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the tribune stouffville ont thursday june 22 1950 no opposition to plan ajax improvement area the status of ajax as an improvement district township was virtually assured thursday afternoon following a hearing of the ontario municipal board although they did not officially make a decision the members of the board indicated that they were in favour of giving the crown- owned land the limited form of self government the improvement district providesthe recreation hall at ajax was scene of the hearin an official decision will be forth coming in two weeks during which time representatives of the central mortgage and housing corpora tion the township of pickering and the county of ontario will confer and try to arrive at an agreement upon a number of provisions to be incorporated in the boards decision assuming that the community is given the status of an improve ment district township it will be governed by a board of trustees which will consist of three men appointed by the ontario govern ment in orderincouncil the municipal affairs but it h that it will consist of one sentative of central mortga lik re universal motors operates on both kei 25 and 60 cycle and domestic appliances with housing one from ajax industry universal motors operate either on and one other the makeup of the 60cyele or 25eycle power board was one of the principal in making this announcement subjects of controversy at thurs- hydro chairman robert h davs hearing up to the point sacmder- stated that if the motor where the members of the munici- is working well before the power pal board pointed out that they supply is changed over it should were not primarily concerned in function efficiently when the that phase of the subject and for- switch to ioeycle has been made bade further discussion a typical example is the average there was no one present at the electric sewing machine which has the sunday sport vote beaten at chatham kleetors of chatham last week voted against sunday sport by a majority of 374 in a light vote 2lco opposed sunday sport with 202c in favor only 37s per cent of the eligible voters cast their ballots city council sent the question to the electorate after the minis terial association had protested against sunday afternoon skating at the arena which they claimed interfered with sunday school attendance ministers and laymen campaign ed strongly against the bylaw markham lady in distinguished class hearing who was opixvsed to the a universal motor the sewin institution of an improvement machine motor may have a slightly which they interpreted as meanin district except one person and be- different sound when running oni question as to whether the city fore the afternoon was over he ioeycle than on 25eycle power came around to the belief that it but the operation of the machine would be best for the community i will be much the same as before however bickering township and the hydro chairman said favored commercialized sport there was no organized campaign for the bylaw selection of this board will finally undoubtedly will be in favour of depend upon the department of establishing the district proof that these electric sewing machine motors work well on 0- cycle or 25eycle power is seen in wanted to be sure that the fact that the identical machine i i with the same universal sold by manufacturers and dealers in both tiocycle and 25cyele areas such sewing machines have been working effic iently on either cycle current for many years county of ontario councils were represented and while they favoured establishment of the dis trict they certain conditions were included model with the it was to clarify these conditions motor is that the board is allowing an interval of a fortnight before giving an official decision which the latest boy wonder how long before school is out stenographers may be careless about their spelling but they seldom are about their figures bast year canadians paid 23s- 000000 in employer and employee contributions to social security and pension funds jj3hs3ssajc5m5rartp ac8sjaj3jpaj3wkcil markham township centennial celebration 1850 saturday and sunday 1950 july 1 2 a day you will long remember i be sure to come to markham on saturday and join your neighbors in celebrating the townships 100th birthday meet all your old friends and make new ones a rousing time is promised bands parades the best time you have had for years well be seeing you saturdays program in markham village at 1 so pm mammoth parade three bands in attendance colorful floats oxen six horse teams stage coach farm machinery new old school children girl guides boy scouts decorated bicycles and doll carriages sports baseball racing folk dancing ferris wheel merrygoround fish ponds tug- owar bingo etc mrs m k mcdonald wife of the late doctor mcdonald wellknown markham physic ian is shown here with e creighton and r d hume examing a plaqu e in hart house during the recent re union of the university of tor onto class of 1000 twenty- three members attended a dinner in honour of the occasion muskoko trees plagued by caterpillars its like fall in some sections of muskoka ont where a great plague of tent caterpillars has stripped the foliage from the trees joyce genoe and audrey deyette stand beside ruined trees at left closeup shows pests when caterpillars at tack a tree they strip foliage in a few minutes and they have control of almost 3000000 acres butter winning back ground lost to margarine guest speaker hon geo s henry public schools speaking contest sundays program divine service in crosby memorial arena at unionville 230 pm service conducted by rev norman rowan supported by all ministers of the township massed choir accompanied by the queens york rangers band veterans parade chas hooper chairman program committee reeve win timbers chairman centennial committee chas hoover secretary centennial committee j butter is beginning to reclaim some of the favor lost to its 18- monthold opponent margar ine although official figures show margarine production well ahead of last year and but ter down slightly a survey of manufacturers and retail out lets reveals that butter is back in the running margarine has had little effect in the last few months commented a spokesman for dominion stores another retailer traced the change to the snarp drop in butter prices fay burnside above selects margarine for her weekly grocery supply when newfoundland entered in 1919 canadians paid by confederation the maximum num- indirect taxes to federal provincial ber of senators was increased from and municipal governments 1857- 96- to 102 f 000000-