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pi 2 the tribune vanity mini 16 1967 chance for expansion through the efforts of the stouff ville industrial commission the town has been presented with another op portunity to show its desire for expan sion and its willingness to be liberal in extending facilities to new industry and institutions stouffville planning board has been presented with the proposal of a joint private and government sponsored hos pital of two hundred bed capacity for inlirm children this is not a taxfree institution but would pay its way in addition to providing considerable local employment the municipality would be incurring no additional school popula tion or costs an advertising gimmick the public school board of stouff ville has agreed to permit one tooth paste company to conduct a series of tests among pupils at both orchard park and summitvicw we think the firm in asking the trustees to approve this experimental program is asking too much already several parents of grade 3 boys and girls have questioned any poli cy that would make their children guinea pigs in what we feel is only an advertising gimmick certainly the ben efit to the child if any will be tempo- difficult for adults to understand it was just about one year ago that a group of young people in stouffville attempted to stress the need for a youth centre in the town where they might meet after school and on week ends the request failed to gain a sym pathetic hearing now in markham village the same suggestion has been made and support ed by a petition of more than 200 it will be presented to council with so many avenues of recreation available in markham and in stouff ville its difficult for adults to sec a need for teenagers to have a place to sit talk drink coke and listen to re cords but perhaps the need docs exist and perhaps it should be given a fair trial the closest thing to such a scheme in stouffville has been the ayps coffee house although many felt that the novelty would soon wear off this has not been the case overflow teen audi ences have been recorded at almost every performance we may be in approving such pro grams cultivating a generation of sit ters talkers and pop drinkers but we can find little fault with that with the kind of music kids enjoy today it would take a good deal of willpower to even sit let alone carry on an intelligent con versation theyre not really serious the govenrment is not really serious about banning the sale or purchase of lottery tickets in canada this has be come pretty obvious from the token charges that are laid periodically we note that a man in windsor was recent ly fined 500 for distributing irish sweepstake tickets the magistrate who gave out the sentence had these re marks what bothers me is that a man can commit an illegal act in buying a ticket then is glorified in the news me dia if he wins surely if the govern ment was serious about the illegality of sweepstakes winnings would be seized also and the publicity stopped the magistrate has answered his own question the government is not serious in regulating these forms of gambling in this instance as in the liquor business government rides two horses by keeping restrictive laws on the books it keeps peace with the gambling and drinking prohibitionists and by not enforcing too rigidly these same laws it holds off public pressure for liberal reforms in these areas its an old dodge in the case of these lotteries the government is not serious the police is not serious or consistent and the public is not serious since it treats them with considerable contempt sooner or later these laws will be amended editors mail confidence brings returns by our readers feb 25 1967 dear sir after reading the back ground sketch on your very interesting youth page under the heading portrait of a teenager i couldnt keep from making comment on the quotation at tributed to 16 year old janinc bass a grade 1 1 student at stouffville high it read they my parents have shown confidence in me and i would never let them down what an honest revealing state ment to be made by a teenage daughter about her mother and dad i am sure it must have touched the heart of every parent who also desire such a close fam ily relationship as indicated in your story although im not acquainted with the students personally i still enjoy the series very much and hope it will be continued sincerely mrs helen palmer gormlcy rr i march 3 1967 dear sir theres something drastical ly wrong in whitchurch township inso far as its building bvlaws are concern ed why the township has a planning board will always remain to me one of unsolved mysteries of this day the only thing consistent about their bylaws is the utter lack of consistency if ever a monument is erected to sheer incpti- tude and fumbling they will win hands down you may think that im exaggerat ing here is a true story of what can occur in whitchurch if it wasnt so tragic it would be comic say one de cides to settle in the township the land of artesian wells first you must have ten acres of land a veritable estate site and then your home must be so many thousand square feet in area just try and build one smaller and officials will be right down