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ritmtte vol ill no 40 the tribune stouffville oxt fe 11 1954 interesting letter from miss trotter in greece anatolia college thesaloriki greece january 14 1954 my dear friends i have decided reluctantly to resort to a mimeographed let ter in order to acknowledge the lovely christmas mail and generally give an account of myself within a reasonable length of time i can assure you that while addressing the envelopes and rereading the messages i shall be thinking very personally of each friend there is of course one bit of comfort about the mimeograph you will be able to read what i say september first 1 came to set tle in here at personnel house where six of us live and where fourteen men and women greeks americans and this one canadian eat our break fast tea and dinner lunch we eat with the students i en joy greek cooking very much nevertheless it is pleasant to have some meals american style particularly breakfast our social life is delightful 1 even find comrades for canasta and chinese checkers the school has a beautiful campus on a hill two miles above the city we have lovely gardens a gorgeous view of ocean and mountains including mt ol ympus snow capped just now our buildings and equipment suffered severe damage dur ing the occupation being oc cupied in turn by german and british armies and we have many urgent needs but much has been accomplished the girls school has two new buil dings since the war oil heated and at personnel house our wood furnace has just now been converted to oil giving us a good even heat at last in november i saw more enchanting scenery and met many stimulating people when i attended a conference under the world council of church es on the island of poros hel en nichol fellow canadian the dynamic president ol pierce college athens was there too the world council maintains a good staff in greece doing constructive work both in relations with the greek orthodox church i and in aid of refugees of whom there are pitiful thousands needing care salonica is a very old world city in appearance population about 250000 sprawling along the seafront and taking its time about things most stor es and markets are closed one to four the year round i like its leisurely air i love poking about its copper market and flower market i spent a hap py christmas here we had turkey and all the trimmings then i had eight enchanting days in beautiful istanbul we saw exquisite mosques the delicately carved sarcophagus of alexander the great the famous covered bazaar and e- gyptian spice market we sail ed up the golden horn and up the bosphorus we lunched at cornelia roberts old school saw robert college ate in de lightful cafes marvelled at the many luxury shops filled with expensive goods and the streets crowded with modern american cars our shops here are just beginning to be at all normal and when we go driv ing it is usually in the school jeep it makes a difference whether a country has been torn by war and revolution or not school reopened january 8 on a lovely sunny day that templed some narcissi to burst into bloom in the garden in chapel i talked just as i would at home alxut packing bags for a new year about some of the things we need to take with us and some things best left out in my english class with sixth form i was so lucky as to be teaching wordsworths sonnets on westminster bridge and on the beach at calais the girls are so sensitive and appreciative it made a good day and though on saturday the weather was horrid with wet snow turning to rain and slithering mud and not a mountain to be seen it didnt matter we have about 260 girls 300 1kvs they have no classes to gether but they join in inter est groups such at the lovely chorale group that sang for us for the school for the blind the old peoples home and ov er the local radio at christ mas they are together in press club and international continued on page 5 this clock took more than two years to build pickering election procedure will be aired in court a county jcourt order cal ling for the eizure of all bal lots and papers in the dee 7 election of pickering town ship was issued in whitby fol lowing an application by a ratepayer he asked that the election be set aside because of irregu larities county court judge j e prilehard has ordered the township clerk to deliver to the clerk of the court all pap ers and ballots involved the action was brought by gerald allman of claremont his application was against reeve george todd deputy- reeve dr kenneth roberts councillors win g newman hugh michell and william g lawson and the township of pickering it is expected that a hearing will be ordered next week the court also ordered that all documents involved in the vote to set up a municipal wa ter supply system also be de livered in court this big timepiece handmade clocks built 6 local craftsmen studying ward in the home of mr jacob smith stouffville jeweller stands a huge grandfathers clock according to mr smith build the priceless timepiece j systolti bouhlclbrics work on the clock was started in 1935 and completed in 1937 case was cut on the solid walnut constructed from tree the former jos hoover farm west of town and the precision parts for the movement were otnained in england and ger many the large eight pound 10 carat gold plated pendulum hangs by an invar steel rod this metal is least subject to temperature changes al though time checks have not been made on the clock for more than a week mr smith believes that it will not vary more than six seconds a year the local jeweller constructed every inch of the huge clock with his own hands even to the carving of the roman let tering on the dial this delic ate tisk took two weeks to complete the clock chimes every fifteen minutes al though buyers have requested that mr smith place any price on his valuable timepiece he has ui to the present time re fused to do so the clock is thoroughly cleaned and oiled once a year mr ezra grove farmer and carpenter on the 7th conces sion of markham has two grandfather clocks in his home one is hand made while the other is a 150 year old heir loom that has been handed down from generation to gen eration the newer of the two clocks contains a ease which was constructed by mr grove he obtained the works from an old