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this issue 3500 copies vol 66 no 14 rttmtit classified ads back page the tribune stoltfville thursday august 25 1955 twelve pages pitchers talk carves just before final lorne schell righthand hurler with the stouirville red sox shows lindsays harold williams left his jeehnique for throwing his famous drop curve the pic ture was taken prior to mon day nights tricounty lea gue semifinal contest which was won by stouffville 275 schell turned in a fine six- hit performance walked two and struck out nine he also pounded three doubles and a single in five times at bat the red sox now meet either sunderland or port perry for the group championship brothers meet after 35 years two brothers bert lickor ish of stouffville and his bro ther wilfred lickorish from england were reunited this week after thirtyfive years mr and mrs wilfred lickor ish arrived in stouffville on tuesday from the old country and will spend several months on this side of the ocean the couple came to canada on a greek liner landing at xew york and travelled over land by motor coach xine and a half hours here mr lickor ish stated it was the fastest he had ever travelled they wont believe me when i tell them how fast we went said mr lickorish mr lickorish went overseas from canada with his brother bert in 1015 returned to can ada and then went back to eng land photo contest ends manv entries made in this issue we publish the last two winning photographs of those submitted for judging and publication in the four aug ust issues of this paper the response to this contest has been very gratifying with over 100 pictures sent in by readers during the month the winning pictures have been of high calibre making the judging most difficult and it was found that the great ma- jority of those entered were very commendable our thanks again to those who entered their photos mrs reg mackay has re turned from hospital but still must keep her leg in a cast for several more weeks huge crowd at arena despite heat friends and customers will be pleased to learn that miss alta eller is convalescing at her home harry found is ninety mr harry found claremontl pioneer now resident at vic toria square and an active stone mason for more than half a centjpy has marked his 00th birthday he makes his home with his daughter mrs cecil story mr found was born in lovv- thorpe kngalnd and came to this country at t- age of is to settle in pickering township he was one of a family of thir teen children he plied his trade as a stone mason lor more than fifty years and has work- c 1 on buildings in pickering whitchurch and scott town ships he is a former claremont village trustee and held this oilice when hydro was first in stalled there mrs found passed away 11 years ago and in 1030 the cou ple celebrated their golden wedding a nri i v e r s a r y mr found is a life deacon of the baptist church was a bible class teacher for many years and i a past master of broug ham union masonic lodge he still enjoys quite good health despite his advanced years enjoys some activity in the garden during the mornings and a rest in the afternoon the intense heat of last sun day was no obstacle to attend ance at the evangelistic cam paign in the arena in the even ing when a far greater attend ance than for the previous sun day was present to hear the team of evangelists close to 2000 were estimated in attend ance the previous sunday when the campaign opened and good attendance has been shown for the weekday meet ings evangelist jimmy johnson did not arrive in time for the first meeting but was on hand for the first weekday meeting the next day rev merrill dun- lop and mr clyde taylor who handle the musical details of the program were joined by mr john duff a tenor soloist last saturday night was also wellattended when a youth for christ night was featured this program was recorded at the time and will be broadcast over the regular broadcast this sunday the same procedure will be followed this saturday night with the broadcast made at the meeting scheduled to be heard on sunday sept 4 with cooler weather now here the team expect that the district will close off the cam paign the remainder of this week by attending in even greater numbers former resident passes away at bobcaygeon funeral service for the late abraham albert kennedy one- t time resident of stouffville and in later years of fores hil and toronto were held a the fun- eral chapel of morley s bed- i ford in toronto on saturday morning aug 20th followed by interment in mt pleasant j cemetery rev f crossman of j st clair baptist church con- j ducted the service assisted by rev h wintemute of falling- brook heights baptist church of toronto although mr kennedy had been in failing health for sev eral years his passing early i thursday morning at his sum mer home at bolicaygeon was sudden his daughter had left him in apparent good health some five days before when re turning to her home in vancou ver after a months visit here the deceased was born of irish ancestors si years ago on the scotch line near bobcay geon as a young man he was engaged in the lumber business in stouffville and liked to re call that the bridge still span ning main street near snow balls barbershop although later widened was built by him some 50 years ago while living in stouffville he mar ried mabel alice brodie who survives him also surviving are five children ross of ivoc- ust hill and toronto byron b of forest hill mrs edward m hill helen of forest hill donald of toronto and mrs k fraser frances of vancou ver and six grandchildren al so surviving are a brother jo seph of lindsay and a sister mrs alex robertson mollie of bobcaygeon mr kennedy was a staunch baptist a prominent builder and a former councillor of the village of forest hill he had been a member of college cen tury and st clair ave baptist churches and had been on their boards of deacons he served as sunday school superintend ent of both the college st and st clair ave churches he was a popular man and noted for his irish wit the late mr kennedy was estimated to have built some 500 homes mostly in the area of rosedale moore park and forest hill in toronto just two weeks before his death a family reunion was held at the summer home at bobcaygeon and