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s rtbttnt vol 73 no 51 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday may 24 1962 fourteen pages x case for the courts when is a car not a car that is a question that will be determined before he courts when the case involving this cut down veision of an auto mobile comes up for consider ation next month the vehicle was ordered off the road by markham twp police last week and the diiver a lang- staff youth was charged staff photo cutaway car ordered off road driver charged a seventeen year old lang- staff youth drove his cutaway crsion of a 19 9 chevrolet car into the paiking lot near the markham twp police station at buttonville on saturday after noon but he didnt drive it home sgt bob hood spotted the vehicle and ordered it im pounded ross hicks was charg ed with operating an unsafe vehicle the roof had been cut off it had no windshield no head lights no hood no- spare tire no brakes t two homemade front fenders and one impro vised hub cap the door on the passenger side would not open hicks had come to the mark- ham station to seek information on a causing disturbance charge laid earlier by richmond hill police he is scheduled to appear in richmond hill couit to face the markham charge on june 8th local pc to act for emo to inspect air cadets sat evening reeve timbers informed council last week that consta ble davies of the stouffville po lice dept had agreed to serve as liaison officer for the town with the emergency measuies organization deputyreeve laushway ask ed for assurance that this work would not interfere with his po lice duties reeve timbers stat ed- the constable would be re quired to attend a number of classes but these would mostly be at night council agreed to the appointment the meeting last week of the police chiefs at newmarket was attended by reeve timbers deputyreeve laushway coun cillor gar lehman and chief officer yankoughnct no de cision was reached regarding a county police force over 95 pupils now move vaccine more than 95 of the pupils in the orchard park and sum- mitview public schools in stouff ville were given the oral polio vaccine on friday in a program promoted by the york county health unit dr robt king medical officer of health said that the result was very grati fying with two clinics yet to be completed the total accept ance of the vaccine for both children and adults across yoik county has been about fifty per cents v orf friday evening in stouff ville 1037 persons pamynpate- in the vaccine program oetwee the hours of 6 and 830 pm the second stage of the oral vaccination will be held in the fall the time and location will be announced at that time dr king stated that two doses is the basic recommended proced ure wing commander e a smith cd chief training officer at the rcaf sta tion camp borden will con duct the annual inspection of no 94 air cadet squadron in stouffville memorial park on saturday evening at 7 oclock wc smith has served with the airforce over a period of 33 years athletic night stouffville dist high athletes will be honoured at the second annual athletic banquet and presentations in the school audi torium on friday evening the highlight of the event will be the naming of the years top boy and girl athlete earthmover operator had narrow escape as machine toppled a twentytwo year old earth mover operator had a narrow escape from death or serious in jury on monday when the con nection between the tractor and the loader snapped toppling the lead machine over on its nose vern rose the flrivcr of vcnnachcr ont near tweed hung onto the controls and was not thrown to the ground the equipment was not badly dam aged the accident occurred cast of goodwood near con 4 uxbridge twp the firm of shcwman road builders toronto arc presently employed on a section of the county improvement road between goodwood and manchester the dlcsclpowcred tractor alone weighs 20 tons empty a photo of the machine appears on page s thats the fastest load i ever dumped commented the operator in conversation with the tribune search for tw0yr0ld girl a toronto party of picnick- rs suffered an anxious half- hour of uncertainty on sun day afternoon when it was learned that a small two year old girl was missing from their group in the stouftvillc varfc aided by local police auth orities and a number of pri vate citizens an allout search wis conducted for the child she was spotted by mickey hunt at the west end sunoco station attempting to cross busy no 47 highway she was picked up by the police and returned to a much- relieved mother the little girl had walked almost one mile 5 for public school addition sixty thousand dollars in de bentures for the addition to the orchard park public school are being offered for sale at 5vi these are 20 year debentures and were bidin bv bell gouin- lock- at 9820 subject to the approval of the municipal board three tenders were re ceived for the disposal of the issue the debentures aie advertised for sale in this issue of the tri bune t addition approved stouffville council lias re ceived approval of the central mortgage corporation to pro ceed with the addition to the sewage disposal plant the con tract was let to the- dynamic construction co some weeks ago and it is expected that work will begin in about a week miss marlene cake r n a former stouffville district high school student has suc cessfully completed a- post graduate course at western university london ontario she will now serve as a pub lic health nurse she acquired her r n degree last year from the school of nursing waterloo south memorial hospital the stouffville municipal office will be open in the even ing may 30 31 and june 1st for the receiving of the first in stalment of taxes the office will also be open on june 