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sass twelve pages 3000 copies vol 60 no 38 the tribune stouffville ont january 5 1950 i loses leg then son killed host everybody enjoyed a happy holiday yearend but not mr and mrs harry shea of hamilton they planned the holiday with their three adopt ed children a week before harry shea onetime hotel owner was taken home from hospital after having a leg amputated just at this same time little joseph seen sitting in front on the pony raised at gormley was fatally crushed under the wheels of a big truck resident 52 years fred cockerill passes following a fang period of poor health fred cockerill died at his home on blake street this wed nesday morning at four oclock born at sharon north of new market 77 years ago last saturday mr cockerill united in marriage with annie pickering the cere- mony being performed in toronto they immediately located in stouffville that was 52 years ago and they lived here continuously together until death now inter venes mrs cockerill and one son gordon of king city together with four daughters all survive the girls are hazel mrs roy lewis of london norine of detroit edna mrs bert edwards of owen sound and verna at home and with the b s telephone co oh the exchange fred cockerill was a highly respected citizen possessing a quiet unassumin disposition a man who enjoyed his home life above everything else something new for stouffville will be saturday night hockey games commencing this week jan 7th the opposition on this occasion will be toronto meteors who are picked by some as the team to beat in this oha big seven senior group stouffville clippers are riding the crest of a fourgame winning streak and will be out to make it five in a row this saturday public skating will be moved ronald aged eight and f reginald back from saturday to friday three violets ix bloom- out op doors yet there upon that upland height the darlings of the spring blue violets wore blossom ing many poets have spun verses about the darlings of the flower families the delicate violets that bloom in spring wonder what they would com pose had they saw the delicate heads of the bunch of darlings bravely blooming out of doors this christmas week on the south side of d fence row sheltered by bushes on the farm of mr john brillinger bethesda probably the brave little flowers would have been dubbed orphans or something of the sort or perhaps they could be construed a gift from santa claus in any event a gift from the great creator the more impressive because of the un usual time of year for the lovely delicate violet to spring forth thieves enter cnr station at goodwood during thursday night thieves forced an entrance into the cnr station at goodwood and carried off the hundred pound safe con taining papers and about 40 or 50 in cash the safe was later found near the farm of jos betz at mongolia with the door forced entrance to the station was made by forcing up a window and opening the door from the inside agent fw marshall said it is only six years since goodwood station was robbed before whitchurch twp council returned by big lead over opponents new year baby at the brierbush at 7 am on new years morn ing the first 1950 baby was ushered into this world at the brierbush hospital stouffville a bouncing baby girl weighing seven pounds two ozs is the daughter of mr and mrs jack flewell uxbridge there are two other children in the flewell family two brothers horse flesh enjoys sentimental home in whitchurch township the old gray gelding aint what he used to be but he has a record that will take some beating so thinks garnet evans farmer on the 3rd concession of whitchurch at mt pisgah mr evans has a gray gelding twentyfive years old and its the third generation of its breed held in the family continu ously now for 65 3ears mr evans and his brother lome evans recall that the breed ing traces back to the famous messenger and the third gener ation back was born 67 years ago the mare was acquired by the evans family when she was young she was a good brood mare and at the age of 21 gave birth to a filly which they chose to name tory the- name followed be cause the filly had a full brother a year older that was named grit mr evans says that in spite of their names the brother and sister were always on best of terms and teamed along together as good horses should not even an election disturbed their liking for each other at 21 years old tory gave birth to the gelding now owned by mr evans and this veteran animal can still do a days work but he is seldon called on to do much since the farm is equipped with power machinery and the old gray geld ing is tolerated largely or wholly because of sentiment it is not likely that this record for horse flesh on one farm can be duplicated in the whole township perhaps not in the county the expression of opinion so often heard in whitchurch the last week that an election was not warranted this year because of the type of candidates coming for ward to oust the 119 councillors was proven by the result of the vote alex campbells attempt to gair the oflice of deputyreeve was the most outstanding mistake mr campbell is a small holder in the township has no municipal exper ience whatever yet offers himself for a position which- demands experience in the council at least his poor showing against ivan mclaughlin indicates that the rate payers were aware of the situation and voted accordingly much the same trouble was indicated when two subdivision residents sought seats on the council when they are scarcely known in the municipality mr made a poor showing last sunday hockey practice allowed but public barred stouffville has its own sunday sports problem not so serious as toronto however by a voti or 250 to 09 share- styles year and there was nothing to holders in the new stouffville indicate he would stand in better arena decided to allow sunday favor this year he didnt and hockey practices but banned the polled a negligible vote stanley public from watching them rule was the strongest of the new leading the group objecting to comers but at that was a long way any activity at the arena on sun- behind day were the rev douglas davis the old council now returned and rev norman rowan support- intact can settle down quicklv to eti by w d atkinson business there is a general feel- mr rowan charged that three ing we believe that council should or four shareholders whose main heed the request of these sub- consideration