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9jt 2 the tribune thursday apt 4 1968 uliiiiiiilflfffiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiitillliiiiiiiiiillllllii11tiiiitilliiiflllluillitltiilltliitiiillltilllltlliiillliiiiiiiiilliiilllliiflliiiliiilllliiiitlllliflliiitlllllliftilllllifilflllliftliutiiittiiiiiiiilltiiiiillllliiliiilllllll iiiiiiiiii uridine this is not in stouffville the weekly newspaper in a well known western ontario town slightly larger than stouffville headed an edi torial this way are we going down hill here the editor goes on to say- that citizens are saying the town does not keep up its general appearance business places are vacant and some are untidy this is definitely not the case in stouffville so far as vacant buildings go the town has always had the name of being underbuilt and only on rare occa sions are there any buildings available stouffvilles business facilities are ex panding rapidly and on a solid foot ing contractors and decorators are kept busy remodelling and generally keeping stores in shipshape the village mall soon to open will add seven new business outlets to the original downtown area and other ex pansions are contemplated in the stouffville plaza accommodation is filling up at a steady pace three new- stores preparing to open within a month all these places are neat and tidy and modern in design and will attract hun dreds of additional shoppers to town spring cleanup and paintup time is almost with us and a number of places are undoubtedly preparing to give store fronts a treatment the western ontario weekly predicts ihat in that town unless some serious moves at renovation and cleanup are made this year the place will be going down hill in a fashion which rates more than a few passing comments citizens in stouffville can be proud of their business community and its con tribution to making this a clean and attractive place to live no times for guessing games f n the issue of november 2 a tribune editorial entitled drug problem is no problem here read in part as follows fortunately there has been no sugges tion that any students at stouffville dist secondary school have become so involved one can only imagine what would happen if one only one was so charged every boy and girl in attend ance would immediately become sus pect and the whole matter would be come exaggerated out of all proportion we sincerely hope that such a thing never happens here but if it does and it could we would suggest that all should not be prejudged for the sins of a foolish few well it has happened here during a panel discussion on drugs at a meeting of the stouffville united church coup les club magistrate david coon jolted his listening audience with the news that ten young people from this com munity had been arrested on drug char ges in yorkville and had appeared in lis court although he declined to name names he said that one individual was still in custody to add more fuel to the fire he said that 90 per cent of all stu dents in metro high schools had experi mented with marijuana and followed through with the suggestion that the ratio here would be 50 per cent we feel that this is a most unfair as sumption to pull figures indescrimin- ately out of the air not based on fact amounts to a guessing game a kind of guesswho contest where everyone loses if magistrate coon is indeed right and we hope that hes not then there is just cause for concern if he is wrong and we hope that he is then we feel that in some way the record should be set straight no one really knows for sure not even mr coon to the benefit of all a businessmens organization has been established in stouftville and from the enthusiasm accorded its inception the future of the association appears promising the executive includes five dedicated men dedicated not only to the suc cess of business ventures in stouffville but to the success of stouffville itself the chairman is bruce gallamore of crest hardware the organization has already scored on two very important points it has created an interest among the mere- chants here as individuals and among the merchants as a whole this is the way it should be it is through this kind of cooperative movement that everyone benefits drafting making war unpopular there are mixed emotions and ideas about the vietnam war right here in stouffville this was evident recently in dissent which cropped up on the hold ing of a tag day for the unfortunate victims of the conflict on both sides no war has been so unpopular for many many years not only in the unit ed states but all over the world the reasons for this unpopularity are quite different in canada than in the united states in the cities towns and country side of canada the horrors and killing of the innocent the overall destruction make up for the large part of the re sentment that is expressed on every hand in the united states there is one bit ter pill which we do not experience this is the fact that the war is being fought by men forced into the service through the draft system britain play ed this world peacekeeping role for some years on a smaller scaie but never with draftees