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page 2 the tribune thursday mar 20 1969 ii llllumlillilll the innocent need not fear liberal mp norm cafik of on tario riding has taken an overcau tious approach to the everpresent problem of the drinking driver and legislation that if approved would make breathalizer tests compulsory mr cafik feels that the individual rights of the citizens might be ab used by police who would be required to enforce such a law what citizens may we ask has the lawabiding teenager tak ing his best girl to a saturday night movie no right to a safe return has the father taking his family out for a sunday drive no right to return them safely home we have absolutely no patience whatever for any motorist who would dare to drink to excess and then threaten the lives of other in nocent people through inability to handle a car in a proper manner to suggest that the police might take advantage of the law is an ex tremely weak excuse we take the stand that the innocent need not fear if mr cafik could accompany us to accident scenes in the stouffville- markhamuxbridge areas his opin ion might indeed change on too many occasions we have seen such locations littered with open and broken beer bottles and usually from the car of the driver who has com mitted the infraction if any legislation will lessen such useless highway carnage then lets have it approved its high time a little thought was given to the rights of the majority too regional guessing game will stouffville remain a selfcon tained municipality will markham twp and town become one what is the future of pickering twp a portion in oshawa and a section in metro will metro be permitted to expand to no 7 or as far north as stouffville these and other questions are up permost in the minds of all civic lea ders right now and until the boun dary lines are firmly established the whole regional issue will remain up in the air it would appear that the minister of municipal affairs hon darcy mc- keough is hesitant to impose any hard and fast rule in either york or ontario counties without prior con sultation with the municipalities in volved this approach however fair and democratic would seem to be a trifle overoptimistic while markham town and town ship appear convinced that they have much in common other areas of close cooperation are nonexistent this has been the story within the county itself for years while the minister tempers justice with mercy in an effort to feel out the wishes of local municipal officials in the final analysis it will be he and he alone who will settle the issue in our opinion the sooner the regional guessing game is ended the better an area worth preserving the skyloft ski resort area near dagmar in uxbridge twp is up for isale again a private club is attempting to muster sufficient memberships and funds to purchase the property the immediate downpayment require ment if 50000 the reported asking price is 150000 to raise this amount of money is a tremendous undertaking for any organization no matter how ambi tious and it would only be the be ginning improvements to the site maintenance costs taxes etc could drive the annual fees far beyond the budgets of the family folk they wish to attract and yet these are the peo ple who should be able to utilize such facilities to make this recreation paradise a year round haven for all should be the objective of the metropolitan toronto and region conservation authority while sufficient funds could not be set aside for the purchase of sky- loft in 69 we feel sure that an agreement could be worked out with the present owner that would hold the property for this purpose we are the first to admit that the mtrca has done a marvelous job in preserving lands for recreation and conservation purposes while re strictions are placed on the amount of money it can spend there are in- stances where positive action can not wait until the cash is in the account the purchase of skyloft is such a project a visit to the site would prove our point gfl illlllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllll spring breakup on duffin creek while the spring breakup can often pose a flood problem such has so far not been the case in this area an example is this portion of duffin creek south of cone 5 pickering twp where the stream is almost icefree 3 staff photo iinniuniiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiniiinhiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiininiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiii remember when s s no 2 whitchurch ringwood 1928 s 3 this photo should bring back a few memories for the former pupils of ringwood public school in 1928 the 3 3 teacher extreme right is everton smith students are front row 1 to r ray ferguson harry thorn walter 3 3 gilroy duncan mctavish lloyd mctavish walter smith second row 1 to r dickie wildgoose harold boake 3 dan fhyer howard barkey jake baker frankie pipher bruce davis third row 1 to r mary graham jean davis jean pipher dorothy timbers margaret smith i rene timbers joyce fhyer evelyn filyer jessie mctavish 3 blanche mortson rear row 1 to r george maskill gordon ratcliff harry davis edna sinclair clara miller 3 frances filyer blanche boake ruth davis helen stouffer iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiimminiiiiiiimm