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ftm 1 the stocffvim tmkbie tfaahr ottmia w b58 jj gtonifoill tribune established u a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association authorized s ecoodclua mail poatoffice depu ottawa member of the audit bureau of circulations- issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere 450 c h nolan publisher jas thomas associate editor last week this column carried a dreary note on the drab appearance of our main st for the christmas season the good to be gained by all and the warmth of a decorated main st were pointed out as well as the reluctance of town officials to move quickly and without reservation on the project while this column was being read a number of merchants volun teered to foot the bill for the pur chase of a number of strings of coloured lights and these have been installed their installation has given a real boost to christmas in stouft- ville it is hoped that next year addi tional lights will be added to give a real fine festive showing the bill for the small amount of power used by these very important lights we understand is going to be paid for by the municipality as part of the streetlighting account and this is as it should be parental rights the law of the land is selfcon tradictory in what it says about the rights of parents if they keep a child away from school they may be fined and perhaps even imprisoned for repeated offenses if they prevent a child from hav ing a blood transfusion when its needed the authorities must stand by helplessly while the child dies this happened in manitoba recently but was overruled in ontario on satur day and a childs life was saved it may be argued that a childs heed of blood is a debatable medical opinion true enough but his need to go to school is a debatable peda gogical opinion in any comparison of relative weight many people would rate the medical higher than the pedagogical view of whats necessary and desir able survival comes before literacy though both are recommended this is a tricky question and nobody wants unnecessary restraints on popular freedoms including free dom to try out unorthodox systems of healing yet it would perhaps be generally agreed that the state has a right even an obligation to save a childs life against his parents wish es if any sect proposed to put into practice a belief in the living sacrifice of the firstborn the state would hardly tolerate that hazards of christmas soon we will be putting christ mas trees in our homes and decorat ing both the homes and the trees with gay lights tinsel and so on the decorations are part of a merry christmas but they can also be the cause of a tragic christmas if we are careless with them ontario fire marshal w j scott has pointed out that yuletide fire losses follow such a consistent pattern year after year that they can be closely predicted in 1957 during the period containing the holiday season fire took 58 lives in ontario and caused nearly 10 million property loss in over 5000 blazes no one wants to do away with the many ageold and beautiful tra ditions of christmas trees and decora tions mr scott said but we can re duce their potentially high fire haz ard in a number of common sense ways while there is no such thing as a fireproof christmas tree there are treatments of trees brought into the home for christmas decoration that greatly reduce the fire hazard the fresher the tree the less the likeli hood of some careless act igniting dry brittle needles between now and christmas advice will be given on how best to set up the tree to prevent fire no one would put openflame candles on a tree but frayed or dam aged wires and connections hot bulbs touching dry needles and overloaded circuits can be just as dangerous if you have more than four strings of lights on one circuit for example you are creating a dangerous overheating situation in tne wires decorations costumes even santas beard should be flameproofed cigarets should be forbidden or used with extreme care anywhere in the vicinity of combust ible material it takes only a little thought and care to avoid christmas tragedy springhill will survive a special report from a new brunswick editor for canadas weekly newspapers by j louis mckenna editor the sussex kings country record only a few weeks ago sigjit or sound of the name springhill would cause millions of canadians ameri cans britons and many others to turn their eyes to their newspapers or their ears to radios but today springhill doesnt mean too much to those same millions one evening in late october there was a rumble in the town of springhill a mining town of some 7000 people in western nova scotia as the earth tremored it conveyed a special meaning to the townspeople while dishes rattled on tables and shelves almost to a man to a woman to a boy and to a girl they left their homes and made their way by every means possible to the pithead of the one coal mine which to that moment had been in operation that was springhill a few weeks back there is no need to recount the grim drama which went on during the next ten days before all hope was abandoned for the miners trapped by the bump two weeks later when all bodies had been removed 74 brave men who had earned their daily bread below ground had been buried in man- made graves their bodies were buried but what of their spirit springhill was dependent almost 100 per cent on the mines for employment nine hundred of the townspeople were on the pay roll other small industries and com mercial enterprises were dependent upon the money the miners received for their livelihood the underground bump was a bump above ground for the entire community it left saddened families without wage earners it left retail ors without customers it left what could be the beginning of a ghost town yet we doubt if springhill does become a ghost town the spirit which sent men back