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i junior aiders trin laurels at fwhitehureh c c shor i garwg h i i 1iimii limi iii imiiil wi i i mwiii ii i i mill i h i l l hill iii western equitation and pleasure champion pat gerow green river local riders took many of the awards at the whit church centennial centre equestrian horse show held at ballantrae on sunday over 21 entries with keen competition made this the first junior show for the club a great success for full results see page 8 harry hooper english pleasure champion debbie smith green river western equitation champion david londry 15 good grooming champion mona raes 13 bethesda all the news whitchurch i oxbridge markham i pickering of all townships largest weekly markham stouffville uxbridge in the district vol 81 no 8 stouffyillkmarkhamuxbridge ont thursday july 24 1969 15 clnts spot dragsters with aircraft two charged with dangerous driving markham twp wednesday at buttonville twp offices police chiefs from markham twp whitchurch twp uxbridge twp and pickering met to discuss the drag racing problem every day complaints roll in to their departments of dragsters using highways in the various townships the various police departments have done their ut most to catch the offenders but very few charges have been laid in an interview with chief harvey cox markham twp the tribune learned they discussed the prob- icm fully and came up with an idea of using an air craft to try and spot races in progress at 930 pm friday evening buttonville police office became an operations room members from the var ious municipalities received a briefing for the nights operations maps showing the various trouble spots were handed out to police officers by chief cox plans were for the aircraft to take off from buttonville air port containing sgl david dukes markham twp po lice he would be equipped with a ground to air radio and cruising in each municipality would be an officer equipped with a similar radio the plane flew over the various areas and about 1 am a drag race was spotted on steeles avenue near hwy 18 chief reg parker uxbridge twp cruis ing in the area was radioed where the race was in progress and he deployed cruisers under his control to close in two drivers who were racing were caught and later taken to buttonville and charged with dangerous driv ing many people watching the race had their names taken by ihe police officers chief cox told the tribune that perhaps using an aircraft will be the means to combat drag racing of course its cosily besides the aircraft which was spon sored by chfi radio station we had 1214 police offi cers on duty and nine cruisers many of the officers had to work overtime and this is where it becomes costly said ihe chief this was the first time police in the area have used aircraft and have been able to reach the scene quickly enough previously drag racers had been too well or ganized with spoiurs using twoway radios lo warn of police closing in ask for crossing gates markham town town council passed a resolution that a request be sent to the cnr for the installation of cross ing gates at the cnr level crossing cone 7 north of hwy 7 as recom mended by a recent cor oners jury the location in question was he scene of a truck- train crash june 13 that took the life of david ed ward barker 46 rr 2 uxbridge council also recom mended that a copy of the resolution be sent to markham twp council asking for their support sifton building case postponed to aug 18 whitchurch twp a charge regarding unlawful building on the 3rd concession laid against michael sifton by the twp bylaw en forcement officer marshall miller has been postponed until august 18 the case had been scheduled to be heard this week mr miller told the press that two building permits had been issued to the siftons but neither applied to the original construction mr sifton wealthy publisher and horse own er has erected a 100000 barn on the 3rd the barn complete with living quarters has been a controversial issue with council since it was discovered in february at one time it appeared council might pros ecute for an illegal violation of the township landuse bylaw prohibiting living quarters in bams and garages on legal advice the matter was dropped since then the debate has centered on wheth er to prosecute immediately or to grant a build ing permit vandalism fmcl decomposed body stouffville pub lic indignation is rising as vandalism in town contin ues to increase on tuesday night the public swimming pool was entered and fire ex tinguisher chemical was dumped into the pool making it necessary to close down wednesday the new snack bar in ihe park was also broken into the tribune has been victimized four times re cently as news boxes were stolen tuesday night boxes were also stolen from telegram and star papers greenwood work men from ihe ont dept of highways discovered the badly decomposed body of a man in long grass on the road allow ance of hwy 7 adjacent to the property of roy hill just east of the swiss chalet park on julv 18 the body was identified as that of larry john mc- crossan 23 brampton it had been there approxi mated one week opp whitby detach investigating the case say that the man took his ow2 life with selfadministered poison there were no signs of foul play rescued by helicopter gormley colin h baker 17 or orillia the son of mr and mrs how ard baker and grandson of mr and mrs dclbcrt baker of gormlev and mr and mrs elmore barkcy rr 2 markham was rescued from a 900 foot cliff above the pa cific ocean in humbug state park oregon by a coast guard helicopter he had climbed the cliff and nearing the top lome avery son of the late mr and mrs noel avery and formerly of rr 2 stouffville has been awarded a phd de gree from the dept of astrogeophysics at the recent university of col orado