movement other than cleaning and oiling once a year both timepieces require no further adjustments or re pairs mr grove has also turn ed his hand to other forms of wood construction numerous pieces of furniture in the grove home are products of the owners craftsmanship chairs buffets china cabinet etc are among some of the ar ticles which have been con structed in his workshop grandfather clocks are not common in todays homes but for those who are fortunate e- nough to own such a time piece they are a most treas ured possession in the first report tabled by the special committee council lors a lennie and a little set up to study a ward system for election purposes the com mittee slated it intends to hold a series of meetings with in terested parties as a means of collecting data after which the committee will attempt to ar rive at some conclusions re garding the boundaries the committee have already re ceived requests from the fed eration of agriculture and the highland park association to meet the committee the township solicitor has suggested that council appoint someone else besides a police officer as school truant offic er for the municipality in a letter to council mr lucas stated that under the police act constables must devote their full time to the exercise of their police duties and therefore are not eligible to assume additional responsibil ities the members plan to suggest other names at a fu ture meeting of council the department of high ways have approved the ap pointment of j howard as road superintendent effec tive january 12th a sum of 2030 of mr howards salary will be eligible for grant pur poses from the highways de partment the members have set the new salary scale for township employees for the coming year the actual yearly salar ies are as follows engineer and road superintendent j howard 150000 clerk c hoover 372000 deputyclerk l gohn 300000 treasurer d ryder 330000 assistant treasurer mrs rb rae 2- 30000 assessor a fleming 312000 assistant assessor r thompson 290000 police chief c wideman 312000 police constable h cox 3- 10300 police constable b shearn 310000 police cons- markham offers 300 standby time to local firemen markham township council agreed on monday evening that they would pay stouffville 300 standby time for their fire area 00 a fire for the first hour and 21 an hour after that stouffville representativ es had appeared at the prev ious meeting of council and asked 500 standby time with the abovementioned per fire rates the council agreement was reached on receiving the re port of councillors lennie and little the fire committee richmond hill is receiving 300 and its not fair for stouff ville to be asking 500 declar ed councillor lennie if they are not satisfied well work out an agreement with union- ville to cover the east area he continued we own 75 of the uriionville equipment we might just as well use it stated reeve lemasurier if we accepted the stouff ville price wed have mark ham and richmond hill right back here wanting more said councillor lennie uxbridge may buy tank truck mr ross rodman uxbridge fire chief appeared before ux bridge twp council on mon day afternoon to suggest any way in which the brigade could better serve the munici pality mr rodman pointed out that the big problem that confronted fire brigades when fighting farm fires was lack of water the uxbridge chief said that the purchase of a new 1000 gallon tank truck was under consideration this truck would be equipped with a portable pump and 500 feet of hose two additional men would be required to operate the new machine the stouffville chamber of commerce regular meeting is being held this thursday ev ening in the municipal hall important to all is a new safe ty program which is to be pre sented by the local provincial police for public school child- table g clayton 310000 po- ren the chamber of com 400 fine or two months for selling booze walter thorn gravel hill was fined 100 or an alterna tive two months in jail for selling booze at his home the crown requested that his pre mises be declared a public place and magistrate hollin- rake so ruled costs amounted to 1s and accused was not immediately able to produce the fine imposed the case had been adjourn ed for a week and proceeded on tuesday in newmarket court thorn was represented by solicitor j vale in tuesdays evidence mrs thorn testified that she sent her daughter to call the police because hor husband had been drinking for two days and threatening us we did not sell liquor that day he offered to give it away mrs thorn denied that she told officers she was fed up with all this bootlegging she said that glasses of beer sitting around in the house had been left theye by her husband and not the young men who were dis covered there by police under cross examination mr thorn testified that he was a truck driver and had made 3500 in six months last year a liquor permit produc ed in court showed nineteen bottles purchased in december and 120 purchased on two per mits since last july accused stated that he could not remember making any statement to the police have you ever been convicted under the liquor control act ask ed the crown yes eighteen years ago but i was bribed in to that too late to appeal it commented the crown at torney messrs hopkins benson and white found by police at the premises the day the police were called testified that they had had nothing to drink that day constable mcdonald called to the stand stated that thorn got 1 for three bottles i saw all three men and they had been drinking smelled it and were unsteady he stated defence counsel vale said in asking for dismissal there is no evidence of sale on jan 8th magistrate hollinrake re plied this man is in the wealthy bracket by the amount of liquor he buys in summing up the magis trate stated the statement of the accused that he makes 3500 in six months and buys 120 bottles since last july ad mission of buying eight cases of beer at a time and no recol lection of where the other beer came from all these things support evidence under the liquor control act i do not believe the three young men at all and for these reasons i am making a conviction ac cused did keep liquor for sale on jan 8th the fine should bear some relation to the fin ancial position of the accused as well as the amount of