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hf j tjff stoofmui ttjiwff thnr fcsmrr ft 1f 3 toufftoill iribun establishes mm a v nolan son publisheri member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association aa0iartr4 m coadeu mil fotoe dvp otuva member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at 8touffville ont in canada 5350 elsewhere 460 us thomas edttot l ft noum pumsw our editorial comment support those who support you this past few weeks this news paper has carried numerous sale ad vertisements of stouffville merchants giving annual yearend bargains many advertise the yearround are you patronizing these merchants did you as an average house holder ever stop to realize that this is the group that pays the most taxes in your town this might be reason enough but did you stop to think that these are the people who hand out all the merchandise and cash prizes for the numerous charitable organiza tions the multitude of donations and handouts for the many functions throughout the year it should be reasonable to sup pose that the wageearners should appreciate their good town and help its stability and growth by spending their money locally instead of rushing off to outside points unfortunately some who should set an example are offenders just give it a thought next time youre in a purchasing mood hove done a good job stouffville works department has done a good job in removing the snow from the business section in keeping our residential streets plowed and sanded we recall quite well when the removal of snow from main st was quite a controversial issue and at times the high banks remained for days while the officials argued as to who was going to do the work and when the local council appears to have the snow problem well in hand and there is no delay in plowing or snow removal to date this has been quite a winter both for cold and snow al though our snow problem has possibly been light to that of many commun ities to the northwest of us there has been more than the usual amount of zero weather and when tempera tures did moderate we have had sleet to contend with now with the groundhog having seen his shadow if he came out of his burrow at all one wonders how much longer the heavy drain on fuel will last but take heart spring is coming two of the darkest months of the year have left us four weeka from now sap should be running i a shakeup needed theres a definite need for a shakeup in the personnel who are currently holding office on the execu tive of the local arena board it is true that a number of members are vitally interested in the operation of the rink while others have become totally inactive the roughhouse scene on thurs day night is conclusive evidence that some drastic changes are necessary the rinks biggest night in many years was partially marred by the unruly brawl the affair has created acrosstown interest the stouffville arena is big busi ness through its door3 pass hund reds of hockey players skaters and fans yearly at the present time the load is being shouldered by the manager his staff and two or threo interested officeholders they are doing an excellent job local share holders however should not permit such an operation to be handled by this faithful few the boards dead wood should be replaced at one time it was considered to be a great honour to be a member of the arena executive annual share holders meetings attracted a good attendance it would appear now that the position is regarded as a chore rather than an honour its time for the shareholders to come alive and take more interest in their arena white cane week the vision of a blind soldier built one of the dominions great or ganizations so stated mrs w c bending president of the canadian council of the blind speaking of white cane week which began sunday february 8th she referred to colonel e a baker managing director of the canadian national institute for the blind whose foresight through the past forty years has built a coast to coast rehabilitation service now aid ing more than 22000 sightless canad ians his prevention of blindness program has retained the sight of 60000 the success of this army lieu tenant said mrs bending who lost his sight in belgium in 1915 demon strates convincingly the thought for this white cane week true vision lies behind the eyes according to the ccb president blind herself true vision is at the root of the worlds great achievements great statesmen and religious build- era have it and so do numerous readers of the blind like colonel baker and the world famous helen keller because of the work of such visionaries mrs bending said the blind are accepted everywhere you meet them on the street and lend your arm at intersections you find blind citizens working in industry and in the professions they travel and enjoy a normal life citing another example mrs bending mentioned the canadian council of the blind founded in 1944 with seven clubs and an idea based on vision and faith the ccb today lists 68 clubs and a canada- wide membership of 4300 persons all of them blind working closely with the cnib the ccb attempts to improve the status of the blind through a year- round recreation program and social legislation white cane week is one of their joint projects begun in 1946 the week has always been educational in character and has never been asso ciated with fund raising mrs bend ing suggested that during the week you try to meet one blind person and learn