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page 2 the tribune thursday august 12 1971 established 1sss charles h nolan publisher james thomas awjcut- publisher and editor kobert mtcausland advertising manager published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 54 main st stouffville ont tel 6s02101 single copies 13c subscriptions s500 per year in canada 900 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association- second class mail registration number 0s96 editorial lights the only solution ever try to carry on a conversation with a friend on the main street of stouffville during a weekday morning or afternoon it can be a trying experience one finds his voice obliterated by the roar of gravel trucks giant diesel units with double trailers they churn their way through town continuously but not recklessly rather the majority of drivers are quite courteous more ob servant of speed laws than many motorists be this as it may traffic of this kind can no longer be accommodated here and it need not be accommodated or tolerated when the bloomington road is available for this purpose to achieve this end automatic signals must be installed at the entrance to hwy 48 without the protection of stop lights gravel truckers or many of them will not take the chance instead they favor more congested main street route rather than risk a costly accident and we dont blame them town council is to be commended for bringing pressure to bear on this project the signals at the bloomington road and hwy 48 are needed now not after someone has been killed our affluent society sunday was without doubt one of the warmest days experienced this summer the temperature topped ninety degrees under such sweltering conditions the stouffville pool should have been packed to capacity but it wasnt causing the management no doubt to question the reason why there are several answers families away on vacation is one more and more people owning cottages is another high on the list however is still another many residents in stouffville- whitchurch have swimming pools in the privacy of their own backyards a check with betz pools limited stouffville and aquarius pools whit church places this number at over 100 while the property where such pools are located is indeed private in the legal sense the pools themselves are not families make them available to their friends and their friends friends seven days a week this is fine it may also prove a benefit in disguise to the big pool operation for with the addition planned for this fall it may be able to keep pace with the growth within that segment of town population that still requires and appreciates the service it provides high as an elephants eye recently while discussing country- type problems with a markham area farmer the question of roadside weed- cutting came up the rural gentleman said he had never seen the municipality so badly neglected in this regard look at them he said there hasnt been a weed cut around here all summer if they the town leave it much longer it will be too late up to that time we hadnt given the matter much thought but we have since on saturday we took an hour to travel some of the markham concession and sideroads to see what if anything had been done in this regard most areas are a disgrace there was a time when municipalities took a very dim view of private lots neglected in such a manner often the cost of doing the job was charged back on the owners taxes perhaps this policy is still in force however it may be difficult for the town of markham to pressure private owners into showing some sense of responsibility when the town itself is guilty of neglect one church for all it was a wonderful service this morning commented a worshipper on leaving st james presbyterian church sunday wouldnt it be a fine thing if we had one large church in town where everyone would worship together all year round to this we reply amen we have long advocated this one church for all and while it will never come about in our generation we predict it will occur eventually it has to if the christian church is to remain of strong force for good in a community in the world on a very small scale the benefit of union can be seen this summer in stouffville with the united and presbyterian congregations joining together during the months of july and august most members we feel will be sorry to see it end certainly we will the multitude of denominations within the christian church has been and always will be a profound mystery to us why we ask must so many people all professing an identical belief be so divided maybe somewhere someone has the answer weve yet to hear it editors mail dear mr editor i read in the tribune aug 5 about how the dayliners whistle is disturbing the morning rest of a burkholder street man and his family its equally disturbing to me that anyone would raise a fuss about such a trivial thing particularly when the subject of his complaint provides such a marvellous service to so many people in our community goodness knows it took long enough to get the commuter out to stouffville dont lets do anything to prompt its removal if the trains toot is so annoying to this gentleman i take it he would also like to remove the roar from the gravel trucks the wale from the fire siren or the cock- adoodledoo from a neighborhood rooster donald lehman boyer street dear sir from monday september 6 to sunday september 12 the city of st thomas ontario is celebrating talbot shivaree 71 we would like to take this space in your paper to ask any readers who originated from or lived in st thomas and elgin county to return home for this week of festivities talbot shivaree 71 will be 7 days of dancing parades fun and en tertainment the last day of the week long festival is designed as home coming day if you can make it for the full week or just a few days this is your invitation to come home to st thomas and elgin county for talbot shivaree 71 rev ww sherwin home coming day chairman ihfiffscls light tyowng- about of a 7eup at madley jlle raz comdtjon4 arepujy sugar and spice v now the walls must match colour tv by bill smiley just a collection of notes this week dont try to find any coherence in them i noticed in one of my favorite weeklies that an old friend of mine had been arrested for being drunk when he turned up in court the following tuesday he was so drunk he had to be taken away for another week this takes some ingenuity but im not surprised same chap some years ago when his house was burning threw his six children out the upstairs window into the snow saved them all why dont people ever listen to me at least ten years ago in this space i said firmly that red china should be recognized admitted to the un and that silly old dictator chiang kai shek turfed into the indian ocean or somewhere the column was received with real anger in some places now everybody and his brother is buttering up the real chinese and pouring cold water on the phoney chinese