your neck next would follow a battle with whitchurch coun- wlxt briiune established 1sss c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stoufiville tribune limited at 54 main st stouffville ont tel 4o2i01 staple copies 10c subscriptions 400 per year in canada 600 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mail post office dcpt ottawa lit a statue of ontarios next prime minister me stouffville has been chosen as one of the three sites and the most desire- able the hospital would be one of three now operated and would be a two- storey modern structure built with a capacity for seven storeys some expense would be incurred by the builders in providing services sewers water and paved road and par ticularly in this latter department it would seem that the municipality could otfer some incentive stoufiville in the past has offered few incentives for new building in comparison with competing municipalities we are being given an other opportunity to show how much we desire this expansion rary unless continued and no company has any guarantee of that we are not suggesting that any kind of health hazard exists here although the board has asked that the company assume any liability for damages we are suggesting that the complaints that could occur would not be worth the advantages if any of the scheme parents are funny people they may stuff their kids with all kinds of candy soft drinks and the sort and thats per fectly alright but let someone else do it or even approve of it and look out sugar and spice kims the greatest my daughter had a birthday this week her sixteenth thats quite a mile stone in a womans life rather like the fortieth milestone except in reverse life is beckoning not waving id given my right arm for that girl even though its ready to drop off from bursitis and ive already offered to the highest medicalresearch bidder and shed take it i can still write cheques with it and it still works well enough to reach for my wallet ah i shouldnt be cynical about my baby shes the only one i have thank god shes been causing me painful pleas ure since the day she was born any normal kid as you know is born at 4 am kim popped literally popped into the world at noon and my wife has never forgiven me the old girl began to grunt and cil down deep inside you tell yourself that such regulations are enforced for the good of all as strict as they are about some things it seems strange that a fellow can move into an empty barn next door any old barn it doesnt matter that theres no running water or toilet facili ties after all whats wrong with a privy it adds to the picturesque land scape of rural ontario if the fellow wants he can park his car inside at night all kinds of room as for taxes why the owner of the barn pays them so if you have friends with a housing problem and who hasnt tell them their worries are over just find a nice old barn and move in why for fifty dollars a month theyve got it made if things get really tough you can always draw unemployment insurance why the government will send the cheque right to your own little mailbox why talk about utopia or pie in the sky and if the sucker who has invest ed money in a house and land com plains that he hasnt got a chance why hes just a taxpayer hes stuck or he can sell and move out the health department say theres nothing wrong with living in a barn with no running water or toilet facili ties if you write to the fire marshals department at queens park theyll refer you to the local fire marshal if you get one thats on the ball hch con demn the place if the wiring is faulty if you get one that doesnt agree hell report that alls well if you write to the municipal board youll probably never obtain a reply and if they do it will take weeks its still the old game stall people long enough and perhaps theyll die move away or join their neighbors in the barns and live happily ever after you cant fight city hall youre only a taxpaper rr 2 stouffville sincerely p j short eleven years ago 1956 the stouffville public school board agreed to increase the staff from 1 1 to 14 for the fall term in september plans for a new school were discussed with expectations that it would be required in 1957 or 5s stouffville council approved the hir ing of a second constable to work with the police chief william diamond stouffville police department receiv ed delivery of their new cruiser a 1936 studebakcr from lcs wilson motors construction work is expected to be completed in april on the new bank of nova scotia building main street in stouffville c h bell business sold to e h nev ille and sons main street stouffville first place winners in stouffvillcs figure skating club competitions in cluded janet button betty ann slack jean wintcrstcin and gloria tat- ton groan about 4 am but didnt want to distrub the doctors sleep and told me it would be about 24 hours before any thing happened she knew all about it having already had a son who took about 36 hours getting out of the nest i knew from nothing so we drove sedately to the hospital about 9 am and booked in she sug gested i go to work as there was no point hanging around hangdoggedly i said fearfully but with utmost relief youre sure you dont need me she retorted