowed to use the structure as a coffee house for weekend entertainment and dancing would sell it reeve win timbers said that the building was now located in a commercial zone with in sufficient parking accommoda tion for church use with refer ence to the coffee house plan he suggested that the room above the firehall would be better i wish wed sell it and get it out of the road he said now wvre back to our fav ourite topic again said coun cillor bud spang over the objections of dep utyreeve ken laushway it was agreed that the property should be sold at an advertised price of 8500 mr laushway argued that the site was a good investment for the town and a convenient meeting place for any organization that wished to use it he was outnumbered 3 to 1 and the motion was passed band coming for hockey opener tues an awardwinning drum and bugle band will take part in colourful ceremonies on tuesday night to officially open the oha junior hockey season in stouffville the scarboro firefighters will parade down the main street commencing at 8 pm and later perform on he ice prior to game time keeve win timbers will drop the first puck at 815 pm bobcaygeon last years group champions will be the visitors the public is invited to sec this show and also watch the clippers in action recommend increases in salaries of stouffville council members in 1966 town school plan on boards agenda future plans concerning stu dent accommodation in stouff- villes two public schools will be uppermost on the agenda at the next regular meeting of the board in november this in formation was submitted in writing to the town council on thursday night by chairman t e topping mr topping explained that present facilities were taxed to the limit he said that the principals at both summitview and orchard park schools had given the student growth pat tern careful study the matter will be discussed in full with the inspector the chairman informed the council that when the boards decision is finalized the neces sary funds will be requested in ample time for budget purposes i mr topping said that if at all possible the board would contain its expansion program to one addition rather than a complete new building standard time begins sunday that one hour of sleep that everyone lost last spring will be regained this weekend at 2 am on sunday oct 31st clocks should be turned back one hour this changes the time offici- allly from daylight saving to eastern standard the extra hour of darkness will remain with us until next april medical centre theft totals 584 stouffville police are investi gating a breakin and theft at the medical centre on thurs day night of last week that netted the thieves a total of 58400 entry to the premises was gained through a rear window the money included 275 in cash and the remainder in cheques it is the second similar break- in at the centre this year in march a quantity of pills were taken when thieves entered through the basement police chief orland keating is in charge of the case play in hay costs boys fine of 1 magistrate n p kelley look ing out from behind his bench on eleven boys in richmond hill court on friday must sure ly have recalled the days when he himself was an active ener getic lad in his teens he fined each youth the min imum penalty of 100 on a charge of trespassing they had been apprehended on the masseyferguson property near milliken by markham twp police they all entered pleas of guilty constable george anderson said he made two trips to the farm and discovered the eleven lads all with hay in their hair they admitted that they had been playing in the barn one youth smiling broadly asked if he could have time to pay appeal court chairman files own appeal goodwood the assess ment appeal court in uxbridge twp plays no favourites as the chairman earl dowswell learned here on monday the exreeve and county warden objected to an increase on his buildings when no major improvements had been com pleted he vacated the chair and left the decision in the hands of the two remaining members gordon flewell and marshall sharrard along with the cty assessor gordon hepditch mr hepditch explained that the house in question was not the dowswell residence but was rented out to another party thus incurring an income for the owner he said that the old rate governing such a case was out of date the remaining members agreed that the appeal should be set aside until the new rate on such homes was finalized it could open the flood gate for both new candi dates and strong criticism but on thursday night stouffville council squeezed through a motion that re commends salary increases in 1966 for all members in cluding the reeve deputyreeve and councillors it was a 3 to 2 split vote on the issue with both councillors ken betz and bud spang speaking out in opposition to the move if the recommendation is approved the council of 66 will be paid as follows reeve 1000 deputy- reeve 350 councillors 350 in addition each chairman of a standing committee on council will receive 200 at the present time the reeve receives 700 and the others 300 with no extra remuneration for posts of chairmen over 50 meetings deputyreeve ken laushway said that in the past year ex cluding sessions of county council he had attended 50 meetings plus several other gatherings called for emergency reasons he said that during his tenure of office he had never missed a meeting except for reasons of ill