on formosa oh well even my wife wont listen to me so why should the politicians and speaking of that woman who has made my life a rollercoaster of ups and downs she pulled another one recently id been muttering for months about a color tv set each time she stated unequivocally which is the only way she ever states that we couldnt afford it with two children at university the mortgage the insurance coming due and the yak yak yak each time i subsided as is my wont and also because i didnt really care hardly ever watch the stupid thing anyway so i came home late one afternoon a couple of weeks ago and there she was playing with the buttons on a huge ex pensive color tv its been here since on trial and ive been subjected to endless hours of discussion about colors its been worse than those unspeakably boring sessions weve had over the years on decorating do i like the mushroom with the lime green do i not think that the teal in the drapes will clash with the offblue in the rug that sort of thing at no time could i have cared less if she had painted everything midnight black but i had to pretend i cared or thered have been an outburst of tears and recriminations you just dont care do you other men are interested in their homes im doing my best to make our home beautiful and you just sit there with that look on yuur face and so on it was like that with the tv set didnt i think there was too much orange why wasnt the green coming up more vividly i finally called the dealer and said wed keep it thats the way i buy a car i dont shop around trying all the models i just walk around the beast kick the tires and make a deal the other woman in my life is about as much trouble she is more convinced than ever that capitalism is beastly and that she is an exploited slave of the system as i was driving her home from work the other day she exploded bitterly i only made eight lousy dollars in tips today i had to bite my lips so hard it drew blood those tips plus her wages made it 20 for an eighthour day my first job paid one dollar a day for a twelvehour day seven days a week kims opinion of the capitalist system is seasonal it bothers her not in the least to milk the old man for a cool 2000 when shes not working but going to school finally another woman has entered my life out of the shadows before i was born back in june when i had a bir thday i challenged readers to guess my age some charming people suggested 4849 one miserable old editor jim nesbitt of brooks alta had the in decency to suggest 54 but mable mcroberts of new liskeard ont was dead on she named my parents my older brother and sister the street on which ve lived and described the house we lived in she knew the exact year in which i was born she had been a highschool girl boarding in town the people with whom she was boarding came down with the terrible flu of that era my mother took her in for a month women nothing is sacred even a mans age any port barry stather elm road stouffville is a regular participant in the saturday races at pincrest speedway in recent competition he came close to missing out the feature due to a smashed radiator suffered in a midtrack pileup but barry soon solved the problem he plugged the hole with a hotdog 4rqunt love thy neighbour but not his garden by jim thomas it was back in may 1959 that jean and i purchased our little sixroom nest on rupert avenue while we didnt move in officially until the end of june we spent every spare minute cutting clipping digging and hoeingtrying to make the place presentable when family friends and relatives would come acalling later on boy did we work sometimes until nearly midnight as i recall the only real break was for a freshbrewed cup of tea and since we v were not yet betrothed the kitchen was as far under cover as i ever got other rooms were off limitsjean saw to that besides after three hours of mowing twitch grass up past my knees i couldnt have crawled a single step further let alone have any energy to spare but theres a certain pride in ownership that forces a fellow on the first summer we succeeded only in keeping the grass and weeds down to an acceptable level the second however was better we seeded and fertilized fertilized and seeded drenching the entire area with a fountain of water after each application the results were amazing but jean was far from satisfied although she didnt complain much a twinge of homesickness was too often obvious she missed a gardensomething the family always enjoyed down on the farm naturally i agreed but the task was sheer slavery have you ever tried sinking a spade in a stone quarry a brickyard or a rock pile the site we selected was all three in one it was murder night after night we chewed and hacked away at the small square plot getting the seed bed ready for the planting ritual to follow the results of our efforts were disastrous the project didnt produce enough to keep our canary alive we gave up in disgust twelve years have now passed since we first moved to town the street has changed so have many of the people in fact in terms of time were con sidered veterans on the block but newcomers or not our neighbors are real fine folk take roy for instance immediately to the east hes a retired farmer who surely missed his calling he should have been a mechanic ill swear he can fix anythingand does even without our asking for example the morning our clothesline snapped under a weighty monday washa catastrophe but roy was there to the rescue he had the two freyed ends spliced together in minutes then theres howard to the the north ill never forget the night the kids pet rabbit flew its coop howard his wife and daughter assisted in the search and eventual recapture what relief across the road is len he gave the kids their sand box the youngest still uses it dorothy gave susan a beautiful doll earl is continually phoning across to tell me the cars lights are on and dave is always offering the children a ride to school even if it takes him out of his way so you see subdivision living is not as impersonal as some may think but there are exceptions to every rule the problem isour newest neighbor just across the line fence to the west his name is vic now vic is a farmer and a mighty practical one so practical in fact hes brought a few of these qualities to town in a single season vic and gertrude have cultivated the best dadburned garden in the block its so good its disgusting without a word of a lie theyve got tomato plants three feet high and onions and lettuce and potatoes and carrots and well you name it theyve grown it mind you the plot isnt large but who needs quantity with so much quality so at our humble little household were right back where we started twelve years ago well almost weve cultivated five great kids but our onion patch is a bust but vic and gertrude have the best of two worldsfive wonderful daughters and onions so big theyd choke a horse maybe its catching jean insists on trying again next year growing onions that is