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tottffoilk vol 61 no 45 the tribune stouffville ont march 1 1951 high school board asks councils agree to dissolve markhamstouffville area whitchurch township and stouffville hold to original agreement to erect two schools in the one area whitchurch township turned down a request from the markham- stouffville high school area board to pass a resolution calling for the dissolution of the present area and the formation of two new areas when they met for their regular meeting on friday night a similar request made to stouifviile council has been shelved for the present at least while on paper the new pro posal of the board appeared quite favorable to the two northern municipalities certain aspects of the resolution led the two councils to suspect that there was more to the idea than met the eye the resolution as worded by the board called for a request to go before the minister of education requesting a change in legislation which would permit the dissolving of the present area up to this point council members found some favor with the suggestion how ever the second clause calling for the establishment of two new areas was viewed with misgivings one of tf most puzzling features was the fact that accord ing to figures laid out for the erec tion of new schools the cost of two new buildings within the one area as favored by stouffville and whitchurch was less costly for markham village and markham township than the erection of two schools in two new areas as suggested by these same munici- palitiest the two southern municipalities have constantly maintained that they would be burdened with sixty per cent of the cost if two new schools were erected in the area as constituted at present this argument as contended by whit church and stouifviile is not correct if one considers the school boundaries as they were known in the beginning before any area was formed since at that time a two mile strip of markham township from the eastern townline to the 4th concession was included in the stouffville school setup reeve henry ogden and clerk geo storey of stoutfville attended the whitchurch council meeting and discussed the matter at some length with officials there what assurance have we that well be able to form two new areas once we let the one we have slip away contended reeve ogden this new proposition would cost them more than the one weve been offering stated clerk john crawford of whitchurch i think there are a lot of ques tions to be answered before we go into a proposition like that besides its too short a time for a decision on athing like that stated coun cillor baycroft clerks and reeves from the municipalities have been requested to attend a meeting of the board to be held in the markham school this wednesday general concensus of opinion of members of the northern councils is that the erection of two schools will provide the only amicable settlement to the school question deadlock and since considerable difficulty was experienced in form ing the present area they see no need to upset it now and run the risk of becoming involved in an entire series of new difficulties in frying to form two new areas local coop manager takes position with parent organization claude brillinger the manager of the stouifviile cooperative association for the past two years has taken a position with the united cooperatives of ontario as ari operational specialist there are roughly 150 local co- operatives in the province of ontario some due to the localities and difficulties in other lines find themselves in a position where help is required from the parent organization consequently a posi tion of this nature lias been creat ed and it will be claudes duty to high school vocalists do well at festival stouffville high school choirs did exceptionally well in the cur rent kiwanis music festival the local singers competed in five classes and with a muchenlarged festival this year and many and larger entries the stouffville school is to be congratulated on their showing the senior mixed choir come fourth with 79 points for their rendition of recessional and third with 7s points for o happy happy fair the senior girls choir stood fifth with 80 and 74 points singing the violet and comin thro the rye the junior girls choir sang lake and a fairy boat and scored 74 points for second place a triple trio comprising the best nine voices in the senior girls choir sang the ash and the oak and stood fifth for 7g points locafi midguts whitewashed fkom pliayoff serfes giving one of their years poor est displays stouffvilles midget entry was no match for bolton on tuesday night and they were soundly trounced 70 in the second game of their two game series stouffville won the first game on home ice 43 but hit the skids on tuesday to drop from the running mrs thos whetter dies at markham after a brief illness there passed away on friday feb 23 one of markhams highly esteemed residents in the person of mrs thos w h whetter although the deceased had been confined to her room for some weeks with a heart condition her passing came as a great shock to her man3 friends the late mrs whetter was formerly reva stewart daughter of mrs clara stewart and the late jas stewart she was educated at markham high school shewas a devoted member of st andrews united church being a member of the wms and the wa mrs whetter was an ardent lover of flowers and an active member of the markham horticultural society of prime importance in her life were the interests of her home where she will be sorely missed she leaves to mourn her passing her husband and two daughters eleanor and catharine also her mother mrs clara stewart and one brother harry the funeral service was held in st andrews united church on monday feb 20 at 230 pm with interment in elmwood cemetery markham pall bearers were hubert crosby delos crosby howard crosby allan crosby roy crosby and john whetter claude briuinger call on these cooperatives and try to assist them to operate more efficiently than in the past it is a definite promotion and could lead to a promising future in the united cooperatives of onlirio stouffville coop has increased 22 per cent this past year and has shown a dividend to the members of ivz per cent along with paying the back patronage up to 1047 in an amount of over 1000000 mr brilliriger will be leaving the staff of the stouffville coop on march 10th but will continue to reside in town joseph galway comes to the staff of the stouffville cooperative assoc with experience in a variety of farm organizations until april 1914 he operated a farm in leeds county while on the farm he was an active member whitchurch will levy fifth of mill for federation of agriculture whitchurch township will this