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ulh vol 70 no 17 the tribune grouffvitte ontario thursday october t 1933 sixteen pages loaded transport snaps off pole hits tree driver dies in hospital a large tractortrailer gravel j rendered emergency firstaid to transport careened out of con- j the victim on the scere al- tro on markhamwhitchurch though partially decapitated he townlire monday afternoon snapped off a telephone pole and slammed into a tree hurl- ins the driver through the wind shield ernest grueneklee 26 of 34 greenwood ave toronto died later in the scarboro gen eral hospital the westbound truck was loaded with eighteen tons of grave after hitting the ditch it rolled over it came to rest against a tree after tearing a smaller tree up by the roots a large twoinch telephone cable was completely severed service throughout much of the gotm- ley area was cut off until local repairmen could mend the break dr d j petrie of siouffville was still breathing quite strong ly when removed to hospital in the dixon ambulance from mar kham the cab of the truck was crushed almost beyond recog nition the heavy steel frame was twisted and the drive wheels were sheared off the entire load was strewn over the road and in the ditch though police believe a parked truck may have been responsible for the accident there were no wit nesses present when they ar rived pc james stewart of the oip detachment van- doif conducted the investiga tion constables bob hood and evan pelley of the markham twp dept handled the traffic in the accident area complain of boost in markham assessment a deputation of messrs pit- ton and stephens from doncas ter attended markham town ship council meeting on mon day evening to enquire into the reason of the sudden boost in assessment in the doncaster area which is adjacent to yonge street reeve clark said that council could give little information as this was a matter of the assess ment department and council did not interfere in their work however mr picton pressed this point you hire them you pay them and fire them dont you he said reeve clark stated that it was true council did hire the assessors and could fire them if their work was not satisfactory however he said that a court of appeal was set up to protect the ratepayers to which any could take their case mr picton said that many properties had been raised and in his own case it was 18o if the boost is because we got the water mains it would be better not to have them he said deputyreeve dean said that he had been informed that some lots in the district were selling for 3000 and were only as sessed for 5400 and 300 so that possibly the increase was justi fied however since we had a surplus last year i dont think that the increase was not advi able in the present year councillor watson said that he thought the raise was gen eral as the rate on his farm was increased this year clerk crisp stated that the amount of assessment would not make any difference if spread over on an even basis and only used to raise the same amount of money on the tax bill mr stevens said that with the railway bypass going through the values would decrease and he thought the present increase would tax any persons out of ownership i think the assessor should be spoken to in regard to this increase markham twp council asks for stop lights at ringwood corner a pile of twisted metal is truck that rolled over on the monday afternoon the driver transport was owned by the all that remains of a nearly- markham whitchurch town- ernest grueneklee of toronto western sand and gravel co new tractor trailer gravel line and crashed into a tree died later in hospital the staff photo 111 rr markham township council has by resolution called on the department of highways to erect traffic lights at the ring- wood corner the junction of highways 4s and 47 the mat ter was brought before mark ham council by deputyreeve dean who stated that he had referred to the dangerous con dition here on several occasions he said the situation was get ting worse he requested that a copy of the resolution be forwarded to whitchurch twp council and county council as well pavement for 10th con deputyreeve dean stated that he believed that at least part of the 10th concession should be paved north of no 7 highway he contended that a lot of traffic could be moved down to no 7 highway on the 10th concession no 48 highway the 8th concession he said is badly clogged and is backed up on weekends for miles the deputyreeve was advised that some paving on the 10th concession is on the 1960 pav ing program increase in milk prices this thursday the price of milk in stouffville will be in- cresed by one cent a quart regular milk will now cost the- householder 23c per quart own ers of maple leaf dairy ad vised the tribune that the milk board has granted the farmers a 19c per cwt increase in the price of raw milk this is the first increase in milk prices locally in several years and the maple leaf pro prietors have absorbed opera tional increases up to this time the new boost they say is one over which they have no con trol and must pass it on to the consumers notice of the advance is ad vertised in this weeks issue and by circular from door to door first hockey game here next friday night oct 9th top cow brings 730 at grove auction safe convicted on a long list of theft charges roy smee joseph said councillor mi harlanc mills and john neil he was supported by dep reeve mcneil council agreed to consult the assessor on the matter landscaping council awarded a contract for landscaping at the munici pal building to john redden duncan rd for the amount of 352 which is to cover all the work this fall and an additional 165 for replanting in the spring of 1960 unionville main st total cost of the repaving widening and curbing on main st in unionville was revealed as 54000 this amount will be reduced to 32000 by reason of the assessors timing was very the provincial grant the work good he said j was done under local improve- councillor mcneil concurred ment farm loan hearing continues three days wilson case dismissed the markham farm loan fraud case which reached court at various times