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all the news whitchurch j uxbridge i i markham r pickering townships largest weekly markham stouffville uxbridge vol 79 no 25 stouffvillemarkhamuxbridge oxt thursday november 16 1967 10 cents district lloyd turner town assessor twelve years stouffville this town and community lost one of its most active longtime residents nov 8 in the sudden passing of mr lloyd turner lloyd avenue stouffville mr turner died suddenly while eating a noon- clay meal in toronto he had gone to the city ac companied by a close friend harry stouffer second street he was 76 mr turner was active in almost every phase of village life he bacame best known for his work as town assessor a position he held with pride for a period of twelve years later he became part of the york county staff when assessment on a local basis was dissolved he had been retired for the past 1 months in addition to his knowledge of assessment matters mr turner once excelled as an expert horse plowman and many trophies in his home i signified his ability in o- at vj- district matches he was p rv- ll3 a p president of the markham fair board and the holstein fresian association he was a member of the richard son masonic lodge the stouffville lions club and the stouffville arena board he had also serv ed as a trustee on the stouffville public school board mr turner was born al mongolia the son ot mr and mrs john turner on march 16 1916 he was married to delia mowder and the couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last year they were honored by more than 200 visitors at that time since coming to stouffville mr turner took an active interest in hockey especially among the young boys he maintained the individual scoring records for several seasons and was honored by the lions club through the presentation of an engraved plaque only the day before he died he operated the time clock at a junior game several of the beautiful bouquets of flowers at the oneill chapel were from stouffville hockey clubs mr turner was a member of the stouffville united church the service saturday was con ducted by rev alan borland assisted by rev douglas davis hundreds of friends and neighbors called to pay their respects surviving besides his wife is one son grant of stouffville a daughter kathleen mrs robert ma- dill of clarembrifand nine grandchildren there are two brothers roy of miami florida and a re cent visiter here melville of toronto and one sister olive mrs frank taylor also of toronto the pall bearers were jack spang les clarke dwight forsyth charles jackson fred castle and ronald walsh interment was in stouffville cem- etery senior school snag unionville the council of the village of markham has had a change of heart with re gard to supplying services to a proposed 700000 sen ior public school across the border in markham township township clerk h t crisp informed council monday that the village now had second thoughts about such a policy he then produced a letter dated april 14 1967 that quoted the village coun cil as being favorably dis posed to the plan although township members considered the matter a trustee problem councillor anthony ro man suggested that the board be given every as sistance to reach an agree ment on the issue the proposed site on cone 7 has already been pur chased reeve stewart rumble recommended that coun cil and the area board meet in committee thurs day morning to discuss the issue ask markham twp council election new name for i old road buttonville at one time the high w a y through buttonville vic toria square and gormley was known only as the 4th concession of markham township later it was named don mills road now it is to be called woodbine avenue to con form with its identity within the boundaries of metro markham council ap proved the namechange at a meeting monday woodbine avenue as such will extend only to the borders of whit church there it again re verts back to don mills road vs grey cup pickering george hodgson who has declar ed himself a candidate for ward 2 in the forthcom ing pickering township election wants election day dec 2 changed at a council meeting on tuesday night he asked council to reconsider your unfortunate decision to hold municipal elec tions on dec 2 grey cup day he suggested that vot ing day be advanced one week i think 80 per cent of the men will be glued to tv he said and they still have to do their shop ping the ladies will not get out mr hodgson said that voters were lax in the township we need everything going for us we can get he said reeve laycox advised the candidate that it was too late to change the by law since it had to be ad vertised two weeks in suc cession which would bring it too late for elec tion some of the councillors believe that there will be a great deal of interest on election day in spite of the grey cup game food poisoning markham a mark ham district family strick en with food poisoning was given a police escort by sgt wm vance to scarboro general hospi tal mrs j t woodbine and two children markhani rr 2 became ill in their car mr woodbine re quested police assistance to eliminate blind spot at fatality site j betz firm to build reservoir stouffville the stouffville firm of k w betz