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toitffitiut sntone vol 61 no 41 the tribune stouffville oxt february 1 1951 interesting sidelights on return to england by george abell nationalization hasnt made much difference to the railways in england as far as can be seen the locomotives and carriages have a little sign saying british rail ways instead of lms london midland and scottish in this part of the country but otherwise no change in tiie drabness of the station the cheerfulness and court esy of porters and platform atten dants or the size of the coaches which look iike toys after can adian railroad cars we were away about 1130 and the sun came out then so had a good chance to look at the country on the trip first impression was of activity several buildings bridges etc were being erected along the right of way in the first mile or so we passed by the great freight docks where the boats were loading for all over the world there were acres and acres of tractors cars trucks crated machinery and warehouses with labels on every thing export i might say britain is producing far more than ever in history but there is very little for home market more of this situation at a later date the country is largely farming with factories brick yards etc scatt ered here and there for 70 or so miles south east of liverpool everywhere s the farmers were harvesting a lot of fall wheat was still in shock due to the wet sum mer and everywhere the oat and barley crops were being harvested as this was sept 11 you can see how late the harvest was but what strikes your eye immediately is the farm machinery every farm seemed to have a ferguson tractor a fordson major tractor a big potato digger and a massey harris selfpropelled combine the last time i helped harvest in england was 1913 and nobody had ever heard of a combine then but they seem to know all about them now farming is a very com plex business here as everything is controlled and subsidized but i will give you all the details on this at a future date it was interesting to see the canals again they are very pretty and seem to run everywhere only about 20 feet wide but wind over hills and even cross the railroad tracks someplaces there are lots of the long deisel powered canal barges that carry freight all over england by this system they are kept spotlessly clean all brass- work shined and the families live aboard all their lives as each man owns his own boat but the thing that makes you know its england is the trainloads of coal cars the cars are only open boxes on wheels about 8xlo and hold between 12 and 15 tons of coal by the looks of them they are everywhere in long trains or side tracks in marshalling yards and speer lines going to towns and factories the countrys whole economy is built around coal as it is the only plentiful raw material every factory home if you can get it and business burns coal as outside of wales and scotland there is no hydro development all electric power is generated by steam from coal they say here that this island is made of coal and surrounded by fish and nobody but the labour government could bring on a shortage of both at once our train roared along at a good clip through towns and cities and two hours and twenty minutes after leaving liverpool we were in euston station which is about 120 miles i think but not sure and what a cheerful return to london the heavens opened up and seemed to be trying to rain a weeks rain in an hour the station was jammed and couldnt locate my family till finally a little figure standing on a big crate attracted my attention and sure enough it was the male half of my terrible twins nearly falling off his perch with excitement at seeing me about half an hour and a million words later we were all going down the underground station at euston for the last lap of the trip i hope the subway they are building in toronto is as good as the london underground for just to see it is well worth a trip to london the escalators which lead to different levels must be among the longest in the world this is a subject for another day for the london underground has always been to me among the worlds great feats of engineering the british people seem to be still wearing the same type of clothes as ever few colors in either mens or womens clothes but most people were cheerful and at least got a good laugh at the sight of the three kids climbing all over me and all trying to talk at once in no time wo were at tower hill station ana came up into the streets light across the road from london bridge the log trip was over biggest one of the season fflsk thirteen breakins work of onem believed an gang a total of thirteen breakins all r but one in homes which aroused i a l the citizenry throughout the area marknam agriculture during the weekend are believed heres a whopper a 24 pound pike pulled through the ice of cooks bay at lake simcoe by roy heaton of stouffville wno is snown here displaying his prize roy tells us the largest one he has heard of being caught in recent years was 29 pounds the big fellow was hooked on a copper line baited with a half pound minnow the big gest trouble was to handle the threshing giant once he was pulled into the fish shack roy was splashed from head to foot and has several scars where he was bitten as he battled to get the fish out of the shack on the ice where it was despatched with an axe mrs asa sider is eightyseven today the tribune is happy to extend congratulations to one of the towns ladies who will reach her 87th birthday today thursday feb 1st she is mrs asa sider who makes her home with her daughter mrs denton law of main street mrs sider has always resided in the district of gormley and stouffville tuesday evening some fifteen of the immediate family together with their wives or husbands met at the law home for a birthday supper in honour of the event members of the family are mrs denton law sarah mrs win- fred timbers mabel and joseph of stouffville john of gormley peter of lansing levi of van couver mrs jesse dewsbury annie of richmond hill and mrs fred hill lydia of long branch a daughter mary mrs seth wideman and a son wesley are deceased mrs sider enjoys fairly good health considering her age and will doubtless derive great enjoy ment from remembrance of friends and relatives agincourt accident case watched with interest here in an outofcourt settlement gordon j brown agincourt was recently awarded an undisclosed sum described as a fair percent age of the 12500 he was claiming in an action against the depart ment of highways the heavy limb of an elm tree fell across no 7 highway smashing in