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touffuille srtbmie no the tribune st0uffv1xxe ont april 30 local hatchery supplies 75000 chicks each season g j c a cathers enerosity or litizen to c choke for provide ball foodlights while sibuityilk vca be e uly j lerosity oi iiizens has al- agnized the fact mphasized thi beaufificafion program in full next week swing a i grove iiki son seen in luiulier mr aiiron grove wellknown memionite pastor is the oper ator of a thriving chick hatch- cry business on the 7th con cession of markham twenty five years ago mr grove pur chased an incubator capable of handling 125 eggs and now what was once a hobby h is grown into a thriving business his incubator now in use has a capacity of 30000 eggs and the hatcher will hold some s009 chicks although some chicks are shipped by train to toronto the majority are distributed among local farmers through out the surrounding commun ity the grove hatchery de velops three main breeds white leghorns white rocks and the sussexrhode island red crossbreed five years ago the hatchery was completely destroyed by lire but such a setback failed to dampen mr groves ambit ions since that time a large new cement block building has been constructed complete with a separate egg room in cubator room chick room and cleantip room the chick sexing i- done by japanese who are very highly efficient in this specialized work they guarantee 9s ac curacy besides operating a thriving chick hatchery business mr grove s also the pastor at the widcman memionite church on the sth concession of mark- ham lie lias also conducted a very successful summer bible school in his church for the past 17 years mr grove is not alone in his business but is aided by his family of three sons and two daughters mildred 19 is the eldest with patricia 17 ivan 15 arthur 10 and larry i mr grove has built up his chick hatchery business on a four point reputation of high livability high egg production rapid growth and large egg size beautification week across canada is being marked may 9th to 23rd and plans for recognition of the special campaign are in the bands of the publicity committee of the local chamber of commerce large display signs will be in front of the municipal build ing calling attention to the beautification program and local stores are asked to dec orate their windows appropri ately during these two weeks special newspaper displays will appear and local mereh ants who carry such cleanup items as paints lawn equip ment and other merchandise in keeping with beautification are being asked to advertise these goods at this mile week when mr arthur latch am through the stouffville lion- club presented this community with a sufficient gift to place floodlights n memorial park mr latehams cheque for 3000 v acicpteu the regular meeting of the lions club on monday even ing and heartv appreciation was extended to him for this most generous contribution at a special joint meeting on tuesday evening which included representatives of both hard and softbai clubs the park commission utility commission lions club and council mr latcham said that he would double his pre em grant if necessary to see that this wonderful gift is properly installed in the park a vote of thanks from this meeting was tendered by ted edwards the chairman of the meeting was reeve henry ogderi and also present was a representative of he general electric co with sketches of various installations available from their firm the new floodlights will be installed on either seventy or eighty foot standards which are high enough to handle lights for hardball for the present forty lights will be installed sufficient to give maximum lighting for softball more lights for hardball may be added later the meeting agreed that the present diamond with the bleachers was the proper place to make the installation for the maxi mum use and all teams would use this field for league games with practice diamonds in others parts of the park the park commission which administers park funds along with mr latcham will work with the general electric co school pupil hit on head by falling ventilator miss anne martens 10-year- old pupil attending quaker hill public school was acci dentally struck on the head by a falling ventilator cover on thursday of last week during the noon hour recess the wooden object was loosened from the school roof bv a high wind and hurled to the ground struck a car and glanced oil the iiead of the voting student dr j t lennox of oxbridge summoned a taxi and accom panied by a provincial police escort the child was rushed to the sick childrens hospital toronto she is still in hospi tal under observation north york riding more than six hundred cheering progressive conser vatives turned ou to the aurora high school auditor- t sum on wednesday night to i name c a tiny gathers j investment broker pc candi date for north york riding in dominion art latcliani in preparing sketch plans for the installation and calling for contract bids for the work from various firms which specialize in this business tuesday nights meeting v s largely attended and there were profound expressions of appreciations on every hand for this exceedingly handsome gift of our local townsman mr latcham is an enthusias tic ball fan and has shown his summer store hours start next week next week stouflville busi ness places will commence their regular open evening schedule for the summer with all places open until 10 oclock on both tuesday and saturday nights this is a service which is appreciated by the hun dreds of country customers who come to town interest in the sport locally a most tangible form in nearly 14000 raised for missionary work additional locals miss mae mowder is spend ing a time with her niece mrs m davidson of sarnia trousseau tea mrs frank riches enter tained on saturday at a trous seau tea in honor of her daughter miss marion wei- don whose marriage lakes place on saturday next assist ing during the afternoon were mrs gordon bailey of weston miss gertrude todd mr- lloyd jennings airs lloyd llanun mrs leslie clark mrs don campbell and miss marg uerite grubin in the evening hose assisting were mr- frank fate mrs robert siberry and miss birdie tate of toronto mrs stan hast ings mrs harry schell mrs