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t xlhnm vol 70 no 37 the tribune stouffvtlle ontario thursday february 18 1960 twelve pages early risers while the majority of stouff- ville residents are still sound asleep in their warm beds 11 year old ben aida front and his 13 year old brother kenny are out delivering the morning paper to 42 local customers the two boys arise at 530 am and complete their separ ate routs in an hour they are pictured here as they leave their hawthorne ave home the temperature is often well below zero when they start out in the early dawn staff photo early rising aida boys deliver morning paper how would you like to climb out of bed every morning at 530 oclock and deliver news papers to 42 homes throughout the town that is the regular daily routine of kenny and ben aida sons of mr and mrs tat aida hawthorne ave stouff- ville kenny 13 has twenty- eight customers ben 11 has fourteen both boys have bicy cles although during the winter months they complete the route on foot unless the roads are free of ice and snow they leave their home togeth er at six oclock and pick up their allotment of papers at the corner of main and church sts one hour later their work com pelled they return home for a good breakfast and thirty min utes sleep before going to ichool kenny and ben aida have been delivering the globe and mail since september 1958 during that period they have slept in only six times i put the alarm clock right near my head so ill be sure to hear it thirteen year old kenny told the tribune he noted that it is often quite dark when they get upland just breaking day light when they start out the cold windy mornings are the worst he admittedjquite often the temperature is well below zero what do the two brothers do with their wellearned money we put most of it in the bank except what we need for spend ing said ken their earlymorn ing chores do not hinder their activity in organized sport ken plays on the lions bantam team and ben performs in the peewee group midgets in playoff game thursday night stouffvilles midget team will play host to pickering on thurs day night in the first round of the ontario minor hockey as sociation playoffs the contest will start at nine oclock the stouffville entry earned the right to advance into the pro vincial playdowns by beating uxbridgc in a twogame series the club is coached by hal gibson the managers are keith sutherland and ken wagg it is hoped that the stouff- ville team will be regaled in their new sweaters for thurs days tilt the rev uniforms have been presented to the en try by the stouffville lions club their cosponsors the pur chase cost an estimated 15000 would sell farm for university site pugh bros operators of a wellknown farm north of green river informed a public meet ing in the municipal chambers at brougham on wednesday eve ning that they would consider the possible sale of their proper ty for a proposed university site in a letter received from mr da vid pugh it was stated that a reasonable price would be plac ed on the farm the letter was read to the meeting by doctor gordon edmunds a member of the newlyappointed committee the members will report back on their findings on wednesday evening march 9th committee chairman mr w g newman of dunbarton suggested that pickering twp would be the ideal location for the university site the vice chairman is mr ron hall the secretary is mr l t johnston county council balks at police budget county council balked last week when reeve gar lehman of stouffville chairman of the special police committee pre sented a 25000 budget for 1960 one council member stated 15000 would be nearer the fig ure it should be have you rais ed all the salaries other members expressed the view that newmarket had re quested 21000 which was con sidered out of reach and now when the operation was being handled by the county it was faced with 25000 it was finally agreed that chairman lehman should call a committee meeting with various members of the police force and study the advisability of setting up a county police force 1029 prisoners reeve lehman in his report stated that as a service to the municipalities the county trans ports the prisoners fingerprints and does necessary photography and keeps prisoner records the work is done by a staff of four consisting of 3 security guard officers and a fulltime matron from january to december last year 1029 prisoners passed through the cells included in the files are records of 13000 county prisoners of past years parking bylaw is rejected by omb the ontario municipal board has rejected an application for an offstreet parking lot in the village of markham the decis ion by messrs- jamleson and mccrae was revealed on tues day the hearing was held in the markham municipal cham bers on friday afternoon feb 3th the board contended that the 65000 debenture repayable over a twenty year period would constitute a rather heavy bur den on a number of business men it was also noted that present offstreet parking facili ties were apparently not taxed to capacity the board suggest ed that since an alternate park ing proposal was presently un der consideration by the village council they would not con sider it proper to approve of the bylaw in its submitted form tht board were in receipt of a petition circulated by former main street druggist mr harry mason which contained the sig natures of 23 