2nd saturday from 9 to noon invalid tickets in circulation admission tickets to the stouffville figure skating club dance at cedar beach musselmans lake dated sat urday june 2nd are being circulated throughout the area and are not valid the correct date of the dance is friday junelst the incorrect tickets were removed from a refuse dump in uxbridge twp and distrib uted throughout the district the matter is under investi- gation by the stouffville po- lice department anyone ac- 7 quiring invalid tickets is ask ed to contact either mrs robt sellers or mrs walter smjth immediately- r unionville man a 35yearold unionville man was sentenced to 18 months by an ontario supreme court jury following a hearing before judge forsyth in toronto last week irwin howard hilyerwas charged with indecent assault against a 15yearold girl the preliminary hearing was conducted by magistrate o s hollinrake in richmond hill court inapril and the accused was committed to stand trial before a judge and jury he en tered a plea of not guilty hilyer had previously served a sixmonth sentence for a sim ilar offense while a resident of elliott lake in 1959 the invest igation was in charge of pc clifford cox of markham town ship police dept withhold action on suhoivision at unionville markham township council has given every indication it will not be stampeded into ap proving of a large subdivision on the northwest corner of un ionville which has been under discussion for several years j grant representing fall- den investments appeared be fore council again on tuesday requesting approval of the plans he said thev were the fourth company to take on this development and they did not intend to fail the company was prepared to build a disposal plant and in- stall a sewerage system com plete with storm sewers the present village of unionville could tap into the sewers but would be required to place the mains and connections to the houses at the expense of the present owners in return for building the sewer system the company was asking the town ship to waive the lot fee planning director forr e t stated the plan had been so changed that he considered the planning board should review it councillor hoover said that a lot was involved and council should be able to study it fur ther as well the houses mr grant stated would be valued from 17000 to 25000 council will hold a spe cial committee meeting to dis cuss the proposals the annual stouffville fire- works display promoted by the local legion will be held on thursday evening tonight in the memorial park council hears board recommendation for new stouffville library building keep in mind the bake sale and tea to be held 1 at christ church anglican sunset blvd on saturday may 26 stouffville municipal office willbe closed on saturdays for the summer after june 2nd rush near drown victim to hospital a nineteen year old aurora youth was rushed by stouffville police cruiser to the york coun ty hospital at newmarket on monday night after he was pull ed unconscious from the water of musselmans lake james ward metcalfe stieet aurora suffered severe cramps while swimming and sank be low the surface he was res cued by a companion wayne brown also of aurora assisted by the victims wife barbara rushed to stouffville by car the youth was revived and tran sported by pc harry heather- ington to hospital after a brief checkup by doctors he- was re leased and allowed to return home stouffville municipal council will give consideration to the erection of a new public library building a depu tation from the public library board rev douglas davis miss anne lehman geo foord elmer daniels and harry bourne appeared before council on thurs day evening to point out the necessity for such a move speaking for the deputation rev douglas davis stated that the board felt it was necessary to secure new premises as the present library building was of insuffic ient size and there was no land on which any additions could be made to the structuie the present library building was completed in 1923 with the carnegie foundation which con tributed millions to libraries throughout the province pay ing d000 plus half of the ad ditional cost of some three thou sand dollars the cost of the lot approximately 600 was paid by public subscription mr foord stated it was use less for the board to request increased grants to purchase books as they had no place to display them the downstairs basement was of little use as the stairs was very narrow and it was necessary to pass the fur nace to get into the inner room he gave council some figures on the present use of the lib rary and said that the board was providing about 600 new books in a year the present per- capita grant is 50c which was a- bout the lowest in the province the library inspector when he visited the local institution re cently had made certain rec ommendations concerning the building and stated that the grant should be about 2 per person could use church property the suggestion was made the anglican church property that is on the market would provide ample space for the building required the present library building could be deeded to the corporation in discussing the church pro perty it was generally agreed by council that the church build ing would have to be torn down the lot is only 40 feet wide but has ample width at the rear a new building would eliminate any steps which would be wel comed by many older people who use the facilities regular- the iitprary board members all concurred in the need for the larger accommodation you have certainly given council something to think about said reeve timbers but it will require consideration on locations he thanked the board members and said that the time they all spent in the service of the library was ap preciated