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jvt 2 the tribune tfauidiy luxury 19 1967 tehbutte editorials suggestions worth considering no ratepayer in the township of whitchurch frequents the council chambers at vandorf more than law rence hennessey gormley rr 1 an unsuccessful candidate on a number of occasions he has continued to show a keen interest in municipal affairs pos sibly to a point where his presence ap proaches the point of irritation to the sitting members mr hennessey admittedly is not the most tactful person in the world his questions are often blunt and his attitude embarrassing hes a kind of onion in a petunia patch and the coun cil dont pretend to roll out the red welcome mat regardless of the mem bers personal feelings we think that mr hennessey has many suggestions worth considering and recommenda tions that could very well be put into practice he presented a brief at a meeting jan 10 but no action was tak en on any of the issues introduced some of the items were 1 a saturday vote 2 bylaws should be reviewed and an official plan prepared 3 the township should acquire land suitable for industrial sites 4 a re view of assessments should be made and compared with basic rates in other municipalities 5 the demand for 1 and 2 acre residential lots should be considered and so on mr hennessey may have an axe to grind with whitchurch council if so the members being only human have reason to show resentment however where outside suggestions have merit we feel they are worth careful consid eration too many lone hands with the removal of the former stouffville firehall building the offices of the town police department will be moved to a new location on main street west the council has already made arrangement for this shift gone but we hope not forgotten will be the afternoon meeting place for many men in stouffville who during the winter months gather for games of euchre at the same site although this matter may not be the direct responsibility of council we feel that the members have at least a moral obligation to find new quarters for these folks theyve never asked for any special consideration although cer tainly more deserving than most of us who are continually looking for favours long winter hours can hang pretty heavy on hands with nothing to do free time sooner or later will catch up to us all where theres a will stouffvilles centennial events pro gram is already showing the benefit of good organization and the leadership provided by the chairman lome boad- way has the committee fired up with enthusiasm another meeting is plan ned for jan 26 the program has become a commu nity affair since each and every organ ization in town is directly involved as a member of the publicity com mittee we are most anxious to keep the public informed of whats going on the tribune will be pleased to publicize individual events regardless of size each in its own way is important there is always room too for more willing workers for theres plenty of work to do attend the meeting jan 26 before theyve even started a local newspaper serving an area considerably removed from any large city reports that no less than four rep resentatives of the unemployment in surance commission stepped into the local school there to instruct the pupils grade nine and up on their rights un der the unemployment act naturally these men were welcome by the pupils during their stay classes were abandoned and pupils who were expecting to get out into the working world in the not too distant future were glad to know that they didnt have to work so long as they established themselves through unemployment in surance living without working it would appear that ottawa is spending money unnecessarily to tell near workers what they will soon learn for themselves it is outrageous that four men should be sent to one school if it were thought the idea was even necessary and we certainly dont believe it was this is one further sign of our de cline into the welfare state a system which is presently plaguing britain where a generation is growing up with little desire to work and people are leaving the country in droves to settle where they can make their talents pay off editors mail information on ancestors by our readers jan 9 1967 dear sir iowa descendants arc seek ing information about ancestors so please put this notice in your paper information is required for a fami ly history regarding abraham strickler sr who married barbara ramer 1 780- 1871 in 1804 and came in the early ls20s to markham does anyone have their family bible what were the dates of abraham srs birth and death and where is he buried what was the year they came from pennsylvania to mark- ham data has been obtained about their children abraham jr elizabeth john catherine and daniel but does anyone know the name and date of birth of another daughter and also death and birth date of a son david anyone having any information please phone markham 2940345 thank you yours truly miss nellie hyland markham rr 1 jan 16 1967 dear sir i was rather intrigued by ray argyle column last week posties need help working on a weekly newspaper over which i understand mr argyle exerts a certain influence i tried to deduce the raise in pay i was supposed to have received at the beginning of this year one look at the suggested future pay rates of the postal workers had mc searching for a clue as to why i should be satisfied receiving wages 15 to 20 less than that now paid the mail han dlers i suppose the explanation lies in the words comparably essential jobs what i would like to know is just what rate of exchange does mr argyle allow between a printer and a postal employee bent i borgcscn whitby sbtte rtfmne established 1sss c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising h ever rhursday by the stouffville rrtbune limited at 54 main st- stouffvuie onl tel 6402101 single copies 10c subscriptions s400 per year in canada s6xx elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized is second class mail post office depl ottawa and we paid hundreds of millions of ontario taxpayers dollars for those things even when we had admirals sugar and spice a hundred years of what wouldnt it be fun if we could con jure up from their neglected graves sir john a and the other fathers of con- federatiaon and take them on 3 tour of the nation they tied together 100 years ago with string and sealingwax would they think they had builded well would they swell with pride over the nation that has emerged would they look with awe on what has been accomplished or would they cry as with one voice lemme outa here what have you done to our glorious