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w sp thursday november 18 iks secoivstidh orts 1 ve ws f hjdisfric t classified section ews innumerable windows in the shop portion of stouffville machine results in a much pleasanter working environment but has proved costly for the company as there have been 132 broken windows in the past two years the company has taken to replacing the windows with plastic but ascompany partner charlie jackson sardonically notes mey just have to get a bigger rock to smash it john montgomery this welder works on a mould one of the companys main products the moulds are used by the rubber com panies in gives the manufacturing tires and tubes the welding torch picture a bit of a science fiction air company once again locally owned stouffville reversing the trend of foreign domination of canadian industry stouffville machine and tool works ltd has recently returned to canadian ownership the company located on frcel lane behind the cn station was until the last few- months controlled by akron standard of akron ohio which was in turn owned by a larger us company the company has been selling out its canadian holdings and the local stockholders were given first op portunity to purchase it company founder donald chadwick and son derek held minority shares and they formed a partnership with charlie jackson the bookkeeper and- michael abram of scarborough to purchase the company derek chadwick is now president and chief executive officer mr chadwick senior who is not active in the company is chairman of the board charlie jackson a local volunteer fireman is vicepresident and secretarytreasurer and mr abram is vice- president and sales manager the company manufactures moulds for the rubber industry under licence to akron stan dard the patent holder as well as making tire moulds and tube moulds they manufacture rubber industry machinery and machinery used in mining according to mr jackson the company is working toward diver sification into other in dustrial areas since donald chadwick purchased the original building from isaac barkey in 1942 there have since been several additions at that time the company mainly worked on farm machinery and steam engines mr chadwick told the tribune that when he came in there was still no hydro in the building and the only source of power was a steam engine a generator hooked up to this turned out about five candlepower of electricity it was mr chadwick who introduced the moulds which have since been a mainstay of the company he remembers- that men would work by candlelight and the wage paid when he took over was 35 cents an hour he said he raised the rate to 65 cents an hour and says the rate charged to customers was 150 per hour he points out that the rate now is between 16 and 25 per hour jack smits became a- partner but he was later bought out by mr chadwick eva hoover a wellknown- local lady acted as secretary and was one of the original employees she worked there until her retirement about 10 years ago another charter worker is elmer farthing who is now shop superintendent in 1964 the majority of shares were sold to akron standard and it became a public com pany with the recent changeover it is once again entirely privately owned at its peak the business employed 60 people and ran two shifts with the present slowdown in the economy this has been reduced to 30 employees and one shift mr jackson at tributes the decline to a general falling off of business one machine the company manufactures for the rubber industry is 65 feet long and stands 13 feet high mr chadwick sr who now resides in unionville was formerly active in the community and was at one time chairman of the school board the company has donated a 100 bursary to the top mathematics student at the local high school ever since that institution was built the change back to a private company was made easier by the fact that even when owned by akron the company maintained the name of stouffville machine and tool works because of this the business has had no problems in iden tifying itself to its customers company owners and senior employees i are from left vice president and secretary treasurer charlie jackson derek chadwick president and chief executive officer chair man of the board donald chadwick vice president and sales manager michael abram bill white salesman and shop supervisor elmer farthing s sdss grdds honoured honour student richard yeomans was the class valedictorian at the graduation exercises at stouffville dss last week he spoke warmly about the school and reminisced about his years there as well as talking about the future v continued from page 1 joanne morgason and lyn kelly by g ratcliff chesebrough ponds academic proficience awards year i nancy ku lois james year ii elizabeth wilson nancy armstrong year iii megan stanford laurie houston year iv joanne morgason linda farrier year v james west robert boadway presented by mr h batke assisted by mr r eldridge mole family awards to five year honour students 10 presented by r mole to robert boadway colleen clarke dwight ewart joanne gould kevin jennings lynn kelly terry lagcer marcia mcadam fiona waite james wooller chesebrough ponds canada ltd 100 award presented to james wooller by mr h batke the robert mole memoria award 200 presented to kevin jennings by r mole the ian carnegy memorial award 50 sec awards p 19 j if ruth wagg with pen in mouth and ethel keeler are busy pricing items to be sold at the united church bazaar many beautiful hand made things were featured and the church raised 1569 school trustee harry bowes is obviously pleased to assist in the presentation of top scholastic awards at the high school graduation ceremonies here nancy ku and lois james receive the board of education award the two girls also had the highest averages in whitchurch stouff ville and won the town award x the plants seem to be takingoverat this table as marion boadway readies it for the stouffville united v church bazaar a quilt auction wasalso featured atthes event which tookplace last saturday 7 4 -r- ft anhegret lamure