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v u the tribune thursday september c 1979 getcuts curtailing service i york region its ooe thing to cut costs but when if done at the risk of public safety then if s everyones concern this is the feeling of the york regional board of police commissioners after bearing a report from chief bruce crawford on increased crime statistics judge donald couture the commission chairman informed members that police service in york is suf fering because of budget reductions imposed by regional council general crime is up 14 per cent during the first six months of this year chief crawford said while incidents involving people are down crime against property has increased substantially he said fiftythree per cent are satisfactorily cleared be stated compared to 54 per cent in 78 the chief praised the force for its high clearance rate with respect to traffic accidents fatalities have more than doubled with 20 persons losing their lives from january to the end of june during this same period officers have responded to 2879 calls statistics show the same number of men have had to work harder since calls are up by eleven per cent chief crawford explained judge couture said the department had reached a saturation point the police can make only so many and someone is going to have to realize this he said the chairman pointed out that the commissions budget as presented bad been cut as lean as possible yet it was further reduced by 50000 we tried to tell them there were no frqls- that we needed every penny he stated its easy to say i told you so but that doesnt help he con cluded scottishmeatpiesbridiesayrshirebaconblackpudding lornesausageotherscottishspecialtiescoffee sandwichesavarietyofqualitybreadsrollsscones canadianeuropeanpastries hope to see you when we open on wednesday september 12 editors mail seniority rule wrong markham scottish bakery 131 main street markham the old tremont hotel dear sir in the august 30 edition of the tribune was an article under the heading professional survival which i hope is not an indication of the times or our young people who plan to enter the teaching profession will give up before jhey start i refer specifically to one 18point resolution from the ontario public school men teachers federation executive stating that seniority should be the basic factor used to determine redundancy and that merit and qualifications should play no part in the process what kind of unin telligent reasoning is this i wonder to what extreme it is to be carried all of us at one time during our school years can remember a rather disorganized unenthusiastic teacher whose subject was boring in the extreme and yet in a later year the same subject came to life under the tutelage of an ex cellent teacher with a fresh young approach i gather from this article that anyone who has been teaching for a number of years can put hisher feet up on the desk stop reading any articles to keep his subject knowledge up to date and still be assured of that comfortable pay cheque until retirement age at which time there will be another com fortable pension cheque this is a competitive society except evidentally in the teaching profession every day in the business sector of our working world someone gets a position because he she is more qualified and proficient than someone else do we the taxpayers have to support inef ficiency in the teaching profession- when we ourselves know that the same lack of effort in our place of employment will cost us our jobs marina rodgers rr2 claremont need crossing guard a school crossing guard is required im mediately for- the location at ninth line and second street in stouffville applicants should apply at the municipal office re corner clerk melville area woman killed in tragic threevehiclecrash a 64 year old melville woman was killed last week in an accident that involved two cars and a truck on kennedy road near 19th avenue markham pronounced dead on arrival at hospital was cora lillian darch of r r 1 unionville robert scott hearn 18 of scarborough has been charged with criminal negligence causing death and driving while impaired sjoerd witteveen c x tribune files 34 years ago village celebrated the end of the war fteeocsjftogooog dont miss it invites you to date night at markham fair thursday september 27 from 6 pm to closing every woman accompanied by a man will get free admission to the er grounds and ride free on all midway rides provided she is wearing a tribune dat e night button to get your button drop into the tribune office at 5456 main st west stouffville anytime after 9 am mon sept 17 dont delay supplies are limited v 9 n see you at the fair ii what stories made headlines in the tribune 34 years ago to find out the editor dusted off filed copies of the newspaper dated augustseptember 1945 the following are i some of the items he found four words all canada had been waiting to hear and read were published on page 1 of the august 16 issue saying simply the war is over a story in another sectics cf the frostps read when the radio flashed the news the war is over at 7 oclock in the evening it was a signal for flags to be hung out along main street and a start of a hilarious evening for the young people who surged up and down the road and sidewalks banging tins blowing horns and doing anything and everything thai wuuld make a noise until real enthusiasm was worked up confetti and strings of paper like ticker tape strewed draped the wires the siren sounded and the old town bell clanged about midnight quiet reigned again the wars end meant the release of allen harper son of mr and mrs ross harper 6th concession of whit church allan had been a prisoner of the japanese four years two gormley area farmers reported yields of 50 bushels to the acre in fall wheat on the farm of harold doner 550 bushels were threshed from 11 acres on the murray wideman property ten acres bad a yield of 500 bushels skip upworth brotherinlaw of harry paisley had a narrow escape from injury and even death when a bullet grazed his shirt and lodged in a scantling he was carrying the near miss occurred at island lake where mr upworth was assisting in the building of a cottage for his son on the victor paisley farm bob holman and vic- robinson two of the first claremont boys to enlist for overseas duty in the canadian army tank regiment went over together and returned home together on his return vic held the rank of lieutenant the paper reported with the war over the red cross announced cancellation of further blood donor clinics in markham at the final one 49 persons gave blood including ray graham ida ingleton bill peacock harvey taylor and john young their third donation catherine ferguson selina herbert hilda kelly edith malcolm gordon murison cora plaxton richard ward and marion warne their sixth donation glen colehb hall alfred hill gordon miles ruby reesor wm sum- merfeldt murray wilson and william young their tenth donation col frederick h vannostrand of vandorf was among the canadian army officers to