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twffwlk dxtbtme vol 04 no 51 the tribune stouffville ont- april 29 1954 crime story unfolds as coop thieves sentenced a long story of crime was unfolded in york county police court when the names of four men were read out along with the charges against them bri an roach george seniack james mcdonald all in their twenties and john rat alias john ross 30 had been brought from orillia after being sent enced there for robbery to stand trial for breakins at stouffviile and markham on april 7th james mcdonald who asked for a remand wben he appear ed last week had the charges agaiast him withdrawn when he appeared in court on tues day of this week a statement taken from one of the accused and read in court stated that the four bad pleaded unem ployment and starvation when taken into custody they had been driving through stouff viile on the night in question and stopped at the stouffviile coop where they found a win dow in the roar not fastened they entered and found only small change in office drawers they took with them a quant ity of drills etc reesors mar- mill at markham was entered the same night and sic stolen also the cnr tool shed in markham and a crowbar taken the crowbar was in court and identified by harvey rose c xr employee as the one stol en from the railway shed constable robinson of the orillia opp said he had found the bar near the safe in the premises of an auto sales firm in orillia and three of the men on the roof of the build ing they had received senten ces of eighteen months for john ratz and nine months ta ttle other men constable dukes and chief wideman of markham were in court and said that drills and articles stolen in stouffviile were in the car accused were driving in orillia roach and seniack were given nine months each to run concurrent with sentences given in oril lia ratz was remanded until this friday for sentence and a probation report a long list of convictions were read against these men and against ratz who has already served six terms in the reformatory they havent done you much good said the magistrate a man of your age should go to the penitentiary i am wonder ing if the trouble these young er men are in is due to your influence would leave county if no tax relief given if no relief is forthcoming from county tax 1 am prepar ed to go along with other mun icipalities in recommending a private bill go before the leg islature to have markham tvvp secede from york county de clared reeve lemasurier on monday night as council pon dered the question of an ex tremely heavy county tax rate the lime has arrived for markham and numerous other municipalities in the county to prepare their budgets and strike the annual tax rate over si 0000 for missions in recent campaign another great missionary campaign has just closed in lo cal united missionary churches with the total contributions to sign stouffviile fire agreement whitchurch council agreed on thursday evening to sign a fire agreement with stouff viile on the basis requested by that municipality the town ship will pay to stouffviile 300 standby time g0 per fire for the first two hours and 21 an hour thereafter this matter has been on the agenda for several meetings as there was some dissention on the figures which were slightly higher than the agreement with au rora a communication was re ceived from richmond hill asking if the township desired the fire brigade from that town to service fire calls to oak ridges and other nearby points in the municipality which nor mally went to aurora council agreed to circularize the rate payers in that area as to the proper aurora phone number to call in case of fire but agreed to pay any calls which rich mond hill did have council did not desire any fire agree ment with richmond hill consider dance hall council will ask walter pres ton to supply sketch plans of a proposed dance hall restaur ant and gas station which he is considering erecting near pine orchard there was some question as to a traffic prob- lem which might be ceralod by the dance hall and council wished to look over the pro posed entrances to be made to the premises sign police agreement the annual agreement with the ontario provincial police was placed leore council who agree dto sign on the same basis as last year which is 1500 to lw made in three pay ments a resolution was tabled from the planning board asking that wrecking yards in the munici pality be controlled as laid down by bylaw it was pointed out during the discussion that two yards were operating on a email scale and the operators tion to the ontario municipal board for relief from heavy fi nancial burden brought about by bill 80 and the division of the county 1 dont think theres much hope of relief declared reeve lemasurier the government created this situation and regardless of what other countv rates are they should help out with the situation said depmv reeve clark clerk hoover stated that it would require a markham mill rate for county purposes of 1572 mills on the budget first drawn up for the county how ever this figure would not like ly represent a true picture as the original estimates were certain to be cut the reeve said clerk hoover pointed out that if markham set their county rate at ten mills they could be nearly 50000 short let the county make it up out of their surplus said the reeve let the county wait declared deputy reeve clark a resolution passed setting mark- hams county rate at ten mills south america china and jap an by various missionaries in cluding miss eileen lageer rev e benedict rev richard reilly miss m keinrath and rev oeorge weppler the mes sages and pictures brought vi vid reports of the gospel work being carried on in spite of hardship and persecution total contributions from the stouffviile united missionary church were g025ss this was made up of collections du ring the year of 110977 sunday school s16s00 wms 72179 young peoples 75 cash during convention 3077- 32 this total is nearly a thous and dollars ahead of last year and does not include donations ifrom altona the gormley and bethesda churches contributed to the work 4000 in this conference year mounty joy and dickson hill congregations gave 1859 cash during the convention 0- ther amounts were also con tributed from the churches du ring the year 4100 tender