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the second section sports news district news classified section hodgson holds york north w j lewis says he wont run a third time one of the popular spots was a pop corn dowell all of wideman mennonite church it stand here manned by left to right lois was one of many activities at the pioneer burkholder linda white and carolyn mc- festival don bernard roves pioneer to be mouthwatering event pioneer village over 20000 was raised- for the mennonite central committe saturday fat therrl9th annual pioneer festival at black greek pioneer village- v attendance for the daylong festival is estimated at 9000 second highest in the festivals history- oneof the big events of the day included the auction of homemade quilts i total quilt sales totalled 6400 the highest price went at 425 for a quilt 88 x 104 inches mr and mrs harold lapp were top bidders on that one r other pioneer activities included a bargain emporium run by the cw jeffreys chapter of the iode a shooting demonstration by the upper rifles baking preserves and crafts by the york west district wi various- mennonite churches in southern ontario provided a large variety of demonstrations including chili sauce corn roasting apple butter dried flower arranging quilting apple fritters tea ball making barbecued chicken legs etc three chapters of the pennsylvania german folklore society also provided demonstrations and sold various things including sauerkraut cider arid apple butter gj newmarket j the provincial election campaign in york north riding expected in about 18 months will see a rematch between progressive con servative incumbent bill hodgson and liberal margaret britnell but the ridings new democratic party will have to find a new can didate to replace bob lewis who lost his second bid for the legislature in last thursdays election mr hodgson who won his third consecutive term and mrs britnell in her first provincial race both said thursday night that they would run again next time mr lewis however said he felt he couldnt do any belief than he did thursday he will not run again he said the hodgson an nouncement surprised some observers who felt he would retire from a long political career after one more term there was speculation- that newmarket mayor bob forhan a converted liberal might lead the york north pcs in the next election but the new minority conservative govern ment and the prospect of an abbreviated term may have convinced t hodgson to look ahead to a fourth candidacy mrs britnell in her second term as mayor of king township said she would not run for mayor again next year en couraged by her strongs second place finish thursday she said she will concentrate her energies on provincial politics after her municipal term ends mr showed no surprise or disap- 3fpoinfment-at-ithe- york- v north results during his victory speech thursday night he said he had i predicted a tight race from the start but voter f confidence in his party clearly has eroded since 1971when he outpolled the com bined total of his two opponents on thursday 6731 more persons voted against mr hodgson than voted for him he won 12891 votes while mrs britnell got 10366 and mr lewis 9256 in 1971 mr hodgson took 15557 votes 1420 more than the combined total for mr lewis and- liberal george timpson mrs britnell led the liberals who finished last in 1971 into a respectable second place both she and mr lewis stressed a slow con trolled growth policy- for york region during their campaigns mr lewis picked up 1220 more votes thurs day than he did in 1971 and fared particularly well in newmarket where he won 20 of the 59 polls thursdays rain- soaked balloting at tracted a 682 per cent voter turnout in york north in 1971 73 per cent of the voters turned out mr hodgsons vie tory although much less decisive than in 1971 was never in doubt as the results rolled in thursday night he won or tied for pc incumbent easily bests local candidate stouffville while the official totals in york north riding showed incumbent william hodgson won a significant victory ndp candidate bob lewis placed a respectable second in his home municipality of whit- churchstouffville the official overall totals in the riding showed mr hodgson with 12891 margaret britnell 10366 and bob lewis 9256 in whitchurch stouffville mr hodgson won handily with 1936 votes but mr lewis was second chalking up 1629 mrs britnell picked up 1553 votes in the town although she placed second to mr hodgson in a number of polls mrs britnell won only four of the 28 polls in whitchurch stouffville mr lewis won in eight polls and mr hodgson led in the remainder mr lewis showed strong support in stouffvilles east end winning three polls there with 225 votes as against 173 for mr hodgson and mrsbritnehs 132 mr hodgsons largest victory was in two polls in the votes to 114 for mr lewis and 119 for mrs britnell voter turnout in the riding was 682 per cent- but the percentage turn- put in whitchurch- stouffville was 651 per cent the lead in 109 of the ridings 170 polls his biggest victory margin came in king township the home of both mr hodgson and mrs britnell mr hodgson collected 2815 votes almost 900 more than mayor britnell and won 26 of the 30 polls mrs britnell won only two king polls and tied with mr hodgson for the lead in two others the conservative candidate won all five municipalities in the riding and ran strong in newmarket where he got 3526 votes mr lewis was