this issue 3400 copies totiffrtnt sxttmnc cfossified ads back page vol k so 7 the tribune stouffv1ixe thursday june 30 1955 twelve pages old swimming hole gains in popularity atha farmer injured under heavy tractor norman lehman an atna farmer was injured on thurs day afternoon when he fell be neath the rear wheel of a hea vy tractor operated by mr da vid mcdowell a neighbour far mer he was treated by dr f j button of svouflville and ad mitted to the brterbuih hos pital he suffered a fractured shoulder and three fractured mr mcdowell was operating his tractor and weedspraying equipment on the lehman farm and mr lehman was standing on the rear of the heavy ma chine unnoticed by the driver mr lehman fell off the trac tor and was pinned under one of the rear wheels mr mcdow ell brought the tractor to a sudden stop and quickly re leased the injured farmer he will be confined to hospital for five or six days the old swimming hole lo cated on the kirk property south of dickson hill has be come a very popular place for both young and old dur ing our recent hot spells on weekends more than sixty- have been known to be in the water at one time with the closing of public and high schools in the district for summer vacation it is ex pected mat tnis swimming hole will become even more popular pictured above are a number of boys enjoying a saturday afternoon dip to escape the ninety degree tem peratures final chapter in b s telephone history no 20 of series by mr a i bruce tnis history would be incom plete did it not record the names of the directors the following is the list with their years of service and in the or der of their elections to office robert miller 19015 presi dent 1904 david w heise 19- 01 to 1937 secretary during entire period george a brodie steele 19015 vice pres peter p steele 1901 alex d bruce 1901- still in harness but no longer fit for heavy draft serv ice pres 1905 and general manager september 1905 geo forester 1905 dr f a dales a9051932 vice president during several years las h ratcliff 19051940 treasurer 1905 to 0943 vice pres 194346 sam p foote 19067 dr walter a sangster 19061912 vice pres during several years walter- scott 19061915 james under- hlll 19323 thos paterson 19- 34 to 1915 thos b kae 1938 still serving secty 1938 secty- treas 1943 sam n doner 1938 still serving vice pies 1916 to 19ks simeon hoover 1913 to 1952 fred c pugh 1945 still serving ross f klinck ipfsstill serving f glen rat- ciiff 1916 still serving vice pres 1948 reg manewell 1952 still serving managing direc tor of plant 1954 mr manewell has a record in telephone business that is worth recording as a repre sentative of the bell tel co he became acquainted with our system inquiring whether there was any stock available jie made an investment in our company a vacancy occurred on our board and he was elect ed to fill that vacancy when he retired from the bell tel co e made him managing director of the plant a new office on our staff he brings to hi duties the knowleri meeting seeks to spark chamber of commerce the small attendance at last thursdays meeting of stouff- ville chamber of commerce did not dampen the determina tion of those present to take effective steps in sparking a re vival of the organization it wa considered that the few stalwarts in attendance were not sufficient in number to war rant calling it a regular meet ing but plans were made for the next regular meeting to be held in the council cham bers on thursday jury 14 at 8 oclock it was stressed in informal discussion that membership in the chamber of commerce is not limited to business own ers only the object is for all similar groups to sell and pro mote the home town to others it was considered that the chamber had done a good job of publicizing stouffville in past years through the trade mlssionary pastorpreaehed 104 united missionary church reports good progress the final session of the 72nd provincial conference held re cently in bethany church kit chener ended on a note of op timism when it was revealed that the value of church pro perly has doubled in the past four years and that church offerings in the same period have increased 56 percent the increase in church membership for the four year period is 6 percent while sunday school enrolment increased 30 percent other statistics showed that last year the average united fair and it was announced that the fair would be the sub ject of discussion at the forth coming meeting all members in attendance agreed to be at the july 14th meeting along with several friends and a good attendance for this next meeting was re quested by reg mckay co announce gala store reopening in a doublepage advertising spread in this issue ratcliff co announce the reopening of their giant iga foodliner with four thousand square ft of selling spare largest branch store of this wellknown chain north of the citv announced for the opening commencing thursday july 7 and continuing for the balance of the week a giant draw for a ge tele vision set a ge refrigerator to he concluded august 6th samples and