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w ot xlbum vol 68 no 12 the tribune stouffville ont thursdav august 22 1957 twelve pages 2400 cars a day pass over milliken crossing to install wigwag psfw ip 5 jiirntfiriitt qfyratrrtrrmtii fx some time ago markham township joined in an applica tion to the board of transport commissioners requesting the installation of a wigwag at the cnr crossing at milliken at monday nights council meeting it was revealed that a survey had been taken of the traffic on dition of a speedway mr jorgenson representing the engineers stated that it was possible to use the route suggested by mr forrest but that it would be more expensive he also remarked that some of the trees on both sides of the as many as 2400 cars go over the crossing in a single day the average number of trains using the line daily is nine the board of transport commission- eis has replied favorably to the request in the light of these fig ures lniomillc main street messrs babcock scrivener engineeis submitted a report on the progress of the survey of work required in repaving and improving the main street in unionville the engineers suggested that both hydro lines be moved to the west side of the this road and it was found that i sireet were not in g n hon doneaster water service mr jorgensen of the babcock engineering firm stated that they had a price submitted by leos excavating grading co i also vaughan construction co in connection with the installa tion of services from the new water mains to be laid in the doneaster subdivision he sug gested that as the first mention ed firm had given the better quotation and they had the con tract for the mains it would be advisable to have them do the service work as well councillor kathleen james street and that all the trees on asked i it was not customary lo that side be removed this re- 1 advertise for tenders for such port was submitted at the re- 1 work apparently no such in quest of the unionville village strtictibns had been given to the trustees babcock engineers and so it planning director forrest of agreed t0 accept their rec markham suggested that the ommendation with the under- hydro lines be run along the old stand that tenders would be road allowance to the rear of ca j future main st which would remove j w ser run to the pro- them entirely from the street j pertv line average cost is 5750 and in tins way it would be pos- 1 with the additiona cost of sible to preserve the trees i his water meter about s20 the cus- move it was believed would tomei pavs tne meter charke appeal to many people who do but the s5 50 is incllld in the not object to progress but hate debenture issue to see the streets left in the con- complaints against pig raising in ring wood suburb whitchurch township council tions given a brine coat addi- has received a number of com- 1 tional calcium will be at vandorf plaints regarding the pigraising station this week he drew at- establishmentjust north of ring- tenfion to the fact that so many wood on the 8th concession j demands were being made in operated by bing yip because this department the expend of the numerous complaints council called for a report from the health unit this report was placed before the members on thursday even ing and stated that the health unit considered that the owner was making a minimum effort to control the fly menace and the offensive odours council mem bers expressed definite dissatis faction at the report stating sf m mj ihiihh minnie vuiiiiiiiiuhiiuutuiuntuitttl minim mnimnutiiuiiusuu iiitiiiiiitiiiutiuiiuiiiiuttttttul win hinniiimm uinuiiniiiis iiitiiiiimiinijiihiiiimuiujtjihmi luniinijiiinsiiijhj i uiiiuumii niiiiininmirjiimwjijj mmmuui mmiinmiitiitimm5jjuumiinm itinuiiiimnihujt luiimimnj diniiiiinnimthu ijmiiiihiiu luiuniiiiminnnii nuiiui i niiuiiiiiiliiiminihi i iiiilillluhl i iltiutaniimttis usinnit3rt iiitiii mimwfi iiiifiiumiiiiti v i ullujiuujg mlll41 f up am iimt mr w wants more action in subdiv development in whitchurch builder s mrs barkis reesor 81 of altona is a noted authority on early pioneer life in pickering township one of her many scrapbooks above contains a wealth of information on the life of the first settlers in the district site was a mem ber of the research commit tee of the altona womens institute a portion of this information appears on page 5 of this issue tures would be in excess of 1956 municipal bd approves cost of 2 twp bridges soccer tourney on labour day a six team soccer tournament will be held in the stouffville oak ridges church a communication has been received by whitchurch twp from the rector of st johns anglican church oak ridges expressing appreciation that the i taxes on part of lot 67 now be- ing used for church and sunday that they believed tlie health sc purposes have been re 1 unit was sidestepping its re sponsibility tlie clerk was in structed to advise the health unit that something more than a minimum effort was necessary as complaints were numerous shopping centre a communication from the health unit has left the next move in regard to the proposed shopping centre on outskirts of stouffville up to cedar pines