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th tribune stouffville ont thursday august 11 1949 markham new summer policy doom open 700 pm show starts 730 pm mod to sat matinee saturday at 200 pan friday saturday august 12 13 adventure flames in the worlds hotspot of danger and intrigue dick powell morta torens rogues regiment of the french foreign legion 6 riotous days monday to saturday august 15 16 17 18 19 20 tire blew fractures mans arm and jaw an unusual accident yet one that could happen so often is recorded from the village of mild- may in the district of walkerton last week while driving through the vil lage of mildmay on the afternoon of civic holiday jim morrison found it necessary to change a tire on his truck and stopped at the dosman garage for that purpose the air had not then been released from the tire and during the oper ation it suddenly blew up the local trucker receiving the full force of the blast in the explosion stanley theatre stouffville ontario friday and saturday august 12 and 13 canadian pacific in colors starring randolph scott and jane wyatt monday and tuesday august 15 and 16 the fountainheadk starring gary cooper and raymond massey wednesday and thursday august 17 and 18 snake pit adult entertainment starring olivia de haviland and mark stevens both the bones of his left arm near the wrist were broken and he was also severely cut from his mouth to his eye the injured man was rushed to the bruce county hospi tal for treatment and it required ten stitches to close the gash on his face following xray examina tion the broken arm was set and put in a cost section borrows 14500 for new rural school in special session last week whitchurch township council passed a bylaw to borrow 14500 for the account of school section no 6 mt pisgah repayment of which will be spread over 20 years and bear interest at 3 per cent payable semiannually in equal annual payments principal and interest when the money which is to be used for building a new school to replace the burned struc ture is all paid back it will be found that the total interest bill will be 590461 the school section has an assessment of 121000 and the tax rate annually to meet the debenture payment would be 84 mills but the section however will recover half the cost of deben ture from provincial grant hence the actual or net rate will be 42 mills for 20 years the debenture is not the whole cost of the new school since monies received by insurance are available to apply against addi tional expenditures over and above the loan councillor legge submitted a resolution which stated that plans for a garage submitted by herbert paul at bogerttown met with requirements of township bylaw and the dept of highways will be so notified a letter of thanks was directed by councillor baycroft to be sent to both east gwillimbury and markham townships for the co operation of their police forces recently in rendering whitchurch assistance deputyreeve mclaughlin moved that council approve of the proposed subdivision plan of part of lot 61 con 1 township of whit church as submitted by e e muirhead a marked cheque for 900 was received from mr muir- head covering estimated cost of grading gravelling and placing culverts in the subdivision council passed the resolution and work will be done right away the clerk was instructed by resolution moved by councillor timbers to notify wilcox lake ratepayers association that a new petition will be required for a proposed road on the north side of the lake out to yonge street the original petition received estimated the cost at not more than 5000 engineers estimate however is 11700 and if the petitioners wish to still have the new road in the light of this information it can be built they will have to submit a new petition indicating the esti mated cost at the higher figure the job will be done as a local improvement measure the area affected bearing entire cost the clerk was instructed to take steps to acquaint the people with the telephone contacts they may make when police are needed in a hurry arrangements will be made so that calls may be received at either wilcox or musselmans lake at any hour county constables called for special service in june were authorized to be paid at rate of 1 per hour as follows aubrey floury 31 hours edgar kidd 25 hours sid barraclough 11 hours anthony crouch 15 hours and jack lawrence 11 hours richmond hill high school area proposes wing at 360000 a deputation from richmond hill high school area on monday asked the markham township council to approve an expenditure of 360000 for a new wing of nine class rooms to the richmond hill high school one of the deputation warned that this was only a three- year program the additional space provided will only accommo date the students now being housed in halls and rooms outside the school and an estimated increase for the next three years but with everything being taught in the school such as domestic science shop and commercial courses added space must be provided since the school area was set up there is an increase of 33 in attendance and if these students are not taken care of in their own area then the area must pay for educating them in schools nearer packets belgians must vote and there are more women than men voters nearly 50 varieties of meat and meat products ranging from cock tail sausages to whole hams are now packed in metal cans the american can conmpany reports toronto at a per diem rate higher than richmond hill i thought we were doing the right thing when we went into a high school area said reeve griffin now i am wondering however the council promised to approve the program after vaughan township approves it was pointed out that markham could do nothing to lower school costs and had to fall into line it was said before the school areas were adopted that local authority would be lost and that is the way it is working out transportation is an enormous annual bill that cannot be avoided in bidding the council farewell the threeman deputation or its spokesman warned this is not the complete picture we have 114 students going to weston and 70 attending earl haig in the lower school alone their tuition fee is high we can take them in when this program is completed but there will be further increases in five years old paper edited by mackenzie kings grandpa has much interesting data proof that ontario or upper canada as it was then known boasted a lively press nearly 120 years ago lies very clearly in a copy of the york colonial advo- cate owned by r w haskil of 49 lome crescent he has an edition of nov 25 1830 and the masthead