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Stouffville Tribune (Stouffville, ON), April 11, 1963, p. 1

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fashion models e ixitwit vol no the tribune stouffville ontario thursday april 11 1963 twelve pages on parade addison holds york north 187 liberal majority heri john addison liberal member for york north took a firmer grip on the ridingin mondays federal election winning with a majority of seven thousand as opposed to a margin of only 812 in last years cam paign despite his defeat ir hooper progressive- conservative made a creditable showing in his first attempt polling 11388 votes in the 12 election mr addison was opposing c a gathers who had been the sitting member stan hall kdp like many of the other new democratic candidates failed to woo nearly as many voters as was expected his turnout of 8533 was less than a thousand over the 1962 figure the total turnout at the polls was two thousand ahead of last years balloting over 45000 votes cast approximately loc of the eligible electorate john obrien the social credit candidate polled only 316 votes down two hundred from his previous try mr addison carried on an intensive campaign to win again similar to that winch took him to victory in his first run here in stouftville he picked up 154 votes over the previous election and carried the seat locally last year stouffville went tory by a slight margin last week twentyeight students of the stouffville dist high school displayed their own creative fashions as part of a public open night program in the auditorium two eyecatching student models whose dress designs received much acclaim are- elinor shrk 16 heft and joyce rose 15 both of grade 11 alarmed at poor showing of public school students the vote in stouffville addison hall hooper liberal nop conserv masonic hal 109 27 to mansion house 105 23 96 davis store s6 15 46 cadioux studio 93 12 so aisop office 77 31 59 summitview school 90 11 68 municipal office 129 37 86 lee office 76 15 75 767 171 580 obrien soc crelit local implement firm has 18000 tractor sale the stouffville firm of char les richards and sons has com pleted a sale of tractors to farmers in this area that in total will exceed 5is000 four of the new machines have been serviced and are ready for ship ment some of the orders were placed during the winter two had to be brought into canada from the international har vester division plant in rock island illinois two others were built in england the largest tractor an inter national 5c0 has been pur chased by mr geo rodaiu at ringwood it is a 3plow unit others are scheduled for deliv ery to the farms of robt walk er and stan watson dicksons hill and gerald winger north of ringwood mr richards noted that bulk tractor sales to individual owners all in a confined area is quite unusual 2 steers plunge down farm well two steers broke through a platform of a pump house well on the atha farm of mr nor man lehman pickering tvp on monday april 1st although both were rescued one of the animals was dead the other although still a trifle stiff from its hazardous experience will recover it is believed that the cattle plunged into the well excavation during the nigui but were not located until the next morning mr lehman said that both had their heads above the water line but it is possible that the dead steer was electrocuted when the accident caused a short circuit in the pressure system report scuffle in pickering twp welfare office ontario provincial police of the whitby detachment were called to the offices of the pickering twp welfare administrator at brougham last week when a minor scuffle was reported it is understood that a charge and counter charge were filed following the sklr- mish and the incident was scheduled for a court hearing this week a spokesman for the orp told the tribune that no charges were filed against either party by their office but indicated tliat private complaints had resulted the municipal headquar ters was thrown into a tem porary furor by the affair the welfare administrator mr albert cane was not available for comment and other employees close to the scene declined to discuss the matter ome opposition to renewal of gokar race track license a special meeting of the par ents of whitchurch school sec tion no 11 ballantrae has been called for the school this thursday evening at 8 pm the meeting has been summon ed by the school trustee board board members have become alarmed at the poor showing of the schools pupils resulting in a heavy dropout in the first grade of high school notices have been sent by the board to 30 of the parents advising them that there is a strong possibility their children may not pass the june examina tions parents in the section have been aroused at this pre diction and the problem will be aired at this public meeting investigating the situation which the board reports is not peculiar to ballantrae mem bers found that schools were compelled to advance 80 of the pupils whether they are ready for higher education or not this practice the board feels is entirely wrong and are determined that pupils will not be moved ahead if the are not ready stores here open this thursday night business places in slouff- vllle will be open this tlmrs- day evening iluc to the good friday holiday they will re open as usuai all day satur day until 6 pm onlv one gravel tender stouffville council received only one tender for the supply of approximately a thousand ton of gravel this year the one ten der received was from murray summetfeldl ringwood coun cil agreed to retender the order mr john addison liberal member of parliament was reelected on monday with a majority of 7000 over his nearest rival charles hooper progressive conservative stouffville a pc stronghold in the last two elections took a swing to the liberal side on april 8th expands business mr glenn ratcllff proprietor of the stouffville iga food- liner itas expanded his business to include a store at maple it is comparable in size to the store here mr ron nichol has been named manager mr lloyd houghton has been ap pointed general manager over both units uxbridge township