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page 2 the tribune tfamdty january 4 1968 111 j tr iiiiiisi t tin iijiiiiimmiijtiiiiin iiimiiiiii ei i it fiiiiiii ii is iiiiiiii ti iimiii si r i m j u miiiiitiiif ti itii niiiii it u 1 1 in miiiii ji j mi tt iiiuiiiu iii if r i i i cu iim mh in mi n i iiiim tin c mil 1 1 n linn m u the canada medal who should receive it the secretary of the cabinet has re quested that members of stouffville council submit the name of one citizen who in their judgment qualifies for the canada medal award the individual is to be a person who in one or several ways has contributed much to the wel fare of the stouffville community over a period of years this is an honor like no other and we feel sure that no decision will be reached without a good deal of fore thought and consideration although the final choice will come from council we would suggest that the members would not be adverse to receiving sug gestions from residents on who the re cipient should be with this thought in mind the tribune will be pleased to accept letters from readers naming their candidate and giving the reason why to advance the project still fur ther the tribune will conduct a cross- section poll by telephone for opinions it is an opportunity for stouffville citi zens to speak their mind on a very im portant matter we personally have given the issue much thought the names of at least ten residents have come to mind any one of whom would be worthy recipi ents of this award we have now elim inated all but one we intend to withold the identity of our choice until others have had an opportunity to submit their selections stouflville folks are not known for their desire to participate directly in affairs of civic importance too many tend to sit back and let the other fel low do it then and only then if the result does not meet with their approv al they criticize the decision makers here is an opportunity to assist the de cision makers in making their decis ions to be requested to select a citizen for the canada medal award is in itself an honor for stouffville to be that citizen selected is an honor and tribute to on individual think it over carefully and choose wisely a caretaker commission stouffville public utilities commis sion chairman r f farr expressed criticism last week of a policy by on tario hydro that tended to dictate to what use should be made of profits ac quired through the sale of power to town residents the controversy occurred when rep resentatives questioned the commis sions right to spend over si 000 during 1967 without head office approval and charge it up to promotions the larg est part of this expense was involved in the purchase of the centennial signs on main street east and west the argument presented by chair man farr was supported by commis sioner ken wagg we are in complete agreement with the commission members on this issue we realize of course that the hydro representatives were only quoting pol icy and their opinions were not meant to be personal we contend however that policy as such tends to limit the authority of the members to one of a caretaker commission with really very little authority at all in questioning the cost involved in the purchase of the centennial signs ontario hydro has touched on a rather hot potato as far as the stouffville puc is concerned although the sub ject of much favorable comment throughout the past year the mainten ance figure has been exceptionally high other recommended projects have been turned down due to this expense while we agree that the commission must abide by certain rules and regula tions we hardly think it necessary for big daddy to hold the key to little johnnies piggy bank parade of roses thousands of tribune readers have watched this years pasadena rose par ade and we have just had the privilege of seeing it first hand to the general public the magnificent parade is a masterpiece of floatbuild ing and floral beauty while plans pro ceed all year long the last few weeks are critical weather is one factor that the parade float companies worry about most we learned that there are ten companies which make this a business two weeks before this years parade there was a cold snap in southern cal ifornia and production of some floats became critical one professional float builder lee miller turns out eleven of the 60 floats they cost anywhere from 6000 to 535000 each another exclusive busi ness of the float makers is the supply ing of a special glue used to fasten the flowers its a secret formula discover ed twenty years ago and one float man ufacturer will use as much as 1000 gallons the one company building floats brings in 150000 worth of flowers in the final week thats 5 million indivi dual blooms the most of the flowers come from california growers but some are flown in from holland mexico and florida one large shipment of tulips to come in from washington was destroyed by a flood and had to be replaced with a hurryup shipment from holland strange as it may seem the cold is particularly hard on blue flowers and the builders of the giant olympic games float for mexico featured this color only a few cities have professional float builders and the major source of their income is from the pasadena par ade its a rare industry the large build ers each require about 4 acres of space with a staff of mechanics welders painters carpenters and florists in the last week theyll take on about 600 men and women petal pasters it takes a pile of flowers to make one float the bank of america took 500000 the crowds are fantastic with nearly two million people centering on the parade and the rose bowl game sincerely c h nolan los angeles california plays lead role in childrens christmas show the role of marvciio the magician in the childrens christmas show dec 28 and 30 was played by frank steele the three performances were held in the audi torium of stouffville dist secondary school staff photo i mingconstatwltitesonewm yolmmw butwisis 60im 1wf1ri i inimniiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniinii inniinittiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiini iiiiiiiiiiiiiiittiiitftiiiiiiiiiiiiittiaiiiiii nfi isucar and spice welcome to 68 by bill smiley well to get off to a profound start were all a year older than we were when we entered 1967 as usual there are exceptions to the rule some of us werent born until june and are only six months older others after the dionysian rites of new years eve are eight years older but count your blessings if your bur sitis your blood pressure and your belly are not hurting more