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rtbttne vol 83 no 5 the tribune stouffville int may 20 1952 appeal case likely in june tht- case of oakes and donelma securities vs dr alan secorii in connection with the mil dams go ing out at glasgow and altona in august of 1050 which was settlea last fall in favor of dr alan secord is to be definitely appealed according to mr hugh plaxton solicitor for the plaintiffs and is expected to be heard in june the case heard in supreme court involved a total claim of 525000 spending for council convention trips meets opposition a resolution by councillors hooper and lennie to send the reeve and deputyreeve of mark- ham township to the reeves and mayors convention in ottawa at township expense met with opposition from councillor le masurier on monday and a record ed vote was finally required to settle the issue while the vote carried on its completion both reeve timbers and deputyreeve james stated that they did not be lieve they would be free to attend the ottawa conference while it was explained that it was customary to send these mem bers of council to the convention in the past councillor lemasurier contended that in view of the in creased budget money should not be spent for this purpose councillor hooper stated that the expenditure was covered in the budget to the amount of 400 councillor lemasurier made it clear that he was quite willing to send employees of the municipal ity to conventions but not elected members of council deputyreeve james agreed that the budget for 1952 was larger than ever before but contended that the council had more to show for the expendi ture reeve timbers made the obser vation that markham township has only been represented at two conventions in the past and couldnt see anything wrong with the procedure of sending council members councillor lennie concurred with the reeve that the procedure was quite all right if the 400 budgeted was not exceeded councillor hooper told council that he had been attending these conventions for seventeen years a resolution to send the clerk chas hoover to the convention- for such employees passed with out opposition what happens when govt takes on commerce details by george ahcll of slonft villi the spring invasion is in full swing the british industries trade fair is on which attracts people from all over the place the first summer load of amer ican entertainers has arrived headed by jimmy durante who is to headline the bill for a month at the palladium which is the welcome home local korean veteran clyde steckley tells of bitter front line fighting graduates after a year of bitter hand to hand fighting over rugged hilly terrain mr clyde steckley of stouifville waved farewell to the fox holes and dug outs of korea his final mission completed a 2r yearold veteran of two wars mr steckley served lor six months in europe in world war 11 and when he heard the call to korea he joined the royal canadian regiment and embarked for ft louis washington for a six month training course following this stopover his regiment sailed for japan where they received another six month- of thorough drilling upon their arrival in korea they were at once rushed to the front lines in the thick of the lighting in commenting on the war ravaged country clyde explained that the countryside was badly blasted by enemy shells and bombs with thousands of refugees wandering homelessly behind the lines looking for shelter the cities in korea are quite modern with seoul trie capital of south korea comparing with toronto for size the villages and hamlets however contain houses built out of straw from their rice fields to keep them alive because the enemy in the north is always endeavouring to filtrate through their lines no one can be regarded as a friend the north and south koreans look exactly alike but speak a different lang uage when the royal canadian regi ment went into battle they were faced with an enemy that attacked in waves and gave no thought to their own safety air steckley claimed that on numerous occa sions the north koreans attacked without as much as a gun in their hands but tried to overpower their regiment by sheer force of num bers mi- steckley spent some six months in japan and during this time he had a chance to explore the country he visited the de molished cities of hiroshima and nagosaki where no attempt has been made to repair the ruins the results of the atom blast can be plainly seen both in damage done to the cities and to its survivors the town of stouifville wel comes home its veteran of two wars clvde steckley merlyn preston gets lakeside garbage contract merlyn preston was named gar bage collector by bylaw on thurs day evening at the meeting of whitchurch council his route covering musselmans lake pres tons lake and wilcox lake the total price for the three collections will be s2s00 for the wilcox lake collection he will receive 2000 for musselmans lake 003 and for prestons lake 200 four lenders were received highest being for a total coverage at 3000 mr preston resides on the sideroad between the 7th and 8th concession and has been employed driving a gravel truck tenders were also opened for a power weed spraying machine five bids were received highest being 219000 after some discus sion the council agreed to inspect a couple of machines before mak ing their final decision beamish construction co will supply approximately 25000 gal lons of road oil to the township this year at a price of 227c per gallon four tenders were received for the whitchurch oil order top figure being 235c per gallon council by resolution agreed to pay a grant of 25 to the canadian institute for the blind and the salvation army ive given this matter considerable thought stated councillor mccarron we give to fairs and not to those who help the needy some of these organizations do more good than our hospitals its a matter of goodwill gesture to give them some small grant and encourage them he continued i