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tp 1 the stouffvue tju3unl tbajy june 16 1969 3 touffmlle terilron established 1css a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and th ontarioquebec newspapers association astbortza tccoolcla mall pocooca dept- ottawa member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere s450 nouh htha us thomas eta us mjceah adrerusino c a editorial money down the drain every year surrounding town ships spend thousands of dollars on the purchase of calcium chloride for rural roads only to see it disappear within a matter of weeks if these applications of dustlayer are ap proved by councils only to restrain the wrath of the ratepayers then we would question the sound reasoning behind such a shortrange plan if however the calcium is used to solidi fy the gravel base in preparation for permanent pavement then the pro gram has real merit we feel per haps that this is not always the case within a twoweek period the township of pickering has approved the purchase of over 15000 worth of flake and liquid calcium this figure alone is a large chunk out of the municipalitys entire 1960 road bud get in the township of whitchurch the cateium costs during 1959 reached a stupendous total will it be re peated again this year next year and so on we would suggest that each rural resident should if he so desires pay for and distribute sufficient dust- layer in front of his own premises during the summer months through this practice thousands of road de partment dollars could be redirected toward a paving program that would require a minimum of maintenance we would contend that continuous applications of calcium is only money down the drain too easily recognized it would appear that the fate of all future motorcycle parties was sealed when a platoon of these joy riders and their lady escorts shatter ed the evening stillness of the cedar grove countryside some two years ago in a wellorganized manoeuvre a small detachment of markham township police officers crashed the party and the wholesale roundup was given front page publicity in every newspaper throughout the province unwelcomed in markham the black- packeted youths turned their two- wheeled bikes toward brougham in the township of pickering here again it was a similar story ontario provincial police from whitby spot ted the contingent and after a brief game of hide and seek the ring leaders were coralled into court and more- gasoline money was extracted from their pocketbooks on saturday night it happened again a timely tipoff to police sent a halfdozen cruisers to a local gravel pit the party was stopped almost before it was started as long as these folks insist on sporting their black leather garb kneelength boots and highpowered scooters their every move will be under suspicion three times and out we hope means out of circulation who will elecf them r in a recent meeting of a local township council a ratepayer sug gested in all sincerity that the dis trict high school board should be an elected body rather than attain its position by individual appointments we would contend that the idea may have some merit but we ask who is going to elect them we all rea lize only too well what low interest rate is circulated at the polls in a municipal election even less interest is evident in the election of a public school board why then would an election of high school board mem bers settle any present problems when less than 25 per cent of the electorate is casting a ballot war measures still with us r ever stop to think of the war time measures which have lingered on even though the war has been over now for fifteen years it is par ticularly true where the measure has proved a financial asset to one of the parties involved biggest example and this one goes back to the first war is per sonal income tax but here is one which of the jate war vintage its those small postage stamp squares of chilled butter served with restaurant meals we all know that butter is to be spread and the diner should at least be able to spread it on his bread without crushing or crumbling his bread in the process in addition we think he should be served enough butter to cover the surface of the bread he eats the skimpy serving would suggest a butter shortage when there is in fact a whopping big surplus believe it or not were told that even the ontario agricultural colleges cafeteria does it could be our dairy farmers are missing a bet they should be cam paigning for more generous servings of spreadable butter in all hotels and restaurants the war is over and the butter shortage is a thing of the past schools out elmer says look out with so many automobiles on j the streets and highways and child ren being so happily carefree traffic accidents involving children pose a serious threat in most communities but something is now being done schools all over north america are entering a program that makes the children safety conscious through pride in their flagpole pennant elmer the safety elephant pro gram provides the basis for a com prehensive safety campaign aimed at elementary grade children exper ience has shown that this program is a most effective selfhelp method of inducing children to learn and to practice good safety habits as they use streets and highways both dur ing school hours and at all other times elmer originated in toronto ontario in 1947 in an effort to reduce the number of injuring and fatal traffic accidents to children the pro gram was remarkably effective since this time elmer the lovable littla elephant who never forgets his safe ty rules has become a very real per sonality to hundreds of thousands of children in all parts of canada and the vsji the elmer program is symbol ized by a six foot green pennant on which appears a picture of elmer this pennant is flown on the school flagpole beneath the national flag a3 a proclamation to the pupils their parents and the public in general of the schools safety record should an accident occur which is the fault of a child the pennant must come down for a 30 day period along with the green pennant which is indeed the very foundation of the program