sugar and 5pice how school has changed by bill smiley great changes are taking place in education these days lets have a look at some of them from a straight forward honest prejudiced point of view and then you decide whether they are good or bad corporal punishment is practically a thing of the past good or bad i think its good for the students and perhaps bad for some of the teach ers it never did have any deterent effect on the students as i know from personal experience as a student it merely made the brutish student more brutish but it was a great safety valve for the hottempered teacher now i know there shouldnt be such things as hottempered teach ers but there are they are human beings and some of the hottest- tempered are the best teachers of ten they care more no more for them the glorious release of hurling chalk or black board brush at that sniggering lout in the back seat no more for them the sedative of the clout on the ear the ruler crack on the knuckles the fiveofthebest on each hand whats going to happen to them you can turn the other cheek only so often i prophesy a large tax in crease for the purpose of building more mental institutions for teachers who crack under the strain of chok ing back their honest rage so much for that lets look at counselling or guidance this is one of the fastestgrowing aspects of ed ucation only a few years ago any guidance was done by regular teach ers usually chosen for their common sense now the guidance dept is one of the busiest spots in the school you dont teach guidance youre in guidance right up to your ears the reason for this is that the duties of guidance people have snow balled why for two reasons many parents have abdicated as counsel lors of their own children and leave it to the school many other parents however desperately they try simply cant cope with their children and expect the school to help inevitably the guidance teacher has become involved with emotional disturbances family backgrounds physical handicaps and all the other things that influence a childs behav ior he has become a sort of padre without dog collst in addition he is expected to guide the student into the right course this he must convince johnny who wants to be a doctor and who failed his grade 10 science dismally that he might be better in another field even worse he has to convince john nys father who is a doctor and is damn well going to have another one in the family glad im not a guidance teacher how do you feel about examina tions they too are changing in sta tus the emphasis on exams is dim inishing and in some schools thty have vanished good or bad my feelings about them are mixed one day i feel that they should be abolished so that we could get down to the business of learning that they are an unnecessary ordeal that they cater to mediocrity the next day ive reversed my stand and am convinced that they are the only goad for the lazy stu dent that the pressurereliefs are good therapy that the student who is a wallflower in class has a chance to blossom on paper that they reveal the classroom charmboy for the ig noramus he is on the whole im in favcr of re taining exams in some form until our competitive society has changed completely otherwisey ou have a re petition of the disastrous childrens crusade of the middle ages you are sending kids into battle with no wea pons except a series of successful field trips and projects you have to learn how to drive a car and then you have to prove it in an examination the same applies to building bridges or removing ton sils in fact we need more examina tions for prospective fathers in di aperpinning prospective husbands in coping with tears and so on ill bet you can think of a few dear sir may i add my congratulations to the many for the recent awards you and your staff have received as a newcomer to stouffville i would like to take this opportunity to let you know how much we enjoy reading your paper in a recent article you mentioned that the stouffville puc had a few accounts in arrears do they know how hard they make it to pay ones bills some of us are actually pun ished because we work out of stouff ville and cannot make it to the office by 5 oclock we must mail them a cheque which costs 15 cents plus 6 cents postage we have to pass the offices every night to pick up our mail but we cannot even drop our cheque in the door as there is no letter box after living in toronto all my life a few things that we took for granted become a minor hardship til one gets used to them 1 not being able to pay your utili ties at the bank 2 no mail delivery 3 having to pay for garbage to be picked up unfortunately when we bought in the ponderosa subdivision no one informed us of these facts this letter wasnt menant to be sour grapes but maybe you could let the powers that be electric that is know how we feel mrs r hughes stouffville they might be able to cure it to have one person suffer where there might be a breakthrough if they could test serums on animals is not morally right a few hundred years ago a dog was a noble animal who earned his keep by protecting a home and rou ting out game for our forefathers to shoot now a dog has to be chained up in a yard never to run free but to wait for a handout from his master a