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uiiffvtlk ribtmt vol is no 10 the tribune stouffviujs oxt february 5 1053 town asks prov police for contract council decision to engage two prov police officers for fulltime duty in town local son gives instruction to beginners seen here is richard h coulson son of the late robt coulson former reeve of stouffville mr coulson jr is manager of the niagara falls branch of guaranty trust co and is giving instruction to mary ann rybka in her part- time iol collegiate institute students are being paid begin ners wages for morning work and attend school in the after noon local united church presents 52 report liaise nearly 13000 for all purposes following an enjoyable potluck supper held in the sunday school rooms on wednesday evening the congregation of the stouffville united church assembled to hear the annual report the progress achieved and state of the finances it was revealed that a total of nearly 815000 had been raised during 1952 for all purposes in cluded in this amount was 2200 given for missionary work gs3 raised to assist the extension of church services in the fringes of torontos metropolitan area 301 to the united church training school 100 for the lords day alliance and 225 for the ontario temperance federation in addition to the financial statement issued the minister rev douglas davis reviewed the years spiritual work among the congregation he pointed out that despite increased demands and counter attractions from outside a high standard had been main tained at all organization meet ings sixteen young people united with the church on profession of faith and an additional twelve members were received by trans fer the minister told the gathering that presently the church included 3s5 families in its constituency the nominating committees report received named the follow ing members to the board of session and board of stewards session hon members harry sanders isaac barkey members a h williams roland winn fred winn frank riches albert king garfield kellington harvey moyer harold spofford harmon hoover and stewart stoutier board of stewards delbert booth truman baxter john hainmer- sley charles nolan charles james hldon fairies wesley sehell william ford floyd forsvth ray floury lloyd ham i os clarke notice the special crispy flake short ening sale offer advertised in this issue is good only ln york and peel counties for a limited time local legion to inaugurate flood victims fund here a flood victiis fund for britain will be inaugurated this week by the stouffville legion branch the tribune learned this tuesday a meeting to set up an executive committee to handle the fund will be established at the regular legion meeting this thursday evening all contributions will be acknowledged in this newspaper and donations can be presently accepted by lwi huckland pros and or neil smith further names and places at which contri butions can be made will be announced next week never in centuries have the british isles received a pounding from the elements as that exper ienced last week and the suffering and hardship of untold thousands is to receive the sympathy and concrete aid from canada already the dominion government is moving to the aid of the mother country and local residents arc asked to rally to the support of this most worthv cause markham twp not ready to increase health unit levy markham township council on monday afternoon instructed their representative deputyreeve alf lemasurier to carry word to the health unit board that markham was not ready to commit itself to any increase in the annual levy until more information is obtained councillor hooper strenuously objected to the suggestion of the board that a per capita grant of 25c per head be added to the mill rate levy the government told us that we could operate on a one mill levy and i think we should know from higher authority why this has to change i hate to throw a monkey wrench into the works but if these costs continue to go up where arc we going to end d reeve timbers council gave three fadings and passed a bylaw agreeing the pro posed new fire areas for markham to be served by richmond hill unionville markham and stouff ville the areas are as follows richmond hill lots 20 to 00 in con 1 except richmond hill and lots 1 to 35 in con 2 and lots 20 to 35 in con 3 unionville lots i to 25 in con- 3 1 5 and 0 markham lots 1 to 20 in con 7 s 9 and 10 except markham village and lots 1 to 10 in con 11 stouffville lots 20 to 35 in con 1 5 and 6 lots 21 to 35 in cons 7 8 0 and 10 except stouffville the special rates to be levied in the areas to cover the costs will be passed by bylaw at a future meeting plans proceeding for two new subdivisions in town plans are proceeding for two new subdivisions in stouffville having a total of 35 lots the one parcel of land under subdivision is owned by mr r forfar and is an extension of park rd north on land recently included in the keith farm the new street will proceed north to enter on mani toba st where a new subdivision has been underway for some time by a k hoaton another street outlet which may some day pro ceed east baker ave is pro vided jiw north of the john scott property there are twenty lots in the ana with 68 ft tret the tvrk x tlfrucscd to com plete the questionnaire for the county planning authorities the second new subdivision presented to council on