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bloomington teenagers object of police search stouffville district high school students council executive for 196364 four bloomington young peo ple two girls and two boys were the object of an extensive police search over the week end when they disappeared late saturday night and did not re turn until monday morning mr and mrs gino bisio of bloomington informed the on tario provincial police at van- dorf at 5 pm on sunday after noon that their daughter yvon ne 14 their son kenneth 16 and two companions margaret brown 11 and dennis jordan 19 were missing police departments in parts of york county were asked to keep a lookout for the teen age s and descriptions of the couples were broadcast over the radio yvonne told the tribune that they had walked all the way to aurora on their misadventure and were en route home when found no reason was given for the escapade both yvonne and margaret brown are public school pupils dennis jordan had been boarding at the bisio home and the foursome were all good friends find markham lady with broken hip a markham village lady lay on the bedroom floor of her bungalow home for 31j hours with a broken hip last week before police entered the resi dence and found her mrs annie malcolm 75 of jerman street was treated by dr j f white of markham and taken by ambulance to the scarboro general hosiptal a neighbour became concern ed for mrs malcolms health when she noticed that her news paper still lay unclaimed on the front porch p c rod jun- kin answered the call and was assisted at the scene by chief fred white the injury occurred at 230 a m on thursday morning and the discovery was not made un til nine oclock on friday morn ing p c junkin said that mrs malcolm had withstood tiie ordeal remarkably well motor gives out on getaway car markham township metro toronto and ontario provincial police were involved in a wild chase through heavy traffic during the early hours of fri day morning that led to the arrest of a 26 year old mutual street driver george francis muir of tor onto has been charged with criminal negligence and failing to remain at the scene of an accident sgt evan kelley and p c clifford cox of markham twp spotted the southbound vehicle at thornhiil when it raced through a red light during the chase that followed the getaway auto was nearly in volved in several accidents at speeds of 70 to 80 miles per hour on hwy 401 east of avenue road the motor in the lead vehicle burned out lions plan harvest ball stouffville lions club is plan ning to hold a harvest ball at cedar beach gardens on the evening of friday oct 4th lion frank brock is the chair man of the special activities committee planning the affair which promises to be a real gala evening tickets are on sale from lions club members heber down wins corn competition in the ensilage corn division of the markham fair field crop competition the entry grown on the farm of mr heber down brooklin topped twelve others in a close contest the judge was mr clark young of unionville bruce har per of stouffville and shur- gain farms of maple were the runnersup the listing is as follows 1 heber down brooklin 872 pts 2 bruce harper stouffville 86 pts 3 shutgain farms maple 85i pts 4 bruce rise- brough markham 85 pts 5 elson miles millikeri s3i pts 6 ken russell unionville 82 pts 7 floyd steckley stouffville 81 pts 8 ellis brit- ton claremont 80 pts 9 m h tapscott agincourt 79u pts 10 dalton rumney gormley 79 pts 11 stuart watson markham 78mi pts 12 murray dunkeld claremont 78 pts mr lloyd weldon and his son brent plan to attend the antique motor car display at greenfield village dearbourne michigan on the weekend the auto show will mark the cen tennial year of the birth of henrv ford to check legality of drag strip project the terms of an existing by law if any to prohibit con trol or regulate the operation of a proposed dragstrip pro ject on a 30 acre site cone 9 markham north of 16th ave has been turned over to town ship solicitor if j lucas the issue was raised last week in council when a letter from ernest chapman of the national hot rod association of north america asked per mission to locate a dragstrip in this rural area the matter was placed in the hands of councillor charles hoover for further information on monday afternoon coun cillor hoover said that the as sociation planned to use the strip one day per week he noted further that the firm proposed to erect a grandstand for the public and canteens for the sale of refreshments no further action was taken on the issue pending the re ceipt of a report from solicitor lucas births forfar doug and jane are happy to announce the birth of a son patrick francis 7 lb 10 oz september 3 1963 at york county hospital new market a brother for michael herbert mr and mrs edward herbert are happy to announce the arrival of a daughter esther elizabeth on sept 6 1963 at the scar boro general hospital a sis ter for timothy david and rebecca reman keino and lorraine are thankful for the safe arrival of randy blair on sunday sept 1st at york county hospital a baby brother for michael julie anne and mark special thanks to dr mitchell grove pit protest to be aired before mun bd a protest against a new markham