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rtbnne vol 64 no 39 the tribune stouffville ont feb 4 1951 county health unit to cover all municipalities york county council in ses sion wednesday jan 27th voted 14 to 8 to extend the ser vices of the york county health unit to the three mun icipalities which have not been covered by the health unit since its inception reeve asa cook of aurora and deputy reeve kenneth tomitn of richmond hill member- of the board of health unit spoke eloquently on the services rendered well baby clinics tjb and vd fol low tips plumbing and restau rant inspection several eating places in the countyhave been instructed to clean up or close up milk inspection school nurses sanitation septic tank installations are being inspec ted by the health unit now under new provincial regula tions the health unit will be responsible for all plumbing inspection in the county when a building permit is pur chased it will be necessary to purchase a plumbing permit and the inspector will visit the building during its erection to see that all plumbing is instal led according to regulations mr jesse cox of kingston is the new plumbing inspector chosen from 38 applicants he is a master plumber with years of experience at his trade and in training others j warden rye said that in east gwillimbury their moh and the board of health had given satisfactory service but service to our children can not be measured in dollars and cents and reeve cook said that the countys 100 enrol ment would make for a contin uity in treatment and an im provement in health services reeve dales of newmarket said a moh should be con sidered a thing of the past and we are here to legislate for the county as a whole dr king director of the county health unit said with all the townships participating the grants will be larger the provincial and dominion grants amount to two thirds of the cost we have opened of fices in sutton stouffville and richmond hill a full time clerk is employed in each of fice the federal government pays the salary of the clerk and the rent of the office this will bring services much clos er to the people mr a bissett qc presid ent of the childrens aid so ciety of york county and mem ber of the board presented the report of the society to county council at this meet ing this report showed that during 4953 2120 children were under protective care 850 were adopted and 140 child ren cared for in boarding homes we have made sub stantial improvements in our adoption department and have speeded up our adopting pro cedures it is our policy to pay a boarding home rate to foster parents which will not make the financial aspects of boarding children an attractive consideration but rather to seek homes where a contribu tion to welfare and the com panionship of the child is a major factor it became in creasingly apparent that our rate was unrealistic and it was raised to 100 a day from jan 1 1954 york countys share for 4951 is estimated at is07 47 of children cared for are from york county and s3 from metropolitan toron to reeve ralph corner mov ed that the report be referred to the finance committee big loader removes snow in record time markham will ask county council to shoulder huge new school debenture vaughan twp refuses to issue share of debenture may hold up 800000 high school here is the stouffville sand gravel co huge loader removing the snow from main st into waiting trucks the entire opera tion of clearing both sides of main st business sec tions required little more than six hours to com plete more than an estim ated one hundred and twentyfive tons of snow were removed allan hoov er was operating the load er and everett jones is seen receiving a load on ronnies truck four trucks were employed on the job school boards notified of contract suspension stouffville and markham high school district boards have now- received official not ification from the wv rich construction co that they cannot complete their con tracts for the two new high schools being erected the one here and the other at mark ham contracts for the two schools amount to close tu 00co0 both contracts are bonded and the boards are certain that their own financial posi tion in the matter is quite sound an announcement of the firm which will undertake completion of the schools is expected some time next week heat is on in both new struc tures so that no damage can come through the delay while the work stoppage may con tinue for several weeks the schools will definitely be rea dy for occupancy next sept ember holstein fanciers buy markham farms the sale has been completed of the waller smith farm lot 25 con 5 markham township and the reid brumwell farm concession 4 both places were imhight for a retried substan tial price by the roman broth ers operators of romandale farms king and renowned holstein breeders mr smith has been on his 111 acres since 1921 having purchased the place from geo gee the brumwell farm con tains 200 acres and was the former avison place walter smith has purchased the henry dyck place on the 10th con of imarkham just south of stouffville and will glad to see the mild weath er come has been the stouff ville floral co mr smith re ports that the big flower green houses consumed a hundred and forty tons of coal in jan uary the largest months con sumption in the last four or five years last year the great expanse of glass was all re- glazed for more warmth and this he reports has aided mat erially in fuel saving ask 500 standby time for fire truck in markham acting reeve elmer daniels councillor bulk and clerk gar field brown of stouffville ap peared before markham town ship council on monday regar ding a new fire agreement with the township the stouffville representatives asked an a- greement of 500 per year standby time with si0 a fire for the first hour and 24 per hour thereafter markham township is presently paying stoufiville 00 a call with no standby lime mr daniels explained that the local fire brigade had only recently had to shoulder a 2- 000 expenditure for a new pump on their large xo 1 truck and it was maintained that this pump was practical ly exclusive for rural calls he also stated that if an agree ment was forthcoming stouff ville would