up more or sticking out more and count some more if youve made a friend had a thrill done one good thing loved somebody and stayed out of the clutches of the boys with the straightjackets ive managed to do all of these things and feel that this makes up in some measure for the fact that 1967 was probably the most harrassing year of my life the last year has been one of those nightmares in which you only realize youre awake when you pinch yourself and it hurts and when you pinch your self and it doesnt hurt it means only that youre so numb you cant feel my firstborn quit college and went on the bum the bum mexico new or leans montreal expo and now new york where hes studying acting my browneyed baby to whom i once told bedtime stories about munkle-uncle- unkie and others hates school from the depths of her soul and wants to go away and be a waitress and live my wife is a kept woman kept by me i might add in the city and when i do see her wants to talk until 4 am about neitzsche schopenhauer and a lot of other people i cant even pronounce let alone spell sometimes i felt like crying burst ing into tears and letting the drips fall where they may but i cant the floor has just been polished and somebody has to take out the garbage and drive the cleaning lady home but as you can see theres something cheering about the whole thing theres no place to go but up letter to the editor dear sir i would appreciate space in your pa per to comment on the current contro versy concerning anglofrench lang uages in canada in my opinion both languages should be superceded not be cause of their racial origin but because the alphabet that forms the manufac turing of these words is not ideally suited for an age of automation i would suggest that in their place a third language should be utilized a form of communication by mathema tics by observing the characteristics of the present letters they are seen to be made by clockwise or counterclock wise motions this in my opinion can lead to mental stress due to a contin uous rapid reversal of direction messages sent by morse code braille and the musical scale are mathematical in origin by merging these three it is possible to produce a fourth the let ters are then composed of solid dots dashes and open dots they are arrang ed in sequences from one to three by writing them above and below a hori zontal line the sequence is extended to nine this is the exact number of dig its in the mathematical scale zero is expressed by a blank space sincerely o l brasseur rr 4 stouffville editors note although difficult to explain the writers idea on paper with pen or pencil it can be accomplished quite simply it certainty doesnt work out too well on a typewriter however not to speak of the tribunes lino type machine maybe hugh will become a famous actor maybe kim will become a wait ress who doesnt have her thumb in the soup maybe the old lady will be come normal and who knows maybe this is my big year maybe ill break 100 in golf maybe ill write the great canadian novel maybe ill get the christmas tree to stand up thus hope springs eternal in the human beast one milestone nearer the grave but also a milestone passed in the effort to live life with dignity hum or and love perhaps you dont like those three terms perhaps youd prefer rectitude righteousness and religion or industry intelligence and integrity fair enough i like mine because theyre more dif ficult i find it extremely difficult to be dignified no matter how i try its al most impossible to retain a sense of humor when you have rotten kids and its extremely difficult to love truly and without qualifications this is all very abstract lets get down to concrete examples have you ever tried to be dignified while per forming a flying tackle at your daugh ter in the snow in the back yard as shes leaving home for good at mid night have you ever tried to retain a gay sense of humor when your home form has given you for christmas instead of the crock you confidently expected a bottie of shaving lotion some peo ple can drink it i cant have you ever tried to love someone with bad breath a constant sniff and dirty fingernails but who is a basically good dull person ah well the hell with it its another year once a square always a square and all three members of my family agree that im the most perfectly roun- ded square theyve ever met but im trying to become at least a parallelo gram in 68 and the same to you this week next i predict that canadas second century opened this week and with it came prospects this country may indeed be on the verge of the greatness promised by our founding fathers greatness can most often be detected in little things but one of the signs of greatness in a nation is its ability to tolerate dissent it was this quality that helped make the united states rich and powerful by using the abilities of the homeless and oppressed who came to its shores from abroad now something of the same thing is happening here many young americans castigated in the us and canada alike as cowardly draft dodgers are seeking refuge in canada as one of these young men comment ed on a tv interview recently 1967 marked his best christmas because he felt he had found a land of freedom isnt this what the unpopular and in deed even hated refugees of europes political holocausts felt when they ar rived in america in the 19th century in the tradition of this column this is the week to look back over the past year and to glance ahead in an attempt to glean something of what fate might have in store for us in the next 12 months but first lets check back to a year ago and see how i made out on my 1967 predictions i accurately forecast the retirement of mr dicfenbaker in 1967 and predict ed this would pave the way for mr pearsons quitting in 1968 i predicted an upsurge for the new democratic party in provincial politics especially ontario and this of course occurred in last falls ontario vote i made a safe bet that the centennial celebrations would be a success and that expo at that time the subject of much carping criticism would be come the most successful and world- attention getting event ever held in this country by ray argyle but i was overly optimistic in fore casting that prices would stabilize in 1967 or that internationally conditions wouid develop favorably for some kind of a settlement in vietnam i looked for major achievements in space and while the soviets succeeded in a soft landing on venus no one could foresee the fatalities which brought tragedy to both the us and russian space ventures in the past year now to 168 ever the optimist im