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blv touffiriue br vol s3 no 32 the tribune stouf fville ont- thursday january 15 1959 fourteen pages must have action now for more town water reeve lehman tells puc weve got to have action could provide the plans and and weve got to have it right estimates for whatever job it away to get more water reeve j was agreed should be done gar lehman declared before i dr ball chairman was asked the stouffville public utilities i to get in touch with the water commission on wednesday i resources commission immedl afternoon lately and a meeting has now unless we get moving on been arranged this water situation we might it is evident that development as well stop building right at the east end of town could how the reeve continued its not proceed until the water pro- 1 been put off and put off and blem was roved and before now theres got to be something there was any statement on de- done he declared benturing the reeve thought the old reservoir is only a that the entire problem of fin- mud hole and theres no pros- ance would have to be taken markham twp council approves debenturing dicksons hill school snow is no problem the snow problem is no formed into a versatile snow- it is an excellent means of use a similar conveyance in problem for murray daniels mobile equipped with skis transportation on lake sim- f park street stouffville at a and tracks the machine can coe during the icefishing sea- oraer to reacn nls patients cost of 250 his 1946 model travel through waist deep son a number of years ago wno lived on snowblocked chrysler car has been trans- drifts with comparative ease dr h b freel of stouffville rural roads transport bd reserves decision on goodwood station until thursday uxbridge township council was advised on monday that the board of transport com mission had reserved their de cision on whether or not to close down the goodwood cn- r station until this thursday jan 15th the decision was pre- viously scheduled to be given ondec 26th mr wm lawson reeve of pickering had presented the uxbridge township brief to the board he had drawn attention to the fact that the taxpayers of that district had absorbed 50000 of the original cost which he thought placed them in a position to ask for contin ued service he also cited the fact that proposal was before council for an airfield and a race car track near goodwood which he ex pected would increase both pas senger and freight traffic mr lawson said that if the railroad would renovate the sta tion yards he thought it would be conducive to increased busi ness in conclusion he had request ed a delay of five years during which time it was expected the rea would show a large devel opment marldiams new buildings valued at v2 million dollars the total value of the new buildings erected and repaired in the township of markham during 1958 reached the figure of 145546000 according to the markham building report the 84 new dwellings which were erected were valued at the sum of 90850000 and were the main expenditure on the building report additions and repairs to other dwellings real- ized a figure of 14190000 and together with the new dwell ings and the new accessory buildings gave a sum of 1- 10303000 with the erection of 15 new commercial and industrial dr ball gets second term puc chairman at the inaugural meeting of the stouffville public utilities commission on wednesday dr s s ball was reelected as chairman for 1959 elmer dan iels former reeve was appoint ed secretary of the commission at an annual salary of 4000 the commission in their first meeting dealt with wages of employees mr gordon brown maintenance man for the hydro was reengaged with a salary increase from s3900 to 4300 his work entails that he be on 24hour call with no additional remuneration for emergency work mrs mcphail stenographer was engaged on a permanent basis at a salary of 45 per week an account from the con struction company installing the services in the davis sub division for 580 for hydrants was denied it was pointed out that they had been advised that the original plans showed these hydrants as part of the sub- dividers responsibility a resolution by the commis sion accepted the grade level of the water shutoffs according to the davis subdivision plan reeve lehman sitting for his first time as member of the commission said that 550 volt power would be wanted on low er tenth st within two months and he was giving suffcient no tice so that there was no holdup fined 10 a minute for beating red traffic light buildings 15177500 was stat ed as the valuation in ie pub lic buildings section of the re port 7000000 was shown as the expense of a new pump house for the markham twp water supply system this evi- dently was the most costly of the buildings erected over the year of 195s at the vandorf traffic court on tuesday gert norgaard was fined a total of 20 and costs for driving through a red light at aurora road crossing in evidence the officer stated that the accused on being stop ped complained that the lights took too long to change and he therefore carried on through heavy fines for constant offender a total of 103 and costs in fines was imposed on mike slo- bodean when he appeared at the vandorf traffic court on tuesday he was charged with overloading on three offenses and for the first offense a fine of s23 and costs was given the second offense realized a fine of 30 and costs and the third a fine of 50 and costs the officer stated in evidence that the accused was a con stant offender of the traffic laws second endorsement for speeding the magistrate at the van dorf traffic court was amazed to find that the license held by richard cherry of cooksville already had one endorsement on it for 195s cherry had been charged with speeding through a restricted area at thornhill where his speed was said to have been 54 mph cherry drove in the toronto area as a salesman and on november 27th i was apparent that he had neglected to ob serve the speed signs when travelling off the main roads the magistrate warned cher ry that under the merit sys tem he could if not more care ful in the future find himself off the road a fine of 25 and costs with the alternative of 5 days was awarded to the accused oversized tires gave speed when accused at the vandorf traffic court on tuesday of speeding in a 30 mile zone malcolm churchill of hamilton pleaded that the oversize tires he had fitted to his car werej responsible for an inaccurate speedometer reading he was fined 25 with costs and his license endorsed when the