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page 2 the tribune thursday jun 26 1969 revolution in store hours the struggle of retailers over who is going to open for business and when goes on and on in fact of late it has heated up considerably at one time management determined the hours the store would be open now it would seem more and more the customer dictates the hours we recall when stores in stouffville stayed open from eight in the morn ing until ten or eleven at night sat urday night was the big shopping night in rural communities such as this we remember how the farmers used to talk on the street corners until nearly closing time and then dash off to shop before the stores closed ten to tenthirty was often the busiest time of the week progress and improved labor laws brought a reduction in these hours storekeepers began to take wednes day off then monday and then sat urday night generally merchants prefer to lim it shopping to traditional hours how ever there is a new breed of merch andiser with massive stocks and big staffs who fight for the right to pro vide night shopping in stouffville most business places are closed on monday some are open thursday nights and all are open friday night there is no municipal restrictions on these hours and so it would seem that merchants will need to keep in close touch with one an other if they are to provide the most convenient centre in which to shop taking into consideration the new trend keep the lid on with education now under the con trol of a county board there are in creasing indications that municipal councils are no longer so concerned about population explosions within their own borders some members have even stated so publicly thte kind of senseless thinking could prove financially disastrous as pointed out by york board of edu cation chairman john j mackay last week mr mackay said that no less than 26 new subdivision plans had been brought to the boards attention in the past six months representing a student enrollment of 12000 chil dren previously under the old system with one board for every town and township the concern for school cost construction ranked high on the agenda whenever a proposed residen tial development was presented now with the cost factor spread over not 1 but 14 municipalities councils concern over education ex penditures has lost its priority rank ing mr mackay warned that if the trend continues the board would have no alternative but to appeal to a higher authority to enforce sub division restrictions action of this kind should not be necessary but isnt this the thinking at all government levels today the one just below feels the one just above has a key to inexhaustible funds and hell continue to ask for more little realizing that the only source of supply are taxpayers like you and me strength in numbers the east york plowmens asso ciation has through the years rep resented an extremely active organi zation it has produced some excellent plowmen capable of meeting and beating the best in the province but time changes things and no one knows this better than rural resi dents past and present of markham and scarboro dirt farms as such are becoming less and less likewise dirt farmers interested in the promotion of match competition are becoming fewer and fewer add one problem to the other and the result is obvious the asso ciation an entity unto itself soon must fold if not this year then next this is unfortunate since the executive includes many active mem bers who would be interested in carrying on in some capacity we feel that amalgamation of the east and north york plowmens as sociation is the answer perhaps the king and vaughan group could also be included up to now north york has not felt the pinch of urbanization that has affected its neighbors to the south but at the present rate of en croachment that time may not be too far distant theres strength in numbers however and this fact de serves serious consideration four ghosts in the sky i four huge 70foot silos stretch into the sky on the property of d h s i ranch hwy 48 and isth avenue markham township structures of this kind i are becoming numerous throughout the countryside staff photo i i i i i a i i e i i i i i i i i i i i i l do you remember ss no 9 uxbridge garibaldi 1933 this classroom photo dating back to 1933 will stir a few memories for students who attended garibaldi public school ss no 9 uxbridge twp durlne that vear the pupils are 1 to r back row shirley ross florabelle meyers elsie brown beatrice meyers elva elliott lillian bacon alma ward teacher willis taylor murray mcgillivray robert mcgillivray herb yakeley centre row 1 to r olive elliott alice tindall shirley mcguck- in anita wagg blanche bacon laura campbell lillian ross zella brown lillian brown harold meyers harold morgason kenneth bacon front row 1 to r ronald taylor danny vvagg john yakeley gordon elliott ronnie yakeley don mcgillivray stewart mcguckin allen taylor lome morgason albert yakeley sugar and spice its been quite a month dont talk to me about a bear with a sore head hed back down the trail like a bunny if he met a teacher in june with a sore tooth right now im willing to take on anything up to and including a grizzly june is the month in which nothing is so rare as a day according to browning or somebody and for school teachers its a month in which every day is a hard nights work the teacher is plagued by paper work which could be done by a 15 year old moron an administration which is twice as stupid as he thought it was and students who are bored from the bellybutton both ways by school throw in a throbbing tooth and youve got yourself a mean critter the month started off fittingly with everybody forgetting my birthday on the 2nd the only card i received was from my insurance company a card which annually infuriates me next day one of those nicotine- tanned stumps which my dentist laughingly calls teeth began to kick up down and sideways ever since if i had any guts id tie a string around it fasten the string to a door knob and slam the door however i have as many guts as i have teeth so i go on trying to save this one i cant even bite a marshmallow without going into orbit so ive prac tically gone on a liquid diet for weeks this has its disadvantages which is worse every morning a tooth ache or a hangover and how would you like both as is our custom my wife and i went to the annual leacock medal award dinner recently ive been a judge in the competition for several years and enjoy meeting a few big shots and finding their feet are made of the same kind of clay as my own despite the snide comments of some writers from the big dailies its a good party in a good cause keeping alive and fresh the works and memory of canadas and one of the worlds greatest comic writers this years winner was stuart trueman whose book youre only as old as you act is good enter tainment mr trueman a maritimer was salty the chairman richard doyle editor of the globe and mail was even wittier and should write a book the venerable if not blessed harry boyle a witty writer and edi tor under his farmboy facade was there and was witty in fact the whole thing was excru- tiatingly funny for many painful for me my wife galloped through a huge and excellent dinner darting her eyes at my plate where nothing was missing except a few of the in evitable green peas which i had man aged to mumble just as dinner began i had a ter rible attack of