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tw 7 the sto0ffv1ui twjunl vatitr wwury che iimffuili fribune cstablxshtd 1ui a- v nolan son publish member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association authorized u seco4eljj mall pextofflr oept- otuwi member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 5350 elsewhere 450 c h houn publish ms thomas ft our editorial comment improper representation the ajax town council is pres ently objecting to a oneman repre sentation on the metro planning board who is obliged to serve two other neighboring municipalities pickering village and pickering township the ajax members insist that each village town or township should have its own individual ap pointee on the board the village of stouffville is linked up with markham township markham village and richmond hill in a similar arrangement mr cy laurin a markham ttcp resident represents the four municipalities i fee that this system is most unfair both for the representative and the districts he must serve rich mond hill has little in common with markham township similarly ajax differs widely from pickering town ship some areas are almost totally urban while others are industrial or agricultural no one can can do the work that should be handled by three or four someone is bound to suffer under such a scheme we have been fortunate there have been few towns in the entire province that have not been scarred by at least one serious main street fire bradford is one of the most recent to feel the effects of such an inferno aurora thornhill new market and sunderland have all suffered a similar fate in certain areas it has been a blessing in dis guise old rundown frame struc tures have been replaced by more modern uptodate business places according to longtime residents of stouffville our town has to date escaped such outbreaks there have been serious fires here true but no complete business blocks have been wiped out as has occurred in muni cipalities of similar size all around us i believe there are three main reasons for our fortunate position in this regard stouffvilles north side business blocks comprise a compact section of commercial units the south side although partially cut up is also quite solid the majority of stores are of fire proof material they are split up with few frame dwellings i believe that the days are numbered for ones now there in addition we have a centrally located fire hall and an excellent group of brigade volun teers to date all these things have added up to an almost firefree town we should not however become too complacent one small spark could touch off a tragedy one look at a gutted bradford block and the ser iousness of such a catastrophe hits home a catcatcher dr mcbean of the ontario coun ty health unit has recommended that municipal councils should give 6erious consideration to the impound ing of all stray cats in their respec tive villages town and townships he warned that the everpresent danger of rabies justified such action he declined however to inform the members on what procedure they should take to corral the elusive fe- lines the suggestion was regarded in a rather humorous vein by members of council in pickering township and perhaps rightly so their oneman dogcatcher is currently attempting to keep the canine population under control in both pickering village and the township in spite of his efforts complaints are still prevalent es pecially in builtup residential dis tricts to add a catcatching job to holding the line only a f it would appear from all hews reports and in attending the meetings of local boards of various municipal departments that the governments idea to hold the line against infla tion is little more than a fairy tale the rule of supply and demand is still the law which tells the tale and this can be seen on every hand whether it be in the laboring or pro fessional class during last week it is noted in the news columns that reeve clark of markham township had his salary boosted a thousand dollars the war den of york county was given a 52000 increase and members of coun cil 4 a day more school teachers again this year will demand skyrocketing figures school boards have long since lost all faith in the statements of educa- his already overloaded schedule ap pears somewhat ridiculous even in a confined area such as stouffville the matter of roving dogs presents a problem the police chief is continually picking up the strays and issuing drastic warnings to own ers with the approach of milder spring weather both the dogs and the complaints will show a marked in crease it is unlikely that the chief would welcome any suggestion that stray cats should be added to his pick up duties that in a nutshell is the suggestion of the ontario county health unit it is true that the rabies epidem ic constitutes a health menace it is true that cats as well as dogs could be affected the general public must be educated on the necessity of anti- rabies vaccine for their pets i be lieve this is the only solution to the problem against inflation airy tale tion minister dunlop as to the teacher supply who he is trying to fool with his nonsensical statements of no teacher shortage we have never figured out local officials were recently given a new round of increases and busi ness is being forced into higher wage brackets on every hand in whitchurch township about two dozen men on a winter work pro gram receive 1 an hour these men are forced to hold the line because their numbers exceed the demand manufacturers are finding door after door closed in foreign markets as the price of canadian goods con tinues to mount to a point where out siders cannot buy what does the future