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early arrivals twin suffolk lambs made a preschedule arrival at the farm of mr donald hope near glasgow in uxbridge town ship last week it is the ear liest birth to be reported to the tribune so far this win ter six year old david hope and his 3 year old sister kathy keep a tight hold on the lively youngsters staff photo turn down move to have elected high school trustees by a vote of 18 to 6 the york county council has rejected a icsolution that would require all high school trustees to be elected rather than appointed the matter was discussed at considerable length at a county council session last week dep utyreeve kenneth laushway of stouffville was one who ex pressed opposition to the mo tion speaking for stouffville mr laushway stated that his municipality was satisfied with the present system of appoint ment deputyreeve r j henderson of woodbridge suggested that there was some indication in a number of municipalities that the present appointed trustees showed a lack of control over expenditures deputyreeve ca roline ion of newmarket also fa voured the election of officials for the posts she was opposed by her council partner reeve p s lcggc mr rutherford of vaughan contended that the teachers federation was a very strong union and he expressed doubt that elected board person nel would strengthen the trus tees position warden j v fry said that he was satisfied with the present system and would not support the resolution mr sellers of sutton suggested that many good trustees now serv ing on high school boards by appointment would decline to stand for election reeve clar ence davis of aurora argued that many persons had no time for electioneering and their val ued services would then be lost a vote of 18 to 6 against the resolution shelved the subject for the present the county ap pointment for the stouffville dist high school board is mr gordon ratcliff mr and mrs fred byers en tertained their family on christ inas this included mr and mrs dave ratcliff and family mr and mrs noel stony and fam ily bloominglon mr and mrs cliff barkey and family of mar- kham and mr and mrs glen byers of altona objects to council acting on requests from employees councillor chas hooper ob jected strenuously on monday to markham township council taking any orders or recommen dations from employees im opposed to any township em ployee bringing in a recommen dation on his own in the dying moments of council said mr hooper the issue arose when engin eer mikalis spoke to council re garding the purchase of another sand spreader he said the re quest was urgent and asked council to authorize the calling of tenders he said that a num ber of new streets had been added and it was impossible to give service with the present equipment the cost he said would be about 2500 and would be subject to subsidy councillor hooper said that any such re commendation should come from the road committee before he would ap prove of it councillor allan sumner back ed the engineer he said if the equipment is necessary in the opinion of the engineer council should act would you buy another truck too on his request re plied councillor hooper engin eer mikalis had said he thought council should buy another truck in 1962 however councillor hooper could not get a seconder for his motion to lay the matter over for council in 1962 and councillors sumner watson and deputy- reeve mumberson supported the engineers request and tenders will be called mr and mrs cliff gordon and girls motored to florida for the christmas holidays ten liquor seizures in markham village the markham village police department was kept busy over the christmas holiday weekend a total of ten liquor seizures were made the majority involv ing teenagers charges have been laid and the accused will be arraigned in courts either at newmarket or richmond hill police chief fred white told the tribune that in addition to the liquor offences his depart ment investigated three acci dents one collision resulted in heavy damage one driver was charged with failing to remain pc hugh vankoughnet of stouffville reported a quiet holi day period the same was re ported from markham town ship where only three minor accidents were investigated and there were no liquor seizures christmas visitors with mrs b wiancko and eldon of haw thorne ave were her son re- ford mrs wiancko and three children from don mills and her sister mrs john lehman her daughter margaret mrs wm barnes and children chris tina valerie george and dianne of bliss ny arrived on sun day and spent the christmas holidays with her mother curling schedule to begin jan 3 the rolling hills mens curling league comprising 64 local curlers will open its sched ule on wednesday evening jan 3rd there will be two draws from 79 pm and 911 pm there will be sixteen teams with four members per team includ ing a skip and a vice skip the ladies league will also open on january 3rd at 2 pm there are still some vacancies and additional members are welcome the rolling hills club is lo cated on cone 5 whitchurch near bothesda mr and mrs reg button son and daughter are holiday ing this week in bermuda expect local residents to make 1200 phone calls on two holidays ritnuie vol 73 no 30 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday december 2s 1961 twelve pages mt pleasant section to cancel contract with claremont board two trustees submit resignations the agreement between the mount pleasant public school board and the claremont trus tees to educate the pupils from ss no 12 pickering township will be