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the tribune stouffville ont thursday december 4 1947 reeve blake annis presents rd committee report to cty council the outstanding report present ed u ontario county council last week was that of the roads com mine under the chairmanship of d blake annis reeve of the town ship of pickering in his report mr annis inform ed the members of council that strides had been taken to alleviate most snowplowing difficulties that have besn experienced in the past he outlined the acquisition of two new snow plow units in the form of a road maintainer complete with snow plow and wing and a four- wheel drive truck complete with plow and wing the report also outlined the new allocation of plowing units to cer tain specified districts and a re commended program of works to be carried out by the incoming council excerpts from mr annis report are as follows your committee have again considered the snow plowing of county roads the coming winter for your information we are reporting that the new no 512 adams power maintainer was received october 1st and the fwd truck has now been received both these machines have been operated for dragging and hauling to get them ready for snow plowing with the addition of these two pieces of equipment your committee are desirous of renting as few snow plowing units the coming winter as possible the other snow plowing districts and outfits allocated thereto are as follows district no 1 county roads in the township of rama mara and thorah as far south as beaverton a mileage of 551 to be plowed by county k s international truck and power maintainer no 2 district no 2 the balance of county roads in thorah township and north portion of brock town ship mileage 223 to be plowed by power maintainer no 1 district no 3 the county roads in the southern and western part of brock township including victoria corners road also the county roads in the township of scott and the epsom road from uxbridge to highway no 12 a mileage of 532 miles to be plowed by fwd truck double shift district no 1 the county roads in uxbridge township no s no 1 1a west to goodwood the county roads in pickering and whitby townships a total mileage of 45 miles to be plowed by the kr 11 truck double shift district no 5 the county roads in reach nos 6 2 2b 1a west of manchester to intersect road no 1 uxbridge no 2 south to raglan and widening scugog 7 and 7a mileage 275 to be plowed by power maintainer no 3 district no g county road no 5 myrtle to raglan and no 3 east whitby a mileage of 05 miles to be plowed by gun carrier truck no 1 district no 7 county roads in the township of scugog a mileage of 95 miles to be plowed by scugog township truck road programme 1 your committee believe that approximately between 15000 and 50000 cy of gravel should be placed on the county roads during ims and in view of this yardage both pit run and crushed we be lieve consideration should be given to the replacement of the ks inter national truck and the hough loader which have municipality of whitchurch fire areas shops pleased at relaxation of dimout retail merchants expressed satls- faction today with the new ruling from ontario hydro which permits them to light their showwindows with a single 100watt lamp in each window provided interior lighting in the store is reduced by an amount sufficient to make up th difference ontario hydros relaxation of its original ban on showwindow light ing came in response to such a request from the merchants them selves the change in the orders applies only from december 1 to christmas day and from 1 pm to closing time which must not be later than 9 pm permission to burn one 100watt lam in each window will be of greater advantage to the small storekeeper than to the merchant with large showwindows one retailer said today but several of those with larger windows are supplementing the hydro lighting with batterv illumination mtftkmam police officers daughters marry the daughters of two aurora police officers were married on saturday in a period of four hours margaret helen dunham daugh ter of chief constable fisher dun ham and mrs dunham was mar ried to george hodgins of aurora in aurora anglican church at 7 pm hilda norma fleury daughter of york county constable aubrey fleury of aurora wed alan dalton of whitchurch township four hours earlier in aurora united church canadians can spend only 150 a year in the united states according to regulations what is to prevent canadians from borrowing money from relatives or friends and pay ing it back when the visit is returned in this country send friends the tribune to absent farmers feeding grain fit for seed with prospects of a short supply of seed oats and barley for 194s due to adverse seeding and harvest ing conditions the ontario crops branch in cooperation with county weed inspectors and agricultural representatives has been making a survey of the seed situation many farmers did not get their spring grain sown last spring and others experienced difficulty getting their grain harvested in good enough con dition for seed frank marritt of keswick coun ty weed inspector states that when making the york county survey he found many farmers feeding grain that would make good seed they explained that if they kept it for seed they would have to buy feed grain at the present inflated price yet if sufficient good seed is not available maximum crops will not be harvested in 191s what the seed prices will be by spring few wish to predict but ac cording to wm