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l itoitftmut ftritome vol 67 no 33 the tribune stouffville ont thursday january 10 1957 twelve pages 1957 appointments chief business for first council meeting magistrate hollinrake presides at new court the greftter proportion of the inaugural session of stouffville municipal council was given ever to the making of appoint ments of various officers and officials for 1957 there will be no change in the personnel of the stouffville community cen tre board with the exception of the two council members those named to the 1957 board are dr s s ball mrs les wilson mrs bert tail ken wagg and ted cadieux councillor gar leh man and deputyreqve burk mrs e sisco was named as a member of the local library board for a term of three years harry vaneeno was named road supt and weed inspector and henry ogden was returned as building inspector these ap pointments are made by bylaw there were some changes in the matter of councils standing committees for the years and resulted as follows roads and walks committee councillors el gin wagg and gar lehman pro perty and police councillor laushway and deputyreeve burk bylaws administration and finance deputyreeve burk end councillor laushway the first named in each instance will act as chairman salary increase asked constable frank edwards in his written report from the po lice department stated that this branch of the municipal service would be brought up to date and asked council for the neces sary fding equipment in addi tion a request was made for an increase in the salaries of the two local officers council agreed that these matters should be dealt with by the police com mittee and recommendations brought in to council other appointments made by resolution included reg mckay tc stouffville planning board i for a threeyear term fred castle as fire truck caretaker at a salary of s100 wm malloy as fire chief at a salary of 150 and walter smith deputy- chief at a salary of 50 annexation the date of jan 21th has been jset by stouffville council on which to meet whitchurch twp council on the proposed annex ation of approximately 200 acres j along the northern boundary of the corporation reeve daniels told council that it would not be possible for whitchurch to meet with stouffville until after their inaugural meeting wed jan 9th he also stated that he would like to check with bond houses on the possible effect of such j annexation on the sale of local j debentures councillor lehman i told the members that while he 1 was one of those asking for the annexation of his property he would not push the matter he added that the stouffer farm was practically all sold with the expectation of town develop- ment and it was only logical that i some annexation should take place for industry now that sewers had arrived incinerator for markham would cost 50000 annually to operate twp council pport new magistrate o s hollinrake is caught by the camera here on wednesday morning at the opening ceremonies of the new traffic court established in the markham township municipal building at button- ville on his left is rev a c huston of victoria square and speaking is w l clarke reeve of markham township to his right is jos fry reeve of markham village jim thomas report was placed before markham township council at their inaugural meeting on monday concerning the suggest ed establishment of a municipal incinerator to take care of the dumping problem in the town ship babcock scrivener con sulting engineers presented fig ures covering the cost of such a proposal the report stated that an in cinerator to handle garbage for a municipality of 12000 persons would cost 55000 to erect in cluding the cost of land how ever the annual cost of opera tion was estimated at 10 to 50000 which included cost of garbage collection the engi neers stated that such an estab lishment should be located in the southwest part of the town ship and would require a ten- acre site the incinerator would eon- sume two tons of garbage an hour and would require three to four men to operate a sug- gestion was made that markham might combine with richmond hill and vaughan in such an undertaking but no action was taken by markham council arena business brisk this year business at the stouffville arena is the best this year it has been for several seasons night bookings are almost com pletely sold out until next march two large athletic associations have taken all the ice time on saturdays with exception of the evenings beginning as early as 7 am while all local teams are be ing accommodated the few new arenas erected in and around toronto cannot begin to take care of the tremendous growth in population there and the local company is pleased to be receiv ing a good share of this over flow business shareholders in the local arena company have continually voted to complete the paying off of the mortgage against the con cern before paying any divi dends at a meeting of the di rectors of the company last week an additional 3500 was paid from the debt 175000 in supplies sent to austria by um churches asked bus line on bayview a representative of the new market bus lines appeared be fore markham township coun cil on monday requesting coun cil support in their application to the provincial highways lic ensing board for the right to operate a bus line from sutton to toronto via the markham- whitchurch townline and south down bayview it was stated that all munici palities including gwillimbury whitchurch and mt albert had so far been favorable but so licitor j d lucas informed council that it was his under standing that richmond hill was contesting it deputyreeve deacon stated that he believed it would be a good move and would replace many private cars councillor kathleen james said that in representing ward 1 she could jiot support any new line if it jeopardized the present ttc schedule solicitor lucas said that he would want to see the council investigate any possible infrin gement of the ttc agreement before taking action a resolution supporting the new line was tabled pending the legal aspects of the situation a hearing is pending on feb 8 on the present ttc agree ment since it was revealed that the commission is endeavoring to alter their service on yonge street planning board a tie vote resulted for the appointment of a member of the markham township plan ning board j gamble who re signed to run for a seat on council councillors kathleen james and mumberson proposed exreeve alt lemasurier for the post and deputyreeve dea con and councillor cosburn the reappointment of mr