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hsy kwzr read the classified ads leading weekly for whitchurch markham pickering and uxbridge twps circulation 2090 copies vol54 no38 stouffville ont thursday jan 27th 1944 eight pages 3 council promises a new hall site now private citizens fire brigade lions club urge immediate ac tion at a special meeting of the village council ion tuesday evening chief del jennings of the stoutfville fire brigade presented petition signed by himself and endorsed by members of the brigade imploring council to prepare now with a new site for a hall and thereby finally remove any possible chance of a catastrophe from fire that the brigade says now exists in the ratcliff hall mr f l button kc addressed the council behalf of the lions club and as a private citizen the members of the club he said were a good representation ofihe citizens and business men of the town who strongly favored immediate action on a hall site and he wished to add his personal feelings in the matter said mr button you have a site in mind that is central provides parking facilities and at a price not out of the way having consideration to the fact that any other similar site would have a building on and would cost more money i urge as a private citizen and under instruc tune of past years respecting fires was no guarantee for the future reeve weldon thanked the dele gates and said it rather made coun cil feel more secure to have such important backing and looked for unanimous support by council on taking immediate action for a hall site a vote was then taken moved by councillors w brlllinger and a v nolan instructing the solicitor to close on an offer received for the sale of the anderson lot to the town on main street freel and thompson for school board the annual bylaw appointing town officers for the village indicates at least one new face on the school board under the new setup with a high school board the village coun cil appoints two members to that body and have chosen dr h b freel who retired from the trustee board of last year and mr a g thompson manager of ihe bank of commerce both these men have had wide experience dr freel being tionsfrom the lions- club that you former chairman of the local board and mr thompson served for years on the board at campbellford prior to moving to stouffville rev d davis was placed on the library board for a term of three years while councillors rje brown proceed with the purchase of this property for use as a memorial hall i know of no finer memorial to our brave men overseas and in memory of those who may never return mr ea button said that he could not add very much to the very com- and hugh boyd were given places on plete picture laid before council by the park committee a v nolan his brother he has expressed my was returned to membership on the sentiments fully said he and when the time conies for donations under the buildingprogram i will be pleas ed to take a part chief del jennings said he would remind council that the good for- board of health and earl keith will again be pound keeper the sani tary inspector lou lownsborough was reappointed reeve weldon presided over the meeting tha1xixg at vulcan kenneth burkhblder son of mr and mrs ira burkholder who is training at vulcan alberta with the rcaf ken attend ed school in stouffville arid was employed by the oboyle meat market prior to enlisting he was also an experienced member of the stouffville junior band photo by wr sanders carnival cancelled owing to the mild weather and consequent soft ice the lions carnival scheduled for wednes day evening this week in the stouffville arena has been can celled for the present sells bethksda fak3i buys at queensville well known 100 acre farm at bethesda the ross chapman place bas been sold to mr c gibbs of jefferson for 6000 the new owner will take possession on the first of march the property has 55 acres workable and is equipped with hydro and water in the barns mr chapman in turn has pur chased a place at queensville 100 acres which has no waste land what ever it is known as the james wright place and is well known jersey place mr chapman intends to enlarge his dairy herd when he moves his farm is excellently located close to queensville on the pavement and a bus connects with newmarket for high school pupils which will be convenient too stouffville boy president toronto east general at the annual meeting of the staff of the toronto east general hospital on january 12 dr g f r richard son was elected president for the en suing year this is an important post and we are proud that it is being held this term by an old stouffville jboy who will do honor to the posi tion the hospital south wing is near- ing completion the rooms are now being plastered next will come the fittings and furnishings discharged veterans will be the occupants to be commenced shortly is the west wing for another 200 beds for civil ians bed capacity will then be about 600 truly a great institution over which to be the presiding head refused to free woman on butter theft charge found in room with stouffville creamery butter impresses magistrate mr and mrs ezra clubine enjoy sixtieth wedding day 3w 5- l s issh 2i t 4 ninety years of age and his wife 84 with their birthdays in december mr and mrs ezra clubine celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary quietly at their comfortable home four miles west of stouffville on january 21st they were united in wedlock by the rev sir withrow in the metropolitan church toronto mrs clubine keeps a diary and can soon put her betterhalf right on the correct day of something he wants to know concerning past history to converse with imr and mrs clubine is like talking to a couple no more than go years of age time has dealt so leniently with them both possessing allaheir faculties to a marked degree when the scribe called the day after the memorable date mr clubine was just going to the barn to do chores pointing to his admiring wife mr clubine said here is the source of my greatest happiness and both expressed their great contentment with life which we thought was in