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town education costs increase new post for pastor rev arthur walsh pastor of stouffville united missionary church since 1958 will leave in june to accept another charge rev walsh is highly respected both within the community and his own congregation and the announcement of his in tended resignation has been accepted with feelings of regret staff photo firemen do more than fight fires stouffville mem bers of stouffvilles volun teer fire department do more than fight fires this fact was revealed in a quarterly report to council prepared by fire chief walter smith and presented by the chair man of the fire committee councillor mrs ethel mole on monday a st john ambulance course was started at the hall and in struction courses and tests had been completed with the stouffville girl guides a similar program has been started with the boy scouts here and ano ther will begin soon with the boy scouts at lemon- ville the brigade is also sponsoring a foster child in vietnam during the threemonth period the department answered 18 fire calls 5 in stouffville 9 in whit church and two each in markham and uxbridge townships this is the same number as recorded last year the bridgade has had two calls for the resuscita- tor and two calls for assis tance at the sewage plant sixteen premises have been inspected twenty- six phone calls have been received from persons re questing information or registering complaints the firemen will hold their annual dance at the legion hall friday april 5 reject arbitrator whitchurch twp representatives of the whitchurch township po lice department have re jected councils choice of an arbitrator to preside at a hearing on a new salary schedule for 1968 council had submitted the name of magistrate david coon of stouffville spokesmen for the police have asked that the ap pointment be made by the attorney general whitchurch police ser ved notice of arbitration following a breakdown in salary discussions that ex tended over a period of two weeks the township offer binding for a period of three years was not ac ceptable police personnel in whitchurch feel that their wages should be comparable to that of markham township assaulted officer stouffville a stouffville man has been charged with assaulting a police officer bernard fo- ckler main street east is alleged to have pushed constable david hadden while the officer was in the process of serving a summons on the mans son allen robert fockler had earlier been charged with driving while im paired norm baker manager of the stouffville public utilities commission has given up that position he assumed in november 1965 his resignation was contained in a letter to the chairman r f farr ef fective on his return from a threeweek vacation mr and mrs baker are cur rently on a holiday in ja pan police cruisers damaged markham twp a fifteen year old boy has been charged with car theft failing to remain at the scene of an accident dangerous driving and drinking under age fol lowing a highspeed police chase in which three cruis ers were damaged the chase started in richmond hill and reach ed speeds of 90 miles per hour the police cars were damaged when forced off the road flood control aid rejected by town stouffville residents within the back- flow area of stouffvilles sewage disposal plant re ceived the sympathy of t o w n council monday night but little else a plea from residents of rose avenue russell and burkholder streets ask ing council to control basement flooding through the installation of traps and sump pumps on pri vate properties was reject ed the delegation recom mended further that the town attempt to regulate the passage of surface water into the plant and ate provision to accomtno- failing this make immedi- date this flow bv some other means the spokesman for the home owners was stanley schmidt burkholder st mr schmidt argued that the problem had or iginally been created through the inability of the sewage plant to handle the flow he charged that it was unfair to expect ad jacent residents to absorb the cost of corrective mea sures when the matter was solely a council re sponsibility he contended that the telephone alarm system at the plant was not adequate and on the morning of march 16 it was a rose avenue resi dent who first learned of a breakdown in hydro con nections halting the oper ations of the pumps he predicted too that the in stallation of individual basement traps would not be a cureall to the ex isting problem mr schmidt said that councils rejection of the delegations requests left no alternative but to pub licize in every possible way the inadequacies of the towns sewage disposal system and make every prospective buyer of west end subdivision homes aware of the problem too wc like stouffville the speaker continued many of us were born here and the rest have resided here for a good many years wc would prefer not to give the town and the council a bad reputation but if this is necessary to obtain our objective then we must reeve ken laushway replied that he had warn ed area householders to install traps in their