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rumne vol 72 no 30 thk tribune stoukfvillk ontario thursday december 29 1950 twelve pages four people were killed in behind the wheel of his south- twocar crash on the don bound auto left and ursula mills road at heise hill on monday afternoon james turner 78 of toronto died scheffczyk 24 also of tor onto was thrown from her vehicle right and died five hours later in the york coun ty hospital at newmarket on thursday morning the 2 passengers ernest ficht 20 and robt james osborne 81 passed away as the result of injuries received in the col lision statt photo glasgow ratepayers split on question of buying new school bus the purchase of a new 5200 bus to provide student transpor tation to the glasgow public school brought forth divided opinions at the annual meeting of ratepayers of ss no g ux- bridge on wednesday the issue was discussed before one of the largest public gatherings ever held in the section the trustee board was sub jected to some criticism for their initial purchase of a sec ondhand bus for the sum of 51000 a number of ratepayers suggested that the vehicle was well on its way to the scrap pile before the deal was com pleted and its continued opera tion only helped to line the pockets of several garage re pairmen board chairman ron ross explained that a 20 passenger bus could be purchased for s1700 he noted further that a bus to accommodate 36 students- would cost s5200 the maxi mum government grant attain able would be s1000 on a first ballot vote on the issue the re sult was deadlocked a second vote provided the board with a majority of two in favour of the purchase mr fred lewis a ratepayer quesetioned the boards policy in permitting the purchase of certain products for the bus from dealers outside the section he pointed out that he was pay ing a sizeable school tax but had no children in attendance some persons raised an objection to the practice of picking up the teacher at the east end of stouftville the meeting agreed that all salary arrangements between the teacher mr horrid and the trustees should be left in the hands of the board it was suggested that tin principals present stipend of s3s00 might have to be increased to over 1000 if his services were to be retained although the board had plan ned to discuss the purchase of more land and the possible erec tion of a new building this dis cussion had to be cut short due to the lateness of the hour mr ross informed the tribune that in all likelihood the matter would be held over until the fall term it was disclosed that the tax rate in the section had risen to 21 mills mr grant drewery was elected as the new member to the trustee board other members include chair man ron ross geo francis and the secretary mrs don hope overturns five times a toronto man suffered a broken leg and two passengers were injured when their north bound car went out of control on the don mills road smith of gormley and rolled over five times the driver john papae- doppoulos was admitted to the scarboro general hospital the accident was investigated by the markham twp police dept four persons were injured and admitted to hospital follow ing a twocar collision at the intersection of no 7 highway and the kennedy road at union- ville on sunday afternoon one auto was driven by james nor man pike of brampton the other vehicle was driven by wm best of toronto the on tario provincial police of the bond lake detachment con ducted the investigation local man wins hifi set mr len ham north street stouftville was the lucky win ner of the combination hifi set in a draw sponsored by the stouftville businessmans asso ciation the first prize ticket was pulled from the drum on saturday afternoon by reeve gar lehman more than 40000 forms were submitted from lo cal stores mr ham resides at the fred marshman home in the east end of town his pur chase of items from houstons drug store paid off in hand some dividends the second priz mans or ladys wrist watch was won by mrs edwin guest 6 harding park stouftville she filled out a lucky form from waggs jeu- ellry store mrs orval bui k- holder edward st stouftville was the winner of a kouak 3- lens movie camera complete with film her purchase was made at thurstons store the fourth prize a tailored to meas ure mans or ladys suit went to harry dulmage rr 3 stouft ville he filled out a draw torm at the lga store attempted frank william kemp mussel- mans lake has been charged with attempted murder accord ing to police kemp discharged a rifle on the premises of his fatherinlaw in north york and the bullet narrowly missed its intended victim john edward rick 53 the two men were in volved in a bitter argument ear lier in the evening and it was later renewed when kemp re turned to the residence the accused was arrested on saturday night in king city and the attempted murder charge was laid mrs john dougherty and her family had christmas together with mr bert carpenter and his tamily at lindsay those at tending were mr and mrs c g mckenzie harold ave mr and mrs elmer sherk and tam ily albert st and mr and mrs ken wagg and tamily orchard park rescue buttonville boy from washes a two year old buttonville boy was saved from suffocation last week when his mother cut his sweater loose from around his neck with a large butcher knife after both arms became entangled between the rollers of the family washing machine perry crispin son of mr and mrs gordon crispin was lush ed to the scarboro general hos pital after first aid treatment had been administered at the home by dr robt seaver of markham although badly r wnnger bruised no bones were broken and the little lad was released on the following day the boy put both hands be tween the wringer rollers and was drawn in up to his neck he was unable to breathe