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1 o id ouftvtue srttmne vol 67 no 42 the tribune stouffville ont thursday march 14 1957 fourteen pages juveniles reach ontario semifinals provincial government to loan half million dollars to town to finance sewers the stouffville juvenile team has reached the allontario semifinals they will now meet either copetown or nor wich the winner will then move on into the champion ship finals against either for est or mount forest to date the local club has defeated ux- bridge woodbridge and have- lock the team is pictured above from left to right front row murray mcdow ell howard malcolm don haynes capt rolph sund- quist bruce smith don jack son and murray holden rear row don davis mgr bud thomas mike mcstravick ed sanders ted suzuki steve wideman ron hedges ross maclill fred jackson sec and jack watson coach jim thomas the approval of a loan of a and the engineers too and 1 1 half million dollars to stouff- cant get any action declared ville for the financing of the mr lehman town sewers has been given its my opinion that the coun- council by the ontario govern- cil should meet with the engi- ment municipal improvement j neers and go over all the corporation the interest rate streets said reeve daniels will be 6s financing of the project to date has all been done through the bank council at their regular meet ing on friday evening received a telegram from the dept of municipal affairs requesting i dont blame the construc tion firm i blame the engi neers commented councillor laushway were paying them some s30000 to look after the streets why should malvern do work if they can save on it farmers ask holdup in township ok for pipeline that the setting of the 1957 tax i he continued rate be delayed as a new system i reeve daniels said he thought transcanada pipelines was i blasted monday by fred wicks of the york county federation of agriculture weve had no cooperation from the company regarding the proposed pipe line crossing j markham township he charj of grants was to be announced j malvern had been very busy re- 1 ed mr wicks accompanied b will ask department of highways to complete paving main st west on the suggestion of council lor gar lehman stouffville mu nicipal council will seek an in terview with the ontario dept of highways to request the de partment to complete the paving of main street at least from mill st west to the 9th includ ing the widening of the bottle neck opposite obrien ave as was pointed out in a front page report last week there has been a general feeling that now that the pavement is so badly torn up with sewer installations there would he a considerable saving to the government and a better job done for the town if the road were fully completed now councillor lehman brought the matter before council near the close of the meeting and all members supported the sugges tion and the clerk was instruct ed to arrange a meeting with the department markham twp deficit due to bridge construction mt albert tel co sold to bell tel james hammett secretary of the mount albert telephone co ltd announced this week that the company has been sold to the bell telephone company of i canada j property transfer will take place sometime in the late spring the sale has been ap- 1 proved by the ont telephone authority the company serves approxi mately 1050 customers in the area east of newmarket through two exchanges one at queens- ville and the other at mount al bert site of the companys head quarters the mt albert tele phone company provides tele phone service in portions of the townships of east gwillimbury north gwillimbury georgina and whitchurch in the county of york and scott and uxbridge in the county of ontario and the police villages of mount al bert queensville and sharon the mount albert telephone company ltd was founded in april 1906 to provide telephone service in mount albert and near surrounding area with ap proximately 20 customers now due to the ever growing de mand for telephone service in our area the company decided customers would benefit by this change of ownership which will still seek hitandrun driver ontario provincial police of the whitby detachment are con tinuing their search for a truck driver involved in a hitandrun accident at green river on thursday evening of last week mr terry donaghue an bring them into the bell system employee at the woolhead turlthat our present and potential jl l a markham key ranch was struck from be- 1 j s e soilc1 hind and left lying in the ditch i lor r stud ha suffered a broken arm ibune that the case was still broken leg and fractured ribs under the opp informed the tri- department deputy reeve deacon told markham township council on monday night that the town ships entire deficit for 56 of some s20000 was due to over- expenditure on bridge construc tion reeve w l clark drew attention to the fact that owing to the extensive damage caused by hurricane hazel it had been necessary for council to accept some hurried estimates if more time had been available a closer figure cduld have been procured he said solicitor lucas was asked to request approval of the dept of highways and the municipal board lor revised estimates of lhe cost in connection