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nge 2 the tribune thauuf march 14 1968 uiiriiiitiiiiuiiuiiiiiiiuiiwiiiitiimiuiiiuiiiiiiiiiitiiuuiiiuuuiiiimiiiuiitniiiitiiiiiiuittiiiiiimiaiiiuhiiihmiiiiuiuuuiiuitiw editorials wnhum hodgepodge planning the approaches to any village or town can serve as either a benefit or a detriment to the progress of the muni cipality within it therefore goes with out saying that first impressions gained of stoutfville when travelling east from highway 48 are anything but good both the whitchurch and markham sides represent a disgraceful array of hodgepodge development with resi dential commercial and industrial building all tossed in together to try and pinpoint the reason for this kind of soupbowl planning would undoubtedly lead to a lot of buckpass ing down the line and through the years besides what good would it do the damage has already been done we feel that in all fairness to stouit ville the council here should at least been consulted before permits were issued in this area the ringwood to stouffvilie road could have become a golden mile now its an indelible lend a hand on thursday evening tonight the community centre board of whit church twp will hold an important meeting to arrange their program for the spring and summer season the gathering called for 8 pm will be held at the centennial centre east of ballantrae executive members fear that the same faithful few who have given freely of their time in the past will once again be the only persons present this should not be the ballantraemusslemans lake area is fortunate to have this project located in the district while most par ents will proclaim its benefits and urge their children to participate in its pro gram too few adults wish to assume any responsibility for its continuing success it is due to this kind of lack lustre support that the best ventures go down the drain togetherness needed farmers to whom this edition of the tribune is most particularly interest ing continue to speak with two voices whenever their problems come to the provincial level there is the ontario federation of agriculture and the on tario farmers union each would like to be regarded as the no 1 spokesman for the provinces farmers we feel that the two organizations should merge so that ontario agricul ture can speak with one voice one halt ing step has been taken in this direc tion a committee has been set up to study a merger and report in may it would not seem that moves would be made very rapidly as the two bodies are so dissimilar in organization the farmers union has the smallest membership members come in on a voluntary basis and pay dues on the other hand the federation really has no individual members it is financed from farm groups grants and township tax levies all farmers contribute in one way or another the union favors direct action strikes and tractor parades the federa tion works through lobbying to influ ence government policy the latter idea may seem slow the first however can sometimes stir up more harm than good togetherness is desirable but still seems a long way off no smoking the council of the township of mark- ham has passed a bylaw to prohibit smoking in the chambers of their soon- tobeopened municipal building at but- tonville two members opposed the rul ing we are 100 percent in favor of coun cils decision any person possessed with an uncontrollable urge for a cig arette will be at liberty to satisfy that desire out in the hall for councillors with similar cravings the reeve will no doubt see fit to call a break in pro ceedings and allow members time for a puff or two we often wonder what these same folks do when they go to church or sit in a courtroom orattenda hearing of the municipal board similar restric tions are in force and adhered to with out complaint s vi v members in favor of this practice would be wise to first obtain an opinion from fellow councillors in pickering a smoking ban was enforced there but only after whole sections of luxurious broadioom had to be replaced a national identity throughout centennial year our true national identity was the subject of debate we had to wait until centen nial year plus one to find iter her shes nancy greene the ski queen from british columbia theres just no one more canadian than nancy and her sport is a natural for canada too with little fuss or fan fare nancy got on wtih the job almost alone although she comes from the west she could just as readily come from ontario or the east we couldnt wish for a finer symbol roadmen spare those trees residents of the glen major area of ux bridge township are divided over the ben efits of a county arterial road proposed for the 7th concession many fear that scenic locations as pictured here will be totally destroyed staff photo i bramptontype channelization program planned for stouffvilie nlllllllllllllllllllllhiiiiiiiiiiillllllllimilllllllllllimillllllimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllllllllllllllllllll nil iiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihiihiimiiiiilllllllllmlllllllllllllirr sugar and spice smiley the hustler by bill smiley a funny thing happened on the way to the proofreaders a couple of weeks ago my column appeared headed gloom and doom it was riddled with quotations by experts allusions to ec onomics references to the stock market and all sorts of similar portentious ful minations i imagine bewildered readers shaking their heads and muttering to their spouses here mabel whats come over young smiley he sounds learned intelligent and as though hed lost his last friend completely out of charac ter what happened was that the head ings were inadvertently switched on my column and that of ray argyle an old friend who writes a perceptive column on current affairs andhisreaders must have been equally baffled asking what in the narne of all thats ridiculous has hap pened to argyle this week pure drivel never knew him to write such puerile nonsense before oh well the allies made bigger boobs than that and won the war at any rate it may be of some com fort to you to know that this weeks column is not only mine but is being written by the undisputed russian bil liards champion of the