tiny tots hold carnival spotlight this week this friday and saturday april 9 and 10 members of the stouffville figure skating club hold the spotlight of attention for three shows including an afternoon matinee the cast features a host of tiny tots like 4 year old terri lennox left and lisa addison age g evening performances are at 8 pm and the saturday matinee at two jas thomas free call demand but cost factor delays extension l stouffville the in clusion of the stouffville- 640 exchange as part of the free call area to toronto could cost the bell a capital expenditure of up to 2 million a spokesman for the firm told the tribune this week ted taylor district manager said that while stouffville was high on the priority list the economic climate was such that a teacher strike said last resort stouffville the possibility of a secondary school teachers strike in stouffville and across the province looms ever nearer but so far theres no indication that current education cost guidelines im posed by the now premier wm davis will be lifted the date set for teacher action is may 3 ontario federation executive counsellor lin jones of stouffville told the tribune at this stage however no one is prepared to say just what form this action will take mr jones attended a meeting saturday in toronto and another is planned for april 14 this will be followed by a series of public discussions april 19 to 24 while provincewide walkout is looked on as a last resort the probability becomes more real with each passing day the beards arent happy and its the student who is suffering said mr jones he said the federation feels the public in general do opt fully understand the situation timbers liberal choice sandford how high is up bob timbers reeve of scott and exwarden of ontario county now has his sights set on a seat in the provincial legislature at queens park at a liberal nomination meeting in sunderland he was the unanimous choice as a candidate in the riding of on tario north the post is currently held by conservative matthew dymond of port perry spending restrictions have forced some boards to consider closing schools reducing programs raising the pupil- teacher ratio reducing the number of nonteaching em ployees curtailing tran sportation privileges and dismissing fully certified teachers at the end of the current school year anticity committee formed uxbridge twp two prominent organizations are at work in the twp of uxbridge one is a mortgageholders association with a goal to securing back interest and principle payments on properties purchased by cen tury city developments limited and owing since may 1970 a second established soon after has as its objective the promotion of the city concept to a successful conclusion this week a third group is announced calling itself why a city citizens committee the thinking of its members is in direct contrast to that of the second they are anticentury city and plan to publicize the disadvantages of such a scheme many of the arguments and many of the statistics put for ward have given a distorted picture a spokesman told the tribune an effort should be made to present all sides committee members include dr and mrs cm godfrey mr and mrs jos strobel mrs francis hogg wm fitzgerald and lome d almack an expenditure of this kind could not be contemplated im mediately mr taylor said he was well aware of the demand but argued against acquiring an af firmative survey only to have the project turned down at the commission level area manager gordon wansbrough said a future rate structure was not yet available for stouffville at present a private stouffville line costs 455 monthly while in gormley after jan 1 1972 it will be 720 the gormley exchange is free call at the beginning of next year mr taylor said signed petitions either for and against an extension to the 640 ex change would accomplish little he advised instead to phone the bell office direct at 2943100 former police chief resigns markham harvey cox 47 former police chief twp of markham and recently ap pointed inspector in the new york regional force has resigned the resignation verified by mr cox tuesday becomes effective may 10 he declined further comment the decision severs his con nection with area police work that extends over a period of twenty years mr cox joined the markham department april 1 1951 and graduated through the ranks to assume the position of police chief following the death of clarence j wideman march 2 1963 parents petition board etain small rural school vivian the planned closing of three small rural schools at vivian shrubmount and pine orchard and the busing of students to the new rogers school in newmarket has aroused the concern of many parents in these areas so much so that a petition has been cir culated opposing the move although the board of education feels the shift in location could be ac commodated by sep tember they first wish to discuss the proposal with the people concerned one meeting was held at pine orchard school april 7 points in favor of the present system include distance too great for primary school children to travel by bus children too far removed from their homes should an emergency arise ex cellent program now provided at present schools the open classroom concept still in experimental stage