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im this issue 1 all the news it festival of christmas iyhitchiiihii bridge v lipickerln of all 4 townships r- yol 78 no 30 stoufrllemarkhamuxbridge ont thurs december 22 1966 10 cents sales value assessment is opposed by farmers blue book outdated andorf any plan at cither the county or provincial level of government to impose an assessment scale of rales on faun properties based on speculative land values will be hotly opposed by rural ratepayers in the township of whit church this feeling was indicated last week when an estimated 125 farmers including some from markham and vaughan attended a meeting in the vandorf hall the chief organizer was cxreeve george richardson he served as chairman not for farming assessment commission er donald wright of york county said that ac cording to the provincial manual farm land should be assessed at actual val ue he admitted how ever that it was difficult to acquire a legitimate sales priceon land to be used for farming purposes only since most agricultur al properties were being bought on speculation or other forms of develop ment he stated that the complete reassessment in the county should be com pleted by 1968 and become effective on the 1969 taxes he said that farm lands had been left to last now outdated merlyn baker wcll- jcnown stouffville district farmer held aloft the blue book or county manual but mr wright termed it outdated and likely soon to be replaced by a revised edition exasperated groans were heard through theaudience mr wright argued that by increasing assessments mill rates should be low ered he declined to ac cept the charge that cx- horbitant tax increases would drive the farmer from his land it was obvi ous that many of those present were not so confi dent reeve stewart rumble of markham township markham tsa 2 i still needs rooms i george richardson contended that the pro posed revision spelled trouble for the farmer reeve jim murray of aurora said he had op posed the reassessment plan at the county level in view of what i have heard here tonight my fears were wellfounded lawrence hennessey gormley rr 1 stated that the farmer couldnt hope to survive if assessed on actual land values reeve ross farquharson of whitchurch agreed that county council should re consider the bylaw he rcc- ommencded that the as sessment manual be adopt ed but its amendments be referred to county repre sentatives for further study the tradition of christmas house on wheels dicksons hill lack of student accom modation continues to pose a serious problem for the trustees in mark ham township school area 2 the twelveroom park view school at unionville had not been completed when work was started on an sroom addition at the same site now the board is asking the department of education for approval of eight new rooms and a library at dicksons hill a general purpose room may also be included de pending on cost and archi tects recommendations the extra space will be re- carpet singed council burns pickering mem bers of pickering town ship council are all burned up over the con dition of the rich red broadloom carpet in the new municipal building its full of holes and the damage has been blamed on careless cigarette smok ers reeve clifford laycox said he was sure that the problem was created by persons who sit in ihe chambers on court days a claim to cover the cost will be submitted lo the pickering township police commission by order of the fire marshalls department smoking is prohibited in that area of the building it is alleged that smoking docs occur during court recess periods quired by september 1967 trustee eldrcd king questioned whether the addition at dicksons hill was a practical move he said that population growth might require ac commodation elsewhere trustee mildred too- good said that in an emer gency temporary space could be acquired in schools in markham area 1 true bill n assault victoria square a seven man grand jury has returned a true bill in an assault and kidnap case august 9 and three men will face trial by judge and jury in the spring tha hearing was held in torow to dec 13 i charged by markham township police are two brothers arthur and roy marinoff of richmond hill and wayne gates of toron to it is alleged that they attacked dayton winston platten in a barn on 18th avenue markham and stuffed him in the trunk of a car with a threat to bury him the victim escaped in gormley by prying loose the trunk lid with a car jack he ran into ihe gormley garage and police were called sgt donald dukes made the arrest the case is in charge of detective clif ford cox malak ftd windshield frosted driver is charged stouffville a stouffville man involved in a twocar accident dec 12 has been charged un der a new section of the highway traffic act ac cording to police ernest roberts flm road could nol properly sec the road due to a frosted wind shield the roberts car clash ed inlo the rear of an auto driven by donald charles herbert stoiiftville rr 2 the collision occurred on main street west in stouffville three persons were injured and damage totalled 550 the sec l ion of the traf fic act reads no person shall drive a motor vehicle upon a highway unless the windshield and other win dows on cither side of the steering compartment arc in such a condition as to afford the driver a clear view of the front and side of the motor vehicle and unless the