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ptge 2 the tribune thurxky itmmy is 1968 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiitiiiuiitiiiiiiiiiifiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiihiiiitiiiiiiiittiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiitiiiiiiiiijiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitjiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii no such thing as temporary tax the year 1967 was canadas one hun dredth anniversary but most will not remember that it was also the fiftieth anniversary of income tax the tax was introduced by sir thom as white near the middle of world war i it was a wartime emergency and such measures the people were told was absolutely necessary every assur ance was given that this was to be only a temporary tax and would be abolish ed at the end of the war the tax is still with us but the fioures are quite different in 1917 a married man without family earning s6000 a year was required to pay s120 he would now pay roughly 600 last year millions were spent on a royal commission to complete an ex tensive report on the income tax sub ject it certainly did not recommend abolishment but it did recommend new ways to use the income tax idea more effectively it all goes to show that there is noth ing as permanent as a temporary tax teachers federation softening for what seems years now the pow erful high school teachers union has op erated on a policy of more money for every teacher good bad or indifferent a few remarks from retiring general secretary i m robb might indicate some softening in this attitude he com ments that the teachers federation should protect only teachers fired arbi trarily mr robb who has come to the time when he has no personal axe to grind seems to have come up with some clearer thinking on the subject of teach ers and salaries no one denies that for years teachers were underpaid but the years have turned full cycle and the taxpaying public is now crying enough there can be no more moaning from teachers being second class citizens they are among the highest paid and best pro tected classes in our society profes sional or otherwise it seems most likely that the new government policy of a hundred school boards for all ontario is directed to ward more strength at the bargaining table when salaries are a question it will mean an end to the giant steps made by teachers in the last few years with scarcely any argument from indi vidual boards tactics as employed by the team sters and uaw have paid off for teachers in the past but the time is close at hand when the public will not tolerate increasing pay for those teach ers not pulling their weight the pro fession as suggested by mr robb will need to more closely police its ranks or the opposition to annual pay jumps will reach powerful proportions lets hope we qualify at a meeting of stouffville council thursday evening tonight reeve ken laushway will present a motion re questing the ontario housing corpor ation to conduct a survey here to find out if a need exists for a government- sponsored apartment for senior citi zens if stouffville qualifies for such a project the building will be erected on a site within reach of the shopping area all costs connected with the scheme are assumed by the province and suites are made available to eligible tenants at an extremely low rental rate recently the ohc opened two 4- storey apartment units in newmarket and richmond hill the demand for ac commodation far exceeded the supply and a lengthy waiting list has been re corded reeve laushway attended the official opening in newmarket and was most impressed with the beauty of the struc ture the obvious contentment of the residents we viewed the one at rich mond hill and were similarly im pressed with councils blessing the request for the survey will be submitted to queens park later this week a quali fied government official will then ob tain the necessary information we can only hope that we qualify headed pickerings path deputyreeve sidney gadsbys verbal tirades within the council of the town ship of markham are being viewed with some concern bv many ratepayers in the municipality and rightly so last week the clash between mr gadsby and councillor alan sumner became so personal that reeve stewart rumble adjourned the meeting and vacated the chambers this kind of conduct bares a sharp resemblance to the foolish bick erings that went on far too long in pick ering township its a deadend road as members there learned too late when personalities begin to creep into discussions and routine business is disrupted to the point of accomplishing almost nothing then its time for indi viduals to take stock of themselves and think before they speak if mr gadsbys vociferous debate of last week was prompted by his desire to assist the markham taxpayer in some way then we would be the first to com mend him but this was not the case instead he was taking an employee to task for not providing him with in formation when he wanted it now isnt that a major issue to get all steam ed up about as chairman of planning board mr gadsby did an excellent job it was pre sumed that his energy and experience would make him an asset to council v- iis a scenic setting in any season anyone who has ever travelled the 6th concession of uxbridge township will re cognize this particular location banked by trees on both sides its a scenic setting in any season staff photo iiiiiiiiiritiiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiijrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii9iriiiiiiitmitiiiiiititiiiiiijiiiiiiiifimitiiiiiijmiiiiiijiiti iiriiiiiiiiitiiiuiiiiii n it iriri n inn hit iiriiiiimii n iiiiiriiiioi mtiiitiiiinijrmirr sugar and spice have a great 68 whatever you want most in 1968 i hope you get it but dont count on it theres nothing much you can be sure of except those old reliables death and taxes and with the government tax ing us to death the twain will soon be one when youre young a year seems an age and each new year is filled with promise and hope of