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pj h stooftviuf tribune thwxhy koml 28 1963 reeve deputyreeve split on county takeover of pickering tp assessment must take the lead scott although the majority of members of pickerinz twp council are in favour of a move that would brinz their assess ment department under the control of the county and its commissioner gordon hep- ditch deputyreeve mrs jean mcpherson gave formal notice on monday night that she would oppose the motion when it is put to a vote of county council this week reeve sherman scott said he favoured the pro posal he revealed that a six- man committee of county rep resentatives were also in ac cord with the trend mrs mcpherson expressed some regret that she would have to disagree with ihe reeve at the county level i know that it is unethical but my con science will not let me do any thing else she said i feel that county assess ment is coming it has to come argued reeve scott i know we will he opposed but we have nothing to lose im not satisfied with our present assessment department conti nued the reeve hut i feel that dismissing individuals is not the solution i feel that there is a better and more lasting method we will never have proper equalization of assessments un der the present system and some municipality must take the lead in these things a guinea pie deputyreeve mrs mcpherson charged that it was quite al right for a rommittee of oilier county representatives to fa vour the pickering move but i have talked with many and i havent found one other town ship that is willing to go in with us she said its fine to make a guinea pig out of pickering township she said and let us take the blunt end of it i will oppose it she re peated i support her i hope she does concurred councillor harvey spang mrs mcpherson said that she could not understand why onlv the county of lincoln had as sumed the complete control of all municipal assessments if the program offered so much bene fit i fee that the county as sessor is the one who got us into a good deal of the mess we have experienced she said i couldnt agree more re plied the reeve councillor john greening said that in his opinion if a certain issue finds the approval of the majority members of the coun cil then the stand should serve as a direction to those repre sentatives at the county level i question whether a county member should vote contrary to the feelings of the majority he said havent i the right to my own opinion countered mrs mcpherson i was elected to represent the interests of the ratepayers of this township and if i thought for one minuie that county assessment controls would lessen our burden then i would go along with it so far no one has given me a reason to change my opinion she said i have never been a rubber stamp for anyone and i never will he she concluded reeve scott said that in the majority of county council questions they reeve and dep uty were in agreement 1 dont want you to think that my deputyreeve doesnt give me support because she does he said except on this one matter pickering road foreman leaves post under protest the question whether picker ing twp road foreman robt duck was dismissed or merely resigned remains up in the air this week following a surprise shakeup in the municipal rok department the controversy concerning the employee was started last month when mr duck was de moted from his post as road superintendent and the position was assumed bv the engineer mr paul poullson mr duck was made a foreman an office that does not come with in the jurisdiction of the union mr duck told the tribune that when he returned from a weeks vacation on monday he was informed by the engineer that his services were no longer requited he had been in the employ of the municipality for one year altough certain problems per taining to road department mat ters were discussed at a regular meeing of the township coun cil on monday night any dis missal action against mr duck was not suggested while the press was present mr duck suggested however that the subject was introduced later in the evening prior to coming to pickering mr duck served for five years in the rcak and later was employed in the north ameri can air defence program in the arctic he resides on the altona road claremont news charges 150000 arena unrealistic robt stewart a former councillor in ward 5 suggested at a regular meeting of picker ing twp council on monday night that the 150000 figure as stipulated in a plebiscite for a new arena project in the mun icipality was unrealistic and should be either altered or postponed until a later time the question is to go to a vote of the people on saturday dec 7th its not fair to the ratepay ers to put down such a figure said the spokesman you might build it for that but not satisfactorily he suggested that the council should arrive at an honest figure or use the money to construct several out door rinks that could be used by thousands reeve sherman scott advised the speaker that it was now too late to make changes in the by law councillor hubert wank said that the 1s0000 figur did not include additional grants through th province plus a re bate on winter works nobody is pushing an arena down any ones throat said councillor wank the question will be put on the ballot for the people to answer yes or no reeve scott pointed out that the cost per individual would be approximately soc for every si 000 assessment he explained that on a residential assessment of 4000 it would cost the ow ner 5200 or on a farm assess ment of 10000 it would cost s500 he noted however that a township arena would not mean free ice time for the users it will have to be selfsupporting he said deputyreeve mrs jean mc pherson said she had visited the stouffville arena on a sat urday morning and had watch ed hundreds of children enjoy ing skating and