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rttwjit no 50 the tribune stouffville ont aiiui 10 community planning panel in action here is a view of a portion of the town planning panel which conducted the chamber of commerce meeting here thursday night attended by more than a hundred person- seen here left to right are ceo allison chairman local industrial committee cec hendricks publicity chairman ken wagg pre chamber of com merce 1 e turnbull col xash william wilson and w g muir hear local assessment balance very dangerously out of line business licensing for markham tp suggested to give more control mr les calbraith recom mended in a report to mark- ham township council on monday evening that busi nesses in the township should be licensed in order to give council more control and make the work of the building and plumbing inspector much easier plumbing inspector gal- braith stilted that many prob lems had arisen for council that could have been more easily and decisively handled if businesses had been licens ed it was stated that a neigh boring municipality licensed everything from garages and theatres to golf courses and vending machines a transient license of 250 was charged good operators want in spection and they want the license high enough to deter fly by nighters stated coun cillor lennie we dont want to see the fee so high as to stop business coming in commented depu ty reeve lomasurier i think the committee and inspectors should give this careful consideration and re port back to council saitl councillor clark it was pointed out that if business places were not pro perly operated licenses could easily be cancelled a resolution was carried giving approval to certain recommendations to the build ing bylaw as suggested by building inspector norton to consult health unit a committee of council members along with plumb ing inspector calbraith will consult with the health unit this week concerning what was termed lack of service the inspector reported to council that people were being held up in their building be cause the unit inspectors took so long in looking over septic tanks and thus keeping him from issuing a permit it was the units own suggestion that they be called in for these inspections he stated will thev come right back to council for more money if faster service is needed asked deputy reeve iemasur ier this is positive proof they do need more money said councillor lennie is this their way of putting pressure on asked council lor clark taxing bylaw soon council met in special ses sion on thursday afternoon to tentatively approve the mark- ham twp tax rate for 1953 councillors hooper and len nie favoured lowering the rate one mill in view of last years surplus but other members believed that the rate should not be cropped quite that much in case of increased expenditures it is expected that thero will be further discussion on the rale before the bylaw is given formal approval at the next regular meeting on april 20th general comparison in the main tax items with the exception of schools are as follows 1953 1952 gen kate fio 0g road- 95 110 police 30 27s fire 07 10 tkvxis meeting a meeting is being oi gan- ized in an ellort to have ottr newly paved tennis court in action this summer word has come from bill ford of the lions club bovs and girls com mittee to watch for an an- nouncemeni ot meeting date next week last skating what will most likely be the last public skating for the season will be this friday night at the stouffville arena balance of this weeks ice lime has all been rented by the toronto hockey league open night tuesday april 2s at stouffville high school demonstrations and displays of work fire costs cause concern in whitchurch township the regularity with which grass fires are occuring and causing fire casts to mount is causing considerable concern to whitchurch township council and there was a leng thy discussion on the matter at the meeting in vandorf on saturday costs for this past month have mounted to an all- time high of 720 we should make the pet- sons pay for these fires who start them commented coun cillor legge brigade- have been called out recently to battle no less than fourteen grass tires elev en have ikvn in the aurora ar- e for which thev have been paid s550 one call was to richmond hi 10 and two to stouitvihe 13000 the lat ter account included pavtnent for the exceptionally large fire near hallantrae at which time the brigade was on duty several hours road sunt davis told coun cil thai lie saw three bovs drive away in a car after three separate fires were set in a field near vivian forest i was pointed out that the township had no fire bylaw councillor graham comment ed that a grass fire set near his place would wipe him out as the grass and weeds are two feet high reference was made to com ment in last weeks tribune concerning the statement of councillor daniels of stouff- ville that the township was not paying enough for fire service these calls shouldnt he too hard on the stouffville brigade considering the agree ment we have with them commented reeve ivan mc laughlin while council expressed a- lrm at the sudden upsurge in fire costs no action was tak en towards a bylaw or re strictions american chorus visits gormley on thursday evening a bus from grantham pa messiah college carrying twentynine students anil the music direc tor mrs f smith arrived at the church where they were served lunch following this at 71 pm a programme of sacred music was rendered also some negro spirituals on friday they journeyed to the city of toronto where they enjoyed the day they sang on two different floors in one of the largo department