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the tribune ihiity jjourjry 6 1966 what to do with the old fire hall a question which stouffviile muni cipal council will no doubt be discus- zsing in the months to come will be the disposition of the old fire hall our chief concern should council decide to dispose of this aluabc property is what is lo become of the town clock this is the percy memorial clock and was donated to stoufivillc some thirty years ago by the percy family then residing in the united states the tower in which the clock is located was erected through public subscription funds this is a town landmark and should be preserved at all costs council is at the present time only using part of the municipal building for office space the only remaining tenant in the old fire hall once the fire depart ment equipment is moved into its new home will be the police office which occupies aboul half the huilding the upper floor is maintained as a recrea tion room for some of our elder citi zens this is a very valuable corner locat ed near the heart of the downtown business section and council could deem it more convenient to move the police department into the municipal building keeping all departments under one roof members might then consider selling the property in this event a new- site should be found for the tower and clock whether there would be any wis dom in renovating the old building for other municipal purposes is question able while discussions have been held over the last couple of years on the need for a new library building site the old hall property would provide little more space than that already occupied by the library whatever suggestions arc put lor- ward they must be carefully considered always keeping in mind that a new home must be found for our clock should they be either to dispose of the site or rebuild the present building this week begins the pension pinch this week canadians begin to feel the pinch of the new canada pension plan the longterm intention is to pro vide people with a reasonably good pension when they reach 65 nevertheless the old question still remains as to whether government can spend an individuals money more wise ly than he can spend it himself working canadians will be hit for ls per cent of their incomes and self- employed persons for 36 per cent some phoney arguments have been put forward in defence of the pension such as the fact that people will have less money to spend which would bring less pressure on prices this will cer tainly not prove lo he the case the cost of the pension to all businessmen and rums will have to be made up some where and where else than lo increase prices likewise the individual who has his pay cheque nipped again will be asking for his pay to be increased at least to the amount of the deduction so in essence the employer will wind up paying the entire pension already the government has spent about two million dollars informing canadians about the plan however we still doubt if the idea is completely sold the revenue department is going to have its toughest assignment in years and the health department is also in the picture as it will administer the plan the maximum yearly pension on five thousand dollars income would be si 250 this maximum pension of si0417 a month is separate from the s75 old age pension now in existence pension payments begin this week and they will be on a graduating scale until the plan reaches maturity in 1976 contributions coming in immedi ately will far exceed payments for many years a reserve which will be made available to the provinces in the form of loans is supposed to reach an esti mated four billion 900 million dollars 1976 editors mail five fffbawpsagtifjemezstf by our readers dear sir one thing thit i admire in the stouttvilie tribune and now in its successor the tribune is its facility for making me boiling mad j would rather you be con troversial than nothing at all this letter is in regard to your editorial last week en titled court news not for fun the complaint you were rebutting was that people fed that it is wrong to plas ter every john does misde meanor on the front page of the newspaper as i make it out your main point in the editorial was that publica tion of these misdemeanor or even criminal acts will act as a deterrent to others who might be inclined to participate in the same type of activity though broadcasting one persons mistakes may pre vent another from making the same mistakes it is de structive to both parties concerned let me take first the- man who has done the deed and then the man who reads about it and explain the reaction each will have to seeing the deed in print the man who clubs his friend or enemy on the back of the head is doing so for a very specific reason whatever the reason is that man has a serious problem the problem that society should immediately be con- corned with is that he learn to handle his feelings in a nonviolent manner ac ceptable to society society would be satisfied at the point societys at if the two persons calmly sat down at a table and talked out their differences but two people who arc very angry at each other are not going to be satisfied with this people who get into fights over any one of a va riety of issues are only sat isfying their primitive im pulse to kill when annoyed an animal when eating its food will do its level best to kill anything that threat ens the food being taken people are animals the on ly difference between peo ple and the lower animals is that we like to call our selves civilized so when a man feels the impulse to club another over the head he is only feeling the natu ral