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student awards presented at ii s commencement grade 13 graduate andrew watson right as the recipient of a 100 bursary from stouffville machine and tool works ltd principal w e duxbury makes the presentation staff photo the hendricks hardware commercial proficiency award was won by marion byer mr cec hendricks made the presenta tion at the commencement program friday night staff photo the high school staff academic proficiency award was received by herbert otto staff teacher mr e b godfrey left made the presentation staff photo grade is graduate aa s right is the recipient of several awards one of these was received from the stouff ville womens institute and presented hero bv mrs bruce davidson staff photo high school not just for the clever student board chairman addressing close to 800 par ents at the annual stouffville dlst high school commence ment exercises on friday night board chairman merlyn baker lashed out at any prepared cur riculum that was designed to benefit only students with keen academic interest in criti cizing such a policy mr baker outlined a new broader and more practical program that would assist boys and girls in the de velopment of other vocations he said that the board was whole heartedly in favour of this trend he said that two new rooms would be built onto the present school to provide occu pational and technical courses that previously were not attain able at stouffville should we turn out the slow- learners to fend for themselves in a world that is fast becoming automated he asked do we just care about the clever stu dents is high school just for those who find academic courses easy for the students whose parents are paying the taxes if the board should take such an irresponsible attitude toward young people then possibly we have ceased to be an asset our selves and are only a liability to our community attendance growing principal w e duxbury in welcoming the parents and friends noted that the high school enrollment had reached 490 or just double the attend ance figure of seven years ago he said that the school was erected 11 years ago and since that time two additions have been constructed and the board was planning for a third he said that although stouffville could still offer only limited op tions every effort was being ex erted to make additional courses available m the school late fred hicks was pickering tp road foreman the community of brougham lost a highly respected resident and the twp of pickering lost a valuable road department employee in the death on fri day nov 13th of mr fred hicks mr hicks passed away in the osliawa general hospital fol lowing an illness of about four months he was in his 50th year born in the municipality where he lived and worked all his life the deceased joined the township road staff 24 years ago and rose to the position of road foreman he spent four years on active duty overseas with the canadian army the late mr hicks was iden tified with st johns united church in brougham in his younger days he was an avid sportsman and played hockey for brougham he was a mem ber of the whitevale chapter 155 of the oddfellows and ser ved on the volunteer fire bri gade he had been a resident of brougham for over 20 years besides his wife the former jean campbell he is survived by two sons ted 16 and den nis 13 both at home there are four brothers ivan bill lloyd and murray all of whitby and two sisters ruby mrs harold boyington of markham and catherine mrs gordon run- ions of ajax a third sister lillian is deceased rev a e cresswell conduc ted the funeral service from the mceachnie chapel in pick ering on monday afternoon at 2 pm with interment in the brougham cemetery it was largely attended the pall bear ers were joe burrows claude smith gordon benson ivan booth allan pilkey and rus sell pilkey on sunday evening the oddfellows lodge held a special service at the mceach nie parlors and on monday af ternoon the claremont branch of the legion conducted a brief service at the graveside libel suit dismissed libel suits filed against two officials of amalgamated elec tric corporation of markham ronald hannegan and sidney smith were dismissed in mag istrates court richmond hill on tuesday advertisements in an issue of the stouffville tribune and the markham economist and sun were alleged to be libellous against george stevens and workers of the united electri cal radio and machine work ers of america ue magistrate russell pearse ruled that there was insuffic ient evidence to warrant a con viction the two company em ployees had through their sol icitor entered a plea of not guilty vol 76 no 24 the tribune stouffville ontario thursday november 19 1964 sixteen pages assinck bros send 52000 order to gaspe by rail assinck bros of markham have completed a 552000 order for shipment by rail to gaspe the equipment loaded on five cnr flat cars at the markham station left on monday en route to an agricultural lime plant a distance of 1200 miles it took five weeks to piece together the materials including a huge 9ton cement silo a photo of which appears on page 3 of this issue other items include stor age bins conveyors and screens six employees of the mark ham firm will also make the trip to assemble the equipment on its arrival the men include hein vehof dick fintelman max sooley ted assinck grant ferner and andy gardner assinck bros have been ta king advantage of the conven ient rail service