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sixteen pages tottuvtue mmnm 3000 copies vol 60 no 36 the tribune stouffville ont december 22 1949 monday nomination day for whitchurch the township of whitchurch nominations for reeve and coun cillors for 1950 will take place at the vandorf hall on monday next dec 26 sonte do not like the day chosen because it is like christmas day but legally it is not and there is changing it clerk john crawford points out nominations will be received from one oclock and speeches may be expected as is the custom and privilege of the ratepayers spent 24 years in west china rev a j brace dead leader in ymca work in west china for many years rev di albert james brace 72 died v uul u suddenly from a heart attack fri- no proviliou in the statutes to vlzll l plenty of holiday entertainment hekk no one should go short on entertainment on the holiday here dec 2gth the stanley theatre is presenting a standout perform ance in the great dan patch while the stouffville arena is pro viding free public skating in the afternoon and theres an oha senior hockey game at night with collingwood shipbuilders the men of blake street while the health of stouffville citizens is generally good here and there in the village there are patches of sickness it seems to develop in one part of the neigh bourhood more than another of course its nothing catching unless perhaps the weight of years which catches up on all of us sooner or later checking up the voters last week contenders for office found they could count on little support from blake street residents since it was discovered that almost every house was nursing someone ill blake street be it known is that onesided street running south off main and parallel with the east side of the cnr tracks south of the station at the extreme end of the street lives a long established citizen fred cockerill mr cockerill is ill and unable to be about for some time then his neighbor richard 0ward is also ill dick is probably the first man in these parts to ever lift the hood off a car to attempt a repair job way back at the turn of the century living north of mr ward is the former squire hall of lemonville whose undercarriage is not just what he would like it to be but it takes more than weak limbs to keep this citizen down for any length of time so we hope to see mr hall down town again shortly it just isnt looking right around the post office at mail time when squire dan isnt sitting out side smoking his pipe only other male resident on blake street is hugh anderson who survived many years of hockey when it was rough and tumble on a smaller sheet of ice than we know today hence the bumps were harder and came more often yes and you played the whole sixty minutes in hughs day without subs only hugh anderson was able to vote on the municipal election from blake street but what we meant to say at the outset is that blake street held the record for casualties on that day when men seeking public office were scouring about for votes gormley herd sells up to 260 best cow in the herd on the schelke farm at gormley sold at auction for 260 while the herd averaged 200 and young calves sold for 40 auctioneer a s farmer reports was spending a few months he resided at 71 sheldrake blvd tor onto although lie retired officially two years ago dr brace continued to lecture throughout canada and the united states born in eng land he came to toronto as a child and attended dufferin public school and markham high school he interrupted his course at victoria college to enlist in the south african war on his return to canada he gave a series of lectures on the war he served as a chaplain in world war i graduating from victoria col lege he was ordained a minister in the methodist church and held pastorates in british columbia he entered ymca work in vic toria and six years later was appointed to service in china ymca secretary in west china from 1912 to 193g he was lent to the international ymca by the methodist and later the united church of canada following his retirement he returned to canada and for seven years was associated with the international ymca committee on world service during the second world war he was with the ymca service department and travelled throughout the north american continent dr brace made a noted contri bution to science through research work in china in country bord ering tibet his exploration trips study and writing on the tribes and country won for him the frgs prominent in the masonic order he organized the first masonic lodge in west china the univer sity of british columbia conferred upon him the honorary degree of doctor of divinity he was a mem ber of eglinton united church he was the son of the late rev adam h brace baptist minister and a brother of the late rev a p brace united church minister who was for many years promin ent in temperance work in ontario and at one time minister at lemon ville he leaves his wife blanche obrien a daughter of the late james obrien of stouffville she was an accomplished musician and when the family was small they lived in stouffville and attended school here the sons are carman wilford brockman and julian the two older sons were born in china dr brace is also survived by three brothers dr will brace of delisle sask e g brace of seattle and h lincoln brace of hamilton and one sister mrs arthur black of chatham triplet girls for a christmas present markham township assessor upsets councils decision markham township council sitting as a court of revision last fall on the 1950 roll saw fit to reduce two assessments entered for appeal on the ground of being assessed too high the council shaved 100 off one assessment in thornhill by reducing a building valuation of 700 made by the assessor to 000 likewise a pro