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rttmne vol cs no 57 the tribune stouffvijl le ont march 2- j53 six year old glasgow boy bobby stuart rescues sister from swollen creek spring its glorious spking ill jbi sixyearold bobby stuart son of mr and mr- george stuart of glasgow is a real hero as the result of rescuing his five year- old sister susan from a swollen creek located about onehalf mile from the stuart home at the rear of the william oak- property the two stuart children accompanied by other play mates wandered down to the familiar glasgow pond on sunday afternoon and were playing around the edge of the creek near the dam when susan suddenly slipped over the bank and into the river the other children became terrified but bobby heedless for his own safety climbed down the embankment and waded into the creek after his sister who had disappeared from sight grasping her by tin- hand he dragged her to the surface and back onto dry land bruised dirty and cov ered with blood the two youngsters stumbled home mr and mis stuart were shocked when they learned of the narrow escape we have warned our child ren not to go near that pond on numerous occasions sail mr- stuart perhaps the scare they both received will make them stay away from the water hobby is none the worse for hi- experience but suan is still in bed recovering from shock and a couple of nasty gashes on her leg eldred king new vice president of county jr farmers at the annual meeting of york county junior farmers association held at the de partment of agriculture new market miss jeanette harri son of mt albert was elected president for 1953 jeanette who is the daughter of mr and mrs angus harrison has been an active leader in the sharon junior farmers club and is past president of the county association last year eldred king of markham was elected vice president and dorothy miles of milliken secretarytreasurer following the noon lunch david pelletterio of milton rrg and president of the ontario junior farmers association was introduced by carl boynton as guest speaker mr t 1 milliard associate director of the agricultural representatives branch and general secretary of the ontario junior farmers assoc iation took charge of the next section of the programme a surprise celebration party- was held at the home of mr and mrs wm tindall on the occasion of their loth wedding anniversary the family pre sented the couple with a new electric range engagement mr and mrs rolph white of stouffville wish to announce the engagement of their daughter joyce eleanor to donald g dean son of the late mr and mrs john dean of markham marriage to lake place april 18th 1053 mr and mrs william bry ant hodgson of scarboro an nounce the engagement of their daughter barbara ann to thomas arthur burton son of mr and mrs orville burton of stouffville the wedding will take place on saturday april 18 at 3 oclock in washington united church scarboro north york conservatives name wm case pres of federal organization town clerk resigns position in a rather unexpected move last midweek mr gar- fit id brown stouffville clerk- reasurer resigned his posi tion and will take a position with the department of mun icipal affairs in toronto mr brown is comparatively new in the clerks position here and was only recently granted an increase in salary amount ing to several hundred dollars however his position with the government will be a more lucrative one and he be lieves it will be a step forward hi his municipal career stoullville municipal coun cil met in special session on saturday morning and accept ed mr browns resignation by resolution the position is now open and an advertise ment appears in this news paper for applications whicl are called for april 1th mr brown will continue as clerk until the third week in april local young man appears on tv harvey bellman son of mr and mrs cv bellman of stoullville appeared on tele vision on tuesday night over cblt on the toronto pro gram tabloid harvey was chasen timmy in 1950 symbolizing the crippled childrens fund in ontario and along with freddie at kins who is timmy this year the two appeared on tv harvey has since 1950 fully gained the use of his limbs and is now playing hockey he mentioned on the tele vision that his favourite hockey club was the stoull ville clippers and he played for stoullville bantams all in all giving the home town quite a boost via this new media the crippled childrens drive for funds is currently on under the sponsorship here of the local lions club and theyre looking for your con tribution stouffville public school children gather in droves outside the school during recess hours to enjoy the glorious spring sunshine which was so prevalent all last week and in fact gave us a record seven hours sunlight in one day skipping ropes and dibs ate all the rage every where addresses newly formed markham twp property owners association mr oliver crockford reeve of scarboro township was the guest speaker at the organization meeting of the markham township property owners association held at cherry hill farm on friday night the chairman of the meeting mr bill champion called on mr jack smith mp for york north for a few words mr smith called on the ratepayers to support and co operate with those who hold public ollice in the township so that the municipality might continue to grow ami prosper too often we elect men to public ollice then forget about them claimed the federal mlkr of parliament mr win timbers reeve of markham township intro duced the special speaker of the evening before doing so however reeve timbers stated that such organizations as the newly formed property own ers association could be a great assistance to the town ship if conducted rightlv sometimes such groups go off the deep end with the re sult that they prove more of a hindrance than a help point ed out mr timbers mr crockford expressed the belief that the problems that scarboro township have dealt with and are dealing with at the present time will be the problems of markham town ship in the near future