second in newmarket with 2950 while mrs britnell got 2859 in aurora- mr hodgson won with 2150 while his challengers split the other votes almost equally mrs britnell got 1773 mr lewis 1756 mr lewis came second on his home ground of whitchurch stouffville but he still ran 300 votes behind mr hodgsons leading total of 1936 mrs britnell made it a tight race in vaughan the ridings newly an nexed area but mr hodgson still came out on top with 1945 votes mrs britnell trailed by 55 votes in vaughan durham north no clear cut victory durham north no major pattern ap peared from the voting in durham north riding last week which elected incumbent bill newman pc by a narrow margin over liberal clare morrison t however the pickering airport issue seems to have made an impact in those areas affected by it mr morrisons detriment in the final official count bill newman had 11206 votes 111 ahead of morrison with 11095 leslie griffin of the ndp managed 6230 in pickering mr newman won six of the nine ridings griffin took one morrison one and newman arid griffin tied in one mr newman who t west end as he polled 209 i has strongly opposed the airport also won av majority of polls in the south uxbridge township j- area j some surprises for mr newman included i winning six of nine polls 4 in port perry as well as in sunderland can- with cliff hanging win peewees make prov finals stouffville with a heartstopping 21 victory sunday over- napanee the birkett- hassard peeweesmoved gjinto the provincial finals o be played beginning oct 4 and 5 the peewees also blanked claremont 4fl friday night to enter league playoffs with richmond hill the first game in the scries started last night on sunday stouff ville won the game on an extrainning left field t slash by jim chilvers 1 with paul barry racing home from first base stouffville had taken an- 10 lead in the first inning as scotty brown tripled to be driven home by chilvers napanee tied the game in the 4th on consecutive passed balls and stole home right fielder- robert wright pulled off an important double play in the 3rd catchinga fly and final minor hockey registration sat stouffville the final time for registration in whitchurch stouffville minor- hockey is this saturday 9 am to noon at latcham hall hockey dance a fundraising dance for the wsmha will be oct 17 at cedar beach tickets are available at hunts sunoco cards hardware and from members of the executive nailing a man off first base chilvers struck out 14 against napanee in a no- hit effort another nohitter was pitched tagainst claremont and was preserved by a fine one- hand stab by paul barry more sports on page m i who caught a line drive by claremonts dave mckenzie in that contest andy redshaw was three for three at the plate ted waite collected two hits and chilvers added a homer dave raymer performed strongly at first the next league play off game is to be monday night at richmond hill the time and place for the first oasa final game has not been determined v tryouts for junior c to be monday evening at mongolia open top prize goes to robert slack roman defeated h by stong markham a sad tony roman was very disappointed as election returns showed he had lost his bid for the york centre seat to richmond hill attorney alf stong the final total showed liberal stong with 14913 to mr romans 13083 ndp hopeful tony snedker polled 8140 and liber tarian party candidate john white garnered 275 the results were a surprise to many as mr roman was expected to win the riding handily the strengthhe might have expected from the old town of markham and thornhill failed to materialize however he lost the former town of markham by 53 votes and suffered defeats in communities such as mongolia cedar grove and box grove a total of 36411 ballots were cast in the riding that includes the town of markham and richmond hill the seat had previously been held by liberal donald deacon who announced earlier this year that he would not seek re election nington and beaverton also in morrisons home territory newman won most polls in georgina township but not the total vote mr morrisons strong areas included urbanized uxbridge sutton and the townships of brock and scott in the view of mr morrison ndp candidate leslie griffin had a spoilers effect vir tually doubling the usual ndp showing in the riding and siphoning off some of the disaffected vote that would have gone to the liberals miss griffin disagrees believing most people who vote ndp have a pretty basic understanding of what the ndp party stands for itwas the closest race of tmrt newmans career as former provincial court judge morrison nearly pulled an upset victory mr morrison had criticized regional government the ontario education system and at the webb school poll 29 58 28 49 poll 30 was 45 28 50 31 79 33 55 3211177 73 33 78 41 58 the unofficial break down by areas is as follows numbers listed are for griffin morrison and newman respec tively scugog township 137 175 217 cart- wright township 412 442 563 village of port perry 409 594 699 pickering township 411 353 699 uxbridge township 375 638 695 village of uxbridge 297 728 640 reach 396 724 786 scott 192 606 452 brock 242 544 521 sunderland 54 109 213 cannington 157 274 336 thorah 174 335 394 beaverton 153 365 411 georgina township 448 872 704 north g willimbury 59 34 m8- 26 claremont east 115 sutton 384- 649 493 the loss of agricultural land in mr newmans opinion many disaffected voters were simply casting their ballots