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pjoe 2 the tribune thursday apr 18 1968 aiiiiiiiiaiiiihhiiiuiiiiuiiuiiiiuuiiiiuhiiiiiuiiuuiiiiiaiimiuiniiiiiiiiauihuiuiuiiiiiiihiuhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuihhiiiiiiiniiiuiiih keeping the lid on most stouffville residents will take some satisfaction in the fact that planning board is keeping the lid on residential subdivision development the board was bombarded last week with requests for permission to build hundreds of living units in town and pressure in this direction will con tinue while it is a known fact that neith er the sewerage system nor the water system is presently prepared to cope with further developments over and above those to which they are already committed it is nevertheless good planning to keep the checkrein tight stouffville is able to absorb a lim ited amount of expansion each year without being pushed into gigantic service problems and has proceeded in this manner for a number of years the third problem which faces any board which wishes to open up the gate to more residential development is the lack of industrial assessment moves are being made to get some help in this direction for most residents there is nothing for them in having hundreds of more homes except more taxes more taxes are to pay for the added services the new homes require and which the sub- dividers contributions do not cover at the present time the total num ber of lots which have been approved for residential building numbers slightly more than two hundred two- thirds of these being in the west end these will possibly all be handled by the end of 1970 the planning board has indicated that it has drawn the line at this point and will not be moved until sewers water and industrial assessment show ability to absorb more the stand is not popular with developers but it can do no harm to the present resi dents byelections an indication the liberal convention is over but the memory lingers on mr trudeau is riding the crest of nationwide pop ularity and it may last until he has made a few mistakes his stock is high and the conservatives would ap pear to have little chance against him in an immediate election however a test of just how his popularity is lasting will come on june 17 unless the new prime min ister decides to go for a late summer or fall election in this case byelec tions would not be necessary there will be real interest in this test of strength and it could be a real indication of which way the wind is blowing for the major parties it will be a test of public reaction to the choice of the leadership convention what they like to see what does a weekly newspaper sub scriber enjoy seeing most an editor in the united states composed a list of answers to a questionnaire on this subject with the following result 1 my name 2 a front page article showing how crooked the city government is most of the time 3 my wifes name 4 a feature article showin 25 ways on how to beat the income tax form 5 my kids names 6 a local news item about the affair my neighbor is having 7 a classified ad offering a new home for sale for 8400000 8 more news about law breakers 9 less news about law breakers i was picked up last night and i should not have to pay a fine 10 an editorial condemning high school teachers for being too liberal with fs 11 a wedding picture of the groom instead of the bride when he is more handsome than she is pretty 12 a sports picture of me when i bowled 183 13 more advertisements on things that merchants are giving away 14 a front page picture of my neigh bor being hauled out of the bar by his wife 15 a front page spread about the deadbeat who lives across the street from me who just had his car repos sessed 16 forget the last one i just got word from the finance company that theyre coming after my car 17 more letters to the editor naming the crooks we have in town a childish stunt the executive of the stouffville minor hockey association hosted an eightteam bantam tournament in the stouffville arena saturday the en tire program was exceptionally well organized and the competition in most games was extremely keen one incident marred the days ac tivities and it involved not a boy as one might expect but an adult who should have known better the coach of the woodbridge club irritated over a penalty to one of his lads left the box to protest the ref erees ruling when ordered off the ice he refused to go when ordered out of the game he took his entire team with him much to the displeas ure of many of his own players we would question the conduct of any coach who would pull such a childish stunt how difficult the getting out how easy getting in iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii sugar and spice oh to fly once more by bill smiley silent rural sentinel the windmill once a convenient pumping station on many farms is slowly be coming a thing of the past this silent sentinel is on the property of edgerton fegg clarcmont rr 2 staff photo we used to have a superstition in my air force days about things happin- ing in threes everything would go along well for a week or two then the roof would fall in wed lose three pi lots in one day or one pilot would have three ex tremely hairy experiences in a row a bailout a crashlanding a fire it happened often enough so that you began to believe in it in war time superstitions tend to become principles it happened to me one day i was hit by everything but the kitchen sink and came home with 32 holes in my air craft including one about 18 inches in diameter and just two feet from my seat i had to land without flaps and brakes nothing much left except a chewed up