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pitt 2 the tribune thursday sep 9 197j m established 1888 charles h solas publisher james thomas avcut- publisher and kdltor nr kobkkt mccacsland advertising manager published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 51 main a stouffville ont tel 6jo2101 single copies 15c subscriptions 500 per n canada s900 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 lcanadi assocfa eciitarial park name who else the stouffville park needs a name and theres only one resident in town who should be so honored hes arthur latcham theres no need to relist the many projects he has promoted and paid for in the last twenty years just about everything thats there has been provided through his generosity the latest still on paper but as good as completed is a new community hall in the past we have been opposed to another hall in stouffville for two reasons first it would be an additional expense td the taxpayers secondly there are enough halls here already to satisfy the needs of a community of 4500 the latcham offer like the others before would be a gift to the town thus cancelling out the number one concern and second the halls we now have for one reason or another have not provided the accommodation that clubs require a community centre of the size suggested by mr latcham would fill every need at a cost all organizations could bear it would also provide a location for teen activities something the young people feel is lacking here so once again arthur latcham stouffvilles benefactor in countless ways has put his hand in his pocket again surely the least we can do is name the park in his honor flowers for the living we say reduce nonresident hunting permits while we do not always agree with policies as recommended by the dept of lands and forests we believe the suggestion as put forward by sidney dorland before a committee meeting of markham town council has merit mr dorland has asked that rather than an outright ban on hunting throughout the municipality including residents the council cut in half the sale of permits to nonresidents he placed the limit at 200 while we would go even further and abolish nonresident licence sales en tirely the departments recommendation is certainly a step in the right direction as councillor murray henderson pointed out during a recent discussion on the subject it is not the resident hunter the farmer that poses the problem it is the triggerhappy urbanite or many of them that break down fences tramp through cabbage patches and mistake tame ducks for wild geese theres no place in markham or any municipality for that matter for people of this kind but the majority of responsible hunters should not be penalized for the irresponsible actions of a few the correct procedure is in our opinion with draw the privilege from the people that pose the problem the town of markham admittedly is a growing area more homes and more residents but the rural area or farming community is by no means extinct nor shall it be for a few years yet therefore we say limit the hunters but dont prohibit hunting an outright ban would create more problems than it would solve another summer gone we can hardly believe it but sep tember is here and another summer is gone the cne has run its course again and its fall fair time how did all this time pass so quickly its been a normal summer in our opinion weatherwise there has been an ample supply of moisture and the heat has not lasted too long at any one time from all reports and observations crops are good its amazing how we move from one season into another and our thoughts move as well without us even thinking about it soon therell be organization planning for local fall activities clubs will be getting underway and the arena will swing into action once more soon well be enjoying delightful fall weather with its freshness its briskness and those glorious autumn colors however before the snow falls or even theleaves fall it looks as if we will have a provincial election to occupy our minds it would not appear as if there will be a federal election this year with the ex ception of the general economic slowdown which is not a canadian problem but a worldwide situation we cannot see any worthwhile election issue editors mail dear sir this is in reply to an article written by you in the august 19th edition titled exalted city now a rural slum being a resident of the area to which you refer i resent your article very much first of all how can you refer to a city that never existed as being exalted perhaps the dream of this city was exalted but only by a select few a majority of residents in uxbridge township have been uneasy about the project for well over a year and this became evident with the results of the last election for your interest we were one of the first to sell but to our knowledge it was not sold to revenue properties for the century city development but to an individual it was some time before we found out for what purpose our land had been purchased this was also the case of two other land owners that sold at this time and possibly others of whom we have no knowledge under the picture of the barn you say farm buildings like the one above are common throughout the century city area of uxbridge township giving portions of the community the appearance of a rural slum lets deal first with the are common bit the definition of common as taken from the oxford dictionary is shared by or affecting all those concerned alike often of ordinary kind occurring often not exceptional of the most familiar or numerous kind taking these meanings into consideration and if you had not looked for the worst perhaps instead of common the word rare would be more accurate secondly lets deal with rural slum you not only used it in your title but three times throughout the article how would you feel if somebody said you were living in a slum yes you would feel the same as i do hurt im sure many other residents in the area feel as i do if i felt this area looked anything like a rural slum i would not be writing this letter slum means dirty crowded poor district now i ask you can you stand by the century city sign go up or down the road and see a dirty crowded poor district all i see as i go up this townline towards home are wellkept farms still being farmed beautiful homes with wellkept grounds and ponds and i daresay you will find these things i speak of throughout the uxbridge area what you speak of in your article in reference to rural slum such as the barn are few and far between when i read an article like this in what i call my hometown newspaper i would be remiss if i didnt do something about it i have always felt that a local newspaper is to serve the community and i thought the area of uxbridge township was included in this service articles such as this do the area of which i speak a great disservice what would outsiders knowing nothing of this area conclude from this editorial sugar and spice even teachers glad to go back by bill smiley well its that time again when the nations biggest body of babysitters goes back to work and the mothers of the nation blow out a trumpetlike sigh of relief back to school time its been a tough summer for parents in july i thought we were going to have to start building an ark august came in like a