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may queen eighteen year old janet devlin a grade 12 student was crowned may prom queen at the annual semi- formal dance held in the audi torium o the stouffville dist high school on friday night the pretty winner came to stoufcville in septem ber 1961 and had previously attended school at riverdale collegiate toronto last years queen 19 year old lynda nolan left grade 13 officiated at the crowning ceremony the two attendants were jean winterstein 18 and barbara button 17 stouffville chief nabs three breakin suspects had 2800 in loot an eastbound 1954 chevrolet aroused the suspicions of stouffville police chief orland keating during the early hours of sunday morning and on checking the vehicle on main street he found 2800 worth of stolen merchandise on the back seat wilbert cooper 39 allan sherman 35 and edward mcneil 26 all of toronto were taken to the buttonville police office in markham township and later turned over to metro authorities all have been charged jointly with break and entry and possession of stolen property the breakin had occurred earlier that night at a service station in metro toronto the stolen goods all mechanics tools had been taken from the garage premises 750 damage damage was estimated at 750 in a threecar collision in stouffville on wednesday may 1st the accident occurred fol lowing an overnight snow storm no charges were laid the vehicles were driven by donald alvin harper harold st stouffville wray eric ma- dill cone 8 whitchurch and dennis wm trimble main st e stouffville chief orland keating conducted the investi gation air cadets receive attendance awards a gathering of more than 80 sat down at the annual stouff ville air cadet father son banquet on sunday evening at the legion hall in addition to the local officers the banquet was attended by sqd leader benson and fit lieut jim johnson rcaf camp borden under whose jurisdiction stouff ville squadron no 91 is operat ed reeve timbers of stouff ville reeve alma walker of markham reeve will dean of markham twp and reeve ken rogers of e gwillimbury also attended as there are a number of boys in the squadron from all these municipalities the fine turkey supper was provided by the ladies of the legion aux iliary commanding officer of the squadron harry heatherington was the chairman of the meet ing and introduced the various members at the head table as well as members of the civilian committee co heatherington made spec ial mention of the service rev douglas davis padre of the squadron and presented him with a blazer crest on behalf of the squadron he announced that several cadets had been na med as candidates for scholar ships from the air cadet lea gue of canada three squadron members who had proved the best salesmen during the recent tag day will receive a free air flight over niagara falls these cadets are jc campbell mark ham and ab lee and j stew- ert of stouffville squadron leader benson sen ior liaison officer from camp borden told the gathering that stouffville ranked high among the seven squadrons handled by camp borden he said that he was glad to be able to help the businessmen who were giving freely of their time as well as assisting in the training of bet ter citizens presentations special pins were presented to the cadets who had complet ed perfect attendance for three years two years and one year those called up to receive the award for three years perfect attendance were fit cadet tay lor fit sgt keeping fit sgt wylie sgt ca worley sgt wp koblensky sgt ct ste wart cpl hp baxter cpl r l frankum lac j campbell lac dc forsvth lac j no lan cpl j ogilvy cpl we taylor lac j wardle for two years perfect attendance cpl r kirby cpl j wylie lac j clubine w glover j hope d jackson k morton c sytema r wallace k zeller for first year attendance cadets arun- dell hope kent sugden lee sanderson forsyth caterer and sorenson dismiss assault charge two markham village youths accused of assault had their charges dismissed by magis- strate russell pearse in rich mond hill court on tuesday larry middleton and ian jeff rey pleaded not guilty the victim of the alleged at tack james caldwell rr 2 markham claimed he was pull ed out of a car by middleton thrown to the ground and kick ed the assault was alleged to have occurred on the 9th cone north of stouffville an independent witness for the accused testified that he was with both jeffrey and mid dleton on the night in question and had not even seen caldwell magistrate pearse said that due to inconclusive evidence he could not register a convic tion other fines ronald femson of milliken was fined 25 and costs for fail ing to file an income tax return on behalf of cedar pins devel opment co on a second similar charge the accused was given a remand until may 28th ber nard fockler of ringwood was fined 15 and costs for having liquor in an illegal place ted beaumont of stouffville was also fined 15 offense tihum vol 74 no 4s the tribune stouffville ontario thursday may 9 1963 fourteen pages markham twp general tax rate up 29 mills markham township general tax rate will be 29 mills higher this year and to this general rate will be added the