local curling club im not much on the ice but im a heller on the pool table in the base ment it shook a lot of the denizens of the billiard room but none of them as much as it shook me knocked off three opponents including one bird who tried to oneupmanship me by bringing along his own private cue to make the finals should have seen the tiger i faced then six feet four twenty years young er than i fine golfer hawkeyes of the outstanding hockey goalie he is and the hottest pool shark in town now dont panic mum i beat him it was best three games out of five he took the first two so fast that all i had a chance to do was chalk my cue and spot the balls he kept knocking in isnt this exciting well as we old fighter pilots put it there i was at 30000 feet upside down out of ammo and three straight games to win i knew that only sheer brilliance and naked courage would save the day so i gave him the old reverse treat ment instead of making points i kept losing them you can do this in russian billiards pretty soon i was 28 in the hole he was about 30 in the clear a dif ference of 58 he got overconfident and careless editors mail a good neighbor dear sir i would very much appreciate if you could allow some space in your paper to point out a few of the activities of our good neighbor mr howard mc- guckin this appears to be about the only way we citizens on the second con cession of scott twp can express our thanks for the help he has given to us mr mcguckin is really very much like the rest of us and yet he is differ ent in fact there are very few like him around any more to us he is some thing very special he is a true friend in times of joy and sorrow he has tak en us to the polls to vote he has helped us build our new homes he has helped to clear our lanes of snow and given us expert information on farming prob lems and what have we done for him im afraid we have done very little deep down however we really and truly appreciate his kindness and co operation may god bless him his wife evelyn and his family he has made life in our community a whole lot better for all of us sincerely mrs wojcicchowski lazy w ranch rr 3 stouffvilie started knocking the balls around los ing points and i craftily crept out of the hole a few at a time suddenly he re alized this old duffer might beat him got desperate and i had him on the run nothing to it really the thought of the shame if i beat him destroyed his confidence and he was a sitting duck thats my story anyway and there were no witnesses speaking of games never play them with women i found out years ago that the only game you can play with them is the game of love and even there you have about as much chance of wining as you have with a slot ma chine women are completely devoid of sportsmanship hate to be beaten and turn cold or hot with rage when they are knowing this i foolishly took part in a mixed curling bonspiel the other day the girls havent changed they played as though the sixdollaf prizes were solid gold cadillacs still on sports the winter carnival season is in full swing i guess theyre a good thing give people a chance to get stoned to the eyeballs or roar about on their skidoos releasing their ag gressive tendencies the height of some thing occurred at one of these events the other day winner of the icefishing contest collected a free holiday in nas sau the winner a 4v4inch perch and a last word on games the lib eral leadership marathon is on and the pack is off and running but the bull dogs greyhounds and just plain mutts are all looking over their shoulders at that darned french poodle coming up fast my suggestion call the race off and ask dief to take over as leader winston churchill crossed the floor of the house and look how far he went and wouldnt the old chief have a lovely time rip ping into stanfield this week next infectious racism the united states is a nation domin ated by white racism which has taken the country to the brink of a garrison state that is the verdict of president johnsons advisory commission on civil disorders this is a disheartening and saddening conclusion to canadians no less than americans it confirms a truth that many had long feared we had hoped for better news instead we got the worst yet even in this there is encourage ment the mayors of six of the cities hardest hit by negro rioting last sum mer have agreed that the white com munity is primarily responsible for the outbreaks but they say they do not have the money to make fundamental changes in daily lives of the countrys 20 million negroes the commission which has brought in this searing indictment of the amer ican way of life the land of the free and the home of the brave was ap pointed by president johnson to find the causes and the cures of the riots which have torn american cities the past several years in a 250000word report which clear ly reveals that both america and the world has been misled by its local au thorities and its news media the com mission warns that the us is creating two societies separate and unequal blaming white racism for destruc tion of basic democratic values it points out that riots which have struck american cities were neither fomented by outsiders or the result of any black power conspiracy the report warns starkly that the us practices what amounts to urban apartheid that carries with it segre gation and poverty totally unknown to most white americans and perhaps worst of all the black ghettocs which imprison more than half of the countrys negroes arc crea tions of white institutions maintained and condoned by white society by ray argyle it said that the report shows a na tion whose trueface is one of tyranny and oppression to ten percent of its people that such a nation could reach the zenith of its power only 25 years after crushing the racial monster of nazi germany is even more depressing and disheartening it might also fairly be asked that if racism motivates american society at home would it not also do so abroad in world war ii the us reserved its mightiest counter blows for the ja panese who had ruthlessly attacked pearl harbor the atomic bomb was dropped only on the yellow japanese in korea the americans regarded all koreans as gooks there was