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xihnm vol 03 no 33 the tribune stouffville ont janfary 29 1953 reaping benefits of reforestation local men involved in 117000 damage action two lumberjacks from vivian forest mr william hood and his son bernard are pictured above beside a 22yearold tree that has recently been cut down the forest is continually being thinned out with the majority of extracted trees being used for pulp wood mr rolph l perkins farmers ask township was lifelong resident to reduce tax levy of victoria square during the course of thursdays meeting of whitchurch council j representatives from the whit- on monday jan 26th mr i church federation of agriculture rolph e perkins a wellknown r appeared asking that the propor- anci highly respected resident of tion of farm taxes which tire paid victoria square passed away after to it should be raised from a a short illness born at the home of his parents mr and mrs jos perkins the deceased operated a farm south of victoria square fpr a number of years in the year 1910 lie was married to the former alice lunau who survives the perkins name has been connected with the victoria square district through the past four generations the kite mr perkins was an enthusiastic church worker in his community holding the position of choir lcader for nine years and also acting in the office of elder in the congregation the deceased was also connected with the youth for christ mens choir which is known so well around the immed iate district the late mr perkins had a musical gift and he made use of his talent whenever possible during the winter months he played in the stoult- ville brass band in the old arena which provided the music for the skaters at that time besides his wife the deceased leaves to mourn his passing three daughters doris mrs d pick ering kloise mrs g norton and coral all of victoria square and one son floyd of richmond hill funeral service was held at the home on wednesday afternoon at 2 pm and in the victoria square united church at 230 conducted by rev a huson with interment in the victoria square cemetery the pallbearers were mr don hat- cliff mr jim smith mr harvey collard mr ross klinck mr lambert stouffer and mr eraser gee quarter to a half mill the deputa tion which included edgar den nis president john sytema vice- president and s r armitage secretary also asked for the cost of ire protection to be lowered by t least 90 insofar as farmers were concerned council was also s2s00 markham council grant pay increases office staff and police markham township council meeting in special session on sat urday afternoon granted pay increases to a large number of oflice staff members and police officers l galhraith plumbing inspector was increased from 82100 to s2700 mrs rae office assist 1900 to 2100 ross nor ton bldg inspector 2100 to robt thompson assist requested to keep after the pro- assessor 2200 to 2 700- in the vtncml government to wipe out department grader operators were increased by ten cents an school taxes on farm lands with the exception of one acre around the farm home we feel that the man with a house and small lot is not paying his share said a brief which the delegation presented to council immediate action was taken by council on the requests the federation of agriculture representatives also told council lors about action which had been taken in connection with the move to set up warble fly control a meeting of farmers had been held it was stated and petitions were being circulated if a suffici ent number of signatures was secured and members of the deputation said that they were certain that this would happen council would be asked to take the necessary action to set up control koiiil budget same as 32 the road budget for the year would be 75000 councillors agreed the amount being the same as last year of that amount 51000 will go for maintenance the remainder being for new con struction new machinery and miscellaneous items one sheet claim for 25 was authorized the council also re ceived a letter from c b cassidy secretary of the recentlyformed loak ridges united ratepayers morley bain deputyreeve of association offering to cooperate scott township resigned his seat i with council in every possible this week after action was com- way menced at ontario county council to unseat him an investigating voters in three townships to committee has discovered that entitle a deputyreeve to hold a there are not sufficient qualified seat library circulation shows increase of 1000 in 1952 the annual meeting of the 211 stouffville public library hoard was held in the library with rev douglas davis chairman presid ing the librarians report was presented and showed a circula tion for the year of 12107 an in crease of 1000 over the preceding year it was pointed out that in the juvenile section alone over 50 books had been circulated in a single day on several occasions and it denotes a keen interest in reading by the children the co operation of both the public and high school teachers has been helpful in this regard one rural school visited the library in a inxly two hundred new books have tieen added to the book stock during the year and 125 have been on loan from the travelling libraries department of the board of education the financial report showed a municipal grant for 1952 of s9v1x provincial gran of 34325 and frm ae of cards fines etc i three hundred and forty i dollars were spent on now books land magazines and salaries to the j librarian and janitor were 010 1 fuel hydro insurance etc brought the expenses to s1297 the thanks of the board are due to a number who have donated books and magazines during the year the magazines available include ladies home journal canadian homes and gardens saturday evening post parents national geographic popukir mechanics forest and outdoors playways the library is open on tuesday thursday and saturday from 2 to 530 in the afternoons and 7 to 9 in the evenings the following are members of the hoard rev d davis chair man mrs w f riches