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pj 2 the tribune ihniir my 20 1967 its hard to predict stouffvilles big centennial program is over we arc on our way into the sec ond century the birthday party will continue with various cicnts here throughout the year but it might be a good time to make some predictions about the next hundred years who among us has the foresight to this just as our forefathers would rub their eyes with disbelief if they were to sec the world today we too will be in the same position when the year 2067 rolls around wc may boast of the accomplish ments in our time but there is no doubt they will be completely overshadowed with a few short years our problems are many in this area in this country and throughout the world perhaps we will learn how to live peacefully with one another and how to feed the starving nations how about our moral decay will it con tinue will we conquer the universe or be conquered will we be able to cope with our mounting educational costs will our affluence price us out of world mar kets will strikes cripple us these arc some of the questions that race through the minds of those who try and take a look at the future others arc more optimistic they sec us emerging as one of the great powers in the world as far as our own area is concerned many sec this as having the greatest growth potential in all the dominion our ancestors no doubt had dreams loo theirs was a simple life in com parison but their problems were just as big to them as ours and just as dif ficult to solve many centennial speakers have point ed out that the future belongs to canada with its rich resources the same can be said of our town and its environs while the future does not necessarily belong to us it can be ours if we work at it if we cant make some of our dreams come true its no ones fault but our own community participation we attended the centennial day pa rade and afternoon program in the hamlet of greenwood saturday and in spite of the rain that has become commonplace in this area this summer all activities of major importance were completed without too much difficulty the greenwood community can still be considered as a rural residential area and with limited numbers of people living within its boundaries it takes 100 percent cooperation to put a project of this kind over chairman charles iylctaggart and his committee had that kind of cooperation satur day participation was the keynote of the whole affair from the local pastor who served as master of ceremonies down to the smallest child on the small est decorated tricycle we are living in an era of every man for himself this kind of policy for tunately has not imposed its selfish encroachment on the lives of country folk who still know what it is to work to gethcr gatherings like the green wood centennial helps to further strengthen this kind of community spirit long may it last cart before the horse according to reports out of meetings of markham township school area no 2 the finding of an adequate water supply on the site of the sroom addi tion at dicksons hill is posing a pro blem to the trustees at last report one drill hole had been extended 400 feet without success properly committee chairman elson miles and other members have ex pressed concern over the cost but all agree that a new service is required to accommodate this s5000000 extension project regardless of the expense in volved hindsight is a marvellous but often a meaningless asset but it would seem that in this particular instance the board have put the cart before the horse rather than go looking for wat er after the school addition has been started we would have thought that an adequate supply would have been lo cated first and then build later this is the common procedure on most ru ral residential lots where a plot of ground without a well is almost worth less if the board had known earlier of their difficulty it might well have changed their entire building plans the addition might have been approv ed at another location it may serve however as a lesson in future projects of this kind in mark- ham area 2 and also act as a reminder to other boards who are contemplating building programs of similar size if this elm tree could talk if this elm tree located on the 9th concession county road west of clare mont could talk what a story it would tell nailed to its trunk is a plaque dedi cated to the wixon kanjijn claremont pioneers it reads wicksons historic tree staff photo ritrvv w- domwtp nice race to visit but sugar and spice great just great by bill smiley i think probably the most difficult relationship to maintain at any reason able level is that between teenage children and their parents marriage is tough enough as you all know but at least the partners in most cases are prepared to bend a little to give an inch or even two if necessary to compromise when theres no other way out marrrd people do communicate even though the form ranges from grunts and sighs to language that would scar the earlobes of a saint theyre usually from the same generation and at worst can spend hours running down the government the boss the neighbors or each others families i know couples including us who have been amicably bickering for any thing from two to six decades it be comes almost a game in which you know every ploy or gambit of the op ponent a ploy is when she has you dead to rights a gambit is when you just might get away with the story but with teenagers youre fighting a losing battle first of all there is the language barrier theoretically youre both speaking the same tongue but when it comes to interpretation theres no relation whatever you say now i want you home at midnight right on the dot this to the teen gyrating in the weird trancelike state they call dancing means well i dont have to leave until midnight a scene ensues and at scenes you havent a lookin youre all set to raise hell hackles are properly erect and after