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IN A Years day Mr and Mrs Tom Proctor J them were Mr and Mrs Norman and his bride the of Toronto the week before Christmas Mr and fourth concession are taking an flew to Florida on brother and sister fax Toronto for the Christmas and of Donald and Mae Their daughter to spend Christmas Years at St Petersburg will fly home on Jan they had attended a with Mr Malcolm his bride Mr Tawse had arty lived at Norman King leaving this week Jaru with John Black of Tottenham Mr Lyman Fry St Mr and A J Gordon and son Don- Kins left this week for am Texas where they the winter months- Donald attend school there Holiday visitors at the home of Smith Monday were his Mm Walter Smith Ifc and Mrs Rogers parents of Mrs- Smith her brother Gregory Rogers Mr and Mrs Irving Scott eight couples to din- da New Years Monday ev- their tad wife of Toronto Br Parker and brother to on and their little daughter Helen Weston- Mr and Mrs Ot tawa were Christmas guests of Mr and Mrs J Grew Miss Suzanne Grew their daughter and her friend Miss Ann returned to Ottawa this week where Suzanne starts the second half of her first year at Carlton college Mr and Mrs Allan Hooper Heritage Park and two children spent tiie Christmas weekend at the home of his parents Mr and Mrs Garland Hooper Toronto On New Year day they visited Mrs Hoopers parents Mr and Mrs Frank Hill Aurora On December Mrs J Davie of King held a family gathering at a dinner party in honor of her daughters Laurie and who celebrat ed their fourth birthday Mr and Mrs Carl Peter To ronto visited his brother and family Mr and Mrs Arnold Douglas John Peter JUL on New winter months Their daughter Margaret attends girls school in the city Miss was a visitor at during the Christmas vacation Jennifer goes to St Mildreds college To ronto I SAYINGS ON SUITS Cyoxocysti fer J S- Years Monday Of Funeral service for Sidney of Toronto father of Mrs Stanley Hunter Yvonne of King City was held on Tues day afternoon from Trulls chapel Yonge St with inter ment in Mount Pleasant ceme tery Mr died in Toronto General hospital on Dec His health had been somewhat affected since last March He continued to work for the To ronto Telegram where he had been engaged for years as a In King Township Districts Reports of activities of King township school sections have been given recently la Strange the new trustee Is Donald Barker suc ceeding Alfred The balance at the end of the year is 730 with an overdraft of paid up in full It has cost ap proximately to carry the newspaper man Other survivors are his widow a son and a grandson all of Toronto Mr Hibbs was a police and court reporter for over years and since had covered magistrates court A on the city news bureau He started as a copy boy at city hail Later he was made a junior reporter When World War I broke out he enlisted with the Bat talion Overseas he was drafted to the Battalion of Mon treal- When he celebrated his year with the Evening Tele gram the Toronto mens press club and his newspaper honored him with a testimonial night in this BARNS LIVESTOCK LOST 50000 Loss In King Twp Fire START THE NEW YEAR BE LIKE A POINTED WAY fifwifv p New Years day pointing to Mr George eighth concession King township farmer for on the last day Saturday he saw his farm buildings and contents go up in fire and smoke His livestock was saved from the buildings just before the main barn be came a raging inferno Destroyed were tons of hay bushels of wheat and rye bushels of oats a Quantity of barley a large threshing out fit a hammer miller and grinder The fire broke out around the large tractor which Mr Pattern was starting up in the driving shed He said he tried to smother but the gas tank exploded He just escaped as the flames spread through the building burning other machinery and catching onto the 1 by 40 feet barn The horse bam also broke out into flames The machinery building was destroyed Before the main was com pletely in flames Mr his soninlaw Arthur Herman Mrs Helen Herman and their 12-year- old son Ronnie managed to free the nine head of cattle some pigs and sheep and with the help of neighbors the animals were led from the stables Two horses were let out of the stable after the morning chores were done otherwise they might have been trapped There were a r i- A J we J the New Year tee to thank our many j I m friends for their loyally and good will r- during the year that has gone by PERRYS PHARMACY Two Stores KING CITY PHONE MAPLE PHONE 1 about neighbors who assisted as fir alarm sounded on the telephone lines Some of the pigs want back into the fire and were lost Newly 10i000 worth of firm machinery and implements were lost ta blase Hie owner carried fire insurance on the buildings Miss Mary Lou McDonald a neighbor on the side- road telephoned for the King City lire department when she first saw the flames They were too far advanced for the firemen to save the buildings Fortunate ly the wind changed taking the fire away from the nearby Pat- ton dwelling The property was the original Thomas farm and sold to Mr Fatten about four years ago The