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3400 copies this issue ribnnt classified ads on page twelve voi as no x the tribune stofffville thursday may 5 155 twelve pages changes ownership after 40 years sewer survey to be taken this summer and ratepayers to vote after deliberations which have lasted for several meetings stouffville municipal council agreed on monday markham builrlinn night to proceed immediately with a survey for a sewerage dunning system and that a vote of the ratepayers would be taken nearly quarter this summer on the question council has discussed the million for month matter with two engineerinng firms and the final decision of who will do the survey work will be made at a special v j markham township council meeting this wednesday afternoon lt fi s5 it is imperative that the work be commenced mimed- dollars according to futures lately in order that the town may avail itself of the relay- placed before council on moil ing of pavement on main street from church street east day afternoon the department of highways wishes to commence this value of sixteen new houses work in julv and is holding up the letting of the contract was 183000 accessory build- until council can have tho sewer survev prepared iss 3000 chapel renewal township planning board de- oce the survey is commenced the machinery will be fj if ta cami rceve alf lomastiricr set in motion for the taking of a municipal vote in order to complete the issue in time for the highway department to call for the tenders on both the road work and the laying markham reeve charges nonconfidence motion against planning board this resolution is a vote of nonconlldence in the markham 51800 and sign 300 groves store at ring wood ha been sold the new own er is mr ken phillips the manager of the dominion store in stouffville the busi ness will officially change hands on may 10th the 100yearold ringwood landmark was purchased by mr joseph m grove from mr a v lehman in 1915 the store has been in the grove name for over forty years the late mr roy grove took over the ownership in 1030 mrs roy grove will reside in stouffville and will continue to operate the ringwood post office for a few months mr phillips has been connected with the do minion stores bid for 2s years and has been manager of the local branch for 16 years council is unfavorable to the annexation of gar kellington farm stouffville municipal conn- 1 w o u i ri ci meeting in regular session on monday night did not approve of the annexation of the garfield kellington farm as recommended in a resolution by the local planning board representatives were present at the meeting from the de partment of veterans affairs and the local veterans organi zation water scarce reeve daniels advised coun cil that the public utilities commission were in doubt about their ability to provide water service for any more out side consumers and that it was imperative that this matter be determined before any decis ion could be made councillor timbers was of the opinion that the municipal board would not likely approve of such an annexation because of the shape of the plan and the manner in which it jutted the boundary of the municipality mr harvey of the veterans affairs dept asked if council consider supphing water and school facilities in an effort to have whitchurch township develop the plan it was suggested that the town ship might consider the plan if these services were provided ringwood school was present ly filled and an addition was being built councillor ratciiff stated that in his opinion council could not give an answer as the utility commission and school board had charge of these services and they would have to answer in their own behalf however he said that he did not feel prepared to vote for annexation at present mr harvey of the depart ment stated that his only interest was for the local vet erans whom he said would take up fifty percent of the lots council as a whole failed to take any definite stand for or againsu the proposed annex ation but it was agreed that the matter of water and school facilities would be investigated u once contract let for new buttonville school a contract for 30352 has been let to w a stephenson for the erection of a new two- room addition to buttonville school sanitary facilities will be provided for eight rooms in the future five tenders were received for the work of sewer pipe providing such a vote is favorable reeve daniels told council that the county health unit will meet council shortly on sewerage disposal matters and it is believed that the great many irregularities in town will not be pushed by the health unit providing the town is proceeding with a sewerage system council agrees to retain provincial police here engagement mr and mrs lambert stouf- fer announce the engagement of their daughter donna nao mi to mr peter murray wat son son of mr and mrs har old watson toronto the mar riage is to take place saturday may 2sth at 230 oclock in the stouffville united church the ladies bowling club hold a meeting on tuesday eve ning may 3rd to plan their activities for the coming sea son we hope to have interest ing games on monday wednes day and friday evenings also wednesday afternoons as well as the scheduled tournaments a pot luck supper will be held on the opening evening the date to be announced later watch for special sale an nouncement next week from spoffords store church losing young people presbytery told the church has failed in its mission to attract the interest of our voting people stated rev e it hall asst pastor of danforth united church this fact was borne out by figures produced by rev hall at the annual meeting of the toronto and last rural presbytery held in trinity united church vvbridge tuesday rev hall pointed out that during 1953 the attendance at church of sincle young people had de creased by 105- from that of the previous year this is ser ious continued rev hall the church is not reaching our