dominion the physical changes in those 10 tiny decades a fleabite in the human span would surely impress them the vast towers of steel and concrete in our cities the ribbons of road and rail that span the continent the st lawrence seaway and surely they would be thrilled by the vast technological leap made since they stood together for that stiff por trait in charlottetown they would be dazzled by the simple facts of electric light and power flight by jetliner radio television the telephone the automobile oilheating airconditioning just one flaw to the editor how splendid it is that all the governments are going all out to provide free education for everyone even those with no desire to study are to be pushed and cajoled through uni versity it speaks well for the great minds of canada that the goal is being pursued there is just one flaw in the entire procedure it of course involves fi nances if everyone is to have higher educa tion who will be left to do the hard and honest toil of constructive work who will be left to provide the mon ey to supply scholarships to pay pro fessional salaries to subsidize student drones who mr editor who will meet the bills for the brains don clark millife jan 11 1967 dear sir may i through the medium of your publication extend sincere thanks to all groups and interested per sons who contributed to this program me in making it a most successful en deavor in the stouffville area following are the results a total of 1700 gifts were collected and 130 received by cheques 39 approved homes in the country were serviced the richmond hill white cross centre several indigent families through the direction of the outpaticnt psychiatric unit of york county hospi tal newmarket and 250 patients looked after at the ontario hospital aurora as well 600 surplus gifts were sent to the ontario division canadian mental health association to help ontario hos pitals where otherwise patients would have received nothing york county res- dents through their generosity have in deed brought cheer and goodwill to many i would at this point say thank you to mrs dorothy mckay for a job well done in the stouffville area and add a special thank you to the stouff ville tribune for coverage sincerelv mrs g gilbert chairman york county christmas gift program ten years aao 1957 the department of highways an nounced the opening of a new motor vehicle licence agency in stouic to be operated by mr and mrs r h murphy mr lcs ogdcn purchased the first of plates the residence of the late mae urquhart was purchased by ted cadi- cux for a main street photo studio a new organ a gift to s james presbyterian church in stouffville from mr and mrs wm morris was dedicat ed by the pastor rev d r mcnillican by bill smiley and a thousand other things we take for granted but how would they feel about the country they created after the fancy wrapping came off the toys after theyd seen the toronto city hall and flown across the country in a few hours and plunged into the bowels of a mod ern mine and gone up in a chairlift at jasper- and faced annihilation in a montreal cab and groped for their drink in a gloomy cocktail lounge behind the glittering playthings would they really find much change in the country not at this time of year anyway it would be still a shambling geographical monster buried in white tail turned to the north wind only a sprinkling of lights a few curls of smoke and a few ants crawling about would suggest it was not straight out of the ice ages and if sir john a and his fellows lifted that familiar blanket of white and peered under it would they be surpris ed and delighted by what they saw would they perceive a mature virile independent people proudly proving that the twentieth century belongs to canada one look would reveal a material prosperity and comfort beyond their dreams but it would show that a lot of other things they were familiar with had not changed or improved in 100 years fear of the us corruption in high places french and english cana dians wrangling dirty fighting at otta wa the taxpayers being bribed with their own money the rich getting richer and the poor getting children a familiar world to the fathers but the sorrow might change to hor ror when they looked beyond the fami liar things and saw that the healthy- looking body was riddled with disease the pollution of atr and water would make them furious the soaring rate of divorce drug addiction homosexualism alcoholism would appall them the number of dead on the highways each year would sicken them the power of huge monopolies would frighten them and the apathy of the average wellfed canadian would disgust them no wed have to divert their atten tion quickly and turn it to other things that would dazzle them perhaps theyd be impressed by some of our great cul tural traditions developed since their time like the grey cup game when the punks and the drunks take over or hockey night in canada one of our great national customs when this en tire sprawling nation is linked together into a warm friendly group of idiots rising as one man to fetch another beer when the commercial comes on maybe theyd enjoy a tour of one of our new atomic energy plants but i wonder what theyd think of the pic tures of hiroshima we could tell them what we did in the two great wars but one look at the tax bill for defense would give them apoplexy and so it would go personally i think that after the initial novelty wore off sir john a and the fathers more in sorrow than in anger would return lo where they came from without ever taking a look back this week next chinas future cloudy by ray argyle the convulsions which have shaken china the past several months have no counterpart in modern political life since the russian revolution yet the evidence suggests that the current up heaval in china is for the present con fined to communist party cadres and docs not involve the masses of chinese people what docs seem clear is that at a time when china could use a strong dose of decisive leadership there is a sort of anarchial democracy prevailing at the upper levels of peking leadership the future of chinese nuclear devel opment the question of a peking seat at the united nations and the role of china in vietnam are all paramount issues for the chinese communists it may be some consolation to the west that the great proletarian cul tural revolution has for the time being rendered the chinese peoples republic quite incapable of leadership because contact between the west and china is still so limited even the best informed speculation about chi nese intentions is none too well found ed recent signs however have put quite a different