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markham fair consider sunday show markham the 1969 executive of mark- ham fair will give seri ous consideration to ex tending certain aspects of its program into a fourth day sunday the suggestion was put forward by the im mediate past president joe tran at the annual meeting feb 5 in the board room of the markham arena mr tran said that while the band concert had represented a color ful addition to the fairs program much of the affect was lost due to inferior lighting he noted that on sunday the public could more fully appreciate this part of the show the fair dates for the current year have been announced as october 234 and possibly 5 charles reeve of markham is the elected president for 1969 other executive mem bers include bert gardhouse 1st vice president bert paisley 2nd vice president miss cora brodie secretary- treasurer and gerald mann livestock director elected directors are al wilson robert thompson bert paisley george hooper ben russell and gordon for- gie all for 3 year terms charles reeve president of markham fair staff photo six junior directors elected are mac cos- burn bob tran bruce raymer rick paisley bill walker and ed gardhouse i lmirmi f police report recommendations opposed stouffville the presentation of the annual stouffville police report by chief orland keating is usually an occasion for a complimentary pat on the back from all members of council such was not the case at a meeting feb 6 in fact deputyreeve bill parsons indicated that he wasnt interested in hearing it at all he was outvoted 31 included in the summary of events during 1968 chief keating placed two recommendations before council he suggested the renewal of a proper police training program at ayl- mer and recommended the hiring of a bylaw enforce ment officer to enforce the twohour parking limit on main street both proposals were challenged by mr parsons chief keating stated that the tagging of cars on a hit and miss basis was not a proper method either we do it five days a week or leave it the way it is he said mr keating said that his department keeps a close check on those per sons who abuse parking privileges in town but it was impossible to enforce the twohour restriction deputy reeve parsons stated that in his opinion such an employee would place an unnecessary ex pense on village taxpayers the number of parking violators are small he continued i feel that with a 5man force and a small area to cover your depart ment should be able to cope with it with respect to officer attendance at police col lege mr parsons argued that this should be a de cision of council he fur ther irritated the chief when he suggested that by rearranging the shifts the annual vacation period might not pose so serious a problem the training of my men is my responsibility re plied mr keating and if the police committee wish es to make up my shift schedule its quite alright with me the chief informed the members that he had plac ed the two items in his re port only as recommenda tions he said that their ap- provel or rejection was up to council i feel that any law on the books that cannot be enforced is a bad law he continued with regard to the hand ling of basic police matters car hit by truck stouffville a cartruck crash on hwy 48 near markham feb 5 sent the driver of one ve hicle to scarboro centen ary hospital and bis passenger to the mark ham medical centre with lesser injuries most seriously hurt was harry holden 54 of church street stouffville the second man was sa muel tsalkitzis 28 of toronto the driver of the truck was john pantis 30 of papc avenue toronto police said that the area of highway where the crash occurred was very icy at the time the accident was investigated by pc jones opp oak ridges in the village chief keat ing agreed that his staff was quite adequate to do the job salary stalemate york cty at the george williams secon dary school aurora feb 6 a meeting was held be tween representatives of the york county board of education and repe- sentatives of the york county secondary school teachers salary negotia ting team the board group made their presentation expla- ning their position the proposals were so separ ated that both sides ag reed to consider counter proposals at a future date an allday meeting is now scheduled for feb is attending the discus sions were s l chapman director of education york countv william bales east gwillimbuiy marvin hunter king twp ross jollilfe thor- nhill and deena simpson richmond hill the sec- ondarv school teachers w ere represented by douglas booth rich mond hill high school john munrocape rich mond hill high school mark everard bayvicw secondary school lin jones and eric mclean stouffville dist secon dary school and jim stanton newmarket dist high school committed for trial markham two tor- ronto men charged in the abduction and rape of an 11 year old markham girl have been committed to stand trial in connection with the alleged offense judge crawford guest ruled that sufficient evi dence had been presented following three lays of testimony at a preliminary hearing in the old city hall in addition to the charg es arising out of the mark ham case michael copps 27 and rodney hickcy 25 also face charges of wound ing attempted robbery and attempted murder on feb 6 a witness said that she saw a car in