vol 72 no 32 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday january 12 1961 fourteen pages markham twp employee arrested discover shortage in tax money stewart kinnear 12 of richmond hill an ex- employee of the markham township municipal office has been arrested following the discovery of a shortage in tax funds kinnear was picked up by sgt cox and st hood of the markham twp police force and is out on s2000 bail he will appear in court at newmarket on monday first public disclosure of the shortage was made by reeve avilf bearf in his remarks at the inaugural meeting of councii on monday it is believed that tax money from a dozen and a half tax bills was taken amounting to about 2400 kinnear was engaged as a bookkeeper in august but was dismissed in december for inefficiency follow- ing his dismissal the shortage was discovered with the subsequent arrest the township auditors have been called in and have been working on the municipal books for about two weeks in an effort to fully assess the exact shortage it is believed that the tax money was taken from taxpayers and then the receipts destroyed first 1961 baby at brierbush hospital the first 19g1 baby arrived at stoultvilles brierbush hos pital on thursday january 5 at 317 am a pretty daughter was born to mr and mrs ron ald buker cone 8 pickering the initial arrival was pre sented with a complete hand- knit outfit by mrs jessie lawson rn left the gift of an engraved silver cup was presented to the baby by mrs olive reed rn right own er of the brierbush mr and mrs buker have three other children wayne gerald and tenia staff photo new fire alarm system in operation this week this week the bell telephone co will complete the installa tion of the six phones and the hookup to the stouffville fire siren henceforth when a fire call is received at the local tele phone exchange the operator will immediately relay the call to one of the six special tele phones and from hero the re ceiver of the call will ring the siren in order that the public may be assured the system is in read iness at all times a short blast on the siren will be given from one of the six special phones a different phone will be used each day so that in a week all have been tested this short sound- should a fire call actually occur at the hour of 12 the per son sounding the alarm will con tinue to press the button indi cating a fire and not just the short testing stouffville fire chief walter smith reported to council thurs day evening on the installation and council concurred in recom mendation for a daily trial of the new phone system operation of this new fire al arm system will cost approxi mately 32 a month appointments made fire chief walter smith was reappointed at an annual sal ary of 200 and deputychief fred castle was returned at of former pastor as ing of the siren will take place 100 brigade secretary will be every day in the year at 12 o everton smith who will receive clock noon with the exception 50 for his services and george of sunday wilson caretaker at sloo markham twp buiding continues to increase although building generally was down throughout the prov ince last year markham town ship continued to show consider able increase totalling nearly s500000 the building inspec tors annual report on monday revealed that the total value of new residences built in 1960 amounted to 26s3s5 public buildings amounted to 1037- 100 with commercial and indus trial building 993850 making a grand total of 1719015 the total building in i960 was nearly double any of the prev ious years since 1953 in 1939 the amount reached 2207020 and dropped to a low of 1155- 160 in 193s in 1959 the amount of building was valued at 2- 2i36s5 borrowing rate questioned council on monday authorized the borrowing of up to 250000 for current expenses until tax- payment time councillor chas hooper suggested that the third reading of the bylaw bo delayed as he considered tiie rate of 5 and threequarters percent in terest was too high clerk harry crisp assured councillor hooper that other banks besides the bank of commerce would be glad to take the account but not at any less interest in reply to a question the clerk stated that the township had about 150000 in uncollect ed taxes but would receive a return from the government in 1900 road subsidy of ss9000 rev s s shantz a former pastor of stouffville united mis sionary church with his fam ily has suffered a great loss in the passing of his wife as the result of a tragic accident which look place in their home at new- dundee ontario mrs shantz was preparing breakfast on the morning of december 23 when her clothing caught fire by the time mr shantz who was in another room at the time reach ed her she had suffered first and second degree burns over a large part of her body while at first it appeared as though she might recover complica tions developed and she passed away on the morning of jan uary 1st rev and mrs shantz were making preparations to cele brate their golden wedding an niversary on dec 2sth mrs shantz is survived by her hus band and family howard a minister of the united mission ary church at st catharines dorothy mrs roy goodrich of new york state and roy of thorold a teacher the funeral service was con ducted on wednesday january 4 at 3 pm from the new dun dee united missionary church with the pastor rev j e mont gomery in charge rev w m shantz supt of the ontario district of the united mission ary church assisted interment was made in the new dundee cemetery si a 20 year old green river youth was fined 20 and costs in newmarket court on tues day when lie was charged by markham village police with being drunk in a public place and having liquor police chief fred white told magistrate o s hollinrake that robert bruton was picked up near no 7 highway in very drunken condition the ac cused pleaded guilty to both charges possessing liquor geo thomas 35 of brant- ford pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing liquor in a place other than