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the joy of christmas the joy of christmas and what it can mean to a child is reflected n penny haddens expression as she gazes in wonder at santa while clutching her gift penny is the 17months old daughter of constable and mrs dave hadden and was one of the hundreds of children to visit santa claus at stouffville civic square the jolly old man will pay his final visit to the square this saturday morning and afternoon peter harris provincial gravel legislation assailed by uxbridge councillor uxbridge twp uxbridge township coun cillor clark muirhead has condemned proposed legis lation by the ontario mineral resources committee as a legalized rape of the townships around tor onto mr muirhead who is a civil engineer pointed particularly to a part of the legislation that would take the control over gravel pit operation out of the hands of municipalities the recommendations of the committee proposed amendments to the municipal act that would pro hibit municipalities from passing bylaws outlawing pits and quarries in their area in the case of a municipality with an official plan pits and quarries could be prohibited in areas where the plan specified that they were undesirable the recommendations contended mr muirhead would do nothing to combat the destruction of many municipalities by gravel pit operators prop erty values in these areas he said are being ad versely affected and trucks connected with pit operations are responsible for serious traffic prob lems in many villages mr muirhead said he would favor banning gravel pits and stone quarries from inhabited areas of the province and the possibility of bringing the minerals down from the north by bulk trains should be in vestigated he said that in his township the gravel companies owned about 1200 acres of township land enough land to do them for 50 years and the recommen dations which he said did little to regulate existing mines would affect them very little mr muirhead promised to make all the repre sentations he could to the provincial legislature committee to study snowmobile legislation one day hunt markham twp a high population of rabbits and fox was given as the reason for an application from j hunt that a one day hunt be allowed in an area south of highway 7 council agreed to the re quest but did not specify a date boxing day will be ob served as a public holiday with council passing a res olution authorizing this closed day in the town ship garbage collection by markham sand and gravel ltd will be continued un til january 31 1970 the company submitted a proposal for continuat ion of the garbage collect ion contract on a one year basis and alternatively 3- year contract would add new homes to sunset blvd stouffville mr harold wood appeared before planning board thursdav with the suaees- tion thnt additional homes be allowed on sunset blvd and showed the members pictures of homes beinu erected bv the robert mcclintork co and selline for s32 900 mr wood suggested an addi tional 28 homes he said there was also interest in an apartment hbikc and a second shop- pine nlaza south of main st near the 9th cone no plans were presented vol 81 no 29 stouffvillemarkhamuxbridge ont thursday dec 18 1969 15 cents board discusses plans for 600home subdivision development from 9th to highway 47 stouffville plans for the most ambitious development yet envisaged here were presented to members of the local planning board on thursday the scheme proposed by algrove management limited would occupy all the land from the 9th cone east to highway 47 the only break being the land under the conservation authority adjacent to the new dam the proposal was described to the board by en gineer d miklas assisted by mr brian moffatt the algrove company is owner of all this area as well as the harper farm on the south boundary of the muni cipality the development section takes in the re maining stcuffer farm and the gar lehman farm comprising 111 acres 600 homes provision would be made for six hundred homes in addition to a school site park land and shopping area the company representatives suggested a figure of five acres for the school and five acres for the adjacent park reeve ken laushway commented that this park which the plan indicated would be near the centre of the area might not be convenient for many of the children situated at either extremity of the development he suggested several smaller parks would be of greater use he also commented that the shopping area did not appear of sufficient size and suggested apartments with stores on the ground floor railway crossing mr miklas advised that the company had already been in consultation with the board of transport commissioners regarding the railway crossing which would have to be made this second crossing of the railway has been a continuing stumbling block to former developers seeking a through road from the 9th to the 10th the municipality has always desired to alleviate this main st bottleneck extensive services the company would agree to the building of all sanitary sewers storm stewers water and roads fully paved and curbed no cost figures of the entire proposal were given nor contribution to the exten sion required for the present disposal plant board members believed that more study would have to be made of the street entrances particularly church st which the reeve pointed out was not in condition to handle heavy traffic from so large a subdivision other entrances would be on the 9th cone highway 47 and edward st north of the high school mr miklas told the board members that the com pany was asking that consideration be given to the plans and they would entertain any suggestions which the board could make the board agreed to study the proposal and report back when ready because of the size of the development it was not thought that final plans for a go ahead could be ready before 1971 runs in front of car stouffville six year old donna lee gil bert blake street stouff ville suffered bruises to the left side of her head in an accident at the corn er of main and edward streets dec 12 in which she was struck by a car driven by wayne lloyd forsyth rr 2 stouff ville the child darted across the road in front of the forsyth auto and the driver was unable to come to a complete stop in time to avoid her no charges will be laid paper early next week the tribune will