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sixteen pages he fiftmffirille mtfonm 2960 copies vol 61 no 24 the tribune stouffville ont september 29 1949 coal jumps 150 a ton further increase pending devaluation of the canadian dollar is immediately making its effect felt in stouffville and dis trict because of the sharp jump in the price of coal which is advanced here as it is all over ontario by 150 per ton many places we notice have increased the price by 250 those who failed to heed the warn ing notice issued by local dealers months ago now will have to pay the extra charge brought about by the money devaluation of course if you can burn alberta coal there is a big saving for it is still offered at 1625 a ton ond comes in stove nut and egg sizes pennsylvania anthracite costs 2250 a ton this is not all the story for all coal may soon be due for another upswing if john l lewis forces mine wages higher and freight rates have just taken an upswing not yet passed on by stouffville dealers dealers are apprehensive about this and fear that any time such a thing may come about so they again warn those who burn coal to get in supplies now and not take chances with another upward swing there is nothing in sight that we can see to warrant any drop in hard coal prices this winter said one dealer to the tribune and with this information coal consumers have the picture before them tricounty title falls to lindsay lindsay won their first tri- county baseball league champion ship tuesday night by whipping little britain 72 to capture the bestoffive final series three games to one twice victor over britain young hank debois again did the trick hurling onehit ball until the seventh inning britain came back with two runs after lindsay went out in front 40 in the seventh but john burn doubled with the bases loaded to sew up the game in the eighth lou hennessey sr jim mackay and john brown were lindsays other top hitters stu hicks had two of little britains five hits st over s install modern oilheat bakery oven in keeping with modern day methods the stover bakery in town has installed a modern bread oven with a capacity for 300 loaves said to be the last word in scientific workings the new pend- rith oven is designed to bake every loaf precisely the same under conditions in the old oven loaves near the fire baked more quickly than those in the far corners of the oven with the new system the loaves are placed in the oven on three long revolving shelves each shelf holding 100 loaves when the last loaf goes in a motor starts the shelves revolving so that air is circulated in the oven and the shelves commence to revolve one moment a row of bread being at the bottom of the oven and the next moment this shelf is at the top this all goes for even baking heated by modern oil burners there is no more coal coke or wood to deal with and everything can be kept scrupulously clean even heated and under thermostatic control from the time a batch of 300 lbaves enters the big oven until it is tumbled out golden brown crusted only a half hour elapses the old oven of brick and mortar was demolished by stouff ville veterans it was built in 191g when frank rowbotham owned the bakery at that time the present head of the bakery ambrose stover was on the staff with the acquisition of the new bread oven the local bakery may be said to stand in the front rank of modern country bake shops not long ago a modern cake oven electrically heated was installed to cope with the heavy demands for cake products enjoyed by this firm harvest thanksgiving services will be held this coming sunday in bloomington church at 11 am and in altona church at 730 pm special music fletcher goudie markham township plumbing inspector dealing with four applications for the position of plumbing inspector recently advertised by markham township council fletcher goudie of stouffville who actually lives at altona has received the appointment goudie who is chairman of the york county plumbers associa tion will be paid 125 per hour for his services plus seven cents a mile transportation in discussing the appointment of a township presidentcouncil agreed that this would be unwise because of the fact that he might be in the position of having to act as inspec tor on his own jobs the ninety and nine provides strange assessment record september flower show winners announced good quality and a generous quantity of bloom made the flower show at the united church friday of last week a real success miss barbara smith was at the piano mr h klinck gave a short talk on horticultural in the west and mrs avin timbers showed slides on gardens scenes all help ing to make an enjoyable evening the executive are looking forward to a showing of chrysanthemums at the october meeting prize winners were basket of zinnias eva hoover mrs w timbers mrs b tait m mertens basket of any one variety eva hoover mrs timbers asters mrs h klinck mrs l slack lome gillion mrs l turner french marigold mrs a camp bell mrs j jarvis mrs o leh man mrs wm morris basket of mixed flowers mrs m storrey mrs w timbers mrs a e miller mrs m dunkeld living room bouquet m mer tens mrs turner mrs tait mrs campbell dining table centre eva hoover mrs a e miller mrs turner m mertens sick room bouquet mrs tim bers mrs campbell m mertens mrs turner novel foral bouquet mrs b winterstoin mr o lehman mrs klinck mrs- lehman white floral arrangement mrs timbers mrs turner basket of perennials m mer tens mrs timbers mrs turner mrs campbell vegetable collection mrs bob timbers mrs t s davies family court established in ontario county on thursday evening last the inaugural meeting of the family court committee for the county of ontario was held in the county building at whitby this com mittee is set up to administer the newly established family court in the municipality of the county of ontario the chief purpose of a family court is to receive cases dealing with offences committed by children under 16 years of age and cases involving family disputes from the strictly legal atmosphere of the magistrates court to a more social atmosphere where these problems can be dealt with not with the idea of punishing an offender but rather of trying to solve a social problem family courts have been in