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classified ads 6 7 vol 74 no 13 the ntjbune stoukfviije ontario thursday september 6 1962 4100 copies this week ten pages thieves stage armed robbery at gormley dairy bar net 6000 cousins dairy bar at the in- time later i was going to give i tersectioi of the don mills road the one a good kick in the shins and the mai khamwhitchurdi but when i looked down the bar- townline at goimley was thejiclof that gun i changed mv seine of an armed holdup on i mind she described the thieves tuesday night when the days j as being about 19 or 20 eais entire leceipts of s60 was taken j old mis victor leonard cone c tuesday nights theft marked whitchurch had just closed up the second time within one week her premises and was preparing j that the premises has been rob to leave when she was con i bed only cigarettes weie taken fionted by two men while onejii a previous breakin and the brandished what appealed to be i party rcsoonsible was later ap- a 22 line the other took the piehendcd money fiom her car neither man was masked mrs lconaid diove north on the don mills road and called the vandorf office of the onta rio provincial police road mrs leonaid believes that the thieves had been watching her place earlier in the evening and then moved in at closing time it all happened in a matter of minutes she said she was not pickering deputyreeve suggests ambulance service for all of township tragic accident a 33 year old ballantrae man was instantly killed last week when he was pinned under a 4ton ti actorloader that toppled down a 25 foot embarkment at the markham sand and gravel co pit clif ford walhvork son of the reeve of whitchurch twp was driving the big machine when the accident occurred it was the first serious mishap in the firms many years of opeiation an inquest will be held staff photo death of whitchurch reeves son shocks entire township blocks were set up around the harmed or threatened she ob aiea but none was successful in srived no car parked in the-im- apprehending the culprits mediate area they weie just as nervous cpl biuce pratt of the opp a i was said mrs leonard in j vandorf is in chaige of the in- talking to the tribune a short i vestigation attendance at orchard pk school soars to 337 two cyclists injured in two days on town streets the tragic death of mr clif- foid walhvork son of the reeve of whitchurch town ship has schocked the entire municipality the deceased was pinned under a tractorloader after it toppled over a 25 foot embankment at the markham sand and gravel co pit on wednesday morning of last week it maiked the first seri ous accident in the firms more than ten years of operation the victim was only 33 years old the parlors of thcaker and drewery mount albert could accomodate the many neighbours friends and relati ves who attended the funeral service on saturday afternoon the service was in charge of rev e h hunter of melville prcsbyteiian church west hill he had piesided at the marriage of mr and mrs walhvork be sides his wife the former bar- baia pi entice he leaves four childien danny clifford susan and peggy theie is also one bi other john mr walhvork was identified with the ballantrae united church he had been a lifelong resident of the ballantrae com munity and was held in high rcgaid by all who knew him his paients were attending a convention- in niagara falls when the tragic news waste- iayed to them following the service on saturday interment was made in mount albert cemetery the pall beaiers weie messrs jim radford bob radford clarke hood bob forfar donald bur rows and len kukiak some opposition to new markham twp gun ban some opposition is beginning to be heaid regarding the con templated bylaw which will close markham township south of no 7 highway to the dis charge of firearms the bylaw has been on the council agenda for three meetings but final pas sing has been deferred to give the public moie time to express an opinion at last weeks meeting r pralet lcsiding on the 1th con cession and who operates a vegetable garden appeared be fore council and expressed ap pioval of the closed area south of no 7 highway but expres sed surprise that an owner could not discharge a gun on his own land rabbits and crows arc a nuisance and a farmer ought to have authority to destroy them he said would you piefer an open area with the huntcis or a closed area with the rabbits asked councillor hooper mr pralet replied that he would sooner put up with the rabbits reeve dean stated that on the ndvicc of the township solicitor exemptions were not inserted in the bylaw as they only made it more difficult to obtain a conviction i cant piomisc but i dont hink council would con sider taking much action against an owner for shooting vermin on his own land he said council expressed readiness to hear all complaints and ex pected that as news of the pro posed bylaw became known moie people would enler the protest ring it was pointed out however that the township to the south had a closed area and theie