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new lights installed on main st uuftmlk faittii vol 77 no 14 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday september 9 1965 twelve pages pxc employees have been busy during the past two weeks installing twenty new fluores cent lights on the south side of the main street business section in stouftville a sum of 53500 was set aside in the towns i9b5 budget to cover the cost of the project linemen paul gilliam left and chas iintner hook up one of the new fixtures staff photo enrollment climbs to 381 at orchard park in spite of the withdrawal of 32 grade 3 mrs nel at 36 pupils for separate school kinson 31 grades 3 and 4 classes the enrollment at or chard park continues to show an increase according to attend ance figures tabulated by prin cipal keith sutherland on tues day the total has now reached 381 thirty more than recorded at the end of the term in june this number includes the 30 students of the grade 6 class that has been reverted back to orchard park following a shift to summitview last year the enrollment breakdown by grades is as follows kinder garten mrs nancy paisley 31 mrs doreen brown 32 grade 1 miss brenda bar- ringer 31 grades 1 and 2 mrs linda mclean 31 grade 2 miss sally matthews mr gary litster 27 grade 4 mrs greta noble 32 grade 5 mrs barbara wide- man miss lynn mills 39 grade 6 mr john lindop 30 grade 7 mr gary grundy 33 grade 8 mr vm kingsley mr keith sutherland 32 three staff leaders will work between both orchard park and summitview schools miss mills is the music supervisor miss marg hosie is the reading con sultant and mrs pat byer is the primary consultant the kindergarten class that totals 63 has been divided with mrs paisley taking 31 in the morning and mrs brown 32 in the afternoon grade six shift cuts summitview attendance a shift of 30 students to form a regular grade 6 class at or chard park has reduced the september enrollment at sum mitview to 410 the attendance figure at the conclusion of the june term was 431 thirty new registrations were received by principal lome boadway on tuesday morning the majority for kindergarten the summitview staff and per class enrollments are listed as follows kindergarten mrs carol hume 51 grade 1 miss judy mckewn 27 miss myrna scott 30 grade 2 miss elizabeth burns 28 mrs helen weatherbce 30 grade 3 miss janet mcnicol 33 grade 3 and 4 mrs barbara widcman 29 grade 4 and 5 mrs jean whale 31 grade 5 mrs blanche gordon 34 grade 6 mr john stark 38 grade 7 mr robt stover 39 grade 8 mr wm kingsley 29 auxili ary mrs glenna will 14 three teachers will work on an exchange basis between the two schools miss marg hosie is the reading consultant mrs pat byer is the primary consult ant and miss lynn mills is the music supervisor driver jailed after 100 mph chase a 22 year old former ballan- trae man was sent to jail for 30 days on tuesday following a conviction on a charge of dang erous driving laid by pc alvin thompson of stouffville joseph dart now of scar- boro entered a plea of guilty when he appeared before mag istrate o s hollinrake in rich mond hill court the crosscountry chase at speeds up to 100 miles per hour led through three townships beginning in stouffville and ending after the car disappear ed from view on a hill near musselmans lake dart was arrested the next day p c thompson testified that the accused drove through several stop streets and nar rowly missed colliding with a number of oncoming vehicles in addition to the jail term magistrate hollinrake levied a 100 fine or 60 days he was also prohibited from driving for a period of one year legion masonic halls used by catholic board on tuesday morning make shift classrooms were establish ed in both the legion and ma sonic halls to accommodate 132 separate school children on a temporary basis it is hoped that the new 6room s170000 building now under construc tion will be ready for occupan cy by the end of this month a late start and adverse weather conditions have been blamed for the school not open ing on schedule the enrollment per class is as follows grade 1 to 2 twenty- nine grade 2 to 3 thirtyone grade 4 to 5 thirtyeight and grades 6 7 and 8 thirtyfour the lower grades are presently located in the masonic hall while the senior classes are at the legion the separate school staff is headed by the principal mr paul condon other teachers in clude miss diane amirault mrs mary mccormick and mr jan de laat oral french in town schools grades 6 to 8 oral french is a compuls ory subject in grades 6 to 8 this year at both summitview and orchard park public schools the course has the approv al of the dept of education but the decision was made entirely by the local trustee board mrs jeanette waite will conduct the 20 minute classes each day she comes well ex perienced in the subject and in addition completed an ex tensive training course in toronto this summer french instruction was provided previously on a strictly voluntary basis but the program was not too successful the training will be confined to oral work with no written exercises to begin construction of town dam in 66mtrca road budget overspent in pickering late frank atkinson farmed at ringwood for twenty years the service was conducted from the oneill funeral home stouffville on sunday after noon sept 5th for the late frank atkinson rr2 mark- ham who passed away peace fully at his home in ringwood on sept 3rd he was in his 85th year born in north toronto he operated the farm that is the present madsen property no 7 hwy near unionville for a period of five years he moved to ringwood in 1945 he is survived by his wife the former helen mckenzie one daughter janet mrs w cockwell of toronto and a granddaughter sandra rev douglas davis conduct ed the service assisted by rev barry jones