gerald brillinger and mis lloyd weldon in a missionary convention uniting the efforts of the stouflville gormlev dicksons hill and mt loy united missionary churches nearly 14000 was raised last week for missionary work as the lest notes of an exultant praise god from whom all blessings flow faded away the great gathering which had come together for the final service of a fourday mission ary campaign felt that truly it had been a convention long to he remembered a all services throughout the week and on sunday attendances in all churches were large missionaries mis emma landis from india miss annie yeo from africa mrs brubacher from africa rev rov adams the general secretary 0 he foreign mis sion board and rev willis linking of africa all pre sented tirring and challeng- ins mevsibi- of 3uueal from the lands of their christian endeavour miss landis appeared at ail times in native costume while the other speakers like rev hoy adams who has spert nineteen years in china anl japan all gave vivid portray als of their missionary work on the foreign field in stoufiville the record breaking offering was made up of 315570 cash donations cash donation- during the year 101700 from the sunday school 2 10 50 contribute 1 from the womens missionary society s7ckm5 from altona church stio and pledged gifts si0o making a grand total of s64507l at gormlev and bethesda the total subscribed for the work was 400000 at dick sons hill sl46505 and at mt jov s10125s messages of thanks wee extended to all congregations bv the various minister rev p huon rev h shantz and rev c e flunking two toronto youths mr john donnley 17 midland avenue and win mccoy 151 dawes road overturned their auto west of stouflville on sat urday night two cases of bey were removed from the auto and placed in some nearby bushes the young men noti fied police and then hitch hiked their way into toronto for first aid treatment chief constable clarence wideman of markham twp investigated born in goodwood 77 years ago mrs george lee passed away at her home an welling ton st e aurora on sunday april 12th in her 77th vear she was born in goodwood the daughter of the late han nah and thomas walkington in is95 she married george e lee also of goodwood and lived there for a tune before going to lindsay oxbridge and toronto on mr lees retirement from the ault wiborg co in toronto they took up residence in aurora spending the summer months at their cottage on lake sim- coe mrs lee in declining health and suffering from arthritis for tiiany years was always bright and cheerful when her many friends called for a visit surviving are her husband two sons i aswald of tor onto arthur r rocheter nx and a daughter mrs james morris alice aurora the funeral service was held at the thompson funeral home conducted bv the rev h howev with interment in goodwood cemeterv whitchurch tax rate up two mills whitchurch township tax rate for 1955 was set at a special session of council this week at 21 mills an increase of two mills over last years figure the only other in creases for the year are in certain school sections it was pointed out that the town ships financial position was quite good and the dept of municipal affairs were quite pleased with the report of the auditor tax arrears were down considerably and coun cil finished up 1952 business with approximately 10000 surplus however a slight deficit would have occurred had it not been for the road damage compensation received from the dept of highways total tax roll for this year is s200237s5 on a total assess ment of 32s117si5 town ship mill rate for general pur poses will raise 95720fis county levy amounts to 11- 00173 relief 3000 aurora high school 1031500 new market high school 259150 stoufrville high school 791 20 dept prunes road budget whitchurch township road appropriation for this year set at 75000 the same as in 1952 has been reduced by the dept of highways to sgsooo it was revealed this week assessor resigns assessor and building in spector fred cummings re signed his position this week after serving on the township stair in varying capacities for about eighteen years mr cummings resignation was tallied by council for the pres ent salary change- approved bv council were as follows ron ald smith assist to assessor 35 to 10 a week fred cum mings sc a mile for car thos kerr clerical assist 2500 e a smith auditor sno to 1000 and 25 for school audits municipal bldg janitor s32 to 35 a month w h champion president markham owners association mr w h champion of unionville was appointed president of the markham township property owners association at a meeting held at cherry hill farm on fri day evening the other officials are vice president duncan turner thornhill 2nd vice fred wicks markham 3rd vice eldred king markham secy mrs kathleen lames thornhill tieas h m tandy cnionville other executive members are elsou miles mill iken harry barber gormley wm hood gormley g i hanibly unionville carl vizc- ley gormley dr mulholland unionville frank dininia markham n v usherwood langstaff and hugh maedon- nell york mills mr macklin hancock a supervisor in e p taylors don mills development was the special speaker of the evening mr hancock had on display a master plan of the town of don mills such a scheme according to the speaker was necessary where planning had to be completed in a short length of time mr hancock described in detail the setting up of industrial and residential areas the con struction of schools parks and roads and other necessary services the area is being planned to accommodate a population of 35000 residents in commenting on the rapid growth in the township of markham mr hancock ex plained that if the planning board failed to catch it in th5 bud a serious situation eouid develop he felt that the plan ning board should obtain the services of a professional young peoples elect officers the young peoples society of the stouflville united mis sionary church held their i annual reorganization meeting on monday evening april 27 the following oflicers were elected president roy brown vice president jean wideman treasurer dorothy moycr secretary marie stover cor responding secretary audrey brown chorister hen stottff- er assistant louie hoover pianist cathy stover assist ants pat byers and meryl grey ushers