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j tt 2 the ir1sune thursiiy aajuil 3 1967 basement apartments could help basement apartments in stoufhille should be taxed the same as separate dwellings in addition and even before this they should be allowed by bylaw with certain restrictions covering area and facilities basement apartments do exist in town tax free which is contrary to law while according to the building inspec tor he is forced to turn down requests for such apartments as illegal he con tends that any basement apartment that is good for s75 rent or more should be contributing to the municipal tax cof fers they should also pay separate rates for services such as hydro and water it is highly unlikely that the use of such apartments could create any school problems because of their size they would however be a boon to couples and single persons who are having to bypass the town because of lack of accommodation we agree with the building inspector that anything that is rentable should be taxable in order that all citizens may- bear their fair share of operating the municipality regional trend likely to continue regional operation is a term which we have been hearing more and more during the last couple of years already york and ontario counties have turned to this new technique in dealing with health and assessment it appears the trend will continue no doubt in educa tion and law enforcement as well as welfare and planning costs have continually frightened the heads of the individual municipalities and rightly so the history of such changes usually points to an upward trend in costs similarly when the fed eral government takes on any job pre viously done by a provincial body the cost goes up those who discount this argument say but the service is much better supporters of these enlarged plans say that many of those who serve on local boards are laymen with little specialized training in the field for that reason they are prone to miss the long range implications of their de cisions opposition members say the indivi dual municipality will lose control of its own affairs under all these enlarged schemes this fact cannot be denied but in our crystal ball we see the trend continuing and even gaining momen tum victims of crime deserve a break large amounts of public money are z spent each year on housing and feeding 3 criminals and attempts to rehabilitate z them but the blameless victinrof crime has traditionally had to defend for him- self j a customer in a bank gets in the way of a- nervous holdup man and isshota cigarstore operator is beaten and rob- bcdandleft unconscious a working widow returning from her job is as- saulted near a bus stop these hapless casualties of crime are more than an- onymous statistics they could be any z of us as we unsuspectingly go about our daily business 3 who pays the medical bills of these z civilian casualties who compensates 3 them for the loss of income who comes lo the aid of their families if they arc killed or incapacitated 5 saskatchewan does there innocent victims of violent crime can be compen sated from public funds for monetary loss and suffering the legislation is passed and tribunals arc being estab lished to hear applications and award damages the plan is based on the new- zealand system compensation for crime is still a ret ativcly uncharted field and its about time we gave appropriate attention to its claims manitoba and british columbia are shortly to follow saskatchewans lead and we can think of no better centen nial project for canadas provincial legislatures than to enact similar schemes of their own safety belts do help to help check the rising toll of auto accident fatalities during the heavily travelled summer vacation months the garage operators association of on tario warns motorists to use their seat belts goa says that accident victims have a far greater chance of surviving and of escaping crippling injuries when restrained by seat belts it takes a lew seconds to buckle up and once you start wearing scat belts it becomes a habit one that could save jour life recent auto tests conclusively prove that bodily injury is substantially reduc ed when seat belts are fastened motor ists who are strapped in for safety avoid ramming their head on sharp ob jects on the dashboard and collision with the windshield upon impact drivers who shun the use of scat belts arc only taking needless chances next time you drive make sure that yours is fastened scenic beauty at lemonville j scenes like this can he obtained by photographers hen driving around the lemonville area staff photo nim tem- ottawa warned indirnrme war imminent smoke signal sugar and spice winner number one well the inevitable has happened smiley couldnt make up his mind about his own contest as so many of the con tributing columns fell into the excel lent category so smiley declared a draw allowing two winners each win ner will receive s25 here is the first column to be followed by the other winner next week stouffville ontario by ellen armstrong maybe the commenjs o a middle- aged canadian female dont constitute a column but there is only one way to find out so here goes i am sick and tired of the assumption that canadians are inhibited and inarticulate the celebra tions in ottawa and in every little and big town and city in this our year of jubilee shout a resounding no lo this idea oh sure we have to have a good reason for letting our hair down a good reason may only present itself once in 100 years but when- it does- brother we can holler with the best and better the claim that canadians have an inferiority complex down here in the grass roots where i and 999 percent of my fellow canadians crawl around we are proud of canada and of being canadians wc are ashamed only of the