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ije gforafftrine sritmiie no the tribune stofffvil ie ont may j953 stonffvilles beautification may 9th 23 rd the theme for this campaign is the outward appearance of a community reflects the spirit of its citizens lets be proud of our town if each one of us does something to make our premises more attractive during this campaign we can give stouffville a new look how much more attractive it is for visitors tourists and people coming to our town to do business to see clean fresh looking homes attractive stores streets well planted with trees these factors along with friendly people all make a community a better place to live in a better place to bring up children this campaign coinides with the beautification campaign all across canada you will hear much about it on your radio and read it in your papers this is stouffvilles first real attempt lets do a real job in this months issue of canadian homes and gar dens is an article on what aurora did last year in their campaign we believe stouffville can do it too most of our local painters and carpenters know about this campaign and if you give the one you know a call he will be glad to accommodate you many stores will have suggestions in their windows the sponsors of this campaign are your stouffville chamber of commerce and the horticultural society each member of these organizations will be doing his or her part and if you do yours the effort is complete and big results will be achieved lets paint up clean up plant up fix up lets be proud of stouffville stouftville chamber of commrece stouffville horticultural society cec hendricks publicity chairman jft wm a rich gets contract for new i 1000 from town i road budget ihigh school at price of 400000 john musselman passes in 80th year on wednesday april 29th mr john musselman passed away at his buttonville home in his 80th year the deceased resided for the greater part of his life in uxbridge where he was a fur buyer for an amer ican firm and for a time oper ated a gift shop surviving is his wife the former clara randall of otta wa three sons randall of buttonville lloyd of toronto and harvey of uxbridge and two daughters frances of ux- bridge and eola mrs murray maidlaw of oshawa there is also one sister mrs robert taylor of uxbridge funeral service was held on friday afternoon from the mcgulre and low funeral homo at uxbridge approve 510000 school for ajax considerable discussion re sulted among the members of pickering twp council on monday afternoon when mr ross irwin appeared to request council to approve 510000 in debentures for a new high si hool to be erected in ajax i cant understand why this school is not being erected in trie westerly section of picker ing township where the ex pansion and population growth is the greatest exclaimed councillor newman that depends on the growth and expansion of ajax argued mr irwin some fifty per cent of the student body comes from the new highway district around liverpool and dunbarton ex plained councillor newman in four more years we will have to build another school reeve todd expressed eon- siderable concern over the sum attributed to architects fees which amounted to 25000 we are supposed to have a perfect school in pickering and vet we must pay out all this money for new plans ex claimed mr todd why does nt the dept of education hand out duplicate plans such as the ones that have already been drawn up nothing is perfect com- merited mr irwin following considerable more discussion the debenture issue was put to a vote with reeve todd deputyreeve balsdon and councillor lawson voting in favor of the scheme and councillors micheil and new- man voted against the motion i former almira storekeeper dead on monday may 1th mr herbert h spofford passed a- way suddenly at his almira home in his 73rd year mr spofford operated the store at almira for over fifteen years but has been living retired for the past twentyfive years he was identified with the mel ville church born at almira at the home of his parents sarah nigh and arthur spofford the deceased was very active in sports a few years ago both he and his brother perce were mem hers of the famous green riv er shamrocks the football team which captured the on tario championship in 1910 the late mr spofford was al so an ardent bowler with a membership in the almira club besides his wife the former edith fodden he is survived by one daughter edith mrs i iyle hess of almira a bro ther perce of toronto and one stster mrs fred kirk also of toronto there are two grand children connie and gary funeral service was held at the parlors u le oneill stouftville on wednesday at 2 pm conducted by rev geo e robins of melville united church with interment in melville cemetery the pall hearers were mi allien allen stouffville road budget l thi- year has been reduced in the dept of highwavs from s 000 to ss000 it was revealed at monday nights ession of council the trimming locally in in keeping with cutbacks be ing experienced in all other municipalities the depart ment pays fifty pejvent of the cost of roads three tenders were opened for the towns gravel supply and elgin wagg was the suc cessful bidder with a price of si hi a yard delivered for 1500 yards more or less arrange ments have also been complet