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vandals i damage school touffirilte 9xttmnt vol 75 no 18 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday october 10 1963 fourteen page3 cedar grove farmer rescues baby from burning home child is revived by respiration extensive damage was caused to the interior of the altona public school ss 17j pickering twp over the weekend when vandals gain- on friday afternoon 52 stu dents left the tworoom altona public school ss no 17 pickering township when the teachers and pupils returned for regular classes on monday morning they discovered a cha otic scene of inksplattered desks scorched walls burned books and paintcovered floors with the exception of several grade 7 and 8 volunteers all children were sent home for the day trustee members in spected the damage and a num ber of adults aided in the clean up campaign by monday eve ning everything had been re turned to normal with the ex ception of items that could not immediately be replaced the ontario provincial police of the whitby detachment are seek ing the persons responsible ed entry to the building principal jas empringham of gormley holds a paint- splattered bible with many of its pages removed the teachers jas empringham of gormley and miss sharon study of richmond hill made the unwelcomed discovery when they arrived at the school at 815 am the vandals had set fire to paper towels in the boys wash room and one wall was badly scorched a paper mural was burned off another wall and two other projects were des troyed pages were ripped out of classroom bibles and paint was spilled over school books desks and the floor there was a pool of water in the base ment and it appeared that an inside water hose had been used to extinguish the are it is the second such act of vandalism in the altona commu nity within a year school had to be closed down lor one day while students parents and teachers cleaned up the debris from the floor and desks pickering twp assessment shows drop of 40000 population now 21800 the total assessment figure for 1963 in the twp of picker ing has dropped by 54008800 as compared with 1962 accord ing to a printed report submit ted by the assessment commis sioner mr delbert goslin at a regular meeting of council on monday night the population has climbed by 1102 to 21837 the greatest assessment de crease was in ward i where it was reduced by 32859300 ward ii is down by 25650800 and ward iv has also dropped by 2351200 increases in as sessment have been noted in ward iii and ward v mr goslin told the council that he had abided by the decision of the courts in finalizing his as sessment figures for 1963 with the exception of ward 4 the population is up across the township a decrease in ward 4 of 72 has been attribut ed to the removal of homes due to the cnr bypass line in ward 3 bay ridges the popu lation is up by 1066 in reference to the 1963 as sessment total commissioner goslin said that the decrease was much less than had been anticipated mr goslin said that one ap peal was pending before the ontario municipal board and he requested the services of a professional appraiser at a court fee of 125 per day the request was granted in spite of opposition from deputyreeve mrs jean mcpherson and coun cillor harvey spang bruce harper wins prov pasture champ bruce harper of stouffville who placed 5th in the provinc ial pasture competition in 1959 and 2nd in 1960 has captured the ontario honours for 1963 a cedar grove farmer walt er walley reesor ran one- quarter mile to rescue a one year old baby boy from his crib after fire broke out and destroyed the cottage residence of mrs nancy mcdougall cone 10 markham on tuesday after noon mr reesor was called to the fire scene by the two mcdougall children heather 6 and brian 4 they said that their brother duffy was trapped inside when he could not gain entry through the kitchen door due to smoke and intense heat he smashed the living room win dow and lifted the child from its bed located within arms reach mrs mcdougall 29 a registered nurse revived the unconscious baby with mouth- tomouth respiration it was rushed by car to the scarboro general hospital the single storey home owned by ruby and mabel reesor was burned to the ground with all its con tents the mcdougall family had moved into the house in jnne a fourth child rebecca was in school the cottage was a mass of flames in a matter of minutes and no fire brigade was called mr and mrs reesor provided the family with temporary lodg ing until more permanent quar ters could be located neigh bours in the community re sponded quickly with clothing and bedding cashel girl bitten in face by dog requires 35 stitches police handle 960 calls markham township police department handled a total of 916 calls during last month according to the police report placed before council on mon day evening the three cruisers travelled a total of 11376 miles the report listed 15 traffic ac cidents investigated and a total of 53 summons served court revenue was 215950 more outside pheasant permits whitchurch township coun cil will allow the issuing this year of 600 nonresident pheas ant shooting licenses rather than the 400 as in 1962 messrs fred kitstein ted barlow and murray ramer appeared be fore council on monday on be half of the conservation club requesting the increase in the number of permits mr kitstein explained that the additional revenue was re quired in order to keep the 400 birds over the winter for re lease in the township next spring in this way it is hoped that the area will have a steady stock of pheasants and only a small number would be requir ed to be raised and released in the fall the project is expected to cost 75 a month four judges arden baker of avondale farms brockville john butler supt ontario de partment of agriculture dem onstration farm new liskeard prof tom lane soils science dept oac guelph and dr we tossell crop science dept oac guelph contended that mr harper came closer to making the maximum use of his resources than any of the four finalists he pastured 36 dairy cows on fifteen acres for an entire season and in addi tion took off 400 bales of hay from the same acreage mr harper has been a threetime zone winner in previous pas ture competitions the competition is sponsored by the ontario soil and crop improvement assoc and super vised by the soils and crops branch ontario dept of agri culture the three runnersup