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leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps vol 58 no 17 the tribune stouffytlle ont august 22 1946 ten pages steel shortage halts construction work on big bridge at markham the huge cement and concrete bridge under construction at the south end of markham village spanning the rouge river crossing the 8th concession at a point known as vinegar hill will be delayed at least six weeks because of a shortage of steel it was learned this week looking north the pic ture shows progress of the work and in the distance the grade at intersection of no 7 highway at the foot of markham main street the bridge structure when com pleted will have an overall floor length of iso feet one hundred and the job cement while in short sup ply has not been lacking on the job although thousands of bags will be consumed the john patterson construction co have the work under contract for the toronto and york road commission estimated cost of the bridge according to figures placed before york county council in june was s135000 plus another 835000 for fill that will be put in later it is understood the countv of york will bear 25 of the total cost and the ontario dept of highways 75 per cent the local municipality bears no direct part of the expenditure eighty percent are successful in upper school results audrey baker eng comp c eng lit c hit c alg i geom i trig i phys i chem i ft au ii ft comp ii norma barker eng lit c hist ii trig ii phys ii margaret brown eng comp i eng lit c hist c geom c bot c ft au ii ft comp ii betty jean free eng comp ii eng lit i hist i bot i zool ii lat au i lat comp i fr au ii fr comp ii eleanor goudie eng comp c eng lit c geom c trig c fr au c fr comp ii kathleen green eng comp hi eng lit c fr au c fr comp ii kenneth green eng como ill eng lit ill alg i geom i trig i phys i chem i fr au ii fr comp i kenneth jennings eng lit c alg c trig c phys i chem i vera king eng comp ill eng lit ii hist ill geom i trig i phys i chem i fr au hi fr comp i warren mover eng comp c eng lit c geom c phvs iii j chem i fr au c fr comp iii robert schell eng lit c hist ii geom ii trig c phys iii chem c audrey slack eng comp ii ng lit i hist c alg i geom c trig c bot ii zool ii fr au ii fr comp ii duncan smith eng comp c eng lit c hist c trig c phys c chem c lcmurphy ba principal local holstein sold to britain win 3s3kk3ss i -a- rw ffjv-a-j-tavs- e david and hsauer stouff- ville 10th con markham have sold this highclass hol stein heifer to go to great bri tain named homey empress dalraune she is one of the topnotchers in a shipment of 220 head that will cost the pur chasers the unprecedented price of over half a million dollars or an average of over 2000 each markham township delays striking the tax rate good yield per load school principal cedric watson is not only a good teacher but a real downtoearth farmer with the aid of his brother carl their mixed grain ran 51 bushels to the load sixty tons of vital steel will enter f tribune staff photo distinguished son of unionville district honored in death dr lisgar r eckardt who died recently in the states was the only son of the late joseph and joanna thomson eckardt and was a des cendant of the original eckardt fam ily entering canada in 1791 with the first settlers in markham township he was born on one of the pioneer holdings taken up by the eckardt family situated to the east of union ville attended unionville public school markham high school and graduated from victoria university in toronto he taught the school in his home village for a time after which he went to boston and atten ded the boston school of theology from which school tie received his appointment to depauw university he is survived by his widow two sons and two daughters also two sisters mrs laura sabiston union ville and mrs ella mitchell tor onto in an editorial the indianapolis star says a great teacher minister and humanitarian was lost in the recent death at camden nj of drlisgar r eckardt he was professor emeritus of philosophy at depauw university former head of the de- partmentand an outstanding meth odist minister dr eckardt was one of those rare men who give toneand stature to an institution besides stimulating an unusual degree of devotion among his students he worked the marvel of making philosophy one of the popular subjects on the campus this profound teacher hated sham hypocrisy and evasiveness he had the humanility of the true scholar his desire was to get men to look upward in aspiration and reverence his labors have been laid aside forever but the memory of his per sonality will inspire former stu dents long atfer the soulsearching truths he expounded have been dimmed by the years depauw was enriched by his presence in class room and pulpit former pastor to preach rev walter fleisher of uxbridge former pastor at stouffville will occupy the pulpit in the baptist church for the next two sundays during the absence of the pastor rev duncan macgregor farm lands in concession one to benefit from railway rebate foe first time markham township council struggled for two hours or more monday evening in an effort to strike the tax rate for 1946 after they had cleared the docket of other business but it was all to no avail members could not reach a deci sion on the general township rate at 11 oclock and adjournment was made treasurer chas hoover urged council to increase the general tax rate by one and a half mills point ing out that the county tax rate is lowered by this same amount hence the total taxes would not be in creased while putting more funds in the general rate he said coun cil had levied too low over the past couple of years and were dipping into surplus at a time when it was not so hard to pay the rate the potato crop light local potato growers are having their troubles this fall just now so many tubers are being thrown on the toronto market that prices are away below the ceiling which has recently been raised growers in the ballantrae