ed with whitchurch township to commence next monday to scarify the town streets which are in desperate need of re pair mini- lights wanted president ken wagg ac companied by harold spofford of the chamber of commerce appeared before council asking for additional lights in town to brighten the east and west en trances to the village it was also suggested that a light be placed opposite the curve in somerville ave to the rear of the theatre lights were also asked for the laneway to the tear of the north side stores reeve ogden told the dele gation that if there was some definite assurance that the merchants were going to pro vide additional parking space in the rear of their stores council might give considera tion to erecting street lights there councillor daniels said that there was considerable traffic- around by the creamery and a light was badly needed on this curve president wagg also asked if the council could not request the hydro commission to give closer attention to the street lights perhaps a weekly in spection to keep them going he said lights are continually out and several times of late the eastend has been completely blacked out for several hours at a time the chamber of commerce representatives also asked the council if they would provide for the emptying of refuse con tainers on alain st if these were provided by the organiz ation these matters were all left in the hands of the property committee councillors rat- cliff and daniels the resignation was receiv ed from claire bell member of the local library board the board recommended that geo foord he appointed to fill out mr bells unexpired term and council concurred in the ap pointment stouffville high school levy of 351 l of the school costs was received amounting to s02gg50 which is down fract ionally from last year w a rich contractor of islington is the successful bidder for the erection of the new stouffville district high school nine linns delivered tenders for the job the con tract price is 400000 which is 25000 below the estimate of the architects the price covers the complete job including grading and the paving of the approach roadway in front of the building also architects fees mr kith is the same con tractor who is presently en gaged in the construction of the markham high school and it is expected that the work on the two structures will be closely associated the final approval for the school and the approval of the contract price lias been given by the department of mun icipal affairs it is expected that bids will be received this week by whitchurch town ship council for the sale of the bonds work on the project will be underway by june and the contractor expects the school will be completed by the end of the year residents of the stoutlvihe district may soon boast with pride about their new educa tion centre the new lowcost high school lias been designed by shore moffat architects who are well acquainted with the requirements of secondary schools and familiar with the problems of school construct ion eventual development and future expansion have been economically provided for the new high school will be located on edward street just north of the town line the school is all on ground level and will have a red brick exterior the plan is divided into three major units the gymnas ium arid change room area the classroom block and the administration wing the classroom wing con tains seven classrooms a shop a home economics and an agricultural science room this unit presently designed to accommodate 250 students may be easily expanded to serve a student population of 100 the gymnasium auditorium is complete with stage stage curtains etc and once again the architects have provided for future enlargement which will double the gymnasium capacity as well as serving as a core for extra curricular activities the gymnasium audi torium can also function as an independent community cen tre the building is heated by oilfired boilers and double- glazed for greater economy and comfort a public address system with speakers in all main rooms serves the school throughout and also the play ing field a master clock sys tem is provided along with programme bells which sound automatically at proset times the cafeteria also doubles as a classroom and is con veniently placed at the end of the classroom block near the administration area the kit chen serving the cafeteria is equipped to provide a school menu of pleasing variety in a minimum of time important coronation meeting an important meeting lias been called by reeve ogden of stouffville for this friday evening may nth at 8 pm in i lie mun icipal hall to discuss plans for sonic type of celebrat ion for coronation day in mc 2nd representatives of till or ganizations in town are ur gently requested to attend and all others who arc in terested in assisting with this event remember the salvation army appeal here next week pickering road budget reduced it was learned this week that the pickering township road budget set at 130000 had been cut to 112000 by the dept of highways but council decid ed to proceed with their former plans to pave a number of loads in the township each year they plan to hard top a vi mile section of theahona road and also a similar stretch on the erskine cemetery road tenders are to be received for