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rusimmens tassweiatiom argumtid woodchoppers ball at cedar grove in preparation for the apple butter festival in the fall and activity at cedarena next winter the redblooded natives of cedar grove turned out to a woodchopping bee early saturday morning eight cords were split and stored for future use pic tured here on the end of a sturdy axe handle is peter mccowan markham rr 1 staff photo whitchurch tsa budget increase 93000 whitchurch twp although the school area board of whitchurch twp has included its 1967 sur plus of 63000 in its 1968 budget the total expendi ture still exceeds last years figure by over 93- 00000 in 1967 the total re quirement was 521219 this year minus the 63- 000 surplus the budget need is 614870 the largest increase is in teacher salaries up by 93300 instructional sup plies have increased by 14000 and school plant operation is up by over 12000 the cost of stu dent bus transportation has also taken a sizeable hike from 49500 in 1967 to 70600 this year the amount of money to be raised from direct tax ation is 288777 retain properties the board does not plan to sell any of its present school properties even if the new building is ready in time for the septem ber term supervising principal harry hunt re ported that the new school on cone 5 with 13 rooms excluding kindergarten would accommodate 390 pupils he said this would remove all children from present schools at ring- wood armitage lemon- ville vandorf portables and part of pine orchard he recommended how ever that none of these buildings be sold until ac commodation problems were settled the proposals as pre sented by mr hunt were approved public school auction pickering twp the board of pickering tsa 1 has joined in the lucrative auction sales market of unused one- room schools and will sell three of its properties ap ril 13 the first to go will be the red brick building at cedar creek east of clare- mont sale time is 1 pm mount pleasant school on cone 7 west of the brock road will be sold at 230 pm and the whitevale school eonc 5 at 4 pm the auctioneers are walter atkinson of stouff- ville and lloyd wilson uxbridge rubber bowling balls stouffville the bylaw governing the hours of operation at the stouffville bowling cen tre on main street will be altered but instead of en forcing the present regu lations the time may be extended a review of the bylaw was recommended after a tenant in the building complained to council that his sleep was inter rupted by the noise be low reeve ken laushway reported that he had can vassed every resident in the block and with the exception of one had re ceived no adverse com ments he suggested that the closing hour be exten ded to 12 midnight six nights a week the reeve said that the bowling season was short but expenses incurred by the operator were high he noted too that there had never been any re- students on drugs want proof principal stouffville william e duxbury the principal of stouffville dist secondary school has refused to accept as fact a statement by mag istrate david coon that at least 100 students with in the school would be users of the drug mariju ana principal duxbury chal lenged mr coon on his reply during a panel dis cussion on drugs arrang ed by the couples club of the stouffville united church other speakers on the subject were physi cians dr donald j petrie and dr douglas w brodie both of stoulfville although magistrate david coon declined to re veal how he had arrived at this figure he did say that ten young people from stoutrville had been ar rested by police in york- ville on drag charge and had appeared in his tor onto court he said that one was still in custody mr coon estimated that ninety per cent of all stu dents in metro high schools were drug users mr duxbury was furth er irritated when one member of the listening audience intimated that a drug pusher was work ing among the stouftville students if this is so replied the principal i would hope that it would be reported to the proper authorities police chief o r i a n d keating told the tribune that only one drug arrest had been made in stouff ville but the accused per son was not a student magistrate coon said that although marijuana under the criminal code was considered a drug the same as lsd its effect on the user was less harm ful he suggested in time the sale of marijuana would be legalized parents in the audience accepted mr coons fig ures with mixed feelings of skepticism and alarm one listener suggested that blood samples should be taken to learn the truth and then what would you do whip them ask ed the magistrate he charged that such action would be an infringement on human rights magistrate coon was al so challenged by ted top ping chairman of the pub lic school board teen agers today are no worse than the teens of the 20 and 30s he said cer tainly a few get into trouble but they are in the minority maybe six or eight per cent the re mainder are good and get ting better twentyfive years from now parents will be faced with some other problem but we shouldnt fault the ma jority for the indiscretions of a few dr peirie pointed out that drugs as such took many different forms and all could be harmful if abused he admitted that lsd was freely aailable and easily obtained he said that the exact source of supply was not known but thought to be smug gled in from italy and mexico dr brodie contended that drug control through legislation would not pro vide a solution to the pro blem any more than pro hibition had prevented the sale of alcohol he placed the responsibility squarely on the shoulders of the parents and their involve ment with their families in the home from the au dience reaction it was ob vious that all persons present shared this view the panel moderator was ron mercer elect executive stouffville the organization of a stouff ville businessmens associ ation has been received with enthusiasm by all representatives present at a meeting in the legion hall the chairman is bruce gallamore there are 140 professi onal commercial and in dustrial establishments in town and it is hoped that a 100 per cent member ship can be obtained the next meeting has been set for april 30at 730 pm aims of the association are to provide representa tion before council in mat ters of mutual business interest to consider the need for a parking author ity and to maintain a good town appearance other members of the executive include douglas widdifield kenneth wagg lloyd weldon and cliff aiken hit sour note whitchurch non resident agents of an out side music conservatory have hit a sour note with the area board of whit church township trustees were told that employees of this firm were approaching stu dents on buses and in the schools distributing liter ature in anticipation of ac quiring pupils at least one agent was reported to have told a teacher that he had ap proval of the board to con duct the canvass at one school entry was refused all