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t j the stoutfylue tribune thurjy no n 1965 just slip if under the door a holiday to on thursday today more than 1000 stouffvilie school students and hundreds more in the immediate area will pnjoy a holiday a holiday for what to mark an occasion in his tory that occurred z2 years before the majority of these young people were even horn were not impressed instead of a full day away from remember school for a reason that is not appar ent it would make far more sense to conduct classes as usual with a two minute period of silence at 11 oclock for two minutes at least the pupiu might realize that november 11th is truly a day of remembrance and not just a one day vacation front their books the facrs about central schools the proposed implementation of a central school program in area no 1 of the township of pickering has aroused some objection from a seg ment of ratepayers as we stated previously the trend toward this kind of system is apparent and regardless of opposi tion it will sooner or later come about last week we received a 21page brief from the hon william g davis ontario minister of education one of the topics included in the informa- is auto insurance rea there have been plenty of sour looks this past couple of weeks fol lowing a warning that car insurance rates are going to increase again next year possibly six percent this year the boost was even higher the pre diction was made by j b humphrey of the all canada insurance federa tion he said that rates will continue to climb because of the continued in crease in the number of accidents and rise iti cost of repairs this is the gloomy side of the coin however a pamphlet entitled viewpoint on insurance and publish ed by the fire auto and casualty in dustry of canada has just come to hand it puts a little different light bit the subject it makes the blunt statement in the beginning that the average can adian motorist spends less propor tionately for auto insurance than he did 25 years ago despite the fact that tion concerns the centralization of schools the facts are as follows during the last year 127 new central schools were put into operation in rural ontario making a total of 878 they replace 2309 oneroom schools 201 tworoom schools and 20 three- room schools it is obvious that the oept of education is backing the movement toward centralization and the propo sal by the trustees of area 1 in pick ering is by no means an iitiguided shot in the dark ily that expensive the average cost of an accident has gone up i times the pamphlet gives these statis tics in 1910 the average wage earner was making 23 a week it took him 3 i weeks to pay for his insurance today this average driver over twentyfive earns nearly 80 a week and he works less than two weeks to pay for his insurance and in some cases less than 1 i weeks in addition he works in the average case a 40hour week instead of 54 that he worked then in addition he gets three times the insurance pro tection because minimum limits have gone up from 10000 to 535000 finally the exposure to accident has increased tremendously in 1940 there were 1500000 cars compared to 7000000 today it just doesnt appear possible but this seems to prove that while youre paying more you are really paying less and getting more for it china less dangerous it was recently confirmed that canada had closed another big wheat deal with communist china the sale of about 187000000 bushels will de posit 336000000 in the pockets of canadian grain growers we realize that by the time this hem is read the election will be over but the newest deal suggests that it is merely one of a continuing series and that the chinese demand for can adian grain is likely to continue re gardless of which party is in power in ottawa the point that we would like to make is that generally speaking can adians believe that a communist with full stomach is a lot less dangerous on a full stomach as an enemy than one who is hungry the money china has to spend every year far this imported food will not be available to speed production of nuclear weapons news of these continuing wheat deals is having an impact as well in the united stales who up until now would have no truck or trade with china one segment of us opinion has already pointed out that can adians are just out to make a fast buck something in which our south ern neighbors are most proficient however the more soberminded and less jealous according to us publi cations are looking for a change in american policy to permit the same kind of trading relations food for thought it was graduation night on fri day evening for 47 boys and girls now fullfledged students in grade 9 at stouffvilie dist high school the formal banquet and diploma presentations that followed was sponsored by the home and school association the guest speaker for the occa sion was mr j b daniels personnel manager of chesebroughponds ltd in markliam there was plenty of food for thought in his address that featured education and its meaning in terms of dollars and cents nothing is closer to the mind of a high school teenager than a weekly pay cheque thirty forty or fifty dollars will buy several new dresses for a girl or serve as a down payment on a car for a boy it seems like a lot of money when your only interests are in dresses and automobiles but it wont buy a house or feed a family or pay for an apartment mr daniels pointed out that nine years of high school and univer sity may seem like a long road to tra vel but it also means the difference