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vol 81 no 18 stouffvillemarkhamuxbridge ont thursday oct 2 1969 15 cents school cafeteria inspection authorized by trustee board tires slashed stouffville resi dents of stouffville are becoming increasingly in censed over acts of van dalism in town within re cent weeks the latest incidents oc curred on the weekend when four tires on a car owned by bert clarkson main street west were slashed with a knife early saturday morning one tire on a car owned by mrs isobel duncan main street east was cut in a similar manner on sunday all win dows in an auto owned by an employee of the cable tech company were broken the vehicle was parked on the factory lot water water everywhere seek the stouffville public utilities commission has competition at the creamery site on civic street the owner hopes to replace the puc service with his own private well a sufficient supply is not yet available although the drill hole is down 300 feet jas thomas glenn r thompson heads all correctional institutions for women stouffville glenn r thompson son of mr and mrs a g thompson albert street and a gradu ate of stouffville high school has been promoted to the head of all ontarios correctional institutions for women previously he served as superintendent of the vanier centre for women near brampton the new appointment was announced by hon allan grossman minister of correctional services glenn a graduate of toronto university joined the correctional depart ment in 1960 as a social worker at millbrook re formatory in 1963 he travelled to england to work for a year at hend erson hospital a treat ment centre for delinquent psychopaths he also en rolled in a course in crim- glenn r thompson inal law at the london school of economics he has been superintendent of vanier since its open ing early in 1969 for sale one elephant stouffville many animal oddities have en tered the auction ring at the stouffville sales barns hwy 47 but this saturday something en tirely new will be fea tured a 2000 pound ele phant the pet released from a private zoo will be sold at 2 pm in the sales ring to the east of the main auction arena norman faulkner will call the bids separate board whitchurch twp the east whitchurch cen tennial centre at ballan- trae wishes to operate as a separated organization rather than a part of the township recreation assoc iation the request was reveal ed by councillor bob lewis sept 23 councillor lewis ex plained that the ballantrae centre was extremely ac tive he suggested that consideration be given to the creation of a 5man board to handle the oper ation of this venture only mr lewis and councillor betty vannostrand have been appointed to discuss the matter further and re port back their findings freak accident stouffville aub rey spang claremont rr 3 has been released from scarboro centenary hospital following an un usual accident that in flicted concussion and a head wound requiring 12 stitches mr spang was hauling logs with a tractor when one of them suddenly cati- pulted forward knocking him to the ground al though no one witnessed the accident it is believed he lay unconscious for about fifteen minutes regional government discussion stouffville stouffville council was well represented at a meeting in newmarket sept 24 but three hours later members were still questioning its accom plishments while it had been sup posed that municipal boundaries within the concept of a county re gion would be number one on the agenda the discussion developed into a debate over the benefits of regional government it self present were represen tatives from whitchurch king and east gwillim- bury townships the towns of aurora and newmarket and the vil lage of stouffville the session was arrang ed by the warden of york reeve stewart rumble markham township while many issues re lated to the subject were debated by the time the topic of internal bound aries was raised mayor tom surgeoner of new market suggested that the hour was too late and the meeting should adjourn and adjourn it did mayor dick illingworth of aurora was the first to question the advantages of a proposed region he said later that in his opinion the benefits were so limited the 14 muni cipalities should remain mayor surgeoner argu ed that at this stage it was useless for each town and township to propose al ternatives both reeve garfield wright of east gwillim- bury and deputyreeve lawrence hennessey agreed that there were still too many questions left unanswered whitchurch councillor betty vannostrand said that rather than request futility more time the members should take advantage of the time allowed and come up with concrete proposals she noted that the department of muici- pal affairs had agreed to hold off the implementa tion of regional govern ment until 1971 in reply to a question as to how stouffville would cope with an enlarged area that might include all of whitchurch reeve ken laushway said that serv ices would be extended as the need arose although some opposi tion was expressed to each question the majority favored regional planning county welfare