the scarboro township reeve pointed out that the greatest danger confronted by subur ban areas was the increased taxation which was literally driving the farmer from the land in commenting on indus trial expansion the speaker felt that many municipalities were begging for industry and vet had nothing to attract the big business firms such important items as labor water sewers ami transporta tion must be provided in order that industry will develop municipalities must incon venience themselves in order to obtain industry but should not grant concession to the big business firms in order to get them established in their tow ah i p deputyreeve alt iemasur- ler thanked reeve crockford for his timelv message stouffville municipal coun cil will meet in regular ses sion next monday evening april 0th constables damage action settled a damage action involving constable ira rusnell of stouffyille was settled in county court this week before judge forsyth fred wilcox of wilcox trucking mark ham was assessed dam age costs as well as court costs the action arose out of an accident last fall at which time constable rusnell had commandeered the car of herb ferrier lincolnville to give chase to the wilcox truck in attempting to stop wilcox the crackup had occurred and an involved legal tanglement has followed with the final result in court this week ringwood native was railway man the death occurred in mil waukee on march 14th of alfred pipher native of ringwood and a frequent visitor to stouffville the late alfred pipher who has passed his 70th birthday was a son ot the late mr and mrs abe pipher of ringwood and he worked at various jobs in this community before making his home across the line in milwaukee a if pipher as he was familiarly known was employed for many years on the north western railway and only retired a few years back he made almost annual visits to this locality where he had many friends and relatives surviving are his wife the john kasper byer dies at markham on thursday march 19th sir john kasper byer a well- known resident of markham passed away at the home of his daughter in his 79th year born near stayner in 1s75 at the home of his parents mr and mrs peter byer the de ceased moved to markham at an early age where he has resided until his recent death his wife the former alice stover predeceased him twentyfive years ago al though suffering a heart con dition the late mr byer has been in reasonably good health he was stricken last week and four days later he passed away he was identi fied with st andrews united church markham he leaves to mourn his passing one daughter mary mrs allan raymer of mark ham there are two surviving sisters mrs jaittes mcfadyen of burlington mrs hannah neidrauer of buffalo and one brother benjamin of copper mountain bc another broth er david passed away recent ly funeral services were held on sunday afternoon at 230 oclock at the dixon funeral chapel markham conducted by rev chas fockler with interment in elmwood ceme tery the pallbearers were mr milton graham mr car man lewis mr murray wil son mr bert petty mr has hill and mr c e hunt harry holden wins lions club car mr harry holden of stoulv ville was the winner on fri day evening of the new pont- iac car being given away by the stoullville lions club in a lucky ticket sale 10 each which began last fall the lucky ticket was pulled from the drum by little carol ins- ley at exactly midnight the lions club staged a dance at the legion hall at which to make the draw and the affair was extremely well attended much to the satis faction of the club which will profit to quite an extent by tbe venture the name of harry holden as a lucky car winner harkens back in many minds to the several popular car draws which were made by the late d f holden father of harry holden when he operated one of the largest ford car agen cies in the district lion president neil smith was master of ceremonies at the dance on friday night and thanked the large gath ering for their support of the work of the club willi the scout hall at new market packed to the doorsthe new conservative association for north york i federal came into existence last friday night reason for formation ot the new association is the splitting tip of the old north york fed eral riding following redis tribution of seats last year and formation of additional ridings in the county with floyd corner of aurora in the chair and richard kd- monds of richmond hill acting as secretary the first business of the meeting was the adop tion of a new constitution election of officers was con ducted by frank reeves of woodhriuge william case au rora was given an acclamation for the presidency donald lewis of stouffville withdrew in favour of mrs frank hope ef newmarket who was also acclaimed frank beany kettleby was given an acclamation for the vieepresidentatlarge for the men and the same honour was accorded to mrs fred moffat of aurora for the womens vice- presidency chosen as vice- presidentatlarge representing the younger conseratvies was vein sheldrake of oak ridges who was also given an acclam ation a contest between rhed monds of richmond hill and art wells maple for the chair manship of organization and membership saw the latter el ected bill parks of sutton was given chairmanship of the pub- former ada lemon of baker hill and one son harold also a brother frank and sister nettie mrs robt mecon- nochie ioth of toronto mr fred woodward church st is leaving this week for the old country where he will visit with his mother who is over ninety years of age expires suddenly mrs eli lehman who moved here only a short time ago from alba to take up residence on burkholder st passed away at noon on wed nesday lie relations committee j ottoii newmarket barrister was el ected to the secretaryship while john perry of maple was given an acclamation as assistant secretary and ed lttle richmond hi as trea surer taking the chair after his election mr case forecast that if the same spirit of enthusiasm and cooperation was put into the forthcoming election cam paign the