appeared to be no com plaints along the same line a com munication was icccivcd from j j stirling sth concession south of markham he piotcsl- cd against a bylaw which for bade him to discharge a firearm en his own land he stated that he raised poultry and he needed a gun to protect them at this weeks council meet ing mr evans of 14th avenue presented council with a peti tion signed by 15 farmers ob jecting to the firearm control bylaw all are quite in accord with the banning of hunting in the area but are opposed to the forbidding of an owner us- charging a gun on his own property mr evans was advised that it was not the intention to prose cute owners who used a gun for killing vermin but the onus throughout the summer vaca tion stouffville children have been rather fortunate to escape serious injuries in main street accidents on the weekend how ever two young cylists had nar- iow escapes in two successive incidents on friday 8 year old maik hairott son of mr and mrs chas hairott hawthorne ave was tin own from his bicycle but suffered only giavel burns on his back he was treated by pi donald smith of stouffville p c hugh vankoughnent in vestigated the mishap on satuiday evening 9 year old roderick schell son of mr and mrs ken schell clarke st suffered cuts and bruises when he was struck by a westbound car on main stieet the auto driven by mr geo stone tenth line n skidded moie than forty feet and the impact was not seveie the lad was treated b dr d j petrie and permit ted to return home the acci dent was investigated by p c link lake youth with safe theft a nineteen year old mussel- mans lake youth has been linked with one and perhaps two other men who broke into the j j gibson poultry proces- s plant at port perry last week and took an estimated 1400 from the safe leonard jackson stouffville rr2 was charged last week by port perry police with break and entry and the possession of stolen money working in co- operaion with opp at van dorf jackson was arrested at musselmans lake following a police stakeout at a home there according to police about sgo0 was found in jacksons posses sion the 1500 pound safe was moved from the front office of the plant and blown open with nitroglyccrin in a back room the breakin occurred during the earlyhours of monday morning aug 27th and jack son was picked up a few hours later hany heatherington and p c dennis davies careless driving joseph allan carter 27 rose ave stouffville was convicted cf caieless driving by magis trate pcarse in richmond hill couit on friday he was the driver of a car that was in col lision with another auto diiven by isaac dyson on market st aug 7th carter was fined s25 and s1500 costs the accused was lepresentcd by counsel and the case took more than one hour to complete p c hany heatherington of stouffville was in charge of the investigation would be on the owner to prove he required the gun third read ing of the bylaw has been dc- lajcd one more week council oks grant payment markham township council last week authorized the pay ment of a number of annual grants totalling appioximately 2500 tlie lesolution called for the following payments to be made victoria sqiiaie commu nity ccntie 100 st johns ambulance 25 ciosb aiena 300 unionville swimming club 50 juarkham fair 200 east york plowmen 50 union ville hockey club 100 don- caster ladies club 35 cedar grove hall 35 thornhill boys club 50 unionville library 50 thornhill library 400 retarded children 500 union ville skating club 25 ratcliff youth centie 300 unionville veterans 100 buttonville w i 175 a total of 337 pupils will be em oiled in the orchard park public school stouffville when work is completed on the new addition according to the prin cipal mr keith sutherland un til the pioject is finalised glades 6 7 and s will oe ac comodated in the summitview school in the september term of last j ear only 255 boys and girls filed through the doors on open ing day the school will now handle all giades from kinder garten through to grade s the orchard park staff in cludes the following teachers and the number of students pet- grade kindergarten mis d boyd 52 grade i mis k dcwswell 36 grades i and ii mrs l lehoux 22 grade ii miss g smith 28 grade iii mrs m hisey 42 grade iv mrs g noble 33 crade v lvc grundy127 grade vi mrs m woodcock 32 grade vii mr b mickleburgh 31 grade viii mr b kingsley and mr k sutherland 37 mrs widcman will be in charge of the auxili ary class when it is organized miss ilosie will be the leading supervisor at both schools and miss aimstiong is the music sports award high school attendance over 400 capacity figure 436 enrol a total of 136 students filed into the stoufvillc dist high school on tuesday morning the largest influx of pupil personnel in the history of the towi- this number surpasses the 407 figure capacity and forces the board to make use of the cafeteria a a near fulltime claksroom the principal mr w p dux- bury told the tribune early this week that the quoted enroll ment total as acquired on tucs afternoon only mr