throughout last year came before magis trate hollinrake in newmarket court last week and the prelim inary hearing went on for three days the hearing concerned john b white of brougham ralph furneaux former man ager of the bank of nova sco tia markham and jas w wil son the charge against wilson was dismissed on the grounds that although he had not fol lowed the letter of the law he had followed the spirit of it in that he had used the money to pay a debt which he has since redeemed in full the case ag ainst white and furneaux was adjourned until nov 18th sessions in court last week were preliminary hearings and if sufficient evidence is pre sented to warrant a trial white and furneaux will be tried by judge and jury at their re quest the prosecuting attorney ap pointed by the crown was r c mathews and he was assisted by mr clarke cases of loans investigated in cluded geo adams lindsay rr for s2s00 peter brown picker ing rr for 2761 and george preston gormley rr for s2so0 and carl rodgcrs pickering for 2600 duncan spang uxbridge twp had secured a loan of 3000 for the purchase of livestock and jack mitchell rr 2 claremont had ivcelved a loan of 2800 to purchase livestock prosecutor mathews contend ed that spang had signed the nam of mitchell he asked for information on the business of white directly with the ban evidence white had obtained 12000 ad vance in 1953 and 3000 addi tional in 1954 the loan was granted to be used for the pur chase of one hundred cattle head office letters shown in evi dence gave whites total loans in the amount of 157000 frank loyst of claremont was listed in the records with a loan of 3000 for purchase of implements and roy c moon 2250 for implements listing of counts will contin ue on nov 18th and if not com pleted the expectation is that the case will be referred to the spring calendar bateman were given suspended sentence and placed on proba tion when they appeared before magistrate hollinrake on wed nesday morning in placing the youths on pro bation the magistrate impressed on them that he was trying to find out if they could make good i am giving you the chance he said smee whom the magistrate said he understood to be the ringleader was placed on pro bation for two years herold and mills for one year and bateman for six months in passing sentence magis trate hollinrake stated that the public must be protected and something must be done to act both as a lesson to the accused and a deterrent to others if i sent you down to reformatory it would be an excellent lesson immediate punishment has an excellent effect the magistrate said that he wanted it clearly understood what a suspended sentence and a period of probation meant many believe that it means the accused gets off but this is not so it means that the court has a chance to find out if the con victed person can make good and an opportunity for the ac cused to show that they realize they have gotten off on the wrong foot he stressed the point that at any time you can be recalled and i can sentence you on these charges i want you and other young men in stouffville to un derstand this he said in speaking of the youths op erating cars the magistrate said if you cant afford to buy gas and accessories for a car you should not have one dont let me hear of any more wild- ness with cars mayfair out of bounds the magistrate said that he understood all the thefts were plotted in the mayfair restaur ant he said that certain disci plinary clauses would be writ ten into the probation the mayfair restaurant will be out of bounds and you will not enter it for any reason i am also directing that you be in your homes every night by 11 pm this is a measure both to help your parents and your selves you will contribute out of your earnings your share to replace what you have stolen magistrate hollinraks said that he would not send any first offender to jail if there was some other way to give him a chance to become a bet ter citizen he said such cases were difficult to deal with but that the court had a duty to the public and there must be de terrents both to the accused and to others chief frank edwards was called to the stand prior to sen tence and spoke of each youth in turn he said that they had been warned both by him and by their fathers rudolf palica was fined 25 and costs in local traffic court for failing to stop for a traffic light evidence in court was that accused had gone through the light without any decrease in speed the fine for this offense has previously been 19 but has been increased 5 in the last month the official opening of the j new hillcrest public school ss no 8 whitchurch town ship will be held on friday evening oct 23rd at 830 pm the tworoom structure on cone 6 replaces a seventy year old building it has been sold to a toronto man wiio plans to con vert it into a winter ski lodge the new school is located on the ross winterstein farm it cost an estimated 40000 invitations will be sent out to all former teachers in the sec tion all parents of present pu pils are invited and former stu dents are also requested to at tend reeve geo richardson and members of whitchurch twp council will be present trustee board members are messrs grant morley bruce clarke and andrew hutchinson there are sixty pupils on the roll this includes a number of students from the melville sec tion the principal is mr allan plumer his assistant is mr j d mills fill km rove p ken lister william flana gan and ronald campbell were fined a total of more than 150 in local police court for hunt ing without licenses and having migratory ducks in their pos session lister and flanagan were each fined 15 and costs for being without licenses and 60 and costs for having four ducks campbell paid 50 and costs for having one duck in his possession marguerite todd of aurora was charged with driving 70 miles an hour in a 50 mile zone and passing a car on the light hand side mrs todd said that she had been driving for eight een months and considered pass ing on the right was legal mag istrate kelly suggested that she a registered holstein cow brought 730 fit the auction sale conducted on the property of mr russell grove cone 8 i markham twp on