hockey activit ies there i certainly see the necessity for an arena in the township she said all i say is that if you are i going to build it build it prop erly concluded mr stewart goodwood mrs lemon clark returned home from uxbridge hospital on saturday mrs sam fockler of rich mond hill spent the time her mother was in hospital with mr clark sorry she was called home on saturday due to an ac cident her daughter was invol ved in due to ill health mrs rus sell storry is staying with her son howard and family of ball- antrae wednesday dec 4th is the date set for a shower for david mcquaker and his bride mar ilyn boyle friends and neigh bours are invited to attend at the township hall congratulations to mr albert hockley who won reserve championship on his potatoes bruce norton received second on 4h potatoes at the winter fair sunday dec 15 will be the white gift day at the baptist sunday school the commencement exercises of uxbridge high school will be held in the school on thursday and friday evening mrs stoncr of richmond hill is visiting with her friend mrs willard slack the explorer group are asked to bring an empty detergent bottle to their meeting friday night craft time will be spent making a christmas decoration mr ben smith of the provin cial department of lands and forests was guest speaker at the webb school parent teach ers meeting on wed nov 21st he showed many slides of fish and wild life more interesting because they were taken from the local district the next meeting will be in january as our school concert takes the place of our meeting a number of the family of mr howard pugh gathered at the home of mr and mrs jack wallace of brooklin on satur day to welcome their sister gladys who returned home af ter spending two and a half years in new zealand mr ed boniface has retired from the employ of the sarco co following a period of 19 i years a public meeting of the can didates for office in the dec 7th election in pickering township will be held in the claremont community hall on wednesday evening dec 4th at eight pm a meeting to elect three trustees to govern the affairs of claremont village was held on wednesdav evening of this week at 70 pm at the fireball those who have served in this office for tiie past two terms are jack norton charles cooper and gordon mcgrath the annual meeting of the lawn bowling club was held on thursday evening of last week at the conclusion of a pot- luck supper don hedges will hold the position of president for the coming year mrs joe derusha is the vice president and mrs jean drake secretary treasurer friends will be pleased to know that mr harold dean has been released from the uxbridge cottage hospital following an operation jimmy briscoe suffered a nasty fail in his home last week but is much improved now mr and mrs tony vander- light and family visited with mr and mrs norman durant in hamilton on sunday mr and mrs murray fraser and family have purchased the home of the late thomas gregg and have taken up permanent residence there mr and mrs earl cook and family visited on sunday at the home of her parents mr and mrs norman burton mr and mrs grant taylor and frank visited over the weekend with mr and mrs roy thompson and family of tweed kim steckley of stouffville spent the weekend with mr and mrs ai robertson mr and mrs geo constable of new market also had dinner with them mr and mrs wm pyatt and son christopher of toronto visited on sunday with mrs pyatts mother mrs f lovst mr and mrs robt hockley held a family birthday party in honour of mrs charles hock ley at their home on saturday evening all the family were present with mr jack norton a longtime friend as special guest sunday dinner guests at the home of mr and mrs jack rennie were mr and mrs b hobday and family and debbie benton of toronto also mr and mrs ross redshaw mr and mrs robt hockley enjoyed sunday dinner in toron to with mrs sanderson and mrs woodburn susan howell entertained a number of her friends at her home on saturday evening on on the occasion of her birthday bus transportation to aiid from the stouffville arena con tinues to prove a popular out ing for skaters from the clare mont brougham and green wood areas every saturday night the return trip cost onlv 2tc lloyd pascoe currently holds the top triple both with and without handicap in the com munity bowling league with a77s flat and an 811 hdepj agric officials present views on rural zoning of pickering twp in the top single department last week barb mclaren posted a sizzling 309 a complete run down appears on the sports page of this issue keep the community christ mas party in mind for satur day dec 15th a practice for entries in the concert will he held on sunday dec sth those planning to take part are asked to be at the hall at 130 pm mrs rene rennie at 6192312 has further details on tuesday nov 19th the guide and brownies mothers l a held their regular meeting at the home of mrs doreen welsh officers for 1961 are vice chairman irene levick secretary rene rennie treasurer lorraine mcleod badge secretary doreen welsh sick convener tlielma hockley social convener doreen welsh there will be no regular meeting in december but instead a christmas party will be held at the home of mrs marge sarnarillo everyone is to bring a humorous small gift the boy scouts and cubs are distributing good turn bags in the community the public is asked to place any of the fol lowing repairable items in the containers used clothing bedding curtains clothing jewellery shoes scarves drapes towels and linen pickup will be made on saturday nov 30th and residents are asked to have their goods ready before 9 am the project is for handicapped children the afternoon unit of the united church women will meet on thursday afternoon at 3 pm mrs reynolds and mrs burton will be in charge of the program at the conclusion of