health he dis agreed however in payment on a per meeting basis councillor vfjn parsons noted that the recommenda tions would not be approved until 1966 he felt that the fig ures were quite reasonable when facing an election very few councillors would have the gumption to do it he said councillor ken betz in opposing the motion said he was not concerned with the amount of money paid for such a service money didnt entice me to run he said councillor spang also oppos ed suggested that the entire issue be left in the hands of next years council reeve win timbers who broke the deadlock in favour of the increase said that by comparison with many other municipalities the stouffville members were underpaid he said that although he was per sonally satisfied he had sug gested an increase for the deputyreeve and councillors during the early part of 1965 i intend to go along with it he concluded world war i pilot given heros welcome confusing corner confuses the court- case is dismissed fred campbell stricken suddenly with heart attack his life was a true example of christian living this was a comment made earlier this week when news was received concerning the sudden death of mr fred campbell victoria st stouffville for mr campbell was such a man a characteristic he reveal ed through his work in the united church the sunday school and his daily association with both adults and children fred campbell he passed away early mon day morning in the scarboro general hospital following a heart attack he was 82 the late mr campbell was born in whitchurch twp the son of edward clark campbell and louisa hunter he and his wife the former gertrude drewcry moved to stouffville in 1938 he was secretary of the high school board in stouffville for six years and a member of the lions club for the past several seasons he was the main street santa claus to hundreds of children he enjoyed every hour of his work at the same time he would visit with the patients in the hospital and rest homes chatting with the elderly folk and handling prechristmas parcels it was on june 1st 1964 that mr and mrs campbell cele brated their 60th wedding anni versary rev alan borland and rev douglas davis conducted the funeral service from the stouff ville united church on wed nesday afternoon with inter ment in the stouffville ceme tery the pall bearers were wm duxbury ronald mercer wesley schell walter piphcr john brubacher and stewart stouffcr exam result delayed month goodwood better late than never is an old adage that 19 year old ron maye of rri goodwood likely repeated to himself after opening his mail on friday he learned that he had suc cessfully passed his grade 13 english exam exactly 42 days after the reply had been sent out from the dcpt of educa tion apparently the information was addressed to glcnwood ont instead of goodwood and from there it went to merlin ont and then bock to toronto it didnt reach its proper des tination until oct 15th ron is now back at uxbridge high school picking up his french and upgrading his marks in some other subjects but not english grant tax shift to separate school goodwood appeals filed by several property owners in the glasgow area of uxbridge twp asking that a portion of their tax payment be shifted from the public to the separate school in stouffville were heard by the court of revision meeting here this week in the majority of cases the requests were granted although county assessor gordon hep ditch pointed out that to be eligible the applicant must reside on the property affected it was revealed that a num ber of children from the glas gow community were enrolled in st marks school at stouff ville since the school was only opened this fall it was the first time that such a request had been submitted former reeve earl dowswell presided over the court along with members gordon flewcll and marshall sharrard a backstreet intersection void of stop signs in any direc tion resulted in the dismissal of a fail to yield charge in richmond hill traffic court on friday morning- charged was 16 year old joseph forsyth of boyer street stouffville whose vehicle was in collision with one driven by carl painter 16 of stouffville rr4 the evidence 53 presented by several witnesses was almost as confusing as the corner itself located at charles and second streets james carswick solicitor for forsyth said that not only did his client have the right-of- way at the intersection but he had attempted to avoid the accident when he observed the painter car coming from the other way painter on the other hand testified that he was already five feet into the corner when he first noticed the forsyth auto he admitted that he speeded his car up to get through before a collision occurred magistrate n p kelley heard the case school union fine but cost is high the union of public schools under an area program will undoubtedly result in an improved education system but the cost involved in achieving this goal is creating a hardship on the taxpayer this was the admission of markham twp area 2 board at a meeting lost week they are convinced that revision of the whole public school tax struc ture is necessary ana to make the trend practical funds must come from a source other than property taxes a report will be compiled for presentation to the york coun ty consultative committe on education that meets nov 18th at richmond hill area schools now have a lib rary specialist a speech