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fouffrtlte srontne v i vol 70 no 40 the tribune stoufkvtllk ontario thursday march 10 1960 twelve pages more than 750 gallons per minute a new stouftville well pro- ions of water per minute will of town residents up to a pop- strike was made on thursday dueed one million gallons of ducing an estimated 750 gal- provide for the future needs ulation of 12000 people the morning a oneday test pro- water in 21 hrs staff photo one million gallons per day test from new town well a volume of water exceeding 750 gallons per minute lowed from a new stouffville well on thursday morning of last week the strike is located only a short distance from lour other town wells and the two reser voirs a oneday test produced one million gallons of water in 21 hours the contractor is mr c h rutlcdgc of nobleton according to the contract the firm was required to produce 750 gallons of water per minute to qualify for their maximum bid of 514500 a minimum of 350 gallons ol water was neces sary or no charge would be made against the municipality the success of the venture will be tested from time to time over a one year period mr e h neville a member of the stouffville puc told the trib une that such a guarantee was necessary as a safeguard lor the town we couldnt gamble with over 14000 of taxpayers money he said the contrac tor took the chance in commenting on the success of tile project mr neville said that the water supply would now be sufficient to serve a population of 12000 people the results were exactly as i ex pected he continued the shaft was sunk to a depth of 14 xeet an eight inch pipe will be con structed into the reservoir work will commence this spring on the extension of the two reservoirs k w betz con struction co of stouffville will do the job when completed the tanks will provide storage for one million gallons of water they will be relined and paint ed a more adequate shutoff will be installed should one res ervoir require cleaning mr ne ville suggested that if the new well continued to produce ac cording to expectations no wa ter restrictions should be neces sary in the future members of the commission viewed the new well on thursday morning aurora contractor gets high school job here tax levy for 1960 up to 251650 puc asks 30000 construction debenture stouffville municipal council is in receipt of a request from the local public utilities com mission for the issuance of a 530000 debenture to cover the expansion of the hydro distri bution system as well as the cost of transformers and met ers the expansion is based on the expectation that 70 new homes will be erected in stouff ville in 19g0 councillor parsons asked if it would be possible to defer the issuing of debentures until it was seen whether or not the homes were built however it was explained by reeve leh man who is a members of the commission that unless some debentures were floated the commission would be s1g0o0 in the red by the end of the year it was stated that the com mission had been forced to cat up all its reserves plus much working capital to finance the subdivisions of the last two years and could not receive suf- licient funds from revenue to go on this year councillor parsons moved that the hkpc lie asked to ap prove the debenture and the re quest will later have to go to the municipal board little change in high school salaries the salaries of stouffville dis trict high school teachers will be little changed in 1960 accord ing to the new schedule just ap proved the school board has made a few adjustments to keep the salaries in line with sur rounding schools but witli few exceptions they are basically un changed the threelevel system based on academic qualifications has leen maintained a request to institute a fourth level was rejected by the board in category 1 the basic salary will remain at 1300 in category 2 which is an endorsed certifi cate the basic salary is 4700 in category 3 which is special ist standing the rate is 5000 chief change in the three di visions is that the annual incre ment of 300 will begin after one year senice rather than after three years as previously the principals salary was in creased from s100 to 59000 and cumulative sick leave will now be 175 days rather than 150 consideration is being given to the engaging of an additional teacher which would bring the total number of teachers includ ing the principal to fourteen townline crash sends five to hospital to plow or not to plow councillor mumberson ad vised council in markham twp on monday night that some farmers had informed him that deputyreeve dean said the township would plow out their laneways deputyreeve dean in reply said he had directed any calls he got to mr mumberson chairman of roads councillor mumberson replied one man has been back three times so he must be getting encourage ment from some source councillor mumberson stated he would like the direction of council in regard to the use of the township equipment in pri vate drives he said that a reso lution in the books stated that such use was to be