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news whitchurch i uxbridge markham i pickering 1 of all 4 townships i largest weekly markham stouffville uxbridge 1 in the district vol 78 no 44 stouffvillemarkhamuxbridge ont thurs march 30 1967 10 cents taxes up 13 mill education total 46 mrs sarah munn and five children of buttonville packed up their meager belongings and left their rented home on saturday after accommodation was found by the ontario housing corporation in rexdale mrs munn a welfare recipient in markham township for several months was advanced the necessary money required by the ohc before she could move into her new quarters staff photo ieqins new life buttonville sat urday was moving day for mrs sarah munn 34 of buttonville and her family of five they left their rented lis storey frame home on the don mills road to take up residence in a rexdale development prepared by the ontario housing cor poration the mother the subject of much press publicity within the past two weeks had been keeping her chil dren aged 4 to 15 years on welfare payments of 219 per month plus baby bonus receipts her house rent was 50 per month mrs munn told the tribune that welfare of ficer dr fred mulholland of markham township had approved an april pre payment so she could meet the financial requirement to move friends and fami ly relatives helped her pack assisted by daughter jean 15 and son wayne 12 other children include denyse 9 colleen 7 and lynn 4 mrs munn was steadily employed but had to leave her job when the school attendance officer com plained that the family was missing the bus in the morning her husband lives in toronto mrs munn complained that at times the house was so cold that she had to move in with a friend at unionville on another oc casion she said that they all slept on a single couch in the living room there was no running water no bathroom and no tele phone service broken windows had been replac ed by plastic and a single oil stove provided all the heat 1 be catches arm in wringer goodwood two year old johnny fintle- man son of mr and mrs dick fintleman rr 1 goodwood suffered a bad ly bruised arm tuesday when he was caught up in the wringer of the family washing machine no bones were broken stouffville on saturday april 22 stouff ville will crown its centen nial queen that is if there are any queens to crown to date there have been only four entries and time is running out on the evening proceed ing the pageant only the committee and judges will be present the five fina lists will be selected but their identity will not be revealed until the salur- day show the talent re quirement is open if you know of a single girl residing within the 640 telephone exchange who might be willing to as sume this position of hon or submit her application to mrs bruce burton stouffivlle rr 4 organi zations and service clubs may also file individual entries the master of ceremo nies is the wellknown television personality wal- ly koster boy killed stouffville a two year old stouffville boy died in scarboro general hospital tuesday night four hours after he was struck by a car on main street dwayne jollymore son of mr and mrs richard jollymore 34 burkholder street ran onto the high way into the path of an auto driven by arnold har per of stouffville the family had moved to town only recently liv ing in a new home east of russell street flag day waived stouffville the origin of canadas new maple leaf flag isnt of such significance that it warrants a nationwide holiday to commemorate the occasion that was the feeling of the senior mem bers of stouffville coun cil thursday night and a deadlocked vote on the is sue sent the motion down to defeat the township of ancast- cr is asking the support of all municipalities in a pe tition to the federal gov crnment to have february 15 made a canadian flag holiday the holiday would come on the monday clos est to that date while councillors jim mckcllar and tom loncr- gan voted in favor of the resolution reeve ken laushway and deputy- reeve bill parsons were opposed councillor lewis who could have swung the vote in favor of the flag- wavers was late in arriv ing and missed the poll councillor loncrgan termed the date a true canadian day while coun cillor mckellar called it historic there soon wont be any working days left commented the reeve dep utyreeve parsons said he wasnt too keen on the flag and even less interest ed in a holiday the month of february is short enough now reeve laushway said that if any member felt strongly enough about the issue he could reintro duce the subject at a later time riiune fmside siory stouffville the owner of an average ypc home in stouffville will pay about 55 more jn his 1967 tax bill education costs which will consume 46 percent of the total budget have been blamed for much of the increase public school supporters will pay 9845 mills residential up from 8489 in 66 the commercial rate is 10745 an increase of 1605 mills separate school supporters will face an in crease of 1336 mills residential and 1583 mills commercial in a graph prepared by the clerk it was noted y members of council that since 1962 education costs had increased by 1 7 mills while expenditures for village purposes had gone up only 1 mill fed with silver spoons dcputyrccvc bill parsons charged that taxa tion on real estate for education purposes had reached the saturation point if we must feed our children with silver spoons then a new basis for taxation is required he called for all municipal councils to join together in a mass protest before both the provincial and federal governments the school boards arc all elected but you never hear of them petitioning the governments why not questioned reeve ken laushway because we are the tax collectors and arc more conscious of tax costs replied mr parsons councillor tom loncrgan said that from what he could learn the province was opposed to any further subsidization of education- reeve laushway noted that it was unfair to criticize the school board too harshly their hands arc tied he observed however that the council was attempting to provide the taxpayer with such services as sewage police and fire pro tection roads and sidewalk construction and main tenance for about 40 cents a day on a 4000 as sessment the price of a package of cigarettes said councillor loncrgan the deputyrreeve warned that in 1967 more than ever the council would have to watch- its expenses very closely to keep within its estimated budget centennial judo champion hilyard manuel north markham holds the centennial trophy he won in a judo tournament held at hamilton now a green belt graduate he belongs to the 40member judo club promoted