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pige 2 the tribune twnuy october 26 1967 aiiiiiuiiiiiiiimmumiiihiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiihiiiimiuiiiiinihk a kind of anti- climax the east york plowing match was held on saturday and as has been the case in so many past seasons the wea ther was anything but favorable for ei ther competitors or spectators it even snowed a little during a portion of the afternoon we feel that all branch matches should be held prior to the interna tional anything that follows is a kind of anticlimax the executives also run a greater risk with the weather it goes without saying that the inter- i national is the match for many ent ries competition in north and south ontario and york north represents a kind of proving ground where contes tants young and old can sharpen their eyes for the big one still to come we all know the amazing record that has been established by plowmen from this area at the international over the years and again in 1967 we would suggest that the executive of the hast york plowmens associa tion niake an effort to move their date ahead even if it means to the middle of september it would likely find more favor with the plowmen and perhaps the weatherman too nursemaid to hockey players the management of the stouffville junior hockey club has been experienc ing difficulty in attracting hometown talent to the team so far this fall several p actice sessions have been held but the attendance particularly of local lads has been small we think its too bad if an oha en try is dropped here but if its necessary to coax boys out to participate then the cause is hopeless the same players thai are lukewarm now will likely be the same ones who will let the club down in midseason or during the play off with disinterest on the bench and disinterest in the stands what is there left theres little use playing nurse maid to players and spectators too the boys cant entirely be blamed for their current attitude many are still in high school where a full program of athletic activities is on the go foot ball volleyball and basketball have be come increasingly popular and facili ties both here and in neighboring towns are of the finest theres little travelling involved and when they go its usually during the afternoons or early evenings buses are provided and adult supervision is in attendance at all times hockey once a welcomed outlet for a teenagers energies is no longer a ne cessity at least not here it wasnt too many seasons ago that one of stouffvilles best hockey players quit the sport entirely to concentrate on high school basketball at the time it seemed like a foolish decision the trend however has never stopped why should the township pay a case was heard in juvenile court at newmarket recently and the out come has left residents of whitchurch township somewhat dismayed and more than a little disturbed the parents of a pupil at pine orch ard school were charged under the school act with wilfully keeping their child out of class and a conviction fol lowed the penaly against the parents was not only waived by the judge but the court costs must now be paid by the township this would seem to be a strange state of affairs we would like to know who was wrong here the parents the school attendance officer the area trustees or the township taxpayers the conviction would indicate that the parents had indeed committed a breach of the public school act the waiving of the fine would indicate that the judge for some unknown reason was sympathetic towards the accused the assessing of costs against the plaintiff would suggest that the board was in error in pressing charges in the first place the amount of money 600 is not important here the principle is we feel that the school trustees and the township taxpayers have every right to an explanation if indeed they can crack the circle of secrecy that seems to surround most juvenile court pro ceedings c promoting hunting safety the annual trek into deer country will shortly be here and with it the an nual accidents and fatalities which oc cur statistics show however that these figures have been declining de spite the fact that the number of hun ters has been growing under the hunter safety training plan all applicants for gun licenses who had not previously been issued a gun licence are required to take a hunter safety training course as pre scribed by the department of lands and forests the department will open official hunter safety examination centres in january 1968 under the new regula tions one can go direct to one of these centres locations to be announced and there take a test without taking a hunter safety training course if suc cessful he may obtain a licence if not he must repeat little by little new policies are being brought in to keep these hunting acci dent figures going down the depart ment is to be congratulated on the safety promotion siiinimimiimiiimhmiiiiiiiiiihiiiiihihiihiiiiiimiiiimiiiimiiiim isucar and spice times have changed i wonder what a teacher of 50 years ago would think if he walked into a classroom today personally i think hed be toted off in a state of deep shock some aspects of the atmosphere would be familiar the boxlike claus trophobic construction the smell of chalkdust and bodies the windows that stick and wont open the scuffling and the place would be full of kids of course theyd probably be much the same inside human beings dont change their basic emotions their hates fears shyness and aggressiveness in a generation or two if ever but they cer tainly wouldnt look the same the appearance of the boys would rattle him a bit with their cowboy boots their polkadot shirts their care fully waved hair and their worldweary expressions but the sight of the girls would rock him right back on his heels never mind the lipstick eyeshadow and net stockings hed probably turn pure puce the first time he looked down those cows of miniskirts with the odd garter belt in all its feminine loveli ness showing here and there those wouldnt be the only shocks hed receive lets say he taught in a school with 300 students half a century ago quiet droning periods leisurly one and a half hour lunch