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tf 2 the st0wfvh1 trfwhe twiy umtry 23 1958 established 1msi a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations awthortz u tcoodclus mifl pottoffic dpt ottawa issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere 450 c h nolan publisher jas thomas associate editor our editorial comment a credit to the county york county and the municipal ities which form the county can be justly proud of the fine new building officially opened at newmarket on wednesday afternoon an account of which appears elsewhere in this issue a large council chambers modern in every detail as well as spacious office accommodation has been provided the former county building situated on the same property will be occupied by the childrens aid society which was formerly in rented quarters since the forming of the new- york county with the establishment of metro several years ago stouffville has become a more important cog in county affairs in this connection stouffville can be justly proud of the reeve and clerk who were among the important speechmakers at the official opening and attended by all the county digni taries and a number from outside reeve elmer daniels was chairman of the building committee which organ ized the erection of the new county building and his work in this con nection was given full recognition on wednesday our clerk ralph corner a former york county warden als brought honour to stouffville througn his able presentation oii this import ant occasion reeve daniels stands high in the estimate of his county colleagues and we predit will rise in the ranks of county officialdom a fact for which every citizen should be justly proud also fussy when buying potatoes the potato is still the main item of food in many countries many of us can recall the time when potatoes were served three times a day al most every day of the week usually fried potatoes for breakfast and supper and boiled potatoes in some form for dinner occasionally creamy potato soup was a satisfying and pat- ate pleasing item on the menu po tato pancakes went well with apple sauce for some reason or other prob ably because the idea spread that potatoes are fattening annual con sumption of potatoes has dropped in the past generation from about 240 pounds a person to about 140 pounds at a conference of the eastern ontario soil and crop improvement association part of the program wag devoted to discussion of the lowly spud it was pointed out that potar toes are not fattening when eaten in normal amounts many other foods considered as tidbits and eaten cas- ually as at a social gathering are far more fattening moreover dr l b pett of the department of health and welfare put in a plug for potatoes by saying they are important sources of vita min c vitamin bl iron and other minerals like in most everything else the canadian housewife is getting fussy when it comes to buying potatoes she prefers the mealy type that will fluff up when mashed she wants a potato of medium size that will cook white or creamy white and not turn dark when mashed or baked indeed the time seems to be ap proaching when consumers will want potatoes specifically for frying or for boiling or for baking of course that will mean paying more for the extra services birds need a lift now that winter has really set in and the ground is covered with snow and ice it is time to give serious thought to our feathered friends who help to cheer up the dreary days the birds that brave our north ern weather have a tough time find ing sufficient food to keep their body heat and stave off the cold f-lafst- summer on our premises the snails in an ambitious and greedy niood cleared the two mountain ashes of all their berries and it is likely that they did the same on other property with berries gone pickings are very lean several days ago we watched a troupe of hardy sparrows it did not take them long to clean up bread crumbs and other scraps left out for them there are many other birds wintering here including cardinals bluejays nut- hatches chicadees and downy woodpeckers and last month we saw a kingfisher they live on chopped fresh peanuts sunflower seeds and suet the thoughtful housewife can prevent privation by placing these necessities on a high perch for the birds it will help tide them over the next two months when they need a lift meaford express what the pipeline did to me by loralne porter pickering township in the fall of 1956 i bought ten acres of fencedin solitude southeast of stouffville near toronto cows grazed in the green fields a clear stream wound silently across the east ern end quiet and peaceful the property was everything i wanted to make a dream come true here i would have a pond stocked full of fish i would plant trees and beautiful shrubs this rural hideaway would be an asylum from progress bull dozing its way into my present surroundings it was a wonderful dream but it went up in smoke on june 11 after a dark stranger knocked at my city door the only men who come to see me are sales men so i gingerly opened the door and said no i could however use this part of my property for a garden or pasture i still wasnt happy there was always the possibility of a break in the line my ten acres were nicely fenced in to protect the cows grazing in the fields and drinking from the creek but most important of all was the twoacre pond i contem plated for next year how would the pipeline affect the clean i fastflowing stream on my pro- perty it will go down five feet un der the stream mr pineliner said fences of course would have to come down to make way for bulldozers and trucks mr pipe- liner pointed out that the ease ment would compensate me for damage to fences and livestock and if a leak occurred in the pipe well lets not borrow its about the transcanada more trouble pipe line the stranger said i dont need a pipeline- i told him i couldnt buy one if i did because im broke ive just bought ten acres in picker ing township the dark man beamed that is why im here i represent transcanada pipe lines ltd mr pipellncr offered to drive me to my lawyers ofllce on june 11 1957 i agreed to give sanctuary to the transcanada pipeline in september 1957 the pipe line crossed local townships two hundred and seventyfive men 20 trucks and 16 side- and im here concerning a grant boom tractors and 12 bulldozers of easement said mr pipe- liner i dont think i want to buy that either i told him you dont buy it you give it its like this you grant us permission to put a pipeline through your property and we give you s190 he was most explicit here was all this costly pipe that