pje 8 the stouffylue ttttune tfcerafay tatnh 30 1961 uxbridge pickering tp news claremont a te test clinic will be con ducted in the basement of the united church on wednesday april 5th from 2 pm to 5 pm and from to 10 pm the re sults of the tests will be revealed on monday april 10th persons showing a positive reaction will be xrayed at that time a joint service will be con ducted in the united church on good friday mar 31 at 11 am students at the pickering dist high school have been in the midst of their easter exam inations during the past week the tests were completed on march 30th today and classes were discussed at noon hour close to one hundred people attended a supper in the united church on thursday march 23 at the conclusion of the w a meeting members or the grade 13 eng lish class at the pickering dist high school attended a per formance of the play entitled the heiress at the crest the atre in toronto on friday even ing the play is based on the story which is part of this years english course mrs j brodie a former resi dent in the claremont area pass ed away last week at boca ro- tan florida mr ken ward returned by air on monday from a trip to tampa florida he was accom panied by officials from ensign motors in toronto mr john mclntyre head of the local cooperative attended a managerial meeting in peter- boro on monday mr and mrs victor morley were sunday visitors at the home of his parents mr and mrs fred morley mr and mrs don hedges and rosemary attended a bowling party at woodbridge on satur day mr and mrs norman young and family oshawa spent sun day with mr and mrs jack leh man mr tom davis has returned to work at the sarco plant fol lowing a period of confinement with virus pneumonia mr and mrs fred ward visit ed with mr and mrs howard haynes in listowel on saturday mr les lye has been forced to take some time from his work at the sareo plant due to a recurrence of a knee injury mr ivan taylor was the dri ver of a large cement truck that was involved in a fatal accident on hwy 401 at the whitby clo- verleaf last week it marked the first time that mr taylor has been involved in a collision in spite of a lengthy driving rec ord he has won several awards for highway safety no charges have been laid the next meeting of the 4h club will be held at the home of mrs l pugh members are ask ed to be at the four corners at 145 for transportation on april 8th tickets are available from members of the united church womens association for the consumers gas cooking school to be held in the stouffville high school on monday april 10 at 8 pm the guides and brownie mo thers la held their monthly meeting at the home of dorcen welsh mar 20 with vice chair man june mlchell presiding it was agreed to send three dele gates to the provincial annual meeting in toronto in april they are district commissioner kay hayward guide captain jessie mcguire and la repre sentative bene rennle keep in mind the pool for complete or incomplete uniforms contact june michell for further infor mation at claremont 1g3j3 the second class girl guides were hostesses to their mothers arid other guests on thursday night during the regular guide meeting this was for a special proficiency badge mrs norrire hill thanked the guides and the company on behalf of the mo thers commissioner kay hay- ward commended the guides on their work the 196061 bowling season for the ten team bowling league came to a close friday night the banquet to complete the sea son will be held on saturday april 29 at spruce villa four men from the legion entered a dart tournament at oshawa on saturday there were many entries in the team tournament claremont finished in seventh place in the singles bill mcquaker completed the semifinals but lost out in the finals he will go on to trenton for further competition keep in mind the weekly eu chres held in the legion hall there are only four more so plan to attend dont forget to obtain your draw tickets from any member of the legion la dies auxiliary or at the euchres prizes for the draw are 1st deep fryer 2nd stepup kitch en stool 3rd combination ash stand and magazine rack mr and mrs j rcnnie and family spent sunday in tor onto and visited her parents mr and mrs h watts also mr and mrs wm hobday and fam ily mr and mrs samarillo enter tained relatives from toronto on sunday they were mr and mrs b wills sr and mr and mrs b wills jr and family and mrs higginson and mr and mrs j samarillo and family mr and mrs a roszell spent a few days last week in pitts burg and new york on a com bined business and pleasure trip mr and mrs steve wideman were guests of honour at a miscellaneous shower on fri day night held at the home of mr and mrs a wideman they received many lovely and useful gifts mr thomas e stephenson a former blacksmith in the village was a recent visitor in the dis trict last week mr stephenson now resides on broadway ave in toronto w i euchre april 7 the claremont womens in stitute are holding a euchre on friday april 7th at 830 the draw on the quilt will take place fire agreement okd with uxbridge twp mr donald lyrde pickerin twp fire chief and spokesman for the claremont brigade has worked out a satisfactory finan cial agreement with the town ship of uxbridge the new ar rangement will be retroactive to jan 1st 1961 the claremont unit will continue to respond to calls in uxbridge currently serv ed by the claremont telephone circuit the new rate will be as fol lows five hundred dollars an nual standby time plus 7500 for the first two hours up to 12 men