township bylaw that would impose certain restric tions on gravel pit operations within the municipality has been filed by residents lome and roy grove 16th ave east of markham village at a regular meeting of coun cil on monday afternoon clerk h t crisp informed the mem bers that several letters of pro test had been received and the contents were revealed on a split vote of the coun cil it was agreed that the gravel pit operations of both messrs grove and horner should be referred to the onta rio municipal board for deci sion deputyreeve charles hoop er and councillor stewart rum ble had recommended that the pits of grove and horner should be ruled exempt from the bylaw along with the oper ation of jas sabiston councillors chas hoover and allan sumner argued that the sabiston pit had operated con tinually for a mucli longer pe riod and could therefore claim a right to exclusion but not the other two reeve wilfred dean concurred in casting the decid ing vote oba playoff final wheatley jrs will be the baseball visitors here in stouff ville on sunday afternoon at 3 pm for an oba playoff final a win for wheatley will give them the ontario title they took tiie opener on their home diamond 153 the game was not as one sided as the score woul indi cate as both clubs were dead locked at the end of the 5th inning wheatley scored 8 runs in the 7th glenn jackson worked through seven innings on the stouffville mound with keith scott in the 8th and mike cadi- cux in the 9th seek 300 in bridge damage claim on sunday aug isth a tor onto motorist travelling in a southbound direction on cone 6 markham slammed into the side of a bridge north of cashel and caused an estimated s1000 damage to his 1961 model car on monday afternoon a com mittee of the township council recommended that a 300 claim be filed against the driver to- cover costs of repairing the bridge dr herbert hylton hyland 62 of lawrence crest toronto told police that he believes a blowout in a rear tire caused his auto to spin out of control and strike the side of the over pass the committee of council suggested also that the speed limit on cone 6 for 1000 feet north and south of the bridge should be reduced to 40 miles per hour mps open new community centre the executive in charge of the program at the official open ing of the new markham com munity arena building on fri day evening showed no political leanings in their choice of per sonnel to cut the red ribbon both john addison liberal mp and a a lex mcken- zic conservatice mpp of york north shared in the hon ours an estimated 1000 persons attended the ceremony the delegation of local and visiting dignitaries were led to the raised platform by eight scotch pipers in full dress dancing on the spacious arena floor concluded the nights en tertainment flooding opera tions will begin on oct 7th moh urges action on sanitary repairs at betsiesda school dr rm king york county medical officer of health has urged that immediate action should be taken to improve the sanitary facilities at the beth- esda public school ss no 12 whitchurch twp the order in the form of a letter was read to the ratepayers at a public mee ting in the schoolhouse on thursday night in two prev ious meetings no agreement was reached on the expenditure on thursday ratepayers el ected mr frank curtis to fill a vacancy on the board caused through the recent resignation of trustee charles clubine both mr curtis and mr clu bine spoke briefly a vote of thanks was tender ed to mr clubine for his ser vice to the section in the past no other business was dealt with and the meeting lasted less than one hour assault charge against markham trucker dismissed ruled accident it a charge of assault occasion ing bodily harm filed by a lady picket against a markham truck driver sri a private com plaint was dismissed by magis trate os hollinrake in rich mond hill court on thursday miss martha wagner of to ronto charged that neil mcar- thur an employee of taylor bros transport in markham village had struck her with his vehicle and knocked her to the ground on the morning of aug 14th miss wagner was one of several men and women on picket duty at the time in front of the amalgamated el ectric corporation plant bui lock drive markham mr jicaxthur laid ht had travelled to and from the fac tory site on several occasions on previous days and had nev er been stopped before he esti mated his speed at about three miles per hour he said that he applied the brakes and stopped dead when one woman dis appeared from view in front of the truck tene situation mr gerald gallagher on pic ket line duty at the time of the incident and an eyewitness de scribed the situation as very tense after miss wagner had been struck he said that some of the pickets were very angry and he had intervened to pro tect the driver from personal injury im not aying that anyone tried to kill anybody i body he said i would describe it as an accident he said that the lady was helped to her feet and taken to the doctor he testified that the truck stopped immed iately on impact mr gallagher said that it was normal routine for mem bers of picket lines to talk to truck drivers and try to per suade them not to make deliv eries dr john fleming of mark ham said that the lady