the all- metal cab of his truck it was a typical spring day last easter recalled brown i was driving along watching where i was going when 1 suddenly blacked out he was hospitalized eight days with a fractured vertebrae it is understood that a similar case of this kind which occurred at the east end in stouffville several months ago was awaiting the outcome of the agincourt settlement before proceeding are by police to be the work of one man four of the housebreaks were in stouffville on saturday night one store and one house here were entered on sunday evening while the marauder broke into six homes in markham and one at unionville on the sabbath total amount of the cash loot amounted to between 300 and 100 with such items as a revolver watch cigarette case among the other items listed missing first indication of the burglary attack came about 815 pm satur day night when mrs lotton housekeeper for e b leavens local postmaster returned to her home on main st to find the door locked from the inside a skeleton key from a neighbor finally gained entrance and it was discovered that a heavy safe in the house had been pried open and papers scattered about however the intruder in his apparent haste failed to notice the cash box and nothing of value was taken entrance had been made through a cellar window at the k r davis home on north church st about 25 in cash was carried away by the thief who forced the back door the dining- room and bedrooms were com pletely ransacked but nothing was broken and even dishes piled on the floor came off without a crack i the robt snowball home on rose ave another victim suffered the loss of a revolver and a ladies wrist watch and again bedrooms were completely searched en trance was gained in this instance by forcing off a rear storm window and breaking the window latch mrs a fullers home next door to the leavens house was also entered but nothing was found amiss mrs fuller is absent for the winter on sunday evening manager ken phillips of the local domin ion store surprised the thief when he entered the front door of the store however before mr phillips could get a light on or attempt to apprehend the intruder he made good his escape through the rear exit mr and mrs robt johnson who occupy the upper apartment in the archie campbell home in the west- end heard someone downstairs on sunday evening and came down believing it to be mr campbell occupant on the first floor however the thief who had apparently walked boldly in the front door which was not locked heard their approach and all mr johnston could catch a glimpse of was a black car driving off into the darkness nothing was touched in the house hardest hit in the markham raid was mr percy wideman who lost more than 200 in cash when his home was entered while another hundred dollars was gathered from the residences of mr and mrs henderson howard middlebrook mel williams miss v birrell and frank raymer the unionville home entered was that of mr f pollard on no 7 highway clippers tie with group elects e graham j leagueleading petes earl graham of markham was elected president of markham and east york agricultural society friday night other officers are vicepresidents lloyd turner stouffville and jd laiithier gormley secytreas roy h crosby assistant mrs roy h crosby nd livestock director charles boynton gormley dates for the markham fair this yearwill be october 4 5 and g evangelistic campaign concludes feb 5th last addresses by rev e j wilson of ottawa in the current evangelistic campaign being held in the united missionary church stouffville will be heard monday evening feb 5th misses laura and orma tompkins of plymouth mieh bring special musical mes sages each evening services are continuing each evening except saturday at 8 pm and sunday at 10 and 11 am and 730 pm despite the fact that they took to the ice three men short includ ing their ace goalkeeper jack rhodes stouffville clippers came up with a 66 tie against peter borough petes in an exhibition game at port perry on tuesday night the petes are currently leading the eastern senior circuit the local crew had a big margin on the play and after spotting the liftlock boys a three goal lead in the first period they started to roll a breakawav in the dying moments of the game gave peter borough the tie lewis maehin hochberg gib son and couch were the goal- getters jack warriner sub goalie pressed into service for the first time this year turned in a good night after a jittery first period death wideman suddenly at her home main street stouffville on tuesday jan 30 1951 cora wide- man daughter of the late l c wideman and loving sister of lorna resting at the chapel of l e oneill for service friday feb 2nd at 2 pm interment stouffville cemetery suggests smaller school for lake wilcox section whitchurch will move to interest new industries clerk john crawford has been instructed by the whitchurch township planning board to com municate with the toronto indus trial commission concerning the possibility of interesting firms to locate new plants within the town ship the matter of bringing in new industry was brought up for dis cussion by councillor e l mc- carron at the regular meeting of whitchurch township council on thursday evening townships around us are gett ing small industries as the large concerns are decentralizing he stated mr mecarron stated that he be lieved if the industry was located in the township many labourers would become home owners in stead o tenants if the present setup continued whitchurch would become a liarbourer of labor while surrounding munici palities where the industries were located would reap all the bene fits this would be a very unbal anced condition he declared i have been given to under stand that even if the township charged their full assessment and gave no special benefits to an in dustry it could still operate here cheaper than in the metropolitan area continued councillor me carron would the benefits of the added industrial assessment be greater than the added costs imposed by additional residents queried councillor baycroft i believe that they would re plied councillor mecarron suggests provincials police lakes council agreed that the police committee should approach the provincial police with a view to having them handle the policing of the two township lake resorts this coming summer councillor mecarron stated that it was not too early to start mak ing some move to better the police situation and if the provincial police would handle these two lake spots the local constable would be free to enforce local by laws we couldnt do anything with them before