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mibnnt full page of classified advts on page twelve vol 65 no i the tribune stoukhvuje ont may 13 1954 twelve pages students choose 1954 may queen its beautification week rjsl i r a ii x budget cut 8000 in stouttville again special attention is being drawn again this vear by the stouffville chamber to beautii fication week which is being marked throughout canada un til may 22nd the large display poster is out in front of the i municipal building announcing fmr i aral dtnrl the campaign wcl luldl iudu the chamber of commerce while slated some time ago ag a resld j to be taken over bv the ontario aive their full support in mak- 0epartmen ing stouffville one of the clean- highway depf officially takes by department a communication from the department of highways plac ed before whitchurch town ship council on saturday after noon revealed that the township road budget had beeif reduced from s93000 to s50o0 further n connection with the road department a letter from the board of transport commis sioners agreed to have lite was not tin est and most beautiful i small lhe slreu of road towns in canada in this ppj w- township proceed with the intil vtftht hwkofeliminaangtheobstruc- mui lar eek uiat u ieal they are joined by the lo cal horticultural society they are asking that you clean up around your premises paint up the old woodshed and plant a new tree or a shrub these two local organizations ask that you make beautifica tion week a time of sincere in dustrious effort to make the home town a more appealing place to visitors and to our selves as a place to live joint effort on the part of residents in all sections of town will make the movement worth while by making a more ap pealing and prosperous looking premises of our own home and garden we help our community to succeed on friday night rose peake grade 12 student of stouffville high school was crowned may queen at the annual semiformal dance held in the kegion hall her attendants were gloria hood left and ma rie schell right the queen was officially crown ed by mr w f sherwood popular member of high school staff community shocked by death of alfred mole this community was gripped with shock early saturday eve ning when word spread throughout the downtown area of the extremely sudden and tragic passing of one of our best known young business men mr alfred mole mr mole was about his business as usual at his large general mo tors establishment in the west end and was in conversation with one of his salesmen when he was suddenly stricken and died ahvst instantly with cor onary thrombosis dr john button was summoned imme diately but was powerless to aid the stricken man mr mole had been in apparent good health and his many friends and business associates in town could scarcely believe that he had been taken so quickly the late alfred mole was born in ashburn fortyfour years ago a son of the late george mole he received his education in claremonl and here engaged in business he later transferred his residence to brampton where he conduct ed an automobile sales busi ness and came to stouffville in 1m3 here he nas establish ed a large general motors agency business which he had been continually enlarging and mproving for the comparatively short eriod in which he conducted msiness here few local men erc better known and the name of mole motors limited nb very familiar throughout a wide area mr mole was a persistent worker for the busi ness advancement of the com munity and his genial disposi tion and understanding won him a wide circle of friends he was a member of the stouff ville lions club and took an active part in the local cham ber of commerce he was also member of the brougham union masonic lodge and was associated with the stouffville united church only last fall he was named as a member of stouirvilles first planning board where he served as vice chairman in 1012 alfred mole married ethel anderson of brampton who survives him along with four small children three sons rodger robert and randy and a daughter melodee ann also surviving are two brothels ir win of ashburn and clifford of lansing and one sister hazel mrs john bow of oshawa the funeral on tuesday af ternoon was conducted from the stouffville united church and was very largely attended the floral tributes were mag nificent coming from friends relatives business associates and organizations officiating at the service and at the grave side was rev h howey of au rora the pallbearers were reg- maid button robert holman richard cooper donald hodg- ins cameron barrett and ger ald hooker interment was made in the stoulfville ceme tery lixbridge tp road budget cut 2 at the regular meeting of uxbridge township council on monday afternoon it was learn ed that the municipalities 830000 road budget had been cut down to 28000 by the de partment of highways last years budget was sliced by 3000 although the twp re ceived an additional subsidy on the sandy hook bridge con struction expenditure cuts in road budgets by the dapt have been made in every municipal ity markham twps was cut sriooo pickering 18000 and whitchurch ssooo chamber of commerce the regular meeting of the stouffville chamber of com merce scheduled for may 13th of this week has been cancelled and will be held on thursday may 20th the chamber coun cil will meet at harolds grill on monday night may 17th at 730 oclock executive mem bers are urged to be out and bring along their ideas for the annual fall trade fair markham tp police nab culprit after chase mr james h bam 116 ban- nington ave toronto led markham township police constables harvey cox ivn dukes and dr porter of union- viile a merry chase on sunday night when he took to she fields after his new 1351 model car crashed into a cement post on the 5th concession he appear ed in court on tuesday morn ing ami was convicted on three counts drinking in a public place having liquor in an il legal place and driving without a proper licence bain was proceeding south jar alone hr 5ui concession with his liny friend road and mashed into a ce ment post which separates the art buchanan farm from the property owned by mr rill tribune now offers twocolor displays the stouffville tribune pass ed another milestone this week when the first issue was pub lished in the enlarged metro politan size which we trust