impulse felt when one walks near another who is a rival two people may be rival rous in appearance good looks clothes food girls boys marks in school or any one of millions of is sues that will arise- any person who says he is not rivalrous with anybody is a fool we are all rivalrous the only difference be tween us and those is in the way we handle our feel ings so a man clubs his rival what will his immediate re action he to that if i know my people his reaction to one degree or another will be guilt he will feel guilty for having hurt somebody he may foolishly feel one is not being a man by feeling guilty but nevertheless he will feel guilty so how does he handle this feeling of guilt he may mr a c un breast of the whole thing and perhaps gain upport from society for being so courageous in renllzng his mistake or he may do what so many d- he may try to present himself to soccty in a manner that he will as suredly be condemned as one of those why this is a very common dynamic in many areas of our society some people when they feel they are going to fail in the eyes of others will try to hurry the job up by not trying this man is failing society by breaking a serious rule thou wilt not express thy feeling in any violent way he knows that by breaking this rule he will be looked upon by his peers and auth ority figures as something to be scorned then when someone plasters his mis take on the front page he knows he is a goner and so will go on to present him self as a worthless individ ual of society i know and you know that if this person wanted badly enough to repair his mis take he could get to people who would help him with it but the sad fact of the matter is that he feels so lousy about himself that he isnt prepared to do this by himself he needs to be tactfully taken in hand and with honesty respect and real concern helped i re peal helped not repres sed now according to your ediiorial these broadcasts are aimed at others who might go the same way now anybody who doesnt go the same way is going to he gained his impetus not n your newspaper but from people who have meant something to him who have helped him your newspaper sensational im may instil some fear into his heart but that isnt very continued on page fi established 1sss c ii nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edev advertising published every thursday hy the stouffviile tribure limited at 5i main st stouftvlhe ont ti 6102101 sincic copies 10c subscriptions siol per sear in canada sfim ctsrwiirfft mms of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly madiar paper association ard ontario weeklv newspapers association authorized second class mail post office lpt ottawa all this paperwork for his pension sugar and spice punsters by bill smiley dad we should be glad you and i glad that we got a mate when wc did 20 or 30 years ago wed never measure up lo what the girls demand today 1 discovered this the other day dur ing a panel discussion in one of my grade 12 classes topic was early marriages participants were four bright attractive girls of 17 or 18 well they really opened my eyes in fact i was shocked and dismayed by the hardboiled materialistic attitude of these young ladies generally they had the right idea that teenage mar riages are a mistake but for all the wrong reasons i used to think that marriage was based on mutual respect physical at traction shared interests love that shows you how oldfashioned i am it seems that these days a success ful marriage is a combination of eco nomic essentials and psychological clap trap first of all you have to have security this rules out early marriages it means the couple must have enough money for at least down payments on the house furniture appliances it fol lows that the girl must finish school and take a job and save the boy must get through law school and medicine no plumbers for these kids again it follows that hes about 30 shes at least 25 before they can think of marriage i could have reminded them but didnt that most of them would never have been born if their parents had waited for security before marrying second they said teenagers arc not emotionally mature enough for mar- looking backward 40 years ago 1925 speed was the thing even 30 years ago as we read from the files of the tribune on jan 1 102 the strenuous times through which we are living are reflected everywhere tile speed of radio seems to be the guiding star it is not enough to say a ship hurried to port it must be made a dash as if it got there the next minute a man who is ill is making a rapid recovery as if nature was atune to the times and u in both feet to hurry the recovery men rush into the printing office and must have their work done immediately people rush here and there in automobiles many with no real objectives there is speed by the doc tor at birth speed and repentance at mar riage and speed to tiie cemetery in the undertakers bus at death perhaps this is all temporary bin its strenuous while il lasts nice town to deal iv t am not a native of stouffviile nor have 1 ever shopped here before this christmas im a torontonian and just hap pened lo be in your town for the day on business the experience was most enjoyable after shopping in downtown toronto and surrounding shopping centres it was a real relief to go in and out of the stores in stouffviile while there were lots of people there was much more the air of christmas but in a quiet way on the street the continuous music was most attractive people were most considerate and friendly and you could move about without constantly having to be nimblefooted to keep from being run over i like your town and thought possibly