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5100 copies this week vol 77 no 23 ritntne classified ads on pages 6 and 7 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday november 11 1965 sixteen pages schools out for good twentysix students left the 1room cedar creek school near claremont on friday after noon likely never to return the board closed the building last week following the resignation of the teacher debbie graham 12 a grade 7 pupil leaves the structure for a last time staff photo teacher resigns bd closes cedar creek ps cedar creek one week ago 26 boys and girls were attending classes as usual in their little oneroom red brick schoolhouse at cedar creek two miles east of claremont today the teacher is gone the school is empty and the stu dents are separated part in claremont and part at green wood it was an emergency situation and the area 1 board of pick ering twp reacted immediate ly the teacher mrs h f von herzenberg su bmitted her resignation on monday nov 1st it was expected that she would remain for the week but she left on tuesday a supply teacher took over on wednes day and the school was closed on friday grades 6 and 7 are now attending at claremont the remainder are at green wood built in 1915 the no 14 school at cedar creek was erected in 1945 it is the third to serve the com munity in more than 100 years and was considered by the board to be one of the better oneroom buildings in the area chairman donald gibson told the tribune that the board had no intentions of closing the school but the teachers resign ation left no alternative we were left high and dry he said as the 26 children trudged out of the building on friday likely forever a lone composi tion paperremained behind oi the teachers desk it was writ ten by kenneth oblenes and entitled farewell to the little red schoolhouse the one heading summed up pages of history 15000 factory damage owner praises firemen markham firemen who responded to a call wednesday evening were praised by mr tony assinck for their efforts in containing a blaze that broke out in the assinck bros plant mr assinck told the tri bune that had it not been for markham fire departments determined efforts his plant would have been destroyed as it was the blaze did an estimated 15000 damage al though it was held to one sec tion of the shop machinery and wiring were badly burned stall ing operations for about four days it is believed the fire started from a spark from a welders torch although this has not been confirmed the flames quickly spread through the rubber and paints located in the area mr assinck said that he heard the fire siren go and followed about five minutes later he didnt know where the fire was until he arrived at his own plant when i got there the flames were under control he said the firemen did a terrific job markham township fire de partment also answered the call e twp nominations on nov 17 goodwood the nomina tion meeting to select candi dates to serve on the uxbridge twp council and school area board for a twoyear term will be held in the township hall at goodwood on wednesday even ing nov 17th an election if necessary will follow on mon day dec 6th names will be received be tween the hour of 7 and 8 pm for the offices of reeve deputy- reeve three councillors and five school board members it is likely that all present officeholders will seek re election including reeve alvin redshaw deputyreeve robt nesbitt councillors chas for- sythe terrence akerman arthur knight and trustees peter barnhardt mrs margaret murray gordon kydd harry harper and harry noble school board members to commencing in december of this year members of the stouffville public school board will receive a monthly wage rate of 20 the figure was finalized at a regular meeting of the trustees last week the remuneration will carry on through 1966 the fee will be paid only to those members who are in attendance and deducted auto matically if absent up to now the board has donated its ser vices to the town without charge a decision on plans for an addition to the orchard park school will likely be finalized at a meeting of the board in december the inspector is checking into student enroll ment figures and will submit a recommendation on future accommodation needs blackout lasts 2v hours in town stouffville the fire place was the homeowners best friend on tuesday night as the widespread hydro black out darkened the town for about 2 hours the lights went out here at 517 pm and didnt come on again until 755 it wa all part of a mass disruption that ex tended over all of ontario and many parts of the united states the junior hockey game in the arena went off on schedule but lew people attended you couldnt buy a cup of coffee in town for 10 and one restaur ant closed its doors the fire truck was called out to the westlawn crescent pumping station when flooding was fear ed but nothing serious develop ed the council meeting at vandorf in whitchurch twp was cancelled and dozens of farmers cither completed their milching at a late hour or re verted back to manual labour district police departments re- i ported no unusual incidents but i many enquiries were received will not stand stouffville councillor bud spang has announced that lie will not stand for re election for another two- year term in three