basements but in some cases the advice went un heeded wc admit that we have problems with the plant and the alarm system and we are doing our best to correct them he denied however that basement flooding was a council responsibility deputyreeve bill par sons said that the welfare of all residents in the town was councils concern i dont care what municipal ity you go to you will never receive a guarantee against water in your base ments when mr schmidt an nounced to what end the residents would go to bring the problem to the attention of the public deputyreeve parsons re plied do as you please but no traps 1 stouffville with the new county educational system pending in 1969 the boards of the stouffville dist secondary school and the stouffville public school have reduced their surplus accounts to almost nil in spite of these major cuts operation costs at both institutions are up considerably over 1967 the high school budget as it pertains to stouffville is si 2757478 as compared with 9427973 last year to raise this much money will require a rate of 2432 mills resi dential and 2702 commercial a sizeable increase at the high school level is understandable since the school itself has increased in size through the completion of a i million dollar addition staff salaries alone are up by 92000 to a figure of 397- 700 the operation of the plant will cost 62- 750 and administration 2405000 the cost of supplies has been estimated at 38300 and transportation 28000 the surplus account has been sliced from almost 45000 in 1967 to a mere 5000 in 68 minus grants and other receipts the total requirement of funds is 30789135 this figure is split three wavs with whitchurch absorbing 12763944 stouffville 127- 574 and markham township 5267713 for public school purposes a mill rate of 2676 residential and 2973 commercial will be required to raise 13579510 the 1967 budget requirement was 11901670 included as a portion of the years receipts was a surplus on hand cf 2132669 the budget total exclusive of grants is 34826550 the largest expenditure is for instruction at 235000 the plant operation and main tenance is 2844200 the cost of administra tion totals 976500 the separate school board has established a 1968 budget of 456794 an increase of about 110000 over last year to raise this amount of money will require a rate of 2676 mills residential and 2973 commercial the total rate for public school supporters is up by 643 mills residential and 841 mills commercial the total rate for separate school supporters has increased by 458 mills residential and 677 mills commer cial finalized figures were handed down by the finance committee chairman councillor jim mckellar vol 79 no 44 stouffvillemarkhamuxbridge ont thursday march 28 1968 10 cents taxes up 643 mills increase of 2572 on average home trial ordered whitchurch twp three lake wilcox men charged in the alleged rape of an 18 year old richmond hill girl feb 16 were committed for trial at a preliminary hear ing before magistrate james butler in newmar ket court gordon sutton and grant needham both 19 and fred scaife 29 were arrested by whitchurch police after a car in which the girl was a passenger was stopped near yonge street the victim of the alleged assault claimed that she had been attacked earlier in a lake wilcox house constable ivan bates testified that the girl had a bandage on her knee and her left eye was badly bruised he said she had been crying and appeared nervous and upset charges police prejudiced stouffville a whitchurch township man argued in richmond hill court that he was un fairly treated by an in vestigating officer of the stouffville police depart ment because his truck was involved in an acci dent with a car owned and driven by the towns deutyreeve frederick barker 69 told magistrate russell pearse that he was quite certain that he would not have been charged if the occupant of the second vehicle had not been wil liam parsons a deputy- reeve lawyer and a mem ber of the police commis sion mr parsons a witness in the case agreed that he was both a lawyer and stouffvilles deputyreeve but denied that he had any direct connection with the police committee on council i told the police that i couldnt care less whether mr barker was charged or not he said the collision occurred at the intersection of main street west and cone 9 mr barker was charged with making an improper turn in registering a convic tion magistrate pearse agreed to impose the mini mum fine of 500 since the driver had already suffered considerable pro perty loss through damage to his truck and personal injury he recommended that when his health im proved he should take another test in an effort to reduce the amount of court costs mr parsons agreed to waive his share of the wit ness fees new council quarters wins members approval loses fight for life markham twp markham town ship council held their first meeting monday in the remodclled municipal building at but- tonvillc and all members expressed satisfac- tion with the completed project an official opening will be arranged pos sibly in june cost of the new addition plus