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tour of inspection trustees of ringwood and dicksons hill public schools accompanied by ollicials of the dept of hwys and dcpt of transport toured a 2 mile area on friday and inspected the site where a 6 year old girl was struck and instantly killed on oct 15th the group gathered at the ring- wood intersection includes left to right i stuart wat- son wm glenistcr dept of transport clarence fockler john trew dept of hwys lome morgason and dave mehaffev staff photo late cbas richards active so business and community charles richards who along with his sons operated an im plement agency at the westend of stouttville passed away at scarboro general hospital ear ly thursday morning he was in ills 57th year and had been ill only a short time at the urban area of toron to pushed north charles rich ards moved his implement busi ness to stouffville a few years ago from agincourt and had become quite well known chas richards among the farmer in this dis trict he was born at ellesmcre a son of mary and ernest rich ards during an active business life he found time to take part in many community activities he was a life elder of zion united church wexford a past president of agincourt lions ciub member of the rebekah lodge and district deputy of the oddfellows charles rich ards was also prominent in the ontario retail farm equip ment dealers association hav ing served as treasurer since 1017 resides his wife the former ruth moynihan deceased is survived by five sons walter james bruce murray and don ald all associated with their fathers business and one daughter ida there are seven grandchildren and a sister mrs d lachey of colbourne a bro ther james was predeceased the funeral on saturday was conducted from zion united church by rev if e frid the elders of the church attended as honourary pallbearers and the active pallbearers were joe forsyth george watson allan murray william siflon james and stewart cieighton inter ment was made in the adjoin ing cemetery town population 3526 assessment up 102553 stouffvilles population now stands at 352c according to the latest figures compiled by town assessor lloyd turner this is an increase of 193 over last year the greatest number of residents are between the ages of 20 and 59 being a total of 1119 there are 331 persons over 70 years of age and 357 three years old and under in the annexation of additio nal land from tlie two surround ing townships 32 persons from whitchurch township became stouffville residents and 06 from markham township assessment tp tile toial town assessment is now s 1239 62398 an increase j of su255315 over 1962 great est amount of assessment is for i e s i d e n t i a i property amounting to s3191010 the towns commercial assessment totals 906578 the industrial s30165 and farm s10ss70 local council gks two year terra 64 65 newly elected members of council public utilities com mission and the school board will continue lo hold office through the terms of 1961 and 1905 according to a by law approved last week the matter had been dis cussed at a joint meeting of the three bodies held on oct 15th no one expressed any op position to the move the annual nomination night is thursday nov 21st the election if necessary will he held on monday jec 2nd extend deadline for opp service ontario provincial police service in the twp of whit church will be extended to june 1st 1961 according lo an agree ment reached at the office of the commissioner in toronto last week reeve frank willams deputyreeve ross farquhar- son and clerk john crawford were present for the discussion prior to the meeting it had been suggested that the provin cial police would withdraw from the municipality by jan 1st 3964 township ollicials have been told that the june deadline is final and no further extensions will be permitted the 1961 council will begin planning for this new police program early in the new year ond a budget will be set up to organize the department and operate it for a seven month period turn clocks back residents are reminded to turn their clocks back one hour before retiring on saturday night standard time goes into effect at 2 am on sunday oct 27 th oreak and entry a 49 year old calendar sales man has been charged by markham twp police with bieak and entry into a home in unionville stanley griffith jeffery of no fixed address will reappear in court on thursday oufftrihe strttntne vol 75 no 20 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday october 24 1963 fourteen pages suggest two section meeting to outline pupil safety program claremont dist youth fined loses licence the trustees of dicksons hill and ringwood public schools may organize a joint meeting of the two sections to outline a student safety program to cover a 2mile area of no 4s hwy this cooperative venture was suggested on friday morn ing when board members met for two hours with represent atives of the dept of trans port and the dept of high ways the gathering was ar ranged by lome morgason chairman of the dicksons hill school and prompted by the tra gic death last week of six year old louise taylor a grade 1 pupil john trew a senior traffic analyst and wm glenistcr as sistant director of highway safety agreed to attend the pub- lie meeting mr trew said that no matter what steps were taken either by his board the trustees or the school there was no gua ranteed program of highway safety both ollicials appeared to disapprove of a trustee re quest that the speed limit in the schools zones should be reduced to 45 miles per hour from the present 60 mile figure it has been proven in some instances that the slowing of ira die only tends to worsen a situation said the dept of highways spokesman must be legal mr trew said that if the board would promote a cross ing guard patrol system his of fice would support the program with warning signs and pave ment markings one shouldnt put too much faith in signs said the official he pointed out that all signs must abide by legal