and a county police force on the question of external boundaries the majority agreed that the county area as presently defined should remain several did not vote to sample food stouffville members of york county board of education will visit the cafeterias of three high schools in the area including stouff ville to check on the kind of food served there by an outside catering firm the proposal introduced by trustee keith nis- bet aurora sept 22 has been approved by di rector of education sam chapman other schools on the check list are huron heights in east gwillimbury and newmarket the same company serves all three trustee morley kince of maple said he had no faith in the firm and charged that the food pro vided was the cheapest type possible george a ford superintendent of business explained that the caterers in question had been hired by previous boards prior to the introduction of the county system trustee deena simpson of richmond hill said it seemed strange that cafeterias at stouffville huron heights and newmarket were not fully utilized she observed that if the service was not required the money could be put to a more worth while purpose i would like to know the prices charged for full course meals and what the menu includes said jack hadfield newmarket trustee j l burrows suggested that the price was beyond what the average student could af ford another member stated that the meals lacked variety mr nisbet contended that the proof of the pudding was in the eating trustees agreed to re port their findings after sample tests had been taken bogartown school new whitchurch museum no go system tracks not adequate whitchurch twp the century old bogar town school will be the location of whitchurch townships first museum the building located on don mills road between concessions 3 and 4 will become vacant at the end of this month a bylaw appointing the museum board for 1969 has been passed by coun cil the executive includes president henry nauta vice president wesley brillinger secretary d h stephens council mem bers deputyreeve law rence hennessey and councillor betty vannos trand a public meeting to out line future plans will be held in the township hall vandorf oct 2 tonight at 8 pm the guest speak er is v n styrmo mus eum advisor ontario his torical branch stouffville a gotrain commuter serv ice from toronto through lxbridge can never oper ate on the existing line an official of the york county planning depart ment told a joint meeting of stouffville council and planning board sept 25 he said he had been in direct contact with the cnr concerning the pos sibility of such a service starting here he explain ed that the line was not suitable to accommodate highspeed commuter traf fic and the railroad lacked sufficient funds to pur chase a new rightofway reeve ken laushway said that in his opinion a new rail line would even tually serve the area but predicted that it would bypass the builtup por tion of stouffville he termed the track between stouffville and goodwood as the crookedest in canada deputyreeve bill par sons suggested it would be impractical to estab lish a gotrain system through the centre of town he noted too that there was insufficient parking space at the sta tion to accommodate the passengers cars one clock 1650 gormley a century- old grandfathers clock sold for 1650 at an estate sale saturday on the pro perty of the late herbert leech arnold street richmond hill it was the highest price ever recorded by gormley auctioneer alvin farmer for a single item of furni ture at a sale of that kind mr farmer has been in the business 47 yearrs a second clock brought 700 a walnut table 120 a hall rack 90 and a gramaphone 85 alma walker mavor 2000 damage whitchurch twp damage has been estimat ed at 52000 to a 1964 model mercury tandem gravel truck that over turned on the blooming- ton road between conces sions 6 and 7 the vehicle owned by brian lopatriello of mark- ham and driven by rich ard sprague of richmond hill veered out of control when the steering broke the area was soaked with gasoline but no fire resulted the driver des cribed by police as very lucky escaped injury the accident was investi gated by brian cousineau whitchurch twp police department racing suspects fined 30 markham twp two suspected drag rac ers nabbed by markham twp police using an aero plane pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of speed ing in traffic court sept 26 and were each fined 30 plus 5 costs michael williamson 18 of agincourt and john brooks 21 of scarboro were arrested july 19 after sgt donald dukes pilot ing a light plane spotted a number of cars congre gated in the area of steeles avenue and hwy 48 deputy chier robert hood testified that two of the autos lined up and took off in a race he es tablished their speed at between 80 and 90 miles per hour the information was relayed by sgt dukes to cruisers below and the officers closed in both men pleaded guilty to doing 80 in a 50 mile zone the case lasted less than 10 minutes the solicitor for wil liamson said his client re gretted what had happen ed the accused the law yer