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pjt 2 the stouffviue tribune ibvtity mjy 14 64 lets face it theyll all go up as weve said before for just a moment before we applaud all the national welfare plans ottawa poli ticians can dream up remember that the cost will be heavy and will mosc certainly increase not decline a good illustration can be found in the new rates of the ontario hos pital plan monthly payments for finale employees are rising from 210 to s325 and for married men from 420 to 650 think of this a boost of bic remember too that this boost is well above any salary increases over the period of operation involved social services run by the gov ernment are not like a firm contract with a private industry about the only thing that is certain is that the original price will not prevail for very long to quit is not the answer under a threat of resignation the demands of the park board in the community of bay ridges pickering township will be aired this sawoff agreement was reached last week at a regular meeting of the council we personally take a pretty dim view of this type of practice and from the comments of some councillors the do as we want or else ultima tum went over like a lead balloon quitting never solved anything and if these members were really and truly interested in the good of their community they would not even have considered such a move in suggest ing such action they are only acting like spanked kids who threaten to leave home unless cuddled and coaxed by remorseful parents the bay ridges park board or any other organization of this type should know that no individual or group of individuals is so kingly im portant that it cannot be replaced looking at it in this light by quit ting they are only hurting them selves jve have seen this lever used time and time again and unfortunate ly it usually is quite effeztive some time somewhere someone will call this bluff and the shoe will be shoved onto the other foot members of parliament on the spot a problem that has waxed hot and cold at ottawa and one which affects a big part of the local popu lation as well as all other parts of the country is that of tobacco one of the big complicating factors just as in the liquor industry is the prob lem of revenue returns from the sale of canadian tobacco provided 410000000 in tax revenue last year incidentally this is 7 of all tax rev enue in addition members on both sides of the commons represent large tobaccogrowing areas the logical stand for the govern ment if tobacco is a major health problem would be to pass up all the revenue but to accept this position penalizing while the actual format of the proposed canadawide pension fund remains clouded some features are emerging and some of them we cer tainly dont like one has been the lack of any payoff to survivors should the person paying the pension die before the beginning of payment that is a man could pay in for a good number of years and should he die a year before it was his turn to col lect all his payments would go down the drain so far as he or his heirs are concerned another bad feature that has come to light is the intention to penal ize pensioners who earn money be yond a nominal amount after retire ment this handicapping of the more energetic would have amazed our forefathers who would think that to be denied the fruits of their labor would be most uncomfortable finan cially it would also raise the prob lem of what happens to the people and farms ruined by an end to tobacco production we must appreciate the moral dilemma in which members find themselves morally the answer may be easy to decide but in application it is extremely difficult an amount of 400000 has been set up for research but the search for a tobacco without noxious irri tants sounds like looking for a bottle of booze without alcohol x however somewhere along the line parliament and people will have to put a price on national health the energetic was unthinkable under such an ar rangement idleness commands a premium under any private pension plan a man draws his full pension regard less of what other income he may receive since he has paid his legit imate share into the plan this is only right and proper what the govern ments idea is in such an arrange ment we dont know since they will continue to share in any excess earn ings through income tax to tell a pensioner he must re main idle or pay a financial penalty when his qualifications and circum stances permit him to be usefully busy is not only ridiculous but un fair pensions are not a privilege when a man has paid his share into the fund it is his right to expect re turn regardless of other activities council has good cause for chagrin stouffville municipal council has good cause for being very displeased with the most recent plans revealed for the work of the metro conserva tion authority it was admitted by kdward sutier metro representative last week that the new tenyear con servation program had omitted stoultville in error it was pointed out to the repre sentative that the town was never omitted when it came to collecting the grant and despite the number of ycrs that stouffville has paid into the fund no work has ever been done here mr sutier asked council to pass a resolution approving of the pro gram but it was not unexpected that council declined the invitation for the time hcing at least the repre sentative had to admit that no work could be done in an area not in the new plan as the government would not pay any grant original plans called for devel opment of an area just northeast of the high school and the construction of a dam the stream as it meanders through town was to be protected with proper banks and retaining walls and some of the sharp bends were to be eliminated all this work had been tentatively included in a tenyear program proposed several years ago now it appears that work has all gone by the board and the stream will continue to remain a flood hazard for some time to come the author ity has been spending thousands all around us to which we have been contributing each year to do some work in this municipality would seem only fair and just however to be told that you have been left off the program through error is a little too much to take lying down and it is to be hoped that council will move quickly and sharply to have these plans revised teljc tuuffuillf sri it line mtarlishkd isa member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association authotnt m aoft4ha mail roalorfa dvpl ottawa member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stoultville ont in canada 350 klsewhcre 150 c h xoian publisher 4as thomas krtilnr jar mrkkav adertlinc theres crazy laundry marks all over my party dress suuur sasice p by bill smile unobtrusive wise words from will everybody is writing