renovations to the original structure will total about 30000000 personspresent at the firstmceting includ ed township engineer dusan miklas police chief harvey cox works employee harry mann and jack grant of hengran develop ment limited r ballerina on skates ten year old jane brodie glad park avenue is truly a ballerina on skates she played this part in the 18th annual ice revue sponsored by the stouffville figure skating club march 22 and 23 staff photo stouffville a i young stouffville mother passed away saturday in toronto western hospi- i tal ending a courageous fight for life that extended over a period of several years mrs jack barkey ru pert avenue stouffville had an incurable disease but in spite of declining health never gave up hope of getting better she spent christmas at home but reentered hospital dec 27 she was 31 mrs barkey the former nclda elson had a most pleasing personality that won her a wide circle of friends this was eviden ced by the hundreds who attended the oneill fu neral home to pay their respects the floral tri butes were most beautiful as a young girl she was a fine softball player and was a member of several stouffville championship teams she was also an excellent bowler and when unable to compete in regu lar league competition she enjoyed keeping score born at cone 3 ux bridge township the dau ghter of mr and mrs har old elson tenth line north she had been a resi dent in town for the past 19 years married oct 20 1956 she was a devoted wife and mother of john richard ricky 10 and stephen james 8 surviv ing besides her husband and parents are four sis ters ruth mrs michael miller marjorie mrs lawrence norton june mrs douglas ward and helen mrs allan badg- erow rev douglas davis con ducted the funeral ser vice tuesday afternoon at 2 pm with interment stouffville cemetery the pallbeaivrs were six brothersinlaw mich ael miller lawrence nor ton douglas ward allan badgerow george barkey and donald miller win appeal whitchurch chief justice schroeter has ruled in favor of the township of whitchurch in an appeal case heard tuesday in osgoode hall toronto the decision reverses an earlier decision on an ap plication filed by mrs su zanne j a n d a rr 2 stouffville in which she contested the legality of restrictions as imposed by a councilapproved kennel bylaw dcputyrccve lawrence hennessey and councillor bob lewis attended the hearing stouffville with the law of taxation what goes up seldom comes down this could change here in stouffville it was revealed at the budget night meeting of stouffville council that public school supporters will pay 10488 mills residential up from 9845 mills in 1967 the commercial rate is 11586 an increase of 677 mills separate school supporters will face an increase of 498 mills residential and 679 mills commercial finance chairman councillor jim mckellar re vealed that on an average stouffville home with an assessment of 4000 the tax increase would amount to 2572 he termed it quite a hefty jump some relief may be in sight however with the implementation of the smith report the ontario government plans to introduce legislation recom mending that the province pay the taxes on the first 2000 of cquallizcd assessment this would mean that a home here assessed at 4000 would qualify for a refund of 5873 to the owner or a net tax reduction of 3300 reeve ken laushway noted that education costs although up considerably over 1967 would have been even higher if the boards had not re duced their surplus accounts breakdown of i udgct mill rate mill rate required 1968 1967 county s 6693142 1313 158 public school 13579510 2676r 2500r 2973c 278 c sep school 456794 2676r 265 r 2973c 294 c high school 12757478 2432r 193 r 2702c 214 c welfare 360000 71 3 library 500000 100 10 parks 350000 69 73 sewers 7830945 1587 1654 general 8805163 2240r 196r 3275707 2771c 237c unconditional grant 2089140 total s56697879 total mill rale public school 10488r 9845r 11586c 10745c total mill rate separate school 10488r 9990r 11586c 10907c r residential c commercial claremont quick action by an unidentified motorist aided in the res cue of livestock from a fire that destroyed a large barn on the property of austin pearse at clare- mont the man was driving by the premises when he not iced smoke billowing from the roof he informed mrs ray ward a resident in the farm house and to gether they released sev eral of the cattle they were later joined by her husband a neighbor mur- ray carson and employees of the bell telephone co mr ward suffered minor burns about the shoulders from falling timbers volunteer firemen were on the scene in minutes but the blaze was already out of control brigade members bob madill and frank ward praised the departments new plastic face masks used for the first time it provides added protection and enables the volunteers to get much closer to the building al hepburn of clare- mont a member of the scarboro fire department was commended by chief tom hammond for his assistance lost in the blaze was a large quantity of hay and straw damage has been estimated at 18000 the cause of the fire is under investigation