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rash of breakins stouffville crime never takes a vaca tion not even on sundays in stouffville thieves were active although the amount of the thefts was not great at th main street shell station and sanders ba coke machines were smashed another entry at hunts sunoco was unsuc cessful a breakin occurred at the stouffville dist secon dary school but nothing was taken at the stouff ville cooperative store a quantity of merchandise was stolen but a portion was later recovered on the cnr track early monday morning two tires and rims were removed from a car at neil patrick motors val ued at 100 police are looking for three escapees from st johns training school in connection with the theft spree drivers charged three charges have been laid in connection with two accidents on main street on sept 6 a threecar crash occurred causing a n estimated 1000 damage the driv ers were earl ross elson park drive stouffville jesse ralph steckley rr 2 gormley and john wil- lian hassall uxbridge hassell has been charged with careless driving a twocar collision sept 12 caused 425 dam age but there were no in juries mary a hoover rr 4 stouffville has been charged with having a ve hicle with no insurance douglas scott brown of unionville faces a charge of making an improper lefthand turn funeral parlor zone stouffville stouffville planning board has given its approval to the rezoning of property immediately east of the main street fire hall to permit construction of a new funeral parlor mrs mildred oneill at tended a meeting sept 12 in support of a letter writ ten earlier to the secre tary she said she hoped work on the building could begin in the spring of 1969 reeve ken laushway said that if no objections were received from resi dents within 400 feet of the site the change in zoning would not be un duly delayed the lot is presently in a residential zone it would be changed to commercial the park ing area is planned to ac commodate 35 cars with a circular drive apartment quarters will be built above the parlors vol 80 xo 16 stouffyillemarkhamuxbridge ont thursday sept 19 1968 10 cents not whitchurch township councillor urges action against gravel blight whitchurch twp gravel pits already in operation have created problems in the twp of whitchurch but the thought of a new one opening up on the 6th con cession north of the au rora sideroad has arous ed the concern of coun cillor norman barnard and well it might for the site is adjacent to mr barnards lovely country home at rr 3 new market councillor barnard in introducing the subject said he was speaking not only for himself but for other residents in the area who were also directly affected as a private rate payer he submitted a let ter of protest that was read at a meeting sept 10 mr barnard said that while the land in question was registered under the name of herbert mcguflin not want my direct in volvement to unduly in fluence any decision coun cil might make the let ter read but on the other hand it continued i would be remiss in my duties as an elected rep resentative of the people of this township if i did not go on record that council must police and enforce its bylaws for the protection of all taxpay ers council agreed to in form their solicitor of the alleged problem and await his advice village development a benefit burden board stouffville the plan has been chang ed but the policy of planning board has not a buildup of 416 homes plus town houses on the former harper farm between concessions 9 and 10 received little encouragement from members at a meeting sept 12 a portion of the proposed development outlined by representatives of stephyl investment limited would be located in the township of markham and the remainder within the south boundary of stouffville the spokesman for the firm was mr percy wright board chairman reg mckay said that in his opinion the proposal was at least two years pre mature he said that there were other plans of subdivisions to the north that should have pri ority mr mckay said too that he would oppose any program of road design that would channel traffic up obrien avenue or into the town park he was supported by member ken wagg mr wagg suggested that the rightofway from the subdivision to main street would have to be built in an area east of the arena but dont spend too much money on engineering because it wont be approved tomorrow warned mr wagg mr wagg insisted that any proposed buildup of such size would have to be accompanied by support ing industrial assessment we want development to be a benefit to stouffville not a burden he said mr wright argued that the homes should come first and industry to follow unless housing is available they industry wont give you a sec ond look he said mr wagg noted that serviced industrial land at an attractive price was vital reeve ken laushway returned to his previous claim that there were too many owners of small pieces of undeveloped land and until the situa tion changed there was little likelihood of further approvals were not interested in growing over night like richmond hill we have sufficient services to look after our present population in fact we have kept ahead of the need we know- where were going every street in town is sewer ed and we have sufficient water he said the reeve noted that even if all outlying undeveloped areas came under one ownership the buildup would have to be done in phases were not in terested in becoming a satellite city he said progress has to continue argued mr wright you should welcome new people to town we welcome the people but not their prob lems replied mr wagg firm representatives agreed to investigate the possible acquisition of additional properties and return again at a later date norman barnard like television police search train for robbery suspect markham twp it had all the as- pects of a movicthriller except the scene was j not staged and the actors were for real the location was a level crossing site on bayvicw avenue south of no 7 hwy and the personnel were members of markham twp police dcpt their orders were to ij search a 50car freight and arrest a suspect in a reported robbery at sudbury but the shootout that could have brought the cpi- sodc to a most dramatic conclusion never matcriali7cd the wanted man was not aboard the holdup