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l rtbnne ctarrffe3 ads on boek page to 65 v 15 the tribune stouffv1ue thursday august 1954 n pages markham twp council urges drastic action against stream polluters we have reports of waste being dumped into the stream running from stouffvihe into the township if two or three were prosecuted we wouldn be getting these complaints e know stouitville needs fcewere but were only interest- u for non-resi- tl in our streams and ditches enter markham twp minnow marketeers i stopped in markham and other being polluted all we want is akt minnows more drastic action stated p streamsin whole- reeve alf iemasurier in s peak- sale quantities it was learned ing to mr craig county health at the regular meeting of the over thousand attend opening arena evangelistic service oiiicer who appeared before markham twp council on monday night council has expressed dis satisfaction for some time over the cooieraiion they were re ceiving from the county health unit in connection with com plaints which were passed on to the health unit for investi gation we made the markham dairy put in proper drains and they would have never done to because nobody ever com plained before said councihor james reeve iemasurier asked mr craig if the health unit would take action against the swill- feeders if they were found to le boiling garbage without per mission of the moh i cant speak for dr king replied mr craig will you take action against the stouffvihe residents who are polluting our stream as 1vt had a farmer complain that hes afraid his cattle may be poisoned and dont give us the old answer that stouffvihe needs sewers asked the reeve that is the answer replied mr craig ownship council on monday night last week a truck was stopped by deputy game war den everett harper and it was found that the men were us ing a large net and scooping up large chub and trout as well as minnows and trucking them away for sale despite protests the dept of game and fisher ies men were called and the catch was dumped back in the stream farmers mr hooper told council have protested this wholesale denuding of the streams of fish fish which were put there as department stock the matter of this years pheasant shoot was discussed and council agreed that 400 nonresident licenses would be all that would be sold this is 200 less than last year the fee is 250 the number of resi dent licenses which are sold at 50c is unlimited more than five hundred new birds were re leased in markham twp this year byl new game licensing aw passed in whitchurch twp whitchurch township coun cil meeting on friday evening gave three readings to a new game licensing bylaw for the municipality the bylaw sets forth the amount of the lic ense fee and the number of licenses which will be issued the license in whitchurch for the fourday pheasant shoot thix year will le s3 for non residents irrespective of the number of clays on which the bolder shoots following the 5heasant shoot tle license fee for nonresidents is 1 for rab bits and foxes the fee for residents is 26c plus 75c for conservation work after considerable discussion hid following the recommenda tion of the conservation club the total number of licenses to je issued was set at 600 four hundred nonresident and 200 residents it was stated that little more than a hundred rest dents take up the sport this will be a hundred licenses in all less than last year it was also pointed out that licenses issued in whitchurch pie not valid in other munici palities nor are their licenses usable in whitchurch mrs t nighswander was in 97th year funeral service was conduct ed in the wideman mennonite church on saturday afternoon for the late mrs tilman nighs wander of markham who pass ed away at belmont house to ronto thursday aug 12 she was in her 97th years deceased was the former ma ry lehman and her husband tilman nighswander passed away some time ago she is survived by an adopt ed daughter mrs edward wil liams reva and her daughter betty of stouffvihe two grand daughters ivahelen and lean two sisters mrs lucy smith woodbridge and mrs nellie dearborn of markham interment was made in the wideman cemetery adjoinin the church new district high school amenis ls read fa term official opening in oct nearly 1200 people attended the opening meeting of the ar ena campaign to hear dr win h wrighton from seattle washington a welcoming com mittee of ministers received the people coming in and ex tended to all a cordial welcome special music was rendered by the stouftville community choir under the direction of mr cyril redford mr red- ford also led in the songservice and congregational singing the speaker took for his text john 316 and in a very able way pointed out that while this verse speaks of a guilt and gloom it also speaks of grace and glory and emphasized that all who believe on christ will find the way to heaven and eternal life the meetings wrh continue for two weeks closing on sun day evening august 29th at all services there will be music by special talent and by the choir preceding each service a prayer meeting is held in the anglican church at 7 oclock supervised by mr ira rusnell the need to pray ls being espe cially emphasized and the min isters would be happy to see a large gathering at the prayer meetings a great deal of planning and preparation has gone into the campaign and the stouffvihe ministerial committee extends a very hearty welcome to all above is shown a portion of the big sunday night crowd and the choir under the direction of cyril redford consider new top for whitchurch like roads road supt e davis was in st ucted by whitchurch town- ship council on friday night to obtain prices on resurfacing both musselmans lake road siiii the wilcox lake road considerable money is being ipeni in patching and repatch ing and it is feared that if a resurfacing job is not done this yoar the entire road sur face will be lat and a com plete job will have to be done again in 1055 the last time