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twelve pages tonffoflle tibunt 3000 copies vol 61 no 19 the tribune stouffville ont august 31 1950 council orders police to patrol whitchurch roads against cattle rustlers taking advantage of record high beef prices gangs of cattle rustlers using fast trucks have been swooping down on farmers back pastures stealing high grade animals and swiftly disposing of them at big profits through irregular channels rural police report with nine rustling cases out standing on their books whit church township police have had to start a nightly cow patrol on concessions east of aurora police officers comb back roads all night every night stopping and check ing every truck they spot friday night this paid off in two arrests though not rustling cases john colling 35 and david green 34 both of wilcox lake were charged with theft of lumber chief ronald watt and chief w mulholland say they spotted the two loading lumber on to a truck at taylors sawmill just north of wilcox lake the nightly patrol in whit church was started when farmers demanded protection nine steers worth more than 400 each to farmers in sales through regular channels have been stolen in the past few weeks many more cases over the past six months havent been reported police think many whitchurch farmers are keeping nightly guard with shot guns over their herds or bringing them from back pastures to enclosed areas at night all the cattle stolen have been from pastures close to main roads so the thieves would be sure of a quick getaway in peel county toronto town ship police were informed satur day of theft of a valuable short horn steer apparently loaded into a truck in a pasture at the north end of the township just after dark on the opposite side of the city in pickering township police chief lockhart trinnell was called to impound a herd of seven shorthorns which had strayed into the garden of mrs a corry of pickerings fourth concession no owner has claimed the animals yet they may have been stampeded by rustlers attempting to round them up into trucks and strayed said the chief cattle thefts have also been reported in the beaverton and barrie area sellers at the ontario stockyards in west toronto are getting from 28 to 32 w cents per pound for live cattle this week the stockyards report horticultural society wins first prize at exhibition in a class of 0 entries basket of mixed flowers stouffville horticultural society was success ful in carrying off the first prize at the canadian national exhibi tion those responsible for the work involved in this project which incidentally reflects credit on the entire village deserve hearty congratulations on their achievement truck and grader collide on 10th line a gravel truck owned by lageer bros of stouffville and driven by jack hill was in collision on sat urday morning with a heavy dept of highways maintainer on the highway 10th con just north of stouffville near the cnr cross ing while only injury suffered was a bruised knee by the grader driver both the truck and the maintainer were badly smashed the truck was proceeding north to the pit at the time of the acci dent while the maintainer was enroute to the dehaviland plant toronto the heavy blade was torn off the road machine while the front truck wheels were driven all the way to the rear axle by the force of the impact jailed on drunk driving charge charles stpierre of gormley was sentenced to fifteen days in jail when he pleaded guilty to a charge of drunk driving before magistrate hollinrake in county court on tuesday stpierre was fined an additional 10 or 30 days for having liquor in an illegal place his car was impounded by the police for three months and his driving permit was cancelled for a period of six months stpierre was arrested in stouff ville on saturday night by con stable rusnell mr and mrs claude brillinger and girls are holidaying at kushog lake for a couple of weeks prize winners at cne robt lewis of markham carried off top honors for mangolds at the cne this week while davidson bros agincourt were prize winners in the potato class markham girl wins provincial scholarship christine robb daughter of mr and mrs john robb 8th conces sion of markham has won a pro vincial scholarship for her success in her graduating year at markham high school christine obtained seven firsts and two thirds in her senior matriculation the schol arship one of eighteen given in york county carries a value of 400 former stouffville girl dies in new mexico announcement has reached here of the death in new mexico of mr and mrs charles hockaday the late mr hockaday died in april while his wife who was the former reta lehman of stouffville passed away last month the late mrs hockaday was a daughter of mr and mrs jos lehman residents in the east end of stouffville sixty years ago mr lehman will be recalled by our elder residents as a millwright more than fifty years ago reta lehman travelled let colorado to visit friends and here she met charles hockaday whom she later returned to marry the deceased couple who were both over eighty have been living with a daughter in new mexico for several years call in lesal advisers over contentious building controls in markham twp engagements mr and mrs elmore barkey announce the engagement of their daughter alice victoria to howard delbert baker son of mr and mrs delbert baker the mar riage will take place on thursday september 14 at 3 oclock in the dicksons hill church mr and mrs joseph b reesor announce the engagement of their daughter eva alvina to paul herbert burkholder son of the late rev and mrs l j burkholder the marriage will take place thursday sept 7 at 230 oclock in the wideman mennonite church markham v mr and mrs percy j wideman of markham announce the engage ment of their younger daughter marian joan to franklin lornej cartel son of mr and mrs roy i carter of locust hill the marriage will take place on wed- nesday september 20 at 3 oclock in st andrews united church markham whitchurch sanctions new half million dollar school for aurora at the midmonth meeting of whitchurch township council on thursday evening approval was given for the new