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ahh maybe a pony two year old timmy camp church street markham was one of the many children who paid a visit to the veterans hall on sunday to spend a few minutes with santa claus staff photo pickering twp would block new city pickering twp the township council would block the start of the new city development in the southwest corner of uxbridge township at least for the time being and passed a resolution this week calling on the municipal affairs department to delay the expansion the vast development on stouffvilles east boun dary covers in the beginning 7000 acres much of which has already been acquired by the rubin cor poration planners of the new city the new city an nouncement provides for homes industry commer cial and school facilities councillor john kruger of pickering township who introduced the resolution said that no residen tial development should be permitted without com pensation in industrial development he indicated the residents of pickering might be called on to help with the costs of education under the new re gional government plans the resolution if turned down by the municipal affairs department provides for a request to the minister of education to provide safeguards for the township in the way of increased grafts pickering township is presently under a govern ment restriction that holds development there to not more than one hundred homes a year councillor kruger said it was consolidated build ing corporations contracting to build 3000 homes without school costs that caused pickering town ships financial problems driver in hospital stouffville an accident late thursday night on highway 47 north of stouffville sent henry olszevki 40 of rr 4 stouffville to centen- nary hospital searboro mr olszevki was north bound on highway 47 when his vehicle left the road and rolled over result ing in injuries to his shoulder and cuts to his face he was later released from hospital seek amalgamation uxbridge twp uxbridge twp has been holding informal discus sions with uxbridge town regarding a proposal by the town that the two am algamate to be prepared for regional government the twp of scott is also included stivers sold stouffville it was announced this week that the stiver mill stouffville has been sold to maple leaf mills ltd ewart stiv er has owned and operated the mill in stouffville for the past 66 years the other two mills in unionville and aurora have not been sold and will still be operated by mr stiver a first for markham markham the com munity christmas evening held in the markham dis trict high school last sat urday night was the first in what is hoped to be an annual event the high standard of performance by the mo hs band and glee club along with members of the little theatre was much appreciated by an enthusiastic crowd mayor elect mrs alma walker and rev frank amery president of the ministerial association brought christmas greet ings to all in attendance and thanked the mark ham and district cham ber of commerce for sponsoring and coordi nating the event markham reeve not favorable to big scale regional government markham viiiace renionril govrnrnnt how will it ifttt the fu ture of th- villne of markham these were sonv of the nuestinns that the tribune nosed in a personal interview with reeve alma walker this week mrs walker would not like to see rcnional nov- ernment on a bii scale she felt that if this came about the villace would lose its identity and its residents if we have to have this broader outlook on oov- crnmenl then i would like to see the amaltrama- tion of the villace with the township to make one hie town of markham she said reeve walker stated that this was not only her personal oninion hut the fcclincs of some of the present members of council as far as benefits of havine a regional govern ment mrs walker does not believe the villace would derive too manv having one police force to cover the village town ship and stouffville would alma walker be a benefit she said i feel the wav the forces are now thev are not practical at present we have the opp the town ship and our own force pntrollina the villace 1 think if we had one gen eral force to cover these areas we would have a good workinc force she said if we have to start anvwhere we could start at this level she went on mrs walker thoucht the idea of amaleamatina all the forces in york conntv as sueeestcd would be the case of too manv chiefs too few indians she also believed that the fire de partments in the same three municipalities could be amalamnted to make a more effective force i feci that at this point the government should look into th- matter of making this an area rather than a reeion what have we in common sav with sutton georeina or even whitchurch slightly to the north of us i would go along with the suggestion the minister made in his report that the southern six could be divided into three or two areas i my self would favor three she stated if it came right down to it reeve walker would like to see the villace and township one she feels that the villace is quite happy as it is she also feels that it is a wonder ful area in which to live a place that is well zoned well looked after and has plentv of water and sew- ace facilities for at least the neu ten vears recional government could help in some thincs hut dclinitclv she wants no pan of it on a large scale uh r vol 80 no 29 stouffvillemarkhamuxbridge ont thursday dec 19 1968 10 cents steal from safe stouffville a to tal of slooo was stolen from an open safe at wid- difields drug store in the stouffville plaza on sat urday the money was stolen from the safe in the office at the back of the store during the day while the staff were occupied else where in the store among the receipts tak en were s150 in family allowance cheques stouffville police depart ment are making further investigations still hopes for union with metro pickering twp despite the word from the municipal affairs depart ment that pickering town ship is likely to be amal gamated with oshawa un der the new regional gov ernment scheme reeve john williams is still hope ful he can persuade queens park to let the township amalgamate with metro the township council has taken a stand against any union with oshawa and supports the reeve in his bid for metro amalga mation reeve williams de nies that any decision has been made as yet the door is not closed yet he says meetings with both metro and the ontario gov ernment are expected to take place within a few weeks christmas issue the christmas edi tion of the tribune will be issued on mon day dec 23 news cor respondents and adver tisers please take note that all copy must be received by saturday- noon of this week o m b hearing delay decision on d rivein movie storekeeper loses wife ringwood the com munity lost a citizen thursday when mrs ann margaret phillips passed away in searboro centen- nary hospital after a short illness at the age of 47 mr and mrs ken phil lips have operated the gen eral store at ringwood for many years the couple were married in 1942 and have lived all their mar ried life in and around