rear window is in such condition as to af ford the driver a clear view of the rear of the motor vehicle abortion charge uxbridge a 58 year old uxbridge man has been charged by uxbridge police with abortion ernest tcrrill brock street appeared in whitby court dec 19 and was re leased on 3000 bail the girl whose name was not revealed is 22 pc roy aldworth is in charge of the case basement is flooded stouffville for the second lime in less fhan a week the finished recreation room in the home of mrs harold mor- den tenth line south has been flooded to a depth of more than six inches the backup occurred due to a breakdown at the sewer line pumping sta tion located not far from the morden residence the problem was discussed at meeting of council thursday night we just cant have this kind of thing going on stated reeve ken laush- way our inspection sys tem must be improved mr laushway recommend ed that a red warning light be installed at the siation site to indicate any future trouble stouffville wtih memories of a 90ton house in the middle of main street still clear in the minds of stouffville councillors members took action thursday night to insure that similar prob lems might not occur again before the former dani els building on civic street is transported to claremont a 200 bond payment will be required in addition the building inspector henry ogdcn will be asked to inspect the structure before it is shifted from the site po lice chief orland keating suggested that with the proper equipment ihe job could be done in two hours he recommended a lime between 11 pm and 6 am mr keating said that the mover planned lo take ihe roof off the house to ease passage un der hydro lines the building has been sold to extend offstreet parking facilities at ihe rear of ihe proposed new iga foodlincr store lo be built bv glenn ratcliff convict driver n death crash cd in the crash mrs wal lace was critically hurl magistrate j w jcrmyn said the manner of driv ing was the matter before the court not the conse quences unemployed al present marshman was given one month to pay the fine j liea firm buys 40000 main street business block banks open stouffville as a service lo customers both the imperial bank of com merce and ihe bank of nova scotia will be open for business on saturday morning from 9 am to 12 noon stouffville the everexpanding firm of thos nf shea real estate limited has purchased a section of a main street business block in stouff- ille for a price reported to be close to 40000 the new shea office will be lo cated in the premises for merly occupied by hod- gins grocery stoic and renovations arc already underway the sale also includes the offices of bir- kett insurance wm g parsons and shea realtors in addition to aparment quarters above sketch plaxs architects yamazaki and grcig of scarboro have completed sketch plans of the rcdesigned exterior the same firm designed the modern shea office at maikham and the addition to frank lin public school con tracts have already been let lo ross heiherington electric grant thompson plumbing and healing and lloyd coxworth construc tion a stucco front is planned the new shea office in slouffville will be completed in february the manager is peter wal- ley with a staff of six utmost confidence we have the utmost confidence in lhc commu nity said mr shea ex cluding markham the slouffville office is the most productive in the shea chain completing sales of over 2000000 an nually other quarters arc established at pickering uxbridge and agincourt a fifth office will be opened in mount albert in the spring staff employees now total 40 salesmen stouffville a charge of dangerous driv ing laid against a stouff ville youth following an accident has resulted in a fine of 100 and a three month suspension of his licence uavid marshman 19 was the driver of a car which collided headon with one driven by mrs william wallace o allona april 23 mrs luclla bcarc of claremont a passenger died from injuries rccciv- lots sell for 11000 markham clerk- howard graham of mark ham village can recall when one could build two homes for the price of a single lot the tribune learned fhis week that lot sites in the new sherwood esiatcs subdivision south of hvvy no 7 are selling from 8500 lo 11000 thii ly of these have been sold by thos n shea real estate of markham part of an cnlire business block on main street west in stnuftville has been old shea real estate company purchased the property that includes three offices one store and adjoining upstairs apartments tribune late stouffville due lo ihe holidav on mon day dec 26thc trib une will be one day laic next week it will tome out on thursday ralhcr than wednesday the purchase price was aboy 510000 stall photo gzisssz metro officer honored stouffville p c william bill corner son of mr and mrs ralph cor ner william street stouff ville was he recipient of the pen trophy friday evening at graduation ex ercises of the metropolitan toronto police college p c corner now a third class constable was pre sented with the award by magistrate c o bick chairman of the metropoli tan toronto board of po lice commissioners he completed his college course with honor standing of 935 percent ralph corner town clerk and ad ministrator attended the ceremony in addition to the tro phy constable corner also received his graduation diploma from chief of po lice james p mackcy there were 36 graduates in iht class