accepted for whitchurch garbage a tender of 4100 was ac cepted from lmervin degeer by whitchurch township for the collection of garbage this sum mer at wilcox lake prestons lake and imusselinans lake a tender price of 3100 was given for wilcox s800 for imus- selmans and 200 for pres tons a communication was re ceived on thursday night by council from the city of port years has resigned the posi byelection in whitchurch twp whitchurch township coun cil accepted by resolution on thursday night the resigna tion of councillor e l mc- carron who has moved his resi dence from the municipality councillor mccarron was serv ing his third term on council his resignation was accepted with regret by other members of council as he has been a most valued member since his original election a resolution calling for a nomination and election to fill the vacancy was duly passed and the necessary bylaw is be ing prepared by clerk craw ford for early presentation to council clerks position six applications were receiv ed for the position of clerk to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of clerk jack craw ford council discussed the ap plications at some length but reached no decision miss gertrude taylor passes following lengthy illness compulsory insurance the rates dont go up for everybody but im one hundred percent in i ford she was the daughter of favour of compulsory insurance the late john and warcella on thursday april 22nd miss gertrude m taylor pas sed away in the stouffviile nursing home following a lengthy illness born at head for cars and trucks council agreed to take no action on the request ask school boards help a request for council aid by the canadian institute for the blind building fund has been turned over to the rural school trustees as council felt that they had the best opportunity for reaching the people with the information regaixling the campaign weed inspector resigns mr elmer starr who has been weed inspector for whit church townshp for a number arthur asking whitchurch to endorse a resolution which had been sent to premier frost recommending compulsory in surance for any mechanical ve hicle travelling on the highway this idea is strictly to get the farmer taxed for tractors and other impements declared councillor mccorron every bodys paying into the unsatis fied claims fund and if the gov ernment can afford to pay for accidents caused by old jalopies on the road it can afford to pay for the farmer who has to go on the road with his trac tor he said watch out that if you get will be notified that they must comply with the land restric tion bylaw chapter 12 sec 6 tion and clerk crawford was instructed to prepare a bylaw for a new appointment raised budget a communication from the township planning board re quested a budegt allowance this year of 1500 which is 500 higher than last year the reason for the increase the board stated was to carry the extra activities of the indus trial committee deputyreeve timbers stated that the board desired to meet with the coun cil this tuesday night regard ing the new master plan for the township now under prep aration it was also hoped to have dr king of the health unit present to discuss the use of old subdivision lots which were of a smaller area than re quired now by bylaw taylor she was in her 64th year she is survived by two sist ers mrs harojd harper and marjorie both of unionville and three brothers harold lome and russel of albanv now york funeral service was held at the ogden funeral home a- gincourt on saturday after noon at 2 pm conducted by rev ws butt of the union ville united church with in terment in the victoria square cemetery the pall bearers were herb weatherill arthur ellis arthur brown harold harper thomas hobhs and everett harper papers wanted the tribune is anxious to obtain extra copies of thus news paper for the issues of feb 4 and march is of this year also issue in week of march 20 1952 at the arena there will be public skating at the local arena this wednes day night and on saturday night of this week woodville and fisjherville will meet here in the fourth game of their orha intermediate a finals game at 830 official opening of markham offices the modern new municipal j building of markham town- iship will be officially opened during a special ceremony this saturday afternoon at 230 pm cutting the ribbon will be mr win timbers past reeve land council member and prom inent in markhams municipal affairs for many years the flag raising will take place on the fine new staff en circled by the driveway in the property foreground and will be conducted by the markham district veterans association the flagpole is the gift of the buttonville womens institute the ceremonies will also in clude tree planting unveilin of a plaque other presenta tions and a tour of the build ings followed by lunch at the buttonville community hall markham township was in corporated in 1s50 settlement began in 1793 with the bercy settlers at german mills and many of todays residents are descended from the families who remained when the coloni zation project ended with the ruin of william bercy who in vested 150000 in the plan to settle german immigrants in york county the bercy settlors were fol lowed by a colony of french aristocrats exiled after the rev olution these royalists set tled in the northwest corner of the township but did not stay long in the wilderness several families however owe their descent to some of these people in 1s03 the first of the penn sylvania dutch came into the township henry wideman be ing the first settler in the fol lowing year there was a large influx of mennonite settlers in caravans of conestoga wag ons the migration continued until the outbreak of the war of 1812 by that time markham township had a larger popula tion than any of the neigh bouring townships and twice as many as the town of york 1200 people the home district comprised nineteen municipali ties in 1809 markham town ship was surveyed in 1794 after the end of the war of 1s12 british settlers began mov ing into the township by 1849 upper canada had legislation for che setting up of municipal government in any township that had one hundred freehold ers on its tax roll under the provisions of this act mark ham township has been elect ing its own township council since january 1 1s50 nancy