interment was made in orono cemetery dur ham county the pallbearers were fred steckley stewart vague douglas parsons her man terry and james ridge- way deputyreeve mrs jean mc pherson expressed alarm on monday night concerning the financial state of the 1965 pick ering twp road budget that she i claimed had been overspent by 15000 including subsidies she said she learned of the problem at a road committee meeting last week the deputyreeve is the chairman mrs mcpherson expressed shock at the costs of some indi vidual projects including a road construction project at fairport beach that was esti mated at 44000 and had ex ceeded 130000 as the chair man i will get the blame but i knew nothing about it she said i give no orders i just take the complaints with reference to the over- expediture of 130000 council lor wm newman charged that all members should have been informed if a road program is set up but not followed it causes a great deal of discon tent he said councillor harvey spang suggested that some deficit had occurred in the construction of a bridge on the 7th concession dedicate new church addition want students to attend int plowing match the trustee board of mark- ham twp school area no 2 has suggested to council that friday oct 15th be declared a holiday so that all children might attend the international plowing match at the massey- ferguson farms clerk harry crisp informed the members that such a bylaw would cover all schools in the township and could not be restricted to one area deputyreeve stewart rum ble objected to the request claiming that the municipality would lose the government grant for attendance for an entire day at every school a final decision was left over until the next meeting solicitor resigns solicitor doug lucas has withdrawn his services from the twp of markham and his decision was revealed at a meeting of council on monday a bylaw was passed appoint ing mr paul mingay of mark ham to fill the vacancy the clerk was asked to forward a letter of appreciation to mr lucas for past formed barring any unforseen change in plans construction work on a new floodcontrol dam to be located north of main street in stouffville on a branch of duffin creek will begin next year this information was contained in a letter to the clerk from dr e f sutter asst director of operations of the metro toronto and region conservation authority and read to council at a regular meeting on thursday night it was revealed however that no provision had yet been made to proceed with lownstream channel improvements or the acquisition of flood plain land the official stated that this phase of the program would ultimately be carried out as part of the overall flood control scheme on a recorded vote of 4 to 1 it was agreed to renew the application for a period of 1 year and retain the land bordering on the stream as a greenbelt zone councillor ken betz was opposed built a house on the lot or sold it but i decided to remain with the others he said he said that he was aware of the pend ing freezing order before it became law i dont feel that the conservation authority will be in any financial position for years to purchase further pro perty he said awkward position deputyreeve ken laush- way agreed that councillor betz had been placed in an awkward position he felt that when the program moves ahead a fair price would be paid for the land the conservation auth ority has never been known to steal land he said he pointed out that the flood control scheme would be of great over all benefit to the town no good planning board should allow building on that land regardless of who owns it he said councillor wm parsons pointed to the towns problem on fairview avenue and term ed it a 20000 mistake reeve win timbers suggest ed that once the floodcontrol project is completed property values in the affected area would likely increase suggest increase in salary for 1965 town council members overtime buildup in town road dept concerns council councillor ken beta councillor betz in defending his negative stand on the issue agreed that he was affected personally because he owned property in the greenbelt zoned area he noted however that other local taxpayers were also involved and had earlier voiced their opposition at the munici pal board hearing i could have taken advantage of my position on council and either with almost four months still to go in the current year three employees with the town road department have rolled up an overtime total of five weeks the thought that this practice might be continued prompted a lengthy discussion with fore man elgin wagg at a meeting on thursday night councillor wm parsons chairman of the road commit tee suggested that a more accurrate time schedule should be set up to prevent a recurr ence of the problem foreman elgin wagg ex plained that the overtime buildup had resulted mainly from weekend work and due to several important projects it was difficult to let any of the men off you cant go merrily along accumulating time like this said councillor parsons it snowballs deputyreeve ken laush- way suggested that the over time figure had been allowed to build up too high the foreman agreed to work out a system that would allow the men time off when major projects were not pressing hope h s addition finished by oct 1st 545 students attend town councillor wm par sons is of the opinion that both he and his fellow members are grossly underpaid for the ser vices they perform at a meet ing on thursday night he argued in favour of an in crease and was supported by the deputyreeve ken laush- way councillor parsons who at tended a recent convention of the ontario municipal associa tion said that by comparison with municipalities of similar size the stipend here was con siderably lower the council lors receive 300 per