periods id like to see this chap step out into the hall of a school with 1500 inmates during one of the lunch periods un accustomed to using his shoulders knees and elbows hed be a grease spot on the terrazo floor in two minutes if he did happen to make it hed gulp his lunch in the cafeteria with the din of 500 students as sauce for his wein- letter to the editor oct 21 1967 dear editor this letter may not accomplish very much but this subject has been on my mind and on the minds of several oth ers for some time the election of this past week refreshed my memory anew every resident in stouffville will re- recall receiving election literature on mr tom taylor the liberal candidate in york north on wednesday oct 18 one day after the election what good did this literature do i understand these pamphlets were in the mail on saturday oct 14 this i intend to clarify it seems to me we should have received these pamphlets by tuesday at the latest i noted the other candidates voting cards came out monday where were the taylor voting cards for 3 mailing days as i understand the mailing proced ures the post office is to be complete ly sorted and cleared of 1st 2nd and 3rd class mail each day before anyone leaves i could be wrong if so i stand to be corrected i hope you will print my letter i feel better for writing it sincerely an inquisitive liberal autumn beauty bows to wintry winds with the approach of november autumn beauty will soon bow to wintry winds landscape scenes like this in uxbridge township will soon be gone and forgotten for hnoher vear staff photo looking backwards 1954 construction work was started on the new richardson masonic hall half million dollars will be needed in markham township to replace bridges washed out by hurricane hazel train derailed near markham on way from toronto to stouffville aurora will be out of ice sports this year because of the hurricane damage to arena this years santa claus parade is sche duled for dec 4 the ringwood hotel built in 1865 is being demolished ers and beans or hed choke down a sandwich in the staff room mid a lit ter of coffee cups a pall of smoke and a cacaphony of fellow practicioners of the art checking his mail box after lunch hed find two memos from the admin istration a pamphlet from the depart ment of education very badly written a note from the librarian telling him that susie doakes book was overdue a brochure from a publisher a billet- doux from the viceprincipal a bill for his federation insurance and three an nouncements of contests all sponsored by commercial firms being an oldfashioned conscientious teacher he would probably not file these in the waste basket back in his classroom trying to teach with the raw materials a book a black board and some students he would be interrupted by the public address sys tem telling him to send joe smitz to the office by jack diltz just arriving back from guidance counsellor or by four stalwarts leaving for the football by bill smiley game during the day he would discover that he was either a dodo bird extinct or a phoenix that bird which reput edly arises from its own ashes and flies in everdiminishing circles until there is only one place to go this would be occasioned by the maze of equipment which he would be forced to master recordplayers tape- recorders overhead projectors under hand deflectors and the like and he would have my utmost sym pathy i can drive a car used to be able to fly an airplane can run a washing machine in a pinch but lead me toward a duplicating machine or anything more complicated than a handcranked gramaphone and i pale with terror after school our friend would find that he had a committee meeting about gumchewing or a staff meeting about pupils acting like humans or a thrill ing hour with the three students inter ested in the stamp club i dont think he could hack it poor devil this week next johnsons dilemma the rising criticism of president johnson among both democrats and republicans led this week to specula tion about lbjs future which would have been considered wildly improb able only months ago for the first time since the president won election in his own right in his 1964 landslide there was a serious pos sibility that lbj could step aside at the end of his present term the possibility of the tough texan longhorn ever taking such an ignomin ious out would only recently have been considered laughable among even his most outspoken critics yet the possibility is there this week consider these survey reports only 31 per cent of the american public according to the latest voter opinion survey approved of the presi dents handling of the war in vietnam only 38 per cent of all us voters approved generally of president john sons overall conduct of his administra tion and among both democratic and re publican voters an opinion poll run off between johnson and robert f kennedy indicated 51 per cent prefer red rfk and only 39 per cent plumped for lbj the most astounding of the polls put a republican ticket of new york gover nor nelson rockefeller and california governor ronald reagan firmly ahead of a lyndon johnsonhubert humph rey ticket the score was 57 per cent voting for the republican governors if a presidential election was held today compared to only 43 per cent for the democrats the opinion polls of course cannot be taken as an accurate reading as to how american voters will behave next november when they vote to decide who will occupy the white house from 1968 to 1973 the situation is very much like that by ray argyle faced by john diefenbaker in 1962 when four years after winning canadas greatestever parliamentary majority the tory leader was unable to secure anything better than a minority in a badlysplit house of commons the chief factors going against john son arc of course the unsettled war in vietnam and the continuing failure of the administration to mount a meaning ful war on poverty at home with this has cuine the spectre of increased troop commitments in asia higher taxes worsening slum conditions and bigger riots starting with a primary election march 12 in new hampshire the candi dates of both parties will be seeking voter endorsement for their partys nomination none of