how true vision lies behind the eyes for parents only st valentines day y nancy cleaver muse bid the morn awake sad winter now declines each bird doth choose a mate this days st valentines for that good bishops sake get up and let us see what beauty it shall be that fortune us assigns drayton who was saint valentine why is his day february 14th history tells us that valentine or valentlnus was the name of a number of saints but the most famous of these were two martyrs both of whom died on february 14th one a roman priest and the other bishop of tern they lived in the third century and met their deaths under emperor claudius rule no love story like that of abel- ard and helolse is associated with either of these church men so far as we know they wrote no love songs the association of the lovers festival with saint valentine is accidents possibly it can be traced back to the church try ing to wipe out the pagan prac tice of youn men and maidens drawing adx othera names from a box on the feasts of pan and junl in february the common people refused to sub stitute the names of saints and insisted on preserving this cus tom of the two sexes drawing each others names by chance gradually this rite was cele brated on st valentines day and its observance spread thro ughout europe in the fourth century it was mentioned by chrucer and in pepys diary in the reign of charles ii drayton a poet of shake speares time wrote some char ming lines to his valentine the introductory quotation is from this poem shakespeare himself wrote in midsummer nights dream good morrow friends st valentine is past begin these woodbirds but to couple now in england in the early days the young people drew lots with names of members of the oppo site sex written on them the person drawn became the draw ers valentine usually the valentines gave each other gifts such as gloves valentine day reminds par ents that part of their job 1 to prepare their son or daughter for maturity when they give their hearts away this is a good time for parents to think ahead to the future when their son or daughter will be looking for a life partner and eventually marrying during their school years children often play in mix ed groups adolescent boys and girls are benefitted greatly by being able to entertain their friends in their own homes parents should take a real in terest in youth gatherings in clubs or sunday school classes and in community centres that provide wholesome recreation under good leadership the boys and girls who have worked and played together in their teens are more likely to make a wise choice of a life partner in their twenties in these days of ris ing divorce rates parents are eager that when their sons and daughters are grown they will marry happily they want them to establish homes on the arm foundation of mutual love and understanding and cooperation do make this a real red let ter day in your family not on ly for the children but for the grownups too if dad remem bers mother with a valentine surprise and mother plans a special meal with fathers fav orite food if in little ways par ents show their love for each other on ordinary days as well it is likely that junior will be lieve that happiness is often found in making another happy copyright iififf of the week simpson tus is mjr irataiuiua uttadl i wild yoa to spend the coffee an y know about the buslocn imsjeies- scots wha hae not long ago the english did a characteristic thing they unveiled in westminster hall a fine monument to the memory of the scottish patriot sir william wallace out standing statesmen and other national leaders gathered in the hall where wallace was tried and sentenced to death and all did him reverence s at the beginning of the thirteenth century wallace was s courageous rebel and leader of his people against what hej firmly believed was english oppression he knew how to inspire the men of his day with courage and determination and gain their loyalty the reigning english king was edward the first and wallace was his deadliest foe even his enemies acknowledged his sincerity and daring and as he gained victory over his better fed and trained enemies there seemed to be a magic about the man how he came to his end is still something of a mystery but at the age of thirtythree he seems to have been betrayed to the english who had money to bribe men and so in west minster hall on august 23 1305 the fearless leader of his people was tried and condemned to death he was taken to london tower and then past jeering crowds to the elms at smithfield where he was hanged afterwards his head was put on a pole as a writer of that day said he was in sight of both land and water travellers and now after nearly six hundred and fifty years on the same spot where he was tried and sentenced the english have unveiled a tablet to his memory and expressed respect and admiration the old enmities have completely died out if only wallace could come back and read what is on that monu ment and if he could have heard the glowing tributes to his memsry that was a very penetrating thing jesus said many that are first shall be last and the last first it has been called the reversal of human judgment time has a way of completely altering judgments if there had been a whos who printed in palestine twenty centuries ago what a list of supposedly distinguished persons would have been mentioned about whom absolutely nothing is known today political leaders ecclesiastics and scores