with bridges to be constructed this year however mr lucas sug gested that council should pre pare a definite program of costs and submit the same to the department for approval deputyreeve deacon said that it would now be possible for the municipality to raise funds by the sale of debentures as the market had improved civil defense douglas turner acting chair man of the markham civil de fense committee appeared be fore council requesting a bylaw- setting up an initial program of 34000 this amount would be shared 51000 by the township 1000 by the pro government and 2000 by the dominion gov ernment council took no immediate action pending a meeting with the solicitor and official of the civil defense dept a bylaw regulating the var ious local fire brigades in giving twp employees get salary boost the finance committee of markham township council pre sented their report before the board on monday night calling for revision of salaries the new salary schedule will be as follows clerk 4300 assistant clerk 4200 clerk assist 3000 stenographer 2520 treasurer 4000 assist treas 2800 as sessor 3780 assist assessors 3600 and 3400 water supt 3150 bldg inspector 2100 in the case of the police de partment an increase of 100 was granted to each member of the force regardless of rank road employees received a straight 10 boost on their hourly pay- it was pointed out that in the past the assistant assessors had been paid mileage and it was difficult to obtain an exact fig ure thus it was agreed to pay r thompson 500 in lieu of mileage and b cable 300 fif ty dollars was also extended to each assessor as part of his ex penses in taking a course a bylaw was given the neces sary readings and passed ap pointing lloyd turner assessor for 1957 at a salary of 2000 the work this year will be on a fulltime basis roads a claim was received from walter brillinger for 500 for alleged damages to his property through erosion and damage to land through sewer operations near his property a communi cation was received from the en gineers concerning the claim which stated that ten ft of the land which mr brillinger claim ed was damaged was town pro perty councillor laushway stat ed that the engineers had no business routing water across mr brillingers property in the first place councillor lehman expressed the view that any damage was very slight after some discussion council agreed that the engineers should be told to reroute the water im mediately which was being pour ed west of mr brillingers barn councillor lehman reported that the ditches filled by the sewer excavations on fairview ave had not been cleaned out i as previously requested ive talked to the construction men will be called on to pay 51900 pairing private drains thats no excuse replied councillor laushway if theyre busy let them bring in more men and a grader were paying for it councillor lehman supported councillor laushway in his con tention and reeve daniels said he would go along with what ever action council decided to take it was finally agreed that the road committee should see the engineers as was suggested by the reeve and a trip be made over the roads police report stouffville municipal police are asking council to reconsider the need for a cell at the muni cipal building and councillor laushway chairman of the po lice committee has agreed to provide council with cost figures for the next meeting the feb ruary report showed that the cruiser travelled approximately a thousand miles during the month summonses issued num bered 11 and parking tags 8 conservation up as was predicted earlier costs under the new metro conserva tion authority are climbing stouffvilles levy in 1956 was 211 while this year the town stewart watson of markham i township federation of agri culture headed a deputation be- i fore the regular meeting of j markham township council mr wicks requested that council withhold permission to allow the pipe line to cross roads in the township we are worried about some of the things that have happen ed in western ontario he said he invited council to a meeting to be held shortly with officials of the transcanada pipelines w hat exactly is your trouble asked j d lucas council solicitor mr wicks replied that the pipeline company does not take into consideration rights of way and future development of land solicitor lucas said he did not see why council could not delay its reply to transcanada pipe lines and assist the federation in any way we can councillor cosburn felt the pipeline company should be responsible for any money spent ballantrae school petition goes back to section board on opening of council the modation is 610 present attend- read the rules case investigation by their i thanks to cosmetics a womans given age sometimes sounds plausible of the great number of read ers who sent in answers to the cartoon capers contest in last weeks tribune a number failed to complete their answer in addition to giving the car toon title entrants must also give another title which they themselves have suggested two entrants also sent in their titles but failed to sign their names continued on page 10 accusations fly as new member appointed to township of markham court of revision tempers flared monday in an