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out faraffiriut dxtbttne d vol 69 no 16 the tribune stouffville ont thursday september 25 1958 twelve pages unionville main st paving tenders only half original estimate markham tdwnshlp council proceeded on monday with the opening of the tenders for the paving of unionville main st a project which has been under discussion fo many months the original estimate was 65- 000 but this figure was later lowered following certain chan ges in the work to be done the successful bidder was aprile contracting co and their price was s31 78750 top price asked was 4111690 and there were four firms bidding on the work engineers jorgenson chrys ler were in attendance as well as mr fianader of the dept of highways council accepted the aprile bid subject to the appro val of the highways depart ment target range a deputation from the willow rod gun club attended coun cil and requested permission to establish a target range and a conservation area in some low land in the first mile and a quar ter from yonge st as the bylaw does not permit of any firing of guns in that area it would be necessary to amend the bylaw the deputation said the land was low and only some five fam ilies resided in the area these were all related and quite in favor of the project council decided they would in spect the area and were advised to wear rubber boots stricter control asked york county health unit re quested council to give more strict enforcement of the bylaw in regard to dog control in view of the epidemic of rabies council stated that a general inoculation of dogs in the twp would take place in the next week councillor watson stated that it would apply to the dogs with owners but he was interested in those running at large without owners councillor mumberson said he did not think the present dog catcher was available for suffi cient time and he suggested the position be advertised as the police stated they found it diffi cult to contact the present dog catcher either day or night paving contracts the contract for paving of one mile on the 9th con was given to beamish construction company for a price of 10239 the contract for paving on don mills rd to victoria st went to millerpavingcd 2960 also the yard around the municipal bldg for l067 dissatisfied deputy reeve dean stated he was disappointed at the price at which the twp had sold the debentures to dawson hanni- ford co that being 20 yr 5 sold at 9650 he was not at the meeting due to the death of his mother he suggested that in future the twp offer all issues on a firm bid basis reeve clark said the present market was very un settled and this was the best price the township could ob tain refuse license the police comm brought in a recommendation that the ap plication of g hamil for a license to operate a taxi be re fused it was not considered the field offered sufficient opportun ity to provide a satisfactory re turn council agreed to the rec ommendation of the committee goodwood airport approved by council uxbridge township council meeting in special session last week gave their approval to the proposed private airfield to be located on lots 22 and 23 one and a half miles north of- good wood reeve earl dowswell made the announcement this week the reeve informed the trib une that the department of transport had given tentative approval to the project messrs koblensky and bullock of wil- lowdale homes ltd markham mr murray their solicitor and real estate agent charles reeve of markham approached the council with their plans at their regular meeting on sept 8th mr p a byer from winnipeg is presently visiting the byer homes on the 8th con of mark ham mr byer is a brother of the late jess byer and mr nels byer stouffville he went to western canada about fifty years ago and remained in the winnipeg district ever since mr byer told the tribune that he is enjoying the beauty of fall in ontario and liked picking apples the first time in many many years he will celebrate his 72nd birthday while here on the visit trade fair opens thurs stouffvilles annual trade fair which has come to be looked on as one of the high light fall events swings open this thursday night the war den will officially open the show on thursday night and there will be entertainment each evening including organ music a regular feature of the show will be the nightly lucky draws of various exhibitors there are a number of new exhibits and space this year has been at a premium with a number of exhibitors being unable to get into the show this annual exhibition has steadily grown in popularity and some eight thousand per sons are expected to attend the show is open evenings as well as saturday afternoon whitchurch twp couple together for fifty years tuesday sept 23rd marked the fiftieth wedding anniversary of mr and mrs george barkey 7th con of whitchurch twp this fine local couple celebrat ed the occasion at their home where they were the recipients of many beautiful gifts as well as hearty congratulations from about 80 friends and neighbors from toronto cannington brad ford newmarket stouffville and the local community among the gifts was a pair of table lamps from the second mark ham baptist church many beautiful baskets of flowers decorated the home the tea table centred with golden dahlias and tall yellow tapers was presided over by mrs f l button miss elizabeth foote mrs david stouffer and mrs bruce hcise during the evening mr and mrs barkey cut their beautiful ly decorated anniversary cake mr geo barkey and alberta stouffer were married by the late rev herman moore at the home of the brides parents mr and mrs chris stoufter 8th con of whitchurch on the north farm