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ttft 1 th stouffyilu tmmmt twtfcy apnl 30 m editorial too lenient with criminal offenders one operation where anything left inside is welcome we have advocated for a long time that crime will continue and will accelerate just so long as such lenient sentences are handed down we are thinking most particularly of those people who endanger lives and property on the highways the len ient and infrequent use of the lash has also been a real boon to other types of hoodlums who mistreat pri vate citizens one of the objections which has been voiced concerning any possible union of canada and the united states has been the type of law en forcement prevalent across the line while we in canada are a little less tied up in red tape when it comes to handing out justice britain is even better you may have noted recently the handling of the sentencing of some dozen persons involved in the great seven million dollar train rob bery last august it looked for some time as if they had made good their escape however patient methodical work by scotland yard apparently rounded them up along with much of the loot and what about the sen tences thirty years for the top men in the gang and 25 years for most of the others there were no punches pulled by the judge on this case scotland yard likely has the same troubles as our own police but once the guilt is established there are few technicalities and little to keep the criminal from receiving his just dessert too confused to consider last week councillor hubert wank of the twp of pickering sug gested that serious consideration should be given to a plan whereby a new municipal building would be erected under the federal govern ments centennial aid program under ordinary circumstances we feel that the proposal would be an excellent idea but with a division dilemma still hanging fire it would appear to be an untimely shot in the dark we are not debating the fact that the present brougham quarters are both overcrowded and outdated but we are saying that until the future status of the municipality is more definitely defined the project should be held up what lies ahead for bay ridges will urban pickering be separated from the rural will west rouge become part of metro these and many more major questions are still up in the air but yet very real one must not forget that any centennial construction scheme will be for the whole of pickering with the whole of pickering paying its equal share how a council can final ize such a program with the present- day situation so unsettled is difficult to understand must be reasonable the council of the twp of whit church has agreed to entertain the complaints of the newlyorganized musselmans lake ratepayers asso ciation at a public meeting to be arranged some time in may we feel that this is an excellent idea and one that has achieved good results in other municipalities with similar zon ing problems in spite of the allegations level led at the council by some association members we are still convinced that the township is acting in good faith with the overall interests of the want cooperation we have once more arrived at that time of year when the nuisance of dogs running at large becomes a real problem council members who are continually barraged with com plaints from gardenlovers are ap pealing to pel owners to keep their canines on their own property stouffville has an antidog bylaw which forbids dogs running at large any time but when spring arrives the lake people in mind it is possible that some of the proposed require ments in the bylaw are too strict and should be watered down but these are not insurmountable obstacles that cannot be remedied we feel that zoning in the mus selmans lake area is long overdue and it is perhaps regrettable that the move was not made many years ago no matter what allowances are ap proved by either the council or the ontario municipal board someone is bound to get hurt but for the major ity it will be for the best on dog nuisance problem becomes acute the majority of people like dogs but this fondness can quickly disappear when they see them romping over their young plants and around young trees the dogcatcher visits the town once each week but his visits wilt become much more frequent particu larly if householders fail to comply with the law a number have paid fines and other perpetual violators are in line for the same treatment grass fire time is here agai every year for as longas we can remember warnings are issued against the setting out of grass fires in some townships nearby there are bylaws forbidding the setting of such fires on penalty of fine already the stouffville fire brigade has been called out to quell a number of such fires in the last few weeks in the case of communities such as ours it means that men must take mme off from their work to ex tinguish the blaze this is in itself a great imposition to say nothing of the possible danger and expense firefighting is not a nice busi ness at best and when the senseless ness of grass fires is added it be comes even more distasteful our local volunteers should not have to lose time at their jobs and risk their lives through the thoughtlessness of these firesetting citizens even grass fires are costly and should be kept to a minimum most of them can be prevented by using a little care and common sense report from parliament bv michael starr mp during the past week bill c- 72 which would establish a new method for readjusting the boundaries of federal elec toral districts based on the cen sus taken in 1961 has been de bated the bill would set up more independent procedures for ad justing federal hidings in line with population shifts recorded by the census in the past redistribution of seats has been handled every ten years by a house of com mons committee and the var iation in constituency popula tions was unlimited when this bill becomes law the responsibility for the read justment of electoral boundar ies will be transferred from parliament to commissions in each of the ten provinces a li mit will be placed on the var iations which can occur as be tween electoral districts the commissions are requir ed by legislation to match as nearly as possible the popula tion of each of the electoral dis tricts to the electoral quota for each province