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3400 copies this issue classified ads on page twelve vol 6s no 50 the tribune stolffville thursday april 2s 1353 twelve pages teachers hard to find as school enrolment continues to climb enrolment in the stouffville public ard high schools is go ing up and a survey reveals that a considerable jump can bexpected this september in the face of this increase teach ers are getting hard to find many board throughout the province are pessemistic ab out hiring suitable teachers and some are hiring untrained teachers several of the new teachers who will take over opposition to increased phone rates no 15 of series by mr a i bruce in due time the ontario rail way and municipal board is sued its order granting an in crease of s150 per year in ourj basic rental for telephones the order to become effective nov 1st 1820 on the date mention ed the accounts went out un der the new rates and very mon thereafter rumors began to circulate that strong opposi tion to the new rates was de veloping among our subscrib ers those who engineered the opposition organized upon an impressive scale a petition that was drafted as an ultima tum rather than as a request was circulated an indignation meeting was advertised for a specified date the directors through the medium of the ad vertisement were practically ordered to appear before the in dignation meeting to show- reasons why the rates should be raised it was also announ ced- that more than three hun dred telephone subscribers had signed the petition for that pe riod this certainly was a large percentage of our subscribers since the hearing before the railway board h3d given to the public an opportunity of learning full particulars con cerning the necessity for in creasing the rates and since the public had neglected their opportunity our directors decided to ignore the order to appear before the indignation meeting but we also decided to obtain a full report of the proceedings we sought for a stenographer who was not a local resident and located one in uxbridge to assist her we instructed our line superinten dent mr bert miller to sit beside her and identify the speakers the opposition had requeseted the toronto globe to send a reporter to cover the meeting and his report was given liberal space in the next issue of the globe the trib une also gave an extended re- 5ort of the proceedings these reports together with the re port from our own stenogra pher and the verbal report from bert miller gave to us a very clear picture of the pro ceedings having fully digested all the information that was avail able our directors replied to the opposition in a series of articles that appeared in five weekly newspapers circulating in the area served by our sys tem the fact that not one of our directors had obeyed the demand that we appear before the indignation meeting had stirred the leaders of the op position to still greater indig nation and they made extrava gant statements that left the speakers vulnerable to rebuttal arguments while we had the great advantage of being able to carefully consider and pre pare our answers our series of articles began to appear dur ing christmas week and con tinned into february to the last of the series of articles was appended the declaration approved by the board of di- lectors january 21th 1920 therefore this article had the status of an official document and in it we declared our in tention of recommending to the shareholders at the ap proaching annual meeting that authority be given to the direc tors to take one of several lines positions in stouffvie come next fall will be graduates without experience a survey reported to the local high school board reveals that the school will have be tween ninety and a hundred first form students next sep tember necessitating 3 classes seventy has been about the highest number of high school beginners heretofore the story is the same at the public school where the board expects to send pupils underground in the fall to begin the use of basement rooms for accommo dation at the present time the high school building can accommo date about seventyfive more students than are attending in the fall this margin will have narrowed considerably the public school is full and the board must soon take steps to increase the accommodation with the erection of two more rooms plans for which were prepared some years ago to be built above the boiler room crown queen at local high school prom mrs tl white dies at 84 the death occurred in mark- ham on friday april 22nd of mrs t l white at the ad vanced age of si she had been in ill health for the past month the late mrs white was the fdrmer georgina dennis born in bedfordshire england si years ago she came to this country as a young woman having married thomas lewis white who predeceased her about five years ago the cou ple spent some time at almira where mr white farmed and several other locations prior to coming to markham some ten years ago to live retired mrs white was identified with st phillips church un- onville her family is noted for longevity and she has two sisters mrs e a kitchener s6 and mrs c hull s3 surviving are three daugh ters mrs fred crossen stouff- ville mrs caroline leadbetter and mrs clarke prentice and five sons harry dudley john william