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i j j i u i y jj the uxbridge pickering townline west of altona re sembled a steep mountain trail on sunday afternoon township plows banked up 2 walls of snow estimated at over twenty feet in height ning a number of oxbridge all pickering roads were com- voa are still closed j plctely cleared by monday cve- the bungalow home of mr and mrs lionel begin elm road stouffville was par tially hidden by a giant snow drift on their front lawn a number of residents had to tunnel through twelvefoot drifts to gain entry into their garages the majority of streets were cleared by satur day evening staff photo ouffnilte cikine vi c vol 70 no 38 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday february 25 1960 fourteen pages schools churches farms restaurants havens for stormstranded motorists friday feb 19th was a day that will not soon be forgotten by hundreds of stormstranded local residents buffeted by gale- force winds blinded by driving snow and marooned in waist- high drifts they sought tempor ary refuge in farm homes schools churches and restaur ants during the early hours of saturday morning heavy high way equipment was put to work and by nightfall the majority of main arteries were open the dickson hill public school was an overnight haven for ciose to fifty people the stouff- villebound bus from toronto was held up in markham vill age fifty passengers remained in the presbyterian church some slept in the pews it took the bus more than five hours to travel from agincourt to mark- ham a distance of ten miles the shady nook snack bar at hagermans was temporary ref uge for forty commuters accidents were numerous a nearlynew pickup truck owned by mr fred winn 10th cone north and driven by his son allan become marooned on the cnr tracks a short distance from the winn farm it was struck by an engineplow and completely wrecked the driver luckily was not in the cab we are helpless commented pc bruce findlay of markham tp dept their cruisers were un able to navigate the one mile route between the buttonville station and no 7 highway a number of the officers includ ing chief clarence wideman remained in station throughout the night its terrible said pc jim stewart of the opp vandorf the most serious acci dent handled by their detach ment occurred near sutton pc j e cioss and cpl pettigrue were among the fifty persons stranded at dicksons hill a number of outoftown stu dents at the stoufiville district high school were permitted to leave their classes early in the afternoon two busses were able to get through members of the staff provided a shuttleservice with their cars in an effort to get the students as close to their homes as possible many remained in town the dunkeldloree wedding planned for the altona united missionary church on saturday evening had to be postponed until sunday the ceremony was conducted in the stouffville christian church the groom became stranded in his car on no 48 highway in an attempt to attend the prewedding re hearsal on friday night he re mained overnight in his auto a meeting with metro com missioner murray v jones slated for the municipal office at brougham on friday was cancelled local passenger trains were not seriously af fected nearly fifty tickets were sold at the stouffville station on saturday evening for persons returning to goodwood and ux- bridge for the first time in many years cutters and sleighs be came a popular mode of trans portation many residents re sorted to skis and snowshoes in an effort to bring in a sup ply of weekend groceries al though main street business on friday evening was almost nil local stores were very busy on saturday afternoon a number of merchants closed up their shops on friday on sunday hundreds of sight seers from toronto poured into the stouffville area their pres ence hindered highway crews in their attempt to widen the cut between stouffville and uxbridge the hamlet of good wood was virtually cut off from all directions a number of ux bridge township rural roads are still clogged with fencehigh drifts charge driver in 1200 main street accident monday night john hudson 25 of willow- dale has been charged with driv ing while his ability was im paired following a hectic four- car crash on main street mon day evening he has been re leased on s10o bail and will ap pear in magistrates court new market on monday feb 29th he is married and has three children he carried no insur ance on his auto investigating officer pc har ry heatherington of the stouff ville department said that hud sons westbound auto slammed into the left rear section of a parked car owned by donald gibson rupert st stouffville the impact drove gibsons ve hicle into a pickup truck own ed by mr john mann 10th cone markham to add to the confu sion another parked auto own ed by john mcdermott fair- view ave stouffville was side- swiped in the melee the hud son car was completely wreck ed damage to the gibson auto has been estimated at 5800 the total damage will exceed 1200 hudson agreed to a blood test which was taken by dr blair mitchell of stouffville the ar rangements for bail were com pleted by mr ross davis of stouffville j p pc heather ington was assisted at the scene by pc vankoughnet according to the local police