prizes will be giv- a great series of prizes is en out each day markham police rush motor accident victims to toronto hospital markham township police constable bob hood rushed 2 accident victims to the fast general hospital after their car was in collision with an other vehicle on the don mills road near buttonville on sun- nvjjday night workmen but that day he made a confesesion i have never been able to say go ahead men i must say boys on i persuaded him to remain skill acquired during long years mrs dorothy bews 116 vir- o service with the bel co ginia ave toronto the driver during the first year of our of the accident car was accom- hisiory we had live directors pa nied by her husband wil- at our first annual meeting j liam she crashed into the rear this number was increased to seven and that has continued to be the number during the first twenty months of our his tory d heise was pre eminent i the promotion of our enterprise sacrificial is the only word that can describe the service that he rendered sometime in nov 1301 mrs helso called and informed me that david was not well and would like to see me i found hm lying on a couch and trembling like an aspen leaf he was worrying about the ex- tenslon to markham which was in progress but which was far from being completed and winter close at hand a gang of workmen had been recruit ed from the district through which he line was being con structed the men were unknown to m heise and being inexper- lei ed men he had deeded to work with them as one of the g ing he had been driving by horse about seven and a half c miles to work had reer doing a full days work driving home and continuing to work for himself until he v i to bed for a few hours of i when 1 saw how worn was l was alarmed but of a car driven by mr jack sermons made 400 visits to members attended 56 prayer meetings and 49 sunday school sessions conducted many com mittee meetings and held the usual number of weddings funerals and dedications for this he received a salary of 2000 ministerial and lay delegates were assigned for the general conference for north america which will take place in beth any church in november min isterial delegates being rev mr shantz and rev h b wideman kitchener rev p g lehman new dundee rev arthur walsh toronto and rev l k sider st thomas the election of officers for the coming year again placed rev c e hunking of gormley in charge of united missionary youth organizations rev stou- ffer of stouffville was one of eleven elected to the executive committee of the conference rev ward m shantz of kitch ener was reelected district su perintendent rev l k sider of 7ion church st thomas markham tp reeve asks clarification of water plans at the weekly meeting of markham twp council held on monday reeve a lemasurier calied on the townships water committee councillors d dea- con and v griffin to bring in a complete report as soon a possible on the proposed water and sewage system for the southwest corner of the town ship he felt an extensive re port showing the actual divi sion of total costs would help clear up any misunderstandings in the minds of the ratepayers 1 think the sooner we can clar ify the whole situation the bet ter remarked the reeve the speaker went on to state that he has been receiving numer ous phone calls from ratepayers in the first concession request ing additional information as to costs and the initial area to be served the committee has been busy collecting data and negotiating with the strbdividers who are to pay a large portion of the total costs and representatives of oie residents in the high land park and ddricaster areas as yet they have not tabled an official report with council once they are in a position to make a concrete recommenda tion then the whole thing will be thrown open to debate reeve lemasurier felt that the present property owners should be given first priority in whatever scheme is finally de cided upon he also favoured referring the matter to a vote of the people before it is actu ally proceeded with committee chairman deacon stated that it is not the committees intention to force anybody into the scheme he agreed that the fin al decision must rest with the people the committee is holding an important meeting with the subdividers this week in an attempt to get them to bear a larger share of the total casts involved this meeting will be followed by further talks with the ratepayers from doncaster and highland park it is hoped a final solution to the problem of redeveloping the long idle selkirk subdivi sion in thornhill has been reached as the result of a long drawn out series of negotiations be tween mr selkirks solicitors and the township the mem bers on monday unanimously passed a resolution which if it proves acceptable to mr sel kirk will mean he can r submit his plan to the planriin board under the terms of the resolution he will be permitted no tribune next week the sfourtili tribune will he cloei ne teek and ihere will tw no nuf of he paper on july 7h much of the heavy equip ment in the plant i lwin4 