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deserve councils confidence the use of townshipowned auto mobiles by heads of departments for transportation to and from their place of employment has been questioned by- some members of council in pickering we feel that the keeping of these cars at the employees homes during off hours could prove a benefit to both the municipality and its taxpayers to a lesser degree it would also serve as a convenience to the drivers there has been some suggestion that this transportation privilege has been abused residents have apparently re ported seeing the cars on unauthorized sorties around the township this in our opinion is kids stuff far below the level of a municipality of 25000 who expect service in one way or another on a roundtheclock basis for far too long the honesty of township personnel particularly heads of departments has been questioned it has led to illfeeling dissatisfaction and even resignations we feel that men who can be trusted to hold positions of responsibility in pickering township as we know it to day can surely be granted the right to supervise the activity of a little 4-wheel- ed runabout between dusk and dawn and so ila perkins sees it parked in front of the neighborhood supermarket on a friday evening so what perhaps the store is having trouble with its waterworks a community effort a subcommittee of the stouffville centennial committee has launched a financial campaign to raise si 5000 for the towns centennial civic square even before this campaign was con ceived a number of residents had ex pressed a desire to have a share in this community project it gives an opportunity for all cit izens including a number who now re side elsewhere to identify themselves with a definite centennial program in the home town the completion of the square will be a proud moment for stouffvilleites and particularly so as it is hoped that most will have contributed and will certainly feel a sense of worthwhile accomplishment council can likewise feel satisfaction that the citizens have shown such inter- st to rally financially behind the pro ject and eliminated the need for an in creased tax levy there is some urgency concerning the raising of the fund as it must be known prior to budget time in march how the square is to be financed both bank branches in stouffville are ready to receive your contribution which will be officilly recorded for future genera tions the committee asks that citizens be as generous as possible and as prompt as is convenient no contribu tion is considered too small and it is hoped that every resident will accept the appeal as a personal obligation of a stouffville citizen province sports and trade pay we have always maintained that commerce would be one of the big fac tors in bringing together russia and the western world tourist trade was also cited now we may add to this sports with consumer purchasing thrown in the recently completed tour of the soviet hockey team gives evidence that consumer purchasing has astrong urge for the russians it has come to light that the rus sian team was more than 600 lbs over weight when it arrived in canada the bill for the overweight luggage was paid for by the canadian amateur hockey association however when the rus sians flew home they were 2000 pounds overweight somewhere along the line the hock ey tourists accumulated a ton of extra luggage they definitely showed great desire for the products of our western econo my and understandably so as at home many of these articles are unobtainable or in short supply the caha declined to pay the over weight charges on the return trip and this must have upped the cost unless the soviet customs officials proved leni ent some prize a story with fascination and amuse ment has just come out of ottawa which can be enjoyed by every tax payer in the nation it seems that min ister of national revenue e j benson recently launched the new income tax form with a cocktail party for the press the form has been devised to eliminate the confusion at income tax time by coloring the tax form leaving white spaces where the taxpayer must pro vide information at this particular party there was a prize the winner was a news agency reporter his prize a promise that mr benson would fill out the reporters income tax form for him when the time comes some prize the prize would have been really something had the opportunity been given to fill out mr bensons tax form and to argue with him about the amount of this and that he could allow and what the expense was for and where did the money come from here would have been a prize worth win- editors mail catcatcher for pickering by our readers feb 2 1967 dear sir i have a complaint picker ing township has a dogcatchcr and a lovely van to put them in recently i wrote to the clerk re questing him to send the officer into the balsam area and collect all the stray cats in the community wc feed ihem since we dont want them to starve but we are alraid that they may become infected with rabies there have been several incidents of rabies in wild animals here i thought perhaps if the dogcatchcr should see this letter in your news paper it could result in some action sincerely mrs richard day jan 21 1967 dear sir well stouffville finally de cided what they plan to do for can adas centennial good now just one tiny question when when do we get this plan off the drawing board and into action is it going to take as long for this project to materialize as it did to conceive the idea if that is the case wc still have to say to the rest of this nation hey wait for us sincerely jean oneill stouffville ont editors note the council has called for demolition work to begin on the old fireball building not later than march 15 the members hope that the civic square project may be completed by july 1 of this year lt wribvltt established 1ss8 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stouftvtlle tribune limited at 51 main st stouffville ont tel j02101 single copies ioc subscriptions sjoo per year in canada 600 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulatioa canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mall post office dcpu ottawa 1 know bagpipes have been recognized officially as a musical instrument but must you practise where my dogs can hear them sugar and spice more on education this was supposed to be part two of a series on education in this country last week i complained about obsoles cence the lack of everything but pupils the unfairness of the fundraising for