court observed that though his speedometer reading was distorted by ten miles his speed was 25 miles above the speed limit in king twp evidence proved that church ill had previously passed two signs before he was caught by a radar car on november 13th no christmas spirit a load of christmas rees caused a minimum fine of 5 with costs to be imposed on harold watson when he was found guilty of carrying a load in excess of the allowed width in evidence he stated that the weight of the load had caused it to spread and he had had no intention of breaking the law mud in his eye- in giving his evidence at the vandorf traffic court on tues day william brock of willow- dale said that after trailing twp heavy trucks for a consider able distance he finally manag ed to pass them but the dirt off the road had been thrown onto his windshield by the vehicles in front and had caused his vision slight inter ference so that he had not realized that he was in a 30- mile zone he also said that he was from the west wide open spaces and that he had not been used to dense traffic the officer in his evidence slated that brock had already passed three signs before com ing to the radar car the magistrate told him that in future he must keep his car in a condition allowing good visibilty and awarded him 20 costs and endorsed his license sure at the east end the reeve went on mr ed neville public utili ties commissioner said that he realized something had to be done but it would take four months to do it we can either put a booster pump on the present mains or build an aerial tank near the east end of town mr neville said it was pointed out that cedar pines development co is anx ious to start at once to open up a subdivision of sixty new homes on the watson property and expected an answer from council this thursday night on what the terms of the sub division agreement would be members felt that the water resources commission should be called in to ascertain for the town what was the best course of action the suggestion was made that a new source of wa ter could be developed in the northeast part of town where it was known that springs abounded up by council and the picture placed before the sub dividers secretary elmer daniels said that whatever plans the puc school at dickson s hill had for developing more water at a recent meeting of the they would have to be approved ratepayers of school section markham township council i new school may be heating by meeting on monday evening electricity the installation ot approved the issuing of 10000 such a system is far cheaper in debentures to cover the cost i than conventional heating sys- of erecting a new 2room public terns although the mainteri- com- by the water resources mission reeve asks more lights what about the commission putting up more lights in the old part of town asked reeve lehman people are stumbling up the roads and having to jump out of the way of cars weve got a lot of dark holes he said even some better bulbs in the fixtures we have would be better than nothing he said we plan to convert the old fixtures on main st to use in the residential section said mr neville but when asked reeve leh man lights have been ordered a long time now and none of them are up yet he added the meeting adjourned to meet again when the date had i been fixed to meet the water mr neville said his firm 1 resources commission unemployed to clear brush in whitchurch tp need bulldozer to open uxbridge roads road supt stan slack re porting to uxbridge township council on monday stated that a number of roads in the town ship were still snowbound and it would be necessary to secure a bulldozer to break the solid banks mr slacks road department accounts for the last month totalled 300792 council agreed to advertise for tenders for a new truck complete with hoist and box plow and wing tenders to close on jan 21th flood control pump not responsible for goodwood drought says reeve whitchurch township coun cil will seek permission from the provincial welfare dept to use unemployed residents to clear brush on township roads under the current winter works programme the municipality- would receive a 75 percent gov ernment grant this decision was reached at a meeting of council on thursday night councillor mrs elsie gibbs noted that there were many men out of work in the town ship but were not obtaining re lief welfare officer geo crit tenden will be requested to pre pare a list of the unemployed who might be available lor such work it was pointed out that the township of king was com pleting several ditching pro jects under a similar scheme reeve geo richardson suggest ed that immediate action should be taken on the matter a three man delegation was appointed to present the request in a per sonal interview with the dept of welfare parliament bldgs toronto this week cash relief for the month of december amounted to 277461 nccl two trucks road supt e davis inform ed council it would be neces sary to replace two township trucks shortly he noted that one dump truck was ten years old and a smaller vehicle was purchased in 1953 and had been driven 75000 miles council agreed to tender for two trucks if approval is received from the dept of highways more sand the recent spell of icy roads has drained the townships sup ply of sand road supt davis informed the members that a quantity of sand had been of fered to the township without charge by mr montgomery of musselmans lake he said that if it was suitable it could be drawn in township trucks reject two lois the york county health unit has refused to apjove two front lots in the ratcliff sub division due to inadequate drainage the unit has stipu lated that lots one two and three must be considered as only one this woul cut the proposed subdivision down to eight lots instead of the orig inal ten the road into the sub division has been approved by the dept of highways livestock claims livestock claims in the town ship during the past year amounted to 43500 this am ount included 33500 for sheep 2500 for cattle and 7500 for chickens a total of 16 sheep were killed and an additional 8 were injured eighty chickens were killed dog tax collected amounted to 140000 no 17 a vote of 27 for 1 resi dent opposed agreed on the proposed new site while the vote was unanimous that the school be erected the proposed new site to cost 6000 is for three acres of land on the wm riseborough farm on the west side of the 8th concession and south of the present school the present dicksons hill school is closed and the pupils are being transported to