into the minea again after a similar disaster claimed more than half the number of lives of the 1953 bump cant be disposed of so easily men like weekly newspaper publisher charles allbon who rebuilt his plant destroyed in a major town fire between the two disasters are not going to abandon springhill to the vultures just yet and they are being joined by others who want to see a revitalized springhill the nova scotia govern ment the atlantic provinces econo mic council and others are taking a direct and practical interest jn springhill dominion coal and steel corporation which has announced the mine will not be reopened is will ing to do what it can to help spring hill these are all good signs the people of springhill need outside help but most important is that they have the will to help themselves it is not going to be easy for men who know nothing but mining to turn to other fields of endeavor but we helieve that the people of springhill would rather submit to this transition than leave the town with the main street which winds up and down the hill as christmas approaches many thousands of canadians can feel bet ter in the knowledge that through donations they have helped make things a little easier for the people of springhill this will be a dull christ mas there memories are too recent hardship is too great for it to be any thing else but during this time of celebra tion for those of us who live else where let us remember that the origin of christmas was the birth of one destined to suffer greatly he overcame many crises before that good friday when a cross was erected on a hill to bear his body his birth was a time of great rejoicing let us then during this christ mas season of 1958 hope and pray that the coalblackened town of springhill in xovs scotia will arise again to its place of importance and that in the years to come christmas will be a time of great rejoicing there puce more our editorial comment merchants have saved situation laff of the week dymond sounds warning careless driving charges chimney sweeps are dying out ontarios minister of trans- judgment fund must pay the port in an address at sunder- j money back it is just a lain land last week cautioned his fund under the new legislation audience not to be lulled into passed last may it takes only a false sense of security about 21 days for payment of a claim what they have read in the after judgment has been given i newspapers concerning the dr dymond stated we hope denmark is in danger of io charge of careless driving jthat some dav unsatisfied judg- in one of its most plcturesqe the hon dr matthew b dy- ment claims will be settled out sights the tophatted chimney mond speaking at the ontario of court county progressive conscrva- tive associations annual meet- ing pointed out that a supreme york bnnfh ilnitprl court ruling given earlier this umv ullllcu week was being appealed rjatinnt accnriatinn if the appeal is disallowed j nallolls associdllon he said the federal govern- 1 the first monthlv meeting of ment will pass legislation to yoik blanch of the v allow it or amend the criminal nations associ3iion was hew on code the transport minister december 8 at the home of the was speaking in reference to a pres mrs aav mclennan ruling handed down by chief j the members were most for justice j c mcruer of the on- vinate in having as their speak- tario supreme court wednes- er mr hel mowa jrom l p p j rl national executive of the unl- that the provinces careless te nations association of can- sweeps the sootgrimed sweem are not seen treading the roof tops very often these days nc v methods of heating and a sito t- age of apprentices are the main reasons for their disappearance denmarks thousands of chim neys are kept clein and in good repair by about 500 skilled sweeps who may be among the last survivors of this centurles- old crat as the old buildings disappear and chimneys become iewer the sweeps have dwindled and it be comes more and more difficult to get a chimney swept records driving charge is invalid be- ada ralkin on the united nat- f 1c sweeps own guild art as- cause it trespasses on criminal ions and w forces mr mow- ociation of employers set up in legislation passed by the federal at brought to his audience his 17is nal he are todv government j wealth of experience in world fewer than 200 master sweeps plan quarantine j affairs and united nations prob- gjjw jrneymen and dr dymond discussed the ems new demerit system which goes describing in realistic terms into effect in ontario in febru- the probable devastating con- arv 1959 we cannot legislate sequences of nuclear war he uj dear mabaij would dase urji at ill jjwfeofpelyes bearing others burdens at the turn of the century a lad named james mccord living in illinois decided he would like to be a doctor prefer ably in africa his father was a hardup minister with just enough income to meet the family needs and hardly that jim spent much of his time working on his grandfathers farm and one day in the hayloft he tried to figure out how he could possibly get the required education it seemed hopeless there was no money at home and he couldnt see the way clear to earn much and he almost gave up writing of the experience later in life he said i decided to put my dreams away in mothballs actually he succeeded in getting the necessary education and sailed for africa in 1899 to begin a medical career of extraordinary usefulness he built clinics and dispensaries established a school for training native nurses and a college for training zulu doctors later he built the now famous mccord zulu hospital in durban all this is told in a fascinating book entitled my patients were zulus the chapters which make up this book were written for a chain of newspapers with the intention of encouraging those who have had to meet frustration and disappointment and have put their dreams in mothballs not always