emphasis on the cul tural revolution and subsequent purge launched by communist party chair man and father of chinese commu nism mao tsetung the first interpretation of this up heaval was that mao was clearing the decks for his inevitable departure by reinforcing the revolutionary spirit of chinas younger generation mao so this line went was alarmed at a growing lack of fervor among chinas young communists knowing neither war nor revolution chinas young people had to be banded into tough red guards who could be manip ulated for the good of the regime their target was revisionism the fatal chi nese communist catchall definition of anything which strays from the original communist gospel as preached by mao after months of red guard ram pages through chinese cities and coun tryside news leaking through the bam boo curtain now shows conclusive that it is mao tsetung himself who has been fighting for his political life red guard posters the most com mon means of spreading news in china tell of how mao was forced out of his post as president of china in 1958 fol lowing the debacle of the great leap forward that bold bid for overnight industrial development which instead almost wrecked chinas primitive agri cultural and industrial society maos chief ally in the current strug gle is defense minister lin piao now regarded as his heirapparent the first prominent victim of the cultural revolution was the mayor of peking peng chen he was ousted and as an indication that the struggle is far from over the red guards arc now at tacking chens successor but the most bitter scorn of the maoists has been reserved for maos successor as president lin shaochi and the secretarygeneral of the com- munist party tcng hsiao- ping and even chinas po pular premier chou enlai has come under attack by the red guards who have demanded a fiery death for chou the chinese communist leadership is obviously sharply split with the basic division between elder hardliners rep resented by mao and lin piao and younger and less fanatical leaders who oppose chinas split with russia and who favor better relations with amer ica during all of this incredible up heaval however it would be the height of wishful thinking to believe that civil war might break out in china the grim drama now unfolding in china may be a final test of mao tsc- tungs famous philosophy of the coun try versus the city the theory that the peasants when marshalled into a fight ing force can overthrow a citybased regime this theory worked for mao in the chinese civil war and he has since preached that it will work on a global scale with the peasants representing the undeveloped world and the cities the industrialized west 1 mb the good old daysl many of our senior folk here i stouffville and elsewhere too enjoy re miniscing about the good oiu ivs li this our centennial year the mem ories seem to get better and hei stories longer as proof that the yo old jays were shrouded in a good dei of bad we would recommend reader to obtain a copy of the november issu of argosy magazine published in da ton ohio nino lo bello has a suppo edly truetolife story from the frontie village of markham dated august 3 1s45 it tells of a gang of outlaws know as the swamp raiders and led by whit hood who robbed murdered and plui dered in an effort to force residents t sell their land at a bargain price an move away it tells how mrs burto morrow was attacked by the raider stripped of her clothes and tarred an feathered her husband and daughtt were killed the writer goes on to d scibe how the village folk lived in tei ror of the gang one woman mrs m thilde beecham who defied the raider threats had parts of her husband body sent to her one piece at a tint others mentioned in the story incluc reverend bingham andrews natha case robert burr james and hirai stoughtenborough thomas tyler an jacob temple the conclusion is startling that we feel residents especk ly the folk down markham way wou be wise to read it all for themselve who knows your great great gran father might have been a swan raider its well worth the price of 51 plus postage to find out on the centennial theme we nosi this question to ten students of stou vllles two public schools followii their halfday vacation jan 11 the ho day is in memory of what wellkno canadian man eight replied sir jol a macdonald one said she didnt kno and one said sir john a diefenbakei centennial beards are slowly b surely becoming quite commonpla around stouffville john foulds though looking like a veritable port pine at present has all the makings a prizewinner hes literally bristli out all over most townsfolk kne whats going on but how do you exph to your pastor that you didnt sleep on sunday morning still on the subject of ccntenni charles richards sons of stouffvl have come up with the most cducatloi calendar weve seen it includes a eo cd picture and accompanying stc on each of the ten provinces plus in information on such men as sir john macdonald william henry pope jo graves simcoe and others they coi with the purchase of any intcrnatloi tractor large or small the legion ladies auxiliary arc p paring a centennial quilt and licki will go on sale following its complete the women folk however would well to look to their counterpart at m and albert streets frank burkholt has begun his own version of a kniti masterpiece that will keep somcon tootsies warm next winter maj mrs burkholders dont be surprised if the old moi pleasant public school on the 7th c cession of pickering township becon a centennial model on the grounds the brougham museum chances ol becoming a community centre as pi ncd for similar structures at alt 7i altona atha and whltcvalc appear r cr slim the population is hardly a quatc to support such a scheme 1 historical society would no doubt come the addition with open arms ratclills iga stoic the manaj lloyd houghton and occupations dent gale goudie of stouffville rcc cd front page publicity in the decern iga bulletin the main street ft liner is participating in the twov store merchandising course offered stouffville high school that inclu cashiering preparing displays stocking shelves old lime euchre parties arc con back with rural communities part iarly in pickering township using t school buildings to good advantage of the most recent card groups to cc to life is at greenwood where the lagc pastor is the life of the party though he started off the ccntcn year by winning the booby he has solved to improve even if it m kicking his partner on the shins ui the table on a more sombre note ro wilson cone 7 whitchurch is wondering who the person was stoic his mail box and dumped the tents into the ditch