secretary- treasurer book committee mrs h b free mrs v f riches rev d g davis properly committee mr w sherwood mr ray fieurv mr claire bell librarian mrs g rw thomas hour and labourers from 00c to 100 in the police department chief clarence wideman received a pay boost from 3100 to 3300 constables cox and shearn from 2500 to s2s00 and constable clay ton 2200 to 2700 deputyreeve lemasurier com mented that he believed police salaries were low in comparison with other municipalities in the county councillor lennie agreed with the deputyreeve and added that the local officers were good men reeve timbers added his com mendation for the local police force but added that some intlus tries were paying wages that were ridiculous he blamed the govern ment for the state of affairs and said that council must not forget about the taypayer who was doing the paying deputyreeve lemasurier agreed with the reeve and advocated cut ting expenses in the less impor tant items and raising the pay in the field of more essential services mr justice wells was confrontl i ed last week with a civil action involving 117000 in which the j plaintiff and defendant involved lin a twoear collision on kennedy ltd last march each claimed his car was on his own side of the road and the other swerved over and hit him there were no wit nesses both drivers were knocked unconscious by the crash and the only evidence on which to decide the issue was the positions in which police found the vehicles driver of the southbound ear alvin eric miller of markham claims damages of 7120 driver of the northbound car john prince of millikens corners who lost the sight of his right eye in the accident is claiming damages of 110000 in a counteraction an expert witness i w smith associate professor of mechanical engineering at the university of toronto was questioned for an hour and a half he was told the positions of the vehicles that the southbound car weighed 3700 pounds the northbound one 3000 pounds the road was dry but there were no skid marks and both drivers claimed to have been travelling 15 miles an hour prof smith was also told that the two cars apparently did not move after the impact the driver of the northbound car was hurled through the right side of the wind shield while the driver of the southbound car struck the left side arena launches a benefit fund for injured clippers a benefit fund for the injured i hockey players of the stouffville clippers club was launched on i tuesday evening by the stoutt- i ville arena companv and messrs reg button l e oneill and ken laushway were appointed trus- tees of the fund by the directors of the arena company two players on the clipper ros- i ter are presently on the injured list and neither is likely to be able to return to the game this season while the loss in man power to the club is severe the personal loss to these men who have car ried the local hockey colours for several years is much more seri ous jack watson will be away i from his work for at least six weeks and bert baker will event- ually have to undergo on opera tion if his injured knee is to be fully corrected the loss of income in these two eases is a crippling blow already a number of fans have signified their desire to contribute j to a benefit fund and the arena companv opened the campaign this week with 10000 donations will be received by any of the three trustees at the arena and at the office of this newspaper all contributions will be acknow ledged in the tribune dedicate new church at unionville this sunday gospel centre church newly erected religious centre in union ville will be dedicated this sun day afternoon there will be three services at 1030 am 230 pan and 730 pm with rev e j bailey of alliance tabernacle toronto as the guest speaker rev p r barley is the pastor of the new church the new building valued at 25000 has just been completed the tribune following the meetin charge pressed against bowling alley operator after only being in operation for a few weeks cv bellman operator of stouffville newest entertainment spot arena goodwood man heads ont crop association ing alleys appeared in county court on monday and was fined 21 for carrying on business be yond the hour of 1130 pm in the evening as required by town by law the charge was laid by constable rusnell the constable appeared before the local municipal council on fri day morning at a special meeting and stated that he was of the opinion that council was divided on the question of taking action against the new business the police officer told council that he had checked the alleys and found them operating contrary to the bylaw four nights out of six he also stated that there had been complaints against the proprietor councillor elmer daniels stated that the new amusement place provided good clean sport and consideration should be given leagues were operating and they could not be asked to stop in the middle of a game just because it was 1130 councillor daniels told i toward harper of goodwood was last week elected president for 1053 of the ontario soil and bowl- 1 crop improvement association the occasion for his election was the annual meeting of this associ- markham man charged result of fatality robert murray brandon 2 of markham was charged with dangerous driving last week after an inquest into the death of william venn 21 of markham who died after being thrown from brandons car nov 8 on mark ham rd carboro township the inquest was conducted by harold saunders crown counsel and coroner dr c d farquhar- son the jury agreed in its vei diet that venn had died of being thrown from the car and that brandons ability was impaired john todd 25 of milliken a passenger in the car was held as a material witness and was later released with brandon on 1000 bail each brandon said he was blinded by lights and his car hit a boulder on the shoulder of the road tossing venn out he said they had only three rounds of beer that night and the congregation will move into their new home after meeting in a hall for the past three