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pioneer past is brought to life ten year old anne louise nielsen sits under the festival saturday that cleared close to 9000 she shadow of roblins mill at black creek pioneer is the daughter of mr and mrs peter nielsen mill village anne assisted at the annual mennonite race court dicksons hill jim thomas death from overdose guilty plea to trafficking crown withdraws one charge stouffville on jan 16 lois wallace an eighteen year old ballantrae girl died in york county hospital newmarket from an overdose of drugs later described as mda in ontario supreme court toronto monday bryan david grainge 19 and jutta gina manthau 22 both of rr 3 newmarket entered pleas of guilty to charges of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking a third party robert james gallamore 21 also of rr 3 newmarket had his charge withdrawn by the crown they were arrested by york regional police on the same day as the girls death a search of miss manthaus home evidence revealed uncovered a large quantity of mda capsules said to number in the hundreds miss manthau and grainge will be sentenced oct 24 lake not bottomless longtime theory is refuted stouffville how deep is musselmans lake the story has long existed that the lake is in fact bot tomless this theory is denied by officials of the dept of lands and forests and the provincial ministry of environment a survey by lands and forests in 1968 sets the maximum depth at 24 feet a survey by the ministry of environment places the maximum depth at 27 feet the bottomless suggestion an official at york region said probably results from its muddy base musselmans a recent study reveals is known as a kettle lake created when a large mass of ice was buried in glacial debris it later melted forming a sizeable body of water wrihum vol 86 no 18 whitchurch stouffville markham uxbridge thursday sept 27 1973 32 pages pavemaster fire damage estimated at 100000 owner has close call saving office records the dicksons hill site until he is able to build a new facility in ajax mr heron praised the stouffville and markham fire department they did a really great job and i appreciate their efforts he said freak accident two injured in 2car collision churchill two per sons were injured and admitted to hospital sunday following a collision at the intersection of the aurora sideroad and cone 9 whitchurchstouffville near churchill according to police joyce milford 42 of gormley was westbound accompanied by sandra milford 65 and joyce milford age 17 when her car was struck by another driven by mervin gilroy 47 ninth line north gilroy has been charged with failing to yield to traffic on a through highway vote oct 1 m ont cty the elec torate of uxbridge twp ux- bridge town and the twp of scott as well as pickering twp go to the polls monday to choose their first councils under regional government dicksons hill fire damaged the factory and destroyed the parts room and offices of pavemaster of canada limited on highway 48 near dicksons hill thursday more than 50000 worth of inventory was destroyed in the blaze pavemaster owner arnold heron estimated his total loss at 100000 provided he can save the walls of the building he said the fire began at noon hour when he and his seven employees were at lunch smoke was first spotted by employees at the adjacent stouiiville trailer sales who ran over with fire extinguishers a call went out to the whitchurchstouffville fire department at approximately 1240 pm and a pumper truck was dispatched when the exient of the fire was realized the tank truck was called as flames spread through the concrete block building the markham fire department was called with two pumpers and a tank truck pavemaster employees recovered a few tires and the companys records before smoke filled the building en tirely mr heron returned from lunch before the fire department arrived and rushed into the building to recover his ac countsreceivable ledger an employee eddie wideman of stouffville followed and helped him get out it is easy to see how people lose their lives said mr heron mr heron had returned wednesday from a government trade tour in europe he visited yugoslavia austria sweden and england pavemaster is the only company in canada which makes asphalt rollers and compaction equipment for road building mr heron hopes the plant will be back in operation within eight weeks a month earlier he had bought a building in ballantrae but intends to use it only as a parts plant assembly sales and service will remain at ringwood a freak accident monday on hwy 48 north of ringwood caused in jury to a 16 year old stouffville district girl gaye morrison grade 11 student at sdss and a resident on valley road musselmans lake fell out on the road when her arm struck the inside door handle on the passenger side of the car the victims mother mrs joyce morrison stopped the auto immediately she picked her daughter up and placed her back on the seat until an am bulance arrived the girl was in a dazed condition but not un conscious mrs morrison estimated the cars speed at 30 miles per hour at the time pinned under truck arena for goodwood goodwood first a community hall next a floodlit park now an artificial ice arena all through the generosity of arthur latcham of stouffville the rink latest in a series of projects un dertaken by mr lat cham was discussed at a meeting of uxbridge twp council monday the site has not been finalized soil tests- at various locations will be taken first the size or the cost of the arena was not men tioned it will be large enough however to ac commodate hockey and public skating ringwood a 65 year old scarboro man was pinned under his overturned van for about 15 minutes friday following a collision at the ringwood in tersection of hwys 47 and 48 henry tasker a driver for weston bakeries limited was released after george wilson of stouffville hooked a tow line on the truck and lifted it off the victim police said james krochter 26 of centre street aurora was attempting a lefthand turn while travelling south and struck the van proceeding north krochter has been charged in connection with the crash both men were hospitalized total damage has been estimated at 1900 life threatened claremont a 36 year old claremont district man has been charged with threatening following complaints received from a 14th avenue markham resident gordon unterman told york regional police that raymond stephen cowan rr 2 claremont entered his workshop and threatened to crush both his hands between two cement blocks later he said cowan returned this time with a friend and threatened to cut off the complainants hands with a saw boxed pot stouffville a 17 year old stouffville area girl entered a plea of guilty last week to cultivation of a restricted drug linda porter admitted in newmarket provincial court that the plants flourishing in her flower boxes were not flowers but marijuana fefe0 ftmj smoke billows out from all sections of the pavemaster plant at the located on hwy 48 north of dicksons hill michael gerhardt height of a blaze that caused an estimated 100000 damage the building is ratepayers unhappy with mt albert phone exchange whitchurch stouffville ratepayer association members were able to air their beefs with ma bell to more than a polite voice on the telephone during their meeting thursday two bell company em ployees attended to explain a plan that will give stouffville customers local calling with all of metro by 1977 but this progress will not help half the 20 ratepayers present because they are on the mount albert exchange and extremely unhappy about it bernice kovacs a bell area manager and charles brown commercial supervisor of development and planning appeared suprised by the of number and seriousness complaints the cost of being a stouff ville resident with a mount albert telephone number was the primary lament finley macdonald rr 3 stouffville said his annual bill for long distance calls to stouffville and area totals close to 300 bob gayton also of rr 3 stouffville objected to the high cost of a pnvate line ap proximately 16 per month others complained it is difficult to get telephone books for the area they want and to explain to outoftown friends why they are not in the stouff ville directory mr brown explained the difficulties and high costs of changing a group of phones from one exchange to another he said it might entail the aban donment of 250000 worth of cable also not all the people in mount albert want to be hooked to stouffville he said a majority of the 3000 subscribers might like to join uxbridge finally people asked if they could get a rebate on all stouffville calls mr brown said that a new program called the one way optional extended service is now in a twoyear trial period if its successful he said mount albert subscribers might some day pay a flat monthly rate for anyand all calls to stouffville although the bell repre sentatives said the mount albert to stouffville issue had never been presented to them as a gripping problem before the ratepayers had made their point mrs kovacs suggestea ihey contact her individually two arrests stouffville two arrests have been made by detectives ken paton and robert wilson york regional police related to breakins at the xl station hwy 48 north of ringwood and the stouffville gas mart main street west charged are joseph leclcrc 18 and richard mc- beth both of claremont firemen from stouffville and markham battled the stubborn blaze for over two hours water had to be trucked in by tankers from hydrants on street jim main dnw