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ie- 1 the tr1bixe thursday oct 31 1968 wrtbunt i jm move over if you are a motorist on the main street of stouffville when the fire siren sounds move over last week we witnessed two sep arate incidents where drivers re fused to park their vehicles and al low brigade volunteers the right-of- way the delay could have cost some one theirhome or even their life in toronto when a siren sounds be it police fire or ambulance the traffic automatically pulls over to the right slows down and stops but not here everyone continues on his own merry way as if the siren meant noth ing at all on the particular occasion in ques tion one motorist drove at a snails pace from mill to church streets with three firemen behind she then proceeded to pull over and stop in a no parking zone immediately oppo site the tire station anyone who would show so little consideration for the rights of others shouldnt be per mitted to drive a car at all during midday hours particularly on a friday or saturday the down town area can become quite congest ed under normal circumstances this problem bothers no one in an emer gency however a little cooperation can help a lot just remember when the siren sounds move over an important post beginning january 1 1969 the public and high school boards of stouffville will be replaced by a coun ty system with seventeen members representing fourteen municipalities one trusteee will be elected from either stouffville or whitchurch the position particularly in its first year of operation will be an important one to date interest among declared candidates is keen so far four have entered the race all strangely enough from whitchurch the nom ination meeting will be held at the vandorf community hall nov 18 while a candidate from stouffville would create more interest among the electorate here we feel that ones place of residence is not important the assurance we do need is that one man regardless of where he lives is big enough to share the educational interests of both a town and a town ship his task wont be easy to yield is to stop in markham twp northsouth con cession roads are protected by yield signs if we understand the rule cor- rectly this should mean that cars proceeding east and west are required to stop if the rightofway is not clear whatever its meaning in theory in every day practice its not work ing just last week a serious accident occurred at cone 5 and 18th avenue its not the first and it wont be the last yield signs might have served some useful purpose in horse and buggy days but markham twp has progressed far beyond that era rural roads today are too heavily travelled to merit motorists playing a cat and mouse game at the corners if to yield is to stop lets spell it out in large red letters stop theres no room for guess work where human lives are at stake a mistaken idea jack frost usually gets the credit for turning leaves into gold actual ly he has nothing to do with it the fact is a severe frost can ruin the whole picture this fall the display has been particularly fine but there have been no severe frosts the ideal weather to produce a blaze of color consists of warm sun ny days and cool but not frosty nights the process begins in midsummer when the trees begin preparing for winter and producing a corklike sub stance at the juncture of the leaf stem and the twig the cork is de signed to protect the scar that will be left when the leaf falls off as it becomes more and more de veloped the cork chokes off the cir culatory system of the tree and two things happen the green chlorophyll in the leaf is killed and brings out two other pigments which create the yel low and orangeyellow colors at the same time the sun working on sugar trapped by the cork produces a crim son purple and blue coloring sugar and spice october i love you by bill smiley last month i wrote of my annual love affair with september it seemed to hit the spot fan mail doubled from two to four letters i even re ceived a declaration of love from a lady who shall be nameless but october is another matter i think we canadians love it in another way this most glorious month of the year its the month when we wake up come alive feel the blood coursing through our hardening ar teries its a shattering experience for someone from another country to vis it canada in october they are used to a change in the fall their leaves turn pallid browns and yellows but when they see a vista of woods and water on a golden canadian october day they are literally stricken breathless we say pretty aint it an irishman might say in awe dear god himself has dumped a rainbow all but the blue into your woods and the blue he has flung entirely into your water but the vast mad artists palette thrown across the country is only part of the october scene and mood theres a quickening of the spirit that infects everyone fall fairs those stubborn relics of a pioneer day add their special flavor parades and pumpkin pies hot dogs and horse races and the warm yellow wine of a canadian october day are unforget table hunters go into their special trance in this month they crouch in duck blinds they crawl through fences they curse their misses and some times their missuses who cant see the point of it all golfers go goofy in october des perately trying to get in the last few rounds losing balls by the dozens among the fallen leaves and praying for one more good weekend sailing enthusiasts snatch every chance to get out in that perfect weather the month so often provides nice breeze warm sun water so blue it makes your heart leap and so cold it makes your hands ache october is ecstacy for the sport fan world series pro hockey and football at its height he can sit star ing at the machine until he nears senility and has to be spoonfed great month for the student he has got through that muddle of sep tember and can now settle down to the serious business of falling in love falling behind in his work and falling into deep water in that order and then theres the burning of the leaves a ritual which should be on the canadian coat of arms theres a tremendous satisfaction in scoop ing up a bushel of dry leaves piling them on the fire on a dusky october evening and seeing the orange and yellow flames spear skyward searing the telephone wires every year i feel a pang of pity for the apartment dweller with no leaves to burn hes like a kid who never gets a firecracker of his own to set off on the 2ith of may and when does the city dweller ever get the sheer human satisfac tion of seeing a sprightly northwest breeze pick up all the leaves off his lawn and deposit them acurately on the lawn of his neighbor who hates leaves and is always trying to keep his lawn raked and the thrill of the apple crops the soft little fruits of september the peaches and pears that go rotten so quickly are gone and you drive through the orchard country trees drooping with red and you pick a bushel of spies and you bite and the juice spurts right over your shoulder food for the gods provided their teeth are not falsies and theres just enough sadness as october nears its end and days shorten and trees bare and gloomy november puts his clammy nose over your shoulder to heighten all the joys of this most remarkable month and make it something that is dis tinctly canadian and distinctly you this week next dont let oeorge do it by ray argyle after winning the greatest vote in histqrylyndon baines johnson has donewhatwouldhave seemed im possible four years ago he has brought the republican party back from the brink of total collapse his policies have so alienated vast seg ments of american voters that it is doubtful if the country