will please the more than three thousand paidinadvance sub scribers who receive the paper each week in lira the tribune changed to an all home print weekly and last year stepped up to a seven column paper this week the paper again advanced with a twelvepage eight column pa per another highlight of the change is the fact that the tribune is now able to offer to advertisers twocolour display printing markham police ask for radios police chief clarence wide- man of markham township sa3s there is a serious need for twoway police radios if the force is to offer efficient serv ice to the entire municipality chief wideman pointed out that every officer on the five man force including himself was working overtime and he sees no sign of relief for the next three months he says however that he doesnt like the idea of having the radios installed in the officers private cars but rather in the town ships own police cruisers at the opening of the town ships new municipal building a representative of general electric co was on hand to give a demonstration of the versatile radio such equipment has recently been installed for the police in vaughan gwillim- bury and georgina twps from the assing in town to ringwood was officially assum ed by the department as a provincial highway the road assumed is officially described as follows being a road along the road allowance between the townships of markham and whitchurch extending easterly from the production southerly of the western limit of lot 1 con 8 in the township of whitchurch to the intersection with the track of the cxr in the village of stouffville the maintenance of the road will remain with the york county department for a time under special agreement like wise the county is still main taining the sth con of mark ham and whitchurch taken over on jan 1st of this year no action bv miijk board the ontario milk board has notified the pickering trans- iport cooperative that no ac tion will be taken at this time on its application for a pro ducerdistributor licence to op erate a dairy in ajax two earlier applications for a licence met with refusal on the grounds that ajax is ade quately served by the five dis tributors at present delivering milk representatives of the pick ering transport cooperative appeared before the omb last week in company with a mem ber of the ajax trustee board to renew their application for a licence the reply received above has given the applicants some hope that eventually their request will be granted i uons to the sight lines at the cxr crossing on the leary crossing near cormley the railway estimate for this work which wts previously received had been 2200 the township estimated the same work could be completed for approximately 1000 after a brief discussion council agreed that road supt davis should advertise for len ders for the purchase of a new maintainor from 75 to 85 hp the tender of the k j beamish co was accepted for asphalt primer i he price being 22sc per gallon a bid from j b d co unionvilie was accept ed for weedanol liquid amine of 440 per gallon and 015 a gallon for brush spray miridlelon dr porter of union vilie was called to the scene and upon arrival bain fled through the fields with dr porter hot on his trail by this time constables oox and dukes were on the scene with the lat ter catching up with bain on the farm of mr j p carr the culprit put up a terrific strug to start work immediately on gravel hill at a joint meeting of whit church and uxbridge twps on tuesday night mr ras wint- ertein operator of the stouff ville sand and gravel co stat ed that he was willing to start work immediately on gravel j hill however before the in cline can be cut down tele phone and hydro lines must be rerouted and two culverts are to he installed the job is to be completed within 7i months mr winterstein agreed to remove all the fill from the hill and deposit it in a nearby guley all grave removed from the hill will be the properly o stoulfville sand and grave softball practice gle in an attempt to rests md ii was some time be- the stouffville sh3fnr lii hold a softb i jppeai the part n thursday ever wheel th w veered ofl the n xewarkei court next week i at 7 oclock new flying field to be opened north of vivian mr and mrs doc marshall have purchased the 100 acre farm of mrs myrtle comer on the baldwinegypt road and when the necessary hangars and runways are completed plan to operate a flying service and training school several types of aircraft will be based on the field mr marshall has been flying planes for twenty years and has his commercial and private pilots license he will have an instructors permit and aero nautical engineers degree this fall a large brick house on the property will be remodelled to nil the needs of mr and mrs marshal and their son and daughter claudia will enter sutton high school and win ston is a pupil in grade six harold armifage dies at home on 9ih of markham early friday morning mr harold armitage passed away suddenly at his home on the 0th concession of markham it was slightly more than one month ago that the markham twp couple celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary he is survived by his wife the former minnie waldon and two brothers ross of pine grove and william of newmarket the late mr armitage was a skilled mechanic and for seven years was employed as foreman at the deer park garage at the corner of yonge st and mt pleasant blvd he later worked for the wartime prices and trade board from 1912 to 1017 aside from a few months spent in toronto the deceased had lived for the past eighteen years on the 9th concession he was in his 7sth year the late mr armitage was a member of the st johns masonic lodge lon don ont funeral service was held at the chapel of roadhouse and rose newmarket on monday afternoon at 330 with inter ment in the newmarket ceme tery county rate nearly eight mills up over last year its an awful increase but theres just nothing we can do about it commented reeve ivan mclaughlin as he signed the whitchurch township 1954 taxing bylaw raising the tax rate of the municipality nearly ten mills the big bump came from the county where the increase over the 1953 rate was nearly eight mills local budget figures the reeve and council felt had been pared to the limit and still required a jump of two mills county rate hist year was 