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3400 copies this issue tribune classified ads page fourteen vol 5 no 45 the tribune stoufville thursday march 1955 fourteen page3 local telephone cos long distance connections no 1 of series by mr a d bruce in a former chapter of this series we related how previous to 1ss0 the development of telephone business followed no systematic plan rival compa nies would operate within the same city because of the very nature of the service that the telephone is suppose to give to the public there is implied as a fundamental principle that to give the maximum of service at the minimum of cost jhere should be no unnecessary duplication of circuits also the further principle that there should be exchange of mes sages among all telephone sys tems subject to equitable ag reements being negotiated general realization of these two fundamental principles was a process that developed slowly from the beginning of its hisory the bell company recognized the first mentioned principle and the first import ant change to be made by them was the termination of rival companies competing for busi ness within one city by buying or absorbing the different sys tems and bringing them into one organization commencing its operations in large cities the bell telephone co devel oped a city mentality to bell co officials telephone ser vice was service in cities and large towns plus long distance circuits for the connection of those cities and towns this city mentality is not surpris ing the bell co officials were so busy developing their city business thy they had not giv en any thought to giving serv ice to farmers when farmers commenced to ask for service the company officials were un prepared and were completely at sea as we will discover if bell tel co officials were immature when confronted with a demand for service in rural districts the rural dwell ers were more primitive in their thinking those who were charged with the management of the first independent tele phone systems were densely ignorant concerning the diffi culties with which they would be confronted and sometimes rushed in where experienced men would have hesitated to tread very early the indepen dent companies accepted the principle that there should be exchange of business between all systems but for many years they failed tot realize that de lineation of boundaries was ne cessary before the maximum of service could be given to the public at a minimum ot cost evidence of this erron eous thinking is found in the fact that one of the company members in our york ont tel union obtained its charter primarily to give service in the town of east toronto which town was a suburb of toronto and in which the bell tel co was firmly established at the other end of toronto in west toronto junction a company called the stark telehone light and power co announc ed its intention of eestablish ing telephone service using an automatic switchboard inci dentally to the writer this was the first intimation that dial operating was a possibility in march 1000 the directors of the bethesda stoultville tel co apiointed a committee to communicate with the ambi tious stark tel light power co with a view to discussing a possible connection between our systems we did hold one meeting with representatives of the stark comany and had a friendly discussion fortun ately negotiations had not reached a point at which we had incurred any exense as a result of our negotiations when the stark co vanished from the scene in ifxw an attempt was made to organize a company which it was hoped would be able to compote with the bell tel co the writer was invited to be come one of the promoters of the proposed company but de clined the invitation the pro posal originated among ita mink ranch wiped out by poisoning ontario 7 road budget provides for repaying of stouffville main street the hopes and dreams of mr alvin s farmer gormley mink rancher ended in ruina tion last week his entire brood of 325 animals with the exception of two died in their cages after receiving their final meal on tuesday night the loss is estimated at approxi mately 13000 food poisoning is believed responsible mr farmer recalls giving the mink their regular evening meal of ground horse and whale meat when he returned to their cages early the next mor ning all but two were dead the only mink that survived was one that escaped from a cage during the previous day and another that wasnt fed it is all that remains of a once- thriving business the exact cause of the deaths is as yet a mystery mr far mer took a number of the dead animals to the ontario veteri nary college at guelph where a thorough check will be made a sample of the food will also be inspected the catastrophe marked the end of a dream that was just beginning to be realized by the gormley mink farmer he start ed the business with two small mink 17 years ago at first it was just a hobby but in a few years time it grew into a profit able trade now everything he has worked for is lost a separate feed house was turned into a mink morgue where the small bodies littered the floor dozens have been placed in bushel baskets and will be buried some of the pelts may still be saved mr farmer was specializing in the costly silverblue breed some were valued at 300 each he believes it to be the worst loss ever to be experinced by a single mink rancher in on tario following government analy sis this week the cause of death was definitely established as food poisoning the new ro3d budget of the province of ontario as recently announced at 220 million by premier frost provides as one of its capital expenditures the repaving of stouffvilles main street with storm sewers the road budget was part of the 317 million total budget and while not an entire breakdown has been given some of the important items on the agenda for this part of the country have been revealed the stouffville main st pave ment was laid in 1930 at a cost of approximately one hundred thousand dollars of which the local municipality bore 67000 in debentures at that time the total cost being divided be tween the province the county and the village since that time the road has been taken over and maintained as provincial highway no 47 the twenty five year old road which was laid with a six inch concrete base by the warren paving co is in bad state of repair its steady decline having been accentuated in recent years by thejieavy truck traffic through town more assistance was promis ed in the provincial budget for municipal roads which i thought to consist mainly of help to those municipalities hard hit by last falls hurri cane in conversation with reeve daniels the tribune learned that if the repaving