graduation exer cises lome graduated from stouffville dist high school in 1959 and received a basc in en gineering physics from the university of toronto in 1963 he attended the university of colorado from 1963 to 1969 he and his wife joan and their two daughters lois and virginia are presently re siding in boulder color ado where lome holds a postdoctoral appoint ment with the national centre for atmospheric research slipped tumbling 50 feet down the cliff to a ledge he lav there clad only in a light tee shirt and shorts for six hours until he was found rescue took another three and a half hours with a plane dropping flares so that he could be seen by crews from the coast guard new name for park pickering twp pickering township coun cil has expressed pleasure that brougham park is to be renamed donald beer memorial park in memory of the late councillor beer who contributed so much to recreation in the town ship and to the park it self council will contribute 132 towards a plaque which will rest on a stone cairn to be erected by the brougham citizens league i think it is the least we cn do for the services don rendered to brough am to the vicinity and to the whole township said councillor victor rudik garbage burns gormley firemen from stouffville were call ed to the gormley mush room farm to extinguish a fire in a load of garbage inside a truck owned by ralph spademan of mark ham the truck was being re paired at the time and had to be towed away from nearby buildings the hy draulic gear would not function and the firemen had o use crowbars and a block and tackle to open doors on the truck to gel at the blaze it took over an hour to extinguish it thoroughly the blaze apparently started from an arc welder being used on the truck damaged the packing ap paratus slightly but not the cab of the truck v hiqher county man m p assessment here stouffville in 1970 the village of stouff ville will pay a larger per centage of york countys expenditure than in 1969 it was revealed in the 1970 county equalized assess ment for the county purposes next year the village as sessment has been set at 5795367 but its assess ment for municipal pur poses is only 5517074 in 1969 stouffvilles equalized assessment was s5j20000 and for municipal purposes 5150000 some other york county municipalities equalized assessments are with as sessment for municipal purposes in brackets town of markham 14768- 625 s15j99j40 mark ham township 43686113 35389241 whitchurch 11688911 11637259 total assessment in the county is 244444659 drought continues markham twp markham twp the townships water de partment feels that de spite their many requests to the residents to con- serve water by not wat ering their lawns many are not cooperating the halt to lawn water ing was put in ctlecl last week alter the depart ment received man com plaints ol laps running dry the water supl chas rose mated hat if the hot spell continue and the residents u not co operate they will be forced to tut oil supplies during the night onto man was killed and five others were injured in a headon crash on don mills rd north of gorm ley sunday dead is thomas sards 20 of toronto a passen- jfrz- ger in a light panel truck ff- driven bv gcorgios ziskos 21 ziskos and another pas senger thomas gafos also of toronto siilfered internal injuries when thrown from the duck james goldin 47 and two passengers in his southbound station vva gon mrs june murray 43 and steven murray 16 all of scnrboro suf fered injuries the force of he impact caused ihe truck to flip over on its roof landing on lop of ihe station wa gon and pinning smis in the wreckage firemen had to use a low truck and crow bais lo free his body he was pronounced dead on ar- highland fling susan studak 7 from windsor was one of the many children who competed in the dancing at the second markham highland games held in the fair grounds on saturday hundreds gathered early in the morning to watch the display harry hooper pickering appeals county assessment firemen from aurora hose down gasoline spilled on the roadway in this spectacular wo ca north of gormley rival at york county hos pital new market charges arc pending against ziskos pc geo heppell of the whit- conducting church twp police is tion r headon crash peter harris the invesliga- pickering twp notice will be given by pickering twp of intent to appeal the 1969 county equalization fctor to be levied on taxes in 1970 council will request a hearing regarding this appeal before the ontario municipal board the provincial factor was raised from 95 to 141 and this it seems lo coun cillors will be fell right down the line in ontario county ontario county they feel should give a lower percentage than the 29 factor reeve john williams said that il seemed odd that all the municipalities that had been reassessed had received r e vise d equalization factors for basic shelter grants the county in his opin ion lias taken action this year which there is no basis for williams said that he questioned a man from the omb al a county council meeting about whether or not county assessor gordon i icp- dilcll had acted wisely in this connection the ans wer he said was a blunl no mr ilepdiich told us what wonderful benefits we would gel from re- assessment said he reeve but we have the county school board that il will be used for ihe county levy and ihe basic shelter grant the ajax factor has gone up lo 113 and said councillor john kruger ajax is in the same posi tion lo appeal appeal before omb stouffville an appeal will be heard be fore ihe ontario munici pal board on aug 7 al 10 am lodged bv mr fred milne main st stouff ville against the granting by the commillee of ad justment to mr edward armstrong for permission to convert his large home- to three apartments the homes are located be tween charles and wil liam streets