and in no case is the population of an electoral district to depart from the elec toral quota to a greater extent than 20 percent more or less the electoral quota for a pro vince is determined by dividing the number of federal seats in a province into the provincial population the argument in the house is that the tolerance of 20 percent should be increased to 33 and onethird percent the whole purpose of the bill is to remove the task of redis tribution of federal ridings from the political arena the other objective is to ach ieve as nearly as possible repre sentation by population through canada the composition of the com missions shall consist of the federallyappointed represen tative commissioner a chair man who would be a superior court judge appointed by the chief justice of the province and one member appointed by continued on page 4 tehp tuuffmllc lulnuie established ims member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association asumhm4 m c bafl teauev 0pl otuw member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere 450 c it nolan rnbllsker jas tikuias miter jas mckean advertising alf by tim wees the following descriptive es say deals with two days in the life of the late alf fockler former resident of ringwood and a wellknown visitor town the article written by tim wees kr 3 stoultville is so well composed that the trib une is pleased to print it un altered it will capture the imag ination of all readers vho had even the remostcst acquaintance with the deceased alf reached inside his coats he wore four of them and scratched at an itch he was hot now in the summer though lie didnt care he was an old man but he didnt caie about that either all lie wanted was his old age pension any handout cloth ing and the franchise on all dis- caided pop bottles in the town he was the man among the may who was contended to watch and wait while the noise carried on around him anywhere where there were people there was alf at the lake on a sunday afternoon when the gaiety of swimmeis arrived from toronto in town on a friday night and saturday when the teacheis and faimeis and all the other folk came in to shop or anywheie between ringwood stouffville and the lake at any time of the day or night he was there always as part of the scenery and thats the way he wanted it not to be a sore thumb but just to be alf leached into the lions club litter can to extract a bottle for his collection he picked it out gave it the usual couiteous shine and walked slowly to the tobacconists across the street to dispose of the ten or fifteen bot tles he had found in the course of the day next he spent his profits on a hamburger with a small glass of milk at harolds grill his work done and his supper over he staited on his friday night inspection of the town to make sine that eveiy- thing was there and that all was well music by ray connif was playing fio ross smiths loud- playing from ross smiths loud- waim comforting smells from the bakery had softly settled on main street like a fog patricks new blinking advertisement was still working though a trifle slowly and the new policeman on the corner had come to much the same conclusion as alf that all was well alf then decided io go for a walk down through the park he stood for a while at the corner of church st and main looking back along the road and watch ing the cars with their various occupants go past everybody was going somewhere to do something while he alf was happily watching them go about their business minding his own and living out the rest of his days just as alf in the activity around turning down church st he saw the baseball game going on in the park stouffville was playing against claremont and seemed to be do ing all right alf stood there for a long time and watched as the game went on he didnt stay until the end he wandered on down to the pool he stood outside and watched as the younger set of the town frolicked and playfully pushed in their friends and cannonballed the life guards a little smile found itself in the corner of his mouth as alf watced the irrita tion of the girl sitting in the chair supervising the diving board two or three of her most ardent admirers were trying their best to and some response in her aloof character and were doing it the fastest way they knew how getting her quite angry the pool was the community centre of stouffville for all the restless children in town and for any teenager who wanted to and out what was new in the way of the opposite sex any older peo ple who came down did so to relax and get some exercise in the fashion that the pool was meant for suyar spiev by bill smiley it would be heavenly what would you like to find most when you go to heaven lets assume for one wild exhilarated moment that were all going to get there some people would plump for a meeting with loved ones this i can never understand its like a fellow who has seived a life sentence waiting to be greeted by the warden when he hits the pearly gates others sad souls would be overjoyed if they could just be happy not me being happy all the time would be a real diag i thoroughly enjoy being miserable on this orb so that when something good happens my pleasiue is intensified quite a few who suffer fiom physical ailments would be satisfied with peace and comfort the insomniac imagines days and nights of solid slumber the arthritic dreams of being able to sciatch his opposite ear without feeling as though his arm was being severed at the shoulder by a iedhot iron flatchested girls would settle for a mammoth bosom they forget that none of the rest of us would be interested some chaps i know would be perfectly happy to leave any time if they could count on a golf course with emerald fail ways and velvet gieens 18 holes a day in which they sliced not nor did they hook and a good game of poker at the 19th with the bar handy many sober citizens i know would be happy in heaven for ever afterwards if they could be guaranteed and get it in writing that their wives or husbands would be in the other place permanently alcoholics would not only be in heaven but the seventh of the same name if their crock ranneth over perpetually and homebody else was looking after things a few millionaires once they had admitted they couldnt take it with them would be serene in a place where there were no taxes no