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tw 1 the stoutwlle twnwc ttoufcy nemf i 1965 jeditariue private meeti link by little the business ot municipal council in markham town ship is passinsr from public scrutiny and is kept away from public discus sion operation by committee is the best way of handling municipal busi ness without public interference or knowledge this is the way in which this township is run the township council has evolved a system of two meetings a week the one is held on monday and is advertised as a public meeting and at which little takes place in the way of discussion and there are few coun cil opinions expressed the second meeting held on wednesday is vir tually a private meeting and at which all topics are discussed and councillors freely express their opinions here there are no listening public ears and projects can be wrapped up neatly ready for the rubber stamp approval of council at the public meeting on the following monday last week this system backfired and this was not the first time one support your on wednesday evening novem ber 10th the stouftville home and school association will hold its first meeting of the fall term the attendance at some of these meetings in the past has been rather disappointing so much so that at one time some thought was given to dis banding the organization altogether in some communities this has ac tually happened the day is past when men and women will join such groups just as a matter of course they demand good reasons for joining there are such good reasons for belonging to the home and school where else can parents learn what is expected of their children under the present educational system where else can parents learn how they can stimulate their children to work to the best of their ability v what bet ter organization can there be for parents of similar interests to meet ngs backfire member of council failed to make the private wednesday meeting with the result that on monday night he was completely in the dark and protested vigorously at what his colleagues had done without his knowledge despite argument the four who had discussed the project fully and had made the decision would not give way and the opposition was defeated it is no secret that some mem bers of this council hold to the view that the less the public knows about what is going on the more easily the business will be accomplished this is rule by committee and is about as far as council can go at keeping rate payers in the dark markham twp council has work ed the system up to a point where as was the case last week they are even keeping each other in the dark the system is unfair to the rate payers directly and is a direct stum bling block to the press whose duty and job it is to report to the people on the conduct of township affairs home and school together to study the child and prob lems in education which will lead to higher standards both in the home and at school what better organ ization is there for parents to meet together with a common interest to arrive at an understanding of a poss ible solution to community problems which affect our children and youth the list of advantages of being a member of home and school could go on and on the ontario federation of home and school associations is looking for a 20 percent increase in member ship to help build for the future an organization that is progressive in its thinking in its actions each and every child in the community will benefit as the local home and school association becomes stronger a parents interest today will brighten a childs future tomorrow attend the meeting on nov 10th ten million can but will they latest figures from canadas chief electoral officer nelson caston- guay give 10091825 canadians elig ible to vote on november 8th some increase is expected in this figure prior to election day in the last election there were 9910757 persons eligible and slight ly more than 79 exercised their franchise elections are important and it behooves every citizen to get out on nov 8th and vote for the candidate or party of his choice this is a serious matter we have predicted as have many others that the electors will boycott this vote in many areas where they are convinced the election was not necessary however as the big people dont although there has been an ever growing link between cigarette smok ing and certain illnesses it would appear from personal observation and figures just released that antismok ing campaigns may be going up in smoke latest statistical report shows that in the first six months of this year a record 21000000 cigarettes were on the shopkeepers shelves and in vending machines across the coun try during all of 1961 canadians puffed away about 40000000 cigar ettes this consumption was up goi over 1955 while at the sane time the day draws nearer interest is bound to heighten and no doubt many of those who have boasted most about not voting will show up first at the polls the fact that leadership has loomed so large in this election has left many voters in a quandry they are settled in their minds concerning who is the best candidate in their riding but they are dead set against the leader represented by this party this is a point that is raised time and time again as one talks over the elec tion with friends there is little doubt