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2950 copies this issue tonffotlle unburn twelve pages vol 61 no 6 the tribune stouffville ont may 26 1949 farm family escape in only night attire ashome burns barely able to get out of their burning home with their three children mr and mrs arthur wideman and his father henry wideman townline residents east of stouffville were forced out about live oclock wednesday morning when they discovered the whole house aflame the red brick structure was doomed before any one was aware the place was afire said mr wideman fire apparently started from an unknow cause in the rear kitchen a frame structure filled with wood mrs wideman had been up about four oclock and everything appear ed all right at that time when next awakened the house was filled with smoke and flames were crackling around they barely had children throw a few clothes out the window and escape henry wideman father of arthur suffer ed burns to his feet before he escaped stoufrville fire brigade was called and responded quickly but the house was almost in ruins at that time however a good creek within forty rods of the house pro vided ample water and this result ed in saving the garage a neighbor told the tribune the fire must have been burning half a hour before anyone saw it neighbors took care of the child ren while the older people worked feverishly to move away what few articles could be saved that were within range of the flames and heat almost the entire content of the home were a total loss it time to grab up their th small was modern in every respect farmer encounters wild cat near vivian school working in a potato field on the the fact that the wild cat would vivian sideroad opposite the school come from under cover in such a house there carl wideman was startled by the unexpected appear ance of a wild cat within thirty feet of his horses and wagon carl was staying on the wagon and having no shooting arms he just looked the cat yellowish in color did not appear the least concerned at the presence of the man and horses daring manner leads residents in the district to believe that the animal has been around for con siderable time and is more or less accustomed to human beings it is suggested that the whit church wild life conservation club might well organize a hunt for one of these weekends in an effort to track down the wild beast and ambled off into the bush on the since it is in a neighborhood where old mccormack property children pass daily to and from the animal let out a frightful school howl much like cats do during a a mile and a half south of this night fight which might have been district bill simpson shot a fox a protest against the presence of a last week prowling near his farm human being daring to travel in barns several chickens have been its domain i killed lately and the simpson pup several years ago wild cats were got the blame and was kept tied reported in that district and were p until the real killer was dis sighted on more than one occasion covered and shot final meeting on arena before work commences the final meeting of the pros pective shareholders of the stouff ville arena co will be held this thursday evening prior to work commencing on the project the company chai ter has been received and will be presented at this meet ing there has been some delay in the organization due to new legis lation just in force regarding the formation of joint stock companies however most of the long legal procedure has now been dealt with by the directors through their solicitor f l button only a few points remain to be ratified by the gathering on thursday when the contract figures for tli erection of a new arena are pre sented it is not expected that the prospective shareholders will change their view from that expressed in the previous vote that being to build a new arena rather than repair the present local man honored by lions fred campbell secretary of the stouffville lions club has been honoured by lions of zone 18 dis trict a3 lions international who elected him deputy district gover- fred clubine graduates in chiropractics among the seventyfour who graduated from the canadian mem orial chiropractic college in tor onto on may 20 was fred clubine son of mr and mrs edgerton clubine living west of stouffville on the townline the graduation ceremony was held in eaton auditorium and was attended by some 1200 people dr r o muller conferred the degree of doctor of chiropractic upon each graduate and was assisted by dr j a henderson mr and mrs don burrows resident of stouff- clubine attended their sons grad- ville rr3 is quite happy about uation and had tea with the grad- his good fortune since he won the uates in the round room fotontite contest at the stanley dr fred clubine dc is going jj to practice with his uncle dr j s little campaign stir liberals claim that their candi date jack smith will roll up a big majority in the township of whit church on june 27 they point out that last election earl toole pop ular farmer of the township gain ed many liberal votes but this would not happen with earl toole structure if this proves to be the nol at lne zone election held in case the canvassers will immedi- thornhill last week lion fred ately wait on their signees with the campbell has the distinction of prospectus and application for dein the first man in the local shares yvhile more than enough c to be so honored hares have already been sub scribed for immediately enough cash is in company hands to cover the arena contract the directors will no doubt proceed with their contractor this process is not expected to take but a few days since the can vassers will return with the appli cations in person rather than have them delivered through the mail decision of united states congress has bearing on local development public school to be overcrowded a recent survey indicates that there will be some 33 beginners at stouffville public school after the summer holidays and the trustee board are giving much thought to just how they are to be accommo dated of course there will be an entrance class passing out but notwithstanding it is feared an extra room will have to be found at present there are 27 attend ing public school from outside the section and the trustees would be loathe to refuse them the privilege of attending the town school even if this step were resorted to many of them would be in classes not valuable animal thrown from truck returning from richmond hill fair on tuesday night with a load of horses for vincent baker the truck driver was forced to bring the vehicle to an abrupt stop on main street here when a car turned into his path unexpectedly and without warning the lurch threw the heavy horses against the rack with such force that one clyde mare was thrown out of the truck sustaining a bad gash on the thigh right down the leg to the fetlock in the excitement the owner of the car which wrongfully pulled into the line of traffic made off while the truck driver was occu pied with the plunging animals the injured mare was a prize animal at both the royal and cne last year and was the lead horse in the sixinhand team mhvsn- ggflgs and d not e out while his pc opponent is a virtual stranger who has not enter ed the campaign in this territory town resident called to receive 135 clubine in toronto upon comple tion of his government examina tions in june richer by some 135 cash the formal presentation will be made to him next thursday evening at the show don is employed at d holden sons situation in the lower classes much it is pointed out in the event an additional room must be found it will be fitted up in the basement where class has been held in other years an addi tional teacher would have to be engaged rev and mrs s goudie mr and mrs harry stouffer geraldine stouffer and mrs- levi forsyth motored