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largest weekly markham stouffvilie uxbridge in the district he itrifitme all the news whitchurch dxbridge markham i pickering of all 4 townships vol 79 no 52 stouffvillemarkhamuxbridge oxt thursday may 23 1968 10 cents family life auction sale many items of interest are to be auctioned at the family life auction sale at markham arena on june 1 exhibiting some of the items are 1 to r rosemary outred a record donated by premier john robarts margaret cosburn lester pearsons bow tie and june duff with a pair of bill crothers track shoes staff photo private services for hamlets up thousand population to pickering pickering township hamlet studies were finalized at a meet ing of the planning board the plans will be recom mended to council for ap proval then on to the on tario municipal board pickering township planning board was pleas ed with the result of these studies even though it took three years and thou sands of hours of paper work to accomplish them a report of the final plans was circulated to 27 diff erent government agen cies for comments each report was accompanied by 36 maps which worked out to the handprepara tion of 1190 small maps each one of which was in dividually colored the interest displayed by the 310 people who at tended the hamlet study meetings and about 50 more in attendance at this final meeting the board felt was partly due to the coverage by the press and radio a total of 700 not ices were sent to hamlet residents and planning director john faulkner be lieved that the resulting 50 attendance was ex ceptional recommendations of ratepayers at the various meetings which the board thought valid were incor porated in the plans some of the comments from the people were in favor of larger lot sizes and the board went along with this only in the nuc leus of a hamlet where vacant lots lie between buildings will the mini mum size of 15000 square feet 75 x 200 be per mitted- the ontario water re sources commission has suggested that the ham lets can develop up to 1000 population on pri vate services with the pos sible exception of the brock area main roads in hamlets will have no more frontage taken by residential de velopment but reverse frontages backing onto arterial roads claremont reeve john williams spoke of the township en gineers comments on drainage problems in claremont he said that people were digging wells under verandahs and im plied that growth should be curtailed while this condition existed i was referring to one specific hamlet when i talked about the drainage problem said the reeve and i did not suggest we stop building in that ham let or any other but do suggest that we closely ex amine that particular sit uation member david binger said we must allow for some immediate growth in the hamlets that is the impression i get from com ments of the people the major comment from claremont people was their unwillingness to have the brock road re constructed by the county and suggestions were made that the brock road be diverted around clare mont a request to change a multiplefamily zone to commercial only was agreed upon brougham the planning board is not proposing to have the brock road and the old brock road junction locat ed further to the south as the township engineer has recommended it is sug gested that the north end at this juncture in broug ham not develop as resi dential but commercial the only suggested change in brougham is a further refinement at the intersection of the old and new brock roads member bryon lowe re marked about a limited well supply and an out side water supply continued on page 12 poli ice sign new contract vandorf whitchurch township police who last week claimed that con stables were paid only 50c more per day than resi dents on welfare have signed a new contract after months of negotia tions with township coun cil the 14 man police de partment agreed to a sub stantial raise a father of seven child ren living at musselmans lake receives 175 wel fare every two weeks prior to the new one year contract the average take home pay for a township constable for the same period was 182 the new wage scale means a pay hike of 1250 for a 1st class constable to 7050 a corporal will earn 7500 sergeant 7800 and staff sgt 8000 a police spokesman said the new wage scale brings the whitchurch force up to the same rate as new market and aurora but is lower than markham and vaughan townships plays cancelled stouffville the drama club regrets to an nounce the cancellation of its presentations schedul ed for the stouffvilie leg ion hall this thursday and friday evenings the can cellations is in respect to the death of john mum- ford member f- of the group suggest aat joy school for retarded markham the thornhaven school for re tarded children is becom ing overcrowded and they are seeking the possibility purchasing mount joy school north of markham there are 57 children presently attending the richmond hill school with five teachers and three buses presently in use there are 20 chil dren in the eastern part of markham township and stouffvilie who attend the school a spokesman said that the provincial govern ment pays 80 per cent of the cost of operations with the municipality pro viding 20 per cent for each child at present the gov ernment pays 50 per cent of the cost of new build ings and the balance must be provided by the com munity but this is expect ed to be changed shortly would buy site for a third public school will be needed in 69 stouffville speakintr on behalf of the pub lic school board mr ted topping told the village council that the board had an option on six acres of land west of st marks separate school for the pur pose of erecting a third public school for stouffvilie the option mr topping said would expire on june 30 and he urged that council arrange to exercise this option he said it was estimated that each home in the new housing development the ponderosa would have one and a half children and the site proposed was ideal to serve this area the present schools would be able to handle any added population only until september 1969 mr topping said that he realized that the present board was not required to arrange for the site for another school as after this year it would be a prob lem for the new county board however he thought it would be good business to obtain the site at the present price council favorable council members expressed favor with the sug gested site but it was explained that council had no means of arranging for payment unless by deben ture such a move would require the approval of the ontario municipal board whfch could not be forth coming prior to the expiration of the option on the land deputyreeve parsons said he would be opposed to