year the reeve is paid 700 the amount has not been changed since 1956 mr parsons suggested thri a special meeting should be held to discuss the salary question more fully make move now deputyreeve laushway said that it would be unfair to impose the increase in 1966 after a new council had been elected for another twojesr term we should pass the raise prior to nominations he said i feel that it is up to this council to decide agreed mr parsons a speaker from the floor services per- i suggested that such a move could affect incumbent candi dates adversely at the polls perhaps some o the mem bers have been on council long enough anyway replied the deputyreeve he said that in markham village the reeve received 1200 more than the total remuneration paid to the entire stouffville council councillor parsons suggested that an increase might induce other residents in town to run for office stouffville is not always going to have local businessmen on council who can run at any minute of any hour to look after town affairs he said must change clerk ralph corner noted that it was unfair to expect members of council to act as supervisors on town jobs things are going to change he said they have to change councillor ken betz slid that on the firchall project alone continued on page 10 for the next three weeks at 1 there least staff members and some grade 9 grade 9 students of the stouff ville dist high school will be required to attend classes in rather makeshift quarters a tworoom addition for grade 9 occupations is still under con struction it is hoped that the work may be completed by oct 1st the wing located at the east end of the main school struc ture will accommodate those local students who previously had been transported by bus to uxbridge in the meantime they will utilize both the home economic and shop rooms in addition to space on the two stages in the auditorium the total enrollment as of sept 7th had reached 545 an increase of 60 over the same period last year when 485 were registered are 180 students in but this number is divided into three divisions 84 in the 5year arts and science course 73 in business and com mence and 23 in occupations grade 10 has an enrollment of 135 with 96 in arts and science and 39 in business and com merce grade 11 has 70 in the 5year course and 22 in busi ness and commerce there are 73 in the 5year grade 12 course and 13 in special commercial fiftytwo students are enroll ed in grade 13 including the principal mr w e duxbury there are 28 on the teaching staff the only new member not previously listed is mr j k poulton who will teach mathematics mr r l mercer who com pleted a special summer course at western university london is the schools new vie princl- i pal recommend radar for town police department deputyreeve ken laush way has recommended that the stouffville police dept be equipped with a radar speed device that will tend to slow down errant drivers and pro duce convictions on charges taken to court the matter was discussed briefly by council on thursday night and the clerk was asked to obtain information on wheth er such equipment could be acquired on a rental basis for the remainder of this year the purchase price was estimated at about 1400 the deputyreeve said that by chasing a speeder in the crusier the police were not only endangering their own lives but the lives of other people they cant stand on the street and tell some lad hes going 50 or 60 and then prove it he said their hands are tied councillor bud spang chair man of the police committee agreed that the sooner the radar equipment is obtained the better reeve win timbers suggest ed that allowance could be made in the police budget of 1966 to cover the purchase price consider radar for town police fire destroys morgan house in markham village visiting pastor rev quinton 1 kverest of south bend indiana vs officiated on sunday afternoon at a dedication service to mark the completion ot a new front addition on the united missionary church at dickson hill staff photo the morgan house a main street landmark in markham was almost totally destroyed by fire on tuesday morning the blaze was first noticed by a truck driver who broke down the front door believing that someone might be trapped in side the residence oncc a home for retired presbyterian church ministers has been va cant for the past three years village brigade members bat tled the flames more than two hours and although the dam age was confined mainly to the top floor and roof the building will likely be torn down the property has been sold now for several weeks n spite of the hour the blaze attracted many viewers one observer reported hearing an explosion but this has not been confirmed fire chief chuck hoover said that the house was not hooked up to i hydro and the cause has not been determined there was some problem in locating the owner of the premises built in 181 1 the house was built in about the year 1844 by wm morgan sr on a lot he purchased from wm robson for 100 both he and his three sons thomas william jr and george were prominent village blacksmiths specializing in the building of carriages and the famous mor gan cultivator it was retained in the morgan family until 1929 when according to the will of the late mary morgan it was left to the presbyterian church of canada when the ufc for which it was intended no longer remained practical a clause in the will was orniucd and the property was later sold markham historian john lu- nau retains the original deed stouftville council will attempt to acquire a radar unit for the town police department possibly on a rental basis for the remainder of the year it would be similar to the one purchased recently in markham villake and shown here the cost is about 1400 and may be included in next years budget staff photo