perty in unionville assessed for 900 was reduced to s00 by the court assessor archie meming appeal ed the decision of the local court to a higher tribunal and the appeal was heard by judge forsyth in county court last week the assessor was rewarded for his effort by having his original assessments replaced his honor in commenting on the judgment of the court wanted to know why the council or court of appeal had reduced the two pro perties at all assessor fleming said he could not answer happy mother and triplets are mrs lloyd harvey gorm ley and from left in order of birth brenda barbara and bonnie the combined weight of the three little girls was 14 pounds four ounces when they arrived at york county memorial hospital last week the girls are the very best christmas present ever their proud parents declare weather com parison v everybody was talking about the unusual springlike weather we were enjoying the first part of this week at least then along comes e r good to tell us that exactly five years tuesday this week they served christmas din ner at his home because one of his sons had to leave for his military post immediately and he bad to go that night despite the fact it was extremely cold five below zero the weather five years ago this week was certainly not so con genial for the average person as it is this year ontario county holstein men elect officers on dec armour gave clippers down midland flyers 64 in fast sr game stouffville clippers notched their first oha senior triumph on tuesday night downing midland flyers 64 in a faststepping con test the clippers led throughout the contest although the flyers evened the count 14 in the second period and held out until midway through the final frame when hochberg scored unassisted to break the deadlock gord lewis scored on a pass from baker a minute later to put the game on ice penalties were a big factor and four goal were tallied with men in the box three against stouff ville and one against midland gord lewis had a big night for the clippers scoring three goals two in the first period and one in the last jackie thomas also featured scoring the second tally and assisting on lewis first goal herb rose and ross hochberg were the other marksmen st amant scored a pair for midland ohearn and adams getting the other two stouffviile led 42 at the close of cie first period and still looked tne fresher even in the second period against their older opponents the flyers third and fourth goals both came with stouffvillecpressing and midland breaking away with only one man to beat bill mulholland replaced jack harper in the stouffville net and turned in an admirable perform ance for his initial game good enough to get a nice hand from the four hundred odd midland fans who braved the teaming rain to see the show ross hochberg also turned in a heavy night going the full sixty minutes on defence mills was out of the lineup with an injury midland sported at least one player who is not a total stranger to stouffville in the person of albert chin one of the once- famous chinese line from luck- now who visited stouffville as juniors some years ago stouffville will play host to the flyers in the stouffville arena this friday night while on the holiday night monday the fam ous collingwood shipbuilders will pay their initial visit here about 10 breeders were in attendance at the annual meeting of the ontario- county holstein club held in manchester 19th the president mcmillan was chairman mr joe darlington report on his years activities as salesman for the club he reported a total sale of 179 head of holsteins at an average of 32204 per head this is slightly down from last years average price of 34700 mr darlington pointed out that pennsylvania was still our best market and that everyone should do everything possible to hold this market in his report mr george mc laughlin director of the holstein friesian association of canada stated that the national associa tion had enjoyed a successful year there had been a slight drop in transfers but to offset this there had been an increase in registra tions as well as an increase in memberships he also pointed out that ail the black and white shows across the province had showed increases in the number of entries and in the number of exhibitors roy ormiston fieldman review ed the survey that was conducted early in 1949 at the conclusion of his talk production certificates were awarded to major general gunn dunrobin farm beaver- ton and to george mclaughlin elmcroft farms oshawa it was decided that if possible a bus trip should be organized so that holstein breeders as a group would have the opportunity of visiting other outstanding hol stein herds it was also decided to carry on the twilight meeting and the annual holstein picnic during the coming year the black and white day will again be hem at port perry fair in 1950 mr joe darlington was re engaged as sales agent for the coming year the election of directors resulted as follows armour mcmillan rr2 seagrave gerald ballentyne wilfrid orvan chambers wilfrid harold honey rr2 seagrave bob walker rri port perry hugh ormiston brook- lin lloyd smith rr2 port perry bob flett rr2 oshawa byron holtby rr port perry vernon powell rr1 oshawa ken holll- day rr1 brooklin national director george mclaughlin rr1 oshawa county may contribute 100 thousand to sick childrens the special hospitalization com mittee of the county of york last saturday decided to ask the county council at its january session to make a grant of 100000 to the building program of the sick childrens hospital over 25 per cent of the children treated at this hospital are residents in the county and the grant will add up to one mill on the equalized assess ment it would appear that the county has a direct obligation to discharge