his residence mark ham twp police said that they found two part cases of beer in thomas car while making a routine check of the vehicle the man was fined 10 and costs the township of uxbridge will take court action to enfore its trailer bylaw after may 1st 1901 according to a resolution of council approved this week the inaugural meeting was held on monday the members agreed that the trailer residents should be per mitted to reside in their tempor ary quarters throughout the winter months but should locate in more permanent dwellings by the deadline date only two fam ilies are affected one on the herb hill property no 47 hwy near cone 6 and the other on the russell albright farm be tween cone 5 and 6 mr francis cook pastor at the goodwood united church conducted the devotional exer cises on monday morning at 11 oclock the next regular meeting of council will be held on saturday afternoon feb 11 at 130 quest an inquest into he death of a scarboro student pilot killed in a crash at the goodwood airport on dec 31st will be held at the whitby office of the ontario provincial police on thursday afternoon jan 19h at 2 pm it will be con ducted by coroner t e len nox of uxbridge donald geo taylor 50 was hurled through the windshield of a cf70 raining plane when when it plunged nosefirst in to the side of a hill on ap proaching he landing strip it was suggested that the pilot might have suffered a heart seizure claimed ownership ray woods 33 of todmor- den claimed ownership of a quantity of beer found in a car by markham twp police woods was a passenger in the auto ho pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined 10 and costs driver had socks on his hands court told kenneth glenn mclver agedvicted by magistrate o s holl- sessmei sf twp 12000 hauling grave for new highway may hurt whitchurch roads whitchurch township council that was proposed before is deeply concerned over the by the highways department effect the hauling of thousands themselves but we never heard of tons of gravel for he new j any more about it said reeve 10s highway is going to have wallwork on township roads members road supt davis suggcslod recalled the beating taken by hat council should plan now to whitchurch sidcroads when have a special grant for undue highway 400 was built at that j maintenance required to handle time the township received s10c00 special consideration grant for the extra maintenance although the bill was 26000 a great deal of the gravel for the new super highway will come from whitchurch pits and it was pointed out that the loads hauled when 400 was built are only a fraction of the weight of those being hauled today deputy reeve frank williams suggested that a former plan to charge a levy on every load of gravel leaving the pits should be imposed for road rr-ainicn- ree such unusual traffic members discussed the possi bility of bringing a motion to the floor of the good roads convention as it was believed other municipalities along the highway route would suffer as well whatever we do it should be started row said supt davis and members agreed clerk jack crawford and road supt davis will discuss the problem with the provincial district highway engineer and a hearing will be sought with the highways minister if it is the appeal against ontario countys equalized assessment bylaw will cost the township of pickering over 12000 ac cording to the latest figures re leased last week the total figure may be bro ken down into three separate categories including their so licitors fees a hired assessment expert and a 23 share of the countys costs these approxi mate totals are as follows so licitors stevens hassard and elliott s4100 assessment ex pert mr paul mantha s1300 share of countys costs stooo to add insult to pickerings injury the appeal against the 1500000 assessment increase was not only sustained but an additional 732000 was added reeve shcmian scott has sug gested that the result may- mean a complete reassessment of the entire municipality steps toward this end may be made this year chairman stouffville planning board meeting on tuesday morning elected reg mckay as chairman for 1961 a g thompson was returned as vice chairman the board will meet regularly on the second thursday of each month commencing on feb 9th the bruce gallamore family of market st were happy to have their daughter ruthie from willowdale home with them on sunday when she cele brated her 5th birthday on tuesday she was on channel 9 on tv on your specia day program deemed necessary- mirs vera tarr was a visitor in toronto over the weekend police answer 453 calls markham township police officers answered a total of 459 calls during december it was reported to council on monday the cruisers were driven a total of 9175 miles at a cost of 37069 accidents investigated totalled 32 with court sum monses issued 26 there were 9 breakins and 16 dog com- pll jts the arrests under the criminal code totalled 13 and liquor seizures 6 mrs george hoover mill st entertained about 20 members of peaches wms on tuesday evening mrs harry warriner was in charge of the program the topic being missions of the wo-ii- 18 of manhattan drive toronto pleaded guilty to four charges of auto theft in newmarket court this week he was re manded for sentence until feb ruary 13th constable evan kelly of the markham town ship police told magistrate os hollinrake that the accused youth had admitted theft of the vehicles in north gwillimbury georgina markham and tor onto he had driven three of the four cars until they ran out of gas then abandoned them the fourth one was totaiiy wrecked after he had collided with an other car on don mills road near markham three persons were removed to the hospital as a result and mclver also receiv ed severe back injuries consta ble kelly said that the accused had been travelling at speeds between 70 and 80 mph and had skidded approximately 330 feet before hitting a car driven by mr j a csen of hamilton mclver had teen wearing socks on his hands at