but that the final result might be quite different if persons were each to cast a ballot for the leader of their choice scare easily population has grown 25 behind the growing use of cigar ettes is the increased use by the teen age population warnings by both public and private agencies that cigarettes may be injurious to health are apparently not getting through there is an interesting sidelight to this continued smoking in the case of women they smoke for a specific reason welfare minister judy la- marsh says ive sacrificed my figure for my country 1 have gained 10 pounds since i slopped smoking z years ago in support of the anti- smoking education program magistrate explains revised law richmond hill magistrate russell pearse took time out irom his daily proceedings fri to explain a newly revised law in the highway traffic act mr pearse wondered how many people were aware of the new ruling regarding the times when car lights must be turned on he told the halffilled court that before the law was amend ed drivers were required to have lights on a half hour after i dusk and a half hour before sun rise he quoted the revision from the 1965 edition of the highway traffic act that reads when on a highway at any time irom one half hour after sunset to one half hour before sunrise and at any other time when due to insufficient light or unfavour able atmospheric conditions per sons and vehicles on the high- way are not clearly discernible at a distance of 500 eef or less every car shall carry three light ed lamps in a conspicuous posi tion one on each side of the front of the vehicle which shall display a white or amber light only and one on the rear of the vehicle which shall display a red light only the magistrate added that a person should not be allowed io drive until he knows every law in the act some 700 of them i i the stouffville tribune limited estabushkd 1sss member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association amtinruc iroitris tnil tftoftife pfpt ottawa member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouftville ont in canada jloo elsewhere j600 c h nolan publisher jas thomas kdilir noki ktey adterriiinf service of remembrance xexl sunday nov h the sfoiiftville remembrance day service will be concluded in the veterans memorial hall at 230 pm the parade of icgion ladies auxiliary and town youth organizations will be led by he caledonia pipe band following the service wreaths will be placed at the memorial park gates and the legion cenotaph the public is invited to attend sugar sp5ce by bill smiley that college education its not until you get a son or daughter off to college that you learn what a simple unsophisticated reactionary narrow- minded oldfashioned peasant you really are he or she will make it all quite clear to you on that first weekend home from the hallowed halls of learning every fall the blood pressure of countless fathers sky rockets the tender hearts of hordes of loving mothers shat ter when the freshman student beloved and cherished these 18 years waltzes in with a bag of dirty laundry and a swollen ego weve had quite a fall of it in our neighbourhood with a sigh of relief we shipped our gawk of a boy off to one university and amid floods of tears the people next door sent their darling daughter to another both were home last weekend and both set of parents spent the entire visit alternating with fury at the kids and shame of their own ignorance theres no question about it a college education is a wonderful thing in a matter of three or four weeks small town kids who barely staggered through high school and barely knew enough io change their socks or blow their noses are transformed into pipesmoking playboys or dashing desirable women of the world imagine what a whole year- will do the boys nonchalantly toss off a remark or two about beer parties the girls light up a fag right there while fathers frown deepens and mothers jaw falls wider and wider the boys with a solid basis of three weeks lectures in political science curtly enlighten their dads on the asinine political ideas the latter have cherished for 20 years the girls secure in their throe weeks of psychology put their mothers into shock with casual comments on the neces sity of a full sex life before marriage bolh explain kindly to the old folks not only that alls wrong in the world but also that cod is no longer in his heaven in fact he isnt anywhere hes just a anthopomor- phic projection of the need for a father image both point out that the capitalistic system is driving us into a neurotic pursuit of the materialistic that the dollar is essentially an evil thing and both pocket without comment the extra 10 bucks you slip them on departure our kid has discovered a new system in which you can get along on four hours sleep at night this is dons by sleep ing all dav which he did on the weekend he assured us that he had worked out a rigid work scheduled which begins at 7 am daily but a few minutes later he let it slip out that he scarcely ever ate breakfast at the dininghall because he slept in the girl next door nearly finished olf her father lie gave her a blank cheque the dope to pay her first terms fees and residence dues hoping he could scrape up the second term when it arrived with admirable sangfroid she filled in the cheque for the whole years fees