district also are dubious about the way the present crop is turning out one and two potatoes in a hill is the poor record for some diggings that were well fertilized the early dry weather may be the cause of the results being reported met in the first of a home and home playdown series in morgan park on tuesday evening and downed the eastern group representatives 154 stouffville had two members on the markham squad ward who handled the pitching duties for the first four innings and timbers in the outfield markhams big bid came in the 7th innings when they loaded the bases with none out and pushed over four runs before the side was retired local lad on the job at steel plant at least one stouffville lad will be able to tell the inside story about life within the big steel works at hamilton while strikers mill about outside attempting to stop people zephyr citizen dead after a brief illness at toronto general hospital thomas murray of zephyr died suddenly on friday last in his 72nd year surviving is an only sister jean the funeral service was held in zephyr united church on monday and interment was made at zephyr cemetery frank rassktt dead the sudden death of frank bassets of dunkirton in his 61st year was announced on fridav last the fun eral or sunday afternoon from tor- rrto proceeded to dunbanon ceme tery obrien avenue residence sold the rolph hamilton house on obrien avenue was sold on monday to rev wm f- rae returned mis sionary who intends to locate in stouffville just as soon as he can irrange to move in the sale price is reported to be 5500 the house red brick with all conveniences was built by jacob heise and has an attractive appearance being well located and on a nice lot with double garage the house has hot air heating fire place and threepiece bath it is tenanted at present by mr paul shei k and arrangements are expect ed to be made so that both families may occupy the place for the pre sent from carrying on their duties at the plant ken klinck son of mr ho klinck is one of the army quarter ed in the building turning out what tee they can that is so sorely need ed by industry by formers and the nation in general lat week kens cousin fred ratcliff of midnapore alia visited the tee works and after interview ing ome of the striking oskial- was permitted to pa ineao co ken j aurora trounces markham 155 markham midget oba entry proved no match for aurora asjhey surplus should be kept for a rainy day he maintained reeve chas hooper disagreed with the treasurer and maintained that there was no need to levy a mill and a half extra for general pur poses even if the receipts and ex penditures did run very close the divergent views baffled the members ofcouncil and no attempt was made to force the issue coun cil deciding to think the matter over with the hope of being able to reach a decision so that the taxing bylaw may be passed at the september meeting tax payers along yonge street in the first concession who have been called on to meet deficits for the yonge street radial in bygone days will receive equivalent to 21 mills turned back from the radial surplus which has been accumulating dur ing war years all lands in con 1 from the south boundary to as far north as elgin mills share in the monies there was a recorded vote taken on the resolution to hand back this money with all members approving of the resolution except ing deputy reeve albert reesor who said he was favorable to pass ing over sixteen mills but not 21 mills which he held didnt retain sufficient surplus another resolution on which the yeas and nays was demanded had to do with increasing the salary of mrs raewho had served long years as clerk in the township office the resolution called for an increase of 500 per week yeas reeve hooper and councillor couperthwaite nays deputy reeve reesor councillor timber and stiver members said mrs raes services were appreciated but that any in crease in salary would be subject to heavy government tax and that the benefit would not be commensurate with the increase council would have to pay the bylaw passed at a recent meeting designating the whole township an urban area in which division of lands shall be by regis tered plan only was found to have faulty phrasing in the first para graph and on the advice of the soli citor it was rescinded and a new by law passed having the same results this bylaw makes it law in mark ham township that any person who sells lots or agrees to sell lots with deer on outskirts of stouffville not all deer are in the north coun try as arthur baker can testify on tuesday morning as mr baker was working on his farm just south of town two fully grown deer a buck and doe ambled across the fields in full view and not far from his barns they were not excited and took their time in passing by windsor man buys shetlands a windsor fancier called at the wm morris farm east of town last week and purchased a team of black shetland ponies well broken he also purchased a buggy and harness loaded everything into a trailer and started out for wind sor this is the farm where the famous little happy was born and raised the smallest pony ever born in ontario in recent years little happy champion of the show ring is now owned by a peterboro man locals triumph handily in first oba playoff game stouffville juniors played almost faultless ball on saturday night to take the first game of the oba playdowns with newmarket by a score of 11 to 1 spellman pitching for the locals was only robbed of a shutout by a narrow margin new market banging out one of their four hits in the first of the ninth catcher doolittle doing the slugging a double which drove in dales spellman struck out 12 of the oppos ing batters and allowed only four hits against his teammates 13 safe blows sellars teed oil with a double in the first innings to bo followed by catcher jewett and third baseman ken schell each with two baggers stouffville collected two runs in their first trip to the plate and three more hi the second innings the fourth