bitterly i learned later dont be silly itll be hours this was about 10 am i phoned the hospital at noon to ask if it was ok to drop in on my wife and congratulations you have a fine baby girl and the kid has been getting me in dutch ever since theres nothing basically wrong with kim except that shes too much like her mother as far as im concerned and too much like her father as far as her mother is concerned aside from this shes a perfectly normal infuriat ing teenager that is she inhabits the bathroom only about five hours a day she hates school but her whole social life is cen tred there she loves privacy with some infernal machine blatting beatnoise she thinks her parents are the square root of two the only concession she will make to mathematics she doesnt like liver oysters mush rooms vegetables salad onions or cur ry which makes for a bland diet at out place she likes steak imported cheese and any fruit that is out of season which makes for an expensive grocery bill like all teen age girls she gets along beautifully with her mother they agree by bill smiley on everything except just about any thing you can name like all teen age girls she is not temperamental you can rely on her moods either furious or radiant she claims her parents wont even try to communicate this invariably occurs just at bedtime shed love an extra hour of communication pro nounced gossip her choice of apparel is putting her mother over the brink rather than wear the nice matching sweater and skirt she got for christmas shell haul out an old turtleneck i got from the red cross when i was overseas navy bue stocking and an ancient mustard suede jacket that even her brother threw out and sally to school nothing warning threats and ap peals to deity slop her from waltzing around the house in her bare feet but she still has an endearing qual ity from her childhood if she reaches for the slat she spills her milk if she makes a batch of cookies it takes three days to clean up the kitchen what does she want to be a nurse- agh a teacher yeuch i think her secret ambition is to be a longhaired shouting singer with a group unfortunately her hair is so curly that if she let it grow long shed look like a zulu warrior but she sure as hell can shout especially when shes in the wrong as youve probably gathered i dote on my daughter i wouldnt trade her for a brand new cadillac id have to have somebody offer me a rollsroyce speaking of cars i guess ive no kick shes been 16 for two whole days and still hasnt asked me when she can get her driving license a real scatter- brain this week next canadas dirty skies by ray argyle canadians who have always regard ed their country as a land of open spaces and clean air will be shocked to learn that we are polluting our water and atmosphere just as rapidly as any other nation the legendary stories of blackness at noon in pittsburgh of smog that makes you weep in los angeles and of soot and dust in britains industrial midlands always seemed a world apart from our clean canadian environment in alberta billboards have proclaim ed look up the cleanest sky in the world is above you but now comes word from a variety of sources that air pollution is menac ing not only every major metropolitan centre in canada but is spreading poi sonous fumes for hundreds of miles in all directions from such places as tor onto vancouver montreal edmonton and sudbury in toronto last month air pollution on two successive fridays reached lev els almost as serious as those experienc ed in new york city and according to a recent mcterological study bad air from toronto has been traced via bal loons as far cast as quebec city and as far north as ontarios lush muskoka holiday region at a time of increased engineering capability and growing social respons ibility by industry why should air pol lution still be such a problem neither matter nor energy can be completely destroyed only changed in form or harnessed that is why fuels consumed to power industry or materi als used in industrial processes that leave waste matter dont just go away after were through with them pollution control systems can only- attempt to capture waste elements thrown off by industrial processes the efficiency of the controls depends large ly on the investment made in the con trol equipment this in turn depends generally on how tough or lax a com munity is in enforcing pollution con trols water pollution presents as serious a hazard for our national future house hold and industrial wastes have been dumped so freely into rivers and streams all across canada that from a recreational standpoint alone canadi ans are already severely curbed in their choice of fishing and swimming loca tions while water pollution is basically a federal responsibility air pollution comes under provincial and municipal control provincial resource ministers arc scheduled to meet may 5 to work out a division of responsibility what ever the outcome progress will be made only if national standards are applied in all fields but smokebelching industrial plants and sewagepolluted streams are not the only or possibly even the major sources of canadas air pollution prob lem automobiles are now regarded as the major cause of pollution in the