elections he licadcl the polls every time mr spangs intentions were revealed this week heart attack fatal to skater 58 markham a 58 year old woman suffered a heart attack and died while skating at the markham arena on saturday night mrs george henry johnson of 19 elmer avenue toronto failed to respond to mouth-to- mouth resuscitation she was pronounced dead by coroner dr john fleming mrs harold grove markham rr2 and a friend of the fam ily worked over the woman until dr jas scott of the mark ham medical centre arrived it was the seasons first adult only skating night with an estimated 200 persons present it was reported that the vic tim had complained earlier of not feeling well but after a short rest she returned to the ice the nhl oldtimers will return to the markham arena on friday evening nov 26th all proceeds will be used in the promotion of minor hockey in the community omb hearing vandorf an application filed by mr patrick cashman of musselmans lake tor a pub lic hearing on the division of whitchurch twp into wards has been approved by the on tario municipal board the date of the hearing has ben set for thursday dec 9th at 10 am in the council cham bers at vandorf xll persons either supporting or in opposition to the applica tion are asked to attend mr cashman who will con test a seat on the whitchurch council dec 6th has been a strong advocate of representa tion by wards i ihink it is impossible for a councillor to give full representation to all the people in the entire town ship he said in may of this year mr cashman recommended that the council make the move to establish a ward system in whitchurch and supported his request with a 180 name peti tion it was rejected by the council at that time addison holds york north 57 liberal majority here reelected liberal john addison was reelected in york north on monday defeating his closest opponent conservative don ald mnrtyn by 1660 votes a turnout at the polls of 75 was recorded in april 1963 liberal john addison retained his scat in the ork north riding with a convincing 7000 vote majority over his closest opponent charles hooper progressive conservative on monday mr addison successfully defended his office once again but this time his margin of victory was considerably closer his majority was reduced to 1660 over the pc candidate donald martyn including the advance poll mr addison counted 18605 to 16945 for mr martyn james norton the ndp standardbearer also fared amazingly well with a total vote count of 10340 here in stouffville mr addison squeezed out a margin of only 57 over mr martyn in 1963 his lead here was 187 all three candidates waged strong campaigns throughout the entire riding meeting hundreds of peo ple during the past six weeks the vote in stouffville twentytwo honour graduates receive diplomas friday addison martyn norton liberal pc ndp masonic hall 109 82 32 mansion housr 101 89 33 davis store 81 57 15 cadieux studio 56 89 36 murphy res 65 70 34 smith res 55 63 33 municipal office 115 88 33 summitvicw school 81 68 32 663 606 247 town pool in red by 1040 council to assume 78355 served 8 years mrs lorna button a mem ber of the stoultvillc public school board for the past 8 years will not stand for re election for another term nominations will be held on nov 25th hearing nov 12 the ontario municipal board hearing on stouffvilles con troversial gieenbelt bylaw will be held on friday morning nov 12th at 11 am thirteen property owners had previously filed objections to the freezing of land located in the area of the stream that flows through the centre of town mr louis schcll of toronto is spending a few days with his sister mrs lloyd moyer and family on church st stouffville stouffville the oper ation of the towns swimming pool fell 1040 in the red this summer according to informa tion revealed at a meeting of council on thursday night in a previous arrangement be tween the council and the lions club it was agreed that the town should assume all main tenance costs which this year amounts to 78355 the lions organization will cover the remaining 25700 pool manager a h williams came in for some criticism from deputyreeve ken laushway who charged that approval on certain expenditures had never been requested or granted he said that the painting of the pool property alone had cost 261 an amount well in excess of the budget estimate we shouldnt hand a man a blank cheque to do as he likes with all summer he said he explained that some members of the lions swimming pool committee were not happy over the situation councillor ken betz an authority on pool construction and maintenance termed the painting bill as rather high if they- did all they said they did then they were well paid he said he said that as com mittee chairman next year he planned to assume more con trol he informed the members that he had provided the pool with a new diving board at cost for the sum of 120 im involved in two nonprofit organizations he said with reference to the pool painting program reeve win timbers stated that one em ployee had been paid 175 per hotir while another received 150 certain procedures were not followed but we cant do any thing about is now said the deputyreeve reeve timbers agreed that the lions club had done much for the town and everyone appreciated their work it was unanimously agreed that