The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

totifftrillt mimm vol 61 no 30 the tribune stouffville oxt november 10 1950 council sets up new schedule of pay rates for road employees whitchurch township council road accounts passed for payment r i1wum 1 ill sitting in regular session on sat urday afternoon passed a new pay scale for all road department employees giving approximately a 10c an hour increase for all types of workmen grader and tractor operators will now receive 90c per hour road foremen 80c and labourers 70c truckers will now be paid s2 an hour and road supt davis will receive an annual salary of 2100 which is an increase of 100 the matter of pay increases was brought befoie council at the last meeting and some thought was given the projected increases be fore the new scale was passed on saturday council voiced the opinion that in view of the rates being paid in other municipalities the increased cost of living and the satisfactory work being done by the road staff the men were entitled to an increase increases were also mooted for the office staff but this matter was laid over till a later date messrs sharpe and hope repre senting the wilcox lake rate payers interviewed council with a view to having more grading done on the lake road mr sharpe reminded council some action in this regard had been promised in the spring he pressed for some work to be done on the ditches to alleviate the water sit- amounted to 111000 which in cluded an item of 217400 to frank roberts for gravel and 500 for new culvert pipe the award given by township fence viewers on a line fence be tween the elton armstrong and michael uozk properties at lot 52 con a was tabled at council there was some discussion regarding roadwork requested on the 10th concession the road supt stated that there was a tre mendous amount of gravel on this road which handles a steady stream of trucks from the two large gravel pits at gravel hill we put dust layer on the road four times last summer but it wouldnt last stated the road supt an offer was made by the owner of the stouffville sand gravel to supply a bulldozer free of charge to aid in the ditching but the road department didnt see how much could be done on the job this fall with all the other heavy commitments the township had made the matter of improving the vivian sideroad through the bush between the sth and the oth con cession also came in for discussion deputyreeve mclaughlin stated that this was a mail route and a number of children had to use the road in the winter to get to school it was revealed that the township o nation next spring the matter was left in the hands was awaiting a surveyor to of the road supt to try and make some improvement in the road conditions this fall chas dennie lot 11 con 7 was paid 25 for the loss of one sheep killed ibv dogs relief accounts for that if the surveyor couldnt get the job done the township engineer might be called in to line up the actual position of the road way which at the present time has the month amounted to 27900 a great number of short turns and and general accounts 18192 li hills zone health office to locate here one of the four york county health unit ortices is to be located in stouffville we learn this week from the local unit representative the office will be set up in the percy brillinger block above snowballs barber shop two and possibly three of a staff will be located in this office including a public health nurse and sanitary inspector other such offices are being established in sutton and maple with the headquarters office at newmarket the office at maple is now operating and this area is being serviced from that office until the local premises are ready boat nearly swamped returning from hunt a deer hunting party including several markham township men members of council had a hair- raising experience last thursday eveliing when returning from the northern hunting grounds via the magnetewan river the party included councillors clvas hooper and dalton rumney also bill rumney h mccague floyd pratt and jos stevenson the latter two of richmond hill they were some sixty rods off shore in open water and a heavy snow storm was blowing the boat was very heavily loaded and just by some ticklish manoevering they managed to hit the beach without being swamped then the trek started for the railway through dense bush at one point the party was compelled to cross another lake but by some good fortune the beavers had built a dam across which the men used as a bridge cavein of pit kills dad of two his head crushed by gravel when the side of a pit caved in on top of him william james petty 35 father of two was instantly killed saturday at the jos amos gravel pit on the pickering markham townline two companions helping him load a wagon with gravel narrow ly missed the same fate douglas aides and grant burkholder were working some 10 feet away from the victim when the sevenfoot perpendicular bank collapsed with out warning giving petty no chance to escape he is survived by his wife the former ruby alves a son billy and daughter joan his mother mrs william petty and three sisters beatrice mrs fred ire- son cherrywood agnes mrs norman alves brooklin and laura mrs donald milne cherry- wood funeral service was conducted from the cherrywood united church on monday afternoon with interment in erskine cemetery markham lions to draw for car ix local hall markhamunionville lions club will move into the veterans hall here in stoufrville on friday even ing to hold a bingo dance and games with the big feature the draw for their 1950 ford car therell be a special turkey and chicken draw youll want to take one home jack beach awarded whitchurch snowplow contract three tenders were received for snowplowing in whitchurch successful bid went to jack beach who tendered at a rate of 5 per hour for plowing and 5 per day standby time the tenders were appointed nine representatives to loses fingers friends will be sorry to learn that earl tate wellknown in stouffville and vicinity sustained the loss of two fingers recently while working in the metal depart ment of the office specialty plant at newmarket the machine on which he was working tripped in some unexplained manner sever ing the two fingers from the right hand he is now recuperating at his home on 11 gorham st new market after spending a week in hospital county names new appointees to local high school board york county council last week serve on high school board and boards of education in the case of the markhamstouffville area opened at the regular meeting of council on saturday afternoon during the meeting the annual nomination bylaw was given its three representatives were appoint- necessary readings and passed ed where theie had hitherto onrv the bylaw calls for the nomina- been one lion meeting to be held on friday the following men have been dec 22nd at the hour of 1 oclock named to serve three two and one an election if necessary on mon- year terms a h williams three day jan 1st with polls open from years william spears two vears 9 am until 7 pm i albert king one year oldfashioned turkey supper thoroughly enjoyed by hundreds in hi sskmm 1 top photo that oldfashioned turkey supper held last week in the stouflville united church as part of the festivities marking the opening of the new church wing was enjoyed by nearly seven hundred hungry partic ipants snapped by the tri bune photographer are just a few of more than two hundred and fifty who enjoyed each sitting in the centre fore ground can- be seen archie fleming markham township assessor completely engrossed in the job at hand a little farther down the table arthur dowswell is eyeing a platter of turkey with contemplation h w moyer is in view at the doorway in the background keeping traffic moving while other wellknown lecal person ages can also be seen making the most of a great oppor tunity centre photo a behind the scenes shot is taken by tribune photo grapher ted cadieux who slipped into the kitchen to catch this one scenes like this were common as bushels of turnips potatoes and othen eatables were prepared for the great feast to the right the minister of the church rev douglas davis can be seen sampling some of the prepar ations other hardworking ladies surrounding the table beginning with mrs gorman dixon in the immediate fore ground are mrs ray fleury miss bertha winn miss anne lehman mrs floyd fairies mrs garfield kellington and mrs albert king lower photo lcrc two churchmen del jennings left member of the board of stewards and l c murphy right choir leader roll up their sleeves and pre pare to work over one of the choice 20 pound birds which graced the tables