council on monday agreed to renew the an nual license of goodwood rail ways at the bylaw fee of s175 i the resolution also called on the owners to pay the 1962 business tax and provide insurance quali fication papers councillor jack son and knight opposed the res olution leaving reeve norman hogg to cast a tiebreaking voto in favour of the resolution during the discussion on tho gokart track councillor jackson said he wanted a guarantee that a fence would be erected mrs bell a track owner said this could not be done she said that consideration was being given to the erection of such a fence but that it would cost about 31000 councillor jackson contended that either a fence should go up or the sound should be muffled councillor knight also com plained of the noise council was reminded that the owners had complied with the bylaw regu lations in having mufflers placed on the karts and toning them down to a stipulated sound fi gure the owners said that many tracks operated without mufflers and they said mufflers were now being manufactured but they could only go so far or the karts would not be able to operate i cant see any need for any change in the bylaw said reeve hogg you dont have to live with it replied councillor jackson councillor jackson suggested that the track be closed on thursdays as well as the other days specified in the bylaw the owners said they were having enough difficulty in trying to make the operation pay without further curtailing business they said they needed to build up bu siness councillor knight said he did nt know whether he could sell his farm or not bylaw names new police chief stouffville municipal council passed the bylaw on thursday night formally engaging con stable orland keating of orillia as police chief in addition to various regulations required the bylaw set forth his salary at 3000 plus 8200 car allowance and 100 civilian dress allow a nee labor minister mike starr standing for his sixth election in the ontario riding imme diately east of stouffville was the only progressive conserv ative and cabinet minister to be elected in the entire tor onto area in last years election mr starr finished with a comfort able majority of 7000 on monday this majority was cut in half as liberal norman cafik picked up 6000 votes for a total of 20319 aileen hall the high school teacher ndp candidate received 15196 which was a thousand up from 1962 9000 implement loss in early morning fire a fire during the early hours of monday morning levelled a twostory frame implement shed on the farm propertv of mr alex ratcliff cone 8 whit church twp at baker hill the loss partially covered by insur ance has been estimated at 9000 a motorist from gravenhurst noticed the blaze and awakened mr oliver harding nearby res ident they turned in the alarm by the time firemen ar rived from stouffville the structure had been destroyed fortunately the fire did not spread to a nearby barn that housed a large herd of cattle many of the implements were nearlynew and included a seed drill sprayer post hole digger baler manure spreader and other pieces of equipment the upper floor was used as a work shop the cause of the blaze has not been determined the build ing was not wired for hydro mr ratcliff purchased the prop erty from mrs ralph baker eighteen years ago park rd corner offered to town a communication from the canadian oil company was pla ced before stouffville municipal council on thursday evening of fering the lot at the corner of main and park rd to the munic ipality for the sum of 3000 the company recently request ed the planning board to rezono the lot from residential to com mercial the lot now vacant was the location of a garage for a long period the garage was operated originally by the late arthur swift and later by mr bruce valleau the lot has 60 ft fron tage and is 75 ft deep fireman fred castle told the council that the lot was too small to be considered for a firehall site reeve timbers said he couldnt see council being inter ested unless there was some spe cific use for the lot school rate increase only change for tax rate uxbridge twp interested in buying library bldg mrs l e oneill appeared before stouffville municipal council on thursday evening requesting council give consid eration to the sale of the pres ent library building and site to her for business expansion pur poses mrs oneill explained that the purchase was not for immediate possession as it would be possibly several years be fore the additional space would be required however she said she would like to have a price placed on the building so that a down payment could be made which would give the oneill firm the use of the vacant land at the rear of the library reeve timbers said that such a step would require a lot of consideration and suggested that the property committee study the proposal council was considering the possibility of a new library building some months ago but had agreed that nothing could be done at present and had also agreed that in the mean time no additions should be made to the present building churches plan easter services at least four churches in stouffville are planning special easter services on friday and sunday the only sunrise senice will be conducted at the united mis sionary church on friday morn ing at 7 am the guest speaker will be rev grant sloss of sixteen year old sheryl mckean was one of twenty- eight students who displayed fashion designs completed in day classes at the stouffville dist high school the spot light of attention was focus- sed on the girls at the annual open house program last week sheryl wears a skirt and weskit combination of dark red staff photo markham special music in song will be rendered by mrs harold knights and mrs al hudson holy communion will also be observed at the 11 am service on sunday the junior choir will sing rev norman rowan will be the guest pastor at the memo rial christian church on good friday at 11 am special music will be provided by soloist mrs arthur walsh with mr clarion baker tiie guest organist the congregation of christ church anglican will join with st phillips unionville for spe cial services on thursday eve