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tt i rtbmte miy 5 1956 r9 3 55 no 33 the tribune stoufkville thursday january 5 1956 wore accommodation jor municipal offices arly on coui icil agenda receive messages from queen and prime minister offne municipal council tor their inaugural t soi oi thursday evening of rj and ear e ffc is expected to be some k- to provide better and re commodious office accom odation fe quite apparent that both t- municipal and utility offij cannot be accommodated in present quarters without ne change there is also the snuty that the staff will ve to be enlarged in the near we which will make for n more cramped quarters n al present i i expected that later in t iye3r some decision will be mle as to whether the town should enlarge the present mu nicipal building or move from trie present site entirely leav ing a valuable business proper ty for sale unofficially some councillors are understood to favor such a move however for the immediate emergency the suggestion has been made that council meeting quarters should be moved to the floor above and the precnt office be divided to take care of the two business departments lar mrs w h clarkson married sixty years n sunday new years dav and mrs william h clark- gi residents of altona for the p 21 years celebrated their imond wedding anniversary te wellknown and highly re acted couple were the recip- of many cards gifts vers and congratulatory mes ses a much treasured cable m queen elizabeth and a tel- am from prime minister uis st laurent were also re- ved during the clay dozens friends and relatives extend- cohgratulatiohs to the eele- ited altona couple close to ty visitors enjoyed the anni- rsary dinner in the clarkson me mrs clarkson is in excep- nally fine health at 75 she 0qs v mnues to do her usual house in 07th ttak never owned a car but relied mainly on a horse and buggy for their transportation the celebrated couple have always known hard work but they both believe that manual labour isnt a deterrent to long life they regularly attend sun day school and morning service at the altona united mission ary church the tribune takes this op portunity of wishing mr and mrs clarkson of altona many more years of health and hap piness together mrs m sangster mr and mrs w h clarkson diamond avcdding anniversary h un j thur id chores she prides herself her ability to cook and her iny friends will vouch for her ompushments in this art i e baked her own anniversarv f se mrs clarkson was born east stouffville the daughter of e late janeann stotts and ward morris she attended th glasgow and stouffville iblic schools mr clarkson is born near lincolnville on farm now owned by mr s hard he was the son of the e jane swales and robert irkson he received his looling at bloomington looking back more than six- years the happy couple re- 1 how they first met when ending church and sunday hool at bloomington they re later married in stouff- le by rev elder percy and 1 k up residence north of town i the prof logan farm to niou was born one son r of montreal they have randchildren and fourteen atgrandchildren mrs clar- hn has four sisters mrs an- barkey of tillsonburg mrs rbert burnett mrs arthur irry and mrs arthur smith of bloomington and two ithers mr carman morris stouffville and mr delos wris of tillsonburg one sis- i mrs herb jarvis is de mised mr clarkson has two ters mrs herbert southby i mrs violet stadelbauer of orangeville r clarkson will be so years l in october he is noted for i knowledge of shearing pep an art that he practised i until last year over the f irs he has sheared literally ousands of sheep in pick- i g uxbridge whitchurch id markham townships he so teamed gravel into stouff- he for the construction of i any of the towns present liewaiks a man and team i uld draw three loads of gra- per day at a wage of sl50 j the loads were shovelled on l hand both mr and mrs rkson recall seeing the first s in this district dr walter f lgster owned one of the first seless carriages in stouff- mr and mrs clarkson m a resident of the claremont nursing home for the past sev- eral years mrs mary maude sangster passed away there on the first of january 195g she was in her s9th year the former mary widdifield she was born in the uxbridge district but was for many years a resident of stouffville her husband the late frank h sangster predeceased her some years ago both were wellread and were prominently known in the district the deceased is survived by two children a son allan and a daughter muriel mrs j g lane the earthly remains were cremated and jennie funeral services were con- 1 ducted from the dixon funeral chapel in markham on tues- 1 day january 3 interment was in st andrews cemetery fu neral services were conducted by rev fuller a former pas tor and rev h green imas whitchurch tp inaugural council of the township of whitchurch will meet thurs day january 5 in two sessions in the first meeting of the new year meeting in the afternoon at 2 oclock the council will con tinue in session until supper time for which they will ad journ until s oclock a busy year is forecast for the town ship which each year sees the influence of toronto becoming more apparent the council this year will see a new head installed in the person of reeve sid legge who moves to the new top spot from the position of deputy- reeve new to the council chamber will be frank wil liams mary m lawrie was former resident miss mary margaret lawrie of markham passed away at the toronto general hospital on january 1 1956 in her 70th year she resided for a number of years in stouffville but re turned to live in markham the deceased was the daugh ter of the late mr and mrs james lawrie surviving are a brother and a sister robert of past years reports from the stouffville post office indicate that the volume of mail this year great ly exceeded the records set in other years during the pre- holiday rush 100soo twocent stamps were sold by the staff reports mr j sanders the post master this sale of stamps for greeting cards exceeded last years record by 8800 