r her bert english in grades 9 and lu mornings onlyi mr v foldvary history and science grades 9 and 10 mrs l grose girls phys ed grades 9 to 12 miss m ruutbcrg home eco nomics grades 9 to 12 mr j stephen typing and business practice grades 9 and 10 thcj total staff personnel including- six new tcacheis have been the principal is twenty teach- i adicd to the high school staff crs although a number of those j they arcmrs bctcrlcy coon fwill provide pantime vuc- the next few days the largest numbers of stu dents are accomodated in four grade 10 classes there are 13s enrolled in this group with 123 ir grade 9 grade 11 has 7s grade 12 41 and 15 in special commercial the grade 13 en rollment is very encouraging with sa youth injured in motorcycle accident a nineteen year old broug ham boy was quite seriously injuicd last week in an accident near hull quebec geo mal colm son of mr and mrs robt malcolm locust hill rri was thrown from a motorcycle after it was in collision with a car he is presently confined lo the sacied heart hospital ir hull quebec he suffered a broken leg a fractured pelvis head and internal injuries on sunday his parents and a broth er howard motored to hull a graduate of pickering dist high school george had at tended carleton university last year some confusion resulted after the accident when quebec police authorities forwarded an incor- icct name to markham twp police in an effort to locate the next of kin after considerable checking the parents were final ly contacted instructress at both oichard paik and summitview two new teachers at summitview public school two new teachers staited the september term on the staff of the summitview public school ii stouffville they are miss baibara watson formerly of hamilton she will be in charge cf grade 3 mrs helen weather- bee of minesing has been assign ed to grade 2 including the principal mr boadway the summitview staff has ten full- time teacheis the summitview enrollment or tuesday was recorded at 351 since school supplies are now provided by the board the pu pils spent the entire day in class the total influx of boys and girls at both summitview and orchard park school was tabu lated at 688 pupils on- the first day of september 1931 the fig ure stood at 677 deputyreee mrs jean mc- pherson has suggested that pickering twp council give se- uous consideration to the pur chase of a municipalowned and operated ambulance she in troduced the subject at a icg- ular meeting of council at bougham on tuesday night mrs mepherson said that on saturday a 2j year old girl was injured in a traffic accident ii the township and an ambu lance did not arrive at the scene until almost thirty min utes had elapsed it is just one case out of many she said costly project reeve sherman scott warned that such a project could piove very costly not only in the ini tial expenditure to pui chase a vehicle but in the personnel that would be required to oper ate it on a 21hour round-the- clock basis all these things aie fine if weie willing to pay for them stated the reeve i wonder at the piesent time if we can afford it the reeve pointed out that municipalown ed ambulances didnt appear to bp a general practice in the ma jority of towns or townships i feel that we might be getting into an expenditure that would be difficult to justify he noted that pickering was already sciv- ol by two private ambulances im afraid it would be a very costly piogram agreed councillor harvey span price tag on life mrs mepherson in pressing her point suggested that money was often spent by council for less important projects be tween now and oct 27th liquor vote money will be spent that could be used for a more worthwhile program she continued i do not feel that money should be put ahead of human life we do though argued con- cillor milton mowbray if we didnt every railroad crossing in the township would have automatic signals i feel they should return ed the deputyreeve mis mepherson suggested that such a service could pos sibly be handled through the police department councillor ross deakin noted that with the completed switch over to a telephone dial system a townshipwide hookup could bi arranged through cither the police oi fire departments the members agiccd that a commit tee of council should delve more fully into the total costs in volved return for third tour in africa mr wm sandeis of stouff ville a giaduale of toionto teachers college has accept ed a position on the staff of the kinmount public school he is the son of mr and mrs wm sanders albert st and a graduate of stouffville dist high school seventylwo friends and fela fives were piesent at malton airport on thursday evening aug 30 to bid farewell to mr and mrs allan doner dale and five weeks old donna ruth who left by boac flight 606 at 1 s30 pm arriving in london eng friday morning on the same evening they left london and arrived at kano in northern nigeiia at 530 am saturday mr and mis doner will be stationed at mokwa where mr doner will resume his duties as sectieas for the