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3400 copies this issue touffr iit fruntne classifieh ads on page twelve vol 65 no 41 the tribune stouffville thursday february 24 1955 twelve pages first sign of spring report of 6000000 development for markham premature according to reliable reports received this week there is yet no basis to a news report ap pearing in a toronto daily stat- big that a s5ooo03o develop ment of homes stores and in dustry from western germany will locate in markham town ship the proposed plan which was to locate on a 100acre farm tract at the corner of no 7 highway and don mills road has yet never received the ap proval of either the planning board or council plans for the project were submitted to markham town- shtf planning board by c j mecharles real estate and alan graham vicepresident of milton canada industries ltd who is now in dusseldorf negotiating with german in dustrialists interested in locat ing in canada at least two o the german firms are manu facturers of armaments mr mccharles said the plan calls for 150 homes to sell for about sigow 30 acres designated for industry with a sixacre park serving as a bufrer between homes and factories and 10 acres for com mercial use including some 3300 feet of frontage on high way 7 the reality firm is negotiat ing with a large restaurant chain interested in building a large drivein restaurant two chain stores are negotiating for suitable frontage with plans for a large shopping centre the area is being planned by e p fisher town planning consultant with the real es tate firm whitchurch school debt up over onehalf million dollars council and planning board will meet- to discuss problem of new subdivisions a sure sign that spring is douglas morden son of mr just around the corner pic- and mrs geo morden of tured above ls fouryearold stouffville attempting to pro vide his newborn lamb with a little nourishment markham man buys 280 acres near goodwood murray little of markham has purchased 280 acres of farm property on the ith con cession of uxbridge twp east of goodwood the farms be longed to mr david symes and mr findlay thompson the purchase price for the 100acre symes farm is reported at s13o00 there are 130 acres on the thompson farm mr intends to use the property for ranch land both mr symes and mr thompson have been residents there for over forty years mr symes has retained his house and an acre of land murray little is a partner in the markham sandmd gravel co he recently purchased the wes wideman farm on the sth concession of markham oafs bring w at befz auction r the auction sale of farm stock implements hay and grain the property of mrs jos bctz 9th concession of mark ham was held on tuesday af ternoon the sale was well at tended close to 2000 bushels of oats sold well at ssc per bu ewes and lambs brought s2c each while brood sows aver aged 90 the tractor a model s case sold for 39000 the farm has been sold on friday n auction sale was held on the property of mr reuben tindall con 2 picker- twp farmers resent pipeline incroachmenf in a letter to markham twp council mr harold acreman a farm resident west of vic toria square near headford ex pressed concern over plans by the transcanada pipe line company to lay 21inch mains through his property mr ac- reman stated that his neigh bors were also seriously con cerned over the matter the farm resident pointed out that the initial survey would have the gas line cut diagonally across his farm and pass with in 150 feet of his dwellings mr acreman felt that such an un derground obstruction might tend to depreciate the value of his land councillor donald deacon pointed out that neither the council nor private land own ers could stop the project he said that the company ha powers of expropriation but he thought that the farmers altee ted should be properly reim bursed councillor deacon in formed council that the gas line would be placed six feet in the ground no one would be allowed to build over it he felt that the project was still in the survey stage and no actual construction work would start until 1957 to purchase two cruisers for markham police markham township will pro vide their police with two hew radioequipped cruisers seven tenders were received ranging in price from 1921 to 2219 council decided to purchase two now fords from r d lit tle and son ltd richmond hill they will be equipped with general ilectric twoway radios ing twp the top holstein springer sold for s1g0 while mws with calves brought 170 oats k for 51 per ton auc tioneer a s farmer had both sales town library circulation nears 12000 mark the annual meeting of the stouffville library board was held recently at the home of the secretarytreasurer mrs v f riches mrs g r tho mas librarian reported a cir- culallon of 11651 more than 300 books have been added to the present stock one hundred and twentyfive books arc on loan from the travelling libraries branch of the board of educa tion an encouraging feature was 3n increase of 300 in circu lation of the juvenile section four groups in this department are receiving the junior liter ary guild books and they arc much appreciated a number of new- copies of myv ry fie- m ton were purchased from mrs ernest bray at a reduced price of special interest has been a display of an by members of the hobby class at the high school the library board has been pleased to make space available for this exhibit the secretarys report show ed a financial balance on hand commencing jan 1st 1955 of s13ss65 this sum will be used to carry on the work of the li brary for the year a number of repairs were made to the lib rary building including a new- roof costing 20000 railings on the outside at ls0o and inside railings 570 following the business meet ing the election of officers was held reeve elmer daniels pre sided the officers for 1955 are as follows mr geo foord chairman mrs w f riches sectreas mrs h b free mr wm sherwcoc rev d g davy mr ray floury mrs g r v thomas librarian besides mrs ernest bray other residents who havs pre sented books to the library are mrs v f rtchc mrs jas orlvy ard mrs wm ford noted agriculturist howard u harper passes suddenly howard u harper one of canadas most eminent