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vol 67 no 4 rqmne thk tribune stouffville thursday june 14 1956 twelve pages new 10000 tent for evangelistic meetings stouffville tax rate struck at 885 mills for this year workmen are seen here erecting the new s10000 tent lor the current evangelistic meetings being held in mark- ham fair grounds the huge tent has a capacity for 4000 persons and is the property of the christian laymens tent evangelism inc of orr- ville ohio the tent is equip ped with a powerful p a sys tem and seventytwo 300watt bulbs flood the place with light the crusade has two mobile generators which provide am ple electricity for its own needs would reroute trucks from main street at the regular meeting of stouffville village council on thursday night councillor ken neth laushway suggested that all heavy trucks be rerouted around the town reeve elmer daniels pointed out that this could not be done since no 47 is a provincial highway be sides said reeve daniels if we turned all the gravel trucks onto the gravel roads we would have other municipalities down our neck the reeve felt that the only way to control the speed and loads of these vehicles was through the police depart ment councillor laushway chair- manof the police committee said they would recommend the use of the towns speed trap whenever possible chief constable y diamond presented council with a very complete police report for the month of may out of 21 prose cutions handed out eight were for speeding within the village limits there were 39 occurren ces and complaints received and investigated and 100 warnings issued to motorists during the month the cruiser was driven 1389 miles constable w e vincent informed council that he plans to take up permanent residence in stouffville by july 1st new presbytery the toronto conference of the united church of canada meeting in toronto this week instituted a new presbytery to be known as the york presby tery the boundaries of this new presbytery will be no 7 highway from locust hill to the east to yonge street then westerly to include richmond hill and maple to the west and then north to sutton this new presbytery will be duly consti tuted on january 8 1957 in st andrews united church in markham united missionary church conference at stayner ministers and delegates from nil of the united missionary churches in ontario convened nt stayner june 5th to 8th reports from the various min isters showed increased attend ance in both sunday schools and church services two new churches have been opened during the past year one at mattawa and the other at ilattsville ont there has been increasing growth in the mission work ot the church both in the home and foreign fields twentyseven mission aries from ontario are now serv ing in the foreign mission fields tinder the united missionary so ciety this number includes four doctors several nurses and school teachers last year offer ings of over 517000 were re ceived for foreign mission work trail of the pines camp for boys and girls ages 10 to 15 will be held again in july of this year with pinewaganii youth camp for teenagers in august both camps will be held at the stay ner camp ground there were 9 changes made in pastoral placement this year four of these were new appli cants to the ministry the following ministers re ceived new appointments rev h s hallman to plattsville rev l k sider to kitchener bethany rev a embree to kit chener evangel rev geo turn- bull to petrolia rev d sar gent to altona mr ronald by- ers to sarnia mr r forsythe to hamilton mr vv good to shrigley mr t montgomery to st thomas rev kenneth geiger from in diana the general superintend ent of the united missionary churches conducted the ordina tion service on thursday eve ning rev e prosser of port hope was ordained to the min- istrv at this service public meeting to discuss future of unionvilie arena a meeting is to be held for the i lpiyers in the crosby mo- mo ial community centre area which comprises lots one to twentyfive from concession 2e to 6e markham township the board of the community centre is appointed by markham township council and usually represents members of the diff erent activities carried on the board is faced this year with icrious problems in repairs and the correction of heaving that has been so prevalent on the ice surface the board estimates the cost to be up to s14000 s6000 of which would have to be spent on a new roof and another ss000 for excavating and put ting in porous fill under the pipes and repairing the cush ions the board has felt that to spend this amount on an old building the facilities of which do not meet present day require icenti would be unwise they therefore investigated the possi bilities of a new arena and a community hall when weather cordttions be come such that artificial refrig eration prove a necessity a vstni was installed in 19 at a cos of over 40000 s30300 of this was paid for by personal notes and cash loans by private individuals who were interest ed that hockey and skating fa cilities should be maintained the balance came from revenue and private donations of this js3s0o0 by august 31st 1930 there will be an outstanding jdebt of 12600 from figures obtained it will be necessary to raise s1i0ooo to offset this debt and complete