is going ahead to completion in 1955 council may give consideration to the possibility of sewers as the time would be most advan tageous for such a program 500 see local high school grad diplomas presented f h roberts gets whitchurch gravel contract the tender of f h roberts at 76c per ton was accepted by whitchurch township council thursday night for the annual supply of approximately 15000 yards four tenders were re ceived for the contract council accepted the tender of stewart starr for tractor and man for the warble fly spray contract at 2 an hour twothirds of the cattle own ers in whitchurch have reques ted that all female calves be vaccinated as protection against brucellosis and council passed the required bylaw and named messrs arthur mcelroy bruce clarke and lack crawford as the committee in charge of the control- campaign whitchurch will issue 118000 in debentures for public school enlargement at wilcox lake and the tender of the mills spence co for the sale of the bond issue was accepted at s1o077 carrying 4 interest for twenty years nine tenders were received for the bonds the lowest being 9s522 former resident here dies in montreal the death of mr eli raymer occurred in montreal on mon day march 21st after an ill ness of six months mr ray mer is a former resident of stouffville where he came with his family from a farm south of markham in 1s75 he worked as a carpenter in the district and village for many years his wife the former merotta stiles of sutton predeceased markham engages three additional police officers him in 1939 since mr raymer made his home with his daugh ter elma mrs scottrafter in hamilton until last summer when he went to live with his other daughter lorna in alexandria although within a few months of his ninetieth birthday mr raymer enjoyed vigorous health until recently the funeral was conducted by rev douglas davis from oneils funeral chapel on tuesday afternoon with inter ment at dicksons hill pat smith daughter of al fred smith cashel has received a special award from oac for a prize bull reared by her markham township council made a grant of 100 to the 1955 markham fair on monday evening and a special grant of 75 towards the special cen tennial activities of this years fair on friday march 18 the annual stouffville district high school held their commence ment exercises in the new- school auditorium an address of welcome was given by barbara hastings president of the student coun cil and a girls choir sang a number of selections mr rob- bins principal addressed the audience with an informative talk on the method on which the school is conducted the presentation of inter mediate certificates by mr robbins and mr king was made to the students as fol lows joan barrett marilyn bone edward buchanan mar- lene cake margaret curtis william daniels isabelleden- nie lynne foord shirjey fos- dick mary grove robert hammersley ronald hartwick nancy harwood david hay kenzie lloyd thomas mc- c r e i g h t wanda olszevski colin rae edward sanders patricia skinner frances smith robert stover joy vardy eleanor white and john zammit the presentation of second ary school graduation diplom as by mr edwards and mr williams was made to the stud ents as follows nancy barry keith brodie patricia bruce marion conner grant ferrier barbara hastings marilyn hood arnold lintner irene montgomery joy oneill ron ald peake rose peake ruth shunk glenda silverthorne marjorie sproxton carol steck- ley allen stouffer catherine stover george white and joyce white there was an athletic dis play and dancing both folk and modern by some of the girls academic prizes awarded to students as follows requested to be at the arena stouffville business and pro fessional womens club mar garet burkholder stouffville machine and tool graham frisby wagg award allan stouffer scholarship donated by whitchurch township to isabelle dennie and general proficiency plaque to joyce white and marion stouffer tied by carole lewis a short skit called the four bones was enjoyed in place of the usual play and the school band played a number of selec tions presentation of the honour graduation diplomas to the upper school students of 1954 was given by mr thompson those receiving diplomas were audrey brown margaret burk holder graham frisby bar bara hisey gloria hood betty lou keffer isobel mccreight phyllis paisley murray pipher june smith patricia smith glenn thompson and margaret white the valedictory address was given by june smith there was a display of gym nasties by the boys followed by the senior girls choir this is the first commence ment held in the new school the spacious auditorium pro vided accommodation for over 500 people some stores to open friday saturday a number of business places in stouffville will recommence opening both friday and sat urday evenings this week a large display adv on page 11 of this issue announces the change those business places listed will be open for shopping un til 10 pm on friday night and until 9 pm on saturday peewees get ready for goderich the goderichbound peewee team will hold its first practice on saturday afternoon from 12 oclock noon to 1 pm the 3 regular peewee contests will be cut to fortyfive minutes in stead of the usual hour long were games the following boys are c h bell son sixteen years in business here c h bell son is this week marking sixteen years in busi ness in stouffville and to cele brate the occasion this well- known appliance store has an nounced a smashing sale with prices dropping on some items to below cost the announce ment appears on page two of this issue where mr bell has used the tribunes new ser vice of twocolour advertising of these great anniversary bar gains television sets electric stoves refrigerators and laun dry dryers will be cleared in this sale at prices which even the citys cutrate appliance stores cannot beat read the announcement and see for yourself report big price for highway farm the 100 acre farm belonging to mr wm c champion west of unionville has been sold for a reported 126000 the prop erty was purchased a number of years ago from mr oscar cox for 18000 mr champion will continue to reside there until the end of the year the land has been purchased for a proposed development white christmas one of those alltime great motion pic tures is showing for four days at the stanley theatre next week and dressed by twelve oclock norman galbraith lynn mc- mullen larry mcmullen al lan boyd marvin betz george malcolm larry malloy rick wedseltoft warren hendricks roger stover wayne penna- nen glenn jackson wlllard peddle bill ratcliff jim mal loy and eldon wagg coaches bill lennox and ca sey hilliard will handle the practice sessions the lads journey to