is now on is sues of race war civil rights urban reconstruction and welfare policies there have been many third party candidates in us history but the only one who probably changed the outcome of an election was theodore roosevelt in 1912 roosevelt had been elected as vicepresident to william mckinley in 1900 he became presi dent when mckinley was shot in 1901 and won election in his own right in 1904 the republicans won again in 1908 with william h taft but teddy roosevelt bitterly opposed tafts re- nomination in 1912 by running against taft he made it possible for the democrats to elect woodrow wil son if george wallace wins enough votes tuesday to stop either hubert humphrey or nixon short of a ma jority the house of representatives will have to choose the president this has happened only twice in his tory in 1800 the house chose thomas jefferson over aaron burr in 187g the house and senate jointly chose rutherford hayes although his dem ocratic opponent samuel tilden had beaten him in the popular vote george wallaces strength is tan gible evidence of the backlash against the social upheaval which has set black against white young against old and the middle class against the working class it is the better educated upper middle class which has become the advocate of social change in the us the working class fearful of black rivalry on the job and in the neigh borhood wants society left unchang ed dissent crushed and disturbances put down this cannot be of course and the american voter will either decisively repulse wallaces bid on tuesday or pave the way for an am erican hitler by 1972 if the democratic party is soundly defeated in nexttuesays us pres idential voting it will be because the republicans have been able to create- a new coalition of voters coalition is the key to american politics because no single bloc is big enough to dominate the entire coun try the democratic coalition which won six out of eight elections between 1932 and 1960 was based on the grow ing power of the big cities and the old strength of the democratic sol id south in 1964 a year which for the re publicans was a debacle the demo cratic coalition began to break up with barry goldwater taking a ma jority of the southern states the republican partys traditional strength among small town suburban and upper income voters has been re inforced by richard nixons appeal to a broad crosssection including much of the south and part of the union movement the big and unknown new factor in this election is of course the emer gence of george wallace as a strong third party candidate the question is not whether he can win the elec tion he cant but whether he will hurt the republicans or the dem ocrats the most there are signs that the former governor of alabama will hurt both the major parties about equally wallace will almost surely sweep the south depriving richard nixon of muchneeded electoral votes from several states but he also will eat into the white working class vote which supported presidents johnson kennedy and roosevelt wallace is promoting himself as the working- mans candidate in a strategy which is aimed at draining off the demo cratic partys trade union support throughout the industrial north the vote next tuesday should run higher than 70 million although there are signs hundreds of thous ands of voters may stay home be cause they dont like any of the can didates ifflxt wrtimm established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stouffville tribune limited at 51 main st stourrville ont tel 6102101 single copies 10c subscriptions 400 per year in canada 600 elsewhere member at audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mail post office depu ottawa mm i i protest protests by jim thomas the protest movement in the pro vinces of ontario quebec and else where across canada appears to be becoming an accepted way of life membership in this fraternal organ ization is quite simple just grow a beard grab a sign and start march ing fortunately most folks dont have time for such shenanigans the majority like myself must work for a living and until mr trudeau agrees to airlift some food supplies onto the front porch at 381 rupert ave my personal involvement on behalf of the poor people of biafra will be lim ited to be honest my only relief effort to date was a serious attempt to find the country on the map when this failed i gave up in disgust its quite possible that the pilots of those stranded herculese aircraft are ex periencing the same problem they cant find it either last thursday i was in toronto and while driving south on univer sity avenue i spotted a halfdozen placardcarrying young people parad ing up and down in front of the am erican consulate building i parked the car nearby and spoke to three of the protesters two men and one girl their signs read while we waste biafrans starve i posed the same question to each where is biafra the lone girl replied that it was a breakaway colony in south america one youth said it was in south africa and a third refused to answer i of fered them my sympathy and left as you may have guessed im strongly opposed to protest demon strations of this kind i believe that there are other ways to air ones grievances a little less demonstra tive maybe but just as effffective take for instance the cement abutments in the stouffville civic square ugly looking contraptions arent they in an effort to have them removed i could barge uninvited into the reeves office and drape myself over his desk until some action was approved and what about the intersection at hwy 47 and main east the hazard could be lessened through the erec tion of a larger sign and red flasher light to prove a point i could lay prostrate on the road and force all traffic through adjacent service sta tion lots think of the publicity i would receive particularly if some ir responsible driver refused to take the detour but lets face it our schools are the main protest trouble spots so far stouffville has escaped this prob lem but i cant help but wonder how long it will last unless the imposed demands go be yond all reasonable bounds im wholly on the side of authority if the principal in his judgment feels that a boys hair is too long then he should take a quick trip to the bar bershop if the principal rules that a girls skirt is too short then that same skirt should be lowered refusal to abide by simple rules and regula tions will receive no cooperation from this corner and i hope from parents either fortunately some students still attend school to learn from it and not to run it one of these is ted topping a graduate of sdss and now in his first year at york i asked him if he was interested in becoming involved in the much publicized student pow er movement his reply was immedi ate my academic standing is my only concern he said i hope he speaks for the majority iilliiiiiiiliiliiiiiililiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiililiiiiiliillilliliiiiiiiiiniiliiilillil editors mail llllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll sir i am a truck driver and i read with interest your item in last weeks issue concerning the newspaper highway evangelist i have heard of it but unfortunately have never been able to acquire a copy could you tell me if any are available in the stouffvillemarkhamuxbridge area michael j smithson stouffville rr 2 eds note from what i can learn the tabloid published monthly is available at most truck stops on main highway routes persons wishing to subscribe on a regular basis may write to the canadian office of high way evangelist box 371 rexdale ontario since the subscription rate is not listed i would presume that payment is strictly voluntary