walked with a slight limp when she en tered his office with another woman and police chief fred white he said that there was no noticcabl bruisej on her miss wagner said that she suffered considerable discom fort following the accident and had not returned to the picket line magistrate hollinrake said that there must be an indica tion of intent to do a wrong ful act to support such a charge i do not find any intent on the part of the accused to assault or strike this woman it would appear to be just an ac cident the hearing that was started in the morning took more than three hours to com plete mr mcarthur was repre sented by solicitor donald hindson of markham bloomington parents seek a school bus service on gravel truck route parents in the bloomington school section ss no 10 whit- i church township concerned i for the safety of their children due to heavy gravel truck traf- j fie are hoping to acquire a morning and afternoon bus service in the area on friday evening a delega- j hon of sixteen ratepayers rep resenting about 21 pupils held a special meeting at the school to present their proposal to the trustee chairman mr edward sheppard bloomington has a student enrollment of 72 it was thought that an estimated 50 children could take advant age of the bus transportation service if the provincial grant system made the plan feasible mr albert heise of gormley operator of tile local school bus line estimated the cost at 1000 for the school year lives in danger board chairman mr shep pard readily agreed that chil dren on both the bloomington sideroad and the 9th conces sion faced extreme dangers every school day of the week due to heavy truck traffic the way some of tiie trucks travel 1 often wonder if the drivers have any children -of- their own he said he said that some pay little or no attention to restricted speed limit near the school we shouldnt have to wait until a child is killed before something is done said mr jack beach this is a beginning agreed the chairman he noted how ever that all ratepayers in the entire section would have lo be notified of any proposed pro gram that would entail an ex penditure of 4000 less a gov ernment grant just because this group favours this service does not mean that all rate payers will approve he said he pointed out that a public meeting would have to be ar ranged after all the information on the program had been ob tained bylaw a model stouffville municipal council was presented witii a communi cation on thursday evening from the new brunswick de partment of planning request ing a copy of the towns zoning bylaw the new brunswick government had been advised that the stouffville bylaw was a model which might well be followed by other small muni cipalities reeve timbers stated coun cil could take considerable sa tisfaction from this request car plates were altered fined 150 markham township police halted an 18 year old cooksville youth on yonge street during the early hours of wednesday morning sept 1th and follow ing a routine check discovered that the license plates on the 1953 model car had been chan ged from 1961 markers to 1963 geoffrey peter williams later admitted that he had been driv ing with the altered plates for the past eight months wil liams was also charged with operating a car without insur ance and having no permit in magistrates court on the same day the driver was fined 150 and costs constables robt hadden and barry mcwhirter stopped the vehicle at 5 am on check ing the plate numbers they learned that the car was regis tered to an owner in scarboro the alteration of the mark ers was so near perfect that it was difficult to detect any im perfections in the plates second trustee resigns from bethesda bd a second trustee tins re signed from the bethesda public school bbaid ss no j2 whitchurch township mr harry hunt submitted his resignation at the conclu sion of a ratepayers meeting on thursday nijrht his withdrawal from office came only minutes after an appointment had been made to till an earlier vacancy mr charles clubine resigned his post in august the controversial issue sur rounds the cost of installing either new or improved wash room facilities in the seventy year old tworoom structure a public meeting the fifth in recent months will he call ed shortly to elect a succes sor for mr hunt now only the chairman mr harvey widemau remains as the lone survivor of the original 3- inan board only singular resignations arc permitted under tlbc school act a local official told the tribune farmer injured in tractor blaze death takes fourth member of family a tragic chain af events has taken the life of a fourth mem ber of a green river family on thursday kenneth j chafen succumbed to leukemia in the scarboro general hospi tal following a lingering illness a wellknown and highly re spected young man in his com munity he contracted the dis ease only a short time after his marriage while confined to hospital in 1961 he learned of the deaths of his wife and par ents in a plane crash at the locust hill airport mrs shar- onne chafen along with mi and mrs wilfred chafen were killed instantly when their light cessna craft plunged into the ground on takeoff august 16th the pilot dr wesley har per of aurora also died in the