additional men s500 each with a maximum payment of 3100 per fire up to 2 hqurs additional hours s1000 for twelve men additional men s250 per hour with a maximum of s5250 per hour a standby crew of four men minimum and one truck at a fire will re ceive 52000 per hour the con tract can be terminated by either party with a three month notice councillor ross deakln in formed pickering twp council at a special meeting on monday night that mr lynde had pre sented his proposal to the ux bridge council at a regular meeting earlier this year he said he understood that the ar rangement had met with the uxbridge members approval he noted that to date this year the claremont brigade had al ready answered three fire calls into the area 175 pigs 42 cows perish iir burning barn fortytwo head of cattle and 175 pigs perished when an ux bridge township barn was lev elled by fire in the early hours of saturday morning march 18 the cattle both registered and grade holsteins and the pigs were the property of mr ron ald shier the barn belonged to mrs clarence gall located on lot 37 con 6 uxbridge township the barn has been rented by mr shier for the past several years as has some of the farm property it is understood there was no insur ance on the building but the ani mals were covered cause of the fire is unknown proceeds from dance to fire victim the entire proceeds from a dance sponsored by the brook- lin junior farmers and the jun ior institute on saturday night have been donated to mr ron shier uxbridge township far mer mr shier suftered the loss of 175 pigs and 42 head of cattle in a disastrous barn fire on his property cone 6 march isth more than one hundred persons were present music was pro vided by mr rod oxford congratulations to mr and mrs wm duncan of green river who celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary on sunday march 26 when they were at home to their friends at the home of their son gordon and mrs duncan and family mr and mrs wallace ellicott of toronto called on his mother mrs wm eilicott also on their soninlaw and daughter mr and mrs eldon carter john debbie and jimmle new- son of glen major visited their grandparents mr and mrs a storrie little irvin wagner who has been living with mrs carter has now gone to live at orillia congratulations to mr and mrs wm knox also to mr and mrs w c willson who cele brate their wedding anniver sary on march 27 both couples were married the same day the ioof euchre was held at whitevale hall on friday night as usual with the follow ing winners ladies mrs now- ian mrs williams mrs red- dick gents mr gordon mai- colm mrs john tweedie and mr obrien there will be no euchre next friday but will be the following week mr manson ellicott was rush ed to the ajax hospital on sun day evening where lie was oper ated on for appendicitis we wish him a speedy recovery mrs mcguckin also mrs mc donald and little boys of stouff- ville called on the formers dau ghter mrs ray ellicott last week mr and mrs ed jones of newmarket called on mr and mrs d l mairs one day rec ently mr and mrs joe burrows have returned from a one month vacation in florida mr levi storrey of glen ma jor visited mr and mrs a stor rey recently a group meeting of the cubs and scouts was held on march 21st at the home of mr george willson they discussed mov- altona dealer attends training session in georgia mr fred lewis of altona feed supplies limited spent one week at vienna georgia at the southern training center of tractor and implement divi sion ford motor co where he participatedin five days of intensive product and sales training in ford tractor and equipment operation and fea tures with approximately 30 other dealers from all parts of the country mr lewis is working with different kinds of farm equipment every day though some classroom work is involved he is spending most of his time in field work while developing new ideas and techniques and operating new equipment the classes are purposely kept small so that the students can get a maximum of personal instruc tion the training program at fords southern training center re quires a large assortment of equipment including 50 to 75 tractors an even greater num ber of implements and a var iety of competitive equipment for use in making infield com parative tests at this session mr lewis is working with trac tors mowers rakes hay con ditioners hay balers forage harvesters plows tillage plant ing cultivatitng equipmen fords new 6000 tractor and related implements the training center occupies a central georgia farm of 523 acres which affords a wide range of soil types its facilities include a dining room service shop classrooms and recrea tional areas climatic conditions of the area allow outside train ing activities throughout most of the year ford is a pioneer in the prac tical training of dealers and has operated the southern training center for the past four sea sons the accommodations per mit the training of hundreds of dealers each year becomes speculator when land value exceeds 250 an acre says speaker as soon as you say that your i ernment he said he noted that property is wortil more than i school boards to a great extent s250 per acre youve quit farm- 1 were subjected to rather rigid j ing youre a speculator stat ed mr donald middleton direc tor of properties with the on tario feuration of agriculture mr middleton addressed the an nual meeting of the pickering township federation of agricul ture in broughni on thursday night the speaker charged that no dirt farmer could afford to remain