piece of metal almost use less and a white faced pilot almost equally useless j next day oneof my bombs developed a hangup and i had to land with the thing detonated and ready to plow dangling from under my left wing this didnt improve my morale much either people started avoiding me the third day i was shot down and taken prison er met paddy byrne of dublin one of the few survivors of my squadron in a london subway station after the war and he told me the boys were running a pool on when id get it but that was in the old days when men were men and boys were terrified at least i was however the war was peaceful compared to present days now things dont come in threes but in sixes and sevens same pattern things go along ok for a while and then the gods clobber you with everything they have the other night for example kim and i were preparing for one of our ex otic dinners it was a peaceful domes tic scene she was playing the piano i was right on top of the dinner the rainbow trout were crisping nicely the baked potatoes were baked and i was just giving the canned corn that extra little stir that makes it so delicious when the doorbell rang it was our neighbor the one on the left where the bank robbers were caught last year it was about 30 de grees outside and his internal tempera ture was around 212 he wanted to use the phone he was about to kill the man on the other side of his house be cause he was needling him he phoned his mom asking her to come and stop him letter to the editor why the outcry dear sir for the past two weeks your paper has carried stories concerning the old levi storry house near glen major in uxbridge twp the issue has since snowballed out of all proportion un til now the whole community seems concerned im not one of them the house is now gone and should be forgotten some folks it seems are always wanting to restore everything as long as they spend someone elses money the property has been falling into a state of disrepair for years but until now not a single soul has shown any concern as soon as the conservation authority attempt to improve the site there is great weeping and wail ing by everyone its time a few people employed a little common sense im all for saving things if the project is practical this particular one is not sincerely a nearby neighbor its rather difficult to avoid hearing this sort of thing when you are five feet away poking the potatoes and flipping the fish anyway two hours and a couple of beers later i hadnt jiad my dinner but my neighbor had and he was cooled out enough to go home to bed well thats the way things went all week next morning i almost murder ed myself putting out the garbage the cans are in a little stoop with a lid over it made of twobyfours i pushed back the lid and started to wrestle out one can which was frozen to the bot tom when the damn lid fell clunked me on the forehead almost knocking me senseless dripping blood i stag gered off to work that weekend i was caught in one of those lastkick storms and died a thousand deaths creeping through wind and snow and drifts a four and a halfhour trip that normally takes two hours had a fight with my daughter which she won my wife is having an opera tion my piles are screaming the back yard because we didnt get the leaves raked last fall looks like hiroshima ten people want me to have a commit tee meeting about nothing we had a cloud burst and my cellars full of wa ter half the light bulbs in the house are burnt out and you need a ladder to replace most of them i nearly cut my entire upper lip off when i slipped on soap when shaving and i havent paid or even thought about my income tax i wonder whether they take old guys back into the air force where things only happen in threes this week next a just society the new prime ministers promise of a just society for canada has been compared with president johnsons vis ion of a great society in the united states we now know the us for all its power and productivity is today fur ther away than ever from building a society which is truly great the great society of president john sons dream has floundered on the self ishness and bigotry of millions of am ericans who were afraid to face the challenge of sharing their comfort with their fellow citizens who lived in dis comfort this bigotry at home infected ameri can foreign policy it dragged the us into a war in asia which history will probably record as one of the most senseless and selfdefeating adventures ever undertaken by the white man in the orient by the time the president finally re alized his policies were sinking the country deeper into civil insurrection in the ghettoes it was too late the great society is dead the widow of martin luther king said this is a sick society infested with racism and violence because americans were unwilling to finance a war on poverty at the same time they were waging a war in asia the us lost domestic tranquility at the same time as it lost the battle of viet nam the us could have financed both wars but its leaders lacked the political skill to rally its people to both causes and when president johnson finally sued for peace in vietnam and this is what he did let there be no mistaking it it was too late to refuel the war against poverty the anarchists had taken over so is talk of a just society in can ada either foolish or pretentious is it merely a cheap political catchphrase calculated to inspire faith in a new leader faith which he has not yet earned as pierre trudeau said in one of his last speeches as justice minister we all know that there are still injustices in canada by ray argyle it is therefore both proper and prac tical that canada should chart