issue which sharply divided markham township council when the assessment court of revision was appointed by a vote of 32 council drop ped w h champion from the court and appointed in his place archie little voting for mr little were reeve w l clarke and councillors l mumberson and mrs kathleen james vot ing for mr champion were deputyreeve don deacon and councillor howard cosburn during the proceedings j a fleming assessment commis sioner jumped to his foot when mr champion told council since being appointed to the court of revision i have found inequalities in the assessment of the township that should come from the j court of revision not from a member mr flcnling declared j i have the floor yet mr fleming can interrupt just asl he did at the court of revision continued mr champion im not asking for this position on the court hut if i can be of assistance jh do my best mr champion charged thai the assessment commissioner discuss a problem had suggested to the court of revision that he mr cham pion should resign this brought mr fleming to his feet again i never at any time suggest ed he resign he declared reeve clark broke in to ask mr champion if he could state he did not discuss anything about reassessment with any one before a hearing of the court of revision no i wont mr champion answered he saiil he had been active in township affairs for many years and if friends and neighbors come to him for advice he felt he could discuss their problems the court of revision is a court in my opinion reeve clark said any member who discusses matters coming be fore it is out of order thats your opinion lets have a legal opinion replied mr champion council solicitor j d lucas of toronto said there was noth ing in law to say a member of j the court of revision must not that mr champion was so well matter of ethics i hat people were bound i to go to him with assessment j problems if he were my own brother i would him deputyreeve deacon the reappointment of mr cham pion on the court he did not see how it could he possible to appoint anyone who might not that is a and circumstances he added i have known court members to visit property and discuss with the appellant the nature of his appeal one cant see any objection to that solicitor lucas continued that the question of whether a per sons being in a particular line approached to discuss prob of business disqualified him from sitting on the court was 1 for the opinion of council to decide lems any member of the court of revision has friends he point ed out mr deacon added many i can t help hut feel a man in i othor municipalities appoint real the real estate business is csta men they know interested in ail property listed sound with his firm remarked coun cillor mumberson i have no doubt about mr champions capabilities he con tinued i dont know a man more active in the township he added he felt compelled however to vote against mr champion not ai man but be cause of the business hes in at this point mr champion f have not always agreed with his policies but feel he has i the best interests of the town- ship at heart councillor cos- burn said in supporting the i nomination of mr champion i feel he has the same interest in this assessment business voting showed 32 in favor of archie little other members of the court remain unchanged stated he was no longer in the rv christopher russell real estate business frank robb w j spears and i councillor mumberson felt i charles clifford first business was the proced ure for future action in the set tlement of ss no ii school problem council received by mail a petition for a school at mussel- mans lake said to bear names of 198 ratepayers a deputation of some 40 persons attended a number supporting the petition but the larger number made up of ratepayers not now residing in the area these people occu pied cottages used in summer months only and these people were not in attendance at the former meeting and vote of the ratepayers their spokesman complained they had- not been notified vern davies and k rogers members of the board were in attendance mr davies stated that the board had advertised the meeting in the stouffville paper and posted several notices in conspicuous places in the area mr neil president of the north shore musselmans lake ratepayers assoc spoke for the group stating they were not opposed to another school be ing built in the section but were opposed to a division of the sec tion reeve leggc addressed the delegation stating the petition should have been placed in the hands of the board he advised that an attitude of giveandtake to the problem would be much more conducive to a satisfactory result he requested the clerk to read sec 10 public school act setting out procedure as follows the petition should have been presented to the local vote against scnoo board and they in turn i could arrange for a check of urged same to verify that the neces sary 20 had signed and that those signing were all ratepay ers if found satisfactory it would be the duty of the board to call another meeting of the ratepayers and if no agreement i was found possible the meeting i could refer the matter to a i board of arbitration the meet ing would by vote appoint one member the board