murphy three years old daughter of mr and mrs harold murphy who iwas the star of the ama teur show sponsored last week by the local legion nancy rendered peter cot ton tail and ricochet romance elgin wagg gets town gravel tender a fl lions to canvass for the blind softball meeting the stouffviile shamrocks will hold a softball meeting on tuesday evening may 4th in the municipal hall at 8 pm all those interested in making the team are requested to at tend three local boys pictured from left to right paul cop- pins bob hammersley and barry wilkes are pres ently operating a thriving pet shop business in the west end of town the hob by started less than one year aeo and has produced a number of pet pigeons rabbits and guineapigs the birds and animals housed in a small vacant barn are fed and cared for daily by the three business partners stouffviile lions club und er the chairmanship of fred campbell agreed on monday night to canvass stouffviile homes on behalf of the canad ian institute for the blind building fund stouffvilles al location is 1400 the lions will handle the canvass in the blitz manner going out in force on friday of this week monday and tuesday of next week householders are asked to give a cordial greeting to the lions and be prepared to contribute all possible to this cause the canvass covers the counties of halton peel sim- coe york ontario and the dis trict of muskoka and metropol itan toronto thousands of volunteers are conducting the appeal which will culminate in the erection of a centre for the sightless second to none on the continent the new centre will provide a nucleus of act ivity that can change the lives of more than 2000 blind citiz ens who live in the fivecounty area greater employment oppor tunities will be high on the list of advantages the new centre will set in motion eg williamson a blind person himself and cnib director of employment explained not only how these improvements would benefit countv dwellers who move to the one-hundred- room residence but also hov it will provide a source of in come for the sightless who re main in their own homes in the countv communities a spacious shop will make it possible for us to parcel out to sightless home workers quantities of subcontract work mr williamson said this work will give the blind an oc cupation for a few hours each day and a pay cheque at the end of the month he explained that the maj ority of the blind receive a 10 a month pension from the gov ernment and may not earn more than a small amount without forfeiting the pension entirely egin wagg was the success ful tender for the stouffviile gravel contract at a delivered price of 110 per yard coun cil reached a decision at a meeting on thursday night there were four tenders for the contract close to 1500 yards of gravel is expected to be placed on the town streets this summer in discussing the tenders council agreed that they had received good service from wagg last year with loads being delivered when they were required councillor daniels suggested that a survey be made of all town roads to discover the ne cessity for repair work new culverts etc he also suggested that following the application of oil to the side streets these roads should be blocked off un til the oil is thoroughly ab sorbed reeve henry ogden was ap pointed as temporary building inspector until a satisfactory replacement could be obtained mr archie little and charles hoover representatives from markham twp council attend ed the meeting to discuss the new fire agreement stouffviile council members felt that they would not be able to lower their hourly rate half million dollar subdiv for markham twp markham township plan ning board and council have indicated agreement with a proposed new su b d i v i s i o n planned by the t j colbourne construction limited compris ing 150 new homes on bay- view ave south of no 7 high way the proposed value of houses would range from 18- 500 to 40000 build school included in the proposal is the offer to erect a new five- room school on four acres of land to be deeded to the town ship the school the subdivider states would be commenced within six months of the regis tration of the plan and would be completed in three months paved roads the subdivider also pro poses to lay penetrating pave ment or to donate to the town ship 550 per foot for this purpose the township council has also asked that proper drainage for the subdivision be provided at no cost to the municipality local girl to graduate from bible college on thursday april 29 1951 the varsity arena in toronto will witness the graduation exercises of toronto bible college fortyfive graduates will receive diplomas and cer tificates among them will be miss shirley steckley toronto firm to conduct parking meter survey a request was received by stouffviile town council on thursday night from the a e h orton sales co toronto to make a parking survey in stouffviile with the ultimate plan of later inrailing parking meters prov police constable w s hilliard highly recom mended the installation of me tres in order to alleviate stouff villes parking problems at the present time the town has a one hour parking bylaw on saturday nights and a five hour limit during the day constable hilliard pointed out that it was difficult to keep a close check on the parking violators other than with the meter system he said that in the town of whitby meters were installed and the compa ny retained half of the proceeds for three years until the meters were fully paid for council felt that a parking survey would do no harm and further consideration would later have to be given to the idea of meter rixgwooi farms herefords top quebec sale the five top heifers sold last week at the annual quebec beef cattle spring sale at sherbrooke were animals from geo rodan- tingwood farms the local jj iter disposed of seven animal- all one heif er selling for for the breed angus cattle posed of 57500 top price shorthorns and were also dls- exgagkmkxt mr and mrs chas ingleton of agincourt announce the en gagement of their daughter verna muriel kathleen to mr gordon leonard cox son of mr and mrs ieonard cox markham the marriage will take place on saturday may 22 1951 at 3 oclock dst at armadale free methodist church mrs geo lawson has re turned home after spending a couple of weeks in hospital