in the agriculture busi ness if the land was valued in excess of this figure he sug gested that a farmer should en joy the benefits f a preferred tax rate until the time comes when he decider to post a for sale sign on his premises he contended that an increased as sessment rate should then go into effect when the farm is sold and revert back to time when the property was placed on the auction block land is not wealth anymore he said its a commodity that you barter about puppets of govt mr middleton suggested that in the township of pickering educational costs would repre sent dose to onehalf the am ount stipulated on the farmers tax bill he noted iiiat transpor tation services alone for high school and some public school students would amount to a ra ther costly item both the ur ban and the rural resident is constantly demanding more ser vices and he is going to have to pay for them he said he noted that it was regrettable that less than ten percent of the child ren raised in r community would contribute nothing in re turn education costs should be taken off farm land and bo as sumed by the two levels of gov- controls they have no real authority he said they are merely puppets of the govern ment s17500 per child mr middleton reminded his audience that the minimum cost of educating one child per year would amount to s175 homes in rural areas dont return this amount in taxation he said he warned that the selling of farm lots for residential build up only created a hardship in the school section many of the problems we know today have been created by your selves he said he pointed out that many township councils were attempting to discourage spot development through zon ing or demanding tenacre lots he charged that although school costs were the most glaring ex penditures other services such as police welfare etc added to the burden often too late commenting on the rules and regulations with regard to ex propriation mr middleton said that there were more than 23 statutes in government legisla tion which permit land to be expropriated he noted that con trary to certain beliefs the bell telephone does not have the powers of expropriation he said that they have charter rights to the use of road allowances you may stop them simply by say ing no he advised he sug gested that an underground tel ephone cable did constitute a risk to the property owner too often the farmer decides to air his problems after it is too late he said once you sign your name to the dotted line youve had it he concluded nine school boards show lower rate hrman lehman to head edetation ing of a building to the park for use by the boys the regular monthly meeting of the womans association of st johns church will be held on wednesday april 5 at 8 pm at the home of mrs geo will- son assisted by mrs w hamil ton the devotional will be tak en by mrsgeo gray while the program will be in charge of mrs l johnston there will be special good fri day service held in the church here on march 31 at 10 am the flowers in the church on sunday were in memory of the late mrs g harbrom elsie matthews who was well known to many in this community where she was born she was also the first bride to be married in this church mrs geo perry has been con fined to her bod for some days suffering from an attack of pneumonia we all wish her a speedy recovery mr and mrs riarrett and fam ily moved into their new home which they have built in the pas- coc subdivision we all welcome them to our community sorry to hear mrs winton white now of balsam but for merly here is now ill at the mr norman lehman clare mont rr 2 has been returned as president of the pickering township federation of agri culture for 1961 the election of officers was conducted at the annual meeting in brougham on thursday night the vice presi dent is mr reg hoskins and the secretarytreasurer mi- john power directors are messrs norm lehman reg hoskins john power and edgar ward auditors arc messrs milton pogg cecil disney and edgar evans the election of the offi cers was in charge of mr don ald milton director of proper ties with the ontario federation of agriculture fall meeting mr i mclean suggested that the pickering federation of ag riculture should hold more than one meeting per year he urged that more interest should be cre ated among the back conces sion farmers hundreds of farmers dont know that the federation exists he said mr lloyd wilson disagreed too many like to sit at home and grumble but wont attend a meeting to air their com plaints he said they want to sit back and let others do the work for them mrs leslie meyers suggested that the executive should feel free to summon a meeting whenever they felt the farmers were faced with a particular problem it was agreed that a public meeting would be held in the fall possibly october home of her daughter mrs price of toronto we all hope to hear she is better and around again brougham womens institute will hold their regular meeting in the township hall on tues day april 4 at 2 pm hostesses mrs davis mrs carleton and mrs matthews winners of last weeks euchre parly wore mrs w carlton mrs a gray mr o burton t crawford consolation prizes mrs j davis bill horseman highway no 2 to be four lanes work will commence this year on the reconstruction of high way no 2 from pickering vill age west to the scarboro boun dary reeve sherman scott and engineer t o jefferson were informed of the plans at a meet ing in toronto on monday the matter was discussed at a spe cial meeting of council on mon day night the