traf fic s100 or two months board agrees on kindergarten will hire new teacher stouffville public school board meeting in regular ses sion on tuesday evening a- greed by resolution that kindergarten be opened as part of the regular jfublic school course to commence next sep tember a new teacher will be required to handle this new room 0id the position is be ing advertised this week while it is known that a kindergarten in the public school will absorb the greater proportion of the children now attending the nursery school class operated in the united church sunday school a sur vey will be taken early in the spring to ascertain the exact number to be expected for the new class constable hilliard appeared before the board and present ed the much publicized elm er the safety elephant plan for educating the children in the rules of safety the officer stated that he was also prepa ring a number of short talks which he would give to the children in the school in con junction with the safety ele phant program it was hoped that the local chamber of com merce woulfl act as sponsor for the program and shoulder the expenses involved and constable hilliard told the board that he would approach this organization at their mee ting on thursday night mrs anna schell is present ly staying with her daughter mrs lloyd moyer church st mr and mrs john wall- work and daughter linda at tended the dinner on satur day in toronto for mr and mrs we briard the regular ioof meet ing will be held on monday evening feb 15th the stouffville youth for christ band under the direc tion of mr we ryan is an entry in the 11th annual ki- wanis music festival which will be held from feb 15th to 27th a packed house greeted the ambrose brothers of toronto on sunday evening at the yfc fireside hour the winter season of sunday night fireside rallies is already half gone if you have been wanting to attend one of these rallies better drop around this week to the second mark ham baptist church at 9 pm the film this week is one of the beautifully coloured ser ies on the life of christ enti tled jesus and the fisher men five generations for birthday five generations were pres ent iast week to help albert hoover well known ring- wood resident celebrate his ssth birthday the occasion wus marked at the home of his daughter mrs algie thomas of oshawa present were mrs myrtle davis a daughter from ringwood granddaughter mrs arnold kemp and her hus band of toronto great grand daughter mr and mrs ernest benzinger of toronto and great great granddaughter linda irene benzinger also a number of friends big vote for warble fly control markham township federa tion of agriculture reports that the circulation of the war ble fly and brucellosis peti tions has been completed in markham township ninety- five per cent of the cattle ow ners voted in favour of spray ing for warble flies and nine ty per cent voted in favour of calfhood vaccination for the control of brucellosis these petitions will be presented to the council at an early date so that final arrangements may be made to carry out these two programs the executive of the feder ation of agriculture wishes to thank all those who helped with circulating the petitions mr and mrs briard wed 61 years mr and mrs we briard were honoured at a dinner saturday evening feb 6th on the occasion of their sixtyfirst wedding anniversary both are in their eightyfourth year and enjoy good health resi dents of stouffville for many years they are now residing in toronto uobt holmax heads local legion robt holman has been elec ted president of the stouff ville legion branch no 159 at the recent annual elections other officers and committee men named are as follows 1st vice pres harold murphy 2nd vice pres jack skinner secretary murray sinclair treas jack garrett sergt at arms bemie tunney padre rev douglas davis executive committee bert lickorish wm malloy fred castle wal ter smith arthur heaton in charge of renting walter smith wm malloy markham road budget set at 154150 for 1954 lice constable d dukes 2 s0000 road foreman a bu chanan 310000 labourers on the road gang 100 an hr merce is the chief booster and needs your attendance all businessmen and others inter ested are urged to attend cy bellman your local lin coln welder will hold a weld ing clinic on friday evening feb 12 at 730 pm main st stouffville everyone wel come after careful deliberation markham township council in special session wednesday of last week passed subject to the approval of the provin cial department of highways a 151150 road budget for 1951 this years road budget which was presented to coun cil by road committee chair man deputy- reeve w clark and committee member coun cillor mrs k james met with a good reception by the other members of council the largest item in this years budget is 35000 for cal cium and oil dust control followed by the machinery ac count of 29100 and gravel ac count of 25000 on these it ems in 1953 20000 was set a side for calcium and oil 30- 100 for machinery and 25000 for gravel this years total budget fig ure of 151150 is 11850 in crease over the 1953 road bud get of 142300 but still lower than 1952s road budget of slo1550 early last year the department of highways arb itrarily cut the proposed bud get by 25000 however as the result of a series of meetings between council and govern ment officials this 25000 cut was restored after discussion by council the members decided on a re duction on three items in the 1951 budget these included slicing the appropriation set a- side for new culverts in half from 10000 to 5000 plus sim ilar cuts in the contingencies fund from 20000 to 10000 and a reduction in the new machinery from 10000 to 8- 000 in the matter of new mach inery the road committee plan the purchase of a new five ton truck the installation of pow er steering on the road grader and the purchase of an air compressor a breakdown of the actual budget is as follows snow roads 6000 bridge repairs 500 weeds and brushing 4- 000 culvert repairs 000 dit ching 3500 dragging 2500 calcium and oil 35000 gra ve 25000 guard rail 300 lnionville and thornhill 7- 000 6th concession road 3- 500 fill dump 600 new cul verts 5000 road signs 150 garage and tools 2500 sup erintendent and bookeeper 10000 machine account 29- 100 new machines 8000 contingencies 10000