t- 8 the stouffvilie tbibunf tnanin mjtf u 1963 mill is moved petition fails to retain grist mill landmark at concession 7 pickering not sacred higgs u a petition circulated among rural residents in the 7th con cession area of pickering tup asking that a centuryold grist mill on the lormer bayles property should be retained on the site has failed to impress the officials of the metro tor onto and regional conservation authority about three weeks ago tiie entire structure was completely dismantled and re moved from the premises it will be reelected at pioneer village steeles avenue some people regard such landmarks as sacred but we dont said mr kenneth g lliggs director of operations of mtrca lie told the trib une that the building was in a poor state ot icpair and needed to be built from the ground up he sid that he was quite aware of feelings of some persons in the district and knew about the petition purchased in 1962 the conservation authority purchased the john bayles farm in january 1962 and the 100 acres adjoins the present clarentont conservation park the deed to the land dates back to 179s and the original owner was a mr benjamin hallowell within mere recent years the farm lias been occupied by sa muel buyer his son abraham thomas bayles and new his soft jo mr and mrs bayles presently reside on the south side of cone 7 in a neat com pact white clapboard bungalow they purchased from mr kay scott the old mi now removed from the property could relate a tale of floods and tragedy dur ing its long period of active service abraham boyer was killed while working in the mill and thomas bayles was fatally injured in an accident on tiie same farm mr john bayles had resided on lite pro perty since 1905 and vividly recalls the big hood of 193 that permanently wrecked the dam and hooded the 7th concession road to a depth of several feet the mill was never operated by water power after that time the dam had been damaged on two prior occasions due to hoods but each time it was re- pired duulns creek flows through the farm huge 1ogs logs measuring over two feet in depth and eighteen feet long were hewn out of a fine 20 acre maple bush on the for mer bayles property the saw mill is still standing other logs were often brought to the mill by horse teams and sleighs the saw mill and grist mil were at one lime adjoining units but the saw mill was later moved to a higher ground to the notth the bayles arm residence has also been retain ed gone however is the grist mill and the former owner can not help but express some re gret at its passing 1 would like to have it kept there lie said the centuryold grist mill cone 7 pickering has been metro conservation author- that the mil be retained it landmark structure on tin dismantled and removed ity residents in the area had will he reerected at pioneer former john bayles farm from its original site by the circulated a petition asking village steeles ave dam destroyed in 29 this dam that provided ilia water power to operate the mill was destroyed in the flood of 1929 it had been badly damaged on two other occasions but each time it was repaired at the height of the 29 flood the duflins creek overflowed and flooded llie 1 sion to a height feel its banks til conces- of several editors mail centuryold bell removed from greenwood school donileen farm rr 1 ashburn ontario march 4th 1963 to the editor slouffville tribune stouffville ontario dear sir i have always been of the opi nion that ihe purpose of a hos pital is to provide care and comfort and emergency treat ments to the sick and injured but to this particular end 1 am rather disappointed in par ticular wilh the uxbridge cot tage hospital due to the fact that last monday night at a scout meeting one of our boys had a rather deep gash in his the centuryold bell that has beckoned many a tardy pupil to the greenwood public school over the past one hundred years was removed from its lofty rooftop throne on friday afternoon trustee chairman donald goodwin and vvm clark a former member of the board took charge of the pro ject while a dozen children looked on during their recess period once the bell was de tached from its belfry moor ings it took only a matter of minutes to lower il to tiie ground below its weight was estimated at 175 pounds many of the children cheered its descent not knowing that in a few short weeks the bell will occupy an even more prominent position in a solid brick tower on the new fiveroom green wood school only a few ret from the old structure mr clark plans lo polish it up and complete some minor repairs to the chime it is expected that tiie new school will he ready or occupancy early in april the bell was originally cast in england and was shipped to toronto to be installed in si james cathedral when it did not meet the necessary require ments a new one was ordered the late win clark of green wood then a trustee purchas- ed the bell and had it brought by schooner to frenchmans bay and hauled by ox team to its present site the date in scribed on the hell 1s60i is the same year that the present greenwood school was erected a picture story of the bells removal from the roof of ss no 9 will appear in next weeks issue of the tribune you may be able to keep too much night life a secret but eventually time will tell many a driver gets in such a hurry lo reach the next town that