construction com pany has been awarded the contract to construct a new 650000 gallon water reservoir for the public utilities commission the location of the proposed project is north on cone 9 in whitchurch town ship the betz price of 545- 59500 is more than 10000 less than the original es timate plans as submit- ted have beenapproved by town engineers hisey and barrington with a few minor changes work on the contract will begin immediately with the hope that it may be completed by dec 1 the project is covered by a threeyear company guarantee the reservoir will give stouffville a total water- holding capacity of one million gallons ja f icecoated wasteland in whitchurch township no its not a photo of the moons surface taken from a saturn 5 rocket its a frigid section of irrigated land near the fifth concession of whitchurch township the spray top has frozen on contact with the ground the tree below resem bles a giant glacier staff photo one lady buys three schools uxbridge a tor- onto lady has purchased three former public schools in scott township mrs elsie jarrett don- woods avenue paid a to tal of 22900 for the com bined buildings and pro perties the public auc tion was in charge of lloyd wilson mrs jarrct paid 510000 for no 7 school north of mount albert s7000 for no 10 school south of zephyr and s5900 for no 6 school east of zephyr she also submitted one of the top bids for the no 12 school cone 5 markham but did not pur chase it on nov 25 three more scott township schools will go under auctioneer wilsons hammer they are located at lot 8 cone 5 lot 8 cone 6 and leask- dale 29 appeals stouffville twentynine assessment appeals were heard here monday the only major change was an adjustment on the front of the new ratclilf iga store and an allow ance for vacancy at the old site reserve fund approved claremont a by law approved by the coun cil of the township of pickering will allow the community of claremnt to retain a reserve fund this means that surplus funds remaining at the end of 1967 will be trans ferred into a special bank account and used for cap ital improvements and operating expenses o n january i i 9 6 8 claremont ceases to be a police village but be comes part of the town ship of pickering it is anticipated that the trustee board could have 510000 left over at the end of the year originally it had been expected that this money would auto matically go into the town ships general account council rejects load limit bylaw 9th concession stouffville grav el truck traffic may pose a problem to residents on ninth line north but the majority of members on stouffville council feel that to impose a 5ton lim it in that area would not be practical a bylaw to restrict luad weights on that sec tion of highway was de feated a second bylaw governing the hours of truck traffic in the same area was lso rejected reeve ken laushwoy charged that such load limitations would affect not only truckers coming into town from whit church but also local de liveries going out what are you trying to do close the town off altogether asked the reeve he admit ted that the council had received a 44namc peti tion calling for restric tions but he felt it was not their intention to close it down to heavy trucks entirely wed have a 1400 name petition in here if we proceeded with such foolishness councillor jim mckel- lar argued that the peti tion could not be ignored he suggested that drivers of vehicles greater than live tons could just as well use the bloomington road reeve laushway con tended that it would be difficult to erect signs to pioperlv warn truckers of the weight limit what are they supposed to do once they gel into town turn around and go back deputyreeve bill par sons said that the rights of other citizens had to be considered if this kind of traffic affected the lives and limbs of ped estrians then it would have some merit but not because it merely disturbs a few peoples sleep reeve laushway said that a portion of the prob lem could be solved by rtpaving the ninth line road he recommended that sufficient money be set aside in the 1968 bud get io do this work died on seat belts buttonville a coroners jury has rec ommended that markham township council take action to have a blind spot removed from a sec tion of 16th avenue between concessions 5 and 6 the scene of a twocar crash oct 21 that killed one man and injured three others the inquest into the death of garnet mustard 60 of rr 2 markham was conducted tuesday by coroner dr blair mitchell of stouffville assist ed by deputychief robert hood pathologist dr donald guthrie of york cen tral hospital said that the victims lungs were lacerated due to multiple rib fractures he said too that blood from the mans mouth had entered his respiratory tract hindering his breathing dr guthrie described how either injury or a combina tion of both could have caused the mans death the pathologist informed the jury that a blood sample taken from mr mustard showed an alco hol content of 16 per thousand sufficient to ren der him impaired he said the condition of the victims liver indicated an excessive use of alcohol over a period of time dr james scott of markham the family phys ician said mr mustard had undergone treatment for a gall bladder condition