stouffville surviving mrs phillips is her husband ken three sons tommy larry kevin and two daughters luanne and linda she also leaves her mother mrs florence lewin toronto the funeral was con ducted from oneills fun eral home stouffville on saturday december 14 with interment at heise hill cemetery gormley school sold locust hill locust hill school has been sold to harold butler for 20- 000 mr butler had made an offer earlier but the property was removed from the market until the title was cleared vandorf the on tario municipal board will advise whitchurch town ship in writing on its de cision as to whether or not a block of 40 acres of land near the don mills rd can be used for the erection of a drivein theatre the move is being opposed by ratepayers from prestons lake headed by john si- gura the proposed site is quite near the lakeside properties mr g fitzpatrick plan ning representative for the township told the omb member a l mccrae that the townships official plan had only recently been approved by council he said that the overall in tention was to keep the municipality rural and al low urban development only on the outskirts of newmarket aurora and stouffville where services would be available he said council did not intend to develop services within the township it was stated that traffic is heavy on don mills rd particularly on weekends and if the the theatre were allowed traffic lights would have to be erected at the entrance intersec tion mr sigura told the hear ing that he owned 51 acres near the proposed theatre site on which he had erect- a tenroom 4000 sq ft house he estimated the value of his propertv with buildings at 200000 the appellant also had livestock worth 100000 he added that the area was subject to foggy conditions under crossquestioning mr sigura said he had no objections to a motel but said the theatre was not a desirable development ratepayers opposed george hanson chair man of the ratepayers as sociation commented on the frequent foggy condi tions but admitted that he did go to driveins mrs doris oliver who resides across the highway from the proposed develop ment said it was not a good site for cither commercial or industrial buildings she said a restaurant had had to close down there be cause of insufficient water she said that according to her own count cars travel led on the don mills rd on sundays at the rate of 1450 an hour mr fred b munroe an other nearby resident said he had an 80000 property and had moved to this area because it was quiet he added that drivein movies did not attract the best class of people 200 signed petition mrs christine nimmo also opposed said she had assisted in the circulation of a petition which contain ed 200 names opposed to the development asked it she had any refusals she said three water ready gordon mckay the own er of the property which would be sold for the theatre said that two wells were ready and were pre sently supplying water for 55head of cattle he said he had never experienced any shortage of water he owns another 60 acres to the east and intended to continue farming he admitted that the idea of the motel along with the theatre was not in the contract but only verbal urged to complete school site purchase stouffville plans were formulated some time ago for the pur chase of a site for a fojirth public school the pro posed location is north of elm road and west of the present st marks separ ate shool at the final meeting of planning board mr john mcmurray of the public school board was urged to have the purchase of the land completed before the end of the year mr ralph corner secretary advised that as the new regional board would be taking over in 1969 no new debentures would then be issued by stouff ville mr mcmurray ag reed to confer immediate ly with board chairman mr ted topping chairman york county trus tee eugene jacobs has been elected the first chairman of york coun tys separate school board three members of the 14member board were nominated for the posi tion the new chairman pointed out that the sep arate school board would be dealing with about one- tenth of the county school board budget and must therefore practice econ omy water prospects good markham has choice elected president it was announced this week that dr arnold aral has been elected president of york county mental retarded association 7 loan whitchurch twp the area school board has agreed to 7 percent debentures to raise 647- 000 for the new school being erected on the bloomington sideroad construction is at a standstill at present due to difficulty in securing water markham twp new water sources for the township look good the clerk said an owrc seismatic report made for the township shows sev eral good sources of water and a report by crysler davis and jorgenson con sidered by council sup ports this one source being inves tigated is close to the les lie street well at steeles and another which engin eer dusan miklas describ es as most promising is close to the water tower on bayview avenue council believes that in the long run the metro source may be more prac tical and less expensive but if this source is block ed they will not be left with dry taps metro has asked for a report from their plan ning department but to date markham twp has had no formal informa tion indirectly however it has been indicated met ro will be able to provide water to the township owrc sets conditions markham twp markham twp council has agreed to ontario wa ter resources conditions concerning further devel opment at unionville and thornhill the owrc will permit extension of services to the new senior elementary school at unionville but discussion of further de velopment in the area by hengran development ltd will be held over un til the new council takes over in 1969 the new plan includes the present subdivisions of thornhill green and bay thorn plus 70 acres of the jail- farm and pro posed subdivisions of bay- wood and he former sel kirk property being devel oped by shieldssnow jfudge s hollinrake retires this month magistrate o s hollinrake who has served on the bench for twentyone years was sworn in as provincial judge this week on his 70th birthday he is retir ing judge hollinrake and mrs hollinrake have been residents at ballantrae for many years in announcing his re tirement he said we are not stressing punishment and imprisonment but rather rehabilitation for we want to make a citizen not just an exconvict in the opinion of judicial au thorities he has had con siderable success in straightening out youth ful offenders who appear ed before him judge hollinrake was born in ingersoll he graduated from kingston military college and serv ed overseas with the roy al artillery in world war i he graduated from os- goodc hall and began his law practice in 1922 he took command of no 2 district depot w hen world war ii broke out in 1939 and it eventually became the largest unit in the army while in england in 1944 he received the or der of the british empire from king george vi judge russell gui pearsc gormley administers the oath to magistrate o n vlnclal judge hollinrake on becoming a pro newmarket era photo