hold we cant begin to guess but the pic ture is not a rosy one for parents only u n charter of human rights by nancy cleaver james russell lowell in the present crisis wrote they have rights who dare maintain them and ten years ago the delegates to the united nations dared to adopt the universal declaration of human rights dec 10th 1948 this was mark ed by fitting observances all across canada discussion of a bill of rights for canadians has focused at tention on the charter of hu man rights approved by the united nations this is not a legal document it expresses the worlds collective conscience on the relationships which should exist between individuals and groups here is a measuring lod by which actions may be judged discrimination of any person because of his race color set language religion political opinion national or social or igin property birth or other status is condemned so is slav erv torture arbitrary arrest and exile many of the article deal with the rights of every onethe right to life liberty and security of person the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law the right to travel to marry and found a family the right to own prop erty to free choice of work to education only one article 29 deals not with rights but with duties it states everyone has duties to the community to which alone the free and full develop ment of his personality is pos sible the many rights try to define ano make clear how a free man or woman should be able to live the charter inter prets the four great freedoms freedom from fear from want freedom to worship and free dom of speech and the press when father and mothers at tended school they learned about the magna charta to days boys and girls should also be familiar with this most re cent of international documents on freedom the declaration ol human rights in our homes school children must be encour aged to take an interest in the world in which they live every canadian should know just what this charter contains par ents should not leave it to school teachers to comment on the importance of this docu ment adopted by the united na tions general assembly in 1948 copies may be obtained from the united nations association in canada during the last decade a num ber of clubs and groups in youth model united nations gatherings have studied this document from time to time reference to it is made in the press and on the radio one womens group assigned the 30 articles of the charter to differ ent members to read aloud and comment on briefly the dis cussion which followed was a lively one this blueprint could be used by any club featuring a public affairs night and lib rarians at our public libraries would be glad to assist in the search for interesting material there is value in thinking of terms of all human beings who are or should be as article one points out motivated by reason and conscience to act in a brotherly way unfortun ately sometimes the zealous promoters of human rights for get the last phrase in a bro therly way confucius said laff of the week look me to the eje ud tell mc what 7a 414 wui m turtle lwerrromelyes sunday afternoon god in the garden how many books have you in your library kven private libraries will sometimes have as many as 25000 volumes and even more on the other hand famous great men have not always been great readers and one of these was the great nature poet william wordsworth he loved the out of doors birds flowers streams hills and all the glorious landscape of the countryside for the greater part of his life wordsworth was a bachelor and lived with his sister at dove cottage in the lake district of england one day a visitor called at the cottage and asked to see him is mr wordsworth in his library he asked to which the poets sister replied yes my brother is in his library but it is all out of doors wordsworths library was a freshair one he saw in nature the writing of god and everything there deeply moved him he once wrote my heart leaps up when i behold the rainbow in the sky so was it when i was a boy so is it now i am a man so be it when i shall grow old or let me die one night wordsworth had been to a party and he was walking home over the lonely moors it was very late or shall we say very early for he saw a glorious sunrise from that moment he consecrated his life to god and began to write of the beauties of nature he never possessed more than two hundred books in his life not that he despised books but because he read in nature what others failed to sec he believed that beauty is the autograph of god written clear and broad on all his works he used to say that god loved beautiful things because he designed the glorious plumage of the peacock the faultless grace of the swan the jewelled beauty of the king fisher and the rainbow painted on the cloud some think that wordsworth was the greatest poet of nature that ever lived that is making a great claim but certain it is that he saw beauty everywhere here are a few of his sayings worth committing to memory the daisy by the shadow that it casts protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears echoes and waterfalls and pointed craggs that into music touch the passing winds the light that never was on sea or land the consecration and the poets dream many a man or woman has found enduring peace and a sense of quiet exultation who could not find it elsewhere and the ministry of the garden is not confined to trees and flowers we read of one man who walked in his garden in depression everything had gone wrong with him and he was fn despair he walked in his garden and saw a birds nest scatter ed over the ground he thought of all the loving care the bird had put into the building