five minutes after the kid get in youre on the de fensive trying to prove that youre not an old grump or completely irration al or the strictest parent in town or an outandout liar who said twelve oclock was the deadline for leaving the dance not for being home teenagers are like women you cant discuss anything with them in a logic al way you are completely baffled by a series of irrelevances non sequiturs and such things as you dont trust me thats whats wrong with you you dont trust me and theyre right its sad to sec a family breaking up i suppose its inevitable and right but its sad ours is wc had a swim the other day the four of us as we were leaving the beach i said to the old girl do you realize thats probably the last time well all have a swim together she agreed kids dont want to go swimming with their parents they want to lurch around with their own age group they used to practically destroy me when editors mail july 4 1967 dear sir on friday june 30 a picnic in the form of a buffet supper and an evening ot entertainment was held at the al- tona community centre everyone had a very enjoyable time wc want to express our appreciation to mrs harold lewis and her helpers who sent out invitations to altonas old boys and girls one of these letters brought mr and mrs charlie boothby all the way from mission british co lumbia it gave us a great deal of pleasure to talk to our old friends and classmates once again we think it was very fitting for the altona people to show their apprecia tion to mr arthur latcham for what he has done for their community sincerely martha and ed biker fcnclon falls ont an old boy and girl who attended the old school in is96 and 1960 they were little making me play with them when we went swimming duck dives underwater endurance tests races and now its transistor radios squabbling and cheeky remarks for which there is no real answer except a swat on the ear and you cant do that or theyll run off and start smoking pot enjoy them when theyre little you can blow on their bellies kiss their lit tle soft bums rock them when theyre sick and tell bedtime stories till youre blue in the face theres communication then but dont expect too much when they get past 13 for the next six years it will be sun and showers cold fronts moving in a lot of low pressure areas with the occasional high and such sug gestions as ive heard recently dads just not with it hes out to lunch its nothing new of course when i recall how utterly selfish i was as a youth how little i cared about my par ents hopes and fears i understand its been going on since cain clobbered abel and broke up that nice little family group its a time of life when the whole earth revolves around me and parents arc merely another awkward circum stance that is preventing me from being what i want to be and becoming what ever i will be oh well theres an excellent invention called grandchildren i can hardly wait to get at spoiling mine rotten so that their parents will be totally unable to cope with them nb winner of guest column an nounced next week for sure isrtt it exciting this week next the new look ndp by ray argyle the end of an era came when the new democratic party finally emerged from its socialist cocoon garbed in a political costume only a little more pink than the liberals or conservatives the parlys fourth convention stag ed in toronto saw the last pretense of old ccf socialism dropped with opin ion polls showing the ndp with a good chance of nudging aside the conserva tives as the countrys second party new democrats turned their attention to wooing voters who arc neither socialists nor ardent trade unionists loyal new democrats are denying the party has swung to the right federal leader tommy douglas and deputy lead er david lewis both of whom were re elected would have none of this but at least in emphasis the party cast aside socialist dogma the convention opened with a youth ful new life group capturing the new democratic youth group but that was the last that was heard from the far left wing delegates rejected outright all de mands for fullscale nationalization of key industry winnipeg north mp david orlikow representing a riding that has been a traditional hotbed of socialism estimated 90 percent of the delegates were opposed to nationalization in the 12point program that was fin ally adopted and on which the ndp will campaign in the expected 196s fed eral election the emphasis is on eco nomic and political independence by swinging to the defense of the buy back canada group which has of late been fighting a losing battle with in the liberal party the ndp hopes to appeal to canadains of all economic strata and there were some impressive signs the ndp was beginning to do just that first delegates ignored the ndp old guard to elect a fleshy corporation lawyer james rcnwick as national president rcnwick an outstanding member of the ontario legislature de feated the handpicked choice of the ndp establishment 70yearold john brockelband one time deputy premier of saskatchewan but the real coup of the convention was pulled by ontario ndp leader don- aid macdonald who introduced to de lirious delegates the parlys biggest catch of many years dr morton shul- man of toronto shulman as the immensely popular cxcoroncr of toronto who claims he was ousted by ihe provincial conserva tive government because he wouldnt go along with whilewash and coverup is a safe bet to win a toronto riding in this falls ontario election the prominence of new men like shulman and rcnwick is strong evi dence that after years of seeing their policies being put into effect by others the ndp has finally decided to bid for power first and worry about doctrine later opponents or the ndp have seized on this apparent abandoment of principle for a new allack on the party it is not entirely valid however by facing up to the fact that canadi ans in the 1960s arc more concerned about good government than about so cialism