install a second portable pump at a cost of some 700 which would be of exclusive service to rural fires reeve iemasurier told the delegation that the matter would be turned over to the fire committee hour session on thursday ev ening whitchurch council set the figure of i000 for the 1954 road budget and passed the annual road appropriation bylaw last year the budget was set at 75000 but the dept of highways cut this figure by eight thousand the sharp in crease this year is necessitated by the purchase of a new road maintainor which is in the of fing the total budget is allotted to the various road require ments as follows road and bridge construction 10800 maintenance 54500 new ma chinery 20000 and miscel laneous 7700 council discussed the calling for tenders for a new grader and the possible turnin value of their one 14yearold ma chine icary crossing the clerk read to council all the correspondence concern ing the leary crossing o fi con 3 west where a fatality hold a large sale of his regis- 1 occurred recently on several tered houteln herd and farm occasions last year council di- equipment this coming march cussed this dangerous railway whitchurch sets 93000 road budget for 1954 meeting in a lengthy six- crossing and the clerk had con siderable correspondence on the matter with the township solicitor and the railway road boss located at allandale the banks on all four corn ers at the crossing are bad and a clump of trees also obscures the view an enquiry made of messrs gamble and leary re vealed that neither were pre pared to give any land to make the improvement and exprop riation proceedings would have to be taken solicitor lucas advised coun cil that the railways legal branch might be the best or ganization to request an appli cation for from the transport board the clerk revealed that he had had no reply to his let ter to the road supt for ap proximate costs of the im provements in which the twp must share id suggest that the clerk write o allandale for a reply to his last communication declared councillor mccarron reeve mclaughlin also sug gested that the solicitor also be informed o proceedings heated debate over forming industrial committee although the hour was well past midnight whitchurch council entered into a heated debate on thursday evening over the formation of on in dustrial commission the matter arose following a recommendation received by council from the planning board which stated that since numerous enquiries were be ing received for land for light industry the board recom mended that an industrial commission be established following a long and involv ed argument on who should be members of the commission a resolution was placed before the reeve calling for a com mission composed of lp ev ans chairman of the planning board deputy reeve timbers and councillor el mccarron councillor imccarron strenu ously opposed the resolution and said that he would not act as he was not in favour of a commission constituted in this manner councillor mc carron stated that the plan ning board should name the commission from among its own members its not nec essary to have another board the more bodies you have the more delays in doing business with these people when they want to come here he de clared councillor iegge who pro posed the motion took the view that a separate commis sion was best and would make for more cooperation with council and the planning board councillor graham who sec onded the resolution said that he would be willing to lay the resolution over until the coun cil and planning board could get together on the matter councillor leggo declared that the reeve had to call for vote on the motion which eventual ly carried he stated that a resolution could be brought in at the next meeting rescind ing the contentious motion if councillor mccarron wished deputyreeve asks improved road department dep reeve dr kenneth ro berts requested at the regular meeting of pickering twp council on monday that each member of the road dept should fill out a daily work sheet these forms will show the number of working hours per day for each employee and the work completed in that time at the end of each month the hours may be totalled were paying out large a- mounts of money but we dont know what for stated dep i wilmof warriner served fair for over thirty years on sunday jan 31st mr wilmot warriner a farm res ident on the 7th concession of markham for over 50 years passed away in the stouffville briersbush hospital where he had been confined for five days born at keswick the son of mr and mrs john warriner in 1870 the deceased was very active in the oes and mas onic lodges in markham and also served on the markham fair board for over thirty years he was a past master of the markham masonic lodge and held the office of secret ary for a number of years he was also a past patron with the markham oes the late mi warriner was a familiar figure at markham fair and was a former president on the board his wife the former ina alortsou passed away ten years ago he is survived by one dau ghter ella airs la brown of markham and one son har old on the home farm there j ls also one brother dave in mi ami florida special services were held by the oes and masonic- lodges in the dixon funeral chapel markham on tuesday evening with a public service on wednesday afternoon at 2 pm rev g robins of peachs united church conduc ted the service assisted by rev geo thomas of st and rews united church markham with interment in blmwood cemetery the pallbearers were ken prentice jas smith roy crosby gordon lunau nelson smith and walter brignall births bellman mr and mrs cy bellman stouffville are happy to announce the birth of their son cyril douglas at the brierbush hospital stouffville on thursday ja nuary 28 1054 mcdowell mr and mrs harold mcdowell rr 1 unionville announce the birth of their son charles edward on wednesday january 27th a the mark ham nursing home still horn markham township council threw up the first bulwark on monday against rising school costs which would jeopardize the financial standing of the municipality council on a re corded vote agreed to ask york county to assume the is suing of an soo000 debenture for a new high school at thorn- hill