thursday sept 24th the calf brought an j additional 40 the sale one of the largest in the area this sum mer was conducted by auction eer w d atkinson thaherd comprising almost fifty per cent young cattle averaged 320 a bred heifer brought 475 a july heifer calf sold for 230 a number of the cattle were purchased by local buyers while others went to varied ontario points the implements also sold well a forage blower brought 760 and a forage harvester sold for 700 a seed drill brought 360 and the tractor went for s1 the milk cooler sold for 900 auctioneer atkinson inforcn- atlend the next traffic clinic in aurora or the one at buttonville in october the ffne was 8 and costs the fine on the second count was 50 mr todd stated that his car would not go 70 but police stated that if he persisted in this statement they would take it out and test it ed the tribune that an excellent sale of ayrshire cattle will be held at the stouffville sales arena on wednesday oct 7th the private herd of 45 cows and calves have been brought iii from a hamilton farm consumers gas consumers gas co commen ced laying mains in stouffville last week they expect to in stall all the pipe lines in about five weeks witnesses wanted any person or persons who may have witnessed the twocar collision at the intersection of cone 6 markham and the gorm ley road on the morning of july 30th at approximately 630 am are urgently requested to get in touch with mr goldwin c elgie qc at bay st tor- onto the telephone number is empire 45418 local readers may recall that a passenger in one of the autos gerald ra cine died following the acci dent it is believed that a driver in an oldsmobile car was the first on the scene but after noti fying the police he left and no one obtained his name lawyers acting in the case are anxious to know the drivers identity the ontario hog producers cooperative who operate an as sembly point at the stouffville sales yards every tuesday ship ped 1775 hogs to market last week this is a record number for one shipment it required 42 trucks to trans port this many hogs to market total value of the shipment was approximately 71000 miss m ford a teacher on the staff of the orchard park public school was stricken with appendicitis early this week and was admitted to the york county hospital new market perkins sells local gas stations to bp the distinctive yellow and green shield of bp canada lim ited goes up this week over 16 automobile service stations in stouffville markham and rich mond hill this latest takeover means that in about two and a half years of operation bp has built or acquired more than 500 service stations in ontario and quebec the 16 stations have been ac quired by bp after negotiations with the j w perkin company of unionville who have been distributors of petroleum prod ucts in the area for the past ments and tractors or fuel as a supplement to his hardware business he chose fuel put one pump in front of the store and bought himself a truck to deli ver gasoline to farmers in the area as unionville grew mr per kin began negotiations for a tank car and truck he purch ased the corner of toronto york road now kennedy road and the proposed no 7 highway from dr a c kennedy and the first service station was built on this site in 1930 some residents may find it 29 vears and who will continue hard to believe that the tor- in this capacitv with bp onto york roai was the oni paved road in the district in 1930 however within two years having ettled in unionville in 191s mr j w perkin soon realized that canada was a growing country and that as it progressed unionville would grow too in this belief he bought a hardware store and being an energetic and enter prising man he looked around j for a sideline at the time he was given that considered either farm imple- plans were in operation for the construction of the present no 7 highway in that first year of opera tions mr perkin sold approxi mately so000 gallons of petrol- tum products in those days it was something of a pipe- j dream to consider a sale of 2000000 gallons a year but that stone for j w is what mr perkin has achieved after 29 years of operation automobiles were coming in to their own in the early 1930s and with the new highway run ning in front of the first out let it was obvious that one stor age tank was not enough to meet the demand so the storage capacity was increased from then on mr perkin took steps to keep pace with the rapidly growing popularity of the auto he built a second service station at claremont and over the years at stouff ville goodwood gormley and on highway 48 three more were built on shcppard avenue and others were rented cle- r tmuim v where during this time mr uin mm- la v perkins accounts included two farms on eglinton avenue wher the golden mile now stands he added fuel oil to his list of petroleum products just be fore the start of the second world war the year 1951 was a mile- sideline had grown rapidly and was still expanding at such a rate that he decided to form a limited company with himself his son r w perkin and his bookkeeper miss marion warne as directors asked why he became associ ated with bp of canada ltd mr perkin summed up his rea sons this way i was anxious to associate myself with the canadian member of the brit ish petroleum group the lar1 gest organization within the british commonwealth the first 1960 ears to be shown at dealer showrooms in stouffville this fall are the che vrolet oldsmobile and corvair models at bournehunters mot ors large display advs an nounce fhe new models in this issue of the tribune and the public is invited to drop in and perkin his view these early arrivals words of warning stouffville police chief mr frank edwards issued a few words of warning to nearly ninety young cyclists who at tended the opening exercises mechanical defects all faults arc to be corrected when the pushers club on saturday boys and girls return again morning assisted by mem- this week pictured here the bers of the stouffville home chief talks with 8 year old and school association the iec turner while her sister of the newly organize pedal- chief inspected ill bicycles for 6 year old rhonda looks on 0