lhe new community centre under the present setup there is a s30p0 drag to carry over the summer months which at present do not produce any revenue it is hoped with a community i hall and a floor in the arena jthal some reliel should be real- iod to minimize this burden these and other problems will be presented to the ratepayers jot the community centre area on june 2ist 1956 at s pm in the veterans hall main street unionvilie it should be borne in mind that in the twenty eight years the rink has been in operation i it has never cost the ratepayers lone cent and has provided healthful recreation for all aes these facts were released this week by the community centre board headed by h a maynard fire destroys plant of the newmarket era- express fire of unknown origin badly i cry and equipment both from ravaged the newspaper plant of heat and water damage the newmarket era express temporary quarters for the on saturday morning in addi- paper have been set up in one tion the roadhouse and rose i of the towns many industrial funeral chapel next door was gutted roofs on both buildings collapsed and some machines in the newspaper plant went through the first floor into the basement the fire was first noticed about 7 am on saturday morn ing and despite the fact that the new newmarket fire hall is lo cated right across the street it took the brigade some hours to bring the blaze under control miss gail palmer who resides in an apartment above the era express was roused by her dog which jumped up and down on the bed both escaped un injured the newmarket era which is owned by the mulock estate and operated by mr jack struthers is one of the oldest newspapers in the county and sustained heavy loss in machin- plants and it was expected on tuesday of this week that a paper would be published this week offers of assistance to the era came from the aurora ban ner the stouffville tribune and the bowmanville statesman paving contract let for west downline tenders were opened on monday of this week for the paving of themarkhnm-whit- cliurch townline from ring- wood to the 6th concession there were six tenders receiv ed and the successful bidder was miller paving co more than 20000 in asphalt mix will be applied to this heavily travelled road to place it on a par with the ballantrae side- road work is expected to com mence in about two weeks in addition a contract was let for the paving of the aur ora sideroad from the don mills rd to the 3rd concession an increase in school costs was responsible for the striking of an 885 mill rate for the vill age of stouffville at the regular meeting of municipal council on thursday evening this is a jump of 85 mills over the 1955 j figure the largest increase was in the public school rate which moved up from 272 to 32 0 mills an addition of 4s mills the high school rate was up s mills the general rate was the same as in 195o the tax roll this vear will amount to s12020143 based on an assessment of s136ss6000 the rates will be as follows com centre s 100000 8 assesst mills comm centre si 00000 countv purposes 1850920 gen debenture 69444 high school 1263740 us debenture public library public school relief purposes street lighting 1221423 173200 4363s09 140000 150000 village purposes 2687607 8 136 6 93 9 13 32 1 11 198 total 12020143 885 merchants discuss parking stouffviup merchants asso ciation meeting on thursday evening dealt at some length with the local parking problem some move is to be marie again to induce shoppers to use the arena parking lot which is light ed and which could have an at tendant open nights if patron age warranted it a move is al so being made to request use of lots at the united church and the stanley theatre property the new organization lost no time in preparing for next win ters santa claus parade an effort is going to be made to lift the parade to a new stand ard and make it the attraction it is supposed to be a commit tee has been named to begin preparations now the suggestion of a merch ants picnic was also voiced and something concrete in this re gard is expected before long whitchurch financial position excellent says twp auditor summing up his presentation al rooms were required on the of the annual audit report audi- school and asked for whitchurch i tor e a smith stated that r to sanction the issuing of deben- whitchurch township was in j tares for 65000 for this pur- an excellent financial position i pose reeva legge stated that i and gave credit to clei k-treas- j since the school was in king urer jack crawford and his as- twp it would be up to this sistant mr thos kerr the township to issue the deben- audit report was presented at j lures and the clerk was instruct- the regular meeting of the coun- ed to inform the school board threatened resignation 3 brings serious rift in uxbridge twp council miss elizabeth l richard son daughter of mr and mrs george e richardson of van- riorf who received her nurses diploma from the hamilton general hospital school of nursing on june 6th the sixtysixth graduation exercises were held at the scottish rite cathedral fol lowed by a reception among those attending the graduation were mr and mrs george e richardson and mr bill rich ardson rev victor wood of aurora and mr robert staley of kemptville council would like