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files assault charge tottffuille vol 75 no 43 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday april 2 1964 fourteen pages uxbridge twp reeve charges former assessor with assault claims knocked unconscious a charge of assault causing bodily harm has been laid by reeve alvin redshaw of uxbridge tup against robt f clarke former assessor of the municipality mr clarke is alleged to have struck the reeve on the steps of the township hall at good wood last week near the conclusion of a county court assess ment hearing staff photo cottagers petition to stall third reading of twp zoning bylaw opposition against a proposed whitchurch twp zoning bylaw in its present form that would place certain restrictions od properties around the resort centre of musselmans lake continues to mount as feelings of resentment were voiced at a public meeting held on sunday afternoon a petition asking that the bylaw be set aside and rewritten was circulated through an audience of about 100 persons gathered in the community hall on hillsdale drive mr wm snider a member of the riewlyformed musselmans lake ratepayers association said he feared the council might give the bylaw its third reading before the majority of cottageowners had an oppor tunity to study it carefully and present recommendations for changes only 14 days president delvin danford in formed the meeting that follow ing a third reading the resi dents only had 14 days in which to file notice of appeal before the ontario municipal board this bylaw is an insult to the people of the lake charged one ratepayer it looks like a crooked game to me said another this is the bylaw they the council want but not the one we want said mr snider ernest stanton advised the audience that the executive only wished the council to postpone further action on it until the people had more time to study its content mr stanton sug gested further that he would like to check into the legal as pects of holding municipal elec tions id the summer when more cottagers would have an oppor tunity to vote i have been after this for years buthavebeen ig nored he said mr snider charged that half the lake propertyowners had never seen a copy of the pro posed bylaw what the council wants is larger lots for more taxes and no extra services he said they are trying to freeze us out it was agreed that the next meeting would be held in tor onto on sunday april 12th to proceed further on the problem fracas occurs during assessment hearing a fracas outside the township hall in goodwood near the end of a twoday hearing of assessment appeals before judge alex c hall has led to a charge os assault causing bodily harm against former assessor robt f clarke cone 5 uxbridge twp reeve alvin redshaw filed the charge on saturday before justice of the peace lome andrews of uxbridge the alleged attack occurred on thursday afternoon mr clarke served the township as assessor for one year but vacated the post in a storm of protest last november his verbal resignation was later accepted by the 1963 council mr clarke then proceeded to appeal his own assessment to the county court and on thursday judge hall allowed him a reduction asked outside as the final cases on the afternoons agenda were near- ing completion mr clarke left the chambers but motioned to reeve redshaw that he wished to see him in private the reeve told the police that he was hit on the side of the face by clarke and knocked down a flight of cement steps he returned to the hall where court was still in session with blood streaming from a gash in his forehead the hearing was adjourned almost immediately mr redshaw was later treat ed by dr john button at the stouffville medical centre mrs redshaw who had no knowledge of the incident until her husband returned home said she at first thought he had been involved in a car accident ratepayers at lake wilcox would resent concession to farmers commercial sand grave relieved of business tax the commercial sand t gravel co was relieved of bus iness assessment proportioned on the amount of gravel it pro cessed when represented by counsel at a hearing before judge alex hall last week at goodwood in uxbridge twp solicitor david coon appear ing for h e cook on behalf of commercial sand gravel told the judge that no appeal was being made as to the rates of assessment but as the comp any buys gravel from different sources and trucks it to a cen tral local he requested to know who should be assessed for the business assessment in many cases the amount taken was imall but the firm was assessed for a business tax on the acre- s in several locations iiproduced agreement solicitor coon contended his client should only be liable for the gravel actually processed at the central location to which the gravel was taken by truck assessor hepditch stated the amount taken was at the dis cretion of the firm and in his opinion the firm had exclusive rights however solicitor coon produced an agreement to the contrary judge hall ruled that com mercial sand gravel was not liable for business tax on the acreage where the gravel was taken in the second similar case where the property was by st lawrence cement co but operated by allenco co he ruled that allenco was respon sible for the tax mr hanson from lake wilcox appeared before whitchurch township council on monday night and stated that he repre sented a number of ratepayers at the lake who objected to council giving any consideration to the request by the federation of agriculture to have farm land exempt for police costs mr hanson was advised by council that no consent