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landmark destroyed the centuryold residence of mr joseph pickett one mile north of balsam in ux- bridge township was burned to the ground in a spectacu lar blaze last week the owner was not home when the fire started fire brigades from uxbridge and claremont were unable to get near the house due to kneedeep snow drifts the property was pur chased recently by the metro conservation authority with the exception of a few art icles of clothing mr pickett lost everything in the blaze including his lifesavings of 59700 uxbridge tp sanding costs already double those of last year uxbridge twp- road supt stan slack presented a paysheet of 104935 on monday which when included with his accounts made a total of 5591387 this included one large item of 324111 for overhaul and new parts for the grader he stated that the account for sand would be double the a- mount spent in 1958 the twp maintain sand box es on the hills and the public have found them very useful during the icy periods this wint er new truck from patricks uxbridge twp council held a special meeting on jan 24th to open tenders on a new 5ton truck equipped with plow wing and box eight tenders were re ceived and of these the tender of patrick motors was lowest by aboiit 5100 the spread to the high was a difference of about 52500 council accepted the tender of patrick motors ltd of stouff- ville for s9s8922 gmc truck model 91013 complete with plow hoist wing and box and extra equipment amounting to 5465 to be added to the tender the price also includes the turning in of a second hand truck by the twp a 1952 l 180 the total price was 51035132 i too close to fire engine driver fined john robt haynes of milli ken was fined 520 and costs by magistrate kelley in button- ville court last week for driv ing his car at an unsafe dis tance behind a fire truck the charge was laid by pc allan chadwick of markham town ship police dept the incident occurred on jan 5th while a fire truck from markham village was proceed ing west along no 7 highway toward unionville they were answering a call to an outbreak in the j b and d co factory a fireman edward scays- brook informed police that the haynes car followed the truck at close range for a consider able distance and defied repeat ed warnings to drop back a mo torist is required to remain at least 500 feet behind a fire en gine former skater here wins senior title donald jackson 16 of osh- awa will compete for the world figure skating title in colorado springs colo later this month the young athlete captured the canadian mens senior cham pionship two weeks ago when he collected a total of 930 points he was awarded the north american title with a spectacu lar performance on saturday at varsity arena jackson was a former mem ber of a combined stouffville- oshawa figure skating club during the season of 195354 the annua meeting of the new uxbridge hospital board will be held on march 18th rtbnne vol 69 no 36 the tribune stouf fville ont- thursday february 12 1959 fourteen page3 puc engages hisey barrington to prepare water system plans stouffville public utilities commission meeting on wed nesday evening engaged the engineering firm of hisey barrington to prepare maps of the local municipal water sys tem mr hisey was present at the meeting and advised that his firm would commence work on the plans immediately the estimated cost of the survey is s7000 but mr hisey advised that the work would be done on a monthly basis and could be halted at any point three stages the engineers had submitted a proposed program which di vided the work into three sta ges in the first stage the muni cipality would be divided into three areas or wards and a map prepared of each the second stage would consist of inserting all existing water mains and lat erals showing size and location on completion of the plans it would then be possible to de cide on what extension of mains was required mr hisey said that only pipes of six inch size and greater could be classed as mains and all others including four inch are only laterals commissioner neville seated that he considered the erection of a tank at the east end of town as the only solution mr hisey said that this appeared desirable but the plan would be required before any definite decision could be made- reeve lehman stated that an expense of possibly 575000 at this time or later in the year might be difficult to absorb owing to the heavy expenditure for completion of the sewers he said that a proram of this extent in a period of three years might be more desirable and the market for debentures might be more receptive commissioner neville com mented that as the water and hydro departments were both revenue producing and protect ing the health of the popula tion he believed that the muni cipal board would authorize the expenditure reeve lehman stated that he had no desire to limit the ef forts of the board but as the commission had no authority to issue debentures it would re main for the council to make the decision on what debentures would be raised to advise trailer owners they are contravening bylaw uxbridge township council spent some time on monday dis cussing the parking of trailers in various locations in the township contravening the mun icipal bylaw council by resolution in structed the clerk to notify trail er owners that they are contra vening the township bylaw re garding the use of trailers in uxbridge council agreed to call for tenders for a warble fly inspect or spray machine operator and a supply of warble fly powder lions benefit game with dunnies nets crippled children 700 don jackson the exhibition benefit game on thursday night between the whitby dunlops and the stouff ville clippers netted the lions club over 570000 a sum of 5500 has been allocated by the lions organization for the on tario crippled childrens build ing campaign a crowd of over 1300 fans witnessed the con test whitby chalked up a 142 win although whitby iced a star- studded squad clipper netmind- er joe carpenter excelled in the stouffville goal he blocked total of 35 shots many of these sizzling drives were point- blank from inside the blueline or threeway passing efforts at close range his performance received repeated ovations from the huge crowd a lanky john henderson though