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largest weekly markham stouffville uxbridge in the district fire prevention week oct 8th to 14th vol 80 no 19 stouffvillkmarkhamuxbridge ont thursday oct 10 1968 10 cents council replies dear sir the editorial the secret storm date lined sept 26 196s sug gests that a statement be made on behalf of the council of the twp of whitchurch with re spect to a change made in the chairmanship of its industrialcommer cial commission to set the record straight there is no secret storm other than a myth that you the press are now seeking to create there has been no secret closed door meeting of coun cil on this or any other subject and to imply such is false discus sions have taken place in open sessions of council and at its in dustrial commercial commission meetings councils action was protective toward the deputyreeve in that it sought to relieve him of duties and responsi bilities that have led to accusations of a con flict of interest recognizing this the industrial commerc ial commission sought to correct the situation by asking its chairman the deputyreeve on two separate occasions to resign this resigna tion was never tendered as he failed to recog nize the significance of his position in relation to both council and his real estate business council faced with the intent of all mem bers of its commission resigning had no choice but to make changes in its special and standing commit tees you have acknowl edged that where real estate and politics mix there can always be an element of doubt as ex pressed in your editor ial vulnerable to at tack date lines sept 19 1968 councils action at its meeting sept 17 was expressive of its con cern in this matter and was designed with out malice to protect the deputyreeve from attack and to salvage its industrialcommer cial commission stewart burnett reeve on behalf of the council of the twp of whitchurch end fire calls claremont with new firefichting facilities now available at clare- mont the council of the twp of pickerine wishes to terminate its agree ment with the village of stouftville the stouffville fire de partment presentlv serves a northwest area of pick erinc at a cost of s300 per vear town 40000 in 30 years submit four plans stouffville stouffvilles present pop ulation is just over 4000 by the year 2000 it could increase to 40000 or even higher the growth estimate almost too staggering to com prehend was revealed at a meeting oct 1 ar ranged by representatives of the central ontario regional development council members of stouffville council planning board public util ities commission and committee of adjustment attended along with several interested ratepayers four distinct plans were presented for consid eration plans 1 and 2 deal with a concentrated buildup along the corridor between bowmanville and hamilton plan 3 is a concentration of sub- regional centres extending northeast to port perry and northwest to strectsville milton and kitchener plan 4 establishes a northern arc of satellite cities at barriealliston orangevillc and guelph thus relieving the toronto lakeshore area of growth pressures the advantages and dis advantages of each of the proposals were out lined in the brief meetings similar to the one held in stouftville have been arranged for other centres bordering metro including the counties of halton york peel and ontario information will be compiled for presentation to the provincial government at queens park stouffvilles predicted growth factor within the next thirty years is based on the towns close proximity to metro and its location near proposed highway arteries of 404 to the west and 407 to the south local development is expected to fol low highways 47 and 48 equestrian club plan horse show a birds eye view of the village of stouffville looking northwest above the park thirty years and 40000 people later the scene will have changed greatly ballantrae on sunday afternoon oct 20 the whitchurch com munity centre equestrian club will hold its first horse show all english the highlight of the event will be a special cross country hunt which should be both challeng ing for the participants and colorful for the spec tators among the competitors will be several students of stouffville dist secon dary school including susan cloth janet davies sandy allison and gerry parker the show will be staged at the vivian thorough bred farm cherry street whitchurch at 1 pm council feels that the new claremont truck purchased last month can accommodate this section the committee rennrt has called for termination of the acrcement in 60 davs when the acrcement ends residents formerly depending on stouftville for fihtinc fires will call the claremont brigade plowing match north york the 44th annual north york plowing match will be held saturday on the farm of mel ley 1 mile east and a halfmile south of keswick on the don mills road solve breakins markham twp markham twp police are confident that the arrest of a 40 year old man in ottawa this week will end the rash of house break- ins that have plagued the department