now owned by mr geo rodanz and a son howard residing with his parents mrs barkey has two brothers living dave of stouffville and chris of brad ford chris was groomsman at the wedding fifty years ago mr and mrs barkey attended the 6th line baptist church where in earlier years mr bar- key was ss supt and also leader of the choir both were musically minded as mrs bar- key had been an active member of the stouffville methodist church choir before her mar riage mr barkey was an ardent horseman and was always the owner of a fine team of horses this esteemed couple have spent their entire married life at their present home and their many friends wish them many more years of happiness contract let for road culverts abotor construction co was the successful bidder for the work of installing culverts on lots 15 and 16 in con 4 and lots 4 and 5 in con 5 the price will be 6300 and the tender which was one of five received was approved by the dept of high- whitchurch tp reverses decision for wrecking yard on 5th concession miss marjorie barber public school teacher at ss no 7 whitchurch gormley in structs her 31 pupils during an afternoon reading class miss barber is a graduate model from the walter thornton school toronto she claims there is more security in the teaching profession she may return to modelling but only on a parttime basis gormiey girl is model teacher twentyone year old marjorie barber of gormley is a model teacher in charge of 31 pupils in grades 3 4 and 5 at ss no 7 whitchurch miss j3arher mjss barber- would en- passed up the opportunities of a promising modelling career in order to follow the teaching pro fession she is a graduate of the walter thornton modelling school in toronto the pretty blonde haired gormley girl expresses no re grets on changing from a full- time model to a fulltime teach er i love teaching she stated firmly im sold on it miss barber noted however that she was considering a return to the modelling profession on a sat urday parttime basis residing with her parents mr and mrs harry barber on a 4th concession farm near vic toria square marjorie barber attended the richmond hill district high school follow ing graduation she completed a course in the walter thorn ton school her professional modelling services were acquir ed by a number of toronto firms including creeds fur co her young career was further assistance in her present career it gives a girl selfconfidence she said both with the boys and girls and with adults aside from the teaching pro- joy the work of an air hostess i think it would be a wonder ful life she said mr lacy who owns property in the district of lot 26 con 5 headed a delegation before whit church council on thursday objecting to a wrecking yard be ing permitted on lot 26 con 5 which was voted on and per mission granted by council on august 21st to coleman motors reuben e cappe owner mr lacy presented a peti tion signed by 22 persons some eight being at the meeting he stated that such a yard would depreciate the property of the entire area reeve legge said he was not opposed to the yard provided the owner lived up to the by law he stated he had resided near a wrecking yard for some 37 years and did not find it ob jectionable mrs gibb said that mr lacy phoned her and expressed his objection which she considered was more of an objection to the nationality of the person going to operate the yard than to the yard itself she had isited the property on sept 18th and could only find one property on which it would have an adverse effect deputy reeve richardson sug gested that the matter be re opened with consent of the mov er and seconder reeve legge closed off this discussion by tell ing the deputy he was out of order richardson stated he would get some action later mr riddle another owner asked if he might speak and stated he owned property in the district worth some 35000 and he wished to protect his invest ment mr mcmillan another of the deputation asked reeve legge if council had ever taken such action on a previous occasion in regard to a wrecking yard he referred to the one proposed at vandorf and which the people opposed by petition and the per mission was not granted clerk crawford stated that no license had been issued as the land owners had not complied with the bylaw in that they had not erected a fence around the proposed yard when mr lacy was speaking reeve legge asked him why the opposition at this date to which lacy replied he did not know anything about it until he read it in the press several others stated they had no knowledge of the proposal but one resident said he had known of it few some months deputy reeve richardson and councillor williams stated they had not voted for the motion reeve legge asked if they had voted against it and they re plied that no opposition vote was called reeve legge stated it might be necessary to poll council on all votes in future in order that the record would show how they stood he contended coun cillor williams had supported the motion and there was a warm verbal exchange as wil liams stated he did not like the implication councillor wallwork the mov er of the resolution stated that in order to clear the air he would make a resolution to rescind the original motion pass ed in august he was supported by councillor williams that the resolution of august 21st granted coleman motors reu ben e cappe owner to open a salvage yard class a on lot 26 con 5 in the township of whit church be rescinded on a recorded vote the res cinding motion passed williams and richardson supporting and reeve legge and mrs gibb be ing opposed phone company drivers have accidentfree record six members of the mainten ance staff of the