terminated at the end of the june term 1962 accord ing to a majority vote of the mt pleasant ratepayers at their annual meeting on wednesday night the contract with rural bus lines of brougham will also be cancelled at the same time in a fastmoving chain of events two board members submitted their resignations including the chairman mr lloyd pugh and mr roy wilson neither was up for election since their terms had not expired a third mem ber allan murray was replac by russell gostick a special meeting will be called to fill the two vacancies kept too quiet mr hugh miller a ratepayer suggested that the boards plan last spring to close the sections century old schoolhouse had been kept too quiet he con tended that few people knew of the scheme until the agree ment with claremont had been finalized mr grenfell wilson another ratepayer argued that any mat ter of such major importance should have been aired at a pub lic meeting rather than shoul dered solely by the trustees and the inspector there would be better feeling in the section to day if the entire issue had been brought out into the open he said the chairman mr pugh said that the board had not received a single complaint from parents since the changeover to clare mont had been made in septem ber he admitted that the trus tees to a great extent had fol lowed the advice of the inspec tor mr j c mcclelland it looked so good to us that we didnt think a meeting was nec essary he said he informed the gathering that the board could advertise for a teacher and the mt pleasant school could be reopened in septem ber criticize inspector mr miller suggested that the secretary of the board should write a letter to the inspector on behalf of the ratepayers crit icizing his recommendations concerning the education pro gram in the section he deceiv ed both the ratepayers and the trustees he said he pulled the wool over some peoples eyes stated mr ken madill the chairman agreed that the inspector had indicated to the board that there was a shortage of qualified teachers for rural schools he was fool ed he said mr pugh said that all three trustees were in com plete agreement concerning the move a motion to reopen the mt pleasant school for the sep tember term was approved mr pugh warned that a change- back could possibly result in a threemiu tax increase in the section bounced around mr miller suggested mat the claremont board could cancel the contract with the mt pleas ant trustees at any time the children could be bounced around from school to school he warned some parents contended that the present bus transportation system was too early for the pupils in the morning its too much like stockshipping said grenfell wilson fifteen mount pleasant students are transport ed to claremont daily and brought home in the afternoon orderly meeting in spite of the seriousness of the ratepayers proposals the twohour meeting was conduct ed in an orderly manner six teen persons were present in defence of the present system mr robt jackson a ratepayer argued that the mt pleasant pupils to his knowledge had progressed quite favorably at the claremont schoi sojne times we lay too much blame on the teachers he said he ex pressed some doubt that a quali fied instructor would be willing to accept a position in a school that had very few modern con veniences and was fifty years behind the times some others felt that there would be no shortage of applicants 40 of brigade calls to whitchurch twp stouffville firemen were kept extremely busy during 1961 in the past year the brigade an swered a total of fifty calls they had only 3 in 1960 the stouffville unit was sum moned into whitchurch town ship to extinguish 21 fires or forty percent of the total calls there were only 13 outbreaks in whitchurch during 1960 other figures for 61 are as fol lows stouffville 13 markham township 11 uxbridge town ship 5 and pickering township none grass fires were responsible for the major share of stouff ville brigade calls there were 18 blazes of this lype other fires included buildings 15 chimneys 7 oil burners 6 vehicles 4 it is estimated that more than 1200 longdistance telephone calls will be made by stouffville residents during the two holi days of christmas and new years on christmas day alone the total surpassed the 600 mark and an equal number is expected on new years day miss m e burgess told the tribune that overseas calls are not unusual during these per iods specific points of location are not tabulated by stouffville operators since all such calls are switched through to toronto long distance she recalled that last year one call was com pleted to japan twentytwo op- orators were on duty in stouff ville on christmas day according to bell telephone officials here the expected in crease in he volume of long distance calls is due largely to a trend toward calling over greater distances this trend was given a further boost last month when the bell company introduced lowercost long dis tance calling rates the new nighte c o n o m y plan offers callers more for their money in offpeak hours and applies on any station-to- station call within the bells on tario and quebec territory plac ed after d pm nightly after 5 minutes at the regular night rates callers receive five min utes at no additional charge and from then en every two min utes is charged as one minute reductions in stationtostation dismiss liquor charges against lake residents liquor charges filed against 2 musselmans lake residents mr geo villemere and his daughter mrs una spears have been dismissed according to mr villemere in conversation