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1 the stourtvilli twmjm twvjir- awt 5 tm jeditarial alter course t project is appreciated the stouflville lions club has added another gift to its lengthy list of park presentations in town with the installation of new swings in th playground fronting on westlawn crescent this project ordered paid fr jnd installed with little fanfare is only one of many lions club promo tions in stouffville hat too often are lafcen for granted this service organization is con tinually helping with donations of park equipment and the club should receive full credit for it3 interest in the welfare of district young people for this reason we feel that every gift should be suitably inscribed with the lions club nameplate so that everyone both young and old can know the source of i3 origin the park board although acting within the limits of a s3000 budget has been encouraged by this most recent lions gift and proposes to add a slide and a sand box to expand the present facilities one step further laying it on too thick most reasonable taxpayers will go along with a pay raise in line with the times but a one hundred per cent increase in an employees salary can not come close to being reasonable this is what the hike in pay for members of parliament will amount to if they carry through their inten tion to have their salary increase with a 56000 tax free portion this taxfree portion is the deepest cut of all a previous government hoisted this 52000 exemption on the public to establish a precedent and give themselves tinheard of tax prefer ence we know it costs more for a member to be in ottawa now and no one would quarrel with some reason able increase but to load it on in this fashion in the face of promises of help for the beleaguered taxpayer is going much too far the public has been thoroughly shocked that th members who just a few months ago were begging for their votes should now slap them in the face none of them appear interested in seeing that there is a law for all and not one law for one group and another for the rest preferential income tax is defin itely a sore point with everyone and one which as we can see few of the members wish to discuss wrecking yard problems pickering township council has backtracked on a previous decision to permit the establishment of a wrecking yard operation on a cone 2 site within the municipality we be lieve that the council members were pressured into an aboutface on the project when residents in the area expressed resentment over the move ave dont know how many times councils must get their fingers burned before they become wary of the com plications that are sure to arise 11 wasnt too many years ago that whitchurch twp council found itself in hot water on a similar mat ter they like pickering made a de cision one week and reversed it the next uxbridge township members have also been kicked in the pants by scrap pile promoters and within recent years have turned thumbs down on repeat requests as hard up for industrial assess ment as most municipalities are it is certainly no feather in their caps to admit a business that only tends to deteriorate all other lands that surround them the wouldbe owners may describe their project in all types of glowing terms but in our estima tion a wrecking yard will never be anything but a pile of junk and a yearround eyesore from every direc tion whats sauce for the goose the weekend folk festival near orillia attracted close lo 20000 young people to a public park ten miles north of the city a number of stouff ville and district persons attended this program they returned to town on sunday with tales of wideopen liquor consumption on the grounds the like of which they had never seen before they noted that there were no incidents of rowdyism among the visitors but expressed some surprise that police authorities made no ap parent attempt to curb the allnight drinking revelry one stouffville youth told the tribune that when he awakened in i he morning and stepped out of his tent the ground in the entire park benefits we have just spent a month and a half abroad where the benefits of walking are still very much realized whether if be in britain or on the continent hiking is a big thing to one who is more accustomed to riding than walking the casual directions often given to visitors by a britisher ran be quite a shocker its just down the road is quite likely to be anywhere from five blocks to five miles weekend hikes by classes of school children are very common we notice thai on this side of the water parents in a small com munity in pennsylvania who have been driving their children to school was literally covered with beer bottles we wonder how many arrests or liquor seizures were made few if any we suspect this episode brings another in cident to mind where district pro vincial police officers raided a picnic at one of the local lake resorts re cently and charged several new canadians with having liquor illegal ly in a public place the parties were brought before the court at newmar ket and fined 10 and costs we would like to know where a mans rights in regard to drinking privileges start and end we feel that our laws should be enforced but if not workable should be scrapped or re vised the orillia episode is an eye- opening example of blind folly of walking each day have had their cars ticketed by the parentsteachers association this organization has decided that youngsters should do more walking and are trying to convince doting parents of the fact certainly children need to do more walking but we shouldnt stop there a great many adults need the exercise and exhilaration of a lengthy stroll far more than the children who do get a certain amount of exercise at play walking is recognized as health ful it benefits the circulation and keeps one in trim it not only aids in body development but acts as a tran quilizer on the mind ho refunds requested if ever local patrons received their moneys worth of exciting en tertainment it was at the wrestling match in the stouffville arena on saturday night there are those who tend to poohpooh such shows and brand them as fake and folly but we would suggest that even the most lethargic fan would have been caught up in the thrills of saturdays ring spectacle close lo 1100 men women