he lands in the next world assessment increase aired before aatrca official the question of increased as sessments which invariably arises at all meetings of the pickering tvvp rural ratepay ers association was introduced again on thursday night in the township hall at brougham the guest speaker was mr ken neth g higgs director of oper- lions with the metro toronto and regional conservation au thority mr robt g roy chief orga nizer of the association com plained that he was in the pro cess of deveolping a portion of his properly as a future dona tion m hie university of tor onto he noted that for every step of this improvement plan he was being charged ariditonal assessment anil his taxes had continually increased i may have to have your assistance said mr roy j mr lliggs termed the prob lem as a ticklish matter and agreed ihat he would be pleas ed to discuss the issue with mr roy in private at any time speaking for the anthony mr lliggs said that assessment ap peals had been filed before the courts on a i least two occa sions and each time reductions had resulted mr roy said he had planted 30000 trees on his premises and his total expenditure to dale had totalled close to 4 million dollars does it pay he asked mr lliggs pointed out that improvements for any reason inevitably resulted in assess ment hikes at ihe municipal level theres only one way to get around it he said donate the lanrl lo the conservation authority pickering land brings 214000 a 159 acre industrial site in pickering township was pur chased last week by mastino developments limited of tor onto or nearly 214000 the properly located at the junction of the base line road and station road was formerly owned by frank osullivan of pickering township imcquay real estate of whit by reported ihe land sold or 1350 per acre fed of agriculture to hold discussion a very interesting meeting has been planned by the pick ering twp federation of agriculture in the township hall nl brougham on tuesday evening april 2nd at 8 pm a panel of professional men will fake part in a dis cussion on ihe following top ics i animals and heir diseases 2 hunters and how lo control hem 3 farm post problems all farmers in ihe munici pality are urged lo attend wrist and was bleeding con siderably and at approximately 900 pm took this boy to uxbridge collage hospital only to be turned away because there was no medical aid avail able and as a consequence 45 miles had to be travelled in order ihat this boy could be given emergency treatment at oshawa general hospilal which required eleven stitches and ihe boy did not gel home until 1200 oclock monday night besides causing conisderable mental anguish to the boys parents and myself and not knowing the degree of serious ness of his injury i most cer tainly would hesitate in the future to recommend this hos pital to anyone tiie most dis heartening facl is that the peo ple in claremont and district were asked lo give financial support lo this hospital a few years ago and the boys in our scout troop on their own went out and earned and sent in a considerable amount to this hospital and this irks me particularly since they could not even provide emergency treatment this hospital in my opinion is surely a cottage not a hospilal ii is my hope that if anyone should get in the predicament i was in they will not waste their time or the life of those injured hy taking them or sending them to this hospital cordially yours d w sanderson scoutmaster 1st claremont troop claremont news pickering farm assessment appeals aired before court of revision only two cases heard on monday the pickering lvp court of revision opened hearings on monday into an estimated 400 arm assessment appeals al though a tolal of 27 submis sions were listed for the after- roon agenda only two were aired the court will tesume its sittings on thursday to day tile influx of hoih appellants and interested spectators over flowed the confines of the brougham municipal chambers and the hearings had to be tiansferrcd to the township hall two rural landowners sirs marjorie samarillo and mr kalman vizely both of claremont rr 3 were repre sented by solicitor las mc- callum township assessment commissioner delben goslin was supported bv solicitor harold elliott mr mccallum informed ihe court ihat he planned to con duct a thorough inquiry into the viely rase in order that it might be possible for the court to base other cases on the evi dence produced the court made no teply to his sugges tion iiciioinu rrmted mr samariho spoke on be half of his wifes appeal and claimed ihat 40 of the 9801 acres was not workable he contended that the land assess ment of 5000 and the building assessment of sis25 was loo high it was pointed out that ihe county court judge had re duced the land values on ihe samarillo arm to 65 per acre last year mr goslin stated that his value had been drop ped even below this figure he said thai he had taken into ac count the nonworkable portion of the pioperty and had placed a lower value on this parcel the court reserved its decision on the case at the morning ses sion of appeals two members of the revision court were not in attendance mr comcry a lawyer appeared for ihe after noon agenda mr ken keesor is a member of the court and is also listed among the 100 ap pellants inrenmmame increase the vizely appeal includes a total