hudson was en route home from uxbridge the gibson auto had only recently been refinished in a body shop the truck owned carsnowplow collide an eastbound car driven by muriel byer of stouffville was in collision with a dept of high ways snowplow on friday af ternoon on main street pc harry heatherington of the stouffville police dept said that the truck appeared to slide into the side of the eastbound volks wagen the one side of the auto was badly damaged the truck was driven by mr norman james of uxbridge no charges have been laid now conscious mr albert howard 29 of highland creek is now con scious in the scarboro general hospital he was the driver of a rutherford milk delivery truck that was rammed by a southbound cnr freight train on victory avenue near milli- ken on december 31st he was pinned in the wreckage markham twp police con stable gordon heppleston told the tribune that the driver had been unconscious for more than six weeks will contact solicitors on edwards statement stouffville municipal council will contact their solicitors re garding the fact that frank edwards has publicly referred to himself as chief of police of stouffville since edwards is still calling himself the chief of police i think the public should be in formed of where he stands declared councillor william par sons the matter was raised fol lowing the publishing of a letter jn this newspaper in which mr edwards referred to himself as police chief when we got the decision of the judge we understood from the solicitors that no fur ther notification was required from us edwards got the same judgment report that we did said reeve lehman the judge stated in his de cision that unless edwards re signed within ten days he was dismissed an appeal against this judgment has also been turned down after considerable discussion council agreed that the solici tors should be contacted regard ing edwards status work in office council agreed on a motion at thursday nights meeting that mr lloyd turner assessor should be asked to transfer his books to the new office building and do the book work there as soon as the office is ready councillor parsons said that he considered mr turners sal ary 2800 not 2400 since a 300 car allowance was paid as well as 100 for attending meet ings he said i think we should have more information on how much time this job takes and would move that the work be done in the office police ask 20 mph for truck traffic by mann and the car owned by mcdermott are nearlynew mod els they are fully insured in their monthly report to stouffville municipal council local police officers recommend ed that council seek means to enforce a 20mile an hour speed limit on trucks travelling thro ugh stouffville councillor parsons chairman of the police committee said thirty miles an hour is certain ly too fast for these loaded trucks but we would have to get the approval of the dept of highways council members agreed that the suggestion was a good one and clerk ralph corner was in structed to seek approval for cutting trucks to the 20mile rate councillor laushway comment ed on the many infractions by motorists parking too close to the corners on main st creat ing a dangerous situation for those attempting to enter the main thoroughfare from the side streets after some discus sion it was agreed that motor ists would be warned when found to be violating this park ing rule new fire truck some discussion was given over to the probability of pur chasing a new fire truck for town the present truck is 14 years old the tires have never been off and it is in serious need of a new motor while the mileage is not great a great deal of running is done by the motor in driving the pumping equipment reeve lehman said that he would want to see the 1960 bud get before committing himself on such an expenditure cost of a new truck ranged from 10000 to 14000 councillor laushway said he thought the matter should be studied since other equipment was going to have to be replac ed and some added and he did not think it good business to leave it all to be done at one time no definite action was taken but more is expected to be heard on the subject at budget time whicli is the next few weeks schools should do own borrowing says hitchurch council following a request from ss no 8 whitchurch hillcrest school for an advance of 3000 on the 1960 public school levy council members agreed that public schools should borrow their own funds until tax money was available clerk jack crawford pointed out that to meet such requests it would be necessary for the township to borrow additional funds he said that if council did decide to pay any of the levy in advance it would be better if only the necessary amount was forwarded quarter ly in order to permit discussion deputyreeve wallwork put for ward a motion that the sum of 800 be advanced during the discussion it was stated that public school boards could borrow in tlje same man ner as the municipality the interest on such loans would be chargeable as an expense and they would receive a govern ment grant on such expense the motion was defeated all members being agreed to the schools being asked to do their own borrowing insurance reviewed the township insurance poli cies were placed before council for study and council