ning at 730 pm and good fri day afternoon holy commu nion will be observed mr g t gooderham will conduct good friday sendees at the stouffville baptist church at 10 am hockey mothers return to action a 5ra mill jump in the high school rate is practically the only change in the uxbridge township tax rate for 1963 township council meeting on monday afternoon passed the rating bylaw for this year set ting out the various amounts to be raised as well as the varied public school rates this years taxes will be based on an assessment of 2522000 an increase of ap proximately 116000 over last years total figure the ontario county rate will be 114 mills to raise 3007687 slightly down from 1962 the township general purpose rate is almost identical with last year residents will pav a rate of 175 mills to raise 1106673 and industrial and commercial property will pay 21 mills to raise 6132613 the total amount of money required for high school purposes is 57953 27 of this amount 5092272 will be raised on a residential rate of 217 ui5 and 703054 will be raised on a commercial rate of 241 mills a team of stouffville and district mothers returned for a orekame home stand on thursday evening of last week and performed amazing ly well against th regular stouffviile girls hockey club although they dropped a 31 decision to their teenage rivals they were not down hearted by the less the entry is pictured here left to right rear row jake harman coach rebecca harman mascot marg wagg grace coxworth bernlcc nelson eleanor crossen marion tim bers marg emrnerson dor othy wagg front row left to right donna wideman muriel steele lucille weldon norrine hill helen gay man cadieux studio motorist aids mother child after accident a northbound markham vil lage motorist aided a mother and her small baby boy after a car in which they were pas sengers went out of control on no 48 ifwy near dicksons hill and veered into the east ditch mr fred schoenwald hawk- ridge ave markham was pne of the first on the scene ho helped the woman into his auto and placed her injured child in the rear seat he drove them to the markham village police station and accompanied con stable gordon bull to the scar- boro general hospital in the town police cruiser an ambu lance was despatched to trans port three other injured per sons to hospital the volkswagen was not in collision with any other vehicle and the cause of the accident was not clear tile driver timm reefke of toronto was not seriously hurt pc robt hart of the opp vandorf invest igated the collision occurred on sunday afternoon norman williamson dies suddenly mr norman stanley william son of toronto died suddenly at the east general hospital on sunday april 7 1963 he was a son of the late mr and mrs d j williamson frmer resi dents of church st stouffville burial was in p e a c h e s cemetery on tuesday the holder of ticket no 49 from the skating carnival saturday evening may pick up their prize at the home of mrs robt sellers main st stouffville high school easter honour list the following students ob tained an average of 75 or higher on the easter examina tions held during march the percentage for the top three students in each grade is given students are arranged in order of merit grade 13 students fin ished easter examinations this week and results will not be available until after easter the three top ranks were as follows herbert otto grade 10 1st janice smith grade 9 2nd and barbara button grade 12 and alan lee grade 9 3rd grade 9 janice smith 888 alan lee 876 randy mole 864 kathy bacon neil wagg nelda booth and beth paisley tied john harris bonita oneill jonathan lemon paul schlicter and david yake tied shirley wagg nancy stover john lang janice ratcliffe noreen powell bill lennox sharon bruce and susan gib son tied margaret sheridan bruce mehaffcy grade 10 herbert otto 920 margaret miller s68 peler hambly 850 howard wideman michael reed jeanette lang linda summerfeldt and stephen bark er tied gale grose mary otter allan galbraith david col- burn kenneth walsh lynne boyd judy vardon linda smith diane storry darlene watson percy wagg linda clendenning sharon wideman and betty marshman tied larry moxham lynn sher wood wayne bacon pat doran james mehaffcy peter gibbins ron tronmer donna knox grade ii barbara howard 86 1 janet button 864 elinore shirk 803 john riddle ian montgomery heather smith mary foote kathleen hall judy vankough- net grade vi barbara button s70 robert mole 837 andrew watson 817 karen kennedy special commercial eleanor little 813 two cows electrocuted in stable of altona farm die instantly two holstein cows were elec trocuted and died in their stalls last week on the tarm of walter carter near alhm in picker ing township a short circuit in the water pressure system has been blamed for the loss both mr carter and his hired man frank rose were working in the stable when the electric shock dropped the two animals to the cement floor the owner loosened the chains from around the cows necks but their life was snuffed out in a matter of seconds none of the other milch cows in the herd were affected by the bolt although two steers showed some signs of fright mr carter told the tribune that the two dead animals were the best in the herd and were close spring ers two inspectors from the ontario hydro were called to the farm stouffville veterinari an dr ron smith was also summoned to the scene mr carter said he had just finished milking one cow when he saw another only a few feet away lurch back on her chain and let out a loud bellow tho two standing side by side hardly moved after they fell neither man was injured the entire wiring system con nected with the pressure pump has since been renewed new cemetery bd commissioner mr don maephail has resign ed as stouffville cemetery com missioner council on thurs day night appointed k n wagg bv bylaw to succeed mr mae phail call tenders for oil stouffville municipal council is calling for tenders for the sup ply of 16000 asphalt prime 350 tons of covering sand 3010 gal lons of treatment oil and 120 ton of stone chips tenders must be received by april 18th

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