and dennis there also survive twenty grandchildren and three great grandchildren the funeral on monday was conducted from st philips anglican church by rev r a wigley and rev j d tiller pallbearers were fred gingell bert hurrell geo mcconnell percy patch arthur patch and archie fleming interment was made in st phillips cemetery whitchurch twp asks 13000 more for rds and hurricane expense miss barbara hastings a grade 13 student was crown ed spring prom queen at a colorful semiformal dance held in the auditorium of the stouffville dist high school on friday night the crown was placed on her head by mr w s sherwood a former staff teacher reeve elmer daniels presented the queen with a bouquet of red and white carnations her attend ants are left to right marg smith barbara hewlett nancy reid and marie schell eric allen is assistant assessor in whitchurch raisepheasant license fee in markham game warden e harper has been instructed by markham twp council to secure 500 pheasant pullets from the de partment of lands and forests for release in the township in preparation for next falls hunting season the hunting license fee for nonresident hunters will be raised to 300 this year previously it was 250 a year the number of nonresident licenses to be i sued this year will be decided at a later date the township cleared approximately 30000 last year from the sale of phea sant hunting licenses of action if in the judgment of the director- such action was advisable the courses were a sell the plant to a muni cipal commission thus estab lishing public ownership tb that if our critics would obtain a charter creating a new company we would be prepared to ell our plant to the new company for cash in which case we would uind up our businevs ard would pay to our shareholders that tc which each would be entitled c offer to sell to any group shop in stouffville on day and saturday nights week during the summer tues- each or corporation that might be willing to purchase our plant at the conclusion of that final article of our series we announced that our annual meeting would be held in rat- cliffs hall on february nth and that all subscriber- for telephone service would be welcome to attend the meet ing and that to them would be extended aii opportunity of asking questions or of making suggestions to the sharehold ers when the day of the meeting arrived our shareholders who were greatly outnumbered by the general pubic sat in one corner of the hall while the nonshareholders maintain ed a respectful dtance a nomans land strip that was not occupied this writer won ders whether there ever wart a precedent for such a meeting an annual meeting of a joint- stock company laying bare to icorttrued on page 3 following the receipt a cou ple of weeks ago of applica tions for the position of assist ant assessor in whitchurch township council at a special meeting engaged eric allen for the position at a salary of 2300 mr allen is a resident of the sth concession and for mer ringwood storekeeper new salary schedule the special meeting also dealt with a new salary sched ule for office employees for 1955 and approved the follow ing annual rates of pay clerk jack crawford will receive 3600 accountant thos kerr 2750 l j harper 2600 road supt davis 3100 asses sor fred cummings 3100 constable mulholland 2700 and auditor e a smith 1200 aurora resolution a resolution was received from the aurora council re questing sanction by whit church and which requested a prompt decision in the matter of the case before the ontario municipal board in which york county is claiming that an un due financial burden was plac ed upon them by the setting up of the metropolitan area through bill so reeve mclaughlin stated that he could not see how anythin could be done until the muni cipal board hearing and this hearing had been delayed through a number of unfore seen circumstances he added that a great deal of information had to be compiled before the case for the county could be properly presented council at their regular meeting on thursday night signed the annual contract with the ontario provincial po lice covering the policing of musselmans and wilcox lakes during the 3 summer months for the amount of 1500 foster children whitchurch council recent ly passed a resolution request ing that the county take steps to have the necessary legisla tion enacted to make it pos sible to collect nonresident ed ucation fees from those chil dren who were attending local school- and were wards of the childrens aid and other wel fare agencies the resolution was forwarded to neighboring municipalities for their appro val a communication on the matter was placed before cou ncil thursday night in which the county clerk stated that definite figures on the numbers of such children would have to be compiled before such a pe tition could be made to the de partment of education notification was also receiv ed from the county office that hereafter the county will not subsidize the burial of indigent persons as had been done in the past to the amount of 50 icers markham township council after some deliberation agreed last week to a new salary sche dule for all officials on the township payroll with increas esranging from 100 to 300 clerk chas hoover will re ceive 3s40 deputyclerk 3300 treasurer 3100 assist treas 2100 