of the socially prominent would have found a place but jesus would he have been noticed we know he would not time has altered the view of jesus held by most of his day in a letter written to the christians at corinth the apostle paul refers to the public triumphs accorded great conquerors in the streets of rome his readers would appreciate that illustration perhaps some had witnessed such pageants of pomp and splendour paul with a thoroughly christian sense of values wrote he makes my life a constant pageant of triumph at first reading these words seem preposterous he limped along the roads a prisoner whereas these national idols rode in chariots while they received extravagant praise he was regarded with ill concealed scorn often he had been stoned and on more than one occasion left for dead he had been shipwrecked adrift at sea for a whole day and night he had suffered intense hunger and thirst even a partial list of his hardships makes one wonder how one man could endure so much yet he refers to it all as a pageant of triumph what happened to jesus and paul and william wallace is dramatic and thoughtprovoking after all a man is just what god sees him to be and what he knows himself to be our quotation today is by r p bowles just what he knows himself to be a man is driver demerit plan put off to march 31 ontarios driver demerit sys tem is to go into operation march 31 instead of this sun day the lastminute switch was announced by transport minis ter yaremko in the ontario leg islature thursday he said the twomonth delay results from plans to increase speed limits in ontario and the court dispute over the provinces careless dri ving charge the demerit system provid ing threemonth licence suspen sions for motorists collecting 12 demerits in any twoyear period assesses five demerits for care less driving three for exceed ing the speed limit by more than 10 miles an hour and two for exceeding it by less than 10 mr yaremko said the plan will start sunday on a trial basis giving his department more time to educate the pub lic and take out wrinkles premier frost said he views the trial run with considerable enthusiasm because it gives us the opportunity of educating the people without penalizing them the new speed limits are to be introduced in stages mr yaremko said and hence the twodemerit speeding offense will not be counted against mo torists until august 4 months after the point system begins operation speed limits on some sections of divided highways would be increased to co miles an hour from 55 before april 1 and the limit on certain twolane high ways increased to 55 from 50 before august 1 the limit for trucks would stay at 55 on divided highways but be increased to 55 on two- lane highways so there would not be too much passing by cars mr yaremko said eventually some twolane highways will have limits of 55 or 60 wherever warranted liberal leader john winter- meycr argued the march 31 date is unrealistic because the careless driving issue might go to the supreme court of can ada and take 6 or 8 months to settle attorneygeneral roberts re plied he expects a settlement before then he indicated he ex pects a favorable decision and no further appeals from the ontario appeals court on chief justice j c mcruers ruling which invalidated the careless driving law last november the new speed limits were questioned by a h cowling pc toronto high ijark and t d thomas ccf oshawa canada has 130 pulp and pa per mills tribute paid to stouffville girl for her business ingenuity ruth nendlck niece of mrs chris armstrong of stouffville and daughter of the late char lie nendlck was given a pub licity boost recently by mar garet newcombe overseas cor respondent the tribute was paid miss nendlck for her in genuity in establishing two flourishing businesses sn lon don england the manhattan display and the park lane pac kaging co the writer relates that ruth who was raised and educated in stouffville had little but a headful of bright ideas and plenty of capacity for hard work when ttfie started before she left for london via a stint in an advertising ag ency in new york ruth ran the brown squirrel handicrafts in toronto ruth leased three floors of a dim cobwebbed dilapidated of fice building in the heart of soho the first two floors con tain her workrooms studio and office where the models and de signs for window counter and exhibition displays are conceiv ed and executed you may run into hundreds of pink nakedlooking chubby rubber pigs being packed the trademark ruth introduced for harris pork or you may stum ble over amusing little chicken- wire puppets being clothed for sirdar wools more ideas roll off her drawing board for such famous firms as guerlain lov- alls jacqmar and imperial chemical industries but abo on the third floor high over the activities of the soho streets ruth and her part ner montrealborn jackie hum- phey urry have created an other brainchild a snug warm comfortable fourroom apart ment with typical energy they peeled off discolored wallpaper patched up broken piaster knocked down walls and re painted papered and carpenter ed the grimy old rooms into a home black and white wall paper thick blue carpets and red velvet armchairs centered by a glowing coal fire make their sittingroom a centre for home away from home seeking fellow canadians jackie married to theatrical agent len urry has a country house near maidenhead which contains two ponies five dogs three cats a white mouse