pelted with 27 pucks appeared to handle the majority of shots with com parative ease clipper captain harold hodg son fired a picture tally he pic ked up a pass from lawrence gayman and deked henderson out of position to score george carey completed an equally fine effort to notch stouffvilles final goal the local centreman used winger stan thornington as a decoy and hit the target with a kneehigh flip shot two dunlop markers were counted with stouffville playing a man short stouffvilles former pro bob hassard turned in a fine hoc key performance for the dun- nies he fired three goals and assisted on one tom oconnor was also a three goal marksman for the world champs sid smith and geo samolenko each potted a pair sandy air pete babando fred etcher and alf treen counted singles phil nicholas had a number of fine chances to score but his drives were blocked on each occasion he was one of stouff villes best john ross harold hodgson grant edwards kev in oconnor ronnie guy and stan thornington each made good goalscoring bids but were stopped henderson robbed harold hodgson on a cleancut breakaway effort stouffvilles joe carpenter looked especially brilliant on shots from george samolenko and bob attersley in the second period tom o connor glanced a drive off the goal post during the betweenperiod in termissions spectators were treated to a fine exhibition of figure skating by karen lewis bettyann slack and jean win- terstein members of the stouff ville skating club they were presented with floral bouquets by mr ken laushway the flowers were donated by the stouffville floral co following the game the play ers and managements of both clubs were treated to refresh ments served in the arena to spend quarter million dollars on townline from gormley to yonge st york county road program they had a ruling by the ontario v y municipal board 52o0000 for the rebuilding of the townline between markham he stated the percentage paid and whitchurch townships by the county over a period of for hardtopping great amounts of fill hillcutting and widening are necessary of the amount to be spent the province will pay 50re metro toronto 25 and the county 25 full comple tion of the hardtopping of the townline east of stouffville to ontario county will also re quire 510000 of this years bud get one million dollars on the ta payers which they should not have paid road commissioner long who is a representative of metro on the board stated that while he did not exactly follow the fig ures of mr armstrong he did suggest whitchurch tp be x- assessed on 100 basis whitchurch twp council met volve a sum of s50 and after ast thursday night and was tentative i confronted with a proposal by the local assessor mr kennedy and the county assessor mr ed jones to assess the community on a 100cr basis rather than not think they showed a very i cxstin 70 s f ji following up their sugges- icpoit he din not agree that the ltion tsicisors stated that the commission had made every effort to hold the expenditure within the figures of the former year in order that no tax in crease would be required a few of the figures show in e approval s25 roads on subdivisions will ultimately be accepted into the road system of the township on completion of standard re quirements relief over 51000 road superintendent davis presented his accounts which totalled 5130811 and this sum is to j included the cost of hiring snow he individual taxes plows which amounted to 51500 i mr jones said that almost all i the general accounts amounted the requirements and the de- mun in the collntv 1 10 a figure of s and the relief accounts s418l27 this 52610568 on mand of the taxpayer ad ci chaneed or were reeve armstrong commented considering the change and this on an expenditure of s15000 would eventually realize a big r ih i v v connection with amounts advantage cqinl assessment ll sent vto take care of railway figures would result the coun- 2u cros a if the fig- 1 ai proposed to consider this mo- roads 54201229 on new con- tire included the total amount i tion spent engineer retty stated that while some indirect expen- 1 planning rccoiitntendations diture might be included in i a report on the councils spo- some other department on the meeting with the planning whole he thought the figure boaid on january 26th was correct discussed concerning the con- out by twenty men on two lo- regarding the item of s2600 trolling of the land divisions cations on the township roads allowance to the commissioners i cither by individual sale or by the council decided to arrange the warden slsted that the subdivision it was recommend- for the sale of these logs the expenditure since 1953 and amount had not been changed ed that a charge of 550 be im- lie claimed the assessment on for years and he thought it i posed for a single lot convev- 1 hvdro is the theme of this the people of the county was was time it was revised the ance and a cost of s10 for deeds issue of the tribune read the figure is continuously growing and the council expressed their concern for it is an increase of nearly 1500 over the month ly total road superintendent davis also requested instructions from the council concerning the dis posal of the logs and surplus wood which were resulting from the work being carried struction and maintenance the dept of highways con tributed 53573002 metro 51- 515571 and the countv of york s1710oi6 reeve armstrong of wood- bridge and warden in 1958 gave a set of figures showing too high he said the finance j suggestion was referred to fin- 1 to be checked the presentation big features on pages 9 10 and comm should be carciul until i ancc committee lor attention bl a suboivisjon plan would in- 11 ox this weeks paper markham twp to buy explosimeter markham township acted on monday night on the recom mendation of sgt clayton of the township police force to purchase an explosimeter at a cost of 511205 its use is to detect fumes that might result in an explosion sgt clayton is the townships fire prevent ion inspector building report total value of building in markham township in january was 5219000 of this amount 517000 was for dwellings and 5202000 for industrial buildings local man fined 25 plus costs mr les wilson lloyd ave stouffville was fined 52500 and costs by magistrate o s holl- inrake in newmarket court