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vol 79 no 42 stouffvillemarkhamuxbridge ont- thursday march 14 1968 10 cents i approve 1 700000 i school ballantrae j a new 700000 pub- i lie school of modern design has been ap- j proved by the area ft board of whitchurch g township the building to be j erected on a site at 5 the intersection of j cone 5 and the bloo- mington road will j ft contain 17 rooms although the new plan is costlier in j total than the origin- j j al the estimate of si 700 per square foot is still well be- low the average the i debenture cost if ap- i j proved by council will represent a tax increase of about j three mills jl the board hopes jlj to have the school ft completed in time v for the openings of jij the new term in sep- tember j a motion to accept plans for the s700- 000 building was ap- jjj ft proved by a vote of g ft 31 trustee michael s jj ogden favored one jj of lesser cost his j argument was sup- q ported by the chair- ft man wesley brillin- ger other members ft pointed out that al- though the overall es- timate was greater jj the plan was more ft jij practical jij the board has ac- ft quired both a princi- ft pal and a vice-priri- cipal for the school 5j mr terry gray and lij s mr lome payne pre- ft sently hold staff po- sitions in east gwil- jft jij iimbury both atten- ft ft ded the meeting 8 monday j narrow escape stouffville the driver and two passengers of a northbound car are lucky to be alive follow ing a serious accident on the don valley parkway toronto carl michell of mark- ham and murray taylor of claremont both em ployees of patrick motors limited and hugh kidd of goodwood an employee of gordon page motors limited were returning from a mechanics night course when their auto was cut off the vehicle mounted the curb and slammed into an electric light standard both mr michell and mr taylor were thrown to the pavement mr kidd was pinned behind the wheel all were taken to the east general hospital for treatment of multiple injuries and released the car that cut them off did not slop police at the scene dc scribed their escape from death as a miracle the kidd auto was completely demolished a awarded centennial medal mrs delia moore principal of claremont public school has been awarded a centennial medal by the department of education in recognition of her years of faithful service in the teaching profession in addi tion a personal letter of congratulations was received from the board of pickering tsa 1 and on tuesday she was the guest at a surprise staff party held in her honor staff photo ingestion of poison cause for alarm york county care lessness on the part of parents in leaving house hold poisons and medi cines within easy reach of children has prompted the board of administra tion at york county hos pital newmarket to issue a warning to all residents in the area within a oneweek per iod from feb 25 to mar 3 four children were admit ted after having ingested varsol dettol and baby aspirins a j paul chief pharma cist at york county hos pital said that 8 out of 10 children who take poison ous substances are be tween the ages of 1 and 4 years it is the responsi bility of the parents to protect their children from accidental poison ing he said medicine chests kitchen cupboards cellar shelves and garages all contain potentially dan gerous materials among the articles list ed as particularly lethal when swallowed by a child are headache tablets sedatives laxatives nail polish remover turpentine weed killer rat and mouse poisons cleaning fluids and kerosene at both the stouffville medical centre and the offices of drs mitchell and smith the tribune learned that treatment or ingestion of poisons has become quite common if the mistake is noticed in time we can usually treat them here said the receptionist if its some thing more serious or too much time has lapsed they must be rushed to hospital dedication service altona the new sun day school addition to the altona united missionary church will be officially dedicated at a special ser vice march 17 at 230 pm the guest speaker will be rev ward m shantz of kitchener the 27000 auditorium and classrooms have been in use for several weeks and provides additional accommodation for an en rollment of 175 members the superintendent is mr paul meyer the contrac tor was mr harold lewis claremont rr 3 special music during the dedication service will be provided by mr leroy soper of cedar grove pickering tax rate takes surprising drop pickering mem- bers of pickering town ship council rubbed their eyes and then their hands as they beheld the final ized figures of their gen eral budget in spite of dire predictions of a greatly increased rate the council has been able to hold the line the complete story however will be told mar 13 when the educational rates will be set the pickering d i s t high school budget has coun cillors astounded talks with education officials have been arranged which may result in a different picture the rate in school area i is down by 19 mills to 372 this is comprised of 176 mills residential 191 county and 5 federation of agriculture the rate for roads is up from 9 mills to 91 parks and recreation from 1 to 15 library from 7 to 8 and countv from 19 to 191 2 the police climbed from in area costs have 69 to 