un attached youth in other classes however church attendance showed a re markable increase in twenty- eight pastoral charges out of 54 in the area there was an in crease of active members tot alling 1700 or 17 in 21 pas- toral charges church attend ance of active families had in creased by 2000 members or 20 sunday school member ship was up by 2200 or 0 womens organizations 1 and mens organizations j due to the rapid expansion of metropolitan toronto chu rch properties have increased in value by onehalf million dollars since 1953 church manse property lias gone up by s01c00 capital improve ments on church buildings and property has increased by 300000 or 200 rev frank brisbin pastor of metropolitan united church toronto was elected chairman of presbytery succeeding rev ga beattv of agincourt un ited church rev c j fox of wanstead united church to ronto was reappointed secre tary and mr frank smith a layman from riverdale united church was elected treasurer a communication was placed before stouffville municipal council on monday night from the attorney generals depart ment which noted that a state ment previously issued calling for the cancellation of provin cial police contracts in all mu nicipalities over two thousand population had been reconsid ered and stouffville would be free to retain the opp serv ices if they so desired council agreed unanimously on question by reeve daniels that the provincial police be retained recorded vote a recorded vole was required to settle the issue of whether or not the local lions club should be allowed to use the main street for the purpose of holding a street dance on june 29th councillor wagg statedthat the lions spent a great deal of money for the youth of the community and they should he given every opportunity to make money reeve daniels said that this fact must be con sidered councillor ratciiff vigorous ly opposed the use of the street for dancing and said that the safety of others should not be 100 year old markham landmark moved new engineer engaged for markham township mr ross k simmons has been engaged as engineer for the township of markham at a salary of 5200 duties to com mence june 1st mr simmons is a graduate engineer 27 years old and has formerly beep em ployed by georgetown acton and milton f hospital proposed at thornhill a new 125 bed hospital to be known as the yorkminster hospital has been proposed for thornhill by the service clubs of that district the cost of the venture is estimated at 1500000 and would be paid for through federal and pro vincial grants and public sub scription details of the plan were placed before markham tvvp council this week a fourteen acre site is available at the cor ner of bayview and john st jeopardized just so the lions club could make money this matter was settled by council two or three years ago council 2 or 3 years ago said councillor ratciiff were not interested in what other coun cils did replied the reeve well do what we like about it now councilor timbers supported councillor ratciiff and said that in his opinion the street was no place for dances and the lions should go to the park or the arena a resolution by councillor burk favored the lions request for the use of the street pro viding the highway dept was agreeable and utility commis sion rules were allowed reeve daniels asked for a recorded vote which resulted in council lors burk and wagg along with the reeve supporting the reso lution and councillors ratciiff and timbers opposed police report the monthly report of the provincial police placed be fore council revealed that 58 checkups had been made on business premises during the month that six had been prose cuted under the traffic act 3 under the liquor control act and nine under the ccc reeve daniels told council that robt snowball had re quested a building permit for a building to be erected on the line of his property contrary to the bylaw council agreed that the matter should be left in the hands of the building inspector road work n once councillor burk in charge of roads stated that obrien ave would be patched at once and after some discussion council agreed that a grader should be engaged at once to scarify and grade the streets and the oil should be applied earlier than formerly was ringwood native 50 yrs on friday mrs hetty brow- nsberger a former resident of ringwood for nearly 50 years passed away in a toronto hos pital following a lingering ill ness the deceased was born on the 5th concession of mark ham the daughter of mr and mrs thomas brown she was married to henry brownsber- ger who survives the late mrs brownsberger was stricken nearly six years ago and her illness was fur ther aggravated early in the year when she suffered a frac tured hip she leaves to mourn her pass ing two sons edgar of ring- wood mervin of west hill and one daughter alma mrs ross vague of ringwood there is also one surviving brother william in biggar sask the funeral service was held at the home of her daughter mrs ross vague ringwood on monday afternoon at 2 oclock conducted by rev gibson brown with interment in the wideman cemeterv the pall bearers were messrs aimer fockler geo johnson jacob grove fred steckley and wil- mot and walter vague son catch for the red sox the management of the red sox believe hal gibson will agree to become stouffvilles permanent receiver this sea son the agile catcher handled the glove behind the plate last season for many games and played a big part in the clubs march to the tricounty lea gue championship at the ini tial practice session held early this week jack watson and geo stark were also among the interested hardballers try ing out for a spot on the club the latter two will likely re join buttonville when the soft- ball season gets underway as council argued over a reso lution proposed by councillors griffen and deacon banning my further subdividing and development of the selkirk subdivision unless municipal water is provided reeve lemasurier