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toufffille dfwtit nk vol 75 no 14 the tribune stouffvtfte ontario thursday september 8 1950 fourteen pages on the riviera any similarity between 16 year old barbara nicholson valley rd musselmans lake and french movie actress brigitte bardot is purely co incidental but the tribune camera portrays a striking resemblance between the two she is pictured here sitting atop a motorboat at shalimar beach staff photo the local summer resort cen tre of musselmans lake may not be regarded as the riviera of north america but one of its residents 1g year old barb ara nicholson valley rd holds a striking resemblance to the french movie queen brigitte bardot in spite of the startling similarity barbara has never attended a bardot movie and does not pretend to copy her clothes fashions or hair stylos ive seen her picture she ad mitted and i think shes pret ty she laughed at the sugges tion that they have anything in common i certainly cant touch her in every department she joked barbaras auburn hair glisten ed in the sunlight as she dangled her feet in the water while sit ting atop a motor boat on the beach at shalimar she had al ways worn her hair long but last year on a suggestion by a school friend pat fenwick she adopted a new style she ias retained it although the trend followed by her chums is toward shorter cuts barbara is one of eight child ren the daughter of mr and mrs richard nicholson valley road musselmans lake she was born in ireland but came to canada to reside in toronto at the age of eight years she has lived with her parents at the lake for tire past four years a former student at the stouff- ville dist high school barbara has completed grade 10 she plans to take a course in the operation of business machine equipment in the fall she is ex tremely interested in athletics and enjoys both swimming and dancing she is also an enthus iastic hockey fan a movie career for barbara it is still a distant dream but like brigitte bardot it could come true complaints filed on opening of track a new gokart track near viv ian in the township of whit church was officially opened on saturday afternoon and already a number of complaints have been filed with tiie clerks office from irate residents they have charged that the venture repre sents a noise nuisance the track is located about onehaif mile from the roatl it is quite heavily blanked by trees which helps to muffle the sound to a certain degree a large entry list of drivers as filed for the opening meet on saturday a number from the united states the majority of karts were driven by single 2cycle motors one entry sport ed dual motors the race at tracted a good crowd of onlook ers the karts were clocked at an estimated 40 miles per hour as they roared around the asphalt track a number went out of control and ground to a halt in loose dirt or slammed into pro tecting bales of hay none over turned and no one was injured the brakes are extremely effi cient and the machines can stop on a dime the drivers wear crash helmets and many have protective goggles over their eyes although a number of pro moters are interested in opening similar tracks in the area the vivian venture is the first in the immediate district speeder clocked by officer in private car gordon barkey of rr 2 stouffville was fined 1900 and costs by magistrate n p kelley in buttonville traffic court on friday morning on a charge of driving at 48 miles per hour in a 30 mile zone on the main street in stouffville evidence was submitted by pc hugh vankoughnet constable vankoughnet told the court that he was off duty in his own private car when he followed the barkey auto he said that although his speed ometer was faulty by 5 miles per hour he allowed the accused a seven mile leeway in order to obtain a fair reading he noted that the pavement was wet another speeding conviction filed by pc harry heathering- ton of stouffville was registered against david morton of east gwillimbury twp he was fined 514 and costs for driving 44 miles per hour on main street morton was clocked by the crui ser complain of drinking an ists whitchurclttownship council is in receipt of a petition signed by 41 residents complaining of drinking and nude bathing par ties at willow beach wilccx lake the petition stated that the signees considered the situa tion dangerous to children and the public health the property was said to have deteriorated now for a number of years until residents have considered it necessary to take action clerk jack crawford stated that he had been advised that the property might change hands in the near future and council took no action pending the possibility of a new owner mrs a grubin church st returned by plane to malton from a two weeks visit around fort william she was visiting her daughter erma and her sis ter mrs harry carter an estimated 1000 worth of auto accessories including a large quantity of spark plugs were recovered in a vacant lot at the rear of the hamilton sup ply store last week by the stou ffville police dept for the sec ond time in less than seven days the premises was entered for the second time the would- be burglars had to leave their loot and flee from the scene emptyhanded when the arrival of police upset their plans the lock on the front door had been broken the breakin occurred around nine oclock in the evening pre vious entries have been made during the early hours of the morning stouffville municipal council agreed unanimously on thurs day evening to pass an expro priation bylaw to cover land for an casement across the a e booth farm to provide for a trunk fewer line which would serve the new baraven subdivi sion total cost of tlte expropria tion will be borne by the devel opment company in discussing the project which has been under considera tion for some months council members expressed the opinion that the trunk sewer line while necessary to the new subdivi sion was in tie interests of the community as a whole the ex propriation is also to provide ior work on the water course which presently runs through anj if the property the baraven development plan on the