business residents in opposition to the parking project had four additional names been acquired the bylaw would automatically have been rejected horticultural meeting the regular meeting of the society will be held in the unit ed church basement on mon day feb 22 at s oclock the guest speaker will be mr joe tiffin of scarborough who will be showing pictures of their trip last fall through quebec new brunswick and nova scotia music will be provided by miss lynda nolan as soloist and miss jean hosle will give some read ings initc your friends to en joy this meeting with you assessor granted 400 increase a written resignation sub mitted last week by stouffville assessor mr lloyd turner was automatically withdrawn on tuesday when council agreed to a salary increase of 400 per annum the resolution was pass ed on a 32 recorded vote the matter was ared at a special meeting councillors wm par sons and henry slack opposed the raise it will be retroactive to jan 1960 it will increase the assessors stipend from 2000 to 2400 following the receipt of the resignation mr turner was ask ed to submit an acceptable fig ure the assessor requested an increase of 100 reeve gar lehman told the tribune that he had intended council to deal with the matter at their regular meeting on thursday evening it was later decided that the problem should be settled immediately i feel that the assessor is do- former police chiefs bid for appeal refused former stouffville police chief frank edwards had his bid for an appeal denied on fri day by three of torontos senior judges the request for an ap peal was heard a week ago by judges laidlaw lebel and mc kay who listened to arguments by solicitor lee representing stouffville and solicitors rose and starr for edwards after several days of review the three judges upheld the judgment of judge robt for syth given against edwards in the fall and declared that the former chief had no grounds for any appeal costs in the at tempt to appeal are to be borne by edwards mrs albert hobbs has been a guest for a week with mrs fred woodward at the form home of mr and mrs ben talbot ing a commendable job said the reeve as the town grows the work also increases and some salary adjustments must be made mr turner has held the position for the past five years special offering 3375 at sunday services in spite of extremely inclem ent weather conditions large congregations attended three special services in the newly renovated markham united mis sionary church on sunday mor ning afternoon and evening collections amounted to s3375 the official dedication of the beautiful building was conduct ed at the afternoon service rev w m shantz ba bd of kitchener dist supt of the united missionary church was in charge mr wm vrhoog foreman with the k w betz construction co of stouffville presented the keys to mr sam uel stadclbaucr chairman of the building committee mr sambauer expressed apprecia tion to members of the congre gation for their cooperation he i praised the workmanship of the j bctx firm more than 330 wor- shippers attended the dedica tion the project cost an esti mated 35000 the church pulpit was donat ed by mrs w h stadelbauer and son sam in memory of mr stadelbauer the communion table was presented to the church by mrs herb stover and family in memory of mr sto ver and russell mr e r good donated the pulpit chair and two matching stands in memory of his wife one pew was donated by mr and mrs hllliard dean in memory of mr and mrs john f dean generous donations for the purchase of chairs were made by mr and mrs denton brown mr and mrs chas fin- cham mrs archie doner and mr david thompson following the dedication serv ice mr deverne mullen render ed a solo bless this house four car collision sunday halts all lownline traffic during blinding blizzard galeforce winds and blinding snow squalls slowed sunday afternoon traffic down to a crawl throughout the clare- mont stouffville gormley area and dozens of accidents were re ported by markham twp po lice and opp detachments at vandorf and whitby one of the most serious collisions occurred on the townline road west of ringwood at cone 6 a car driven by mr carl timbers cone 7 whitchurch plowed in to a marooned auto stopped on the highway the timbers car was then struck by two other vehicles resulting in a fourcar pileup property damage was reported to be quite heavy most seriously injured was mr glenn grove of north markham a passenger in the timbers car thirty stitches were required to close a cut on his forehead the driver suffered two crack ed ribs another passenger miss marion gayman cone 5 mark ham received a minor cut on her face all three persons were treated by dr d j petrie at the stouffville medical centre police busy sgt robert hood of the mark ham twp police dept told the tribune that his eight hour shift answered a total of six accident calls between 4 oclock on sunday afternoon and mid night visibility at times was completely cut off many drivers sought refuge in local service stations or laneways stouffville police assisted in traffic direc tion at ringwood when the markham unit became tied up the ontario provincial police at vandorf reported a similar sit uation they said that a num ber of vehicles had to be aband oned in the bloomington area they reported no major collis ions teachers stranded two girls from the toronto teachers college were forced to turn back when they