the only dissenting vote- was that of councillor arthur lennie the move to ask county council to issue the huge loan was brought about by vaugh an townships refusal to issue their share of the school deb enture which is 47 in most cases of which taxpayers local ly are familiar the municipal ity in which the school is lo cated has issued the total a- mount of the debentures how ever the act provides that each municipality may issue its share markham township reeve lemasurier pointed out is pre sently carrying very large de bentures and will surely find their borrowing power cur tailed should another three- quarter million loan have to be floated it was therefore proposed at last weeks meet ing that vaughan twp should be asked to assume their share of the- loan which is 47 markhams share of the deben ture is 24 members of vaughan coun cil appeared at the markham meeting on monday and gave a definite xo answer to the proposal in reviewing the townships debt picture reeve lemasurier stated that if markham had to shoulder this large debt the municipal board might refuse by next spring to allow markham to proceed with the needed public schools and in addition all contempla ted water debentures would have to be dropped clerk jim matdonald of vaughan twp provided com parative debt figures which revealed that vaughans total debt was slightly below mark- hams at the present time but had been higher for four to five years previous the vau ghan township debt had been brought about mainly by pub lic school debts along yonge st in which markham town ship could not have shared had council even chose to do so since no provision is in the act for the sharing of deben tures in the case of public schools solicitor jd lucas who was present at the meeting ad vised markham council that they should reconsider issuing the debenture if vaughan re fused to shoulder its share deputy reeve rutherford of vaughan stated that the met ropolitan board might refuse window peepers beware in pickering township at a special meeting of pick ering twp council on wed nesday evening of last week a bylaw was passed prohibiting the practice of window peep ing in the municipality the bylaw was introduced follow ing the hearing of a case in whitby court in which a resi dent in the south pickering district was caught red handed in the act of peeping through a window the curious offend er was released however when the judge discovered that pickering twp had no bylaw governing such an offense air and mrs lou raxlin recently married couple have returned home from florida and will make their homo in the new sanders subdivision on rose ave stouffville pils to attend weston school which would necessitate a new school at woodbridge 1 have no objection to issu ing their share said reeve lemasurier were ready to handle our part and vaughan apparently is not so if the ratepayers who need the school want to kick they had better go to vaughan he con tinued councillor lennie stood out as the lone opponent to forcing vaughan to issue their share of the loan we gave commit ment to the board that wed issue the debentures last fall and well have to go through with it he declared reeve lemasurier replied that the financial picture chan ged considerably since then and it was up to council to give first consideration to their own ratepayers councillor little suggested that it might be best to ask the county to issue the loan im not going out on a limb to burden debt on the people of markham and its they who put me here and them im working for let vaughan pay their 47 share and if its a case as mr lennie says of hurting vaughans feelings well have to hurt their feel ings as far as im concerned council with the exception of councillor lennie all con curred in the reeves stand and agreed to ask the county to is sue the debenture failing this it appeared that the school would be at a stand still unless vaughan would change their mind about tak- at any time to allow their puling on their share of the debt destitute families at- lake ft problem for whitchurch wed all be a lot happier if it were only the skiing season that is giving our country the jumps reeve roberts dr roberts pointed out that in his business he had a daily cheek on each man under his employ the dep reeve stat ed that he would construct a form and work out the propo sed system with road super intendent roy ward council lors lawson and newman a- greed that they were willing to give the plan an honest tri al relief inspector mulholland of whitchurch township re ported to council on thursday evening that the requests for relief from families at wilcox lake were posing a problem and asked direction in carry ing out his duties constable mulholland stated that almost all the men of these near des titute households were em ployables out of work he cit ed that in two cases there were six small children to be con sidered and almost all the fam ilies had two and three kid dies there are 31000 out of work in toronto and apparen tly some just cant find work he said the matter of provid ing township work for some of the men was mentioned and reeve mclaughlin said that he believed there was work to be had on the east side of the township constable mulholland told council that the breadwinners of some of the families were in jail and some families had been deserted its keeping the police on the un checking up the thefts he reported the situation is much worse than a year ago the rents he reported were extremely high and relief aid would only just keep them a- live some are receiving notic es to vacate he reported unless there are extenuat ing circumstances im not in favor of giving ablebodied men relief when theres work declared councillor mccarron there may be some deserving but i feel many are not clerk jack crawford ex plained that unless the bread winner was arrested or they could produce a doctors certi ficate of unfitness the prov ince refused to pay their 50 of the relief if you open the gate for one theyll all hear about it and flock in like sheep said councillor legge why should the township help pay rent for some greedy individuals continued coun cillor iegge the relief officer was in structed to carry on as best he could under the circumstanc es