the area of friar tuck road markham around 5 pm nov 12 she said that it later drove away at high speed with the lights out she recalled that there were two occupants in the vehicle but could not dis tinguish their features she later reported the incident to police after reading a newspaper report that des cribed the make of the auto j commended by council i stouffville like mother like sons the brother act of ke- vin and keith acton have advanced their amateur status all the way to the canadian speed skating cham- pionships the competition was held at saskatoon feb 8 and 9 racing against cana- das best kevin 15 a junior finished 4th in two heats and 5th in another keith 10 a midget attained a sec ond third and fourth four existing records were broken the stouffville bovs are the sons of mr and mrs gerald acton burkholder street they arrive by their talent honestly their mother was a top com petitor for manv vears at a meeting of stouffville council feb 6 the accomplishments of the two brothers were commended by reeve ken laushway kevin is a grade 9 student at stouffville dist sccondars schcxl keith is in grade 5 at orchard park spring ice show stouffville rehearsals will begin feb 24 for the annual spring ice carnival spon sored by the stoulfville figure skating club show dates are april 11 and 12 the theme for the jun ior skaters will be pin- occhio and for the sen iors music music mu sic guest stars will be fea tured carnival convenors this year are mrs eleanor mercer and mrs norma wilkes on feb 21 at 5 pm canadian figure skating association tests will be held in the arena thirty- three tests will be tried including two bronze free skating exams playoff dates stouffville intermediate hockey ac tion resumes this week sloulfville travels to whitby thursday to night for the first game of the group finals whit by comes back here next tuesday feb 18 the series winner will advance to further b class competition game time tuesday is 830 pm officer charged with assault whitchurch twp a constable with the whitchurch twp police dept has been charged with assault police chief fred ma son has informed coun cil of the case now pend ing in magistrates court against pc ross seeley a veteran with the force since may 1964 the complainant is fred scaife of wilcox lake on a recommendation by chief mason the town ship has agreed that their solicitor ian m rogers should serve as the de fense lawyer for const seeley fire drill for real unionville it was fire drill in reality at unionville public school feb 5 an explosion in the fur nace sent the students and staff heading for the exits the entire building was evacuated in less than two minutes minus regular winter wear the children remain ed outside until firemen arrived the school was closed for the remainder of the day one boy said that the blast seemed to lift the entire structure regional govt were dragging our feet deputy stouffville stouffville failure to submit a personal recommendation on the is sue of regional government could cost the vil lage its identity this is the feeling of deputyreeve bill par sons and he let it be known at a meeting feb 6 that he is very much dissatisfied with what he termed councils apparent willingness to drag its feet in this matter at his urging it was agreed that an appoint ment be arranged with the minister of muni cipal affairs so that stouffvilles case might be presented the decision was debated by reeve ken lau shway who said that hon darcy mckeough had already arranged to meet with represen tatives of york county council and stouff villes position within the regional plan could be outlined at that time at no time has it been indicated that stouffville will be wiped off the map he said we should have done something long ago rsons it may already be too aional area has been decided recalled making an earlier request for action by council but it was never followed up i feel that stouffville could be one of the finest selfcontained communities in canada weve just been sitting back and letting others do our talking for us reeve laushway said he would be agreeable to a meeting with the slinister if a proper brief could be prepared in so short a time ive always got farther by moving than by sitting on my posterior continued mr par sons as a representative of stouffville i feel we have already wasted too much time how is the minister to know how we feel we are a unique municipality and should be an excep tion to the 8000 population cutoff rule we have been lax with reference to the southern six as an or ganized unit the deputyreeve termed it a joke mr parsons suggested that if mr mckeough was not available then an appointment with the deputyminister would be satisfactory council agreed that the clerk should attempt to set up a meeting date at queens park later this month deputyreeve bui parsons wants stouffvilles stand on regional govern ment placed before a meeting with the minister of municipal affairs vol 80 no 37 stouffvillemarkhamuxbridge ont thursday feb 13 1969 15 cents village of stouffviiie population 4008 stouffville excluding new arriv als since jan 1 stouffvilles population stands at 4008 the figure to the end of 1968 was con tained in a report to york county council from the assessment dept feb 5 the largest group in stouffville is from 20 to 59 years at 1769 in the range from birth to 15 