and children crowded into the arena and even the absence of the everpopular yukon eric failed to dampen the en thusiasm of the spectators for those who object to the brute force vulgarity of the heavy weights the exhibition of thrills and spills displayed by the midgets was more than worth the price of admis sion their antics had the fans in a continual uproar of laughter promoter tommy nelson will at tempt to arrange at least one mora professional wrestling card here be fore the ice moves in next month if another allslar cast can be scheduled comparable lo saturday evenings events a repeat sellout is assured mmyi the anne ross like many another stouffville resident there are times when 1 am most anxious to get some mail off to the city or farther afield in a great hurry and it lias been a real mystery to me just when the mail leaves our post office so i again like many other stouffville people t i have driven across to the richmond hill post office in the evening where 1 knew mail would be sorted and on its way dining the night mail is picked up at the richmond hill post office at 3 am and will he delivered in toronto in the morning i getting a little tired of driving so many miles to post a lastminute letter i decided to do a bit of sherlock holmes sleuthing and solve the mystery of the mails using great ingenuity and with more than a little fear and trepidation i craftily directed some leading questions lo our post master in a fine spirit of cooperation he suggested i investigate the northeast corner of the post office lor a revealing clue after a little concentrated effort there on the wall among notices and declarations i discovered the evidence i needed to solve the case a schedule of mail dispatch and arrival times and here my dear watsons are the purely elementary acts of my deductions mails for dispatch or peterborough close at 920 am for toronto close at 610 pnv for port perry close at 920 am saturday mail closes at 510 pm mails due lo arrive from toronto at 220 am from toronto at 1020 am from peterborough at 715 pm from port perry at 1020 pm now i cant honestly say i needed a magnifying glass to make this revealing discovery but 1 can honestly say that i could visit the post office twice a day every day for a year and never notice this important information unless of course i happened to be filling in time reading civil service job openings and requirements boning up on regulations governing use and misuse of her majestys mails and other similar data for light reading and so i would like lo make a suggestion and hope the proper authorities see fit to take i seriously to the benefit of all of us who are sometimes forgetful of facts and figures could we have the mail pickup and delivery schedule posted near the mail slots both inside and outside ihe building or perhaps painted on the post office doors both back and side as reminders to us of deadline times after all when the office is closed and the staff off duty information hanging in a corner on an inside wall is of no use to us whatsoever we can deduce from the printed schedule that any mail we wish to post during the evening will not leave our post office before 920 the next morning and if there is any urgency we will still have to drive some distance to be sure of quick transmission however with deadline times posted in a convenient location where they could be consulted at any hour we would be reminded to get our messages written prior io the last dispatch time kev robert h harper wltf trier umsekiocic t7lre brier limberlock three geese in a flock one flew east one flew west one flew over the cuckoos nest while ihe foregoing which we learned in childhood may not be aq accu rate pattern of the migration of birds the words do remind us of the line of wild geese winging just a thought those of us who consider our selves sucb outstanding judges of character might do well to keep score on the number of times we have been fooled by a first impression across the autumn twilight i con fess to a boyish delight of memo- ry as i recall the sight now sel- i dom known would you say the wild geese have the right to wing their way overhead undisturbed because their ancestors have done that from time immemorial certain ly not who has the right on the j continent of north america any way after the vikings had vis- i iled the northern part of the con- i tinent of north america and an italian sailing in spanish ships had discovered an outlying island of the new world this portion and that was taken in the name of some king as if the country in question were an unpopulated wilderness but you say there were people in this coudtry before the euro pean came did they have any rights well they were known as wards of the us government and shut within reservations often in arid barren regions of the west a situation that long en dured sjeseisfss3evc introducing the new standard typewriter built of swedish steel finest in tht world which guarantees long service life rolls on ball bearings lightweight carriage free of all bulky components glides on special ball hearings this is one reason why facit is so easy to type on beaitilul styling beautiful styling adds an inspiring touch it has a smooth finish of handsome facit grey combined with graphitegrey keys harmonizing with the colour scheme of every office quiet and clean facit rests steadily on a nonslip bottom plate of rubber which shuts out dust and absorbs noise no need for felt pads or other noise suppressors see his fine new machine in our window tribune office supplies phone b 102100 stouffvjlle sugar and spice bill smiley summerlime and the livin is eeeeeezy thats what tht man said in the song i beg to differ today a typical summer day at the smileys weve got a girl going to camp a boy going to the dogs a dog going to the vets a mother going around the bend and a father going to seed and the livin is anything but easy we have spent all our money except the last baby bonus and theres a month to be put in before we get the next paycheck kim is in the next room getting ready to go io camp to hear her talk in the preceding weeks her fortnight at camp is the only oasis in the bleak and dreary desert which comprises the life of a kid going into grade 8 her method of preparing for camp is a familiar one to many parents shes lying on