wouldbe intellectuals who claim they are inferior because they arc canadian they are inferior all right but for other reasons unfortunately they seem to have the ear of ye editors and so get their views aired in the papers with nauseating frequency the bland statement that the church has failed failed to do what may i ask i may answer too in fact i will failed to do whatever the speaker of the moment thinks she should have done i suggest wc find out what is the church then try to assess success or failure go ye into all the world and preach the gospel said christ this is the churchs mission in this she has succeeded and is succeeding and even critics must admit she has not failed in another sense she has endured and survived name one other nineteen hun dred and sixtyseven year old institu tion editors mail best publicity wc bad the pleasure ol being in ott- wa last weekend and during out slay watched the changing of the guard on parliament hill the tourists were there by the thousands many of them ameri cans wc chatted with one such visitor a chap from missouri whose words were these this is a wonderful country people arc so friendly and this show its a real pride show a real pride show for you canadians wc couldnt agree more we were prompted to write this note since we were irked last week by a column in the daily press as an editori al writer took the armed forces apart for the expense of this display as far as we arc concerned this particular writ er cant sec over his nose this changing of the guard ceremony is one of the finest pieces of publicity this country can have people live it tourists and homebrews alike you just have to sec the thousands who turn out every day as evidence it will dc a dull day indeed when such shows of pomp and ceremony arc ever done away with lets keep our pride show going its wonderful the publisher transistor radios in public here i feel like busting into poetry which i have entitled lines on trying to have a picnic at a roadside table on the shores of a once peaceful lake where once the song of birds was heard and wind in trees above a crass transistor radio emits a crooner wailing low his cheap synthetic love the gentle murmur of the waves is drowned in noisy chatter buy whiskey soap and cigarettes buy pills and soup with regrets sublimities dont matter some day ere long well conqucr spacc ah mournful thought and bitter mid stars that sang creations birth the crude cacophony of earth mails pestilential twitter by bill smiley the use and abuse of the word image there seem to be fads in words as in all else this is the faddy word of the moment every man woman or ganization is concerned about his her or its image may i suggest in fact try to stop me that if we arc concern ed with integrity decency and honor in personal social and political life our public image will take care of itself it will be a favorable one too the availability of filthy litera ture particularly for the youth of our country some excuse this by insisting young people must learn the facts of life manure is a fact of life too but if we see our children eating it we re strain them forcibly if necessary trying to write a column my admiration for you mr smiley has leaped into the stratosphere how do you do it week after week after week this week next a lot of gaulle by ray argyle the visit of gen de gaulle to canada achievement of frances overseas re birth shorn of her colonics in indochina and africa possessing a few scattered islands like tahiti matiniquc and st pierre modern france sees quebec as its most formidable creation outside europe for ouebcc premier daniel johnson and the separatists and quasi-separa- tists of french canada the visit of dc gaulle was a triumphant return of the french race to north america apparently missed on johnson and his followers was the irony that the french canadians in the adulation of dc gaulle and things french were doing the very thing for which they had so long critized english canadians those who had accused the rest of canada of fawning colonialism toward london now seemed to be committing the same adoration of paris and things parisian but the french canadian who has grown from 60000 lo six million since the british conquest has led a lonely life in north america the resurgence of culture and national pride brought about de gaulles visit should be under stood in this light less easily understood by canadians however was gen dc gaulles apparent outright invitation to the people of oue bcc to ally themselves with france and take their destiny in their own hands gen dc gaulle the great statesmen that he truly is has nonetheless encoun tered bitter disappointments recently both at home and abroad- for him to come to canada and invite ouebcc lo take itself out of confedera tion which his remarks amounted to represent the worst possible kind of interference in another countrys af fairs this of course means nothing to de gaulc because ouebcc is french and the frcnchncss of ouebcc is lo dc gaulle paramount to the independence of canada promising the brotherly support of old france gen de gaulle lectured que bec on its right and obligations not as canadians but as frenchmen for all that de gaulles visit has given an emotional uplift to french separa tism it is unlikely his message will cn dure much beyond his visit for one thing the general has neither the energy nor the time to devote to making quebec a restored french state in america at home his domestic policies have brought nearstagnation in the economy and have given rise for the first time since he assumed office to genuine op position to his conservative economic policies in his relations with germany gen de gaulle has been unable to keep bonn in the junior partnership of the french- german axis german insistence on fol