for the past month detectives clifford cox and douglas tribbling travelled to ottawa mon day to question a suspect the accused has used a stolen credit card from markham to purchase a suit and a gun from a department store there other charges are pending by police in metro and mississauga several house breakins in the rural area of mark ham twp remain unsolv ed although police have a good description of a bearded man believed in volved trustee criticises board spending mccutcheon top election spender gormley wallace mccutcheon gormley rri ran an expensive campaign in an unsuccess ful bid for election last june in the federal riding of yorksimcoe according to statistics revealed under provisions of the canada elections act the mccutcheon or ganization spent 29903- 47 only 2000 of this amount is listed as person al mr mccutcheon had 64 contributors liberal john roberts the successful candidate spent 1630199 his per sonal expenses totalled 106966 he had only 2 contributors don mcfadyen of the ndp spent 193466 for expenses listed as per sonal mr mcfadyen paid out 12986 he had 15 contributors for advertising mr mc cutcheon spent 1531159 mr roberts 1408 and mr mcfadyen 82733 whitchurch twp when the cats away the mice will play that was no doubt the feeling of whitchrch tsa board trustee michael ogden when he returned to a reg ular meeting after a weeks absence on private business he was strongly critical of the boards spending and questioned several items that had been previously approved for payment each pur chase and its cost was dis cussed on some mr og den appeared satisfied that they were warranted on others he was not he presented a report on the boards financial standing and noted that on dec 31 1967 there was a surplus of 177000 he reminded the members that any sur plus at the end of the cur rent year would be credit ed to the taxpayers of the township he said that trustees would be well ad vised to keep this in mind so that the rebate would be as generous as possible trustee ogden also took issue with a member of the staff at lake wilcox school over a price of 3610 to improve the grounds around the build ing originally the cost was estimated at not over 1500 the teacher explained that there was some urg ency in getting the work done and that the equip ment needed was in short supply you have been three months dealing with this and now you expect us to reach a decision in one hour argued mr ogden the board agreed to ob tain a second bid at the conclusion of the meeting mr ogden an nounced that he would be a candidate for election to the new york county board that takes office jan 1 chairman wesley brillinger had said earlier that he would permit his name to stand stouffville and whitchurch will share one trustee nominations are nov 18 fair crowd record markham the 1968 edition of mark ham fair has been writ ten into the record books as the biggest and best in its 113- year history the attendance on each of the three days exceeded that of 1967 and on saturday more than 21000 passed through the turnstiles president joe tran and members of the ex ecutive expressed com plete satisfaction with the entire program pic tures are featured on page 3 of this issue controlled growth stouffville by the year 2000 stouff villes population could well reach 40000 but for the present at least residential buildup will be kept under tight control this was the response by reeve ken laush- way following a meeting oct 1 with the central ontario regional development council while reeve laushway is the first to admit that his policy stand on this issue does not meet with the approval of all residents he points to the financial position of the municipality and calls it excellent this would not be the case if we had thrown the door open like markham and richmond hill he said population figures established by the metro planning dept were estimated at 8000 by 1980 the reeve said that stouffvilles growth has re mained within these projected limits he stated that the towns present source of water supply would be sufficient to serve this number and the addition to the sewage plant would accommodate 9000after that a new type of system would be needed perhaps a trunk main to lake ontario a cooperative venture with many municipalities involved he said on the subject of industry he said he favored firms that would employ from 25 to 30 people rather than large factories employing 300 he said that under the governmentsponsored in dustrial equalization program there had been more than 25 enquiries but none would pay the price of serviced land quoted at 15000 per acre compensate mailmen hot ice markham twp zoltan berta proprietor of the halfway house and service station don mills rd near victoria square was awakened on the morning of july 18 and saw two cars leave the lot he also saw the occu pants throw two contain ers to the ground minutes later the vehicles were stopped by markham twp police on further investiga tion mr berta found that the packages contained ice cubes and the ice bin near his premises had been entered keith lewis park 18 and