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pmgez the tribune thursday oct 24 1968 call it a draw many attended to see a fight oth ers were present to hear the facts the predicted fight failed to develop and the facts as presented only com pounded the confusion that has cloud ed the issue from the start deputyreeve lawrence hennessey dismissed from the whitchurch in dustrial commission for alleged con flict of interests called his own pub lic meeting to tell his own side of the story from audience reaction it was apparent that mr hennessey had proved his point but if mr hennesseys conduct was right then councils action was wrong who is to say it hardly seems feasible that four members would vote in favor of mr hennesseys dismissal without first giving the matter serious considera tion by the same token its hardly likely that the deputyreeve would be will ing to face his executioners unless he felt his reputation had been un justly maligned at the meeting thursday no other council representative was present kim rodgers an industrial commis sioner was in attendance but chose not to be drawn into the controversy questions from the floor were fruit less because the deputyreeve in ans wering them was only repeating what he had already said before where should the matter go from here nowhere mr hennessey is not requesting reinstatement so the is sue should now be declared dead let both sides call it a draw and concen trate on more important business fast mail delivery the change in firstclass mail rate takes place next weekend and the op position will be slight its another of those cases where the price goes up though the service remains the same the new rate will be six cents matching the us rate in britain the equivalent service costs four cents chief among the reasons cited for the increase is the big deficit occur ring in the department much greater deficits in the cbc department are never mentioned during our recent stay in britain we watched the introduction of a new faster than firstclass service it cost a penny more but was quite remarkable the service is so good that an experiment by a london businessman showed it required only three hours for a letter to pass from his office through the post office and be delivered back to his office even at the new higher rates in canada our system will not be able to match such speed on top of all this speed our english friends can show that second- and third class mail can pay the united states postal couriers cant even attempt to match their english counterparts to make mat ters worse the deficits in the depart ment in both the united states and canada are threatening saturday de livery we note however that the postmaster general is hesitant to de clare such curtailment in rural areas sugar and spice an apology from smiley by bill smiley right man for the job prime minister trudeau couldnt have done better than to appoint de feated conservative candidate mich ael starr to the toronto citizenship court it shows that the prime min ister is not against stepping over party lines to get the right man in the right post michael starr has been a member of the house of commons for 16 years and a cabinet minister for six he was defeated in a close race on june 25 but the new prime minister was quick to recognize a worthy po litical foe regardless of politics this is a good appointment mr starr is the son of naturalized canadians from the ukraine and he has known from his boyhood the problems of new cana dians a shady lane in uxbridge township there is no more scenic drive in the fall season of the year than on the rural roads leading to chalk lake in uxbridge township such a shady lane immediately west of the resort centre is pictured here staff photo every so often i get myself into such a bind that a razor and a tub of hot water seem the only honorable way out the sole reason i am still with you is that either my wife had just ruined my last blade shaving her legs or everybody in the house has just had a bath and theres no hot water left im in one of these now bind that is not bath first of all the slovaks are after me in a recent column about the czechs- 1 used not inad vertantly the phrase those lousy slovaks six of my 12 slovakian readers took exception reading it out of con text as people always do when they want to take exception rt less a person than louis gorek secretary of the slovak benefit so ciety read my article by chanes bychancemy foot it wasobviously sent to him by some lousy czech he wrote a letter to the editor which ends with the intriguing expression whoever is going to seed a hate will find himself in a hatred another letter to the editor signed by six slovak veterans suggested that i was not only ignorant but a member of some nazi sic organi- zationwell id rather be lousy than both ignorant and a nazi i am ig norant was lousy when i was a pow and have not been nor ever expect to be a nazi curiously this letter too contains the expression if you are going to seed a hate you will find yourself in a hatred collusion what well good slovaks and your ladies i apologize if our educational system was any good youd have known what i meant the original said here you are a good honest bohemian czech after world war i you are thrown in with those lousy slovaks and told you are now a czecho-slovak- ian lets change that make it read here you are a good honest slovak after world war i you are thrown in with those lousy bohemians and told you are now a czechoslovakian and thats about what they think of each other divide and conquer i always say but now ill have the czechs after me the next balkan war may be fought right here in can ada with yours truly slap in the middle the only way out that i can see is to buy two tickets to the next ball sponsored by the slovak benefit society but even the vision of slavering slovaks and choking czechs seeking my blood doesnt bother me nearly as much as the next ordeal in my current bind id rather face 100 of them barehanded than go through with it i have to make a speech to the womens institute i would rather walk barefoot over a glowing bed of red hot gogo girls than make the speech however its my own fault their secretary wrote me last june asking me to speak i ignored the let ter hoping it would go away qr that id die then came the mail strike thought i was safe not so early september nhe wrote again sharply reminding me still i stalled but no use it wasnt my sense of honor that made me ac cept it was the fact that the secre tarys daughter was in my home form every day she sat and looked at me with huge reproachful eyes finally i broke and blurted all right marsha all right tell your mom ill do it she beamed her teach hadnt let her down what in the holy old redeyed world does one say to a group of firstclass women who have already heard a speaker on every possible topic well i have my opening paragraph ready it goes like this the womens institute should be wiped out with fire and sword if necessary speaking as a man i would like to see every branch smash ed all records put to the flames and any executive members who might be caught sent to canadas tundra to spend the rest of their lives making motions and resolutions and phony eskimo carvings and not asking people to speak to them on second thought maybe id bet ter take on the entire czechoslovak population of canada and get it over with quickly this week next levesque gets the power there is a new political party in