assessor 3510 assist as sessor 3150 engineer 5500 assist engineer 20s0 and ste nographer 2000 mel emmerson gets town gravel contract stouffville municipal council gardin at a special meeting on tues day afternoon awarded the 1955 gravel tender to mel emmerson eastend the price quoted by mr emmerson was 108 a yard and 77c a ton and council agreed to have the 1500 yards delivered by the ton two other tenders were sub mitted for the order sewer discussion a lengthy discussion occu pied a great part of the meet ing and dealt with the pro posed survey for a sewerage system reeve daniels told members of council that he had been advised through consul tation with the department of highways that sewer pipes could be laid at the same time as the new pavement was go ing down from church st to the eastend ot town however the department planned to begin work on the highway this july and council was not sure if they could be ready by that time or if they could have a survey prepared by july u present two engineering firms have been interviewed regarding doing the job and a definite goahead was deferred until monday night at which time council will meet in reg ular session and their solicitor j d lucas will be present in the meantime the depart ment o highways is deferring action pending word from the town on their intentions re- the sewers annexation council agreed to a resolu tion by councillors burk and ratcliff recommending that the planning board survey the boundaries of stouffville and report back to council on other lands that might be annexed to town at the same time as the kellington farm council was reluctant to accept the recommendation that the planning board placed before council calling for the annexation of the kellington farm to be subdivided by the dept of veterans affairs reeve daniels explained to council that the planning board felt compelled to con sider the subdivision since they had been petitioned by a number of local veterans for the development to take place a second resolution that the annexation be deferred was withdrawn is tribune installs a new typecasting machine mr and mrs herbert stover of markham sailed on ss ho meric from quebec on april 23 for a 2month visit to eng land mr stover presently employed at stouffville bakery brought his war bride from england thirtysix years ago they will be visiting mrs sto vers brother in london who has been in the composing room of the london times since 1901 they also expect to visit the communal cemetery at belval northern france where their only son russe stover wireless air gunner with the rcaf is buried the purchase of two new police cars and the installation of twoway radios has increas ed the efficiency of the mark ham township in providing adequate protection to the municipalities 10000 residents the radios which were install ed recently at a cost of 3163 enable police to keep in touch with their buttonville head quarters from every corner of the municipality from car to car the radios have a ten mile range chief constable clarence wideman pointed out that the buttonville office was proving to be the ideal location for clear radio reception the po lice report no blind spots anywhere in the township a sixty foot antenna is presently located atop the thirtyfoot mu nicipal building giving the aerial an altitude of 90 feet chief wideman received his appointment to the markham police force in april 1016 following the resignation of mr ben cayman the offices were then located at unionville chief wideman policed the township alone for a number of years until the lecent in crease in population growth ne cessitated the hiring of addi tional officers we have more calls in one day now than i had in a month nine years ago stated chief wideman at the present time the mark ham twp police force con sists of seven men and the chief sgt harvey cox and patrol sgt bill shearn joined the force in april 1951 pc geo clayton was added in june 1952 and pc don dukes in june 1953 this month con stables bob hood john mc- ghee and lou durant were selected from a group of 21 applicants io enlarge the force two new police cruisers were purchased recently and a two- way radio has been installed in the chiefs own private carc at the regular meeting of whitchurch township council on thursday night council ap proved a second road appro priation for 1955 of m3003 and the department of highways will be requested to approve subsidy for this amount an appropriation was approved some weeks ago for ss0o00 the matter of weedspraying came in for some discussion and councillor graham stated that he did not see that there was much to show for the mo ney spent in spraying weed- 1 on the 9th concession roaii supt davis reported that good results had been obtained by spraying brush on the vivian road council finally approved the calling for tenders for weed spray brush spray and for 50000 gallons of asphalt prime for dust laying a brisk discussion over the present road situation ensued with councillor wailwork criti cizing some of the local road operations however road su perintendent davis stoutly de fended the work being perform ed by the mamtainers on the frostblown roads ami there was no action by council siouftville leading a request was tabled from stouffville aking for an agree ment to grade the streets in