los angeles area and the us government has recently applied a federal regulation to control car exhausts this will require auto makers to in stall new cars with afterburners de signed to capture and reduce the amount of exhaust particles which can escape into the air from a cars tail pipe industry minister drury was asked in the house of commons whether or not canada will require car makers to add similar equipment he said he was wait ing for a study of the matter to be fin ished by the department of health osd welfare air pollution costs canada an esti mated 50 per head per year in health costs time lost in industry and de struction of natural resources the at mosphere over this planet cannot ab sorb an unlimited amount of effluents the brown acrid envelop of foul air which hangs ocr such cities as new york will soon be gathering over can adian cities if pollution controls arc not more carefully enforced isrp i a suburban slum alderman june marks has waged a war on slums and poverty in the city of toronto and supported by consider able press radio and tv publicity her efforts have not been in vain a similar situation on an isolated scale has crept into markham township where a family of six a mother and five children are living under condilioes that should not be allowed the fiveroom two storey house is located on don mills road north of buttonville where mrs sarah munn 34 is attempting to raise her four daughters and a son on 219 a month welfare plus 34 in baby bonus payments while this amount is proving adequate it doesnt put glass in the windows or hot water on tap the monthlv rental is 50 the dilapidated looking structure is heated by a single oil stove located in the centre of the living room during one cold spell this winter mrs munn packed her children and moved in with a friend mrs margaret berridge near unionville on another occasion the en tire family slept together on one couch in order to keen warm four panes in the front windows are broken and have been replaced with plastic the stove leaks and much of the lloor is covered with oil the house has electricity but there are no lights in the majority of rooms mrs munn said that she instal led the kitchen ceiling herself the fam ily has a dog and one cat the cats a necessity said mrs munn the mice would run away with the place the frustrated mother said that she had applied to queens park for re location in the new ontario housing development at thistletown and had been accepted that was in september 1966 she has also appealed to mp john addison for aid mr munn lives in tor onto the children are all brightcyed smiling youngsters all except 7 year old colleen who was released from hos pital only on saturday after undergoing treatment for an car infection the fam ily range in age from 4 to 15 wayne 12 has a paper route which earns him a little money mrs munn had a job but had to give it up to remain at home she said that her children were missing the schoolbus in the morning and the attendance officer complained right now 1 dont know where im at she said noticeably distressed never mind mommy were all here together all except daddy came a wee small voice from a corner of e room and we think weve got problems clarion baker of whitchurch has a truck licence plate he intends to pre serve for posterity the number is 1967c anyone who may think that televi sion in our public schools is an educa tional frill should have listened to the pupils of both orchard park and sum mitvicw provide detailed accounts of the funeral service for the late gover nor general vanicr an example of frustration is a clerk from the stoufiville iga store his arms piled skyhigh with groceries standing at the corner of main and mar ket streets while a lady customer at tempts to remember where she parked her car talk about a union of religious de nominations in markham village a new baptist church was erected not too many years ago on church street while its not exactly bursting at the scams still another baptist congrega tion has been organized and it too plans to erect a new structure the selected site is on the south side of no 7 high way in the area of st patricks sep arate school with grounds around the stouffville district high school transformed into a sea of mud the student fashion trend has changed from short skirts to long rubber boots this typographical error that ap peared in a district weekly should be good lor a law suit a bowling report should have read miss beulah prcn- dergast had high triple instead it came out miss beulah prendcrgast had triplets the only thing proper about the whole mixup was that it ap peared on the sports page the unionville figure skating car nival always a sellout will be extend ed into sunday this year with a matinee performance april 23 we cant think of a more pleasant way to spend a sun- dav afternoon other dates are april 21 and 22 on a more disappointing note the carnival dates for both stouffville and markhams ice revues arc exactly the same april 7 and 8 neither club ap pears able to make a change the auction sale on the thos mc- griskin farm near cashcl in markham township was held saturday it is re ported that the property has been pur chased by romsndale for about 150 000