stores in the city which was much appreciated by the audience which gathered around them following this they visited the cbc broadcast on mcgill st and heard the programme of the happy gang they then enjoyed a shopping tour and left the city at 215 pm for wellanriport out for a pro gramme near there their tour takes them for nearly 1200 miles until they return travelling via pittsburg engl wood ohio indianna miclii gan ontario new york state and then home by the 13th of april we hope they will return again sometime in the future for another programme loses license for three months a 05yearold farmer fred pilkey of uk stouffville pleaded guilty before magis trate frank s ebbs in whit by to charges of failing to remain at the scene of an ac cident and of careless driving but he wanted the court to know that he was just going up i he road a piece to a friends and that lie fully in tended to return to the scene of the mishap his account of how he got into the scrape on xo 7 high way at the brock road brought smiles to the faces of those in the court room and the bench was moved to with draw the failure to remain charge but registered to con viction on the other count lin ing the stouffville driver 25 and costs or 10 days his driv ers licence was also suspend ed for three months opp constables gordon keast and wlb smith of whit by gave evidence in the case tile round robin group play offs in the lions will will come to a close on saturday taxpayers in stouffville should be alarmed at the lack of industrial assessment in town and should cooperate with the chamber of com merce and council in every way m endeavoring to interest firms to locate in stouffville tiiis was tlie view of ollicials who spoke to the chamber of commerce gathering on thurs day evening in respect to industrial assessment is absolutely necessary if a com munity is going to grow de clared william wilson of the toronto industrial commission he pointed out that if the community continues to grow with homes only taxes win become so high that it will be difficult then to interest indus try to locate its a shame it some of tile line industrial sites that weve eeii in our tour of the town are not zoned immediately for industrial purposes if indus try should be established in the townships on your bord- ers it will be hard to get he i ontended mr wilson spoke as a mem ber in a panel of experts on town planning and industrial expansion chairman of the panel was 1 e turnbull of the dept of planning and development other members were colonel xash of the community planning board w g muir of the canadian national railways industrial division and mr messer of the canadian bank of com merce development branch one must visualize where the community will be twenty years from now they must study the advantages for in dustry at hand there is a sixty percent benefit in having industry in the community said mr turnbull questioned as io the matter of sewers mr wilson stated that some industry will come without sewers but it is pre ferable mr turnbull pointed out that it must be borne in mind that people can be attracted to come into stouffville to work as well as to go out u means more spending power in your town he said mi- xash pointed out thai the maximum usefulness to be obtained from industry is having a proper design for development remember too he said that industry is look ing for good living environ ment for employees planning board can supply design for better living planning board needisl mr xash who is a top expert in community planning slated definitely that a planning board was needed in stouffville he said that it was a vital necessity such a local board could work in close coopera tion with the boards in mark- ham and whitchurch through such board it might be deemed necessary to change the bound aries of the municipalities from time to time and then annexation would take place mr lome evans chairman of the whitchurch planning board stated that he did not believe in wholesale annexa tion of large tracts of lands but rather in a creeping annex ation mr xash contended that the morning of this week leafs will play chicago in first game while boston montreal will meet in second contest the the and the tonight wednesday at oclock take a trip to mexico with mr glenn ratclifl he will be showing pictures of his recent trip to this southern country in the veterans hall nder auspices of the horti cultural society the secre tary wishes to report that the membership now stands at i lv nill a few short of last years total advertise for three ps teachers stouffville public school board is advertising for three new teachers to fill vacancies which will occur on the pres ent staff at midsummer resignations have been receiv ed from mrs mustard miss webster and miss williamson additional local and per- ona news items on page sis and seven townships should endeavour see that subdividing took place on the borders of the urban communities so that services could be provided most economically the basts for good planning is the wise use of land mr xash explained just how a planning board could be established and how it could work in conjunction kyjtccjieiahborutg boards in stated that it should always be gone into with the facts for- most and never prejudices a farmers taxes should never be raised for services he does not require mr wilson stated that any pi oieciion that could be given to industrial land along the railway should be given now and the railway should defin itely be consulted before such zoning takes place in reply to a question mr muir told the gathering that spur lines are laid down by the railway at a cost to the