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3400 copies this issue dbnne classified ads on page twelve to 65 no 43 the trielne stouffville thursday april 21 1955 twelve pages changing telephone rale had interesting history by mr a d bruce no 14 of series looking backward it is par ticularly interesting to note how our policy developed ev en the adjective primitive sug gests a maturity to which we could make no claim nebu lous is the only word that ade quately qualifier the degree ofj our thinking and planning in no phase of our activities was this instability more evi dent than in our thinking re- garding rates to be charged for services rendered i i doubt whether at our first i rnairg or at our second meet ing one word was spoken re garding rent to be charged for telephones ah our thinking was in terms of membership i in our association a few weeks before the first telephone was installed a general meeting of our members was held at which a constitution and some byliws were passed at this meeting it was de cided that if any nonmembers wished to rent a telephone the charge would be 12 per year for a residence and 15 for a business telephone of course members were to receive their teiphoncs free from rental charge but each member must kcp his telephone in repair a truly primitive idea before our system had been declared open for business dr i a freel became the first person to rent a telephone he paid several years rent in ad vance the rate being 1500 a few weeks later mr isaac pike became the first renter of a residence telephone and he paid for three years in advance in the meantime we had passed a resolution requiring renters to bear all costs of ex tension of line and of installa tions that might be necessary iti order to give the desired service the total to be credited on account of rentals paid in advance evidently we were uncertain of the course that should be followed and were floundering one of our earliest and i believe one of our greatest surprises was the discovery that as our business increased the cost per phone of operating also increased this is peculiar to the telephone business in 1908 we had 200 telephones in service and the cost of central office operating was 202 per telephone in 1010 we had 520 telephones in service and the cost of central office operating per phone was 281 in 1011 we had 700 telephones and the cost of operation had risen to 1119 per phone the dream of free telephones to stockholders soon began to fade and in feb ruary 1907 half rental was charged for shareholders tele phones one shareholder ob jected to this change and re fused to pay his rent finally he paid his account and sold his stock probably in disgust in a short time shareholders were charged full rental but received a cash dividend on their investment the next change in rates took the form of a reduction we had difficulty in determin ing whether some telephones could be classified as residence telephones although thy cer tainly were located in private houses some farmers wore al so cattle dealers in a large way while other telephones that were charged the business rate gave slight return in increased business one day something came before our board that emphasized the injustice charging a certain very poor man a business surcharge and the decision was made to wipe out the distinction this decision cost the company a considerable loss in revenue by the year 1912 or 1913 it was becoming evident that ere long we might find it necessary to make application for permis sion to increase our rates in anticipation of such a possibil ity we ceased making three year contracts in thhe spring of 1911 we believed the time had arrived for asking for an increase and brought the mat ter before the annual meeting of the executive of th tel- phone union while several representatives agreed that an increase was desirable none of the other companies in the v first polio vaccine administered here large new subdivision planned for the eastend of stouffville a large new subdivision plan placed on the property consisting of fiftvthree tots giving road allowances which j the propertv of mr cedric wat- co implemented by jo- cat improvement at a axs first of the new salk polio vaccine was administered at the stouffville public school on monday of this week children from several public schools outside of town were brought here to receive the injection and two ringwood pupils are shown here being treated by dr g f buckley of stouffville the children are donna lee and jimmy mehaffey cars and tractors lost in sunday morning blaze a sunday morning fire be lieved caused by lightning de stroyed the driving shed on the form of arthur paisley 7th con of whitchurch the loss included two tractors two automobiles and a quantity of seed grain stouffville fire bri gade answered the call at four in the morning and were able to save the pig pens and large lshaped barns which were very close to the burning build ing a sudden electrical storm crossed this area at the time of the outbreak and mr cecil hanks a neighbor reported seeing a great hash of light ning envelop the building mo ments later smoke poured forth and the alarm was sounded the local firemen with their truck supply of water and che mical were able to give protec tion to the nearby buildings while a hose line was laid to he pond on the geo rodanz property some distance away a second call was put in for stouffvilles second truck which carried additional hose not wanting to leave the town un protected fire chief wm