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i all the news whitchurch i uxbridge jviiarkham l pickering of all 4 townships w tliu largest weekly markham v stouffvhie uxbridge in the district i vol 79 no 14 stouffvillemarkhamuxbridgeont thursday aug 31 1967 10 cents start 5 million development homesapartmentscommercial s mrs mill storey and friends from toronto mrs delia morganson and mrs francis discuss the judges awards at the horticultural society flower show at the masonic hall last week stouffv1lle the largest housing de velopment ever contracted here is underway on the west side of town total cost of the development in cluding lands and services will be in excess of five million dollars j k beamish construction co began work on the new street contract last week and other con tracts have been awarded for sewers and water the land under development lies from main st north to include farm land north south and west of parkside home the development is being undertaken by rubin corporation wholly owned subsidiary of revenue properties and is building under cmhc financing included will be more than one hundred and thirty single family dwellings apartment houses and commercial development on the high way frontage this firm is also building in orangeville acton and fergus and a further subdivision is planned for guelph dicksons completion classrooms at dicksons hill school will be ready for occupancy at the opening of school wilfred morley ad ministrator said august 23 he said the contractor as sured him last wednesday morning that work on the school would be far enough advanced at the end of the week to permit plac ing of furniture with the addition of eight new rooms the school now has twelve classrooms plus a library jl and general purpose room an adequate water supply has been located within the past few days and the sep tic tank bed which also off ered problems has been in creased to specifications mr morley said both these services cost more than the budget calls for and funds will have to be arranged the septic tank bed will cost 11000 more than esti mated due to instructions from the health inspector elson miles property chair man told the board at the last meeting naturally the building will not be completely finished ihe administrator said last week and the grounds will not be cleaned up for some time but at the moment things look promising accommodation wise the board is in a much better position than it was last september when swing shifts were necessary be cause the parkview school was not ready for occupan- the board has been con cerned that such a situation should not arise this year fortunately the contractor on the dicksons hill school job belbee construction ltd is not a union firm and construction proceeded according to schedule the only holdup was the well and septic tank in this regard mr morley said tsa no 2 is much more fortunate than some neighbouring boards at markham village a new school which was to have been ready by september is in the early stage of con- continued on page 13 man killed in sunday crash record rain stouffville was the wet test place in the province on sunday according to the weather bureau which checks such things six in ches of rain fell here far and above anything else in this district or elsewhere some toronto suburbs did experience two inches cellars were flooded and crops flattened in nearby fields 2 die in plane crash stouffville two bulldozer opens new street school friends teachers honor orchard pl pupil stouffville the flowers within the oneill funeral home were most beautiful a silent but meaningful tribute to 13 year old nancy lee dan iels rupert avenue stouffville who passed away suddenly on thurs day in york county hos pital newmarket two of the floral offerings were from nancys classmates at orchard park public school another was from her neighbor and closet friend jill mcwhinnic nancy was an excellent student and although un able to write her examin ations in june due to ill health she was allowed to proceed into grade s through honor standing gained at christmas and easter she was a top- notch student in every way said principal keith sutherland she will be missed by everyone mr sutherland said that nan cy would undoubtedly have qualified for several academic awards in the coming school year and was in line for the coveted richardson pric she was a member on the executive of the orchard park stu dent council organized the first time in 196667 she loved to play the piano nancy was a polite friendly girl a fact that had even in a few short years gained her the re spect of adults and oung people alike in spite of nancy daniels her age she had served as a source of strong moral support for her mother since the passing of her father less than two years ago nancys death that came as a shock to the entire community was at tributed to a recurrence of an ailment that had neces sitated major surgery three months ago surviv ing besides her mother mrs dorothy daniels are two brothers bill and jim the funeral service that was largely attended was conducted by rev doug las davis on monday afternoon at 130 pm with interment in stouff ville cemetery the pall bearers were robert dan iels