standards and none could be erected on a trial basis only he charged that the roots of a safely program should begin in the home and carried on in the school not with instruction once a week but every day the trustees including stuart watson dave mehaffev clarence fockler lome morgason and sgt wm shearn of markham twp po lice toured a twomile section of no 48 hwy with the depart ment officials the board mem bers voiced strong resentment over the 60 mile speed area in the ringwood and dicksons hill school zones trustee clar ence fockler contended that too much responsibility was be ing placed on the shoulders of grade school children that can be warned one minute and for get it the next he said that the ringwood board had sub mitted several pieces of corre spondence to the dept of hwys but none had been recognized mr trew said he could not re call receiving any letters from the trustees what would you do if you had to deal with matters like this all over the province asked mr glenister weve had our share of problems too my friend re plied the trustee parents have been on our backs for the past two years he said and they are concerned for good reasons too we want 10 do ihe right thing by everyone said mr trew including the children the parents the trustees and the motorists reduce speed limit or enforce present one parents urge several parents among the twentyfive who attended a spe cial meeting in the dicksons hill public school on thursday night asked that the speed limit in a defined section of no 48 hwy be either reduced to 45 miles per hour or failing that be police enforced at 60 mph if its a 60 mile per hour limit they will drive at 70 said mr lome morgason chairman of the board he said thai the trustees at ring- wood had been pressing the dept of hwys for some action for several years but without success a petition is only wastepaper- basket material he said he charged that much of the roadplanning through out the province is designed by an engineer who sits at a desk with a map in his hand little does he know about the eighty children who attend this school and whose very lives are in danger every morn ing and afternoon trustee stuart watson said that he and a neighbour had transported their children to and from school every day for the past seven years parental responsibility markham twp police serge ant wm shearn suggested that an educational safety program stressed both in the home and in the school should make an impression on the pupils he said that he would be pleased to speak to the children at any time he noted that the shoul ders of the highway were suffi ciently wide but it was the crossing of the pavement thai proved hazardous a car can kill a child at 30 miles per hour as well as at 60 he said the parents must assume some responsibility said mr willis hoover he contended that it wouldnt be practical to position crossing guards at every laneway along the high way route wm sanders a teacher on the school staff noted that it would be difficult to arrive at a foolproof method no matter what program was put into practice board chairman lome mor gason said he and trustees from both ringwood and dick sons hill would ask the depart ment officials to reduce the speed limit to 45 miles per hour and also erect caution signs in the area uxbridge nominations uxbridge township council last week passed a bylaw set ting the dates for the 1963 no minations and election the nomination meeting will be held at the township hall on thursday november 21st at 7 pm the election if required will follow on monday december 2nd with polls open between 10 am and 7 pm council of the township is comprised of reeve deputy- reeve and three councillors order inquest into two fatal accidents inquests have been ordered into wo fatal accidents thai occurred in the stouffville area last week hearings will be conducted into the deaths of 6 year old louise taylor of kingwood who was struck and killed on no 48 hwy on tuesday morning oct loth and ii year old marlin steiner pin ned under a tractor on his fathers farm oct 1lth the dates of the inquests have not been established inquests will not be held into the fatal accident on tliusday oct 17th that took the life of 19 year old clil- j ford reynolds of cone 7 pickering twp or 21 year old ted beaumont who died on oel 14th following an ac cident on july 20th north of claremont auctioneers busy saturday was a busy after noon for district auctioneers with no less than nine calling the bids at local auctions at the stouffville sales arena walter atkinson frank bennett and mylcs king were at work onehalf mile west of altona auctioneer alvin farm er was in charge of a sale on the premises of mr e d long- land ken and clarke prentice of markham haa an auction on the property of joseph teeson at richvale auctioneer norm faulkner rapped the gavel at the sale on the premises of a l coakwell cone 10 mark ham and reg johnson was at work on the property of mrs john mclaughlin in sunder land two miles east of ux bridge auctioneer lloyd wil son had a sale on the premises of mrs carl puterbough whitchurch halts dust laying whitchurch twp council has called a halt to further ap plications of dustlayer on rural roads in spite of complaints from many sections of the municipality reeve frank williams in formed a ratepayer on monday night that a total of 35000 had been spent on calcium treat ment this summer far exceed ing the budget of s30500 he said that a lack of rain this month had prolonged the problem lie pointed out that the council had no way of raising further funds and it would be impractical for them to assume further expenditure at this time he said that many districts throughout the town ship were in the same condition and the situation could not be corrected first prize for king herd a senior bun calf owned by eidred king rr markham was awarded a 1st prize red ribbon at the east central championship hoislein show held at peterboro on friday two other king entries placed among the top ten in