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lv rttmtie classified ads on page twelve vol 65 no 30 the tribune stouffville thursday february 10 1955 twelve pages country doctor for thirty- six years r whitevale mother smothers fire with boiling water mrs james 0brien of white vale battled flames in the liv ing room ceiling of her frame home singlehanded on friday night she had the fire under control when the brougham brigade arrived the outbreak occurred ar ound midnight after mrs o brien had put her four chil dren to bed she was working in the kitchen and smelled smoke after calling the brou gham brigade she raced up stairs and roused the children by this time the fire had ignit- ed the rafters in the ceiling and in a desperate effort to ex tinguish the baze she grabbed kettles of boiling water on the stove and doused the flames her right arm was scalded a few minutes later the brigade arrived and completed the job mrs obrien stated that or dinarily she would have been asleep but decided to stay up a little later to finish some housework mr obrien works on a night shift in a scarboro plant arrest 4 for breakin on saturday feb 12th dr n f tomlinson will mark his thirtysixth year in the service of claremont and surrounding community for more than a quarter century he has served the district and his presence has brought relief to hundreds of ailing residents dr tomlinson was born in scott township and received his public school training in that municipality he attended uxbridge high school and fol lowing graduation he taught both at brougham and in the claremont continuation school in 1912 he decided to take up medicine and entered toronto university for five years an additional year at the faculty of education completed his schooling dr tomlinson started his practice in claremont in 1919 during the summer he trav elled by car but used a horse and cutter in the winter he recalls visiting one of his pa tients around chalk lake on a pair of skis one winter when a heavy snowfall made the road impassable dr tomlinson travelled by train to glen ma jor and later returned to his home in claremont aboard a jigger with the cpr section- men on a number of occasions he found himself bogged down in the snow and has had his cutter turn over in the ditch the majority of his kills are within an eightmile radius he attends patients at uxbridge ashburn claremont brough am whitevale markham stou- ffville and goodwood in his thirtysix years inthe medical profession dr tomlinson has never refused to answer a call even under the worst weather conditions in the middle of the night dr tomlinson has three sons bill a physician in pickering ted an insurance agent in toronto and allan with the department of public health in hamilton and one daughter mrs dick cooper of claremont he has also held the position of public health officer in pickering township for the past twenty years aside from medical know ledge gained at university dr tomlinson has also gained a great deal of practical exper ience during his thirtysix years of practice and his many friends are grateful for his ser vices iff times of sickness conservatives amalgamate in north york york county asks toronto to help maintain park seventynine percent of the visitors to the york county park on lake simcoe are resi dents of toronto and for this reason the county last week asked the city for assistance in maintaining the park county council meeting last week was asked to approve a budget of 10000 for the park the committee is headed by george lamont of sutton the city was approached in 1931 about assistance and the county was asked to produce statistics to show how much an amendment to bill so the park was used by city dwel- would be necessary to enable lcrs this has been done and the city to give financial assist- the figures given to the city jance county bucks at 85000 for childrens aid york county council has been asked to contribute s5 620 to the childrens aid so ciety for 1955 the amount is considered much too high and has been turned over to the finance committee for consider ation reeve alf lemasurier com mented that it would appear the county was being called on to pay double we pay our share to the childrens aid and then we have to meet increased school costs because these chil- the progressive conservative organizations of the federal and provincial ridings of north york have amalgamated now that the boundaries of the two are approximately the same the change was effected at a meeting last week major lex mackenzie mpp addressed the gathering asked if there was going to be a provincial elec tion he said where theres smoke theres fire and the smoke is getting pretty thick the election of officers result ed as follows bill case of au rora president for two years of the federal association was named president following the amalgamation first vice presi dent floyd corner aurora vice president central area which includes aurora rich mond hill and newmarket mrs tjbrothy hope newmar ket vice president eastern area including markham twp markham stoultville and whit- throe men and one woman were taken into custody this week and charged with breaking anil entering theft and being in possession of explosives the quartette appeared in court at new market on tuesday and were remanded in custody for one week provincial police having been working on a number of leads both local and other wise in connection with h recent robbery at the stouff- ville coop and have been joined by other forces in other municipalities where recent brcakins have occurr ed their investigating final ly paid olt this week with tie four arrested the four were picked up at a summer cottage on lake sim coe in addition to the nitro glycerine found in their pos session were detonator caps lengths of fuse and stolen pro perty including s150 in govern ment bond- cheques an unem ployment insurance books the three men and woman were drinking and listening to a radio when police closed in they are james budd kenneth budd and boyd mason also james budds wife dorothy they are originally from west ern canada dren from toronto are farmed i church township sinclair 111 if 111t1 run munia nnl tin 1 n school board fears problem if whitchurch subdivision is okd bogarttown public school board appeared before whit church township council on thursday evening and karl toole spokesman declared that the auctioning of a new sub division of thirtythroe new hornet in that section would mean either an addition or a new school building im not in sympathy with subdivisions out in the