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toiiffinue sribmie vol 64 xo i the tribune stouffville oxt march 11 1051 municipalities may get some county tax relief in common with the other york county municipalities markham township council monday received word from county clerk jl smith that the county is not in a position 10 notify the municipalities yet as to the size of the coun ty levy to be imposed for 195u in his letter of explanation tabled with markham mr smith staled we regret it is not possible yet to notify the municipalities of the size of the county levy to be imposed for 195f in accord with section 321 v2 of bill so the municipal board is empowered to direct the metropolitan corporation to pay to york county in a lump sum or in its discretion over a period of years from january 1 1051 on a progres sively reduced basis an a- mount deemed to be just and equitable to relieve the coun ty from any undue burden caused by the separation from the county of the 12 suburban municipalities an estimated budget for 1951 has been passed by coun ty council which clearly shows that such undue burd en has been placed upon the county and application is be ing made to the municipal board for a ruling under sec tion 221 as stated above it is possible that the mun icipal hoard will not give its final decision until may or june next and until such de cision is received the neces sary bylaw cannot be passed by county council it is appreciated that the delay could cause hardships to those municipalities who set their levy during the early part of the year but no doubt it would be possible for a mun icipality to estimate the coun ty taxes if necessary bearing in mind that it must be in ex cess of the 1953 levy referring to the matter of this years increased county levy reeve a lemasurier who with deputy reeve v clark are markhams two representa tives on the county council remarked that in the case of markham its levy may reach the 100030 figure for 1951 this is a sizeable jump over last years 27000 levy in return for this sum mark ham receives the use of only one county road 1th conces sion and two townlines plus the magistrates court the home for the aged and child rens aid society there already have been rum blings by some municipalities regarding possible secession from the county un chief receives lld resume school construction shortly within the next week the stouffville high school area board will give approval to a new contract for the complet ion of the loil high school building operations ceased a month aso when the contract or win rich construction co was unable to continue be cause of financial difficulties the building was heavily bonded and there will be no additional cost to the munici palities involved due to the change in contractors extensive repairs extensive repairs are being made to the southeast wing of the public school building as it was found to be breaking up badly due io moisture get ting into the walls the job now appears more serious than it was first believed and the job is expected to run into several thousand dollars richvale school in trouble i annexation set erected new addition without proper approval on a brief visit to otta wa dag hammarskjold ux secretary- general is shown signing the regist er at carleton college where lie became the first person ever to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree dr mm maeod- lum president of the 12- year old university looks on the un chief warned the western world not to try to speed up too much the transformation of und- er developed countries but to respect the laws of na tural growth guiding and helping to achieve a grad- ual improvement elmer daniels to recreational assoc at the second regular meet ing of the stoulfville and dis trict recreational association on wednesday night elmer daniels was elected to repre sent the stouffvillc council as a governor on the board each organization will make one appointment on the finance committee and two on the summer recreation committee these appointments will be completed within two weeks local man dies in oregon the last son of 13 children born at whitchurch arthur george steel 79 died at glad stone oregon parents of mr steel the late thomas and matilda steel were whitchurch area eers they came from eng land and took up land there the family also resided in stouffville for some years on albert st south and mr steel played here in the local band and on the junior baseball team mr steel moved to oregon 30 years ago and was engaged in apple growing at one time he was noted as a trombonist in toronto playing with var ious orchestras a daughter doris norman and a sister han steel survive pass bylaw to dissolve school area miss son lil- mrs john morgason dies in 75th year on sunday march 7th mrs john morgason passed away in a toronto hospital where she had been confined for the past thirteen years born on the 3rd concession of oxbridge the deceased moved with her husband to stouffville in 1917 she was in her 75th year besides her husband the late mrs- morgason is surviv ed bv two brother- john elson of oxbridge albert elson of toronto and two sisters mrs x summers of toronto and mrs robt davis of pine grove funeral service was held on wednesday afternoon at the le oneill funeral parlors conducted bv rev eg hus- on of the stoutfville united missionary church with inter ment in the stouffville cemet ery the pallbearers were wal ter percv and edar hardv john elson harold elson and walter pearson grade 11 of the stouffville high school made their