years the number is 1021 from 16 to 19 years 272 from 60 to 64 years 148 from 65 to 69 1 34 and from 70 and over 370 only three other municipalities in the county have a population less than stouff ville sutton has 1613 woodbridge 2411 and georgina 2866 other town and township population fi gures are north gwillimbuiy 7380 whit church 8729 markham town 8739 new market 10498 aurora 10691 east gwil- limbury 13677 king twp 15108 vau- ghan twp 18812 richmond hill 19431 markham twp 23833 improper balance whitchurch twp only 1009 per cent of the total assessment in the twp of whitchurch is in dustrial and commercial the remainder almost 90 per cent is residential these figures were pre sented to council feb 3 bv the clerk thos kerr councillor norman barnard suggested that the old balance of 40 per cent industrialcommer cial and 60 per cent residential was no longer practical he contended that home buildup if of a high standard on large lots could prove equally beneficial tops class stouffville fifteen year old beverley bell a grade 10 student at stouffville dist secon dary school placed 1st in vocal class competition at the kiwanis music festi val toronto her instruc tress is mrs peggy clark markham in the violin solo class 9 years and under christopher hawley of unionville placed third youths attack officer whitchurch twp two youths have been ar rested and police are looking for a third follow ing the alleged assault on a whitchurch twp offi cer at lake wilcox satur day night const brian cousineau stopped a car in the lake area to check its occu pants when he was at tacked by the men police from neighboring depart ments responded and charged edward george arnold toronto and tho mas post lake wilcox with illegal possession of liquor and assaulting an officer a warrant has been is sued for the arrest of a companion of the two welfare separatists rapped by county markham twp down but undaunted dep utyreeve anthony roman has declared markham twps intention to with draw from the county- wide welfare program de spite strong criticism over the application at a meet ing feb 5 deputyreeve roman bore the brunt of the ver bal attack since his run ningmate reeve stewart rumble is also the war den and did not enter into the debate reeve donald plaxton welfare committee chair man offered mr roman no advice on what steps markham would take to withdraw from the county plan he criticized the pro posal but admitted that it would be to markhams financial benefit to finance their own welfare scheme deputyreeve bill par sons of stouffville was equally cool to withdraw al by markham or any other municipality he said that stouffvilles own welfare costs were extrem ely small but he still fav ored the county system a similar stand was tak en by reeve evelyn buck of aurora in a report submitted by reeve plaxton a statement on the markham applica tion read this commit tee is opposed to any frag mentation or withdrawal of welfare service bv in dividual municipalities it continued the trend toward regional govern ment and larger units of administration appears to support the principle that higher assessed munici palities must share in the cost of all government services including wel fare the york welfare de partment has a staff of nine includine an admin istrator six field workers and two secretaries the victorian order of nurses previously depen dent on grants from indi vidual municipalities will operate on a budget of s20000 to cover the wel fare aspect of this service pheasant toll whitchurch twp out of 456 pheasants re leased by the dept of lands and forests in whitchurch last fall 208 were shot police chief reports markham township office inadequate kevin acton is a junior and his brother keith 10 a midget were entries feb 8 and 9 in the cana dian speed skating championships at saskatoon they arc the sons of mr and mrs gerald acton burk holder street stouffville markham twp in his police report of 1966 chief constable harvey cox of markham twp recommended improved quarters for his staff and officers in his most recent sub mission covering the 12- month period of 1968 chief cox is repealing the same point the base ment office in bultonvillc is just too small the force now numbers 26 men we certainly cannot accommodate a larger stalt nor provide the ne cessities required to run an efficient department in- the present building the report read in spite of the cramped quarters chief cox noted that there had been no resignations during the year and that the morale among members of the department was hih in his summation of occurrences the chief ob served that markhams solved crime rate was ex ceptionally good he attri buted this result to good police investigation work and training received at the ontario police col lege in aylmer chief cox recommend ed that the threeman de tective unit should be in creased to four harvey cox there were live fatali ties due to traffic acci dents and 260 persons in jured traffic offenses in total numbered 3402 with 2915 charges laid the value of property stolen was 6378729 the value of property recover ed was 52793697 total calls received dur ing the vear numbered 18286 to operate the mark ham force in 1968 re quired a budget of 232- 08925 this was almost 7000 less than the am ount allocated receipts from fines witness fees and the po lice radio agreement tot alled 844237