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tut j th stouwyllu trjmjni tiautj seputite 1963 editorial what of r on saturday afternoon we were among the hundreds who attended the history in action presentation on the site of the pickering township museum grounds at brougham it was truly a great show surpassing the program of last year which in itself was no mean feat generations past and present viewed the many and varied displays and to make the feature even more natisfying the exhibits were put into fullsteam operation for everyone to aee and hear tht future what does the future hold for this historical exhibition we fear that it will be difficult to find tht mac middletons the howard tur ners the bob millers and the milt parkins whose skilled manipulations can turn the hands of time back a halfcentury with the pull of a lever or the swing of an axe who can replace them certain ly not the young fry of today whose only recollection of steam power was in the locomotive and horsepower is in something generated under the hood of a hotrod a pleasant su on sunday a pleasant afternoon of baseball was enjoyed by a large contingent of local fans in the stouft- ville memorial park although the sunday contest something new here brought forth a few minor criticisms from a segment of citizenry it also brought forth the largest attendance for any sports attraction on the diamond this season the legality of the game is sub ject to question residents have never been asked to vote on the issue so in fact there is no law on the books that permits such a pastime but where do you draw the line the swimming pool provides health ful recreation for hundreds of adults and children on sundays throughout the summer the arena is a hive of activity from early morning until late at night in the winter the local golf courses are frequented by throngs of people many from long the terrible the concern voiced by some parents concerning the safety of children walking to and from the bloomington public school in whit church township may unknowingly have cast a rather unsavory reflec tion on the aptitudes of truck drivers that frequent this area before too many critics jump on board the band wagon we would suggest that tht parents have become alarmed at the number of heavy vehicles in the section and not the driving habits of their operators the parents have every right to be concerned but their problem is a local one possibly unmatched any where else in the province of ontario the gravel deposits were buried deep in the hills of whitchurch and ux- bridge long before the present school- house was erected and it is unlikely that there will be any lessening of truck traffic in the section as long as the industry continues to flourish we can readily sympathize with the pupils who travel this rural truck route every morning and after noon after viewing the condition bring higher educa the liberals may be up against a pretty tough stone wall in trying to dislodge premier robarts conser vative government in ontario but their leader john wintermeyer has certainly struck a realistic note in so far as education is concerned our present department of edu cation has preached on one hand higher education for all while on the other hand it has placed or allowed to be placed by local universities such high standards for entrance that the good average student is still barred it is a ridiculous situation when many parents throughout ontario are forced into the expense of send ing their children to universities out side the province it is a known fact that it is very often the average student who will make the most solid and practical citizen in later life and yet this is the group which finds grave difficulty in making any head way in gaining a university educa tion at our own stouftville district high school this year there are five grade nines yet we know that less than twenty percent of these will ever graduate a number are fright ened off by even attempting the graduation year while others simply nday afternoon distances in like manner we feel that no juvenile delinquents would be born by opening up the main street bowl ing alley during the sunday afternoon hours it would be far better to have stouffvilles young people entertained in this way than hanging around on the sidewalks or driving up and down the road admittedly sunday is a day of rest this does not mean however that everyone should crawl under the covers and doze off to sleep re3t is relaxation and this comes in many and varied forms to some its swinging a golf club to others its a drive into the country here it wa3 watching a game of good clean base ball it was interesting to note that at least two of the critics of this sunday intrusion were seated in the sunny front rows of the grand stand bleachers truck driver firsthand we were amazed that some boy or girl has not been killed or seriously injured in this melee of multiwheeled monsters we also sympathize with the truck drivers they continually bear the brunt of verbal abuse from every direction they are accused of overloading breaking speed limits wrecking roads raising dust and in general almost every misdemeanor in the book for a few this criticism is warranted but too often we tend to spread it too wide and too thick we feel that they are criticized for what they drive and not for how they drive the motorist is obsessed with the idea that the roads were constructed only for him and all else should politely step aside and let him pass without obstruction its a matter of coexistence and all the dirty looks and inaudible mut- terings are not going to force these gravel juggernauts off our highways when the time arrives that we can honestly profess to driving by the book then and only then