of 1s1 acres of farm land in four separate parcels lot 23 and 21 cone 9 the basis for would be taken as a lest case on the stand assessment commissioner goslin said that he had not personally made the assessment on the vizely prop erty but replied thai he had complele confidence in ihe abil ity of his staff solicitor mccallum assured he rourl that his client was a nlliime fanner wilh no other occupation and with residence on the premises the mailer of increased assessment on the buildings was quickly settled when the commissioner noted thai a new addition had been constructed to ihe barn mr vizely agreed that this work had been done solicitor kllioli staled that no case had been made ami asked that the court dismiss ihe appeal llie court declined lo take such action tours ihe twp with ihe partial completion of the viely case solicitor mc callum look mr goslin on an assessment lour of the town ship and compared various values of parcels of land wilh that of the vizely farm mr mccallums ire was aroused at one point and he took exception lo a reply voiced by the assess ment commissioner you need not act so smug after what you the appeal was unreasonable j have done to the farmers he increase the court cave no said solicitor elliott intervened indication that the vizely appeal i and charged that mr mccal lum was not only faking evi dence but was also conducting a crossexamination a continued volley of ques tions were directed lo mr gos lin until ihe commissioner voic ed an objection to the solicitor being repetitious i have answered that ques tion several times said mr goslin be patient i learn slowly replied mr mccallum mr goslin said he had been guided hy a 65 per acre figure established bv judge wilmott in 1962 mr mccallum proceeded lo pick out land locations over every concession in the town ship and questioned why one varied in value from another the audience was thrown into an uproar of laughter when mr mccallum proceeded to com pare the increase in assessment of a piece of swamp land with another swamp site how do you justify ihe increase in ihe assessment of this swamp over ihe other asked the solicitor a better swamp replied mr goslin mr goslin spent almost three hours on ihe stand and at 445 pm ihe court was ad journed solicitor elliott is still lo conduct his examination the court convenes on thursday today at 10 am five year old jimmy beelby son of mr and mrs clarence beelby has returned home from uxbridge cottage hospital zol- lovving surgery the claremont golden age club will celebrate its 5th birthday on tuesday afternoon march 19th the sunshine club from pickering will be their special guests both groups are sponsored by ihe pickering twp and village red cross all senior citizens in the dis trict are invited members still holding draw tickets are asked to turn them in as the draw will be made at this gathering valerie samarillo was an overnight guest at the home of mr and mrs gordon mcgralh on friday on saturday evening susan mcgralh spent the night at the samarillo home mr jim curtis mother has been released from hospital and is convalescing at her home in oakville ron hedges was confined for a few days in the uxbridge cottage hospilal but was per mitted to return home later this week rev a c lester supt of home missions and a resident of kingston occupied ihe pul pit in the united church on sunday morning young people from both brougham and claremont will attend the detroit toronto hockey game at maple leaf gardens on saturday night march 23rd the bus will leave ihe village at 030 pm a spe cial block of tickets was ob tained lor ihe local folk by rev a cresswell mr and mrs wilf morloy and family of slouffville were visitors on sunday with his par ents mr and mrs fred morley mr geo mcconnell suffered a nasly fall in his home last week and xray treatment was required to determine the ex tent of his injury mr norman wagg of good wood is now hack at work at the sarco plant mr and mrs wm gliddon left on sunday on a motor trip to new orleans they expeel to be away for about three weeks mr and mrs glen evans have taken up residence in ihe home owned by mr and mrs melville norrish mr and mrs norrish have moved lo ux bridge the claremont united church young people are planning a trip lo ihe channel 9 television studio on friday evening mar 15th mrs ken petty and son mark of victoria square visited on sunday wilh her parents mr and mrs howard hockley mr and mrs ed boniface at tended a masonic banquet at ihe royal york hotel toronto on friday evening mrs jim coates has been confined to bed for ihe past week due to llie flu mr and mrs arthur loyst and janice of whitby visited pn sunday with mr and mrs grant taylor and mrs loyst sr mrs udell celebrated her birthday on saturday march 9th with a party mr and mrs wilf gliddon of toronlo were visitors for the occasion the march meeting of the claremont womens institute will be held on wednesday afternoon march 20h at 2 pm in the community hall the program on health will be taken by mrs lloyd pugh the roll call will be a cure or the blues the lunch will be in charge of mrs murray mrs torrance and mrs g gauslin current events mrs ii green mrs n sanderson of toronlo visiled on ihe weekend with mr and mrs r sanderson and amily and mr and mrs r hockley mr and mrs jack rennie and amily visiled at the home of mr and mrs b wills