new experience new adventure as you get older the years begin flipping past like the pages of a book and you realize that the new is going to be pretty much like the old one therell be wars and rumors of wars therell be one crisis after another therell be scandal in high places therell be race riots and protest mar ches therell be a lot of rotten tv fare canada will be licked in the world hockey playoffs and a lot of the other old inevitables will be there higher taxes and lower morals shorter skirts and longer faces louder music and softer bellies more people and less housing great political promises and miniscule political action and so on make your own list on the personal level the picture is about the same if youre a man youre probably going to lose some hair and gain some girth pick up another ache or two grow a little more grouchy or pompous and wonder loudly what the hell the world is coming to if youre a woman youre probably going to lose some shape and gain a chin pick up a few more furrows in the face grow a little more bossy and nudge your husband another degree toward an early grave whatever your sex if youre over 30 youre going to find that a little more of your getupandgo has quietly got- upandwent but dont worry about that gird up your loins sieze fortune by the fore lock spit in the face of fate get some hormone shots and face another year with courage dignity and bursitis in both shoulders like me for whether we like it or not we happen to be living in one of the most exciting times in human history many of us often wish we could be living in a simpler age when black and white right and wrong were clearly es tablished alas we aint but perhaps when we feel a tinge of editors mail the important thing dear editor with regard to a letter published in a recent issue of the tribune concern ing our present trend toward anecdotal report cards rather than graded ones i feel that the parent was a little hasty in his or her conclusions to a five or six year old unable to read the report itself means nothing it is the parents reaction to this re port that bears influence good or bad on the child if progress has been good and the child is praised and encouraged this is the important thing not a row of as or bs our principals and teachers are do ing an admirable job lets stand be hind ihcm not against them sincerely rose barry main street stouffville worthy suggestion the name i suggest as worthy to re ceive a centennial medallion is that of miss margaret hosie a more or less retired school teacher in stouffville many a parent and countless students some of whom were previously unable to adjust to school standards owe her a great debt of gratitude janet brodic rupert avenue stouffville regret we should also remember that in those good old days it was every man for himself the rich were richer and the poor were starving the strong grabbed from the weak the white used the black as an animal the mentally ill were swept under the carpet and closets were crowded with skeletons now todays technological advances are frightening but fascinating every ones going to the moon personally i dont want to be on the first scheduled flight but the very idea is staggering in its reflection of mans eternal curi osity and ingenuity but even more exciting in my opin ion is the social revolution that is sweeping our world modern man is ex amining himself as he never has before he is literally picking himself up by the heels and shaking as a result long- held ideas as revealed as poppycock rigid dogmas are shattering like shards by bill smiley its as though an ancient musty attic piled with valuable antiques had had its roof blown off and a fresh clean wind had blown away the must and dust and showed most of the relics for what they were junk todays society is perhaps for the first time ever concerned with being its brothers keeper we are trying to do something about our weak and our poor and our old prejudice and intol erance are still with us but they are attacked rather than accepted divorce abortion homosexuality and mental illness have been dragged out of the shadows and into the light cap ital punishment is almost obsolete mind you its painful the whole pro cess of growing up is always painful but i dont want to live in ancient greece or elizabethan england or 2068 ad i want to live in 1968 and see what happens how about you this week next u s squeeze will hurt by ray argyle the gathering storm over the worlds financial horizons spread to canada last week with them warning from wash ington that the us might impose a tax on exports such a measure accurately described by finance minister mitchell sharp a reprehensible kind of border warfare would be the second stage of president johnsons drive to bring into balance u s spending abroad the united states has been fighting to maintain the world value of the dol lar ever since britain devalued the pound a month before christmas to do this the us must improve its international balance of payments at the present time the us is spending three and onehalf billion dollars a year more abroad than it takes in from other countries this cannot go on indefinitely unless the drain on the dollar can be stemmed by the steps taken so far by president johnson the us will have no recourse but to lower the value of its dollar in comparison with foreign currencies this is devaluation and it was the course forced on canada in 1962 and twice on britain since the last war all because expenditures abroad were out pacing revenues from other countries there are two main reasons for the us deficit in foreign exchange first is the vast foreign investment which us business has been making in canada western europe and other noncommunist regions while it is true such investment even tually brings foreign funds by way of profits back into the us the last ten years has been a record american in vestment abroad in buying up compan ies and starting new businesses profits have started to flow back to the us but not yet in suflicient volume to offset the original investment it was for this reason