had been given to the request and so far as council knew it had no authority to do so mr hanson requested assur ance that before any such action was even contempiated he wduldbead vised asa deputa tion from the lake area would oppose the move he said he was in favour of paying his share but he objected to carry ing the load for someone else to support his contention he said it wuld be as reasonable for ai householder to offer to pay tax on his home but request exemption for his lot fire at greenhouse a lull in fire calls to the stouffville brigade was broken on tuesday when the truck was called out on two occasions the first alarm was sounded at 4 am when a blaze threatened a greenhouse building on the property of vics nursery cone 9 whitchurchin spite of dense smoke in the structure firemen were able to find the source of the trouble and put it out with little damage later the brigade- was-called- to the first grass fire of the season on property across from the stouffville floral co conc9 south it was extinguished in a matter of minutes mr and mrs w s mowat and family of seaf orth spent the easter holiday with mr and mrs m s mowatt drop charges in markham fatal to hold inquest a charge of careless driving laid by markham village puii06 ajttiiii a winovvuaic man following the death of mr ira shank on main st jan 30th has been with drawn an inquest into the fatality will be held however on april 22nd in markham mr shank was killed instant ly near his home in north markham while crossing the highway after stepping oft the bus john russell rogers 31 was subsequently charged the charge was dropped fol lowing a discussion of the case by markham officers with the crown attorney v morganson was wei i- known in stouffville birth shadlock glen and joyce are happy to announce the arrival of their daughter gwcn marie on thursday march 19 at the york county hospital newmarket a baby sister for sheila hire police chief to head new force in whitchurch township mr fred mason of southampton ontario has verb ally agreed to accept the position of police chief in the twp of whitchurch this information was con firmed at a regular meeting of council on monday evening although a written acceptance of the post had not yet arrived sir mason is the current chief of police in southampton the new chief will receive a salary of 6000 and his duties will commence on april loth it is expected that he will work along with the council to finalize the selection of other officers to complete the force the late bunny morganson sports writer for many years for the toronto telegram was wellknown in stouffville goodwood and district being connected with the morganson families in the area his col umn covered much of the small time hockey and baseball of all the communities surrounding metro and he began in 1923 deceased was 61 and became seriously ill for the first time in 1962 he not only wrote ab out minor sports but served on committees and executives in addition to his column of local sports he also covered some ma jor leagues in his day and um pired as well he was born in torontos east end and was active in uni ted church work in that part of the city bunny was a past master of birch cliff masonic lodge was a keen follower of freemasonry and often attend ed functions at richardson lodge here in stouffville bunny leaves to mourn his loss his wife delia and a host of friends the funeral was conducted on saturday with in terment in pine hills cemetery erected in 1881 franklin house to be razed the franklin house an 83 year old landmark on main st in markham village will bow to time and tide this summer when the structure is removed to make way for a new iga super market store on that site the hotel considered at one time to be the finest of its kind in the area was erected in 1881 by wm hamilton hall and oper ated under the hal family name for 50 years the brick for the building was hauled by farm teams and wag ons from the snowball brick yard on cone 7 markham south of no7 hwy the master brick layer was joseph sampson of markham wm hall was a great sports promoter in markham and both hockey and lacrosse teams from all parts of ontariooften spent the night at hishotel premises he was the president of the markham lacrosse club in 1890 a mr john kennedy took over the establishment and he was followed by james tor rance robt andrews chas zugbrigg dinty ross and the present owners ken and clark prentice the licence to serve beer was dropped in 1936 the new store will be situated well back on the lot with room for customer parking at the front exmillionaires in training to meet nhl oldtimers april 10 three former millionaires once the pride and joy of all markham hockey fans and still remembered for their defensive efforts will return to markham on april 10th left to right geo scott bert baker and fred scott will perform against the niil oldtimers along with many of their old teammates the rearguard trio were anions fifteen players who joined in a pregame practice session on monday night staff photo their hair is a litle greyer their weight is a little heavier they puff when they pull their skates on and they puff when they take them off the ends of the arena seem farther apart and the goal posts appear closer to gether but the boys who will don the green and white regalia of the markham millionaires on friday night april 10th are the same stars who burned up the ice lanes in that community over 15 years ago fifteen players took part in a onehour workout at markham on monday night prior to their exhibition- match with the nhl old timers admission tickets are currently on