these roads were resurfaced the cast for wilcox lake was between 55000 and 000 and for musselmans about 3500 road estimates and the road budget occupied much of fri day nights meeting and it was revealed that the budget would be down to sss952 this month expenditures in july when all lulls are in will amount to ap proximately stifioo mrs geo lee main st slo- tiilmlle is anxious to have her horle con returned as it was l ken by mistake on sunday evening at the arena service and another left in its place mr- lees phone number is stouitville 23ji the stouitville red sox base ball club attended the toronto- montreal game at maple leaf stadium on wednesdaj ntghtand mrs foster wagg bylaws for two new school additions whitchurch township coun cil friday night passed bylaws authorizing the issuing of 20000 debentures for an ad dition to the ballantrae school now almost completed and 10000 for the armitage school on yonge st a petition was tabled at council from residents of the 2nd concession south of the graham farm asking for the road there to be repaired it was pointed out that this por tion of the concession line had very seldom been used and was almost inaccessible the road is terrible said road committeeman graham those people should never have been allowed to build there in the first place they admit that the road was the same at the time thev went in it would cast probably 10000 to build a mile of road there he added after a brief discussion it was agreed to leave the matter until a full council was pre em deputyreeve timbers and councillor sid legge being ab sent a resolution of council called on the gray coach lines to re sume bus service on the to ronto to mt allert run through vivian and pine orchard for the benefit of commuters there thus route was recently aban doned by the hollinger line since taken over by the gray coach a bylaw under the local improvement act was passed to grade and gravel fercus ave in the wilcox area the engineers estimate of the work is 3000 a communication from the cutup chicken co located just south of aurora asked whitchurch for an estimate on the cast of gravelling the road from yonge st to their plant a distance of seven to eight hundred ft the firm stated that they would be willing to pay to have the road improved brewers mash upsets car from unionville an odd accident which might have had drastic results oc curred near agincourt one eve ning last week when part of a truckload of brewers masb slipped to the roadway and was struck by a unionville car dri ven by bruce findlay the local car according to our unionville correspondent skidded on the slippery mash and veered into the ditch the new car was considerably da maged hut the driver and his aunt and uncle mr and mrs talbert findley who were passengers escaped with only slight injuries mr and mrs wm shank and mr ralph shank of clar ence centre ny and mr car- win westiand toronto were visitors on sundae with mr new fruit store to open here a front street business prop erty changed hands this week with the sale by mr ceo hend ricks of the garage building on the south side of main st to mr charles winterfield who will establish an uptodate fruit market there mr winter- field is considering rebuilding the front of the building with a modern store approach the new owner was formerly with a large chain store grocery house for fifteen years and is presently operating an open air market at ringwood the property which also hou ses the ken laushway insur ance office has been owned by mr hendricks for the past three years and served to- many years as wards garage prior to his ownership car overturns girl breaks arm on sunday afternoon a con vertible driven by marcel gue- rin ss lindsay ave toronto overturned on the sth conces sion of markham his girl friend a passenger in the veh icle suffered a broken arm and was taken to the fast general hospital in dixons ambulance slippery pavement was blamed for the accident constable bill shearn of the markham twp police investigated new 100000 public school in markham twp by resolution on monday night clerk chas hoover of markham township was in structed to prepare a bylaw- calling for debentures for a new 100000 public school for the 2nd concession near no 7 ss no 1 members of the board appeared before council as there was some question as to the site of the school and how it would fit into the mas ter plan for the township how ever the board advised coun cil that the site had already been purchased at 1575 an acre a total of approximately ssooo road boss resigns the resignation of art bu chanan road foreman of the township for some four years was read to council and ac cepted mr buchanan has serv ed the municipality for twenty years in various caiacities but since a serious illness a year or so ago has not enjoyed the best of health a letter of ap preciation will be forwarded to mr buchanan for his services a report by kngineer jack howard stated that the esti mated cost of taking out the bad holes on john st near thornhill and filling with gra vel preparatory to having the beamish co administer a 5in hardtop was 1500 three markham edges brougham 65 in pitchers battle markhams red fleming and broughams bob miller waged a thrilling pitchers bat tle on tuesday night as the aces squeezed out a close 65 decision over their eastern ri vals both clubs will be enter ing oasa competition shortly a home run clout by flem ing in the top half of the ninth inning proved to be the win ning run both teams were deadlocked 11 at the end of the ninth but bob haines raced home when ken young flied to short centre field and flem ing scored the assurance run with a four bagger into the deep outfield brougham tried to pull the game out of the fire in their last turn at bat and al though they whittled the mark ham lead down to one run they couldnt pull back on even terms- what would have been the tieing run was tagged out at the plate quarters of this cost would be borne by thornhill police vil lage thus