be decorated by the king at an investiture held at buckingham palace col vannostrand was awarded the obe order of the british empire medal during the war years an estimated 1000 was raised through the collection of salvage the first organized drive was led by cedric wat son principal of the stouffville public school while abe lehman took it on himself to collect from local storekeepers a picture on page 1 of the aug 23 tribune named the following students who took partbernard salmon earl paisley bob weatherall eunice corcoran audrey good erline paisley doug davis lome schell bruce paisley albert smalley bill nicholson bruce crowder roy ward fred mantle jack castle jack valleau jack king and don davis the driver of the truck was bert paisley the resignation of bruce morton was an nounced from the management of the stouffville cooperative his successor was bruce clark of peterborough grandson of mrs thos klinck obrien avenue stouffville baseball officials in the north york lions league were unanimous in their choice of ken schell as the no 1 cat cher in the group lc murphy the joe wintersteln farm on the 10th con- cession of whitchurch was sold to eldon smith operator of the joe grose farm south ci ringwood a serious car crash at lemonville injured three persons including dr ss crouch and son tom of toronto and owners of a summer home in whit church twp the other vehicle was driven by stouffville high principal announced the names of the following upper school students and the subjects they completed successfullystanley ball evelyn beach celeste bright betty davis luella harper eldred king ken schell harold steckley betty storey marlon weldon and mary williams the staff at the stouffville high school start of the t fall term included the following lc trlmphy principal jean collins kathleen swinton cecilia hounsomvbolton slack and paul sherk chair man of the board was ag thompson and secretary ho klinck the tribune reported the sale of the douglas bacon farm at claremont for a price of 8000 the property contained 87 acres at the farm auc tion the tractor sold for 600 tractor plow 100 young sows 42 and wheat 102 a bushel a m the paper reported fw the purchase of gravel deposits on the russell storry farm at gravel hill by messrs ross winterstein and pj haley in a partnership arrangement- stanley theatre in stouffvilkvsong of the open road with edgar bergen charlie mc carthy bonita granville and wc fields george in the home guard with george formby and practically yours with george formby and fred macmurray the tribune published a picture of shirley temple age 17 and announced her ssalsf- marriage- to sgt john whitchurch all were rendered unconscious and might have remained undetected for some time the paper said if it had not been for phyllis claughton who heard a noise caused by the impact and told her mother mrs norman claughton dr ssball attended the injured and constable elmer wells conducted the in vestigation in another collision this one at ballantrae albert mapes was struck by a car as he prepared to put his horse wrights general store mr mapes suffered a broken hip and a broken ankle the following movies were playing at the agar of the us army a large i s ad vertisement appeared in the sept- 20 issue of the tribune announcing car accessories for sale at ringwood garage the proprietor was ken laushway items in cluded- bumper jacks tire pumps tow ropes mufflers and tail pipes electric fencers and livestock prodders the sale of the maple leaf dairy in stouffville by clayt baker to charles webster of lucknow was announced in the paper by disposing of this business the tribune said mr baker will be able to devote more time to the operation of his skating rink that he owns and manages- races a fun thing tall tales q q qq q qq0jq qjqq qq floyd steckley rupert avenue stouff ville is a veteran plowmen pat as hes known to most folks tells the story of a match held near sharon a com petitor that day was les smith now of black- water less team was going well enough but not that well to use only one for the finish so be asked pat if be could have the loan of one of his horses pat being a congenial kind of guy readily agreed as it turned out les beat pat that day due to you guessed it a better finish pat still doesnt give all the credit to his horse however he knows less proficiency with a plow too well for that so he simply claims it was half in half markham greyhound races have become a feature at markham fair theyre a fun thing an event to be enjoyed by spectators of all ages and thats the way tom hughes of the ontario humane society wants it to remain enjoyable entertainment however the ontario greyhound association is pressing theprovincial government to legalize these activities says hughes a move he strongly opposes if this comes about he points out all the abuses commonplace in other countries where this is allowed will take place in canada tom hughes explains that training methods involve the use of live animals to develop a builtin drive to catch and kill the moving objects while on the track the dogs chase a mechanical hare but long before this they are blooded through the use of real cats and rabbits to make sure they catch onto the sport as quickly as possible this is how it works the bait is released in a fenced enclosure with no chance to escape in addition to the terror the cat or rabbit undergoes while being chased by the bounds generally more than one at a time they are finally ripped to pieces by the dogs says hughes the society manager admits that under the criminal code the practice is illegal but he points out its difficult to check every backyard every back forty or the interior of every barn breeding greyhounds for tracks and opposed to breeding for companions produces more than are required and a high rejection- rate tom hughes says animals that are not suitable are a 1 rejected and in many instances destroyed what can anyone do with a dog thats been bred purely for the track that will kill your neigh bors cat or chihuahua as quick as look at it asks hughes there is only one thing he notes and that js to do away with it tom hughes has his own ideas leave the greyhounds in ontario in their presentstatus the greyhound association he says should stick to their hobby of producing- a quality companion animal for the record tv-shov- filmfedhere 4 ft v ii ft stouffville in recent months our town has become a popular place for- filmmakers for several days last week the cbc was at work inv stouffville completing snots for the television series for middleaged man despairing over the death of his wife the distraught widower something of a recluse suddenly 1m r awakened to the charms of his sister-in-law- this upsets his family the sisterinlaw i ft the record the title of this particular story is a played by maureen fine determined hah mcrae observesfthat- it will be seen next this allsolnnocent marcll friendship is turning- to canadian- actor something more serjout laurence dane his the the films director is lead role he plays a graham parker