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team queen whitchurch assess now 9620860 the assessment ia the town- j ship of whitchurch as of dec 31st 1962 had reached the sum oi s962os60 according to as- i cessment commissioner robt j kennedy woo submitted his an- i nual report to council this week mr kennedy said that this j assessment total showed a smail increase of 516555 over 1961 in addition there was a j supplementary amount of 79 goo which provides for build- iigs under construction there was some assessment loss in 1962 due to the expro priation of lands for the new 401 highway the commissioner i also stated that many farm j buildings wqn down due to de preciation and obsolescence 1arm buildings in the town ship were detonating rapidly j he said and some had lallen iito disuse 31 appeals there were 31 appeals i against the assessment and of this amount 29 were sustained by the court of revision two teceived reductions totalling s50 eight of the appeals were slated to come before the coun ty judge touffottle vol 71 no 33 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday january 21 1963 twelve pages force entry into local home cause nearly 500 damage damage estimated at close to of the rooms was smeared with s500 was caused to the home of j blood on the floor walls and mr geo prtte glad park ave j ceiling stoultville during the early dr donald petrie stitched up hours of friday morning after tie multiple lacerations at the a man attempted to force his j stouffville medical centre and way into the premises five the injured man was later amazing charges owing to the amazing charges and alleged facts of maradministration fraud and township skulduggery which we teel to be scandalous the tribune does not wish to be implicated in publicity the pickering ratepayers organization wilt publisn tnese charges and ask the minister of municipal affairs to judge as to the facts mr r g roy rr2 clare- mont organizer of the picker ing rural ratepayers advises that copies of this pamphlet may be obtained by contacting the above address sixteen year old marlene malloy has been elected queen of the stoultville girls hockey team in a ballot vote taken by the club at the conclusion of a scheduled game last week the selection was based on ability cooper ation and good sportsman ship an ardent athlete she is an avid supporter of the montreal canadiens in the nhl and her hockey idols are henri richard and boomboom geoffrion mar- lene will be suitably honoured with a trophy presentation later in the season the run nerup was her linemate irene watters staff photo town council hold line on salaries there will be no salary in creases for town employees in 1963 according to a report air ed before the town council at a regular meeting on thursday rght the decision reached ear lier at a closed committee meet ing was announced by the fi- rance chairman councillor vm parsons we have decid ed that we will hold the lino this year he said he also stated that the retirement age ot all employees would lie made compulsory at 70 years 1 dont know who has been ap pointed to accept resignations he said the noraise policy has arous ed some resentment among in dividual employee personnel the strongest protest has come from the police depart ment and a special committee meeting was held this week in ii effort to reopen negotia tions it is understood that no new agreement was reached criticize editorial the editorial in the tribune ast week under the heading stouffville should have been represented was quite strong ly criticized by some members of council the newspaper took the stand that stoultville should have had someone present at a joint meeting in buttonville when a new member was ap pointed to the metro planning board to represent this towt- and three other municipalities reeve win timbers charged that the tribune should have withheld comment until both sides of the story were made known lie said that stouffvilie council had arranged a very important meeting prior to the buttonville discussion and even then the notification was only by telephone deputyreeve kenneth laushway suggested that the newspaper must have lacked for editorial matter to make comment on the subject local driver still unconscious after crash david prentice 26 fairview ave stouffville remains un conscious in the searboro gene ral hospital almost two weeks after his northbound 1951 model car went out of control on cone 6 markliam and ram med into a bridge abutment near casliel the auto was de molished in the crash and the driver was thrown an estimat ed 50 feet from the point of im pact doctors working almost roundtheclock have reset his jaw and collarbone and have performed an operation to re lieve pressure on the victims brain the patients eyes are open but to date he has shown ro signs of recognizing his sur roundings the accident occurred during the early hours of friday morn ing jan 11th police officers three from stoultville and two from mark liam twp were directly involv ed in the case that requited one ol a trio to be hospitalized a whitby man suffered a fractur- ea left arm in the melee and more than twenty stiches were needed to close gashes in his wrist and hand charges will be laid against at least two of the parties involved all the front windows were smashed out of the prue resi dence and the windshield of the owners cadillac was broken an expensive living room ste- teo combination was badly dis figured by glass splinters one i a as f erred to the ajaxpicker- ing hospital constables hugh vankough- nct harry heatherington and dennis davies of stouffville were summoned to the scene their