thera pist a music supervisor special opportunity classes and an oral french teacher official opening the new 4room addition to the unionville public school will be officially opened on tuesday evening nov 2nd the guest speaker will be mr a h mckague of the dept of educa tion rev r t chapin and representatives of several town ship groups and organizations will be present no centennial project in markham twp buttonville markham township council is in receipt of a communication from the department of municipal affairs requesting to know if the municipality had a centen nial project or if they intended to have one the letter was read at the council meeting on monday with no comment from the members councillor sumner moved that the letter be tabled closed meeting confuses markham council members buttonville markham township councils policy of doing most business in com mittee away from public scrut iny has backfired again both councillor palmer and deputy- reeve rumble protested stren uously on monday to action taken in a meeting of the fin ance committee which was held without their apparent know ledge the finance committee recommended to council that two cars be rented from tal- park motors ltd on a 2ycar contract at the rate of 75 per month both opposition members said that they had been informed that no committee meetings were being held jing the past week reeve hooper re plied that circumstances some times altered cases he said that a chairman could call a meet ing of his committee at any time deputyreeve rumble said he believed the invitation bids of which there were three should be disregarded and regular ten ders called palmer favoured tabling the report reeve hoo per said that the calling of ten ders would not be fair to those who had submitted bids and cast his tiebreaking vote in favour of taking the talpark cars friends will be sorry to learn that mr frank rowbotham church st s stouffville suffer ed a stroke earlier this week and is confined to bed at his home uxbridge world war ii pilot jan falkowski was accorded a heros welcome recently when he returned home to poland his native country it was his first trip back since the early days of the german invasion in 1939 mr and mrs falkowski visit ed warsaw after attending the 25th anniversary of the battle of britain a reunion with air men from all over the world only 1000 of the original 3000 pilots remain part of the program included a banquet in guild hall lon don as guest of the lord mayor on september 19th a memorial celebration was held in westminster abbey with the queen in attendance it was at that time that a plaque was unveiled in honour of the late prime minister sir winston churchill mr falkowski re ceived an autograph from prime minister harold wilson the lord mayor of london and sir sydney camm the designer of the famous hurricane fight er plane sixteen members of his polish squadron that per formed over the skies of bri tain were also reunited in warsaw 9 days mr and mrs falkowski spent nine days in warsaw he was given an audience with the bis hop of poland and laid a wreath at the tomb of the un known soldier on his recom mendation a monument to polands pilot heros of world war i will be rebuilt he has been invited to return and un veil it in two years time few battle scars of the war days ar visible in the capital city according to mr falkowski they have done a tremend ous job he said after 21 days in england and the continent the couple re turned home arriving back in uxbridge on oct 5th jan falkowski markham twp reeve called to break five tie votes buttonville reeve chas hooper of markham township was called on to break no less than five tie votes at the regular meeting of the township council on monday prime bones of contention were bylaws to place the question of a twoyear term for council on this years election ballot and bylaws covering a question on sunday movies and sports in each case the bylaws passed with reeve hooper casting the tiebreaking vote councillor palmer said that in connection with the sunday sports vote it would be a case of legalizing what was already going on councillor hoover said he disapproved and he was supported by deputyreeve rumble as a result of the vote on monday both the question of sunday movies and the one of sports will appear on this years ballot in the case of the twoyear term electors will be asked whether or not they would approve of council tak ing such a slep r h mcgregor mp for 36 years robert h mcgregor wh served for thirtysix years a member of parliament died on monday of this week mr mc gregor contested seven federal elections in york east of which stouffville and markham form ed a part he was 79 the deceased was first elect ed in 1926 as a conservative candidate in york south when the riding of east york was created in 1933 he won the seat and stayed there until juno 1962 when he was beaten by liberal steve otto the funeral service was con ducted at pine hills cemetery on wednesday afternoon a bicycle safety rodeo promoted bv the whitchurch twp police dcpt- at vandorf on satur- day had 116 entries winners of brand new bikes for top scores were joan wilson 11 of ilk 2 stouffville and kobt fitzccrald 13 also of stouffville kit 2 a ninnerup and youngest competi tor was 7 year old andrew xauta of lemonville pictured here with set fred crawford is david white 11 of gormlcy br 1 a student at lloyd jpubllc school stan photo