only in cases of emergency but he had found that township equipment was doing some of this work reeve clark stated that in years past some action was pos sibly desirous but today there are private persons who have snow removal equipment and he considered that the township should leave the work to these private parties model builders limited aur ora were the successful bidders for the contract of erecting the new addition to the stouffville district high school the price is 115000 architects fees will be 6900 and furnishings 3100 thirteen tenders were received for the job with 145000 being the highest figure asked no local contractors placed a ten der work on the school is expect ed to commence as soon as the frost is out depending on final approval from the ontario muni cipal board and the dept of education the addition will con tain six rooms and will be con structed of- sufficient strength to permit a second storey at a later date if required the model builders limited are presently constructing a public school under the super vision of mr boigan who is the stouffville architect five persons were admitted to hospital on saturday morn ing following a headon crash on the markham whitchurch townline two miles east of gorroloy the cars were badly damaged most seriously injured were mr and mrs richard r pen rose downsview ont mr pen rose the driver suffered a bro ken leg and six cracked ribs his wife suffered deep head lac erations and internal injuries the driver of the other auto wm fry of unionville his wife and a passenger wm middle- ton of unionville rr 1 were treated in the north york bran son hospital they were re leased after receiving medical firstaid mr and mrs penrose were admitted to york count hospital newmarket pc jarrc stewart of the on tario provincial police at vani dorf told the tribune hat visi bility was extremely poor due to drifting snow two of the in jured were retained at the home of mr seth wideman until they could he removed to hospital by the police dr doug brodie of stoultville attended the injured at the scene mr and mrs reg tomkinon second st returned home last wceek from a very enjoyable trip to england to 1sit with his family and to holland to visit her relatives there while in england they visited places of historic interest mrs tom- kinson found the open air mar kets in england a most enjoy able experience springlike wea ther was enjoyed by them in england frank edwards definitely out according to a communication from the village of stouffville solicitors and read before coun cil on thursday evening frank edwards ceased to be police chief of stouffville as of dec 18th according to the communi cation judge forsyth was hear ing the edwards case on behalf of stouffville municipal council and since edwards failed to re sign within ten days of the judgment as ordered he was automatically dismissed by the judge which was the same as being dismissed by council it was never necessary that council give edwards any fur ther notice of dismissal than that which judge forsyth had given the statement said the communication went on to say that any acts in which edwards attempts o still hold himself up as police chief s false the lawyers communication was the result of a statement published in this newspaper in which edwards referred to him self still as police chief and stated that he had never been i notified by council that he was through stouffville council jottings council tabled any action willi regard to the move on the part of some of the thirteen fringe municipalities to ask to be removed from metro plan ning control agreed to notify cedar pines development that their request for release of 3000 in bond for the completion of the roads in the northwest corner of town be declined until work asked for in the fall was completed it was not known if the 2500 which would remain would be sufficient to handle the grading of shoulders and repair to ditches and culverts requested the metro conser vation engineers to survey duf- fins creek for flood control recommendations to be used in preparing forthcoming annexa tion presentation accepted tender of office spe cialty co of 360980 for new furniture with which to equip the new municipal building two tenders were received received police report which showed that cruiser travelled 1293 miles last month that 12 fires funerals and escorts were provided for four parking tags were handed out in addition io a number of other complaints passed a resolution which calls for not less than 200watt bulbs to be placed in all stand ard residential street lights whenever old bulbs are being re placed discussed a suggestion of road chairman ken wagg that angle parking on the north side only be considered for the busi ness section of town heard mr wagg report that double the number of cars could be angle- parked on the north side as can be accommodated by side park ing on both sides due to rising maintenance costs continued capital expan sion and an increase in power rate from the ontario commis sion stouffvillepublic utili ties commission have found necessary