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pie 2 the tribune thursday july 27 1972 wtie untune established 1sss ciiables il nolan publisher james thomas associate publisher and editor robert mccacsland advertising manager published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 54 main st stouffville ont tel 6402101 single copies 15c subscriptions s600 per year in canada s1o0o elsewhere lmfrr of audit bureau of circulation canadian community newspapers association and ontario weekly news papers association second class mail registration number 0896 editorial road classification by convenience on july 13 york regional council decided to try to have all regional roads designated as class a highways this arose from recent difficulties in some parts of the region when police enforced weight limits on class b roads the result was that all construction in those areas stopped the class b weight restriction of 22000 pounds might sound high but in fact few heavy trucks are classed as low as that while regional council discussed the recommendation from the engineering committee to seek redesignation of the roads mayor ken laushway made what we thought was a good point if they are designated class a is york region prepared to upgrade these roads to take that kind of traffic he asked the reply from engineering com missioner denne bosworth was in conclusive to say the least it appears that the redesignation is being done merely to circumvent provisions of the highway traffic act frankly we find the whole idea slightly disgusting many of the roads in this area are presently incapable of standing up to the weight and volume of truck traffic which they carry as an example we might cite the intersection of the 7th line and the gormley rd we know of one accident involving personal injury which occurred here and was solely attributable to the bad condition of the surface its time our various governments quit handing out thinlydisguised charity to large companies if their practices contravene the law we fail to see why the law should be changed let them change their practices if we as ordinary citizens cannot do something without infringing the law then the choice is clear we refrain from doing it or we have to be prepared to accept the penalties which the law provides we have no grounds to go whining to those in authority asking that the law be changed to accomodate us if the various companies affected by these weight restrictions gravel firms garbage disposal firms and others cant comply with the law they should be fined if they cant operate within the provisions of the law then they should not operate the engineering committee report spoke of an adverse effect upon the commerce in the region if the law is enforced the report was singularly silent upon the adverse effects which might occur if the law is circumvented these effects will include swifter deterioration of the roads and increased annoyance to residents among others in the end it comes back to us the humble taxpayers to pay through higher taxes for road repairs we will be subsidizing these companies some of whom have acted in flagrant defiance of the law for a long time an application will be made to the ministry of transportation com munications to redesignate all class b roads we sincerely hope that application will fail if the roads were first rebuilt to class a standards at the expense of the offending firms it would be a different matter but there seems to be no in tention of doing this businessmens groups frequently maintain that charity is bad for the in dividual if we take them at their word then charity is equally bad for companies there has been enough government welfare to private companies let them comply with the law or cease operations regionalitis at police headquarters frankly weve never been able to become too excited over complaints about the lack of police protection in stouffville its obvious even to the casual ob server that the men in blue arent exactly swarming all over town out in the ponderosa the sight of a cruiser is rare enough to draw comment even downtown cruisers are heavily out numbered by bell telephone trucks after living in toronto where a cruiser drives past every time you turn around we found the situation in stouffville comparatively relaxing well the honeymoon is over between july 8 and july 16 there were seven breakins or attempted breakins in town almost one per day this is the sort of statistic that makes one pause and think arrests have been made in only one case at the time of writing we feel chief bruce crawford and inspector wally harkness have been doing a good job they have been ham pered to some extent by a lack of manpower and other factors there are a lot of problems involved in reorganizing a force and we dont envy chief crawford his task new equipment is being obtained for the force extra manpower has been approved an ultrasophisticated com munications network is due for in stallation in the near future all these things will we hope alleviate the problem but there seems to be some deep malaise within the force itself the resignation of experienced officers has reached a pitch nothing short of distur bing all ranks from constable to in spector seem to be unhappy this is the sort of thing which is very difficult to pin down the indications however are not reassuring weve