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train service to be disrupted stouffyllle the familiar notes of the train dies in crash knew everybody whistle of the stouffville toronto commuter- service will not be heard for 10 weeks a cnr spokesman said this week due to construction of an overpass in agincourt the train will be discontinued starting july 28 buses will be used during the 10week period they will leave at the same time as the train that is 707 aim from stouffville and will depart union station to return at the usual hour stouffville sandy barker loved things mechanical especially air- planes thursday night he was killed on leslie st when be swerved to avoid a cyclist- police said that the car driven by sandy was south bound on leslie st just north of 19th ave when he lost control of the car trying to miss- the cyclist the car skidded into a culvert and rolled over ending up on its roof he was dead on arrival at york i central hospital a- passenger in the car david parsons was also taken to hospital sandford newell barker would have been 18 years old on sept 21 the oldest son of gordon and frances barker of main st e he was born in ajax and the family moved to stouffville seven years ago and be at tended summitview public school and stouffville dist secondary school he was to begin a course in aviation at seneca college in september an outgoing individual sandy kne w everybody in town according to his mother as far asbe- was con cerned there was no other place like stouffville she said at the age of 10 he started working parttime at the marknam airport and started his flight training at the early age of 12 at 16 he received his flying license and at the time of his death owned his own air craft cars were another interest and he enjoyed playing football with his friends besides his parents tie is survived by brothers gordieand teddy and sisters joy barbara wendy and nancy funeral service was sunday c at v stouffville missionary church- with rev john hamilton officiating pallbearers included tim dickinson nickibeelik steve tsapoitis john bolender doug wagg and bradley harrington honorary-vpallbearers- were frank ryfa dave foster steve macfarlane jim elsoh larry vandyk and raymond holmes cremation- followed the funeral jkskbklwr stoiif f ville stop for steam train i- stouffyille residents of stouffville will be able to see bulletnosed bet ty canadian national railways last steam engine when it stops in stouffville saturday on its way to peter- boro the special excursion has- jbeen organized by the peterboro chamber of commerce in conjunction with the 150th an niversary of the arrival of the first irish settlers in canada i the excursion leaves toronto about 8 am and should be in stouffville about 845 with arrival iri peterboro set for 1240 pm the train will return in the evening a cnr spokesman said that the excursion is sold out jftvu- vol 88 no 12 whitchurch stouffville july 24 1975 20 cents 16 pages board members can decide new election is possible by john montgomery york cty trustees of the board of education have the power to decide whether wit- chufchstouffvilletrustee colin barretts replacement will be appointed or elected the tribune was told last week by a board employee that according to board regulations mr barretts successor must be appointed board of education associate director john kippen wind saves wheat field gormley- southwest wind saved 150 acres of tinder- jdry wheat friday when the hot exhaust- pipe from a pickup truck started the grain on fire the 5 fire occurred at the walter brilliriger farm on don mills rd north of the stouffville rdthe wheat- was being har vested when the fire started the wind pushed the fire into a nearby field of grass in- stead of through the grain field everything was so tinder- dry that it could have taken 150 acres fire chief walt smith said i if stouffville firefighters had the blaze extinguished in an hour refuted this saying as i in- terpret the municipal election act the choice is dearly the boards to make an appointment or call an election mr kippen explained that one clause of the act specifies the replacement must be ap pointed but he further pointed out that another clause which supercedes the first leaves the decision in the hands of the remaining trustees the trustees are required to take action either way at the first meeting after the vacancy has occurred mr barrett who will resign his post as he has been trans ferred to the guarantee trust office in leamington has not yet tendered his resignation and has stated he has no intention of resigning immediately he said he will not- resign until some issues now before the board have been dealt withthe item of business he is most neil davis of rupert ave should go far in the world he is both frugal and honest last week he found 95 and it was turned into york regional police themoney was later claimed and neil receiveda reward ted wilcox i- 10 reward after lad returns stouffville when it comes to money nesday morning while walking in the parking lot honesty and frugality have paid offfor neil behind the mansion house hotel on main street davis 12 of rupert ave on july 16 he found 95- the money folded in half included three 20s in cash lying on the ground and promptly turned three 10s and one five dollar bill v it in toyork regional police describing his reaction when finding the the next daythe money was claimed by its moneyeil sajd owner iris johori of william street ahd neil i e money homeneil showed it to was presenteda 10 reward his mother pat davis who phoned the pohce lt h neil was issued a receipt for the cash and would neils abijityto collect money had been have been owner of it in three months if it had not deomonstrated anotherway last summer claimed when he travelled to england to visit his grand- parents the entire 246 plane bill was paid with money sayecl from neils morning paper route neil had spotted the missing cash on wed- tu viu we were pleased that hie owner had been found- said mrs davis she pointed out that- otherwise the owner would have been sick for the loss of it concerned with is im plementation of the ross report on administrative and trustee reorganization he also pledged to attack the division within the board he dismissed as unlikely the possibility of his resignation until after the next full meeting of the board aug 18 mr barrett has the right to retain his seat as long as he continues to be a property owner in whitchurchstouffvilleand he hasjndicated he is not in a rush to yell his home the trustee has said on more than one occasion he wishes to see his post filled through election rather than by appointment i think it proper for the people of stouffville to have- a say rather than the board he commented former town trustee john mcmurray has indicated his willingness to accept the position if it is offered mr mcmurray said he always in tended on returning to the board if an appointment is made mr- mcmurray would be a logical appointee but also a very controversial one mr mcmurray is commonly regarded as part of the old guard whose members were largely defeated at the last election of the 20 board members fully half lost their seats that election and mr mcmurray lost to mr barrett by an overwhelming margin mr barrett