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12 pages touflwtle ixttmtte 3200 copies vo as so 16 the tribune stouffville oxt august 14 1 four lucky to be alive increased assessment council to take problem of new garage before highways minister four persons escaped death in this car extensively dam aged when struck by a cnr train at goodwood near stouff- ville impact spun car around and hurled it against wooden warning sign frank orrett 23 of langford ave received four injured in goodwood level crossing accident inadequate crossing signals were blamed by a 20yearold toronto girl for a blind level crossing cartrain crash at goodwood on saturday morning four persons including the driver barbara ferguson of mill- brook cres were injured when the car straddling the tracks was struck by a cnr train speaking through bruised and bleeding lips miss ferguson said the accident would never have happened if there had been a wig wag signal the track curves at ttie crossing and a house hides it said frank orrett 23 of langford ave tor onto miss fergusons fiance barbara stopped the car before crossing the tracks then when she started up again we saw the train coming i shoved it into reverse just as the train hit us orrett added police at the scene said the car skidded 42 feet before coming to the track conductor p cattom said his train always slows at goodwood a flag stop and that it was beginning to pick up speed again after sound ing its whistle the car occupants would probably have been killed if the train had been travelling at full throttle miss ferguson received face lacerations in the accident three other passengers were also injur ed jack chandler 72 of catlaw ave toronto suffered torn liga ments in his left leg while his wife emma 73 received shock and bruises orrett suffered a broken right thigh and undetermined injuries ratcliff bros ask 600 to settle vivian road dispute a fractured right thigh all four in car were bound for a weeks vacation in northern ontario nearly 200 attend annual mennonite bible school on monday morning the men nonite church on the 8th conces sion of markham began its 16th annual summer bible school under the able direction of superinten dent aaron grove on the opening day there were 155 child ren in attendance and by wednes day this number had increased to 192 there are some thirteen teachers in charge of 11 classes with the students ranging in age from 4 to 16 years the school is operated for two weeks with a public display and program on the night of august 22nd classes com mence at 9 oclock in the morning and dismiss at 1145 the children are transported to and from the school in cars and are picked up at various appointed meeting places along the road it is indeed a great work that is being carried on by mr grove the teachers and the church and it is hoped that this worthwhile com munity service may be continued for many years to come at a special meeting of whit church township council ratcliff bros represented by mr don rat cliff asked the sum of 000 as com pensation for a road allowance recently opened between vivian and the 9th con but originally surveyed for such an allowance toy the township mr ratcliff contend ed that council was not within their rights in taking over the road allowance and retaining the allow ance used for some years and from which the timber had been re moved mr ratcliff it was stated had originally asked for 1000 but had dropjed his price later to 600 mr ratcliff told council that he had made a mistake when he offered 50 for the trees on the right-of- way but also added that he did not think the township received enough at 250 the timber was sold some months ago by tender from the rightofway which has been un used for many years as users of this sideline preferred to use a winding road which went through this bushland a little to the north the township received 250 for the limber and informed mr rat cliff that he had been privileged to place a bid at the time the tenders were called it was previously pointed out when council discuss ed the matter that mr ratcliff was offered the presently used road of approximately thirty feet but had rejected the offer on the grounds that there was no timber on it council expressed the opinion that they were within their legal right but advised clerk john crawford to interview the town ship solicitor on the matter the question arose of disposing of the stumps on the newly cleared roadway and it was suggested that ratcliff be paid for allowing the township to place them on his land councillor mccarron argued that if he were paid 250 for this pur pose the taxpayers couldnt kick and ratcliff he declared would be receiving 200 more than he offered for the trees road supt davis told council that he roughly estimated it would cost 200 to remove the stumps the suggestion was also made that some agreement might be reached with the owner of the property on the north side after a lengthy discussion the following resolution was passed instructing the clerk to contact ratcliff bros and mr ben grose owners of the land on either side of the vivian sideroad to attempt an agreement together with these parties or either of them for full settlement of all claims and that incidental to this agreement the township be permitted to place the stumps off the rightofwav in a defined area on either side or both sides of the rightofway at a total offered sum without prejudice of s300 all tenders council agreed to call for len ders for chips and hard top double- surface treatment of the south road at wilcox lake a distance of about a mile and a half miss annie duncan of new york and professor mary reid of cleve land visited at mr frank raes home church st recentlv mr and mrs hugh boyd were accompanied by mr and mrs george culling of los angeles cal on a motor trip through hal- iburton the united states visitors are cousins of mrs boyd councillor mccarron asks saturday vote in whitchurch twp claiming that whitchurch town ship should be a leader in provid ing more time for people to vote councillor mccarron placed be fore council on monday evening a resolution calling for a saturday vote in december with polls open from 10 am until 8 pm he pointed out that whitchurch had been cited as a leader in the county and might be a leader in offering more advantage to voters in this way it would create no hardship on anyone he said councillor mccarron reminded council that he had brought the matter up last year and had been told that he was too late i never- like to miss a train twice he added council failed to respond with a seconder for the resolution but suggested that he bring the matter up again when the election bylaw would be brought in at an early date clerk crawford read a commun ication he had sent to the fire marshalls office requesting them to inspect the old hotel property at vivian owned by mrs pearl bertrand of toronto it was under stood that the place was shortly to be rented and was not believed safe for habitation relief accounts passed for the month amounted to 15187 clerk crawford stated that he had re ceived a request from stouffville sand gravel to accept an account of s13s00 for gravel bought by briggs construction co for a wil cox lake road job the firm later failed to complete their contract and the gravel company had not been paid council instructed the clerk to advise