the time to avoid leaving fingerprints mag istrate hollinrake told the court i am not going to let this young man or any others get away with such actions the magistrate had been told prev iously by a toronto psychiatrist that mclver has a superior in tellect but has emotional prob lems forgery charge james ross sheard aged 25 of newmarket appeared in newmarket court this week charged on 6 counts of forgery and uttering he is alleged to have committed offences in mar kham and stouffville markham township police agreed to a remand until january 16th sheard was allowed bail at 200000 maurlca davidson aged 27 of oshawa charged by markham township police with criminal negligence was remanded until january 30th by magistrate hol linrake in newmarket court this week charges were laid as a result of offence in markham township on december 19th fined siofl gordon lee aged 42 of kes wick who is presently awaiting trial by a toronto court in con nection with the hit and run death of 17 year old cecelia copp of gormley pieaded not guilty to a charge of impaired driving in newmarket court thi week lee was charged by the markham township police on scptetrbcr 24th he was con- inrake and fined 20000 and costs lee told the court that his erratic driving was due to the fact that he was feeling 111 he said that he had taken only one drink before driving from toronto toward his home in keswick lee said he only took that to try and relieve a severe stomachache pleads guilty kelly edward douglas aged 23 who is a horseman at the bayview horse farm pleaded guilty in newmarket court on monday to six charges of for gery and uttering he was re manded for sentence until jan uary 16th richmond hill po lice laid the charges as aresult of investigation by constable kenneth sider who told the court on monday that douglas had forged cheques on the bank of commerce at richmond hill in the amount of 83400 doug las pleaded for leniency and said i have had time to think while i have been in custody crown attorney arleigli armstrong told the court that douglas has previous convictions dating from 1956 to 19g0 student charged michael donovan aged 18 of agincourt pleaded guilty to a charge of consuming liquor un der the age of 21 he was fined 31000 and costs or ten days the accused youth told the court he is still attending high school he said i just went to a party and had too much mirkham township police said donovan had been found in an almost drunken condition on christmas eve markham twp council notes confirmed the engaging of bernard pick as assessor at a salary of 3800 reappointed frank krimwell to the planning board for a threeyear term and councillor chas hooper as a member from council m m set the time of meeting to be the first and third monday of the month at 730 pm and the 2nd and 4th monday at 130 in the afternoon agreed o iue s75000 in de bentures for tsa no 1 for an addition to school thirtyone stouffville boys enroll for new air cadet squadron stouffvilles new air cadet squadron no 94 was officially launched on tuesday evening with thirtyone boys enrolling mr j b smith manager of the ontario committee of the air cadet league was present to fully outline the operation and purposes of the league and to acquaint the group with the many advantages and privileges of belonging to the cadet squad ron the stouffville squadron will bo affiliated with camp borden rcaf station and the liaison officer will be fltlt bill stra- thy members of the rcaf and other civilian committee members weie introduced by mr smith present were fltlt gerry hynes sgt mccully flt- lt chas konvalinka now with no 700 squadron weston wing comm jan falkowski who served with the raf and will be the commanding officer of the new stouffville squadron mr r h button jos koblen- sky civilian sponsors and po lice officers fred white of markham and harry hetherlng- ton stouffville mr smith paid tribute to the energetic work of constable hetherington in get ting the new squadron under way he said that he had first known mr hetherington when he was an air cadet at noranda quebec during the war years mr smith siated that of the 350 air cadet squaflrons across the dominion 64 were in on tario the squadrons took in some 25000 cadets the boys and a number of parents enjoyed a color sound film on the air cadet story and were then assembled for enrollment next week on tues day night the group is expected to be joined by boys from mark ham and possibly uxbridge post ofsice returns 350 dead letters a total of 350 dead letters were bundled up at the stouff ville post office last week and shipped to toronto the ma jority never to reach their pro per destinations it is the same story at postal departments throughout the province in most cases the intended re ceiver cannot be located and no return address is listed on the envelope a large portion of the dead mail are christmas cards authorities at the dead let ter office in toronto will open the envelopes in an effort to locate some means of identifica tion either of the sender or the intended receiver local postal employees are not given this authority the number of re jects does not vary greatly from year to year blood donors are wanted the service of blood donors is urgently required from this area on monday jan 23r a red crosrj mobile unit will visit markham and a clinic will be held in the veterans hall between 2 and 430 in fie affernoon and from 6 to 8 oclock in the evening a quota of 300 donors has bpon established and it is hoped that the public will cooperate to assure the success of this project ffrz iiiiymvufru allstar a i tidsbury of markham will be one of seventeen local hockey players who will share the allstar spotlight in the annual benefit exhibition game in the stcuffvihe arena on friday night jan 20th a picked team xrom ttt stoufl ville community learie win meet the unlonville jets top contenders in he metro jr b group a portion ol the proceeds will be donated to he 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