an nual trip to the ontario mu seum in toronto on tuesday under the guidance of mr lerrv woity history teacher ten days for lifting chickens rudolph bishop aged 32 robert smith aged 1g and fred judge 30 years all of wilcox lake were sentenced by magistrate hollinrake to 10 days in jail on a charge of tealing chickens belonging to persons unknown constab le j steward and constable forrester of the vandonf de tachment of the provincial po lice observed the vehicle driv en by bishop at a residence and stopped it two chickens freshly picked were on the road beside the car and four others on the floor of the car they were still warm and fresh blood and feathers were on the clothing of smith bishop said the chickens were not his smith and judge denied any knowledge of chickens on the floor of the car or on the road the six chickens were produced in court bishop told a story of having picked up the other two who had the chickens in a sack olticers told of over hearing a conversation be tween accused at the stations we had better get a story to gether if we stick by our sto ry they cannot prove any dif ferent fred judge in court told the officer any story he had in his book he the officer had made up robert smith testified in court he had bought the chick ens for twelve dollars on eliz abeth street in toronto had hitch hiked to don mills road and xo 7 highway where his brotherinlaw bishop had just happened along and picked him up asked why he had not told that story to the po lice when stopped he replied to the crown attorney it was none of the officers business he said he had been unem ployed for five months and the twelve dollars he spent for the chickens came from unemployment insurance to conform with the wishes of the ratepayers who signi fied their desire at last dec- pion- embers municipal election the uxbridge township coun cil passed a bylaw on monday afternoon dissolving the twp school area under the bylaw the former school sections will be reestablished and trus tee boards elected the bylaw will come into force on dec ember 25th of this year if and when approved by the minis ter of education in compliance with a request from the uxbridge town council the township council bv resolution terminated the present agreement for provin cial police protection the ar rangement had been for the uxbridge town officer to ser vice the township for which the township paid 15 a month and mileage the annual bylaw for the collection of the federation of agriculture levy was also giv en the necessary readings and passed the levy was slightly increased to one half mill on all farmers the money thus collected to be turned over to the treasurer of the federa tion major wood member of the uxbridge town council and reeve ferguson waited on council in connection with as sistance in cleaning out the eld electric light pond on no 17 highway just at the en trance to uxbridge from the south councillor wood said that the moh had condemn ed the pond and the town be lieved that the township might assist in cleaning it out who owns the pond que ried councillor nesbitt it was stated that the pond was pri vately owned then let them clean it out why should we get mixed up in it he re plied it was agreed that the pond was of little value to the township and benefitted only the approach to the town of uxbridge the matter was fin ally tabled and reeve ball a- greed to inform councillor wood of the decision ga dough co were ap pointed auditors at a salary of 22500 sight wolves in whitchurch two large brush wolves were sighted on the bethesda sideroad east on sunday night by rae atkinson and david paisley the two whitchurch boys sighted the animals a- gain on monday morning on the geo yakes place 6th con cession they attempted to follow the wolves but lost track of them in the direction of the fred timbers farm almost annually a wolf or wolves are sighted in this vic inity and this is the first re port we have received of any being seen so far this year births 11am mr and mrs john ham stoutfville are happy to announce the birth of their son roger john sat urday march 0 1951 at the brierbush hospital stouff- yille a brother for garry and larry hoftsee mr and mrs jan hoflsee claremont rr 2 are happy to announce the birth of their daughter aalje ruth friday march 5 1051 at the brierhush hospital stoutfville weller mr and mrs ronald weller stouffville rr 2 are happy to an nounce the birth of their son wed march 10 1954 at the brierbush hospital stouffville committee on wards will hear all views when he was challenged that he had not sent out prop er invitations to a recent mee ting of the committee on the ward system in markham twp i chairman lennie slated that the committee was prepared to listen to anyone or any or ganization any time they wished to make an appoint ment as far as invitations councillor lennie stated that no one was invited to the most recent meeting although the joint executive spokesman for the various ratepayers assoc iations was present since he had requested to be heard the matter arose when c evans of the langstaff rate payers association complain ed that his association had not received an invitation to the meeting of the ward com mittee reeve lemasurier told the delegation that they need have no lear that their views would be neglected i will personal ly see that views are heard lrom all parts of the town ship before i sign any ward system plan stated the reeve official opening the official opening of the new municipal building has beep tentatively set for satur day may 1st vow