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the tribune stouffville ont thursday august 18 1949 markham new summer policy doors open 1 00 pm show starts 7 30 pm mon to sat matinee saturday at 2 00 pm two more riotous days last times saturday aug 20 the laughleader of 49 mr belvedere goes to college stanley theatre stouffville ontario two shows nightly 730 and 930 pm saturday continuous showing commencing 700 pm friday and saturday august 19 20 girl from jones beach starring virginia mayo eddy bracken and ronald reagan clifton webb shirley temple monday to wednesday aug 22 23 24 the class of 49 mother is a freshman loretta van young johnson in technicolor monday and tuesday august 22 23 apartment for pesgy technicolor starring jeanne craine and william holden wednesday and thursday august 24 25 letter to three wives adult entertainment starring jeanne craine and linda darnell coming sept 2 3 sand plow under acres of tomato vines continued hot weather and one of the longest dry spells in history are causing thousands of dollars damage daily to vegetable crops in essex county area acres of tomatoes the fruit burned on the vine have been plowed under by district growers as many as three and four plant ings of carrot seed have been kill ed by the heat which also destroy ed head lettuce cabbage and spinach 150 tomatoes are growing on one plant a tomato plant growing at the home of joe costelec preston road has so many tomatoes the leaves are obscured there are at least 150 tomatoes on the plant mrs costelec said last week she believes this may he a record the masonic order is meeting in germany again 22000 nightly on big stand in its own 350acre exhibition park stretched along a mile and a half of torontos lake ontario shore line with 35000000 worth of permanent buiidings a 22000- capacity grandstand and the biggest tent on he continent the canadian national exhibition is preparing for its seventieth and biggest year the exhibition runs august 2g to september 10 begun as a fall fair the cne is now the worlds largest annual exposition along the 12 miles of paved boulevards in patty con- lins mile of midway merriment on 2250000 square feet of exhibi tors space from bleacher seats lining the waterfront swim course and looking into planefilled skies above exhibition park 2612000 visitors were entertained and edified last year cne officials anticipate a larger number this wedding cash pays debts bridegroom fakes holdup a windsor youth who sent police on a wild goose chase all because he didnt want his sweet heart to know he had spent their wedding money will have 10 days to think up an explanation for his fiancee this was the sentence given when he appeared on a public mischief charge in windsor last week gerald lavoie 20 walked into headquarters and claimed two men one with a pistol took him for a ride in the country and robbed him of 160 and most of his cloth ing he was wearing only a trench coat socks and shoes when tie came to police station provincial police were notified and all highways between windsor and niagara falls were searched for the robbers who were des cribed by lavoie he took police to oldcastle where he said the men relieved him of his clothes and money he had walked to windsor he said- later nearly seven hours after the reported robbery the youth said it was all a hoax he said he had spent most of the 160 paying off debts and had wanted to conceal it from his fiancee whom he is to marry monday year the olsen and johnson show will be back and the best reserved seats are sold out one thousand scramble tickets are reserved for daily sale during the two weeks what to do with a nickel when thirst arrives authorized bottler of cocacola under contract with cocacola ltd uxbridge beverages uxbridge ontario phono 205 another overseas tour for champion plowmen a four weeks tour of the british isles with all expenses paid will be awarded gold medal winners in both the horse and tractor plowing esso champions transatlantic classes at this years international plowing match vc porteous president of the ontario plow mens association announced the 1949 international plowing match is being held at the farm of h w amy 10 miles west of brantford oct 1114 the plow mens annual classic will be officially opened on oct 12 by brig o m martin of brantford premier cecil frost of ontario will be the guest speaker at the banquet mark ing the close of the match second prize winners in the transatlantic classes which are sponsored by imperial oil will each receive a silver medal and 150 in cash twelve other cash prizes totalling 165 will be award ed in each class those qualified to compete in the tractor class include all esso champions special winners at ontario plowmens association branch matches and all plowmen from other provinces medal win ners in this class at previous inter national plowing matches will not be eligible in the special horse drawn plow class all plowmen who qualified at branch matches after oct 17 1947 and plowmen from other provinces are qualified to compete medal winners in this class in previous years are not eligible during their free trips to the british isles the gold medalists will visit plowing matches study british agriculture and see historic sites they will be accompanied by a manager appointed by the ontario plowmens association the tour which includes a short stay in new york will take about four weeks much from little one cubic inch of platinum could be drawn into a fine wire that would be long enough to wind twice around the world they can be stopped having regard to the number of complaints about fast driving through main street the reeve of the village promised the other day that he would recommend to council the use of a speed trap it is not new to the village for one was worked here years ago but it is needed again i think it should be alternately in the west end and again in the east end declared the reeve with the increase in traffic and the heavy loads passing through here daily truckers must be carefully checked those heavy loads with their reat tonnage could not stop very readily and while most of the drivers are careful some are not worst offenders are passenger car drivers the speed check is the only way to curb reckless drivers and it is used in surrounding townships and villages it is a simple gadget and no one obeying the law need be afraid of it the system is simple first of all an eighth of a mile on the highway is measured