contended that the selkirk subdivision which had been commenced some time ago and suspended for a time when the subdivider got into difficulties should not be burdened with further re strictions than originally ag reed to now that there was a possibility that the develop ment would be completed this will be a worthwhile de velopment for markham twp and this resolution can kill it declared the reeve in reference to the markham twp planning board coun cillor griffen stated that he was not disturbed by the thought that the memlers might resign we could fill their shoes if thev all resign ed he said councillor deacon contend ed that the resolution was try ing to save future expense he said that a complete sewer and water rejxnt would be ready this week and from it a basis for all subdividing could be worked out reeve lemasurier appealed to deputyreeve clarke for sup port on his opposition but mr clarke stated that conditions were different than when the selkirk subdivision started and the land did he within the pro posed water area councillor griffen said that mr selkirk was not being trea ted any differently than any body else reeve lemasurier said that the average assessment to be gained from the houses in the subdivision which lies just west of bayview was greater continued on page 12 council slices 400000 road paving plan of markham road comm shortly before adjournment on tuesday evening mr el mer ferguson received his 50 vear jewel from the aurora loof of the regular meeting of the imarkham township council on monday councillor griffen placed before council a road committee report providing for an estimated exenditure of s4o30o0 for road paving and road improvement to be deben- tured such an expenditure he contended would put the roads in question in shape for the next ten or twelve years this is the first time the de partment of highways has in dicated that it would pay a share of such capital costs councillor griffen said rceve lemasurier asked if the roads were to be paid for under local improvement and councillor griffen replied that the casts would be borne by the entire township deputyreeve clarke said that it was not feasible to spend so much money on any one road in tho township but he believed that it was good busi ness to drain and improve some of the worst spots the roads in question wore bayview ave the cth conces sion north from unionville the highway to box grove hilgeri man sideroad and streets in the doncaster subdivision what about the people who came here up to the axles in mud and you turned them down and now you ask these people to spend 70000 on bay- view asked the reeve any squawks we get can go back to the subdivider re plied councillor griffen im not prepared to act on this matter of nearly a half million expenditure i need time to think it over said reeve lemasurier its too expensive as far- as im concerned said deputy- reeve clarke 1 would suggest rebuilding any bad roads blown up and hardtopping later on under local improvement said the reeve after continued debate coun cil cut down the orginal figure to 225000 and the resolution passed subject to the approval of the dept of highways and the municipal board the fol lowing amounts would be al lotted to each road bayview 02000 6th con 50000 9th con to box grove 32000 ha- german sideroad 10000 and doncaster streets 07200 jcfr implements at wor three children saved from drained lake three children were trapped in the mud of a dry lake near xewmarke for nearly an hour i on sunday before being res cued cathy hagen s a brother i carl 10 and john fenley 10 i were gathering turtles on the j bed of fairey lake when theyf sank to above their knees in soft mud a passing motorist heard their cries for help and notified police sgt william hill of nc-w- spring work is progressing tho frame home of mr sideroad the large structure clifford raymer xorth was puer on skids and rol- markham a one hundred ors by joe harrison snd year od village landmark son m dur- was moved rr its etc inc the weeklong lion xo v i i onequarter mr and mr ci fford rv mrie west or the mount joy mer arai family eonued to rapidly on the farm of mr led to working with power imp- murray little 1th concession elements while farming out on of uxbrdge east of goodwood j the portage plains in manitoba market police pulled the three j mr utile recently purchased j it was common practice to sow to safetj after crawling aiong 21 acres of land in uxbridge j f rom eghty to one hundred reside in their home in spite j boards placed on the mud by twp previously owned by acres of wheat in a day after of the iore moving distance wayne greenfield 32 his bro- mesr findlay thompson and icomng eesl he formed a part- not a single dish or article of i ther geyle 13 and wayne kiti da- c ri til furniture was broken the o 13 wu be erected or rd sua in the district havejington and ojh r the ak di ned been eyeing proper- known markh h 7 so thai rep h interest his modem gravel cot the jcoum be rrwv to a dam which power nwhrry s without mus rovi l7cguiates ah water ivei kooal jo the oxosnuzijy j mr little became accustom- oats on his goodwood farm mr little uses a huge 2srov drill he can sow more than fifty acres of grain in one day de pending on the size of the fields it is quite similar i the tiller combine used on the prairie in western canada he vymes since that time rership with mr hjrom boy led he well- has three auj similar to the type used out wost for sowing grass seeds a portable seeder is mounted on the back of a light tnaetor and operate from the powertakeoff it u capable of seeding down the entire form in a ingle day h the wind is not too strong mc liwie does rs one dieseljnot inttnd to irow mikti rtn mm snrd and unit and two lighter rrodel but wihes to seed much of ny on the vhtu at harv- time mr little the fcrm down to provde pae- jimerkk v use his vrz 16foot jture for a krce herd of hero- pot th pujpoee of bovnasoat ebopiied ocobtne jt la feed bd caue