of the rest and of how discouraged it must be then he looked up into the tree and saw that the bird was building a new nest that sight shook the man out of his selfpity and he refused to give in whether it be from growing things as moss or from little birds we should welcome anything which makes us realize this is my fathers world and to my listening ears all nature sings and round me rings the music of the spheres our quotation is by r p downes beauty is the autograph of god from our early files 1934 the department of education decided to assess the taxes ofl the townships in the county according to the number of stu dents attending the city colleg- lates from each individual town ship i it appeared that after the county had paid the bulk sum they taxed the townships on an equal basis regardless of the number of students attending the collegiates from each town- ship this was considered to have resulted in an unfairness to in 500 bc s z hal dj nui qua hsondi ye within the i seas all men are brothers in matthews gospel jesus gave the fundamental reason for bro therhood one is your father and all ye are hroihrcn the ideals behind each article are essentially christian though men and women of other faiths contributed to this writing one commentator has dared to cnll this charter the greatest event in human history since the birth of christ another has named it after the beatitudes as the finest statement of the good life copyright the smaller municipalities who were not sending any students why should they prfy the taxes for benefits derived by the other townships therefore some townships reaped the benefit of this new law and others were not so fortunate as they had been in the past but it was agreed that there would be no ground for any further complaints from anyone as the townships that paid more taxes for a large number of collegiate students would ultimately derive other certain advantages over 500 members of the mus sulmans lake ratepayers asso ciation assembled in the mason ic hall toronto for an evening of entertainment organized by he associations committee the members enjoyed euchre lunch and dancing to the music of geo smith and his serenad- ers from cedar beach mr t b rae of stouffville was appointed as pickering tw p auditor tn be called stainless a steel must contain at least 11 i percent chromium the addition of a minimum of 8 percent nick el improves the resistance of stainless steels to corrosion and increases their strength ana loughneu weekly newspapers convention theme is to sell better now weekly newspapers facing the most crucial period of test they have ever experienced are being revitalized by the strong competition they face barry wenger 1958 president of the ontario weekly newspapers i association told the annual convention at torontos royal york hotel mr wenger who publishes the wingham advance said i that despite the strong competi- tion of other mass communica- i tion weekly papers will not disappear with the application of in telligence and imagination on the part of management the i rural weekly is still and will i continue to be the one medium i in our land which is thoroughly digested in every detail he said in his annual report and i most certainly the weekly news- i paper is the only publication of any kind into which the char- acler reputation and truthful- ness of the publisher is project ed in a personal neighbour-to- neighbour fashion maintaining that no daily newspaper no magazine radio or tv station is read or listened to with the faith and credence to which the majority of weekly newspapers are accustomed mr wenger stated our jour nals have tremendous influence on the course of history in this province no small responsibil ity for an editor io face werden leavens secretary- manager of the association and publisher of the bolton enter prise said that weekly publish ers should not forget that all national advertising is local ad vertising if their local dealer must get the copy for them it is friends up and down main street who tell the boys downtown to put it in the local weeklies mr leavens said his remarks reflected the con vention theme displayed behind speakers in the business ses sions wed better sell better now an address by jack baldwin of the photo advertising depart ment of the fairchild instru ment and camera co new york city followed the reports of mr wenger and mr leavens at the friday awards lun cheon sponsored by the natural gas companies of ontario oa- kah l jones vicepresident and general manager the consum ers gas co assured members that the expense of doing work in the natural gas industry is never a factor where the public interest is concerned i dont want to go into a long essay on natural gas safe ty but we in the natural gas business cant help getting wound up when we think of the recent flurry of unjustified allegations concerning the safe ty of natural gas distribution systems and appliances as far as safety is concerned he said the entire industry will welcome any legislation or am ended legislation that will im prove on an already high stand ard of safely regulations a great resurgence of human spirit manifesting itself in an awakening of creative talent in the fields of the lively arts in canada today is evident in the ontario weekly newspapers competitions a m pratt direc tor of curriculum for the dept of education manitoba said in adjudicating 1958 entries for the better newspaper contests one of the features was the undoubted excellence of photog raphy and engraving in many of the entries he remarked an other feature i especially com mend to the attention of all edi tors and publishers regardless of financial resources is the en couragement of