said was steadily cm- ployed and had no previ ous record brooks is a first year student at scarboro cen tennial college the pair had originally been charged with danger ous driving and racing bul both charges were later withdrawn by the crown markham fair sunday program markham for the first time in its 114 year history markham fairs program has been extended into sunday the dates are oct 234 and 5 president charles reeve in commenting on the sunday show said he was confident the type of events planned would meet with public approval a giant parade to begin at the municipal building on main street will enter the grounds sunday afternoon at 1 pm the procession will include several drum and bugle corps and high land bands also scheduled is a hunter and jumper show a band concert helicopter and midway rides markham mayor alma walker will open the fair at 1 30 pm friday a school parade usu ally held on this date has been cancelled there will be no dance in the arena saturday night classes for dairy cattle begins with the jer sey show thursday afternoon and the hol- steins thursday evening guernsey entries will be judged on friday and ayrshires satur day the opp precision motorcycle team will put on a display both friday and saturday the horse pulling contest and pony party is friday afternoon horse racing with wagering privileges will be confined to saturday only the beef show steer auction and heavy horse competition is on the same day the dog obedience demonstra tion is both friday and saturday the 1969 executive of the markham and east york agricultural society include president charles reeve 1st vice president bert gardhouse 2nd vice president bert pais ley livestock director gerald mann and secretarytreasurer cora brodie hoooobocwpoflococwocwacaaecwi lot fees to improve new subdivision stouffville stouffville council meeting in committee has approved an expenditure of 56100 to complete im provements in the pon derosa subdivision the money will come from lot fees set aside in a special account for this purpose the costliest project is the construction of a side walk from winlane road along the north side ot rupert avenue to west- lawn crescent the price at 85c per foot will total approximately 4000 it will cross two driveways in front of parkview home and will be main tained by the town a second improvement will include the planting of 148 trees along an east- west service road to serve as a screen between resi dential and commercial development there in cluded will be 37 maples 37 spruce and 74 poplar lo cost 120250 plus 1 per tree for staking a third project is the construction of an asphalt walkway from maystone court to elm road it will serve as a shortcut for children attending st marks school the con tract let to miller paving company will cost 946- 20 some tomato stouffville the ross hetherington prop erty main street west may be zoned for industry but for agricultural use its hard to beat jack burrows of union- vijle who rents a portion of the land has produced a giant tomato weighing 1 lb 12 ounces it measured 17 inches around girl student suspended parent claims bus transportation a right construction is well underway on the new j2 million plant of jcspcrsenkay 11 systems limited hwy 48 and bethesda road in whitchurch township when h completed the firm will produce modular precast concrete building com- poncnts for use in the erection of apartment buildings hotels and other if peter harris markham twp is the york county board of education required to pro vide bus transportation to a student residing 20 miles from school regardless of circumstances that may warrant suspension the parent of a girl at tending at unionvillc has taken the stand that this service is not a privilege but a right according to informa tion revealed by the di rector of education s l chapman the suspension of deirdrc kavanagh fol lowed repeated warnings that the girls conduct on the bus was not accept able action on the matter was taken by the princi pal of unionvillc public school robert stover mr stover the director said he had noted that because the father had signed his daughters bus privilege card he automatically ac cepted conditions as pre scribed by it the father subsequently sent the 196970 cards back unsigned mr kavanagh charged that by suspending his girl from the bus the princi pal had penalized the parent since some alter nate method of transpor tation had to be found at a meeting of the board sept 22 it was sug gested that a prefect be appointed to ride each bus and rcpoit incidents of misbehavior mr chapman was op posed he argued that for one student to report the conduct of another would place the informant in an unfair position he pointed to section 37 1 of the schools ad ministration act that reads in part a board may provide transporta tion for its resident pu pils to and from a school that the board operates mr chapman said he had suggested to the prin cipal that if the conduct of a child on the bus- is such that riding privileges would normally be with drawn and if the parent has refused to sign the card the child be sus pended