various school rates which too are generally higher council mem bers on monday night express ed some satisfaction that the increase was not even greater councillor hoover said that one mill might have been drop ped by cutting out the grant of approximately s14000 to the york central hospital if markham village council isnt going to support it why should the township people even farth er east be called on to support it he asked councillor rumble noted that the township was entering very strongly this year into welfare through the hospital support and long overdue was coun cillor sumners reply to this re mark general operation of the town ship will require s29720s62 roads and bridges will take 17470000 and the police de partment 10163500 fire pro tection costs are estimated at 1790000 against these costs the township will receive subsi dies and grants amounting to nearly half a million dollars the general tax rate for res idential and farm property will be 208 mills and for commer cial and industrial 237 mills gokart track to have opposition in whitchurch township the operation of a gokart track in whitchurch township appears to be headed for oppos ition similar to that in neigh bouring uxbridge whitchurch councillors visited the vivian property recently but found lit tle activity arnold reinke and stephen jackson residents in the area attended mondays council meeting with the first opposi tion mr jackson read council a letter he had written when the track was first opened he said he had not changed his views now that it is proposed to reopen the track he said that the last two years the at tendance had been so small the trouble had not been acute mr reinke was not only op posed to the operation from the standpoint of the noise but he felt the place would prove a deterrent to other persons wish ing to build homes in the area council members agreed they would consider these opinions when making their decision on the license application five police depts block city speeder a speeding car that raced through a red light at the inter section of yonge street and no 7 hwy during the early hours of thursday at an estimated speed of 75 miles per hour was finally stopped on the don mills road at victoria square stanley cameron 24 of tor onto the driver of a 1961 pon- tiac convertible has been charg ed with careless driving pc john vance of no32 division north york made the arrest with police cars from markham twp markham vil lage vaughan twp and stouff ville closing in from all direc tions the chase had started from finch ave and bathurst street residents rally to support of scoutmaster more than fifty parents and representatives of village or ganizations rallied to the support of claremont scout master donald sanderson at a public meeting in the com munity hall on tuesday night mr sanderson present at the gathering agreed to re turn to the position of scout leader when he was assured that he had 100 backing on monday evening april 29th he resigned from the post and cliarged tliat he lacked the 3pport of the group committee he has headed the 1st claremont troop for the past eight years another meeting will be held next week to reorganize the program for the septem ber term drunken sonlnlaw pummels wifes father remanded in custody a father attempting to pro tect his daughter and her fam ily was badly beaten by his soninlaw during a fracas in their north markham home on monday night reginald kirk required eight stitches to close gashes on his face his teeth were broken and he was knock ed unconscious to the floor dur ing a fight with keith couperth- waite 25 also of markham mrs kirk the wife of the victim said that the accused had torn out the phone connec tions in the brawl and she had to call police from a neighbours home markham village police who were on the scene within min utes after the call was received testified that mr kirk was quite seriously injured and blood was spattered about the room mrs kirk said that her daughter and family made their home with them she said that their soninlaw was quite we come to visit the children if he was sober but when drunk she did not wish him to enter the house mr kirk who laid the as sault charge was present in the court room but did not testify his face showed visible signs of the beating he had absorbed couperthwaite admitted that he had a drinking problem which was the source of his trouble he expressed regret at the trouble he had caused in registering a conviction magistrate russell pearse ord ered that the accused should be remanded in custody for one week in order that he might delve a little deeper into the matter beamish gets whitchurch contract father to file damage claim against school unionville development stalled on sewers k j beamish co has been awarded the large road oil con tract for the township of whit church there were four bids for the 30000 gallon contract the tender price was 2304c per gallon for asphalt primer and 2507c for tar primer the con tract is subject to the approval of the department of high ways 4 bids for spray council opened four tenders monday for weed and brush spray supplies the makeup of each bid requires a knowledge of the chemicals so