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page 10 the tribcnk thursday str 2s 1970 ijqiiiuhlj established 1888 bg f c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by inland publishing cb limited at 51 main st stouffville ont tel 6402101 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 0s96 editarial traffic lights needed residents in the bloomington area of whitchurch township are becoming increasingly concerned over the number of motor vehicle accidents at the eastwest county road and concession 9 they feel the erection of automatic traffic lights is the only answer we agree while the number of vehicles crisscrossing at this corner may fall short of department requirements for lights this argument is no longer valid its the type and not the amount of traffic that fills car- drivers with fear the majority are heavy trucks carrying large loads one mistake can be fatal with the handling of through- traffic in stouffville already a major problem more and more motorists will eventually swing around the town using the bloomington road as a bypass route but local drivers and lake residents utilizing the ninth line must be considered too at present the onus is on them to proceed when the way is clear the majority do make it too many however have not its on behalf of these people the dead and the injured that residents urge action they deserve to be heard stouffvilles private plum the stouffville arena is a private enterprize operated by a manager and a board of directors for the sole purpose of making money this it does some years more than others there are side benefits however it provides a service to residents of all ages and in addition pours an estimated 10000 into municipal coffers annually the village as a whole pays peanuts in return then the news breaks a closed- circuit sex show is booked and oh calcutta becomes a continuous subject of conversation folks who had never heard of it and who knew nothing at all about it suddenly become professional critics village council swings to the side of the puritans and a pressure ploy begins but why the concern is the village to be permanently tainted by a closed circuit telecast shown to a restricted adult audience at an abnormally high fee in a privatelyowned building we think not if the 2000 attendance figure is correct parking should be no problem payduty constables will be hired and paid for by the arena volunteer brigade members will enforce all fire regulations this too arranged by the rink there are those who feel the directors should cancel the contract even at the risk of court action all well and good but who among us would be willing to assist financially should such a litigation occur aside from the legal and financial aspects of this issue theres another important pointto be considered why should one segment of people be so privileged as to tell another what is best for him to see and hear why should one segment of people be so endowed with power as to enforce prejudicial thinking on another there was a day but no more we would suggest that anyone willing to spend 10 in such a way is a fool but its his money not yours and not mine and even fools have some rights editors mail dear jim in the toronto daily stars en tertainment section thursday september 17 1970 under the headline too oh oh for metro stouffville will peek there is a release promoting the showing here in stouffville of the controversial broadway play oh calcutta there have not been to my knowledge any local attempts made to promote this plays showing over closedcircuit tv on sept 28 as advertised in the star although described by its creator as tasteful pornography it has been declaimed by most critics as complete garbage dirty and unabashed sensuality this sort of entertainment as a theatrical precedent from broad way in stouffville is certainly not needed there are many better shows we could see i am sure i realize that i sound prudish however i feel that the stouffville arena board would be on better ground if they put the ice in the rink and forgot their ambitious desires to become theatrical impresarios pornography in our arena it sure wont help the stickhandling jack watson 45 tenth line south stouffville dear sir your article in last weeks edition regarding some opinions which were quoted at the public meeting of planning board may have been misinterpreted the council and planning board are obviously concerned with the destiny of the main street merchants and rightly so much effort has been spent by all concerned trying to come up with workable solutions to the parking problem it would appear that council can not afford to purchase older properties tear down buildings and provide parking it would also be most difficult to have 10 or 15 merchants buy and operate the needed land for parking their varied economic situations the size of their stores the apathy of some and many other factors would almost prevent merchants from entering into a mutually owned parking area i wonder if the planning authorities would consider zoning the areas adjacent to the downtown core for high rise apartments condominiums town houses etc in this way developers would be en couraged to redevelop the area and provide their own parking would not 200 apartment suites adjacent to the main shopping area give a great boost to the main core what better location than within walking distance of the post office and merchants eager to serve apartment dwellers are demanding all the amenities closeby with the forthcoming elections for positions in the new regional government approaching quickly it is hoped that the electorate will make sure that stouffville has local representation in order that the personal touch is retained respectively submitted gerry meharg gerry meharg limited ok mead td to me toffee apples l a mead tm jhn to the toffee apples isugar and spice and what have you got to tell by bill smiley feeling a glow of satisfaction when a human being in this age of anonymity and conformity reacts to an intolerable situation with a fine individual rage we all have a wild streak in us a spark ready to catch fire but we usually manage to smother it under the wet blanket of societys manners and morals and a good thing too but sometimes a pity there is no better purge of tension than a good blaze of anger once in a while sometimes this streak is warped and it comes out in vandalism sadism or blind violence but within every man however humble and unassuming bides a black panther and within every woman behind those smiles and makeup and hairspray and deodorant lurks a leopardess just recently i went out to get some corn at a roadside stand there were two bushel baskets and this godawful woman and her slob of a husband were going through every ear of corn ripping down the husks and throwing the discards back this is the epitome of bad taste i stood behind them waiting blood coming to a boil just as i was ready to hurl a searing bolt of in vective at them the farm kids rolled i dont advocate taking the law into ydur own hands but cant help dear editor just a word of commendation to the men on stouffville council who