jdevelopment council has ap proved the plan and the clerk was advised to communicate with mr femson the developer to find out his intentions donations council agreed on payment of the following list of donations for 1957 north york plowmen 550 markham fair 25 insti tute for the blind s25 salvation army 25 stouffville lions s10 aurora lions 10 oak ridges lions s10 oak ridges boy scouts 10 ballantrae 10 com munity centre board 50 re quests from the red cross and st johns ambulance were held over for consideration at the next meeting dust layer road supt davis reported that he was in receipt of a number of complaints in regard duced in 1957 the rector d c mitchell asked that some con sideration also be given to the taxes in 1956 when the church commenced use of the property assessment roll nears completion ah the primary work on the new stouffville assessment roll has been completed and there remains the book work or as sessor lloyd turner in order to have the new roll presented to council this fall the new assessment based on the widely accepted measured system is expected to raise stou- ffvilles assessment total from approximately 1 million dol lars to three million the ad justment to this increased figure will come in a lower rate tax bills for the 1957 levy have just been delivered by tax collector k r davis and while a great many householders are benefitting this year from the a communication was receiv ed by markham twp council on i monday evening approving the expenditure for a new bridge at cashel and one at cedar grove the new bridge at cashel hasi been required for some years since the present structure is ex tremely narrow and has given service for more than thirty years the cedar grove bridge was washed away in hurricane hazel and a baily bridge lias i memorial park on monday sep there j tember 2nd the third annual tourney will start at 11 am and will continue through until the evening the finals will be stag ed under the lights teams from brampton lind say collingwood uxbridge au rora and stouffville will take part the winner will receive the beautiful winterstein tro phy aurora captured the hon ours last year a new feature has been added to the holiday tournament with tlie holding of a banquet and dance in the evening in the vet erans hall stouffville music will be supplied by the sod bust ers the trophy presentation will be made at this time ad mission will be 75c twp withdraws offer to pay part of school addition been providing since that time bell phone increases council was advised by the bell telephone co that they j were requesting permission to increase their rates reeve clark expressed oppo sition to the granting of any in- unoa jctfl paisassns pun asiiaio cil express opposition however deputyreeve deacon stated that the return paid on the stock of tlie company did not show that bell was making any excessive profit and he doubted if the pres ent rates were sufficient to meet increasing costs reeve clark replied that when the farmers asked for a price floor in order to provide a mar gin of profit they were told to reduce costs he suggested that line ruac diidim the telephone company should nik j lhaj ruvkkllni try this method i active in area ill oppose development funeral services were held on a meeting of the municipal satw afternoon at audley board is to be held at maple at united church for the mrs 930 am on august 26th at charies puckr the church which time opposition will be was fllied t0 capadtv and a mass heard to two large new resident- 1 ot floral tributes banked the cas tal developments proposed for ket tributes to a life of active vaughan township councillor kathleen james stated that if approval for these subdivisions went ahead it was rumoured that three new public schools would be required as well as another new high school in this case markham would be involved considerably financially as the township is included in the richmond hill high school area as well as the public school area which covers this district markham will be represented at the hearing next monday large reduction in the tax rate to dust as the present township many business places are facing supply was exhausted he re- a much heavier levy first in- ported that he had contacted stalmcnt payment on this years miller paving and had some sec- 1 taxes is due in september door to door canvas nets over 4000 for hospital the 172000 needed by the uxbridge cottage hospital board to pay off a debt owing to the l c scott construction company and complete the pro ject has now been cut to s1s000 according to information received this week from mr fred taylor a member of the board mr taylor revealed that in a onenight doortodoor cam paign in the township of brock plus additional donations a to tal in excess of 1000 was re ceived mr peter bernhardt of uxbridge headed the drive the court hearing which was lo have been held on thursday aug 15th was postponed until aug 29th the board hops that j due to their- recent successes another adjournment may be granted when the 100000 is collected to pay off the construc tion compiny- a 72rv provin cial government gram will be forthcoming two separate campaigns