it was agreed to seek advice from the department before awarding the contract a weed spray school is being held at van- dorf this week the father of a 12 year old grade 6 student at the hillcrest public school cone g whit church proposes to file a claim for damages against the board thomas lang has charged that there was negligence in an in cident when his daughters glas ses were broken and her nose was fractured during a fracas in the schoolyard several weeks ago mr lang said that he under stood that the four boys involv ed in the fracas would cover the cost but to date nothing has been done he suggested also that no adjustment has been made by the insurance company that holds the policy for the board mr lang says he knows the names of the lads who in flicted the injury he fears that his daughters nose may never be normal mr lang said that in procee ding with the suit he was act ing on the advice of his solicitor death for a similar servers only tallden developments a firm preparing a large housing de velopment at unionville has asked the ontario water re sources commission for a spe cial hearing on thursday of this week the owrc has continually held to the plan that the markham sewage dis posal plant shoud serve both markham and unionville this would mean large scale pump ing facilities and on this point the developers are presently at a standstill the resources commission has invited the township coun cil to attend the hearing but on monday night it was agreed in council that no official re presentation would be made members of the township plan ning board will attend as ob- addition to while rodgers markham township building report for the month of april revealed that the whiterodgers firm on highway 48 north of markham is constructing a large plant addition valued at 137000 total value of all new build ing for the month amounted to 153300 with 299400 being for new homes strange food fails to convince magistrate a main street markham man was fined 150 and costs by magistrate russell pearse in richmond hill court on tuesday when he was convict ed of driving while impaired emerson ramer pleaded not guilty to the charge he was represented by solicitor paul mingay of markham ramer was arrested at 130 am on april 24th as he drove- through markham village on his way home he said he had been visiting with a bachelor friend at milliken in markham twp pc bill vance of markham stated that the accuseds car set a very erratic course along no 48 hwy and the driver appeared unsteady on his feet when taken to the office for a test solicitor mingay contended that the strange food prepared by the bachelor companion might have tended to effect his clients senses he asked that the charge be dismissed in registering the conviction magistrate pearse also suspend ed the drivers license for three months i engagement barton pickering the engagement is announc ed of gail lorraine pickering daughter of mr and mrs h n pickering cone 9 pickering to robert arthur barton son of mr and mrs r h barton claremont ont the wedding tc take place june 1st 1963 claremont united church wilfred wright was longtime lake resident on sunday april 28th mr wilfred wright a longtime cot tage resident at musselmans lake passed away in the scar- boro general hospital in his 62nd year for the past 35 summers mr and mrs wright lived at the lake but became fulltime resi dents during the last 12 years the deceased was a member of the acacia masonic lodge a f and am and a past supreme advisor of the true kindred order he is survived by his wife the former hilda wager and a brother harry of mon treal rev john marshall of mel rose park presbyterian church conducted the service on tues day afternoon april 30th from the trull funeral home dan- iorth ave toronto expect markham village building over twomillion home construction in the village of markham continu es at a constant rate and the value of permits for 1963 will likely exceed the two million dollar mark according to building inspector e k good to date this year the fig ure stands at 960000 with more than seven months to go the total for all of 1962 was 1351000 so far this year tldrty res idential permits have been is sued and the towns popula tion which stood at 5005 at the end of december is also up a sizeable industry is plan ning to locate within the markham boundaries that will employ an estimated 350 persons an official announce ment on this project will be made within a week have your contributions ready for the lions club white elephant sale for pickup this saturday may 11th or next may 18th sale is on friday evening may 24th three rid for whitchurch tp garbage job whitchurch township coun cil received three tenders for the job of collecting garbage at the three township lakes suc cessful bidder was ollie pellett with a total price of 7000 the price for wilcox lake was 4000 musselmans lake 2500 and preston lake 500 highest tender for the same work was 1620337 the present operator mr ash did not tender this year councillor farmer comment ed that he hoped that mr pel lett could fill all his township positions he is presently dog control officer officer in charge of tne sanitation area near bal- lantrae