lowing american leadership continues to frustrate de gaulles ambitions of leading a european block free of us influence in the far east france has had little influence cither on red china which it recognizes or the us presence in viet nam which it opposes in the middle east gen dc gaulle chose to criticize israel despite the over whelming proisrael sentiment in the country by continuing to oppose british entry into the european common market on the grounds that britain is not yet suf ficiently european gen dc gaulle puts even his allies in positions which make it difficult for them to support him much longer but most of all dc gaulle is old at 76 he remains the man who kept france alive in world war ii and who restored unity during algerias breakaway but he also is the man who when much younger said old age is a shipwreck lu riiune established is8h c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stouflville pnbune umiled at 5j main st stouffville ont tel ftio2101 sinsle copies 10c rubscriptions jjxo per vcar n canada 600 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized s second dass mail post office dcpu ottawa r hise hill could have graves 15 years old heise hill is located three quarters of a mile south of the gormlcy post olfice on the fourth concession of markham township like many other places this hill derives its name from the people who settled and pioneered the place the cemetery and church near by have long been landmarks in this community the cemetery possibly antidates the church more than hall a century years ago there was a large sign supported by two posts bearing the name heise hill cemetery with an inscription as to its founding and pur pose just how long ago the lirst dead were buried there is a little difficulty to as certain the generation ol men who would have first hand knowledge ol the facts are gone of the following genera tion there are only a few and these do not have a connected or detailed ac count ol its history it is thought by some that the earlier graves were there in the late 1790s the oldest visible date on any marker however is ism it has been said that the lirsi while 0 person to be hurried there was in ism whether that implies that indians or negroes were buried earlier is now un certain at any rate there are quite a number of common lield stone slab markers that today bear no visible en graving of any kind a few show signs of having been marked with names and dates at one time but time and weather have all but erased them there is one wooden slab marker that bears a name and date now beyond recognition the date was possibly in the early nineteen th centuiy that some graves are so old as to be altogether without any mark- ing is proved by the fact that in digging a new grave it has happened that the ruins of an old grave were unearthed it may be of interest to know the approximate size of this unique city of the dead as estimate was taken by counting the rows of markers both ways the result of this count would place the figure at between 1400 and 1500 there are quite a number of va cancies in the area checked but there are also a number of graves beyond the area counted so that it is thought the figure to be a fair estimate strange as it may seem the heise hill cemetery is not the property of the church which occupies ihc adjacent lot the church was not built until 1877 by which time the cemetery had considerable growth it seems that orig inally it was open lo any and all who t agreed to meet the conditions sc forth by its founders possibly this is still true in a large measure the fact that mcnnonitcs methodists baptists and possibly others beside the brethren in christ have been and arc being buried there substantiates this argument s the first tract of land to be set aside for a burying ground was donated nol from the heise property but from the farm immediately south a man by the name of grateman made this worthy donation when the church was built it seems as though the cemetery was thcn enlarged or possibly shortly alter this and was widened out to about ten rods from time to time since that additional purchases have been made at the present time then there is some land to be disposed of as family plots the money is held in a fund by the trustees of the property to take care of current expenses such as care taking and digging graves which re quires several days a week during the summer months such cemeteries well kept arc a credit to any community y certificate for safety of j car only ah automobile dealers now must provide a new certificate of fitness with each used car they sell the certificate must be signed by- both the dealer and mechanic they undertake that ihc car is in a safe con dition to be operated on the highway but they dont give assurance however that ihc whole car is in good mechani cal condition the certificate they issue covers ninij points lie rod ends lights tires brakes steering rear view mirror horn wind shield wipers and parking brake a car could have a faulty transmission or rear end and still be approved but as a safety factor the certificates of course arc worthwhile but it is a mis take to think they arc a guarantee of fitness as only dealers have to issue them there is no certificate requirement in private sales widespread povr two thirds of ihc worlds popui 03 now live in underdeveloped regions where annual pcrcapita income is less than 5250 half of ihc 80 poor nation members of the world bank can look forward to increases ol no more than 1 per cent a year according to present projec tions this means that by 1999 these quasinations may reach a level of 170 per vcar while each american will havo ssjoo in the long run reducing this dis parity between rich and poor is surely the greatest challmjc facing a worl bent on peace