childrens theatre lateham hall saturday 2 pm if minor hockey dance cedar beach hall friday feb 1 vol 84 no 35 phone 6402101 toronto 3411680 whitchurch stouffville markham uxbridge thursday jan 24 1974 16 paces dead skunk found in freezer stouffville the body of a dead skunk reportedly found in a freezer at the aurora headquarters of the ontario humane society had been proven rabid the animal the tribune has learned was shot in stouffville back on dec 22 after it was attacked and mauled by two hunting dogs the hounds owned by murray daniels park drive north have been placed in quarantine mr daniels has criticized the humane societys handling of the entire affair he said that immediately after the skunk was killed an officer was despatched to pick it up york regional police were also called however repeated calls by mr daniels to authorities in aurora between dec 22 and jan 16 failed to reveal the results of tests concluding then that the skunk was not rabid mr daniels had his dogs released from the stouffville veterinary clinic on jan 16 he was told the skunk had been relocated in an office freezer at aurora and the body sent on to thornhill for inspection by the contagious disease divison of the canadian dept of agriculture results of tests showed it to be rabid this is serious matter mr daniels said theres a lot of carelessness here of even greater concern is the fact that a 4v4 year old boy known to have been in the area where the skunk was killed may have come in contact with the animal his parents are very concerned mr daniels said since so much time has lapsed as far as im concerned they the humane societyhad better shape up or get out of the business he concluded admits guilt youth fined stouffville an 18 year old former stouffville youth pleaded guilty in newmarket provincial court friday to a charge of possession of narcotics that dated back to aug 31 1973 according to evidence york regional police stopped a van on grandview avenue markham wayne stanley newmarch fled thescene while police were arresting four other occupants of the vehicle however before making a run for it newmarch dumped a bag of marijuana in the lap of a fellow passenger newmarch now a resident of alberta told the court he was visiting in stouffville jan 17 and decided to turn himself in to police at 27 division but- tonville accompanied by two youths jointly charged in con nection with the same incident t newmarch held in custody was fined 50 or five days but judge clare morrison was hesitant to allow the accused time to pay couldnt youre friends take up a collection for you to pay your fine today asked judge morrison looking across the court room to four youths newmarch said i wouldnt exactly call them friends sick and tired mayor opposes region action onthicketwood stouffville im coming to my wits end protested mayor gordon rat- cliff at a meeting of regional council thursday im sick and tired of the way this plan is going mayor ratcliff strongly opposed a planning com mittees recommendation to approve only 130of 180 lots in the thicketwood booth farm subdivision main street east he said the region apparently did not trust whitchurch- stouffville to withhold issuing building permits on the remaining so lots until ad ditional sewage treatment facilities are available swiss g receive new town crest the town of whitchurchstouffville has a new official crest and is was appropriate saturday that visitors from wallisellen switzerland should be the first to receive it as a gift this particular crest suitably framed is accepted by theo dolder left club new plaza could have iga store president from town mayor gordon ratcliff on behalf of the mayor of wallisellen presentations concluded a civic banquet at sleepy hollow golf and country club jim thomas stouffville the possibility that stouffville iga may leave the downtown core and relocate at the east end of town was a prospect presented to planning board last week with plans for a 26 acre shop ping plaza at the northeast corner of main street and tenth line wt fraleigh of arrowhead construction co told board members that movie theatre and bank representatives as well as a variety of retailers had already expressed interest in locating in the proposed plaza which could comprise 1213 stores and 183 parking spaces in order to secure a food store for the plaza mr fraleigh said his company had negotiated with interested supermarket chains in fairness to the local igastore which has served the community for many years first rights of refusal of premises at the east- end site had been offered oshawa wholesale iga to remain competetive mr fraleigh contended successful food companies have to be in a shopping plaza a and p has expanded but iga cant ex pand any more the big problem is parking the majority of the board obviously concerned over the possibility of the popular local supermarket and its customers being channeled into the plaza predicted such a move would adversely affect downtown commerce a plaza proposal previously submitted for the eastend site was approved in principle last year as a protection to existing stouffville stores the board stipulated that its development be phased in two stages with the residential growth of the town since then the property has been purchased by arrowhead construction mr fraleigh anticipated that if the company received the necessary plan approvals and was permitted to develope the plaza in one stage con struction could be completed by august the arrowhead submission will be discussed further in committee planning team said flogging dead horse pickering the toronto airport planning team is flogging a dead horse claims dr charles godfrey chairman of pop the target date for starting the project is 1975 dr godfrey charges that in pressing on with its plans the ministry of transport is ignoring both the current fuel shor tage and increasing fuel costs he