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two sections fourteen pages vol 64 no 31 toiffftrihe srtbtttie copies this week 3450 the tribune stouffville ont dec 10 3ssi santa visits claremont lem wins markham r hii santa clans made his annual prechristmas vis it to claremont on satur day and treated more than a thousand kiddies to can dies here is a group stan- sffimis ding around santas head quarters with little three- year old shirley hodgson daughter of russell hodg son on the jolly fellows knee whose business is it stouffville council discussed at considerable length on mon day evening the jurisdiction of the local cemetery commis sion for years much of the i financial work of this commis sion has been handled by the council and the queston was raised as to why the council i should be handling finances of this corporate body according to councillor hat- cliff the ontario statutes do j not call for the cemetery com- j mission to be an elected body but the bylaw under which stouffville operates does so however council has been cal- i led upon to sanction the price of plots and invest any sur plus money which accrues by the commission further fuel to the discus- jsion resulted in the presence i of an account for some 110 which has been charged to the j cemetery commission by the iiparks commission for the use i of the park tractor and mow- sbr the rate charged was 250 an hour council was given to understand that the commis sion had no mcinev with which the account and furth- nol think the work ik charged against to pay er did should them council voiced the opinion that it was a matter for the cemetery commission to charge sufficient so that they could operate on a sound fin ancial basis and be able to meet their accounts council lor daniels pointed out that the cemetery was kept up for a good many people who werent resident here and made no fin ancial contribution to this e- quipment councillor ratcliff stated that ho believed council was handling business which was rightly the business of the cemetery commission it was finally agreed that the reeve should investigate the proper authorities given to the commission and that a meeting of the cemetery board the park board and the council should be called at a later date to settle the issue members of the cemetery commission are le oneill ho klinck and donald leh man lasuner w ins iviarknam keevesmp has over five hundred vote majority alf lemasurier swept into was given a total of 579 votes the markham township reeve- wl- clark made a credi tab- ship in mondays election with terim for the deputyreeves hip more than five hundred maj- with h90 votes as against 991 for his opponent and former council member dalton rum- ney ag little of cedar grove and a newcomer to the munic- topped the entire ority over the second contest ant in the race chas hooper a surprise to his many friends and supporters reeve win tunbers ran last with 071 vot- es the 1951 reeve comes into w rielcl otlice after two years council seat experience but despite a hect- j nnle present sitting ic two years of constant coun- 1 member stood set with 1- cil meeting upheaves has con- ij7 hn a fi ht cieve turned to mount strength a- bcween mrs kathleen mong the electorate mr lim- m r bersretires from the field aftj gj gfc to wise has served for a long per iod mr lemasurier garnered 1- 2s9 votes mr hooper 77g and mr timbers 071 the newlyel ected reeve drew considerable strength from unionville lang staff and thornhill where he ally vote majority to become the first woman member of mark ham township council in over one hundred years a total of nearly three thou sand votes was cast in the el ection which stirred up the greatest interest of any munic ipal election in years considering a television set for christmas if you are it will pay you to see fairs ra dio electric for admiral read the large christmas display on page 2 of this weeks issue roberts defeats balsdon for pickering deputyreeve i a large crowd of ratepayers short he pulled a surprising jammed the pickering town- 1195 the decision on water ship municipal offices at brou- for south pickering was given gham until the eleventh hour the green light with 92s vot- on monday night before they i ing in favor of the question ontario county crop association annual meeting the annual meeting of the ontario county soil and crop improvement association will be held in the legion hall ux- bridge on tuesday december 15th at 1030 aon the morning program will be mostly devoted to discus sion on the demonstration program that has been car ried out by the asspciation du ring the year the new crop improvement association de monstration program for 1954 will be discussed there will be two outstand ing speakers on the program in the afternoon dr dn huntley field husbandry de partment oac guelph will discuss new improved variet ies of cereal grains and forage crops mr ken fallis crops seeds and weeds branch tor onto will deal with problems relating to weed and brush control there is always considerable merest regarding the best methods of handling manures and fertilizers a group of pro- milt- n farmers in ontario county will form a panel for diseussoii on this topic the oilicers and directors for 1951 will be elected there will be a free lunch at noon all farmers interested in improved farming practices should plan to attend learned the final result in the neck and neck election race iciween dep reeve clare bals- jon and dr kenneth roberts dr roberts climaxed his up- lill battle with a 200 vote ma jority in the rouge area the final poll to report this ad vantage gave him a total of 150 votes agaiast 1315 for talsdon