monday evening for the first time is a four acre parcel of land owned by- henry ogden and l c murphy and is located at the corner of the 0th con of markham and the townline and within the lind anes of stouffville the plans show the subdivision laid out in fifteen lots with the front lots on main st being restricted to com mercial properties a new street running from orchard pk blvd and the oth at the bottom of the sukiivislon was named sunse blvd headline entertainers here this thursday in cooperation with the stouff ville united church the star weekly free concert is being presented in the auditorium of the church this thursday evening feb 5 at s oclock the enter tainment will feature the popular male quartette the commodores who appeared here at the 75th anniversary concert in the arena last summer also on the program will be the headliners from the cnf bandsholl the enchanted strings four girls and their violin- with their leader barry townlev tonight tonight wednesday at the monthly meeting of the horticul tural society being held in the united church mr and mrs cliff salmon will present slides of their australian tour the salmons will also entertain with special music on piano and saxophone come you enjoy a pleasant and inexpensive trip to and through the iand of the southern crosr bowling alley operator asks for longer hours mr cy bellman local bowling alley operator who was recently lined for contravening a town by- iv ailing for his establishment i u lie closed each evening at 1130 pm appeared before the siouff- ville council on monday evening asking that these hours be extended mr bellman slated that it was impossible for the teams of the several leagues operating to com- i plete their three rounds of play in the specified time and if council i insisted on the present hours it j would mean that fewer people i would be able to enjoy the sport mr bellman was accompanied by i ward edwards and- v j buck- land representing the town mens league mr bellman asked that the time for week nights be extended to 1230 with saturday night closing at 1145 pm this bylaw can be abused on both sides mr bellman stated if we ran on sunday wed be abus ing it and when you summons me for operating a little after 1130 youre abusing it some one else might get a hold of the alleys and wed have no control on them said reeve ogden weve no guarantee youd keep the new hours any better than the old ones he continued you opened two weeks ahead of time without a license and our police chief was quite within his right- in fining you if council had any assurance it would be differ ent said the reeve youre getting away from the subject said councillor daniels who put up a strong plea in mr bellmans behalf nothing which took place between mr bellman and another council should have any bearing on the subject said mr daniels 1 think theres more to this than just the closing hours and id like to know what it is you said you were being pressed to summons me if you have any thing against me lets hear it said mr bellman you have a dog bylaw which you dont enforce all year around but when im open overtime in the first few nights youre right down my neck continued mr bellman 1 only asked you lo cooperate 1 only wanted to help you replied reeve ogden 1 would like you gentlemen to give this consideration and amend this bylaw as ive asked said mr bellman i feel this bylaw is for protec tion but personally i cant see any harm in them being there till 12 oclock if we get complaints wed have lo clamp down said councillor daniels jw certainly cooperate if there are any complaints said mr bellman if youd have complied with the bylaw and then come to us and asked consideration youd have gotten it we considered this bylaw very carefully stated councillor ratcliff why are you so stringent with bowling alleys is it a place of ill repute if it was hard on the morals of the town it would be different you dont mind if the lawn bowlers bowl till after mid night continued mr bellman i can close at 1130 hut therell be a lot less people able to bowl why are you so strict about these hours 1 cant see why youre so still and i cant for the life of me see why 12 oclock isnt alright its no different than any other busincvman who who cant gel everybody out at 12 oclock said councillor daniels 1 agree with councillor daniels said councillor burk yet have to decide what busi ness you can accommodate within the specified hours and youve told us you dont make any money after 1130 said councillor booth that clause stating that you can revoke my license without reason places me in a precarious position concluded mr bellman that was a statement made here by the county solicitor replied the reeve council although divided on the issue took no action to amend the bylaw and left the matter in the hands of the constable to use his own judgment corjtable rusnell who was present told council he believed that he had been very lenient with mr bellman with whom he admitted having had sharp words on several occasions in one of the longest council sessions ever recorded in stouff ville council on monday evening declared their decision to ask the ontario provincial police for a contract for two fulltime resident officers the decision came after several months of deliberation on the police situation in town the 1952 council had come to a decision to engage one provincial officer and one fulltime