the system has been used in many countries including our own but only when the homeland itself was threatened the states has estab lished a compulsory system whereby it can draft young men to fight anywhere in the world at the simple dictate of the government the government must conscript this huge army and transport it half way round the world to fight this unpopular war in the very early years of the struggle when it was more a police ac tion carried out by american volun teers objections were small in our reading of history we cannot find any place where the draft system was successful unless the defense of the countrv had a clear connection k uberal uadership convention n 1 1 1 1 1 m n i m 1 1 n r i it 1 1 1 u 1 1 1 n i m i 1 1 1 1 1 in t m i 1 1 m i i i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 i i j 1 1 1 1 n i i 1 1 1 1 1 j 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 3 t i i 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 i i m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 n i n i i f i i u u t 1 1 r sugar and spice released from captivity 3y bill smiley had a taste of utter domestic free dom and peace during the recent holi days daughter kim went off to spend a few days with her mum in the city and there i was all alone in the big house for the first time in years nobody to bug me not a soul to tell me it was time to get up or go to bed nobody to tell me to stop doing this or start doing that nobody to natter away while i was trying to read the paper it was a wild delirious feeling only a man who is beleaguered by women most of his waking hours can appreci ate how i felt i just decided to let er rip go the whole hog and let the chips fall where they might first morning i slept right through until 830 i even lay there grinning defiantly and said right out loud i wont get up until i feel like it and there was no argument seven minutes later instead of the usual juice toast and coffee i ripped the cap off a bottle of beer and drank it right there in the living room not the kitchen with my bare feet up on the best chair it gave me a glorious sense of sheer freedom and a headache but i didnt care i read the morn ing paper for 20 minutes straight with out being interrupted unheard of lux ury for the rest of the day i not only threw convention to the wind but flouted every domestic rule that has been pounded into me in 20 years i read a novel instead of marking ex am papers i deliberately let my whis kers grow right through until noon i maliciously dirtied every ashtray in the house i refused to take out the gar bage i got crumbs all over the kitchen floor and just left them there crunch ing happily around in them i didnt even go down to the basement and do the washing 1 read mad magazine i threw a stack of exam papers on the floor and kicked them all over the room i ripped up a couple of bills that came in the mail and i ate whatever and whenever i darned well pleased peanut butter and jam sandwich and frozen oyster soup for lunch with a wine sauce that i never got around to cooking didnt eat until some crazy hour about 1230 at dinner time i did the same just sneered at the big roast of beef cooked for me before the girls left had exactly what i wanted pork and beans and exactly when i felt like it about 6 pm i just let the old dishes pile up any where didnt even put them in the sink in fact i sneered at them a couple of times as i walked through the kit- ed itors mail the stouffville lions club sponsors of the fundraising campaign for crippled children has established a goal of 2000 for this area the ontario objective is 1400000 every little bit helps so mall vour donation this week the deadline date is april 14 did our best dear editor as a student of stouffville i would like to comment on the article you con tributed to the edition of the tribune march 21 concerning the program dis played by the stouffville students march 15 you slated quote we contend that the program should be limited to only music comedy without comedians is not funny many of the adults i spoke to seemed to feel that the show had many amusing jokes and incidents it appears your sense of humor must be stale if you cannot laugh at a joke with out having it acted out you did not appreciate the loud music our aim was to please teenagers as well as adults attending the show there are also many adults i know who are teenagers at heart we tried to bring in talent from all different sourc es we did not want one person to dom inate the program this sentence was also stated quote had the bad numbers been withdrawn entirely the show of i96s would have sold itself for 1969 i feel there were no bad numbers as amateurs i can assure you we tried to do our best thank you evangeline adams chen looking for somebody to talk to that night i carried right on with my orgy of freedom had a brandy and a cigar somebody gave me six months ago when his wife had a baby searched out relentlessly and watched three wes terns on tv including the latelate did i go to bed then not on your life went down and without so much as a byyourleave made myself a big fat roast beef and horseradish sand wich