her bed reading comic books six weeks ago our son was an earnest grade 1 1 student who practised the piano ihree hours a day beginning at 7 am did his homework received a nominal allowance went to bed at a icasonable hour and eschewed the company of females now he is an orangepiler in one of our mighty chain stores and as a re sult wealthy a devotee of the midnight dance and as lively as a log until noon time to go to work today is his day off and hes down at the beach giving the teenage tourist girls a treat or lies tearing around in some de linquents car or hes trying to drown himself on somebodys water skis out in the bay who knows his parents dont well be lucky if hes home in time to eat his usual eight pounds of supper before he casually mentions that hes off to the dance at the local sinpit as for our little black spaniel playboy hes more confusing than anybody recently tie lost an eye when he got smart with a tomcat he was at the vets for a couple of weeks while the da mage was lepaired now each time he gets out of the yard he vanishes smartly and no amount of whistling or bonewaving will recall him ten minutes later we get a call from the vet have you seen your dog lately no well hes back again he has fallen in love with either the vet or some dimpled lady dog who was in hospital with him because he goes hating off to the vets seven blocks away every time he gets loose and he gels loose much too often this week he fell franti cally in love with a vast tired nineyearold male boxer who was visiting with friends it was pitiful playboy did everything but sing indian love call to prove his passion the boxer was bored today the pup is sitting on his rump in the yard glaring with appalling ferocity about his domain while the black squh- els cats and butterflies secure in the knowledge that he could not lick a baby robin with both wings tied behind its back flirt about on the lawn just out of reach downstairs my wife is fussing and cussing over the ironing the sewing on of labels the searching for last years sleeping bag this is on the top level below that she is stewing over the visitors arriving tomor row ihe fact that we dont know what time kims boat leaves for camp and the realization that ihe new clothesline i installed at the cost of complete damnation of my soul swearing doesnt work worth a diddle there are several other levels deeper down within the last hour weve had at the garden gate several callers the first was a vast happy plastered commercial fisher man who wanted to know where the piano was it was his birth day and he caught a dozen jake trout t turned out that a lady a block away was advertising a baby grand for sale you figure out why a commercial fisherman diunk wanted to buy a baby grand another apparition wan a tourist woman her car had atop- ped just beside our garden she said iter daughter was a cyclin vomiter whatever that is and ihe kid had been in th hospital all day and it was so hot and her husband was at the cottage and she couldnt get the car started and whawhawha she star ted to bawl i fetched a mechanic and just 10 minutes ago i received a call from old blinker an old air force friend of mine who is a rimracked brass bound alcoholic said he was in elmburg real name elmvale only 38 miles away and thought he might as welt give me a hoot what else could i do i asked him tip for a couple ot day it was only afler t hung up and saw my wifes face that i re membered our former rector and his wife had been asked- to spend ihe identical pair of days with ns summertime and the livin is eeeeeczy teds scrapbook hair does nothing for people ted schrier to put it baldly 1 have no hair theres a monki halu that grows a milligram or two but the part has less coating than most peoples tongues i regard my condition as n triumph for evolution charles darwjn would say i had arrived as i understand it nature provided animals with hair to protect them against the elements but human animals can protect themselves hair is a nuisance it gets in your eyes when you swim and wind makes it quiver and dance the advanced members of the species need no hair reason for bragging this way is 1hat most people blush and squirm when they permit their eyes to dwell on my happy state the other evening a lavenderlype lady who takes my nightschool course observed pierre berton would look much better on television if he wore a hairpiece then she broke into gaggling sounds and waxed a delicate pink within seconds she felt the social need to assure me that i had a handsome head baldness suited me and j was indeed a good- looking guy i wouldnt repeat tier statements except i am under oath to speak the truth one day i was dallying with my coffee cup in a restaurant when a preschool child sauntered up to my table fixed his gaze on my dome and squealed look ma he has no hair the mother scrambled down the aisle seized her social delinquent by the wrist and wrenched him to his chair i assured the young matron that her child had done nothing more than make an accurate scientific observation and he did not deserve the opprobrium ot the entire cafe she blustered that she would smite her offspring when she got home what a pity even my barber blushes i know i need a haircut when my neck itches nothing is more unkempt than an uncut neck i now keep track of this need by going on paydays the ninth and the 24th my barber snips for three or four minutes massages my neck my concept of sheer luxury but refuse to accept payment i couldnt he says blushing i didnt do anything one of my journalism student observed if you would wear a wig youd look 25 who wants to look 25 except 21yearolds when i emerge from ihe swimming pool at the university other members of ihe graduate club search for combs one man said if yon dont mind communicating baceterla you ran have mine which sounded very erudite i thoughti not me i dont even smooth my hair with my hands the only place i regretted being bald was in southern california 1 had been basking in the sun for seven weeks and my head acquired the lustre of teak the night before my departure the apex of my head began to itch in satisfying the itch six square inches of suntan peeled off and i returned o canada a blushing pink hair dors nothing for people and is a nuisance i pity men who aic on the lower scale of evolution t