community involvement between teachers pupils and parents would be lost proposed regional school should be built in im mediate area eg ballantrae since a new- library and gymnasium are already planned for that site while the board recommendation calls for the closing of vivian pine orchard and shrubmount schools by september others are also included on the list vandorf ringwood pottageville strange snowball eversley and llovd schools in 1971 and hillcrest school in 72 stoukfvilllwhitchurchmarkhamuxbridge thursday april 8 1971 vol 82 no 45 12 pages phone 6402101 15 cents stouffville machine and tool economic slowdown hits firm forty employees laid off tax increase 1000 percent markham when ernest hoover rr 2 markham purchased his 94 acre farm in 1945 the taxes were 102 in 1971 on the same piece of property the taxes are 109539 or an increase of over 1000 percent out of the 109539 total 76924 is for education costs 42399 public school and 34525 high school with the 25 percent reduction the cost of education still ex ceeds 500 the tax increase wouldnt be so bad said mr hoover if the price of pigs had gone up ac cordingly extend series stouffville the fifth game in the current stouffville- petrolia peewee finals will be played in the stouffville arena tuesday april 13 at eight oclock the series is now tied petrolia taking the opener 63 and stouffville squaring the set saturday by an identical score games three and four are in petrolia at 130 pm saturday and 4 pm sunday college choir song service stouffville the presence of the emmanuel bible college choir from kitchener is a much an ticipated event in stouff ville it is also appropriate that the occasion should fall on good friday april 9 the variety program entitled tell it like it is will be held in the high school auditorium at 745 pm last year an estimated 1000 persons attended the choir comprises several students from this area including laurie norton stouffville donna drudge stouffville rr 1 and larry johnson sunderland work prospects bleak 95th birthday muss lake the com munity extends congratulations to mrs john paxton south road musselmans lake soon to celebrate her 95th birthday the date is april 15 during the past winter mrs paxton has made her home with mr and mrs ivan mclaughlin stouffville rr 2 stouffville a year ago stouffville machine and tool employed 55 men today they employ 15 since 1939 the company has been stouffvilles oldest and largest industry but last april a gradual series of lay offs began that has ended in unemployment for 40 men ive never seen the economic situation this bad said manager derek chadwick nobody likes a layoff but there is ab solutely no work around weve been taking orders today that we wouldnt have considered a year ago just to keep the factory going and he predicts the economic situation will get worse before it gets better it would take a miracle for us to get back to normal production before next fall he told the tribune mr chadwick feels the lay offs are the result of a slump in the automobile industry and canadian economic policies increased costs and competition from germany and japan have put service section of gasoline tanker turns turtle on don mills road several hundred gallons of gasoline spilled out on the ground mley stouffville firemen were called to the scene but no blaze saturday when a second trailer of a tanker truck flipped over near resulted the entrance to a service station on don mills road north of gor- jas thomas industries like ours in a particularly bad position japan is by far our biggest competitor they can import goods into canada cheaper than we can produce them the situation is the same throughout canada and the united states he continued our branch in akron ohio is in the same boat half of their employees have been laid off too when asked if any of his former employees had found work elsewhere mr chadwick was skeptical the industry is highly specialized he answered its doubtful if any of our men have found work in brantford or simcoe they have laid off as many people as we have but one ray of optimism penetrated an otherwise gloomy economic forecast weve laid off as many men as were going to mr chadwick told the tribune he added that he hopes to gradually start hiring men back during the summer if business picks up order inquiry claremont chief in spector dd higley criminal investigation branch ontario provincial police has ordered an inquiry into the death of 16 year old katherine joan macgregor of claremont the young girls body was found march 28 on the side of the road near cone 7 pickering twp she died of carbon monoxide poisoning an autopsy showed inspector higley said he felt the circumstances surrounding the case should be brought out into the open no charges have been laid although a youth said to have met the girl toilowing a babysitting job was taken in for questioning but later realeased the car used was quite badly rusted out police said clackers banned stouffville playtoy gadgets called clackers have been banned at orchard park public school the decision was announced by the principal w k sutherland following a staff meeting monday mr sutherland said several children had been injured through misuse of the device and he felt it should be outlawed before something more serious occurred