two years ago mr and mrs kennedy cele brated their 55th wedding anni versary new 132lot subdivision opening in markham twp mr annan ironsides herds man at the ringwood farms has been confined to the brier- bush hospital in town admit ted for a rest he has made good progress and expects to return home by the end of this week councillors not in accord with charge on assessors an opinion voiced by depu ty reeve sid legge at a re cent meeting of whitchurch township council that the mileage claim for assessors is excessive is not shared by the balance of council as was stat ed in this newspaper a week ago mr legge expressed his view quite forcibly at the meeting and maintained his opinion at last weeks meeting however reeve mclaughlin and other members of council wish to have their names detached from the statement as not be ing their opinion the rapidlyexpanding devel opment in markham township received further irfpetus this week with the announcement of another large new sub division in the second conces sion fortysigh acres compos ing the former lloyd farm the tiew development will comprise 132 residential lots an amount of 2 6 acres is being set aside for commercial purposes the subdividers bayview estates will pay to the town ship s100 per lot for adminis tration purposes in addition they will provide paved roads and sanitary and storm sewers pheasant licenses up everett harper of the mark ham township game preserve appeared before council on monday evening and after some discussion it was agreed that the number of nonresident pheasant licenses to be sold in markham this year should be limited to 350 and the price should be s3 each up 50c from last year clerk chas hoover reported that approximately 310 nonresident licerses were sold last year the hunt will be limited to two days reeve lemasurier stated that taking all expenses into ac count the municipality does little more than break even with the annual pheasant shoot new gas stations await official flaii a resolution of the planning board was endorsed by council which called for the delay of the erection of any further ser vice stations on township high ways until the official plan of the municipality is finally ap proved one station which had asked for permission to build and is being held up is a new fina service station slated to go up on the townline just west of stouffville kirk dr deputation a twelveman deputation ap peared ibofore council from kirk dr in the selkirk sub division requesting that coun cil act to provide them with a better road originally paved oads had been planned for the subdivision to be provided by the subdivider however the development has since stopped and the final disposition of this area jsut south of no 7 high way near langstaff will be air ed before the municipal board at a hearing on sept 14th however council did agree to take temporary measures to improve the road until the hearing is held council passed a resolution appointing w l clark to the planning board for the balance of the year making it a six- man board a plan to improve the bay- view and steeles intersection was put before council by the metro planning board the cost estimated at 105s10 council took no action loot pay phone boxes good progress is being made in the extensive alterations at schells meat market much of the exterior work is completed and the barricades at the front should soon be down it will still take considerable work in side the premises before the front part can be opened ear lier this week a cement side walk was poured on mill st along the side of the store congregations make presentations to the rev and mrs mckillican mr nrr found the congregations of st james presbyterian church stouffville and st andrews markham made presentations to their pastor and his wife rev and umrs d r mckillican last week prior to their de parture for scotland the st james congregation presented their gift a sum of money to rev mckillican on monday evening of last week mr harold dixon delivered the presentation address and mr ceo hood presented the gift on behalf of the sunday school master clarion hood handed mrs mckillican a lovely wool blanket mrs myron anderson spoke briefly on tnursday evening of last week st andrews congrega tion o markham held their farewell gettogether follow ing the dinner mr murray henderson presented rev and mrs mckilkcan with a wallet conanng a sum of money rev mekillc3n has served the two congregations for the past seven years he ikrg a year leave of absence to pur sue further studies at new col lege edinburgh scotland mr and mrs mckillican will sail from montreal aboard the ss saxonia on tuesday sept 2 and will arrive in greenock scotland six days later during mr mckillicans ab sence the pulpit of the two churches will be occupied by the rev harry h green ba j mr green a native of guelph j ontario graduated from knox i college in 1053 after successful i courses both in arts where he honoured in political science and economics and in theol ogy where he won several scholarships after graduation mr green was appointed by the home missions board of the presbyterian church to white rook british columbia he has now returned to on tario to minister at stouffville and markham and also to study toward the degree of bachelor of divinity at knox college mr greer is mimed and has one jon they will live in the manse at markham and will commence their duties on sep tember leu vandals were at work in the district over the past weekend with reports being received that phone equipment was rip ped from pay phone booths in order to remove the coin boxes a station at ringwood and two at musselmans lake were se lected by someone who took a lot of risk for small financial gain one of the coin boxes was found some distance away hav ing been battered open to re move the coins an official of the bethesda stouffville tel co revealed that there is sel dom much money in these ma chines as they are emptied reg ularly to celebrate 92nd birthday mr levi heise formerly of victoria square will be cele brating his 02nd birthday next wednesday aug 31 still carrying on an active life mr heise lived until this spring with his grandson lew is b heise of victoria square since then he has lived at ste- vensville out with his daugh ter mrs elva climenhage a