project to extend over a ten year period will eventually extend the pavement from its present two lanes to a four lane thoroughfare at the present lime it will be widened to 24 feet with 12 foot shoulders the reeve noted that although a number of curves would be straightened very few buildings would be affected a coroners jury on wednes day night attached no blame to anyone at the conclusion of an inquest into the death of a rouge hill man doc 4 1960 the jury at whitby heard evi dence surrounding the death in a twocar collision of john h danielljenklns 49 at altona road and the pickeringuxbridge township boundary the jury out for so minutes ruled that danielljenklns had died as a passenger in a car driven by george k drynan of oshawa in the collision and add ed that from the evidence of witnesses no definite responsi bility could be assigned george drynan 492 masson st who appeared before the jury supported by crutches still recovering from injuries receiv ed in the accident said that on the afternoon of dec 4 about 5 pm he his wife and mr and mrs john danieljenkins of rouge hill had left a friends home north of the townline to return to the danielljenklns home he said that they drove west on the township boundary and past the altona road sideroad pointed out that he should have turned down that road he said that he backed his car to the intersection and was stop ped when he suddenly felt the impact he said his car was on the north side of the road he told the jury that he had his car lights on and he did not see any car approaching from the west mrs drynan who was in the rear seat directly behind her husband said that she was look ing out the rear window of the car to make sure the car did not enter the ditch when the impact occurred she too said that she was certain their car was on the north side of the road she said that she had not observed any approaching car mrs dorothea danlcll-jenk- ins said that she was seated be side mrs drynan directly be hind mr danielljenkins she said that she was also looking out the rear window when the impact occurred she said that she had the im pression that the right side of the dryran car was very close to the north ditch she said that while she looked out the rear which runs outh of the town- window she observed a light lice and mr daniell jenkins shining under the car shortly before the crash but she had not observed any car coming from the west donald benson 20 of rr 1 claremont said that he had pic ked his car up at a service sta tion about one and onehalf miles west of the accident scene he said that he was proceeding cast at about 45 mph he said his cars headlights were on he told the jury that he could remember nothing of the acci dent in fact he said the last thing he remembered was pass ing through altona about a half mile west of the altona road dr g woodman of sunder land coroner who examined mr daniel jenkins at the scene said that he had died of a frac tured skull pc ray goodwin of the whitby detachment of the opp said that he had found both cars in the south ditch some few feet east of the altona road he said that he found a gouge mark in the pavement on the castbound lane or south side of the townline and some debris around it this he said appear ed to bo the point of impact stephen wideman 21 of rr 3 claremont said th he had followed benson that afternoon he also said his carj head lights were on he told the jury that ho had not seen any westbound car on the road but had seen bensons tail lights fly around to the north and knew he had struck something he jammed on his own brakes he said and a wheel locked and his car went into the north ditch he brought it out to the road again and stopped it joyce lewis 15 of r r 3 claremont whose home is about 400 feet west of the intersection said that she saw the two cars coming from the west one about four carlengths behind the oth er she said that both cars had lights on and appeared to be driving about 50 mph she heard a screech of brakes she said and then the crash when she arrived at the crash scene she said the horn on the drynan car was sounding adducing the evidence was assistant crown attorney bruce affleck coroner conducting the inquest was dr j a patterson of oshawa members on the jury were murray dunkeld joe tran geo duncan howard piaxton and tom phillips as one teacher was heard to remark babies are angels whose wings grow shorter as their legs grow longer lets all get together and put it over urged mr lloyd wil son ashburn rr 1 in stress ing the need for a farmers co operative meit packing plant mr wilson was one of the spe cial speakers at the annual meeting of iiie pickering town ship federation of agriculture in brougham on thursday night if something is to be done we must get together and do it ourselves he continued mr wilson pointed out that a current provincewide campaign was underway with an objective of two million dollars ontario countys share is 50000 or five hundred shares at 3103 apiece mr wilson noted that the cur rent farm population had dwin dled to a mere 13 the plan is to build a chain of packing plants across ontario this thing isnt just a dream he continued all types of livestock will be processed its an ad vantage to everyone he said if the present trend contin ues we will soon be giving away our product and paying them to take it he concluded cuttin own throats mr allan lishman speaking for the milk producers charged that the sale of powdered milk on the canadian market was cutting ths frmrs own throat he argued that as in