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pace 2 thk tribune thurvtaj june 3 1971 established 188s c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor jwna published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 51 main st stouffville ont tel sto2101 single copies 15c subscriptions s500 per year in canada 5900 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 jectitriai mini morals bernie smith a freelance youth worker and formerly a staff member with intervarsity christian fellowship addressed two separate assemblies of junior and senior students at stouffville dist secondary school may 27 he was frank and certainly en tertaining holding the attention of his young audience throughout his address but on one point that he stressed continually we disagree and from questions raised later in a classroom confrontation many of the students did too mr smith argued that ministyles popular with the majority of teen girls and older today were morally wrong since they tended to turn on boys in a way that could lead to unprincipled behavior poppycock while we are in no position to judge the kind of lecherous conduct associated with young people in mr smiths hometown of warren ohio or in barrie ontario where he now resides we would suggest that the very insinuation tends to place human morality at an animal level this we dont believe to be so theres not a man among us whose head isnt turned at the sight of a mini- skirted girl on main street but few if any would be so turned on by the view as to sweep her off her feet and head for the hills poor public relations the dept of highways for some unexplained reason has removed all welcome signs erected recently on the boundary outskirts in the expanded town of markham the action followed the publishing of a picture of one of these signs in the tribune their sudden disappearance resulted in several phone calls to this office questioning the legitimacy of the photo and the exact location of the roadside marker we checked and lo and behold it was gone however we wish it known that the original sign was no act of trick photography or optical illusion a fact supported by the markham road engineer but the existence of same was of rather short duration we considered the idea an excellent one particularly on the towns north limit where the line is divided between lots rather than utilizing a boundary road secondly it designates a particular area something that many people still find difficult to understand thirdly it gives residents within that area a sense of belonging about the only personal aspect weve yet seen in the whole regional system the town is now seeking means of penetrating department red tape even to the point of reerecting the signs on private property this is ridiculous if highway brass are still a little miffed over the fact that no official approval was given the project were sure the town employees would voice no objection if they dug the holes and erected the markers themselves j and while theyre at it they can dig out a few holes more the town of whit- churchstouffville could use a little roadside advertizing too sanctity was preserved the 100 year old mt pisgah united church northwest of gormley is no more its sale has ended officially the buildings status as a religious sanctuary within the community the structure will be demolished and removed from the site there were many people present at the auction saturday not to purchase anything or even see anything sold but solely out of respect respect for an in stitution they had known all their lives and that respect was maintained to the very end thanks to the conduct of the sale by auctioneer alvin farmer such has not always been the case at similar church auctions weve attended at one point when mr farmer ad monished a man for lighting up a cigarette in the building the congregation applauded we applauded too the sanctity of the little country chapel was preserved to the final amen editors mail dear jim the executive of the couples club has asked me to forward a copy of a letter which was sent to york regional board of education following the presentation of music mania this year the letter follows the secretary york regional board of education dear sir i have been instructed by the executive of the stouffville united church couples club to question the fees charged by your board for the use of stouffville district secondary school for our annual show music mania the cost for our 1970 show was 8973 this year the cost was 25550 i realize that one more day was involved this year and that your schedule of rates has increased however this seems to be a tremendous increase i should like to point out that our show receives the endorsement of the local parks and recreation committee as a community project also that every dollar possible is donated to charity this year a sum of 85000 to participation house i reaie that the board has a schedule and must stick to it however it is the feeling of our executive that the fees this year were too high and that the board should in the future make special con cessions to organizations such as ours whose intent is not to become rich but only to help some worthwhile charity at the same time developing a community spirit which is truly evident in the countless hours of time donated by a hundred or more citizens involved in our annual presentation thanking you for past courtesies and hoping this letter will be considered by the board at its next meeting i remain stanley j schmidt secretary stouffville united church couples club they cant lose mayor ken laushway is arranging a tug- ofwar as one of many events in the whitchurchstouffville sports day july 1 presumably between the town council and opposition of equal strength and virility commented one program organizer with councillor merlyn baker as an anchor man the home team cant lose the gift of kindness by scott young a man was telling me about his sum mer cottage i didnt know he owned one it happened like one of those things you dream about he said you know a little old lady leaves you one in her will a relative i asked no he said my motherinlaw is a nurse and had helped look after this lady after her husband died we got to know her that way yeah but why did she leave you the cottage i asked this man is in his thirties deals in real estate and has a wife and two children he is a hefty man with a round face and he laughs a lot i do not know how well he does in real estate he is not one of the biggest operators but he is not one of the smallest either all i knew about her really was that she owned a house and rented but rooms he said i thought that was her sole means of livelihood then she got phlebitis and eventually had to have one leg amputated i remember when i went to see her in the hospital she told me that she had had the amputated leg buried it had something to do with her religion so here i am one leg under the ground and the other on a banana peel she said i think it was the kind of guts she had that