all went smoothly in the handling of mails with the peak of yuletide traffic being reached on the tuesday just before christmas the cooper ation of the public is credited for this early mailing which enabled all mail coming and going to be sorted within two hours even on the busiest day local missionary family send greetings from ancient mission house name members to plan board mr c- j laurin will continue as chairman of the markham township planning board for the year 1956 it was revealed at the inaugural meeting of markham township council held this week mr d tanner of thornlea retired from the board at the end of december stouffville and district read ers will be pleased to hear of the activities of rev and mrs frank muir and family now missionaries in japan and once residents of stouffville where mr muir was pastor of the con gregational christian church rev mr muir writes as fol lows ichjodori muromachi nishi kamikyoku kyoto japan dear friends greetings this time jrom japans classical city of tem ples monasteries priests gongs tinkling bells surround ed by gentle lowlying moun tains and arched with azure skies and lines of settled clouds we greet you from the heart of this very ancient oily looking out over the famous emperors palace grounds from the win dows of perhaps the first mis sionary house built here which is still standing after seventy years the city is dotted with well over a thousand temples and has been the heart of bud- dism pretty well since this reli gion was imported from china in the sixth century after christ this city also has a firm footing in christianity there are perhaps well over fifty protestant churches flourishing nicely having suffered no losses due to war this was one city that was spared the horrors of war kyoto is perhaps the most famous tourist centre of japan not only for foreigners but for the members for the ensu- year follow frank brum- japanese also there are usual well of victoria square hugh brennan bayview ave alvin gamble unionville henry sis- sons box grove representative on the plan ning board from the township council is councillor vern gri ffin of thornhill to honour retiring twp officials jame committees for markham twp council iy several dozen bus loads of people each day making pilgri mage to all the shrines guests from abroad also are seen being escorted with excessive polite ness of course we shall have the joy of welcoming a lot of missionary friends here for little breaks in their busy life the spirit of kyoto is conserva tive quiet settled steeped in re ligious thought with a rich background of history to steer a steady undeviating course for the future one senses the quiet determination to abide by and uphold the honor of the fathers this is typical for japanese be ing present even in the busy port cities though not so easily 1 he inaugural meeting rkham twp for the year g was held last tuesday at on thursday evening jan 5th pickering township coun cil will honour three of its recently retired municipal officials at a testimonial dinner to be held in the brougham i town hall at 7 pm mr clare i balsden a former deputy- j reeve who retired from office i in 195 mr geo todd a former i of j of the township will comprise i reeve who announced his he reeve mr lcmaurier retirement at the conclusion of the 1955 yefflr and mr rov hara towivhip on the opera- detected there as here this is the city god has called us to to do evangelistic work if we come in the spirit and power with which the early mission aries of pauls clay were endow ed to turn the world upside jjoisffli then we can expect re sults on the surface of things we cant help but feel very in competent and would cast our selves upon god afresh and de pend upon your continued and increased prayers for us in greater detail our work will be cooperation with the pastors in organizing young people in the churches to form small evangelistic teams have practice sessions and go out with them to surrounding vil lages or in orphanages hos pitals jails or even on the streets and with the help of pictures and music evangelize the children these children will be introduced to the near est sunday school after arriving and getting un- crated and smoothed out we got the boys happily into the routine of travelling an hour and a half each way to school fortunately the train trip to kobe can academy interests them we began then to take in the young people and we were invited to come and be intro duced and puton a demonstra tion of how to do childrens evangelism by this time we had already interested two young men and as a surprise package took them along and they became an example of how quickly and eagerly young people are to do this type of work some pastors may have been impressed with this the bottleneck of the work in ja pan is the church its high re quirements and feeling of dis tinction between clergy and laity the result of the rally was fruitful in that it gave us quite a few young people ready to be signed up for service we now have regular work shop meetings with them and are in the process of dividing into suitable teams four days from now we go out on our first field trip to a village for evangelism the appointment continued on page 9 bertha watson passes on christmas day markham twp police revenue tops 6500 a resident of ayhitchuich township where she lived on the 7th concession with her family since moving from to ronto in august of 1953 mrs bertha watson passed away on december 25 1955 she had been in good health and the seizure and sudden death that followed was a great shock to the family mrs watson was born in preston england on july 4 1sss the daughter of john and ellen hoyle she was married in 1912 to john watson the couple moving to canada in the same year her husband sur vives her as do two sons jack of whitchurch township and edmund of newmarket several brothers and sisters are left also in england with her family mrs watson attended the united church at ballantrae funeral services were con ducted on tuesday december 27 from the chapel of l e oneill rev d davis officiated