the maintenance account of 78355 should be paid in coma stouffville mrs rus sell forfar stouffville rr2 remains in a coma in the york county hospital at newmarket and her condition has shown little change in the past 72 hours she became ill about six months ago and her health deteriorated rapidly in spite of medical treatment and tests she entered hospital in october the trouble has been traced to a liver ailment and her condi tion on tuesday was described as serious there are three small children in the forfar family her many friends arc anxiously awaiting news of some sign of improvement claim omplaints in whitchurch township brought on by dogs vandorf the twp of whit church is still lacking the serv ices of a canine control officer and roving dogs in the munici pality appear to be taking ad vantage of the situation it had been hoped that a joint program could be estab lished with several towns and townships but as of last week nothing definite had been fina lized it was reported that claims for sheep either killed or in- jurri r r- ie increase in ad- diu er of complaint concerning the dog problem was submitted to council by a resident ratepayer overtime work a police report for the month of october submitted by chief fred mason showed that 316 m hours overtime had been worked by member of the force in september the figure was 209 hours the department was extreme ly busy with 27 accidents that claimed one iifc and injured 13 others complaints investigated totalled 218 haliburfon here haliburton will be the jun ior hockey visitors in the stouffville arena on tuesday night nov 16th at 830 pm stouffville twenty- two students will receive their honour graduation diplomas at the stouffville dist high school commencement exer cises on friday night they are nancy anderson mark bram- ham beverly carrington bar bara davison frances farr mary foote garry gall kath- ryn hall patricia harwood barbara howard r o s a 1 y n kreick brian mcgee ronald patrick john riddle joyce rose anna mae sanders norma jean sandiford ingrid schnell elenor shirk barbara smith ronald smurthwaite and marian yusko individual honours will go to elenor shirk and barbara howard they have been awarded 400 ontario scholar ships miss howard is the vale dictorian the guest speaker for the evening is mr a p gordon registrar at the university of waterloo the principal mr w e duxbury and the chair man of the board mr m c baker will also address the audience in addition to presentations of academic awards musical selections will be rendered by the grade 9 choir the school glee club and the high school orchestra diploma presentation to grade 8 graduates stouffville for the first time student graduates from both summitview and orchard park schools have been recognized through the presen tation of individual diplomas fortyseven girls and boys were honoured on friday even ing at a banquet sponsored by the home and school associa tion the president is mrs h g adams principals lome boadway and keith sutherland took part in the presentations assisted by two members of the board chairman t e topping and vice chairman mrs lorna button the guest speaker for the occasion was mr j b daniels personnel manager of chese- brough ponds ltd markham he stressed the importance of a high school and university edur cation and compared company salary scales with academio achievements industry is looking for the best possible applicant to fill the positions available he said he noted that university graduates are much in demand and will re ceive from 100 to 125 per week to start he said that persons with lower degrees of education will receive a lower weekly wage and advancement of position will come mora slowly mr daniels was introduced by principal sutherland of orchard park and thanked by staff teacher wm kingsley town taxi driver fined loses licence 15 months stouffville taxi opera tor rae sargent victoria st stouffville had his drivers license suspended for fifteen months by magistrate o s hollinrake on tuesday when he was convicted on a charge of driving while impaired the accused was stopped on oct 17th by p c thomas matheson of markham village police after clocking the sar gent vehicle at 50 miles per hour in a 30 mile zone in addition to the licence suspension the driver was also fined 125 constable matheson testified that sargent staggered when he stepped from his car and had to be helped into the cruiser he said that his breath smelled strongly of alcohol and he failed a number of routine tests given by sgt wm vance a blood test recorded 33 parts alcohol mr sargent speaking in his own defence said that he was fighting a bad case of bronchi tis and was taking many assort ed kinds of drugs magistrate hollinrake said that lives of innocent citizens were in jeopardy as long as ha held a licence he was given two weeks to pay the fine mrs sylvia de heus of stouffville has joined the staff at the bank of nova scotia a quantity of straw and two wagons the property of nigh bros cone 7 markham were destroyed in a barn fire on sunday afternoon lay wreath at cenotaph followlnjr the remembrance day senice in the veterans memorial hall on sunday afternoon wreaths were laid at the cenotaph in the stouffville park jlrs otto tranmer br 2 stauffvllle lays her wreath representing the province of ontario staff photo