its course to become a just society with economic social and legal justice for all its citizens everywhere in the land it is practical because canada has the wealth to be able to afford both eco nomic and social justice it has the tra dition which makes anything less than full legal justice repugnant to its cit izens the hanging tree never grew tall in canada canada is engaged in no reckless wars abroad it happily has no allcon suming color problem at home its ma jor racial division is being overcome by good will and leadership on both sides any canadian over 35 or 40 years of age realizes that tremendous changes have overcome this country during our lifetime change has been especially great in the past 20 years the canada from which most of us have sprung was a canada much poorer than the canada we know today it was poor in financial resources poor in ar tistic talent poor in technical skills poor in social conscience it was poor in everything but financial resources we arc today still rich in those natur al resources but rich also in everything which makes a great nation except perhaps sheer numbers with this measure of richness can ada can indeed create a just society whether we call it that or not and re gardless of who sits in the prime min isters office meanwhile pierre trudeau the man has captivated the nation with person ality the like of which has not been seen before in canadian political life his background is impeccable he springs from a wealthy french scot tish montreal family has been edu cated at the finest universities in north america and europe has travelled widely pursued a distinguished uni versity career acted as an economic consultant to the canadian government in the early 1950s and was a frontrank spokesman for the democratic forces which challenged the duplessis regime in quebec wht wrihunt established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stouffville tribune limited at 51 main st stouffville ont tel 6402101 single ccjies 10c subscriptions 400 per year m canada 600 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mall post office dept ottawa wf i move over jack ive reached a milestone in my life a longevity period that jack benny brags about and most women keep silent about im 39 the historic event occurred on ap ril 9 a tuesday it couldnt have come on a more abnormal day of the week it began at 7 am and finished several hours after midnight in addi tion to the usual trials and tribula tions common only to a weekly news paper editor i was immersed to the elbows in country correspondence film developer and unsigned letters from a halfdozen irate readers my wife and the kids had arranged a real colorful party to mark the oc casion it was all supposed to be a deep dark secret but i knew full well from all the whisperings behind my back that some kind of surprise was in the wind their high hopes were soon to be dealt two crushing blows the first disappointment occurred at noon i had time only to grab a coffee and a hamburger i called to say i couldnt make it after the din ner was already on the table the last- minute announcement was received with all the jovial buoyancy of a lead balloon the worst was yet to come with handscrawled cards gifts and a cake with 39 candles decora- tively displayed atop the dining room table i had to go and ruin the whole affair by saying that i wouldnt be home for supper either the kids cried and their mother was speschless as cruel as the decision might have seemed at the time there was just no other way i had hoped that they would understand and they did after the initial shock wave subsided come wednesday the stage was set a second time and we all gourged on cake and ice cream until it was fairly oozing out our ears two hours and three tummy aches later all were tucked into bed dad a somewhat selfish slightly irresponsible and certainly unappreci- ative father on tuesday had within a period of one day become the hero of them all how old is 39 asked the young est as she drifted off to dreamland old enough to be a father came a voice from another room and maybe even a grandfather replied a third that was yesterday i answered slightly suspicious the absence of deputyreeve bill parsons from the april 4 meeting of stouffville town council has aroused some suspicion as to his political alleg iance mr parsons fervently denies that he embarked on a sidetrip in secret to attend the liberal conven tion in ottawa not seeing things the ghost of a i pryne may once again walk the streets of stouffville the town works department has ac- 4 quired the services of a handoperated street cleaner but reeve ken laush- way says he will not approve its pur chase until he has had an opportunity to try out the gadget himself outdated while young couples may have their favorite s parking spots these days theyre no longer the back roads of townships surrounding stouffville in our travels afterhours so far this spring we have yet to interrupt a single pair of sideline smoochers for the roving romeos who may yet seek the serenity of the rural regions a word of warning stay clear of 19th avenue markham east of cone 10 constable richard pike of the town ship police tried it recently and his cruiser almost disappeared from sight he had to call on assistance of les wilsons tow truck to remove him from the mire unfortunately in this case he was travelling alone while we are in complete agree ment with a proposal to establish a controlled racing track for stock car owners in this area drivers from the district are not helping their own cause one bit by turning the main street of stouffville into a dragstrip as was witnessed here one night last week