can we rightly point an accusing finger at the other guy tion out of clouds leave in discouragement leaving only those in the genius bracket for university which is apparently the policy the plan being advocated by the liberals would in the first place give university entrance at grade 12 which is standard in quebec and other canadian provinces and it would force ontario universities to have one standard for entrance throughout at the present time university standards throughout the province are up and down and send students running hither and yon try ing to find acceptance their policy would also provide for paperback textbooks a move which is presently being blocked by what is believed to be a publishing lobby the department of education has given great stress to the building of grandiose factorytype schools and pointed to the handsome grants in this connection this is all very fine to look at but we think a little more attention might be given to some of the abuses which we have mentioned above and which are afterall the part of education that counts not the number of fine buildings which can be erected established mi member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association antherixcd u ttcondl4 bill rolocc 0pl otuw member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere 5450 c h nolan publisher jas thomas editor jas mrjiean advertising pay now fly later taxff i t editors mail ugar and spice bill smiley there are certain months of the year in which i would gladly shake the snow off my boots and walk out of the country never to return without a backward glance but september is not one of them at this time of year it would take a regiment of horses lo drag me kicking screaming and roaring o canada across the border out of my home my native land twice poet john keats expressed it hough he never saw this canada of ours he spoke of the season of mists and mellow iriiitfulness this is our september he spoke of thing of beauty and a joy forever and this is our september winter is all very well in its place and its place as tar as im concerned is in outer siberia spring in canada is a flash in the pan a flood in the basement a cold in the head summer is a desperate effort to accomplish in too brief a time all the things weve been waiting all winter and spring to do in most countries of thenorthern hemisphere spring is the time of joy of waking to new life of a fresh stirring of the blood in canada spring is merely a muddy interlude completely whacked after five months of winter we drag our selves through it only to tumble into the clammy feverish embrace of summer shameless exhausting wrench in this country autumn is the time when the pulse begins to quicken the imagination to soar the whole nation comes alive recaptures some coherence after the chaos of summer and makes plans to be happy and rich but thanks to a benevolent deity the transition between the madness ot summer and the scrambling activity of fall is a painless nay a glorious experience we are given a time for dreaming we are given a chance to sharpen again our senses deadened by sun and sand and water we are given golden sunlight filtered through the greenest masses of foliage in the world we are given water so blue it makes our eyes ache and sky so high we can almost see heaven ft ft ft ft ft ft we are given just for a month new eyes eyes that suddenly see the splash of colour the zinnias make against the fence the thrilling sweep of browns and greens across valley and ridge the sad purple of distant hills i can scarce forbear to weep with joy when i think of the glorious gifts of taste with which september rejuvenates our palates jaded by hamburgers and hot dogs mustard and relish charred steak and skungy beer juicespurting sweetness of red apples golden corn tonguetingling tartness of huge cold tomatoes tawny peaches karthness of scrubbed new potatoes running with butter faini crisp bitterness of cucumbers speaking of faint im about to i havent had my dinner september sounds acorns rattling off the roof squirrels back in the altic gibbering and muttering and scrabbling the thuds and whacks and hips and imps of football practice and the vast soft sighs of the earth delivered of her finest oozing milk and honey and satisfaction ft ft ft ft ft ft september smells hot dogs frying at the fall fair new apples theres no smell like this one the first acrid smoke of the exhausts from school buses woodsmoke in the fire place the soft heavy sweet scent of summer replaced by a tang like printers ink and fresh sweat and champagne rolled into one you take it whatever it is paris in the spring japan in cherry blossom time ill take canada in september the worst thing i can think of including my wife running off with the milkman my kids turning into nogoodniks is to die early in september this would kill me literally as they say 1200 farm ponds in use in metro area the construction of farm at present the authority es- sunday school lesson golden text and we know that all things wcrk together for good to them that love god to them who are called ccord- ing to his purpose rom 828 approach to the lesson joseph sent his brothers back to his father with an urgent in vitation for them all to emi grate to goshen they journey ed with a handsome present made possible by the magna nimity of pharaoh 1451624 jacob very wisely inquired of the lord before making the move and receiving gracious confirmation that it was the right step removed with all his dependents 66 in his own fam ily according to 4626 flocks and herds and all their goods what a sight it must have been to see that caravan wending its way across the land somewhat like the early treks across am erica shepherding being dis tasteful to the egyptians