the job road supt roy ward stated that the cost would a- mount to approximately 11000 a mile markham tp council trim general tax rate by approximately a half mill mr mr kav pat reid mr p fred hisev mr and mr allan stecklev boss mc- wideman assessment lowered on appeal the assessment of the mur ray associates cement block firm near yonge st in mark ham township was reduced this week by 9000 when the case of appeal was heard be fore a county appeal judge total original assessment was slightly over 00000 robt bonk local representative if you are buying a home freezer it will pay you to con tact bob bone local repre sentative for howard 1 cham bers ontarios largest freezer dealer- they have 10000 stock of freezers on the floor mr bones phone number is 20w2 ban on fifty ft lots in markham raises council storm final warning stouffville provincial police chief milliard has asked the press to inform residents that there will be no further warn ings regarding dogs running at large in town henceforth any dogs caught running a- bout will be impounded by the officers held for twelve hours and if not claimed will be de stroyed births johnston mr and mrs melvin johnston claremont rr3 are happy to announce the birth of their daughter helen lorraine saturday may 2 1953 at the brier- bush hospital stouffville tindali mr and mrs har ry tindall claremont rr 3 are happy to announce the birth of their daughter sat urday may 2 1953 at the brlorthjsh hospital stouff ville lawrenson mr and mrs john iawrenson ringwood are happy to announce the birth of their dauehter su san joan wednesday miv c lv at the bricrbush hospit stouffville members of the ladies aux iliary and the canadian leg ion were guests of the ladies auxiliary aurora at their fifth annual birthday party held in the legion hall aur ora mrs ralph burkholder had the honor of cutting the birthday cake mrs mary smith and mrs june button were in orfilia on wednesday april 29th at tending the ontario and rural school trustees association conference trustee boards from 100 sections were pres ent dr j long chairman of the new metropolitan school j board gay a review of the ob jects aims and problems fac ing new board- polly minton smooth- skatins centreman with stouffvilles sr b clip pers polled the greatest number of fan votes to win the maple leaf dairy popularity trophy polly is no stranger here having played both junior and intermediate hockev be fore moving into senior company right winger george stark was runner- up for the award rxgagemexts the encasement is announced of doris merle dauehter of mr walter symes and the late mrs symes to clifford betz son of mrs betz and the late mr jo seph betz of stouffville ont the marriage will take place on saturday june sth at 3 oclock in claremont inited church the engagement is announced jof mary arlene grose and gor don gerard iyobraico the mar riage to take place quietly at st clements anellcan church toronto on may 23rd mr stevens of doncaster ap peared before markham town ship council on monday after noon asking permission to sell a lot which he owns adjoining his own property according to bylaw the lot which mr stevens proposed selling would be a fifty ft lot and since he is present owner of both parcels cf land could not be built up on the building inspector ross norton also pointed out that mr stevens had a total of 13000 ft in the two properties and would not be allowed ac cording to the township bylaw to reduce such land to less than 12000 sq ft which would not allow sufficient to be sold for another building lot councillor hooper set up strenuous argument support ing mr stevens and to amend the bylaw he claimed there were dozens of similar instan ces in the township where people had deeds to the proper ties previous to the bylaws passage in 1950 and could not sell according to township law it doesnt seem right that i cant sell and the man across the street with a single lot the same sizecan build on his de clared mr stevens i know what id do de clared councillor hooper id go ahead and sell it and no body could slop me i dont think you could be stopped either said deputy- reeve lemasurier but the new owner of the small lot couldnt get a permit to build im against giving any such permission unless its done le gally antl an amendment to the bylaw put through said i ceve timbers councillor lennie called for a conference between the coun cil and planning board ill agree to meet the plan ning board said reeve tim bers a resolution was proposed by deputyreeve lemasurier and councillor hooper to a- mend the bylaw so that 0 ft lots to which deeds were held prior to the passing of the by law could be built on the mo tion failed only the mover and seconder voting in favour continued on page a local opp present report ontario provincial const milliard presented his first monthly report to stouffville municipal council on monday evening showing the activities of himself and constable van- derkooi during their first month of operation the report showed 23 pro secutions during the month with 21 convictions fortysix investigations were carried out 10 summonses were de livered for other police forces and 87 inspections were made of local business places stolen property recovered amounted to 300 reeve ogden stated that council was well pleased with the