of scarboro on sunday they also called on mr and mrs b hob day of east york and enjoyed dinner at ihe home of mr and mrs g rennie scarboro the girl guides and brownies will hold a church parade to the morning service of ihe united church on sunday mar 171 h no one lopped the 300 high single mark in the community bowling league lasl week ai roszell was ihe leading marks man with a 294 ken field still holds llie current record with a 349 iwithdul handicap for the ladies ruth nesbitt has a 333 a surprise parly was for mr and mrs mel norrish on sat urday at their new home at uxbridge a number of clare mont riends were present or the occasion a very important meeting h3s been planned or ihe com munity hall on thursday eve ning march 21st at 845 pm the main subject of discussion will centre around the forma tion of a commtiiniy centre a representative of the pickering tvvp recreation committee will attend keep this date in mind mrs gerald aliman and the executive of the pickering tvvp and village branch of the red cross aie lo be commended for their instant response to the needs of two stouffville district families following a tragic lire a- bioomingion aisl week the immediate requirements of the parents and ten children were looked after due to this action the current red cross fund drive in pickering closes on march 15lh mrs rhoda al- mack is ihe campaign chair man for ihe north district of the municipality on friday afternoon mrs rhoda almark attended the fashion show at ej tons college street store in toronlo in ihe evening mr and mrs almack enjoyed dinner ai ihe home of mr and mrs dudley witney of don mills visitors a the al mack home on ihe weekend in cluded mr and mrs r j bun- dy and four children and mr and mrs norman willoughby and family all of toronto rev j a carnegie conducted his farewell service in the bap tist church on sunday mr and mrs carnegie will lake up res idence in north dakota where he has accepted a charge on saturday evening a presenta tion parly was held at the home of mr and mrs ross heron this sunday mr david simmonds of toronto will oc cupy the baplit pulpit mr simmonds is a member of ihe well-know- glen major sim monds family hon michael starr will meet with his old friend in clare- mont on tuesday evening mar 19th at 8 pm in ihe communi ty hall conservation official outlines largescale gram in pickering last year- 900000 persons vis iled parks playgrounds and pic nic centres operated by ihe metro toronto and region con servation authority by 19s0 it is expected that this number will increase lo nearly four mil lion in an effort to keep pace with this trend and also retain the natural resources of soil forest water and wildlife the author ity has continued its program of rapid expansion a portion of which is located in the tvvp of pickering on thursday evening mr kenneth g lliggs director of operations with mtrca outlined the organizations com pleted projects and touched on future plans as related lo pick ering ai a regular meeting of the rural ratepayers associa tion at brougham he was in troduced to a gathering of about twentylive members by pro eugene labrie vicepres ident of the assoc clarenront area mr lliggs said that the clare mont conservation area had been opened twoyears ago and was now beginning to show shape and form he noted that dullins creek would provide the site with excellent fishing but no swimming facilities were being planned for ihe immedi ate future he said that one or two smaller ponds had been proposed or claremont creek located farther lo the north he said that dose to 300 acres of land had also been acquired hy the authority in the glen major- area of uxbridge township mr higgs suggested that i progress on the greenwood area had been delayed due to the proposed construction of the arthur percy dam to he north of the park this project when completed will form a 60 acre lake it will cost one million dollars exclusive ot land a dam previously propos ed or the green river area has been shelved or the pres ent discourage camps miss violet swan a member of the ratepayers executive questioned mr lliggs concern ing the operation of overnight camps on the grounds owned by the conservation authority she said that such facilities so com mon in the united states and overseas were lacking in onta rio mr higgs pointed out that conservation parks had not been equipped lo handle this type of business and he eared ihat such a program might present many problems he said that hoy scout and cub camps had been accepted and even then it had resulted in some dif ficulties he said he belived such tacililies were available in oshawa and sibbalds park near sutton the guest speaker said ihat ihe authority was attempting to promote ireeplanting pro grams in areas thai were not too suitable or highly competi tive agriculture on arms handplanted trees cost 500 per thousand machineplanted trees cost 10 per thousand as a replacement for trees strick en by ihe dutch elm disease six to ten foot saplings may ha acquired at 50 cents each busy this winter the long ski tow at the ski- loft reirl at digrnar was put bark in weekend opera tion during ihe pais winter the lodge was closed down last season if the resort is reopened for business again next year it is hoped that the low may be replaced by a modern tbar for story see page 10 of this issue staff photo