would bring alberta gas across ontario to montreal a distance of 2294 miles if the right-of- way happened to be on my pro perty there was little i could do to stop the company taking my land for public use im no enemy of progress but an casement is an eternal thing once the pipeline was constructed neither i nor fu ture owners would be free to excavate drill install on or tinder the said right of way any pit well foundation were fighting rock formations and streams that were putting up a valiant fight against civili zations forward march i drove over to observe prog ress in the making on my own 10 acres i found front fences down sidewalk superintendents everywhere and my stream was an angry puddle highbooted men were lowering pipes into trenches trucks marked okla homa pipeline company stood where cows pastured a week ago there was an electrifying cheerfulness about all this ac tivity a southern voice drawled that gas had over 20000 industrial uses its sparked off a new canadian industry already just makln steel pipes to move the stuff and the pipeline means more plants and more people to work in them he said the potbelly stove can go out the kitchen window now a man in overalls chuckled the smell of industry follow ed me home i had bought a hideaway for conservation pur poses and already progress was bulldozing its way into my dream i knew there would be no pond stocked with fish no planting of trees and shrubs because even now i could almost hear the factory whistles blow ing today my property looks al most the same as the day i bought it almost but not quite theres a little too much subsoil on top of the land and too much good topsoil buried who knows where theres soil compaction over about two of the ten acres and pot holes from which the stagnant water refuses to drain sinkage along the line of the filled trench and some of my beloved trees are missing only one of the cows is left grazing her sisters ap parently got restless and wan dered away and im restless too because of that pipeline lying five feet under the sod no longer con tent with fencedin solitude i am waiting for the pipeline to hasten canadas expansion then i shall sell my dream for cash i and make my pipedream come true far far away laff of the week now doesnt unt make y fed all ilnwjrutr inside bdt jjufcse-lye-s- doubt and belief recently i talked with a friend who has done a lot of travelling seen many different nations and was puzzled at the different points of view he was interested in religion but puzzled by many things why for instance are there so many varieties arid so much discord and bitterness i told him that the differences in beliefs arose from the growth of cultures and the fact that we have the liberty of voicing our opinions i told him that when i was a young minister a wise and good man addressed our congregation telling how many beliefs men had and what vast number of followers i voiced my belief that the widespread faiths of mankind discouraged me his answer was the in teresting thing is that faith in god is so general practic ally all the race is made of believers we are made in the image of god there is no out and out athiesm if we are tolerant we see the love of god everywhere and we can all say with augustine thou hast made us for thyself and we are restless until we rest in thee my friend seemed relieved especially when i told him that doubt was not sinful but that it was natural for sincere and thoughtful people he told me about a man in london england whose son had risen until he had the highest qualification in education the incident greatly distressed him and his friend he asked for an explanation which i could not give but i repeated the lines of coulson kermahadn if an ant cannot climb up into the mind of man and see his world as man sees it how can a man climb up into the mind of god and see his world as god sees it my friend thanked me saying thanks for your candour and frankness i see we cannot expect to under stand everything people should not be made to feel that doubt is sinful there may be more faith in honest doubt than thoughtlessly repeating a creed that has little meaning jesus did teach that there were some things which could not be revealed to his disciples because they could not at that time understand i have yet many things to say unto you but yet cannot bear them now howbeit when he the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth here he lays down a principle truth is revealed to men just as they are able to bear it there is a divine discretion which has its source in the infinite compassion of the fathers heart know ledge that would terrify and harm is withheld for the present at least a veil twixt us and thee dread lord a veil twixt us and thee lest we should hear too clear too clear and unto madness see our quotation today is by a british commentator life is like reading an old book which has no footnotes from our early files jan 25 1923 an orange celebration will be held at aurora this coming 12th of july until after the semi annual meeting of north on tario orangemen it will not be known where the stouffville lodge will celebrate d e jones is the new presi dent of markham agricultural society there was a loss of 102 on last years fair which will be overcome when the rain insurance is received the markham fair grounds and buildings are valued at 28000 harold mortson of victoria square who took a sleigh load to a debate on monday evening at richmond hill found one of his horses dead in the shed of the richmond hill methodist church only one of the horses was tied the other drew back and choked its mate garfield oldham of lot 35 con 8 whitchurch son of jas oldham of stouffville received a fractured leg while engaged in bush work on monday last some years ago mr oldham was unfortunate in receiving a fracture of the opposite limb so that unless the doctors make a good job in setting the limb this time he will not have a firstclass pin to stand on mr jacob boadway reports having seen a robin in mr mon- khouses garden on church st thursday morning of last week and he also heard its cheerup so he is quite sure it was our spring robin and not his red- breasted cousin the bluebird which much resembles him that mr boadway saw the gen uine robin is substantiated by mr e a button and mr hoo ver who on sunday saw several robins in the vicinity of church street both jonas lewis and ross brown have shipped a number of cars of vegetables from the local station to the states and to northern ontario this winter just now cabbage and turnips are the chief commodity the former goins north and the lat ter across the line