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ll classified ads on back page vol 65 no 37 the tribune stouffville thursday january 27 1955 tex pages growing pains continue for b s telephone no 8 of series by mr a i bruce in july 1c0g we had thirty subscribers in the village of stouffville and eighty subscrib ers in the rural area a total of 110 subscribers when in the early spring of that year we commenced the work of recon structing the line to gormley we probably did not have more than 70 telephones outside of stouffville yet we were erect ing a pole line that eventually carried four tenpin crossarms when the new poles began to rise along the townline and pasersby compared the sturdy pole with crossarms with the poles that were about to be taken down there was an opin ion freely expressed that the directors of the b s tel co had taken leave of their senses two men who were well known and whose opinions carried weight with their fellow citi zens were discussing the ex traordinary optimism of the directors of the company one man inquired whether his com panion was a shoreholder the reply was thank the lord i am not erelong additional crossarms had to be erected on the poles then another brand of criticism was heard it was said that if we had been wise we wojuld not have erected such a light line in the first place the extra cost to the com pany of the reconstruction of the main pole lead was not so great as appeared on the sur face the material was not scrapped the wire was easily transferred to the crossarms and the poles sideblocks and insulators were used in new construction elsewhere the only extra cost was the labor involved and that was charge able to necessary expense in starting a new enterprise that had to prove its worth as it progressed this expense was unavoidable- with the erection of the trunk line to gormley we ab andoned the switching phone at gormley the entire rural section was subdivided into se veral partylines the 50- line switchboard was installed and miss belle ratcliff became our first operator when we com pared the improved service with the service we had been giving or trying to give our selfesteem rase we were proud of our achievement however other difficulties developed which were the re sult of our inexperience one partyline developed a myster ious trouble complaints were constantly being received that rings were very indistinct fre quently it was impossible to raise central or even phones of near neighbors inquiries re pealed the fact that there was one subscriber who rarely had trouble he assured us that the trouble could not be in his phone as its rings were always loud and clear mickie moore had gone away from stouffville there was a young englishman living in stouffville who had been work ing for a farmer but having completed his contract with the farmer was living in stou ffville learning that this man had been an electrician in the british navy and had had tele phone experience he was re quested to investigate our trou ble herbert smith made mi nute inquiry concerning the myptoms of our trouble and when he learned that there was one telephone on that particu lar lino which rarely gave any trouble his suspicion was ar oused he inquired whether that telephone was of the same manufacture as were the other instruments on the line it wvs not it was a second hand telephone that had been picked up somewhere smith went to inspect this phone he found the offender it was equipped with a iooo ohm rin c while all the other phones had 20006hm ringers the low er resistance and robbed the higher resistance instruments and silenced them herbert smith was seeking employment we were in need of some person who had exper ience so we engaged him ex perimentally for three months this was extended to one year at a salary of sg3q for the year jic remained with us until the fall of 1016 one of the most persistent and annoying troubles arose out of the problem of giving nght service when we com menced business in august 1901 we gave night service to rural subscribers and to village lines which served doctors or veter inary surgeons this service was given by simply leaving the big rural partyline and also lines serving medical men connected during the night if any person required a medi cal man he could be called di rectly by the person requiring cortinued oa page 3 car takes a tumble while unloading 10000 in cash and cheques stolen from local coop safe a new buick riding the top deck of a load of new cars being delivered to mole mo tors here in town took a tum ble while being unloaded as the metal track buckled these great loads of new au tomobiles always catch con siderable interest on the high way and this mishap caused quite a sensation for a few minutes local sailor suffers from poisoned brew douglas burkholder son of mr and mrs ira burkholder of stouffville as one of the forty- seven seamen aboard the hmcs magnificent who were taken ill last week following an episode in which various poisonous liquids including methyl alco hol found their way into a punch bowl at a party the stouffville lad was on the seriously ill list when the story first broke into the canadian news but this week word received here