cain priperty just east of the summit view public school has been tentatively ap proved but it is necessary that sewerage access to the disposal plant be provided in a trunk line through the booth property rather than overload the main st line and the use of pumps im fully convinced that this move is in the public interest this line will be needed some day and will not cost the tax payers anything we might wait a hundred years for someone to subdivide the whole proper ty said councillor parsons its certainly not jeopardiz ing the value of the property lythbig it is making it imorc valuable declared dep unanimously la favour utyreeve wagg i agree with the deputy- reeve the owners cant do other than admit that the line would be making their property more valuable replied co u n c i 1 1 o r parsons no one but the owners could possibly have any objections so we might as well quit fooling around on the matter said councillor laushway reeve lehman suggested that the owners might go to court on the matter if they want to do that then i guess theyll have to go re plied councillor laushway councillor parsons moved that the clerk prepare lh expropria tion bylaw and members voted league finals open thurs student enrollment nears 1000 for three schools it will be clarcmont and al- fona in the community lea gue soflball finals the first game of the threeoutoffive series is scheduled for the clarcmont park on thursday night at 8 oclock clarcmont will be slight favourites to retain the title they captured last season alfona is currently on a five game victory string and an upset would not come as nny surprise to many fans they will probably start with their ace hurlor murray mc dowell on the mound clarc mont will counter with either bob or bruce redshaw student enrollment at two stouffville public schools and the district high school show ed an increase of 1s2 pupils over the attendance figures es tablished in september 1959 on tuesday morning an influx of 991 boys and girls established an alltime record the largest individual enroll ment addition has been record ed at the high school there were 179 opening day students present in september 1959 on tuesday this figure had climb ed to 3s1 an increase of 102 principal w e duxbury ex plained that the inclusion of two grade nine classes from the aurora district was at least par tially responsible for the enroll ment climb a new school is planned for the township of king which will eventually ab sorb the carryover into stouff ville to cope with the aurora pu pils five classes of grade 9 stu dents have been established with an attendance of 177 there are three classes of grade 10 with 86 on the roll grade 11 has been split into two rooms with 61 there are 29 in grade 12 19 in grade 13 and nine in special commercial a north wing addition to the school was completed in time for the opening of the septem ber term desk equipment was expected to arrive on wednes day the section includes three classrooms a laboratory a kit chen and a cafeteria six new teachers are included in a staff of sixteen the new members are mrs christie miss cohen mr groom mrs lindsay miss seibel and mrs wildenauer summit view school in september 1959 the stu dent enrollmert at the summit view public school was 316 at the end of the june term it had increased to 320 on tues day morning principal lome boadway recorded an attend ance of 367 an overall increase of 51 boys and girls within one year this figure is considerably above a preterm estimate the heaviest classes are slated for kindergarten and grade 6 a staff of twelve teachers will in clude three new members mrs doreen brown kindergarten mrs joy widdifield grade 1 and mrs patricia byer grade 2 the kindergarten class will convene for onehalf day mrs kay dowswell will assist with instruction in grade 7 during the afternoon in order that mr morley may take grade 8 orchard park school there would appear to be no attendance problems at the new orchard park school although the september enrollment has increased from 214 to 213 over the same period in 1959 the attendance figure in june was 225 the kindergarten class has the largest enrollment with 47 beginners there are 32 in grade one 31 in grade two 33 in grade three 35 in grade four 31 in grade five and 34 in grade six the principal is mr keith sutherland other members on the staff are mrs barbara brillinger iona griffiths cecile carpentier mrs marguerite murphy mrs barbara wide- man and mr gary grundy mrs isobel emmerson will as sist mr sutherland in grade 6 the public school board held its initial meeting of the new term on wednesday evening present and future accommoda tion requirements were among numerous items on the agenda markham tp building near 750000 in aug building permits issued in markham township for the month of august totalled nearly three quarters of a million dol lars the actual figure was 70705000 of this amount new homes amounted to 531000 in dustrial and commercial build ings were 52000 and public buildings 120000 the new development on steeles avenue is taking up most of the residential permits mr sehickendanz received 16 merits for homes 11000 to 14- 000 and mr eldomer received ten permits for homes valued at 12000 each the public buildings include a school and a church which will not add to the tax coffers build ing on the whole is down from a year ago with the exception of the abovementioned sub divisions close to the toronto border mr and mrs hudson and family of gormley have moved into the wilson home on o brien ave scholarship for farmer mr aubrey carson clarcmont rr 2 has been awarded a soil management tour scholar ship to take place in the guelpli area during september 12 13 and 14 1960 each year the ontario county soil and crop improvement as sociation awards a scholarship to an ontario county junior farmer for the 3 day soil man agement tour held at guelph under the supervision of the soils department of the oac the tour includes a visit to various soil management and soil conservation projects in the guelph area as well as a tour of the new soils building at the oac guelph of special inter est will be the tour