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f 2 th stowfvllii wumtt tuni uy 27 1965 editorial many have confidence shaken there is no question that con fidence in the leadership of the unit ed states has never reached such a low ebb as today even in a small town such as ours since modern com munication has brought day by day world affairs to our doorstep one hears street corner talk which is any thing hut complimentary to our neighbor to the south since even we who are so closely bound to the amer icans by race geography and econo mics are having our doubts about the quality of their leadership it cannot be surprising that the under developed countries such as the afri can states are quite alarmed they are apprehensive even though they have received massive aid from the united states serious minded people in the west as well as those behind the iron curtain have been shaken by ameri can action more and more there is mention of the american presidents inability to get along with the press both ae home and abroad he becomes irri tated and impatient with their ques tions and seems to overlook the fact that these newsmen and women rep resent the public both at home and abroad while there has been little in ths way of actual facts come out of the meeting it seems apparent that these attitudes were encountered by our own prime minister pearson when he recently approached the president with what most believed to be sens ible suggestions for easing world tension closing the poorest schools first although plans by the four local area boards to close down several one- room schools in markham pickering whitchurch and uxbridge twps may not find favour with all rate payers we believe that the policy adopted by the trustees is a good one the shutdown at the end of the june term will take place at schools where conditions are unsatisfactory or en rollments are small we visited some of these proper- lies last week and for the most part we agree that a major move of this kind is overdue it would appear that the boards are reluctant to close schools where additions have been recently erected or where interior improvements have been made the life of these build ings at least for the present has been spared the trustees in the four areas have taken on a big chore and in only five months have much to show for their work how the ratepayers will take to the current trend will be better known next december so far their actions that would have raised a storm of protest two years ago have been accepted with no noticeable signs of complaint spectators make the game on sunday june 6th intermed iate baseball will return to the stouff- ville park ajax will provide the opposition in a regular league game the revival of intermediate hall here will bring back several overage juniors plus a few of the boys who once called it quits after competition became something less than compe titive don haynes and rodger todd have been two of the main sparkplugs behind the reorganization of the intermediate club and their efforts will not have been in vain if local fans will give the team their support during the past few seasons summer sports in stouffville have dropped to a low ebb this was not due entirely to a lack of interest among spectators but due to the fact that there was no one to play against with both junior and intermediate ball here this summer the park should be buzzing with activity all season remember the juniors make their home debut against port hope on monday evening may 31st at 7 pm the intermediates will go against ajax on sunday afternoon june 6th at 2 pm spectator interest makes an interesting game try to attend conservation park is taking shape on sunday afternoon we paid a brief visit to the former bruce pro perty in markham township the site of one of the regions newest conser vation areas the location is ideal for the in tended purpose with a naturemade stream bush and picnic area a large dam has been constructed forming an artificial lake a main road is in the making that will provide an en trance or exit onto the markham- whitchurch townline nothing has been done to reactivate the old waterpowered grist mill this will likely take place in the future when the necessary funds are made avail able an official of mtrca announced recently that the bruce area would be opened to the public this year we feel hes overlyoptimistic there is still a great amount of work to be done and it would be sheer folly to open the gates at a premature stage of completion a mass cleanup offen sive could alter this view however we feel that the bruce park is a wonderful project only a stones- throw from stouffville if dad grows tired of picnicking with the kids he can always shoot a 0hole game of golf on the course next door eyeopening comparison last week the police committee of markham twp council made pub lic some facts and figures that proved extremely interesting to us and like ly to many readers also it was a comparison of per capita cost of po lice services in markham and other municipalities in the province in each case markhams per capita rate was less including areas served by the