sharp contrast with many who complain the aged pair have a most refreshing outlook air clubine was born on the farm where they now live and mrs clubine was born at bethesda but her folks moved to gormlcy when she was nine thankfulness that he had sought out such a splendid lifepartner and the two had been blessed with good judgment and good health mr clu bine worked in a saw mill when a youth and helped cut many of the fine old virgin trees that covered the landscape of whitchurch in those early days mrs clubine was the former cath erine hunt she is busy with her housework and mr clubine does plenty of chores daily on the farm which is operated by his son few men at his great age possess their faculties and strength like ezra clu bine both seek out the richer things offered by the radio and thor oughly enjoy wireless in their home they have two sons john s clu bine wellknown chiropractor in to ronto and edgerton on the farm occupying part of the spacious home with his family one of the sad ex periences of their life was the passing of their daughter gertrude wife of mr morgan baker there are nine grandchildren and five great grand children two grandsons are in training with the rcafwtnd one is an officer in the navy mr and mrs clubine are probably the eldest cou ple members of markham- second baptist church both are keenly in- police are ihelieved to have the guilty parties all right who made off with nearly a ton of butter from the stouffville creamery two weeks ago and the general public are looking on from around here hoping that an example will be made of thieves that will give them a new idea on how to make a living when fred taylor james taylor murray quinn and evelyn ilickeu previously charged with shopbreak ing and theft of a truck containing 1800 pounds of butter the propeity of stouffville creamery appeared before magistrate prentice in toron to police court on additional charges monday t b horkins protested vi gorously against continuance of the charge against dorothy hicken there is no evidence against this woman and i believe the police know this said mr horkins the womans counsel she was merely found in the company of taylor magistrate prentice and crown counsel haiiiui seemed impressed when she first ap peared in court last week with my argument and bail for her was re duced to 500 and granted there will be no withdrawal of the charge until arraignment said crown attorney f l malone the police know taylor would do anything to save her from em barrassment said mr horkins of course it taylor pleads guilty began mr malone taylor will not plead guilty said mannis frankel his counsel and i am not going to withdraw charges against her said mr ma lone she was found in a room in which was stolen merchandise i am content that bail against young tay lor be reduced to 3000 i wish a remand to jan 31 the remand was granted response to bible society believed good had record number at current blood donor clinic should know our neighbours the fact that we do not know all our friends in the neighboring town of uxbridge led to calling out the police on monday evening to investi gate a couple of men who were seen moving around the creamery in whac impressed a workman there as not just right constable rusnell was tipped off and soon contacted the two men at or near the local dairy premises only to leain they were citizens of uxbridge town interested in lockers and freezing plants no doubt the uxbridgeltes enjoyed the joke and would have something to tell their friends about when they got back home considers better xight patrol in response to a request from business men there will be a meet ing on friday evening at 730 in the council chambers of those interested in discussing the problem of better night patrol in town be on time as meeting must be completed before the red cross annual starts is a warning from reeve weldon markham reeve chas hooper county commissioner mr lambert stouffer reports that returns on behalf of the upper can ada bible society are coming in re markably well in connection with the present canvas being made in the stouffville district there rre still several teams to report while others have completed their work but in dications are that the total will be a worthy one for the cause western visitors mrs geo congo who has been visit ing at the home of mrand mrsfrank baker returned to montreal last fri day where she joined her husband who is in the rcaf mrs congo was accompanied by mrslena ramer who will enjoy a holiday in the iroyal city before returning home reeve charles h hooper of-mark- ham township and deputyreeve j l strath new toronto were elected as county commissioners at last weeks session of county council along with reeve john warren east york chosen as warden- they will serve as the executive committee of york county for 1944 deputyreeve strath who has ser ved seven years on new toronto council was elected by acclamation ninetynine have completed three donation 305 donations given since inauguration 12500 blocks of ice cut in 13 days asks york county police post years of age and it would appear terested n world and local events that mr clubine subsequently sought j thlnk thc trlbun is one ot the he- hand in marriage there theyj fincst ioca paperg tq be folm anv first farmed at baker hill then at wnere sai1 thi3 gran 0 gcnt bethesds and thirty years ago or man thereabout bought the old home scad from the brodle estate it wa ccic in a rather big way occupied at that time by mr james tnl3 evcnt ten years atcr wm rrcdle of stouffvllla j scores of card3 we were able to pay cash for the flowers and countless personal con- farm said mr clubine not in a gratulatlons poured in boastful way but in a spirit of nevertheless j their fiftieth wedding anniversary them when the striking committee of york county council charged with recommending the personnel of the standing committees for 1944 recom mended reeve f g gardiner kc for the chairman of york county police committee reeve george h mitchell north york inquired why the forest hill village reeve was again named as he has held the posi tion for overyears or more