of the soils laboratory where the farm soil analyses are made the scholarship was awarded to mr carson because of his active participation and fine leadership in both 4h and jun ior farmer work in ontario county mongolia open golf tournament saturday the second annual mongolia invitational golf tournament is being staged at the markham golf country club this sat urday afternoon the invitation is issued by hal gibson and ted topping of teds mens and boys wear in stouffville the competition is for the dr jim stevens memorial trophy teeoff time is 12 noon to 2 1pm and there will be dinrer for the golfers at 6 pm the players wives are invited to join the men later for a dance the initial tournament last year drew some sixtytwo ent ries while this year the start will be made by more than eighty participants providing the weatherman is cooperative this promises to be one of the biggest days of the year at the i local golf quo gokarts banned in markham tp there will be no gokart tracks established in the township of markham according to a de cision approved by members of council at a regular meeting on tuesday the ban received the unanimous support of all councillors councillor lawson mumber- son stated that he had witnessed the gokart tracks in operation in other municipalities and could not see where a township had anything to gain by grant ing its permission to such a ven ture it had previously been sug gested that a license fee of not less than 1000 should be estab lished markham township has a noracing bylaw presently in effect and the members were reluctant to have it rescinded flim flam artists put out of markham two french canadian aim flam artists employing the powers of suggestion and hyp nosis were ordered out of mark ham village recently by sgt chester gilliatt when they were caught in the act of attempting to extort money from a main street businessman two girls ages 21 and 24 years passed themselves off as palm readers and fortune tellers their story failed to impress the markham officer their car was taken to the village police station and thoroughly searched it was later released and the girls left town without further incident sgt gilliatt was summoned to the scene when the visitors ent ered two shops on the pretext of purchasing some merchandise their rather strange actions aroused the suspicions of the proprietors at a third store one girl had already taken the owner for a 20 bill which she tucked down inside her dress when the officer arrived she had also gained possession of the mans wallet containing a rather large sum of money everything was returned to the proprietor intact tiie girls claimed to possess unusual powers in an effort to demonstrate their supernatural gift they suggested that they could rid the store owner of a persistent head cold that had caused him some discomfort a 20 bill securely wrapped in a handkerchief was the simple trick of the trade although the cold was not cured the money quickly disappeared sgt gilliatt told the tribune that such girls a type of gypsy travel the circus route during the busy carnival season he said that when business be comes rather quiet they take to the road and prey on store- owners in small villages and hamlets he suggested that their usual motive is shoplifting by travelling in pairs one will at tract the attention of the pro- piretor while the other helps herself the merchandise is usually concealed in their clo thing he noted that their man ner is so convincing that it re sembles a type of hypnosis he pointed out that through the newspapers store and home owners should be warned to be on the lookout for such fast- talking strangers ok work on tenth st the department of highways has given approval to the pro gram of the municipal councils road committee to prepare 10th st south this year for paving in 1861 deputyreeve wagg an nounced at the regular council meeting on thursday evening that it was hoped to have the work commenced almost immed iately in speaking of the committees work the deputyreeve said that the bell telephone co had done an excellent job in repairing and replacing sidewalks along main st following the installa tion of cable lines he said that the stretch at the westend where tarvia had been left near the curb would remain until the new highway paving was completed these few blocks will be replaced at that time lighways engineer iew garage mr leslie fiander district engineer with the dept of highways cut the ribbon on fri day evening to officially open a new 53000 municipal garage at vandorf in the township of whitchurch it marked the com pletion of a project that was started in 1958 the plans were drawn up in 1959 and the work was started in may of this year the contractors were miller hammett of newmarket reeve george richardson de scribed the building program as a forward step in the progress of the township he pointed out that the old garage was a con stant fire hazard and inadequate to properly house the numerous pieces of road equipment i feel we obtained good value for the money expended he said office space lias been set aside in one section of the structure for the road supt mr ernest davis among the many dignitaries who addressed the public gath ering was mr earl toole a former reeve ot whitchurch and county warden he recalled the year when the first road grader was purchased in the municipality for 5000 he not ed that during his final term ot office tiie entire road budget did not exceed 12000 mr toole is now chairman of the york county roads dept mr w l clark reeve ot markham township and present warden of york county spoke briefly he suggested that the new garage erected at button ville a few years ago was the best money ever spent in mark ham township an oldfashion ed square dance rounded out the evenings activities keys to progress road superintendent ern est davis holds the keys to the new municipal garage which was officially opened at vandorf in the township of whitchurch on friday night mr leslie fiander district engineer with the dept of highways officiated it the ribboncutting ceremony the building was erected at a cost of 53000 staff photo