malloy called in the unionville brigade to stand by in stouff ville while both local trucks were absent the loss is estimated at near ly 10000 mr and mrs frank teasdale of concord visited at the rae home church st on satur day job evaluator reports to council after studying the adminis trative setup in markham twp a job evaluator appointed by council has stated that he has found conditions in general to be satisfactory in a report made public on mpnday night the evaluator who was named by the town ship auditors wilton eddls of toronto suggested minor changes in administration the changes are designed to per mit the municipality to keep pace with the rapid growth ex pected in the noxt few years the hiring of extra stenogra phic help was also suggested the survey covering several weeks touched into every de partment and was designed to check the efficiency of the ad ministrative process at the request of council the evaluator will remain on the scene for a while to supervise the suggested changes in book keeping methods lae so son is being planned for lhoj shouw the rftsme eastend of town and will be desire erection of houses on before the stouffville planning j these two acre lots would have milk producers meet in buttonville hall the annual banquet of the district xo fi of the toronto milk producers assoc wasj held recently at buttonville the hall was well filled for the occasion and the usual excel lent supper was provided by the ladies of buttonville entertainment was supplied by the jr farmer quartette and a twenty minute film was shown through the courtesy of lawrie bros of markham a feature of the banquet that is always looked forward to with enthusiam are the lucky draws we wish to ex press our thanks to the follow ing donors r d little son h w mortson canadian tire corp perkins farm home equipment all of richmond hill gmc truck division of spadina ave toronto k c prentice kinch sutton con- lin motors lawrie bros of markham stiver bros green circle hardware and harry boadway of unionville stouf- fers hardware stouffville co- op fred byers and len hay- low of stouffville and w r woolley surge sales of oak ridges word was received tuesday morning by his brother that mr and mrs wilbur smalley of marathon ont are the proud parents of twin boys mr smalley is public school principal of this northern town having left uxbridge last sum mer local reeve battles council on issue of subdivision guarantees reeve elmer daniels bat tled members of his council for an hsur at a special meeting of i last week as he sought to gain what he termed equality in the matter of guarantees for services to be installed in new subdivisions the issue arose over the installation of services in the new subdivision belong ing to councillor timbers at the westend of town genera procedure for sub- dividers is that they must in stall both water mains and roads to the satisfaction of the council before this authority will give final approval to their plan however should a sub- divider wish to speed up the process and start building or selling lots prior to finishing the installation of services council can take a bond to cover the cost of the installa tion and protect the munici- pautv against any default bv ion would agree to join with lh xibdivider this procedure our company m making appll- u g prac in mon mu cation to the ontario railway s and municipal board for par- 0nh receiv mr mission to increase rates v e who opened a now subdivision decided to proceed witnou sup- we 0 bal ave was port from the union and were bondea bv couv lhe am ordering act on w hen the of s to cove mm world war created a plelton or in worldwide explosion and we was thought to amply cover were laid division th b postpone action n of sen when our hooks were closed ipi water rai for the year ims we found that j ditched and when ail accounts were paid gvei laid on mr h or operating our system when bull i ne nous provision had in made for order to do so had to the work remaining it was pointed out by reeve daniels that work of laying water mains had only commen ced at the timbers subdivision and there had been no street work done according to the reeve mr timbers believed his costs would be around the 10000 mark it was reeve daniels conten tion that the bond should not be less than 5000 to give satis factory guarantee to the muni cipality but was unable to con vince councillors wagg and burk of the need for such a guarantee and finally conceded to a s2c0q figure however councillor ratcliff stated that such a guarantee was not nec essary from councillor timbers and would not favor more than 1000 bond reeve daniels pointed out that there should be no ques tion of personalities in the mat ter but in fairness to mr haw- tin who had been asked for the 1003 bond the figure from mr hawtln j timbers should be much great er in consideration of the work to be done however after long argument back and forth in the com- j which reeve daniels received his subjno support a resolution was the inipaised requiring 1000 bond to com mr timbers the reevt tenth teacher recommended for local high school the regular meeting of the stouffville district high school board was held in the high school on wednesday evening april 13 principal 6 e rob- bins recommended that the 10th teacher to the staff be engaged because of the overload of re sponsibilities which is carried by himself and the other tea chers the principal began the year by teaching 33 periods per week along with his other responsibilities however he has