family gathering is planned to celebrate the occasion this com ing sunday whitchurch pop jumps to 6000 whitchurch township coun cil at its meeting revealed that the population of the township as compiled for the purpose of receiving the unconditional grant from the provincial gov ernment had reached the fig ure of 6021 this compares with the figure for the year 195 which was 5g1s the in crease is just over 7 above iast years the unconditional grant amounts to 1053675 based on a rate of s175 per per son resident in the township these figures are now compiled by the township assessors who have lately taken on this added duty councillors speak on conservation reeve alfred lemasurier of markham township recently deplored at a meeting the trend to build on small lots in the township the occasion was a debate on a water supply sys tem when some members of council advocated regulations thieves crack markham store safe and flee the office of simpsonssears in the village of markham was entered in the early hours of monday this week and a large safe used for the storing of money was removed through the back door later in the day the safe was discovered in the church yard of the presbyterian chu rch an audit conducted by the victimized firm revealed that the safe contained approximate ly 300 the safe was found opened and to date the culprits have not been determined an intensive drive is being conducted by police of mark ham village and township n york township police and the provincial police it is believed that police have knowledge of the members of the gang and early arrests may be made last sunday premises of the onway construction co on the don mills road were surround ed by police when a report of prowlers was received but they too were able to make their getaway an opinion has been expressed that the same gang of men were involved in both cases lightning bolt damages chapel at cemetery a few loud claps of thunder were heard in the district last monday morning but no storm materialized at the time how ever some residents of the 10th line at the east side of town saw a streak of fire start from the top of the chapel at the east end of the cemetery and fol low the side of the building to the ground on closer inspection of the building the thos william son memorial chapel it was found that the metal louvre at the peak had been twisted and bricks of the front wall damag ed the building was built in 1052 and is of brick and stone construction no persons were injured by the freak bolt from the blue calling for storm sewers on all roads instead of ditches this in itself met with the approval of mr lemasurier but he stat ed that the additional charges might result in building on lots with smaller frontages he advocated expanses of green grass and was not adverse to ditches where these wore seed ed in grass and maintained to look neat in the same council cham bers vern griffin spoke in fa vor of halting growth of sub divisions where the initial step was to level off the area with bulldozers thus destroying val- uable stands of trees recently at pickering town ship councillor sherman scott pointedly asked that in the in stallation of water mains in fch township an effort be made to preserve trees growing along the streets at whitchurch township dep utyreeve sid legge announced that the township had been ac cepted as host to a convention of conservation groups from 6 surrounding counties date of this meet is sept 20 points of interest to show the progress made in conservation in yorlt county will be visited to retire after thirty years with ttc mr a c byers a resident on the 10th concession south of stouffville has been a motor- man with the ttc for the past thirty years during that time he has established an amazing record having driven a street car for thousands of miles with out an accident mr byers ex pects to retire in october he is pictured above holding a congratulatory letter from the ttc superintendent commend ing him for his many years of courteous accidentfree service mr byers was born on the sth concession of markham on the farm now owned by mr oliver shank he attended the dickson hill public school prior to taking a job with the ttc mr byers was employed with the cpr for ten years in the late icws he piloted the old ttc radial cars out to west hi in 1032 the popular ity of the automobile had in creased to such an extent that the car3 could not bo operated nn a psy bars and the line was closed mr byers recall that often on an entire tun they would not pick up more than two or three passengers he is now the motorman on the queen street route between neville ave and the humber besides establishing an acci dentfree record the local resi dent has never been late for work during the past thirty years the ttc schedule is op erated with such clockwork precision that if a motorman is a few minutes late he is re placed by a substitute operator and the employee loses a full days pay during his many years of service mr byers has hvitness- ed dozens of accidents a num ber of them fatal one day his streetcar was struck by light ning three times according to mr byers the traffic congestion in toronto has continued to worsen and it is especially bad between four and six oclock in the afternoon motorist who invariably orive their car in front of a street car and delay ijt progress are subject to a summons if the motorman wishes to make a note of th license number the streetcar track is a ttc rightofway mr byers claims that the ma jority of passengers are quit cooperative any undesirable riders who do not wish to pay the regular fare are removed from the car by police officers the fare over the past year has increased considerably from eight tickets for 25 cents to 10 cents apiece mr byers takes great pride in growing flowers shrubs and vegetables hb garden on the kth of markham is a master piece when a resident on high- croft road in toronto ho cap tured four first prize awards in competition for the finest flow er garden in the city the to ronto horticultural society pre sented him with a diploma of merit and the ont agricultural college at fiuclph afio recog nized his floral achievement following hi retirement in oc tober mr byers hopes to srpend more time in making bis 10th concession homt a natural bea uty spot