quebec it is made up of one part separatism one part socialism and one part optimism the new parti quebecois quebeck- ers party was launched last week and may get its first test at the polls in byelections later this year for all that most quebeckers ap pear still to believe in confederation the party is going to appeal to a lot of french canadian voters and much of the appeal is going to have very little to do with separatism the leader of the party rene le vesque is well known all across can ada his lean good looks high fore head and thinning hair make him look something like a monk or a ma tinee idol a professor or a revolu tionary levesque comes from the same background and is about the same age 46 as pierre trudeau before entering quebec politics under jean lesage and the liberals levesque was a popular tv commentator and a leader in the assault on the estab lishment of the old duplessis dicta torship levesque became minister of re sources in the quebec government and was largely responsible for the nationalization of quebec hydro but he was unable to force his own par ticular brand of leftwing separatism on the liberals and quit the party in 1967 the parti quebecois came into be ing last week as a merger of le- vesques own sovereignty movement and the splinter social credit group railliement nationale this is a pe culiar marriage the rn was a right- wing group which gathered around former social credit mp gilles gre- goire it broke away from roaul caouette because of his antisepara tist stand and it is mainly a rural or small town group while levesques main support is found among the french canadian intellectuals of the cities and universities however the by ray argyle rn did get seven percent of the vote in the last quebec provincial election it is rene levesques hope that the new quebec premier jean ber- trand is not anxious to call an elec tion the parti quebecois needs time to organize much of its effort will be spent on tv where levesque is an expert and it would prefer to wait until 1970 when the next election is scheduled on the other hand if there are signs that the parti quebecois is suddenly catching fire it is likely bertrand will throw caution to the winds and hurry into a vote hoping to catch levesque off base before he is fully organized if bertrand does this however he may be playing into the hands of the quebec liberals who think their chances are greatly improved by the death of the union nationales daniel johnson it is levesques idea that quebec should come right out and declare its independence then it would negoti ate with ottawa ilia main goal after setting up a frenchspeaking republic of quebec would be to gain an economic and cus toms union with canada this would supposedly shelter quebec from the economic reverses which would other wise follow the parti quebecois platform avoids the extremism of french can adian nationalist movements of the past english language schools would he tolerated but immigrants would have to send their children to french schools french would be the lang uage of business the courts and po litical bodies foreign firms would have to hire a majority of their ex ecutives from quebec thered be universal medicare and unions would be guaranteed the closed shop rene levesque once said that can adians would be too civilized to re sist quebec independence he will now try to convince his fellow que beckers that they can enjoy independ ence without paying the price of an economic freezeout by canada wht wrxktxm established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stouflville tribune limited at 5j main st stoufjvllle ont tel 6102101 single copies 10c subscriptions 400 per year in canada 600 elsewhere member jf audit bureau ot circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mail post office dept ottawa bosum capital or bust by jim thomas the village of stouffville sad to say is not really noted for anything oh i know we have some fine homes schools and churches an excellent park the civic square and dozens of other different features but nothing really outstanding to set us apart from countless communities of sim ilar size across canada and it both ers me id like stouffville to have some distinguishing characteristic that would actually put us on the map personally im becoming a wee bit weary of introductory replies that go something like this oh yes stouffville or is it stuff- ville thats out there somewhere northeast of toronto isnt it or sure i know the place we pass through it every friday all summer on the way to the cottage or stouff ville you say tell me what ever happened to all those goldfish you used to hatch out there how id love to have some quick comeback on the tip of my tongue like weve got the biggest this or the tallest something else by george what was that that just bounced by was it really real and more of the same its our answer to wall street with the approval of council two illuminated billboards could be er ected at either end of town the ap propriate inscription could read welcome to stouffville the bosum capital of canada or stouff ville where things are bustin out all over one for the road while my mechanical knowledge of trucks and what makes them tick is next to nil i still possess a keen interest in the trucking industry and the drivers that manipulate the big rigs across canada and the united states the mania has also rubbed off on my two boys they can spot a ford or a mack a mile away and the sight of a smoke belching diesel sends them into nearhysterics on holiday trips on hwy 401 or the queen elizabeth they never have time to grow roadweary there are just too many trucks to keep track of and- the identification game never ends it was late friday night and 1 had just left the city of guelph after at tending the international plowmens banquet driving conditions were not good it was wet and foggy heading south on hwy no 6 1 spotted a small restaurant with a halfdozen large truck and trailer units parked along side i decided to go in for a coffee in hopes that the rain might let up a little the place was crowded but one customer seated alone motioned for me to share the booth with him i accepted he must have weighed close to 300 pounds a mountain of a man he had in his hands a small news paper and was so engrossed in his reading that it didnt appear approp riate to enter into any kind of conver sation i was curious concerning the content of the pamphlet but didnt dare to ask after about five minutes of complete silence he looked up best little newspaper going he said i never miss a copy i fully ex pected it to be some pornographic periodical that are a dime a dozen on news stands today it was quite the opposite it was called highway evan gelist an 8page religious document with pictures and stories about trucks and truck drivers this one item caught my eye en titled ten commandments 1 thou shalt hold nothing but thy steering wheel 2 thou shalt not make unto thee a god of thy horsepower 3 thou shalt not take the centre lane in vain i remember the driver behind to let him pass thee 5 honor thy father and mother and thine other passengers 6 thou shalt not kill any pedes trian 7 thou shalt not commit drunken driving 8 thou shalt not steal thy neigh bors eyes with thy headlights nor his ear with thy horn nor his enjoy ment with thy litter 9 thou shalt not covet thy nei ghbors rightofway 10 thou shalt not bear false wit ness with thy signals its sound advice for car drivers too