until his sweater was severed mrs crispin summoned the help of the markham twp police de partment with the aid of a small penknife pc douglas tribbling was able to free the childs arms mr and mrs cris pin have one other son russell 6 years judgment reserved in sauerkraut will case judge a r willmoii has re served judgment in the contest ed will of s5 year old mrs em ma nighswander the hearing was concluded in whitby court ism we the two daughters mrs mabel tindall and mrs tola elson claimed the will was viongfully changed they were each left 300 while a share farmer charles bennett was given the property valued at an estimated 10000 mrs tindall told the court that her mother had changed the will after mr bennett com plained that a jar of sauerkraut presented to mrs nighswander had contained ddt the first will bequeathed everything to the daughters mrs nighswan der died in 195s john a cattanach a mark- ban solicitor told judge ar thur wilimott who presided that on july 27 1951 mis nighswander whom he had never seen in his life before came into his office and asked to make out a will he said that he recalled that certain legacies were made in the will but the icsidue of the estate the farm went to charles bennett mr cattanach said that mrs nighswander told him that she was not on friendly terms with her two daughters the will he said was properly witnessed and left in his office for safe keeping physician testifies dr f j button of stoulfvflle said that mrs nighswander had been a patient from 1916 until her death in lflvs from pneu monia i thought she was normally alert for a woman her age he told the court i would say she was somewhat stubborn and would be hard to influence the two daughters are alleg ing undue influence as a basis of their attack on the will 1 think she knew- what she was doing said dr button he added that he was sure that bennett who worked the farm was good to her and she was happy on the farm in reply to a question on crossexamination he said that he recalled an incident when both mrs nighswander and bennett complained of upset stomachs and mentioned that they had eaten sauerkraut he said that he thought they had a touch of flu drew first will horace button stouftville so licitor said that he was certain that his firm had drawn one will for mrs nighswander al though when the time came to produce it he said it could not be found he said that there were many visits to his office by mrs nigh swander and many discussions he said that the topic was what legacy she should leave her daughters if any r c macdonald a farmer living near the nighswander home said that he often visited there he said that he suggested once to mrs nighswander that she go and live with her daugh ters he said that she told him after they got what they want ed they would shove me down the stairs mrs m tindall said that the all the debts were paid and the remainder divided equally am ong the three daughters since that time one of the daughters has died gave sauerkraut getting to the sauerkraut in cident mrs tindall said she had made it between christmas and new years in 19 is and had given it to her mother shortly ljefore her birthday on jan 18 1919 the next time she went to vis it her mother she said her mo ther met her at the door with f never thought i had a girl who would do what you did mrs tindall said she asked her mother what she was talk ing about and was told we had some of that sauerkraut and they said you put ddt in it she said her mother was not sick but bennett was her moth farm which had been bequeath- i er told her she said that ben- four are now dead after holiday crash at heise hill pry passenger out a twocar crash on the don mills road at heise hill on monday afternoon brought death to four lersons james turner 78 of douglas drive toronto died behind the wheel of his southbound auto ursula rcheffczyk 24 of albany ave toronto was thrown to the pavement and succumbed five hours later in the york county hospital at newmarket her northbound vehicle was hit broadside and almost severed by the impact a passenger ernest ficht had to be pried loose from the wreckage by 1 c john mccague of markham township and p 0 kenneth sider of rich mond hill both ficht and a passenger in the turner car robt james osborne also of toronto died early thursday morning in hospital scene of chaos p c robt hadden of markham township was one of the first on the accident scene two ambulances were summoned from the buttonville station the collision completely cut off all traffic on the southbound lane and cars were soon lined for over one mile in both directions the slippery pavement worsened the situa tion and a number of vehicles slid off the highway into the ditch the four persons were all conscious for a time but the one driver died a few minutes after the police arrived sgt robt hood and p c hadden took charge of the investigation the lady accident victim was a native of germany hut had taken up residence in toronto about two years ago it is believed that they were en route to spend the holiday with friends in keswick according to re ports she apparently lost control of the car and it veered across the highway into the path of the turner auto the front windshield was tossed twenty feet and wreckage was spread over a wide area coroner dr john fleming of markham rendered first aid to the injured stouffville high school board rates well with local teaching sta stouftville dist high school board rates well with the teach ing staff according to a prov incewide survey teachers in all schools throughout the prov ince were asked to give their personal opinions of their boards in three categories boards altitude toward educa tion improvement relations be tween board and staff and con ditions of work on the first question stouftville board re