and the committee felt that the proposed grant is a just claim on our resources the reeve of stouffville is a member of the special committee charged with making recommendations for capital grants to toronto hospitals which will amount to about three quarters of a million dollars over a period of five years and he states that it is cheaper to contribute to the expansion program of the city save 74 horses but 25000 home burns at maple rain and a breeze saved barns valued at 100000 and 74 head of horses on tuesday night when the farm home of charles hemstead ontario horseman was destroyed by fire at maple west of yonge st shortage of water because of a nearlydry well prevented fire brigade from maple humber sum mit and richmond hill from saving the home valued at 25000 a faulty chimney or an over heated furnace is believed respon sible for the outbreak the home was built in 1908 and contained 12 rooms some furniture was saved the whole area is suffering from lack of water and many wells are dry chief allen of the maple brigade said man killed when car crashes local truck returning from a trip to the north country last friday night bert paisley narrowly escaped be ing injured when his truck was sideswiped by a touring car travelling in the opposite direction and loaded with students from the university of toronto who were returning to their homes in the north for christmas holidays the accident happened near burks falls police said that the paisley truck was travelling on the right side of the road while the touring car was on tlie wrong side the car was badly wrecked and one of the passengers died within an hour the truck driver was not held hospitals than to construct large expensive buildings outside the city a question the committee went into thoroughly three years ago harness horses big attraction here tuesday while the crowd was not large there was keen interest in tues- js this your turkey days horse show staged on main street for the benefit of the farm ing district prizes are contributed by the merchants and were very liberal the winners belgian and percheron in harness chas teasdale aurora john riddle king roy hall brooklin harvey schell stouff ville gordon wagg stouffville 1horse team heber down vincent baker teasdale riddle h down single wagon team roy hall harvey schell roy hall gordon wagg pony in harness first and second leonard blight best percheron or belgian chas teasdaje 1st and 2nd roy hall john riddle heavy draught tsam wilson lumber co cannington 1st and 3rd vincent baker 2nd heber down 4th light draught heber down vincent baker harvey schell amateur class j riddle h schell gordon wagg best clyde mare or gelding wilson lumber co 1st and 3rd vincent baker 2nd h down 4th on friday evening of this week dec 23 the lucky program holder will be presented with a christmas turkey be sure and see the mid land team in action here that even ing against the local lineup and of course buy yourself a 10c program which will put you in line for this lovely big christmas fowl dogs cause further damage to sheep flocks whitchurch township has been bothered with muttoneating dogs again since bills were paid for losses suffered by farmers in the west side of the municipality last council meeting at thursdays final meeting of the 1949 council claims totalling 178 were paid for losses entailed by w h and erson wilmot brown and a m vernon and joe jones and wilmot brown received 115 for six killed and flock damage while the others who suffered minor losses received ranging from 5 to 40 lambert wilson was named as township representative on the holland conservation board sandy davis road superinten dent presented a report indicating that his department would wind up the year within the budget amount set earlier in the year he also stated that council would be prepared to handle the snow situa tion well since there are two maintainers and an extra plow on the truck available for duty trucker catches fox bare handed bringing his truck to a stop just south of the town of uxbridge on tuesday morning when he saw a big yellow fox moving in a clump of cedars allen taylor driver on one of the hoover milk trucks soon bagged the animal although he didnt have any shooting weapons along i just got down from the cab and ran back carryirig the hammer which happened to be on the seat beside me i picked up a stone and let go this struck the fox on the back perhaps stunned it anyway i ran up and struck it dead with the hammer such was the humiliating death that came to old reynard this christmas week morning allen taylor with his young wife resides in goodwood first freak egg pulfets egg shown the tribune this week measured 7x7 inches when mrs norman feaaby was about to crack what she believed a doubleyoked pullet egg the uxbridge township lady dis covered she had two eggs in hand the smaller egg fully formed and shelled was inside the larger egg which had no yellow in it this is the first pullet egg of the winter to enter the freak class county constable aubrey fleury and chief constable clarence wideman of markham were in town tuesday assisting- with the traffic problem during the hours of the horse show on main street ratcltff grocery donated turkey to good guesser miss bertha stouffer received the lovely turkey donated by ratcliff co to the person guess ing the nearest to the number of gum drops in the big jar on dis play in the window the past week miss stouffers guess was 1925 while the actual number of gum drops in the jar was 1923 there were two other guesses close to the mark but as we say a miss is as bad as a mile and so miss stouffer will cook the turkey no doubt in their comfortable home on mill street where with her mother ami father mr and mrs ab stouffer they took up residence on retiring from the farm last year