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l rttrant vol 69 net 51 toe tribune stouffviijui ont thursday may 2 1359 fourteen pages baraven developments ready to sign town subdivision agreement mr sneller consulting engi neer for baraven developments and solicitor mr conlin appear ed before stouffville municipal council on thursday night to make preparations for a sub division agreement covering the development of the cain prop erty east of summitview school solicitor conlin stated that no building could be anticipated be fore late fall or spring and reeve lehman assured the visi tors that the improvements in the towns water system should be completed by that time since all the land in this area including part of the a e booth farm south of the school playground has been zoned for residential it was deemed ad visable to lay a trunk sewer line south of main st to the dis- posal plant such a line would booth property and this the baraven representatives were preparing to obtain it is almost a certainty that at some future date the booth property will be subdivided and the line would be ijulred at that time so the logical course for the trunk line to go would be south of main st mr con lin stated the town presently has a subdivision plan on this entire area from the town park to the cemetery the new subdivision if it proceeds will contain between sixty and seventy homes as well as five or six commercial lots some land will be added to the school property as well the subdivision will have all the services such as paved streets with curbs storm sewers sani tary sewers water mains and town council not happy with engineers handling of sewer job alleged delays slow cleanup from the engineers for extra of work and most recently a j fees covering the arbitration require an easement over the street lights whitchurch 59 budget moves past half million beauty on display recent warm rains and sun ny days have turned many gardens and flower beds into scenic village beauty spots one of the most colourful of these is a plot of yellow tulips on the property of dr and mrs f j button obrien ave pretty 11 year old fran ces fair church st enhances mother natures spring dis play request for street extension causes a brisk council exchange a flurry of verbal exchanges hre property required and sell between members of markham the part not required to other township council on monday la owners adjoining night came as a result of a you re placing us on the spot request for the extension of m g real estate business de- henderson ave as a trough st cla deputyreeve i to john st vhich leads into thornhill reeve clark in speaking to the request suggested that council for the present continue henderson ave to elgin st and provide a jog to johnston ave this would provide temporary relief however planning director forrest stated that in order to prepare the area for the increa sed residents which would come into the place in the near future he considered the henderson ave route as needssary in order that this traffic not bo forced onto vonge st or bayview he the deputation after consult- tation among themselves asked that the matter be deferred for two weeks and to this council agreed ccf name in york north election officers named for june 11 balloting stouffville will have five polls to handle the balloting in the forthcoming provincial elecrioni on june 11th one less than in the federal election of last year there are approximately 1700 eligible voters in town the poll at the westend will be in the masonic hall the dep utyreturning officer will be mrs marion murphy and the poll clerk muriel tunney da vis store mary davis dro and mrs don lewis sr pc council chambers mrs stan schmidt dro and mrs wal ter smith pc summitview public school double poll jack garrett dro and mrs don lehman pc bernard tun ney dro and mrs joan ca- dieux pc todate thergjias been little stir in fowirover theelection and for that matter anywhere in the riding which holds some sixty thousand voters while there are a number of vital is sues which seem apparent to observers little has been made of them to date it is interesting to note that in the last provincial election in 1955 stouffville gave the liber al candidate jos dales a major ity of 51 votes the ccf candi date picked up 63 votes in the total vote for the riding mac- kenzie was elected by a major ity of about 2500 votes the totals were 10173 to 7628 the total jax levy for 1959 in whitchurch township has mov ed past the half million dollar mark and totals 57570979 this is 12250013 above last years figure almost all rates have increased the township general rate for farm and resi dential property has been in creased from 187 to 2125 mills and the commercial rate has been upped from 2272 to 253 secondary school rates also show increases aurora high school rate has moved from 733 to 1113 stouffville from 462 to 912 and newmarket from 924 to 1085 added to these rates will be the public school levies it is in teresting to note that of the 21 public school sections including union sections in whitchurch township 12 have some deben ture payment to make the township taxes are due on july 15th and a discount of 3 is allowed if the two in stallments are paid on or be fore this date a penalty of 3 is added after dec 1st on all unpaid accounts i said that the jog was not good plar inning in a through route this planning board has cost council some 10000 in the last lfew years and no progress has ibeen shown declared deputy- reeve dean councillor mumberson quick ily jumped to the defense of the planning board he took ex ception to the deputyreeves charge and said mr dean at an enthusiastic nominat ing meeting held recently in newmarket mr stanley hall was named to carry the ccf banner in york north riding on june 11th mr hall who holds a supervisory position in canadas largest meat