sale and a sell out crowd is expected on hand for mondays prac tice session included such well- known names as bruce harp er norm stundcn geo stark ken brcnnan bert baker jack rumncy vic meharg fred and geo scott jack watson nick bangay hal gibson harry mil- roy and bonnie bell at 48 harry milroy is the veteran of this group although charlie nesbitt who is also expected out could better that mark by a couple of years it is hoped that the line of watsonmilroy and bob law- rie may be reunited also the trio of nick and bob bangay and charlie nesbitt norm stunden and jack harper will share the goaltending chores players from the farthest distance will be bruce forgie of orillia and dick perry of cookstown turk broda goalterider with the leafs for 14 years will offi- ciate for perhaps one period ha will bo spelled off by polly min- ton mort selyk of markham former speed skating and barrel- jumping champion will drop tha first puck he is 86 the entire event has been arranged by markhams john lunau now the trainer of the nhl old- timersteamandan ardent wor ker with millionaire clubs of the past two stolen cars recovered a spree of auto thefts attribut ed to escapees from st johns training school at uxbridge has kept district police departments busy during the past two days so far a gravel truck and two cars have been recovered but some of the lads arc still at large one auto owned by kdgerton pegg ofclaremont was found up at barrie a station wagon owned by ross heatherington of stouffville was recovered in toronto benefit game for injured girl on april 9th don mills and west hill will compete for the junior girls canadian hockey champion ship in the stouffville arena on thursday april 9th at 830 pm don mills are the current ontario junior champs proceeds from this game will go to the joyce nesbitt fund joyce a resident of ballantrae and a regular player with stouffville girls suffered an in jured- back during an exhibi tion game two weeks ago and was confined to hospital for se veral days the junior canadian champ ionship is sponsored by the jr girls- hockey association and is open to any junior girl ent ries in canada the alberto- culver v05 trophy goes to the winner ajax are- the current canad ian titleholders no move to protect pine orchard level crossing with three level crossing pro jects scheduled for this year whitchurch twp council will take no action to install protect ive warning signals at the cnr line near pine orchard this decision was revealed on mon day night following the receipt of a letter from the board of transport a vivian district couple were killed at this cros sing site in december when their westbound car was struck by a dicscl freight train the estimated cost of the im provement was listed as 11000 for the installation of a warning signal plus 650 annually for maintenance the council suggested that there was ample view of the crossing at this location and other sites in the township that posed a much greater hazard aurora ups rate for firefighting whitchurch township council was advised on monday night that henceforth the charge for fighting fires in the township for the aurora fire brigade would be 115 a axe this is a 15 increase and amount to 1 per man there will be no change in the standby time sale of office supplies tribune office supplies is of fering a host of rear bargains this week in a big sale display on page 11 read this ad and have a look at the sale items in our window clippers vs wellington in ontario semifinals wellington is the current op position for the stouffville clippers in the oha- junior d playoff semifinals the scries opener was played in stouffville on wednesday last night with the return match tentatively scheduled for wel lington on monday a third game will likely swing the two clubs back here next wednesday april 8th although final arrange ments are still to be completed the scries must be completed 2s j- v half a load is better than none it may be the halmoad season for irravel trucks but on thursday morning of laal week bernard cooper of oshawa ended up in the ditch with no load at all the accident occurred on a curve of no 7 hwy west of green river the trailer tipped over but fortunately for the driver the cab remained upright and damage to the transport uas not hcavq one hydro pole was sheared off in the impact staff photo cedar beach to begin 35th season although a thick layer of ice still covers much of musselmans inke work is already well underway to wards he opening of a 35th season at cedar beach park the first public dance is scheduled for saturday eve ning april 11th in the pavi lion that has been completely renovated and winterized for yearround use ballroom dancing that has been featured at cedar beach in he past will be replaced by country and western type dance music with don celsie and bis rhythm boys by april 14th doug st john of uxbridge has been added to the stouffville lineup and will likely hold down a spot on defence the clippers came out of the sutton-canning- ton series with nothing worse than a few bumps and bruises and expect to ice a healthy squad against wellington present minor hockey awards on april 6th the stouffville minor hockey association will wind up its seasons activities in the stouft- villc arena on monday- evening april 6th four championship games arc schcdulcdatom 630 to 730 pm squirt 715 to 745 pm pee wee 800 to 845 pjn and bantam 900 to 945 pja door prizes will be given a- way during the nights program and trophies will be presented to the winning clubs the regular admission is 50c with students at 25c and child ren under 12 years admitted xrc