labor movements no wages to pay and nobody asking them to donate to something every 12 minutes my peisonal fantasy is a simple one id go like a shot if someone would promise me unconditionally a dark swirling trout stream impregnable to invasion by women telephones and other nuisances i can see it now swift deep crooked ending in a vast silent mysterious beaver pond loaded with lunkers i can hear it he exciting mutter of a small dam just around the bend the splosh of a startled frog the sudden heartstopping takeoff of a disturbed partridge the whack of a beaver tail however since my chances of getting to heaven are just about as slim as my chances of a personal trout stream if i did there i guess ill settle on opening day for my old haunt the secret place whercjhe big ones are not a soul knows about it except me and the 900 noisy characteis who have heard about it since last year heaven thou art distant yet i would work like heck to get there if thou could condone a stream for me and me alone alf sat on the park bench out side the pool for about an hour watching all the youthful capers going on inside and then he wearily got up and walked through the back streets into uie main part of town he came out onto the main street beside the iga store and headed lowards the tracks the coin launary was going full swing and so alf dropped in not to say anything but just to check up on this innovation to his town his town when h used to be young had its wash ing done by the nousewives at home and not by a machine that charged twentynve cents but stouffville was not all farmers now the city folk were moving in and city ideas were coming with them he was happy continuing west he passed bv a few other shops and houses crossed the tracks and stepped into the back of hals where the pool hall was only one table was in use so alf propped him self up against another took out his tobaco and pipe from one of th pockets of one of his coats and watched the boys were playing billi ards and all the red balls were off the table the game was in earnest now as tne individual colours were being swept away one by one balls were bounced kissed curved shot with stuff on the side and sunk the game went on and the points were raised until finally the last ball was sunk and the game was over as the table was being set tip for another round the town fire siren called through the evening and everybody cleared out to sec what was up they left alf there alone and so he relit his pipe and walked out onto the street after the excitement alf took one more mrn around the park and came back to the rail way station to settle down for the night he dropped off to sleep he slept on the station bench without turning until morning the day broke from the clear sky and the fresh air alf could see that this was going to be a hot one it was alf got up off the bench and walked away from the station into the town again he stopped at harolds and had a small breakfast and then began to carry on with the days business actually saturday was more or less a holiday for alf al though he made his usual rounds he treated the day in the fashion that most people he saw did and windowshopped he stayed in town for most of the morning and then started walking up the ninth towards the lake he had to walk about half the long way before some one stopped in answer to his cramped thumb he was let off a mile or so south of the lake and started a slow dusty walk alf walked on stopped for a glass of water at a restaurant on the south shore and kept on walking to the cast side of the lake he was tired but he kept go ing more out of habit than any thing else finally he came to shalimar beach and went over to a bench and sat down he sat there in the sun he watched the city people and the few local types enjoying themselves he remembered the heat grew the people played he felt dizzy the noise grew louder he felt a pain in his chest and fell over in the sand people came running up from the water and down from the restaurant to the people from the city this was another old man but to the people from roamin around signs posted on the mansion house premises near the cnr crossing on main street indicates that this property has been sold shea realtors are m charge of the transaction how lon can pickering twp reeve clifford laycox continue to put in so many daytime hours at the brougham offices without added remuneration for his services we hax not read where his annual stipend has been increased and jet it would appear that he has become almost a fulltime employe of the municipaltiy he would be wise not to carry the free- gratis program too far as its often not appreciated and cer tainly not expected a tragedy could occur on the premises of the former mertens property in the westend of town if the wells near the house are not soon covered or filled in although it is private property children frequent the area continually and some child could become trapped and drown york countys modern day robin hoods will take to tha hills near ballantrae next sunday to open their archery season there are few if any members from this area in the organiza tion with the majoriy coining front the auroranewmarket district the group is a friendly one and visitors are made most welcome mr and mrs berta operators of the victoria square restaurant were put to a good deal of trobule last week follow ing the junior hockey game in the arena some party tele phoned asking the owners to remain open after the midnight hour and prepare for an estimated 15 visitors the request was okayed but no one appeared not a very smart trick the trout season legally opens at 1201 am on friday morning may 1st a word of warning dont ret caught with your lines down before that time or the fish could come pretty expensive the may queen season will soon be upon us not that were complaining mind you the markham high school will pick their spring beauty this friday night while stouffvilla high will follow with their main attraction on may sth these social outings are not confined to students only and adults are made most welcome the organizers promise to take it easy on the twist music out of respect for their ciders ixcal girl makes good this slogan can rightly be attributed to dr helen aliell whoe prominence is gaining worldwide recognition she is the daughter of mr and mrs j