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unburn vvol 61 no 35 the tribune stouffville ont december 21 1950 reeve edw logan retires from office after 11 years on whitchurch council reeve edw logan of whit church township is retiring from municipal office this year after eleven years service the last two terms as reeve mr logan address ed council on friday afternoon at the conclusion of the statutory meeting and voiced his regrets at leaving the board but of his pleasure of serving during this long period this is the enti of another council year and the end of one hundred years of municipal his tory in whitchurch township stated reeve logan it has been a period of great advances he said he pointed out the amount of good legislation which council had enacted during his tenure of ollice and mentioned specifically the establishment of the planning board and building and land restrictions bylaws v costs of education have risen tremendously and will continue to advance he believed there shouldnt be a perman ent dwelling in the township assessed for less than 1000 he declared reeve logan concluded with appreciative remarks concerning the officials of the township two councillors will advance following reeve logans ad dress deputyreeve ivan mc laughlin stated that it was his intention to step up to the reeves chair next year and councillor timbers who has served five years stated that he would offer his ser vices as deputyreeve both councillor sid legge and councillor r c baycroft voiced their intention of standing for re election at the forthcoming nom ination meeting this friday after noon at the conclusion of the address es a fine coffee table was pre sented to the retiring reeve by his municipal colleagues deputy- reeve mclaughlin reading the presentation letter 35p kkkvk edav logan local real estate changes hands the sale is recorded this week of the everett pipher property in markham to mr dean also of that place the property consists of a dwelling and three lots and the sale price was 8000 h w moyer local willoughby real estate agent negotiated the deal the sale was also completed this week of the james brown residence on market st the new owner is mrs ethel m mcgill and the sale price was 6600 the home was built only a couple of years ago by mr brown who came to stouffvflle from toronto your issue of the tribune next week and the week following will be received one day later than usual owing to the two monday holidays christmas and new years shoppers are reminded that all business places in stouffville will remain open evenings thurs-fri- saturday until 10 pm this week building bylaws difficult to administer markham township council finds building bylaws and bylaws restricting the use of land are difficult to administer many municipalities have found this out and markham township is no exception whether or not such bylaws are to be enforced to the letter of the law added fuel to a wordy exchange between council lor alf james and councillor chas hooper at the regular meeting of markham township council on monday afternoon mr w dean of thornhill applied to council for permission to be allowed to sell a parcel of land to the rear of his present place and which might eventually be built on as it is an excellent lot for this purpose however the only way into the site woud be via a mutual driveway provided now by mr dean in order to arrange a wider driveway or to give the possible new home owner the necessary 70 foot frontage on a roadway it would be necessary to purchase land from the adjoining property of dr palmer veterinarian how ever the doctor feels he hasnt enough land now and is not pre pared to sell its just about like that other ease which we jangled over all fall stated councillor james id like to see mr dean sell his land if he wants to but wed be break ing our bylaw to grant it we got in a jam over that before and the ratepayers in the subdivision threatened to take action against the township add ed reeve timbers i dont think wo should sit here and stop a man from selling his property stated councillor hooper we shouldnt have had the lawyers here on the last case either he continued i stood pat before and the other members kept changing it was all right after the solici tor gave us the right answer replied councillor james he only gave that decision to suit council returned councillor hooper mr james is right added councillor w l clark theres no use having these bylaws if youre not going to stick by them thats alright it wouldnt be the first time retorted mr hooper twins born to bloomington couple sympathy of friends around bloomington is being extended to mr and mrs elmer burnett in the loss of their infant son twins were born to mr and mrs burnett in the toronto general hospital last week a boy and a girl the infant son failed to survive and funeral service was conducted at the bloomington cemetery on sun day the burnetts have two other children mr and mrs a s farmer and paul of gormley are leaving to night thursday by train for philadelphia where they will visit with mr farmers uncle for a couple of weeks first council meeting for 1951 on jan 2nd messrs john robb and fred wicks were named to represent the township on the markham- stouftville high school area board road commissioner whitchurch planning board handled fiftyone cases reporting to whitchurch town ship councij at their regular meet ing on friday afternoon l p evans vicechairman of the town ship planning board stated that eleven meetings had been held and fifty one cases dealt with since the boards inception mr evans in summing up the work of the board stated that he believed a small charge on each lot in any new subdivision would bear the cost of maintaining this service he also thought that the hoard could act as an industrial committee to induce industry to settle in the township particularly in thickly populated sections such as oak ridges such industry would ease the high cost of educ ation council