are elmers six safe ty rules these were carefully chosen and were based on the major causes of traffic accidents involving child ren 1 look both ways before you cross the street 2 keep out from between parked cars 3 ride your bike safely and obey all signs and signals 4 play your games in a safe place away from the street 5 walk when you leave the curb c when there are no sidewalks walk on the left side of the road facing traffic and wear or carry something white at night for parents only snrarw sauh schols out look out am 6y bill smiley i was going to write some thing about fathers day but i began thinking about my own father and decided to try to get something of him down on paper in a quiet selfeffacing way he was quite a character married to the hustling bust ling lively capable quick- tongued sensible woman who was my mother he seldom had a chance to dominate the scene but when he did he made an indelible impression one drama in which he al- ways played the lead was driv ing with father my mother was afraid of nothing in this world except being in a car with dad at the wheel only a deep sense of marital loyalty forced her to climb into the family chariot she prayed stea dily on journeys dad bought his first car about 1920 tiie dealer gave him a driving lesson and turned him loose proud as a peacock he wheeled her home to surprise my mother completely at ease he turned into the driveway drove right into the stable which was to house the car and drove right out through the backwall of the building coming to a halt among the tomato plants hed forgotten how to stop his driving never improved much from that day it merely grew more exciting he never quite mastered the various positions of the gear shift climbing one of the al most perpendicular hills of those days he was quite as like ly to throw her into reverse as into low at the crucial moment if he were flustered which he always was from the moment ho got into the car he was as likely to jam his foot on the gas pedal as on the brake in the daytime hed some times go 7 or 8 miles without getting off onto the shoulder or running into a load of hay but at night he really came into his own he was trans formed from a middleaged mer chant into an armoured knight of the middle ages couching his lance he would touch spurs to the old chev and thunder down the dead centre of the road to joust with any false knight entering his domain the dastardly villain would be about a mile away when dad would start yelling at him to dim his lights looking directly into the beam of the oncoming headlights hed go straight for his man neglecting to dim his own lights in the excitement at the last possible second dad would peel off wildly toward the ditch swerve all over the road and shudder to a stop with one wheel hanging over a culvert from there hed glare over his shoulder to see whether the other fellow had been ditched ill swear he was a little dis appointed when he could spot a tail light shakily disappearing into the distance to the untold joy of the entire family he finally refused to drive at all after dark because the brutes wont dun their lights i dont think he even knew where his own dimmer switch was another area in which my father was king was the cellar as we used to call the recreation room i dont think i ever heard him utter a blasphemous word above ground and i dont think i ever heard him utter any other kind while he was wrest ling with the old furnace as a youngster i would put one ear against the furnace pipe and listen with awe and horror as dad ripped out some oaths that would curdle the blood of a buccaneer i wouldnt have you think that my father was a badtemp ered man he was the soul of gentleness and kindness with people but inanimate objects could rouse in him a berserker fury that must have come with the touch of norse blood in his ancestry should he strike his head on a cupboard door he was apt to tear the whole thing off the wall and reduce it to kindling if he got a sliver in his finger while working on something he was quite capable of snatching a saw and cutting out the entire chunk of offending wood ignor ing the resultant gap in a table or a boat iiou pant triumphant ly there you dirty skunk as he finished my dad could take a lot of hard going and suffering he proved it especially during his last illness but he had a genius for exaggerating small hurts should lie cut himself while shaving he didnt bleed it spurted out in quarts if he knicked a finger with a knife hed vow i tore the end off my finger if he scratched his hand on a nail he had ripped the whole side out of my hand wo laughed at him but we loved him i hope my kids re member mo as fondly as i re member my dad sunday school lesson lesson for june 19 bearing good fkuit matthew 71523 luke 1369 genesis 1111 golden text abide in me and i in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself ex cept it abide in the vine no more can ye except ye abide in me john 154 tiie lesson as a wiiole approach to the lesson our lords use of picturesque illustrations was very effective that it exerted a strong influ ence on his followers is seen for example in the writings of james who presided over the early jerusalem church jas 3 12 christ chose simple every day items with which his listen ers were familiar and applied them as object lessons to illum ine spiritual truth his enemies the pharisees and saducees were clever and persuasive they sought to un dermine his testimony their honeyed words and shrewd arg uments were often motivated by selfinterest and opposition to the message of salvation in order to alert his audience wl m wek i had a worrftrfnl time alfred mat ten yonr father it m awfully nice him la advance yaa the fiveweeks allowance to the devices of these men as well as to issue a challenge to genuine wholesouled sincere righteousness christ spoke of a tree and its fruit the funda mental point of his argument was that like begets like na ture does not lie at creation fruit trees were intended to pro duce after their kind gen 1 11 apply this natural law to the spiritual realm the fruit of a mans life and conduct de pends upon the root of his in