89 claremont no longer a police village but part of the township will have a rate of 23 mills councillor john kruger attributed the rate reduc tion in part to a sizeable increase in assessment councillor don beer said he was pleased to be a member of a council that produced a reduction he said he was particularly happy to notice a decrease in the area i school rate we can only hope that it will not be offset by an in crease at the high school level he said councillor arthur king said hat all members had spent considerable time in the preparation of the budget and he suggested that perhaps the high school trustees should do the same at last commented deputvrceve ronald chat- ten wc can begin to ful fill the promises that have been made by so many for so long student boycott threatened stouffville a group of students at the stouffville dist secondary school have threaten ed a boycott of the cafeteria unless problems in volving the cook mrs rose pomfrit are corrected to their satisfaction the trouble involving mrs pomfrit and a pri vate catering firm came to light this week when a letter of complaint was submitted to the tri bune by a grade 12 boy the student terry for far said that restrictions had been placed on the sale of certain foods even though there was a de mand for this kind of menu on a daily basis he said too that the caterers had advertized for a substitute cook without first notifying mr pom frit that she was to be replaced a petition circu lated on her behalf has been signed by more than 200 supporters student council president derek gresham told the tribune that he had heard of complaints but the matter had not been brought to his attention in any formal way principal w e duxbury said that the catering company is acquired by the board but trustees do not interfere as long as the quality of food and prices charged remain satisfactory mrs pomfrit told the tribune that she was well aware of what food was to be served but she endeavoured to satisfy the students requests she said she was most pleased that the kids had con sidered the matter important enough to come to her support with them the caterers its a mat ter of dollars and cents she said that she hadnt yet received any notice of dismissal but had read the advertisement in the paper donald macrae company manager said that his firm found it difficult to provide a variety of foods in a school of less than 700 he said that where the enrollment reaches 2000 in some larger centres a greater variety becomes more practical we must control costs he said and a cafeteria cook must learn to work under supervision mr macrae said that his firm began to look for a replacement after mrs pomfrit indicated she wanted to leave valuable racehorse tangles with traffic stouffville a racehorse valued at 5- 000 had to be destroyed following a tangle with traffic that involved three cars on highway 48 near the bloomington sideroad during the early hours of sunday morning two oth er animals were injured but will recover police said that nine horses owned by james sabiston of longview farms were loose on the road four were not lo cated until later in the day the collisions occurred in dense fog with visibil ity reduced to about ten feet motorists involved in the crash were thomas snow 21 of downsview and berno dietrich 23 of stouffville neither man was injured police officers from six departments including whitchurch and oak rid ges were summonded to the scene a section of highway 48 was closed off for almost two hours stouffville this issue of the tri bune contains a 20- page supplement of particular interest to farm residents in this area it is suggested that farm readers check each of the advertise ments carefully and stock up spring and summer needs while the supply is ade quate life begins at 88 for whitchurch man and his chevrolet septimus j foote cone 7 wnitchurch is 88 his 1952 model chevrolet is 16 theyve travelled thousands of miles together and hope to continue for a few years yet mr footes first car was a model t purchased from ernie button in stouffville he then bought a grey dort mr foote admits that his present chevy may be a little road weary but she always gets me there and back staff photo claremont youth for assault claremont an 18 year old claremont youth was sentenced to two months in jail and sever ely reprimanded by magis trate h w jermyn for his part in the assault on a teenage girl last october keneth vernon and a com panion kenneth torrance 19 had been convicted earlier and appeared in whitby court tuesday for sentence torrance was placed on probation for a period of 18 months the assault occurred after the fifteen year old accepted a ride home with the boys following a night of skating at the stouff ville arena the original charge of rape laid by the ontarjo provincial police was later reduced to in decent assault against ver non and common assault against torrance character witnesses were called to the stand to speak on behalf of both lads gordon benson of claremont a road fore man in pickering town ship described vernon as a good worker and mrs laura jones a former store keeper in the village said he was well behaved his mother mrs ivan beverley said he had been of great assistance to her in supporting the family all witnesses- spoke highly of