ceived a good rating or 66 tb 74 and excellent or 75 on the second two this report was not intended to be divulged to school boards but since its contents have be come known the results are very interesting the survey re ceived replies trom nearly floco ot all teaching staffs in the province and the results were released back to the teachers last week in the case of markham high school the board there meas ured fair or 60 to 63 on its attitude towards education im provement and good on the second two questions york central board which op erates richmond hill high school and takes in a portion o markham township rated inadequate on both the first two questions and only fair on the last question both pickering twp board and newmarketsutlon tailed to make sufficient replies to be rated general rating high teachers attitude generally as shown by the survey is one of high opinion of the boards the number rated as un satisfactory was less than 10 mr d thomas who heads the teachers union says that the report is intended to be of as sistance to members of the group who are contemplating a change in position fatality attributed to inexperienced driving of 17year0ld girl a coroners jury ruled on tuesday dec 20th that geor- gina chadwick aged 17 of new market died as the result of an accident on sunday nov 13th they also said that the accident was due to inexperience on the part of the driver 17 year old dorothy kmet also of new market dr a k croll told the jury that miss chadwick had been pronounced dead on arrival at york county hospital in new market after an accident on the 2nd concession of whitchurch township he staled that death was due to shock of multiple lacerations and injuries the two teenagers who were accom panied by a boy friend robert patterson aged is of newmar ket had set out for a drive on the sunday afternoon miss kmet had been travelling at excessive speeds from 60 to so miles per hour along the con cession road when the 5s olds she was driving started to swerve unable to control the vehicle u headed up an em bankment and crashed into a tree both miss kmet and pat terson received injuries also she told the jury her father had taught her to drive and that she had obtained a perma nent licence only a week prior to the accident coroner dr j w williams of aurora asked whether the car was equipped with power brakes and power steering the girls lather said it had power brakes only jurors were leslie j harper toreman robert forfar thos mc-caugh- lan arthur mcelroy donald a watson they retired for ap proximately 35 minutes before bringing in their verdict van- dorf police gave evidence during the proceedings coroner criticizes jury verdict in gormley fatality a coroners jury on tuesday december 20 under dr j p wilson of richmond hill found that frederick snow aged 39 of wilstead drive newmarket died as a result of injuries on nov 15th the verdict which was presented by jury toreman richard baycroft of gormley was termed undecisive and not sufficiently specific dr wilson admonished the jury composed of foreman richard baycroft james mcleod gordon tem pers ray anger and george kerr for their lack of detail in submitting their findings mr snow was killed instantly as the result of a headon col lision on the don mills doad approximately half a mile from vandorl he died behind the wheel ot his car when the aorta was severed dr ritchie of newmarket said the man had bled to death in ternally mrs donna jean hillis aged 27 of keswick who drove the other car involved in the collision told the jury that she did not sec snows car nor does she remember feeling any im pact on collision she was taken to york county hospital and was unconscious tor several hours after admission her two- year old son was also injured as a result she said she was on her way home from toronto when the accident occurred she stated that the weather was bad at the time but added that at no time did she skid vandorf opp investigated busy yule for markham village police drinking drivers who escaped the long arm of the law in met- to toronto during the christ mas holiday weekend found little relief on entering the boundaries of markham village the department had no less than nineteen incidents during the threeday period including three charged with ability im paired there was one charge of careless driving and one youth was arrested tor drinking while under age seven motorists had their keys removed and given to more responsible persons the 5man force investigated a total of seven accidents where specific charges have been laid the individual cases will be heard in either button ville or newmarket courts within the next two weeks engagement mrs fcnwick is happy lo announce the engagement of her daughter sandra lynn to derek nicholson son of mr and mrs richard nicholson wedding to take place in stouft ville united church january 28 duelo late arrival some country correspondence will not appear until next issue ed to bennett had been in the nighswander tamily since the days of her greatgrandfather she said that her mother told her in 1j2 that she had made a netl had been to a doctor and the doctor had told him he had been poisoned by ddt mrs tindall said that she told bennett that he knew that to be will following advice from hcrja falsehood because too manyj husband who had died that win- j people had eatenthe sauerkraut j ter in the will mrs tindall land only he had been ill ben- said her mother told her that continued on page on guard sheba a german shep herd stands guard over a car riage and eight monti old andrew rattray son of mr and mrs ian rattray fair- was caught on duty by the mr and mrs rattray brought view ave stouffviilc the tribune cameraman outside the animal to canada from welltrained dog a family pet the main street post office kn nrc a