ed ucation the lack of any national stan dards and the rigidity of practically everything in the system not bad for a start in all the years i wrote this column before i began peddling pedagogy no body tried to suppress my opinions here many disagreed violently others thrcathened lo cancel their subscrip tions some said i was vulgar and one reverend gentleman even offered to thrash me within an inch of my life i reminded him that my big brother was a sixfoottwo 210pound engineer and i never heard another word the first hint that i should tone it down came from a representative of the mightly teachers federation said theyd had several letters from mem bers urging that i be drummed out of eleven years ago 1956 fiftythree head of cattle were des troyed in a barn fire on the property of elmer wilson near balsam in pickering township judgment was reserved in a county court case involving cy bellman main street stouffville and the town the charge involved the alleged blocking of a stream within the village mr john spencer of balsam shot a brush wolf near his home it weighed 75 pounds stouffvilles bantam team coached by bill lennox were successful in win ning the group championship members of the club included norm galbraith don eddington roger beazley gary taylor ron stewart larry malloy jack rcdshaw joe haylow glenn pennanen rick wedseltoft bryce spencer jim spang roger stover and gary baston the manager was sam spencer stouffville district high school teachers requested salary increases of from 500 to 700 bringing their mini mum pay scale up to 3400 and the maximum to 6000 a curlers wifes lament arnt you sorry for me im a curlers wife and as you will sec v its a lonely life he comes back from work grabs a wee bite and i dont see the jerk the rest of the night for after the game whilst having a beer they all try to name the shots that were near he wouldnt come back were it not for the fix that he must hit the sack our alarm sounds at six and its night after night from october to may they continue to fight in this queer scottish way one man throws a rock another yells sweep if the fight wasnt mock it would sure make you creep the rocks reach the house and when alls said and done half the men grouse and the others count one when he reaches our place he jumps into bed with a look on his face that says he is dead he talks away in his sleep nothing of interest of course all that he docs is yell sweep besides he snores like a horse so thats why im rooting for spring nice weather so you can go out besides with him on the ring theres no one at whom i can shout hugh mcnnell unionville ont the service because i was destroying the teachers image by mentioning here such human horrors as sex and drink and by using the odd epithet he asked me heavily what i would do in his position i replied lightly that id do what i always do with letters from cranks and bigots chuck cm in the wastebasket he was annoyed pinned down he admitted there were two such letters and i was annoyed second subtle suggestion was from an inspector a lady she passed the word that the deputy minister no less was concerned about my column and its contents i turned indigo and snarled you mean the department is trying to tell me what i can say and cant say in my column nonononono she blurted visions of headlines dancing in her head its merely hoped that youll use your own good judgment next time it was another inspector at the time a nowdefunct newspaper for teachers was running my column the paper was happy the fan mail was heavy but whispered this inspector he thought he should tell me for my own sake that i was getting in wrong with the federation waddaya tokkin about i enquired in my best head of english depart ment manner and got no answer thai i could pin down i seem to be down on inspectors this week and so i am we got the word the english inspectors were com ing i alerted my 15odd birds in the english department next morning the english staff by bill smiley would have gladdened your eye gals all in their best dresses hair freshdone men with their shoes shlned and every single one glowing with virtue after working till one am preparing the sort of unrealistic but model lessons that inspectors expect nine am word comes that they wouldnt be there snowing and blow ing any of us would have struck off for anywhere but these citynutured driv ers are terrified bv a bit of wind and so we shot off all those terrific les sons on the kids mine laughed heartily when they saw my desk cleaned off it was the first time theys seen me below the breastbone in months and tomorrow we have to do it all over again because the inspectors are still coming if they can make it may they go into a big snowbank and sit there for four hours if they do struggle through it will be an anticlimax the girls dresses are crushed and their hair coming down and i sure as hell am not going to shine my shoes two days in a row just another of the evils of our sys tem a teacher is given a record of mer it by an inspector who sees him maybe once a year for one or two lessons the selfconfident showman who may be a lazy bum normally whips up a flashy lesson for inspection and scores high the selfconscious teacher who normal ly does a terrific job becomes nervoiis and makes a botch of things and scores low i dont really hate inspectors theyve changed they are no longer the old terrors but a pretty decent helpful lot but the system is punk more next week maybe this week next the banking issue by ray argyle the governments firmness in deal ing with the takeover of the mercantile bank by the rockefeller interests sug gests a new chapter may be opening in uscanadian relations for the first time the canadian gov ernment has been able to resist us intrusion into a key branch of the can adian economy the mercantile story goes back to 1963 when new yorks first national city bank decided to buy up the dutch- owned mercantile bank it was cana das smallest chartered bank but would provide the springboard from which to jump into canadian banking in a big way as first national chairman james rockefeller told the story to a commit tee of parliament il was only after his group had bought mercantile that otta wa threatened to restrict the banks operations however a memorandum written by robert macfaddcn president of first national mentioned the cana dians had been assured that the us bankers would come back when the deal is linn to clear with the minister of finance this seems to destroy the rocke feller contention that the americans didnt get fair warning