paul daniels wayne crowdcr wayne dyck ro nald tyte and wilfred si- bick gormley police firemen two truck and am bulance operators worked for twenty minutes at the scene of a twocar crash on don mills road sunday to free members of one fami ly pinned in their auto pronounced dead on ar rival at york central hospi- speared to death whitchurch town ship a 17 year old richmond hill youth was charged in newmarket ma gistrates court on monday with the noncapital mur der and manslaughter in the sunday night stabbing death of a toronto archi tect near his whitchurch township cottage taivo kapsi 31 who hel ped design torontos new city hall suffered a wound 10 inches deep and an inch wide that punctured his right lung and extended al most through his body whitchurch township police are holding a four foot sapling with one end sharpened to a point hut was found near the cottage robert david bcatty of elmwood avenue rich mond hill was remanded to friday on 5000 bail whitchurch police chief fred mason said that rob ert bcatty along with his brother allen 16 and two other youths gordon parks 17 palmer ave and john tolchard 17 es sex ave richmond hill had driven to an area near wilcox lake in a volkswa gen and a 1962 pontiac they had all switched to the volkswagen to go scrambling driving up steep hills he said mr kapsis friend john ferguson of forest hill road toronto who was vi siting the cottage told po lice he and mr kapsi had chased four youths who had driven an old volkswa gen on to the property from a back road the four ran into the woods surrounding the cot tage and he and mr kap si waited near the car when two of the youths re turned there was some heated discussion follow ed by mr kapsi chasing continued on pase 13 tali richmond hill was ja cob kammer 30 of mont real injured was his wife esther 25 a son alfred 5 and a daughter eva 4 also admitted to hospital was the driver of the sec ond car jack harlow 48 of scarboro his wife audrey 46 and two passengers rod erick and rosemary mc- arthur both of toronto firemen from stouffville were summoned to render assistance in releasing the occupants of the south bound vehicle in attend- a n c e were deputy fred castle george wil son jim rennie grant turner ed sanders and marvin betz ambulances from both markham village and richmond hill were needed to take the injured to hospital pc william sheridan of markham township conducted the in vestigation at the scene police said that the colli sion occurred in a heavy rainstorm with visibility re duced to 25 feet seek cheaper property tsa no 2 board dis cussed again the question of a site for the new senior public school to be built by september 1968 recently at a meeting with markham township council members the board was asked to explain why they chose a site on the 7th concession of the township rather than at unionville where the population is consequently board members agreed at their last meeting to investigate the possibility of a school site in the 5th concession west of sciberras road re garding land services price etc on the 7th concession where the board wishes to acquire land adjacent to markham village services they believe land would be more reasonable young americans were killed and two others ser iously injured in the fiery crash of a light plane on john hotncrs farm near kinsalc pickering town ship police said that the plane crashed in the field after clipping the tops of trees during a thunder storm and exploded in flames dead are dennis hilgcn- dorf 20 of menomonce falls wisconsin the pilot and sandra stankc 19 of milwaukee james wcismucllcr 17 of thamcsville is in tor onto general hospital with burns to 60 percent of his body the other pas senger marilyn murray 16 of milwaukee is in oshawa hospital with multitiplc cuts the plane was en route from montreal to london when it crashed brougham fire dept was called in to assist in i o eating them after the crash they were found spread over various parts of the field ssskr mrs effie alberta cleary centennial birthday vandorf a delega tion of ratepayers from whitchurch township ap peared before council bear ing a petition with a hun dred names asking that council study with particu lar care any major building projects proposed by the townships school board reeve rbssfarquharson told the group that the area school board was an elect ed body of five the stme as council and they had made no demands for debentures to finance any new school building until they do he said we have no say in the matter he said the petition would be placed on file for reference ratepayer spokesman j pinkerton said the signees had no desire to obstruct the board but were not sat isfied with the site chosen for a new school the board under heavy criticism recently for a va riety of matters has select ed a school site for a new building with serious drawbacks says the peti tion the school under board plans is to be built at the northwest corner of the seventh concession and the vandorf sideroad stouffville mrs effie alberta cleary is as old as confederation and proud to be a canadian she marked her 100th birthday august 24 and the management and staff of parkview home in stouffville celebrated the occasion with an open