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dlh toitffwlle vol 70 no 30 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday december 31 1959 ten pages entices mmmeied hy mffi 5b local hydro round the cioc to keep service worked trying erating 14 the village of markham was one of the hardest hit com munities in the district the main street was cut off to through traffic early monday morning when trees and bro ken branches toppled across the highway shown here one large tree was uprooted and crashed down dangerously close to the orville heisey home in mount joy telephone and hydro wires were twisted and tangled staff photo valuable dog strays in storm kim a female german shep herd pup the property of mr jack garrett albert street has strayed from its home and its owner believes it may have be come lost in the recent ice storm it was spotted by slouff- ville officer pc vankoughnel on monday night but has not been seen since it had been kept at garretts main street garage and was being trained as a watchdog the dog is black in colour and when last seen was wearing a choke collar it comes from purebred champion stock a reward has beer- offered for the animals safe return anyone seeing the dog is asked to phone stouff 265 or 247 icy jungle local hydro and telephone linemen endured the hazards of ice snow and falling debris in a roundtheciock effort to untangle a wcu of broken wires and restore communi cations to both townsfolk nd rural residents picured here two spare workmen noel stony and clifford lyndc cm- ployed by the stoufivilloec- thesda telephone company cut away broken tree branches on the ninth con whitchurch near bloomington routine business occupies council markham township council meeting for one last time in 1959 dealt almost entirely with routine business on monday af ternoon due to the hydro fail ure the council chambers was without either light or heat the meeting was held on the first floor which has an emergency generating plant which supplies power to the police office in the final report tabled from the planning board it was noted that the following indus tries had either located or en larged in the year 1d59 the richvale block work centre assinck bros nordin building products j kit tank onway conslr co boosey hawks and ratcliff bros the ttc has been advised by the commissions solicitors ihat it would not be in their jurisdiction to continue to oper ate the yonge st bus line after dec 31st unless a bylaw was passed by each council vaughan and markham and richmond hill markham council passed the bylaw monday giving it the necessary three readings in the recent election for school trustees for area no 1 which had been delayed due to the death of one of the candidates the members elected were messrs mckay clarke and par ker all for two year the aforementioned polled the high est number of votes messrs ilonsberger and frost were each j elected for one year mrs alex- j son only lost out by two votes i the vote brought out a consid- 1 crablc turnout at the polls and rivalled many municipal clcc- j tions for interest in that yonge st area 1 one of the most destructive ice storms in more than half a century lashed stouffville and district over the past weekend and damage is expected to run into thousands of dollars tele phone and hydro communica tions were hardest hit fallen tree branches and broken poles transformed local lines into a chaotic web of twisted wire a twoinch snowfall on monday- night worsened the situation although stouffville residents suffered some inconvenience due to intermittent power failures their plight could not be com pared with the discomforts en dured by neighbouring towns folk in claremont and mark ham village claremont inhab itants were without hydro from sunday midnight until late tue sday afternoon a number of residents were forced to seek warmer quarters the damage along markhams main street resembled the destruction wrought by hurricane hazel the township municipal build ing at buttonville had to resort to their emergency unit a regular meeting of council on j monday was held in a warmer downstairs section a number of employees worked in their win ter coats fire chief wm malloy of stouffville told the tribune that be was the recipient of dozens of telephone calls throughout the night when worried resi dents saw the ground showered with sparks and fire balls caused by falling branches on hydro lines the brigade answered one alarm at goodwood when a short circuit threatened the resi dence of mr claude watson the blaze was extinguished by local firemen working in co operation with the uxbridge unit since the electric alarm would not function the mem bers had to be summoned by telephone two minor hockey games one at port hope and one at whitby had to be can celled on monday night when driving conditions became too hazardous local and district hydro crews worked roundtheclock in an ef fort to repair the damage a number of relief workmen were employed by the stouffville- bcthesda telephone co one of their most difficult routes ex tended for a distance of seven miles between stouffville and musselmans lake the county voad at the intersection of the markham pickering townline was cut off to all traffic for a number of hours on monday when wires dropped to- the ground one huge cable was lit erally torn apart by the weight of ice it was the same story at goodwood the temperature in oilheated homes dropped to a mere forty degrees extensive pole damage was reported on the uxbridge townline road south of lincolnville at clare mont one car was almost com pletely buried by ice snow and fallen tree branches authorities believe that all hydro and tele phone communications may not be fully restored until saturday the shortage of power has also brought many hardships and possible financial loss to a number of district farmers on one farm twenty cows which had never been milked by hand are having their first experience without a machine at the pugh farm east of claremont there is great difficulty jn providing for thousands of baby chicks a number of men have been off work for a few days this week both stouffville machine tool works and sarco co at claremont were without their 550 volt power and unable to operate while there have been no re ports of direct injury to anyone in town due to the storm a large tree branch did crash through the kitchen window of the chewins hqmepnclark st in claremont a falling limb crashed down on the tops