washed it down with four cups of my special coffee the real thing that you can stand a spoon in and when i went to bed it was ex actly when i felt like it with no nag ging it was about 130 as i recall and it was about 430 when that snack wore off and i went to sleep next day wasnt so wild or hilarious quite oh the freedom was still there but so were the dishes and crumbs and ashtrays and exam papers and nobody- else i must admit a small surge of pure rage went through me because nobody had cleaned the place up i didnt just give up though i went right on dirtying dishes and paddling around in my pyjamas and smoking like uesel truck on the third morning the cleaning lady arrived she was a little taken aback when i embraced her heartily and she was even more surprised when i followed her about all morning bab bling away about nothing theres nothing like freedom wives should go away and leave their hus bands alone for a few days once a year it would save a lot of marriages this week next prime minister trudeau with the liberal leadership conven tion moving into its opening hours it is more evident than ever that the choice of the party will be determined by the uncommitted delegates numerous surveys back up what most observers have been saying that pierre trudeau paul martin and paul hellyer are running 123 in firm first ballot commitments but the real test of the frontrunners will come from the votes of the more than half of the 2475 delegates who are not pledged in advance to any one can didate these delegates if they break strong ly toward any one contender could de cide it all on the very first ballot but it probably wont happen that way be cause of the large number nine of serious candidates in the race and after the first ballot anything can happen because most of the com mitted delegates are tied to their candi dates only as long as each are in the race its unlikely that as the losers go down like dominoes theyll be able to do anything more than suggest who their followers might support the liberal leadership convention is thus still a wide open race and the two candidates whom this figures to benefit the most are trudeau and john turner trudeau because he is a latecomer with immense popular support but little organized strength outside of que bec turner because of his youth and the fact that he needs all the time he can get to build up his following those who have the most to lose from an unrehearsed convention are those with their greatest strength in the party machinery long experience loyal cabinet service and past political favors will count for little once the ex citement and emotion of the conven tion grips the delegates this will be especially true if one of the candidates is able to make a really stirring speech and impress the convention the way robert stanficld suddenly swept to the fore at the conservative convention convention politics being what they arc the big loser thus has to be paul martin who is making his last despcr- by ray argyle ate bid for power but risks suffering as ignoble a defeat as overtook john dief- enbaker and what of robert winters gener ally acknowledged to be the other chief contender alongside messrs trudeau martin hellyer and turner he too will benefit from the open ness of the convention and in fact looks more and more like the candidate around whom a lastditch stop tru deau move could develop look then for pierre trudeau to top the first ballot when voting gets under way in ottawa saturday followed by robert winters paul hellyer and john turner dont be surprised if paul mar tin is the disappointment of the con vention shunted back into the ranks of the aisorans and you can forget about mitchell sharp allan maceachen joe greene or eric kierans they wont last beyond two ballots the two chief rivals winters and trudeau reflect differences which run deeper than just their racial back grounds while winters perfectly repre sents the stodgy but reliable anglosax on upp- middle class businessman trudeau appears to offer more than just the expected frenchcanadian savoirfaire which would stamp a well- todo quebec intellectual trudeau by bidding for federal pow er shapes up as the one frenchcana dian who can keep quebec in confed eration but perhaps even more import ant his willingness to innovate and to try bold new policies marks him as a man in tune with the swirling social change around him walter lippmann commented that the most important asset of a natural leader c his ability to get a country on the move toward the solution of its problems this is even more important he noted than the solutions themselves and as john f kennedy did this for the united states at the beginning of the sixties so perhaps can pierre trudeau if the liberals give him the chance do likewise for canada at the end of the sixties the liberals owe it to the country to give him that chance whit wrihum established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertisinr published every thursday by the stouftville tribune limited at 51 main st stouftville ont tel io2101 single copies 10c subscriptions 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 mail post