a second while the third would be the local inspector or his appoinj tec council instructed the clerk l to mail the petition to the school board for the necessary action a request by arthur helson in person for license to operate a mobile snack bar was laid over j lor further consideration as it was suggested a traffic problem might be created a communication was receiv- i cd from aurora high school board giving council data on fu ture drozram present accom- ancc 622 the anticipated attend ance by 1961 is 850 the sug gested building program when different councils concerned ad vise that funds are available would be as follows 6 class rooms accommodating 180 pu pils 2 labs 60 pupils 1 shop 20 pupils 1 clothing room 20 pupils estimated cost is 225000 and government grant would be paid on 160000 of the above amount however the dept of education pointed out that these grants were in no way a guar anteed figure from year to year a grant of 50 was made to aurora agric society relief ac count for month of february amounted to 54806 a letter from stouffville coun cil re annexation suggesting that whitchurch council bear 50 of expense in maintenance of the 9th con road did not meet with approval and clerk crawford was instructed to so advise stouffville council and to state that such an annge- ment would create a traffic prob lem as the speed limit in the twp was 50 miles per hour and thirty miles in the village of stouffville council opened tenders for the position of assessor asst as sessor and building inspector six applications were received for each position and council decided to interview four for the position of assessor and two for asst assessor on wednes day night at 8 oclock a special meeting will be held on tuesday afternoon to map out the road program for the year and tenders will be called for supply of road material the vandorf area was in total darkness at 1245 on account of failure of electrical current ice revue on friday stouffville skating club is presenting their annual ice kevue this friday night in the local arena and should draw a capacity house for this popular affair the show is sanctioned by the canadian figure skating association and presents a dazzling dis play of local talent youll see beautiful costumes in colour ful productions with star solo ists mr charles kiel former star of the ice capades and sonja hcinie ice show and professional teacher for tho stouffvillo skating club will participate in addition to tho wonderful show you may win some of the 100 worth of door prizes and lucky draws around the pipeline not the farmer or the township reeve clark said council would delay its reply to trans- canada pipelines on the ques tion until it heard from the fed eration about the proposed meeting main st runner has olympic hopes for 1960 a stouffville resident who runs when i feel like it even if its midnight hopes to be the first canadian to break the fourminute mile fred dunn 33yearold tor ontoborn carpenter causes many astonished stares as he trains in stouffville streets the olympics in 1960 mr dunn added he feels he has a ter rible amount of willpower which gives him an advantage over younger contenders he neither enters competitions nor times himself while run ning last year i developed my strength this year im concen- sometimes doing somersaults as fating on speed next year til begin to time myself he said he says he has often run until he dropped from exhaus tion then struggled onto his i feet and carried on only will- i power kept me going mr dunn prefers stouffville to toronto because the people stouffville since christmas are friendly he does not miss works in toronto he said he theatres or bars seeing i in- travels each night back to stou- he runs some people laugh as i run but i try not to pay any atten tion mr dunn said im not crazy those somersaults are good fof warming up mr dunn a resident of bus to walking distance running the eleven mileiaftcr a days who feercwfke running ffville by taking the richmond hill then the rest of the way a of some 11 miles he never feels like jskl work who feelirik mr dunn became interested in the sport a year ago because of his girl friend he explained that the girl he hoped to marry had a small son and i would like the boy to feel his father had accomplished something my heart is set on entering ill lvave tend to get married no time for that the fairhaired running en thusiast hopes eventually to org anize a track and field club in stouffville everybody isnt in terested in hockey and baseball he declared before he took up running mr dunns hobbies were photog raphy and recordcollecting but ive gotten away from that now he says he is living in- stouffville with his uncle mr s i dunn at main and blake streets to be new grocery open today clover farm stores have an nounced the opening of a branch store in stouffville this week the premises formerly the stouffville fruit market is one of a chain of clover farm stores across canada the store has been rearrang ed and redecorated as well as restocked with clover farm fowl brands a display adv announcing the opening of this new gro cery in town appears in this weeks issue tt the tribune the official opening of the stor- will be thursday ths week