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two are arris urned four days loss estimated 40000 the product of many man hours of summer work was transformed into huge hulks of smouldering hay and scorched timbers within a period of four days when two large barns both in whitchurch jvp were destroyed by lire the first blaze occurred on friday night on the property of wm topper west of mus- selmans lake near ballantrae eighty pigs weie destroyed in the inferno that could be seen as far south as markham and west to newmarket on monday afternoon a luge barn on the pollard piemises cone 10 near lin colnville was levelled by flames that roared through the frame structure in a matter of min utes a bulk cooler bale eleva tor and 10000 bales of hay were destioycd each loss has been estimated roughly at 20 ho house threatened mr and mrs topper had been out in the barn that eve ning and everything appeared normal fifteen minutes before the first sign of fire was ob served mr topper was able to free a bull and several calves but extreme heat and dense smoke drove him from the building before he could re lease the rest of the livestock there were no implements in the structure and the milch cows were in a nearby pasture field a strong northwest wind fanned the flames towards the farm house and although it ignited on several occasions firemen from stouffville and aurora were able to control its spread the red glow in the sky attracted hundreds of spectators to the scene lull of hay the pollard barn was filled to the rafters with baled hay the granary also contained the entire summers oat crop mr jack pollard was able to free an only cow in the stable and save a milker pumping unit a german shepherd dog was lost stouffville firemen concen trated their efforts in saving a nearby implement shed and the brick farm house two disastrous fires less than two miles apart within four days destroyed two large barns in the twp of whitchurch on friday night a frame structure on the property of wm topper near miisselmans lake was burned to the ground eighty pigs one calf and a quantity of hav grain and straw weie lost a large barn on the pol lard premises cone 10 north of stouffville was level led by fire on monday after noon in a matter of minutes ten thousand bales of hay were destroyed along with a bale elevator a bulk cooler and other farm equipment a german shepherd do died in the inferno staff photfc many grade 13 students in fields of higher learning during the past high school year more than 10 students were enrolled in the grade 13 graduation class at stouffville today the majority of these young men and women are lo cated in regions that etxend from toronto to saskatchewan to new brunswick many have advanced into fields of higher learning while others have ac quired permanent positions the tribune has attempted to contact as many of these young people as possible to discover their chosen vocations they are listed here as follows anne barkey emmanuel bible college kitchener marvin beta employed with his father in the k w beta- construction co stouffville helen busato toronto teachers college bettyann carrigton nurse in- training at oshawa general hospital gerry dawson uni versity of toronto evelyn doner toronto teachers col lege marilyn fosdick position with the ibm co toronto patricia gibbins school of nursing east general hospital lloyd graves waterloo uni versity joanne greer toronto teachers college dawn grose western university london wayne hamilton western university london warren hendricks carleton univers ity ottawa jim kriox ryer- son institute toronto karen kreick briarcrest bible insti tute caronport saskatchewan lynda nolan dominion busi ness college toronto susan ojrilvy- university of manito ba murray painter ontario agricultural college guelpli marilyn pattchden western university london michael paul ml allison university sackville new brunswick paul petrie university of manitoba fred watsonuniversity of toronto victoria college joy woolicr university of toron to gary yates western uni versity london jean winter slcln bell telephone co tor onto apple butter bee at cedar grove the second annual butter bee a project that at tracted so much interest and active participation last year will be repeated again on thanksgiving weekend oct 12 and ii at woodland park cedar grove to increase the supply five kettles will be utilized and for onthespot snacks pancakes will be served with hot apple butter at the refreshment booth containers of butter will be sold on both days no advance orders will be taken ft takes four bushels of ap ples to make one batch of apple butter a schnitzing bee has been arranged for thursday evening oct 10th to prepare the apples for the pot the peeling will be held in the rink house at cedarena apple- peel ers are invited to attend a sharp coring knife and a pan are all the utensils required rtbttne vol the tribune stouffville ontario thursday october 3 1963 sixteen pages hundreds pay tribute to