better street lighting at the regular meeting of stouffville village council on thursday evening of last week councillor ken laushway stress ed the need for more adequate street lighting in the town in comparison councillor laush way said new street lights been installed in the northern section of claremont which were a vast improvement to stouff- villes system were fifty years behind pointed out mr laush way councillor elgin wagg agreed that stouffvilles street lighting jwas very poor the town looks like its lit with coaloil lan terns he said if every one that is broken were replaced councillor robert nesbitt threw a bombshell into the regu lar meeting of uxbridge town ship council on monday evening when he tendered his resigna tion in a marathon session which lasted into the early hours of tuesday morning councillor nesbitt finally agreed to retain his seat on council following a number of rather heated discus sions councillor nesbitts main com plaint concerned the laxity in volved in the enforcing of the townships building bylaw he felt that a special meeting should have been called by the reeve to rewrite the bylaw fol lowing a recent meeting of the twp planning board reeve stuart ball stated that he never had received a report from the planning board and therefore had no reason to call a meeting of council councillor nesbitt charged that the road superin tendent had not been properly supplied with necessary equip ment making it necessary for the employees to use their own tools for township work he stated also that in his opinion there had been a laxity on coun cils part in cooperating with the welfare officer councillor nesbitt speaking in regard to the townships build ing restrictions said he knew of numerous eases where fam ilies were living in everything from garages to cellars where the assessment wouldnt be more than 5000 its skin off our nose every time we dont enforce our build ing bylaw said councillor nes bitt councillor clarence bunker agreed that the situation would worsen if something wasnt done reeve stuart ball pointed out that council couldnt expect the building inspector to run all over the country for nothing we will have to pay him more money answered the reeve i dont care what the solution is countered councillor nes- talked reeve stuart ball expressed the opinion that uxbridge town ship didnt have very many resi dences that were below stand ard ive seen houses right in the town of whitby that are no better than the worst places in our municipality said the reeve dep reeve john ball agreed that the townships ofreach and scott had similar problems clerk don kennedy informed council that in instances where buildings did not come up to standard the building inspector could carry out the necessary corrective measures and charge the expense to the owner the clerk said that any building permit expires after six months if active work isnt done on the premises at the end of this time it must be renewed the clerk pointed out that the owner could be fined under the town ships present bylaw if he failed to comply in dealing with the resigna tion of councillor nesbitt the remaining members expressed the view that nothing would be gained by the councillor vacat ing his seat although council wouldnt guarantee to accomp lish the desires of mr nesbitt they said they would endeavour to cooperate to the best of their ability councillor nesitt agreed to remain in office bitt ill have no partof it as tion hitandrun driver convicted fined keith corkwell 23 of stouff ville was convicted of failing to remain at the scene of an acci dent when he appeared before magistrate o s hollinrake last week he pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined 50 and costs or 15 days his drivers license was suspended for two months deputy chief james leeder conducted the investiga- its been in the past why are you complaining now queried councillor bun ker i have spoken about it many times and even wrote out a reso lution but it was defeated re plied councillor nesbitt councillor earl dowswell ag reed with councillor nesbitt that with j more modern type we they had tried to place closer restrictions on buildings in the township but had been out- according to the police the corkwell car sideswiped a car driven by earl mitchell of grace st newmarket when mr mit chell had stopped at the traffic light at davis drive and main si on sunday may 20 no one was injured mr corkwell was arrested at his residence having been identified through his lic ense number wouldnt be so far behind councillor wagg continued reeve elmer daniels said he would introduce the subject at the next commission meeting reeve daniels felt that the solid bank of trees along the main street was partly responsible for the darkened thoroughfare councillor laushway was of the opinion that newer types of street lights might be more dur- 1 messrs radford and dean ap- to prohibit residenls from fer- able than the ones used at prcspeared before whitchurch twp tilizing their land in any way 5 u ill on thursday evening in i they should see fit my only decline sewerage refuse from outside township cost of replacements might be a good plan mrs a stafford the death occurred in seaside oregon hospital on wednesday june 6th of martha may ledg an effort to sway council