out of mark ham for the past six months a new hydraulic derrick purchased recently by the company has eased the chore of loadng for rail shipment to honour plow champion don dunkeld atha plowing champion donald dunkeld will be hon oured on friday evening dec 4th at a plowmans banquet to be held in the masonic hall stouffville a resident at cone 8 picker ing twp don captured the canadian tractor piow title in prince edward island in september leading a field of 16 competitors he will now advance to the world championships in oslo norway in the fall of 1065 the banquet will be held at seven oclock with a program to follow good samaritan pays out 6000 i borrowed tire fined for theft stealing a tire cost two youths 75 and costs in new market court monday ronald w tomlinson and william a heinland both 19 pleaded guilty to the charge they explained to the court that they had a flat tire on don mills rd north of the bethes- da sidcroad without a spare they proceeded to borrow a lire from a stalled truck across the road they explained that they had sufficient money to purchase a new tire but the nearest service station was 3 miles away the pair were in the process of changing the tire when apprehended by whit church twp police magistrate o s hollinrake levied the fines with a 15day jail term as an alternative hear 100 appeals before uxbridge township court approximately 100 assess ment appeals will be heard on wednesday nov 25th at the uxbridge twp court of revis ion in goodwood clerk elwood foskett told the tribune this week that 66 notices had been sent out he said that some res idents would receive more than one notice chairman earl dowswell will head the court along with members gordon flcwell and marshall sharrard officials of the ontario county assess ment dcpt will also be in at tendance the appeals will be heard over a twoday period begin ning at 10 am on nov 25th and ending at 4 p m on nov 26th fire marshalls office checks halloween blaze the fire marshalls office has been called in to investigate the cause of a blaze that destroyed a storage shed containing an es timated 4000 worth of imple ments east of claremont on halloween night the machin ery belonged to charles coop er ltd of claremont fire chief tom hammond fold the tribune this week that officials had been out and had probed through the debris at the site he said that he had not been informed on the re sult of the investigation we might not hear anything for several weeks he said an officer at the whitby de tachment of the ontario prov incial police said that to date no one had been charged in connection with the fire and the matter was still under in vestigation tandem gravel truck rams cement culvert the second gravel truck ac cident within a month on the 6thconc of whitchurch caused heavy property damage on monday morning proceeding north in dense fog a tandemvehicle driven by frederick hortori of cooksville rammed into a cement bridge abutment tearing loose the front wheels and axle a por tion of the bridge was also bro ken the truck was notloaded at the time the truckcame to a stop near the property line of mr james clubme the driver was not hurt several weeks ago a south bound tandem vehicle went out of control on the same road and rolled over in the ditch whit church twp police investigated both accidents nominations thursday for uxbridge twp school area board on thursday evening to night a nomination meeting will be held in the community hall at goodwood to select candidates for the five posi tions on the new public school area board nominations will be received from 7 to 8 pm and a public meeting will fol low if more than five candi dates should qualify for office an election will be held on monday dec 7th although similar nominations are scheduled in the twps of pickering markham and whit church uxbridge twp is the first on the list the present council is in office for a two year term the formation of the area board program in uxbridge is not taken lightly by the rate payers since it was approved but later dissolved several years ago nominations in pickering markham and whitchurch twps are all on friday nov 27th dr norman a frctz son of mr and mrs oran frctz of bethesda has received his specialist degree in phychla- try and has been appointed a clinic director at the hospital in windsor dr frctz was an honour graduate of medical school in 1959 a newmarket youth leslie e graves played good samari tan tuesday m richmond hill court he and three other youths were charged in stouff ville for consuming liquor und er the age of 21 graves was the only person to put in appear ance he pleaded guilty for himself and his three friends pc edward grimshaw told the court that he observed the accused in a car leaving a ser vice station on main st in stouffville he followed the car for a short distance before ap prehending the youths also charged besides graves were eric neilson 19 r r 2 stouffville ian park 19 cone 7 e gwilhmbury and phillip smalley 18 of cone 6 whit church all were fined 15 and costs graves had to pay the bill of over 60 father pleads for son against term in jail garry r graham 17 of rr 2 stouffville was convicted on monday in newmarket for con suming liquor under the age of 21 it was his second conviction of this type in less than a year he had been previously convic ted on july 13 and was fined 15- according to the liquor con trol act a second conviction in less than one year is punish able by a jail