dog is a pet to the children but how many of these same children who pet him also torture him i feel we should give the dogs a chance to be noble animals again let them protect not only our homes but our health if they die let them die for a cause like finding a cure for an incurable disease so fill out your forms to send them to ottawa but also pray none of your family ever contact a disease that might have been cured if a dog had given his life to make it curable russell richardson rr 3 stouffville dear sir i have read in your paper with much interest about sending stray dogs to labs and the people who are opposed to this this is my view on the subject i wonder how these people would feel if a loved one was ill with an in curable disease and they knew that if the labs had animals to try test on thirty years ago the world sat back and allowed the murder of six million jews when questioned by following generations claim they didnt know too many did know and did not protest i cant believe the canadian peo ple wish lo sit back and watch the annihilation of several million people black this time we know whats going on we can help relieve the starvation but a political solution in niageriabiafra is the only way to prevent the death of a people we must write to our mps and to mr trudeau and mr sharp urg ing the canadian government to take the initiative in seeking to have a political settlement brought about be fore it is too late ann griffiths rr 3 stouffville wht wrihunt jim thomas established 1888 c h nolan publisher editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stouftville tribune limited at 54 main st stouirville ont tel 6102101 single copies 15c subscriptions 500 per year in canada 750 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class trail post office dept ottawa birds of a feather by jim thomas if lady godiva should ride a pran cing palomino down the main street of stouffville on a sunny saturday afternoon the majority of weekend shoppers both men and women would undoubtedly stop and stare we are just far enough removed from the facts of bigcity life to re gard this kind of thing as unexpect ed oddity in toronto the good how ever nudity is becoming common place pick up any one of the three tor onto dailies turn to the entertain ment section and youll find bare this and topless that advertised everywhere phoney you say just a gimmick to get you in thats what i said once but no more seeing is surely believing i spent two hours in the relaxing atmosphere of the mynah bird coffee house yorkville ave friday night as ive said on occasions before the yorkville area is a oneblock world unto itself and although i de test the weird kind of characters that hang out there i still find it an in triguing place to visit it can also prove quite costly i parked the car on a public lot be tween university avenue and bay o the fee for this privilege was 75 cents ten steps later i was accosted by a pretty young thing with blue flow ers painted all over her face she politely requested a handout of ten cents i had nothing in that denom ination so very generously gave her a quarter so far i had spent one dollar and hadnt yet reached my chosen des tination i the floor show was scheduled for 830 i arrived at 825 following payment of 400 a longhaired lass in a short skirt ush ered me to a seat in the very front row the room was as dark as pitch lighted only by an occasional candle i ordered a cup of coffee another 75 cents after 20 minutes of staring across the table at my neighbor things be gan to happen j through the back door tiptoed a girl in her midteens completely bare from her waist up she hopped up on a threelegged stool under the glare of a highpow ered spot light her assistant also a 3 girl proceeded to draw several num bered squares triangles and rectang les over her bosom the idea of the game was for mem bers of the viewing audience to pick a number and personally fill in the spaces with a brush and fluorescent paint the open invitation was extended but not a single soul even moved you go said one no you be the first came the reply dont be bashful boys urged the girl she wont bite still no one ventured forth when it appeared that the show was about to fall flat on its face the mc called for two at a time with 475 already spent i felt it was high time i received some value for my money together with one other we agreed to perform this work of art he selected number 1 an extremely vulnerable spot i vol unteered for number 7 a square in the same general area but a little less personal he used green i had orange at high school i was a terrible artist in fact i was so bad that the teacher would often take my com- pleted sketch to the front of the room and say to the class this is what not to do i havent improved with age with every eye in the whole room watching each articulate stroke my j hand shook like a proverbial leaf on two occasions i brushed past my boundary line into sections 6 and 8 the only time she complained was when i missed the drawing board completely and splattered paint on her knees two storeys down but familiarity breeds contempt before the show was over three had left one man two seats away fell sound asleep others went back to drinking coffee i went home a little poorer but a whole lot wiser i