with the tribune last week the officers in charge of the case were not immediately available for comment the lengthy list of charges which extended over a long court period were finally com pleted on dec 4th additional charges against nineteen found- ins were also dismissed or with- bald eagles are so named be- drawn the accused were rcpre- cause of the effect of the white sented by mr irving himel of feathers on their heads toronto calls day and night rates range from five to 75 cents for persons intending to place long distance calls this holiday season miss burgess stressed the importance of call ing by number and making stationtostation calls in call ing by number you eliminate the time required to contact in formation in the called com munity and unnecessary delays are avoided she said if the circuits are busy or the call is not answered telephone users would be wise to call again themselves rather than ask the operator to check the bellman building on main street has been sold harold wood real estate completed the transaction 2cent stamp sales reach 136000 twocent stamp sales at the stouflrille post office during the prechristmas period have been estimated at 136000 ac cording to postmaster jack sanders this figure is almost 7000 ahead of the sales in 1960 sir sanders says that the increase was partially due to the han dy packages of 50 stamps made available to the public for the first tune this year mr sanders lias credited the smooth distribution of christmas mail locally to his experienced staff and the co operation of the public in bundling their cards into sep arate town and outoftown packages clarification asked in dog case oliver pellett assistant to the law enforcement officer at tended whitchurch twp coun cil friday night requesting that the case of unpaid dog tax be taken into court against mrs gladys coates he stated the case had already been to court but under the name mrs hut- ton he said that this was the name on the ladys mailbox and driving license but in court she had denied being mrs coates reeve wallwork and deputy- reeve frank williams had ap peared as witnesses for the township magistrate kelly suggested that the case be clarified as re gards identification and had de clared an adjournment until jan 11th protest rise in taxes the hovela recreation and sports club which operates at lots 32 and 33 8th concession of whitchurch near vivian has protested to council on the in crease in their 1961 taxes from 5800 to 1200 the club contends thafas the cottages at the club are only used in the summer months no school problem is created and therefore should not bear such a tax clerk jack crawford drew at tention to the increase in the number of cottages both com pleted and in course of construc tion accounting for the increase as regards school tax he said that this was a provincial mat ter and council had no poer to grant any exemption aged recluse found dead in secluded whitchurch twp home engagement the engagement is announced of miss barbaraann parker daughter of mrs thomas ar thur parker and the late mr parker to mr john david mairs son of mrs dean l mairs and the late mr mairs brougham ont the wedding to take place on jan 27 1962 in dublin st united church guelph ont the body of william linton aged recluse was discovered last week at his home located in a remote area on the 6th concession of whitchurch twp it is believed that mr linton who was in his 90th year had been dead for some days mr linton was born in aur ora attended public school there and spent his entire lifetime since then in the township he had lived in his oneropm shack which replaced a frame shack that was burned down and re built for him by neighbors on several occasions deceased suffered the loss of his left leg some years ago and moved about with the aid of crutches since that time his only companions have been a herd of goats and his chief diet he told the tribune in an interview several years ago was honey fruit and goats milk mr linton was owner of a large tract of township bush- land as well as some acres of blow sand a great deal of his land was disposed of some time ago to jas sabislon of union- ville the property was used as well as a tank training area by the department of national de fense he was a son of tlie late mr and mrs william linton of au rora and as an eccentric lie was known by hundreds of resi dents throughout the township and nearby towns the last few years urban development ha begun to crowd in on his seclud ed area and the extension of the 6th concession placed mod ernday travel within a few feet of his shack the funeral on saturday wai conducted from the thompson funeral home aurora with in terment in aurora- cemetery present reeve with chair reeve ken wagg of stouff ville who will be leaving the council board this year was honoured at the final meeting of council thursday evening with the presentation of a lounge chair rocker the presentation was nade by deputyreeve ken laushway at the conclusion of the evenings business and all members expressed their pleas ure at having served under mr waggs chairmanship the evening concluded with refreshments served in the municipal board room by th deputyreeve and mrs laush way the three bells the three bells a fine ex ample of homemade handi work hang from the entrance of the bungalow home of dr and mrs blair mitchell rup ert ave stouffville created by mrs mitchell using a wire mesh and spraypainted cedar boughs the eye- catching christmas decorations have attracted much local interest staff phow fa mappy new year is extiendetl jo one and all ft at t