service station an application was received from the imperial oil for per mission to erect a service sta tion on no 7 highway just east of the 1th con on the arnold subdivision council agreed to approve when the arnold plan is registered and subject to the approval of the depart ment of highways new machine after considerable discus sion council agreed to the pur chase this fall providing there were sufficient funds left in the road budget of a steam machine for thawing out cul verts prices on the machines were for coal 1510 and for oil 1200 chief proponents for the purchase were coun cillor james and engineer howard who complained that something should be done to prevent ratepayers cellars from being flooded in the yongo st area beamish coni struction co had rented a ma chine to the township at 07 an hour for a few days recent ly deputyreeve clark question ed the wisdom of the expend iture for a machine used such a brief lime each year as a- gainst renting but finally a- greed to the purchase in the fall if money was available the public school board of the richvale school mark ham towitship may have made a serious financial blunder it was revealed at the regular meeting of markham town ship council on monday even ing a communication from the ontario municipal board draws attention to the fact that a 25030 capital expend hire for new rooms was made in 1953 on this school without the sanction of the board markham township appears quite innocent of the matter since no request for this ex penditure ever came before council reeve lemasurier stated that he was aware that new building was taking place at the school and from conver sation with the contractor be lieves that the expenditure was closer to 10000 what id like to know is where did the money come from said reeve lemasurier if they paid this big expend iture out of current revenues their budget for this year will have to be altered and they will have to debenture this debt providing this council is willing continued the reeve it was said that the 1953 maintenance levy was quite large but only about a quart er of the amount had been used for this purpose and the balance expended for the new rooms 1 believe the plumbing in the school was condemned bv the health unit and they have had lo rush into this expendi ture suggested councillor lennie council agreed that the mat ter was serious since if mark ham refused to sanction the expenditure the richvale board would have to go to the people with a vote all agreed that clerk hoov er should request the chair man of the richvale board to appear before council to ex plain the expenditure and give a detailed statement of what was done with the 1953 levy for march 24th a sunrise easter service is being planned again this year for the stouffville united mis sionary church the special speaker on april isth will be dr j a huffman of winona lake chamber of commerce cites accomplishments stouffville chamber of com merce will hold its regular meeting in the municipal hall this thursday evening to dis cuss further plans which will benefit business in stoutfville and the community in gener al and every businessman a- long the street should make an effort lo bo present the publicity committee of the local organization has placed in our hands a resume of recent accomplishments of the chamber of commerce which appears quite an im pressive list one of the finest pieces of organization work litis been the annual trade fair which has proved so popular and which was fostered and pro moted by the chamber of com merce the santa clans par ade was another promotion effort through presentation to council a couple of years a- go main st lighting was im proved and only last year handsome street signs were er ected as well as name signs at either end of town recently some space was cleared at the rear of the northside block of stores lo give businessmen and custom the date for the hearing be- for the ontario municipal board in connection with the annexation of approximately fifty acres of the win timb ers farm by the village of stoulfville has been set for wednesday march 2uh at the hour of 10 am the east half of this section of land at the 9th con of whit church twp has been subdiv ided by mr timbers several houses are erected there and more will be going up there this year the actual boundaries of the land which it is planned to be annexed are laid down in a legal notice which appears in this weeks issue of the trib une sale ok three homes recorded mr murray sinclair local real estate agent reports the sale of three homes this week and suites that there is a def inite lack of homes to fill an everincreasing supply of cli ents the home of gar brown lo cal municipal clerk on edward st has been sold to dr j stevens veterinarian the da vid minnie house in gormley has been purchased by mr mc intosh of toronto and john badgerow of claremont has sold his home to mrs valen tino of the same village ers added garbage collection was instituted and this spring the chamber of commerce will finance elmer the safety elephant for the children of the public school henry dvck auction next wednesday an auction sale of holstein cattle pigs and implements will be conducted on wed march 17 the property belong- ins to henry dvck lot 31 additional parking space co 10 qulrln mue gouth of stouffville among the of ferings will be a 1953 ford tractor jets edge weston in jr hockey race patrons of the stanley the atre will please note tliat the last complete showing of to bacco road and grapes of wrath will begin at s30 on