declared councillor leggc x however council agreed that it was worth a try and left it to the police committee to look into the matter and report to the next meeting on feb 10th newmarkeiwhitchurch annexation complete only two minor complaints were registered against the annexation of the northwest corner of whit church township by newmarket when the case was heard before representatives of the ontario municipal board on tuesday the reliance oil co and imperial oil co objected to the change due to the early closing bylaw in town and questioned the board as to the possibility of special dispensation in the case of their service stations the formal order for annexation is expected to be completed today ortomorrow and will become legal twentyeight days hence start ice cutting at musselman s lake on monday the ice cutters went to work carving out the blpcks from musselmans lake and will be busy for a few weeks supplying their customers around the town and local district the ice is of a much better variety than last year with most blocks averaging about fifteen inches in depth because of the lack of snow the job is much easier since all snow must be cleared from the frozen surface before operations can begin powerdriven saws are used to slice through heavy ice and the blocks are then loaded onto trucks standing by with the help of power loaders much of the winter har vest is for mjple leaf dairy while some is also disposed of to local farmers if proper arrangements cant be made for a 100000 school lets spend 10000 or 15000 for a two- room school on a smaller site it might do for two or three years this was the suggestion of coun cillor e l mecarron on thursday evening as whitchurch township council discussed the recent pro ceedings in the oak ridgeslake wilcox public school problem it will be recalled that some time ago a new section was estab lished owing to the heavy popula tion a site was chosen for a new 100000 school but the proposed site was rejected by the ratepay ers at a public meeting a board of arbitration was then set up to chose another site and their deci sion will be final they are still proceeding with negotiations along this line in the meantime arrangements have been made to handle the forty to fifty lake wilcox children at the oak ridges school until june i dont believe that a six or eight room school should be built if the ratepayers dont want it stated mr mecarron it was revealed by road supt e davis that the township engineers would be at lake wilcox shortly to lay out specifications for the proposed resurfaced north lake road once these specifications are available tenders for the work can be called the hearing before the ontario municipal board on the annexation of a portion of the northwest corner of the township by the town of newmarket is scheduled to be held on tuesday of this week several appeals against the annexation have been regis tered clerk john crawford told council and these with any others are to be heard this week l p evans and ed logan are the plan ning board representatives who will attend the meeting and councillors baycroft and legge re presented the township mr lambert wilson was reap pointed whitchurch representative on the holland river conservation committee and l p evans was reappointed as township repre sentative for the humber valley committee clerk john crawford was in structed to write to newmarket council concerning the recent press reports of whitchurch coun cil discussion on the alleged fail ure of the newmarket fire bri gade to attend promptly a fire on gorham street some months ago whitchurch council agreed that they had definitely been mis informed on the incident and re gretted any inconvenience or em barrassment caused the newmark- ket fire dept over the affair the final decision given in the equalized assessment appeal in which whitchurch was involved was tabled on thursday evening and revealed a decrease of 675000 in favor of whitchurch provid ing the county rate remained the same as in 1950 the township county levy would be approximate ly 10000 however it was be lieved that due to the fact york county overall equalized assess ment was down several millions a slight increase in rate could be expected the annual report of the york county childrens aid was also tabled for council perusal and showed actual expenditures in 1950 to have been 3m7s37g with estimated expenditures in 1951 soie 05000 higher still the largest item in the account sheet was that of the maintenance of children in boarding homeswhich amounted to 18370000 standing committees named for this year are as follows finance timbers mclaughlin baycroft roads and bridges legge tim bers baycroft bylaws and per mits baycroft mecarron timbers polics and property mclaughlin legge mecarron health and wel fare mecarron mclaughlin and legge high school area move all very hush hush the tribune has learned this tne southern board members and herb rose stouffville clipper punctured his foot with a large spike on monday week through council sources in stouffville that a move may be made shortly in the provincial government house by markham members of the local high school area board in conjunction with markham township and markham village to have the school act amended in such a way as to permit our southern neighbors to form a new high school area representation is understood to have been made to the department of education for the second time to have the area reivided and as before the markham members were told thus could only be done providing markham was willing to join some other area such as richmond hill this is according to the act and only an amend ment of such act could alter the case this new move in the current high school area deadlock was formulated at a special meeting of members of the markham village and township council and was held without the knowledge of either the whitchurch stouffville or county representatives it is learned by the tribune whether or not whitchurch and stouffville would strenuously oppose the secession of the two markhams from the present area is not known it is definite how ever questioning several northern members of council that they do not propose to countenance any switch of additional territory along the north whitchurchmarkham townline from that originally designated as lying within the stouffville area stouffville council members as well are thorouhly aroused and are expected to dis cuss at their regular meeting this thursday evening steps to be taken to safeguard the local high school against any encroachment through special legislation being sought by the markham delegation