has their patience and endurance been rewarded as was the case with james mccord if there is any healing in these pages i shall be grateful pood into the people he said nor can we legislate good driv ing into them accidents are like a disease that is whv we are putting the demerit system into effect to help quarantine accidents clean record he termed inaccurate an ar- te in the docemher issue of liberty magazine discussing the eneicsinthefield put the first aim of tiie unite nations the preventing of such a disaster the speaker did not minimize the weakness of the united nat ions and the difficult problems it faced in reconciling political national and racial tensions mr mowat also dealt with the pos so apprentices there is still a fair amount of work for them although den mark prides itself on beim one of tne most mo ern countries when it cpmss to haatiflg housts and apaumem buildings danes have to import their coal mainly from britain and this comparatively costly fuel is therefore never used in the home what coal is imported is used by the gasworks from for parents only christmas everywhere by nancy cleaver dom system everyone will start with a clean sheet when the system begins they will not be given 12 points to beiin with as the article states but will have a clean record the transport minister ex- nlained that a driver is permit ted to have 12 points against his driving record before his licence is suspended a desig nated number of points are j iuwti rtimi ucaii wuo me pus- i itive work and achievements of yl h the various united nations ag- s of food health educational and techni cal assistance which to sioke the stoves of their central heating plants and coke is giving way to oil here are also districtheating a plea was made for a wider f ijlb g m public interest in the unite a in western europe nations ellyinou s jfe zzj 1 the meeting concluded with a question period in which the pressing issue of the entry of red china into the united nations was discussed a tape recording of mr mow- charged against the driving roc- a avai fil inte ord of each pejson who commits e spcakei on united an offence when these total i nations affair philips brooks the beloved minister who wrote the words of the hymn o little town of bethlehem for his sunday school boys and girls as he re called his visit to christs birth place the year before also wrote a lovely poem called christ mas everywhere in the first verse he pictures how universal is this holy celebration christmas in lands of the fir- trees and pine christmas in lands of the palm- trees and vine christmas where snowpeaks stand solemn and white christmas where cornfields lie sunny and bright everywhere everywhere christmas tonight christmas is the time when memories of childhood come crowding to the minds of grown ups for the over a million im migrants who have come to our land since the second world war how rich and varied are these scenes every country has its own distinctive christmas celebrations and many new ca nadians will be homesick for their own country and the old ways among familiar faces over forty nationalities have come to canada the largest groups are british german italian dutch united states and polish in that order surely with the approach of another new year we old canadians can think of ways in the months that lie ahead to ex press our friendliness to the strangers within our gates then they will no longer feel like strangers but like friends in one northern ontario cen tre in a course for immigrant homemakers special attention was given to spices the women accustomed to european cook ing used more seasoning than the average canadian recipe calls for these new canadians were eager to discuss their cook christmas comes once more an italian sings oh night among the thousands a pole sings in a manger he is ly ing a frenchman sings bring a torch jeanette isabella or a ukrainian sings ring christ mas bells they are repeating the carols which belonged first of all to their own native lands many homemakers have been the persons license is sus pended for three months when the three month sus pension has ended the person starts with a fresh record once a driver is charged and points are added to his record he be gins a twoyear period if his total points reach 12 during this perod his licence is suspended if he is charged with a sec ond violation during the two- 1 ver year period these additional nnints are added to his record each time a driver is charged the points are added to his rec ord hence if a driver has three points on his record in march and in may another three points are charged against him he has a total of six two years after he was charged with his first violation the original three points charged are taken off his record the remaining- three are not removed until two years af ter they were added dr dymond predicted that by the end of 1959 all appointee driver examiners in the province would be out of business by then all persons applying for licenses will be given examina tions by specially trained em ployees new appointees there are presently 10 ex amination centres across the province now he said forty- seven percent of the people ap plying for licences are failing another reason for stiffening the laws is to make certain a person can read and understand are also avail able on application to dr under bill king city team others by hot water the heat is produced at thrc elec tric power stations and repre sents a great saving in fuel costs from these central plants heat is supplied to hospitals schools and factories in the thickly populated areas of the capital peat used in north jutland and in many farming districts of zealand the easternmost danish island on which copenhagen stands peat is still the main fuel a chimney sweep in denmark the precious noble metals are so defined because of their beau ty excellent physical properties and