willing to pre dict the economy is ready to cool down prices should slow down their upward edge and even level off in some fields internationally im again optimistic that a settlement may be reached in vietnam with better than ever chances in 1968 because of the pressure presi dent johnson faces in novembers pres idential election if a vietnam peace ac cord is not reached i see a very real possibility of johnson being defeated by new york governor nelson rocke feller canada will have a new prime minis ter in 1968 and perhaps not only be cause of mr pearsons retirement elec tion of a new liberal leader in april either paul hellyer or paul martin could result in the country going to the polls next fall and the conservatives under robert stanfield will make a very strong bid to oust the liberal regime and we will get medicare canada should be able to move closer to national unity in 1968 with increased acceptance of french canadas unique role in confederation steps will be taken toward giving the country a new constitution but the greatest news of 1968 will be made in science especially in medicine where it is now evident the emphasis on medical research of the past 20 years is now paying off with dramatic new achievements many new discover ies will be reported in 1968 resulting in happier and longer lives for millions of people hs wht wrihum established j888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stouffville tribune limited at 51 main st stouffville ont tcl 6402101 single copies 10c subscriotions 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 mall post office dcpu ottawa checked on the spot our relationship with police officers within the departments of both mark- ham village and stouffville is on a first name basis the same may be said for the majority of law enforcement offici als in the townships of markham and whitchurch during the year we work closely with these men and have found them all to be a great bunch of guys cooperation between the press and the police is a twoway street they pro vide us with information on accidents and incidents of crime and we supply them with photographs that can be used as evidence in court cases and in quests at this point however the mu tual admiration society ends its policy of personal privilege if were caught speeding on hwy 48 well get a ticket the same as anyone else if we insist in parking in front of a fire hydrant on main street we pay the price and have this is how it should be although the local boys in blue play no favorites we would much pre fer to be reprimanded by an officer we know than by a stranger with the opp or metro as polite as those officers may try to be and usually are the very thought of a uniformed head on a 6 foot 6 inch frame peering suspiciously into the front seat fills us full of fear every frustrated move is an open ad mission of guilt we would never admit this constable complex around home the kids think that dads a pretty big cheese because the chief buys him an occasional cup of coffee and sends him a personal greet ing card at christmas on one occasion when an officer called from markham township concerning a serious accident and our eldest daughter answered she stood bugeyed and speechless through out the entire twominute conversation but mother nature has a way of re vealing the deep down truth of every mans makup it happened to us just before new years and well live with the embarrassment of it all for the next 12 months the childrens faith in the bravado of their father has been shat tered perhaps permanently for two months we had promised the kids a trip to toronto and we thought it appropriate to take the ex cursion during the christmas season when the colored lights are at their best our usual route into the city is via the don valley parkway to the gard iner and up jarvis yonge or bay this time we went a different way dont ask me where for we became so mixed up in a web of streets and crescents in the rosedale area we almost sent up distress signals to add further insult to injury we were caught in a police spot check this particular officer roared up from the rear on a big harleydavidson the kids became so excited they nearly jumped through the roof my very first mistake came when he waved me to a stop i bounced the right front wheel over the curb and missed a tree only by inches just get in from the yukon he asked shining his light flush in my face no sir im from stouffville why cause your back window is completely covered with snow thats why he sounded perturbed he had reason to be i had intended to clean it off but just plain forgot what have you been drinking he enquired the very mention of the word drink made my wife fairly bristle with indignation she wouldnt allow the consumption of alcohol in the pri vacy of our own home let alone the family automobile she wanted to reply but i prodded her in the left shin with an extended right rubber i dont drink i replied he seemed convinced let me see your license he contin ued thats when my head began to spin at first i couldnt find my wallet and when i did about two dollars worth of change fell out on the floor just your license sir the officer re peated he was growing impatient a motorist in a car behind started to blow his horn his nerves too were be coming somewhat frayed i groped for my permit while four back seat riders peered over my shoul der first i handed him an esso credit card he gave it back then a social insurance certificate that wouldnt do cither i began to shake next i pro duced a 1968 c from the abitibi paper company a chest xray card a hospitalization form a sunoco gas re ceipt an old sweepstakes ticket a bill from aida cleaners a coffee credit from houstons a half dozen five cent stamps a family photograph draw tickets by the dozens a receipt for a 1966 pontiac and novembers telephone bill by now the lineup had lengthened a full city block the officers voice chang ed from tactful composure to a frenz ied growl your license your license he repeated if you havent got it per haps your wife has no she hant cave it i mean cant have it she docs- not drive i answered in a voice shak ing with nervous emotion are j you sure you do he said at that particu lar moment i wasnt too sure of any thing ill have to take your keys- ill be back in a few minutes in the mean time cither produce your permit or call a taxi the search continued my wife insisted that she have a look and she found it in seconds the permit passed inspection and with the excep tion of a snowy rear window so did the car i mustered enough strength to brush it oil and headed for home