any cash payment by the village as the municipal ity would be out the amount if the amount was debentured the new county board would assume the liability council agreed to a resolution approving the sug gested site and calling for a study to be made on the means of finance in the meantime the school board is to endeavour to secure an extension of the option date tsa 2 holds line on 68 mill rate the millrate for tsa 2 markham will remain at 372 residential and 413 commercial in 1968 the same as in 1967 accord ing to the 1968 budget which the board has ap proved earlier there were pre dictions that the rate would jump by three or four mills this year but this was forestalled when trustees agreed to sell sev eral small schools in the area plus the senior school site on the 7th concession which could not be used when mark ham village refused to supply services property chairman el- son miles said it was felt that with a larger county area forecast for 1969 any benefits from sales of area schools should accrue to ratepayers this year expenditures for in struction are expected to be 5612648 for a staff of eightyfive plant opera tion will cost si 10732 ad ministration 32685 and miscellaneous items such as supplies medical insur ance psychological serv ices transportation etc are estimated at 393139 no auction sales of schools at present on may 14 trustees agreed on motion of elson miles and gordon cham pion that none of the small school properties in tsa 2 will be sold by auc tion at the present time mr miles said proper ties to be sold are no 8 hagerman no 9 milli- ken no 11 the former board office at the 6th ccc and 17th avenue no 16 mount joy no 18 eox grove and no 21 lo cust hill where there have been legal proce dures father of eleven killed on 48 stouffville wilfred young 42 of brooklyn avenue toronto was killed in a cartruck collision on highway 48 mr voung was a passen ger in the truck driven by james c mcquaid 21 of broowmount road toron to when it hit the car driven by agnes vanryn 29 of rr 1 unionville provincial police said both vehicles were north bound and when the car stopped to make a left turn at 19th avenue it was hit from behind by the truck mr young was thrown from the vehicle and was pinned beneath it when it rolled over he was dead at the scene po lice said driving condi tions were por because of fog- thrown 40 ft stouffville six year old nickolas kamps son of mr and mrs nick kamps main street east was carried 40 feet after being struck by a car on main street witnesses stated that the boy darted in front of ruth grimas stouffer st stouffvilie 50 feet west of the crosswalk both the boy and his mother were rushed to scarboro general hospital where it was found that nickolas was suffering from a fractured hip and concussion- he is making satisfactory recovery- seeks to block drivein theatre vandorf john sik- ura race horse breeder and owner of an attractive property on the don mills rd south of here led a strong delegation before whitchurch township council in an effort to block a decision to allow a drivein theatre and other commercial establishments on property near his farm mr sikura declared that anyone in the real estate business involved in this land deal should not take part in any discussions on councils decision mr- sik ura made obvious refer ence to deputyreeve law rence hennessey who is a real estate agent councillor norman bar nard immediately jumped to mr hennesseys sup port stating that at no time had the deputyreeve taken part in any discus sion where there was a conflict of interest 31 residents mr sikura said he had been a resident there since 1966 and many of the horses in his iield were valued at many thousands of dollars he cited a list of points as objections to the proposal he said the develop ment was out of context with the area it would de preciate the value of sur- rounding property private residents would have their privacy interrupted the assessment would be far continued on page 8 miss gwendolene sears daughter of mr and mrs h sears stouffvilie grad uated from st josephs hospital school of nurs ing on may 15 prime minister coming saturday markham prime minister trudcau will visit both yorksimcoe and north york ridings this saturday may 25 the prime minister will speak in the markham arena at 8 pm on be half of liberal candi date barney danson doors will open for the public at 715 earlier in the evening he will visit the aurora and king city areas on behalf of liberal candi date john roberts wolves roaming whitchurch township whitchurch twp a pack of wolves has been roaming around in whitchurch township re sulting in a dayold foal being attacked and killed on the farm of wilbur shropshire pine orchard a pack of 6 to 9 wolves have been seen in the bo- gartown and pine orchard area during the past weeks and officials of the department of lands and forests have been called in to trap the animals miss phyllis hunt a school teacher at bogar- town kindergarten and 25 pupils spotted 6 wolves near the school when on a hike miss hunt said she at first thought they were dogs but later saw armed farmers and knew that they must be wolves farmers from the area had organized a hunt for the animals without re sults joseph drury 3rd concession whitchurch spotted three wolves run ning across the highway wolves have been shot in whitchurch over the years but this is the first time that livestock has been killed truck sprawls across highway following fatality at dickson hill staff photo full slate ready in york simcoe john roberts 35 year old former executive assist ant to forestry minister maurice sauve will carry the liberal banner in yorksimcoe riding and com plete the slate for the june federal election mr wal lace mccutcheon former senator represents the con servative party and mr don mcfadyen bradford school teacher the new democrats mr mccutcheon the recognized frontrunner in the contest will endeavour to take the riding back into the tory fold after it has been represented by liberal john addison last conservative member was c a cathers some change in the voting pat tern may be expected since the riding has been split by redistribution cutting off considerable southern territory the most recent nominee mr roberts was nom inated by ross linton of aurora and randy lamorre of newmarket he defeated john medcof of mount albert and ellis griffiths of kleinburg on the first ballot the liberal standardbearer is bilingual and praised prime minister trudeau as a leader with deep understanding of our two cultures mr mccutcheon is a national political figt re and brings considerable stature and resources into the race he was entertained in stouffvilie on friday evening by party followers at the home of mr and mrs ted topping fairview avenue