pbout shakespeare these days the only sour note in the fanfare of acclaim marking his 400th anniversary is a deep rumbling sound that has many people bafllcd a few romantics ciaim it is the ghostly applause of nearly four centuries of playgoers echoing down the years a few realists assert that it is the mutinous mumbling of 20 genera tions of students who had to memorize chunks from his works personally i think the discordant note is c2d by the rapid rotation in his giave cf the bones of th bard a shiewd businessman as he agonizes over all those roj allies he is not collecting otherwise tilings are going swimmingly as the critics and professors of english peer and peek and poke among the magnificent debris and the inane argument about who really wrote his plays waxes once more with futile fury but im not concerned with that there an enough people plodding about through his works trampiirs poetry under foot as they- search for clues to prove that he was really bacon or marlowe or the earl of something lets look for a moment at the real will shakespeare we find him in the hundreds of brief passages that have come ringing down the years with their universal truths he had to put them in the mouths of others of course but the man himself is there warm alive grinning scowling scolding exulting what could be more human for example than his pride in his own success when the opening night performance of hamlet showed that the play was a smash he deftly inserted in the last scene and on the spur of the moment the joyful line a hit a very palpable hit we can see his amused tolerance of his wifes lack of muscle in another famous line shed been spring cleaning and had slipped a disc while trying to move an old trunk full of sonnets frailty thy name is womman quipped will we can sympathize witi his honest rage this was before drycleaning as he scrubbed the gravystain on his new silk breeches and bellowed out damned spot out i say what mans heart does not warm to the bards forthright suggestion in henry vi part 2 the first thing wc do lets kill all the lawyers is there a housewife living who has not echoed at some time shakespeares immortal comment when his wife came home from the butcher with a stringy roast this is the most mikindest out of all many a man has wished he had the gift and the nerve that will displayed the night he got home from the pub tiddly and tardy and was confronted by his wife her sister and his motherinlaw did he say lie was sorry and would never do it again not he he roared how now you secret black and midnight hags he knew men as witness flis ever common hat moil arc merriest when they are from home he knew women too there was never yet a fair woman but she made mouths in i glass as this piece of research ends i can hear a multitude of english teachers saying in unison for this relief much thanks hn the tvay annk koss something is terribly wrong the tragic death last week of a 22 year old 4th year student at the unive sity of toronto from an overdose of barbituates after three week crammed with study and examinations should shock us all into an awareness of the pressures facing our young people who feel driven to using such lethal crutches to meet the demands made upon them by a load too heavy to bear this young man was an honours student a former queens scout obviously well cquped for university training but he must have found himselft physically inadequate to the grind and so resorted to drugs a survey conducted by the student service commission among university of toronto students last winter showed that 3 in ten were using drugs that 37 of male students used tranquilizers or pep pills when under prcssuie and that 13 continued their use that 36 of the universitys female students use such drugs just stop and think these statistics refer to the habits of our young people the cream of our youth at the apex of their physical and mental alertness but they lequire dope pills to keep them going but this is university you say and the course is tough so addiction to drugs is the answer not in my books wc have high hopes for our daughter who is in her first year of high school but we would rather see the end of her academic education right now than visualize a future of prcjsjrss so great she would have to depend on tranquilizers to see her through to a university degree are the courses too mavy arc wc expecting too much of our students do they waste too much time until examinations loom and cramming is imper ative what is the answer and if we and it what are wc going to do about it just so theres no impression that the writer is pushing the panic button over a situation that many feel is remote to us here it is no aerict thil far too many of the students at stouftville hig rely on steely dors of harbitnafs so they can maintain the pare of high school activities ard studies something is very wrong somewhere revolutionaries by alvin gamble unionville not long ago in york county most of us in the mid period of life remember it clearly when one was asked how many children in the family a common reply was so many living so many dead it was not the least bit unus ual that at least some children in a family would die befoie reaching adult life indeed a fair number died at birth mo therhood itself was a mortal risk and it was common for mothers day sermons to con tain an exhortation to honor the one who almost gave her life when you were born we also recall vividly the terror that gripped our village and parents of school children when homes were placarded with the dread quarantine signs of scarlet fever dipthcria smallpox typhoid fever we remember seeing people with legs bowed outward by rickets pathetic malformations in growth and physical develop ment inspired numerous chari table people to form societies to aid the many crippled and incurable it was not uncom mon to hear of friends being hospitalized by the debilitations of yellow jaundice when a man or woman reached 60 they automatically became old to everyone and most died not long after today these problems are so rare as to be nearly medical curiosities or are the fate of a frontier people far removed from us if any of these once- common diseases appears in a community today its outbreak makes headline news and legis lators are goaded to do some thing more often than not peo ple of sixty today are just be ginning a vigorous phase of liv ing when a child dies it is an isolated tragedy motherhood is a normal beautiful family ex perience without really being aware of it a revolution has taken place in our way of life bring ing us richer years more years and greater fulfillment of our continued on page 9 roamin around the 2000 square foot minimum hoim requirement in foro throughout much ot pickering township haa rut down on residential construction in that munlcipalltt