at the cnr station in sud- bury occurred friday morning during the j thieves getaway attempt the agent was shot in the leg it was believed that one of the j three men involved in the episode had hop- ped a southbound freight the markham jj police were requested to conduct the car-by- car search chief harvey cox headed a detachment j of six officers assigned to the task others in- eluded detectives douglas tribbling and bruce findlay constables john morrison allan chadwick and robert mccausland the investigation came as no surprise to the trains engineer he had been warned in advance just like television commented one wideeyed spectator adelaide street west tor onto it was reported that the gravel interests come under the control of james sabiston union ville he noted that on two previous occasions he had brought the subject up and he felt it was now time for the township to act the councillor charged that any small assessment gain to the municipality through such an operation would be more than offset by deterioration of land values on properties near by he said too that the pit would tend to discour age the development of other estatetype homes that could produce good assessment i have been hesitant to bring this mat ter before council for i do fall flower show stouffville there were 150 entries in the annual fall flower show sponsored by the stouffville horticultural society monday judges were miss eva hoover and mrs cliff winn a complete list of winners will be published next week the program included accordion olos by danny doner piano solos by- judy brillinger and vocal numbers by mrs fred byer accompanied bv mrs dave ratcliff gardening problems were discussed by mrs win timbers and mrs alex ratciitt baby rides piggyback pushing a child down main street in a stroller can be a tiresome chore mrs loma ness william street stouffville has a better idea she carries her five month old rebecca piggyback staff photo uxbridge township council talks trucks while chambers shakes family graduates return to school three members of one family all student graduates of pickering dist high school returned to classes in september but this time as teachers paul white teaches english while sisters mrs gail rogcrson left and mrs carol mal colm provide instruction in physical education their parents are mr and mrs john white of brougham staff photo uxbridge twp while members of ux bridge twp council dis cussed problems of gravel truck traffic the good wood hall vibrated as heavily loaded vehicles rumbled up and down the third concession road i think we had better get out of here commented councillor clark muir- head theyre out to get us discussion on the sub ject was placed on the agenda following the re ceipt of a written com plaint from r l adkin and a j bailey both res idents on cone 4 north of hwy 47 councillor muirhead took exception to criti cism contained in the let ter and charged that rate payers werent aware of the work that had been done in an effort to rem edy the trouble this problem does not affect me personally but i can assure these folks i feel sorry for them i feel they should know about the hundreds of hours we have spent on this matter and were still working on it councillor muirhead said thai an invitation had been extended to repre sentatives of the dept of requests curfew for son unionville the father of a unionville teenager presented magis trate a e newell with an unusual request when he appeared with his son in richmond hill court fri- day he asked that a curfew be imposed on his boy christopher shaban charg ed by markham village police with causing a dis turbance at a teen dance according to evidence the youlh had been drink ing and was using abusive language outside the markham arena mr shaban suggested that a court order making it mandatory for the boy to be home by 11 pm each night might help magis trate newall concurred he placed th lad on proba tion for a period of one year in making the stipu lation iiie magistrate com mended mr shaban for taking a personal interest in the case you are a very lucky boy he said addressing the accused not all fathers are so con cerned over their sons welfare highways to attend a special meeting and talk over the situation he noted that an official of the dept of transport had appeared but he was not conversant with the uxbridge problem sidewalk sale stouffville a fall season side walk sale will be held on main street stouff ville friday and satur day sept 20 and 21 displays of merchan dise will be arranged outside all participating stores with additional bargains on the inside special sidewalk sale advertisements appear in this issue of the tri bune heads show roy drusky singing star of the grand 01 opry nashville tenn will headline a western show ville arena friday even- and dance in the stouff- ing sept 20 at 830 pm proceeds will go to the stouffville centurion drum and bugle corps antique buyers paradise uxbridge a farm auction that will prove an antique buyers paradise will be held on the farm of forsyth bros saturday sept 21 the property is located onehalf mile west of uxbridge on county road 8 the forsyth homestead is an uxbridge landmark the sale to be gin at 12 noon is in charge of auctioneers walter at kinson stouffville and lloyd wilson uxbridge strictly for students alter high school initiation rites stouffville the main street pro cessional of grade 9 students part of the usual initiation rites at stouffville dist sec ondary school has been cancelled this year instead the hijinx will be conducted en tirely within the school black friday as it is commonly called is sept 20 principal william e duxbury said he was pleased with the student council decision we wouldnt want a repeat of last year the number is becoming too large to con trol the principals reference was to an egg- throwing spree that aroused some criticism firemen had to be called out the next morn ing to flush down an area around the civic square mr duxbury was quick to point out however that many young people involved were in no way connected with the school this year initiation exercises will be held during the day with a dressup dance at night what do the students think of the decis ion all seem in favor except one contacted by the tribune i think initiations should be cancelled entirely he said he is in grade 9