agricul turalists died very suddenly at his goodwood home on friday feb is 1955 in his 56th year he was born on the fifth con cession of lxbridge township to the late mr and mrs charles harper he attended public school at the fifth line second line of uxbridge township goodwood and high school at uxbridge later he attended albert college belleville from 1921 to 1923 while there he met and married a school chums sister lucy redmond april 1921 they resided in goodwood and later moved to mrs c h tuck succumbs to lengthy illness on wednesday feb 16 mrs chauncey h tuck a resident on the sth concession of ux bridge for the past six years passed away in the toronto general hospital following a lengthy illness born in london england 37 years ago the deceased came to canada with her parents at the age of eight years and re sided in saskatchewan until 1910 she later moved to to ronto and married chauncey tuck in 1911 the couple lived in unionville for xevon years and in 1919 they moved to the fifth line uxbridge the late mrs tuck was a highly respec ted resident in the community her pleasant smile and encour aging words will long be re membered but sorrowfully mis sed by her family her many friends and her neighbors she leaves to mourn her pass ing besides her husband four children dale wendy carol ari glenn her mother father and a brother gerald all reside at her late residence a sister rosalie predeceased her in 1935 at the ago of 20 the funeral service was held at the mcguire and low fu neral chapel uxbridge con ducted by the pastor of the 5th line united church rev john c hill assisted by capt d d fife of the salvation army ux bridge corps interment was made in the uxbridge ceme tery the pallbearers were messrs p evans arthur par- ratt wallace savage roy cord- irgly jtobert jones and jack murphy the flower bearers were mrs mary evans mrs may parratt mrs doris sav age mrs jean cordingly mrs mary jones mrs eva murphy and mrs g bradbury whitchurch township coun cil agreed on thursday evening that a meting should be called with the township planning board to discuss the pressing problem of new subdivisions and their increasing burden of school taxes the decision grew out of a discussion following another appeal by a group rep resenting the russian ortho dox greek catholic church to j sanction the erection of a new- church at bogarltown and al low a cemetery as well as real estate interests who wish to erect thirtythree homes near by two weeks prior to thurs day- night the public school trustees of the section involv ed had expressed objection to the plan sponsors of the plan for the new homes stated that the twp could name their own figure for school purposes either a lump sum to be applied for schooi purposes an amount per lot or even the erection of a new school however councillor wall- work pointed out that the ini tial cost was only the begin ning as the taxes from the new- homes would not pay for the upkeep councillor richardson quer ied regarding a proposed chil drens home but it was ex plained that this would be a summer project only clerk jack crawford ex plained to council that the mu nicipality was fast approaching the danger point insofar as per centage of debenture debt is related to the overall assess ment the municipal board he said would call a halt to de- benturing if the township rea ched 25 which would be ap proximately so0000 present unmatured principal amounts to 510495 he added and pre sented a chart of all outstand ing debentures issues largest unmaturad debentures in the chart are stouffville high school school section 13 and the armitage school few of the school sections in the town ship are without some outstan ding debt and new ones are be ing added almost monthly the latest to seek a deben ture is ringwood mr gordon ratclift appeared at council and gave council a copy of a resolu tion passed at a recent school meeting calling for an addition to the school up to 25000 mr ratcliff stated that a recent survey revealed that within 3 years the school would be faced with from 65 to 68 pupils councillor waliwork com mented in conjunction with mr ratcliff that if the school tax applied only to homes the bur den would not be so great on the farmer the problem will be with tus until the govern ment takes over more of the educational costs he contin ued a resolution was presented from the planning board which stated that the board endorsed the recommendation of the council that no large subdivi sions be opened in the town ship until some more suitable system of assessing for educa tion be established but small subdivisions of fivo lots or so would be permitted the planning board is up against it to know which way to go said councillor richard son reeve mclaughlin stated that some definite plan or system for handling the proposed sub divisions should be established and he proposed that the coun cil meet with the planning board for discussion on the problem and the clerk was in structed to arrange for such a meeting as long as the municipali ties sit back and dont apply for help on this educational problem in the proper places it will never be any different declared deputyreeve legge nabbed youths charged with theft on saturday nght o p p chief constable v s milliard arrested three youths and later charged douglas graham and robert thome with theft a third youth fred maskell has been charged by markham twp police with receiving stolen goods the stolen articles include two radios and a number of other miscellaneous pieces of equipment the one radio was taken from a truck at cedar grove while the other was stolen from rennies transport- both have been reclaimed chief billiard believes the arrests will end the large num ber of petty thefts that have been prevalent in stouffville during the last few months he issues a warning to all buyers of used car radios to check the source of the purchase before making the deal mrs fred robinson was in 73rd year suddenly at her home it goodwood on wednesday feb 16th mrs fred robinson pass ed away in her 73rd year she was apparently in the best or health when last seen by nei ghbors- earlier in the week death was attributed to a heart attack born on the 5th concession of lxbridge