agreed that members of the planning board should be paid 5 per meeting for their services there was some discussion con cerning the delay of newmarket fire brigade in attending a recent fire in the north section of the township close to the town limits it was stated the town engineer would not send out the outfit until councillor bowser could be located and give the okay council stated that they paid 00 a fire to the newmarket brigade with the understanding they were to attend all fires in the northern corner of the municipality we should have been notified if theyve made some change in the setup stated councillor legge a copy of the bylaw calling foi the annexation of a portion of whitchurch lying just west of th town limits of newmarket was tabled from the newmarket coun cil it has now been forwarded to the ontario municipal board for approval general accounts passed for pay merit amounted to 100573 pay ment of services was also made to council members for 1950 with 550 going to the reeve and 300 to each of the other members a recommendation was tabled for the 1951 council calling for increases in the salaries of the three office employees of the town ship the present council made ie increases retroactive to nov 1st of this year and will pay the recom mended figures for the final uvo months of the year the new table of salaries calls for payment to john crawford clerk and treasurer of 3000 a year an increase of 600 to fred cummings assessor 2400 and 500 mileage an increase of 400 and to les harper assistant cler 2200 an increase of 200 mr harper took exception to the new schedule stating that he did not feel he was fairly dealt with and believed his services were com parable to those of the assessor or road superintendent we could get a girl in the office who could also do shorthand and typing for as much money as that stated councillor legge it cant be done declared mr 1 larper i think it could returned mr legge then you dont know much about ollice work replied mr harper mr harper stated that he be lieved his knowledge of municipal business of value to whitchurch and that it equipped him to do a better job for the township the matter was left for the in coming council to give final approval or make whatever changes they thought necessary to the new wage scale spent 70 years on farm of his birth following an operation in tor onto east general hospital jacob burkholder wellknown farmer of pickering township passed away on sunday dec 17th the late mr burkholder was born at lot 35 con 3 pickering township 70 years ago the son of the late mr and mrs noah burkholder he married leila dimma in june 1923 mr burkholder spent his entire life on the farm where he was born his chief interests were his home and his church he was an active worker in zion church cedar grove where he served as elder manager and as a value member of the choir besides his widow the late mr burkholder is survived by one son grant also one brother joe of toronto a sister mrs alf ire- son nettie predeceased him the funeral service was held from his late residence on tues day afternoon at 2 oclock thence to zion united church cedar grove for public service at 230 the service was conducted by rev v r auld of midland a former pastor and close friend of the family assisted by rev g h thomas minister of zion united church interment was made at elmwood cemetery markham the pall bearers were ed mc- cowan george macintosh allen reesor gordon murison amos reesor and joe parkey postoffice caretaker routs thugs who attempted to carry away the safe three safecrackers were foiled in their attempt rb carry away the safe from the stouffville postoffice building in the early hours of tuesday morning the heavy safe was lugged out to the rear cement loading platform caretaker george saunders who occupies the apartment above was aroused by the noise of furniture being moved about the office hurrying down he shouted at the men who made their escape in a waiting truck entrance to the building was made in a professional manner a child injured glasscutter being used on one ofj pall down stairs the south windows constable rus- nell was on the scene a few min utes after being called by mr saunders and tracked the thieves around town through the freshly fallen snow however when they took the highway west the tracks were lost in a maze of other wheel marks provincial police were alerted at aurora and richmond hill several similar attempts have been made on other postoffices in the toronto area according to police it is naturally supposed that just at this particular time of the year a considerable amount of cash would be carried overnight during the christmas rush karen hamilton small daughter of mr and mrs belfry hamilton of main st west had the mis fortune to fall on the sidewalk on an empty milk bottle a week ago cutting her arm she was removed to the brierbush hospital where ten stitches were required to close the wound karen is home again and making satisfactory recovery today thursday of this week will be the regular christmas market day in stouffville and a bountiful supply of holiday poul try is expected to be on hand from surrounding raisers progressive 5yearold local business is now employing fourteen persons 1 would suggest that mr dean endeavor to get the necessary land frontage from his neighbor dr palmer so that his lot will have the proper 70 ft frontage con cluded the reeve a bylaw was given necessary readings setting the date of the c earl toole c earl toole former york county warden monday night was appointed to the toronto and yirk roads commission effective jjfti 1 he replaces the v j gardhoiise who was a member since 1011 mr toole s former reeve of whitchurch township fred mcnair gets new high school appointment fred mcnair of altona has been named to represent ontario coun ty on the new pickering township high school board in 1951 the remaining two appointments went to harold mitchell and ross irwin both of pickering