reeve gardiner asked specially for this appointment so that he might be in a position to answer any crlti cism that might arise as a result of the recent inquiry into whitchurch police matters explained reeve clarence c downey kc a mem ber of the striking committee the investigation was conducted by commissioner w ii stringer of the provincial police who during its hearings was critical of york county police administration a record was established in ice cutting this winter by carl rose when his cutting and loading outfit delivered on the trucks some twelve thousand five hundred blocks ideal ice the best in many years and splendid weather conditions contri buted to establish the record cut which was made in just thirteen days last winter was the worst ice and the hardest cutting conditions while this winter was the best oh record said mr rose in making comparisons the blocks were- 14 inches thick all lovely clear ice 1300 blocks were taken from the ratcliff spring pond on the 8th of whitchurch and the remainder was cut at musselmans lake trucks did all the hauling even for the farmers who might when the snow is deep do their hauling iby team it is seldom that ice cutting is started and finished in such prompt time while reeve hooper defeated reeve arthur weldon of stoultville by a slim majority in a spirited contest other county councillors elected to various positions included house of refuge commissioners deputy- reeve nelson boylen north york township and reeve george leary whitchurch township representa tives of york county old age pen sion board deputyreeve alan wheeler scarhoro and reeve ross a mcmillan north gwillimbury township representatives to moth ers allowance board mrs stanley osborne and deputyreeve c j mas ter york township representatives to york county childrens aid soc iety deputyreeve g t manes of leaslde doputyreeve george s treadway east york and reeve a d norris mimico representative to york county hospital board dep utyreeve h h glover north gwill imbury representatives to canadian national exhibition board reeve william neal richmond hill reeve john watson woodbridge and rep resentative to iroyal winter fair deputyreeve l j ross a record number of one hundred and eleven donors contributed at the current blood clinic in markham 74 of these being men and 37 women this completes a grand total of 565 donations thatjhave been given at the local clinic since its inception ninetynine donors have now given three donations as listed below some completing their third in 1943 and the remainder finishing their three at the first clinic in 1944 completed in 1943 alex allen e j appleton jr howard atkinson carl boadway jrolph boyd joe brownsberger eaibuchanan leon ard burkholder w g byer harold carruthers harold coakwell harvey coathup glen cole j a crlchton ken deacon mrs j o epworth milne freeman bengayman j gough wilbert gower garfield ham ilton elmer hare harold harper elliott harrington charles hooper john kudelka jack macklin mrs a s maynard gordon miles russell miller lou murphy clarence mc dowell stewart mcquay lloyd pen ny a j perry earl reesor lewis reesor simeon reesor walter ree sor w f riches a c russell reg stoufler bert silvcrthorn h f stiver herb stover harry stover lloyd taylor john timbers vernon trunk elgin walker charles whit- taker alvin wideman harley wide- man george williamson leslie wil son william young completed in 1944 jacob baker j e brown ed brownsberger frank burkholder walter burkhol der walter drudge gordon fuller bruce harper william harper al fred hill mrs edith ingram aubrey lapp bert lickorish mrs minnie matson gilbert mcechren fred mc- nair johnjnigh keithpearse g e pollock frect ptockring ruby ree sor ed reeve duard rose ira rus nell mrs sid schmidt fred spring e j stiver ambrose stover wm summerfeldt fred tapscott mervyn tapscott mervyn watts john whet- ter russell wideman lome wide- man a h williams the following letter was received by the chairman o b heise from dr j t phair chairman of the na tional blood donor committee cana dian red cross dear mr hcisey the canadian red cross society is most appreciative- of the very signi ficant contribution made by yourself and those associated with you in the operation of the local iblood donor clinic during the year 1943 with the anticipated early invasion of europe by canadian and allied forces there will be an increasel demand for blood serum the only possible way of meeting this demand is to increase the number of donations from every clinic therefore at the last meet ing of the national blood donor committee quotas for all provinces were reviewed and a new objective of 20000 blood donations por week to be obtained by april 1st 1944 was set frankly the situation is serious and we are leaning heavily on you in this matter yours sinceroly j t phair hydro sjprpliis is outstanding vtt mrs maria quantz who has been iii at thc home of herdaughtcr mrs bruce morton is slowly improving her friends will be glad to learn this is thc loading device oper ated by carl rose which with ease hauled 12500 cakes of ice out of thc water up onto waiting trucks in thirteen tlays fed the ice fast enough the machine could load that amount in a cou ple days of course but it would need a line of waiting trucks chairman of the local hydro com- mittee a v nolan told council tues- day evening that stoufrvflle piled up one of the largest surpluses in the province in 1943 liaylng regard to i the size of our systemsurplus earn ings are shown as 392666 on the years operations and on recom mendation of the hepc a stabiliza tion fund will be set up here which money may be used to assure that higher rates shall not prevail after the war the chairman moved and council lor boyd seconded a resolution to set aside 2000 in this fund from last years earnings lower hydro rates are impossible to obtain at this time since reduced rates would lead to in creased demand for current the chairman said that the hydro auditor pointed to stouffvlllos earn ings last year as outstanding in the i provincial network the stabillza- hon money will be invested inithe- j victory loan it is expected