the primaries are binding but they will give a strong indication as to which candidates will be acceptable to voters main questions to be answered in the next year involve the left and right wings of the democratic party will the left wing opposed to vietnam and un happy over civil rights go all out to replace johnson with kennedy and will such a right wing prospect as for mer alabama governor george wallace run en a states rights antiintegration ticket the pundits say this would drain ot votes which would normally go republican but the biggest question of all will finally be settled only by lyndon baines johnson harry s truman set a precedent when after winning election in his own right 10as following president roose velts death stepped down in the face of massive unpopularity in 1952 in view of johnsons even more impressive achievement of winning so big on his own in 1964 it is not impossible that he could surprise the world by retiring to the sidelines in 1968 established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday oy the stouffville tribune limited at 1 main st stouffville ont tel 6402101 single copies 10c subscriptions s400 pel year in canada sfioo elscwhire membei of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mall post office dcpi ottawa a plowmans shame the plowing match season is almost at an end as in any contest of s there are experiences of extraordinary elation over a job well done there are also periods of extreme depression when nothing goes right and a finish looks something like the route of the rouge river ive done plenty of tractor plowing in my day none of this quality stutl com mon to a timbers or a trim but just a good oldfashioned getitdone kind oi job that fortunately is hidden by the first heavy fall of snow and the sooner the snow falls the better the most boring part of tractor plow ing in my opinion was the strikeout you are supposed to set up your stakes and make sure the initial round is ruler straight i would have no part or this foolishness 1 preferred to line up the tractor with some fence post or tree positioned somewhere on the horizon and then full steam ahead on one such occasion i picked as my pointer a hoi- stein cow grazing in a distant hay field unfortunately for me and the strike out the cow moved i lost my licence then and there this little introduction leads me up to the international match at barrie like the critical judge im not i viewed some of the completed lands and like others around passed comment on the quality of the work i came to one that had a few warps and wows in the finish and so commented on the crooks and curves that were quite obvious to any one with half an eye do you think you can do any better questioned a girl nearby i bet even you could i re plied yesterday i couldnt but id be glad to try again if youre willing thats my land youre looking at my heart sank into the soles of my shoes i knew then and there that this cute young thing had been one of several entries in the furrow queen contest it was bad enough that i had criticized her work but now she had issued a challenge that i dare not escape i tried to think up a few halfhearted excuses but it was no use too many others had been listening in on the conversation over here she said and pointed to a spot where the press radio and tele vision boys were practicing in prepara tion for their class the tractor was an international wd dicsel with a trail er plow i had never even sat in the seat of such a machine let alone manipulate the 3furrow unit on behind- for tunately the strikeout had already been made you go two rounds and ill go two then well compare she said ladies first i argued and she consented she mounted the big diesel like it wasa kiddycar she frigged and fooled around briefly with the levers and moved off down the field at the headland she wheeled the brute ar ound on a dime and headed back she repeated the maneuver twice just as perfect the second time as the first the furrow was as straight as a die i should have admitted defeat then and there but pride surely goeth before a fall i the sprinkling of spectators who watched this contest were all on the side of my opponent and i knew it after all she was a girl and they were men although they acted like a bunch of school boys the 1944 ford ferguson that i used down on the farm had only three gears ahead and one reverse this mechani cal monster had so many speed ranges it required a road map to find neutral i took a wild guess for lo and released the clutch the front end lifted off the ground like a kangaroo it jumped forward about two feel and stalled dead as a doornail fverybody laughed i couldnt get it started because i couldnt find the starter try the crank joked one sideline smartalcck want a push joked another i yank ed and shoved on every button in sight and finally hit the right one in the confusion of it all 1 had neglected to trip the plow after doing so i roared backwards in reverse and the entire unit jncliiifcd into a most un believable position if the dealer had been present 1 would certainly have beei ordered off the rig when the equipment was finally un tangled i proceeded forward twenty- five yards later the plow hit a huge boulder it became unattached auto matically but i was too busy looking ahead to see what was going on be hind we were separated by fifteen feet before i fully realized what had happened that was the last straw i jumped off ihe machine and left it running in midfield it could be there yet for all i know or care so a word to the wise unless youre a competent critic of plowing prowess be a viewer but not a doer for the truth will surely find you out on the subject of plowing fred hope claremont rr 3 still retains the watch he won in a match 54 years ago he uses it every day and it runs as good in new stouffville druggist cliff aiken has done it again in recognition of grant wells claim to the canadian tractor plow championship he has dressed up his show window in keeping with the occasion dr donald petric of stouffville must surely have charmed the censustaker who visited his home on edward street on the voters list his occupa tion is described as miracle rather than medical doctor