the meeting supper will be held commencing at 530 pm until all are served the united church sunday school will hold their annual christmas concert on wednes day evening dec 18th at 730 pm the claremont womens in stitute met in the community hall on wednesday afternoon at 2 pm mrs anoriby delegate to the annual area convention presented her report the claremont womens in stitute will hold their christ mas meeting in the community hall on wednesday dec 4th at 2 pm guests on this occasion will be the golden age club rev t fleetham will bring the message and mrs wes lehman and committee will be in charge of refreshments mrs dean mairs of broug ham mrs wm boyington of uxbridge and mrs j empring- ham of claremont attended the royal winter fair on the wck- end as guests of their brother mr david m dawson of tor onto a special meeting of the pick cring twp planning board was held at brougham on friday evening nov loth to discuss the proposed zoning bylaw with specific reference to the rural area of the municipality in at tendance at the gathering was mr donald middleton of the federation of agriculture and mr lynn fair ontario county agricultural representative the following points were presented by mr middleton i p every possible situaion can not be envisaged or covered in a written bylaw i2i all pro posed regulations must be agree able to the ratepayers to be enforceable 31 only a small percentage of farmers wished to subdivide their property 4 zoning bylaws were considered good protection against high taxation 5 the requirement for h second dwelling on a farm was considered marginal and mainly a retirement pro position tfi present social trends were towards either the multijoh householder or the multibreadwinner household trend to fewer farms mr fair presented the follow ing statistics and suggestions on rural zoning u the neces sity of the second farm dwelling was not clear but was consider ed an economic consideration for the young farmer starting out 2t there is a rapid change in agriculture towards fewer of larger holdings 3 in 1911 there were 28000 farm people on 3900 farms in ontario coun ty in 1961 there were 11000 farm people on 2659 farms although the county populations had increased from 65000 to 125000 i during the period from 1911 to 1961 the average farm had increased from 120 acres to 150 acres per farm with an increase of from 05- to 5r of the farms being over 400 acres in size 5 in 1941 22 of the farms were 69 acres or less in 1961 22fr of farms were 69 acres or less t6 the census definition of a farm is a parcel of land of one acre or more on which there is the sale of s50 or more of produce 7 according to a census on 3000 farms 1000 had no help 633 had help 6 months of the year 481 had help 12 months of the year 100 had 2 helpers full- time 20 had 3 helpers full- time and 21 had 5 fulltime helpers add new section it was pointed out that the trend was towards larger and gentleman type of farms it was suggested that as farms in crease in size more hired help will also increase and to retrain such help second residences will become more prevalent following a lengthy discus sion it was unanimously agreed that a new section should be ad ded to the bylaw to read no person shall erect more than one residential building on any lot the recommendation has been passed on to thi council for their consideration youths charged in fight near arena two sixteen year old youths have been charged by stouft- ville police with causing a dis turbance after they became in volved in a fight in the parking lot outside the stouffville are na on saturday night ted red shaw of claremont and theo dore potma of scarboro are scheduled to appear in magis trates court richmond hill on question drinking privileges in twp hali the consumption of liquor in the township hall at brough am through the purchase of a banquet permit has aroused a complaint that was aired be fore a regular meeting of pick ering council on monday night it was agreed thas the matter should be discussed further by the property committee clerk lt johnston informed the members that following one particular gathering in the hall it took the caretaker almost an entire day to clean up the de- assessment major issue in uxbridge election bris the condition was describ ed as very bad councillor hubert wank said j that i would be difficult to j halt such activities after the question had been approved by a vote of the electorate he sug gested hotvever that the rental fee for gatherings where liquor is served could be adjusted to take care of in eased mainten ance action on the request was delayed pending a committee report pickering twp nominations the nomination meeting io elect taiilulats for pickering township council and throe juhic school area boards will he held in the brougham jlall on friday evening nov 20th from 1 to s pm a pub lic meeting will follow the election for a term of two years will he conducted on saturday dee 7th a plebiscite on the spending of 150000 for the erection of a new artificial ice arena in the municipality will also appear on the ballot late wm j goar buried at claremont on saturday nov 9th mr wm j goar of hamilton pas sed away in the civic hospital of that city following an illness of about one year the deceased was known in the claremont area and his wife the former mary benson had lived here prior to her marriage mrs ken rccsor is a brotherinlaw the late mr goar was born in bruce county the son of the late mr and mrs john goar he served overseas for a period of time with the canadian ex peditionary forces and on his return was employed at port elgin and toronto following his marriage he resided in hamilton he was id entified with the presbyterian church besides his wife and one son john he is survived by five bro thers george gib and jim of port elgin ross of chatham and stewart of