cockburn agricul tural representative for york dea- lers have been offering 175 to 2 per bushel for unregistered seed already he urges farmers to shop around right away for suitable seed and place their orders while this might mean purchasing feed grain mr- cockburn warns against heavy buying at the present time who may vote next x monday all property owners and all tenants the wives of property owners and the wives of tenants provided their names are entered on the revised voters list parts one or two persons appearing on part three of the list have no vote at municipal elections a church lodge or industrial concern owing property that is assessable may file with the clerk ten days before taking the vote the name of some nominee or trustee who shall have the right to vote on such property christmas store hours the merchants of stoufiville have agreed to open their stores two evenings before christmas that is tuesday and wednesday nights dec 23 and 21 and of course the hauled and wednesday halfholiday will be how to keep sunday convention theme how are we to preserve our canadian sunday was the theme of a topic discussed after a talk by rev n rowan at the annual fall rally of the whitchurch rural sundayschool teachers associa tion a resolution was framed which will be presented for approval to the annual convention next may to be forwarded to the whitchurch twp council regarding a number of steps considered by the personnel of the association to be essential to perserve the original spirit of lords day observance another feature of the evening was a presentation by j shepherd of the pine orchard sunday school of an attractive program for the teenage boys who often are lost to the sundayschool the thought emphasized was that the natural tendency of the adolescent boy is the gang instinct which should be encouraged in the proper channels instead of discouraged as being intrinsically evil while the slippery driving con ditions prevented a large attend ance there was no lack of enthusiasm in the discussion lead by rev morton stouffville or in the response to the special selec tions renderd by the gormley quartette elect john scott for council 1948 stouffville polling dec 8 am to 5 pm make your community strong bedi guotce both wotfl loaded thousands of yards of i dispensed with during christmas material since 1939 we recomlweek mend that the 1918 committee give the merchants also call upon the this proposal due consideration reeve to declare boxing dav 5 your comittee desire to bring december 2c a public holiday to your attention a question which j thus when the stores close on li that is the roadside weeds we they will remain closed spray at approximately 1753 a urday morning dec 27 mile we mow with mower and we until sat- elieve that this procedure is the quickest method to obtain eradica tion of weeds if that is ever possible the grading and ditching of roads by the modern method allows roadsides to be completely mowed after spraying your com mittee recommend we get another side cutting mower for the second ford tractor which we now own and work it in conjunction with the present mower which we purchased the past season your committee be- pay 100 weekly to visit home of jesse james the legend of jesse james famed desperado of the postcivil war era is big business today in the town of st josephs missouri us a visitors from many parts of the world pay approximately 100 a week in individual 25cent fees to see the 76yearold house on st josephs eastern outskirts where in 1ss2 bullets fired by robert and charles ford members of the with this new 1948 radio lieve that the removal of the high james gang ended the life of the fence rows on the roadsides with notorious bank robber and train their dense shrubbery the wide easy sloping ditches will compen sate any municipality with less snow removal costs and present less difficulty to control the weed nuisance t your committee desire to again bring to your attention the con- bandit attracted by a sign outside the house depicting a fiery horse and rider brandishing a huge revolver tourists usually follow the signs ad vice to stop this is the jesse- james home see the bullet hole rented as recently as 1937 for ss struction of the wider heavier a month the square frame building super structure of the duffins now reported to be worth 100000 creek bridge and have the 191s the room with the bullet hole is committee give l their consideraj 17 feet square furnished as in the lion one half mie west of this lays of the james brothers with bridge is the palmer bridge which wooden bed civil war rocker and is an old structure with a wooden straight canebottomed chairs floor the present super structure of she duttins creek bridge could road for many years as the traffic be moved with little difficulty to very light this salvaging idea the site of the palmer bridge and would appear to have considerable would give gxxl service on this merit smart walnut veneer or beautiful ivory bakelite you have your choice in this new crosley radio tabic model for 481 both have the same resonant power packed into 5 powerful tubes designed for extra wide sensi tivity and selectivity both have the same rich full tone carried by the deepthroated permanent magnettype speaker both have the famous signal web antenna exclusive with croslcywhich brings in more stations reduces interference and does away with the need for an outside aerial one is housed in handsome wal nut veneer to add charm 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