late w r dean arkham twp reeve the pipher funeral home in i richmond hill could not accom- apple modate the hundreds of friends and associates who paid their final respects on monday after noon to the late wilfred r dean reeve of markham town ship mr dean passed away suddenly on thursday in the ross memorial hospital lind say he was stricken with a se rious heart attack on the pre vious sunday while spending the weekend at his cottage on balsam lake few men were better known in the area his interests in church lodge school and muni cipal promotions knew- no bounds the interior of the parlours was banked with more than one hundred floral tributes li ficer receives of year clippers first practice friday the stouffville clippers will hold their first practise on friday evening of this week at s oclock a second workout is scheduled for sunday after noon from i to 2 pm a stouffville entry has been filed in a compact junior d group to include lindsay j1 a 31 year old stouffville offi cer in the canadian naval reserve has been named the best man of the year in re cognition of good conduct and service at hmcs york po ronald c baker son of mr and mrs geo baker man itoba st was selected out of 1500 for the award he was presented with a medal by the lieut govenor earl rowe on saturday sept 21st at an in vestiture conducted at old fort york toronto officer baker has been a member of the naval reserve lor the past fourteen years and has travelled over many hun dreds of miles of water during this period he is the only cook in the reserve navy and is one of the mainstays in the drum section of the band port perry uxbridge sutton aurora and newmarket league arrangements will be finalized at an oha meeting in the municipal chambers stouffville on sunday afternoon at 130 pm a a lex etains the electorate of stouffville who only six months ago gave the liberal federal member john addison a majority vote ol confidence turned the tide tic other way last week in a swing behind provincial candi date a a lex mackenzie in stouffville mr mackenzie polled 529 votes to 404 for his closest rival lawyer donald plaxton of richmond hill- nd candidate robt mcvey of i markham was third with 123 j and independent bill fuller o j oak ridges trailed the field j with ip across the board in york j north mackenzie rolled up 16669 votes to 11196 for mr plaxton mcvey counted 5561 and fuller 792 for mr mack enzie it was the largest major ity in a long career he has represented the york north ic ackenzie north coiistituencv since 1913 keeve w it bean the late mr dean was horn at thornhill the son of a pio neer family that dated back three generations his municipal career began 11 years ago when he was elect ed to the board in the police village of thornhill it was in the same year of 1919 that he became a trustee on the rich mond hill dist high school board he served in this capa city for eight years holding the office of chairman in 1956 mr dean was elected to markham twp council in 393s and held the office of deputy- reeve for three years he step ped into the reeves post in 1961 where he remained until his death he displayed the same interest in county coun cil activities and was a com missioner for 1963 he was a past grand master of north- crest ioof lodge in thorn hill and a life member of pat terson lodge a f and a m no 265 thornhill besides his wife the former florence burch he is survived by a son john and a daughter shirley rev a i higgins of thorn hill united church conducted the funeral service with inter ment in the thornhill cemetery the pall bearers were charles hooper victor grainger har old echlin neil mcdonald wm rumble and basil kidd five youths charged in fruit market theft five metro youths were charged with theft by markham twp police last week when a quantity of produce was dis covered in a ditch near the don- way fruit market on the don mills road two were arrested by pc douglas tribbling and two others were picked up by police authorities in toronto one returned home but was brought back by his father charged are barry rand 17 peter kieran 17 kenneth oli ver 17 kenneth darley is and richard stammers 16 all of don mills in their haste to get away the boys left their wallets and identification in the car the merchandise that included everything from potato chips to apple cider amounted to 25 police said that each of the youths had a good family background many changes at markham fair grounds a number of major alter ations have been completed this year on the site of mark ham fair the rural exhibi tion one of the best in onta rio will be officially opened on friday at 2 pm by mr t richard hilliard deputy- minister of energy and re sources the new arena building will provide an enlarged space for exhibits and will be the scene of a monster public dance on saturday night a new race track has been constructed and his will be opened by the hon earl rowe lieut governor of ontario on saturday after noon at 145 pm the grand stand has been moved