detroit michi gan the funeral service was conducted on tuesday nov 12 with interment in the clare mont union cemetery planning board to discuss substandard homes the problem of substandard homes being moved into the township of pickering will be a subject for discussion at the next meeting of the planning board township planning advisor mr r e faulkner informed the members of council on mon day night that the matter would be brought to the boards atten tion councillor hubert wank charged that several cases of this nature had been brought to his attention he said he hoped a definite policv could be established to control further problems of this kind rare birds seen near claremont during the past week a rare specimen of bird has been seen near the area of the claremont conservaion park it is known as the threetoed woodpecker there are several species of this woodpecker namely tiie arctic threetoed and the american threetoed tiie arctic or blackbacked is about the same size as our common hairy woodpecker but can easily be distinguished by its solid black back the ameri can also referred to as the lad derbacked has a definite black and white laddered bark and is a little smaller than its relative ihe blackbacked these birds of the far north spruce forests have come south in search of food undoubtedly he visitors have been attracted to the large numbers of dead elm trees and the insects that infest the rough outer bark betty and ecigie pegg dec 10th pc edward grimshaw broke up the scrap that had at tracted quite a large gathering of onlookers at the scene pickering to hire technical assi the twp of pickering has approved the hiring of a tech nical assistant to work in the engineering department on the municipal road staff his salary will be in the 4000 to s3000 range the new employee will assist in the completion of survey work it was pointed out that two men had left the depart ment earlier in the year and had never been replaced we cant afford to have an engineer holding a survey stake commented reeve sher man scott tiie brougham school peewee hockey team scored a 2 win over markham peewee allstars on tuesday evening of last week doug blackmail and james mcguckin scored for brougham doug cannon played well in the brougham goal on saturday morning the boys were out selling cookies to help defray the cost of their rink time although each boy put in 500 at the start of the season at 75c per night this money has been almost all used up any help for these lads would be sincerely appreciated mrs howard malcolm sr celebrated iter birthday on sun day members of the family who called to offer congratula tions were kern mrs robt mierl and family of brougham and helen mis ralph craw ford and family of whitby miss pat harden a teacher in training is pending the week as a practice teacher in the oshawa district mr and mrs arthur hongins of harroivsmith called on his brother mr gordon hodgins on sunday staff teachers mr wm ship- man and miss isobel gregg at tended a teachers convention in hamilton on friday two gravel trucks were in collision at the corner of the brock road and no 7 hwy last week and although both vehicles suffered some damage neither driver was injured the childrens choir under the leadership of mrs white and mrs plaxton had charge of the music at the church service on sunday mr r ellicott took one of his horses out to the markham fair grounds recently for training prior to placing it in racing competitions miss janet ellicott spent the weekend with her aunt mrs swafield in toronto unit 1 of the brougham unit ed church women will meet at the home of mrs k pascoe while unit 2 will meet on the same evening at the home of mrs m ellicott mr gordon day and david and bobby almack attended the rodeo in the maple leaf gardens on sunday mrs bowori of englehart is spending a few days with her daughter mrs orval lunney and family the friendly bible class will meet on monday evening at the home of mr and mrs john white the friends of mr wintdn white of balsam wish him a speedy recovery following an accident last week he was pin ned between his car and a hydro pole mr and mrs howard mal colm attended the royal winter fair on thursday mr and mrs roy davis of toronto called on his mother mrs j davis on saturday mr anil mrs arden wannop of dunbarton spent sunday evening with his parents mr and mrs cliff wannop mr and mrs gordon hugh- son and family brock road enjoyed sunday dinner with her parents mr and mrs cliff wan nop mr donald wannop ami rev english have returned from a hunting irip into northern on tario where they bagged two deer t of uxbridge vote for t r aker for councillor 196465 pollins day dec 2 10 am lo 7 pm problems concerning assess ments at both the municipal and county level have beome the major election issues in the twp of uxbridge this fact was most evident at the annual nomination meeting conducted before a large audience in the goodwood hall on thursday night the election for a term of two years will be held on monday dec 2nd for the of fice of reeve the ineumbant norman hogg is opposed by the deputyreeve alvin redshaw for the position of depreeve councillor donald jackson is making a bid for the post against opposition from robt nesbitt a former member for the three councillor seats four men are in the running ter- rence r akerman michael e kelly charles forsythe and arthur knight councillors for sythe and knight are seeking reelection while messrs aker man and kelly are new candi dates in the field much dissatisfaction reeve norman hogg admitted that there was much dissatis faction among many ratepayers concerning increased assess ments he revealed that no less than 200 appeals had been filed in addition to 15 revisions due to clerical errors assessments are one of the big problems in the county too said reeve hog and they have backfired into our