britain the powdered product should bo exported we are on ly competing against ourselves he said we the fluid producers are in the weakest position of the whole lot he said there have to be some changes made he suggested that in the milk in dustry the tail was wagging the dog we must have an organi zation that will work for the good of the overall dairy in dustry he urged at the pres ent time we dont have it mr lishman pointed out that toronto milk shippers had in vested s10000000 in bulk tanks within recent years he suggest ed that the dairy industry in its present state was wielding less and less government influence dater and numbering stamps fall line in stock 60c to 95c get them at the stouffville tribune ratepayers in the majority of rural school sections in the township of pickering will be relieved to learn that nine out of fifteen trustee boards have been able to arrive at a decreas ed mill rate for 1961 in addi tion five others show a rate on a par with their 960 figures only the union section a bal sam shows an increa from s to 11 mills the most striking decrease s shown in ss no 31 green bi- ver their mill rate has dropped from 212 in i960 to 12 in 61 ss no 10 brougham is down from 225 to 142 and ss no 7 chorrywood has been lowered from 155 to s s s no 6 brock road has decreased from 124 to 62 lesser cut backs have been made by boards in altona atha cedar creek greenwood and kinie clare mont mt zion mt pleasant whitevale and audley rates are identical with 1900 a break down of the rural school rates follows mills 1961 i960 school section no 5 audley 13 13 no g brock road 62 124 no 7 cherrywood s 135 no s whitevale 1 1 14 no 9 greenwood lr 13 no 10 brougham 142 225 no 11 green river 12 242 no 12 mt pleasant 99 99 no 13 mt zion 15 15 no 14rcedar creek 1123 113 no 15 claremont 225 225 no 16 atha s12 133 no 17 altona 21 union ss balsam 11 union ss kinsale 126 217 8 145 mr and mrs a foster enter tained friends from maple on sunday mr and mrs donald dun keld spent saturday evening with mr and mrs cyril bielby and family mr joe tran is attending the wheat producers meeting in to ronto for two days mrs murray dunkeld spent the weekend with her daughter and soninlaw mr and mrs james loree toronto congratulations to the newly- weds mr and mrs elgin hast ings nee betty rogers who were married saturday after noon in the christian mission ary church toronto the bride chose seven of her pupils for her attendants misses muriel and leila byer alain myers joanne draper diane foster ruth ann carruthers and shir ley cutley mr gordon mcdowell with a friend radio operator called sunday afternoon on ernie car ruthers a radio operator mrs r mcdonald spent a day last week in stouffville with her daughter work of agr federation in pickering twp by milton m pegs as some disparaging remarks of agriculture in pickering twp were made about the feder ation of agriculture in picker ing township at the recent an nual meeting i thought it might be well to recall some of the work done by it and the benefits received in 1954 when first elected president the executive and di rectors resolved to have the warble fly act enforced in our township if possible every cat tle owner in the township was visited and invited to sign a pe tition the result was the en forcement of the act which has continued to the present time warble fly trouble has practic ally been eliminated as a result meaning thousands of dollars more in the pockets of both dairy and beef producers similarly in 1955 through the work of federation members involving the visiting of every cattle owner the brucellosis control act was enforced the township federation was re sponsible for finding 3 inspec tors to see the act properly en forced in 1957 by provincial law vaccination became free to the farmer and it becomes his responsibility to notify the vet erinarian of his choice when his calves were ready for vaccina tion the results of the enforce ment of this act are hard to estimate we have a brucellosis free area in the township now which means a better sale for livestock and less danger of humans contracting the disease in 1956 the federation con tacted ten percent of the wheat growers of the township to see if they were in favour of a mar keting board for wheat in 1958 every wheat producer was visit ed before the vote for a market ing board for wheat was taken the vote showed 87 in favour and the board has been in oper ation since then resulting in better and more stable prices for our wheat two thorough canvasses were made in the township of every hog producer the first for membership in the hog produc ers coop later the second can vas for a vote on the hog pro ducers method of sale a two- third majority was necessary before it could come into effect this vote carried by 68 ma jority while there is still con troversy on this subject most farmers will agree that there has been belter prices to them continued on next page the man from mutual life leader of the youth group head of his house that the man from mutual life he tnkcs n keen jnteret in civic affairs nnd lends a helping hand to his neighbours as a family man hca aware of budgets babies and bicycles at work hcs an expert a life insurance counsellor a valued friend the mutual life assurance company of canada head orrictj waterloo ontario an outstanding record of high dividends fred m pugh stouffville ont phone 5w dont run- extension phones mi mr nd teircom in 9 colour 3 motfeli call th beix butlnen office or aik turn rran in our gjtcn truck eezsss msanamm