gamble reeve clarke gave his support to the resolution for mr le masurier the exreeve appoint ment is for a period of three years other members are c j laurin reappointed for one year h sissons f brumwell and h brennan first markham traffic court has full schedule the first markham township traffic court was held in the mu nicipal chambers buttonville on wednesday the courtroom was filled to capacity by close to 200 violators of the highway traffic act liquor control act and local bylaws magistrate o s hollinrake presided rev a c huston of the vic toria square united church pro nounced the dedicatory prayer reeve wm clarke of markham township reeve j v fry of markham village and major lex mckenzie mpp of north york spoke briefly magistrate hollinrake advised those present that the traffic court was not held as a means to collect revenue but to gain the cooperation- of the motor ing public in an effort to prevent accidents col hollinrake point ed out that the police were co operating 100 percent he stress ed the fact that the police de partments were not issuing summonses to collect money but to make drivers aware of their responsibilities ice active in rural area over weekend thieves entered the property of the late dr w e mckinley 5th concession markham some time during the early hours of friday morning and stole ap proximately 200 hens from the chicken house the poultry farm is operated by mr and mrs wm macgimsey they keep more than 1000 hens tire tracks in an adjoining property lead police to believe that the thieves placed the hens in bags or crates and carried them to the waiting vehicle the loss is estimated at 300 the theft was discovered around six oclock on friday morning when the owner went out to feed the flock vandorf opp seized six new cars during the weekend and arrested five youths in connec tion witli a largescale wave of cottage looting in which thous- ands of dollars have been taken provincial police at vandorf are still trying to find the money stolen from mussclmans lake cottages police also seized radios and electrical appliances charged with theft and re ceiving are edward mclennan 19 joseph hall 16 and daniel mclnnis 23 all of rr 2 stouff ville two juveniles were also arrested birth halsted mr and mrs maur ice halsted announce the birth of their daughter val- arie jean on january 3rd at newmarket hospital lewis benefit game tickets to the benefit hockey game to be played in the stouff ville arena on saturday even ing jan 26th went on sale this week purchasers will be ad mitted to the rink and in addi tion may qualify for the man tle radio and bulova wrist watch which will be given away that night the stouffville senior b clip pers of 195152 will make a one- night comeback and will play this seasons clippers the stou ffville club of 5152 marched through to the ontario senior championship the majority of the players have since retired from active participation jn the sport but readily consented to take part in the game to aid the gord lewis benefit fund play ers who are expected to don a stouffville uniform again are coach bob bangay geo stark ronnie bell hal gibson norm stunden blake eatough frank stephenson nick bangay polly minton jack watson bert ba ker morley petch jack rum- ney jim machin and herb rose the team has held one workout and will hold a number of other practice sessions prior to the game public skating will follow the hockey contest pig prices up at weekly sale last saturday the auction sale at the stouffville stock yards was a surprise it was a record sale being the largest pig sale ever recordedwhen it was thought pigs were scarce in the country several trucks did not get unloaded prices rose to a new high with suckers going from 10 to 14 chunks 15 to 25 large chunks up to 38 bred sows 75 to 100 hogs 25 to 50 in the cattle ring the calves were strong following the trend of the finish ed market springer cows were in good demand from 135 to 165 for first calf heifers stock- ers and feeders were scarce king city minister chairman of newly organized presbytery markham council committees for 57 a considerable portion of the inaugural council session of markham township on monday afternoon dealt with the appoint ment of standing committees for 1957 and other township offices the council committees are as follows parks and prop erty councillors james and mumberson fire councillors cosburn and mumberson po lice councillors mumberson and cosburn roads councillors james cosburn and deputy- reeve deacon and councillor mumberson water and sanita tion deputyreeve deacon and councillor james sgt clayton of the township police force was named school attendance officer and a new po sition that of inspector of trench excavations prevention act was filled by fred fudge building inspector pay raise proposed for markham twp councillors a pay raise for markham twp councillors from 7 to s per meeting came before mondays inaugural meeting at button ville but the matter it was agreed should be referred to the budget committee the mu nicipal act allows municipal councillors in a township as large as markham to receive up to 10 per meeting the town ship reeve last year was raised to a salaried position with a 1000 figure mr robt mcconnoehie the municipal building caretaker requested an increase in his sal ary from 1800 to 2100 a year 1olico report markham township cruisers travelled a total of 10921 miles in the performance of service at a cost for the last month of 41732 total number of calls made by the officers was 425 accidents which the officers in vestigated numbered 24 sum monses issued 199 theft reports 9 missing persons 2 dog com plaints received 24 bob hassard hockey player with the hershey bears of the american hockey league had the misfortune to get hit in the month with a puck knock ing out several teeth the acci dent occurred in a game at buf falo stouffville wi will meet in christ church parish hall on thursday january 17th at 215 pm programme convener mrs r lamoreaux visitors are wel come supplies to the value of ap proximately 175000 have so far been sent for refugee aid to hungarian and eastern euro pean refugee appeal this in cludes government surplus food clothing bedding yardage ma terials soap christmas bundles and school supplies the stouff ville united missionary church has sent a number of bales and is presently preparing another offerings of cash have also been extended j n byler mcc director of relief has gone to europe to give leadership to the new and extended program to the refu gees he will remain there for the next three months a camp for hungarian