of 75 weekly in a pay envelope its well worth considering forest fires below ten year average toronto forest ires in ontario and acreage burned continued their steady down ward trend this year well he- low the previous two years and in point of loss considerably be low the tenyear average preliminary figuics issued by the forest protection branch of the department of imds and forests list l203 flies and 19- r92 acres burned over as com pared with 1834 fires and 28322 acres burned in 1961 and 1ss3 flies binnine 56138 aeres in inm the tenvear average for 95t60 inclusive was 1291 fires and 97516 acres binned officials point out that until the end of august this year the number of forest fires in onta rio was about normal since then theie has been a record low in fire occurrence i to frequent and general rainfall over the province willie the fire season ends of ficially on octoher 31 forest protection officers warn that this does not end the fire dan ger fallen leaves and dead her baceous growth killed bv frost provide the visual autumn problems hunters and all those travelling in forested areas therefore are urged to be ex tremely careful in the use of fire in any form in the fare of conditions that could so readily bring about disastrous even fatal conflagrations i i i j the stouffvilie tribune limited established 1 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association autlitttra aa iwordef mh roftffie dfpt 01tw member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffvilie ont in canada j400 elsewhere j600 c h nouav jpublijhrr ias thomas kditir noki boey ahcrlidtik first curbed pavement here 35 years ago just thirtyfive years ago this that time right here in town sidewalk foremen by the doz- fall stouffvilie residents were the most of it stretched from en watched the big mechanical pointing proudly to their first what is now park rd to baker shovel heave and twist to re- curbed pavement the job was avenue seventylive years ago move these logs which were sev- done by the warren bituminous logs were cheap in fact some oral layers thick in some places paving co and the price was would almost give litem away those were the days when giant something over a hundred thou- to get rid of them these great sand dollars for the mile and a logs formed the basis for the quarter stoulyvilles share of roadways particularly in low the cost was s67000 areas they were covered with most youngsters growing rip gravel but gradually worked up today will never have heard of with the frost leaving a surface hill pit which was jitst opening mack trucks wilh the familiar chain drive formed the back bone of the construction compa ny fleet most of the gravel for ie job came from the baker a corduroy road we had one at with a real wave in it sugar andspici by bill smiley liow it all began addressing a group of high school teachers the other night i recalled how i entered the uh teaching game business vocation profession or racket what you call it depends on who you are purely by accident i had brought my family to this town one sunday to have a look at the sights as we hadnt been here before on the way out of town we drove around the side streets to admire the fine homes thats odd i said to my wife theres a big new factory smack in the middle of the residential section they dont usually allow that then i saw the roadblock out in front of the sprawl ing onestorey factory there was a grim gent beside it welldressed but with a sort of wild glint in his eye he llagged he down i stopped he came over to the car can you see out of at least one eye he queried i assured him that i had 4040 vision or something of the sort i thought it was some kind of kooky plainclothespolice check the kind you run into when youve left your driving license in your other pants ever been lo a university he shot at me i said id been to oxford i remember spending a whole week end there during the war waiting for a land army girl who never did show up he brightened considerably have you any contagi- oris diseases was the next question like leprosy i told him 1 was as sound as any man in my condition could be beaming now he went on with the questionnaire and you dont drink smoke play the horses or chase women right i slatted to point out that i did all of these when ever possible but not all the time and not all at once but he wasnt listening he had the car dooi open and me by the arm and was hustling me toward that big brick factory that looked more like a prison every sec ond i thought i was under arrest when we got inside he shoved me into a chair and i waited fearfully lor the bright light in the face and the rubber hose but lie fouled me lie stuck a confession under my nose and snarled sign there i signed won dering what had become of magna carta habeas corpus and my family out in the car it was not until he offered to show mc the gymnasium and the cafeteria thai i realized ihe factory was a high school and that i had just experienced the hard sell on teachers however it wasnt much of a switch for mc i know that the jump into teaching from big industrialist shoe salesman or shortorder cook has been a traumatic ex perience for some people you can see them any day tottering whitefaced toward the staff room after a double period with 10z the terror of the school but i had little difficulty in making the adjustment after all i had been a weekly newspaper editor in that job you spend most of your time telling people things they dont listen to and urging them to do things they dont want to do i found these