has his own operated garbage collection in addition to the three new contracts t4 fire calls in april markham township police cars travelled 11745 miles in april to answer 738 calls the members of the force attended 14 fires and 14 accidents were investigated no fatalities oc curred there are 9 liquor seizures 12 dog complaints 3 burglaries i inspectors and 3 thefts i week lyman ii kennedy funeral services will be con ducted from the ogden par lours agincourt on thursday afternoon today at 3 pm for the late lyman h kennedy who passed away at his home in washago on tuesday may 7th he was in his 7sth year his wife the former jean elli ott predeceased him only in february longtime residents of the agincourt district they had moved to washago ten years ago surviving are two daugh ters betty mrs w philbrook of scarboro christine mrs l thomson of montreal and three sons camerson of little britain donald of milton and robert of ottawa interment will le made in pine hills cemetery clarke prentice weed inspector clarke prentice wellknown markham township auctioneer has been engaged by markham township council as weed inspector mr prentice was selected from eight applicants his duties will commence imme diately with a school for weed at vandorf this suspect squirrels of starting house fire want old mill preserved the grist mill on steeles avenue near bayview is for sale and the north york histo rical society has appealed to markham township to preserve it as a historical site the land mark has recently been the home of mrs billy button mac- donald markham council on monday agreed that the request should be forwarded to the metro conservation authority a short circuit in an attic plug believed caused by squir rels may have been responsible for a fire that resulted in an estimated 6000 damage to the centuryold home of mr fraser gee west of victoria square in markham twp the blaze broke out early on friday evening but quick work by neighbours police and fire men confined the fire to the up stairs portion of the house the owner was in richmond hill at the time brigades from both unionville and richmond hill attended much furniture and personal effects were re moved from the structure the property has been in the gee family name for 85 years and the house was erected by mem bers of the peter heise family more than 100 years ago pigeon mothers bantam chick eight year old halg de rusha of claremont was rather skeptical when ha noticed that his pet while pigeon was nesting on an oversized egg his doubts were well found ed when the egg was finally hatched what should pop out but a brown bantam chick the egg had apparently been iayed in the pigeon pen by a bantam hen that occu pies her own private quarters nearby the pigeon has continued to care for the offspring and on last report the baby and its foster mother arc both do ing well locust hill air field plagued by accidents has closed down the jinxed airport at loc ust hill has closed down the tribune visited the property last week and found the office headquarters under lock and key a spokesman for the firm later admitted that operations had temporarily ceased but ne gotiations were underway to re open the business under a new owner mr adam letke mid land ave agincourt proposes to purchase the port there have been too many accidents stated one party solicitor ernest johnson of a- gincourt acting for the com pany termed it a series of mis fortunes the accident rate at locust hill during the past four years could more appropriately be termed as tragic when the proposed project was first revealed to the gener al public back in january 1959 it resulted in a storm of pro test by many residents in the locust hill area a delegation ot homeowners asked mark ham twp council to turn down the application in febru ary the council agreed to the request but in spite of this move construction wa3 started in the month of may the tale of events that led to the eventual shutdown started early in 1961 a helicopter bas ed at locust hill and owned by 1 kenneth mclaren of pt har rison quebec crashed at osha- wa with a 25000 loss in may of the same year a mechanic- instructor at the port was in stantly killed when his north bound car crashed into a bridge abutment near cashel in mark ham twp ihe victim jas ed ward hickson 20 of cone 2 whitchurch twp was en route home when the accident occur red in the same month a scar boro school teacher suffered a fractured skull and several bro ken rib3 when she walked into ihe whirling blade of her cub aircraft that had collided with a runway safety cone carol wright was admitted to scar boro hospital in serious condi tion but recovered a portion of the propeller was broken off by the impact a string of other less serious accidents plagued the project throughout the sum mer but the major catastrophe occurred when the firms pres ident dr wesley harper and his three passengers mr and mrs wilfred chafen and mrs ken chafen died when their plane nosedived into a field on takeoff this tragedy occurred on aug 16th 1961 the port continued to operate as a limited company but it ne ver developed into the large scale program that its promoter dr harper had planned