been told reliably that all officers have been told to sign an oath of silence to the effect that they will not discuss police work with the public we dont know if this is correct wed very much like to know all the collective agreements all the new cruisers in the world will not provide a final answer the question of morale in a police force as in an army is crucial when a senior officer with many years experience resigns because he is com pletely fed up with police work something is wrong hire more manpower by all means we sorely need more men in the force but at the same time we need those officers with experience who know the area and the people its worth making an effort to keep them editors mail dear sir government sources indicate that there is to be a public hearing in con nection with the second toronto airport v at garemont the form in which it is to be heard is to be an expropriation court anyone who has had anything to do with the ex propriation court knows that arguments advanced as to necessity of a second toronto airport will be a waste of time the only arguments that court will en tertain will be in respect of the value of the land expropriated surely the question of need is fun damental to the whole question with so much at stake one would have expected the government to proceed with such a court if such a court was established to consider the case of mrs munsinger one would have expected that such a court would be established in this case it is reported that the minister of sugar and spice a weekend worth losing by bill smiley theres nothing quite like a summer in canada we have that winter that just goes on and on and on then suddenly about the first of june its spring the temperature soars the grass grows violently and we kick off our rubbers with gay abandon two weeks later everybody has a cold the roses are nipped by the frost the furnace is still rumbling and the weatherman announces triumphantly that wiarton or someplace had an all- time overnight low of 40 degrees on the umpteenth of june by the time this appears in print well drobably be gasping for breath and wondering when this unprecedented heat wave will end dont worry it will just about the time you start to get the poisonous juices of winter soaked out of you and then it will be fall and idiots like me will be writing columns about that refreshing nip in the air nip in the air holy old hughie there was so much nip in the air early this summer that a chap scarcely needed a nip of anything else oh well i guess its better than living in the sweltering heat of israel or egypt though it certainly isnt any safer as those who have been on the highways recently will attest why does my wife remind me of a flicker a flicker is a bird with a red top knot we have one in our backyard every summer it flops out of a cedar tree or maybe heaven and flickers away all over the grass sometimes within feet of us i think its a flicker though im no expert i can tell a robin from a sea gull on a clear day and thats about it well why does she she doesnt have a red topknot but she acts like a flicker the bird runs across the grass at a great rate it stops looks about bangs its beak into the ground about twelve times repeats the process for some period then flies off suddenly in all directions for no apparent reason and thats why my wife reminds me of a flicker thats how our vaunted holidays began this year i had one day off after ten months in the sausage fac tory it was a saturday which i have off every week anyway it seems we had to go and see our daughter the bride right away holiday weekend with all the horror that entails but never mind wedding pictures late gifts how is she is the marriage working out motel room just like a flicker banging away at the grubs in the ground i was caught by surprise just as a grub is by a flicker no money and the banks were closed the car needed a muffler i needed about three days of intensive care during the same 24 hours the flicker had phoned friends of ours whod invited us down to lie around their pool she had agreed that as soon as we had spent a day or two with the bride wed go straight to their place the bride is about 70 miles north in the resort area through hairy traffic the friends lie about 85 miles south through hairy traffic trying to get north no problem the flickers mate does the driving and right in the midst of all this flickering who calls up to see if i want to go out bass fishing but my old friend capt dalt hudson ill give you three guesses where do you think i wanted to go well we flickered off north nice day traffic just below maniac level arrived late great dinner with new inlaws motel room surrounded by green with falls rushing in background idyllic next day cold motel toilet backing up kids visited went for chilly swim in lake blew kids to terrific smorgasbord at hotel drove them home to apartment with mother cat and four kittens mother flicker somewhat horrified invited kids to lunch next day at motel immediate acceptance midnight temperature about 52 couldnt get motel window closed romantic falls now sounding like locomotive in trouble next morning motel room just above freezing cold wind rain tottered up to main lodge for coffee discovered no lunch served sundays and holidays kids arrive noon starving give them two breadsticks stolen from table night before