invaluable training for my teaching career and i must admit that tilings have gone well in three years i fought my way up to a departmentheadship oh it took a lot of midnightoilburning cofteebuying for ihe principal and the fact that they couldnt get any body else for the job but i made it and now i have my own litlle empire a dozen or so english teachers who are so in awe of me that they never borrow more than 10 an assistant department head who hangs on my every word and then contradicts it and the thrill of attending department heads meetings of being on the iiisidc where the big decisions arc made like what arc wc gonna do wilh kids who carve herb loves elsie on the desks up the new pavement was the most expensive and best avail able with two layers of asphalt laid on a thick concrete base down the centre of the street a 36inch storm drain was laid t lie first municipal drain in town oldtimers wagged their heads with doubt as the drain trench went down twenty feet through the hill at the corner ot obrien ave their comment itll never work awav down there an added feature to the lob was the installation of curbs up to this time open ditches ran along each side of the street except in the main busi ness block in the west end of town these ditches were well cared for being sancerod and trimmed up leaving quite an acceptable appearance how ever in the east end the ditches were deep they were choked with weeds and numerous household drains emptied into them leaving at times not too pleasant an odour to cover the cost of the curbs a frontage tax was added willi a rate of 10c a foot for one end of town and lie for the other the uiipxplainable pait about this whole deal was that the end of town which gained the most by elimination of the bad ditches got off paying the smal ler figure before ihe job was even start ed or a contract let the village council had a long and biter struggle over the project with councillor jos borinsky leading the fight in favour of the new and the late george dowswell then councillor putting up the main opposition needless to say this council though they did a good job in bringing stouffvilie its first good road was dumped at the next election when is a man old when is a man old socrates produced his great est philosophical thought at 70 plato was only a student at 50 he did his best teaching afler go francis bacon was go before lie did his best writing agassi was 51 when he gave his great scientific lectures voltaire did his finest work after 60 and produced his masterpiece at 81 gladstone was a potent fig ure in political and intellectual circles when he was 80 goethe wrote a part ot faust at 60 and the end of it at 82 victor hugo wrote lcs mis- erables at 62 john milton completed para dise lost when 57 and paradise regained at 63 jules verne was writing his noah webster wrote his monumental dictionary at 70 and the recent death of bernard m baruch vigorous lo his end in the midst of his ninth decade leads us to a re consideration of the question when is a man old in our society we have built iron curtains around those who have passed the age of 50 they are no longer consider ed capable of real growth their future is in the past we have assumed that mental muscles are like so many biceps and that once a man reaches middle- age he can no his mind nor add virile strength to flabby thought moreover because wp arc prone lo thinglfy people imaginative stories at 0 to make them in lo things roamin around speeders were king on saturday night at the mark ham arena as more than 200 old timers drifted around the rink to the brass band rendition of the skater waltz although hopelessly out of condtion after a tv year layoff we noticed the old legs loosening up a w bit as the musicmakers rose to play the queen but singlv or in pairs how the old folks can skate by com parison they make todays rock and roll generation look like snails with their brakes seized even in full flight the cutdown blades are just no match its like a deer in a race wiih a clydesdale horse it was just like old times on saturday no traflic jams at centre ice no games of tag no snowballs no beatle records just two hours of solid enjoninent and recreation and how the folk from the stouffvilie area loved it with no exaggeration we would estimate that at ieast half of the people pres ent were from the stouffvilie district many were the same ones who waltzed around the old rink while a band played in the gallery some years ago a lot of water has flowed under the old bridge since then but the me mories of those days are still very real for those who didnt make it down to markliam last saturday and would still like to give it a whirl mark dec 4th on your calen dar if the old speeders look a little motheaten and rusty it might serve as a hint for hubby to mark them down as a number one purchase on his christmas list anyway a pair ot skates are only as good as the feet that till them so give it a try youll be glad you did talk about unusual circumstances few wilt compare with a case that came before the courts at richmond hill on tuesday the background facts are as follows a chap down willowdale way spotted several bundles of shingles on a properly in markliam township he is alleged to have taken them to his own home for use on the roof of bis own house apparently he had neither the time nor the skill to put them on so he asked a neighbour lo look him up a carpenter to do the job lo and behold if the neighbour didnt contact the very man who was the ori ginal owner of the missing