ranks were further strengthened by p c evan kel- xy and p c donald dukes of markham twp officers of the ontario provincial police also assisted mrs prue and her family were terrified by the fracas that occurred at about 3 am the matter is still under investigation and the facts sur rounding tile case are still not clear whitchurch twp population is up 45 in ten years the population of whit church township has increased 45a in the last ten years assessment commissioner robt kennedy reported to council this week the present igure is 7415 in making his annual report he stated that there were 319 property changes registered in i the township in 1962 about fifty less than the year previ ous- of these sales 65 were tenacre parcels of laud 192 building permits were is sued during the year just end ed compared with 210 for 1961 tony two of these were for private dwellings and 14 for summer cottages police recover gun in getaway car after holdup attempt bell phone co to establish new bethesda exchange accident route ratepayers ask halt on water flow to whitchurch duck co a group of whitchurch twp latepayers are unyielding in their demands to have a six inch pipe removed from bog- arts creek north of the aurora slderoad the line carries a flow of water to the premises of king cole duck farm a distance of about onehalf mile rural residents in the area claim that the pipe constitutes a serious drain on the stream tiiat also serves other proier- tcs in the district on wednesday evening of jast week the organization headed by president d m mo milieu held a public meeting with representatives of both the ontario and york county federation of agriculture they elected to stick by their origi- iiil plan to 1 have the water j ne removed 2 assess the nuck farm as an industry t3 tuat waste from the property should not be permitted to flow back into the stream and contaminate the water douglas mcciurc a farmer infotmcd the gathering that he i look his cattle down to water n jan 2nd and found the i ireek dry- later in the day the ontario water resources commission visited the site and discovered an adequate flow mr jas murby operator of the duck farm said that con siderable money had been spent rd at the present time the water intake had been reduced to 75 stallons per minute the owrc had previously allow ed mr murby to take 200 gal lons per minute from the stream mr fred wicks secretary of the york county federation of agriculture suggested that the present system might be more satisfactory than supplying the farms water requirements by heavy tank truck one lady in the audience noted that it would be a regret table thing if a linn was forced to shut down especially since it employed about 35 persons during peak periods mr donald middlcton a re presentative of the ontario federation suggested tiiat an amiable settlement would be preferred lie suggested that the duck farm owner had pre sented the meeting with the tacts of his case in a straight forward manner the delega tion however agreed by a show of hands not to alter their ori ginal demands m expanded local calling ar rangements for all gormley telephone customers were an nounced by w c barnes bell telephone manager for this re gion this week in november of this year gormley will be split into two exchanges mr barnes said those customers north of the gormley town line will form the new exchange of bethesda hose south of the line includ ing customers on the town line itself will remain in gormley mr barnes said that the split resulted from widely expressed demand for widened local call ing by subscribers in the dis trict however the desired scope of this additional calling differs between the two sections cf the present gormley ex change customers to be included in the bethesda exchange will con tinue to pay present rates mr barnes said that some of these customers will pay less in mile age charges than they do now when the change is made in november new telephone num bers will be assigned to bethes da customers these will be listed in the 19g3 edition of the aurora newmarket rich mond hill directory which will be distributed at that time customers of the bethesda exchange will have tollfree call ing with aurora oak ridge richmond hill stouffville and gormley this will increase the present local calling area by more than 2000 telephones that part of the gormley ex change south of the gormley town line will remain as gorm ley and will be joined in no vember by the northern sec- lion of the present unionville exchange the unionville ex change will disappear when the southern section becomes part of agincourt in june 1961 in november gormleys local calling area will consist of stouiiville claremont markham richmond hill oak ridges agincourt unionville ihornhill and bethesda this includes 20000 telephones more than are now in the gormley local calling area as announced this week two- way tollfree calling with tor onto and willowdaiedon mills could be introduced for gorm ley customers after 1966 if a substantial majority of cus tomers indicate they wish this service whitchurch council makes revisions in pay plan a special meeting held last week by whitchurch township council made certain revisions in the current salary bylaw of tlie municipality the various clauses were as follows i the township to pay the un employment insurance for two years and obtain a resolution as to permanent employment 2 in regard to hospitalization the township will pay 50 of standard rates on permanent employees only 3 statutory holidays are to be granted to permanent employees but not temporary ones 4 in regard to a pension plan the township will