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fred and ethel masked bandits fred and ethel are two masked bandits that dont roam the streets of stouffville unnoticed the pair are from a litter of six born in a dlcksonshlll barn and have become the pets of 17 year old judy boettger right and her sister arlene 13 of mill street peter harris salary negotiations are stalled until fall york county after more than six months of meetings between com mittees appointed by york mayoralty candidate markham twp markham township deputy reeve anthony roman announced his intention to seek the position of mayor of the new town of markham anthony roman within the region of york the announcement was made public at the township council meeting held july 20 county board of education and the york county representatives of the ontario secondary school teachers federation both groups appear to hold no hope for a contract settlement before sep tember whitchurch trustee arthur starr chairman of the boards salary negotiating committee submitted a salary package to the teachers through negotiating committee chairman john munrocape a teacher at richmond hill high school in his memorandum mr starr pointed out that as a result of our meetings with your committee some significant changes have been made in our offer of june 8 the 500 increments annual increases in troduced into the grid affect approximately 68 teachers and will ultimately benefit all teachers as their ex periences reach these levels the offer included a 400 increment for teachers in all categories up to the maximum which may be reached over a period of 12 to 15 years depending on category windows broken stouffville stouffville police report that five windows at the rear of summitview public school were broken by thrown stones july 10 and 15 damage to the glass is estimated at 100 motorcycle stolen stouffville a motorcycle property of harold crowder baker avenue was stolen from in front of his home during the night of july 15 the machine a 1964 bsa is valued at 500 pc thomas wauchope investigated century city still olive uxbridge twp the decision of the department of municipal affairs rejecting ap plications to rezone lands in uxbridge township for the proposed century city development has not- according to the developersput the death sentence on the scheme mr richard roh- merqc informed the tribune that he is engaged in active discussion with the provincial govern ment with regard to the status of century city as it relates to the toronto centred region report the report is cited as the basis for the rejection of the scheme by the department of municipal affairs mr rohmer has been retained by century city developments ltd as legal counsel in the matter markham man charged with impaired driving hbun stouffvilllmarkhamuxbridge ont thursday july 23 1970 15 cents garfield wright york regional 24 years service york cty garfield wright resident of east gwillimbury and former warden of the county has been named by municipal affairs minister darcy mckeough as the first chairman of yorks new regional government this initial appointment made by the ontario government is for a foryear term his new council will be elected on oct 5 mr wright is a 50year old insurance agent and has had a total of twentyfour years in municipal politics he was warden of the county in 1968 and had begun as a school trustee in 1944 he was reeve of east gwillimbury from 1964 to 1969 the new chairman and his council will conduct business for an 880squaremile region with a population of 150000 while not denying the cost factor the new chairman holds to the belief that the new regional system should bring much more efficiency he argues that there are bound to be savings in having only nine local governments rather than fourteen support tax protest first chairman government w stouffville the municipal council went on record thursday night by endorsing a protest against the high assessment of farm land by whitchurch township council the whitchurch resolution urged that the government follow the recom mendation of the select committee on taxation which called for a range of 15 to 200 for farm land in parcels over ten acres the resolution went on to point out that the use of sale value as a means of assessment was an unfair basis reeve ken laushway said he believed the township should be sup ported in their protest and deputyreeve jas mckellar moved im mediate endorsement jack rettie chief engineer of the toronto and york roads commission and chief engineer of york county resigned his position with the commission monday morning to become the chief administrator of the new region of york he is shown above signing his letter of resignation as york north mpp bui hodgson left and york region chairman garfield wright look on bob white newmarket era visitors injured in headon crash object to split pickering township pickering twp strong opposition has been voiced against the latest report on planning for the ontario county regional gov ernment which divides pickering township into two municipalities reeve john williams complained that the report did not spell out what the financial im pact would be as a result of splitting his township not a single clause in the 600page report on the proposals for the oshawacontred region was approved when it was placed before a meeting thursday of the oshawa area plan ning and development study executive this the third in a series of reports was strongly criticized by officials in the affected municipalities faced with such a torrent of opposition the executive committee decided only to receive the report and release it for public discuwion at a series of public hearing to begin in august markham twp an automobile and tractor- trailer accident occurred on july 11 on concession 10 just