an increase in hydro rates to local consumers the ontario hydro commission has increased the price of power sup plied to municipalities as of jan 1st by 195 per kw per annum the january account re flected tills increase when stouff- villes bill for power was 7- 57295 what the new rate struc ture will be is not yet known but an application has been made to ontario hydro for permission to increase rate up 3 mills stouftvilles tax rate has been struck for this year three ami a half mills higher than 1959 ratepayers may breath some sighs of relief however as they have reached the full debenture costs of the sewerage system this years 250000 budget includes full debenture payment on sewers for the entire town the new public school and an amount for a new fire truck an increase in assessment of nearly 350000 helped to keep the tax rate down to the three and a half mill jump in speaking on the rating bylaw reeve lehman stated that he had declared at the latest nomination meeting that some increases could be expected in the tax levy as the town continued to grow were not spending any of this money foolishly and i dont think the rate is too bad for what has been accomplished councillor parsons chairman of the finance com mittee stated that it could easily be seen that the three items on the budget which were primarily responsible for the increased levy were the amount set aside for the purchase of a new fire truck the completion of sewers and the public school costs he said that no blame could be attached to any department for the increase it was just normal additions of growth which bad to be paid for rates the actual tax rate for this year will be 655 on residential property as compared to 618 last year and on business and commercial 685 as compared to 650 in 1959 the total amount of money to be raised is 25165184 as compared to 207000 last year the levy will be collected on an assessment of 367154400 this the third year that ratepayers have con tributed towards the sewers which take a total of 175 mills sewers make up approximately 30 of the total budget and schools both public and high 36 less than 25 of the budget is comprised of what can be termed controllable items the foiiorting are the levy accounts and the rates for 1960 no additional ps teachers expected stouffvilles two public schools are now employing twenty full- time teachers and one parttime and no additional teachers are expected to be needed in 1960 while the percentage of the lo cal town budget required for schools is smaller than last year the public school levy still presents a formidable sum be ing 11891188 with 5907398 to be levied after grants of this budget teachers salaries require 8801700 minimum uppcd stouffville public school teach ers only salary change is the increasing of the minimum from 2900 to 3000 the annual in crement is s200 for the first 3 years and then 300 the maxi mum salary which was boosted last year to 5500 will remain the same this year figures for the principals are being ar ranged the stouffvihe midgets will play host to stayncr in the local arena on thursday night i at s45 the winner of the twogame series will advance into the ontario semifinals whitchurch storm bill to be high while no actual figures were given road sunt davis of whit church township advised coun cil last week that the employ ment of bulldozers to push back the snowbanks was proving very expensive however he considered that in view of the possibility of more snow in march the action was neces sary and council agreed to go ahead with the work for a week the total road costs placed with the highways dept for subsidy in 1959 was in excess of 180000 and council was in re ceipt last week of a cheque for 1301716 some complaints have been received by council regarding the damaging of mailboxes by snowplows however the road supt stated that it was impos sible with the amount of snow to sec the location of these boxes he said that no doubt uhen the snow had begun to recede more complaints could be expected amount mills county rate 2239642 61 public schools maintenance 5544031 151 debentures 1174894 32 high school rate 2643512 72 village purpose rates community centre rate 146861 4 library 257008 7 debentures sewers 5580746 152 maintenance sewers 844455 23 welfare rate 110146 3 street lighting rate 330438 9 general purpose rates residential farm 4116396 141 business commercial 1286115 171 total rate for residential and fai m 655 total rate for business and commercial 685 some tax increase forecast in markham there wereten bids placed be fore markham township coun cil on thursday evening for the supply of gravel and fill for use on the roads this year most companies bid on the entire con tract but some on only the sec tion in which they are located the bids varied greatly and were referred to the road com mittee for a report markhams metro conserva tion levy for this year will be 518080 councillors expressed some dissatisfaction that such a large amount should be spent entirely outside the boundaries of the township a little more action to secure the bruce