bethesda stouffville telephone co were honoured at a special dinner on tuesday evening in recognition of their safedriving records mr bob crowe auto under writer for the zurich insurance co presentedsvfessrs del nings and clayton tarr each with tenyear pins lloyd jen nings with an eight year pin highlighted by winning the miss lankly that she never markham fair title in 1955 had been approached with re gard to such a career it might be fun but i would miss barker provides per sonal instruction for pretty grade 3 pupil eight year old ellamae hunking although she once dreamed of becoming a high school phys ed in structress her plans were altered when she suffered a broken back in a toboggan accident in spite of these successes miss barber never lost sight of her goal the teaching profes sion her desire to become a high school physical education instructress was dealt a real blow when she tumbled off a to boggan and suffered a broken back she then decided to be come a public school teacher and enrolled at toronto teach ers college in september she commenced her second year at the gormley public school miss barber believes that her the congenial countryborn j d woolven arid herman girl holds a strong preference thompson with six and bill kirton with four mr jennings has actually had an accident- free driving record jvith ihe company of thirtynine years and mr tarr 29 the other men have all had accidentfree rec ords for the length of time they have been with the company the tenyear pin is the highest award given by the insurance company the dinner at the summit restaurant was arranged by the telephone company to honour the drivers mr glenn ratcliff president expressed the com panys appreciation for the fine record established by these staff members mr ken laushway ideal zurich insurance agent introduced mr crowe who made the presentations he stated that the company insured nearly twelve hundred truck fleets from four to four hundred trucks each and this was the first time that tenyear awards had been made an outstanding achieve ment for the rural school she be lieves that the pupils in the smaller suburban schools appre ciate their teachers efforts more than in the urban areas i think it is only right that a girl should render some service to the community where she has been raised she stated her brightlylit classroom re flects the neat and trim appear ance of the teacher the walls are decorated with original pieces of art work completed by the pupils schoolgrown flow ers and plants add an air of colour to the class the students are unusually quiet and well- mannered miss barber expressed little or no desire to extend her mod elling ability into the fame and fortune of movie star life she modelling course has been some repeated certainly want to give the idea a lot of thought she said with a smile comparing a career or mod elling to the teaching profession miss barber admits that both have their advantages she noted however that over a pe riod of years modelling lacked the security that a teaching car eer afforded she admitted that in any profession one must en joy her work in order to be suc cessful i love teaching she ways engineer mr p breith- the couple had two children i aupt highest tender received b daughter evelyn deceased was 12172 properties on may avenue at an early date to decide on what action could be taken to meet the request lawrence hennessey of van dorf and owner of some 400 feet frontage on don mills rd re quested permission to sell a lot to the slater lumber co in order that they might erect a warehouse which would also serve as a display room for the products handled by the com pany mr hennessey stated it was quite likely mr slater would also erect a residence on the lot he assured council that the assessment to be obtained would be desirable council referred the request to planning board at a meeting to be held on the evening of sept 19th town offered stop lights for main street j approve purchase of new street signs council completed arrange ments thursday night for pur chase of new street signs in stouffville sufficient to handle house numbering should this be proceeded with another year the report brought in by deputyreeve burkes committee called for 48 signs to cost 44705 and 47 posts to cost 11280 for a total of s55985 two previously unnamed streets will be included they will be civic street running from main st south towards the theatre and commercial st running between church and mill sts at the rear of the stores councillor farr suggested that possibly the lions club could give some assistance in the atreet numbering project as they had done in other munici palities councillor wagg point ed out that clerk ralph corner was chairman of the civic im provement in the club and the matter was left to his commit tee for consideration finance councillor wagg chairman of the finance committee report ed on the various securities held by the municipalities in the various departments the- committee recommended the re investment of 21500 of 3 bonds and council concurred this amount includes s9000 in the thos williamson fund 3500 in the cemetery upkeep account 4000 in the sinking fund for stolen debentures and 5000 belonging to the water works department local student attends royal military college mr peter wallis a former stu- 1 following his completion of dent at the stouffville district his college year mr walis plans i to enroll in a four year course high school has been selected for entry in the royal canadian navy as a cadet and has enroll ed at the royal military college in quebec he is the son of mr ind mrs thomas stanley wal lis mover st stouffvilfe in order to qualify for entry