house both afternoon and evening mrs cleary a lovely looking lady is so youth ful in appearance she would easily pass for a wo man of sixty she enjoys the friendships she has made at parkview and the residents there are more than pleased to count her as a friend its a good home away from home she said mrs cleary was born at st catharines in 1367 one of four in the family of thomas baxter and isabel la waters while still young her parents moved to hamilton where she at tended public school and high school she completed a course in dressmaking following her marriage to mr arthur cleary at the age of 29 she lived on the pioneer family home stead at shawbridgc que bec she recalls their hon eymoon trip by horse and sleigh from shawbridge to montreal mr cleary pas sed away 30 years ago mrs cleary loves to read and listen to the radio her favorite programs are back to the bible and the sunday service from the church of the nazarcne a baptist by faith she al ways looks forward to the regular weekly services at parkview conducted by ministers of the stouffville area she speaks with pride of her only daughter mrs jones of queensville three grandsons arthur of aur ora harlcy of oak ridges raymond of queensville and six great grandchild ren janet gregory rob ert karen william and kathleen mrs cleary is still handy with the needle and thread and of the new trend in styles she says some of the skirts are pretty short but theyll come down mark my words among the many who of fered congratulations ei ther personally or by mail wss cfrb news commenta tor gordon sinclair what is the secret of mrs clearys longevity i really dont know she said ive even surprised myself supporters of the petition the latest move in the rate payers criticisms of the board said they had not sought quantity in the sig natures but had endeavored to show the concern about the actions of the public school board a part of the preamble was wide spread t h r o u g h t whit church they said the sig natures came from all areas of the township among the points submit ted to the council which is expected to deal with the matter at later meetings the board has demon strated publicly that it is split into two camps inter nal discord does not expe dite its operations the board has ignored proper parliamentary procedure at official meet ings in a public meeting on august 14 the board failed to disprove several charges of irregular business proce dure the core subject of edu cational planning ranks low in the boards interest ac cording to its own minutes until late spring no thought had been given to longterm educational pro gram needs such modern educational trends as un graded schools special classes for gifted or slow children special courses etc these matters closely bear on facility require ments the site chosen for the proposed central school has serious drawbacks it is not centrally located cither geographically or in popula tion distribution it is serv iced by roads which ac cording to council are not scheduled for major im- provements for many years it adjoins a gravel formation which reportedly is slated for development uphold bylaw stouffville sir mervin turner manitoba st will be required to purchase sufficient addi tional land from the neigh boring property so that the placement of his new dwelling on lot 34 will coincide with the town building bylaw this was the decision of the com mittee of adjustment sitt ing on monday neighbors of mr turner who appeared at the hear ing did not register ob jection but councillor tom longeran took excep tion to the infraction of the bylaw the house cannot be sold since the owner can not give clear title owing to the infraction councilor longeran said the committee was to deal with minor variances and he never had been able to find out exactly what a minor variance was the builder said the stakes had been inadvert ently moved during build ing operations and went unnoticed the committee took time out to view the pro perty and on reconvening members were polled by chairman wm sanders mr reg mckay said he did not consider that one ft nine inches was a minor variance and moved the application be refused edw logan said he was quite aware of the infrac tion but did not consider continued on page 13 decorative dahlia was best bloom in show mrs effie alberta cleary stouffville the masonic hall was turned into a thing of beauty on wednesday when the horti- cultural society staged their annual show with 411 entries from 33 exhibitors for the best entry in the cultural class the presi dents prize went to mr charlie james for his deco rative dahlia the best arrangemet in the decorative classes was won by mrs harry pugh for winning the most points to one who has never shown before mrs merle mc- cormack was the winner mrs cliff burkholder had the most points in the show and beth housscr won most points in the childrens sec tion marie drcwcry had the best entry in the child rens class the prize wa3 donated by mrs ivy crib ble judge for the show wa3 mrs margaret brophy clarcmont following is a list of the prize winners in the show aster powder puff mrs h pugh mrs a pais ley mrs w timbers aster pink s schmidt mrs a paisley mrs c burkholder continued on page 3