pay for permanent employ ees only 5 to delete hourly wage increases for road em ployees commencing jan 1st j964 the bylaw provides for a 48- hour week rather than 49 the salary of the deputy clerk treasurer is to be increased from s4800 to s5500 and the salary of the assess commis sioner from 4500 to 5000 mr lome schell is presently confined to the uxbridge cot tage hospital following an oper ation on wednesday morning sight wolves in whitchurch twp deputy game warden lyn tucker reports that wolves have been sighted in whit church township despite the amount of build ing that has gone on in this area over the last few years wild game is still plentiful last weekend a small herd of six deer were seen in markham township not too far from new housing developments rabbit hunting in the area is generally good while ice fish ing on lake simcoe will open up with a bang this coming weekend if the weather holds lake trout and herring are reported plentiful with the whitefish being spotty as yet i pike are reportedly being taken in small numbers a party of five fishermen re ported a haul of nine lake trout a short distance off georgina island youths convicted on attempted armed robbery two youths pleaded guilty and were convicted of attempt ed armed robbery when they appeared before magistrate o s hollinrake in ricimiond hill court on tuesday leo mcdon ald 21 and wayne craig 17 were remanded m custody one week for a presentence report the youths were arrested by markham twp police on thurs day night following an attempt ed holuup of donnellys groce teria ami post ollice on no 7 hwy west of bay view ave the wouldbe thieves also lace a second charge of having an unregistered revolver in a ve hicle mcdonald resides in downsview craig lives at oril- lia liquor charges two district men were con victed on charges of illegal pos session of liquor and a thorn- hill motorist was found impair ed cecil lloyd 26 rr1 stouffville was lined 20 ami costs on the liquor count and kenneth beckett 20 of union ville was also lined a similar amount on the same charge norman miiicr 45 of thorn- hill was fined 100 and costs on a charge of driving while impaired his licence was sus pended for three months jr farmers annual meeting donna johnson uxbridge rr4 was elected president of the ontario county junior farmers at their annual meet ing held in the township hall brooklin on saturday jan 19 also serving on the executive for the coming year will be vicepresident neil raines rr2 blackwater secretary- treasurer bruce mcmillan rr 1 blackwater and past presi dent ted lamb rr4 port ferry ted gordon rri can- nington will again represent the association as provincial director a loaded 32 semiautomatic i revolver has been removed by markham twp police in the 1 rear of a car alleged to have i been used in the holdup of a small post ollice and store west j ol bayview on no 7 hwy i thursday night arrested min- utes after the report was re- ceived at the buttonville office were leo mcdonald 21 of downsview and wayne craig 17 of orillia they have been charged with attempted armed l obbery the two youths one masked and brandishing a pistol walked into the premises owned by clifford donnelly and ordered mrs donnelly back into the ad- 3oining living quarters het screams brought the family pet boxer dog wacky to the res cue and the two wouldbe thieves ran out of the store emptyhanded one of the men had attempted to open the cash register containing the days postal receipts but without suc cess eight bids for school eight tenders were received and opened by the stoultville district high school board this week for the new addition to the school which is to be ready lor occupancy by next septem ber there was a 36000 spread between the high and low ten ders which was not considered unusual for the amount of the contract the tenders will be studied by the architects prior to the board makirg a final ueeision for awarding the con tract p c john mccague took the i telephone call from mrs don nelly and alerted p c douglas 1 tribbling on patrol in a mark- ham tup cruiser on bayview ave all other departments in york county were also notified constable fribbling spotted an old model car southbound on bayview and intercepted the vehicle near steeles ave the pair offered no resistance they were questioned for several hours and later removed to the don jail in toronto to appear in richmond hill court this week in addition to constablei tribbling and mccague sgt harvey cox aided in the in vestigation along with officers from yaughan twp and rich mond hill the donnellys have operated the post officestore east of langstaff for the past ten years her husband was curling over at unionville where he was told of the roljbery attempt no sii a delegation of residents from the east end section of stoultville attended a regular meeting of town council on thursday night to add support to a petition submitted earlier icquesting action on establish ing a park in their area the spokesman for the group was mrs bernard mcginty stouff- cr street mrs mcginty suggested that a playground was necessary to keep the children olt the streets snd out of restaurants she noted that the memorial park was too far from their homes to be of much benefit she con tended that the admission fee at the arena was too high for most families councillor win parsons said that the council had obligation to the voters to secure land for industrial development and would not likely have sufficient funds to purchase playground property he charged that it would be councils duty to maintain the tax rate at its present level he suggested that children in the habit