members will give study to the informa tion and possibly make some changes in the coverage the amounts presently carried on township real estate were re vealed to be as follows com munity hall 19000 1000 on contents 300 on booth town ship offices 30000 small shed 2000 large shed 5000 500 on implements 800 on sprayer and 700 on other equipment deputation protests cost of dogcatcher in town a threeman deputation ap peared before stouffville muni cipal council on thursday night to protest the engaging of a dogcatcher in town members of the delegation were william groenbury earl keith and the spokesman was ira rusnell mr rusnell said i dont like the idea of the expense of hiring a dogcatcher the people who have the dogs running about should have to pay we have more expenses coming we dont know where these ex penses are going to end i know there is strong opposition to this tiling mr rusnell suggested that the police should warn the of fenders and then summon them im not opposed to trying to keep dogs tied up but i am op posed to the expense of hiring a catcher continued mr rus nell most times its those who dont have any dogs who want the service i dont think its the policemens job to be chasing dogs said councillor laush way we dont want to spend money on the service either but every year the same complain ing goes on you should go after the own ers harder declared mr rus nell i dont think we can expect the police to do this job said deputyreeve wagg reeve lehman advised the visitors that their protest would be considered when the matter was dealt with applications for dogcatcher have beencalled for february 27th bridegroom marooned in car postpone wedding emergency measures in spite of the severity of vlllcs main street was cleared wc hcscx had riy ouujrts of the town it moned into service to cope is shown here in operation riday s snow storm btouff- in record time a heavy mo- wuh a huge m on the west- staff photo whiie the bride waited at her parents home on the eve of her wedding the groom the best man and an usher sat stranded in their car on no 48 highway near hwy 401 the rehearsal was cancelled the wedding was postponed mr and mrs james loree were happily married in the stouff ville christian church on sun day evening the wedding had previously been planned for the united missionary church in altona the bride the former nelda dunkeld daughter of mr and mrs murray dunkeld of atha was to be married on saturday evening to mr james henry loree son of mr and mrs jas loree of toronto the weather man dealt a cruel blow to their plans mr loree and his two passengers slept in their auto overnight a tank full of gas kpt the motor running until the snowplows broke through j on saturday the congestion of maroored and stalled autoi was so acute that the groom and his party were unable to return to his toronto home until sunday morning they slept in a gar age on saturday night the guests were all notified by telephone of the wedding postponement with the excep tion of a tew iriends from out- oftheway points all were pres ent at the ceremony on sunday since the townline road was not opened until sunday after noon plans to hold the wedding in the altona united missionary church had to be cancelled per mission was obtained to use the christian church in stouffville the newly married couple are presently enjoying a wellearn ed honeymoon in now york city the stouffville boy scouts col lected more than ten tons of paper in a recent drive held in town their leaders were most appreciative of the response and cooperation the organization re ceived iron local residents eight speakers compete in lions 12th annual oratorical contest eight students from stouff ville district high school com peted on monday night in the 12th annual oratorical contest conducted by the local lions club it is expected that the top boy and girl speaker will move to the regional contest and if successful go on to the zone contest the regional con test this year will be held in stouffville high school auditor ium on wednesday evening march 23rd in the junior section patricia harwood won first prize speak ing on robert burns and i iii- yard manuel was second tak ing inertia as his subject in the senior group mary harwoods talk on the swastika won her first place with elaine forsyth second speaking on ihc st law rence river mary harwood was placed as the best girl speaker as well as the best overall con testant and bill ratcliff won top place as the best boy the other speakers were bartira bennett marilyn hill and gertrude ba ker ah the contestants were given awards by the lions club for their efforts judges for the contest were rev j tiller rev douglas da vis and mr alec williams of markham lion ted edwards chairman of the lions educa tional committee conducted the contest in attendance from newmarket were lions seneca cook district oratorical chair man and m prosser regional chairman sales continue due to the severe storm of last week which blocked most roads in the are and made it impossible for shoppers to get to town both a e weldon son and hendricks hardware are continuing their midwinter sales weldons store is offering gi gantic halfprice discounts on top coats suits and other items and hendricks are offering washers and dryers at city prices