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xibum vol 02 xo u the thibuxe stouffville oxt february 28 1952 unlimited imagination unlimited patience are prime requisites for municipal planning fred gardiner with three children to raise mrs durrani till has time to tend aj animal- goats and other farm on their 50acre sth con farm located in the township of markham markham twp goat herd sends milk to market while her husband looks after the business of being a ceramic engineer for a refrigeration firm mrs joan durrant looks after a herd of 85 goats 13 of them milk ing on their 50acre farm south of dicksons hill on the sth conces sion of markham the milk is pasteurized by the maple leaf dairy in stoutfville and sold on the north york market when mrs joan durrant was a little girl living out in saskatch ewan her mother used to call her down regularly for coming home smelling of horses the fact was she loved animals and spent many hours around the local stables when she was 10 years old she was given a pony later she studied animal husbandry at the university of saskatchewan and four years ago when she and her husband built a little house on a twoacre plot in scarboro she took the opportunity to have animals of her own the idea was to have something that would keep the family in milk two acres is not big enough for a cow so she bought a couple of goats the small herd enlarged and prospered until it became necessary to find bigger quarters and last august the durrants bought a 52acre farm on the sth we used to buy cod liver oil in the winter for the children she says if you refer to them as kids she thinks you are talking about her young goats but now we feed all the vitamins to the goats and the children get them in the milk they also get it in cheese made from goatmilk whey the cheese is called swedish gjedost pro nounced yeatoast in fudge and ice cream made from the milk in goat meat and in yogurtmado from the milk treated with a culture mrs durrant a wiry woman of 135 pounds who does not look her 20 years claims that goats milk is especially good for people with stomach ailments who cannot assimilate cows milk it has also been found beneficial for those with certain skin diseases although she emphasizes that it is continued on jyase 6 its real nourishing magazine readers on increase at local library increases in several depart ments were reported at the annual meeting of the stoufrville library board the magazine circulation has risen steadily from a low of 129 in 19 10 to 35s in 1951 the juvenile section has had the benefit of junior literary guild books and also a number of books from the travelling libraries all of which has stimulated interest in this department with a consequent rise in the circulation more use was made also of the reference section during the year the total circulation for 1951 was 11191 an over all increase over last year two hundred and twentyfour new books were added to the book stock and 130 on loan from the travelling libraries dept of the board of education the thanks of the board was expressed to mrs muriel lane and mrs chill turner for gifts of books and to mr and mrs john scott and mr angus for maga zines the following list of mag azines is available at all times for reading or circulation national geographic ladies home jour nal canadian homes and gardens life saturday post- parents pop ular mechanics saturday review of literature forest and out doors and playways also the stoufiville tribune visitors are always welcome to the library and its facilities expressions of appreciation have been given by many newcomers to town at find ing such a good library at their disposal and such a good selection of the new books on hand the board for 1952 is rev d g davis chairman mrs w f riches seevtreas book com mittee mrs ii b freel mrs w f riches rev d g davis pro perty committee mr l c mur- phv mr ray fleurv mr clare boll mrs grw thomas librar ian library hours are 2 to 530 7 to 9 pm on tuesday thursday and saturdays recover loot after shifting ton of hay provincial constable albert houldsworth who became a farmhand for a day on a hunch hopes he has brought an end to a breakin epidemic at musselmans lake with the arrest of seven juveniles the boys ranging from seven to twelve years of age were booked on numerous charges of breaking and entering after constable houldsworth found his needle in the haystack the needle stolen articles valued at between 80 and s100 was found buried in a pile of hay in an abandoned barn near the lake the loot taken during the last four months was uncovered after constable houldsworth arm ed with a pitchfork had moved more than a ton of hay constable houldsworth ques tioned numerous youngsters before playing his hunch and searching the barn xo oaxing is required for old jackie drink goat mlik its nourishment i- quite obvious owinsr to an 3c- heavy arrival of country orresxndene on wednesday momine a numbw of retv hadgets htd to be carried ov- unij nxt wek i unlimited imagination ami un limited patience are two of the prime requisites for municipal planning mr fred gardiner qc chairman of the toronto york planning hoard told a gathering of municipal representatives in the new whitchurch municipal building at vandorf on friday evening boundless patience was required in order to get the rate payers to accept the suggestions of the planning board and to come to the point where they were will ing to accept financial burden necessary to put these ideas into effect however i was mr gard iners contention that if this patience was forthcoming the public would ultimately support a planning program far beyond expectations representatives of seven mun icipalities including members of their planning boards and councils gathered friday at the invitation of the whitchurch planning board to discuss the entire picture of planning in this part of the county in an effort to devise some method of uniformity in bylaw restrictions also present were dr fred gardi ner chairman of the toronto york planning hoard tracy le- may director and secretary of this board and messrs keefer and nash of the ontario department of planning development dr fred vannostrand chair man of the whitchurch planning board acted as chairman support ed by his vice chairman l p evans local representatives from stoufrville were clerk garfield brown public utility secretary geo storey and councillors reg stouffer and harry rateliff chairman vannostrand in his opening remarks stated that all were aware that while there had been planning in the area and in the south there had also been bad development he pointed- out that onjy sixtysix feet separated each municipality from the other and it was folly to have a great var iation of bylaws among the vari ous municipalities legislation has come twenty years too late and thus the plan ning boards are faced with con tinual compromise stated dr vannostrand this situation he added was only aggravated by population pressure from the south and in townships such as whitchurch the winterizing of summer homes mr evans in his remarks told the gathering that whitchurch would be favourable to a universal bylaw setting out 15000 sq ft as tlie minimum subdivision lot this has been a contentious point in many municipalities he said that he did not believe whitchurch was at the stage where a zoning bylaw was required mr gardiner spoke of the con tinuous movement of residents from an area of close restriction to an area of lesser restriction caus irig more headaches for the councils and planning boards in