their in dividual classes twentyone year old barry denis dillon claremont rr 2 was convicted in richmond hill court on monday and lined 100 and costs on a charge of dangerous driving his drivers licence was suspended for three months pc edward grinishaw of stouffville said he chased the accused at speeds in excess of 0 miles per hour and during this time the headlights on the dillon car had been turned on and oil two companions of dillon were convicted on liquor charges harvey leslie spoils and thomas mccreadie both of claremont rr 2 were each lined s10 and costs hit and run a 1963 comet owned by las abell albert st n in stoutt ville suffered 50 damage in a hit and run accident on satur day night police have question ed one suspect liquor charees two stouffville youths were each fined 10 and costs in mag istrates court on tuesday ceo ore 20 eaiivievv ave and robt lamb 17 church st were convicted of drinking un der age careless driving a sixteen year old cedar val ley motorist has been charged by stouffville police with care less driving and making an un necessary noise roy morton wiis stopped by pc david 1 hidden on tuesday evening oct 15th on the 0th line n busy month tlie stouttville police depart ment has laid a total of 23 charges during the past three weeks of october and 17 are pending before the courts in november two are still to be aired this month policeman cruiser sprayed by pellets a cock pheasant tile target of two groups of nonresident hunters escaped its pursuers last week but a markham twp police cruiser was sprayed with pellets and the officer behind the wheel was hit on the left arm sgt wm shearn sgt wm shearn was on patrol in a subdivision area on one 5 markham and inter cepted the men in a restricted zone where hunting is not per mitted just as the cruiser pull ed to a stop between the hun ters a pheasant flew up both parties wheeled and blasted sev eral volleys of shot at the bird and the descending pellets rain ed down on the car like hail the vehicle suffered no notice able damage and the officer al though hit was not injured the men were ordered out of the protected area but no charges were laid four championship holstoip shows are held annually at london the cne peterboro anrl ottawa oak ridge farms at oak ridges also captured several awards booster pump fails in test a self styled homemade wa ter pump that supposedly would double the water pres sure in the east end of stouff ville has failed in a trial test according to information re vealed at a regular meeting of the town council on thursday night reeve win timbers said that the motor was not large enough to do the job in july air eh neville chairman of the stouffville public utilities announced that the pump to cost an estimated 800 would be installed at the- reservoir and would be power ed by a 10 hp motor a larger motor has been ordered councillor wm parsons said that considerable time had el apsed since the puc and the council had met in a joint ses sion he said he wished to know what steps had been taken by the puc to correct a water pressure problem that had oc curred in the summer thirty inch pike hauled from musselmans lake the waters of musselmans lake has yielded its second big pike this season on sunday mr jr richards cone 7 whitchurch landed a huge spe cimen that measured 30 inches in length he was out in the boat with his two sons bobby 5 and paul 13 it was mr rich ards first fishing trip of the season and he nabbed the big beautv in ten minutes with a load like that there was no need to fish any longer in august robt gray rr 2 stouffville hooked a pike that measured 33 inches in length and weighed over 10 lbs it too was in musselmans lake aresnont district veilums a nineteen year old clare mont district boy was instantly killed en thursday afternoon when his 1p63 model falcon convertible skidded out of con trol and overturned on the dth cone of pickering clifford reynolds only son of mr and mrs charles reynolds rr 2 claremont was returning to distinguished visitor the police chief of the phil lipinc islands was a guest of markham twp chief harvey cox and his department on fri day of last week mr deo langman is spending six- months in canada as part of an expensepaid tour promoted by the canadian and phillipme governments his farm home when tiie aeci dent occurred although skid marks on the pavement extend ed for a distance of nearly 300 feet there was no immediate indication that another car was involved the auto was east- bound and came to rest on the northeast corner of the inter section dr d j petric of stouffville arrived on the scene within minutes and assisted in raising the vehicle so that the victim could be released no inquest will be held the deceased was a quiet wellliked young man as was indicated by the hundreds who attended tiie oneill funeral parlors and later the service in the stouttville united missi onary church on monday after noon he purchased his hew clifford reynolds car only this summer and was extremely proud of it as a young lad he played hockey for several years in the stouffville minor leagues he attended the mt pleasant pub lic school and pickering dist high school he was identified with the altona united missi onary church prior to his sud den passing he was working with his father on the farm besides his parents he is sur vived by one sister joyce and his grandfather fred reynolds on church street in stouffville rev dow sargent conducted the funeral service assisted by rev arthur walsh with inter ment in the stouffville cemete ry the pall bearers were glen eldon and kenneth wil son wayne pennaren ron sargent and allen anderson a nineteen year old clare- car on the 9th cone county mont rr 2 was returning monday afternoon was large- mont district driver was in- road in pickering twp clif- to his farm home when the ly attended stantly killed last week when ford reynolds son of mr and accident occurred the fun- ptnned under his overturned mrs chas reynolds clare oral service conducted on staff photo