it was natural that jacob and his family should be sent to gosh en a provision of the lord seeing that by being thus sep arated they would not be temp ted to intermingle or intermar ry with the egyptians gods people were to be a separated people jacob enjoyed the closing 17 years of his life in goshen and then after blessing his family yielded up the ghost and was gathered unto his people his family with the active cooper ation of pharoah embalmed him and he was buried in can aan with the passing of jacob we can look back to see how wonderfully god fulfilled his promises to this man the ble mishes on his character are re corded for all to see nnd yet god used him mightily a re minder that it is not by works of righteousness which we rr 3 newmarket editor stouffville tribune dear sir in the issue of sept 5th we read with much interest the item entitled mennonite con ference opposes alcohol and tobacco not only are we thankful for their unequivocal protest a- gainst alcoholic liquors and to bacco but for the prominence that the tribune gave to this protest otherwise many peo ple not members of the men- nonite church might not know of their stand we wish that many more of our christian denominations would take as firm a stand and do it as publieally this household greatly val ues the tribune sincerely elma m starr scctreas of york county temperance federation stouffville ont editor the tribune stouffville ont dear sir gravel truck terror par ents ask for school bus this was the heading in a daily newspaper on monday sept 9 why should anyone have to contribute to the purchase of a bus service because of speed ers why not call a policeman 1 thought only people who drove their cars behind a grav el truck dropping stones at 60 miles per hour or being sand blasted from a pyramid load well above the trucks box had any complaints 1 feel that truckers who drive the mark- ham road to toronto are not being courteous when they wave you to pass them i think its a dare to go through their trail of blowing sand and boun cing stones and to do so one has to travel at 65 or 70 mph i could write three pages of very cutting but true remarks about the conditions on the markham road with regard to gravel trucks but to summar ize i feel that truckers should drive and load their vehicles with the thought in mind that it is their own car that is trav elling 50 feet behind them please do not use my name i wouldnt want to tangle with a tandem trucker doing 70 mil es per hour on hwy 48 a commuter ed note with reference to the request for school bus serv ile in the bloomington sec tion i feel that the parents fear for the safety of their children due to the numbers of gravel trucks in the area and not due to excessive speeds of the vehicles stouffville rr sept 12 1963 tribune editor stouffville ont sir well i see the poor gravel truck driver is getting it in the neck again hes blamed for wrecking the roads hes blam ed for the dust hes blamed for breaking the speed limits and hes blamed for overload ing i drive that route along the bloomington sideroad every day and believe me its no pic nic for the trucker either my tandem job is new and heavily financed and i must complete a large number of trips daily to make it pay in spite of this no one can accuse me of breaking the speed limit not between concessions 8 and 10 the road is not fit to drive over 35 or 40 and the dust at times is almost blinding i do not blame the township for this condition im a father with three kids and i honestly feel sorry for the children who walk to and from the bloomington school every morning and afternoon why one has not been injured or killed is a mystery to me but im afraid that sooner or later this will happen i can only hope that my truck is not involved if some means can be work ed out to acquire bus transpor tation for these children it will provide as much relief for tht truck drivers as for the par ents thanks for the space father of three rr 4 stouffville september 7 63 the stouffville tribune stouffville ontario gentlemen your paper recently ranked high for its editorial writing in competition with other weekly papers and for past performances you are to be congratulated in your september 5th issue however you reported a verv unfair version of the bethesda public school problem your reporter states that the ratepayers will have to come up with an alternative to the nearly 51500000 structure which was suggested by an architect this is not so if was the architect who came up with the alternative the major ity of the ratepayers had pre viously voted s700000 to build a washroom and they turned down the architects idea as being too expensive and too elaborate to be in keeping with the old school house these ratepayers have seen the public school tax rate rise from 952 to 1717 in one year and the high school rate go from 688 to 139s in the same year they just want a plain ordinary clean warm wash room not an assembly hall and have voted s700000 to get the job done does that seem unreasonable the ratepayers owe a debt of gratitude to their school board for their time and effort and are aware of this they re alize the problems faced by the board in fighting high costs and high profits that seem to go hand in hand with any school expenditure there is ro dissention among these people merely a prolong ed discussion in an effort to keep cost relative to the pro duct and your paper could co operate by reporting all tht facts and omitting the opinions after all we didnt have tht opportunity of advising you what you should spend on washrooms in the new building you moved to recently and i rather doubt they cost 15000 thank you your very truly h d whitehead ed note the opinion express ed in the editorial column of the tribune