none of the honor of combat wherein true sol diers held each other in high regard as in europe now the american military machine in vietnam is effectively crushing an ancient and honorable civilization tiie us has dropped more bombs on that tiny country than it did in all of europe in all of world war ii but again it is dropping them on nonwhites and the myth of the yellow peril goes deep into american history it is now a clearly documented fact that the united states is and in fact always has been a racist state it imported as slaves the ancestors of to days negroes it was the last modern state in the northern hemisphere to outlaw slavery but it never practiced slavery on whites the virus of racism could hardly be stemmed from infecting the attitudes and behaviour of those americans re sponsible for us foreign policy yet the promise of american society is sti not beyond recall despite afflu- ense amid grinding poverty despite op pression of its colored minority despite a foreign policy which effectively de stroys any civilization which dares com pete with america there will be no let up in the struggle to fulfill the ameri can dream for this canadians can be thankful wht wrifmm established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stouffvilie tribune limited at 54 main st stouffvilie ont tel 6102101 single copies 10c subscriptions s400 per year in canada 6 00 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspaper association authorized as second class mall post office dcpt ottawa coffee break it was back on sept 3 1950 that har- ald dixon welcomed his first morning coffee customers to his restaurant pre mises at 32 main street west that dear friends was exactly eight months prior to my leaving the takeback de partment of timothy eatons exchange shop on shuter street to assume a 30 per week position on the editorial staff of the tribune to be exact i first graced this municipality with my pres ence on may 7 1951 but continued to remain a town and country commuter for the next eight years since 1950 harolds grill as it has always been known has changed hands only once roy ing and sons took it over february 20 1956 later mary ing added a touch of feminine fancy to the place arriving here from hong kong in 1964 that restaurant as my wife has often dubbed it has represented a real bone of contention within the confines of our family circle i cant understand why you would drink a half dozen cups of coffee down there every day when you wont even touch a drop at home she would say when i would phone her on a monday to say that i wouldnt be home for dinner shed comment in a voice filled with exasperation i bet youll still find time for something to eat down at that restaurant to be i truthful it had become a habit on a saturday night after the hockey game away id go it was the same story after church on sunday on occasions id try to slip out unnoticed but in most cases it just wasnt possible the very creak of a closet door gave me away if i had a nickle for every dime spent there id be rich but all this is now over mary and her husband hong have purchased a new restaurant on the outskirts of guelph roy and his wife will remain here but live retired at 10 pm sunday evening they turned the lock on the front door what was there about this place that made it so popular through the years for me it was more the meeting than the eating not that there was anything particularly wrong with the food mind you but lets face it harolds grill on main street could hardly compare with howard johnsons on broadway while interior decor may be import- cvsint to some folks forme itwastbe everyday patrons that counted most and morning noon and night they were there almost as if they were glued to the stool conversations touched on everything from the fight for the play offs to the war in vietnam from pierre trudeau to councillor mckellar and from president johnson to reeve laush- way four oclock always brought a sud den change in the clientele the student brigade took over with a seemingly end less supply of quarters for the record machine v the noise of their teenage chatter has ended the record player is silent the counter stools are empty its all part of the changing face of main stroet and some people still call it progress who was the goat dear roaming around i read with interest your column published in the tribune issue of feb 1 in which you described in some detail your purchase of an animal at the stouffvilie sales barn im still wondering who was the goat as one who has considerable ex perience in such matters i would like you to know that now is not the best time to invest in such livestock with expectations of making a quick profit could you have kept the goat until next christmas or new years its value would no doubt have increased sincerely emmanuel bisscli markham rr 1 dear mr bisscli hindsight is always a wonderful thing but i still appreciate the advice believe me there was no possible way of keeping billy on ru pert avenue until christmas even one nights lodging was the limit of my wifes endurance and quite likely the neighbors too from outer space any resemblance between the siren on vance ambulance and a modernday flying saucer is purely intentional spring housecleaning saturday nights hockey game was without doubt one of the most thrilling weve seen on television this season my wife went over to the neighbors to watch the third period on their color set to her surprise i decided to have all the supper dishes washed and dried prior to her return with this hought in mind i turned on the taps to fill thei sink with hot water i then returned toj the living room to watch the action ij became so wrapped up in the scoring that i plumb forgot all about the job ft had planned to do not until the water began pouring down ihe hallway did fj suddenly remember on sunday morn- ing we had the cleanest kitchen floors in stouffvilie t saints be praised it happened in a stouffvilie church on sunday morning during the taking of the offering the choir rose and as one voice echoed the first line of psalm no 533 courage brother do not stumble at that point one of the ushy crs tripped and dropped the collection plate on the floor ii