was the extra profit division people and when they ask macie operation of the arena on for roads under local improve- sunday had tried to dominate pro- ments local improvements costs ceedmgs he said sunday operation under the bylaw are paid for for money was a violation of the directly by the area benefitted law of tne iand and god- therefore should cause no worry to dr stanley ball president of the other parts of the township stouffville hockey club led the the strong support accorded th posunday practice faction with a old councillors in mondays con- resolution leaving it to the arena test indicates that the electors directors to decide who might be have every confidence in the coun- admitted this was withdrawn after much argument the motion cil of their choice the vote by polls oak beth- lemon-bloom- arm- pleasant cedar ridges esda ville bloo- arm- plea- cedar vivian deputyreeve alex campbell i mclaughlin for council r c baycroft sid legge stanley rule geo e styles fred timbers 26s 159 122 136 121- 17 12 124 123 103 9 5 98 6 119 115 100 17 13 118 ming- ton 135 111 95 itage sant- valley ville total 5s 61 65 15 132 6 49 6 144 118 142 12 12 120 19 100 34 105 9 91 45 326 983 782 861 492 206 133 783 144 98 115 12 47 council sympathetic to an unfortunate family forbidden use of hydro too heavy a wage bill for such favorable winter weather com mented councillor wm clark at the inaugural meeting of markham township council on monday scanning over the pay roll he observed that from dec 15 eight men were constantly on the town ship pay roll costing 110 each jas far as i am concerned road costs have got to be cut if we are to reduce the tax rate continued mr clark mr rumney newly elected deputyreeve declared it could be done and reeve win timbers said it was for council to decide whether to keep these men full time or part time and the discus sion dropped at this point councillor clark led off again when he declared himself in favor of the council acting as- a planning board we handle all the other business and can do this work too he said reeve timbers suggested that regular council meetings could be held on specified dates perhaps first and middle mondays in the month and planning board meet ings councillors agreed might be held in the evenings following the council sessions it was decided to insert a stand ing notice in the weekly press circulating the township in the coming events indicating the dates council would meet and for what purpose the press urged council to v furnish them ith a copy of the jj minutes of each meeting and this was seriously considered and may receive final approval after further discussion councillor alf james known as the green councillor since this was his initiatory meeting to this sort of business is not going to be without worthwhile knowledge very long he put pointed and sensible questions to the meeting designed to learn the true situation in various matters when it was learned that hydro service had been denied a woman in unionville since last august mr james wanted to know on what authority council had taken this step said mr james i doubt if its councils business to deprive people of hydro if their premises have been passed by the he inspector when an explanation n was forthcoming from the clerks mr james still contended council h lions launch new car help summer program a spanking new pontiac car is on the road now bearing the crest of the stouffville lions club and on which tickets are being sold for a draw in a few months time the net proceeds from this project will go to various local lions work principally their memorial park improvement program which is ready for its second stage this spring already the lions have expend ed nearly 2000 in the park in play equipment new baseball bleachers and a new fence which is on hand ready to be erected in the spring the next stage which was prev iously planned for 1950 was the hardtopping of the tennis court area in addition to the good works done by the lions and mentioned above the service club expended in 1919 several thousand dollars in the new arena in providing a free eye checkup for every pupil in the local schools free tb chest xrays help to the north york childrens summer camp and the veterans memorial hall all in all some 5000 was raised to cover these various charitable works last year envision stouffville swallowed by great metropolitan area little did anyone dream that the village of stouffville would be embodied in a metropolitan area scheme with the city of toronto and some clay be the outer rim of i system the great city creation of such an area is now envisioned one that would embrace not only the townships of vaughan and markham but the annexation is described as the village of stouffville which would form the corner stone in this northeast corner of what would be the largest city in the world such district if created in the metropolitan area would entail setting up boards to handle basic municipal services the recently released reports of the committee on metropolitan problems civic- advisory council of toronto states the report refrains from sing ling out any one plan to solve the growing pains of the metropolitan area recommendations will be made in part two of the report this will be issued within thenext three months dealing with the formation of a new metropolitan county structure the report says the merit of a scheme creating a metropolitan county would lie in the fact that it would utilize some of the existing forms of administra tion with which municipal officials are familiar and within which they are accustomed to work such a scheme would untouched in part certain local situations in which resistance may develop on the basis of threats to local autonomy on the other hand creation of a metropolitan county on the grounds of palatability might make it difficult to imple ment more drastic forms of admin istrative revision which might be required to solve the major prob lems of the metropolitan area the report deals with borough and its virtues and dis advantages application of this system to toronto would not be a simple expedient it suggests amalgamation or piecemeal lion is described natural method of setting the problem of growth in a metropoli tan community after referring to the substantial administrative difficulties which would follow amalgamation the report says if the metropolitan area out lined by the committee is accepted amalgamation would involve elim