fred wood 19 both of sumach st toronto were subsequent ly charged with theft in richmond hill court tuesday the boys were convicted and each fined s25 and costs by macis- trate russell pearse the ice cubes were valued at si 20 road wash extended stouffville stouffvilles main street received its final scrub- down of the season last week but the driver of the water tank truck did not stop at the west town limits he washed the road right to ringwood clerk ralph corner in formed council that the si 9 charge remained the sama regardless of the area covered i guess its none of our concern if he goes all the way to gormley commented reeve ken laushway in hospital whitchurch twp whiichurch twp council lor bob lewis is in york countv hospital at new market markham rural mail carriers employed under contract but unable to work due to the recent postal strike will be com pensated for salary losses the statement by mr cafik reads i am very happy to be able to an nounce that the postmaster general has now agreed to make payment to individ ual contract rural mail de liverers to offset their sal ary losses incurred as a re sult of the postal strike i had raised this question in the house of commons on two different occasions and discussed this matter on numerous occasions with the postmaster killed in vietnam ashburn word has been received by mr and mrs john c sherin ash- burn rr 1 of the death of their son chris killed in action in vietnam a pilot with the us airforce he was shot down during a mission over viet cong held terri tory chris his wife and fam ily had been living in ala bama prior to moving to the united states he resided with his parents on the pickeringwhitby townline near balsam train wrecks car couple escape injury whitchurch twp a 1968 model station wa gon northbound on cone 5 whitchurch near cedar vallev was complclelv wrecked when rammed by a torontobound cnr train bui both the driver and his jadv passenger es caped without a scratch allan murray smith 47 and cherry sands 22 both of rr i locus hill were taken by police to york countv hospital ncwmarkii but released a short time later the rear half of their auto was torn apart by the impact but neither oc cupant was thrown out the crash occurred sat urday morning at 830 al ccomplished hilled in traffic twocar crush stouffville a 24 vear old stouff ville man was killed and his wife seriously injured in a tracic two- car accident saturdav mornine on the don mills road north of victoria square lloyd david irwin son of mr and mrs wilbcrt irwin rupert avenue was a passen ger in a northbound auto that crashed into the side of a south bound vehicle driven by ross mcgill of cooksville the cause of the col lision is still under in vestigation but mark ham twp police said that the mcgill car for reasons unknown veer ed out of control and slid sideways into the wrong traffic lane mrs irwin although badlv hurt is recover ing in york central hospital richmond hill the couple were returning to stouffville following a visit with friends in toronto investieating officers described the pave- ment surface as wet at n 1 lloyd irwin the time of the accident but it was not raining mr and mrs irwin were both wearing seat belts and were not thrown out by the im pact their car a ren ault was demolished the mcgill auto a 1968 chevrolet had been driven less than 5000 miles mr mcgill suf fered onlv minor face cuts constable bill sheri dan a close friend of the victim and a mem ber of the markham force broke the sad news to his parents and brother sgt john mc- cague is in charge of the investigation coroner dr blair mitchell of stouftville attended the scene an inquest will be held the deceased was an accomplished musician and enjoved plavine the organ for people as much as people enjoy ed listenina to him plav at both markham fair and the cne he had thrilled hundreds with his kevboard ma gic for the past two years he was emnloved as an audio consultant with the house of stein on yonce street tor onto he had onlv re cently purchased an or gan of his own for a new home now under construction near is land like in uxbridee twp the house would have been completed in about one month and in the meantime thev were living with his parents in stouffville as a bov llovd had attended public school at garibaldi and hich school in uxbridee and stouffville he was a member of the stouff ville united church llovd possessed a warm cheerful nature that had won him a wide circle of friends throuch the years in 1965 he was mar ried to mia mortensen who survives along with his parents and one brother alvin hundreds of friends and neiohbors called at t h e oneill funeral home when news of the traeedv became known in the commun ity the floral tributes were most beautiful rev james l carder of stouftville united church conducted the service monday after noon at two oclock with interment i n churchill cemetery the pall bearers were morlcv loveless har vey loveless bruce loveless james gil christ brian pollock and han dc hcus passenger died in the wreckage of this car don mills road markham township staff photo