united mis sionary society and also man ager of the mission schools in nigeria mrs doner will be on the staff of the teacher train- ning college at mokwa dale who is in grade 2 will be board ing at rockhaven a home for missionaries children at jos 400 mi from his parents i the doners first went to af rica in oct 1953 they left for pickering twp council will their second term in africa in discuss in committee a claim of nov 1957 they came home for 300 for sheep killed on the two killed at vivian the mother and father of five children were killed on sunday in a twocar crash at vivian aithur william lloyd 37 died almost instantly at the accident scene his wife grace irene 3s succumbed en route to hospital the lloyd auto was in col lision with an autodrivcn by james girling 51 of toronto both he and his wife dorothy 47 suffered only minor injuries mr and mrs lloyd were res- idents of kcttleby a brother cecil lives at lcmonville farmer files 300 sheep claim the printer and publisher trophy awarded annually to the newspaper with the best sports page was presented to the tribune at the cwna cancel peewee playoff game when players father dies on field the father of an 11 year old north york pecwee softball player collapsed and died in the stouffville park on friday eve ning only minutes before a scheduled playoff game was to begin roy kendall greenfield ave willowdale was hitting out fly balls to a group of boys in the outfield when he was suddenly stricken his son and wife were standing nearby and rushed to his side as he fell to the ground the son i a second baseman with the north yoik legion peowces a call for assistance brought instant rcspjnsc from firemen police and a town doctor chas jackson a member of the stouff- convcntion held in winnipeg villc brigade was in the park at day could vary slightly ovcrj english and kicnch in giade 9 1 tion recently the timesadvocate of exctpr wa second and the the burlington gazette third inhalator treatment at the scene but he failed to respond p c dennis davies of the stpuffville police department acquired the services of dr donald smith and fire chief walter smith death was be lieved to have been almost in stantaneous mr clare butler of willow- dale district softball convenor am a friend of the deceased ordered the game between north yoik and stouffville can celled n noith yoik coach malt parker praised he deceased for his untiring interest in the pro motion of minor softball in the willowdale area he was one of thoc fellows who enjoyed helping out the kid he said furlough in june 19g1 and ic sided at the milstcd apartment in gormley allan is the younger son of mr and mrs sam doner and dorine is a daughter of the late rev and mrs a t gooding both attended richmond hill high school mrs doner attend ed toronto teachers college and taught for several years at victoria square allan servcj overseas in the medical corps i- the army during the war prior to going to nigeria in 1953 they kept store for 6 years at gormley the time with the help of donald doner and jim ronnie j li too had there arent more the victim was given oxygen i men like him pheasant licenses only two to a customer markham township council will reduce the number of non residents pheasant licenses this year from 700 to 200 under the new edict the clerk will issue all permits and only two can bf taken away by any one per son in years past it was found lhat one person often secured licenses for a large number some of them not even able to speak english and read the permit engagement ward nka1 mr and mrs john ncal rr3 clarcmont wish to announce the engagement of their daugh ter alma may to eric ward ton of mr and mrs frank ward clarcmont the weddinv to take place on sat sept 22nd 1962 at 3 pm in claicmont baptist church properly of mr kenneth chafen cone 7 pickering near green river this figure could run even higher if other animals in the flock have been damaged livestock valuator mr war ren willson discussed the mat ter briefly with the council at a lcgular meeting on tuesday night the loss on the chafen farm included 12 ewes 8 lambs and i ram three sheep were also killed and two others damaged on the premises of mr ross heron castof clarcmont the amount of this claim was not disclosed the owners arc aware of the dog responsible for the loss but arc net willing to have it destroyed costs 479850 for plumbing inspection some months ago the matter ol continuing to have plumbing inspection by the couijty was discussed by markham town ship council and it was sug gested that the amount paid lo the county would be sufficient ir engage a township man deputyreeve mumbcrson ask ed that the health unit provide the markham figure for 1961 and last week this was revealed as 179850 no further action was taken on the matter engagement mr and mrs harvey swain of stouffviile rr 3 wish to announce the engagement of their daughter elizabeth ann to mr james carson armstrong son of mr and mrs carson armstrong of markham rr 1 the marriage lo take place on saturday september 29 1962