resistance to corrosion and can still earn good money espe- oxidation they are platinum dally as competition dwindles palladium rhodium ruthenium in his trade a top hat is not iridium osmium gold and sil- merely a colorful headdress or i the sweep it is a most useful item of equipment for genera- booming industrial sao pau- lins they have tucked their lo mushrooming at the rate of personal papers and small per- 35 new buildings a day now is sonal belongings into their tall challenging brazils largest city ats under which they wear a rio de janeiro home of 2050- tightfitting skullcap 000 people it hopes eventually and no other form of head- to surpass buenos aires busv gear they say is as effective as capital of argentina and south j the widebrimmed top hat in americas largest city keeping soot out of a chimney 1 sweeps eyes matamnsssi neighborly to new canadian women who have settled near the traffic signs them one scandinavian woman in answer to a question about admitted to her visitor the the legality of passing on the begin is hard for anyone mov- right hand side dr dymond ing into a new area the adjust- said the right hand passing leg- ment to new surroundings is islation was not doing what had difficult but this is especially true in moving from one coun try to another because the begin is hard by being hospitable at christ mas time we can make it eas ier our nation has been en been anticipated he said his department was going to take a long look at it it was not intended to allow a driver to pass on the shoulder this is a violation and could mean marks against a drivers aamajsaaamaaisf gil ga service now quoting low winter prices roxatone specialist free advice phone gormley 5449 9ltzjm riched by the music the art the record under the demerit sys- handicraft the ideas and meth ods in new industries of the newcomers to our shores our home life will be enriched too when we invite new canadians to be our guests this christmas yuletide cordial and widespread hos pitality will spread the christ mas spirit everywhere through out our dominion amonjf all our people in the country and in the city let us all do our part to bring christmas every where this yqletide copyrighted horse thing of the past in woods it appears only a matter of time before horses vanish com pletely from the pulpwond oper ations in northwestern ontario tern he pointed out the function of the trans port department is highway traffic safety the minister said fatalities are decreasing ac cidents are on the increase what we want is a decrease in accidents our purpose is to consolidate the numerous safe ty groups and to coordinate and organize their efforts dr dymond pointed out that although no unified power exist ed before his department was established these safety groups had done a most worthwhile and successful job the traffic death rate is down 108 from dec 1 1957 even if we maintain this record more than 1000 persons will die need lessly in 1958 he said remember driving is a priv- most pulp and paper com- iege not a right if it were a right we would have no author ity in making people take a est and obtain a licence he said a good thing panies operating in the region have drastically reduced the number of horses and now comes a report from the ont paper companys woodlands de wanted more cream shippers for best results ship your cream to stouffvfht creamery we pay two cents more per pound butterfat for cream delivered to the creamery to have our truck call phone 186w stouffville creamery co cold storage lockers for rent thbtaaaek3 partment at heron bay that this he said high school driver ed- year for the first time in itsjueation was a good thing ex- history there were no horses i amples of its success in the ing methods and compare their j used in its logging operations i united states indicate it is recipes with favorite canadian ones europeans have a real flair for original and tasty cooking we canadian women could de light our families if these new comers would share some of their baking secrets with us in return we could have them sample one of our popular dish- dobbin once an integral part good idea and it was sucress- jn the movement of the pulp- j wood harvest is today almost completely replaced by mechan- ical equipment the horse like the bucksaw is almost a thing of the past in the woods industry fully tried in kingston we need a way to finance a course of this nature before too long dr dymond said in answer to a question ask ing whether the government was considering making auto- mobile insurance compulsory a tibetan greets one of higher dr dymond said not at the position with protruding tongue moment the five dollar charge enjoyment of food and also and hissing intake of breath i levied against uninsured dnv- of singing belongs to every extended tongue shows respect ers is a step to mike the un- land in the carol services what sucking gasps indicate a desire satisfied judgment fund sup- a large number of songs come not to defile the air i plement itself from other lands once we had j more than 90 percent of the a latvian mother with her two cuba and israel have signed drivers have insurance he point- children as guests and they the first commercial trade agjed out i cant see any govern- could sing o christmas tree reement between the two coun- ment paying more in a compul- not only in the original german tries the pact running through ory insurance plan than is words o tanenbaum but al- 1959 contains the mostfavored paid through the unsatisfied so in latvian and russian nation clause with respect to j judgment fund if a swede sings the happy duties ard consular- taxes j drivers using the unsatisfied we build homes large and small and buildings of all kinds repairs and remodelling good materials and workmanship guaranteed our house designing service is at your disposal k w retz construction co stouffville ont phone stouff 195