school in stouffville ss 17 is some one hundred years old and has been crowded to overflowing the last few years an interesting feature of the ance is slightly higher the board is studying the proposed electrical system under the present assessment in the section it is estimated that the annual debenture pay ment would be approximately 4000 which would be 944 mills on the tax rate in commenting on the deben ture- approval reeve clark commented i still think that 40000 to build a 2room school or 20000 a room is an exorbit ant price he expressed the thought that some local con tractor could have erected th building for much less deputyreeve dean said that the board was forced to hire an architect which always run the cost up henry ogden named chairman of planning bd aprile construction co are making headway with the new sewer lines on edward and sec ond streets wood to mr and mrs ted wood stouffville on friday january 9th at rhe brierbush hospital stouffville a son randy lee a brother for ted dy henry ogden was elected chairman of the stouffville planning board when this board met in inaugural session on thursday evening mr ogden replaced mr nolan who declin ed to accept a third term as chairman because of other com mitments mr reg mckay was elected as vicechairman of the board mr ralph corner is the secre tary the meeting dealt chiefly with a discussion- offuture develop ment how this development should be staged and what the percentage of industrial and residential should be a ten tative date of jan 29th has been set for a meeting with council and representatives of the met ro planning board and the dept of planning development the metro board has let it be known that in the main they favor residential development in the greater part of the land still in the corporation bound ary the local planning board has felt that the subdividers should provide a percentage of industry before homes are built which has brought up the mat ter of annexation this matter was posed in the following question at the meet ing if the subdividers are to be asked for forty percent in dustrial assessment where is the land unless by annexa tion reeve lehman said that the subdividers might be asked for additional services and capital help for water so that it might be possible to accept their hou ses without a full 40 indus trial assessment mr mckay thought that the developers should he asked for some specific contribution to- wards schools but mr thomp- such a clause in the subdlvislob son pointed out that the dept agreement two new teaehers on ps staff the stouffville public school board has acquired the ervices of two experienced teacherjt mrs helen mccowanof mapta was a former member on thi worth york staff she has re placed mrs windsor in the os chard park school mrs c r tilt of richmond hill has been appointed to the staff of th main street school she ha replaced mrs emmerson both teachers were highly reconv mended to the board they commenced their duties on jan 5th the inaugural meeting of th board was held on monday eve ning jan 5th me c w- herid- ricks is the new chairman th vice chairman is mrs ethel mole other committees corrt prise the following memborst finance committee keith middlemiss mrs reg button harry schell management com mittee mrs reg button mri ethel mole keith middlemis property committee harry schell wm malloy mrs ethql mole the first person named on each committee will act a chairman the second show at the park theatre on friday and satur day evening will commence at 830 pm of education would not perrjut residents of the hamlet of goodwood who in past years were plagued by a perennial upring flood problem are now suffering from a severe short age of water longtime resi dents in the village informed the tribune that the present drought is without equal in more than a quarter century a number of veteran villagers have placed the blame on the 35000 pumping system that was installed last summer by the metro conservation author ity in cooperation with the twp of uxbridge reeve eirl dowswell has discounted this theory the pumper hasnt remoed a single gallon of water from the hamlet commented the reeve the shortage is general not only in the township but throughout the county and much oi th province reeve dowswell noted how- ever that if the sytem is ever put into use in order to re move flood water from the area it is quite likely that it will constitute a drain on residents wells the residents were informed of the possible danger but they said they would be willing to i deepen their wells as long as the excess water was removed explained the reeve he said that the floodcontrol system was installed strictly as a pre cautionary measure and it might not be necessary to use it for many years mrs stan slack informed the tribune that four families were presently using water from their well she said it would yield six or seven pailfuls per day hut was being pumped dry the users are on strict water j ration the well on the property of mr john may has reached a twentythree year low the nor man slay family who reside next door also use it only two or three pailfuls are removed each day with a little cooperation we hope we can make it last out said mrs slay a number ofifesidents have had water broujx in from ux bridge by tank truck mrs jack todd told the tribune that 500 gallons was pumped into their cistern other persons who have used tank water are russell storry tom machesney cord todd and illis taylor mr john ashenhurst told the tribune that the majority of wells in the hamlet were very shallow he said he understood a number oi residents v ere planning to dig them deeper he discounted any thought that the recentlyinstalled pumper was responsible for the drought farmers in the area have been even more seriously af fected many are hauling water from pumps and creeks two or j three miles from their property others have been dependent on i weekly deliveries by tank truck mrs alger maye informed the tribune that their water supply has not been exhausted j to date their one well is only 1 17 feet deep their rattle are i watered from an open pond through the summer months the many farmers and house- j holders have been waiting and wishing for a muchneeded jan- uary thaw any continuance of the present drought would cause an even more serious i hardship before spring on christmas day dec 25 farm of warren rae rone 8 set of twins to be born on ihc the tribune cameraman with twin calves were born on the at baker hill it is the second rae xarm reta rae poses lor lae new arrivals 7