the fair president for j963 is mr dalton rumncy presentation by council to police officers a brief ceremony was con ducted by stouffville municipal council on thursday evening for the presentation of a gift to each of the two officers who will be leaving the local police force this week the gifts were presented to constable hugh vankoughnet who is leaving his police job here for a posi tion with frigidaire and to constable dennis davies who has taken other employment all members of council were present and the presentation was made by councillor wm parsons in expressing their appreciation both officers said they had enjoyed their work here and constable vankough net who had been chief officer for a time said that he believed council had made a good choice in selecting the new police chief orland keating he said chief keating had a good pro gram of organization in opera tion which would benefit the force and the community chief keating was also present and said he regretted losing the two officers but was certainly pleased to see them better them selves in their new occupa tions uxbridge enters intermediate a the uxbridge black hawks have made the move into inter mediate a ranks and will enter a group with bradford midland orillia barrie and collingwood meaford in the league last year have withdrawn but their place will be filled by uxbridge opp cyclist is injured constable ronald smith son of mr and mrs roy smith of bethesda was one of four offi cers of the ontario provincial police precision motorcycle squad that was injured in a pileup of men and machines at barrie fair last week four bikes collided on the track in the units first public performance constable smith working out of the niagara falls detach ment of the opp suffered only bruises in the melee and was released from hospital the next day two other riders re ceived broken legs constable smiths ridng part ner was exstouffville officer jan vanderkooy who served here for a time with the prov incial police his injuries also were not serious a j renaud dies suddenly the funeral service will be held on thursday morning oct 3rd at 11 am today from the oneill parlours stouffville for the late alfred joseph renaud of musselmans lake who passed away sudden ly in the brierbush hospital on tuesday sept 30th besides his wife he is sur vived by two daughters shar on and christine and three sons david william and steph en interment will be in the stouffville cemetery mr and mrs art paisley have moved from their farm on tho townline and cone 7 whit church and have taken up resi dence on cone 9 south in the former eugene leavens home settle future of opp whitchurch service on oct 16 the future of ontario prov incial police service in the twp of whitchurch will be outlined by commissioner eric silk at a special meeting on monday oct 16th at 11 am it had been indicated earlier that the opp would cease policing of the municipality at theend of 1963 since only three months remain in the current year the matter is causing the council some con cern the setting up of a town ship force would mean an ini tial expenditure of at least 60000 at the present time only two men are required and their efforts are concentrated in the areas of musselmans lake and lake wilcox the council must also pro vide some accommodation for a new department if and when it is organized members are hopeful that the suggested withdrawal of the ontario prov incial police may be abandoned or at least delayed for another year dayliner going 80 mph where goodwood men killed august 14fh lex mackenzie mr fred harris of oakville an engineer on a cpr tor ontobound dayliner told an in quest hearing last week that his engine was travelling at approximately so miles per hour as it approached a level crossing on the markham-pick- cring townline north of green river on aug 14th two good wood men were killed in the grinding crash roland morris 40 died almost instantly and his passenger joseph iorcfiec succumbed in an ambulance en route to the srarboro general hospital the engineer said that he sounded the whistle for one- quarter mile east of the in tersection he said that the bell was ringing and the head light was on when it appear ed that the car was not going to stop i hit the emergency brake and gave the whistle an extra couple of blasts he said he noted that the car ac tually ran into the train he said that the crossing was not protected by automatic signals motor tossed 335 feet constable david kernohati lice whitby detachment said that all the windows of the death car were up and the ra- dio was turned in an on posi tion he said that the motor of the vehicle was torn from the body and hurled 335 feet from the point of impact mrs jean scagrift who re sides south of the track about 1500 feet from the rail line said she glanced from the kit chen window and saw the ac cident pathologist dr ritchie mc- of the ontario provincial po- kay of the scarboro general hospital attributed mr morris death to a severe skull fracture