took a stand against the showing of old calcutta in the arena it is not easy in this era of eroticism to maintain some semblance of moral dignity but i feel there are many who if they would voice their in dignation to the sexual slime flooding the basement of the mind could apply the brakes to the otherwise inevitable social chaos ahead mrs delia soper rr 2 pickering wmam dear jim i want to express my sincere appreciation for your fine article on eleanor moyer and the 25th an niversary of dorioh bible camp in the aug 6 edition of the tribune i heard several fine comments about the article which was of special delight to many of her relatives and friends we continue to appreciate the fine layout of the tribune in general thank you again for your article dick ohlman ont director i a point of view two neat trim and exceedingly pretty girls both wearing mini- dresses were assisting in the posting of candidates names prior to the nomination meeting in stouffville high school monday night two men seated in the very front row were watching the girls intently suddenly one of them breaking the spell of silence turned to the other and said if regional government is responsible for things like that then im all for it up with a wagon loaded with big green luscious cobs fresh off the stalk i walked back to the stand and plunked their juicy carcasses right down beside old greedyguts who had just paid for a much inferior dozen the look on her face poured oil on my troubled waters and then there was a flying in structor i was going to strangle as soon as we landed however he was about sixtwo to my fiveeight and id have needed a pail to stand on so i settled by telling him to go to hell amazingly he sidled off and thats the last i heard of it people in authority are often cowards just show them your teeth and claws another strangling i contemplated was that of a german sergeant who had put the boots to me just as soon as im untied ill kill him even if he kills me but i wasnt untied for several days and by that time we were buddies i smoking his pipe and the pair of us jabbering away in a stew of french german and english these were comparatively simple incidents but they happen to most people lets hear about some of yours v a couple of recent news stories convinced me that man has not been turned into a grey cypher even in this smothering society a chap in miami had sent his prize dog via airline to texas for stud purposes the dog was worth 25000 the airline goofed and somehow the dog was returned to florida where it was found to be dead of heat prostration now the logical civilized thing to do would be to sue the airline of course you might spend a year or two in the courts with a possibility of losing the case and winding up with a mitt full of legal bills this fellow chose direct action he went to the airport with an axe and started hacking at the underbelly of an aircraft he did damage worth 100000 before he was stopped foolish but somehow admirable this is no computerized man more like the charge of the light brigade then there was this 84 year old gentleman who was living with a 59 year old lady in her trailer home she threw him over for a 72 year old rooster who kicked him out of the trailer what could he do go to the police nope there was no charge he could lay the lady had tran sferred her favors to another and that was that but he wasnt foiled he struck back he made a firebomb and set fire to the trailer causing 15000 damage boy i hope i can be as jealous and resourceful as that when im 84 mm i 4fluunt the bare facts portraits of the past remember july 29 1950 it wasa saturday afternoon when a sudden cloudburst poured six inches of water on the hamlet of goodwood downstream damage was extensive like in front of nighswanders mill near altona there a bridge was washed away and a deep channel gouged out of the lane that was 20 years ago cadieux studio by jim thomas as most folks already know stouffville and unionville made national news headlines last week and while in my opinion there are many events in both com munities on which tv cameramen could focus their attention nudism be it male or female immediately sets the film reels awhirring why because people or a segment of people are interested in such things im not at least not to the extent that id sacrifice ten dollars grocery money for a front row seat on the red line but there are two or three thousand who will not from stouffville but from neighboring metro that sodom metropolis to the south but lets deal separately with the two cases in point in front of union villa west of unionville is a kind of weird but supposedly wonderful work of art its a wroughtiron statue depicting an elderly man holding a little boy in his hands high over his head i would never have known if i hadnt been told the gentleman in question is completely bare from the tip of his metal toe to the top of his metal head a condition that out of either embarrassment or jealousy prompted several men get that men to complain being neither knowledgeable nor appreciative of abstract art i wouldnt know if the statue is in good taste or bad to me its an ugly metal monster a kind of long- spouted pump that had just blown its primer so what does the home management decide to do rather than face a barrage of crackpot calls they cover it up entwining a piece of heavy plastic about the mans body but here again they un derestimate the frailties of human nature the desire to learn what secrets lie beneath becomes an obsession and the obsession turns to violence many visited the villa site sunday tugging and pulling all trying for a closer look hes just beautiful he really is commented i one girl about fourteen her com panion about the same age giggled agreement and they left their curiosity satisfied and so that statue remains its wroughtiron organs bared to the t elements of nature and the teehees of teenage girls meanwhile in another community stouffville another board of directors arena faces the wrath of a disturbed populace however j theres a difference the showing of oh calcutta will on last report go on as scheduled no cuts no coverups but wow what a howl its enough to send president ken roberts diving for the nearest sand dune and even the politicians have entered the act prime television time all for free and a week before elections too why even the gallant pierre couldnt swing such favors and for what a sex romp on a closedcircuit tv screen in a privatelyowned arena for a restricted age group at 10 a head j it all sounds a bit overdone to me stop now and think of other forms of entertainment offered publicly in the very same building hockey games that have ended in riotous freeforalls wrestling matches v with bodies even girls flying helterskelter all over the ring and of course that naughty tsk tsk game called bingo but nary a call nary a complaint strange an answer you ask a solution r you say youre right i promised and its this for the opponents of oh calcutta stay at home lock your doors and keep company with lucy for the board of directors of union villa the immediate pur chase of a giantsized jockstrap xi