existence for a number of years in our larger cities and have proven them selves to be a very satisfactory way of dealing with these prob lems in more recent years these courts have been established in smaller cities and towns and in many county areas hastings county and simcoe county along with ontario county are the most recent ones to adopt this practice his honour judge coleman the county judge has now been appointed judge of the family court miss margaret hancock superintendent of the ontario county childrens aid society the chief probation officer the staff of the childrens aid society will be carrying out the duties of pro bation officer goldens store expandsfloorspace work has begun on the extension to harry goldens clothing store that is designed to nearly double the present floor space expanding business and demand for more sales room mr golden says has forced him to take this step at once and it is hoped the contrac tors will have the new addition ready for the christmas display spangs contracting co is now finished with the excavation and will rush in the footings this week so an early start will be made on the walls which will be of cement block and plaster the extension which is to the rear of the store and to the north will be nearly fifty feet deep full width of the store making the overall depth of the store 100 feet deep the addition will be only onestory high women with world peace responsibilities total population at new high 157s the assessment nearing million mark long noted for the number of bachelors and widowers spinsters and widows stouffville this year according to assessment figures just released by assessor e r good has struck a rather unusual balance between these two marri ageable groups that probably is not equalled anywhere in canada the number of bachelors and widowers between the ages of 21 and the grave total exactly 99 souls and strange as it may seem the number of spinsters and widows totals 99 then if these two groups of ninety and nine could come to terms there wouldnt be a person of marriageable age left in the village while we are on figures the assessor also reports the popula tion which took a sharp upswing in 1918 has held the gain and has added another 17 persons so that today the population numbers 1571 largest in the history of stouffville which was incorporated in 1877 or seventytwo years ago assessor good reports there arc 916 people living on the north side of main street and 655 living on the south side the town is divided of course into two wards with the through main street the dividing point the number of assessments and just now completed total 535 with a total valuation of 843630 divided into three categories the assessment is on land 168065 buildings 630825 business 41740 the assessment just completed is actually for use in 1950 as it is on this assessment your 1950 taxes will be rated while the population figures are the largest on record for this village likewise the total assess ment is also at a peak only a few years ago it stood at just three- quarters of a million local clubs give akexa further boost both the stouffville athletic club and the local lions club have each given the nearly completed stouffville artificial ice arena a further financial boost this week the athletic club invested an additional 500 bringing their total hold ings to 15 shares while on monday evening the stouff ville lions voted unanimously to invest 1000 more bring ing their total number of shares to 20 both organiza tions realize the tremendous asset the new arena will be to the community and district and their financial support is truly commendable and most appreciated by the arena directors andy there are five nations repre sented in this group of women all members of delegations to the united nations fourth general assembly at flushing meadows ny left to right are mme vijaka lakshmi pandit indian ambassador to the united states and sister of indias premier nehru mrs villa linstrom sweden mrs sucheta karpalani india mrs eleanor roosevelt united states mrs barbara castle england a member of parlia ment and caidine wilson canadian member of parlia ment clarkes neighbourly news to be published by oct 1st andy clarkes neighbourly news will be published october 1st ryerson press and will contain 60000 of andys own words in stories and news gleaned from the 265 weekly newspapers which used to pack his mailbox at stop 2 york mills there is a quotation from the stouffville tribune we expect among the papers quoted a million words of radio broad casts presented by cbc over a period of 8 and a half years were sorted and sifted until the mass of material was reduced to a fifty thousand word manuscript this was the work of a group of andys friends his wife and mrs may holland cox who came from ottawa last january to assist greg clark a good friend of andys and the companion of many of his fishing trips wrote the fore word of the book which gives an outline of andys career as a news paperman and as a broadcaster in undertaking this task greg asked for incidents and stories relating to andys home at york mills his family history and such happenings in connection with his work that dont get into the news and which his listeners would like to read about one of these relates to the simple chore of putting up andys rural mailbox an order for the largest mailbox was sent into the post office before we moved to york mills writes his wife vi clarke in her contribution to the introduction but it never was large enough when the box came a wooden post was dis covered and with shovel on should er andy marched the eighty yards to highway 11 to dig a posthole i had to go to hold things screws the box screwdriver and to lend a steadying hand when at last it was up he swung the box around and surveyed the stencilled name andrew d clarice saying now we are really in the country real estate turns harvey moyer reports the sale of two properties over the past week by the willoughby agency they sold 20 acres off the albert reesor farm in scarboro to james mc- creight of scarboro who formerly owned the reesor farm he now repossesses the 20 acres and the residence for 6450 mr moyer also sold the 100 acre farm in reach township known as the rodd place to