by his fam ily listed him as out of danger however his eyes will remain rev burkholder receives plowing match relief cheque tohn randal chairman of the waterloo county foods tent committee which oper ated at the international plow ing match at breslau last week presented a cheque for 2700 the profit made on the meals served to rev oscar burkholder chairman of the mennonite relief committee volunteers donated their lime serving meals bandaged and it will be sever al months before he is expected to fully recover applications called for new town assessor after considerable discus sion at a special meeting of stouffville municipal council on monday evening a resolu tion was passed calling for the repeal of a 1917 bylaw appoint ing mr e r good as assessor dissatisfaction was expressed at alleged inequalities in the assessing and the assessors re lations with the public and he was notified on tuesday of the termination of his services mr good has been assessor in markham village and elora as well as stouffville he has com pleted reassessments in both these outside points and has urged that this municipality also undertake such a job the bylaw appointing mr good was repealed and clerk gar brown was instructed to call for applications for the postion lots to sell council agreed on monday night to ask mr geo hawtin who is opening a new sub division west of baker ave for a 1000 bond to guarantee completion of the streets com pletion o the waterworks is also being asked mr hawtin is desirous of selling a number of lots immediately for the er ection of homes and the plan to be accepted by the munici pality must have both streets and waterworks completed to councils satisfaction henry ogden planning board chairman for 55 mr henry ogden exreeve of stouffville was elected chair man of the local planning board at their inaugural meeting on friday night vice chairman will be c ii nolan and secre tary gar brown early board discussion dealt with the new timbers subdivision to the west containing one hundred and seven lots and whicli is presently in the hands of the metro planning board for ap proval four twoacre blocks in this subdivision facing on the highway have been reser ved for industrial or commer cial use surveyors have also been planning a new development partly residential and partly industrial on the block of land immediately south of the new high school and owned by mr wes schell at their next meeting the board will pursue the task of preparing a zoning bylaw for town which was commenced last fall thirtyfour fire calls answered last year three more calls were ans wered by stouffville fire bri gade during 1954 than a year previous the total being thirty- four largest number of calls came from whitchurch and markham townships- eleven trips being made to each there were seven fires in stouffville three in uxbridge township one in pickering and one call to aurora additional equipment has been added during the year and more is being ordered for this coming season to keep the local firefighting service up to standard there are sixteen men on the brigade with wil liam malloychief and don leh man deputy an estimated 10000 in che ques and cash were stolen from the stouffville cooperative feed store during the weekerd by thieves who police believe may have gained entrance to the office through a grain chute the robbers used nitro-glycer- ine to blast open the safe which contained close to 3000 in cash and 7cxxtin cheques the cheques will however be of little use to the thieves as they were all marked for de posit it is also believed that much of the money may have been scorched by the blast they wrenched off the vault door to get to the special floor safe which is impregnable to anything but explosives the manager of the local co- op mr geo timbers has re quested customers who pur chased or paid for feed on sat urday to declare whether their account is settled or outstand ing in the loot the robbers also took the deposit slip making it difficult for the office staff to straighten up their books mr ross wideman an em ployee made the breakin dis covery on monday morning stouffville provincial police constables jim stewart and w s hilliard were called and they in turn notified police consta ble roller of toronto a finger print expert the investigation is continuing police believe that the stouff ville robbery may be linked with the 3000 robbery of the cnr station at picketing on saturday o p p constable stewart stated that he patrolled the area around two oclock on sunday morning but didnt no tice anything to rouse suspi cion residents in the block failed to hear the explosion a considerable portion of the cash is covered by insurance renowned girl choir coming here feb 17 18 the ross caldwell singers outstanding allgirl choir is be ing brought to stouffville on feb 17th and isth and will present their winter symph ony in the high school audi torium under the auspices of the stouffville lions club highlight of their most re cent engagements was their program in eaton auditorium where they performed before a full house they have been acclaimed in many ontario cen tres and praised by critics throughout the country six of the girls now studying