managed to cut his teach ing time down to 2i periods per week the markham and uxbridge school principals teaching time was compared to mr robbins and it was found that they were teaching only 21 and 25 periods a week in addition the extra load of con ducting the students of shis in the new school and estab lishing a new system was placed upon his shoulders the school has taken deliv ery of a new piano for the au ditorium it was revealed that the cafe teria is now being operated on a paying basis there have been complaints made by the custodian mr lie- kurish concerning the debris of confectionery wrappers be ing strewn about the school premises from the afterschool hours sales in the cafeteria it was decided that this privilege tothe students be discontinued confectioneries will be sold during the lunch period only provided the students cooper ate and discard their debris in the waste baskets found about the school miss harveys resignation was accepted by the board board at their meeting this wednesday night the devel opment lies just east of tenth street with entrances on this street and on main st east of the residence of miss effie har ding otther outlets for future expansion are also provided mr watson pointed out to the board as they viewed the plan last week for the first time that the land is quite suitable for subdivision development in the matter of drainage slop ing gently to tenth street mr watson also voiced the need for industry in town and his full support in any plan to bring industry to stoutrville kcuiiigton farm mr john iundy of the dept of veterans affairs appeared before last weeks meeting of the local planning board re questing that consideration be given to a subdivision plan of the garfield kellington farm on the 9th con of whitchurch while the farm is located in the township it has been es tablished that such a develop ment would place a burden on the ringwood school and whit church planning board has not looked favorably oh the plan unless stouffville would indi cate that they were prepared to annex the propeuty mr lundy stated that he was aware that twoacre lots would not be acceptable to stouffville and his department was prepared to have a second to allow for such future roads mr lundy stated and the roads would comply with future de velopment outlets on the pro perty to the south mr lundy took exception to a recent editorial in the trib une which stated that such housing could not be consider ed highclass housing he stat ed that the government was prepared to go as high as isivloo for each lot and house mr nolan stated that such an amount could not be expected to produce a highclass house and in reply mr lundy stated that it was found that the own ers of such houses frequently did a great deal of the work themselves and in this way were able to raise the standard of the dwellings considerably mr thomjxson board mem ber asked mr lundy if he could guarantee what propor tion of these large lots would be built on and he replied that he could not but stated that there was a considerable de mand for the lots since prices of other existing lots were too high for lower wage earners mr lundy stated that the department was willing to make any feasible adjustments to the plan to meet with stouff- villes approval chairman ogden questioned mr lundy on various aspects of the lot division and stated that the board would make a decision shortly spring breakup turns roads into seas of mud roads i pickering mark- leave his car on the 3th con- ham whitchurch and uxbridge cession of whitchurch and townships have been turned walk around a bog hole where the altona wi is sponsor ing a demonstration on oven meals to be held on may 4th and 5th at 130 pm at the home of mrs ed mealoney corner of the 9th concession and the towniine miss isobel a wishar home economist conduct the demonstration police radios best investment says deacon i think youll find that he installation of 2way radios in our police cruisers will be the best investment this township ever made stated councillor donald deacon at the regular meeting of markham twp council on monday evening dep reeve w l clark stated that the police were working from 7 am to 12 pm in an effort to curb overloaders mr clark said that despite the ser ious condition of many town ship roads many truckers are insisting on carrying more than the specified load limit dep reeve clark informed council that he knew of some property north of markham village owned by mr albert wideman that might be pur chased for an industrial site councillor deacon in com menting on the onequarter mil lion dollar industry that was seeking a site in the munici pality said that he did not feel that any large tax concessions should be grained he felt that the townships land costs and taxes were lower than neigh boring municipalities to the south a delegation appeared before council requesting financial as sistance to operate a school for retarded children at langstaff the cost per year would am ount to more than sfiooo at the present time seven students are attending from the town ship five from the front one from gormley and one from milliken council felt that they would be setting a precedent by offering financial aid to the school they were of the opin ion that the dept of education should assume a greater re sponsibility into seas of mud due to th annual spring breakup and re cent heavy rains longtime residents say that road londt- tions arc the worst they have seen in the last twentyfive or thirty years road superinten