think we should give a grant stated reeve mel lin im sympathetic to the and the salvation army councillor legge bis smokes biggest variety theatre we also have sophie tucker last of the redhot mom mas whatever that means sing ing in a night club but the big do of the spring which is the cup final football game is over and london can relax once more unlike hockey or baseball there is no series in professional soccer finals but just one sudden death affair and this year it was newcastle last years winners against arsenal a lon don team at wembley stadium last saturday for the honours from both banks of the river tyne the geordies anyone who lives in the tyne valley or new castle left the coal mines ship yards and factories in thousands to see the game sixtythree trains nbiety chartered planes and no one knows how many buses and cars disgorged newcastle sup porters on poor old london they were wearing black and white striped coats hats and even trousers it looked as if all the zebras in africa had suddenly decided to roll along the strand as tickets were as scarce as a tory mp at a union meeting some fancy prices were obtained for the few the scalpers had to olfer a pound ticket was fetching as high as twenty pounds if you wish to see a real game of football go to the maple leaf gardeas june 16th when the two runnersup manchester united and tottenham hotspurs play an continued on page 10 the motor city auction sales of cooksvllle have employed w d atkinson local auctioneer to sell cars everv tuesdav at 11 oclock this week 102 cars were sold top nrice was 470000 for a cadillac this is a wholesale dealers sale the firs of its kind in canada whitchurch first to pay- share of deficit hospital resol- share whitchurch township by ution has agreed to pay its of york county hospitals deficit of 91 loco in 1951 and at least two other municipalities are expected to do the same immediately the amount paid by whitchurch was 113328 municipalities in north york were asked by the hospital board to share in the reduction of the deficit at a meeting of represent atives at sharon several weeks ago the hospitals actual deficit is around 60000 but municipali ties were asked to pay off 11000 each municipalitys share being in proportion to the number of patients it sent to the hospital in 1951 whitchurch council engages dog catcher will try for cleanup in lakeside area duncan smith a recent graduate of ontario veterinary college guelph dr smith is a son of mr and mrs a g smith cashel and a former student of stouifville high school winners in spring flower show the following is the prize list of the spring flower show held in the united church on may 20th class 1 darwin tulips 3 mrs a campbell mrs herb wideman mrs x oboyle class 2 parrot tulips 3 mrs fred byer mrs timbers mrs f draper class 3 double tulips 3 m mertens mrs p stover mrs fred byer 1 striped tulips 3 jean mrs campbell 5 lilyflowered 3 mrs mrs p stover mr e r class pipher class km nek good class fi mixed tulips c mrs them augh blind said loses brother at manitoulix word was received here on tuesday afternoon of the passing at sandfield manitoulin island of charles baxter eldest brother of truman baxter of stouifville the late chas baxter was 74 and had been ill about a week he was born and raised on the baxter homestead where he has conduct ed a farm business surviving be sides his wife are two brothers truman of stouffville and thomas and a sister mrs geo vinev mr and mrs truman bax ter left stouffville on tuesday for the four hundred mile drive to manitoulin island for the funeral engagements mr and mrs wm heron of pickering announce the engage ment of their daughter isabel helen to thomas bruce hisey son of mr and mrs chas hisey of markham the marriage will take place on saturday june 7th 1952 at 4 oclock in second markham baptist church the engagement is announced of verna olive cockerill daugh ter of the late mr and mrs f c cockerill to clayton william tarr son of mrs tarr and the late mr keith tarr the marriage to take place quietly in june herb wideman mrs timbers m mertens class 7 mixed tulips 12 m mertens jean pipher mrs ii wideman class 9 narcissi multiple flow ered m mertens mrs p stover mrs thomas class 10 bleeding heart mrs herb wideman mrs fred byer mrs klinck class 11 any other variety mr e r good m mertens mrs fred byer class 12 arrangement with tulips predominating m mertens class 13 basket with tulips pre dominating jean pipher mrs timbers mrs eugene baker class 14 lilyofthevalley mrs timbers mrs eugene baker class 15 pansies m mertens mrs timbers class 17 basket of shrubs mrs dunkeld class 18 crescents of spring flowers jean pipher class 19 buffet arrangement of spring flowers mrs timbers m mertens mrs frank wagg class 20 spirit of spring arrangement mrs campbell jean pipher class 21 miniature bouquet mrs f wagg mrs klinck mrs dunkeld class 22 house plant bloom mrs j sider mrs f byer j sider class 23 african violet mr rid- out mrs grubin mrs j sider class 24 lilacs mrs p stover whitchurch township council engaged jack leary on thursday evening to catch dogs at wilcox lake complaints over stray dogs running at large broke out with new violence at this township summer resort last week and several shootings brought police to the scene in an effort to get immediate relief council appealed to the newmarket branch of the humane society but they would not consider the job unless the entire township was included the cost of such service was reported to be in the neighborhood of 6000 and was considered by council to be far beyond necessity mr leary in taking the job of dogcatcher for a trial period of three weeks asked that he be given police protection constable mulholland agreed to accompany the dogcutcher and his helper while at work mr leary will receive 5 for each dog caught and his assistant will be paid by the hour he will pro vide the pound at lot 4 con 6 and the truck the volunteer for this unpopu lar job told council that he had