were fred cohoe of burgcss- ville garnet ralph of rich mond tie and wallace galla gher of orangeville mr harper will receive the championship trophy and 100 from the canadian seed trade assoc a 4 year old cashel girl was bitten in the face by the fam ilys collie dog last week and 35 stitches were required to close the wounds darlene lew is daughter of mr and mrs gordon lewis cone 6 mark ham was playing on the lawn with the dog and her older sis ter kathy when the injury oc curred dr donald smith of stouff ville performed a twohour op eration in the york county hospital at newmarket thurs day evening and the little girl was allowed to return home with her parents during the early hours of friday morning the dog a family pet had been a constant companion of the children and the reason for its sudden change of nature is not known it had received its antirabies shots police check 297 occurrences stouffville police officers checked out a total of 297 occurrences during the last month according to the regular police report filed with town council on thursday the cruiser travelled 2063 miles which is considerably less than the usual mileage a note of interest to council was that nine business places were re ported left open there were six parking tags issued and 46 highway traffic act incidents a total of 502 has been paid in fines of which stouffville gets a small percentage gormley home is destroyed by fire the two storey insul brick home of air and mrs james quinn of gormley was destroy ed by fire on wednesday no one was home when the blaze broke out mrs quinn had gone to the store and the c children kenneth 19 warren 17 allan 16 sharon 12 and dennis 6 were in school mr and mrs quinn pur chased the house the former joe cober residence four years ago nothing was saved the many friends of howard pat malloy will be sorry to learn he is a patient in ux- bridge cottage hospital he entered the hospital tuesday evening for observation two year term es suggested for stouffville town council stouffville municipal council will be considering the passing of a bylaw this month for the establishing of a twoyear term for council members and all o- ther members of elected boards jn town the law now provides that such a bylaw may be pas sed without a vote of the elec tors in addition to council the new law if passed would affect both the public utilities com mission and the public school board both of which now op erate under a staggered system of election the move to put through mich ft bylaw was brought forward at last weeks meeting of council by deputyreeve ken laushway he said that in or der to bring such a law into force for the 1964 council it would be necessary to pass the bylaw by nov 1st of this year and he would like to have the bylaw prepared for the council meeting of oct 17th the deputyreeve contended that new members coming on council or either of the other two elected boards are in of fice for six months before they understand the full operation when fall comes around and they do have any good ideas that should be introduced it is then too late and too near the next election he said he con tinued that one year was too short a time for members to outline and complete a prog ram and before some projects can be completed council mem bers have changed reeve timbers admitted that there were both pros and cons to the twoyear term but he admitted that it was getting to be more popular with some oth er countries even using a long er term than two years how ever he added that an election every year could help keep up the interest in public affairs councillor parsons said that the actual cost of holding an election in a town of this size was not a great factor but that continuity of membership on council could have some merit the deputyreeve said that since both the public school board and the public utilities commission would be affected a meeting should be held with these boards before proceeding if passed the bylaw would es tablish a definite two year term for all members and would wipe out the present staggered system any member of one of these other boards who still has a year to go would auto matically have to stand for re election or an acclamation this year if the bylaw passed the town clerk was directed to call a meeting of all three bodies on tuesday oct 15th mrs elias hoover dies in 95th year after being a patient in the brierbush hospital stouff ville since feb 1962 mrs ida jane hoover 48 obrien ave died on sunday oct 6 1963 in her 95th year born in mark ham twp she was a daughter of the late jacob and martha grove in 1896 she married elias hoover who predeceased her in 1950 she is survived by a daughter eva s hoover a sister sophia mrs wm h connor of stouff ville a sisterinlaw mrs tru man grove and nieces mrs floyd steckley mrs alex rat- cliff and mrs stewart stouffcr two brothers truman and wil mot were deceased after her marriage she lived ghos hooper to complete term of late reeve deputyreeve chas hooper was named by markham town ship council on monday night to fill out the unexpired term of the late reeve wilfred dean with councillor chas hoover as chairman a motion was also passed naming councillor allan sumner as deputyreeve for the balance of 1963 chas hooper who is no stranger to the reeves chair called on the meeting to observe a moments silence in tribute to the late wilfred dean who passed away a week ago after suffering a heart attack don dunkeid ont plowing champion donald dunkeld of atha has won the ontario cham pionship at the international plowing match near caledon douglas reid of brampton placed second the two will now compete for the canadi an title in prince edward is land next summer the class included 22 plow men joe tran of atha was 3rd jack couperthwaite of uxbridgc 4th and floyd for syth of stouffville 5th soil conditions were con sidered good the match that will attract thousands including many from this area is on the con smythe farms in peel county the ontario canadian and world plowing champions will be crowned this week all on the same site an event that will not occur again for 20 years install heaters in arena ten new electric heating units will be installed in the stouff ville arena within the next six weeks the arena board approved the purchase at a meeting on wednesday evening cf last week the cost has been esti mated at 1800 they are a product of the general electric co and will be acquired through