for paren1s only learning to talk by nancy leaver a baby learning to talk is a sometimes early talkers twins odd bits quebecs 4h clubs engaged in forest conservation have ten thousand members the oldtime 14ycarold boy who was 11 so he could travel on trains for half fare now has a 14yearold son who is 16 so he can drive a car most people get that same funny feeling when they answer the doorbell and find a collector at the door scientific tests indicate that carpets swallow sound reduc ing noise as much as 50 percent when laid in areas of heavy household traffic fascinating process for parents to watch babies like to coo and babble and make sounds jong before they can recognize cer tain words and respond to com mands among the first sounds babies make are mmm and da which are usually soon transformed into mama and dada to the delight of their good parents most children begin to say one syllable words between their eighth and ninth months at one year a great many chil dren have a vocabulary of from three to six words in this mech- have each other for company and are thus sometimes slow to begin to talk mentally retarded children are delayed in speak ing but sometimes quite bright youngsters are in no hurry to start if a baby is very slow to talk the parents are often anxious they wonder if there is any thing they can do about it at the same time they do not want to fuss once in a while a bright child shows his resentment over his mother boasting to a visitor how well he talks by suddenly not anlzed age car is frequently a saying anything if he is a little first word go is another fav- 0 and mother repeats his ourite which covers a lot of acb talk or odd pronuncia tion tion of a longer word this may by their first birthday aver- 1 anger him children at any age age babies have a vocabulary of j love a joke but they want mo from three to six words car toonists make a lot of jokes over a woman having the last word and loving to talk it is no surprise to them that girls usually master the art of con versation before boys before they are two little tots are forming very short sentences most of them by then have ac quired a vocabulary of almost thirty words at three years of age a child can probably use two hundred words by the time he starts to thcr to laugh with them not at them occasionally there is a phys- cal reason for a child having difficulty in learning to talk it is easily understood how a child who is in poor health may be very tardy about speaking mal nutrition has the same delaying effect occasionally a childs hearing is so poor that he can not hear sounds clearly enough to imitate them the deaf child needs help from an early age mothers sometimes wonder if world outdoors by mike bennett the worldfamous kenai na tional moose range in alaska is caught in the center being threatened of an oil bonanza which recalls the frenzied days of the territorys gold rush established by an executive order in 1941 are wildlife ref uge is famous for its monarch moose the largest and most magnificent of all species of north american moose and for its big brown bears pall sheep mountain goats and other large and small animals an oil strike in one part of the area this past summer has brought visions of quick dollars to citizens and oil companies alike businessmen and politi cals with an eye to prospective expansion are denouncing fed eral regulations and calling for the speedy removal of all re strictions on even those parts of the kenai that are ruled out geologically under fire are the dept of the interiors proposed regula tions for the control of oil and gas leasing on federal wildlife lands the new regulations would permit oil and gas leas ing on less critical portions of some types of wildlife lands and drilling would be allowed on a limited basis in other sections when it is shown that oil re sources belonging to the united stales are being tapped through peripheral drainage oil and gas operators would have to comply with protective requirements es tablished by the us fish and wildlife service and the bureau of land management although the proposed regula tions would permit the orderly use of wildlife lands where oil or gas is present in commercial quantities the most important effect of the new order would be to protect frbm unwise use the lands that have been set aside and are being managed for wild life tried to snare pickering deer burton mclaughlin 24 ot holland ave toronto was fined 50 and costs by magis trate crawford guest for setting wire snares on a pickering twp deer run conservation officer robert speakman testified he had fol lowed footprints in the snow that led him to mclaughlin who was in a car parked off high way 2 about four miles north of pickering in the cars trunk- were 32 snares and 10 more were set on the trail used by deer said the conservation offi cer no deer were caught in the snares school he can often talk fluently their childs tardiness in talking only children because they lis the result of being tongue- are so often with adults are tied this condition is rarely the cause of speech difficulty not because so few children have it but it seldom handicaps a childs speech the baby who has been operated on for harelip or cleft palate may require special speech lessons it is quite likely that there is no real cause for alarm per haps the baby feels no need to talk his devoted mother can read his sign language and his little cries are understood by her if he points to his teddy bear with an urgent cry she hastens to bring it to him a lit tle less alacrity to answer his every wish might help him to see the value of expressing his desire in words it is quite possible that his parents have been too ambitious for him to talk they may have cither nagged him or given too much attention to his occasional utterance in selfdefence he has retired behind the wall of sil ence baby will talk when he really wants to this to pay bills let these help you to planned saving 1 personal chequing account pay all bills by cheque on a personal chequing account a quarterly statement will help you keep your records straight the low service charges are prepaid your cancelled cheques arc on file if you need them 2 savings account keep your savings account for saving add to it every pay as your balance grows youll gain peace of mind stort plonned saving at our nearest branch now the canadian bank of commerce 770 branches across canada ready to serve you clarem0nt branch h t green manager stouffville branch f w todd manager stouffville phone stouffville 91 doors open nightly at 645 friday 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