and numerous other injuries a blood test showed 6 parts of alcohol per thousand in the blood stream coroner w w tomlinson of pickering presided over the in quest the jury members in cluded hugh michell fore- man w g ireson alfred michell james hawthorne and robt malcolm they ruled that death was lw to acciden tal causes and no recommenda tions were presented i- water tank truck paid for self at first fire says chief stouffville fire chief wait er smith has credited the use of a 1000 gallon water tank truck in the saving of a two- storey instil brick home at cone 6 whitchurch twp on thursday night the tanker recently overhauled at a cost of s3000 now forms part of the stouffville brigade equip ment and accompanies the hose and ladder truck to fires in the country it is the property of the whitchurch twp federa tion of agriculture the blaze occurred in a house owned by mr and mrs alfred hartwiek it is the tem porary home of their daughter and soninlaw mr and mrs martin shaw while their new residence is under construction next door mrs shaw was able to escape with their one son jason 15 months and two other boys wards of the childrens aid society the cause of the outbreak could not immediately be determined firemen poured tons of water onto the structure and it was necessary to chop a hole in the roof to reach the source of the blaze chief smith said he suspects the fire had been smouldering in the home for some time before it was de tected it was the first official out-of- town trip for the tank truck and its presence at the scene ailowed firemen to douse the flames without summoning ad ditional assistance from auro ra the family has taken up residence with relatives until the damage can be repaired erect new insurance office construction work has been started on a new twostorey office building to be located on the north side of main street near obrien avenue in stouff ville it will contain the insurance headquarters of mr fred- aj- sop on the ground floor with apartments above the struc ture will be of cement block construction with a brick front the contractor is mr k w betz and the work will be completed in about lour months mr alsop purchased the lot site two years ago another change on main st will see mr herb kring- ex pand his business to include the store formerly occupied by mr keith middlcmiss it will be reopened in about two weeks bogus 10 s passed here within the past three weeks ihree counterfeit s10 bills have licen passed through the stouff ville branch of the imperial bank of commerce here manager walton todd said that the hills of excellent imita tion have been turned over to the rcmp the serial num bers were the same on each wd 8764652 anyone spotting 10 bills keswick farm is site for plowing match the farm property of merlin gordon lot 15 cone 4 north gwillimbury township one mile east of keswick on the don mills road will be the site of the 40th annual north york plowing match on friday ocl 4th the competition will- provide local and district plowmen with some- good competitive practise for the international match to be held at caiedon from oct 10 to 12 many of the north york entries are amonz the top winners at the interna tional a total of twelve individual classes have been lined up in cluding two for horses the as sociation president this year i murville connell the banquet will be held in the bclhaven hall the east york match has been scheduled for wednesday october 23rd on the farm of las mckcan cone 10 mark ham with this number is asked to get in touch with local police authorities immediately late jean miller never missed day at school in 35 years cedar grove heard with deep sadness of the deatli on monday evening of jean miller one of our great contributors to the pattern of life in this village jean died too young at the time when with retirement just ahead she could have many enjoyable years but she lived every day with pleasure until her illness a the begin ning of the year took her from leaching she had taught in box grove up north and a hillside with sincere under standing and purpose during more than a dozen years at box grove school it has been calculated that she walked 11000 miles through any weather the day brought and never missed a single day indeed she never missed a days teaching in 35 years nature was her constant companion and a keen awareness of its moods and wiles brought jean the pleasure of anticipation when the birds migrated or the first trillium was due for many years jean miller was the leader of the adult sunday school class at zion church as well as taking ati active part in the wms and ucw activities and a major role with the mission band she had a sense of history which added to her lifes enjoy ment and was an authority on the milroy family in scotland and canada jeans contributions in everv place she worked and lived will long be remembered and heartfelt sympathy is extended to her sisters audrey macin tosh pat ring and mira offcii and to her brother bruce