municipality the reeve charged that the town ship assessor had been press ured by the county assessor into raising assessments in the municipality he expressed a fear that some individuals had not checked their assessment statements for errors hut there is little we can do about it now concern for township assess ments was also expressed by the deputyreeve alvin redshaw at the county level he said all townships except one had been raised a hodge podge former reeve and exwarden earl dowswell charged that the 700000 assessment hike put on the township was untimely and completely out of proportion its nothing but a hodge podge lie said he said that no one could be sure whether assessment under complete county control would prove a benefit but under the present system its getting worse in stead of better he agreed that some assessments required re vision but not that drastically there is something seriously the matter and its too bad he said mr dowswell declined to qualify as a candidate councillor charles forsythe chairman of the relief commit tee revealed that only a few- persons were on welfare and some of these were charge backs to other municipalities he said that their welfare of ficer had submitted his resigna tion but it had not been accept ed by the council a member of the hospital board he said that an addition was planned for tho uxbridge building within two years councillor donald jackson chairman of the property com- mitee said that new road de partment offices had been con structed in the township gar age he said that two new trucks had been purchased and road construction projects had been completed on the webb sidcoad and the 7th concession at a total cost of 6000 tried to be fair councillor arthur knight said he would like to see closer cooperation between the rate- pavers and the council touch ing on assessment he said that the court of revision had at tempted to be fair in its handl ing of appeals he frowned on a trend towards county control of municipal assessments robt nesbitt spoke only brietlv ana said he was no stranger to the township or its electorate he later revealed that he would contest the office of deputyreeve terrence akerman a resident at cone 5 is an employee of transcanada airlines he will trv to gain one of the three council seats he promised un biased and unprejudiced think ing in dealing with township problems he described the in fluence of metro toronto on ad jacent municipalities like ux bridge and compared it to a bit of an octopus michael kelly a resident on the webb sideroad will also mak a bid for a council post he criticized ihe present mem bers for their lack of interest in the ratepayer they keep telling you that your taxes will go up so youll get accustomed to the idea they are not inter ested in von the peole he said but only in justifying their joba and spending your money deputyreeve redshaw re vealed that livestock losses had been reduced by over 700 in 1963 and dog tax returns had increased by nearly 1000 ho said that fire costs were up bv 500 ont cty 4h members compete at royal queens guineas class there were five entries from ontario county in a class of 196 paul webb a member of the scott 4h beef club was awarded reserve champion in the angus class ross bailey scott 4h beef and jim new man mara 4h beef placed in the second prize group of the angus class in the shorthorn class grant beath and donald mc- tavish both memebrs of the scott 4h beef club placed in the second prize group queens guineas winner was a shorthorn calf exhibited by sandra peart from wellington county and the reserve was an angus calf exhibited by wayne watson from middlesex county 4h grain class them were nine entries from ontario county in a class of 33 with tha ontario county exhibits plac ing as follows sandy mctavish 3rd aldon smith5th ralph morrison6th keith phocnix- 7th george smith8th donald mctavish9th ian hoggllth wayne beath12th doug batty 22nd all ontario county en tries were of the russell variety 4h potato class thera were three entries from ontario county in a class of 23 bruce norton placed second michael lunneytcnth and karen gecr- twelfth these members of the scott 4h potato club exhibited the sebago variety atha bill tran marked his 10th birthday on sunday mrs tran and miss freda draper also had birthdays mr and mrs norman leh man and family had supper on friday evening with mr and mrs geo byer mr and mrs murray dunk- eld mr and mrs clifford din- keld mr and mrs donald dunkcld attended the christen ing of brian jones son of mr and mrs murray jones at mt zion church on sunday mrs frank bielby spent a few days last week with her friends in toronto mr fred goursha from hers- thel sask and mr mel venn spent friday with the carruth- crs family mr and mrs elles melton and family had sunday dinner with mr and mrs james mel ton at burkton 400 snow fence posts stolen some party possibly tired of chasing his cows out of the cab bage patch a 1 summer or shov elling snow out of his lane all winter has made oft with 400 snow fence posts the property of the twp of pickering it was learned on monday night that the municipality is not covered by insurance for this type of theft because rates for nonstored items are excep tionally high a replacement order in the a- mount of 35120 was given to the claremont cooperative who filed the lowest price on a tendered bid men who give in if wrong are wise men who give in if right are married electors of uxbridge township 1 have served uxbridge township as councillor for ihe pasl six years i have endeavoured to serve you lo the best of my ability my aim is o strive for progressive leadership and sound administration if my record mecls with your approval i respect fully solicit your vote and influence and reelect charles e forsythe for councillor 19645 polling hours 11 am lo 7 pm monday dec 2nd llf3