township he was the daughter of the late maty jane faulkner and albert mil ler her husband predeceased her two years ago she had been living alone since the death of her husband the late mrs robinson had been active in church organizations and was a member of the wms she was identified with the 5th line united church she is survived by three dau ghters mrs ed norton gla dys sth con uxbridge mrs harold norton gertrude flth con uxbridge and ethel brown of toronto there is also one sister mrs lucy cairns of don avon saskatchewan there arc three grandchildren funeral service was from the mcguire and low funeral home on saturday fob 19th conducted by rev john hill with interment in uxbridge cemetery the pallbearers were messrs howard forsyth rob ert xcsbitt sr jack todd earl tindall russell dowswell and jack manley kenneth torrance acquitted of manslaughter kenneth torrance 26 a far mer on tne 10th concession of markham twp was acquitted on tuesday of a manslaughter charge laid last summer fol lowing the shooting of david puddicombe a toronto chick en thief the fatally injured youth along with his two bro thers robert is and peter 17 were catight in the act of steal ing chickens from the torrence farm they were pursued by ken and a nephow terry strain is of toronto both fired shots at the fleeing jjbuths but it was some time later that they discovered the injured man ly ing on the ground he died a few hours later funeral service on thursday for late richard ward the funeral service for the late richard dick ward of blake street stotitville will be held on thursdav afternoon at 230 from l e owuvs par lors with interment in stbull- ville cemetery rev d mek can pastor st james presby terian church will conduct the service the pallbearers will be messrs kenneth llamm cla yton tarr kenneth ward frank ward william arm strong and sam armstrong the deceased passed away on tuesday morning he was in his s6th year the late mr ward was born at balsam on the farm of his parents mr and mrs william ward he resided for 3 years at uxbridge before moving to stouffville where he has lived for the past fiftyfive years in earlier years he was re garded as the towns most skill ed machinist he built and op erated a machine shop in stpu- ftville for a number of years he also operated the steam power plant here he had been in declining health for some time the deceased was noted for his high spirit a trait he retained to the end besides his wife he is sur vived by one son charles and one daughter mrs percy sto ver both residents on obrien avenue stouffville he has one sister mrs d ianson of green- bank fire damages home of scottish family near bloomingfon the home of mr and mrs archie black on the blooming- ton sideroad north of stouff ville was quite badly damaged on friday night when fire broke out in r- usptairs bed room defective wiring is be lieved responsible for the out break mr and mrs black came over from scotland about one year ago they have five children gordon i ronald 8 archie 15 margaret is and janette 20 some members of the family spent the night at the home of mr and mrs norman yates the stouffville fire brigade answered tfrc call damage wm confined to the rear portion of the insulbrick home cedar grove couple mark diamond anniversary the home farm where he car ried on a successful potato business for the remainder of his life deeply interested in many phases of agriculture he be came wellknown in this field he was successful in the pro motion of the seventyfivcib potato bag in september 1919 he was chairman of canadis first farm improvement and soil conservation day on the farm of hebcr down brooklin in january 1953 he was el ected to the presidency of the corrirued or page to act against jtopsoil removal at a recent meeting of the rdi lp conservation author ity mr thos j wignall of markham guve notice that at the next meeting to be held on march 10th he would move that the authority petition the provincial government to pass legislation empowering muni cipal councils to pass bylaws prohibiting the removal of top soil in designated areas the members of the author ity are deeply concerned with the problem of topsoil removal municipal councils are power less o control it at the present lime the members feel that as a conservation authority it is one of their chief concerns it was decided at the meeting that the authority purchase a rubber mounted tree planter tenders for the equipment nnssl be in the hands of the secretary mr earl graham markham by march 35th 1955 those presea- at the meeting were messrs timbers logan howard purvis xesbitt ml- chell burh and wlgnall on sunday afternoon and eve ning more than one hundred friends neighbours and rela tives expressed best wishes to mr and mrs arthur clendenen of cedar grove on the occa sion of their 60th wedding an niversary the celebration was held at the home of their only daughter mrs j e harper north of unionville the well- known couple were flooded with cards gifts and congratu latory messages among the many treasured gifts was a beautiful silver tray presented to them by the cedar grove community club both are still very active and in the best of health mrs clendenen ls the former angeline goudie daughter of rev and mrs henry goudie of kitchener the family later moved to north markham where her father held the pas toral charge in mount joy mr clendenen was the son of mr and mrs james clen denen farm residents on the mount joy sideroad east of the sth concession he attend ed mount joy public school mr clendenen is an expert blacksmith and despite his si years he can still handle a hammer with amazing accur acy the celebrated couple have resided in cedar grove ince their marriage back in 1s95 mr and mrs clendenen have two sons lloyd of cedar grove nd reg of markham also one daughter mrs everett harper north of unionville they have four grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren an addi tional summary apears on page 7 of this issue the tribune takes this op portunity of extending congra tulations to mr and mrs ar thur clendenen and wishes this highly respected cedar grove couple many more years of continued health and lsapplres mr and mrs arthur clendenen of cdr crov