chief concern im mediately after the fire was where to house his livestock in the cold weather He had no feed for them Several people offer ed separate housing when it was learned that Dr J on the eighth con cession a mile and a half north were empty Dr offered his buildings and all the live stock except the sheep were tak en there that afternoon school The problem school is overcrowding From last January until the end of June pupils were sent to King City and from Septem ber to the end of December there were nine Total cost of these was exclusive of bus transportation Assistance in grants is given by the govern ment on these capital costs The mill rate was which was an increase of School enrolment is less nine who go to King City It has the section to send nine children to King from September to the end of school section No 21 retched the end of the year with a small balance in the bank account It will be neces sary to borrow about which will be taken out on two instalments secretary Ewart Jennings stated Bight attended the annual ratepayers meeting held in the afternoon of Dec It cost 8000 to operate the school in Mrs Lome Scott the tea cher has 42 pupils while- eight others are being sent to the King school The school received percent in legislation grants and gets a percent grant on trans portation to the King City school If we can get by for the next couple of years without having to enlarge the school building that is probably all we can hope for unless unforeseen changes one way or the other come said secretary Jennings There was some talk at King City meeting that some day that the amount of development four directions However the amount of development is large ly in the speculation stage for the whole district school meeting Dec had five in attendance two more than in December 1954 Stanley Roots was reelected to the school board for three years James Ball and Hamilton Connell are the other trustees and Mr Gerald Walker is the secretary treasurer A new oil burning furnace was installed in costing and paid for out of the treasury It is the hope of the board pro- able classroom are overcrowded The 1954 assessment was VV At Oak Ridges school No King and Whitchurch Jack reelected trustee for a threeyear term Bob and Richard Bull are other mem bers of the board Alex Gal lagher was chairman of the rate payers annual general meeting and the election on Dec The meeting was held in the evening with an attendance of about a dozen No pressing problems were discussed The small room in the annex building would be used mm no unforeseen next September The enrolment School Progress Reviewed By Board Of King SS John was reelected trustee of King S S No for a term of three years when the 83rd annual meeting of rate payers was held Dec 23 Twelve attended including the three trustees and the secretary Ray mond Burt Robert D chaired the genera meeting and the election Others on the board are Laur ence Scott in his fifth year and A J Gordon starting his sec ond year The board will ap point its chairman this month In his progress report Mr Whalley board chairman accounted for the bank balance of at the end of the year as important for the provi sion of another teacher next September when the fifth class room will be opened The 1955 balance the foresight of James Keens and Dr J former school trustees in looking to the future Mr Keens was on the board when the building was enlarged and Dr had seen the need for acquiring a school site in the southern part of the section The total enrolment is now The debentures assumed by the section for school enlarge ment are paying dollar for dol lar in value Mr point ed out Four payments have been made on the deben ture issue and one payment on the 1954 debenture of 43836 The debentures are approximately 71000 The pupils from the two neighboring schools pay equal share of all expenditures and balance was considerably higher j lhe government than at the end of when it Jt City and each of the district schools sending their children For as long as these schools are overcrowded and need other ac commodation the King City stances turn up to plan for a pumping system to bring water into the building this year There was some discussion on the prospects of a subdivision being developed in the section but nothing definite is yet known on the matter the secretary said We hope we can keep our school the same rural organiza tion of one room for a long time yet said Mr Walker The meeting lasted for two hours While there was no annual meeting of ratepayers in Area school section it is expect ed the new addition of four class room will be ready by Baste time Only two rooms will be used and the rest of the space will not be divided as yet so that this space can feature an audi torium until such time as it Is needed for classrooms The building being financed through a debenture for There will also be an additional dollars required The area is in a good financial state The school enrolment is now which means that the five sta tionary rooms and the one port- now stands at There will be teachers in September The reports submitted