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manager says quick response stived bank front destructibn stouffville another 10 minutes and we wouldnt be sitting here ron berry manager of the stouffville branch of the canadian imperial bank of commerce told the tribune tuesday the night before a jure had started in the basement of the bank mr berry said that quick response by the stouffville fire department saved the building no one was in the bank when the fire started but a neighbor across the street brian lehman heard the fire gong ringing apparently- the alarm was short circuited by the fire mr leh- man looked saw smoke and quickly called in the alarm the damage was confined to the basement and the bank opened for business tuesday morning fire chief walt smith said that the cleaning staff had been burning garbage in the in cinerator in the basement he said that an ex ploding aerosol can in the garbage had blown the lid off the incinerator and started the room on fire chief smith estimated the damage at 2000 and mr perry said that nearly 1000 worth of stationary supplies were ruined telephones were out of order and hydro was off in some parts of the building tuesday mor ning except a smokey smell the main part of the bank was untouched by the blaze still seeking complex council says no to land purchase stouffville the recreation complex committee appeared before council last week in an unsuccessful attempt to get a further committment from the town john foulds chairman of the committee told council they had worked three years more or less getting nowhere and he asked them to advise us or give us some kind of support we can take backto bur clubs mr foulds urged council to make advantage of the free land offered by the york county combined committee seeks site stouffville a committee constituted of members of council and library board has been formed to find a location for the proposed new kbrary building v rs v y mayor gordon ratcliff chairman of the committee appointed councillors eldred king and june button- to represent- council on the com- mittee i the library board mem bers chosen were jim sanders library board chairman- and carole mcdermott rtruck ban i extended vmuss lake council last week passed a bylaw prohibiting truck traffic on hillsdale dr 1 according to councillor becky wedley gravel trucks have been using hillsdale since jhe 9th was closed to heavy vehicles if t he sign had been placed south of hillsdale instead of 200 feet northwe wouldnt have that m problem she told the tribune r -the- bylaw will come into effect when it receives regional approval it is expected the by law will be rubberstamped at regional council board of education and to enter into negotiations for a required three acres of land owned by the separate school board council refused to commit themselves to negotiate for the land but merely reiterated their willingness to contribute 200000 towards a swimming pool mr foulds said the money was not the problem but the primary concern was to acquire land so plans could be made for the future he indicated the committee has no power to bargain for land so it is up to council councillor cathy joice praised the committee members for the time and energy they have devoted to the project but she was critical of council we should have the intestinal for titude to tell them its off instead of beating around the bush as we have for the last two years mayor gordon ratcliff argued thaf c6uncilhad stated their position which was that they would back a swimming pool but hot a complex we are not particularly pushing 1 to have the whole project done right away but we have to start somewhere and land is obviously the first thing said mr foulds you can have the library and day care centre at theother end of town but it will cost more mrs- joice suggested they get the land and then see what we can afford she indicated they might not be able to afford to build anything for four or five years councillor eldred king said council cant make a clear and definite decision until we get other matters settled ross hetherington told council getting theland from the school board for a dollar a year is now worth 500000 and in two or three years would be worth a million heaccused council of not beingable to make decisions mreoulds thanked council for hearing them out arid asked for theinclecision in writing arson suspected in high school blaze markham arson is suspected as the cause of a fire at markham district high school which caused an estimated 4000 damage according to police reports a man was seen leaving the school in a car about five minutes before a fire was- discovered in a construction shack beside the school the fire spread from the shack to a chute and blower for removing sawdust from the woodworking shop a neighbor who reported the fire to the markham fire department also supplied police with a description of the suspeded arsonists vehicle about 1 pm friday mor ning a stouffville man ronald claremont legion 25ih anniversary claremont claremont legion celebrated its 25th anniversary in grand style saturday the festivities started in the early afternoon with game tournaments in euchre cribbage pool darts and shuffleboard the highlight of the day was the dinner in the evening with 250 members and guests present head table guests were legion president jack bates and his wife june auxiliary president jean bradshaw and husband jack and zone com- mander audrey bate and husband bob of bowmanville the anniversary cake was cut and served by three charter auxiliary members josephine linton norma benson and rowena lehman at the conclusion of the dinner 25 year pins were awarded to harold hopkins jack lehman howard hockley jack rennie ralph norton gord benson ken norton gil wannop randy carruthers jim norton ren loyst frank hollingshead mike norton gord taylor earl cook and doug norton t twentyfive year pins were presented to auxiliary mem- v bers josephine linton norma benson rowena lehman arvilla lehman and eva towner twenty year pins went to i evelyn carruthers gloria jones myrtle hill helen pascoe r irene redshaw and elizabeth godem yiij winners of the 5050 draw were bernice barron jean martin and jess burrows lagala dance followed the dinner out of the town guests came from port perry scugog stouffville oshawa whitby- bowmanville ajax brougham uxbridge toronto maple and vpjckering