the stouffville firm to look to the briggs company for payment mr ambrose stover accom panied mr and mrs howard rat cliff on a trip to the west coast levels uxbridge township tax rate an assessment increase of 137- 000 allowed uxbridge township council to set the tax rate at stios mills only a 2 rise over last years rate of 364s mills the 137000 increase bring- the total assessment for the township to sl824604 tiie mill rate for the township was set at 112 slightly lower than last years figure the county mill rate dropped slightly from 927 to 840 the high school rate snowed an increase from 493 to 534 the basic public school rate stands at 113 mills an estimate of revenue and expenditure for 1952 showed a s30000 layout in the roads and bridges department with 3500 be ing set asiue for salaries hospital ization will absorb some 1200 other expenditures that must be taken care of are relief 95000 fire protection so000 live stock claims 5000 printing and post age 40000 police service 12500 and numerous other items the largest income in the revenue de partment will be the road subsidy which will amount to 10000 the total revenue will be 19210 with a lotal expenditure of 39400 mak ing a sum of 20190 to be raised by taxes an 112 mill rate will slightly more than cover this amount norman r burkholder dies in hospital on friday august 8th mr nor man r burkholder a resident on the 8th concession of markham for the past thirtyfour years passed away in the toronto east general hospital following an illness of over a year born on tiie 9th concession of markham in the year 1s87 at the farm home of his parents mr and mrs abraham burkholder the deceased attended public school at box grove following his mar riage to the former annie hoover the late mr burkholder moved to the 8th where he operated his farm while health permitted a regular church attendant mr burkholder took an active interest in all sunday school work the deceased was a member of the wideman mennonite church on the 8th con cession besides his wife the late mr burkholder leaves to mourn his passing five sons john allen elmer joseph and elvon there is one surviving sister mrs noah weber of waterloo and one brother amos on the 9th of markham funeral service was held on monday afternoon august 11th at the home followed by service in the wideman church conducted by mr aaron grove with interment in wideman cemetery the pall bearers were mr russel grove mr allan mcdowell mr jacob shank mr edwin byer mr jacob wideman and mr sam fretz on the strength of a resolution moved and seconded by deputy- reeve a james and councillor c hooper at mondays weekly meet ing of the markham township council reeve w timbers and the road committee tjames and hooper will shortly interview the minister of highways regarding the paying of a provincial subsidy on the townships new garage at buttonville the resolution which reacts as follows that the reeve and road committee interview the minister of highways regarding a subsidy on the proposed garage to be erected as per estimated road expenditures set out in the road estimates passed unanimously the question of markhams new garage has been a topic of discus sion at previous meetings in the early part of june a majority of council awarded the contract for its construction on a cost plus basis to mr spang of pickering town ship at that time councillor a lemasurier objected to this proced ure suggesting a new set of tenders be called mr spang had not ibeen among those who had orginally tendered on the con struction of the garage on july 2 mr j v ludgate highways engineer wrote the township slating the department was not prepared to approve this garage contract on a cost plus basis among other things mr ludgate stated the township should call for a new set of tenders in order for markham to obtain provincial assistance in this matter the de partment must approve of their procedure in speaking to the resolution mr lemasurier wanted to know why the road committee had begun work on the garage before first gaining departmental approval in reply reeve timbers stated we originally had the authority to go ahead the department approved our road budget which included the outlay for the new garage deputyreeve james said we got started before we were ham strung mr james went on to say that the way in which the contract was awarded will save the town ship 10000 a fourman delegation from the doncaster ratepayers appearing before the council made the recommendation that the township publish a monthly statement of expenditures in the local press an excellent idea replied deputyreeve james councillor lemasurier wanted the council to publish not only the monthly expenditures but also their relationship to the overall budget the people want to know in what direction financially they are going stated mr lemasurier deputyreeve james disagreed with this idea contending we could sasily go over our budget for local fire hazards get council attention local fire hazards came in for action at the regular meeting of stouffville municipal council on monday evening clerk brown told council that he had been advised by fire chief del jennings that there had been too many lires in the rear of the stouffville motors and lie had requested the owners to clean up the premises within a week failing this the chief stated that he desired the council to take action acting on the instructions of the fire marshalls department whose representative had inspected the premises clerk brown told council that he was writing a letter advis ing mr geo baker that his prem ises gutted by fire some months ago would have to be demolished the fire marshalls representative stated that his department would bring charges to bear if action was not taken council instructed the clerk to give mr baker six weeks rather than three weeks to de molish the building as requested by the department any material used in rebuilding would require the okay of the building inspector deputyreturning officers and poll clerks will receive 8 for then- services at the recent bylaw elec tion it was agreed by council the officers requested 10 but council agreed to go halfway councillor murphy stated that these men should have mentioned their wishes for an increase before tak ing the job but agreed to go along with the two dollar raise secretary storey advised council that mr walter atkinson had com plained of his rate for water at his new sales arena on the 10th con the rate charged was 25 for six months councillor glenn ratcliff and chairman of the water committee stated that he considered the charge quite reasonable for the service of water in restaurant and washrooms council stated they would abide by the water com mittees decision the spofford and co staff and violet hoover spent last wednes day at hart lodge haliburton guests of mr and mrs harold spofford who have been holiday ing there for two weeks the shore dinner swim walks and drives through the woods with a hangup dinner at six were some of the highlights of the interesting and full day so much enjoyed toy all its only an estimate we have said mr james already gone over our budget on dust layer womens club float was pretty picture wt this wagon load of loyely girls won fim prize for the stouffville business siorral women club profes- in the class for the best decorated float in the anniversary parade