town however council ex pressed the view that the town ship equipment had too much work to do at present at home to be doing any outside work reeve mclaughlin said that when such time came that a machine could bo spared he would approve of the stouff ville request road supt da vis was requested to obtain more information on the am ount of work required veterans petition the planning board to annex kellington farm at a special meeting of the stouffville planning board last week a resolution was passed recommending to the munici pal council that the kellington farm on the 9th con be an nexed to town to provide a subdivision for local veterans and that the large twoacre lot plan suggested by the dept of veterans affairs be superim posed with a plan providing for additional roads and townsize lots the subdivider would be called upon to provide the ser vices of roads water and hydro the meeting was attended by messrs harvey and barnett of the veterans affairs depart ment also jack garrett of the local legion branch the board made it quite clear that while reluctant to annex fur ther land at this time for sub division the members felt that in view of the fact that evi dence was shown and a peti tion presented for the need of this land for local veterans to build homes they would recom mend the annexation mr garrett stated that he was now able to add additional names to the nineteen present ed to the board in the original petition and believed that fifty percent of the development would be used by local veter ans whitchurch township plann- ning board members who were called into consultation on the proposed subdivision stated that the ringwood school sec tion could not stand further expansion and iii addition the township could not provide the services required the local planning board members made a number of required changes in the pro posed plan and in addition pointed out that such a devel opment could be accepted by the corporation only if a super i imposed plan were laid so that at a future date the large lots could be redivided into smaller areas department rep resentatives pointed out that such a change could not take place for ten years under the plan through which the veter ans are able to obtain the land at low down payment and very favorable interest rate chairman ogden stated that the board was not particularly interested in annexation since more than a hundred fifty lots were available within the town limits but favored taking on the subdivision as assistance to local veterans to own their own homes all members ag reed it is expected that the veter ans will appear before the town council on monday night seek ing councils immediate appro val of annexation with the purchase of town ship cruisers and the installa tion of modern twoway radio sets the markham twp po lice force is now adequate to serve the evergrowing needs of a constantly growing muni- ipality to improve school grounds some attempt will be made this summer to properly land scape the playground at the rear of the stouffville public school the board hopes o ob tain the services of a grader to do the job secretary of the board mr garfield brown stated that the town would be employing a road grader to scarify the back streets and it might be possible to have the work on the playground done at the same time the cost would amount to approximate ly 9110 per hour a request for the use of the school from july 11th to 22nd was received from rev f hu- son on behalf of the ommunity daily vacation bible school the board spoke in favor of the request but stated that the school would be available only from july 1th to 16th on thursday may 12th the teaching staff and the school board will hold a social get- together in the school operating new police radio system the sale is reported of the henry micnell farm at mark ham for subdivision purposes the stouffville tribune print ing plant added greatly to its productive capacity this week with the installation of a new the two linotype machines al ready serving the plant give the tribune a total of seven teen distinct type faces pro duced by machinery along with ludlow type casting machine more than fifty handcomposed the new machine built by the ludlow typograph co of chi cago is designed to make pos- ible straightline production of job and display type compo- itlon it eliminates the neees- ity of continual use of letter type and provides an un limited supply of type for any commercial printing as well as ewspaper production the ludlow raacfctre plus faces these latter handcorn position lines will gradually be decreased as more mechan icallyproduced types are add ed to the new machinery the new machine as well a- producirg a great new variety of type faces will also save a great amount of time in pro duction an aim which is continually printing p ven for in stores open on tuesday nights may 3 commencing nrl tues day night may 3rd busi- nrs places in stouffville will begin tlirir annual season of oprn tuesday cloning- stores will he oprn loih tuc- ami saturday nlslit nniil 10 oclock until nct september pc don dukes of mark ham twp police l- pictured above contaetlnj irz head quarters at buttonville over nrtlsers the range of the one of the new 2way radios radio is adequate to cover recently installed in two nesv the entire municipality