the ndp remains in a position to make a very positive contribution toward canadas political welfare any way socialism is no longer an issue be cause the welfare stale aims of the ndp have been put into effect by other par- tics canadians now will have to decide whether to continue the drift toward contincntalism which means high liv ing standards and continued us domi nation or whether to sacrifice some of this affluence to create a more dis tinctive canadian society in taking its position on the side of canadian nationalism the ndp at least demonstrates that it is facing up to the issues of today and is no longer living in the past of a povertystricken era which vanished 25 years ago and right or wrong the new attitude of the ndp could at last transform it into one of canadas two major parties established 1s88 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advcrlisinz published every thursday by the stouflville tribune limited at ss mam st stoucvillc ont tel 102101 single copies 10c subscriptions 400 per year in canada s6xo elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second dais mail post office dcpu ottawa wur the editors notebook ive just come through a week of frustrating experiences two in fact varying in degrees of frustration most nightmarish of all i lost my note book it contained just about every thing that was supposed to go in the paper this week including a float by float description of the centennial day parade in the hamlet of greenwood it was at that location thai late struck its cruel blow 1 had carried it around all afternoon a green hard- backed stenographers pad with all the news of the last six days scribbled down in a kind of semishorthand that only the writer himself could decipher in addition i had in my care and sale- keeping one 4x5 graphic camera three 6plate film holders and a battery attachment that hung from a stooped left shoulder like the anchor of the queen mary onlookers must surely have wondered if i had been assigned i to vietnam and had become sidetrack ed at the intersection of the brock road and highway no 7 last but by no means least this human beast of burden also had in tow a daughter 6 and two sons 4 and 3 it was near the end ol the afternoon but before retiring bag bag gage and kids to the car i decided to take just one more picture a charming couple regaled in eyecatching costume of the prcninctecnth century era i turned the children over to my wifc-in- waiting and laid my notebook down not until i turned into home sweel home fifteen miles and thirty minutes later did the elusive notepad cross my mind i retraced my route searched the area and enquired of friends but no luck frustrated cmbarrascd but not without hope i returned again at an early hour the next morning to seek the lost that had not been found still no luck so if the pages of the tribune f contain several blank spots this week remember that somewhere within the boundaries of the township of picker ing an editors notebook lies bleached and sodden its writing gone and un fortunately forgotten frustration number two occurred on t thursday morning i arose at an un- usual early hour to share an infrequent breakfast with the family some com ment was made about it not gding to rain today maybe and i laughed i should have kept my mouth closed for my wifes attention was detracted from the weather to my teeth by the way dont you think its time again for you to see the dentist for a checkup she said with a telling rather than asking tone you know its been almost a year suddenly my appetite was gone and the day ruined i suddenly goose- bumped all over and my bicuspids or y the few that remain chattered audibly i suppose youre right i replied try ing to conceal the tremors ill drop in after lunch the promise gave me a five hour reprieve ive been a patient of dr neil smith for close to thirty years and im sure a man more proficient in the profession docs not practice any where in canada be this as it may my fear of the needle and drill is not les sened through my knowledge of his capabilities in short im a coward and he knows it the truth of the matter is ive flaked out so many times thai theres not a doctor or a dentist in stouffvllle who would as much as men tion the word injection any more the very sight of such a lethal weapon sends me to dreamland dr smith knows tliis and fortunately for both him and nic he never argues the poinl r if an extraction is necessary its off to toronto for gas not a much more plea sant experience mind you but quite ef fective the office visit thursday was a re warding one the probe disclosed only one minor defect a pinhole cavity that could be corrected in a matter of min utes ill be glad to come back another time i persisted he agreed the case was adjourned to august 25 stoulfvilles most famous barnbuild er is kind of semiretired morlcy symes has disposed of most of his equipment t and plans lo take things a bit easier hell still supervise a job but the owner must provide the work force over ihe years he has creeled 302 barnbuildings quite a record town reeve ken laushway has con ducted his own personal survey in stouffvllle and comes up with the fol lowing cmoloyment fiiitrc at present there arc 825 persons living and work ing here or approximately 28 percent of entire labor force stouffvillc magistrate david coon is currently conducting court in midland j and commutes daily in his 1957 volks- wagen with the wind blowing from the south he claims he can make it to work in three hours farmers in the siouffvlllcmarkham area have become so frustrated by in- o clement weather conditions this sum mer that on saturday wc saw one man baling hay in the pouring rain has the ontario countv road depart ment forgotten about the 9th conces sion west of claremont v the bikiniclad girl in the greenwood centennial parade saturday had view- crs bugeyed a far cry from 1867 com mented one oldtimer as he adjusted his glasses for a belter look