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largest weekly markham stouffville uxbridge in the district vol 78 no 20 stoufrtllemarkhamuxbridge ont thurs october 13 1966 10 cents all the news whitchurch i uxbridge markham i pickering of all 4 townships bike rodeo at vandorf vandorf the sec ond annual bicycle rodeo promoted by the whit church township police department will be held on saturday oct 15 be ginning at 10 am entry applications have been sent to even public school in the municipality sgl fred crawford and constable daid knowlcs are in charge of the pro gram assisted by other members of the force the competition will be staged on the paved lot near the township office building the top girl and boy will receive trophies in addition twelve individual awards will be presented six to junior entries and six to seniors henrick captures pro tournament furrow narrows vztsrj jgjsis swoiji for horse teams im of the future promotion p c david hadden a member of the stouffville police department for 3 years has been promoted to the rank of 1st class constable the recommen dation from chief orland keating was approved by town council thursday night horse team entries at both district and international plowing matches have become almost a novelty as their numbers decrease each rear at the north ontario and north york competitions last week two teams were entered gerald bell of oakwood is shown here with his beautiful pair of percheron blacks the other entry is pictured on page 9 staff photo lowboy york udora a nineteen year old lemonville boy captured three awards in the 42nd annual north stole telephone wire man jailed two years buttonville a 23 year old markham village man was sent to kingston penitentiary for two years when convicted in rich mond hill court thurs day of stealing 326 pounds of copper telephone cable the investigation was com pleted by detectives clif ford cox and douglas tribbling of markham township police detective cox said that joseph conway had cut the wire from poles on 17th avenue between con cessions 9 and 10 inter rupting customer service value placed on the cable was estimated at 14018 it was sold to two scrap yards but 114 pounds was recovered needs help solicitor john lawlor provided by legal aid urged psychiatric help lor the accused claiming he possessed a tendency to steal copper several persons have an inclination to steal cop per because it is readily saleable i think he has an inclination to steal peri od commented magistrate 0 s hollinrake a further three months was added to the sentence when conway was convict ed of stealing licence plates from a car owned by ian hiscocks of mark ham york plowing match held saturday on the morris snodden farm near udora in georgina township peter gibbins won the bank of nova scotia spe cial the canadian bank of commerce trophy and the esso championship award in addition he and wayne forsyth of stouff ville will compete on fri day at the international near seaforth for the in terschool title shares spotlight sharing the prizewin ning spotlight was another lemonville plowman grant wells his land was judged best by a resident of the north york branch he also had the best crown in the tractor class keith robinson of cooks- town had the best finish in the tractor class john mc donald of woodbridge won the international harvester special there were 53 entries in the match including 31 in the main class and 22 in utility the judges were rae montague of jarvis and jack taylor of burl ington best in class there were twelve indi vidual classes including the novelty the top two in each were class 1 anthonv feathcrstone ge rald bell class 2 keith robinson grant wells class 3 peter gibbins new member brougham picker ing township clerk doug las plitz swore in a new member of council tues day night he is norman w waller runnerup in the 1965 vot ing to john campbell for mer councillor for ward 4 who resigned oct 3 david wisn class 4 ivan degeer bert robert son class 5 nick aland john mcdonald class 6 bob tran barry timbers class 7 lome kennedy bill tran class 8 bob campsall david smith class 9 grant wells ken brown class 10 keith robinson ivan de geer class 11 barry timbers wayne forsyth novelty bob baird win timbers two plowgirls its difficult enough for a boy to compete under pressure with his tractor and plow but in classes 6 and 8 there were girl en tries to worsen the situa tion janette jeremy fur row queen representative for south simcoe county placed 4th out of six com petitors bonnie anderson of sutton yorks dairy and furrow queen trailed her class of three both turned in commendable jobs with plenty of coach ing from the sidelines stouffville john ny henrick elm road stouffville holds the course record at the wil lows mongolia with a 63 on tuesday afternoon he showed 62 other golf pro fessionals the reason why he finished the tourney in a fiveway tie then won it on an extrahole playoff the prize money of 1000 was put up by the tourna ment sponsor arthur latcham at the end of the regula tion is harry allard ken duggan frank whibley wilson patterson and johnny henrick were dead locked each with a 73 or 1 over par alvie thompson and murray tucker played with henrick thompson had a 75 and tucker a 74 it was the first professi onal tournament held at the willows henrick the club pro hopes to make it an annual event many of the participants left on tuesday night for the south mr henrick said that the scores tabulated by the entries were exceptionally good considering the weather a 74 on tuesday would be equal to a 70 un der normal conditions he said tee off time was 1245 pm and the tourna ment was completed by 6 oclock driver jailed four months stouffville a 21yearold north mark ham man was sent to jail for four months following a conviction on a charge of dangerous driving aired in richmond hill court tuesday blair william hughes entered a plea of guilty in addition to the jail sentence his licence wa3 suspended for three years constable david hadden of stouffville police de scribed the 90 mile per hour chase that started on ninth line north and ended in the village of beaver- ton several other departments were called in to assist and one cruiser from sutton was forced into the ditch the getaway vehicle was a pickup truck three youths were riding in the open box and at one point the truck almost overturned hughes married with one child was arrested in beaverton a bench warrant was later issued when he failed to appear in court on october 4 this is one of the most dangerous cases of driving i have heard in a long time commented crown attorney arleigh armstrong magistrate 0 s hollinrake noted that although the accused had been charged with a criminal offense it did not necessarily mean he was a criminal a second charge of criminal negligence wa3 withdrawn post office cedar grove 97vcarold public ambulance profit 1229 stouffville the total profit on a single years operation of the vance ambulance service amounted to 1229 mem bers of stouffville