next day he received a call from his banker he had to sell his last bonds to meet the overdraft young hugh is letting his hair grow long has taken a lead role in the college revue plays llamenco records at ear- splitting volume and is just busting to get in on a sitin or liedown or some other form of civic disturbance so he can be arrested the girl next door is disgusted that her mother cant read chaucer in the original and believes the story about adam and eve her mother was weeping when she left with rage oh well i guess its all worth it our grocery hill has dropped by 12 a week since hugh left and well hac the last laugh next spring when exams start- choosing a leader by eric w baker the stouftville tribune has won the respect of this colum nist by its handling of election comment after these columns started appearing in the tribune citi zens suggested that they be of fered to other weeklies in the riding and this was done however the results show that some publishers have party pre ferences so strong that they do not admit comment which might not support that preference such bias is acceptable if there is a competitive publisher such as in the big cities other wise it not only invited competi tion but is unfair to the reader evidence of newspaper influ ence was given by the last fed eral election where all three toronto dailies for different reasons opposed mr diefen- baker hindsight proved mr diefenbakers political judg ment to be better than his cri tics admitted but it also show ed that people in towns outside the influence of toronto papers had little quarrel with mr diefenbaker in saving no too often john diefenbaker made enemies while demonstrating his sense of responsibility as leader but he did protect his party and his public from the grey politics now in the headlines in saying yes to too many people lester pearson wins friends and builds up future problems for recent example every liberal candidate seems to have won from mr pearson a promised plum for his area to he paid for after the election even though not processed through parliament roth extremes are bad but diefenbakers extreme hurt diefenbaker personally while pearsons extreme hurts the people and the latters record ot soft ness contradicts his own talk about strong leadership of a majority a majority only means more demand for fa vours it now appears that manv voters will look beyond the personalities of the present lead ers and weigh the personal and regional influences behind them those who look at the idea- men behind the official leaders will find themselves choosing between walter gordon and alvin hamilton some local liberals are won dering whether they can con tinue to support a party which will he so obviously dominatel by quebec have you seen the wonderful new smithcorona electric adder for oniv si 1000 for home or light office use its a real bar gain roamin around few persons perhaps realize the many miscellaneous matters that in a week or even a single day are dealt with bv officers of the stouttville police department the majority can be considered as routine by that we mean infractions under the criminal code the highway traffic act or the liquor control act on wednesday afternoon of last week chief orland keating and constable david hadden were faced with a problem of a much different nature it concerned a ladv and elderly lady of about 75 years she was found by some folks on the easterly edge of town in uxbridge twp trudging through a field they took her in until police ar rived chief keating brought her to his stouflville office this was about 515 pm two hours and five long distance telephone calls later she was still there and except for a few minor details the police were no wiser for the lady spoke only creek a language that is not too common in this area calls were put through to the greek consulate university avenue the greek community of metropolitan toronto bond street the department of citizenship and the depart ment of immigration on bedford street but without much luck it was learned that her name was efrosini reggi but little more finally as the police were preparing to find her a place to spend the night the malton branch of the dcpt of immigration telephoned to say that a visa on file had turn ed up a next ot kin they referred to a mr johanus rusch at rr 3 stouflville a soninlaw and a call to his home brought him immediately to the station in a roundabout way the family was reunited there are still a lot of unanswered question concerning efrosini reggi but the police have no intentions of delving any deeper into her personal problems three hours to learn a name and address is quite enough time spent on one person in one night the personnel of the canadian broadcasting corporation were in stoultvliie on friday in a big way the centre of at traction was the home of mr allan sangstcr obrien avenue and mr sangster himself along with mr herman gclger- torel general manager of the canadian opera company the interview was for the wellknown program on the scene a halfhour show on channel 6 every tuesday evening at 730 pm in addition to several truckloads of equipment an estimated 20 cbc employees were required arriving here at 930 am and leaving at 530 the title of the show is two for music mr sangslcrs part in the program is centr ed around his crosscanada cbl