wednesday and thursday nights march 10 and 11 watch the regular weekly advertise ment for changes in program expect decision this week in pickering hearing fifth game tonight wed the fifth game in the cur rent senior iv hockey playoffs between the stouff ville clippers and ravina flyers will be played here toniglk wed at 830 with the sixth game back in toronto on saturday night the unionville jets scored a 65 victory over weston i dukes on tuesday night to bounce back into the playoff running weston have two wins and a tie while the jets have one victory and a tie the visitors ran into a flood of penalties early in the game which allowed the jets to jump into the lead while play ing with a one and two man advantage the contest was handled by referees jim crom- bie and maurice walsh the officiating was the best we have seen this season reg meserve star defence performer with the jets not ched two goals for the win ners with doug gray norm tyndall harold hodgson and voters john darbyson netting the o- thers gil mcneil looked best for the dukes hold up plan for home developmental brougham mrs g sisco of toronto mo ved into the mcnabb apart ments on wednesday of this week soptuaix meeting an organization meeting of the stouffville shamrock soft ball club will be held in the municipal hall on monday nite at 9 pm all members of the executive and players are re quested to attend at a special meeting called on monday night pickering twp council decided to hold over any decision with regard to the opening up of new sub divisions in the municipality the planning board had re quested direction from coun cil concerning such matters one of the largest requests was for the erection of 31 new homes on the property owned by john white of brougham each proposed new home would cost not less than 10- 000 other requests came from kinsale green river ajax cherrywood and cone 2 in 1952 council and plan ning board decided that no subdivisions be approved un til the proper level of industry was induced into the municip ality to cover education costs or sufficient govt grants be obtained in 1953 the planning board decided to- allow exist ing communities to expand north of halfway between the 2nd and 3rd concessions dep reeve dr kenneth ro berts and councillor hugh mi chel were strongly opposed to subdivision expansion until the proper facilities such as water schools etc could be obtained councillor wm lawson sta ted that he was not agreeable to the complete banning of all subdivision development we must be reasonable exclaimed councillor lawson each case should be looked into individually reeve todd felt that small villages such as kinsale greenwood and brougham should be allowed to develop dep reeve roberts pointed out that the cost of school building was nothing short of appalling every new subdivision makes it tougher for the farm er said dr roberts soon he will be forced to move out of such communities councillor lawson main tained that it was possible for the planning board and coun cil to arrive at a compromise concerning subdivision devel opment give an inch and youll give a mile exclaimed dep reeve roberts the planning board should not show favor itism and okav one subdivision and refuse another the planning board is an impartial and nonpolitical bo dy countered councillor law- son i have no fear of favori tism clerk lloyd johnson point ed out that the majority of schools throughout the mun icipality were crowded with the exception of the 7th con cession and claremont mr johnson stated however that if the homes were constructed to a certain size the develop ment should be able to carry itself whitby march 5 county judge john pri t chard today reserved judgment after hear ing six days of evidence into alleged irregularities in last decembers pickering town ship election j d brower counsel for gerald allman relator in the enquiry stated his client is not relying on any particular breach but rather on the whole pattern there is he said no definite proof of dishonesty but the relator is accusing the chief returning officer of gross carelessness and inefficiency the neglect of the chief returning officer commenced with the preparation of the list and culminated with the burning of the com plete contents of the ballot boxes one clay early many of the deputy return ing officers and poll clerks were equally incompetent mr brower claimed he said this could be explained by the fact that the chief returning officer did not instruct them in their duties counsel referred to the fact that gordon mclean county assessor had said the assess ment rolls of pickering town ship had omissions of transfer which could be counted not in the hundreds but in the thou sands col stephen stephenson intervenor in the case told his honor that the bylaw authorizing the holding of the election had been passed one day late but he was accepting it as valid due to the fact that the day previous to the pass age of the bylaw was a sun day he admitted there was no evidence of improper instruc tion to voters and also that there was no evidence of in correct entries in the poll books has anything been done which would possibly affect the results of this election this was one of the questions posed by aws greer of oah- awa representing geo todd during the forenoon john k brower who had represented the case for allman argued his case charging the chief re turning officer with gross carelessness and inefficiency he was followed by col steph enson who first of all admitt ed some of the notices had not continued on claremont page