party could look for ward to sending a member to ottawa his remarks were re iterated by major a a lex mackenzie mp member of the ontario legislature for nor th york who spoke briefly date and place of the meeting to choose a candidate for the forthcoming federal election bad been set tentatively as ap ril 22 at newmarket a sugges tion that meetings be rotated advanced by las murray at aurora led to a decison to hold the meeting at aurora on the same date place will be either the graystones or the high school auditorium she had hopes of being able to secure the latter place mrs fred mof fat said exact lime and place are to be announced later all four of those who have declared their intention of seek ing the federal nomination were present at the meeting including mragwalwyn who contested the seat in the last election the others were ca tiny gathers of newmarket chas hooper of buttonville and col rc blue of aurora wm a rich gets markham high school contract eleven tender for the job maple syrup time again william a rich of isling ton contractor was the suc cessful tenderer for the new markham high school and members of the board appear ed before markham town ship council on monday even ing concerning the issuing of 20year debentures to cover this cost chairman of the board mr frank burkholder told the council that eleven tenders had been received for the contract with mr rich being the lowest and 100000 below the highest tender the original estimate on the markham job was 525000 the contract covers the building grading etc and the deben ture price also includes 23000 for architects fees the total cost will be is300o which is 37000 less than estimated price unionville police village trustees headed by mr a k harrington discussed with council the advisability of moving the unionville fire trucks from their present location opposite the crosby arena to the temporary gar age which the township erect ed following the fire on their property rent of 50 a month is presently being paid for storage and caretaking coun cil is considering selling the garage preparatory to moving into their new premises at buttonville but would make the place available to union ville if the village trustees considered it a good plan to move their equipment following considerable dis cussion it was agreed that the township fire committee and the trustees should meet on saturday afternoon and look over the premises hud surplus in 52 the muchpublicized matter of the markham township budget and whether or not the municipality finished last year in the red or with a surplus was aired once more on monday night in the pres ence of the township auditor and it was revealed that the municipality had closed the year with a surplus of more than 20000 92 on saturday mary ellon cook lifelong resident of lemonville and a patient in the heaton rest home church st for some five years marked her 92nd birthday on saturday march 21st mary cook is a sister ol george cook of lemonvilk and a retired school teacher having taught in this whit church hamlet for a number of years former planning board member urgesmore action by markham twp board vara although the weather conditions have not been very favorable for the pro duction of maple syrup ratcliff bros report an average yield from their one hundred acre bush located near vivian in whitchurch township while the sap run is ex pected to continue until the middle of april the business i largely depen dent on cool frosty nights and bright sunny days two hundred gallons of syrup per season i con sidered an average yield the sap is gathered in a large steel barrel pulled by either a team of horses or a tractor and is poured into an underground vat and piped into the larg evaporators the sap then goes through a consider able boilinc process ond the syrup is drained off strained and made ready for shipment to local and toronto buverc it takes fifty gallons of sap to make one gallon of svrup mr howard ratcliff pic tured above has been in the maple syrup business for the past fifteen vears he is assisted this vear by garnet rao roy fock ler harry lewis and harry dzavalg in a letter from mr r shorten a member of last years markham township planning board in which he expressed disappointment in the progress made by the board was read at mondays markham township council meeting by deputyreeve a iemasurier the full text of the letter is published in this issue of the tribune in his tenpage letter mr shorten a resident of harding park subdivision referring to his own term of office stated i venture to predict that the planning board will not have completed its master zoning plan for the whole township before the end of 1051 i say this not because of any lack of effort on the part of the board but by reason of the fact that during my tenure of office at least 00 per cent of the boards time was occupied in dealing with subdivision appli cations and isolated minor real estate transactions which of necessity must come before the board for its consideration i fear that 1953 and subse quent years will bring even more such problems before the board and that even less time can be devoted to active i development of the master plan in presenting the letter mr lemasurier said he felt the contents of this excellent letter can be of invaluable assist ance to this council i am particularly concerned with our future plans and i feel we should discuss the letter and pass its content on to the planning board he contin ued reeve w timbers contend ed that many of the recom mendations contained in the letter were already under consideration by the planning board councillor c hooper i dont agree with a lot that is contained in that letter all its going to do is create dis agreement mr timbers who is coun cils representative on the planning board wo must have confidence in the plann ing board and its members i think its a shame that this board should be criticized this way after the work theyve done he said councillor lemasuriercoun- cll should be able to take some constructive advice no ac tion tvas taken