centre of a township said mr toole we have enough school prob lems now he added that there would definitely lie a ratepayers moo ting called to ascertain their reaction the new subdivision which i- ng planned is part of lot 31 con 3 whitchurch thirty- three lots representatives of the greek orthodox church on v hose laud the proposed sub division is being planned were also present at the meeting in addition to the subdivision which is being promoted by- toronto interests six acres would also be laid out for a cemetery ground ami additional acreage for a church the chu rch group purchase the former beckett arn of st acres some time ago and made application for the opening of a burying giound which was turned down by council at that time iincc might become a public charge at a later date the homes which the sub- divider proposes to erect are sixroom brick bungalows to sell at k5o0 to sl1000 councillor cliff wallwo r k made the comment that the taxes on such homes would not bear the costs of education however mr l p evans chairman of the township planning board stated that an otter of 500 per lot for educa tional purposes had been made reeve mclaughlin stated that ho believed council should es tablish some policy of sub division control he said that out into our municipalities he said mr lemasurier explained that in many areas the arrival of foster children aggravates the overcrowded condition of the schools new ones have to be built more teachers have to be employed he suggested that a nonresident fee could be paid for these children to the school boards of the muni cipalities concerned to assist in the provision of educational services for them alfred lemasurier reeve of markham township asked if more school aged children were placed in foster homes in the county than in the city he was told that there were al though the bulk of foster homes is in the metro area the babies are kept in those homes so that thev can be nearer the medical facilities of toronto the coun ty receives the greater number of children of school age mr and mrs pipher celebrate golden wedding day married at stouffville fifty years ago mr and mrs allan v pipher oshawa celebrat ed their golden wedding on sunday the couple have lived in oshawa since 1911 and the beautiful floral arrangements that graced their home and the many handsome gifts were a testimony of the regard in which they are held by a wide circle of friends son of the late mr and mrs william pipher of stouffville mr allan pipher took as his bride janetta whitson daugh ter of the late mr and mrs james whitson of markham the former miss whitson was a school teacher and al though she has seen many cha nges since she taught in the oneroom school at the rouge she still funds it hard to he- burgess unionville vice presi dent western area including vaughan township king twp woodbridge frank beatty kettleby vice president north ern area including all munici palities north of newmarket bill park sutton vice presi dent lady mrs a s howell woodbridge vice pres young people vem sheldrake oak ridges chairman of organiza tion prof e smith gormley chairman of membership don ald findlay qc king city chairman of public relations and publicity norman hath away newmarket secretary dick edmonds richmond hill treasurer ed little richmond hill assistant secty miss rosemary doyle honorary pre sident elected j o little all past presidents are auto matically honorary presidents three ladies elected were mrs charles hooper mrs ed park and mrs ed little breaks leg at high school ab stouffer son of mr and mrs s a stoufter 9th con of markham suffered a broken leg last friday while playing in the gymnasium at the stouff ville high school driver pulled from flaming car by green river youth james stewart a toronto salesman was pulled from his flaming car at green river on monday night after the vehicle missed a turn snapped off a hyuro pole turned over and burst into flames bill cook 19 of green river was one of the first on the scene and he along with a passing motorist man aged to free the driver only minutes before the car was completely enveloped by fire he was rushed to the toronto east general hospital by dixons ambulance of mark ham i and is reported to be in in serious condition residents of the hamlet tried to extinguish the blaze by throwing snow on the vehicle the brougham fire brigade answered the call and finally put out the stubborn fire the 1953 model car was almost comletely gutted hydro ser vice to the area was disrupted for more than an hour driver thrown out when auto strikes byers bridge the accident toll at the well- known byers bridge on no 4s highway north of markham continues to grow this years first collision- occurred on sat urday night when a car driven by mr clarence haney 339 berkley street toronto skid ded on the wet pavement and crashed into the east abutment the driver was thrown out of the auto onto the pavement by the force of impact his wife a front seat passenger in the ve hicle suffered severe cuts to her legs and head mr haney was treated for bruises and shock the car was badly dam aged the driver informed mark ham twp police constable bill shearn that he believed the car in front of him was going to make a turn and when he ap plied his brakes the car went out of control dr d h smith of stouftville treated the in jured couple plan to enlarge council chambers at county building an addition to the york county building at newmarket to enlarge the council cham bers has been approved by the council this week the 1954 warden and commissioners of the coun ty reported that the council chamber appears to be the on ly part of the county building that is inadequate they recom mended that the 1955 council give consideration to the en larging of the chamber council accepted the recom mendation and referred the matter to the property commit tee which will bring in a fur ther recommendation regarding the details of the work to be done on friday evening at 730 the boys bicycle club will hold a meeting in the municipal hall mr adam christie stricken in 80th year on saturday feb 5th mr adam christie passed away suddenly in the stouffville brierbush hospital in his soth year born in owen sound the deceased was employed as a tinsmith in toronto for a num ber of years he had been hos pitalized since christmas the late mr christie was identified with humbercrest united church toronto and was also affiliated with the ma sonic lodge besides his wife he leaves two sons rev frank christie dont let the typical hothead bluff you he has cold feet buffalo