on monday a charge of creating a disturbance in a public place was laid by stouffville police chief frank edwards following a fracas which occurred in the stouffville arena on thursday evening feb 5th mr wilson pleaded guilty to the charge chief edvards told the court that the accused became in volved in a skirmish with play ers and spectators during a benefit h6ckey game he said he was drunk or almost drunk the chief said that mr wilson was finally removed from the arena he was making a general nuisance of himself question ed the magistrate the chief agreed stating that ordinarily he was a lawabiding citizen 1 cannot account for his ac tions he said i believe his family should be considered the chief contended that he be lieved mr wilson had been pro vided with alcohol by other par ties mr wilson speaking in his defence said he regretted what had happened i hope it wont occur again he said did you become excited by the hockey game asked the magistrate yes partly replied mr wil son the person who tries to laugh at himself rarely succeeds be yond a sickly grin it seemed ironical this week national electrical week that the power should be cut in stouffville necessitating this i weeks tribune to close forms j by noon whitchurch reeve chairman of county property reeve geo richardson of whitchurch twp has been nam ed as chairman of the york county property committee the committee presented their report on tuesday showing a list of proposed expenditures for 1959 they also outlined the posi tion of the health unit and childrens aid society as to oc cupancy and expense in the new county building wing the health unit occupies 6c23 square feet of the county building which includes a por tion of the lunch room the property committee the war den and commissioners the chairman of the health unit and the medical officer of health decided on a rent in the amount of 51185000 the rent includes heat water light and caretaking the rent is suf ficient to reimburse the county for the capital expenditure over a period of years therefore the initial capital cost will even tually be written off the department of welfare will reimburse the health unit 50 of approved expenditure the childrens aid society occupies 3756 square feet in the county building which also includes a portion of the lunch room it was decided that the childrens aid society be charg ed a rent of 52194 to be paid to the county to cover the cost of heat light water and care- taking for the year 1959 the county will receive a grant from the society to cover approximately 25 of the cap ital cost markham tp council turns down new air field application markham township council turned down the application for a new air field at locust hill when the matter came up for final decision on monday even ing the decision came on a re corded vote councillor mcneil supporting the field and council lors mumberson watson depu tyreeve dean and reeve clark voting against in discussing the proposed new air field reeve clark stated that all members had had ample time to give the matter full con sideration he said that the large number of ratepayers op posing the field could not be overlooked he did not consider the small increase in assessment as any great inducement deputyreeve dean stated that he was opposing the issue on the ground that the location was too close to the highway councillor watson said he re gretted to see the owner lose the sale of his property but he thought that the large number in opposition had to be consid ered councillor mcneil stated that his opinion had not altered and he favored the airfield as he did when it was first requested this farm has been owned by the same family for three gener ations and they have a right to consideration too he said councillor mumberson told council that he was most en thusiastic about the field when it was first applied for but he could no support it in the face of so much opposition increase reeves salary a bylaw is being prepared this week to increase the salary of reeve clark to 52500 a year ah members of council spoke in favor of the resolution calling for the bylaw reeve clark said that he would rather not have his sal ary changed unless considerat ion was given to all members however his council colleagues replied that he was devoting al most all his time to the position stouffville householders will be interested to know that the latest sample test of town wa ter by the health department graded al markham police had 487 calls markham township police answered a total of 467 calls during the last month the regular report revealed at mondays council meeting the cruisers covered 7659 miles twentysix accidents were investigated and 24 summons es issued dog complaints numbered 23 and breaking and entering numbered nine ton of gold from the jersey herd of mr donald matthews of gormley ont the cow chatsworth lodge standard irma 241149 has just been awarded a ton of gold certificate in 1461 days she produced 2077 lbs of fat irma is classified very good to qualify for this award a cow must produce at least 2000 lbs of fat in 4 consecutive years men injured in train collision earl brillinger and art wood both of stouffville are recover ing in the york county hos pital newmarket following a serious traincar crash between queensville and newmarket on friday afternoon the brillinger auto was tossed down a steep embankment when clipped by a cnr freight mr brillinger was pinned be hind the wheel of his wrecked car wood was thrown clear he suffered a dislocated shoul der and head cuts the shoulder was reset following a three hour operation on tuesday mr brillinger suffered concussion andrib fractures both men ex pect to be released from hos pital later this week the two men were proceeding north to the farm residence of bill jordan at queensville al though mr brillinger saw the approaching train he could not stop his car on the icy approach to the crossing rivals meet netminders john hender son left of the whitby dun lops and joe carpenter of the clippers hold a brief mid- same discussion prior to the start of the third period of thursday nights lions bene fit game both goalies turned in fine performances and their efforts were roundly ap plauded by more than 1300 fans carpenter was especial ly brillunt in the stouffville net blocking 33 shots