balsdon jumped into he lead in the early returns rom the north but the vote vas light when compared with he heavy vote in the south ep reeve balsdon has served ickering township for the ast six years reeve geo todd was return- d for another term with 269 ote majority over his opposi- or mr stephen stephenson leeve todd built up a suhstaiv al lead in the north and al- lough his margin was cut onsiderably by a strong ste- henson vote in the south his lajority was enough to score comfortable victory mr odd pulled heavy at ciare- lont whiievale kinsale berry wood and mt zion hile stephenson ell at liverpool ast woodlands ach fairport ighland creek and 571 sue voting against the is- additional locals advertisers are asked to have copy hi early for next two issues please to facilitate publication mr and mrs ralph forfar and son bruce are down from sauk ste marie for a visit with their families mrs for far and bruce will remain in stoutrville for the winter and ralph will go to eton acr as woods suiervisor for the gillette logging company several teachers from the public school stall attended a district teachers meeting at richmond hill public school last wednesday evening the special speaker of the evening wis dorothy lane colliding wellknown radio artist kindergarten of the air robt nesbitt gains seat on uxbridge council mr robt nesbitt polled an even 300 votes on monday to win a seat on uxbridge town ship council for 1954 in his first attempt at municipal of fice nesbitt was well support ed in the glen major pine grove and quaker hill dist ricts his total was fortyfour votes more than his closest ri val bruce beach earl dows- well headed the candidates with a total of 427 he was strongly supported at every poll but gained his greatest majority at glasgow good wood webb and quaker hill clarence bunker was return ed to ollice with a total of 301 although he failed to top any individual poll he gained a substantial number of votes in every division to keep him well up in the running ernest hartrick trailed the field with 5 votes in four of the seven divisions he polled but 23 vert- es ward system carries in markham two thousand and sixtysix voters cast ballots on monday in favor of the ward system for markham township while only 576 registered disapprov al only one poll out of the sixteen gave a no majority that being highland park with 150 for the measure and 159 against as was predicted the great est opposition to the change to a ward system came from the urban portion of markham township but all polls on the east side of the municipality gave thumping majorities church on mon- went over i two presentations by stoutt- the rougeville friends were made this pickering pist week to miss mae mowd- beach and j or who will be married this i month on wednesday evening councillor wm lawson seej friends gathered at the home ng his second term in office of miss jean pipher and pres- 5 r harold gray funeral thursday pres- ppcd the poils with a total ofjemed mae with a cedar chest 700 hill newman was close and a lovely piece of luggage hind with 1696 with hugh on tuesday evening mrs l ichell running third with 1- turner entertained friends l mr fred g hunt in mak- and a gift of coffee table end g his premier bid for a tables and lamps was given uncil eat fell 170 votesto miss mowder the death occurred at the toronto general hospital on tuesday of this week of har old 1 grav of toronto son of the late mr and mrs irwin gray of stouffville born near j deceased was on the staff of the standard bank for some time later moving to toronto where he entered bu siness surviving are his wife el izabeth grav and one on ga- rv the funeral on thursday packed church hears visiting indian family stouffville baptist was filled to capacity day night to listen to the claus indian family from buffalo ny the public address sys tem carried the service to the overflow crowd in the base ment this family is composed of parents son and daughter and soninlaw the father was ab sent owing to his sickness they appeared in native cost ume and brought several mus ical numbers including the lords my shepherd in the mohawk indian tongue the message of the evening preached by the son was based on matthew lij the people which sat in darkness saw great light and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light sprung up he made mention of the supersti tions of his own people and pointed out that the gospel is not only for the white race but for the whole world and challenged the christians pre sent to pray for the indian people if i could speak to all the white people he said i would not ask them to return the land to the indians which many feel is theirs but to send to them the gospel of the re deeming grace- the meeting was sponsored hy the stouffville mens fellow ship the president mr aiv- in farmer presided and an nounced that the next meet ing would be held monday january 1th and that rev mr leghford would be the guest speaker who would speak on missions and communism mr farmer also informed the audience that a midnight broadcast sponsored by tie mens fellowship was being planned for new years eve beginning after twelve oclock until 230 am and carried ov er station cktb local talent including the community choir to be uc mainly en the broad east o o zz 5 j i 3 rt o high park 69 207 u 1s6 90 14s 24s 107 iso 150 159 dorieaster 23 97 12 6s 47 so 102 45 s7 66 59 thornhill 54 52 s 31 os 41 6s 15 65 05 40 thornhill 19 74 20 40 4 52 75 35 62 73 37 langstaff 42 224 1 19s oo 190 92 116 135 1s2 82 hunt rd is 4 37 27 is 23 31 2s oo 9 elgin mills 30 27 19 22 00 21 20 40 9 63 12 buttonville 150 54 30 10s 119 51 141 102 75 