will be conducted this week mr john lowe of uxbridge a for mer county warden will head a drive covering the business section of the town mr gordon mckellar will head a campaign to cover the industrial section both drives will be conducted on friday success is in view said mr taylor he said he would wel come any financial assistance that might be forthcoming from stouffville im sure many stou- ftvihe residents would be served by an uxbridge hospital he noted the scarboro hospital is filled to the doors and the east general is the same he continued he pointed out that both drs f j button and d w brodie of stouffville were lending the project their sup port markham max ox twp force wm gunn a resident of markham village has been ap pointed to the markham town ship police force he replaces mr john mcghee of richmond hill the former markham pc is a sergeant in a canadian ar my band and is stationed at camp borden births brown dent and carley happily announce the arrival of a daughter beth dianne on august 8th 1957 a sister for david and susan sanderson alan and doria sanderson announce the hirth of their son william anthony on august 17th at comox ac service in community work the deceased was a member of the united church the wom ens auxiliary and the womens auxiliary to the ajax and pick ering general hospital she was born in manchester new hampshire marjorie viola french until her late teens mrs puckrin lived in oshawa in 1919 she married charles puckrin and spent the remainder of her life in the audley district left to mourn dicr passing are one daughter helen mrs mac hedge two sons richard of audley earl of oshawa and four grandchildren three sisters also survive ethel mrs wm bell whitby flora of audley and gladys mrs isaac puckrin whitby two brothers william and gor don predeceased her interment was made in salem markham township council balked on monday night at be ing bound by a number of legal clauses in their offer to pay a share of si 10000 addition to markham village high school and in a sudden move withdrew their offer to pay any share of the cost the resolution to with draw their offer was presented by deputyreeve deacon and councillor mumberson and was not opposed markham township had a- greed to pay 57243 of the cost of- the addition amounting to 6269730 leaving the village with only 42727 or 4703270 to bear at monday nights meeting of the township council the clerk advised council that no consent to this arrangement had been forthcoming from markham vil lage deputyreeve deacon sug gested that the village council be telephoned on the matter and this was done the deputyreeve was advised that a reply would be sent immediately to the town ship but that it would express consent to the townsliip offer with the exception that the town ship would bind itself in the a- greement that the figures would not have any bearing or be taken as any precedent as regard fig ures in the school cost budget already in dispute the reply reached the town ship council about 10 pm and presented the following clauses to which the township was ask- winning runs to score twobase blows by bob petch and mike huggins pushed markhams runs in aurora counted a lone tally in the sixth on spider gibsons triple and an error ed to agree 1 that any agreement does not prejudice any prior negoti ation or dispute affecting divis ion of liability for annual high school requisitions or future matters outside the scope of this agreement 2 that the definition of equalized assessment be on the basis of the division as set out in the information required by the dept of education municip al report for school money for current year 3 the period of debentures to be agreed on 4 agreement to be- approved by the solicitor of the village of markham 5 access to be permitted to townsliip tax rolls markham township council considered that any such strings to their offer were un necessary and cast a reflection on their good faith thornhill library a bylaw was passed in con nection with the vote of the res idents of thornhill to raise the amount of 665250 for a public library only those markham twp residents within police village limits of thornhill will vote on the money bylaw mr grills a property owner in the shields subdivision on the 4th con of whitchurch ap peared before the township council on thursday night com plaining of the lack of services on roads etc in the develop ment he said he would like to see the property placed on a better basis as many people would build desirable homes there if assured of some serv ices mr grills built a valuable property on the subdivision and resides there the year round however this is contrary to the bylaw under which the sub division was established as it was supposed to be a colony of summer homes which would on ly be used in the summer season and would not develop any school problem mr grills was advised by council that the roads in the subdivision could not be ac cepted by the township as the dept of highways would not permit thctaking over of roads with only 16 ft width of shallow gravel the department de mands a gravelled width of not less than 22 ft grills asked that council