refu gees is being set up by the mennonite central committee this type of service is to pro vide opportunity to give person alized spiritual care irene bish op of perkasie pennsylvania is in charge of the camp and is assisted by others one hundred and twenty thousand refugees have crossed into austria from hungary the united mission ary church is recording- the names of interested families who wish to sponsor hungarians as recommended by the mcc workers in austria i at hecrewegan the peace centre operated by the dutch mennonites around 100 hun garian students arc being given shelter while they are in the process of migration the canning project is going over in a big way already 7000 tins of foods have been put up exceeding their goal of 5000 tins an additional 3000 tins are expected to be canned with the world situation what jt is prospects for reductions in our defence costs in a year or so are indeed dim pub school board holds inaugural meeting the stouffville public school board held its inaugural meet ing on monday evening the two new members mrs lorna button and mr harry schell were in attendance mr keith middlemiss will retain the office of chairman for another year and mr cec hendricks was ap pointed vce chairman the var ious committees will be in charge of the following mem bers finance mrs mole cec hendricks building harry schell cec hendricks proper ty wm malloy management keith middlemiss mrs but ton mrs jack sanders is the new secretary replacing mr garfield brown the school at tendance officer is mr donald lehman principal lome boadway at tended the meeting and present ed the board with a number of requests the board approved the purchase of iq tests which will be conducted throughout the school by the principal the purchase price was 2500 the members expressed appreciation with regard to a fine oil paint ing presented to the school by mrs mary smith a former member of the board on a re quest by mrs mole it was agreed that the circular drive should be cleaned whenever nec essary mr malloy stated that he would contact mr walter smith concerning the job guests of mrs chas tindall for the weekend were mr and mrs earl mint mr and mrs reuben tindall of chorrywood and mr herb bennett new york presbytery appoints executive whitchurch township council opened the 1957 municipal year with an inaugural dinner at the vandorf hall on wednesday night of this week guests at the dinner included all township offi cials employees the press and ladies the council installation ceremony was performed at this gettogether tonight council will meet again to conduct regu lar business gigantic clearance sale opens today at davis store a gigantic clearance sale that should bring buyers from near and far opens this week at the don davis clothing store in stouffville two full pages of j wonderful bargains appear in this weeks issue of the trib- line and should be scanned care- fully by every thrifty home- maker a great variety of ladies win- tcr coats have had prices slash- j ed by as much as one third and j mens coats are down 2oi- for 1 the kiddies there arc snow suits j regularly s1g95 going for 995 mens and boys underwear is being cleared at half price and mens parkas are only 1095 to add to the interest the davis store has for the ladies a special offering of flannelette as low as 10c a yard and house- dresses will be cleared out fast at s19s these are only a few of the out of this world bargains be- ins offered get there early while the selection is still good i the inauguration of york presbytery of the united church of canada took place in st an- drews united church markham on tuesday of this week the i first session opened with the j administration of the holy com- munion rev george thomas 1 presided assisted by the rev dr e e long and the rev dr a d matheson the new 1 presbytery duly constituted a t nominating committee was ap- pointed to bring in a list of officers end conveners of com- mittees during this period fra- j tcrnal greetings were brought by dr long representing the moderator and the general council of the united church of canada dr matheson presi dent of the toronto conference rev xoble hatton and rev g e ashford chairman of the two i presbyteries from which the new presbytery was formed greetings were brought on behalf of the anglican church by the right rev g b snell j sufteran bishop and the rev i john forbes moderator of the i toronto east presbytery of the i presbyterian church mrs m r mckay president i of the toronto conference wo- 1 mans association and mrs g i e k howe president of the conference womans mission- ary society brought greetings i from their respective organiza tions rev d r mckilligan and rev r a wigby were guests i of the presbytery j the following officers were elected chairman rev mar tin jenkinson of king city secretary rev george thomas i of markham treasurer rev gordon winch of oak ridges rev douglas davis was ap- i pointed chairman of pastoral relations and with rev jfg i morris of aurora will be rep resentatives on the conference settlement committee rev j m wilkie of sutton requested a change of pastoral relations to accept the invitation to deer park united church in toronto rev george thomas of mark ham asked for a change of pas toral relations to take effect june 30 1957 the growth of population in markham necessi tates a readjustment of the work with cedar grove andj other arrangements must be i made in the near future for this charge a new pastoral charge is being constituted north east o richmond hill to be known as st matthews york presby tery comprises 27 pastoral char- j ges with 57 preaching places there are 31 ministers active and retired and together with an equal number of lay rep- rcsentatives giving a court of 64 members there was a full i attendance at the inaugural service and with guests about 92 sat down to dinner provided by the ladies of st andrews church the next meeting of york presbytery will be in new market on february 26 the inaugural meeting of the newly formed york pres bytery of the united church was held in the st andrews united church markham on tuesday three pastors ap pointed to executive positions in the presbytery are pictured above left to right rev gordon winch st pauls unit ed church oak ridgeslake wilcox treasurer rev m r jenkinson king city united church chairman and rev g h thomas sj andrews united church markham sec retary the new presbytery covers the county of york and the northwestern part of the county of ontario rev g h thomas of markham conven ed the inaugural meeting as interim chairman jim thomak