reached the residence of bert williams cone 8 pickering the road was blocked with snowdrifts hilara bruder and clyne burne remain ed at the williams residence for a time but spent the night at the home of mr and mrs fred byer stouffville they had attempted to reach the residence of mr and mrs bruce mcdowell at atha they are conducting classes this week at the atha public school it was a similar story at claremont and good wood mr and mrs john john son of stouffville spent the night with her parents mr and mrs peter bylstra at goodwood pastor and mrs francis cook befriended a mo ther father and two children when their cars motor became clogged with snow the family remained overnight skiers bound for dagmar were forced to turn back every tow truck in the area was pressed into service the operator at the bp station at goodwood told the tribune that his truck was never stopped between 12 o clock noon on sunday to mon day morning at 4 oclock rally bogs down the annual sports car rally became bogged down between claremont and gormley more than onethird of the 163 start ers were knocked out some of the vehicles were abandoned at lindsay a number of drivers were almost frozen when their windshields were snapped in collisions or their heaters failed an oshawa pair don hambly and bui davidson were declared the winners they drove a riley ken mclennn of willowdale and r a dempsey of toronto brought their ford anglia home in second place the entire route covered a total of 1300 miles some of the cars passed through stouffville at five oclock on sunday afternoon many had dented fenders and were coated with ice and snow visibility was so limited that car head lights were turned on during the early hours of the afternoon approve new subdivision the new development just north of stouffer st and east of starvale subdivision which has been on the drawing board for some months was given final approval of the stouffville planning board on thursday evening the new subdivision will have 98 residential building lots manitoba st from church st east will be extended to join north st and give clear access from churchst to nq47 high way hawthorn ave will also be extended east to join stouffer st the new subdivision will be centred by a circular drive and in order that residents do not have to go too far out of their way if wishing to go west a pedestrian walk has been pro vided the subdivision will be de veloped by cedar pines co which opened watson heights while the planning board has approved the final draft so far as streets and lots are concern ed major problems of drainage and services remain to be ironed out between the company and the municipal council no park lanc was taken by the board and cash will be paid in lieu of land which money can be used for the extension of other park property late geo taylor mongolia farmer fortytwo years mr george henry taylor a farmer at mongolia for the past 42 years passed away at the hospital in whitby on thursday feb 11 where he had been a patient for only a week he had been in poor health for the last 3 years deceased was married in 1911 to ella gertrude lee who survives him also two sons and 3 daughters minnie mrs fred jackson violet mrs walter booth both of stouff ville elva mrs reg newton newmarket ernest of mongolia and kenneth at home also 11 grandchildren and one great- granddaughter mr taylor was born in reach twp in 1884 son of mr and mrs william taylor and one of a family of 13 children surviv ing are anthony of saskatchew an jacob and jim of claremont charles of oshawa isobel mrs wes slack brougham nell mrs walter lyndc ashburn and alma mrs bert duff of myrtle mr taylor was identi fied with the united church and the vluneral was conducted on saturday afternoon february 13 from the oneill funeral chapel by rev douglas davis the pallbearers were former neighbours messrs reg ren- nie james cowan joe browns- bcrger allan widcman russell couperthwalte and roy zcllers interment was made in the stou ffville cemetery county council opens gates for hs borrowing york county council reversed their decision of three years ago last week when they agreed to provide the debentures for high schools in thevarious municipal ities former reeve lemasurier had been able to prevail upon county council to provide these school debentures a few years ago however the county later took a firm stand that munici palities would have to provide their own borrowing last week reeve wm hodg son of king twp made a strong plea that since his municipality was faced with a new million dollar high school the coun ty reconsider its stand and agree to provide the borrowing strength opened gates no sooner had county council agreed to provide debentures for king than other municipalities quickly jumped in to request that the debentures for their schools too be supplied by the county reeve jos fry was the first to rise to advise that markham village would require 350000 this year for an addition and he would expect the county to pro vide this amount other appli cations are now pending reeve hodgson iu prevailing upon council to provide the loan stated that if king twp had to finance the school it would pre vent the carrying on of any other services he said the coun ty could borrow at a lower in terest rate reeve perry who was opposed to the county get ting into the loan business re quested a recorded vote which resulted in 16 being in favor