opp when we say less we mean over 500 per capita under that of the total municipal and opp expenditures and almost 00 per capita less than municipal forces only in ontario to the average ratepayer a bud get total of 106000 seems like a lot of money and it is but when one considers that the markham twp department has a staff numbering 1 fulllime men plus cruisers and equip ment the figure is by no means out of line by comparison on a pet- capita basis markham folk should consider themselves rather fortunate compulsory road checks good idea the beginning of compulsory vehicle checks is one of the best cam paigns yet instituted in the cause of road safety highway safety weeks and other publicity campaigns have not been too successful and certainly something is needed with more teeth in it defective cars and careless driv ers cause accidents mechanical de fects are more easily detected than those in drivers but it makes a good starting point current plans will keep these checks going until july 23rd when the results will be assess ed the advertising of this closing date may not be such a good idea let the checks continue indefinitely bo that owners of jalopies of question able worth may not hide out until it is safe to take to the roads again certainly the time is past for voluntary tests just as it is past for voluntary breathalizer tests the carnage on the highways certainly warrants some real compulsion these steps could be followed by the pass age of a law requiring all vehicles to have an adequate amount of insur ance before they are permitted to use the roads this latter move will require some real political courage although it could be less right now than gov ernment members believe it is hard to believe that any party or any large percentage of the motoring public would oppose such a measure yoo hoo guess who its me im bock i new postage stamp program laid out for 1966 eleven commemorative pos tage stamps will be issued by canada in 1966 this announce ment was made today by the honourable rene tremblay postmaster general the series featuring the offi cial flowers and armorial bear ings of the provinces and terri tories will be concluded next year alberta and saskatchew an will be honoured on janu ary 19th and the newest prov ince newfoundland will be commemorated on february 23 florals for the yukon and northwest territories will be issued on march 23rd mr trembley explained that this sequence is one of the ways in which the post office de partment is marking the cen tennial the series began on may 14th 1964 when the maple leaf unity stamp appeared ontario and quebec were feat ured on june 30th 1964 follow ed by nova scotia and new brunswick on february 3rd 1965 prince edward island will be similarly honoured on july 21st 1965 the three hundredth anniver sary of the arrival of la salle in canada will provide the sub ject for another 1966 issue the stamp will go on sale april 20th may 18th has been selected as the date of issue for a stamp to focus attention on highway safety the postmaster general explained that traffic deaths are increasing alarmingly each year and expressed the hope that this issue will serve to make people more aware of this need less tragedy peaceful uses of atomic en ergy will be the theme of a stamp to appear july 20th the date was chosen to coincide as closely as possible with the op ening of the ccandu reactor at douglas point ontario which has been scheduled for the summer of 1966 the third stamp in a series honouring the major steps which culminated in confeder ation will go on sale september 7th the london conference will be the subject the first such meeting honoured by the post office was the charlotte- town conference featured on a postage stamp which went on sale july 29th 1964 the que bec conference issue was relea sed on september 9th last year for the third consecutive year canada will have christmas stamps in 1 9fic mr tremblay explained that they will be of the three cent and five cent de nominations the most common ly used for christmas cards and letters all these stamps except the three cent christmas issue will be five cents in value two farm boys who had nev er been far from home enlisted in the army and were on their way overseas as their ship left harbor they stared in amaze ment at a lighthouse til be darned tommy said one finally isnt that one heck of a place to put a silo makes you wonder is everything cutanddried blackandwhite for you or do you sometimes wonder i do here are some of the things 1 wonder about maybe you can supply the answers what is it about spring that turns normally tolerant sweetfaced mildeved women into tailtwitching yellow- eyed tigers who prowl the premises in a perpetual rage snarling lilt that barge tote that bail wash those windows paint that trim second question why are normally devilmaycare lion- hearted chaps who would mix it up with an adult male gorilla if they didnt like the look on the apes face frightened white at this time o year by these 110pound tigers how do you tell a nice mother wearing rosecoloured glasses that her sou whom she insists is going to be a brilli ant surgeon will