principals in the area have been advised that the program has not been sanctioned by the board and permission for agents to enter on school pro perty should be withheld cbc post magistrate david coon of stouffville has anounc- ed his intention to leave the bench and take a posi tion as director of divi sional services with the cbc he will assume the new post immediately ports of rowdyism within the premises he said that the bylaw now in affect had been broken for the last five years councillor jim mckellar said that the one tenant who complained lived di rectly above the pins bruce gallamore chairman douglas widdifield 1st vice- chairman kenneth wagg 2nd vicechairman lloyd weldon secretary vol 79 no 45 stouffvillemarkhamuxbridge ont thursday april 4 1968 10 cents jury at recommends all private rai school site profit 2815 whitchurch twp the selling of school pro perties has developed into a profitable sideline for area board trustees mark- ham tsa 2 has reaped handsome dividends from its holdings and pickering tsa 1 will try its luck with three auctions april 13 the whitchurch board has made a quick turnover of 26 acres purchased or iginally as a future school site at the intersection of cone 7 and the vandorf road the property cost 17500 they drilled a well costing an additional 900 raising its value to 18400 this week its sale was approved at 21- 215 realizing a profit of 2815 a new site has since been acquired on cone 5 at the bloomington road fourteen bids on the land were received the top tendered price was submitted by solicitors button and armstrong of stouffville acting on be half of mrs gweneth lau ra rooke of toronto school cost cut the size of the new kin dergarten to grade 8 pub lic school for whitcurch township has been reduc ed to 14 rooms and the cost of the project has been cut to 627550 whitchurch twp a proposed budget of 13225 has been established by the executive of the whitchurch centennial cen tre at ballantrae to cover expenses present and future included in this amount is an account of 6200 to be raised annually over a period of ten years to establish an artificial ice arena at the site other estimates for 1968 only include 2400 to complete the building 3100 op- crating expenses and 400 for sundry pur poses the budget has not yet received the approval of whitchurch council the chairman for 1968 is kim rogers other members of the executive arc william rooth vice chairman mrs gcorgina rich ardson secretary and mrs sharon yominy treasurer all persons present extended a vote of ap preciation to mr rogers for the work he had done on behalf of the centre ittfftttttt hags stouffville the stouffville centurions drum and bugle corps will hold the first annual pageant of flags in the auditorium of stouftville dist secondary school saturday apr 6 the competition to in clude entries from ontario and the united states will begin at 730 pm admis sion is adults si 00 and children soc visitors to the show will be the wavettes and the blue angels from ro chester new york sher- bourne and wildcats from sherbourne new york the shamrocks of ken- more new york the greece chets of greece new york the optimists t h e michael power knights and de lasalle of toronto the collegettes of markham the kinsmen girls of stoney creek and the chessmen of st cath arines signal lights i crossings decision follows inquest claremont a coroners jury has recom mended that automatic signal lights be installed at all private rail crossings and the exterior of all daylincrs be painted a brighter color the decision followed an inquest into the death of james pickering 28 of rr 3 clarcmont he died february 12 when his northbound pickup truck was sliced in two by a dicscl passenger unit travelling to toronto at 70 miles per hour diane pickering wife of the victim said she saw the daylincr approaching the crossing from the cast and realized that if her husband didnt speed up or stop he would be hit she recalled that it was a clear morning and suggested that the sun shining on the ice might have made it difficult for him to sec the train the truck was completely demolished and mr pickering was thrown 170 feet from the point of impact gordon anderson 61 the engineer in charge or the daylincr said that there was no possible way to avoid the crash he said that the engines two headlights were on coroner dr f a cuddy noted that the radio in the pickering truck had been turned in an on position when you have your radio on loud enough to hear it one docs not hear very much from the outside he said mrs pickering said that her husband usually left for work before 8 am but on the morning of february 12 he was late he was a driver for apache transport in stouffville reports irk trustee whitchurch twp a member of the whit church township school area board has expressed resentment over a front page story in the tribune issue of march 21 that re ferred to expenditures ap proved by the trustees since assuming office jan 1 trustee keith horton said he disliked the insinu ation that members were spending money unwisely he said too that while the hoard had received com plaints concerning the 700000 estimate for the new kindergarten to grade 8 school on cone 5 he contended that there were others who had ex pressed complete agree ment with the plan trustee michael ogden said that at the meeting of march 18 he had caution ed the board on its spend ing in an effort to keep expenditures within a proposed budget for 1968 lie said that if individual members were opposed to publication of remarks made at meetings then the only alternative would be lo meet in committee with the press not present oth erwise he said the news media was free to place its own interpretation on comments passed in pub lic trustee horton said that such being the case the members would be forced to voice opinions with more caution ome buttonville man rebuilds organ four years of patient workmanship has paid off for bernie venus no 7 highway near buttonville with the near completion of a beautiful wurlitzer pipe organ b jilt into the basement of his home the masterpiece of skill and engineering was featured on the cbc teles ope march 28 the owner is pictured here working amid one section pipe staff photo seek membership in curling club stouffvillf with a few additional members construction will begin on a four sheet curling rink for stouftville a meeting was held at the stouftville dist secondary school monday night an invitation has been extended to resi dents of clarcmont markham altona and stouftville to participate in the project with the formation of a limited company the shareholders will be the owners and elect the directors if in the opinion of the committee finan cial support falls short of the initial objective all receipts will be refunded to date the re sponse has been encouraging persons wishing further details on the proj ect are asked to contact either robert ham mond bob hassard ken roberts dick coffev ron lcc or ftl reed i wxxwxsw