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pajre t1ik tribixe thunjay nov u 1968 where theres a wil stouffvilles long endured industri al famine has ended the first sizeable firm to establish a site here in many years has already commenced con struction of a factory building near the westend entrance to town while much credit must go to the governments sponsored industrial equalization program the pats on the backs should not begin and end with officials at queens park stouffvilles reeve the clerk members of council and planning board have spent many man hours in search of a solution to the industrial drought since june no less than twentyfive individual enquiries have been thoroughly in vestigated one of these has proved successful some criticism has been voiced over councils hushhush handling of this matter we would suggest that they acted as they were asked to act and we can see no wrong in honoring such a simple request particularly when the end result pays handsome dividends it is far better to announce the news after the spade is in the ground than to build castles in the air on high hopes alone it has been said that with the ar rival of one industry others will fol low with respect to stouffville this may or may not be true only time will tell one thing now is sure the application to qualify for government aid was a major move in the right di rection and the hours of effort to fur ther our own interests have not been in vain police unification a certainty following the recommendations of the ontario police commission be fore representative bodies of the southern six municipalities and county council it is obvious that uni fication of police departments is a certainty the southern six of which stouff ville is a part appear fully in favor of the plan although richmond hill was not represented at the meeting a similar system could easily be estab lished in a central region compris ing whitchurch aurora newmarket and king the same goes for east gwillimbury north gwillimbury georgina and sutton while a county force as such may indeed come to pass we believe the obstacles in its path are too great to overcome in one stride we would suggest that a regional policing pro gram be established first and then when all communication kinks have been ironed out the countywide plan can follow while some municipalities still ap pear hesitant to accept the inevitable the choice will soon not be theirs to make for like in the area of edu cation the government will simply step in establish and enforce its own set of rules doomed to an early death why do so many ratepayers asso ciations die so young the majority are born just prior to an election and fade into oblivion once the ballots are counted the remainder are created in the midst of controversy and pass out of the picture once the problem is set tled few people take such organizations seriously any more and no wonder there are some exceptions the rural ratepayers association in the township of pickering has proved itself a benefit to the residents there the reason for its success rests in the calibre of men- who have com- prisedrits executive solid depend able citizens who have earned the re spect of the electorate it was less than one year ago that a similar association was formed in uxbridge it has been going nowhere but there may yet be hope for its con tinued existence if the new executive acts on the advice of a director ron ald adkin mr adkin has advised that criticism to be effective must be constructive we agree those whose only goal is to grind their own axe usually end up cut ting off their own heads sugar and spice good old skinny wyonch by bill smiley a link with markhams past thir once familiar landmark on the sth concession markham twp at 17th avenue is now obsolete with the removal of the bend in the devils elbow this bridge became a thing of the past staff photo its deer hunting time again and though ive never been known as the deerslayer i have been under attack the worst deer hunter in the whole entire world has come out in print charging that i am the worst deer hunter in the world ill go forsec- ond worst but ill not be slandered like that all i can say is that skinny wy onch has the gout again as ive pointed out before this was the greatest oneline filler ever used in the newspaper business a filler is a little item used to plug a hole they can run up to ten lines but they cant be any shorter than one line when we were desperate for a oneliner to fill a hole on the front pageone time we stuck it in skin ny wyonch has the gout and he did he couldnt even sue us next time we were frantic for a oneliner we inserted skin wyonch has the gout again and he did now probably suffering from gout he has written a scurrilous article in which he beats around every conceiv able bush including the mulberry and i wouldnt be surprised if hed been into the mulberry which would give him the gout trying to suggest that i am a worse deer hunter than he this is not only like the pot calling the kettle black it is like one politi cian claiming that his opponent is a bigger liar than he is skinny now sits in my old editorial chair once occupied by the second worst deer hunter in the world now by the worst in a recent article gout inspired obviously he recalled the time when wed gone hunting to gether as far as it was in his nature he told the truth about me he said i had no sense of direction in the bush well any damn fool can get lost in the bush and thousands do every year that proves nothing he said i didnt know how to chop wood so what i didnt hire on as a wood chopper he said i fell in the lake every time we climbed into the skiff to cross the bight to the island some of those pansies along were afraid to get their feet wet just be cause it was november and he suggested that i put 355 rifile shells in john desjardins 32 rifle thats a lie it was teemy wrights 3030 but its incredible how feeble his memory has become possibly gout- induced about the important things he didnt mention that he never once fired his gun at a moving target he shot at a tree once and very nearly hit it but i actually fired twice at a deer about 40 seconds after he had disappeared into the cedars i think it was a deer it has not seeped back into his con sciousness how i solved the food prob lem we were storm hound for four extra days on a desert island the others eating like hogs wanted to cook that last roast of beef but i was in charge of food rationing when i finally decided to unwrap it it turned out to be five pounds of cheese rather than lecf but nobody starved some of us have foresight some hindsight and hes completely forgotten that trip home from the island after ten days of 40mileanhour wind and snow my wifell kill me was the plaintive whimper i knew it was too late for that i knew mine would boil me in oil but at their urging these manly hunters we took off into the pitch- dark in a snowstorm 12foot waves a leaking boat five deer on the top deck and the electric pump on the bummer they lay in their bunks green and groaning while the old fighter pilot the welldriller and the middleaged guide saved their skins you should have seen me steering through that black snowstorm while john got up on the pee deck no poop deck on this boat to take a look into th nothing and teemy manned the pumps i dont mind him gout oppressed trying to bolster his ego but i resent it when he shows no gratitude for the