then at one end of this distance a tube similar to those used in many garages for notifying attendants of the arrival of a car at the gas pumps is stretched across the high way the policeman who is checking speeds takes up a position at the other end of the measured distance armed with a stop watch as a vehicle passes over the tube it creates an electrical impulse which is transmitted by wire to a record ing instrument beside the con stable who immediately clicks his watch then as the vehicle passes him at the opposite end of the measured stretch he clicks his watch again at the same time taking note of the cars number thus is recorded to the exact fraction of a second the exact time taken by the suspected speeder to cover the one eighth mile a simple formula already worked out enables the constable to tell instantaneously the miles per hour the car was travelling naturally the situation works on the same basis in connection with cars passing the other way the speeder passes the officer his stop watch clicks it passes over the tube the buzzer sounds the watch clicks again and so is decided whether mr motorist gets an official notification covering his crime obviously every car is not check ed only the obvious or suspected speeder at time due to the den sity of traffic it is impossible to tell which car rings the bell and of course the system is not worked then simple yet foolproof the com paratively new method of deter mining excessive speed is doing much to dampen the ardour of drivers who delight in bearing down on the accelerator police provide escort at funeral of dick stuart funeral rites were held for richard stuart of whitby at the home of his uncle and aunt dr and mrs horace bascom king street south rev charles a malcolm conducted the service his mother now deceased was birdie crosby uxbridge younger sister ofmrs dr bascom mr stuart died suddenly monday morning he was in his 33rd year popular district correspondent of the toronto globe arid mail he was a topflight reporter and extremely well liked by his colleagues and business associates representatives of toronto and local newspapers were in attend ance at the funeral along with representatives of oshawa whit by provincial and pickering town ship police forces the provincial police provided a motorcycle and car escort for the cortege the pallbearers were joseph stephen and charlie bascom cousins of the deceased eric mcveity of oshawa donald tucker and robert corbett of whitby interment was at uxbridge ceme tery publishing head passes away the final chapter in a can adian success story embracing the better part of century was written with the death in tor onto hospital of major hugh cameron maclean he was in his s4th year major maclean was the founder of the hugh c maclean publications ltd which publishes a large variety of canadian trade and business journals need pullets you can get beautiful readytolay or laying pullets at marshalls hatchery for only 250 each deliv ered sky line farms limited x kettleby ontario township building laws bring much trouble even in scarboro construction on 6 veterans homes in scarboro has been ordered stopped by scarboro coun cil because according to a rest-nc- tive bylaw the houses are valued at 1300 less than they should be deposits of 1000 each have been made by 16 young veterans on these homes valued at 6500 includ ing the property on which they stand the houses have been built without building permits which could not be issued because the houses do not comply with the requirements of the restrictive by law leo raben spokesman for the group of veterans appeared at council meeting last thursday night to ask that permission be given the builder to complete the houses so that he and his fellow purchasers could move into their new homes we are imploring you to do- something about this situation so that we can move in said raben my wife is expecting our first baby in another month and we cannot take a new baby to our basement apartment which is damp he promised that the veterans would undertake to add extra rooms to the houses to bring the value of the houses up to the requirements roy cormack builder of the houses states that he is not in opposition to the people of the dis trict or to the bylaws but said my opposition is to the man who wants to capitalize on the housing situa tion the farmer who sold me this land said that if he does not insist upon the restrictions he will be forced to sell the property at 12 to 15 per foot if the restrictions- are enforced he will be able to sell the land for 20 to 25 per foot as far as the 1000 deposits are concerned cormack stated no one who has a deposit on a home with me need have any fear of losing it reeve o e crockford was in favor of allowing the builder to complete the homes go ahead and issue your writs said reeve crockford and these people will be without homes this builder has defied our departments and should be stopped from building any more houses declared councillor george barker i am in sympathy with these veterans but i think the builder should be prosecuted and the judge should decide what is to be done we are not obligated to these veterans remarked reeve crock ford but we should all have enough of the milk of human kind ness in our veins to do what we can for these unfortunate young people i think the veterans would be agreeable to adding another room to the houses to bring them up to the required value the council has directed the township solicitor to issue a writ halting cormacks building pro gram and has ordered the building inspector to lay charges of breach ing a bylaw and building without a permit against him private companies oppose contributory insurance present expectation is that any move the dominion government makes in the field of old age pen sions will be towards broadening the base of the present plan rather than moving directly into the con tributory field observes the fin ancial post one difficulty is that the govern ment feels it has a definite political commitment to do something in the contributory pension field also that in the 1915 dominion provincial green book it came out flat footed for a universal pension scheme for all persons 70 or over yet the more it studies this problem the more it is concerned about the implications of rushing into either a universal pension scheme or of attempting to put such a scheme on a contributory basis private insurance company pressure will be strongly opposed