broadcast that he started back in 1952 cameramen also took several shots around the town on friday to be included in the production but some how they missed magistrate david coon riding his bicycle up church street so you think that everyone in stouflville uses cither oil or gas these days well youre wrong stiver bros report that in a single year they will sell from 15 to 20 carloads of coal or approximately 800 tons the price for hard coal is 29 per ton theres always a first time and mongolia general store keeper jim and mrs cowan hit the jackpot on oct 4th they attended the take a chance show at channel 9 and were awarded merchandise valued at over 300 mrs cowans ticket was drawn by another stouftville district lady mrs dave ratcliff their prize included an electric knife sharpener an electric mixmaster a ladys and mans elec tric shaver an electric toaster an electric frying pan an elec tric hair dryer an electric heater an electric steam and dry iron an electric waffle grill an electric blanket an electric eggcooker and an electric deep fryer to mention a few theres no reason to be either cold or hungry at the cowan home unless of course the power goes off several weeks ago while commenting on the recreational benefits of the bruce conservation area west of stouftville we noted that there was a lack of playground equipment to occupy the interest of the children and keep them out of their parents hair well weve been set straight on this score by robt nesbitt deputyreeve of uxbridge twp and a munici pal representative on the mtrca mr nesbitt claims that conservation areas are just that and nothing more although their program does include such side attractions as swim ming fishing tobogganing and camping they are not parks in the true sense of the word we cater to a particu lar type of people he said he said that while others pre ferred locations with slides swings etc there were private parks in most municipalities to serve this purpose he noted that by expanding the cons plan to include these facilities the authority would be using park land tax monies to put the park owners out of business mr nesbitt has proved his point it was a rather strange sight to see golf enthusiasts out on the greens at sleepy hollow on saturday with snow still lying in protected areas in the coming events department keep in mind the date for the stouftville players program in the legion hall thursday nov 18th and friday nov 19th tickets are now on sale its hats off this week to the staff and students of st marks separate school in stouftville the still unfinished condition of their school building has not hampered principal condon and his pupils from setting up a full program of activities including the publishing of a school paper that rolled off the duplicator for the first time on friday its call ed the sainl marks chronicle a cartoon in the paper by robt danielis caught our eye its the face of a boy minus many of his dentures and the caption reads my group had 42 fewer cavities mainly because we had 84 fewer teeth halloween is now past and local homeowners welcomed the usual array of witches ghosts etc on saturday night we kept track of the visitors this year and counted no less than 57 boys and 36 girls there were more after that but we had already run out of candy and the supply of unicef money was running low besides it was nearly time for the nhl game to start in louring the town we noticed more artificial jackolanlcrns in windows this year than last but the carved- oulkind still hold a big lead our first prize selection would have gone to the mcwhinnie family on westlawn crescent they had a pair of the largest pumpkin faces anywhere and the lighted handiwork could be seen a block way stouflville has a birthday possibly only a very few readers who are residents of stouftville realize that their municipality has lust had an other birthday stouftville was incorporated as a village in the fall of 1877 the village derives its name from abraham stouf- fer the original owner of this site the history of the name was for some time unsettled the family name often appearing as stover or stofer and the locality being known as slover- ville or slauftville one hundred and fourteen years ago before the village was born it had 350 inhabitants a grist and oatmeal mill foun dry and tannery and congregati onal church this was in 1851 after that time the place grew steadily and the census of 3881 gives the population as 866 by this time it had added four ad ditional faiths being methodist presbyterian episcopal and baptist the first municipal officers of the new village verr james dougherty reeve j c reesor william ieaney g l frecl and j gibney councillors by this time the village had a flourishing mechanics institute with 1 1 1 members a library containing about 800 books and a masonic lodge formerly stouftville was di vided in the matter of parlia mentary representation by the township line the whitchurch section belonging to north york and the markham portion io east york by the act of 1882 for the redistribution of the dominion constituencies the village as a whole was annexed to west ontario together with whitchurch and newmarket communicationwise stouff- ville began as a stop on the tor onto and nipissing railway the lake simcoe junction line con nected with the main line at thij point