new york and gordon in sault ste marie there are also two brothers david of owen sound joseph of seattle washington and two sisters mrs may harshaw of toronto and mrs ida mcdonald in se attle the funeral service was con ducted from oneills chapel stouffville on tuesday after noon by rev f g huson with interment in parklawn ceme tery toronto the allbearers were messrs floyd stockley mervin harper harry stouffer kred pugh wes schell and jake reesor markham council charges price fixing among eight culvert supply firms i would take all the tenders and mail them to ottawa to the combines investigating committee de clared reeve alf lemasurier on monday afternoon when markham township council opened tenders for their supply of culvert pipe for this year eight firms tendered on the contract and the prices of all eight were identical reeve lemasurier told council that the ottawa committee had acted against the paper industry and could act against the metal product firms as well engineer jack howard suggested that the tenders be turned over to the road committee but reeve le masurier pressed for action on the alleged price fixing and it was finally agreed that councillor deacon should draft a letter which could accompany the tenders to ottawa and which would be scrutinized by council next monday night reeve lemasurier said that if all municipalities would rebel against such tactics competitive prices could result in much saving for the taxpayers hurricane damage must be paid out of current budget township told a communication from the vestigate the situation dept of highways was placed before whitchurch township council by road supt davis on thursday evening which stated that damage to roads and bridges incurred during the hurricane of last fall must be met out of the current road budget at the previous meet ing council was told that the road budget for 1955 on which the dept of highways would pay subsidy must not exceed 80000 last years road ex penditures amounted to 91- 000 the storm damage in the township amounted to between 10000 and 50000 and council expressed the view that a sec ond appropriation for dept help would have to be forward ed later in the year as it would be impossible to meet even the current expenses out of 80000 let alone the storm damage costs road accounts passed for payment amounted to 773117 which included some payment on bridge rebuilding a delegation waited on coun cil asking for improvement to the cprb sideroad which they claimed was too narrow for safe travel particularly on the uphill approaches the deputa- new gormley school the clerk was instructed to prepare a bylaw for the issu ing of debentures for the con struction of a new 30000 school at gormley the new building to be used in conjunc tion with the present school the request for the new school was passed by a large majority at a recent ratepayers meeting an advance of 2500 on the school levy for ss no 10 was authorized by council and 500 towards the current salary of the township auditor mr e a smith resolution was passed ap pointing mr elmer clarke as warble fly inspector for this spring tion said that a considerable i flowers horticultural meeting you are invited to attend a meeting of the society to be held in the united church basement on monday feb 14 at 8 oclock the guest speaker will be mr john f clark of toronto assistant director of horticultural societies of on tario his subject will be work and influence of horti cultural societies he will also show some pictures of wild number of commuters used the road every day council agreed to have the road committee in- local talent will provide en tertainment do not miss hear ing this outstanding speaker basketball a popular high school sport claude brillinger area sup ervisor with united cooperat ives of ontario is spending the week at chicago and min neapolis with a group of creamery managers and j ba ker from the dept of agricul ture with whom he stayed working in different departments until his retirement a few years ago the couple are members of st- andrews united church lieve that fifty years have pass- mrs pipher has been a memi ber of jessie panton evening auxiliary of the wms almost since its inception and when preached by the representative of a real estate firm who wish ed to plan for subdividing a 130acre farm on the outskirts of newmarket mr crawford stated that he had told the rep resentative that if smaller than 15000 s ft lots wore desired either water or sewerage fa cilities would be necessary from newmarket deputyreeve lcgse said that he understood eight hundred new homes were bcrc planned jl was feared the cemetery for eai gwiiiimbjjy tin year ed since that snowy day in january when she was married in those days in school we council was not prepared to i concentrated on the three rs her family was young an ac- give a decision on the proposed i she laughed and the frills j live member of king street new bogarttown subdivision j wore taken care of at home j home and school association that night jthe girls learned cooking andj relatives and friends from clerk jack crawford told sewing from their mothers and lohawa toronto aurora ag- council that he had been ap- the boys carpentry from their incourt ringwood and dundas dad- anyway i know that were present to offer congratu- youngsters o 12 and 11 could unions wirte a decent letter while to day many cannot mr and mrs pipher have three daughters and a son mrs samuel ferguson winogene toronto mrs george wilson eileen mrs wipiam de long ilnnes and mr william pipher ah of oshawa there arc six grandchildren mrs piphers uncle mr maitland secor who is 98 years old came from toronto and made a gracious speech honor ing the bride and bridegroom pouring tea during the after noon and evening were mrs piphers sister mrs james graham of dundas mr piph er- sser mrs ralph burk- an apprenticed n a lier of stouffville and a mr ppher came to oshawa n friend of long swn4inc mrs 1911 and jotned genera motor j david morri of oshawa since the opening of the new stouffville district high school in september basket ball has been rapidlv grow ing in popularity with both tfca boys and girl aside from organizing junior and senior teams interform com petition has also been pro moted already stouffville has taken pan in samea with other district ilgh schools a regular interschoo sched ule is expected to be formeu in the fall iicurgd above ar mem bers of the senior girls team in action forward marg smith l- attempting to score while anna cote left hel en lemon and joyce bycra try to uard the basket