made me think of taking her out for drives 5 used to have a board in the car id lay the board across from her wheel chair to the seat if i was feeling strong id pick her up and sort of slide her across he laughed but lots of times i wasnt feeling strong and id just put the board there and tell her to slide across by herself sort of bum her way across he said eventually the other leg had to come off too but talk about guts the last little while she was alive and she was over 70 she was taking taxis downtown to the hospital several times a week to practice walking on artificial legs he said that these drives sometimes were a drag for him theyd come at the end of a long day when hed like to go home but he said once you start a thing like that you cant stop you know thats what i always told myself that she looked forward to the drives so much that id be a heck of a guy if i started to find ways to get out of it anyway eventually she died the rest of her body followed the legs that had been buried earlier and of course all our family was sorry to see her go wed got pretty attached to her and the sharp tongue she had and the part she played in our lives then one night i got home and found that her will had been probated and she had left us this cottage up north a beautiful 200foot lot on a good lake grass right to the water and lots of room itll sleep 20 comfortably do you go up there all summer i asked the family does he said i go up on the weekends but it still seems one of those things you dream about to me the obvious moral is that kindness paid off i prefer the less obvious moral because when thousands of families head out of canadian towns and cities in the next few weeks therell be this one to whom the gift had been given and i mean the gift of kindness not the gift of the cottage one clothes peg please holidayers all roads lead to ontarios provincial parks read a news release from the dept of lands and forests well hardly over the past holiday weekend i took my family on a scenic tour through the resort centre of wasaga beach piled up on the shoreline were millions of dead fish with millions more in the water the stench was terrible and yet thousands of bathers lay on the sand soaking up the sun some even eating their lunch whitchurch ss no 12 bethesda 1938 this photo should rekindle memories for pupils of bethesda public school ss no 12 whitchurch twp the year is 1938 back row teacher stanley mcdowell lloyd bolender leonard brillinger elsie taun mane scott mae foster harvey wideman fourth row marion ferguson dorothy taun marguerite preston harold ferguson harold wideman ipreston arsenault third row donna arsenault jean reaman shirley taun margaret wideman paul bolender alan em- pringham arnold brillinger robert ar- senault oral preston roy scott earl 1 wideman second row barbara steckley joy grove lois taun thelma preston joyce taun dorothy foster doreen i ferguson louie bolender grace bolen- i der dorothy brillinger jean em- g pringham front row glen taun robert 1 clubine eugene ferguson edward ar- i senault buddy muirhead douglas reaman glen wideman roy arsenault i gordon ferguson jack ferguson harold atkinson i 4fluunt jack and chris grant and linda by jim thomas if i have a minute to spare and am going any distance i seldom pass a hitch hiker im not sure why but suppose its because ive done a fair amount of it myself and i know what its like to beg for a lift while hundreds of drivers breeze by hardly giving you a glance my wife thinks im crazy she feels its too risky particularly at night when all kinds of characters are on the prowl and i suppose shes right but aside from the odd inebriate ive never had an unfortunate experience with anyone in fact quite the opposite ive met some real great guys and girls all with a story to tell and more than willing to tell it on occasions ive driven a few miles out of my way just to carry the con versation further this summer more than ever the highways are crowded with kids most of them students some hiking to the next town the next province or across canada i like this adventuresome spirit if i was twenty years younger id hit the open road myself so it was that on friday i spotted a couple of hikers at the intersection of main and the tenth i took them to be girls its sometimes hard to tell these days and they were real nice looking kids they hopped in one in the front and the other in the back expressing ap preciation for the ride and at the same time explaining they were going less than a mile visiting here i asked no we live here replied the passenger up front i stopped at the laneway entrance to the former home of les wideman now part of the century city property naturally the thought of two young ladies living alone in a rather dilapidated looking house on the outskirts of town prodded my curiosity i wanted to learn- more but didnt have time theres got to- be a story there i said to myself j late saturday afternoon i returned- hoping to rekindle the conversation that had been cut so short the day before but- what a shock my bold knock at the side door was met not by two friendly girlish faces but by two very manish looking- a chaps one with a mop of windblown locks that fell down past his shoulders i and the other sporting an iroquoistype headband without a feather my first thought was to turn tail and run but the feeling of an arrow em bedded in my britches made me recon- sider i told them who i was and what i was doing there they asked me in there i was introduced to jack and grant chris and linda the two i had met informally on friday had taken the bus to i toronto and had not yet come home their help however was not required the two men were friendly honest and sincere a commune yes of a sort but nothing 9 permanent explained grant a fourth year graduate u of t j the people absolutely fantastic said jack a teacher on the staff of york university would you believe it but victor little u our next door neighbor plowed our garden and gave us manure and all for nothing said jack grant said that a lady at the coop in town took ten minutes time on the phone to explain the proper way to grow beans and peas j what a difference said grant ml new york state where i came from theyd rather shoot you than talk to you with chris and lindas help they are- remodelling the interior starting first with the kitchen this place was filthy when we came here said jack there was garbage all over the place like someone had dropped it out of an- aeroplane he admitted there was little use in fixing up the outside since the house undoubtedly would some day be demolished they moved in last april the townsfolk are they resentful suspicious quite the opposite said jack everybodys real friendly of course we dont know whats going on inside their minds but on the surface theyve been real great this is the nicest place ive ever lived what about tomorrow jacks going back to york but grants not sure after 4 years in university i want a little experience at living he said welcome to stouffville