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page 2 the tribune thursday jan 8 1970 emergency storage required within recent weeks the health and welfare committee of the stouffville lions club has received several requests for clothing and household items for families in this area in all cases the supply has more than equalled the demand thus cre ating another problem theres no nlaee currently available to store what is left over accommodation of this kind could serve a twofold purpoe number one it would provide storage space for donated goods that otherwise might become damaged or even des troyed number two it would provide emergency relief for anyone faced with an immediate need parents and children could be taken to the storage quarters and fitted with the items they require everything would be categorized according to size a group of ladies have already volunteered for this the tribune is asking that anyone with facilities available to fill this need contact either of these num bers 6103702 or 6403885 council appointments soon very shortly now the council in stouffville and other municipalities in the area will be faced with the prob lem of making their annual appoint ments to various special boards there always arises the question of whether or not to continue with the same people or seek new blood if so where is it going to come from few municipal heads have an answer members for the planning board committee of adjustment park board library board all fall into this category there are usually sufficient citi zens who will be willing to take these jobs but how do you select them do you reappoint someone who has serv ed in a most capable and efficient manner for years or appoint a new comer so that new ideas and new life may be introduced some benefit is derived from a sys tem of maximum number of years or terms such as is employed on the planning board in this way when a members time has been reached a new appointment can be made with out causing hard feelings on the other hand this can cause the retire ment of a wellqualified person whom you might want to retain in that position a factor that enters the picture locally is that members of the plan ning board and committee of adjust ment are paid for their services this can tend to give more assurance that those willing to take the nonpaying positions are sincerely interested in the work of the board to which they are appointed despite all the pros and cons of the problem it would seem in all fairness to the community and the individuals concerned that a selection of qualified newcomers should be considered along with the incumbents and the appoint ments made on the basis of their interests qualifications and experi ence it is a problem not to be taken lightly and despite councils fairest intentions there will still remain the danger that some member of many years service will feel that he or she has been dumped with little thought of appreciation of the years of service to the community secrecy creates suspicion the council of the township of whitchurch enters the new year with two new members in the nomination and subsequent election of gordon ratcliff and mer- lyn baker the ratepayers put their faith in two men whom they felt could serve the municipality in a spirit of cooperation and at the same time stand alone if such a stand was necessary aside from personal illwill within its ranks the council of 6869 cre ated its own problems by holding too many policymaking meetings in committee on at least one occasion a resolu tion approved in public was nulified in private on the very same night the press attempting to keep pace became as confused as the electorate there is a place for council discus sion behind closed doors the news media respects this but the respect for privacy is soon shattered when the practice is done to extreme why then the secrecy did the council indeed have something to hide like say an alleged 1000 dis crepancy in 1968 tax receipts and what about the dumping of liquid industrial waste in an open dis posal area did the council not know about it and if they were aware of it why couldnt they stop it a simple explanation from some one could have provided the answers were still waiting r a snowcovered trail in uxbridge twp old man winter has the township of uxbridge in its grip with little relief in slghtthls snowy trail is sideline 25 looking east from concession 4 peter harris by bill smiley arris i you probably have some predic tions for the 1970s as i do lets see how they match remember this is for the whole decade not just 1970 lets get rid of the dirty ones first there is going to be more and more racial trouble and this means more and more violence hatred killing and cruelty both physical and psycholo gical the whites are going to be be leaguered and are going to fight back ruthlessly most of them there is going to be more and more pollution noise air water despite the strenuous efforts of a vocal mi nority to do something about it the almitrhtv buck will continue to dictate policy in this field taxes will go on rising and infla tion will go on inflating the only solution would be rigid controls of wages rent food etcand no poli tician will have the guts to impose them and if he did the public would raise a holocaust of hue and cry that would send him smartly back to his law practice the standard of living will increase and so will the standard of dying well have more things and well kill ourselves faster getting them there will be just as many poor people in 1976 as there were in 1966 and probably more people talking about it and doing less people will drink more and think less the drug scene will make the sixties look like a sunday school pic nic where somebody had too much lemonade the vietnam war will peter out ig- nominiously the communists of north vietnam will take over there will be vicious purges and then the vietnamese will go about their busi ness of rebuilding and living millions of todays hinnies will be sick with arthritis and kidney trouble will be on welfare and wondering why they did it the arabs will continue their ef forts to wipe out the jews and get some bloody noses in the process husbands will continue to beat up their wives on saturday night or vice versa education will go through its low est swing of the pendulum in 100 years as the discipline of learning is replaced by having a ball doing pro jects and talking when you havent anything to talk with or about canada will become a very junior partner of uncle sam inc that is if it first doesnt become a gaggle of minor republics with about as much international prestige as monaco sounds like a pretty sordid seven ties doesnt it but it wont be that bad thats the big picture and big pictures are often thirdrate as wit ness most of the bigscreen movies youve seen lately in the little subjective world where the individual lives it isnt all black babies will continue to be born and chuckle and have their little soft bel lies blown on and be precious and funny and utterly delightful for a few years and the foul brown mud of march will gradually give way to the lush green grass of may and the dead black twigs of winter will become the green mist of april and the rich joy of tune and the brutal winds and biting cold of february will inevitably turn into the hroiling brown beach of julv and the wheat