in a vote against the con servative scheme of regionalism- he added that regional government whtwork but requires time an unofficial poll by poll break down in pickering shows miss griffin winning poll 19 green river area with 99 to morrisons 55 and newmans 66 at 20 brougham newman had 67 morrison 27 griffin 61 othersfornewman griffin andmorrison respectively were 21 greenwood 112 5262 22 124 42 40 23 lots 21 35 cone 7 8 37 37 12 h 49 25 claremont west 606027mtzion94 15 30 in the glasgow area poll 28 results for newman griffin and morrison were 45 13 52 east gwillimbury 991 1670 1286 advance polls gave griffin 128 morrison 461- and newman 454 mjgm8i j william newman embraces his daughters kathy left and missy after the final poll confirmed his slim victory in durham north riding molly newman smiles at the news liberal clare morrison has called for a recount ted wilcox stouffville tryouts for the new junior c hockey team in whitchurch stouff- ville begins monday sept 29 730 pm at the arena team manager will be ken roberts but a coach for the squad hasnt been decided yet i think were going to end up with a pretty good team from what we know of- the kids here roberts said a large part of the team should consist of mem bers of last years provincial champion v juvenile team several members of the juvenile squad however are reportedly planning toplay for junior teams elsewhere sponsor for the juniors willbe ken may real estate the juniors will be competing with teams from lindsay port perry bowmanville port hope cobourg and frankfortffirst game of the season isoctll in stouffville against port perry golfers v second at tourney- y stouffville t golfers fromstouffville dist 3 school made an impressive showing at thc county golf tournament recently finishing second out of 10 schools i was 28 strokes behind the leader markham and closely followed by one stroke by aurora high school scores were craig waite 79 mike kamps 82 dave huxtable- 86- dave dart 90 for a 337 total coach for the team is lin jones i stouffville seventy hardy golfers completed the recent mongolia open despite intermittent rain through the day at the mill run golf course top golfer was robert slack who won ftheprize for low gross at 81 as well as copping the longest drive on the third hole he was presented a trophy and golf bag for his efforts lowriet went to dave boyd who received a leather attache case tournament cnair- man- tom wood thanks the stouffville merchants who donated prizes for each of the golfers the tourney was sponsored by thestouffville lions club winners of the closest to the hole competition was doug r widdifield john mc dermott and charlie shipp supervised the event and presented him the 40ounce prize players were treated to hamburgers and smokers barbecued by cec munro and ollie pellett following the game and were served by bartender vern jessup play started at 10 am sharp to the sofind of a shotgun as all four- somes commenced simultaneously prior to the presentation of prizes at the event fellow- lions presented colin barrett with an oil painting as a goingaway present lion president john mc- dermott said colin will be sorely missed as he was one of the mainstays of the mongolia opens 0- stouffville manelects not to proceed witli iassault charge against police newmarket a york regional policeman has appeared in provincial court here last week charged with assaulting a whitchurch stouffville man heard the charge against him dismissed by judge ian munro constable frank macchesney had been charged by bruce richard smith aged 31 after he had attempted to arrest the whitchurch stouffville man t last spring mr smith appeared in court last week and told judge munro that he did not wish to proceed with the charge he had laid earlier mr smith was convicted in newmarket court on care and con trol charges laid by police last april was given a 14 day jail term and his licence suspended for two years breakin charge john vernon 21- of bethesda sideroad whitchurch stouffville has been charged with two counts of break enter and theft arrest warrants have been issued for a suspected accomplice police say mr vernon and someone else broke into rolling hills golf club last oct by breaking a window and stole 125 from the cash register removed the change from the pop machine and took several cartons of cigarettes the second oc curence was a breakin at kent tools ltd laidlaw blvd markham in april a bay door was forced the keys to the pop machine were found and approximately 100 was stolen according to police an investigation by the identification branch revealed that fingerprints found at the breakins matched those of the accused persons police are now looking for the second man man sought police are looking for a 20 year old stouffville man who tendered cheques to two markham businesses on a closed bank account the man not iden- tified by police pur- chased s25 worth of goods at the canadian tire store and the- same amount at murray wilson shoes iman wffeeharged an uxbridge man has been charged with driving while disqualified and he and his wife have had public mischief charges laid against them i james macdougal 32 was involved in a car t accident on main st- in stouffville sept 8 and his wife rose said she i was driving according to police reports an independent witness informed them that itwas mr-mab- dougahwhowasfdriving at theiimev- ai mr- macdougal was prohibited from y driving as the result of an ealy- offence k