garth good bob stover usherettes elaine spofford connie waters op erator for the projector wal lace james programme com mittee roy brown jean wide- man rev mason marie stover bert stoufler alma pilkey and carl reesor social committee mr and mrs carl wideman marion brown elda grey and mrs clayton bran- der transportation committee stewart wideman and russel smith several rural news budgets were omitted from this issue due to jack of space and late arrival miss erla holden has re turned to uwo in london to write her final exams after spending a weekend in ott awa with a friend miss joan beainan of ottawa and lon don and also two weeks study period at her home here the forthcoming election mr cathers was chosen on tiie fourth ballot after nearly a five hour session of speech- making and balloting in his peech for the candi dacy mr cathers stressed the need for better farm condi tions farmers in ireland he said get more for their produce than farmers here mr cathers was senior member of mawlcv- cathers investment firm until recently when he retired to his 150acre farm in king township he is a member of the united church the newmarket lions club and fraternal organiza tions much i merest locally much local interest from sloulfville citizens and those of markham township was aroused through the fact that two of mr gathers rivals for the candidacy were dr s s ball of stouflville and coun cillor chas hooper of mark ham twp and this fact drew a record local crowd to the convention dr hall is the first local citizen ever to aspire to a federal seat and carried con siderable backing dr ball was proposed as candidate by mr ed neville who mentioned the fact that lor thirtyfour years the local physician had been a strong conservative campaigner and by mrs geo miller church st dr ball in his address paid warm tribute to major lex mackenzie local pc member in the ontario legisla ture the women af the riding who control he said fiftytwo percent of the vote would see that a conservative member would be elected he added that he had strong platform planks to reveal at a later date if selected to represent north york councillor chas hooper who ran mr cathers a very close engineer and stick solely to planning leaving the financ ing in the hands of the town ship council it was the un animous decision of the audience that a midsummer meeting should be held with a date to lie announced later restaurant business changes ownership the mayfair restaurant business formerly operated by mr and mrs rahih rurk- holder ha- heen sold to mr and mrs harry l walters of toronto mr walters is a for mer mp for the brackendale riding the restaurant will be open for business or friday mr and mrs walters have a ifamilv of six children veterinarians baffled by mysterious cattle malady a mysterious malady which has bjouglu sudden death to a number of cattle in picker ing township has veterinar ians and cattle authorities baffled about two weeks ago mr robert malcolm of locust hill drove his herd out of the stable for water and upon returning to the barn three of the cows suddenly dropped to their knees and were dead within a few minutes two others collapsed in the vard but they have since fully recovered mr malcolm called dr d v way markham vet erinarian and he attributed the animals death to poison ing in order however to make a closer study of the malady dr way sent a portion of the cows digested contents to the i ontario veterinary college at guelph and they following a thorough examination dis counted the belief that the cattles death was due to poisoqing they were how ever unable to offer any theory of their own mr mai- colm in commenting on his loss said that his cows acted very much like they had taken a lit or convulsion he was quite willing to accept the idea that his stock died from poisoning because he had been feeding them a quantity of- corn which had been in the silo into early fall and it has a tendency to become sour at thi- particular time of the year dr way lias no other ex planation to offer the college doctors at guelph were asked to visit some of the farms where deaths had occurred but they declined saying that the matter could be studied just as well in their own labrator- ies mr malcolms herd con sists of over forty head of cattle mr a e wood on the third concession of pickering suffered the lass of one cow- but its death has been attri buted to a heart attack an other farmer on the eighth roneesion has also been hit bv the mysterious malady no outbreaks of this kind have been reported in either mark ham or whitchurch town ships according to local veter inarian dr ron smith c a cathers decision on the fourth ballot said the liberal government has only a record of gross inefficiency why have we no cheese contract with britain for the first time in history the ottawa government mr hooper charged was holding a whip hand over new emi grants to this country if selected to represent this riding said mr hooper ill see that the union jack is hanging in every school class room in the country and see that children are taught to respect it mr hooper was proposed for the candidacy bv ab hulse and norman mcmurchy mr dick edmunds who is wellknown here in lions club circles proposed the name of c a gathers while jack sib- bald and earle toole nominat ed a walwyn defeated cand idate in the last election both made a strong appeal that mr walwyn be given a second chance to represent the riding mr walwyn himself asked another opportunity to run for north york during his speech in which he strongly criticized the federal administration reading of a telagram from george drew federal leader of the party was a feature of the early part of the conven tion together with a speech bv mrs fred moffat president of the york central womens progressive conservative as sociation goldkvs stork opens great may sake in a large display adv on page 2 of this issue goldena clothing store announces a great may sale with a host of prices slashed all along the line ladies coats and dresses mens top coats and tailored suits have all been reduced boys all wool shorts regu larly s2s5 are being offered as low as 98c with 100 ladles nylon dresses down to 995 mr golden invites the pub- 1 lie to come in and look around i during this great spring gale