municipality of approximately s a running fi witli the cn1r supplying the materials the question obtaining per mission to place a second crossing over the railway could only be done through the board of transport com missioners in summing up chairman turnbull said that it was silly to offer fixed assessment as any industry that was worth while should be willing to pay its own way in reply to another query mr wilson said that any in dustry employing 150 persons would not likely import more than ten personnel he reveal ed that in the city of toronto the average number of per sons working in any factory is 42 reeve win timbers of markham township who spoke briefly stated that he believed the town would be wise to annex territory while it was still open farm land in order to overcome future diffi culties townships are unfortunate in that they have nothing to offer industry in the way of services he said local girls going to england this week two local young ladies are leaving for england this week tlie one by liner and the other by air miss jean sanderson will sail aboard the liner atlantic on friday night and will visit mrs sandersons sister mrs thompson in roehampton england she plans to be overseas several months and will also visit the continent on saturday miss mary davis will leave by tca transocean plane and will arrive sunday in england where she will visit with her sister and husband mr and mrs jim miller the millers who are stouftville young people are living in england jim being stationed there with the rcaf tenders called this week for construction of new high school building at wesfend tenders are being called this week for construction of the new high school for the stouff villewhitchurch area dl-v- v v issue the tenders are to he received by shore moffat architects and specifica tions may lie obtained from their office 70 queen st east toronto from the toronto builders exchange or the of fice of the town clerk garfield brown the new school is to be an eleven room structure steel concrete brick construction 70 home economics room shot room and cafeteria arrangements for hydro ser vice water main and roads are now being completed landscaping and front area paving will be included in the contract uxbridge school facilities swamped by boarding pupils uxbridge township public school area board have decid ed to take immediate action concerning the influx of stu dent boarders into the munici pality the chairman of the board mr eldred cather- wood accompanied by inspec tor knight and board member mr wni hewlett has made an appointment with the min ister of education mr dun- lop to see if the serious situa tion cannot he ironed out the two boarding homes under fire are those operated by messrs wm and stuart watts on the 5th concession of ux bridge at the present time there are about fifteen pupils attending uxbridge public school from the maples which costs the taxpayers of the township over 1100 six other students are transported by mr watts to glasgow school but this setup is far from satisfactory it is expect ed that there will be close to forty students of schoolage continued on page g bruce j thompson markham smithy twentyfive years on tuesday april 11th mr bruce james thompson of markham passed away at sunnvbrook hospital in his 73rd year born in markham in the year 18s1 the son of george and mary thompson the deceased operated a black smith shop on no 7 highway across from the markham fair grounds for twentyfive years the late mr thompson suffered a slight stroke on thursday of last week and was rushed to hospital where an operation was performed on monday although he came through the operation success- fttlly his heart gave out and he passed away suddenly the following day mr thompson was a veteran of world war i and upon his return to mark ham in 1918 he built his home on main street and two years later was married to the for mer violet waite who sur vives he was identified with st andrews presbyterian continued on page 7 planning for coronation celebration in whitchurch m g slater of whitchurch township community centre board appeared before council on saturday requesting coun cil to assist financially with a coronation program which was being drawn up the program ho said would include a field day for the schools of the township each school was to plan a field day of its own with the winners competing in the coronation holiday it was revealed that 230 of the 300 budgeted had already been spent and it was expect ed that there would still be more requests before the year was out councillor legge suggested that 50 be advanced to the community board as a start and council agreed road supt davis revealed that for a throe month period from dec 15th to march 31st the road expenditure had amounted to 12726 the road supt will adver tise immediately for 25000 gallons of asphalt prime for this summers roads last year 2s935 gallons were applied councillor graham com mented that tanks from the stouffville army depot had torn up the 9th con training purposes it was stated were necessary but it was believed that much of the travelling on the 9th was only for pleasure council discussed the pur chase of an addressograph machine which with filing cabinet complete would cost 4000 approximately council agreed to seek a price on a used machine more than thousand spectators watch grand ice show here seen here during rehearsal are some of the girls of the stouffviile skatins club in their scottish num ber which opened the ice revue on friday night this is the number which the local club put on for the unionville show their springtime number will be given at the scarboro show this weekend