your readers would like to know jas mac donald commercials shopping is becoming more and more difficult for me these days why because the list of products which we refuse to buy because the com mercials are so irritating and annoying grows every single day must commercials be annoying loud repetitive in order to sell we think not many are imaginative entertaining and worth watching lets demand more quiet and tasteful commercials i housewife riagc i dont quite know what that means eight out of 10 of the married adults i know have tantrums or drink loo much hare with jealousy light over trifles fall in love hate bitterly in short they arc normal human beings but theyre not emotionally mature another point the kids brought up was that teenage girls arc not prepared to face up to the complexities of marri ed life they cant cook tliey know noth ing about raising children they cant manage a budget apparently the an swer to this is for the girl to complete her education and work for a few years this prepares her for marriage thus if she has studied typing or philosophy or hairdrcssing or embalm ing and made a living for a year or two shes all set for cooking childbearing and budgetbalancing i dont follow the logic but i always was a little dense about feminine thinking girls i can show you women of 30 career girls who cant cook a tv din ner dont know one end of a baby from the other unless its crying and couldnt handle the budget of a sunday school class without pulling it on the rocks another serious suggestion was that marriage should be delayed until both parties have had a chance to travel and see the world the implication was that after youre married and had kids you never do more than take a sunday drive hell 1 have a nephew of 17 who was born in yellowkniic north west territories and has grown up in south america the west indies holland and newfoundland i have a niece 19 who has lived in england france and ger many those kids didnt slow their par ents down one of fhe girls said boys of 19 and 20 are not ready to assume the respon sibilities of marriage some arent but some men of 30 arent and never do ive seen boys of 19 and 20 in charge of a million dollars worth of aircraft and a hundred lives i could scarcely refrain from telling these complacent prematrons that their grandmothers were married at 16 or 17 their grandfathers at 20 coping with a life they couldnt even imagine not that im in favor of teenage marriages heaven forbid our society has all the cards slacked against the young lovers bui theres something sad about their attitude this week next- civil defence a shu in by ray argyle theres nothing like starting the new year on a cheerful note of opti mism but for one of the countrys best organized pressure groups it was time to remind canadians again of the in valuable services rendered by one of our most useless quasiiflicial organiza tions every year about this lime canadi ans are subjected lo a hood propaganda for what used to be known as civil defense headquarters after blundering along for several years in trustworthy colonel blimp fashion this outfit man aged to get itself rechristened a while ago as the emergency measures organ ization it was no doubt thought that emo would be more palatable to canadians than civil defense likewise that by masquerading as an organization that could come to the aid of the community in any kind of crisis this group would be better able to justify its existence and taxpayers would be less likely to protest its cost one of the countrys most elaborate emo outfits is headquartered in a 2100 squarefool underground fallout shelter a few miles north of toronto between aurora and newmarket there according to zone control- troller directors and deputy direc tors the business of running toronto in the aftermath of a fivemegaton at tack would be conducted by whichever civil officials had managed to flee the ontario capital to anyone who has ever tried to get out of toronto on a holiday weekend it is inconceivable that any civic official would ever reach fhe emo centre perhaps thai is why emo director ii j pollard admitted that thev will just have to make their own way here tr pollard is liable to find himself in exquisite loneliness as no more than a 15minutc warning tan be expected and it takes much longer than that to drive from toronto to aurora ever since the first civil defense organization was set up from the buck- ctandllashlight brigade of world war ii this reporter has not heard of one instance where the millions of dollars spent has served any practical purpose as an indication of how much the program costs under the revamped emo setup metropolitan torontos budget of 5600000 per year goes into maintaining a fulltime stall of more than 30 persons plus a variety of trucks sirens and other equipment of course the sirens dont always work during one canadian test 53 fail ed lo even squcek while another 70 went down as partial failures when the big prcchristmas power blackout hit eastern north america the ottawa command of fmo didnt know a thing about it i havent heard a thing director general c r patter son was quoted as saying when reached by a newsman it may be that civil defense is a worthwhile insurance against the mas sive fatalities that would occur in a nu clear war it may also be true that the public could be well served by an emer gency organization which could lend aid in event of hood lircs and other natural or manmade peacetime disasters if this is so why hasnt canada done cither civil defense has proven to be a colossal flop in this country and the emo which has succeeded it has not lo my knowledge made any contri