merchandise immediately on seeing the goods he put two and two together and called the police a charge of theft was laid with breaks like that a guy couldnt hope lo get away with anything persons entering the council chambers at brougham in pickering twp prior to the regular meeting last week were both surprised and slightly shocked to see a huge lumbermans axe standing upright in the chair occupied by ward 2 councillor bill newman it was hastily re moved belore mr newman entered upon the scene with a municipal election coming up in pickering on dec 4th theres always a chance that a few heads could roll but councillor newman denies that he plans any such drastic action in fact he may not run for ollice at all several residents in town questioned the legitimacy of doortodoor callers last week selling key chains in aid of the deaf and dumb we had two at our door on succes sive days and for the first lime ever we refused them a donation we now feel rather ashamed for it seems that the canvassers were actually legitimate cases and truly worthy of some financial help but how is one to know surely some better means of identification is available to slicli persons we personally are growing a little tired of these guessing games never really knowing who is right and who is wrong by the time the tribune arrives this week the fed eral election results will be history on the eve of ihe vote sunday we contacted a couple of local residents for their opinions on party politics today as compared with yesteryears howard pal malloy market st stoutf- ville will be 90 in january and he cant recall ever missing a chance to vote he quickly admits that there isnt the excitement in elections that there used to be i remem ber when herb lennox ran against mckenzie king and there was a meeting in the old town hall site of thfe present post ollice the place was crowded he said the next night there was a meeting in a barn outside of mt albert we drove up by horse and buggy changing horses at ballantrae the building was packed wilh people smoking inside its a wonder it wasnt burned down mr malloy said that at one lime there were only live conservatives in stouffvilie you could count all the tories on the lingers of yotir one hand he mentioned the late jim rae as a dedicated conservative while in the liberal ranks the names of sangster sanders and daley came to mind mr malloy declined to admit to the direction of his political leanings except to say that he wouldnt vote liberal will it be conservative we ask ed its possible he replied on the other side of the fence is miss janet bruce of slouflville rr 4 an extremely active lady at 94 she cast her ballot on monday at the forrester residence in cashcl miss bruce is a trueblue liberal and proud of it an autographed picture of mckenzie king hangs on the liv ing room wall of her home beside that of another past liberal stalwart sir wilfred laurier so there you are a gentleman 89 and a lady 94 both with their own personal political opinions they took the time and trouble lo vote and enjoyed the privilege many a good deal younger couldnt be bothered a wellknown unlonvillc landmark changed hands on monday when harry boadway left his familiar esso xta- lion at kennedy road and hwy 7 after 26 years or faith ful service one of his loiiglimc customers was daws wagg of slouflville who purchased gas there for the past 23 years during his route days with winlcrstclns and now with taylors transport i wish i had a cent for every gallon he said oversized vegetables appear lo be ihe ordcr of the day in this district this fall the latest is a 21 pound cabbage grown on ihe property of chester pattenden cormley rr i this is lour limes the weight of an aver age cahbagehead and certainly the largest weve ever seen although many people will hold up their hands in horror at the thought of a district deer shoot it appeals certain that a hunt will soon be allowed in some of the local townships jn uxbridgc and some pails of picker ing these animals arc becoming extremely numerous and considerable damage has been reported farmers tell of seeing them in herds of a halfdozen or more asks fsr tux exemption for town council the ontario municipal asso ciation will ask the provincial government to seek a thousand dollar incometax exemption for councillors of villages and towns this will be one of 18 resolutions presented to the gov ernment in december mayor jack lleenan of co- bourg says the exemption would make the job of council lor more atliactive lies vice- longer hex millions did not keep him in- pres of the oma the mayor we tend lo think of older men cars a being obsolete like up right telephones and mddclt fords to be an older man is not lo be contemporary hut an cient no candidate for wisdom- cumoxpcricnce but ready in stead for technologicalchrono logical unemployment small wonder a large boom is taking place in mens cosme tics and barbershops are bring transformed into male beauty salons grey hair was once a status symbol now its a stig ma and men had better cut it out or dye it if not they run a risk they may be cut out and die it is doubtful if even barney baruch could have survived in our youth adoring society if his dependent of the heed to rely on younger men but then again he liked the outdoor life park benches which aie free and in short demand younger people ptefer spoils adds we are tunning out of people interested in giving their time to council at present councillors aie al lowed a onethird exemption on money paid for attending coun cil and committee meetings