packing concern pledges full support to farmers marketing organiza tions and cooperatives when elected he is a native of tor- lot plans required in whitchurch twp mr t rodgers chairman of the whitchurch township plan ning board attended the regu lar meeting of council on thurs day night he drew to councils attention the difficulty in issu ing building permits where there was lack of information onto was raised and educated in peel county and then spent j regarding the size of the prop i some time farming in the slit- j ertv he suggested that each knows very well that the lack ton community application be accompanied by he is married and now re- a sketch plan which would give sides lit fig walter ave new the board an opportunity to see market his varied experiences that each property contained both on the farm and in the the required number of feet meat packing industry have j council agreed to the sugges- given him a keen insight into j lion and passed a resolution the problems of ontarios far- that the building inspector be mor from the growing to the instructed to require a lot plan marketing of his produce he before issuing a building permit has been an active worker in j and the public be advised of this the ccf for some years as fact well as a director of the credit enlarge lake lois union movement mr hall pro- mr rodgers also drew atten- misos to devote entirely his full ion to jots at musselmans time to the interests of his lake where there was no regis- constituents in york north and i tered plan and when the build- said that the co ft street would feels ably qualified to give the ing bylaw came into force it leave a narrow piece of land energetic and aggressive repre- prohibited the use of many lots without depth and it might be sentation that this riding dcdavies drive was particularly i of progress has been due to metro not the planning board mrs d strickland spoke for the deputation as well as mr k richon and mr granger the school board in that locality is establishing a new school and wish the road opened in order o gain access to the school the route was debated at some length as the proposed route hvould affect several residential properties mr granger said it would come to within live feet f his house planning director forrest jailed for attack on youth seventeenyearold bill john ston harold st stouffville was the victim of a vicious assault on saturday evening the at tack occurred on the property of mr herbert cossey 9th con south of main st the two hopd- lums both from uxbridge al bert sutcliff 24 and geo miller 19 were nabbed at the scene by police chief frank edwards of stouffville they were lodged in the cells at buttonville and later charged with having beer in a place other than their resi dence johnson was southbound on the 9th con when a car driven by miller is alleged to have run into the rear of the johnson auto according to reports he specifically mention smaller lots ran into him again when the for summer cottages lead car pulled into the floral mr rodgers said that mr co parking lot when johnson stepped out he was knocked to the ground and severely kicked and beaten no reason was giv en for their actions both men were strangers to the victim after calling the police mr cossey came to the injured youths aid chief edwards ar rived in a matter of minutes and transported the men to the cells they will appear in court on wednesday of this week five tenders to raise twp pheasants markham township council is in receipt of five tenders for the raising of 500 pheasants to be released in the township one tenderer was not considered as he was not a resident of the mu nicipality some tenderers pro vided a guarantee and some did not deputyreeve dean and j council watson were named as a committee with power to act in considering the two most fa vorable tenders councillor mcneil said that he had a ratepayer suggest that the bounty on fox be raised to 10 he suggested that the pres ent fee had eliminated a large number and an increased fee would help get the remainder r council considered it vroxiia likely bring in too many foxes from other areas and decided on no change members agreed to a price of 1135 to fraser gee for three quarters of an acre of land on the 3rd concession the land is required to straighten the road where it intersects with 18th avenue threat of lawsuit have combin ed to make stouffville municipal council quite unhappy with the handling of the present sewer contract by their engineers hi- sey barrington these mat ters all came to the forefront of thursday nights council meeting it seems weve tried every thing to get this job along de clared reeve lehman theyve got to be given an ul timatum replied councillor parsons the contractor has promised time and again to have a ma chine on stouffer st and hasnt showed up said deputyreeve wagg they cant be depended on its the engineers job to see that they do the work isnt it said councillor oboyle they wont be done till fall the way theyre going said councillor laushway i would order the engineers not to give them any more levels until some of this work is cleaned up he added deputyreeve wagg said the engineers promised to have someone on the job here all the time to get this work done they havent done it no and were paying them extra for it replied councillor laushway clerk ralph corner laid be fore council an account of 1158 1 dont know why we should have to pay out money like that to get them out of a jam de clared deputyreeve wagg councillors parsons and lau shway agreed that the matter should be discussed further when other matters are ironed out council agreed to acknowl edge the engineers letter only threatens suit a communication was receiv ed from mr john toole stouf fer st who threatened legal action if this street was not opened immediately that streets been that way for months we cant