l abell albert st x a professor of sociology in guelph she plans to attend a world conference in france this summer and later this fall may depart for a years stay in ghana to conduct a survey of farm and educational programs in that country if residents of brougham were looking out of their living room windows on monday evening of last week they must surely have thought that the factions asking for a split in the township had leached the stage of civil war it was hardly that however but only a shift in meeting places from the crowded confines of the municipal chambers to the more spacious accommodation of the township hall in spite of some opposi tion to the move we understand that business was carried on as usual with reeve laycox incomplete command all the way ryfe brothers at the kasl end grocery have their own personal beatle dont stampede girls its not ringo georg or anyone ot the mophaired foursome from over onie its a small lsctta automobile that will provide personal delivery service right to your kitchen cupboard if you wish local lawyer david coon is continually keeping the stouff ville nameplate before the eyes of the general public his rola as head of a committee on questionable literature as appointed by the attorneygenerals department must in itself keep him busy his acting ability won him such praise at a lecent festival in newmarket and he still finds time to serve on the town public school board and then ot course he retains regular office hours as a solicitor some of us think were busy park caretaker henry slack isnt permitting the grass to grow under his feet iast week he erected the playground equipment in both sections ot town in the westend parketle the area was a hive of activity on the weekend with the swings and slide in use almost continually it would appear that a motelrestaurant is in the making at dicksons hill the large sign erected last week would indi cate such a plan it is nice to see this structure completed after a long delay but we personally can see little need for a motel premises in that aiea a good restaurant if well run could pay its way but overnight lodging 25 miles from toronto we cant see it we could be wrong however and for the owners sake we hope we are in spite of the publicity concerning the switch to day lightsaving time on the weekend some people just plain forgot we know ot one local family who arrived at church on sunday morning in time to shake the pastors hand as other members of the congregation were coming out theres more to hockey than just scoiing goals at least this is true among the wee tykes of atom class the most amusing incident of the entire season occurred during a scheduled game on a monday night last winter one lad so absorbed in the progress of the puck failed to observe that his pants were slowly but surely descending iceward before his coach could come to the rescue his hockey drawers were entwined around his ankles regardless ot this obvious handicap he kept right on going tireless and pantslcss he was finally whisked off to the more private confines of the bench where the necessary re adjustments were made in time for the ne shift by the way anne ross results of easter high school exams are now out glad dening or saddening the heart of students and parents and many are pondering the uncertain road ahead to the completion of this terms work or succeeding years of con centrated study many are in doubt about the exaggerated public attitude toward grade 13 diploma for those students who are not able or are not considering university education and question the demand of employers that candidates for employ ment have a senior matriculation we are not alone for in ontario many educationists fepl we are participating in crisis over our educational future and we are very late in coming to grips with the problem dr claude bisscll president of the university of toronto in addressing junior and senior high school principals in north york recently decried the suggestion which some people are advancing that ontario in effect scrap its present school system he stated we have to build on what is here change in form or direction but accept the foundation we have an elementary school system a secondary school system con taining both technical and vocational schools a partial sys tem of technical institutes and finally several universities what happens from now on is modification and additions making the basic structure more complex to fit new conditions from time to time old elements may be dropped but only when the value they once had has been wholly absorbed in a new form dr bissell proposes what he calls community colleges which would accept students from grade 12 as the lechniral institutes do now for a two year enrollment in which educa tional treatment and subject matter would be different from those in the universities but would provide some postsecondary education parallel in a nontechnical way to that offered now in the technical institutes this new diversion would leave grade 13 for the universitybound students who would follow a program expressly designed as university preparation he thinks grade 13 students should concentrate on fewer subjects so as to have more time to think write and to read and partici pate in extracurricular activities there would be a closer liaison between secondary schools and universities and presum ably it is hoped the whole level of educational excellence would rise we wonder just how acceptable dr bissclls suggestion will be to the various educational bodies involved and to the public generally while a considerable measure of public accept ance has been given technical institutes with admission from grade 12 how long will it take to persuade all those concerned that in an era when every influence in society is demanding more education grade 12 will do it somehow makes scne that grade 13 be reserved for universitybound young people but will a community college carry enough weight in our prestigeconscious minds id like to hear what the students feel about the subject and their parents too of course stouffville this was alf someone called for help and alf was carried away when alf died he took a small part ol every person who knew him he had been jeered at ignored rebuffed scorned teas ed pushed around and loved by us all may you rest in icice alf i