polled nearly 100 per cent more votes with a standing of 1409 to 735 which may make mr mcmurray unacceptable to many trustees and ratepayers king trustee margaret coburn is reported to have contacted the ballantrae home and school association and requested their input members of that association have expressed concern to the tribune that their opinions would not be representative as they are the only home and school association in the municipality any parties interested in serving as trustee or wishing to express an opinion as to how the successor should be chosen are invited to write the tribune where editorial spacewill be made available as a public forum j they take them young these days here ninemonth old timmy lavell takes part in the tots and moms swimming course offered at the stouffville pool he and his mother loretta appear to be enjoying it forstory and pictures see page 9 john montgomery this businessman isrdwriedoff council considers motor boat bylaw muss lake this summer might be the last season motor boats are allowed on musselmans lake i town planning consultant max sherman appeared before planning board last week to discuss the official plan amendment he has drawn up to delwith musslemahsahd preston lakes- 1 mr sherman was questioned as to what action could be taken against motor boats i- j he told the board they could licence or prohibit motor boats v thelake and they wouldnt h to do it under zoning or official plan amendments you can pass a bylaw prohibiting motor boats even if it has been on the lake for two years- he told the board ad- ding can stop them even if they already have boats as long as the bylaw is approved by the ontario municipal board mr sherman explained there are enough precedences of n this nature set that there would likely be little objection from the omb planning board chairman eldred king commented that people are being made more and more aware of water safety- he speculated that before next boating f season comes around we can enact a prohibiting bylaw no objections to banning motor boats were raised by any members of the board although councillor becky- wedley representative of that ward was- absent on holiday stouffville at least one stouffville businessman is not happy with the cost of garbage collection service station owner mickey hunt told the tribune he is totallyjbrowried off with my garbage my bill and the whole v thing- he said that the total cost of garbage pickup for his home and garage was 124 in 1974 recentlyhe received a bill of 300 for garbage- pickup for three months he said that a bin had been placed at his garage but found that during the night people would put garbage in it and the bin woufd be full if it continued on this scale for the whole year it would cost 1200 mr hunt said mayor gordon ratcliff replied that businesses are charged according to the amount of garbage they generate and the number- of pickups part of the reason for mr hunts high bill was that empty cartons thrown into the bin were not squashed down enough the mayor said v we havent had very many complaints- the mayor said- but we are willing to discuss it v car bums in crash whitchurch a former whitchurchstouffville v couple narrowly escaped death last week when their car wentout of control and crashed then burst into flames murray and vbrunhilde ease water stouffville although the threat of a water shortage in stouffville seems to be over there is still some concern over what action should be taken to prevent future occurences planning board chairman eldred king last week spoke in favor of tightening up j the watering bylaw which restricts householders to watering their iawiisand gardens three days a weeki js mr king referred tothev 1jc00 fine recently imposed by the town of newmarket he said that two weeks ago when the reservoir nearly ran drya million and a half gallons of water was being used per day he was outragedthatofthis amount only 400000 gallons was showjng up at the sewage treatment plant and he referred m vto the rest asbeirig poured out over the ground mr king estimated 300 gallons of water had been used per person per day and he called this insane s- it was also revealed at the meeting that a construction company working on the north- down subdivision had left three hydrants running during the dry spell- t no action was- taken on introducing fines for violations jmaybg6rdonratcliftpld thetribunelateririthe week that the waterleyel wasdrop- pirigagainbutthe heavy rains over the weekend have brought uielevdbackup vv h v workssuperintendent ron gibson said- thedrop lastxweek was only a minor one of a bout two feet and presented no miller recently moved toa new -farm- in wallfenstein near elmira- their cattle however reniained at their old farm on the 6th cone north i of t the stouffville rd the cattle were to be moved july 18thecouple were ohtheir way from their pew farm to tend the cattle on july 14 mrs- miller was driving soon after leaving wallenstein she saw children playing oh the road and applied the brakes very hard the car went out of control struck -a- culverfand rolled over mr and mrs miller escaped from the car just before it burst into flames the vehicle was completely destroyed v mayor ratcliff said that whatever mr hunt or other businessmen pay in taxes for garbage collection will be deducted from the charges for the boxes so they are not assessed twice for garbage collection we wont let anybody pay exorbitant fates the mayor added v outsiders target of petition muss lake a petition calling for restrictions on motor boats from outside the municipality using musselmans lake is being circulated by one cottage owner carl kirk an avid water skier himself hopes tc have 500 signatures on a petition calling for a ban on boats from outside whitchurchstouffville mr kirkmaintainsthat the main problem on the lake comes from weekend boaters who have little or no regard for the safety and enjoyment of the ycottagers a busy t weekend mr kirk says there are asmanyas 20 boats on the lake- owned by peoplewho come from outside the area thv local boaters he claims are quite considerate of others using the f lake for quiet enjoyment i know itwpuld work said and would prevent crowding all boats on the lake would registered and alien craft would be identified and the owners fined according to mr kirks suggestion v f it woujd only take one summer for the word to get around he added mr kirk also said jhat councillor becky wedley favors the approach rather than banning motorboats from the lake completely man killocl as ear hits cn fpcomptiyci gormley a cartrain collisionearly monday at an unsignaled cnrcrossing on leslie st south of the stouffville rd killed one man and seriously injured a second fj york regional police said bruce cram 22 maple and his passenger walterbaker25cthornhillwere northbound on i leslie st at 650 am their volkswagen struck the engine of the torontobound passenger train about 12 feet back from the front of the engine kjmmh i- f v f vthecar was dragged about 30 feet the trainwhich had stopped at- the g6rmleystatiohwasjustpickingup speed travellingabbut30mphziaj mlifyf vwalterbakertwas pronounced dead arrival s central hospitalbruce cram remains iri intensive care with i 7 severe head and chest injuries fy j t- u