during the past summer the people of stouffville figuratively speaking and literally speaking awakened to the fact that a night shift had been found necessary by one of our local business firms many a frustrated individual among the lighter sleepers rous ing to the busy hum of tires of trucks on their run to and from stouffville sand gravel pit has muttered deep into his sheets and pillow or thought unprintable words relative to trucks that pass in the night five years ago last august 17th fifteen acres of land situated on what is known as gravel hill were purchased from russell storry this pit is located three miles north on the tenth from whitchurch markham townline and heyond lincolnville the firm of stouffville sand gravel ltd was incorporated with ross winter stein as president of the company which he still remains j patrick haley was a partner at the beginning and was also the companys mechanic in 1947 mr haley bought a halfinterest in the gravel pit apd held some shares until recently when his entire interests were bought out neither mr winterstein nor mr haley had any previous experience in the gravel pit business during this year fifteen addi tional acres were purchased from mr storry directly north of the original fifteen stouffville sand gravel holds the highest point of land in that section of the ridges and it has not yet been excavated on a clear bright day you can plainly see lake ontario from this point an estimated distance of 30 miles the view around in all directions is unbelievable and impressive to one who sees it for the first time since its inception five years ago the stoufrville sand gravel business has increased several hundred per cent demand has increased so greatly it was found necessary to operate both day and night in the busy season and additional equipment had to be of the bank to clump the load over procured two crushing plants are operated and crushing goes on at night as well as in the day hydro obviously had to be installed before this night work was possible gnivel pit machinery is costly to buy and depreciates quickly due to the heavy wear and tear of the business the plant operates three crushers two stationary and one portable cedar rapids machine in addition to the office building and scales at the pit the firms equipment includes storage bins three power shovels and a stor age and repair shop for equipment the company does not ovn trucks in which to deliver orders but hires them as it specializes in the production of gravel rather than delivery the pit is an interesting sight and as you drive in you feel a sense of unreality you can take quite a drive around and see scarcely any green or growing thing on the pit level only on the ground above at the edge of the excavation it is interesting to see the crosssection of earth forma tion at the edge of the pit layers of topsoil gravel and sand some of shallow formation others of considerable depth and irregular ity no indian relics or skeletons have been turned up during exca vation at stouffville sand gravel pit when not otherwise engaged on orders the staff works on stock piling and huge piles of sand gravel and cut stone border the pit the linn sells fill which is earth with little gravel content but useful as its name indicates for filling sand cement gravel road gravel topsoil and various sizes of screened stone of which vi and are in great demand since stoullville sand gravel took over this pit mr winterstein reports they have never had a serious accident there have been minor ones which could in such a manner it will slide down the edge of the pile this is tricky business particularly when weather conditions are bad and trucks have sometimes gone over the bank and down on the stock pile fortunately no one was ever seriously injured probably the most distant destin ation for delivery in any quantity is to a plant in islington four regular customers buy sand from this company for production of cement blocks in 1947 the firm handled a sublet contract for 20000 tons of crushed gravel to be placed on the torontobarrie dual highway in the same year materials for the drivein theatre at lansing cutoff were furnished from this pit including sand and stone since that time stone has been supplied to another drivein down dufferin where there are twin screens mr winterstein reports an enormous amount of gravel has gone into north york for subdivision work this year the township of markham award ed stouffville sand gravel the contract for gravelling their roads the entire staff including man ager ross winterstein and his son bruce who is assistant manager numbers 14 this fall originally the business dlhce was located in ross wintersteins home on main street but during this year was moved to quarters in the west end of the international motors build ing with a separate entrance the work has grown by leaps and bounds and now requires three fulltime employees on the clerical staff mr h b feir and miss hoover and miss moyer as assist ants is there any danger the supply of gravel will run out in these parts we asked mr winterstein didnt think there was any danger they are finding more gravel due to improved methods of test- ng where people never realized have there was gravel they are able to been serious when trucks are locate hitherto unknown deposits stockpiling they back to the edge he concluded two nomination meetings friday i this friday afternoon will be the occasion for the annual nom ination meetings in both whit church and uxbridge townships nominations will be received from 1 until i oclock with public meet ing following while members of council in whitchurch have declared their intentions there is the possibility of an election for council it is not expected that deputyreeve ivan mclaughlin or councillor fred timbers wil be opposed in their intentions to step up the munici pal ladder the meeting in whitchurch will be held at the township hall yandorf and in uxbridge at the township hall goodwood i