office dcpt ottawa the good old days t in the whirl of our workaday world every an deserves a break i care not whether hes a minister a butcher a 5 baker or a newspaper editor there comes a time when he hs a just right to pack it all in and get away for a while some of the more fortunate souls enjoy this privilege one and even two days every week a minority group that includes myself must keep the prover- bial nose to the grindstone from mon- day through sunday plus nights labor laws as strict as they may seem have yet to establish any controls over oc- currences of news events for instance h mrs mcgillicuddy could get straddled the back yard picket fence at any min- ute of any hour of any day brother let s me tell you a spot newshound doesnt j snap that kind of picture with his head buried under the blankets when then do i and mr underwood part company you ask usually on a saturday afternoon around four o- clock i take a stroll down main street and drop into shine davis tobacco shop it is at this very location that the history of stouffville has been told and retold a thousand times few folks know more or can tell it better than shine davis himself it was just last saturday that i stop ped in for a chat i was immediately made welcome and ushered into the back room conference quarters my host seated himself down tailorstyle on a nearby stool and began to recall the good old days yep he said times have sure changed since i was a boy around here do you know that ill be 79 on april 9 why thats the same date as mine i answered i knew we had something in common yep times have sure changed he continued i remember it was just this time of year we could hardly wait to get our boots off and go barefoot and george storey we grew as kids to gether wed often go fishin out to ringwood or down to dicksons hill in the summer a bunch of us used to dam up the creek in the park and go swimmin young couples didnt need cars to get around theyd walk up and down the street together or go skatin hed take her home shed give him a lunch and that was that dr walt sang- ster had the first car i couldnt tell you what breed it was it would go put- puttin along the horses were scared stiff and the older folks didnt know quite what to make of it jonas boyer he ran a mill on the mantle farm he was also one of the first to own a car and dr ira freeh hed take a trip to florida and then theyd hold a meeting in the church and hed tell the folks all about it to go to florida was somcthin wonderful in those days now they get on a plane and are there in a few hours and taxes in 1921 they were 3300 on my place last year they were 37800 this year theyll be close to 40000 you wonder where its all going to end i re member when john monkhouse would put cuffs on a pair of pants for 15c and you could buy a tailormade suit for 10 theyd make a suit in two days john monkhouse would make the pants and vest christie armstrong would make the coat why you could buy three plugs of chewin tobacco for a quarter and a good sized rooster for christmas dinner cost only 25c i was overseas in 1917 and i received a letter from my dad he said hed taken a job working on the summitview school at 150 per day they get up to 450 per hour now it makes one wonder how folks ever raised a family on those wages but everybody seemed to be just as happy and just as healthy of course we ate oatmeal potatoes and turnips now they cater to the kids too much and we had a few characters around in those days harry perry the town constable was one of them he used to use a pair of spy glasses to get the numbers of speeding cars i dont think he ever caught anybody and then there was a i pryne he used to sweep the streets and along with wilfred nighs- wander would ring the bell i can re member one day someone stopped a i and asked him the name of this one- horse town a i told him that if he had his job hed know that the town had more than just one horse and then there was cuffy johnson a bunch of the guys got together and built him a house down in the park casper stover organized the bee building bylaws there wasnt such a thing you could build anything you wanted where you wanted i remember the old bucket bri gade the firemen used to keep their utensils in a little house next to the powder puff beauty parlorlaterthey got a rig that they pulled by hand yep i remember the night daleys hall burned down i didnt know about it til the next morning levi hoover had an implement office in it and george sanders a boot and shoe repair over in reg buttons house there was a weigh scales t j dougall had it he was also a town constable he used to keep bees in the back and the old cor- duroy road it was awful in spots yep those were the good old days but i suppose twentyfive years from now folks will look back to now and say the same thing but just think three plugs of tobacco for 25c and a whole rooster for a quarter yes twentyfive years from now folks will surely look back and think of the present as the good old days of the past they will also remember a backroom tailor who was never that busy that he couldnt take the time to talk awhile happy birthday from all of us to vou