of a number of new automobiles at the chas cooper establishment by monday night local hydro workers were nearly exhausted trying to keep up with the calls and endeavoring to keep the current flowing gordon brown and chas lintner main tenance men and their assist- ant ross hetheringlon were on the go continually from early sunday evening all through the night and the next day into the evening longest breakdown was for some residents on north church st while the balance of town was shut down for about eight hours at the most princi pally from the cnr east stouffville couple rescued when schooner wrecked mr and mrs archie f for far of stouffville have been res cued from a desolate island beach where their 20 ft schoon er lady was shipwrecked en route from miami to nassau three americans travelling with them were also rescued the schooner was wrecked on a reef christmas day and broke into two pieces three of the passengers rode part of the wreckage to one island beach two others to another here they spent two days before being res cued the shipwreck and rescue were reported by roy utter a radio operator and employee of kenneth parker of master point island bahamas he reported that the five per sons were taken to mr parkers house saturday where they were fed given clothes and shelter rev wellington hannah a native of south mystic point discovered the marooned party saturday while fishing and he took them to mr parkers house the forfar family in stouffville said they had not heard from the couple since they left for florida dec 5th they planned to spend christmas in the ba hamas christmas day accident kills minister and wife rev george coulter and mrs coulter formerly of stouffville both died last week as the result of a motor accident on christ mas day rev geo coulter was a minister of the united church here thirty years ago mr coulter who was in his 81st year was killed instantly while driving home from a visit with friends their car went out of control on the icy surface of highway 41 north of napanee and struck a tree mrs coulter who was seriously injured was removed to kingston hospital where she died on sunday trin ity united church napanee was mr coulters last charge and the couple had been living re tired there surviving the couple is one daughter mrs r c jackson isobelle of madoc mrs coul ter who was the former annie h bower is also survived by one sister mrs a m partridge she was in her 78lh year funeral for mr coulter was conducted on monday dec 28th and for mrs coulter this wed nesday dec 30th public serv ices were held in trinity united church and interment was made in riverview cemetery unique conveyance for wedding party mr and mrs w b clark who were married on dec 23rd in the stouffville united church were escorted through town fol lowing the ceremony in a unique horsedrawn conveyance the glass house mounted on a farm wagon was drawn through town by a team of horses much to the delight of the ncwlyweds their attendants and onlookers much of the material for the glassedin wagon was provided by mr jerry biillinger and construction work was don at les wilson motors the horses belonged to mr percy mckay and james mckcan was the driver nearly 200 aflem ceremony stouffville united church was fittingly decorated with poinset- tias and candles as helen leone paisley daughter of mr and mrs t h paisley stouffville became the bride of william bruce clark son of mr and mrs wm l clark unionvillc rev douglas davis officiated the bride given in marriage by her father wore white bro cade with chapel train calla lily neckline and matching brocade head band trimmed with pearls she wore a fingertip veil and her flowers were white roses and stephanotis her matrons of honour mrs donald sneddon and mrs paul cummings were gowned in red velvet with sab- rina neckline full length sleeves bouffant skirt and matching flat bows for headbands they car ried a white fur muff with red poinsettia the bridesmaids mrs james brown and mrs charles livingston were simi larly gowned as was the junior bridesmaid miss jacqueline pai sley the groom was supported by mr norman tyndall of vic toria square and the ushers were eldred king george fel- gale and two brothers of the bride bruce and earl paisley the wedding music was played by mrs chas nolan and the lords prayer and because were sung by mr ronald mer cer following i he ceremony a wedding breakfast was served in the church hall mrs paisley and mrs clark receiving the many guests mrs paisley was dressed in rcccda green silk satin with matching beige ac cessories and corsage of bronze mums and yellow roses mrs clark wore winter white two- piece brocade with jade blue accessories and corsage of pink roses the couple will spend their honeymoon trip travelling through the southern states by motor the bride chose as her travelling costume a mink brown suit fur jacket and beige accessories on their re turn they will reside on don mills rd value of new building in town over millicn dollar mark again this year for the second year in sue- 1 cession the total value of new building in stouffville has top ped the one million dollar mark the figures just compiled for 1959 are very close to those of i last year showing a total of 1201600 as compared with 1533476 in the preceding year of this amount approximately 750000 was for new homes and the balance for commercial additions and alterations i the total nurbir of new homes was just five less than in 1958 being fortyeight six teen of these were on glad park most expensive home was val ued at 16500 with a number ranging from 14000 to 15000 permits issued for commercial and public properties were not many in number but were of considerable value the addition to the local post office the bank of commerce building and the new municipal offices accounted j for about 125000 stiver bros also made a considerable change and a new store was erected for smiths radio tv april and october saw the greatest home building activity and twentyfour house permits were issued in these 2 months i total building permit fees col- lected in the year amounted to i 85100 the forecast is that an equal number of new homes can be looked for in 1960 most of these being on the watson heights subdivision with some start possible on the boravcn devel opment property this later sub division will also contain consid erable commercial property the erection of the new public util ities building at blake and main sts will also add to the total