lion with a couple of violent storms then settled down for some fairly fine weather fine for october that is last night the temperature was three degrees above freezing this is the sort of weather that turns amiable little children into malicious little monsters who drive their mothers to the screaming point its too cold to swim its too wet to play outside theyre sick of playing cards indoors they want pop and hot dogs and potato chips at all hours of the day and night they quarrel with each other i have no sympathy with the kids but my heart goes out to their frayed mothers so much for the little kids but at least you can give them a belt on the ear when they become unbearable teenagers are twice as bad during a summer like this one those who arent working but just hanging around the family in most cases are impossible they groan with boredom they complain that theres nothing to do though their mothers are putting in twelve hours a day they demand the family car and sulk when they dont get it and now that they can legally drink over 18 who knows what theyre up to when they are allowed the car the girls tend to strike upan intimacy with scruffylooking boys and the boys pursue trollopylooking girls ah parents must have hearts of solid steel these days to avoid a complete collapse thats why theres an almost universal sigh of relief when school opens its not that parents dont love their children its just that they cant stand them after eight weeks of a cold wet summer mother can pack them off on that blessed opening day sit down with a cigarette and coffee and start turning into a kindly loving person again father i sure am glad i am not in the real estate business trying to convince strangers that uxbridge township is a great place to live especiaiiy if they read our local paper i am a resident of uxbridge township and proud of it and by no means do i or my fellow residents live in a rural slum mai jorie coffey rr 3 stouffville dear sir in a recent issue of the tribune a bloomington man described in detail his canoe trip around musselmans lake in it he suggested that this body of water was dead or dying i beg to differ while i have lived here only during the summer months for the past 13 years i have never seen the kind of pollution that he described if the writer had checked all pertinent facts he would have learned that the health department check the lake every week and the ontario water resources commission makes periodic checks also the water i have learned is almost clean enough to drink a fact i and others like me appreciate in my opinion the writer could have served a better purpose by pointing to musselmans as an example of what can be done to keep other lakes pollution free i agree however that if motorboats are not banned from this resort pollution will occur but at present musselmans lake is very clean l b goff r r 2 stouffville dear sir through your paper i would like to prod the park board or whoever is responsible for park property into making the necessary repairs to both the latcham cairn just inside the entrance gates and the side of the grandstand immediately to the east the condition of both these projects is shameful the green paint on the cairn has been that way for a year now and the grand stand has been in a state of disrepair all summer i have yet to meet mr latcham but he must surely wonder how much his generosity is really appreciated when he goes down to the park and sees such things while the cleanup of the cairn may take a little elbow grease a hammer a few boards and nails would soon fix the stands alex stanton 40nn 3buunt a million volts from out of the blue by jim thomas twentyone year old glen gauslin wixson street claremont is lucky to be alive in fact the realization that he is alive and almost completely recovered is baffling to those closest to his case for it was on the morning of july 13 just over eight weeks ago that glen absorbed the full impact of a lightning bolt while working of the grounds of pine hill cemetery in scarborough estimates on the strength of the shock vary but experts in the field suggest that at 3000 feet the power output would measure approximately one million volts or as one person put it sufficient to run the entire city of toronto for 24 hours glen an employee at the pine hill site since march had gone to work as usual that day what happened then and 48 hours following that has been blotted out of his mind fellow workmen tell it this way glen wearing a rubber rain hat coat and boots was operating a power mower j near a small evergreen tree a storm came up but it didnt appear serious enough to force them to take shelter suddenly there were two flashes of lightning one struck glen on the right shoulder passed across his body and down his left leg drilling four holes in the ground the impact was so severe he was hurled a distance of forty feet every thread of clothing was seared off so were his eyebrows and the skin on portions of his face chest and leg treatment in- i eluding extensive skin grafts extended over a period of six weeks in scarborough general hospital only his parents and fiancee were allowed in to see him for a while it was touch and go one physician his father said ad- v mitted he had never seen a lightning victim so badly burned as glen and still recover the family attribute glens good fortune to his rubber rain apparel and the miracle of medical knowledge and facilities j fifteen years ago hed still be in there said mrs gauslin yes and maybe dead said glen but even tragedies such as this one can have happy endings on saturday sept25 glen and linda vint will exchange vows at a ceremony to be conducted in the claremont united church an entire community offers best wishes and good luckto a guy who refused to give in and his girl who refused to give up can come home from work and not have to settle quarrels fight about who gets the car and spend two hours getting j smoke in his eyes over the barbecue even the kids are happy to get back to school for a few days at any rate they meet old classmates lie wildly about their summer adventures renew last years romances commence new ones i fill out innumerable forms and check out the new teachers for pretty or handsome ones their exuberance lasts about a week until they have to start doing some work then the pendulum swings and they t revert to their groans of boredom though this is actually just a pose with a great many of them for college students off for their first year its a time of rare excitement and anticipation theyre finally going to get away from nagging mothers and grouchy fathers and butterfly into the wild free life of the university the joys of learning about 20 percent of them will be thoroughly disillusioned by christmas and probably 30 percent will flunk their first year because they get more in terested in the fleshpots than the philosophy so everybody is happy about school re opening how about the teachers believe it or not they are too theoretically they are rested refreshed cobwebs all blown away raring to go most of them are the small minority that doesnt reany like kids or teaching but is only in it for the security will be their usual surly selves within a couple of weeks however lets all try to be joyful as the great 1971 babysitting season opens once again ill try if you will i