with winnifred j snack an- cm rmt have won a total of 163 festival awards and scholarships tickets for this first outstand ing treat to be brought to our fine new school auditorium with its modern stage and lighting effects will go on sale shortly watch for further announce ments whitchurch boosts agricultural fed levy to half mill following a discussion with two representatives of the township federation of agri culture whitchurch council raised the annual levy for fed eration purposes to a half mill at their regular meeting on thursday evening arthur mcllroy president of the local branch told council that other townships were pay ing the half mill and whit church was no paying enough he said that the ontario feder- f j yacher writes interesting letters from europe we publish this week the first of a series of letters from mr f j vacher 9th con of markham who is presently travelling in europe editor and friends it is a good thing for a fel low to have some chores to do when im on the sea or bum ming around in florida i get too lazy to shave or put on a tie my wife bawls me out but it does no good after we passed the azores the weather got very nice and the sea was as smooth as glass we got up to lisbon or lisboa as they called it in the evening there were lots of pretty lighfs on both sides of the river ac tually the city is up the river quite a piece although on the map it would appear to be right on the coast we lay in the har bour all night and got up for an early breakfast once ashore we went for a conducted tour of the city and surrounding countryside the trip was 1 each and well worth the mon ey there ware three large bus ses in all and all filled inci dentally each wheel had ten nuts to hold it on and they sure needed them with the roads and hills a very old catholic church was the first stop the church was built around a court yard with beautiful flower beds and the greenest grass i have ever seen in my life there is a lush- ness about it in these warmer climates that america cannot duplicate the guide showed us the big building built to com memorate the liberation of continued on page 3 markham reeve heads county road committee at the final session of york county council held on thurs day reeve alf lemasurier was named chairman of the york county road committee one of the most important committees in the county with him will be stouffvilles newly- elected reeve elmer daniels also p s legge deputyreeve of whitchurch and a h rutherford deputy reeve of vaughan j h anderson of georgina will be the secretary stouffvilles reeve is also a member of the agricultural committee which is composed of m l pegg e gwillimbury wm clark markham wm sellers sutton j h anderson vaughan and ivan mclaugh lin whitchurch other committees named on thursday were as follows property fred armstrong d j murray ivan mclaughlin m l pegg wm sellers and e wrightman assets j w rye m mcmurchy jos dales jos fry r j pollock and ken tomlin parks geo lamont w l clark wm hodgson victor jones clark martin j w rye bylaws mr mc murchy jos dalec alf le masurier wm hodgson geo lamont finance m mcmurchy ken tomlin d murray jos dales geo lamont ivan mc laughlin alf lemasurier education r pollock mrs walker f d armstrong re forestation wm hodgson v jones e wrightman p s legge c martin new radio tv centre opening here monday to be known as stouffville radiotelevision centre gra ham crowhurst of toronto is opening a new store here on january 31st in the cy bell man block near park st and main a large display an nouncement concerning the new stqre appears elsewhere in this issue mr crowhurst has operated similar businesses in other ontario centres prior to coming to stouffville more recently he has been doing radio repair work with a large concern working for the rcaf in labrador he completed a broadcasting course at western university some years ago and has also had experience as a cnr telegrapher mr and mrs t w brown have moved into their new home in the forfar subdivision on park street mr and mrs brown were former residents in agincourt leaving fred armstrong mrs a walker and william hodg son of king the canadian national exhi bition board will have as coun ty representatives r j pol lock and alf jemasurier tree conservation commit tee will have as members the chairman of the reforestalion committee p s legge and ken ross markham to get 500000 building reeve alf lemasurier of markham township produced plans submitted by a large automobile dealer in toronto which showed a proposed lay out for a large halfmillion dollar auto showroom on yonge street the land desired is on the gamble property at high land park council viewed the plans and decided to turn it over to the planning board for further consideration ill street couple sixty years married on saturday mr and mrs abraham stouffer residents on mill street stouffville for the past six years celebrated their 00th wedding anniversary the local couple were the recipients of many beautiful cards gifts and flowers on saturday evening more than fifty members of the stou ffer family gathered at the horhe of mr and mrs s a stouffer on the 9th of markham south of stouffville to honor the cele brated couple among those