leaping bicuspid and couldnt eat a bite i decided the only- thing to do was to paralyze the tooth i tried but it refused to play all i succeeded in doing was para lyzing the rest of me meanwhile car rying on about my tooth bravely of course to such an extent that my wife remarked later it was like hav ing a crying baby in church however it all worked out fine we went to a small gathering after the dinner and incredible numbers of young pretty college girls hovered about me fetching me aspirin gin and other medications meanwhile my old lady spent an hour or so straightening out the edi tor of the globe and mail i fully expected to find this column on the front page on monday morning but there it was the same old melange of world crises and murders and stale by bill smiley speeches of cabinet ministers not content with my physical suf fering young kim hit me in june with another wallop she wanted a loan toward an electric piano after a sufficient number of things like fie on thee wench and youre going to have to pay interest you know i buckled and am now subsi dizing one of those rotten groups to the tune of 200 all that was needed to make it a ringdinger of a month were the headlines about electricians getting 650 an hour and the interest rates soaring daily a great month june for blackflies ktmto1kj dear sir i am a nonresident of stouffville so i buy the tribune as much for its advertising value as for its news con tent your staff is to be commended on both with regard to advertising only however i wish to say that no work of art whoever was responsible could be more eyecatching than the full page from altona feed and supplies published june 19 it was a master piece of ingenuity and skill keep up the good work i enjoy the paper immensely arnold harris rr 1 unionville dear sir please find enclosed my renewal to the tribune for two years i want you to know how much we appreciate the items of goodwood news written by eleanor todd and the very interesting letters in your paper every week i was very pleased to notice mr cunningtons interest in preserving the heritage of the area within the confines of the proposed century city development through the use of past citizens names on streets and other locations my father lived on 150 acres at cone 3 uxbridge twp for 75 years and remembered his father clearing a piece of land by cutting piling and burning trees to make room for the erection of a house and barn the original house had four rooms added to it 65 years ago the barn was torn down and then rebuilt in 1918 this i remember i would be delighted to have some part of that 150 acres remembered in my parents names should mr cunnington be inter ested i would be pleased to hear from him mrs frank judd orillia rr 7 ontario dear sir i would like to pass comment on the crosswalk problem in stouffville in my opinion the key to the sit uation is that motorists using hwy 47 to reach the cottage country are unaware of alternate routes to by pass the main street what is needed is either oneway streets running parallel to main or offstreet parking in the business area further if you observe the cross walks you will find that parking is allowed up to and sometimes on the restricted zones if the merchants feel that they benefit from through traffic on week ends why not have them employ high school students as guards dur ing busy periods it would provide work where it is needed and halt the continual and erratic flow of pedes trians that can hold up cars and create traffic chaos m r jones goodwood mm wix wrihum established 1888 fimmzp- c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel eoey advertising published every thursday by the stoufrvllle tribune limited at 51 main st stotiitvillc ont tel 6102101 single copies 15c subscriptions 500 per year in canada 750 elsewhere merricr of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 the unpardonable sin by jim thomas its not spelled out in the marriage vows but in my wifes opinion it should be irresponsible neglect of this un written law can mean the difference between a happy family home and a house of torn shreds by disappoint ment and despair its the unpardonable sin and im guilty i forgot our wedding anniversary it was ten years ago june 20 1959 that rev fleetham tied the nuptial knot in a ceremony conducted at the united church in the community of greenwood the date itself had been synono- mous with the very first time i caught her eye seated all frilly and smiley behind a typewriter in the office of charles cooper limited at claremont i was a kinda shy guy in those days and although i wanted to ask her out in the worst way i could never mus ter sufficient nerve i knew too that i wasnt the only toad in the puddle in fact it was no secret that compe tition was keen days added up into weeks and weeks to months our friendship never progressed further than a mon day morning hello then one afternoon in a moment of wreckless abandon i gave her a call i can remember the conversation like it was yesterday my heart kept popping into my mouth every time i talked out of sympathy more than desire she accepted the invitation we attended a stouffville lions ladies night at former shadow lake park then operated by eatons that was june 20 1955 we became engaged june 20 1958 and were married on the same date one year later that e was susan barry paul cathy and neil ago now with no builtin babysitter our travels for the most part in clude the entire family this of course creates certain problems but last friday was to have been different we had reserved a table for two at a rather secluded night spot in toronto complete with enter tainment and all the trimmings un fortunately i neglected to circle the calendar and with no private secre tary to remind me of the occasion i just plain forgot my wife would have forgiven this lapse of memory but the reason for the sudden cancellation of plans was for her a source of considerable ir ritation for you see i had exchanged ten years of loyal love honor and obedience for the sake of youll never guess a donkey it was george staley of greenwood who submitted the proposal by tele phone were having a donkey base ball game down here he said hows chances of coming down and taking part before i could answer yes or no he continued i was pretty sure you would so i went ahead and put your name in the lineup i hope its okay friday night i answered finally sounds fine ill be there the last time i had ridden bare back on one of the mangy beasts was about six years ago they gave me a wild critter called leapin lena and i was airborn from home plate to first i swore id never take the chance again but time has a way of healing things lena and i had a second date with destiny at home the announcement was greeted by something less than joy ous exhuberance dont you know what friday the 20th is asked my wife her eyes grew all kihda red- rimmed and watery i played donkey baseball friday but my heart wasnt in the game i was ashamed that in ten short years i should forget an occasion that had meant so much to both of us or should have the family watched my asinine performance from the sidelines two hours later they were back in the car and headed for home what did you think of it i asked anyone still wide enough awake to answer it was okay dad replied son barry except it was hard to tell you from the donkey i had that trouble too agreed a voice from the front seat the message came through loud and clear