to vineland to attend the celebration of the golden wedding anniversary of mr and mrs jos burkholder stolen car recovered at musselmans a car belonging to ray ormston unionville stolen from main st markham on saturday evening was recovered shortly after supper by constable rusnell of stouff ville at musselmans lake mr ormston had only left his car for a few moments when several young lads hitchhiking to the lake got in and drove away the car with keys missing was discovered in the cedar beach parking lot but no trace of the thieves real disappointment may justly be felt all over ontario and especially in this local district close to toronto because it is now clear that there will be no action at washington this year on the big joint seaway plan between united states and canada the st law rence seaway bill before congress has no chance of passing this year no place would benefit more directly than the stouffville dis trict terriffic big employment provided at the docks with sea going freighters coming to our very door for unloading and great additional demand for farm pro duce by reason of the thousands of extra employees at the docks all would enhance the value of the local district unfortunately big us interests do not want the development and montreal does not like it naturally although the dominion government appears to be giving the scheme all the boost they can with the chances passing of geeting joint action the two big questions now up for decision in canada are these 1 is ontario hydro definitely prepared to sponsor the extra cost and responsibility of a separate power project rather than wait for a combined operation 2 is the labrador iron ore pro ject going to be able to proceed with development in 1919 with out promise of a lowcost seaway the ontario hydro question is honeycombed with complications and difficulties mostly arising out of the involved arrangements under which canada and the us are presently combined to under take the combined powerseaway scheme under the joint plan agreed to by both countries in 1941 canada was to have been reimbursed by the us for her share in having built the welland canal if this plan is abandoned and a separate power scheme is undertaken the chances of canada getting such compensation are at best slim this means a considerable dollar difference to the federal govern ment and quite probably to ontario it makes both parties reluctant to present any ultimatum to washington of course wash ington may veto a purely power development if this is proposed by canadians study present costs in any event joint studies are now proceeding by both ontario and the federal government as to just what the real costs of develop ment might be in the international section under presentday condi tions its unlikely that any official representations will be made to washington until these studies are complete even then nothing may be done before june 27 by that time the situation in washington may be more positive though its taken for granted now that there wont be any action certainly no favorable action on the seaway this term hoodlums not tolerated at musselmans lake after the 1st of june you must foe present al the stanley theatre to be eligible for fotonite there will be no signing attendance cards on wednesday nite crown markham may queen answering an appeal for- help from elmer wells a whitchurch township police constable ira rusnell turned out at 12 midnight saturday to assist in helping deal with a group of city teenagers at musselmans lake when the vil lage cop reached the scene on the montgomery farm other officers had not arrived but did reach the place in a fow minutes the gang sleeping in the barn had torn off the doors hut all submitted to arrest without too much of a scene between the ages of 16 and 19 nine were placed under arrest and charged with trespassing they were later given bail of 500 each after spending the remainder of the night in jail then each went to his or her city home constable ron watts and county constable kidd and others were on hand to make the arrests and the township constable took charge of the ease the youthful gang said they expected to meet up with another city gang over the weekend for battle all of which sounds as though too many of the teen agers in the city belong to the dark ages or were they as crazy back in the days of the indian trail one county official asked another wondered how parents hadlost such com plete control that they could not have their children at home over night new municipal office envisioned for markham tp immediate attention to problems such as assessment and planning in order to avoid heavy and un necessary expenses and messes in the future was urged upon markham township council by reeve vern griffin at the last regular meeting recording himself as strongly against the present system of assessment which he describes as dictatorial and unequal reeve griffin urged consulation with experts in order to provide the installation of a system which would lead to proper equalized assessments he was authorized by council to investigate the situation and report back council also authorized the reeve to investigate a concrete scheme for town planning and to report back the township already has had consultations with dr faludi town planning consultant who has offered to prepare a mas ter plan of the township on a two year basis at a reasonable cost it was pointed out to council that unless immediate steps were taken the growth of population in the township would create conditions which it would be both costly and difficult to remedy in a few years property purchase urged immediate action leading to the acquisition of property for town ship purposes was urged by the reeve who pointed out that the rapidly increasing values of land would force extra expenditures on the township in the future unless action was taken at once to pro vide a site for future township buildings reeve griffin envisioned a muni cipal building located somewhere on no 7 highway where persons could find it instead of the present location back of the main line of travel and which one would never spot as a municipal building he suggested that by looking ahead while markham grows by leaps and bounds money could be saved and the day would come when the municipal setup would be in keep ing with the really big municipal business now developing conner farm purchased by ross winter stein the ralph conner farm of over a hundred acres located at gravel hill north of town has been sold to mr- ross winterstein of stouff ville who is head of stouffville sand gravel co mr winterstein intends to ranch the land at present and already has a herd of young cattle ranging over the acreage the property lies opposite the storry farm and contains valuable gravel deposits it lies immediately west of the famous gravel hill pit sells and buys again former local man mr frank a bruels now of 14 servington cres cent toronto only recently sold anchor villa thunder bay beach on georgian bay and last week bought it back from the purchaser who changed his mind when the time came for opening the popular resort again this season anchor villa is a high class summer hotel with rates running from 10 to 50 weekly depending on cabins and the size of parties mr bruels intends to operate the place himself again this season anchor villa is about 75 miles north from stouffville whistles and smiles of these markham high school just boys are bob shank jim crowning took place at a dance boys are for jocelyn smith chosen queen of the may the thomas lynn reesor lome held in the school auditorium timbers bud watson the as an annual event j our east end citizen of many i years standing mr jim brown was i stricken with a stroke on monday and lies in a critical condition tricounty league opens here monday night with sutton