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nhnm vol c4 no 38 the tribune stoufevii le ont jan 28 1954 claremont community rink provides fu n for everyone county cuts fair grants a deputation including chas hooper representing the fed tration o agriculture waited oh york county council last week to protest the recent cut in grants to coumjyfairs and plowing matches heretofore such grants have amounted to some 9000 the new county expressing fears of heavy ex penditures under the new county and metropolitan area setup reduced the grants ap proximately 1300 mr hooper told the press that while the odd 50 and 100 here and there to various fairs and matches meant little to a place the size of york county it meant considerable to the in dividual show and after all he stated the county is chieflv rural laxgman again prks york ov police assoc constable william langman of the aurora police force has been reelected president of the york county police assoc iation for a second term with constable lou swinghammer of the opp thornhiif be coming first vicepresident and constable ed forester of the opp yandorf second stouffville to increase fire protection rates to neighbouring townships the claremont commun ity rink operated by the recreation committee and business men of clare mont has been alive with activity during the past few weeks the openair arena located at the rear of the public school is crowded with students du ring the noon hour and re cess periods the rink has been in operation for the past four years messrs jimmy briscoe frank ward and leslie wilton are in charge of flooding operations seated on the boards from front to back are jack redshaw steph en jung shiela peters jim torrance los lye ray ward dwight douglas j torrance and f taylor claremont man injured by tractor walter carson 56 of rr 2 claremont suffered a fractur ed arm and pelvis in an accid ent at the new general mot ors plant on sunday afternoon an employee of the pigott construction co carson was operating a tractor which tur ned over and pinned him be neath it fellow workers re leased him and he was rushed io the oshawa general hos pital by ambulance it is understood he was do ing work in preparation for other workers to do bricklay ing on monday financial trouble work on the stouffville and markham high schools was practically at a standstill on wednesday while financial dif ficulties were being ironed out with the construction company in charge months of work still remain before both buildings will be completed and no heat is on as yet in the stouffville school norman reid appointed president of markham ss convention ninety years old this sunday mrs asa sider main st stouffville will mark her 90th birthday this coming sunday a family party is being plan ned for our elder citizen this saturday which she is greatly looking forward to mrs sider is quite a remarkable lady for her years she enjoys good health does her own house- vvork and is quite able to read without the aid of glasses twp mr norman reid was ap pointed president of the mark- ham twp sunday school as sociation at the eighty fifth annual convention held in stouffville on thursday the morning session was held in the united missionary church while the afternoon and ev ening sessions were held in the united church a special childrens service directed by rev and mrs eg huson was also conducted in the after noon all sessions of the con vention were well attended in the morning a snort de votional period was held di rected by rev eg huson fol brief congregational song ser vice before speakers rev ef irwin and rev dc marry ad dressed the gathering rev irwin is the supervisor of missions in indochina where he served with the mission al liance for some 39 years rev harry is the minister of chris tie street baptist church and is a specialist in sunday school work there in the evening worship ser vice rev d davis conducted the devotional period with spe cial music being provided by the united church choir rev dc harry brought the first message while rev albert lowed ty an address from the iotz of st peters lutheran 1953 president mr bruce clarice following the treas urers report presented by mr ej stiver of unionville var ious committees were appoint ed for the ensuing year a ikinel discussion conducted by mr norman reid dealt with the numerous difficulties and problems which confront sun day school teachers and sup erintendents throughout the year comprising the panel were ej stiver wm vander- berit mrs ben cayman and merlin grove mr merlin grove a teacher at morning- side sunday school in toronto stated that the parents should be responsible in seeing that their children attended sun day school regularly too many parents send their cnildren to sunday school instead of bringing them pointed out mr grove in the afternoon session mr jamberl stouffer conducted a church kitchener presented the concluding address the convention officers for 1951 will be pies norman reid j st yice lome wide- man 2nd yice ken reesor see treas ewart stiver re cording sec coral perkins heading the various depart ments will be beginners mrs ben gavman mrs c ravmer girls work mrs ellsworth keffer mrs harry stouffer boys work robert mcdowell ken wagg young peoples both drivers fined after bioomington crash john thorn main st stouff ville charged with driving without due care and atten tion on the bioomington side- road on dec 2nd pleaded not guilty in magistrates court last week he was driving a loaded dump truck when he collided with a car driven by gerrick munnick rr 2 stouffville who was driving south on the 7th concession thorn had on his truck about 7 tons of sand and said he saw the other car coming as he approached the intersection the collision sent three of munnieks child ren to hospital and munnick himself was unconscious after the accident his car suffered extensive damage to the front the truck was damaged on j the right