goderich on the week of april 10th stouffville high school graduating class newmarket wants whitchurch land for industry a delegation of newmarket councimei headed by reeve jos dales appeared before whitchurch township council on thursday evening to discuss the possibility of annexing cer tain whitchurch farm land for the purpose of industrial de velopment reeve dales stated that their visit was purely in the exploratory to ascertain if the township would be willing for such annexation councillor belugin explained newmarkets situation stating that the percentage of residen tial assessment as placed ag ainst industrial assessment was falling that employment had fallen off and it was councils desire to provide jobs for the residents he said that council had taken a stand against any further subdividing for residen tial purposes we just cant afford fo sup ply services any more to homes mr belugin said reeve dales told whitchurch that determined efforts were being put forward to bring sev eral new industries to the town and one in question required a tract of fifty acres and railway facilities deputyreeve legge of whit church commented that the township council could not sell the farmers down the river in to higher taxation farms lo cated along the middlebrook road were suggested as prob able annexation lands they would definitely have to be considered replied reeve dales we cant have them bled for taxation while theyre wait ing for a good price for their industrial land continued dep utyreeve legge councillor wallwork cited an instance in british columbia where such land was given a fixed tax until the development took place and then the differ ence in the high industrial price was returned to the municipal ity- reeve dales reaffirmed his stand that adequate safeguards would be given the township property owners l p evans chairman of the whitchurch planning board who was in attendance at the meeting said that whitchurch faced the danger of becoming a bedroom for newmarket residents living in the township and working in newmarket which municipality would gain all the benefits of the industrial assessment and the township would run all the risks of hav ing the relief problems he said that he did not believe in wflolesale annexation whitchurch council agreed that a meeting should be ar ranged between the planning boards of the two municipali ties to discuss the subject fur ther manufacturers who were anxiou sales among independent tele phone companies throughout the usa and canada the proposal was to erect long dis tance trunk lines only which would form a network connect ing independent systems thus creating a countrywide long distance service the fatal weakness of the markham township council has engaged three new police officers on the recommendation of the local police committee bringing the total force up to eight men including chief clarence wideman the new men engaged include two for mer provincial officers geo fyfe and r a hood who will le paid 3300 per year as ex perienced oicemen and louis duranl of markham who will receive 2900 the township had twenty four applicants telephones whcn t0 ch0e to promote continued on page 6 mr ray yake and his bro ther wiimot are on an extend ed bus tour of the southern states a present they are en- joying california sunshine engineer resigns council accepted the resigna tion of jack howard road engineer during monday nights meeting mr howard who comes from box grove has taken a position as coordinat ing engineer for scarboro township he has been with markham for the last two years reeve lemaurler in an nouncing the resignation stated that he deeply regretted mr howards move council agreed that a replacement should be advertised for immediately and j tills matter vvil be taker up at ja special council session being held this saturday no pink slips messrs stewart watson don mcintosh and fred wicks appeared before council on monday evening asking for the continuance of the half mill levy for federation of agrl culture purposes and the con tinued exemption for fire and police costs for land owners of more than five acres the delegation asked further that the sending out of a pink slip to all farmers be discon tinued the pink slip is sent out by the assessor and any farmer who does not wish to pay the federation levy can object by tilling out this form only five such forms were returned last year and this fact reeve lemasurier pointed out the deputation objected or the grounds that the special paper drew attention to the levy and possibly threw it la a bad light assessor archie f 1 em i n g stated that the assessment ac required him to give every farmer an opportunity to be exempt from the levy if he wished ard it was his inter to carry out the act ioa eleven senior graduate re ceived their diplomas on fri day evening at the annual stouffville diss high school commenccmcrit the students from left to right are marga ret burkholder barbara hi sey margaret white june smith phyliis paisley patsy smith gloia hood betty lou keffer audrey brown in front are graham frivby and glen thompson the di plomas were presented by a c thompson vice chairman of the high school board assisted by mrs jemmett secretary and e bobbin principal o move to collect subdiv grant in whitchurch a resolution by councillors wallwork and richardson call ing for a 500 grant per lot from subdividers in whit church township met strong opposition from deputyreeve legge when the matter cama before council on thursday night such a move has been mildly discussed at a number of recent council meetings and j a real estate firm interested in subdividing on the third con cession had expressed a will ingness to pay such a charge either by lot or in lump deputyreeve legge said there was too much restriction al ready youve got a building bylaw and a land use bylaw now its not right that a man can pay taxes on lands for years and have the deeds and cant do what he wants to do with the land he declared a subdivider who has start ed his development could sell his lots 500 cheaper than the other fellow if we start collect ing this charge he said its going to work a hard ship on some thats true but weve got to start some place said reeve mclaughlin if we dont do something like this those with farm land will have to olose up and get out if the houses continue to go up commented councillor wallwork councillor richardson offered to reword the resolution more to mr legges liking but the deputyreeve continued to ex press himself in opposition and reeve mclaughlin with coun cils approval shelved the mo tion for further discussion at a later date i he also added that he favored having legal advice on the mat ter before passing th resolu tion