present were the two daught ers mrs james tompkins 4th ebneession of uxbridge bertha of stouffville and five sons archie of minden walter of kitchener and lambert abe and reg of stouffville mr and mrs stouffer have seventeen grandchildren and two great grandchildren mrs stouffer was born on the 11th concession of markham on the farm of her parents mr and mrs samuel shank she attended cedar grove public school mr stouflers birthplace was north of stouffville on the farm now owned by mr gar leh man following their marriage at markham the couple travell ed to stayner by train on their honeymoon and on their return resided on the stouffer farm they intend to make stouffville their permanent residence both mr and mrs stouffer are members of the stouffville united missionary church mr stouffer has been a church dea con for the past fortysix years and has also held the office of sunday school superintendent mrs stouffer has also been act ive in church work on sunday morning rev f huson paid a tribute to this fine stouffville couple and the congregation rose aye residents notified to rectify drainage trouble town council meeting in spe cial session on monday night instructed clerk gar brown to notify about ten rose ave resi dents in writing that a com plaint had been lodged by mr geo wilson against the empty ing of drains onto his property these residents were permitted to use the town ditch some years ago to lay a tile and carry their cellar drains cast past the w g sanderson property however there was no writ ten agreement to this effect or guarantee of how long such draining could continue thus on the advice of solicitor j d lucas they are being asked to take steps to cease this drain age onto the wilson property mr wilson recently purchased a number of lots on rose ave east and contemplates erecting one or more houses there short ly the town will also be asked to improve this street as well as market st south of burk holder dept of highways en gineer has estimated the cost of this improvement at 1s00 small road budget council was advised monday night that the dept of high ways was oniy willing to pay fifty percent subsidy in 1955 on a road expenditure in stouff ville of s000 which council considers much too low in the light of present needs numer ous new streets are being add ed while several councillors contemplated a program o- more permanent road surfaces road expenditurese last year amounted to approximately 11000 clark gar brown was instruc ted to communicate with the dept and explain that the small budget was not enough for even maintenance needs a request was received from robt stapley for an adjust ment of his farm lot 31 con 9 markham between the mon golia school section and stouff ville public school section markham wtiitchurch and stouffville must appoint arbi trators in such cases and c h nolan was named by the local council as stouffville represent ative a loan of 3000 from the vil lage general account to the public utilities commission hymns their many friends and nei ghbors wish mr arid mrs stou- w many more years of con joined in singing their favorite tinued health and happiness as their share mr mcllroy cited various in stances where the federation had aided greatly in maintain ing farm prices he mentioned specifically the hog marketing program and the organizing of the peach growers no farm or ganization was large enough alone to be beneficial but the federation provided just such an organization they were now established in twentytwo countries the farmer is oniy etting 46c of the consumer dol lar and this line must be held he said reeve melaughiin said that ne was favorable but thought vivian hockey club robbed by dressing room thief sssfcjia on sunday afternoon a thief broke into the dressing room being used by the vivian jun ior hockey club at the new market arena and escaped with a number of wallets and cash belonging to members of the team the breakin was discovered by doug card one of the play ers the opp were called and two men were held for quest ioning some of the players who had money stolen from their wallets were gord pais ley russ forfar doug card merv degeer and jack pollard taylor armstrong new county commissioners w j taylor of richmond hill and elton armstrong reeve of king township re ceived an acclamation to the post of york county commis sioner when council convened on wednesday afternoon geo amont of sutton who was also nominated lor the position withdrew local reeve elmer daniels received the appointment of county representative to the royal winter fair board appointments to york manor were albert rutherford of vaughan jos fry markham and j v rye k gwillimbury that all municipalities in the i county appointment to the county should sh3re equally the federation president was upported by mr john sytcma aton had an 50000 budget this who pointed out that the big year and york county was bcjobjecuve this year will be to ing scked to coturtbutc 2200 set a better price for wheat york county hospital was jos dales of newmarket several names were proposed as representatives to the chil dren- aid society mr dan- eii and mr pollock declining u j v il n mr and mcs abraham stouffer married slmy years