from finance minister walter gordon when the batik act came up for revision mr gordon designed legisla tion which would specifically curb mercantilcs growth this was done by restricting banks to assets 20 times their share capital as mercantilcs share capital is only s10 million it would be limited to holding of 200 million if this revision becomes law mercantilcs assets arc already in fact greater than 200 million an ironic sidelight to the argument is that both first national and the dutch interests which then owned subject to the approval of the govern ments concerned approval of both the us and dutch governments was sought and obtained but no one bothered to seek the approval of the canadian gov ernment now first national is stuck with a small bank in canada which has no prospect of expanding this is not of course the first time trouble has flared between the us and canada in the past few years prime minister pearson recently earned bitter vitrolic from president johnson for suggesting the us stop bombing north vietnam external af fairs minister martins clear call for admission of red china to the united nations did not enhance our popularity with washington and there was the nuclear arms dis pute between the liberal and conserv ative parties in which washington clear ly backed the liberals contributing to the defeat of john diefcnbaker in 1963 but in the current episode the us for the first time has threatened to re taliate against canada washington was abuy with plans to amend us bank ing legislation which would have curb ed the operations of canadian banks in the us since then ottawa has offered american banks the same type of agency deal here which canadian banks have in the us under this system the banks cannot accept local deposits or engage in checkcashing il must be remembered that while canada needs american invcsimenl the us also needs the goodwill and co operation of canada twenty million canadians arc the equal in both popula tion and productivity of americas rich est state california canada is ameri cas best market the source of much- needed raw materials and a lucrative investment opportunity the us needs canada every bit as much wc need the united states the boy next door we attended the 1967 edition of ice follies at maple leaf gardens toronto on saturday wc came away knowing that we had received one of the best bargain values in entertainment ever offered from the opening to the end it was a magnificent performance over shadowing in our opinion the famous ice capades that come to toronto every fall donald jackson who once skated here in stouffville headlined the show and was accorded an outstanding ova- tion he deserved it his two numbers that concluded all too soon were superb in spite of his success hes the same friendly approachable lad of days past a kind of boy next door lie leaves one with that impression best of all how ever hes a trueblue canadian a tact that tends to stir some sense of pride among the natives in this our centen nial year if you havent taken the kids out to the bruce mill conservation area west of stouffville on a weekend yet this winter you dont know what theyre missing we dropped in for an hour on sunday afternoon and the place was alive with men women and mostly children the toboggan is king and they come in all weights and sizes the alu minum models appear the most popu lar although there are plenty of the standard wood variety although its great fun for the young fry it can be pretty rough on pop wc came out of the sixty minute fray with a sprained i back a pair of housemaids knees and minus the seat in a new pair of pants the last catastrophe was far from least j it was warden floyd perkins of richmond hill who referred to todays modern education trends as moving out of the little red schoolhouses into the big red budgets speaking of school thirty pupils from the grade 8 class of don mills junior high walked all the way from the don mills shopping plaza to the toronto city hall on jan 28 leaving at 945 am and arriving at their destina tion by 1 pm they were dressed in old- fashioned costumes they covered a distance of 10a miles and received 50 that will go to reduce the 1000 cost of a school centennial mural two mem bers of the staff are known in stoult- ville mrs frank hannah marg barry and tom mccreight we have learned that frank btnk- i holder is not the only centennial rug- artist in stouffville bert lickorish is j also working on a centennial master- i piece and hopes to have il completed this year the number of centennial beard- growers in stouffville and district has reached 115 the latest recruits to fuzzy j faced fame arc john clark lorelta j cresc stouffville william gammon j rr 3 stouffville joe hcrold main street donald hope rr 3 stouffville davie white north street a j wood rr 2 markham chic minakcr boycrj st ivan grove rr 2 markham marv in clark rr 2 stoultville bill sibrry rr 2 stoultville jack palmer rr 2 stoultville ed polachok rr 2 sloulf- villc ken hamm glad park ave sam halstcd stoulter st peter stover rr 3 stouffville doug hoover rr 1 unionville paul middlcton burkholdcr st john grimas stoulfer st dave toole stoulfer st raymond donn boycr st bob wagg church st don ald erickson main st and bruce for far stouffville rr 3 stouffville deputyclerk ken aida may be the first to pay the supreme sacrifice for shaving prior lo the july 1 deadline herb kring is already ready ing a display window for the purpose ken claims it was his civic duty to come clean since so many residents were overpaying their taxes to estab lish a fund for his benefit sunoco dealer mickey hunt nearly met a similar fate but not by his own hand a group of his kinsmen friends corralled htm following the kin dance january 27 and threatened lo erase hi facial masterpiece fortunately foi mickey and perhaps for his club mates the razor used was without a blade a richmond hill girl peggy andcr son received considerable publicity re cently for her achievement in an ah rally held from the port at button villc the 17 year old placed third fin ishing in second place was stouffville own dr donald smiih accompanied rv dr peter levers of newmarket tin two had to employ all their aeronaulica skills lo get back on course aflcr the became lost somewhere between mus sclmans lake and lake nipissing doug and wayne fcasby comblno on saturday to do kevin actons sta paper route while he was out of towr they used a sleigh pulled by a husk type dog named thunder they con plctcd the rounds in good time in spit of several upsets along the way