the stouffville office of the public utilities commission the units will be installed five on each side of the arena building the west end of the rink is already heated and pro tected with a partition of shatterproof glass something to croak about this frog has something to croak about captured in a pond north of stouffville owned by the goldfish supply co ltd it weighed 2 lbs 4 oz and measured 12 inches like some phenomenon out of a science fiction movie a huge bullfrog was captured al ive in a net last week in a pond north of stouffville owned by the goldfish supply co the amphibious creature tipped the scales at 2 lbs 4 oz and meas ured 12i inches in length mr harley ashton manager of the local firm said that the tadpole came to town in a shipment of goldfish last spring from the ozark mountain in length it was brought up from missouri last spring in the form of a tadpole and ob viously flourished in its new home staff photo region of missouri the little tadpole apparently flourished in its canadian climate and em erged as king of its domain mr ashton placed the frog in an aquarium and took it to the orchard park and summitview public schools where it was ob served by hundreds of children he said that although it is the largest of its kind he has seen in canada it is not uncommon for them to become even bigger in their native habitat 1 irks industry mr t rodgers representing the erie manufacturing co ap peared before whitchurch twp council on monday to express his opinion on the additional tax bill the company received for an extension to the plant just completed he said he did not contest the legality of the bill but in view of the fact that the township was trying in every way to at tract industry it appeared very poor policy to render a second bill within the year he said the company employed 18 per sons and had now doubd the size of the plant with chances of further expansion in 1964 council was sympathetic to the companys view but declin ed any active opinion until the solicitor had been contacted wont go for long term water extension on don mills road on the hoover farm she was a member of the united church of canada a charter member of the womens institute and the w a of the united church service was held at the oneill funeral home on tues day oct 8 in charge of rev alan borland assisted by rev d davis with interment in stouffville cemetery the pallbearers were floyd steckley alex ratcliff stew art stouffer earl hoover bruce harper and lloyd hamm meet planning board on metro report markham township council and planning iioard will hold a joint meeting regarding a brief to be put before the royal commission on metro toronto and its relationship with the surrounding municipalities councillor rumble stated that he thought this a most important matter he said it had always been a questionable point to him as to why the township planning had to be subservient to the metroboard reeve hooper said he agreed that the matter was important and called for the joint meeting deputyreeve allan sumner was successful on monday night in blocking the use of a 12 inch water main rather than a six on the don mills road the pipe will carrv water all the way north to buttonville from the pumping station be low no 7 highway despite the statement of engineer miklas that laying a sixinch pipe was taking the short- term view as well as the urg ing of teeve chas hooper councillor sumner said he would hot support the taking of an extra 20000 needed for the larger pipe the idea in the larger pipe was to be prepared to handle expansion and industry further north dont you think you have an obligation to these peo ple up jhere who helped in the initial search for this water asked reeve hooper none whatever replied deputy- reeve sumner clerk crisp advised that council could not spend over the two mill capital limit from the whole water area and would have to get the additio nal money from higher front age tax and revenues engineer miklas asked how council would pay for any enlarge ment of the small pipe when it was needed in future years however the final motion called for the preparation of plans to lay a 6inch pipe only north on the don mills road and this was carried unani mously another accident at cashel bridge a cement bridge on cone 6 markham twp north of cash el was the scene of another serious accident on wednesday oct 2nd an eight foot portion of the railing was removed by the impact that completely demolished a volkswagen auto orest kortko 30 of sutton suffered only minor injuries last month a committee of the township council suggested that a 300 damage claim should be filed against a tor onto doctor when his north bound car collided with the bridge at the same site bloomington corner hearing on dec 3 the taking of land at the cor ner of the 9th concession and the bloomington sideroad in order to remedy the dangerous condition which exists there has come to arbitration be tween the township of whit church and carl insley proper ty owner on the northeast corner the matter has been debated for rrtore than a year and final settlement will be made at a hearing in the township office on dec 3rd nominations for whitchurch nov 29 the annual nomination meet ing for the township of whit church will be held on the eve ning of nov 29th at 7 pm if an election is required it will be held on dec 9th births cox norman and patricia nee lehman are happy to announce the birth of their son brian norman on thurs day oct 3 1963 at womens college hospital toronto nighswander the lord has blessed harvey and elva nighswandcr with a baby amy irene on oct 3 1963 at the brierbush hospital stouffer bert and phyllis are happy to announce the birtii of their son donald craig on september 27 1963 at york county hospital newmarket a brother for janice white frank and marie of claremont rr 3 are happy to announce the birth of a son garv grant born sept 21st 1963 8 lbs 12 oz at york county hospital new market a brother for ruth anne attendance at markham fair an alltime record a paid attendance figure markham fair setting an all- a number of major projects that attracted much favour- was officially opened on sat estimated at 25000 people time record for the 108th were completed including an able comment from both the urday by the lieut governor thronged the rounds of year of the rural exhibition exceptionally fine race track drivers and the customers it of ontario hon earl rowe v