into the college it was neces sary for peter to complete a summer course at the univer sity of toronto he obtained an excellent standing of s6ci councillor farr of the police committee announced to stouff ville municipal council on thurs day night that stop lights could be obtained for main street at no cost to the municipality with the exception of a little hydro to operate them the lights would be the conventional red amber and green lights and could be op erated manually automatically or as a flasher councillor farr said that they would be installed by the department of highways without charge court of revision stouffville council has named the 1958 court of revision mem bers by bylaw and approved them the members of this years court are messrs erie lehman ira rusnell jack gar rett harold wood and ed log an they will receive 10 a day remuneration disposal plant good ontario water resources commission report revealed that the operation of the local sew- age disposal plant was good and bethesda farmer loses cow with rabies a holstein cow on the farm of mr fred allin bethesda diedf rom rabiesjastweek an other whitchurch twp farmer mr ross harper also lost one animal tests proved that it was rabid theailins cow became sick on tuesday of last week it died on saturday stouffville veterinarian dr ron smith treated the animal when it showed rabies symptoms an official from the dept of agri culture was notified he sub stantiated dr smiths diagnosis both mr fred allin and his son murray are receiving antirabies shots dr smith is also receiv ing shots correction in prize list markham fair officials would draw attention to a cor rection in the fair prize list on page 59 in this instance the class should read shet land ponies instead of reg istered shetland ponies and in addition the sentence ex hibitors must be members of canadian pony society should be ommitted town council oks annexation in principle stouffville municipal council of the land which it was pro- meeting on thursday evening posed to annex might remain approved in principle the rcc- as farm land for some time but ommendation of the local plan- that the town did not have suffl- mng board for annexation of cient land in quantity blocks to additional land to stouffville display to wouldbe industrial at the kingston military college it is linked with queens univer sity in kingston he may if he desires take one year in the oxford or cambridge universi ties mr wallis will be a fully qualified electrical engineer fol- j police were requesting a light lowing the completion of his i at the corner of mill and main university course council agreed that councillor mr and mrs wallis were noti- farr should get a letter of au- fied of their sons scholastic sue- 1 thorization from the it was suggested that the effluent tests which are made corner of mill and main sts each week were classed al could be well served by such this information which was re lights where police could operate i reived by council was passed on them manually at busy times i o the plant operator mr fos- main st and church was also diek another intersection where they could be used it was believed a resolution proposed by coun cillor wagg and councillor farr called for council to take steps to proceed with annexation and to hold a meeting with the local planning board and the county assessor councillor lehman led off the discussion on the subject of an nexation following the presen tation by reeve daniels of a resolution from planning board recommending that council take steps to annex approximately two thousand acres of land sur rounding stouffville councillor lehman said that in his opinion the chief concern of the farmers whose land it was proposed to annex would be land assessment while it was agreed that all the munici palities concerned were working under measured assessment some it was believed the town would be using a- much higher rate than the townships reeve daniels said that it was most important for stouffville to have the goodwill of the resi dents concerned in the annexa tion councillor farr said that he buyers councillor lehman said that he knew some who were not in terested in disposing of their land reeve daniels said that this was realized but that there were possibly others who would welcome the opportunity of be ing within thescorporationand having access to town services we must- be prepared to tell the residents whose land we wish to annex what we have to offer said reeve daniels approve plan council agreed to pass a reso lution approving of a new plan of subdivision on land belong ing to c e watson tenth st the subdivision contains 61 lots and has access to both main st and tenth recommendation for approval was presented to council by the planning board rabies clinic here today annual meeting councillor farr said that the tne 25th annual meeting of waswiliing iogo aiongwith jp the ontario minor hockey asso- the idea since the planning ciation will be held at the king edward hotel in toronto on saturday november 22nd 1958 for information on how to enter dept oftthe omha write to the sec- cess by lieut w h lang of highways on the matter of jretiry 75 parkview hill crcs the royal canadian navy lights 1 toronto 16 telephone pl93823 board believed that it was neces sary councillor wagg said that he believed stouffville must annex additional land and proposed the resolution reeve daniels said that much a lire vaccination anti- rabies clinic is being held in stouffville today thursday from 10 am to 1 pm at the fire hall main street dog owners should take advantage of this free clinic provided by the dept of agriculture the clinic will move to the markham arena from 3 to 8 pm