year levy onefifth of a mill on all farm lands consisting of five acres or more in support of the feder ation of agriculture council agreed to this step at their regular meeting on friday evening and instructed the clerk to prepare a bylaw to coer the appropriation this direct tax levy system is being instituted in lieu of an annual grant which the municipal ity has been making to the federa tion and follows a request from local members of the farmers fed eration for the charge at the present time vaughan township has a similar levy of one fifth of a mill and markham township contributes one sixth there was considerable discus sion concerning the change before the decision was finally reached and for a time reeve mclaugliri maintained that he still favored giving the grant rather than the levy system particularly in view of the fact the township office facilities were badly upset during building operations id be favorable to it if all the municipalities had to adopt the system stated the reeve were doing it of our own free will returned councillor mc- carron i believe stated deputyresve timbers that the mill rate is the fairest way itll come sooner or later and will gradually work into all coiners of the county im inclined to favor the mill rate if some of these municipalities get behind he move the others will have to come into it com mented councillor mccarron i dont think we should be tax ing the urban sections for a farmers organization and thats what were doing when we give a grant stated councillor baycroft im favorable to the mill rate if the office staff can handle it he concluded south k1vkk herb friday xkht south river and ajax will meet at the stouifviile arena this fri day night at 7 oclock in an omha bantam ontario playoff first game of a twogame series ukxvi1jk faces emm 1xatio x fri day unionville will face elimination when they skate on the ice in wes ton on friday night of this week for the sixth game of their best of seven oha jr b series the dukes dumped the local juniors 74 on tuesday night to take a 31 lead in games one game ended in a tie petch bonnello mcgee and white were the marksmen for the home team and had the high- powered dukes held down to a 32 score commencing the final twenty minutes whitchurch will swing to early election date the annual nomination meeting and election in whitchurch town ship this year will be held the last week in november and the first week in december rather than the late date which many councils claim conflicts with the yuletide holidays councillor e l mccarron intro duced the motion to make the change to the early election date and the clerk was instructed to prepare the necessary bylaw a bylaw ws also introduced and passed setting the salary of the township clerk at 3000 and a second bylaw placing the salary of the deputyclerk at 2300 joseph galway renew your tribune promptly clippers give thrilling display to beat mercs 53 keeping alive their chances in the oha senior a playoff series with owen sound the stouffville clippers put on a thrilling display of checking passing and net- minding on tuesday night to trim the mercurys 53 the sounders were without their great centre star tommy burlington but the flu cut an even larger hole in the clipper ranks taking out hochberg stark and lewis with the score tied 2all as the third period got underway owen sound threw everything but the kitchen sink into the stouffville end the clippers countered stub bornly but were finally nicked at the lead only eight seconds later geo sayliss combined with mc- crone and gibson to put the game in the bag making it 53 big improvement in the clippers style and one which spelled down fall for the mercurys was their checking the visitors were tied up before they got rolling and every man was watched like a hawk by his clipper opponent jack rhodes just back after his bout with the flu was sensational while gillson was equally good for the sounders the visitors definite ly showed the loss of their great centre star burlington but never theless had stouffville continued 730 when forslund slipped a neat to turn in the mediocre brand of pass out to bun white who was hockey theyve been doing for the parked practically on rhodes shoe strings the clippers got a break at 1033 when kazarian and goalie gillson fumbled hoppers shot clearing it into the net with the count knotted clippers rolled into the owen sound end and had the fans on the edge of their seats as they buzzed gillson from every angle mccrone let go with a fast shot on the ice at 1734 to give the locals inst dozen games owen sound would have laced them again by possibly ten goals however the predicted shakeup in the clippers came on tuesday night and the heavy executive hand produced the desired results the fifth game of the series will be played in owen sound this fri day night and the sixth game if necessary back in stouffville on saturday night of a farm forum a director of the local cooperative and first presi dent of the leeds county federa tion of agriculture in 1941 he joined the staff of the united farmers of ontario an opportunity to join the staff of the quebec council of farm forums at macdonald college came in august 1914 during his first year at macdonald mi galway successfully completed the ad vanced diploma course having previously graduated from the kemptvile agricultural school the following year he became provincial secretary of farm forums in quebec he held that position until may 1947 when he was invited by the hoard of national farm radio to take over the post of national secretary of that organization last summer he assisted with a cooperative survey conducted by the economics dept of the ontario agriculture college since the new- year he has been working witli the staff of the stouffville coop mr galway is married and has a family of one he expects to take up residence in stouffville soon and his duties as manager commence march 10th late wm mccarty was great local sport booster funeral service was conducted at the graveside in the stouffville cemetery on thursday morning feb 22nd for the late william john mccarty who passed away in toronto last week in his 80th year the late william mccarty is recalled by many of our elder resident as a great sports booster in stouffville over half a century ago he was employed in stouff ville as a clerk in a law office but was engaged in the wholesale drug business in toronto following his departure from here some forty years ago when in the city he made his home with his sister ada mccarty who predeceased him william mccarty earned his prowess in stouffville as a great southpaw ball pitcher and the team of that day consisted of such old familiar names as ab burk- holder frank rae harry sanders arthur sanders cnarlie