by board chairman Jack and that of the secretary Mr were approved unani mously The government grants to this school are about TO per cent based the classroom as sessments arid average daily at tendance of pupils Terito Are first if 1956 At Yiifc Pari f The 1st Heights Scout Troop Toronto has the dubfous privilege of being the first campers in York County Park for the year MM Arriving on Dec the troop set up one steeping tent and one cooking tent the nine members and camped in the park until Monday noon January All scouts reported to be en joying themselves and were quite comfortable during their stay Merchant returned home from Sudbury Thurs- day after spending the holiday with her daughter- Mrs Sutton Mrs Mitchell spent the day with friends at Nashville Miss Grace London spent the weekend with friends here Mr and Mr Ross Moody arid children visited friends here over the weekend Mr Kenney Kettle- spent the Christina holiday with his aunt uncle Mr and- Mrs- Harry Pale A number around town have been In bed with the flu Mr Metcalfe Toronto formerly of renew ed old acquaintances over the weekend Miss Flora visited Miss Cora Aftchf- last week Mrs E Mr and Mrs Wilson Mr and Mrs Aitchlson and family and Delia were of Mr Jack Brydon and mother on New Year A number from hero attended th funeral of Gordon Smart which held on Sun day from the Andersott funeral parlors at Tottenham John Snowball eel his birthday on Fri day Dec He has ate children eight grandchildren and great grandchildren Two sons are William and Morn ing Aurora His daughter Edna lives at home with him was 1074714 The legislative grants were 1056046 a higher figure than the board had anticipated The trustees tax levy of mills brought in 082704 The town ship grant on teachers salaries which amounted to was 1800 set on a fixed basis Pupils fees from S Strange were 184154 and from S No school The total arises from about 17 nonresident stu dents attending the King City school Total receipts of the year were 3331171 Also included in the expendi tures were school administration costs of 50186 school plant op- oration including janitors sal ary hydro fuel oil etc while maintenance to building for insurance repairs etc was Instructional supplies cost the section 98472 for a total of 154 pupils Auxil iary agencies amounted to 15859 Mr told the meeting that the future needs of the school are well assured With the development of Kingscross property into a rural residential area there will he a fixed num ber of homes percent of which at least will be within the of S No 2 The assessment of this area will en hance the position of the school section The location of the present school is ideal and it is now reasonably certain that the schfol building can be extended southward The board has filed an applica tion to township council to pro cure to the south of the school for future expansion Both and King City boards have decided that a school site within the Kings- cross development will not be used To the south of the railroad track where the population is expanding an unique arrange ment has been made with King City police village trusteees King township council and the Alfred for a future school site to take care of housing expansion in this area This simplified matters for the board said Mr At any moment when the need arises the site Is available Mr paid tribute to school will continue to accept them provided it docs not ham per the local section trustees state There are outsiders in the school now In vizualizing the extension of the school building Mr said he would like to see a gym nasiumauditorium which could be utilized for school activities and for community uses He also thought there was a possibility of incorporating a swimming pool Mr spoke briefly of the teaching staff caretaker Arthur Brown and music super visor Mr Harris Aurora The school holds the Kiwanis shield Miss Dennis principal and Mrs Doris Pat ton have each been on the local staff for over years Through the years their reports from inspectors have been consistently excellent he said There is also a high percentage of honor pupils at Aurora high school as the result of the public school training Teacher Mrs Mary Hemphill district has two sons attending the line school She has a fine sense of humor and a keen imagination for mak ing classroom work interesting She handles her classes with ability the chairman stated Mr Carson Bice teaching grades 7 and is good ballast for the school said Mr Whalley He looks after sports activities for the school and is especially in terested in creative work for the boys Altogether said Mr the section is fortunate having a good staff In general matters ratepayers favored taking out group insur ance for the pupils This em braces all school activities on the premises and otherwise It would cost about per pupil The present public liability policy costing every three years covers accidents on school prem ises owing the some negli gence of trustees The broad er group policy seemed better No decision was made by the board There was only one pupil accident in and not of a serious nature mm