people who saved his life this week next nixon an iffy president r ray argyle voters obviously didnt believe very strongly in their partys stand on civil rights and integration or else so many millions would not so easily clear many nominally democratic have defected to wallace for the time being therefore the great wave of social change which swept america in the past decade has become a spent force it is highly unlikely that president nixon will follow the kind of repres sive policies which would result in violence and riot at the same time dissidents in the us such as the yippies and the new left and black power advocates will be under no il lusions as to the toughness of the new government in the enforcement of law and order and if it is enforced with justice there could be a period of relative tranquility in american life on vietnam president nixon can be expected to cautiously proceed with the paris peace talks the ques tion now is whether there will be a complete holdup in the talks until january or whether some progress may continue to be made in the last few months of president johnsons administration finally the return of a republican president to the white house is the signal for a general reorganization of the democratic party four years ago the republicans were soundly beaten and it looked as if the us was in for a long era of oneparty government but president johnson was so misdirected by his military advisors that he engaged the country in a foreign adventure which resulted in his own downfall it is to be hoped that mr nixon having seen the military give rotten advice to both john kennedy and lyndon john- son wiil be wise enough to resist their overlysimple solutions to foreign problems richard nixon fell far short of winning a majority of the popular vote and he will have to work with a democratic congress but this does not mean he cannot be an effective president however he could be an unpopular one by us standards because there are normally only two serious candidates for the white house it is unusual when a president is elected with less than 50 percent of the popular vote john f kennedy barely made this mark in 1960 and mr nixon has fal len considerably short by canadian standerds however mr nixon has enough support to govern the country because he cap tured the popular vote by almost pre cisely the margin with which prime minister trudeaus liberals won last junes canadian general election as canadians are used to three parties vying for their votes any party which is able to pick up 45 per cent of the vote is considered as hav ing a prety good mandate in this country it is now evident a week after the us voting that richard nixon won not because of any strong republican following but because gov wallace split the democratic pary vote although wallace deprived nixon of some southern states which the republican might have otherwise won the former alabama governor hurt humphrey decisively in many northern states the wallace vote ap pears to have come mostly at the ex pense of humphrey the outstanding feature of ameri can life during the past year or so has been the terrible divisions which have split the country if it wasnt vietnam it was civil rights and if it wasnt civil rights it was the genera tion gap the election has made one thing wht urtfmne established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published cery thursday by the stouffville tribune limited at 51 main su stouffville ont tel i02i01 single copies 10c subscriptions 5400 per year in canada s600 elsewhere member df audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mail post office dep ottawa mm 1 mwnt model memories by jim thomas how do you date particular inci dents in your life with my wife its the kids oh yes shell say in reply to almost any question that was the day before paul was born or dont you remember cathy was just getting over the chicken pox with me its difficult enough to keep track of the childrens ages let alone con nect their arrival with individual events that may have followed i date particular occurrences with cars i have owned the sum total of 14 in the past 17 years my very first was a 1942 chevrolet a midwar vacuumshift job purchased from cec hendricks and the late charlie ward of maple leaf auto sales the price was 800 since then the list has included four pontiacs three chevs three meteors two fords and one volkswagen the cash outlay has amounted to a somewhat staggering 10850 as a young lad minus matrimonial ties the delivery of a brand spanking new automobile was a heartpounding experience i was the envy of every boy in the country block and utilized each mile of fleeting fame to good ad vantage mind you the car was no mustang caniero or firebird like many of the chaps propel up and down the main street here but i treasured it with comparable pride but as so often happens during ones teen and twenty years new- soon became old and beauty changes to boredom tradeins occurred at a rapid rate every twelve months to be exact and why not with a little money in the bank and few financial responsibilities the cost factor was of no concern how different today for a father of five there are many important points to consider price ranks high on the list such is not the case with my wife at least if it is she wont admit it her values when it comes to cars are strictly senti mental for this reason i postponed the pickup of our new 69 until sat urday it had been parked out at patricks for over a week in addition to a heavy downpour of rain it was a blue afternoon whent backed our faithful 66 from the driveway for the last time the whole family stood at the front door their eyes redrimmed it was like at tending the funeral of a best friend with all respect to its rivals this pontiac was one of the best if not the best t had ever owned it ran just as well at tradein time as it did the day i drove it off the lot three years ago for this reason i hated to see it go for my wife and kids however the car was more than just four wheels and a board as the saying goes much more it had taken us on some of the most enjoyable holi day trips we had ever known it had brought home our most recent bundle of joy from the hospital it had served as both an uncomplaining run about and longdistance traveller and for all that we sometimes failed to treat it with the respect it so richly deserved its exterior was nick ed by flying stones and the upholstery was gooed up with bubble gum but it never once let us down but i have let it down for it sits forlorn and for saken to be picked to pieces by would- be buyers looking for bargains it truly deserves a better fate but one last appeal to the ultimate owner treat it with respect because if you dont for the sake of memories alone ill be forced to unleash one wellaimed boot square on your rum ble seat iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii editors mail iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiii dear editor from the remarks in your column last week i take it that you wont be too terribly hurt if i strike your name from my christmas card list this year you may rest assured that yours wont be the only one while this silly custom will never end i feel it should be curtailed a personal christmas greeting to everyone you meet would make an excellent start it would be a lot less expensive and a good deal more meaningful dont you agree mrs irene mclean eds note i do