service being given by the new police officers and stricter adherence to traffic regulations on main st was being noted real estate is active several property sales of iocal interest are reported this week by greenwood real es tate markham twp mr john webster a star with syiactise hockey club has pur chased mr and mrs gordon kents home on pamanda rd in unionville mr and mrs dudley of dud leys hardware toronto have purchased the lovely cottage property of mr lou sherry on the 5th con of pickering twp mr mrs paul shuttleworth of owen sound have purchased the btingalow of mrs ivy sweeney on orchard st in markham mr mrs samuel mckuen of ringwood have purchased the gordon graham home on church st in markham mr mrs jack routcliffe of toronto have purchased the allan heisey property at vic toria square jack will be re- rnembered by many as a former hotkey star with the mark ham team both he and mr mckuen are very wellknown to salesman harry m spang who negotiated all the fore going transactions miss wendy lee of ring- wood held the lucky ticket on the nursery school quilt which was drawn for may 5 in a special meeting of coun cil on wednesday afternoon which saw a close recorded vote on the issue of lowering markham township tax rate council passed the annual tax ing bylaw reducing the gener al rate from 00 mills to i mills after considerable heated arg uing on the amount of the 1052 surplus councillors chas hooper and art lennie brought in a resolution to re duce the general rate by two mills on a recorded vote the motion was lost councillor j clark deputyreeve lemasur ier and reeve timbers voting against the motion crux of tile decision rested on the amount of last years surplus councillors hooper and lennie maintaining that the amount was 21000 and deputyreeve lemasurer stat ing that actually the surplus only amounted to approxim ately 5500 according to the auditors statement which is being published by council for the benefit of the ratepayers there was a surplus of 21000 disposed of as follows 15000 to pay off the first debenture on the new municipal garage 2000 as a reserve for taxes and 1000 to cover accounts receivable deputyreeve le masurier maintained that had the 15000 not been placed a- sde for the paying off of the debenture the 1953 budget would have to be larger to cover this payment making the situation as broad as it was long road budget trimmed a statement from the de partment of highways reveal ed that the townships 1053 road budget set by council at 112000 had been trimmed by the department for subsidy purposes to 117000 in view of this reduction in the roads would you favor taking a half mill off the roads and putting it on the general rate asked reeve timbers im not favorable to reduc ing the road amount replied councillor hooper quote the auditors state ment and it says that reven ues exceeded expenditures by 550110 declared deputy- reeve lemasurier 1 am quoting the auditor it turned councillor lennie and it says that after paving off a debenture of 15000 anrl creating funds of several thousand dollars there re mains a surplus of 550140 councillor clark pointed out that the statement revealed 00000 unpaid taxes at the end of the fiscal year when questioned by coun cillor lennie reeve timbers concurred that the auditor had made a verbal statement to council that there was a 24000 surplus i suggest you publish the statement said deputyreeve lemasurier this suggestion wts later dealt with and agreed upon there was some confusion over the statement before council on wednesday coun cillor hooper claiming it was not the same statement that the auditor had presented a few days previous this 15is983 is shown un der 1952 expenditures and should be under 1953 expenses contended councillor lennie councillor hooper contend ed that the report had not been accepted but a resolution was produced in the minutes confirming the acceptance of the report councillor clark stated that a two mill reduction would not allow for much of a sur plus since it was possible the continued on page7 mrs ed lloyd highway 47 just north of town was ber eaved this week in the loss of her sister matilda bishop tor onto matilda hoover was the widow of the late th bishop and passed away on friday may 1st the funeral was con ducted on monday afternoon to st johns cemetery nor way ward system for pickering a decision on whether the township of pickering should be divided into wards will come up for thorough study at the regular meeting next month reeve todd and councillor micheil spoke in favor of the scheme while deputyreeve balsdon and councillor new man were inclined to let the present situation stand i like the township the way it is stated councillor newman so do 1 agreed dep reeve balsdon councillor lawson felt that the ward system would be an advantage in the respect that the taxpayers would gain rep resentation by population clerk lloyd johnston stated that it was customary to have a seven man council with a three ward system each ward would have two representat ive- with a reeve over all the dep reeve would maintain of fice by appointment or on a rotating basis atha man found dead in car walter draper 24 son of mr and mrs a draper atha was found dead sunday in his narked car police believe that he died from carbon monoxide eca7ing from the muffler