no idea how many dogs might be around the lake councillor mccar ron told mr leary that he had all the authority required in the township bylaw covering the area it was noted that by actual count 54 dogs were poisoned there last fall however since that lime the council has been continually plagued with complaints of packs of roving canines upsetting gar bage and being generally destruc tive aurora drys win in heavy vote in the heaviest vote ever cast citizens of aurora on tuesday de feated proposals for the establish ment oi a government liquor store and a retail brewers store with 1924 out of a posible 2327 voter- casting ballots the drys had a margin of more than 200 votes on both questions result on the liquor store vote was 847 for 1077 against on the brewers re tail store s63 for 1067 against record crowd at rodanz sale on saturday may 24 th cattle buyers from the far corners of ontario and canada attended the hereford cattle sale of geo rodanz at ringwood farms one buyer journeyed from ft william nova scotia while others came from quebec caledon chatham st thomas st catharines and gode- rich bert guardhouse of malton paid the top price of 1170 for one animal while ralph foster of god- erich paid 1150 the average price was 7s1 three buyers purchased four herefords with local breeder stanley defoe of rr2 gormley paying a total of 1470 roy jenner of chatham paid 3135 for four practice for stouffville girls softball team thurs nite at 7 pm softball scores claremont 3 markham 0 peaches 3 thornhill 3 buttonville 7 unionville 2 starr wins ontario riding for progressive conservatives mrs winterstein mrs drewery mrs campbell and mrs hastings were in toronto monday evening attending the opening of the metropolitan opera at maple leaf gardens in the federal byelection in ontario riding held on monday michael starr mayor of oshawa returned traditionally liberal ontario to the progressive con servatives for the first time in 20 years mayor starr will now retire from the office of chief magistrate in the motor city we understand he had more than 3000 votes to spare in pickering township his mar gin was slim only 55 votes in front of john lay liberal in uxbridge township starr forged ahead by 136 votes ccf roy scott polled but 49 votes in all of uxbridge township and 521 in pickering goodwood gave the thirdplace candidate 13 votes largest poll in the township hit and run victim snapped by local photographer m the vote in uxbridge t 1- lay scott starr glasgow 24 8 40 goodwood 48 13 96 rri poll 47 a 35 glen major 17 2 9 pine grove 23 1 33 quaker hill 70 9 112 webb poll 14 11 54 213 49 379 pickering township redwing poll 52 43 55 55 51 42 pickering 2 126 20 79 pickering 3 84 15 33 78 18 45 liverpool 69 18 85 dunbarton 5 60 33 41 airport 08 54 133 rosebank 58 41 81 highland creek 24 12 20 dunbarton 9 44 32 74 aast woodlands 55 24 39 ioast woodlands 36 24 53 kingston rd 42 9 31 kingston rd 28 11 42 cherrywood 31 13 32 ot 27 con 2 22 o 41 kinsale 42 15 06 brougham 45 29 74 brougham 69 0 59 white vale 59 16 66 mt zion 2s 8 75 claremont 78 9 79 claremont 79 13 57 altona 51 3 36 13s3 521 1438 births may 13 hospital blonge mr and mrs harry h blonge goodwood rri wish to announce the birth of their daughter on monday may 26 1952 at the brierbush hospital stouifville filybr on tuesday at brantford general to mr and mrs dann filyer a daughter susan joan a sister for stephen gibson mr and mrs las gibson claremont are happy to an nounce the birth of their son on monday may 26 1952 at the brierbush hospital stouffville rdesor mr and mrs stanley reesor claremont rr3 an nounce the birth of their son on monday may 26 1952 at the brierbush hospital stouffville a baby brother for joyce rutledge mr and mrs har old rutledge nee betty fairies toronto announce the birth of their daughter donna jean on may 25 1952 at the private patients pavilion toronto gen eral hospital a sister for bobbie thorp mr and mrs george thorp claremont rri are happy to announce the birth of their son on thursday may 22 1952 at the brierbush hospital stouffville correspondents arriving too late for publication will appear in next weeks issue call tenders for markham new municipal building local photographer ted cad- ieux has here an onthespot photograph of hitandrun vic tim john crittenden as he was found by police lying n a pool of blood on the 4th con of uxbridge last week provincial policeare carrying out a wide spread search for the car they believe responsible crittenden who died of in juries was found about 4 ajr by daniel gribben of good wood as he drove along in a heavy rain police are under stood to have determined the year and make of the car in volved markham township council is this week advertising for tenders for a new municipal building to be erected at buttonville what are these new offices going to cost queried councillor le masurier the figure estimated by the building committee ran all the way from 40000 to 100000 councillor lennie stated there was no way of knowing the exact cast until the tenders came in a recorded vote on a resolution to call for tenders found all members of council in favour with the exception of lemasurier a lengthy discussion ensued j concerning a septic tank bylaw as proposed by the local health unit the sanitation was said to be exceedingly bad in the hignland park subdivision and it was hint ed that raw sewage in the ditches had been the cause of serious ill nesses in that locality plumbing inspector galbraith who joined in the discussion told council that there were numerous considera tions involved before the passage of such a bylaw and council took no action for the present the manufacturers life co again requested that tax bills be sent to them rather than the owners of certain property in the township this firm is said to hold mortgages on some 250 properties in markham township council for the second lime turned down the request and instructed clerk chas hoover to send the bills to the owners