councillor parsons stated that it would not be possible to make any payment from the taxation of the current year as the tax rate had been struck and no funds provided for such an- item he presumed that if council decided to proceed with a new building this year the expenditure would be deben- tured mr bourne advised that the qboard of the anglican church was to meet this week to ar range disposal of the property but he would arrange to have the matter deferred in order son m and that council might have time mrs carl roso stouffville for consideration r 2 is a recent graduate in mechanical technology from the ryerson institute of technology toronto gradua tion exercises were held on may 11th in the york min ster church toronto bruce is a former student of the stouffville dist high school plant trees this fall the roads and walks com mittee of town council will un dertake to have a number of trees planted along main st to replace those removed by the highway widening council lor parsons suggested that trees of different colours be planted deputyreeve laushway said that he would interview the pro perty owners as it would be nee- essary to set the frees on pri- vate property and the job could be done in the fall as it was too late now for spring planting meet to decide future of home school assoc the fate of the stouffvlle home and school association will be the main topic of dis cussion at a special meeting of the organization in the summit- view school on wednesday eve ning may 30th at s30 oclock some members have suggest ed that the group should dis band in favour of some other type of parent organization other varied ideas have also been put forward and will be aired at the emergent gathering parents are urged to attend the breakup of the associa tion could mean 1 no gradua tion dinner for the grade 8 stu dents 2 no grade teas where the parents have an opportunity to meet with the teachers in an informal manner 3 no oppor tunity to have the teachers in form the parents of changes in the curriculum and new systems put into practice the continuance or the break up of the home and school will be put on the line at wednes days meeting and a vote will be taken on the question daily water use near 500000 gals during the current hot dry spell water consumption in stouffville has neared the half million gallon figure over a 24 hour period puc secretary elmer daniels stated this week this is close to the peak drain for any particular period of the year the pumps have maintained the reservoirs at a constant lev el and there is no suggestion that any restrictions will be im posed the increased gallonage has been attributed to the use of lawnsprinkling systems opening dance cedar beach musselmans lake on saturday may 26 don gilkes and his or chestra old tyme and modern dancing spent near lifetime on ballantrae farm on tuesday may 15th mr delmar thomas kidd a long time farm resident near ballan trae in whitchurch twp pass ed away at his home he had been in failing health for two years i although the deceased was horn in toronto lie had spent al most all of his 52 years at bau- antfae he ardentmusij cian and for 22 years lie was the leader of an orchestra that play ed throughout the mt albert and belhayen districts the latemr kidd was a well- known and highly respected far mer in the area and only recent ly neighbors had completed the spring seeding on his farm in 1931 he wasmarried to the former clara hall who survives along with one daughter bever ley at home and a brother edgar in richmond hill his father mr herman kidd lives at sut ton accident at lincolnville mrs bertha prouse rr 3 stouffville the driver of a north bound car on no 47 highway satuiday evening escaped ser ious injury when her vehicle crashed through a guardrail at lincolnville and dropped into a deep ditch i the driver told ontario pro vincial police of the vandorf detachment that she was forced off the road by another auto that veered into the northbound lane the prouse car was not badly damaged the funeral service was con ducted by rev edward mccrae of ballantrae united church where the deceased wasa mem ber rev- allen grose assisted in the service in the oneill cha- pel on friday afternoon inter ment was made in stouffville cemetery the pallbearers were messrs percy pattehden geo windsor clifford wallwork wm i simpson carl roseand herbertsimpsoh w lemonville pond yearround sanctuary 1 i v bird geese by the dozens are find ing safety and security on the protected pre mi s e s of earl cooks property at lemonville the scenic surroundings al ready the yearround home for twenty canada geese two rare egyptian geese and a pair of mallards will see its population swelled by fourteen with the spring hatching of eggs the spring fed pond is the big attraction for the birds who have found the location so much to their liking that they are now permanent residents the geese are removed from the water in the fall and harbored over the winter in an enclosure to be returned to their native haunt after the ice breaks up the cook property is well posted with no trespassing signs and the owner has had little trouble with hunters rov ing dogs appear to be about the emiy animals that will frighten a mother goose off her nest the gander is usually within hissing range and will provide his mate with both physical and moral support on guard a male canada goose stands guard over its mate nesting in a protected sanctuary on the picturesque premises owned by earl cook of lem onville twenty of these birds have made the property their ycarrcur home and their numbers will be increased this summer if heir fourteen eggs are hatched successfully although the tribune cam- craman advanced unusually close to this pair they re fused to move from the nest site staff photo