sept 5th is of course the personal view of the editor on a particular issue and is subject to debate we would hope that the writer is not suggesting that this privil ege should be withdrawn have done but according to his mercy that god uses us at all the people of god were now- planted in goshen like a health- y graft in a fruit tree and grew rapidly to await the time for gods next step for them international and family af fairs are closely intertwined so our lesson today takes us into the family tensions resulting from the death of jacob and shows how these were happily resolved this lesson is needed today too heart of the lesion when we meditate deeply on gods dealings with us we see how truly that to those who love god who are called accor ding to his plan everything that happens fits into a pattern for good once this realization really grips us the sting is ex tracted from lifes disillusion- ments and disappointing rela tionships and there comes heart peace in some of us this truth takes a long time before it bears fruit seat belts now used hydro vehicles ontario hydros 3500 vehicle transport fleet will be equipped with scat belts by this fall it was announced today the program which started by equipping ail new vehicles with belts two years ago has now been extended to older un its in addition to use in highway vehicles seat belts will also bo installed in field equipment such as muskeg tractors and swamp buggies where condi tions warrant the one exception is that seat belts are not to be worn when vehicles are travelling on froz en lakes or streams costs 425 per year to keep cow in production survey reveals ponds steadily growing in pop ularity throughout canada and the us in recent years is seen by officials of the metro politan toronto and region conservation authority as an answer to the rising farm wat er demand the mtrca one of 31 con servation authorities in ontar io actively encourages and as sists financially the develop ment of farm ponds in the ru ral areas of its 1000 square mile region limates there are about 1200 farm ponds in use in the reg ion most of them built within the last 5 years there is no question of the value of farm ponds to the far mer authority officials point to their use as a prime water ing source for livestock as a habitat for trout and bass as well as other forms of wildlife as a swimming pool and as an emergency water supply in the event of fire or drought the traditional sourcci for water on a farm have been wells and springs however the present demand for water often exceeds the supply from these sources electricity on the farm has brought modern water supply and plumbing fa cilities into sural homes this has resulted in greatly increas ed water requirements control of disease insects and weeds requires icliablc supplies of water for spraying purposes supplemental irriga tion has been shown to be of great benefit for obtaining high yields of topquality field and garden crops how docs the conservation authority assist in the encour agement of farm pond con struction it provides a grant of 50 to wards construction it assists in the desigr and layout of the pond it provides free advice on the treatment of ponds for control against aquatic weeds syi si- farmers like everyone else these days often wonder why their bank accounts build up so very slowly dairy farmers in particular with a steady in come expect progress to be fas ter the price of milk multi plied by production per cow is a fairly healthy figure com pared to returns from other kinds of livestock the villain of course is ex penses money has to be spent in so many different ways that people usually underestimate the total of all the bills dairy herd improvement re ports from two associations in york county just released last week illustrate this point total income per cow was a nice figure of 52800 made up of 14200 from milk sales and 8600 from cattle sales before anyone gets carried away with the milk business expenses have to be taken into account per cow these work ed out to about s20000 for feed 10000 for labour 6500 for breeding veterinary and hauling and 5000 for interest and depreciation on the dairy investment the total is a gae and on the stocking of ponds with suitable species of fish in order to qualify for a grant the pond must have an area of at least 6000 square feet and a minimum depth of six feet and be laid out accord ing to specifications of the au thority or dept of agriculture whopping 42500 cost per cow about 10000 is left for risk and management most farmers probably wont believe that eacn of their cows had a 42500 bill for expenses each year the old rule of thumb used to be that it cost about 10000 to keep a cow for a year well the dhia re port puts the lie to our old no- lion about costs their figures arc reliable and they are taken from practical working dairy farms in york county what can be done about cost not very much feed labour and the others are requisites in producing milk the figures just point out that getting top production from cows is an ab solute must we have to feed manage pamper and nurse these cows along to make sure they will bring in more than 50000 a year if they dont dairying is done just for the fun of it the production average for the dhia cows was about 10400 lbs of milk and 360 of fat the storm warnings are out for herds with production levels lower than this better feeding and management may be the answer in some herds but the problems are often hard to find i think a set of milk scales is one of the best tools for finding an answer they will sort out the boarders quickly and changes in milk due to feeding or management changes will also show very clearly there is no law limit ing milk weighing to thosft on rop or dhia