two fishes an aviary of tropical birds and her two children she and ruth are feeling thrilled at the moment with the two marks of success they have allowed themselves ruths white sports roadster and jac kies mink coat from sep icarly files make compensation for property damage towards the end of january a sum of 250 i compensation was awarded to dr freel against the village of stouff ville for injurious results to his property caused during the reconstruction of a sidewalk which ran opposite and adjacent to his property judge oconnell reporting on his verdict said that the municipality of the village of stouffville had caused the dam age to dr freels property when the sidewalk was event ually raised a further seven inches this had caused a de pression between the sidewalk and his building which had gra dually formed an obstacle to lodge all the dust and rubbish hence the value of the building had depreciated the assessment being 7o0 the judge awarded the maxi mum of fifty percent of this assessment which was 350 from this was subtracted a sum of 5100 for certain bene fits said to have been derived by the raising of the sidewalk a smalltown resident owned a goat worth about 150 this belligerent animal used main street as its favourite battle ground on receiving hi3 tax bill the owner found that his goat had been assessed at 20 his indignant complaint to the assessor was worthless when he was shown a well worn copy of the town ordinance it read property butting on main street shall be assessed at 10 per front foot the toronto dallies publish ed a glowing story of the dis appearance of marion hicks a seventeenyearold from gorm- ley some folks were ready to slieo tear3 visualizing a pos sible kidnapping it turned out that the girl had set out on foot at 3 oclock in the morning to look for work in stouffville and had tried at several homes on her journey down one of the homes was that of mrs a s leaney who immediately recognized the missing girl having read the reports in the papers she promptly informed the author ities and all was rectified exreeve w e morden mark ed his last official act as a mem ber of the 1933 council with a visit to the old peoples home at newmarket 34 was apparently jacking in the number of farm stock sales usually experienced at this time of the year consequently john bond of gormley attained a high total sale of 1800 for educational funds in this day and age a col lege education is a must sun life of canadas edu cational policy is ideal for helping you secure your childrens future build up a fund for their education through sun life insurance let me show you without obligation how easily this can be done sun life assurance company of canada jim abeli tdobmh 237 stoufis indigent costs m york county hospitalization costs for indigent patients were higher in 1958 by 13664 than for the same period in 1957 lowest cost during a five year period beginning jan 1 1954 and ending dec 31 1958 was in 1957 when a total of 70388 was reached highest was 1955 with a total of ss5066 totals for 1954 77504 1956 78160 1958 8405264 lowest month during that time was february 1956 with 3099 highest was jan 1958 with 993082 hospital costs by municipali ties in 1958 were georgina township 3584 east gwillim- bury township 10662 north gwlllimbury township 12759 king township 10735 mark- ham township 5787 markham village 885 richmond hill 2522 stouffville 634 sutton 5478 vaughan township 7- 170 whitchurch township 6 741 woodbrldge 3854 auro ra 1727 newmarket 4739 and county patients tb and nursing home patients 5760 editors mail toronto ont february 1959 stouffville tribune dear srs on behalf of the hospital for sick children and its many patients 1 should like to offer my sincere thanks for the val uable assistance given us dur ing our recent christmas ap peal as you know we depend to a large extent on the sponsor ship of our appeal by ontario newspapers and broadcasting stations this year the response from the public was more than gratlfjlng and we estimate an increase in donors over 1957 of approximately 551 percent the amount of monev received in 195s was 27555150 thank you again for the im portant and continuing help you have given us through the years without it much of our work would have been impos sible yours sincerely j grant glassco chairman rl of trustees hospital for sick children ethical abcs granddad says down through the history of mankind theres always been some friend or guest who to his own faults was stone blind yet could see faults in all the rest judging and talking all the time of others conduct and their views and blaming them for all the guile slights and bad feelings that accrue now this as most of us know well is what mankind is prone to doj they want others to be compelled to think and act as they would do they would change all men but themselves thus put the cart before the horse yet which of us in either halt would dare not own this human force so do whats right in thine own eyes and heed not what is said by others for well find fault and criticize til we can see all men ai brothers but when mankind is under stood and we ourselves in others see loves force will then erase for good the misery of humanity m t dowsweu wpggaas we build large and small and buildings of all kinds bepoirs and remodelling good materials and workmanship guaranteed our house designing service is or your disposal s w betz construction co stouffville ont phone stuuff 19s halfpast teen