pro perly as an historic site would be appreciated some tax increase deputyreeve dean advised council that since the budget was being prepared it was only fair to say that in increase in the mill rate could be expected clerk crisp drew attention to the fact that the 1959 council had a surplus of 60000 to work on and in considering this he thought it only likely that there would be some increase reeve clark stated that the demand for services especially in regard to sanding and snow removal continued to increase and if the public required and received such service they must expect to pay for it building 55300 for markham in january markham townships mid winter building report showed that building permits to a total value of 55300 were taken out in january of this amount 38000 was for dwellings 2000 for accessory buildings and 12- dayliner stranded one hundred and fifty people were stranded aboard a single- coach cpr dayliner on satur day afternoon when the east- bound diesel became bogged down in a huge snowdrift 1m miles cast of claremont the marooned engine was res cued by a snow plow that work ed its way through the bank the passengers remained on board until the line was cleared mr hanthorne the claremont station agent told the tribune that contrary to belief a diesel locomotive cannot cope with a great depth of snow a diesel engine is excellent in good wea ther but ill still take the steam locomotive anytime said the agent better signals for cnr stouffville municipal council has been advised by the board of transport commissioners that the present wigwag signal is to be removed from the cnr crossing in town and the more modern flasher lights installed the cost of the new installa tion wii be borne 80 1360 by the cnr and the balance reserved for the transport board the maintenance will be paid 507o by the dept of high ways arid 50 by the cnr snow removal costs begin to climb stouffville municipal council authorized payment on thurs day night of bills totalling 1339 for snowplowing and snow re moval in town this winter it was believed that this was pos sibly only half the outstanding amount the total cost of plqwing and removal last winter was 3434 road chairman ken wagg said that he had received many fa vorable comments on the good job of plowing that was being done mr and mrs newton spring st waited on council concern ing a ditch which runs on the westerly boundary of their pro perty and which they claim fre quently floods their land mr newton wished to know whose responsibility it was to clean out the stream it was pointed out that the stream was entirely on private property after a lengthy discussion council agreed on a motion by councillor parsons that the mat ter be referred to tlve property committee with recommenda tion that when spring arrived the complaint be investigated councillor laushway com mented that as more and more new residents came to town there would be more and more complaints concerning some conditions that have existed for years and council would have to expect to do something about them 800 for industrial and commer cial public buildings accounted for 2500 and included is an ad dition on the ratollff youth centre and valued at 2500 diesel engine bogs down in fifteen foot snowdrift 27 passengers stranded twentyseven passengers on board a torontopeterboro cnr passenger train were stranded in the stouffville station until 3 oclock sunday morning after the diesel engine became mar ooned in a fifteenfoot snowdrift 2 miles north of town twenty- two others residents of the goodwooduxbridge area cither hitchhiked home or remained overnight in stouffvihe two emergency diesel engines arrived at the scene from tor onto aided by sectionmen the locomotive was finally freed at 1 am the line was then cleared by a snowplow the passengers were taken to hals snack er in stouffville for an evening meal the cost was borne by the cnr a bus from lindsay arrived at the sta tion at three oclock from lind say the people were taken to their homes by taxi the major ity were bound for cannlngton woodvillo hastings sunder land campbellford and lome- ville included in the group was the reeve of cinnington mr wm j beard he praised the train crew for their courtesy and cooperation the youngest passenger was one year old mi- chelc restivo of east york she was accompanied by her mother mrs lois restivo the conductor frank w doleman of stoney creek had asked stouffville station agent beit corbett to keep the depot open for a few minutes after the trains departure i told him we might be back he said he noted that the line between markham and stouffville was quite heavy and he feared it might worsen as they contin ued north he said that visibility was very poor due to blowing and drifting snow the engine came to a gradual halt and no one was injured one coach and a baggage car were towed back to the stoufivillc station it was the diesel vs the snow and the diesel lost noted the conductor the engineer was mr jack cochrane of lindsay not since december 1951 had a passenger train been snow bound on the stouffville t