years the place is an attractive stucco and stone edifice located just south of the school building on the 6th con and was erected on land purchased from the wellknown tomlinson property a consider able portion of the labour and some material was contributed the building which is approxi mately if x 32 is heated by oil there is no basement but sunday school facilities are provided oil the main floor the new pews are oak and elm and the interior and floors are birch with birch trim the unionville gospel centre church is an independent denom ination supporting the south african general mission and several other world wide mission organizations approximately 2000 was raised for missionary pur poses last year the trustee board is comprised of geo hoover jos r sider and clarence doner mr hoover and mr sider also acted as chairman and sectreas of the building com mittee town road budget levels off at 9000 for current year that he had checked with neigh bors near the establishment and could find no complainant reeve ogden stated that the pro prietor had not cooperated with the municipality and the bylaws must be obeyed constable rusnell stated that he had received cooperation from the dawson pool room proprietor who closes i strom it 1 1 oclock thats different said coun cillor daniels i think we should arrange a meeting with mr bell man and discuss the situation possibly we could extend the time councillor burk also expressed the opinion that some considera tion might be given but the matter was left with the constable ation held in the coliseum a complete slate of the new officers is as follows howard harper goodwood president wilfred j schnelles baden first vicepresi dent andrew johnston renfrew second vicepresident w wallace woodslee past president w w peterborough harry hensall james a mc- mrs david walson main st stouffville passed away this wed nesday after an extended illness i bain st thomas executive min ister of agriculture fletcher s thomas is honorary president during the recent sessions far mers received many pointers con cerning the improvement of land and the use of better seed among the speakers was w p watson ontario livestock commissioner while a number of the panel dis cussions were taken by ontario farmers prominent in some par ticular field of mixed farming mr and mrs fred marshall of toronto were weekend guests of mr and mrs ross winterstein danny bone son of mr and mrs robt bone suffered a nasty tumble on the ice on tuesday and the resulting cut on his chin required seven stitches to elbse reeve and mrs win timbers attended a banquet in brampton on friday evening of last week given by the peel county plow mens association in honor of doug reid who has just returned from a trip overseas after compet ing in the overseas classes in trac tor plowing mr and mrs timbers were invited because of the part he had in judging the class and selecting mr reid as the winner for the trip overseas sponsored by the imperial oil company at a special meeting held on friday morning the stouffville municipal council approved a 0000 road appropriation budget i- a re uitfor the current year this figure remains on a par with the amount appropriated for 1052 the break down of the 1953 expenditure is as follows new culverts 300 cul vert maintenance s350 road main tenance ss350 the municipality will collect a government grant of fifty per cent on this figure in commenting on the new bud get councillor burk chairman of the road committee fell that it was not wise to set the road appropriation figure down from the previous year in case an emer gency might arise clerk brown pointed out that the road budget had been overspent bv 25700 in 1952 planning board becoming a municipal senate whitchurch township councillor claims the death occurred in toronto on sunday of leslie widdifield son of the late mr and mrs henry widdifield of souftville henry widdifield was a veterinarian here and the familv resided at the east end the deceased leaves to mourn his loss a wife and six children jalo brother and sister you will have mv resignation from the community centres board next week said councillor p s legge at whitchurch town ship council last week during the course of a discussion on the appointment of a member to the township planning board its isnt your resignation we want but your cooperation shot back councillor e l mccarron during the course of a debate which at times threatened to be come acrimonious with councillor legge claiming that he had been insulted through the refusal of the council to appoint his nominee the discussion on the appoint ment was a sequel to a previous meeting at which two men had teen nominated to the township planning board reeve ivan mc laughlin and deputyreeve fred timbers favoured the appointment of former councillor r c bay- croft whereas councillors legge and graham were in favour of george richardson councillor mc carron in the chair did not break the tie at that time laying the matter over to a further meeting for consideration whrn it was revived last thurs- councils representative thereon day night councillor graham was not present at the meeting and councillor mccarron cast his vote for mr baycroft thus ensuring his appointment expressing his opinion forcibly and apparently irate because his nominee mr richardson was not appointed to the planning board councillor legge said that he did not think that it was right to put retiring members of the council on the board its a municipal senate we are setting up he asserted as he threatened to resign from the community centres board to show his disapproval of the appointment of mr baycroft when it was pointed out that mr baycrofts experience as a councillor would be of value to the planning board councillor legge retorted that our current prob lems have nothing to do with the board he asserted that coun cillor mccarron was out of order in voting the vacancy on the planning board was caused by the resigna tion of dr f h vanxostrand its former chairman deputyreeve fred timbers was appointed as