local con stable the final decision on the choice of a local officer for whom applications were received some lime ago was left to this years council in the meantime an opportun ity to engage a fulltime officer attached to the markham twp force presented itself and this course was pursued until monday evening when markham police committee presented the figure they wished for such service and this was deemed much too high in comparison with the provincial contract the basis difference arises out of the fact that on the provincial police the province pays the municipality a 25 sub sidy while the markham officers cannot bring in this revenue be cause they are not working under a pension plan markhams price for the services of one officer and a car was 81500 and the price for two provincial officers is 0000 plus 0c a mile for a crusier but with a 25 subsidy to be deducted council instructed clerk gar field brown to arrange for a con tract to be presented to council with services to commence april 1st reeve win timbers deputy- reeve alf lemasurier and coun cillor art lennie along with chief constable clarence wideman appeared before the jocal council for markham township the markham representatives stated that if stouffville accepted their offer it was believed a similar con tract would be offered to mark ham village stouffville must provide a police office for the provincial men and this will be done in the newly renovated municipal hall such contracts are taken up annually and cither party can withdraw on three months notice health unit costs lipped about 400 mr harold spofford stouffvilles representative on the york coun ty health unit board appeared before council on monday evening with a report of the financial status of the unit and asking for the annual grant to be increased this vear from ss00 to approxi mately 1200 council agreed to the increase providing the other municipalities within the unit did likewise mr spofford pointed out that the board had been forced to increase nurses salaries from 2100 per annum to 2100 and costs generally had risen in addi tion more services were required if the unit was to operate at its full efficiency the local fire brigade agreed to accept the councils offer for an increase to 150 per hour for town fires with 100 salary for the chief and 50 for fireman don lehman who would take over the care- taking of the two trucks the annual bylaw was passed naming the following members for the community centre board lions club dr s s ball cham ber of commerce keith middle- miss horticultural society mrs bert tait athletic club ken laushway womens institute mrs les wilson clerk garfield brown asked council- for an increase in salary and was unanimously granted a pay boost from 41 a week to 50 a week pickering council rejects police chiefs request for a nine man twp force i will need four extra men on get us presented by the police the police force if this epidemic of commission be adopted and that assaults and insults is to be stop- 1 two new offioers be hired to the ped commented chief lockart pickering police force trinnell at the regular meeting of pickering township council on j monday contributions for in other words you want a nine man force in order to carry out your police work satisfactor ily questioned councillor new man yes replied chief trinnell the police commission recom mended the addition of two officers to the force which would raise the total to seven men councillor newman stated that the cost of maintaining a seven man force would probably run over the 30000 mark and if the hiring of two more men for an extra 2000 would make the force efficient he would be in favor of the expenditure if we hire extra men to the police force do you think it will be efficient asked councillor new man posing his question to the reeve no answered reeve todd there will always be stories of people being attacked mr todd referred to the city of toronto where in spite of a large police force crime is still prevelent the cost of maintaining the police in south pickering amount ed to 23000 in 1952 with the addition of two officers in 1053 the cost will jump to the 27000 mark a nine man force as requested by chief trinnel would make an expenditure of 32000 the total salaries for 1952 amounted to 11745 the salaries for 1953 will be 18800 clerk lloyd johnston informed the council that the salary changes would raise the tax rate by approximately one mill benefit fund contributions are still being received for the clipper hockey club injured players benefit fund they may be left with any one of the three fund trustees reg button l e oneill or ken laushway at the local arena or the tribune office the club has been very hardhit with injuries this season and any financial help which can be given to players who are forced to be away from their jobs due to injury is most thankfully received contributions to date are as follows stouftville arena 10000 milton smith 2500 f l button qc 2500 walter rrillinger 500 e a button 2500 william hood unionville 1000 dr ga kennedy unionville 1000 the council moved that the budchas h noton henry ogden 500 dr t bodendistel 500 arthur heaton 200 irving hawley 200 l e oneill 1000 bun sellers 500 h r button 1000 mr and mrs wm eckardt 500 mrs clifford salmon 100 donald brown 500 bert bell 500 frank curtis 25 morley symes 2000 ken laushway 1500 ralph boyd 200 no name 60 1000 i