v 3 thompson spotted a barri fire on the 7th of markham mr thompson notified harold nobbs the owner who was sleeping at the time and attempted to remove livestock from the barn whichis located at lot 19t about 25 sheep and 20 chickens were saved but 95 pigs five head of cattle a tractor and feed were destroyed police estimate the loss at 32125 polebroken hydro off stouffville power was off to homes on edward st for almost six hours friday as a scrap metal truck caught a hydro pole and broke it off gordon brown of the stouffville public utilities commission said that the truck driven by sherman middleton pulled over to the side of the road when one of the hydraulic arms caught the pole the incident happened around 1045 am power was off for about 30 minutes along main st as a result of the incident mr brown said that fuses blew at the substation and until the trouble area was isolated the power vas left off by 430 pm puc workmen had repaired the damage and replaced the pole town to pay for bus trip stouffville the town will pay the cost of busing senior citizens to the strawberry festival to be held at black creek pioneer village council decided to make the busing their contribution to senior citizens week seniors- can make reservations by calling the town office at 6401900 or parkview home at 6401911 by june 10 vol 88 no 5 whitchurch stouffville june 5 1975 20 cents 16 pages jane mosel isnt really losing all her hair she is clearing the bar during the high jump event at the orchard parksummitview combined track and field meet monday the oncepostponed event went off at the first of the week at orchard park public school joh n montgomery police budget again region wants 200000 cut york region york region has requested the regional police to chop 200000 from its budget instead of the 300000 originally suggested chief bruce crawford and representatives of the police commission appeared before regional council thursday the chief maintained that cutting the 300000 from his budget would seriously weaken the serviceprovided by the force he explained that 13 meri were needed to fill vacancies in various departments he said that without the 13 men he would have to take men off the roads and increase the size of patrol areas he- agreed that- ap proximately 100000 could be cut but rejected the 300000 figure after some discussion councillor ray twinney suggested that 10 men be hired and the hiring be done later in the year the budget then could be cut by 200000 the chief warned that reducing the forces efficiency was not a good idea and that this is not the time to be reducing law enforcement in our community it is not being done anywhere later in the meeting when the budget was being discussed a proposal by georgina mayor george burrows to allow the police to cut 140000 was defeated ffa further motion rby councillor bob adams that 200000 be cut from the police budget was passed by a close 87 vote 7 richmond hill mayor dave schiller wished to insure that the police not hire morethan 10 men in 1975 legally you cant do that councillor twinney said the board wont hire more than 10 men- councillor twinney and markham mayor tony roman are lumbers of the york region police commission j town takes step to limit firearms use 25 increase in region levy york region with some small adjustments york regional council approved a 1975 budget last week that shows anincrease olalmost25 per cent the regional levy will increase about 18 on a house assessed at 20000 in whitchurch stouffville that does riot include increases for the local levy or school board for markham the increase is about 20 on a house assessed at 20000 the total amount to be raised by the regional levy is 8986685 an increase of 2352768 over 1974 levy the increase in spending is almost 35 per cent increased assessment in the region lowered the impact of the amount to be charged to in dividual property owners last week council made three minor changes in the budget approved early in may the engineering budget was trimmed by 35000 and grants were lowered by 13800 that wasoffset by an addition to the police budget of 100000 pickering hunters and others with guns have sometimes caused problems in the town of pickering by firing indiscriminately and in unsafe areas last week the town executive took the first- step towards correcting the problem by passing bylaw controlling the firing of guns three readings of the bylaw needed to take place at council meeting on monday to make it law- the new law stipulates that landowners rnay use a firearm no larger than 275 calibre to control varmints on their own property provided they dont shoot onto another property area also required is that hunters must have all necessary licences and the landowners permission in writing to use his land fines for contravention of the bylaw would range frorii 100 to 300 costly night court refused by province stouffville council has endorsed a town of newmarket resolution calling for the formation of a night court in york region two previous requests for this service from regional council have already been refused by the ministry of the attorney general in the i second letter of refusal attorney general john clement admitted we do not at thepresent time have the resources to properly ad minister day- courts at newmarket personnel and budget restraints are cited as reasons the night court will not be allowed s the ministry also argues the granting of any night court outside of metro toronto would create demand for similar serviceiri- many other municipalities the resolution calling for night courts was unanimously supported by whitchurch- stouffville council it makes sense to ac commodate people in this way commented councillor merlyn baker meeting on expropriation pickering ontario riding mp norm cafik has called a public meeting monday june 9 to discuss the ex- propriation procedures in the airport area it will be held at pickering high school beginning at 8 pm a spokesman for the mp said that mr cafik will be making some announcements about government policy at the meeting v ac theucw ladies orlemohyillelluriitmfcirufchdesjgnedthb banner to tell something bf the 50th anniversaryofchurch t over 200 ladies gathered at stouffville united cliurchmondayto celebrate the unionwhich took- place on june 10- 1925 fortyfive churches in the york presbytery were represented 7ted wilcox i