at the service with interment being in the stouffville cem etery the pallbearers were len bone j adamson bob black beverly rogers gordon i-iine- man and stanley moses ke j public school boa facing expansion two new rooms t the stouffville public school i built above the pnti such an addit w room accoirfegd being taken over purposes so that ste taken immediately the situation mr lome boadw board will meet in the first i ing equipment wa a g session for 1956 on january 19 ed at that time to qr a busy year ahead is predicted for the board due to continual growth of the school while there was some speculation last fall that a new site might be sought for a second public school in the west end of town the immediate program will lie this week as the new- the addition of two more rooms of the school and a to the present building pro- cher miss marion b 325 vision for such an addition was placed mrs hazeno jj provided several years ago travel- comes to when the new heating plant j with fourteen year was installed the rooms to be experience o egg cedar represented in f if f isi oncert series golf course planet i memb ers for outskirts of wlg white christ- mr w a burrows who has farmed a 99 vi acre farm to the northeast of stouffville for the past 19 years has sold the prop erty he revealed the transac- ion was completed just before the end of the year to a lawyer from the agincourt area the new owner has arranged for occupancy on april 15 and has stated that he plans to con- ffliivrjff win be jj vvyii v hljjjcedar grove j j i uiaylernws be good the fw- school agewv alberta ran- in annual- 24 oi c owned by union ivid vancher with january lftlitf n acres under volition willi struct a golf course on the roll- 1 the associati 1 n terrain of the farmland the land extends for s9 rods along the frontage of highway 47 and is less than a mile from the north limits of town at the present time the highlands golf course in au rora and the tarn oshanter in agincourt are the closest recreational spots for local golf ing enthusiasts it is expected that opening of the new centre will attract an enthusiastic following from a large surroun ding area 0 acres old speaking in the cei ited church in unioi sunday was a repn of the association m stiver he brought from the 30 sabbath si the township morning services wi ducted on the conven in the presbyterian while afternoon and services including ci service will be lieldke united church building in markham tp declined in 55 you can buy new remington rand portable typewriters from the stouffville tribune in a written report to mark ham township council in spector walter craig reported that he issued 293 building per mits during the year just fin ished this is a decrease from the total of 367 issued in 1954 he pointed out blaming the de crease on the lack of subdivid ed land in the township total estimated value of the con struction planned was placed at 2243085 this compares with the 1954 estimate of value of 2886 762 majority of the permits tak en out were for residential construction with this class ac counting for 235 of the total of this total 108 were for new housing and the balance for alteration or moving of exist ing buildings or the erection of accessory buildings during the month of decem ber permission to bujh granted to 9 parties ol four were for erection dences three ofttre be brick and one fvame building fees for decft totalled 97 wjth an addii 30 being received in fs septic tanks mr and mrs reg wj stein of cornwall and mai mrs eugene wintersteiija ol gary and baby c joanne of the st catharirfi trict have returned toj homes after spending thfe tide season with mr anj j d winterstein of sim a mrs ben kaxlin left- thl week for florida stopping ofrj to visit in new york on her way south v first 1956 arrival at the brierbush 1 reporting to council of mark 1 buttonvilieofices with all finciilors present reeve al- d lemasurier i r trt rtrhr cailsd the ing to order noting that council was composed of ft same men who held otlice previous year 3med as representative of council on the township j lining board was councillor 11 1 n griffin hi v er committee charg- i the inipcrur develop- j ivctige end water -r- 3 in tr2 icuhuet orsr deputyreeve wm clark and councillor don deacon the latter already has his feet wet in this subject having served on the same committee in 1955 representation on the other committees follows procrty arid parks councillors lit tie znd griffin fire w oark and a little police w crk and v griffin roads ftv clark and a little finance 0- deacon and v griffin duitrial rcee lemssur ij d deacon t ward the townships road tion of the police force chief past 33 j clarence wideman this week superintedent for the years the brougham wms j concluded hi december report and womens institute will pro- j by showing a revenue for the vide the dinner more than 150 month of 459 tota revenue guests arc expected to attend llkthkspl the young peoples are hav ing their eorganization meet ing on friday evening at the home of mr and mrs clare bo- lender weather permitting there will be kating on the pond gtrli bring lunch i a town dents investigated kept the force of nine fully employed- there were six fatalities inves tigated by the force during the month 135 calls were made on residents who re- reived summonses about one- third be rig served for other police forces there were five committals made during the month and three liquor seizj tire i ths operation j other rails made by mark- 07 a total han township police in de- re to check on six burglaries 4 m for the year 1j65 was 65760 during the jfinal month of the year the t police cruisers covered a totalpf 10701 miles costs for the m was howrwsizv of m qfjjfsvrnjie by thecember we police rot thafts two a o y v 8 silvl edimpl sb c t information visitors welcome i irtes r omes ogy patilisheo 4 ecscens v y f the first is of the new tcrs son of j vtrrive fcthe brier- lie peters w jftntvlllc on the bab ter of markfast a7a5 a rr 1 oz rey bwn of rlrgive 1 ne j al enjoyed a turkey dinner at the mayfair restaurant r v