hold these people up forever said coun cillor laushway ive tried every way with the engineers and the contractor to get this fixed but nothings been done said deputyreeve wagg after further discussion coun cil agreed that the engineers should be given specific instruc tion in the morning that unless stouffer st was repaired im mediately the town would go in and do the work and charge the cost to the contract council agreed that although the arbitration had gone in their favor and aprile construction had received all the monies due them the progress of the work was still no better than before and drastic action would have to be taken boys with matches blamed for main street blaze canada produces 30000 tons of pulp and paper every day three young boys playing with matches have been blamed for a fire that- destroyed a large frame barn on the property of mr harry bourne main st in stouffville late sunday after noon the blaze was spotted by a nearby neighbor mr william miller mrs miller summoned the local fire brigade to the scent within minutes the en tire structure was ablaze t northwest wind kept the fire from spreading to an adjacent home owned by mr c sprague the barn was formerly own ed by mr henry dickson 40 yearsago a village blacksmith his late son walter added- an other section to the structure it was purchased by mr ken cain and recently sold to mr harry bourne who plans to subdivide the land nearby the building was partially covered by insur ance stouffville firemen were at the scene for more than five hours on sunday evening and returned again on monday as residents feared a second flare- up one member fireman nar rowly escaped injury when a part of the building collapsed davies had 18 such lots on which the township was collect ing taxes he said that the own er was willing to join two or three lots where possible and a map showed that this could reduce the number to 8 council instructed clerk jack crawford to have an amending bylaw prepared which would cover such instances ivise for council to buy the en- 1 serves mentioned the bylaw did not mrs heater explosion threatens home the home of mr and jack skinner market st stouffville was threatened by fire on saturday night when a coal jacket heater in the cel lar exploded fast action by the local brigade confined the fire damage to the basement mr and mrs skinner and family were watching tv in the living room when the ex- supplementary appropriation bylaw for paving and resurfacing streets plosion occurred the set was turned completely upside down the hifi sat was dam aged and other articles of fur niture were toppled to the floor all the windows in the base ment were blown out one wall in the cellar was cracked fire chief wm malloy a nearby neighbor heard the ex plosion he was one of the first on the scene no one was in jured the home is of cement block construction with a stucco exterior stouffville municipal counoii has passed a supplementary oad appropriation bylaw for 10500 to cover the cost of pav- ng and surfacetreating s rre streets in town this summer snowplowing costs an interesting summary of snowplowing costs over the past five years was given by the treasurer and revealed that kh kvii hs nnulnnis hose havc increased more than lewjss four times cost was 587 in n to the deptof highways for 1953 5022 in 1959 to date pprovai in 1956 the cost was 561 in streets included for surface- amj l m reating are those in staryale ubdivision rose ave to burk- house numbering older and fairview elm rd council after some discus- rom the 9h con to fairview sion agreed to proceed with till bo pave at a cost of 2500 the house numbering project irehard pk south will be paved studied earlier in the year a meet that of the subdivider j firm of experts who had pre- t 2500 and civic st from j sentod a systematic plan of fain st to the theatre building numbering is being asked to 111 be paved with curbs at appear at the next council 13000 these prices are esti- meeting- funds for the project hates of the work prepared by were provided in this years tax pe engineers budget school section hearing in whitby on june 10 the annexation bul by ss j nol altona for a fwtion of land included in ss no16 the 1 glasgow school will be aired j in the whitby court house on wednesday june 10th at 2 pm pickering twp council was noti- fled of the hearing by public i school inspector mr a archi- bald council will not submit a brief on the issue the altona section would gain 51000 in assessment from the property in uxbridge township they would receive an addition al 10 pupils the present assess ment in the altona section is only sisoooo one of the lowest in pickering township a meet ing in the altona school in feb ruary voted 182 in favor of the extended boundary mr robert mills of blooming- ton had the misfortune to fall while working in the barn and break his arm in two places receives award donald smith son of dr and mrs neil smith received his 33th badge at the father son scout and cub banquet in stou ffville tuesday evening some one hundred boys and their dads attended the affair the award to scout donald smith is the highest scout award and it was particularly fitting that district scout master horace jaques should be present for the pres entation dave stallard of stou ffville is the assistant district scout master norm hill was chairman for the banquet and walter winn who heads the cubs and jack barkey the local scouts also took part entertainment was provided by a town musical group com posed of ted cadieux bob has- sard lome boadway and wm dedlow lucky winner beverley little daughter of mr and mrs murray little of dicksons hill was the lucky winner of the tribunes missing letters contest last week she holds her lucky entry and a portion of the mail that was sent in by local readers the response to the contest has far exceeded all expectations