figure was consider ably higher than anticipated and the matter will be given further study the annual grant of 25 was made to the unionville library board and 300 to the union ville community centre board brougham jumped into a two run lead early ki the game but couldnt hold the edge right- hander bob miller threw fine ball throughput the nine in ning affair a good drop ball and a backbreaking slow ball took its toll of markham bat ters fleming was also in fine form and was given solid sup port by the rest of the club the mast spectacular catch of the contest was pulled off by second baseman lloyd raymer on a line drive with two out and two on in the eighth in ning the new stouffvihe district high school will be ready to open its doors for two hundred and fifty students or more the second week in september in fact the contractor has assured the board that the classrooms will be finished by this coming saturday so that all the new furniture can be moved into place plans are being made for ii official opening in october as by that time all the thou sands of dollars worth of cur- tains wilkbe in place work ls being rushed on the classrooms rather than the auditorium since a few days delay in the latter case will matter little to school opening we visited the school during the weekend and can say that the line new building will cer tainly be a revelation to many people who have not visited the school since construction began from the smartly styled hallway to the walnut finished classrooms and beautiful tiled shower rooms the building is all that could be desired in a modern school building each classroom is finished in a different color scheme tile floor and soundproof ceiling the 279 lockers down the main hallway are finished in delicate green the library classroom is a picture in walnut trim the science room has been complet ed desks all in place and the machinery is practically all in place in the shop class room this week the huge stove and refrigerator will go into the kitchen ready to serve lunches to the cafeteria room which ac commodates seventy at one time and can also serve as a classroom outside the building the ground has all been levelled down both around the front and on the playing field al though none hag been seeded as yet aircraft plant rumored in aurora district information is being sought from whitchurch township on the population and assessment in an area between iots 76 and 83 south of aurora and it is rumored tnat ganadair giant montreal aircraft concern may be interested in locating a plant in this area although no confirmation can be gained no tribune next week the stouitville tribune will close down this satur day for the piiuting plants annual vacation ami there will be no issue of ilie news paper next week while the staff are enjoying their annual holiday some chan ges in mechanical equip ment will be made the front office will be open for transaction of general business from i to 12 noon ami froiii 2 until s in the afternoon except wednesday former potato king still missing the disappearance of mr oscar welch 63yearold rest- dent of oxbridge has provin cial poilce batlled mr welch a threshing machine operator left home on tuesday morn ing of last week and hasnt been seen since searches have been conducted over a wide area but so far no trace of the miss ing man has turned up the ux- bridge mill pond was lowered and extensive dragging opera tions were conducted on thurs day but without success mr welsh was scheduled to thresh on the farm of mr geo merricks on tuesday bt ha never showed up after leaving his home in uxiridge two of his dogs were found locked in his car and another was locked in the kitchen a wal let and other personal belong ings were left on the table mr welsh operated a farjn at sandford for a number of yearo and wos knovyn as rtio potato king of uxbridge twip polica are asking residents to contaot them immediately if they have any information as to hia whereabouts from any source the matter of the informa tion request came before whit church twp council on fri day night and clerk crawforcj stated that in the specified area there were 18 residents and 23000 in assessment two of busiest local grain elevators x gggrth over 300000 bushels of wheat being handled by district grain elevators more than 300000 bushels of wheat in storage in hopes tbat wheat will be handled by dist- there may be a rise in the riot grain elevators this season price the largest elevator operated iawrie bros of markham bv lawrie bros on no 7 high- constructed four new silos to garth krulucher was pleased to receive word from lome park college that he had been successful in his grade xiii examinations way between markham and unionville will handle close to 150000 bushels of wheat and 60000 bushels of barley stiv ers at unionville will take in 75000 bushels stivers of stou ffvihe 50000 brillingers of markham 30000 and the stouit ville cooperative 50o0 the to tal weight of wheat handled by the five firms will amount to over 000 toas stivers of stouffvihe will load twenty cars with wheat in one day alone they handled close to s500 bushels the over all crop is reported to be of oua iuvokf friday night 7 pm stouff vihe cardinals vs wellington in good sample and many farmers the t rind or a juvenile report crops running from for- plavoffs second ne in weijty to fifty bushels per r or wotmesdav many farmers are holding their their elevator each with a ca pacity of 7500 bushew four other silos hold 5000 bushels apiece as the farmers move their wheat from the combines and threshing machines to the elevator the grain is dumped into a receiving separator and elevated into he bins it is later shipped out to maple leaf milling in toronto in one day alone more than 100 trucks were unloaded and workers stayed on the job until 5 oclock in the morning to handle the heavy wheat traffic the stouffvihe cooperative does not sbip out a much as the other- foir elevators some lrt bushels are retained for xea purposes