north of 14th avenue ronald knabb 36 of 202 main street east in stouffville has been charged with impaired driving he was travelling north when he collided with a tractor trailer parked at the side of the road as another car was coming south he was unable to pass safely and after braking slid into the stopped vehicle operated by james sinclair 29 of 22 john dexter place markham minor injuries were incurred by both drivers and property damage was estimated at 700 to knabbs car and 400 to the truck complete work on crosswalk stouffville workmen were busy this week installing the necessary overhead and curb signs as well as the street painting for the towns first official crosswalk the location is at the municipal st cor ner brougham two former brougham girls who had returned to the area for a vacation were injured july 12 in a head on crash near lindsay fifteen year old debbie brown is in st josephs hospital peterboro in good condition with facial injuries her sister patsy 18 was released from lindsay hospital following ob servation the girls are the daughters of mr and mrs mel brown who moved from brougham to the bahamas a year ago mr and mrs brown flew to peterboro sunday night to be with their daughters also injured were david macarthur 21 of markham and also for merly of brougham he is confined to civic hospital peterboro with facial injuries and a broken elbow david howell 17 of brougham was treated at lindsay hospital and later released building at low ebb stouffville building construction in stouffville during the past six months is at its lowest level in many years only a half dozen residential permits have been issued and except for two major projects new construction of commercial buildings is virtually at a standstill the 22 suite senior citizens home on elm road and a new apartment plowmen ask for grant stouffville messrs fred steckley and walter winn appeared before the municipal council thursday night to request a financial grant for the east york plowmens association the council has hitherto only given financial support to the north york association mr steckley admitted that the farmers in east york were having a dif ficult time to keep their association solvent now that scarboro was nearly all urban and predicated that an amalgamation with north york would be a certainty within the next few years reeve laush way advised that the request would be passed on to the finance committee for consideration the deputation said that plans were being made to jhold this years match on the border of stouffville building on winlane are underway a total of 27 permits were issued during 1969 for construction totalling 712000 region administrator newmarket gar field wright chairman of the region of york today announced the ap pointment of aj rettie as chief administrator of the new municipality the appointment con firms the announcement made earlier this month by bill hodgson mpp north york the announcement followed a meeting of the toronto and york road commission on monday morning mr rettie has been chief engineer of toronto and york roads com mission and york county engineer since 1954 he graduated from the university of toronto with a bachelor of applied science degree in civil engineering he was born in toronto and attended elementary and secondary schools in york township mr rettie served during world war n with the royal canadian engineers he is pastpresident of the ontario good roads association past- president of the county engineers association of ontario and a member of the professional engineers association a resident of newmarket since 1956 mr rettie served on the newmarket district high school board from 1956 until 1968 he is married with one son a daughter and a granddaughter proper road before building permit next special lake issue of the tribune august 13th whitchurch twp the question of allowing residential buildup in whitchurch townships ratcliff road subdivision has come before council- again solicitor donald hind- son appeared at the july 20 meeting on behalf of mr charles ratcliff and mr gordon smith to request a permit to build a home on the road a township bylaw for bids residential con struction on all roads not assumed by the municipality council stated that in order to obtain a permit the road must first be brought up to the department of highways standards and then the township might assume it councillor gordon ratcliff commented that the ban on building was a hardship on many owners as they were forced to pay heavy taxes on their un developed properties the lot in question is owned by mr charles ratcliffs daughter carol ratcliff crips a solicitor appearing on her behalf attended the meeting but discussion had ended prior to his arrival 20000 damage to lumber truck leonard inwood gormley driver of this tandem lumber truck estimated the damage to be t20m after he rolled the big truck loaded with logs in an effort to miss hitting a dog the track was further damaged when fire broke out the truck is owned by the mc suter company of whitchurch twp and the incident took place near bowmanville photo courtesy bowmanville statesman ward 4 race whitchurch twp whitchurch councillor gordon ratcliff has tossed his hat into the political ring again this time his name stands for the office of councillor in ward 4 of the new whitchurch- stouffville electoral systen elections will take place on october 5 ward 4 includes the area between concessions 8 and 9 north of main street and west of the railway tracks the northerly boundary extends betwen lots 13 and 14 mr ratcliff was both a member and chairman of the stouffville district high school board for a period of ten years prior tc his election as councillor in whitchurch he is a farmer and is married with a son ian and a married daughter diane stouffer