that president johnson on new years day announced curbs on american investment abroad he called for a halt to us private in vestment in western europe and said investment in canada britain and aus tralia would be limited to 65 per cent of the amounts invested in 1965 curiously this program met with mixed reaction- in canada and else where while us investment has al ways spelled jobs and higher incomes in canada and elsewhere it also has car ried with it the spectre of us econo mic domination many western euro peans particularly the french welcom ed president johnsons investment curbs in canada mr sharps first reaction was that canada would not be seriously affected but this was before the threat to tax imports the second and major reason for the us dollar drain is of course the war in vietnam where some 25 billion is being spent every year in a war which is becoming increasingly hope less not all the 25 billion is of course ex pended abroad the vast sums poured into military equipment goes primarily to us industry and the bulk of troop wages remain in the country accord ing to ihe us secretary of the treas ury henry fowler vietnam is respons ible for about one and onehalf billion of the three and onehalf billion dollar deficit the us financial storm will en danger canadas economy both in the strength of the dollar and in our ability to maintain a high level of exports if the us devalued canada would have to follow suit but because the re spective values of the two currencies would probably remain relative the ef fects would be minimal it is the import tax however that sends shudders up the spines of ottawa politicians and canadian industrialists the us is canadas best customer just as canada buys more from the us than from any other country if washington imposes a levy of two to three per cent on imports from canada it will either price canadian goods out of the us market or force canadian in dustry to accept lower prices hthe ibhimite established 188s c h nolan jim thomas editor publisher noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stoufrville tribune limited at 5j main st stouffville ont tel 6402101 single copies 10c subscriptions s400 per year in canada 600 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulatioa canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mall post office dept ottawa mm what the childen say theres a song currently popular in the country and western hit parade called skip a rope its a rather soul- searching number that relates conver sations between children at play who honestly confide in one another con cerning problems within their own homes it makes a parent stop for a moment and take stock of himself it may even cause him to wonder what do my children say about me what do the children say any teach er particularly in the primary grades cculd probably write a book on family relationships right here in stouffville as innocently told to her by her pupils over a period of weeks and months during the year yes truth is surely stranger than fiction for mom and dad it can be embarrassing too away from the school the second most prominent listening post is the arena every wednesday afternoon dozens of boys and girls head for the rink for an hour of skating enjoyment the dresing rooms are hives of activity there some of the strangest tales un fold humorous and otherwise we at- tended one of these discussion periods last week and took careful note of the conversations they went something like this how come youre so late getting down today i had to stay in what did the teacher do nothing very much she just sang the whole time it was awful boy was i ever glad to get out of there ft ft do you know what my dad had to go into the marguerite shoppe this afternoon to buy something for mom whats so strange about that what was it my dad called it a corvette he seemed kind of embarrassed a corvette thats a chev sports car you must mean a corset im not sure it sounded like cor vette anyway it must be sort of small i heard dad tell mom it took her a heck of a long time to get into it and just as long to gel out i can hardly wait till saturday dads bringing home a new color tv so as he can watch the leafs play pitts burg i dont think were going to keep it though mom said we still owe quite a lot yet on our old black and white its going to be an awful weekend at our place weve got company comin from the united states a whole car load theyre relatives we havent seen for a while i know mom doesnt want them very much i could tell from the sound of her voice after she hung up the phone dad says they got lots of money and we must treat them nice were going to have an addition to our family too moms an awful size do vou want a baby brother or sis ter i want a brother ive got one sister thats enough my dad cant have any more kids your dad cant you mean your mom f no my dad i was with him at the hospital to take home my baby sister and i heard dr tell him that he thought six was plenty do your folks fight much no not really only when they get mad how about yours not much during the week cause dads away a lot but on sunday morn ings when dad t get out of bed and take us to churc mom gets real angry last sunday wh v wouldnt get up she stuck a whole ice cube down inside his pajama top boy did that wake him up in a hurry did he take you to church oh yes but he might just as well have stayed at home why cause he slept through the whole sermon do you go to church no just to sunday school in the winter dad drives me here then comes and picks me up in the sum mer i walk dont your folks go to church no dad plays golf is ever going to get it tomor row why what did he go he threw a snowball and hit mr teacher right on ihe back of the head then he ran hell probably be off sick if hes smart hell be real sick was mr ever mad i bet he couldnt do it again if he tried did you sec that skirt had on today boy was it short what about it shes away older than us in grade 8 they can get away with lotsa things my mother says that her mother oughta be ashamed boy am i glad im not a girl me too