wreckage the deceased was a gradu ate of pickering dist high school and the ontario agricul tural college at guelph his farm residence now vacant was at cone 7 pickering twp he has a little daughter teresa ann many friends visited the dixon chapel in markham pri or to the service on monday afternoon and included in the number were former class mates at both high school and college rev albion wright of st andrews united church was in charge with interment in elmwood cemetery the pall bearers were fred black david ramer robt hereia gordon carter jack rioux and kenneth self funerals this week mrs harmon hoover died suddenly at the home of her daughter mrs archie stover milverton on tuesday evening the funeral will be from the oneill funeral home friday sept 13th at 2 pm a claremont district farmer suffered burns to his right leg and lower portions of his body last week when gasoline used to clean the motor of his trac tor burst into flames bob tor rance was applying the liquid to the exterior of the engine when the brush touched a cable connection on the battery and ignited the fluid mr torrance was able to remove his trousers and beat out the blaze by rolling on the ground he was aided by his two sons jim 17 and kenneth 11 he was taken to the ux- bridge cottage hospital by his wife he is reported this week to be making good progress the torrance machine was pulled from the garage by mr edgar evans using his own tractor the shed was scorched the wiring on the tratcor was burned off but damage was not extensive spelling match teachers of markham twp rural schools arc reminded of the spelling contest for stu dents of grades 7 and 8 to be held in the new community centre building at markham fair on friday get 4th at 230 pm the competition is spon sored by the markham twp federation of agriculture police find tractor missing thirtysix hours how do you hide a yellow dicsel tractor weighing near ly two tons that was the confusing question that faced officers of markham twp police de partment and all other de tachments in metro toronto and york county early this week harold iapp farmer at cedar grove reported the loss nf his big machine at fi pm on monday evening it wns last seen en route to neighbours property four hours earlier driven by a 23 year old hired employee when neither the tractor nor its driver returned polled were called at 130 am on wednesday morning a space of 35 hrs sgt donald dukes and f c albert hudson of markham twp spotted the wanted vehicle parked at a bus stop on the west side of yonge street near steeles ave th hired hand is still missing charges markham weed control a joke councillor allan sumner charged at a regular meeting of markham twp council on monday afternoon that the con trol of weeds within the muni cipality was nothing but a joke councillor sumner was referring to the spraying and cutting of weeds in the town ship he said that on john st there was a stand of golden rod unequalled in any area its iike a hedge he said deputyreeve charles hoop er suggested that some types of weed sprays used this sum mer had been ineffective and the growth had continued un controlled councillor stewart rumble i requested that the weed in- spector should be called to the i meeting but since all other bus- iness had been completed the suggestion was dropped mr i clarke prentice cone 8 mark ham was appointed to the post this year former box grove man fined 110 a former box grove man now living in scarboro was fined a total of 110 plus costs on two separate charges in magistrates court richmond hill on tuesday frank pagnello 30 was con victed on a private charge of common assault and fined s100 and costs on a second charge of having liquor in an illegal place he was fined 10 and costs two other charges were withdrawn pagnello was arrested by markham twp police on mon day night july 29th and lodged in the jail at buttonville ha later required medical treat ment when he gave vent to his feelings and wrecked pieces of equipment in the cell resident 87 rolls first ball at new bowling alley miss annie duncan daughter of the late mr and mrs robert duncan died at the sinclair nursing home wednesday morn ing sept 11 miss duncan is resting at the oneill funeral home stouffville service will be at 330 pm friday interment at melville cemetery stouffvillos smart new 6- lane bowling alleys were un veiled to the public for the first time on saturday afternoon and the remodelled premises wore admired by everyone in i attendance councillor wm j parsons cut the red ribbon mr howard malloy of stouff ville 87 rolled the first bowling ball he was matched by mr art heard 82 of oxbridge a resident here 57 years ago the alleys were a hive of activity throughout the after noon and evening and in spite of the newness of the sport here many good scores wer recorded a mens league has already been formed and will operate every monday night with twelve teams a meeting will be held on thursday eve ning tonight to organize ladies group all alleys are equipped with automatic pinsetters they ar highlypolished and welllight ed a refreshment bit has been installed to serve soft drinks and light lunches coffe and doughnuts the manager is mr charles h 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