be luck if he catches a job at the super market meat counter why docs the sun beat down unmercifully when i wear a raincoat while trout lishing and why when i dont take a raincoat and the inevitable cloudburst comes am i always a mile and a half down the stream from my car what kind of nuts is the world producing these days first example the other night there was a teenage rumble near here police and liremen broke it up one kid was hand cuffed and stuffed in the police car the cops jumped out lo aid fellow officers the kid jumped out the other side presum ably to aid himself four days later he turned himself in still handcuffed what did he do during those four days 1 mean did he ever try to uh well you get the idea second example may be you read this in the paper fel low named george wilson was arrested why because he had just thrown harold wilson no relation through a plateglass window as harold lay there in his own blood he protested vigorously the arrest of george hey you cant do that hes my buddy figure that one out what short of going up and strangling the lot can i do about the black squirrels who hold bowling matches fool races countrystyle hoeclowns and hooknannies in my attic in the dead of night every night why are 14yearold daughters so dreadful they are sul len sulky stubborn slouchy grouchy pouty resentful they fight with their mothers they wreck the third pair of nylons in three days they weep wildly at the slightest admonition why are 14yearold daughters so wonderful this is the next day they are sunshine not showers they are help- fid not hopeless they are sweet and shy and funny and full of vitality and eager to learn and idealistic and you wonder what you did lo deserve such a bundle of blessedness why do 17yearold sons think their parents should be put in wheelchairs and trundled off to an institution for the feebleminded and why do they gel that longsuffering look when dad is telling them something extremely important like how hard he used to work in school v and why do they laugh lolerantly when mother whom they tower over is dis pensing pearls of wisdom like if you dont gel enough sleep you wont glow up lo be big and strong and wise like your father why do wives think their cancer or their heart attack or arthritis or piles or whatever they have every morning at breakfast is so much more serious that the genuine ail- menls of the poor wretch hiding behind his paper across the table and why do all wives everywhere think they cant trust their husbands with liquor other women the childrens up bringing or the best china this is the age of questionnaires im sure you have some of your own send them along and well make up the first sensible questionnaire in the 20th century even if nobody in the world knows the answers- kstabiishfd ss member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association authorixl iontcl mil pwtoffic dpl ottawa member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 400 elsewhere 600 c r nolan rublixhrr j as tflomas kijltor ias mckean advertising roamin around george prentice an is year old grade 13 student is on of markham dist high schools foremost athletes his firs love is the pole vault and on may 19th at she eckardt mee held in aurora he soared to a height of 11 ft 3s inches a 5 ft 11 and loo pounds he has the perfect athletic build will broad shoulders muscular arms and strong legs for geor prentice of markham its been a great comeback for it wa back on july eth 1959 that a tragic accident on the ken nedy road south of unionviue almost ended his athletic ane academic career before it really started while delierin papers on his regular route he was struck down by a hitancf run driver george and a companion douglas morris wen left for dead in a roadside ditch as the motorist sped on hi was 12 years old at the time he suffered a fractured wrist fractured leg a broken pelvis a collapsed lung and a bruise kidney for a week he remained on the critical list in the sicv childrens hospital toronto aside from a four inch scar or his left arm george appears none the worse for his experi ence a case described as one of the most callous ever tc come before the courts i can still remember it well he re called he came across the road right at us he sugcsiec that a newspaper bag slung over his shoulder absorbed a por lion of the impact he was able to give police a good descrip lion of the vehicle and the driver was arrested a few hour later george claims that the injuries suffered six years ag have in no way hampered his athletic endeavours hi brother john is also an accomplished track star he placed second in the senior 880 yards in the georgian bay finals king city on saturday and will represent markham high a the allontario meet in hast york on may 29ih they are lh sons of mr and mrs clarke prentice no 4 hwy north ol markham due to major construction at the school site nr pole vaulting pits are available george has done most of hi practicing at home i dont have much time he admitted final exams begin on june 8th following graduation he ha his mind set on a course in engineering at the university o waterloo george