from objection was bringing in waste their stand taken at the last i from outside the township meeting by which permission to j we you come in dump sewer sludge on mr rad- bc more then wncre ford s 7th concession farm was wili bc ai f rtcp declined mr radford claimed utyreeve richardson seesas ett beloved evtle arthur stafford she was in her apprehension believing that raw mattpr prn 73rd year and had been sick in sewage was coming into the hospital since christmas she i township was born al kinsale ont and j reeve p s legge replied that attended kinsale and greenwood i the petition presented in this schools she was the youngest connection did not govern roun- daughter of the late james and decision delilah lcdgett and leaves to mr radfor an counci mourn her passing one sister mrs c wiley ernmai of st wallwork traded hot words on catherines three brothers nelhe subject and mr radford in- mis- mary wideman miss mary wideman daugh ter of mr and mrs joseph wideman rr 1 unionvilie graduated recently from the wellesiey school of nursing toronto general hospital miss wideman is a former stu dent of the stouffville high school dept of health he said that he be lieved the location was ideal for such a business as it was not a grownup area its a service that has got to bc obtained some where why rto we have to have it here why dont the southern son and elonza of oshawa and vited council to come and see municipalities provide their own charles of whithv what had been dumped and lumping grounds asked dep- offered to give the land away if utyreeve richardson organization meeting jany sign of the dumping could i received a letter from the the organization meeting of he found health unit and im paying no the stouftvile and district cred- mr pcan asked council if attention and ill keep right on resyvoenin- june mlh at i was an oh ta dumping there until thy bring 8 o rock in the stouffville ma- dumping septic tank waste out me to court declared mr dean sonic hall you arc cordially in- whitchurch and the rcwe re- then well jet this thing ou vited to attend plied that there was no bylaw in the open cil on thursday evening the report revealed a surplus of assets over liabilities of ap proximately 77000 and an oper ating surplus for 1936 of s10- 74769 tax arrears had bee secretary that the communica tion should be directed to king township council reviewed the applica tion for a license for the mussel- mans lake bowling alley and considerably reduced total de- agreed that when panic hard- benture debt amounted to 70-1- j ware and exit lights were in- 000 some of which is shared by stalled the application would be surrounding municipalities for further considered school purposes road accounts passed for pay ment for may amounted to 1291210 which included an account for calcium of s339000 wrecking yards a request was received from mr a buchanan to allow a uxbridge twp moves to leave rdhp authority councillor robt nesbitt of wrecking yard on his property uxbridge township strongly op- at lot 13 con 2 deputyreeve j posei th0 municipalitys contin- richardson stated that com plaints had already been receiv ed concerning fires on this site and it was agreed that council should visit the property to assess the situation a request from albert sheard rr 2 stouffville for a wreck ing yard permit at lot 20 con 7 was turned down garbage tenders john e storey has been i awarded the annual tender for lion program and conservation garbage collection in the town l be p neat- ship at the following figures claremont which he said is of oak ridges 3800 muirhead o benefit to us he added that pos nance in the rdhp authority when the matter came up for discussion at the regular meet ing of council on monday eve ning councillor nesbitts chief objection stemmed from alleged costs of which uxbridge was not aware when joining the conser vation group he stated that there were many hidden ex penses which were now begin ning to show themselves councillor nesbitt revealed that a million dollar reforesta- the authority could do a lot for pickering township however he made the comment that he understood that ajax and pick ering village were desirous of leaving the authority as well mr nesbitt told council that a bill would have to go before the legislature to allow ux bridge to withdraw and council authorized councillor nesbitt to prepare such a bill subdivision s18720 mussel mans lake 100000 prestons lake 20000 routine business council endorsed a resolution received from longbranch coun cil calling for the senior govern ments to make a more equitable division of the taxation field the official plan for stouff ville was received from the de partment of planning and de velopment and council agreed to r get your copy of the wine peruse the plan at a later date and white this years edition a communication from ss j of the local high school annual no 1 union king public school j at either drug store or the trio- board stated that four addition- i une office pogo has new home pogo a three month old bear cub was orphaned when its mother was killed in the parry sound district mr don uen salesman at murphy motors agreed to take care of the cub it is presently making its home at the rear of tho garage in the east end of town mr bill sanders is pictured above with pogo