side magistrate hol- linrake said here is a truck coming across country heav ily loaded cannot be brought to a stop in the same manner as a ear truck drivers forget this sometimes on well travel led roads the man on right has the right of way i am not concerned with damages 1 am concerned with the strict enforcing of highway traffic act i am making a fine of 25 and costs of 24 gerrick munnick was charg ed with driving without an op erators license and lined 2500 and costs or ten days he could not sieak english and through an interpreter he said he had a beginners 00 day li- 25000 new trees to be planted at vivian in spring for the benefit of the new members of york county council the reforestation committee last week reviewed the history of reforestation in the county since 1921 in that year the county of york entered into an agree ment with the department of lands and forests whereby land would be acquired plant ed and maintained for refores tation purposes since then the county has acquired 3106 acres of land at a cost of 63- 50 1x5 the bulk of this land is known as vivian forest this agreement was for 30 years and expired this year 1951 in june 1952 the commit tee recommended that ar rangements be made to extend the agreement for an addition al 20 years this was done and in 1953 mr de gage of the depart ment of lands rnd forests has worked closely with the reforestation committee and the following projects have been completed or are under way 9000 trees were planted in 1953 s men are employed in the forest mr rr hollidge the foreman is this year atten ding the forest ranger school at dorset the course consists of three eleven week terms 100 christmas trees were sold over the christmas season to wholesalers one carload of pulpwood was shipped in january 25000 trees will be planted next spring on property purchased in 1953 the committee asked that 200000 be included in the 1951 budget for reforestation vicepresident wr hill of the newmarket force named secretary jr was miss elva kirk miss margar- cense w ha1 expired et hood adult dept mr wm vanderbent mr c stafford home dept mrs walter gray mrs archie little tern- ierence mr clarence mcdow ell mr win timbers mission mrs nelson smith mrs chas hoover religious education mr hugh boyd mr wm bar- key teacher training rev a c huston rev h shantz rev n rowan stouffville fire brigade was called out on wednesday morning to holdens garage and hotel where a space heat er caught tire and burned also charring the wall the local proprietors quickly applied hand extinguishers handy and had the outbreak under con trol when the brigade arrived hox parquar oliver to speak at whitby ian 28th the ontario riding literal association is holding its an- nual meeting in the town hall at whitby at 8 oclock on jan 2sth it is expected that the hon farquar oliver will be the speaker and the meeting is expected to be an important one engagements mr and mrs harold elson announce the engagement of their daughter june olive to douglas e ward son of mr and mrs charles ward ol stouffville the marriage will take place on saturday fe ruary 27 1954 at 3 oclock in the united church stouffville markham asked for 155000 for more public schools markham township council on monday evening received requests for m additional ex penditure of 155000 for new public school facilities both requests came from the hen derson ave district school section no 1 a union section with vaughan twp the hen derson ave school requires a fourroom addition estimated to cost 75000 and the section also asks for 80000 for a sec ond school the new school es timate is slightly higher than that for the addition as a site must be purchased and a com plete new plumbing job would be required in the new build ing reeve lemasurier stated that it would be necessary to get the approval of vaughan township for this expendit ure the reeve drew councils at tention to the heavy burden which was lowering itself on the township in the matter of school costs the matter of the new 800000 high school at thornhill was cited and the new markham and stouffville high schools reeve lemasurier stated that while the township solic itor had advised that an effort should be made to have the county issue the debentures for the thornhill school he had been unable in talking to county council members to find sufficient support for the idea mr lucas solicitor poin ted out that the townships borrowing power could be come jeopardized by everin creasing debenture debts and pointed out the case of rich mond hill which has reached a dangerous debt level failing to have the county take on the soo000 deben tures for the thornhill school the solicitor recommended that vaughan twp be asked to issue their own share of the debentures which is 17 with markham issuing the balance markhams exact share of the debt is only 21 these figures being based on the present e- qualized assessment the sol icitor added that he had not considered whether wood- bridge should be asked to is sue their share of the deben tures or not councillor lennie asked that a meeting be held with the high school board since a commitment had been given them that markham would is sue the debentures meet on salaries a special meeting of couicil will be held shortly to discuss the municipal salary scale and possible changes a report from the police committee recommended con sideration to a pension scheme for the police the report also stated that the local police be lieved their salaries should be on a par with vaughan town ship the matter of radio- equipped cars was also men tioned as a muchneeded asseti the neighbouring munici palities will have to pay more for fire protection or well be forced to keep our engine in town stated reeve henry ogden at the regular meeting of stouffville town council on saturday afternoon at the present rate were losing mon ey a new pressure pump hits been purchased for the stouff ville fire