ward being the heart of the lesson first the lord jesus warns against fruitless deceptive pro fessors of religion whose out ward appearance and manner belie their true spiritual condi tion beware he says of wolves whe pose as sheep wolves may be dangerous but they are more so when disguis ed second he gives a simple test by which a mans words and outward deeds may be investi gated by their fruits ye shall know them fmatt 720 like produces like as it is absurd to expect thorns to produce grapes so it is unwise to look for god- honoring conduct on the part of wicked men the presence of thoms reveals the identity of its bush the presence of grapes guarantees the identity of its vine the presence of god- pleasing deeds indicates a heart wellpleasing to god the graces of character and deeds of love and mercy thai god approves stem from transformed lives third he points out the dread ful destiny that awaits hypo crites the penalty of fruitless- ness is that the tree is hewn down and cast into the fire matt 719 luke 139 mere profession will not exonerate a guilty soul the lake of fire awaits unbelievers no matter how exalted their reputation fourth he reveals the expec tation and patience of god he looks for fruit luke 136 7 but delays his visitation of jud gment until the wicked have had ample opportunity to put their faith in christ and through the spirit to reform their ways families on the move in canada have you and your family ever gone through the physical and emotional upheaval of mov ing it can be grim home sick ness has afflicted individuals in every age perhaps you know this cry in the psalm from the heart of a captive jew by the rivers of babylon there we sat down yes we wept we hanged our harps upon the wil lows how shall we sing the lords song in a strange land did you ever think of the vast number of families on the move in our country tens of thous ands of families from lands across the sea have come here in the last decade canada 1958 the official handbook of present conditions and recent progress which is an excellent book for both new and old canadians points out that in a recent year 59 of the immi grants had other than british origin the hungarian refugees numbered 33000 the germans 29000 the italian 1s000 the netherlands 13000 the remain der were of forty different na tionalities including 8000 from denmark and 6000 from france thousands of nativeborn ca nadians have also moved from one locality to another often from one province to another when fathers have found new jobs everyone realizes the shift of population from the rural to urban districts over six mil lion canadians now live n the 15 metropolitan areas those who have moved there from the country may miss the friendli ness of a smaller community figures may seem cold and impersonal but who has not come into close contact with a family from overseas who has not a relative or friend who has come into the city in search of a job when the family moves nat urally the father is fully occu pied getting used to his new occupation it takes time to learn new techniques to become acquainted with a different working situation with a new boss and unknown fellow work ers mother has frequently found the task of packing up and mov ing the family a bit exhausting and without any lull in special tasks she is often overwhelmed with all the demands on her of a family settling in a new com munity such as finding new places to shop there is no letup in the job of unpacking and getting things in order and at the same time keeping up with the housekeeping some children settle down quickly to a new environment others can feel very unhappy and lost it is particularly hard for adolescents to part with their old friends ard make their way among strangers the contrasting school stand ards for different graces in dif ferent provinces makes adjust ment for school age children in many cases very painful par ents should encourage thair chil dren to be kind to the new scholar the palnfutaess of this un comfortable time may be less ened being hospitable to new- comers especially to a child is one of the best ways to make a whole familys moving happier when a family move any thing other canadians can do to ba neighbourly is all to the good rev robert o harper farhfss dar a number of years ago at the close of a service ca mothers day in the church i was then serving as pastor a bright girl of the church school asked me why we never observed a fathers day that was before the belated recognition of father share in the home it did seem a strange thing to a child and to an older person that tribute was given to mother but father was left out ccrj tainly father should be remem bered as well as mother it mother nurtured us in her arms- father rode us on his foot andti always stood between us and all the world beside just a thought someone once sala that the best fertilizer is the imprint of the owners shoe in the soil how true it is that is not enough to merely plant the seed so it is with life living the good life doing good works such is not easy we most work at it but like the nurtured crop there is a prom ise of great reward and in the hour of bereavement- when his own heart is breaking- father must choke down his sobs and deny himself the relief oe tears that he may be a rcfufe to those who cling to him for sup- port father has a tribute from at source higher than his earthly children for jesus taught uss through our earthly fathers our- relation to our heavenly father- he taught us when we pray to say our father let us hon or our fathers today and let them be true to their high place in our aftcctions and lead us daj by day ia the fathers way new hours a c kennedy dc 12 tacs ft frl hart kennedy dc s9mon wed ft frl v for appointment ph stouffville 617 answering service i1aijt a c kennedy chlropmssas like church st s slouffvillc the increasing cost of giving is getting pretty bad too wanted more cream shippers for itest results ship your cream to stouftvilfe creamery we pay two cenls more per pound butterfat for cream delivered to the creamery to have our truck call phone 18cw stouffvihc creimszy co cold storage lockers for rent