be published on tuesday for the next two weeks dei- 23 and 30 the earlier date will benefit both readers and advertisers but will necessitate the early sub mission of copy advertising copv must be received by the tri bune no later than satur day prior to each early edition classified ads will be accepted up until 1 pm monday each week stores lose hundreds in shoplifting stouffville shop lifting in local stores at this christmas season is costing businessmen hun dreds of dollars a week de spite the closest scrutiny the most brazen thefts take place without detect ion while there are certain numbers of petty thefts all through the year the incidents this year have become an almost daily oc currence only a few weeks ago the paul store main street had several hund red dollars in cash taken the value of the individ ual items being taken has been increasing and mer chandise worth from 25 to 50 and more have been reported drug stores have been particularly hard hit where such items as cam eras electric shavers and perfume have been taken clothes too are not im mune to the lightfingered even suits of clothes have disappeared from the racks many of thes thefts have been reported to police but the department has little to go on to appre hend the thieves store keepers say they know def initely that many of their losses can be attributed to school children but some are also believed to be not so young 122 building permits total sva million pickering twp pesidenlial building per mits issued so far this year total 122 of the 300 limit stipulated bv the on- hirio municipal board during november 12 per mits were issued with an estimated value of s127- 500 total for the year is 56234085 s markham the pro blem of snowmobiles is still in the air in markham at a council meeting monday a number of rate payers obviously snowmo bile owners stepped for ward to air their reject ions to any legislation that would restrict or curtail the operation of these ma chines within the munici pality mayor alma walker a- long with police chief fred white and a large number of town residents feel that the operation must be governed as the situation in markham is getting out of hand under the motorized snow vehicle act of the province of ontario mun icipalities have the power to enact bylaws prohibiting the operation of snowmo biles on all or any roads within their jurisdiction such a bylaw was recently enacted in stouffville a committee consisting of reeve ijidlaw deputy reeve iawrie ard council lor bonner was established to investigate possible leg islation start production in midjanuary miss priscilla pipher was the recipient of a scroll from ontario premier john robarts commemorating her 95th birthday dec 10 peter harris receives scroll from premier ringwood miss pri scilla pipher who celebrat ed her 95th birthday dec 10 received a scroll signed by ontario premier john robarts and a letter of congratulations from mp- p bill hodgson to com memorate the occasion miss pipher who was born on the pipher home stead farm at dixons hill moved to her present home in ringwood in 1882 she is still active and sews and reads without glasses an avid hockey fan miss pipher knows all the players in the nhl by their names and seldom misses a televised match politics too have not es caped her grasp and miss pipher will not hesitate to make her opinions known on the matters of the day during her younger years she was an accomp lished seamstress and worked in the employ of several local tailors walk ing the distance between ringwood and stouffville six days a week friends and relatives gathered on her birthday at dixons hill church holding a prayer meeting to celebrate the occasion propose 80bed hospital addition stouffville defi nite plans for a proposed extension to the brier bush hospital at 275 main street will not be an nounced until after the towns planning board in dicates its attitude toward the hospitals application for permission to build a spokesman for brier bush hospital told the tribune that a meeting with the planning board will be held to discuss de tails of their proposal but no date has been set their application for approval of extended ser vices had gone to dr ap- plcyard of the ontario hospital services com mission the application placed before the planning board indicated a two- slorcy building was pro posed the present building has 27 beds with most of the occupants classed as bedcare patients the hospital now plans a building to accommo date 80 beds to operate as a nursing home in con junction with the present services stop signs for level crossing the 2 million jcspcrscnkay systems limited plant under construction at the intersection of highway 48 and the bcthcsda sidcroad in whitchurch twp is rapidly ncaring completion and production is slated to start in mid january according to a construction official on the site the plant will manufacture modular precast concrete components for the construction of office and apartment buildings hotels motels and various forms of multiple housing machinery is being imported from denmark where the system originated peter harris markham markham town council passed a res olution dec 15 authoriz ing the erection of stop signs as a temporary pro tective measure at the lev el crossing on the 7th con cession within the town limits an area man was killed at this location earl ier this year in a letter received from the cnr it was pointed out that several of the rec ommendations outlined by a coroners jury investigat ing the death were not suitable from the stand point of the railway the letter stated that the railway felt that both road and rail traffic were too light to warrant the in stallation of signals and gates at the location that it was not practical to re duce the train speeds and that it would be unfair to restrict the service to a nearby factory by requir ing the boxcars not extend beyond the end of the building it was requested that the town install stop signs at the location and if the council thought that signal lights were necess ary the railway would as sume a portion of the cost for their erection council moved that the railway be requested to in stall the signal lights as soon as possible and that the township of markham be asked to assume a port ion of the cost as the road forms the boundary be tween the two municipali ties the stop signs will be erected for the interim period