local contribu tors particularly those whose efforts fall into the kind of writ ing known as creative the weekly newspaper can play a very important part in the field of creative writing by encouraging local writers how ever youthful to submit their work for publication in its pages winner of the joseph t clarke trophy for newspapers under 1500 in the general excellence contest was he winchester press representing eastern on tario the rodney mercury from the western area of the province was second and the gore bay dispatch manitoulin island was third the albert v nolan trophy for centres of 1500 to 4500 popu lation was won by the port el gin times whose publisher is a former toronto advertising agency executive kenneth pet tis the stouffville tribune was second and the strathroy age- dispatch third in competition for the aurora banner trophy for towns of 4500 and over the canadian statesman of bowmanville was first the midland free press i herald second and leamington post third the e t stephenson trophy for best front page was won by the leamington post with the canadian statesman second and the oakvllle journal third anne bonn of toronto was presented with the s125 owna bursary for her thesis on the listowel banner she wrote the thesis last summer during her vacation from ryeison institute where she is a student in jour nalism edward j mannion director j of advertising for the thomson newspapers spoke on the sub- ject of retail advertising i canadian pacific railway offi cials arranged an extensive tour of the new royal york addition a 400room addition that again makes the hotel largest hotel in the commonwealth the alberta room there is a special convention room for each of the ten provinces is panell ed with leather bearing the brand of 342 alberta ranches the canadian room largest room of its kind in canada has 15 000 square feet of floor space will accommodate 1550 for ban- quets and has a dramatic ilium- inated projection map of can- ada 47 feet long by 15 feet high on ore wall and a massive coatofarms of canada on thel opposite wall the ontario room has a urge mural in oils entitled the to ronto purchase other pictures constructed of inlaid fruitwood recall provincial history at the annual convention din ner friday evening with the on tario government as hosts hon fred m cass qc minister of highways said that weekly newspapers are a fund of infor- matlon for his department and other departments in the pro- j vincial government the record breaking highways program for the past five years has been fully in pace with ru- i ral road building and improve- i ment as well as mator projects like the burlington skyway he said about 60 percent of capital expenditure is devoted to im provement and extension of reg- ular roads apart from arteries like highway 400 mr cass ex plained philip laforce of the gibson indian reserve near bala mus- koka was presented with the country correspondent of the year award mr laforce vir tually a fullblooded iroquois indian won the award for his outstanding work each week in the bracebrldge heraldgazette h e became correspondent when his brother the reserve scribe died in 1951 edwin a chick spence i publisher of the strathroy ad vance was named mr week ly newspaperman of the year at the dinner mr spence who began his career as a newsman with the london free press has owned the advance since 1935 before that he served in nearly every type of editorial post both as an active reporter and on the desk he served in both world war i and world war h convention delegates were guests of the canadian bank ers association at a wakeup breakfast saturday imperial oil limited played host at the new officers luncheon when gregory clark well known ca nadian feature writer spoke new officers are president george ellis goderich signet star 1st vicepresident eu- gene a macdonald alexandria- glengarry news 2nd vicepre sident herbert c campbell dutton advance secretary manager werden leavens bol ton enterprise past president birry wenger wingham ad vance the following directors were elected bert smith port credit weekly lyn lashbrook rod- nev mercury c manore mea- ford express david dills ac ton free press d m mcquaig renfrew advance john james bowmanville statesman john morris prcscott journal editors mail the tribune stouffville ont dear sir in renewing my subscription to the tribune 1 am reminded of the time when i served as a correspondent to your paper over sixty years ago for the communities of baker hill and bloomlngton i lived on the farm at the time i have always been a regular subscriber i bel ieve that the late wj malloy was the manager and editor at that time and for some years later mr malloy was a very highly respected stouffville cit izen there have been many re markable changes in stouffville since that time to the tribune and the citizens of stouffville i would extend the very best wishes for 1959 yours very truly ira d ramer 33 rosevlew ave richmond hill painting and decorating have your decorating done now cheap winter rates painting paperhanging book now for spring exterior painting call r elms phone gormley 5310 or markham 607 how can life insurance help me 0 by helping you provide for full happy retirement years by providing an income for a dependent in the event of your death by taking care of your last illness and burial expenses by providing a cash value against which you can borrow in an emergency these and many other advantages are yours when yon become a sun life policyholder why not call me today jim abell telephone 237 stouffville sun life assurance company of canada we build homes large and small and buildings of all kinds 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