1ss 33 victoria square 85 47 64 v 121 39 104 100 41 174 is hagerman 40 39 47 79 31 45 58 90 25 110 14 unionville so 229 15 201 133 150 170 272 s2 296 54 cashel 54 40 10 s7 5s 42 10s 126 11 12s 17 bennetts 19 43 25 o 23 19 21 si is u 10 mt jov 17 16 59 57 24 14 51 s9 12 si 0 dicksons hill 15 2s 90 104 20 22 51 106 19 124 10 cedar grove 36 3s s2 106 30 15 35 152 32 142 13 mongolia 25 20 17 10 13 11 5s s9 38 s9 3 770 12s9 071 1490 991 994 1437 17s2 942 2066 576 evicted family finds furniture scattered on road mr and mrs arthur moore and their 3 children james s walter 3 and arthur is mos returned to their home on no 17 highway east of goodwood on thursday afternoon only to discover that all their belong ings had been removed from the house and had been scat tered along the roadside the moore family moved into the cement block home in june and received their eviction no tice shortly after from the ow ner mr kendall holmes mr and mrs moore defied all ord ers to evacuate the house and on a number of occasions when prov police constable wilton investigated the premises he was met at the door by mrs moore with a shotgun after taking legal action the bailiff and police stepped in and re moved all their possessions from the house the moore fa mily are now residing at the home of mr geo matthews on the 5th v concession of ux bridge night classes auk over until new year the popular hobby classes conducted each week at the stouffville high school are o- ver until jan 12th 1954 the present enrolment is as fol lows sewing 11 shop work 15 art 19 beginners english 25 and english citizenship 15 cement culverts to be no more in stouffville the use of cement culvert pipe will not be allowed for approach culverts in stouff ville ditches according to a resolution passed by the mun icipal council here on monday evening and which calls for corrogated steel only a numb er of the cement type culverts have been installed at various points and according to coun cillor burk of the road com mittee they will not stand up for many years for driveway traffic there is very little dif ference in the cost it was said but council is invariably called upon to unplug these culverts when a tile breaks istouffville has been asked to join in a proposed rouge valley conservation authority and council agreed by resolu tion that they would cooper ate in such a project the regular monthly police report revealed 51 convictions in town for violation of the highway traffic act and 15 pending in addition there were 2 convictions and one case pending under the liquor control act the local police were involved in an interest ing incident recently when they were summoned to main st where several toronto youths members of the delta kappa epsilom fraternity were stranded as part of their initiation ceremony they had been driven blindfolded into the country and left stranded constable milliard discussed possible parking ban east of the school building a number of church goers had their cars tagged there on sunday even ing for creating what the con stable described an obstruction by parking on both sides of the street i dont think local people should be forced to park on one side just to make a speed way for outoftowners de clared councillor daniels council after considerable discussion agreed that no move would be made to change the parking areas at present tout the church goers would be asked to cooperate in keep ing their cars all parked on one side prisonerofwar claims deadline i set for dec 31st j it is pointed out that there has been a change in the reg ulations since those originally announced therefore any for mer prisonerofawar who may have the remotest claim for compensation should make ap plication an ordinary letter written toy the veteran to war claims commission 262 wellington st ottawa will be considered an application if received on or before dec 31 1953 further information may be had by contacting mr jack sanders service bureau officer of the canadian legion branch 159 stouffville those annual fowl bings conducted by the stouffville legion branch here commence next thursdav evening dec 17th altona couple fifty years married you cant do better than see the new remington portable typewriters on display at the tribune office a wonderful chrutmas gift for any student will be conducted from the trull funeral home 2701 yonge st at 2 oclock inter ment will be made in the stouffville cemetery kriends and relatives gath ered at the home of mr and mrs william mcnair of alto na last week to honor this po pular couple on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniv ersary the couple have lived more than fortyfive years at altona retiring from their farm nearby six years ago mrs mcnair was the former elizabeth meyer daughter of edward meyer pickering and her husband i the son of the late jonathon mcnair of beth- esda they were married on dec 1st 1903 by the rev w percy on the 9th concession of pickering at the brides home immediately following their marriage the couple spent four years on the 5th con of mark ham prior to coming to altona an interesting highlight of the celebration was a phone call from tisdale sask from john d mcnair who was the best man at the ceremony fif ty years ago miss alice white who was the bridesmaid and who now lives in fergus was able to be present both the honored guests en joy comparatively good health mr mcnair who has a ready wit enjoyed by a wide circle of friends while not indulging in public life was always an ard ent curler and horseshoe pit cher the couple have two soas fred of stouffville and earl of enniskillen and one daughter mrs stan thompson there vtc eight grandchildren