half million dollar high school in aurora finley mclachlin construction co of toronto were the successful tenderers for the project and the price was 50339671 pour firms placed bids for the job the highest tender being 57700000 of the contract price whitchurch township will pay sixteen per cent aurora will shoulder 29 per cent and king township 55 per cent instructions were given for the township police to patrol roads in the western section of the munici pality where it is believed an attempt was made last week to rustle a farmers cattle a rope was found about the neck of a cow on the farm of j a montgomery on the 3rd concession it is recalled that last year john crawford and h smith lost animals in a similar manner alex zarko resident si lot 27 concession 8 applied to the town ship for a permit to operate a meat processing plant a grant of 25 was extended to the toronto humane society and the society was instructed to pick up more stray animals in the wilcox lake area miss a b clark of toronto and mrs las turner miss nettie rae and mrs chas ward returned from a weeks holiday at winde- mere house lake rosseau musk- oka lush canadian pastures mean lower meat prices markham township council reconvened on monday evening to bring final settlement to the con tentious question of whether or not a mr brown of the doncrest sub division on the west side of the township should be allowed to proceed with a new dwelling present for the hearing was the township solicitor and solicitor for york county j d lucas and two solicitors representing mr brown and the other a dozen or more ratepayers in the subdivision who are opposed to the new house mr browns solicitor contended that his client a veteran of the last war had had a permit later revoked and that he was entitled to a permit under the local build ing bylaw and called for its immediate reinstatement mr estane solicitor for the opposing ratepayers stated that there were no personalities involved in the argument he con tended that mr browns house was being erected at the rear of another house which was contrary to the township bylaw and that there was danger of polluting the creek and water supply if the new owner was allowed to build a ceptic tank nearby mr lucas summed up the situ ation brief lv to the effect that he could not see any township bylaw which would prevent mr brown from building on his present site pt of lot 12 doncrest subdiv he pointed out that the clause banning the erection of one house to the rear of another as appear ing in the markham building by law was worthless since this clause had nothing to do with building but belonged in the land restrictions bylaw however mr brown had commenced building prior to the municipal boards approval of the land restrictions bylaw and therefore prior to its becoming law you cannot grant and revoke permits without lawful reason mr lucas informed council while the land restrictions by law as now in force would bar mr browns house you cannot make it retroactive to land already built upon my opinion is that the grounds put forth by the opposing solicitor mr estane for the cancelling of this permit are not lawful grounds stated mr lucas this lot was already on a registered plan and you dont need to come to council if you wish to split a lot on a registered plan he stated local horse shoe pitchers compete at the cne a team from the stouffville horse shoe pitchers club com peted in the annual matches at the cne on friday evening the local quintette which included two gentlemen from browns corners members of the stouffville club comprised messrs dave stouffer harve clendening and wm grove the home entry collected 8 fifth prize money gait taking first incidentally the stouffville horse shoe pitching club now boasts thirty members wm grove is president of the organization and ralph burkholder secretary farmer helplessly sees fire destroy life work fruits of years of hard toil for fred hamilton pickering town ship farmer were wiped out by a 530000 barn fire near brougham early saturday in a few agonizing minutes the helpless farmer watched as prac tically all his possessions except his house went up in flames mr hamilton said he was awak ened by the blaze shortly after 2 am on saturday i woke and heard the crackling of the flames we called the fire department but there was nothing they could do it was too far gone he said he said he had no idea what had caused the blaze we were always very careful of fire insurance will only cover a very small part of the loss he said the blaze was so fierce when discovered by mr hamilton that nothing could be done to save anything in the barn lost were 35 hogs a bull calf threshing machine large tractor car hay and grain crop 125 chickens chickea house imple ment shed and arm equipment a few cattle in pasture for the night esca mr and mrs russel prouse of brampton have been holidaying with their respective families in stouffville and claremont junior farmers camp at lake simcoe the third district camp for the junior farmers of the central counties got away to a fine start at camp ahshunyoong on lake simcoe on monday with 50 girls and boys registered from the counties of simcoe york ontario victoria halton durham nor thumberland brant and oxford there are 8 campers from the unionville sharon schomberg and vellore junior farmer clubs in york county these young people will have a full week of camping with most interesting program of instruction on athletics including swimming recreational programs music dramatics public speaking with a chaplain and nurse on the staff as well camp supervisor and busi ness manager is jim mccullough assistant agricultural represent ative for york while the director of the program and physical instruc tion is bill mitchell of the staff of the ontario agricultural college guelph local members of the staff include mrs dorothy bowman newmarket on dramatics and public speaking miss margaret watson kleinburg on music and rev h howey of aurora there will not be a duj1 moment from reveille at 7 till lights out at 11 am and pm respectively of course next week york county will be represented at the pro vincial camp at geneva park by anna on- of