term j however magistrate o s hollinrake was lenient with the youth and fined him 100 and costs or 10 days in jail he ad vised the youths father to let his son serve the jail term to help straighten him out the father told the court that a jail term would interrupt his sons job and therefore reques ted permission to pay the fine magistrate hollinrake agreed with the request and allowed graham to pay half the fine in court and the remainder in two weeks hearing friday on pickering building frechristmas advertisements 11 to this week the second sec tion of the tribune contains a host of pre christmas values and sales shoppers would he wise to check the advertisements on pages 11 to 1c shop early while selection is good remember santa claus arrives in town on nov 28th and christmas is only 28 shop ping days away both drivers fined in two- car crash robert stapley rr 1 stouff ville involved in an accident with james sicgrist of new market was fined 10 and costs for failing to yield the right of way to oncoming traffic he was convicted by magistrate russcl pearse in richmond hill court on friday stapley told the court that he was backing out of a drive way on 18th ave east of the 10th cone when he noticed sie- grists automobile approaching he stopped his car thinking the oncoming car had enough room to pass however sicgrist clai med the road was too narrow and he applied his brakes slid ing into the rear of the stapley car magistrate pearse claimed that stapley upon blocking part of the road set up a situa tion in which sicgrist could no bt expected to comprehend sicgrist was also charged in the same accident for driving without the proper license the court learned that he was dri ving a truck for a newmarket firm with only a temporary permit magistrate pearse fined him 20 and costs and gave him two weeks to pay a toronto man joseph a bcres was fined 50 and costs for driving a vehicle without the proper insurance he was apprehended by pc david hadden of the stouffville po lice dcpt on main st bcres who failed to make an appearance in court told const hadden that he had insurance on another car and didnt be lieve it necessary to insure both magistrate russell pearse le vied the fine in richmond hill on friday honour graduates of stouffville dist high school an ontario municipal board hearing will be conducted in the council chambers at brou gham on friday morning into the proposed new 300000 mu nicipal building for the twp of pickering the hearing will convene at 11 am and could possibly be completed by noon hour only two objections to the project have been filed and both of these came from resi dents in the urban area of the municipality the hearing will be held not solely on the basis of the two objections but to replace a vote of the electorate in the form of a plebescite house breakin case broken by police for 42 consecutive days the markham twp police depart ment experienced not a single breakin report throughout the whole of the municipality then on thursday nov 12th the re cord was broken thieves had entered the home of mr r c berkcnshaw 3rd cone north of 17th ave and merchandise va lued at 1100 was stolen pc clifford cox was assign ed to the case assisted by pc john mccague two days later the first suspect was picked up for questioning and on sunday four more were arrested on tuesday the five youths all from richmond hill appeared before mag russell pearse and were convicted their sentence willi be handed down next week i a large portion of the stolen goods that included silverware clothing fishing equipment a movie projector and other arti cles has been recovered two car duel brings lake man 200 fine ten members of the honour graduation class of stouffville district high school are pictured here following the presentation of their grade is diplomas at the commencement exercises on friday night the graduates are rear row left to right robert reed robert mcnalr eric button paul grose rodger mole front row left to right jamie ogilvy florence yake karen kennedy jean foote andrew watson missing is samuel bakewcll and robert mole deceased staff photo a twocar duel between two drivers on no 48 hwy and aired before magistrate russell pearce in richmond hill court on tuesday resulted in a convic tion against thomas r mont gomery of musselmans lake and a fine of 200 and costs he was charged by sgt wm vance of markham village police with being impaired the officer said that when he reached the scene of a reported fight he saw mont gomery kicking 20 year old da vid stbakcs of toronto the driver of the other auto according to stoakes mont gomery chased him from hwy 401 to the markham stoplights at speeds up to 100 miles per hour he said that his car was bumped on several occasions and their bumpers finally be came locked mrs montgomery a passenger with her husband testified that they had consumed three drinks in toronto and while returning home their car was forced onto the shoulder of the highway by the stoakes vehicle i thought it was just a bunch of smart- alccks showing off she said the accused man said that stoakes had tried to cut him off but denied that their bumpers had ever locked he admitted that he chased the youths for some distance magistrate pearse said that there was no doubt that the ac cused had been drinking he said that the witnesses could well havcprovided exaggerated sto ries to protect themselves be sides the fine montgomerys driver licence was suspended lor one year i