truck at a cost of 2 0g this pump is used for fighting outoftown fires under the present system stouffville ratepayers are pay ing for a pump that is used in outside municipalities point ed out councillor burk council agreed that in a few years time it would be neces sary to purchase a new fire truck which would cost in the neighbourhood of 10000 clerk garfield brown in formed council that already this year they had received six outoftown calls four to mark ham twp ami two in whit church last year the local bri gade answered twenty three calls to outside municipalities nine to whitchurch eight to markham five to uxbridge and one in pickering there were eight fire calls in stouffville councillor rateliff consider ed the present fire rate agree ment as being ridiculous a motion was passed that the pickering and whitchurch fire areas be terminated as of march 1st and the markham and uxbridge present per call rate be terminated as of march 1st and negotiations be enter ed into for a lire agreement stouffville council will meet with the four township coun cils at their first regular meet ing in february council hands off policy in garbage business if the businessmen want extra garbage collection they can call in an outsider de clared councillor booth at the saturday meeting of council and other members concurred in this view this statement arose when harold dixon representing the stouffville chamber of com merce appeared before i coun cil to take steps to see that the private garbage collector pro vide more service mr dixon said that it had been suggest ed that the town maintenance man might serve as an added helper for the garbage collec tor but reeve ogden protest ed any such move stating that the maintenance man had more to do now than he was able reeve ogden stated that there had been a few com plaints in previous years but that no one had done as good a job or provided the service for the community which mr bramwel had done dr hb hospital in to undergo is expected few days freel entered a toronto this week an operation and home within a euchre thursday january 28th 815 pm in the stouff ville legion hall auspices of the ladies auxiliary to canadian legion lunch prizes everyone welcome mission 50c the and ad- budget 10000 for york county park operation reporting to york county council last week the parks committee recommended that the budget be set at 10000 this will allow very little for expansion but will allow for the continuation of the regu lar work consisting of 490 ac res with 5750 feet of shore line the park lends itself nat urally to a division in land to accommodate several large picnics at one time mr lome odell is the park manager and will book the picnics when the dock the canadian government plans to build this year is completed boats will be for hire the report states a park with the acre age and space that is to be- used should be adequate to provide pleasure without con gestion to the visitors sunday drivers office groups church es etc a playground with no signs tresspassers will be prosecuted or private prop erty keep out but rather a sign to read welcome to the county of york park enjoy this park it is for you please help to keep it in good condi tion for when you return discussing this report one county councillor asked have you approached the metropol itan council for help their citizens will use this park reeve a cook secretary of the parks committee said the committee has met this year we will do our best to operate on a budget of 10000 this year twin dies sympathy is extended to mr and mrs jos lizotte of ringwood in the loss of their son carl blair just twenty clays old carl was one of twins a boy and a girl born to the couple at the brierbush hospital and pictured in the tribune a couple of weeks ago the little lad passed away of strangulation on tuesday ev- land mrs garfield kellington ening land m and mrs chas nolan markham building dept heads both resign mrs wes schell has been quite ill at her home here in stouffville but is slowly re covering friends will be plea sed to learn friends will regret to learn that mr john scott is in criti cal condition at his home in blackstock among friends who passed away of called there sunday were mr fish are fond of music says a professor just as we suspected in the night clubs markham township council sitting in regular session on monday evening received the resignations of both their plumbing inspector and buil ding inspector mr les galbraith has been plumbing inspector for three years council had agreed that with the county health unit offering plumbing inspection services the township could no longer justify this office and mr galbraith was offered the post of purchasing agent for the municipality however he told council that he would rather not undertake the or ganizing of any new depart ments and tendered his resig nation which was accepted mr galbraith the tribune learns will enter the real es tate business in thornhill reeve lemasurier stated in accepting the resignation that the township had been quite happy with mr galbraiths services mr ross norton building inspector also tendered his resignation which was like wise accepted in his letter of resignation mr norton stat ed on the 15th of feb of this year i will have served five years as i building inspector for the township of markham i have had plenty of problems to overcome but i have aiways tried to be fair and firm in the course of my duties i feel that i have done a fair job now that i have been asked to accept dual respoasibility and a great deal more work t feel that it would be impos sible for me to give the ser vice that would be expected by the public and your coun cil with deep regret i hereby tender my resignation as building inspector to become effective on march 1st the resignation was accept ed without comment and coun cil instructed the clerk to ad vertise for applications for a new inspector