by lome schell of stouffville training sessions are held twiceweekly at 112 lloyd avenue staff photo breakdown of budget required mill rate percentage county 7527320 158 159 public school 1 1901670 25 res 2597 278 comm 2597 sep school 343887 265 res 294 comm high school 9427973 193 res 199 214 comm welfare 140000 3 3 library 500000 105 10 parks 350000 73 7 sewers 7566145 1654 160 general 9393115 196 res 199 237 comm 47150110 total 100 cenotaph fund 3352 markham with some funds still outstand ing president thos n shea of the markham ki- wanis club reports that the cenotaph account with all expenses paid now to tals s335200 ticket sales for the ceno taph banquet and dona tions received amounted to 676000 several pro mised donations arc still to be presented the cenotaph to be com pleted by miss rebecca sissler formerly of union ville will be erected near the entrance of mark- hams new centennial pub lic library the guest speaker for the banquet occasion rear admiral landymore paid his own air fare and hotel expenses at his request the management of the inn on the park provided the admirals suite with out charge appointment to planning board stouffville in an effort to keep in closer contact with residential development trends in stouffville the public school board has asked the council to appoint one of its members to the planning board the recommendation in the form of a motion was received by the clerk and discussed briefly thursday night although there was some question concerning the legality of such an appoint ment the council felt that if permissable it should be arranged it couldnt occur until 1968 clerk ralph corner said that in the meantime a board member would be welcome to sit in on all meetings ke agreed io send the secretary a formal notice each month deputyreeve bill par sons said that trustee john mcmurray had expressed a willingness to attend pinned under tractor more than two hours goodwood a good wood district farmer was pinned for 2m hours un der his tractor last week when his leg became wedg ed under the rear wheel ivan norton cone 4 uxbridge was rescued by his father who went back into the field to find out what had happened mr norton said that the tractor accidentally slip ped into gear and he be lieves that the wheel chains caught his pant leg and threw him to the ground soft snow eased the pressure but he suf fered two broken ribs the accident occurred at 430 pm and he wasnt released until after seven heart attack victim discovered by police recreation director could be costly tfcjt etr hjt i liktr theyll remember lbj2 wwr capital cost forccast3 lssf sunrise service 4 mttsi vandorf players 5 s c i a top on skates clarcmont of old 6 with a swish of her pijtails and a swirl of her dclccatc to u v 10 s 9 j d brodie glad park avenue stouffville goes iiito one of her famous spins during classified p13 a precarnival practice in the stouffville arena the camera was able lo stop the action at a shutter speed clarcmont champs 16 oi a seond the annual ice re 7 and s stan photo stouffville a full- time recreation director for stouffville during the 1967 summer season could prove too costly according to wage figures received by reeve ken laushway he told a meeting of coun cil thursday night that he had been in touch with two applicants and tbeir salary scale ranged from 580 to 100 per week both arc students at the university of guclph reeve laushway noted that the program could cost about 1500 dcputyrccvc bill par sons expressed opposition u e plan its a poor year to start with so ma ny centennial celebrations going on most people are already organized mr laushway suggested that inadequate use was being made of the facili ties in the park he felt that if one person could set up a sports program there would be many wil ling workers to help he agreed to continue negoti ations with the original ap plicants councillor bob lewis said he had approached a man in willowdalc who could possibly fill the posi tion on weekends at a much reduced rate he said he would be pleased to have him attend a meet ing next month crowd tremendous at pegg farm sale claremont a crowd described by auc tioneer alvin farmer as tremendous attended the sale on the farm of milton pegg rr 2 clarcmont saturday afternoon a feature attraction on the grounds was maple leaf defence star bobby baun new owner of the pegg property he pur chased several items i recognized him as soon as he placed his first bid said mr farmer and everyone else did too three tractors brought 3 600 with the newest a john deere sel ling for 1750 a power seed drill brought 760 a hay oaler 650 a side de livery rake 250 and a bulk milk cooler 525 the highest grade hol- stcin cow sold for 340 with a s250 average two year old bred heifers brought 315 each auctioneer farmer team ed up with gordon orr and the sale was complet ed in less than four hours stouffville a timely house check by a stouffville police officer sunday has been credited with saving the life of a 79 year old stouffville man who had suffered a heart attack william levi linton main street east and for merly of clarcmont was discovered slumped in a living room chair by pc david haddcn the const able summoned the fire department and chief wal ter smith and george wil son responded immediate ly with the resuscitator dr g a graham provided further treatment and he was taken by vance ambu lance to york county hos pital at newmarket mr linton and his daughter jean had been absent from their home for a time and had asked the police department to check it daily unknown to constable hadden they had returned home so the officer was continuing this service he found the front door unlocked and decided to check inside it was then that he found mr linton in a semiconscious condition dr graham said that the victim would have been beyond help if left alone much longer student honored stouffville don na ratcliff daughter of mr and mrs don ratcliff stouffville rr 4 has been named to the deans list for the fall term at john brown university siloam springs arkansas to achieve this honor a student must have a b grade point average or better donna is a gradu ate of stouffville district high school fund still needs your help stouffville although the civic square fund has reached a point where ultimate completion can be assured your help and participation as a stouffville citizen is still needed if you have not already contribut ed demolition work on the old firehall building should be completed in a week preparatory to the major con tract civic square fund previous total 1130000 helen abcll 2s00 s d borins 5000 walter beach son 1000 fred crosscn 5000 rcnnic transport 10000 robt c lewis 100 1153600