moved into the new addition lo the printing plant and dur ing fhii period the staff will enjoy their annual vacation planning board hesitant on new industry until water system improved police warn against bad cheque artist i opp chief ws hiliard is equesting the cooperation of ioc3l residents concerning any strange or suspicious persons i who wish to pass worthless cheque- in a letter received by chief hilliard from chief constable w j enhis of wood- siock local citizenry ate asked i to be on the lookout for a man who represents himself as an agent for the london life in surance co he uses the follow ing aliases leslie rryce l b sinclair i r parker and leslie rreen his description is as follows age 3035 weight 140 lbs medium build height fit may have mustache many merchants in western ontario cities and towns have been vic timized bv this man stoil ie prrg bod discussed seek ng tne assist ance of the department of planning development la in duce new industry to town a special meeting on mi nd night but were cautioned ag ainst making any over to prosjiects by reeve elmer dan iels who told the board that they could do little in his re gard until the pub- i iities commission proceeded rhh muchneeded improvements to the municipal water system c h nolan member of the board suggested that a resolu tion go from the planning boud 10 the commission mg- mg immediate action so that the steady growth of the com munity would pot be impeded no support was received in this connection lie also pointed out that a great percentage of in dustry required little more than a standard washroom wa ter service and the board should not hesitate merely on these grounds reeve daniels stated that the i local water service was being cut in half by the use of the present chlorinating system and i he was continually being called j to easiond residences where sam foote named aurora engineer a native of whitchurch twp is to be auroras first town en gineer s d foote was appoint ed to the position by town cou ncil last week he will work on a parttime basis spending his mornings and such other time as may be necessary on town affairs and the rest of his time at his own business in which he is president of foote brothers engineers and con tractors he is to be paid s3 per hour while on municipal duty oe obtained from the tips the commission had to de cently and have to pend s much to ti tee water sys tem staled the reeve official llui messrs john bosfield and eli comey of the metropolitan planning bo rd attended the meeting and oked over the proposed osi i plan of stouff ville as a 1 out some months go by the local planning bd the plan sets out those areas considered best for residential commercial and iidnstria pur poses the metropolitan repre sentatives stated tea they were prepared to survey the town and suggest any improve ments they thought necessary in this plan after which it would be presented to the rate payers at a special meeting this work will be undertaken during july once the official plan is ap proved by the minister of plan ning vc- development steps can be taken to draft a zoning by law which will set forth the types of buildings which may be erected in the various se- tioris outlined as residential commercial and industrial markham school guard hit by passing truck eight houses are nearing completion on the starvale subdivision the homes are of brick construction and are available on the vila plan the properties are being hand led by mr murray sinclair realtor they are being built on the former keith farm safety ci ib please note the change in day from friday to thursday each week meeting 7 oclock at town hall for registration program baseball mr albert wilon main st i i markham a school guard suf- 1 fered a broken collarbone on thursday morning of last week when struck by a loaded ce mentblock truck the driver clarence croxall of uxbridge has been charged by markham j town constable fred white i with careless driving and fail ing to remain at the scene of an accident he was remanded on si0o0 bail and will appear before magistrate hollinrake at newmarket court on july 5th mr wilson was directing a number of public school stui dents across markham main street when the accident oe- curredi witnesses claimed he j was knocked to the pavement by the force of the impact and his stop sign which he car ried was thrown some distance farther down the highway a passing motorist mr bob ba ker an accountant at the bank of nova scotia markham as sisted the injured man into his car and proceeded to follow the truck in spite of his injuries mr wilson stayed on the job thro ughout the day he was replac ed on friday and for the re mainder of the public school term mr wilson has been a school guard in markham for the past two months he was formerly a guard in scarboro for three years ive faced huge tanks on the battlefield but nothing equal to this he said croxall stated that he was pot aware that anyone had been struck as he saw the cross ing guard and two children moving across the street as his cab passed he told the