and 11 being opposed summit view choir wins at kiwanis festival a choir of fiftynine voices comprising boys and girls in grades seven and eight from the summit view public school in stouffville topped three toronto competitors to win first prize at the kiwanis music festival on tuesday afternoon the group was under the able direction of their music supervisor miss mona armstrong it was the schools first entry in this class on wednesday afternoon a triple duet from stouffvilles orchard park school was enter ed in competition the group comprised the following pupils blair wagg tommy brillinger randy mole ronald galiamore teddy topping and bill mercer on thursday afternoon sum mit view school will enter a triple trio in the festival all competitions are held in the eaton auditorium toronto our local licence bureau re ports that licences are going very slowly and mrs murphy wishes to remind the public that the deadline is march 16 with no further extension local girl thrown through windshield in auto crash lynn foord daughter of mr and mrs geo foord main st stouffville suffered severe gash es to her head and face when she was thrown through the windshield of her fiances mer cedes sports car in a recent col lision on the markham road near hwy 401 it required 70 stitches to close the multiple cuts she was confined to the scarboro general hospital for three days miss foord is in training at the toronto teach ers college in addition to the facial wounds miss foord also suffered a frac tured foot her fiance mr nor man craig of toronto suffered severe shock his northbound sports car collided almost head- on with a southbound auto the auto was quite badly damaged the highway was very slippery at the time and visibility was poor raise salary of markham reeve a salary increase has been approved for reeve w l clark of markham township at a special meeting of gouncil held last week it was agreed that the reeves annual stipend should be raised from 2500 to 3000 members of council will also receive an increase from 10 per meeting to 51800 this rate will apply to all committee meetings in addition to regular meetings of council to qualify all committee meetings must be arranged by the chairman local man appointed to jamaica post mr vincent bigford a senior clerk at the stouffville bank of commerce has been appointed to a new post in kingston ja maica mr bigford was selected from a large number of appli cants he will take over the po sition on feb 25th he will be an assistant accountant mr bigford joined the com merce bank staff in june 1958 neighbors hold bee to reroof barn more than fifteen neighbours rallied to the aid of mr alonzo allen townline farm resident at gravel hill on tuesday to re place the roof that collapsed on his barn the entire top portion of the frame structure caved in from the weight of excess snow and ice mr allen was upstairs in the barn in the afternoon when he heard the rafters creaking and saw one of the main supports give way he rushed downstairs only seconds before the entire roof came crashing down mr and mrs chas nolan were in ottawa this week at tending the semiannual board of directors meeting of the ca nadian weekly newspapers as sociation mr nolan is chairman of the executive committee of the board mr lloyd turner an ardent supporter of stouffville minor hockey has donated two com plete sets of goal equipment one set will be used in the pec- wee league and another will be used by the bantams former classmates pay tribute to the late glen carter st johns united church at brougham was completely filled on friday afternoon as former high school students local ath letes and citizens paid affinal tribute to the late glen a car ter the deccsscd passed away in the scarboro general hos pital on monday evening feb 8th following a tragic accident on the brock road at cone 3 pickering the church auditorium could not accommodate the many friends of the deceased the chancel was completely banked with flowers glen was a fine sportsman in the true meaning of the word he was a prominent 2nd base man with the brougham soft- ball club in the south ontario league he also performed with ft greenwood in the claremont group he was an equally keen hockey player he played with brougham last winter in the stouffville community hockey league and with the green wood mt zion combines this season last year he was among the top nine in the individual scoring race the trio of grant carson lome disney and the deceased had been kept intact for the past two years and was considered to be one of the best in the group many of his team mates both in softball and hoc key were present at the service glen was a member of the brougham citizens league the organization was responsible for the expense involved in bring ing mr and mrs donald peters and eileen carter from calif or- nia to brougham all planes were grounded at chicago and the trip was completed bytrain the deceased was a member of st johns united church at brougham the pastor rev a cresswcll conducted the service interment was made at the fam ily plot in whltevale cemetery the funeral cortege covered a distance of more than one mile the pallbearers were james gray bill miller wayne craw ford ted dcgcer howard mal colm and david phillips some of the flowerbearers were wayne redshaw ron jones lome disney keith mcdowell doug allman murray mcdow ell grant foreman jack red shaw and los wilson