bution to law and order it has been charged by some critics such as mayor gordon slronarh o lon don ont that emo exists lo maintain retired army officers this was denied at that time by the emo coordinator lor thai district who admitted however that in three years the local lomembcr committee was unable lo define its role because it could not round up ils quo rum of six to discuss the problem as it now stands in canada civil defense emo or call it what you will is a total waste of tax funds and could be dispensed with entirely and no one would ever miss it even the united stales which has spent vast amounts lo prepare shelters for 135 million people sees civil de fense as a pitiful response to the prob lems of the nuclear age if the cities cant be protected as canadian emo people admit the solu tion then is to go underground if we want to become a nation of moles this h what wed better do i roamin around how did ou spend new years eve how did you feel at wakeup time on new years day well if you were like many revelous residents in this area ou probably looked a little blcarv- eyed heavy headed and weak kneed however right here in stoutlville tar removed from the arena of champagne- tipplers and elbowbenders there was a party in progress that would have made the temperance promoters jump for joy alcohol in any form was strictly out and even those persons who wished lo pulf on a pipe or cigarette had to go elsewhere to do it the gathering head ed by frank and donna barkev was held at the masonic hall it was attends ed by 7t couples a crosssection of the crowd included folks from agincourt mark ham stoutlville claremonl brooklin and oshawa spot prizewin ners included herb yakelev and fei u keith caught under the mistletoe and grant and shirley jones running down the recorded list of guests we noticed the following mr and mrs edgar evans ctaremont lloyd and doris wilson ashburn percy and dorothy jones ctaremont mr and mrs gordon gauslin claremont ken stickvvood claremonl dorecn jones claremont bev hawthorne ctaremont rr j david hawthorne claremont rr 2 mr and mrs elmer wilson balsam edith and raymond stickvvood claremont brian stickvvood claremont brcnda mcavoy claremont mr and mrs win evans claremont orval and marjuric fretz claremonl bob and muriel tor- ranee claremont norman and jessie coupcrthwaite myrtle john wilson balsam joan hoar kinsale john and mildred wilson claremonl janice hos- kins claremonl jim wilson balsam w c and ruby pearson stoufivillc bruce and margaret empringliam unionvillc rr 1 gordon and alice greig markham earl and dorecn dis ney claremonl rr 2 dennis and ra- mona murphy markham bill and lleen mitchell markham russ and edna hodgson claremont grant and sheila parrolt ashburn ivan rccsor markham rr 1 carolyn ham stouff- rj ville bill and edna nigh markham rr 2 mr and mrs fred wright oshawa ted and irene gray claremont rr 2 ron and ruth duckworth oxbridge orvvan and dorecn bret hour uxbridge rr 3 harvey and audrey feasby stoufivillc carl and anna arnold maik- ham lome and carol smith markham rr 2 bill pearson and mary honey agincourt rr i don and louise hope stoutlville rr 3 mac and fern keith stoufivillc rr 4 fred and marg jcm- mctt ringwood bill and laura elsby brampton jack and pat warriner markham rr 2 marshall and myrha sharrard uxbridge rr 4 carl and earlene hoover markham rr 2 grant and shirley jones brooklin esther and harry lewis markham rr 2 richard and mary colwcll claremont rr 1 cecil and jean disney brooklin rr 1 linda johnson glen major frank ellc- x ry glen major george and helen john son glen major morlcy and ruby leek glen major garnet and winnona gray uxbridge wilf and nelda morlcy stouffviile mr and mrs bruce lcask grccnbank glen and pal bycr stouff viile den and ruth kidd slouflville lome and doris clark uxbridge pa- iricia slell brooklin bob tripp port perry norma slccklcy and walter bar- key lucky guy stouflvilletoronto walter and elva kerry port perry marv thomas woodvillc fred cathcr- wood uxbridge donna budd wood villc donald thomas woodvillc aylmcr and elsie carter stouffviile robert and shirley johnson markham rr 2 isabel mcmillan and aubrey car son claremont glenn and joan grove markham dal ton paris and shirley severn newmarket mr and mrs herb yakclcy stouffviile cord and kay wagg slouflville eric and megan wal lace weston ken and dorothy petty victoria square alice and john hamil ton brougham and trevor watson i markham rr 2 ghost callers on main street v if wasnt loo many months ago that wc described in this column the weird happenings inside a haunted telephone booth on main street in markham well it seems that there is also one right here in stouffviile ii is located just outside the credit union office the first call came through at about 8 pm and the conversation in terrupted by girlish background glg- glers went something like this hello is bill there where out on the street just a minute ill have a look no sign of bill is grant there where out on the street no sign of grant thank you ill try the restaurant a halfhour later the phone began ringing again this lime is was a boy the conversa tion went something like this hello can i help you yes im looking for some girls arc there any out there why sure the streets arc full of them what colour and model would you like ill take a 65 blonde do you wish de livery immediately yes just send her up to the west end what about arrange ments never mind ill name my own terms hung up two minutes later i ry rang again same voice oneill fun eral parlours wc answered thats not the number i dialed came the surpris ed reply well you had better hang up and dial again two minutes later lit did