press that he had been driving for more than thirtylive years and had never had the slightest trouble of any kind and if he had been told by the person taking his number of what had happened he would ceitainly have come back june popular bridal month prentice thornlea ave to- ted to the executive committee and was chosen asjhairman of continues as viceupeidmend amnffls m withom payin continues as provincial secre tary rev l r pipher of new- dundee who has completed 25 years as provincial treasurer was reelected to this post rev p g lehman of bethel church new dundee was elee ronto the bews auto was bad ly damaged and its occupants the committee on military prob- sulfeved head and face lacef a- j lem lions dr j porter of inionville was called and treated the in jured couple due to the heavy sunday evening traffic mark ham twp police decided to the municipality the s21800 ad ministration fee- per lot which was originally demanded how ever when he goes to subdi vide the remaining lots in the development he will have to add onto whatever the admin istration fee is at that time the original s21r per lot the over- icontinued on page 12 among those elected to the home mission promotion board new photography were rev h s hallman kitchlfi r ener beihanv church and rev c f beii iistowei horticultural show rev j w collev of hespeler was elected to the board of the annual horticultural governors of emmanuel bible show will be held in the arena college rev v k snyder facon wednesday august 31 as ulty member of the college in the past there will be a class esponsibilitv for performance by the close of iw our busi- will be one of the examiners for sewing a new feature has for applicants to the ministry heen added this year with a rush the victims to hospital in a cruiser rather than wait for an ambulance with them ness had almost doubled and mr heise had had many with other important rievelop- years experiencs as a builder jments imminent when the an- and was noted for his ability jnua meeting came no person in handling large gongs of suggested any change in the personnel of the board of di rectors that board was des tined to continue unchanged come i until the death of dt dales in 1032 surely this is a remark- able record of unbroken serv- at home and rest and prom- j ice and is worthy of more than ised lo make a trip to mark- a passing notice ham every day and bring back i eor many years we were ex- a report concerning the prog- plorers in telephone busmes pughevans clan gather here he vh 1 mrr iov he had 1 was ress of the work presumably mr heise collected a work mans pay for his time while handling tools and raising pole- there is an interesting minute concerning his service as treasurer genera man- ager we voted to him the sum of 30 for the year ifflm a he annual meeting held january 13 1906 the directors who were elected were bruce mr dae foote hee ratcliff un sangter and scott with the sure exception of mr hee and the jot c previous to 1910 problems which today would be quickly settled were sometimes sub jects of prolonged debate con sequently meetings were held frequen in the h astendinj continued on page ii class in photography these classes call for work that has been done during the pas year and can be entered as follows sew ing 1 pr embroidered pillow cases 2 pair of pot holders 3 embroidered tea towel t tea apron 5 work apron k childs dress under 10 yrs 7 childs sun dress s babys knitted jacket 9 babys knitted bonnet and bootees 10 childs knitted sweater nearly two hundred gather ed on saturday june 25th in the stouffville memorial park for the 20th pughevans re union the afternoon was spent in sports of various kinds after which all sat down to a boun teous upper the names were u mens knited sox 1 pr read of thoe who had passed jo crocheted doilie not over me on in the past year by president vincent baker of e these were mrs g irse and buggy j illf geo p mra ing was i r k mr ben jones mr morgan pugh mrs john coates eleanor xelie rae mrs henry white mr milton benson writer all had municipal coiin had been re es pective r m i planning co in ifwl detent experience w enous a lac oy widen jan rr le has liscovered v so prese r ies from t tx ks of i oains he has pa r d mrs alt mwnii red hay- man across 13 crocheted doilie is or over 1 embroidered luncheon cloth 15 dressed doll over 15 high photography i animal or animal i i i i or children i landscape human interest sara subject any rowers or otherwise 1 to be in black ardi i rr v i on i ii mr lloyd in the and mr were m second s frank arried rec markham in j ently bap tist c the foi wick rorcn mar i daugh the bride is iura marie hart- tor of mr and mrs a hartwick stoulfviile and the groom the son of mr and mrs edward lloyd ber of tr ferrrs tie work bt ti tie i tin gorraley excrjnst rei o ro ag ixrds pi grove o c ji mertens stcreury mr and mr- i yr arep i ert above followinff ihi recent wd- iirg n tre second markhara r and he jroom the er r wvi rot- p- daughter of rev i mr and mrs maurice norman rcnvan stouflviile umoavihe n of mr eoy of