dent jack howard of mark ham says the breakup is due mainly to the wet fall and the hurricane in october during the winter a lack of snow en abled the frost to sink deeply into the ground road superin tendent davis of whitchurch reports all concession roads to be rough and some are impass able in his fifteen years as road foreman and supt mr davis reports that roads have never been so badly broken up many farmers have been forced to transport their milk to the highway heavy trucks have been unable to make their daily pickups on many rural roads local mail carriers were not able to cover their regular routes and many were forced to detour when tile con cession roads became blocked local doctors report consid erable difficulty in reaching patients in the country on thursday afternoon dr r b mitchell of stouffville had to he was picked up and taken to his destination dr k f orr of markham be came marooned in the mud on the 0th of markham near box grove and a heavy tractor was needed to pull bis vehicle out of the hole all cases at the brierbtish hospital were bro ught in safely mr albert heise operator of the local school buses inform ed the tribune that his vehi cles would stay on the high way as much as possible until the rural road conditions im prove pickering township has al so been hardhit by the break up many roads are reported impassable and some families in the southern part of the municipality were reported to be short of food road supt roy ward has the township trucks working overtime filing the bog holes with loads of gravel a num ber of extra trucks have been hired in an effort to keep the concession roads passable a number of small community stores are said lo be short of supplies and drivers are refus ing to transport groceries over the treacherous roads to re lieve the situation softballers to organize the stouffville shamrock softball club will hold an or ganization meeting on tues day evening april 26th at s oclock in the municipal hall the team definitely intends to operate this season and all those interested are requested to attend 1000 to help hospital a recent contribution to the york county hospital building fund was made by the provin cial junior red cross society the cheque for 1000 was ac cepted on behalf of the hospi tal in newmarket by c a ga thers chairman of the build ing fund who stated that the money will be used for special equipment in the childrens ward after returning from the paisley barn fire on sunday stouffville fire brigade was called out again in the after noon to squelch a grass fire at musselmans lake gone with the wixd in its original form begins a threeday run at the stanley theatre on monday april 25th please note there will be one showing each evening at 730 due to the length of this technicolor production municipal board gives markham village 1350 acres of township land markham village has been permitted to extend its boun daries to take in 1350 acres of markham township property the municipal boards decision was handed down on saturday by messrs r c rowland and w j moore it will become effective june 30th the village had requested 2500 acres of farm land ex tending from the ninth conces sion on the east to the seventh concession on the west and from lot 8 on the south to the mount joy sideroad on the north the municipal board permitted the annexed area to extend however only from onehalf of lot 0 to lot 14 tak ing in all of school section 15 the village council has set aside a portion of land west of the town for industrial pur poses the remainder will ac commodate more than 10000 residents the present popula tion of the village is approxi mately 2200 the decision handed down by the municipal board was in agreement with the compro mise plan proposed by the township council at a meet ing held following the hearing reeve j v fry of markham stated that the development of the area would depend largely on a sewer vote which is ex pected this summer dep reeve mrs alma walk er felt that the village would have to make a determined bid to obtain industry were satisfied for the pres ent said the village deputy reeve lif we should outgrow this area perhaps we could obtain more at a later date reeve alf lemasurier of markham twp said that the boards decision was exactly what they had outlined and had submitted following the hearing i still think theyre biting off more than they can chew he said dep reeve w l clark ag reed with the reeve its what we offered them he comment ed we wont appeal the de cision local ewes prove highly productive two of the registered dorset ewes which were purchased at the auction sale of mrs jos lietz 10th con of markham by robt cammack of head lake have each borne triplet lambs a goat also purchased at the sale by the same buyer has also produced triplets a black a blue and a white mr ward of st thomas is visiting his sister mrs robb on obrien ave present peewee hockey trophy to roger stover depreciation when r jroartsaod oa pge on ply with caurxi request for j express any serloks a bond ttjc amour of sl0o3 1 the matter rjfid not wis i- be oxid spent views or the weekend with mr ard mrs belfry hasiutos captain roger stover of the maple leafs is pictured above receiving the trophy emblematic of the liors pce- wce championship from mr jim austin chairman of the sports committee others standing from leit to right are barry wilkes coach don eddington and rick wed- yelioft fasst capts the presentation was made oa wednesday night at the final young canada night of jho fccason a