torrance includ ing his pastor dr h s hillyer and his employer patrick lord of emreo son electric markham dr hillyer said that the family was a credit to the community and mr lord described how he had graduated from a stock boy with the firm to the position of foreman in one and a half years mrs torrance said that her son had never caused them any trouble on the night of the alleged as sault the girl herself said thai he was not to blame for what had happened addressing the accused torrance magistrate jer myn said he couldnt un derstand how a boy with such an excellent family background could have al lowed himself to become involved in such an affair with reference to ver non the magistrate said he was disgusted with the presentence report re ceived he charged the boys treatment of a young girl that he knew was an unnatural act i trust that this will serve as a lesson that you will never forget he concluded stand in line gormley a mother pig at gormley is finding things pretty crowded around t h e breakfast table on the farm of har old doner a sow gave birth to 28 little ones a sizeable family lor any one parent to manage jailed 2 months on teenage girl uxbridge land use seventeen objections filed against bylaw close three schools markham stouffville ballantrae with the completion of the new kindergarten to grade 8 school in whitchurch township the board is contemplating the shut down of three schools now in use these buildings are lo cated at ringwood bogar- town and armitage and include a total of eleven classrooms at present the student enrollment in the area totals 1490 thirtythree of these are nonresidents architects salter and allison of barrie have sub mitted several plans and the board hopes to call for tendered prices in april trustees are anxious to begin construction work as sion as possible with the hope that the school may be ready for the start of the new term in sep tember goodwood seven lecn objections have been filed against a land freeze bylaw approved jan 15 by the council of the township of uxbridge the final date for sub missions was feb 28 clerk elwood foskelt told the tribune that op ponents of the bylaw came from several areas of the municipality includ ing glasgow glen major and property owners bor dering highway 47 mr foskett said that the main objectors wore persons who were contem plating the division of land into lots but failed to have them registered- prior to the jan 15 dead line owners of gravel lands where no work has been started and residents who contended that such restrictions were undemo cratic the clerk has passed the objections on to the ontario municipal board and a hearing may be ar ranged at a future date accounts bring complaints stouffville the receipt of invoice forms from a firm in edmonton alberta operating under the name of police safety guide has resulted in en quiries and complaints from several businessmen in stouffville through the tribune police chief orland keat ing advises merchants here that they are under no obligation to contri bute anything as suggest ed in the account he notes too that the firm has no conection with any police association either in york county or edmon ton alberta where it is said to originate chief keating said he had been in touch with the police chief of edmonton on the matter hold canvass despite rule stouffville in spite of a ruling by stouff ville council that requires all outside organizations to be chartered before they conduct fundraising cam paigns in town the york committee to end the war in vietnam will pro ceed with plans to hold a canvass here the date set is saturday march 23 similar campaigns will also be held in newmar ket aurora richmond hill and thornhill without mentioning this committee in its motion stouffville council ruled that groups with interests outside the municipality would first require appro val from the lieutenant governor the vietnam committee executive contends that their personal approach to council was merely an act of courtesy and the mem bers decision is not bind ing the committee cap tain for stouffville is mrs bruce will obrien ave funds collected will be donated to the quakers to purchase medical supplies for vietnam civilians blackout vandorf the coun cil chambers at vandorf in whitchurch township was plunged into darkness tuesday in the midst of a regular meeting the sud den blackout caught the members rather illpre pared not a single lamp or candle could be found business returned to normal after a fifteen min ute delay agree to support 2 million debenture board plans to close ringwood whitchurch twp when the new school in whitchurch township is completed three others will be closed according to plans of the board one to be shut down is located on highway 48 at ringwood staff photo markham twp markham township coun cil has agreed to support markham village in their debenture issue of 2063- 475 for a new addition to markham dist high school the townships share of lli debenture will be jm9568 councillor charles hoo ver said that before he could agree to the request lie wished to discuss mat ters with the ontario mun icipal hoard and the de partment of education others felt that the need was imminent and the application should not be delayed finance chairman dep utyreeve sidney gadsby was not present