15 while the rate which whitchurch is estimating for 1951 is 120 mills the general kate for township purposes is 27 mills as against 25 mills last year the rates will be used on an assessment of 33s03103s to raise a total of 2563s750 in tax money some annoyance was voiced at the several changes made by the stoulfville district high school board and clerk lack crawford stated that he was in receipt of their third set of figures up another three thousand to 5128s9s9 however the increase in the stouffville rate did not appear higher than anticipated being 80 mills as against 52 mills for 1953 i the general outline of t monies to be raised i3 as follows township general purposes york county levy public school grants public school trustees rate separate school rate aurora district high school newmarket district high school stouffville district high school relief local improvement plan 169 etc garbage collection federation of agriculture 9126837 4056372 1627776 5355832 4400 1274280 330822 1288989 338031 371370 410000 57500 widow of former doctor dead the death occurred in to ronto on tuesday of this week of carrie rowan wife of the late dr richard rowan for merly of stouffville surviving markham joins inorstbiai commission markham township council agreed on monday evening to join the toronto industrial com mission as a voting member cost of the membership is 500 and the move was suggested some weeks ago hy ning board mr w council settled in new quarters york county council employ ees are settled in their new quarters at newmarket the davis estate with its beautiful old house and four and one half acres of park land leaves little to be desired by way of office quarters the clerk treasurer mr lack smith has a large room to the east with builtin book cases fireplace and private bath the assistant treasurer miss lundy has a small wood panelled office oft the rear hall and the large panelled dining room provides desk space for three clerks upstairs the for mer bedrooms have been made into committee rooms and a lounge for county councillors all are suitably furnished with furniture brought fiot the ade laide street building the only room which gives one the feeling that more space is desirable is the former draw ing room now to e used as a council chamber a dias with the wardens handcarved chair and twentyfive deks for coun cillors are in place one wall to the west can be moved and the chamber enlarged if anyone suffers from clausta phobia the toronto and york road commission met this week k of the nock the woo am with the property committee hie of animalswas bai of county council and decided j ion reeve a if iemasurier of markham township iaspected city unemployment reaching info twp relief at lake wilcox is be coming a problem to whit church council and the oak ridges lions club clerk jack crawford says his office is receiving three and four calls a day and the chairman of the welfare committee of the lions club says the situation is becoming more than we can handle the cause is the unemployment situation in toronto where many of the residents of tilie area are em ployed high rents and trans portation charges eat up in come added to this is the drive by township police to clean up crime in the town- hips which has resulted in several jail sentences wives whose husbands have deserted them are asking for relief when they sign desertion charges one or more evictions are being reported every week in the area are three sisters mrs ellen leary mrs alice mcrae and mrs eva briggs and a brother fred hills the funeral will be conducted from the thompson funeral chapel carleton st on thursday afternoon with interment in the stouffville cemetery 16000 people added to health unit the addition of the townships of east gwillimbury king and whitchurch on apnjl 1 to com plete the york county health unit has meant an increase of more than 16000 persons and more than 208000 acres tho population of the health unit area is now over 60000 an in crease of more than onethird of the previous population to tal area is doubled additional staff is required immediately to serve the three new townships according to the director and mojh dr robert m king in his month ly report until this staff is ob tained the present personnel and facilities are being spread over the whole health unit area this means that there will be a noticeable temxrary re duction in services to the older parts of the health unit until now staff is obtained to bring the required minimum to its previous efficient level said dr king in order to be eligi ble for continued federal health grants an assistant medical officer of health and two new public health nurses are re quired dogs raid the brodie sheep flock kill six in the early hours of friday morning dogs raided sheep on the farm of mr wm brodie killing six and inflicting injury on others mr brodie made the discovery and called the sheep valuator gordon lunau mr lunau stated that the animals were quite valuable and the carnage would run into the hun dreds of dollars each sheep was bitten on the thai an addition to the brick i garage at the rear of the prop- erty would make it of sufficient tn damage personally and re size to meet their requiremems space must be provided for york countys juvenile and family court which will meet one day each week in new market plenty of land is avail able for a now office building if and when it is needed miss the land and mnwinss quested that the police make a thorough search of the imme diate district and inspect all dons for traces of blood and wool mr wm gardhouse far mer on the 6th concession of markham asked police to dis- pase of his huge german-shep- mabel davks who gave herd riog as jt wns nowi for i and buildinss iork tne promtes dur county as a memorial to ner father and mother the hon ej a fcw years ag0 mr brodle g davis and mrs davis has a number shee the plan- tad tlie council chamkr and wed hv mvi d bu ms wton of the clerks office decorated m amc i ihe most ser ine toronto commission was pale grey the wide entrance for j mr br0f present at the meeting ard citjhali is panelled in red leather j numbers close in 200 ed a numbe o the benefits to ard he other mam rooms in be derived by markham by be- wood the official opening will hg rciuded in the commit v place st s axpeoied r th w athtr is like toot billc son jjura i unseeded