indicates that the paper was in the seventh year of publication its editor is someone known to every primary school student william lyon mackenzie grand father of canadas politician emeritus william lyon mac kenzie king fled to us mackenzie as will be well remembered was a reformer of eratic and fiery disposition who finally became a leader in the rebellion of 1s37 and spent some time in exile in the united states his exact place as a rebel or patriot has not yet been fully determined although the passage of years has softened the horror with which the established order viewed his actions of the 1830s his colonial advocate printed in muddy york that is now about to become torontoonthesttbway leans strongly to the reform side the edition owned by mr has- kill carries a large proportion of english news a good deal of it derisive of the tories and one story of almost a column length placing considerable opprobrium on the duke of wellingtons political actions sow museum piece mr haskill found the paper in a port hope residence more than 25 years ago it was one of a large pile of similar editions of the same period they are now very scarce and museum pieces throughout canada what happened to the others he has no idea as interesting as anything in the fourpage record of the past are the advertisements on the final page they offer everything from new shoes and live geese feathers to looacre farms with two dwelling houses two barns and two living streams holiday jaunts to europe or business trips to england were stimulated by ads expounding the merits of the london line of fitted and its the feed that counts your birds must be healthy to produce a maximum of quality eggs and they cant be healthy unless their diet is balanced coop lay mash is made from topquality ingredients containing all the elements essential to health its highly digestible and very palatable your birds will thrive on coop lay mash stouffville coop phone stouffville 269 or 122 the most convenient and elegant manner and profusely supplied with provisions and stores and wines theres a sturdy plug for the captains who are well known and will exert themselves upon all occasions to facilitate the wishes of shippers and consignees sonic scandal too the advocate wasnt above a bit of scandal either it carried the story of a pennsylvania man guilty of seduction who was fined 2083 being the entire amount of the valuation of the defendants estate real and personal there appears to have been a good deal of work going on brick layers were besought in one space to apply for jobs at the parliament buildings although they were cautioned that steady capable workmen were needed somebody maybe the professors distant ancestor was absent- minded too a sorrel horse with a saddle on was left at the stable of the halfmoon inn on monday evening last and the owner is requested to call prove property pay charge and take him away the british museum york uc species was doing business on the west side of market lane curiosities available it offered a grand selection of natural and artificial curiosities including wax figures of sir william wallace hero of scotland montieth his betrayer and king edwards messenger columbus also had a top billing in the wax works among a great number of min erals fossils petrifactions stuffed birds was a heathen god from egypt you could have a season ticket for one year for the price of one pound sterling or it cost one shilling and three pence for single entry william wood proprietor of the furnished in museum who must have been yorks connie smythe evidently believed in advertising he had two insertions in the one issue fighting in europe they vvere exciting times for the french had just had another revolution the new state of belgium had declared its indepen dence and had defeated an effort by 20000 dutch troops to take brussels talleyrand the french machia- velli and wellington had just had a friendly meeting over dinner under what was termed remark able circumstances considering their past records on opposite sides britain was getting ready to abolish slavery in the colonies its all there in the advocate the only thing william lyon for got to put on the paper was the price you are worthy of our best this bank we call ours is really yours we say yours because it was built for your use a safe and profitable place in which to deposit your money a thoroughly dependable and efficient establishment in which to transact all your banking business you can enter this bank with assurance it is conducted on the basis of personal service and of mutual confidence under standing and cooperation we seek not only new accounts but the opportunity to prove that this institution has a genuine interest in every customer whatever his station in life the canadian bank of commerce claremont branch w l irwin manager stouffville branch a g thompson manager tracer scheme follows 3 bills through west what happens to that 5 bill you just spent where does it go and who handles it before it gets salted away in a bank or an old stock these questions have been puzz ling the experts for some time and the pacific northwest travel association thinks it has some of the answers tagged 30 bills the association tagged 30 us 5 bills here june 4 instructing any one who handled them to write the organization and say what happened to the money the object of the experiment is just where tourist dollars travel and their effect on the wests economy alfred blyth alberta president of the pnta says letters have come in telling of the bills travels as far west as van couver and as far east as mend- ham sask within a few weeks we expect to get hundreds of letters from holders of the 30 bills and it will give a good idea just what each us dollar means to canadian economy only ono in city one letter from a lunch counter operator in debolt altai said i have a lunch counter here and to day received bill no 22 i passed the bill on to our postmaster in payment for a money order the bill has been traced through several other transactions in de- bolt bill no 7 took a long trip to vancouver after being picked up in macleod alta only one of the 30 bills still is known to be in edmonton twelve treasured translations of the holy bible will be on display in the old curiosity shop at the cne all 12 are being loaned to the womens division of the exhibition by the library of queens university kingston the first translation of the xew testa ment from the greek text done in 1525 by william tindale is included as is also the one done by miles coverdale who produced the first printed translation of the complete bible in 1535