the vellore club and bob hamilton of the schomberg club brigade protects cottages from car fire stouffville fire brigade was called to musselmans lake about g oclock on friday morning where a car which had been parked be tween two cottages was ablaze and it was feared the flames might reach the frame buildings while the machine was a total wreck the brigade was on hand in a few minutes and prevented any further outbreak mrs s w hastings lias returned from a tenday visit with her sisters mrs davis and miss harvey at foots bay mrs hast ings was also holidaying at parry sound and burgess island lake joseph muskoka 84yearoid lady plans day at ex to celebrate monday aug 2sth was the birth day of mrs joseph hoover of rupert avenue marking s4 years of energetic living mrs hoover told us she planned to spend the day at the exhibition with her daughter mrs percy steckley of toronto afterwards she plans to go to vineland to visit relatives on monday also the steckleys celebrated the birthday by giving a dinner at which mrs hoovers sister mrs ada dawson and her husband were present mrs hoover was the former frances fanny reaman whose parents were samuel reaman and frances grove reaman her father was a blacksmith and they lived half a mile south of ringwood on the sth of markham when she married joseph hoover she moved two miles farther south on the sth of markham and 37 years ago she and mr hoover moved to stouff ville mr hoover passed on six years ago this month mrs hoover has three sisters living mrs eliza beth shank a patient in brierbush hospital mrs franklin hoover of stouffville and mrs ada dawson of scarboro junction mrs hoover capably takes care of her own housework likes to travel visits brierbush hospital once a week on fridays and husies herself as usual with neigh bourly acts miss ada grove makes her home with mrs hoover local icecream bricks up to 35c a fivecent increase in the price of brick ice cream and a small rise in the bulk product went into effect this week in stouffville as in many other centres dairymen report the increase is not due to the rail strike but to increased costs of butter fat and sugar plus the fact that although the sales tax of eight cents a gallon to the customer had been removed recently manufacturers are now waxed on the ingredients fivecent cones are still being sold but it is left to the discretion of the dealer whether or not they are smaller cones 1 premier to speak at whitchurch centennial the hon leslie frost premier of ontario will be the feature speaker at the centennial celebra tion of whitchurch township be ing held saturday and sunday sept 16th and 17th the saturday program will include a giant motor cavalcade commencing at 10 am in newmarket and proceeding through aurora stouffville and thence to cedar beach mussel- mans lake at the lakeside therell be sports of all kinds addresses by the premier members of parliament and county officials a mass church service is being arranged for the newmarket arena on sunday sept 17th under the chairmanship of rev norman rowan guest speaker on this occasion will be rev levi atkin son of uxbridge and a former whitchurch township son replay tricounty league playoff this friday night sunderland will make a second trip to stouffville this friday evening sept 1st for the all- important fifth game in the cur rent intermediate baseball semi final mondays game was thrown out when the specially appointed league umpires failed to arrive 2000 attend arena serviceoespite heat us supplies of beef cattle will soon be more than suffic ient to cover all needs and this will weaken prices here experts claim canadian prices follow the us jead because of our large export trade and by fall customers will be pay ing less for meat canadian cattle nourished on the best pastures in years will weaken prices also authorities say like rain falling on parched and thirsty land the evangelistic campaign being held in the stouff ville arena and sponsored by the ministerial committee of the churches of stouffville area is revitalizing the inner life of the entire community there is a grat ifying unity existing among th ministers and the churches co operating each evening a nuu-be- of ministers representing th- var ious denominations are on the plat form total attendance for the first week is estimated at eght thousand a choir of some 70 voices is present to make their splendid contribution to each service last sunday evening they sang from handels hallelujah chorus thursday evening the kinsmens quartette will sing flowers for the platform are supplied under the direction of the horticultural society sunday evening well over 2000 were in attendance and friends from oshawa toronto new market uxbridge and claremont were present tuesday evening 25 young people attended from rev turners goodwood circuit last friday afternoons meetin for children was attended by s00 people eight cars filled with child ren came from claremont under the direction of rev mr lackey the lemonville storekeeper mr d greer brought 25 in his delivery truck those present were impress ed by the gospel truths so strik ingly presented by rev john lin ton the evangelist everyone is looking forward to the meeting this friday afternoon in the arena at 3 pm which is a continuation of last weeks gospel magic for children 6 years of age and over as well as adults mr linton is a man of gripping sincerity as well as an outstanding evangelist he understands people has spiritual insight and he loves god his sermons are logical persua sive and full of divine compulsion he preaches from the bible and is firing the ministers as well as congregations with new zeal and inspiration scores of people have spoken to mr linton of the spirit ual blessings they have received and of the change wrought in their lives this weekend will see the close of the campaign and meetings are being held every evening this week including saturday there will be another interesting child rens meeting on friday afternoon and the youth for christ choir j will provide special musical num bers on saturday night righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people happy is that people whose god is the lord