and the peaches will turn to gold and the potatoes will come up plump and firm and scabless and the fish will be fat and the beef will be beefy and perhaps you will do something good and kind and perhaps someone will say something that makes you think you are worthwhile and per haps you will have model teenagers hah and perhaps you will grow in understanding and love and per haps your cat wont have kittens personally i think tht seventies will be like most of the other ages of man black and white grey and orange blue and gold well all we can do is wait and see chaps but dont hold your breath waiting for my predictions to be wrong just carry on and live each day as a precious gift which will never come to you again happy seventies i dear sir in the jan 1 issue of the tribune a news item appeared concerning a conviction of fraud registered against the rev edward smith now of toronto the story referred to rev smiths former pastoral charge as the stouff ville pentecostal church this is not correct while rev smiths former congre gation meets in stouffville it is known as the full gospel church the stouffville pentecostal church congregation meets in the altona community centre and is in no way connected with the full gospel group or rev smith while i can easily understand how this confusion might occur i hope you will be kind enough to print this letter to clear up the wrong impres sion that may have been created a member name withheld upon request i think it is fitting that we should begin this new decade on the theme of international education year there can b no doubt that because of the space achievements of our neighbors to the south and their counterparts in russia the last year of this decade saw the most startling events in the history of mankind as we enter the seventies i would like to see the united nations theme of international education year ex tended for the decade in prcatice if not by resolution for it seems to hold promise of a greater sharing of knowledge methods and ideas among the peoples of the world this of course can only lead to a better un derstanding of each others way of life and each others problems for we here in ontario the seven ties mean change change in the me thods of educating our children in the buildings in which they will learn and in the subjects we uaeh them this change is already underway in our secondary school system through individualized timetabling and other innovations which will become more common as we move into this new decade we must continue to strive to treat each child as an individual to provide the subjects and the methods that will allow all children to develop to the best of their potential i believe that during international education year one of my depart ments programs pioject school-to- school will have a more significant meaning both for the thousands of ontario school children involved in it and for their counterparts in the is lands of commonwealth caribbean it provides a simple means for the young and active minds of our chil dren to become involved in the world community it gives them the chance to gain first hand knowledge of day- today life in far off lands more important they learn to res pect the racial and cultural dif ferences that exist but most of all they learn these things in a true spirit of international cooperation and goodwill amongst men which to me is the key to the success of inter national education year happy new year william g davis minister of education dear sir on behalf of the executives of the whitby curling club the 4th annual ontario dunlop invitational bonspiel committee and dunlop canada limit ed i would like to extend our sincere appreciation to you your staff and your media for the excellent recep tion and support of our recent bon spiel without your continuing interest and support we could not have achieved the success we now enjoy in this event r p creber manager advertising and sales promotion us wkc wributit established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by inlanc publishing co limited at 54 main st stouhvllle 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 second class mail registration number 0896 the suggestion box for 1970 by jim thomas the new year of 1970 is now eight days old for most folks myself included the resolutions made jan 1 have al ready come to an illfated end while my own personal pledges are invrriably broken within a week or so this does not mean that i cannot offer a few helpful hints for others to follow in the twelve months that lie ahead so here goes to uxbrdee twp council install a hot seat in the toilet of the community hall at goodwood and turn it up on high for the next sit ting of the ontario municipal board to the stouffville community centre board toss a few flowers to the living and designate the sleigh slope in the west end village park as hunts hill in honour of its originator sunoco- man mickey hunt to the stoxffville home and school association encourage more fathers to attend meetings regularlv by appointing staff teacher mrs pat byer the hon orary president to stouffville reeve ken laushwav install a pa system in the village council chambers as a convenience to the twicemonthly delegation of two that occupies the gallerys front row to whitchurch reeve stewart burnett carve a peep hole in the committee room door at vandorf as a conveni ence to members of the press who would dearly love to know whats going on to fire chief walter smith plug up the skunks hole in the mens euchre room at the rear of the stouffville fireball to uxbridge twp reeveelect bob nesbitt resist the urge to place a stick of dynhmite under the new century city sign come halloween night to jrorkcentre mp donald deacon blear up once and for all time the agoold question of what a thorough- bi au scot wears under his kilt topickering twp reeve john wil liams remove all his municipal election signs posted throughout the munici- pality they could create some con fusion when the next provincial elec tion rolls around to dr g ross lord metro and re gion conservation chairman preserve the area at the base of the stouffville dam as a midwinter playground for children as well as frogs to stouffville councillor tom loner- kan nail down the plank in your elec tion platform and follow through on the promise to improve the lighting on main street to the ontario county road depart ment remove the death trap hazard at the intersection of sideline 2425 and cone 9 pickering west of claremont to stouffville village council trade in the towns 1966 pontiac runabout and buy the police depart ment a snowmobile to the canadian pacific railway install automatic warning lights at all roads crossed by the toronto to peterborough dayliner to al uxbridge twp gravel truck drivers yielfi the rightofway to council lor clark muirhead to john foulds second street stouffville nomination for father-of-the- year award to reverend gordon gooderham the ability to write with a pen in stead of a knife to arthur starr york board of edu cation a policy of reporting regularly to village council and taxpayers to howard burton of brougham realization of a desire to be left alone to harry hooper cape coral florida acceptance of an invitation that says wish you were here to all roaming around readers a happy new year to myself a snowmobile in my stocking next christmas