ination of 22 political units for this reason alone it would be resisted strenuously on the grounds of local autonomy it is probable that amalgamation amid only be achieved by provincial leadership and mandatory legisla tion but the fact is if amalgama tion is going to take place it would be much preferable to the municipalities in the area to initiate the amalgamation them selves allowing no one but hockey players into the rink on sunday was approved geo rodanz and f l button also spoke on the pro- sunday aspect john l lewis fangs touch stouffville the coal shortage now being felt by the railways has hit the cnr line passing through stouffville it is announced that the sunday night passenger train from peterborough and lindsay and passing through here at 926 will be cancelled after january 9th which is next sunday night it will be the last train out for sunday cnr patrons until the coal situation improves in cancelling this service the railway is making a real sacrifice because we understand it is the best paying train in operation on this line however to cancel any of the daily express trains there would be a serious disruption to mail and express service and the cnr must have taken this into- consideration when they decided to cancel the sunday night train coal stocks are at a serious low level due to union activities in the united states the situation will no doubt induce the great national lines to concentrate more than ever on oil burning locomotives of which they now have a goodly number in operation seems as though the laborers or whoever is responsible for the constant up heaval in the coal mines are ultimately going jto do themselves out of a job mr and mrs allen goudie spent new years day with his parents rev and mrs s goudie mill st mrs blake sanders das left for napanee where she will spend the leave winter months shouldnt withhold reeve timbers said the family came in the night and hadnt co operated and mr clark observed that now they are there children are in the home perhaps council should not make it harder for them the day being ended council adjourned and agreed to visit the humble place on unionvilles main street where the occupants are forced to use coal oil lamps while the premises are equipped for hydro current rev norman rowan pastor of second markham church was invited to address this opening session when council convened at ii oclock with all present except ing councillor charlie hooper newly elected but who is now homeward bound from a trip to england udden death of percy cober aged 51 the sudden and shocking death is reported from fordwich of percy cober who passed away with little warning on tuesday afternoon he had been away from his home on a visit went to bed with a cold and heavy coughing during which he died only in his 51st year he was born in markham township he married ruth steckley daughter of mrs steckley of gormley and the late peter steckley who sur vived him together with four daughters and two grandsons the family moved to fordwich about two years ago funeral will be held this friday afternoon at 2 oclock in the heise hill church with interment in the everybody pays their taxes no defaulters for 1949 just a day or two before the end of the year tax collector k r davis showed the press a state ment of the tax situation in stouffville it indicated that prob ably by the time this appears in print not a single taxpayer in stouffville will owe one cent on their current 1919 demand with a few days to go a sum less than 100 was outstanding but on which arrangement for payment had been made and within days at that such a record for promptness infill paying taxes would be hard t0 catholic cemetery cemetery opposed in markham twp because land between langstaff and thornhill has been designated for residential and commercial purposes markham township council last december decided to apply for a writ to prohibit use of two lots at langstaff for a roman beat of course it couldnt be beaten but few municipalities could do or equal it the total collection amounts to 32568 and this collector davis has received credit is due him and the taxpayers too revenue from our public utilities water and hydro electric would be more than the general taxes and we have no defaulters in these two services either stouftvilles fin ancial position fs certainly enviable both from the moderate taxes demanded and the ability of the people to pay and pay mthough the diocese had offered remuneration for loss of taxes it would not equal the revenue the township could receive from industry it was said by township officials also there is the possibil ity that a cemetery once establish ed would be enlarged by confiscat ing additional lands devaluation of property in the vicinity according to retiring reeve vern griffin would be in evitable at the inaugural meeting of the new council on monday the matter was not considered at all and the writ is proceeding thornhill will seek separation from markham twp stung no doubt by the recent markham township municipal election which leaves the village of thornhill without any representa tion on the council the trustees of thornhill village are moving fast to make application to have thorn hill designated a village with its own council and control of its af fairs removed from the rural dis trict which has little common in terest with the development of the village on yonge street application for incorporation as a village soon will be made to the ontario municipal board by the trustees of the police village as a result of the expansion of the area trustee e v anstey said last thursday mr anstey said plans call for the squaring off of an area from steeles ave on the south to langstaff on the north and a half mile on both sides of yonge st as the village boundaries the population living within what is at present taken for grant ed as the boundaries of thornhill is more than double the required number for a village mr anstey said the trustees predicted that with in a few years the population with the proposed boundaries would be approximately 10000 almost enough for a city at present our prime objective is to pipe water into every home in thornhill he said water is our greatest need and we hope to end the problem this year once there is a water system in thornhill the growth of the com munity will be even far more ex tensive than it is today mr robt bone local insurance man was heard this week over the we air on that popular show whatfe