take steps to amend the bylaw so that the subdivision could be developed on a permanent basis councillor williams questioned the wisdom of such a move in view of many persons having j secured lots and built summer homes only used for a couple of months councillor wylie agreed that the property was desirable and eventually would develop into a permanent homes subdivision in his address to council grills stated that he might accept a nomination for the board he said he would interview all the residents in tlie area and obtain a signed petition for a change of the bylaw and he will also interview mr shields and get some action regarding the road requirements for the dept of highways consumers gas line the consumers gas company is now laying out the routes for the pipe line to service areas in and near wilcox lake while the company has the reputa tion of giving good service in replacing of all property when digging lines it was thought by council that it was desirable to have them pipe line routes ap proved by babcock scrivener engineers for the township would open littleused road a delegation composed of mr harry fry of whitchurch and mr and mrs e wood of toron to appeared before council to request that the road allowance on con 2 lots 15 and 16 be put in serviceable condition this is in an area just northwest of gormlcy mr fry stated that it was possible to drive a car for about 80 rods into the prop erty in 1921 a heavy storm took out the bridge over the stream that runs through the property and it has never been replaced however the bridge problem does not affect mr woods as he only wishes to gain access part way the nesbitt family of aurora former owners and operators of the highland golf course pur chased a farm in the same lo cality last spring and are pre paring a new golf course tlie opening of this sidcroad would be a definite advantage to them deputyreeve richardson was in favor of the road being placed in use but mentioned that the budget for the year did not in clude any expenditure for this purpose and council could not promise action for next year as this would involve the 1953 council he suggested that if mr woods was prepared to pay for the gravel and having it spread on the road the township road de partment might see that the load was made passable as a temporary measure however road foreman davis said that the township road program was already behind schedule it was agreed that the road foreman committee would look over the location and report to the next meeting swim tests for local youngsters next ek gladioli show stouffville horticultural so ciety was awarded first prize for a basket of mixed flowers glads predominating at the in ternational gladioli show held at newmarket last week rev d macgregor of sault ste marie and former pastor of the baptist church in stouffville i will be tlie guest minister herel in the local church on sunday swimming tests for the local boys and girls at the stouffville community swimming pool are expected to be held the latter part of next week these tests which are judged by red cross examiners from toronto are for ail those swimmers from the junior class up fifty youngsters who are in the beginners class this year are being judged by the local swimming instructor mr bill murphy over fifty young peo ple are involved in taking the red cross tests bringing the total number receiving instruc tion to over the one hundred mark this is exclusive of the adult class the local lifeguards will be taking tests themselves this friday under the eyes of a city examiner in order that some may increase their proficiency standing trade fair next month the stouitvillo trade fair which has become such a pop ular fall event hero each year will stage its annual show in the local arena next imhith sept 262728 the local businessmen are now preparing for this annual exhibition and details of this years program will be an nounced within the next few weeks each year has seen new and varied booth displays of local merchandise and those in charge promise still more new features for the coming show aurora beats markham in 9th inning rally a pair of costly errors in the ninth inning paved the way for auroras 32 win over mark- hams aces in an oasa inter mediate b playoff game on monday loading 21 and with the contest practically in the bag markham allowed their au rora rivals to pull the game out of the fire in their final trip to the plate norm stundcn and don holrnan hit safely and jim paton was clipped by a wild pitch to load up the sacks er rors on andy closs and chuck cowie allowed the tying and an unusual vertical cement- slab building is being erected on winona drive west end of stouffville the structure new automotive parts stoie owned and operated by mr belfry hamilton the building will measure 50 x 100 it will when completed will be the be completed in november the concrete slabs made here in stouffville by fabri cated concrete specialties ltd measure ten feet in length by sixteen inches in width they arc held firmly in place with mortar and bolts according to mr hamilton this tyx of construction is rather unusral but is rapidly gaining in dc- maid j