and arrangements had been made for surgery came at me mrs jacqueline milne rr 1 unionville the driver of the other car described in a written statement how the death car had veered to the south side of the road at a high rate of speed he came right at me she said two of her children riding in the front seat were also injured sgt evan kclley the investigating officer de scribed the blind spot in the road where the ciash occurred he said it was difficult to judge the exact point of impact sgt kelley noted that the mustard car was equipped with seat belts but the driver wasnt wearing them mechanic ray stapley of toronto said the vic tims car was in excellent mechanical condition prior to impact it was one of the best kept cars i have ever checked out william graham the first to arrive at the ac cident scene told the hearing that a car believed to have been the one driven by mr mustard had passed his pickup truck on the kennedy road he said he didnt believe the driver intended to go west on 16th avenue but did so because he couldnt stop for another vehicle ahead the fiveman jury was headed by foreman stanley defoe others were richard tribbling frank bennett alan martin and gerhard schick- endanz nominations near time of in town stouffville the time of decision is draw ing near for candidates seeking election or reelec tion in stouffville and the townships of whitchurch uxbridge and pickering the first and possibly the hottest is scheduled for the brougham hall in pickering township fri day night from 7 to 8 pm decision township nominations in ux bridge township will be held wednesday nov 22 from 7 to 8 pm in the goodwood hall here in stouffville nom inations are set for thurs day nov 23 from 730 to 830 pm in the veterans hall whitchurch township nominations will be held friday nov 24 in the van- dorf hall from 7 to 8 pm reeve offe rs but no takers stouffville reeve- ken laushway extended the feelers at the nov 2 meeting of stouffville ctiiiiuil inn there were no takers in a brief discussion about prenomination plans the reeve said that his position was available if anyone was interested he didnt say whether he would contest an election if anoiher candidate came forward but his remarks were obviously directed to t h e deputyreeve bill parsons ive been a- roundhere a long time he said over ten years and youve helped to bring the town along in the last ten years said councillor bob lewis vouve done a great deal agreed mr parsons we havent always agreed but one thing we do agree on and thats progress planned progress in serted the reeve mr lau shway said he was very pleased with the attitude of members who in spite of differences around the council table never car ried those feelings beyond the chambers assault charge markham an alleg ed assault by a markham village man on his wife has led to a charge by po lice david love sherwood forest drive will appear in magistrates court richmond hill nov 28 guest speaker magistrate david coon of stouffville will be the guest speaker at a meet ing of the home and school association nov 22 at 830 pm in orchard park school his address and discussion to follow will be centered around teenagers with a per sonal insight into the at tractions of yorkvllle and lsd buys boyhood school gormley a union ville district man returned to the school of his boy hood years saturday and bought it for 16100 lewis heise unionville rr 1 and formerly of victoria square purch ased the old no 7 school- house and lot south of gormley on don mills rd at a public auction ap proved by the board of markham tsa 2 the auctioneer was wal ter d atkinson of stouff ville no 7 school was erect ed in 1902 replacing an original structure located a few feet to the south a oneroom portable was added in 1955 both mr heise and his father were pupils there report denied claremont presi dent hugh miller of the pickering twp rural ratepayers assoc has denied that this organiza tion is publicly support ing any one candidate for the office of reeve in the forthcoming election dec 2 in a telephone conver sation with the tribune mr miller admitted that several members had held a meeting but their main concern was for a council representative in ward 2 rather than the reeves post earlier it had been re ported that the associa tion was backing exreeve and county warden sher man scott mr miller said that some ratepayers groups in other munici palities may have adopted such a practice but he considered it unwise he declined to say whether he himself was exerting any influence in favor of either sherman scott jean mcpherson john williams or reeve clifford laycox i only have one vote he siiid the nomination meet ing is friday night old tyme skaters at arena stouffville although many coup- les might resent the term old tymcrs in rcf- crence to the age classification of 21 or even ij 31 the requirement of 21 years and over will allow anyone to attend the seasons first old tyme skating night in the stouffville arena the date of this event is saturday nov 25 g and the third saturday of each succeeding jj month throughout the entire winter season live skating music will be provided by the jff well known dave penny of newmarket at jj the console of a lawric electric organ j the admission is 75c y v