points out that originally expenditures related to the airports completion had been estimated at 300000000 now he notes the cost has escalated to l billion the public enquiry will hear many objections he says including one from the city of toronto who are spending 50000 to protest the scheme snowmobile crackdown denied york region deputy- chief wally harkness york regional police has denied a reported crackdown on snowmobile operators in the area rather the inclusion of a snow machine for winter patrol is merely a means of making the force more flexible in difficult the deputychief said 14 charges had been laid under the motorized- snow rvehiclesactfe including six in mt albert four in stouffville and four in newmarket the most common illegal practice is allowing someone under the age of 16 years to operate such a machine some others do not have their licence plates properly displayed the majority of complaints he said relate to noise the night following any snowstorm the police switchboard lights up like a christmas tree he ob served utilizing a snowmobile in police work is really a public relations job said harkness he said some newspapers in the region had interpreted the program wrongly uxbridge mayor salary 7000 uxbridge if im only worth 6000 to this council i will only do that amount of work protested mayor carl mediation fails walkout imminent york cty agreement has not been reached in negotiations between york county board of education and representatives of the high school teachers if there is no agreement before jan 31 then the teachers resignations submitted in december will be effective a total of 667 high school teachers in the region submitted their resignations a spokesman for district 11 of the ontario secondary school teachers federation told the tribune that three meetings this month with provincial mediator terry mancini preciding failed to bring about an agreement it appears that mediation is at an end the osstf spokesman said j a mass meeting wednesday jan 23 was held in newmarket of the york county high school teachers to decide the future course of action if the resignations stand then 15 high schools and 14800 students will be affected as of feb 1 there are 830 high school teachers in york county puterbough at a meeting of uxbridge twp council jan 17 i can go back to my practice and make three times the amount in onequarter the time mayor puterbough a practicing dentist prior to his election oct 1 was irritated to learn his salary originally set at 7000 was to be reduced to 6000 on a recommendation by councillor maustyn mcknight the amendment was not approved and the 7000 stipend was reaffirmed the original motion called councillors to receive 5000 per year the regional councillor 6000 and the mayor 7000 the amendment would have left the councillor salaries the same but cut back the regional councillor and the mayor by 1000 each councillor eleanor todd was not convinced the higher category was warranted- she claimed it was 1000 too high all the way round she ad mitted the work load had been heavy but should level off in six or eight months 1 eleven year old mark mhler cone 7 whit churchstouffville holds the familys beautiful samoyed sonney following its safe return jim thomas the engineering com mittee passed the entire draft plan previously complained the mayor are we a part of this region or not mr ratcliff explained how the developer would contribute 30 percent of the water costs but until we have approval of the plan we cant supply the service i suggest you put more faith in the whitchurch- stouffville council and approve all 180 lots the mayor was supported by evelyn buck mayor of aurora our planning com mittee is really saying that stouffville cant be trusted she said planning commissioner murray pound explained that his staff was only attempting to act in the best interests of the regional corporation the 180 lot plan was ap proved on the understanding that whitchurchstouffville agree not to issue building permits for more than 130 until sufficient capacity in the sewage treatment plant is available first injury at main st crosswalk stouffville there have been manyjnear misses- at stouffville legalized crosswalk main street and civic avenue on jan 16 however the first serious mishap occurred mrs ralph reaman 101 hawthorne avenue was injured when struck down as she at tempted to make her way ac- cross the road the cars driver was wilmot brown rr 4 stouffville mrs reaman was rushed to hospital by ambulance her condition at last report was satisfactory no charges have been laid 6 sonney found in forest vivian back on jan 1 sonney a beautiful samoyed dog belonging to mr and mrs mike miller and family went missing from their home on the 7th concession north of the aurora road he had accompanied 11 year old mark and a companion into the nearby vivian forest the forest property was not unfamiliar to sonney he had romped up and down the snowmobile and hiking trails on many occasions often pulling one of the boys on a toboggan when sonney failed to return new years day mr and mrs miller were not overly concerned they- thought perhaps he had struck up an acquaintance with a lady samoyed and the two had purposely gone off together however when a week went by they were worried they placed a lost advertisement in the tribune offering a reward to the finder on jan 12 their hopes were rewarded a couple in bay ridges phoned to tell the miller family that sonney was safe and sound at their home they told how they had spotted the pet while snowmobiling in the forest and believing him to be j lost put him in their truck mr r miller drove to their residence to bring sonney back the offer of a reward was refused by the folks who found him mr miller admitted later that for some people to find a dog in the bush might seem strange but theyneed never worry about sonney vivian forest is his backyard