and bill urquhart and others he is survived by a niece lola margaret benson whose husbands death was reported in these columns only last week high school teachers bump school budget up 5600 original request would have made 7000 boost all teachers on the staff of markham will now each receive stouffville high school and mark ham high school were given an increase of 100 a year retroactive to january 1st at the regular meeting of the high school area board on wednesday night the increase means an overall boost of 5600 in the school budget for the fourteen teachers this is the second increase grant ed within six months all having received 200 wage hike on sept 1st teachers claimed the increase was necessary to compensate for the increased cost of living although present contracts are still in force principal l c murphy of stouff ville and principal b j newell of a salary of 4500 with the assist ant teachers ranging upwards from a minimum of 2500 maximum salary for assistants was set at 4200 excepting those with specialists certificates who could receive up to 4400 the maximum salary for local princi pals was set at 4800 board members were reluctant to dump such a heavy increase on the taxpayers and turned down the teachers original request for 500 each across the board boards in surrounding munici palities had accepted similar terms and these instances were cited by the representatives of the local teachers in backing up their demands grain judging competition at seed fair in conjunction with the seed fair and bacon show to be held in newmarket on tuesday march 13th the annual junior farmer grain judging competition will be held in the board room depart ment of agriculture commencing with registration at 10 am valu able prizes in the form of regist ered seed grain are available and the t eaton co have again gen erously offered four beautiful lions open crippled kids fund campaign the stouffville lions club is local sponsor of the society for crippled children easter seal campaign which opens this week a h williams is chairman of the club committee the easter seal campaign is modelled after the christmas tb seals with sheets of seals being mailed by the club to local residents in town and immediate silver relish dishes for the highest district with the request that they engagement mr and mrs r n reesor of cedar grove announce the engage ment of their daughter merna eileen to leslie grant burkholder son of mrs burkholder and the late jacob burkholderi the mar riage will take place quietly march 20 1951 wm richardson was lifelong resident of whitchurch township lifelong resident of whitchurch township william david richard son passed away at his home lot 19 con 4 vandorf on saturday feb 24th ill for only a short time and a victim of the flu just prior to his passing the late mr richardson was active right up to the last william richardson was horn on march 24th and would have reached his 85th birthday had he lived until next month he was a son of the late george richardson and elizabeth marsh his wife the former sarah spaulding s deceased him sixteen years ago deceased pursued a farming career for his entire lifetime specializing at one time in short horn cattle but in later years turning to dairying mr richard son was an ardent member of the wesley methodist church later the united church he sang in the choir of the local church for a record of sixtyfive years acting as leader for some time i surviving is one son george on the home farm and a daughter mrs g k mayor of barrie there are two sisters residing in new market miss maude richardson and miss louisa richardson the funeral on tuesday was con ducted by rev e c moddle pall bearers were john petcii bert baber john crawford arthur vannostrand roy morlev and scoring contestants this competi tion is open to all young men in york county 25 years of age and under no entry fee is charged and a free meal at noon is provided for each competitor return their contribution to the fund as payment as with the tb seals there is no fixed price only what the donor is able to give announcing the campaign mr contestants are asked to notej williams gave some details of the that this year the classes have societys work which included been charged and each competitor j operation of special camps for will be asked to piace and give reasons on one class each of wheat oats and barley and in addition will be required to name 20 com mon weeds and to identify ten seeds of grasses or clovers management of the stouffville coop wish to remind the public that the ladies will be more than welcome to attend the annual meeting of the local organization next wednesday march 7th crippled children and the provision of necessary care to all those who need it some idea of the scope of the societys work is seen in the fact that 4591 active cases are under the societys care the motto of the society is that no crippled child in ontario will be neglected learn all about eve monday and tuesday night at the stanley theatre new peak for road budget in whitchurch twp whitchurch township road appropriations will reach a new peak of 60000 in 1951 according to figures set out in the budget by law passed at the regular meeting of council on friday evening the new figure is 10000 above that of last year with this heavy traffic today the roads are wearing out faster than we can build them com mented councillor baycroft the wear and tear to which the roads were subjected by heavy gravel trucks came in for bitter criticism and it was agreed that reeve ivan molaughlin together with councillor sid legge road chairman and road supt davi shouid visit mr ludgate munici pal engineer to see if some curb could not be placed on this truck ing destruction council gave road supt davis the green light on the annual order for calcium dust layer sixty tons llefi oliver interment was madelwill be purchased from the brun- in aurora ner mond co at 3818 per ton laid down at vandorf station an account tabled from solicitor f j mcrae who acted in behalf of whitchurch township in the recent appeal case concerning the equalized assessment in the county of york was considered exorbitant and was shelved pending investigation frank marritt county weed inspector spoke to council at some length concerning the county cam paign against barberry and buck thorn and urged that local road sides be kept free of the grain rust carrier he also revealed that the county would shortly experiment with some brush spraying in whit church township a request was received from the toronto and york civilian defence committee asking the township council to appoint a civilian co ordinator for the municipality after some discussion council agreed to have the reeve and clerk interview several prospective appointees