howeter th homes that are being erected small in number as they may he are ultrafine structure aivl a credit to the area where they are located an example of this type of high class buildup may be seen ou the greenwood road north of the conserva tion park gravel truck drivers often come in for unfair criticism in this community and few if any are ever commended for art of courtesy on thursday afternoon of last week we saw one heavily loaded transport from sunderland hancock haulage come to a complete halt on main street in stouffville to permit a small girl to cross the highway this incident did not occur at either of the two courtesy walks in town but on the open road so you see theyre not all such a bad bunch of guys as many of us would like to believe a metro lady resident ls seeking permission to use watr from the tap in the town park as she ls allergic to tha flourldated supply on lap in her area the amount in quarts gallons or truck loads is not stipulated what next the first holeinone gof shot to be repotted in this area occurred last week at the whitcvale course harvev fenton of pickering hit the target pretty early in the season for that kind of accuracy power lawnmowers like colour tv sel appear to ho coming down in price crest hardware have some dandy models on display for around the 90 mark that woulu likely hate cost much more a few seasons ago if we men could only talk our wives into doing this weekly chore life in general would be a whole lot easier the largest reported trout catch in stouffville goes to local rod and reel expert dr neil smith of o brien ave the size could not immediately be detei mined since a yardstick was not readily available lo take its measure dr sniith is so proud of his specimen and rightly so that he plans to have it mounted and hung in his recreation quarters henceforth to be known as the smiths big game room the mayfair restaurant building on main street l for sale bruce timbers is the contact representative for the shea ijeal estate firm there is no liner location in town ami a few structural changes in front could make this premise niiirh more attractive it still looks loo much like the bank that it once was time spent in second division court proceedings at mark- ham within recent months is worth more to the plaintiff than the amount of some claims the sooner these courts are handled in a manner comparable to a higher court of law the better it will be for all concerned pretty soon lawyers will refuse to accept such cases since theres more money to be made in the quiet comforable confines of their respective offices who was one of the first students at the stoultville high school on saturday morning to assist in the cleanup of the auditorium following the may queen prom on friday non other than the queen herscir grade 12 student bernadina terwoerds minus her crown and gown she rolled up her sleeves and went to work in removing the colourful decora tions that she had helped to erect only a few short hours before principal mr duxbiry was also on hand to assist with the mopup operations a fine kind ot co operation we would ay speaking of the may prom the basketball footwork ot staft p t instructor jas rehill is nothing as compared to his style on the dance floor in a mexican number his routina would have made aithur mm ray look like flptfoot fluzy its nice to see the staff personnel join in tliese social functions at the school with all the publicity and ballybo of opening day haseball in toronto a mere 1038 fans turned out last wednesday to see the game its pretty difficult to sell the public on a sport so painfully slow as compared lo hockey and football most spectators become so weary by the 111 inning that they must be awakened to join in the stretch one toronto radio announcer joked that the smallcar warnings were out on hwy 401 on saturday we noticed several of the bugs weaving from side to side during the wind gusts that hit the area in the afternoon some pulling trailers or carrying canoes weie forced to pull oft the pave ment due to the intensity of the blasts with the first big picnic scheduled for the sloufrville park on saturday may 30th it is lo be hoped that someone will agree to take over the refreshment booth prior to that date a big cuborce is planned for that day and ever one knows how much those young lads can consume want to hire a slave for a day well you can on satur day may 16th student members of the interscliooi christian fellowship in stouffville will be available forboth inside and- outside activities such as babysitting carwashing cutting grass etc the project is called slave day and the proceeds will be used to send the iscf president to camp for further information call karen krcick at 6402698 these kids deserve a lot of credit line sargent of stouffville may replace his taxi wilh a motor scooter that is with the permission of mrs sargent she is the winner of a new honda molor-hiki- from the cora- cola co because she took the lime and trouble lo check th number under the caps waliy kiernan of kicrnins dings in the markham plaa will give away two beatle tickets to some lucky winner on saturday may 23rd anyone making a purchase of over 25c is eligible a rather timely giveaway award wc would say wc were pleased to learn last week that mr geo haskell of newmarket was one of 11 persons singled out for awards hi honour of his contribution to minor sports in that community and the entire north york area he was presented with a certifi cate ot merit by hon win davis minister of kducallon premier john roharts attended the ceremony we feel that tlm accomplishments of this willing worker have been overlooked for too long and the recognition is justly deserved the 300 per dozen of roses project sponsored by the kiwanis club of markham for mothers day brought a demand that exceeded all expectations the organization was hooked solid for orders one week in advance and many requests had to be turned down ik iwo ie poor he hath dispersed abroad he hath given lo his righteousness remains forever psalms 1120 we have all heard the expres sion that god loves a cheerful giver some of us think jt refers only to the money we give to worthy causes no matter how rich or poor we may be as individuals each of us has much lo give we can give hope happiness and a helping hand to someone in need we can give to children the great example of a good chris tian life we can give to friends nnd associates a measure of good faith in the conduct of our busi ness and social activities we can give happiness some times at the cost of nothing more than a smile we can give hope sometimes at the cost of nothing more than a friendly word whenever we give whatever we give we unfailingly get some thing in returnhappiness and hope for ourselves rad your bible daily- end go to church sunday