of visiting restaurants were not looking tor playgrounds d e p u t y r e e v e kenneth laushway noted that the coup- cil might acquire a site on a tental basis if the delegation had a piece of property in mind he said that uie town might also assist in providing a sheet of ice for a skating rink some members of the deputa tion pointed out that it was im possible to hood an outside rink bee- use the water pressure in the east end of town was too low mrs mcginty said that there were two outdoor rinks in the area reeve win timbers said lie hoped that such a site might be made available to the town through the development of future subdivisions library circulation up named to advisory board three leading business and professional men one of them from stouffville form the ad visory board for the new branch of the british mortgage trust co at richmond hill the men are j e smith pub lisher of the richmond hill liberal h r button qc of stoultville anil stuart p park- or qc richmond hill v cadets sfii tickets to finance squadron stoultville air cadets are currently selling tickets on an rca victor hifi combination valued at s279 the gift of cana dian natria limited rillantrae in addition there will be a sec ond prize of an fm radio the lucky tickets will tw drawn at a st patricks dance to be held in the lesion hail stouffville on friday march sth w accident every 475 ft on busy don mills road during 1962 to all players in stouffville minor hockey lucky draw admission tickets have lieen distributed among the players in the varied house leagues and all star ieams all monies or unsold tickets must bo turned in at the arena office on thursday night tonight minor hockey week will be marked across the province and local activities will begin in stouffville on monday evening the circulation at stouffville public library during 1962 ad vanced in all departments non- fiction fiction and juvenile with even the magazines show ing an increase the total cir culation for the year was 16628 with magazines being 213 and books 16415 schools have been encourag ing their students to use the library facilities and for this the library board is most thank ful the students do a great deal of research work in the building the librarian reports and many essays have been written there the magazines available arc popular mechanics national geographic saturday evening jan 28th games will also hi featured on tuesday jan 29th and thursday jan 31st there will be a 10 door prize each night the grand prize of a doll dressed in fifty 100 bills will be given away on thursday the inaugural meeting of stouffville planning board will held in the municipal board room this thursday jan 24th at 730 pm post ladies home journal homes and living canadian commentatot and foreign af fairs the stoultville tribune and a large variety of govern ment circulars are also well read more than five hundred new books were added to the libra ry during 1962 and the board uses the services of the book-of- l he mo nth club dollar mystery junior literary guild senior literary guild and the travelling library the annual report stated that the recent numbering of tlm homes in town lias bcea most helpful in locating those per sons the library is trying to serve the facilities are open on tuesday wednesday and fri day from 2 to 530 pm and 7 to 9 in the evening on satur day the library is open from 10 to 12 noon and from 2 to 530 pm the librarian is mrs t wedseltoft and the library board for 1963 is comprised of the following george foord chairman miss anne lehman sccrctarytreas mrs sisco miss lehman and mrs stapley book committee and rev douglas davis mr elmer da niels and mr foord the proper ty committee makeshift mask every marker on this map indicates a motor vehicle ac cident on the don mills road in markham twp during 1962 list year on an s mile portion of pavement there were no less than 101 collisions this is almost one- half of the total in the entire township staff photo j the don mills road in mark- ham township one of the busi est twolane highways in onta rio established an unenviable record of 101 accidents over a distance of 8 miles during 1962 this figure has been tabu lated by markham police and extends from stceles avenue en the south to gormley on the north close to onehalf of the motor vehicle collisions in the township occurred on this high way last year there were 12 bccidents on bayview 33 on cone six i on cone 7 six on cone 9 and two on cone 10 the accident rate on don mills road can be broken down into one collision every 175 feet in spite of this toll of dented fenders and broken bones there t was not a single fata accident i on this pavement in 62 j only the section between 17th and 18th avenues escaped the ravages of motor vehicle acci dents there were 16 collisions between steeles and 16th ave and 31 between victoria square rnd gormley at the gormley intersection alone there were 9 mishaps the cause of the high colli sion rate on don mills can pos sibly be attributed mainly to the amount of traffic handled on the road this incldcs not only cars but also hundreds of gravel trucks that frequent the many pits in the area markham police keep a close eye on this section of highway and their radar unit is more on don mills than any other road ir the municipality fn spite cf this the accident rate con tinues to climb rc john mccague of markham twp poiire holds the makeshift nusk that ws used b ore oj two holdup men who entered a small post office and groceteria on no 7 lvy near bayview ave thursday night both the mask and a loaded revol ver fpage 3 were later re covered in the getaway car staff pholt