a mr towers of bolton for 4500 ballantrae postmaster in hospital mi gib wright who suffered a heart attack early last week was removed to the western hospital on friday the attack has caused the ballantrae store keeper and postmaster terrible pain and his physician is having xrays in an effort to determine the cause of trouble latest reports indicate that mr wright is resting nicely now gormley gets new minister rev l k sider pastor at owen sound will become minister of gormley united missionary church it was decreed at the annual ontario conference held last week in new dundee near kitchener there were eleven pastoral changes made but this is the only one affecting churches in the markham district average contribution during the past year by members of the united missionary church in ontario was 8615 according to the final report of the statistical com mittee the 66th annual provincial conference of the church which met this year at new dundee came to a close saturday afternoon total offerings contributed for all purposes showed an increase of five per cent over the previous year church officials were pleased to note that- contributions had doubled during the past six years i the average of 8615 per mem ber for the past 12 months was a gain of 540 over the previous year and represented an average of- 165 per member per week offerings in the womens mis- sionary societies showed an in crease of 14 per cent and gifts to emmanuel bible college were up 29 per cent i concluding the election of church officials for the coming year rev f g huson of banfield memorial church toronto was elected provincial director of sun day schools rev henry good who goes to new dundee as the new pastor of bethel church was elected superintendent of young peoples societies i rev arthur walsh of bethany j church kitchener was elected for a threeyear term to serve with rev p g lehman district super- intendent as ontario represents- tives on the general board of the united missionary society mr h d huber kitchener was elected a member of the board of gover nors of emmanuel bible college the place for next years con- j ference was left in the hands of the executive committee 1 town mains cut without shutting off water supply although stouffville water mains have been down for nearly fifty years an operation was performed on tuesday for the first time of connecting a four inch main to the original eight inch line on main street without shutting off the water it has always been a regular nightmare having to drain the main line for a distance of 1000 feet or more in order to cut in the big main and insert a t for a branch line all this has been unnecessary for some time but was never taken advantage of until this week an ingenious machine was rent ed from the city of toronto for a couple of hours which cut the big main and enabled the workmen to attach the four inch main for a branch line to the ice arena with out the slightest interruption to regular service it is likely that all branch lines will be attached to the main line in future by this method hence there will be little interruption to water service in future years and only in case of some serious break in the line it has always been possible to attach a half inch pipe line to the mains without shutting off the water and the machine used for attaching a four inch branch line to the larger main line is much the same thing but of course entails more work and some extra appli ances water to the new arena is now delivered to the building in read iness to test out the miles of pip ing now being laid over the big floor area for ice hydro cuts to begin on oct1 a hydro shortage was indicated for the coming fall and winter when hydro commission chair man saunders recently announced that restriction on power usage would be put into effect next month he said restrictions would not affect domestic lighting but would curb the use of electric signs both flood and outline light ing will be banned mr saunders said if rainfall is normal during the last months of the year there is a possibility no further restric tions will be necessary he added the steps to be taken will ease the load on the system at a critical period of the year when water stor age in the northern basins is a prime factor mr saunders ex plained airheaters grates radiators boilers or any other devices for space heating which require elec trical power for operation will be prohibited in hotels tourist cabins shops offices and commercial premises their use in residents will be allowed in case of sickness the hydro order does not prohibit water heaters but it clari fies the insulation requirements for new heaters they must have a minimum insulation of rock or glass wool one inch thick norm farr has been appointed a westinghouse dealer as will be seen by the page display announce ment in this issue this will add a further flurry to the busy radio corner in the ratcliff block early turnips attacked by parasite fields left bare stouffville district has long been known for growing turnips and shipments have found their way yearinandyearout far into the united states at this time last year r e brown son had made shipments to new york but this year the picture is greatly changed due to the operation of an insigni ficant small turnip louse that just about wiped out the early plant ings mr ross brown said that the plants were attacked by a species of fly which laid their eggs on the young plants and these developed into a louse about the time thinn ing operations were on the tur nips left to develop were quickly pounced on devoured in hours by the lice that appeared in millions an effective spray was not resorted to because it is said to be very dangerous but when the first really worthwhile rain fell about six or seven weeks ago the lice disappeared thus late planted turnips have fairly well escaped and brown co will soon be making shipments by rail but their business will not reach the bulk of recent years it was a hitandmiss business said mr brown since some crops were missed by the fly while others were about wiped out our own acreage for early turnips was bad ly mauled and as a result no tur nips were shipped by the firm up to date while a year ago the first went out at the end of august