atmosphere cool mother flicker starts pecking grubs again grubs are kids kids resent being grubs show us their studio have conned government into 7000 art programme looks intelligent but dont ask me to explain it forms colours shapes finally head for home in rain and bumpertobumper no breakfast no lunch no brains nothing but intense desire to see normal abode of habitation arrive collapse faintly revived by hot soup sleep thirteen hours up this morning to find own toilet backing up or is it a dream vacuum cleaner on blink and mother flicker already making new plans for further forays arent you sorry you arent a school teacher with all those holidays transport is convinced that there is a need and that he has scientific studies to prove it let there be a scientific in vestigation where the public can look at these studies and perhaps share some of the ministers convictions t s mills garemont dear editor i want to thank you for having published only two paragraphs of a five page letter to the public concerning the airport my house has become ever since a veritable grand central station with people complimenting me on mv honesty and frankness imagine what would have happened had you published the entire five pages involving assessments taxes and administrative abuses as the consequent result of the condition in which pickering township finds itself today behind the 8ball to the tune of millions upon millions of dollars in debentures piled on the taxpayer if it is true that some five million people will be passing through pickering airport yearly it should be comforting to them to know that if each passenger only buys a bag of peanuts and pays room rent of 950 it would bring 50 million dollars per year robert g roy rr2 garemont sauce for the goose by mark niblett i have a sneaking affection for the old adage whats sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander ive been growing fonder of it daily since a recent problem entered my otherwise carefree life this problem takes the shape of a 1966 volkswagen bus which i want to convert into a camper first though i feel i should pull the engine and make sure everything is in good shape as we are unfortunate enough to inhabit an apartment stouffvilles an swer to st james town we are entitled to only one parking space with piglet 1970 honda s90 oglethorpe the flying ant 196970 toyota corolla and the wandering tortoise the volksie bus this poses quite a problem what i really need is a nice big garage where i can work preferably equipped with lights benches a few tools and so on after considerable musing over this problem i remember the way govern ments proceed when confronted with similar situations sauce for the goose right accordingly i sought out a large well- equipped garage and approached the owner flashing my business card to dazzle him youre going to have to move out im i afraid i told him says who he demanded i represent the ministry of mechanistic hydraulic and diagnostic j affairs i said we like all other ministries are part of the darcy mckeough empire it has been deter mined at the highest level that the public interest demands the acquisition of your garage this as i expected did the trick the owner turned white when i mentioned the hon darcy who has shall we say a way with him like atilla the hun the grass never grows again where darcy rides anyhow the owner started wailing and blubbering about compensation and his j lifetime investment and his wife j children and aging mother adopting the j attitude which serves governments so well i curled a lip or two in scorn thats all very well but we have to act in the public interest i said i added a few scathing comments about j selfish individuals and mulishly attempting to obstruct progress finally i gave him 48 hours to move what about my clothes my fur- i niture you can take those i reassured him we dont wish to be harsh just leave the buildings the land the tools and that sort of thing dont i receive any compensation certainly i have personally ap pointed a team of evaluators who will inspect your wretched hovel and offer you a price what if i dont like the price may god have mercy upon your soul i said putting on my black cap why do you want my garage anyway we are engaged in an extensive pilot project which we hope will establish parameters for an entirely new orien tation within our field as you are far too ignorant to understand the details you can take my word for it confidentially we are hopeful that a radically new departure in motility will result when will i be paid oh thats difficult to say our crack team of evaluators will go to work at once of course but it might take them months why so long thats the way they work pain staking also half of them are nearly blind most of the rest cant write and two of three have really serious emotional disturbances its all part of ontarios plan to assist the handicapped springing from our successful project of giving drivers licences to psychopaths you know i almost had him convinced but as he was crawling out cowed and broken he spotted the car id driven up in the volksie bus right away he knew i was a fraud if only id thought to rent a mercedes 600 with a uniformed chauf feur i could have passed as a civil ser vant but i didnt and he threw me out i picked myself up and fled so tell me what has don jamieson got that i havent