council were told on thursday night this figure must then be divided between 2 partners in the firm they are asking for a 600 sub sidy from stouffville and 1200 from markham township stoufivillcs of fer of 445 was rejected and the cheque was return ed markham village has already paid their 600 the lull amount that was requested dcpreevc bill parsons suggested that the subsidy should be based on num bers of calls or population served he admitted that since the vehicles were based in markham extra mileage was involved but he didnt feel this should be a factor in establishing a subsidy rate he said that he could only assume that markham with a higher population would be more needful of the service nursing homes mr vance said that stouffville had a hospital and a number of nursing homes that resulted in in creased numbers of calls he said that both ambu lances were radioequip ped with the base station located in his home he said that patients in stouffville were charged no more than those from markham on a trip to the scarboro general hospi tal its a service we re quire said councillor bob lewis mr parsons said he had heard no complaints but rather the operators had been commended on nu merous occasions it was recommended that the rate be increased to 500 mr vance agreed to discuss the settlement with his partner and noti fy the clerk of their deci sion the school building at cedar grove is up for sale and the com munity club is anxious to buy it but they have a problem how to raise 10000 that is the asking price placed on the structure and lot by the no 2 area board of markham town ship a deadline date of october 19 has been set for approval or rejection of the offer the final decision on the matter will be made by the community clubs board of directors head ed by president margaret walter and executive bob lapp bob dare wal- ly rccsor and bert tap- scott a public meeting has been called for friday october 14 at 8 pm in the schoolhousc all ratepay ers from the former ss 20 section are asked to at tend stouffville while a stouffville lady was pre paring to submit payment for a money order in the post office last week a thief scooped up the bills and disappeared there were no witnesses grace bulley stouffville rr 4 told police that she had placed 13 on a mail counter and seconds later it was gone two brcakins occurred on monday the offices of hoovers machine and welding shop was entered but nothing was taken the cash register at cen tral garage on main street was also rifled on the same night but only 3 was removed damage homes builder douglas mcharg of markham has reported damage to several new sixty present homes under construction in the watson subdivi sion two garage walls were pushed over frames removed from basement windows and bricks and blocks broken juveniles are blamed for the vanda lism on tuesday afternoon a car truck collision at main and mill streets in stouffville caused an esti mated 250 damage the westbound truck was driv en by arnold harper park drive south the driver of the car was mrs marilyn hamerston mani toba street honor 0 hollinrake senior magistrate suspended again uxbridge police chief la verne ellcnberger of uxbridge was suspend ed again following a closed meeting of town council october 7 butter festival attracts 5000 stouffville a night honoring colonel o s hollinrake qc was held at the summit golf club sept 28 when sixty lawyers of the york north bar association and metro politan toronto gathered to pay tribute to the seni or magistrate in york north head table guests were his honor robert forsyth senior county court judge joseph sedgwick qc and joseph dales qc warden of york county written messages of con gratulations were receiv ed from the hon dana h porter chief justice of ontario the hon george alexander gale chief justice of the high court arthur o klein chief magistrate of the province or ontario henry 11 bull qc crown attorney for the county of york and william allen qc chair man of the municipality of metropolitan toronto joseph vale oc past president of the york north law association presented colonel hollin rake with a scales of jus tice on behalf of the york north law association colonel hollinrake in a brief address recalled many of the activities while on the bench and traced the origin and func tion of the magistrates of fice down through the years he also paid trib ute to crown attorney arleigh armstrong qc magistrate russell pcarse and warden joseph dales smiley says time to be outdoors page 2 apple butter festival page 3 autumn weddings page 5 school controversy page s plowing match results pace 9 initiation question page 14 w fire pretention page is old custom proves popular over the thanksgiving weekend hundreds of people flocked to woodland park cedar grove to a- lend the annual apple butter festival the product fresh from the copper pots found ready sale and on monday the demand far exceeded the supply simeon rcesor markham rri keeps up a steady stir staff pholo cedar grove an estimated 5000 people at tended the twoday apple butter festival at cedar grove on the holiday weekend and purchased 2100 pints of the mixture fresh from the copper kettles the weather was near- perfect for the occasion as visitors flocked to wood land park by the hundreds many motoring out from metro the lookahead citizens of cedar grove had com pleted eleven potsfull prior to the saturday rush but by monday they were standing in line eighteen hundred plates of pan cakes were sold and the hillside public school dis posed of 70 worth of can dy apples there were other things to see on the grounds be sides food austin rccsor had his 1926 star auto on display and chris chap mans 1928 pierce arrow attracted much attention a 1909 vintage case steam engine owned by bill shillinglaw of mount al bert was used to operate a buzz saw the clarc- mont citizens band of a similar era was also there bob lapp demonstrated the use of an applepeeler once handoperated but later motordriven 500 lot fee abolished in split council vote brougham a reso lution to abolish the 500 lot development fee in the township of pickering was approved on a split 4 to 3 vote of council tuesday night councillor harvey spang who introduced the motion said he doubted the legality of the levy and claimed it represented a hardship on a resident who wished to split a building lot from a larger parcel of land he was sup ported by councillor nor man waller who admit led that- he had recently been charged the 500 figure reeve c w laycox con sidered the fee a benefit to the municipality and sug gested that it should be in creased to 600 the resolution was pas sed with councillors don ald beer spang waller and deputyreeve jean mc- phcrson voicing approval on a recorded vote reeve laycox and councillors ronald chaltcn and john williams were opposed newspaper bargain stouffville the tribune is celebrating na tional newspaper week and on page 4 of this issue is offering three outstand ing 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