innings saw the home team add three more to make it s0 sellars the first man up went down swinging jewett singled and schell was hit by the pitcher to put two on miller followed with a smashing triple deep into right field to score two runs and then came home on forgies single wilson and spell man grounded out newmarket only found the mark once in the first five innings red palmateer doubling in the first inn ings probably the best play of the game was a double by stouttville there was one out at the time and a man on third doolittle grounded to spellman on the mound who threw to miller for the putout at first miller whipping it home to catch mctavish streaking for the plate and retire the side coach haskett of newmarket pulled gibson in the seventh re placing him with broughton who allowed three hits in two innings on the mound the second and what should be the deciding game for the series will be played at newmarket this sat urday at 530 pm and quite a con tingent of local fans is expected to follow the team find missing girl at burks falls located at burks falls near north bay joyce noble 15 of sher- bourne st toronto was identified by police through a photograph and story that appeared in the star the girl was reported missing by her father bert noble following her disappearance last thursday at burks falls it was learned the girl had entered the police sta tion seeking a job and had been referred to a nearbv summer resort appalling conditions in war torn france recalled by eye witness rev robert dubarry pastor of the church at mines france for fortyfive years and president of the french bible mission spoke on sunday morning in the baptist church to an interested audience who caught a glimpse of conditions as experienced by those who lived in occupied france during the war years- mr dubarry described the ap palling lack of necessities and how it gradually took its toll of lives but with profound gratitude he ex pressed the thanks of his people who received help from this country and to almighty god for his deliver ance lands two big in softball final at claremont thursday claremont will clash with dun- barton on their home grounds in the second game of their best-out- ofthree finals in the pickering twp softball league on thursday night of this week claremont took the first game trouncing dunbarton on the pickering grounds by the score of 8 to 3 claremont eliminated audley in the semifinals overrunning the southern team with eighteen hits in their final game last week if a third game should be necess ary in the claremontdunbarton final it will be played at pickering on saturday family rally for fathers birthday on sunday august 18th thq home of mr and mrsgeorge storey main st west was the scene of a happy family reunion in honor of mr john v ratcliff who on that day entered upon his s9th year present were his three daughters hattie mrs storey bessie mrs loney of hamilton and margaret mrs morton of winona also his son fred of midnapore alberta out first having a registered plan the picton gazette tells its or subdivision is subject to a s00 readers of the wonderful fishing fine prowess of an old stouffville bovj while the powers of the bylaw earl grubin in the following are somewhat obscure as to the sit- article nation where a farmer might wish to land two big maskinonge in a j to sell half hi- farm or even the half hour period was the unusual southeast quarter it is construed feat of earl grubin wednesday evening the fish were caught in the bay along the adolphustown shore not far from the glenora ferrv the largest fish weighed 2 sounds and measured 4 inches in length the other weighed 20 pounds both were firmly hooked and mr grubin required only a minute or two to get them in the hcai he was using a double hifnlo by the treasurer to mean that a farmer could sell the east or west quarter of his farm without a blue print since the farm is part of the whole township plan the purpose of the bylaw as pre viously stated is to stop wild cat selling of lands from blue prints that too often is a swindle in future years people now being set tled on poor land- highly priced may become charge- on the tax pay ers it is feared in addition these engagements mr and mrs harold harper of unionville announce the engage ment of their younger daughter ruth vera to albert tasker porky carr youngest son of mr and mrs j p carr of unionville the marriage to take place satur day september 14th at 3 oclock mr and mrs john elmer hicks of mount albert announce the engagements of their daughters jean evelyn to ross thomas burns and lillian elizabeth to george martin burns sons of mr ross burns of pickering and the late mrs burns the marriage to take place at their home on august 31 at 3 pm subdivisions are often sold withou adequate roads and when the plan- reach council it is difficult to deal with the situation land vendors in future must provide and build roads before they sell property from a subdivision who with his twoyearold son john flew to stouffville for the occasion mrs george matthews only sister of mr ratcliff accompanied by miss frances ratclift motored over from brantford mrs delos mathe- sori kathleen loney and her hus band also mrs j c loney and children elizabeth and donald came in from hamilton from nearer home were his granddaughter miss phyllis klinck of toronto mrs las if ratcliff and glenn and mr and mrs hoklinck of stoutrville at the dinner table a toast to mr ratcliff the esteemed guest of the day was proposed by his soninlaw rev c j loney and responded to in fitting fashion by phyllis klinck mr ratcliff is enjoying reason ably good health it was an occa sion of particular satisfaction to him to be able to greet his sturdy little namesake from alerta at the mai ton airport to which place he again motored to give the lad and his father a farewell when they left for the west on the following mon day night mr ratcliffs many friends wish him other happy birthdays and con tinued strength to fully enjov the years ahead