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une vol 79 no 3 stouffv1llemarkhamuxbridge oxt thursday june 15 1967 10 cents storm lashes area floods basements the auction sale on the property of the late nettie fockler ringwood on saturday attracted a large crowd manv interested in purchasing antiques an item that drew a good deal of attention was a victor talking machine or victrola considered to be about 70 years old it was purchased by earl cook of lemonville for 95 daughter jane listens in on his masters voice staff photo pioneer keepsakes fall to antique buyer ringwood a ragg- edyanne doll believed to be almost 100 years old sold for 37 at the auction sale saturday on the pro perty of the late nettie fockler ringwood this was the trend of bidding by antique collectors who travelled many miles to attend some of the articles dated back to 1843 the sale was in charge of auctioneers walter at kinson of stouffville and lloyd wilson uxbridge even a late afternoon rain shower failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the crowd j one item of particular interest was an early 1900 victrola or victor talking machine as described on a huge hornlike speaker it brought 95 other record ed prices were a side board 5750 pine chest 47 dresser 36 a cap tains chair 33 oil lamp 26 a churn 25 kitchen clock 24 rocking chair 21 a cheese dish 18 picture frames 15 each plates up to 10 goblets 650 each and cups and saucers 3 to 6 the sale closes out one of the pioneer family homes in the stouffville area v i- churches plan giant centennial service stouffville twen tythree district churches end eleven ministers arc involved in plans for the largest community worship service ever held in stouff ville it will be conducted in the memorial park on sunday july 2 at 230 pm the guest speaker will be mr wilbur sutherland ge neral secretary ofthe in tervarsity christian fel lowship a highlight of the ser vice will be a choir of 100 voices under the leader ship of mr lome broad- eis way two more practice dates are scheduled for june 20 and 27 at the park- side youth centre denominations taking part in the worship include six united churches four mcnnonite four baptist two christian two united missionary two presbyte rian one roman catholic one anglican and one as sociated gospel the cooperation has been wonderful said mrs pat kinsclla committee chairman curling rink stouffville if plans materialize stouff ville could have its own curling rink a group of promoters are working on the scheme and a site within the town has been tentatively selected no land has been purchased however other curling arenas at unionvilic bcthcsda and uxbridge haye been oper ating quite successfully now for several seasons church reaches goal stouffville the congregation of the stouffville united mis sionary church has excee ded its initial goal of 35000 so that work can begin on the construction of a new building prior to services on sunday a figure of s3 1000 had been reached by sun day night an additional s4700 had been pledged raising the total to 35- 700 whit do you mttn youre quit smoking whitchurch area public school costs climb by 6500 musselmanstake the vandorf and hillcrcst the public school area schools are overcrowded board of whitchurch so relief at both loca- township has finalized its tions will be found prior budget for 1967 at 195- to their opening in the 55736 this is an increase fall of 6517 over last year it was 189040 in 1966 to begin the fall term in september will require q q fq fp q f a staff of 50 teachers two of these will provide mus- p ic instruction on a part- f00j q time basis to cover this cost the board has set a r p figure of 290000 this is jtavkeeve 40000 more than last year claremont picker- other increases arc for ing township reeve clif- transportation up from ford laycox won the ap- 40000 to 55000 supplies plause of persons attend- 25000 to 35000 admin- ing a public meeting here istration 15000 to 26- last week when he prom- 000 and fees to other ised to work on the rcsi- hoards 12000 lo 13000 dents behalf to save the plant operation is exactly trees that border the brock the same at 40000 and road within the village plant maintenance shows a mr laycox said he had decrease of 1000 received many complaints the board had twelve over the matter and had vacancies to fill on the urged the approval of the teaching staff and arc county road board and still interviewing appli- county council to bypass cants sixteen applica- the village for the present tions were received for the he said that he had been position of superintendent successful in having the of caretakers the post project delayed for at least has not yet been filled two years i can assure plans for the new senior you that as long as im on public school cone 7 and the county road board vandorf road have not the trees in clarcmont will yet been finalized since not be cut down the reeve noted however that sfcteiffitssiitessf some improvements to the claremont main street v fikl ff uji were required including ljuwrjjji curbs gutters and storm sewers he said that if roadwidening on either r i duk i sidc of lhe village tended cops and robbers 2 creae a in the town some thought senior citizen 3 would have to be given to a bypass route around the centennial weekend 4 arca district weddings 5 centennial dance stouffville the park protest 10 stouffville legion is hold ing a centennial dance in centennial farm 11 thc son hall friday evening june 16 at 9 pm with a live band on stage school awards 12 p will be used for thc legion building fund track meet 16 admission is 350 per cou ple bus pupils to hospital vandorf twenty- three children were taken by school bus to york county hospital at new market friday following a sevenvehicle accident on the donmills road none of the pupils were seriously hurt and all were released following treatment for bumps and bruises the collision oc curred in dense fog whitchurch township police said that the southbound bus driven by herbert van dyke of rr 2 aurora had stopped to make a pickup when it was struck by a car driven by martinus alsemgeesl of keswick four other cars then lined up in the same lane when a sixth auto crashed into them- the only motorist injury ed was douglas gibbons of newmarket ducks drown in field stouffville thc worst wind rain and electric storm to strike thc stouffville arca since hurricane hazel toppled trees washed out roads and flooded basements monday afternoon hardest hit were properties to thc north in whitchurch township a section of thc 5th conces sion was washed out north of thc aurora sidcroad and farm fields were transformed into miniature lakes south of bloomington what was described as a baby tornado snapped off several trees in cluding two at the laneway entrance to thc don taylor farm farther south a flock of wild ducks took refuge in a cabbage field on thc ted barry property and two were drowned the rainfall in stouffville was measured at two inches within a period of twentyfive minutes use two pumps stouffville firemen and works department employees kept two pumps