the northern part of the county he favoured maps of the area know your own territory thor oughly dr gardiner advised strongly the advisability of planning in order to control assessment in certain areas to handle the proper educational facilities was pointed out proper planning would avoid the embarrassment of taxpayers who without it might find them selves unable to finance the educa tional institutions required cautions industry encouragement to industry should be used with caution since immediately a municipality out grows its services such as water and sewerage its into trouble stated dr vannostrand mr mcmurchie of vaughan township added to this contention that industry is a natural develop ment and that all the municipal ity can do is provide the proper facilities mr miller building inspector for vaughan told the gathering that a map of the first concession had been laid out in his township and it was hoped that soma time in the future the entire municipality could be completed ten foot dedication the wisdom of dedicating a ten- foot strip along the front of pro perties for road widening purposes caused considerable discussion with arguments both for and against the practice mr mc murchie stated that if vaughan township insisted on this 10 ft dedication it would certainly cause whit ho termed a big stink conlznrd on pat 2 suggest old home celebration at a rather poorly attended meeting in the municipal hall on tuesday evening it was recom mended that rather than mark stouflfvilles 75th anniversary this summer an old home celebration be planned for next year to be held in conjunction with the coro nation holiday in the absence of reeve henry ogdeu clerk garfield brown acted as chairman of the meeting while a motion was proposed to proceed with a celebration of the 75th anniversary this summer an amendment as stated above received a majority vote those present appeared only hike warm to either proposal and the question as to whether a cele bration of any kind will be held either this year or next is still questionable it was pointed out that possibly some organization or thieves enter local theatre in the early hours of sunday morning thieves forced their way into the stanley theatre stoutf ville and literally ransacked the place in a vain search for money the robbers were however un successful in discovering anything of value and had to be content with taking one flashlight which was the only article found miss ing when the theft was discover ed the thieves broke the lock on the furnace room door with a crowbar in order to gain entry to the building organizations might choose to go ahead on their own to provide a program in honour of tite munici pal birthday and this is a possi bility councillors reg stouffer and harold murphy were both present and expressed the opinion that council was not enthusiastic born here over 80 yrs ago mark diamond anniversary mr and mrs e a lloyd well- known farm couple residing just north of town on highway 17 have established a remarkable record the couple were both born at stouffville more than eighty years ago and on monday cele- orated their sixtieth wedding anniversary mrs lloyd who will toe 83 this coming may was born on the present wm harper farm at the end of obrien ave she was the former ada hoover mr lloyd j who is 85 started life in a house at the eastend of stouffville just opposite the brierbush hospital and now occupied by e r myers the tribune visited the couple during their celebration on mon day and found them bright and cheerful although mr lloyd has been bedridden now for a con siderable period mr lloyd recalls when the larger portion of what is now stouffville was located east of the school building he has been a large property owner in town and in more recent years subdivided what is now known as lloyd avenue into one of the finest streets in town he was active on the local school board for many years and took a keen interest in public affairs an acquired student mr lloyd spends mudh of his bedfast time in reading the couple attended the congregational christian church when in good health there are two sons walter and fred both on the home farm and one daughter louis two sons are predeceased mrs lloyd has one sister mrs thos bishop of tor onto and these two are the only remaining members of a family of eight a large gathering of friends visited the home on this auspic ious occasion to wish them well and in addition word from more than one hundred was received by card markham tp council trims road budget by 25000 markham township council in an effort to keep the 1952 budget within bounds trimmed their road expenditure estimates by 825000 at a meeting on monday evening the annual road appropriation bylaw was originally approved by coun cil at s1s906 this was 882000 more than was spent in this department last year the final figure of 8101550 failed to gain a unanimous vote since councillor chas hooper strenu ously opposed certain slashes in the budget on the grounds that the roads were not good now and could not expect to be improved unless more money was spent on them an amount of 27000 ear marked for a new grader to re place the one burned in the mun icipal garage fire was cut to 87000 itll be you men who will have to answer when our roads break up and we havent got the money or machinery to fix them stated councillor hooper councillor lemasurier favored the cut in the estimate for new road machinery contending that a new 810000 building and new grader shouldnt be purchased all in one year im under the impression that unless we cut this budget the department wont pass it declar ed deputyreeve james the matter of 10000 for gravel was contested by councillor le masurier who disapproved of doubling this expenditure over last year we certainly need this gravel the people are demanding it whether the taxes go up or not commented reeve timbers final approval was given to the road budget with a total of 8101550 residents of lake wiicox seek more improvements already heavy in debt there is a considerable outcry in the wilcox lake area of the township of whitchurch for more improvements an addition to the recently built school and a public health nurse an expensive new roadway is already under con struction in the area whitchurch township does not belong to the york county health unit since it has always been the contention of council that little more service is to be gained than that already had through regular local board of health they be lieve that the services rendered do not justify the expenditure which would be involved leaders of the wilcox lake community are now understood to be making applica tion to queeks park in an effort to force the township to enter the j health unit tax anpar conmiirrame it has been pointed out to the tribune by council members that while this particular area is demanding many costly improve ments no area in the entire town ship has as great tax arrears near ly 810000 the contention is there fore that if present taxes cannot be met heavy additional debt would likewise go unpaid sixty children were said to be absent from school there this week due to mumps and influenza however dr g w williams township moh felt there was nothing to alarm the wilcox residents the outbreak of mumps he explained would wear itself out in two or three weeks there was no use he said clos ing the school topre vent the ail ment spreading because the child ren would contact the cases any way school authorities claim that they stand to ioe considerable in ffrints through this absenteeism