will not attend the allontario finals ihi saturday although he placed second in the sr pole vault a king city he was required to match the qualifying mark o 10 ft 8 inches his best was five inches short things just didnt go right he said i guess it was just one of those days he offeree no excuses 1 guess ive come to the end of the line as far as high school competition is concerned he said its surprising how last the time goes for 18 year old george prentice the end of the line could have come back or july 6th 1959 he couldnt be beaten then and still possesses that same will to win hes a credit to his school while on the subject or sports its interesting to not that a young tliornhill girl by the name of carol martin tos sed the discus a total distance of 125 ft 5 inches in the inter mediate class at the eckardt meet in aurora she beat th best of the sr boys by 12 ft 8 incites and lopped the closes girl competitor by no less than 40 feet her mark a new cord topped the old figure by 5 ft 7 inches if she can alsrt play hockey perhaps harold hodgson should get her signed up in a hurry bill crolhcrs will be the guest rack slar at markham high schools annual athletic banquet and awards night on friday evening of this week there sure isnt any resemblance between frances fan or church st arid a polar bear in riycrdale zoo but we understand that she was the first in the pool this spring and that was a couple of weeks ago she said that she had to break the ice to get the season off to an early start mr and mrs harold dafoe have made marvellous inv provements to their main st w restaurant their day begin i at 5 am and believe me a cup of coffee at that hour gor prelty good whether youre heading to or away from home they close at 12 midnight two new officers will be added lo the markham town ship police department as probationary constables as o june 1st they are albert geo anderson and john boy morrison this department has established quite a recort over the past 14 years since 1951 there have only been foui resignations from the force and only one of these look an other police position many police forces have experienced similar turnover of personnel in a single year someone inns lake the credit for this kind of smooth operation roller skating will begin in the markham arena on salur day evening of this week skates will be available on a rcnta basis or persons may bring their own construction of homes continue in the dunkcldpenrci subdivision on i he pickeringmarkham townline sever houses have been completed and another is going up the four remaining front lots have all been sold a service roac has been built to allow access to i he rear each of these homes is more than 2000 square feet and set back 150 feel from the road after many seasons of faithful umpiring in ihe clare monl community softball league gord swifly todd ol goodwood has retired from active duly cliff dunkcld vh learned up with swifly on the bases has also called i quits good news for the residents on the allona road soul of whitevalc the miller paving co has received the conlraci io complete the reconstruction of this road this year at s cost of something like 500000 the majority of land pur chases have been completed residents lo ihe norlh are hop ing thai it will not he too long before litis thoroughfare it extended lo the uxbridge boundary one of the most attractive announcement boards i located in front of second markham baptist church members of whitchurch twp council can rest easy w have learned on good authority that a nudist camp will no be located at shadow lake instead ihe properly may becomi a summer playground for retarded children this sounds liki an excellent project and we hope it is followed through this year an estimated 1200 persons will drown ir canada almost half of these water accidents will occur ii ontario what arc the chances of recovery the st johr ambulance provides the following information one minulf afler breathing stops 98 out of 100 could be saved 2 minute- after 92 out of 100 could be saved 3 minulcs 72 4 minutes 50 5 minutes 25 7 minutes 8 and 12 minulcs 1 the im portance of speed in the application of artificial rcspiralioi is illustrated by these figures the old story about being penny wise and pound foolisl has been clearly illustrated in the stouffville park ihi spring previously local plumber wm malloy looked aflci all water shutoffs prior lo the winter frcceup his fee foi this service was something like 15 this practice was ells continued and ihe cost in repairs to damaged pipes clc could run past the 200 mark mr e r good baker ave has compiled infonnaliot relating to descendants of henry and sarah good a hislon lhal goes back ten generations much work has gone into tin preparation of this 40pagc book and we found it rather in lercsling reading although we form no part of ihe coot family tree have you ever heard a tobacco auctioneer in action ni cither radio or tv well in our opinion they havent a thin on local dollarcaller norm faulkner of slouflvllle w walchcd him in aclion on friday nlghl al the coffey sne bartlcv auto auction and were rather amazed al his ability