operating at the sew age disposal plant to prevent a recurrence of thc backup that flooded basements in the rose avc- nucrussell street arca two months ago in spite of their efforts some flooding was reported thc driveway at the frank rowc residence on main street was partially washed away and thc lawn in front of thc grant farrier home was turned into a swimming pool where children frolicked about in their bathing suits it was a similar scene at thc south end of thc park the television aerial on thc herb kring home was struck- by lightning davcy white tindalc road reported seeing a ball of fire roll from thc roof of their house and it is believed that their tv aerial was struck also thc midtown branch of duffin creek rose to thc top of its bank but did not overflow find ancient musket shot gormley a sl ounce lead shot the kind used in muskets of 100 years ago was found this week by roy wideman on his 19th avenue farm in markham township it was embed ded in the wood of a cedar rail fence mr ernie button 91 a former stouffville hard ware merchant recognized the shot immediately he can recall when they were used at the turn of the century record egg now omelet gormley a caller to the tribune monday requested information concerning thc size of thc largest egg ever layed by a leghorn in york county leonard durden rr 2 gormley said that thc sample produced by one of ten in his flock measur ed eight inches long and 6i inches around how many yolks do you think it has enquir ed the editor a dull thud followed and a few seconds of silence two the caller replied disgustedly i just drop ped it assroom informality to stay professor beamish gets paving contract stouffville the municipal council meeting in special session has aw arded this years road pa ving contract to k j beamish for a total price of 4061010 four firms bid for thc work with pric es ranging as high as 59- 000 the paving which will commence within a few weeks will include the fol lowing streets somcrville and part of obrien ave nue with curbs west lawn crescent winona drive 9th street south with curbs and park drive south with curbs two streets tenth street south and ninth street north have already been completed unionville rows of desks in a single classroom are on the way out pupils shielding their work from the roving eyes of other students will soon be gone replacing this prac tice is a new trend toward cooperation and sharing fewer facts and more in quiry more guidance and fewer examinations these were thc predictions of professor david clec- of the ontario college of edu cation guest speaker at thc official opening of the new 20i oom parkview public school june 6 in varley village unionvilic teachers and parents must learn to accept new techniques in thc class room he said he point ed out that television would tend to play a more important part in thc field of education he charged that many persons includ ing teachers seemed to fear the inclusion of tv instruction in the school he said that most people failed to understand the difference between com mercial and educational television mrs mildred toogood chairman of the board conducted the official cere monies the speaker was thanked by trustee gor don champion a book entitled ontario agricultural fairs and ex hibitions was presented lo the markham arca 2 library by markham fair president william suther land it was accepted by trustee stuart watson there are fifteen mem bers on the parkview staff including thc principal mr alfred m hill hay day altona chicago star bobby hull will be a visitor at altona feed and sup plies friday from 2 pm at the annual day demonstration to 7 hay ives truck vandorf trucks leaving thc road arc not unusual on monday af ternoon it was a case of thc road leaving thc truck the accident occurred on the aurora sidcroad cast of don mills the dri ver of a bordens comp any truck parked thc ve hicle on the shoulder to check his delivery route without warning thc ground made soft by hea vy rains gave way drop ping the van on its sidc in the ditch the driver was able to jump free and suf fered no injury ernie abraham jr ninth line north is the new assistant golf pro at sleepy hollow the club pro is fred swarbrick staff photo ill dissolve village status claremont the clarcmont trustee board docs not intend to take action through the courts to retain its status as a police village thc decis ion was revealed by chair man al roszcll at a meet ing june 7 the change is to become effective as of jan 1 1968 mr roszcll said he had talked personally with the deputy minister of muni cipal affairs in an effort to delay such action but without success ive done everything i know of he said thc depart ment of municipal affairs just dont want any more police villages he in formed the meeting that king city had contested the issue to thc supreme court and still lost i dont think that wed have much chance reeve clifford laycox of pickering township said that thc trend was toward larger autonomous bodies im afraid youd have quite a battle on your hands he admitted taxes up vandorf by now most property owners in the township of whit church have already recei ved their tax bills and the majority show an increase the township general rate for farm and residen tial is 2926 mills an in crease of 138 over 1966 for business and commer cial the rale is 3340 an increase of 307 a breakdown of the gen eral rate farm and resi dential shows 12 and a half mills for roads 12 mills for police adminis trative salaries and com munity centre 47 mills taxes are payable in two instalments june 30 and oct 31 decoration day stouffville tha annual decoration day ser vice will be conducted in thc stouffville cemetery sundav afternoon at 230 pm rev arthur walsh will bring the message driver escapes through window driver warren brown ninth line south suffered a fractured knee and several broken ribs when his castbound car sideswiped a truck snapped off a telephone pole and overturned at cone 6 whitchurch and the gormley road the truck driver william kerr of king township was not hurt staff photo teachers accept wage agreement stouffville starr teachers al the stouff- villc district high school and both public schools have accepted thc salary otters of their re spective boards elective september 1 high school board chairman gordon ralcliff said that thc agreement was comparable to wage schedules in other areas unlike metro the teachers did not demand that thc increase be made retro active to jan 1 1967 while expressing relief that the issue had been finalized mr ratcliff at the same time viewed with alarm the continuing increase in thc cost of educa tion on thc propertyowner thc provincial gov ernment must take a hand he said thc average man just cant stand it he said that in his opinion thc approved increases were quite generous all thc way down thc line public school board vicechairman ian chapman described thc agreement between thc trustees and thc stalf representatives as very amicable he commended the efforts of board member florence williams and her management committee they engineered the feat he said