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page 2 the tribune thursday mar 6 1969 illliuiluluiiiiuiiiuuillllulllllllljuillluiiuiillulllllutllluiiuuuiillijtlllullilljlluiijuilullliluuuuiiutulllllltlluijiililiiailuiiiii the forgotten laneway the section of roadway north of edward street in front of the high school has posed a problem for years with the worst of the spring breakup still to come its a problem right now with no apparent solu tion in sight the road from the edge of the school property north is in effect no road at all its a kind of private lane although utilized by the pub- he more than any streets in town someone should accept the responsi bility of keeping it passable there are times when red tape le galities of rightful ownership must be bypassed in the interests of those who use the service with respect to this particular service many of its users are stouff- ville taxpayers police efficiency hampered police officers are not being vindic tive when they maintain they must be supported by the courts if they are to do an efficient job they feel that when they apprehend an offend er and prove their case then the court should pass sentence of a mea sure commensurate with the crime such is not always true recently a district motorist was sentenced to seven days in jail for careless driving evidence indicated that he had an open bottle of beer in the car and that when questioned by police the vehicle moved forward narrowly missing the officer the testimony was not disputed in the appeal but the court elected to toss out the jail sentence and instead assessed a 25 fine this we contend is placing a dol lar value on the lives of police officers as well as treating a serious offence all too lightly the constable in question would be less than human if he did not pon der on the appeal courts decision the magistrate too must be some what concerned over the manner in which his judgment was overruled education board on the spot the york county board of educa tion in preparing its initial budget since assuming office jan 1 finds itself in the financial hot seat the cost of its operation will in some instances determine whether municipal taxes remain constant in 1969 or face a sizeable increase this is indeed the situation in stouffville where no increase in vil lageoperated services is contemplat ed the rate at the county level has also been reduced now all eyes are focused on the expense account for education theres no use fooling ourselves the cost of education will be up for stouffville and each of the thir teen other municipalities in york those who suggest that a larger system can provide a more practical service are only whistling in the wind in theory it should work this way in practice it never does cutting flagrant abuses anyone who watches television will note that over the last six months a campaign has been under way by the unemployment insurance com mission to warn people about cheat ing on the fund while in some areas some instan ces are fairly rare there are others where abuses abound particularly those of high relief payments reports out of whitchurch and pickering twps always indicate a high degree of irregularity closer checks are being made on those collecting this money and those who are genuinely unemployed should applaud these efforts the commission believes that it can re cover about 3000000 this year by detecting frauds and abuses one is the temptation to take things easy and not really look for work as long as unemployment insur ance will buy the groceries the oth er is the convenience lapse of memory which results in failure to report some earnings public knowledge that these clos ure checks are being made is one of the best ways to cut down the abuse some will be caught others will be prevented iiiniiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu hibernation to conservation i this is a scene looking north from concession 7 pickering twp across a portion of the claremont conservation area divided by a branch of duffin f creek staff photo i sniiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiinjhiihiiiinihiiinnniiiiiiiininniiiiiiihuihiiiihihiiinihiinminnihhihiihhiiiniiiiihiiiiuimiiiiiiiiiiiiiii do you remember claremont continuation school 1909 this photo should stir a few memories its the total enrollment at the claremont continuation school in the 1 year 1909 the teacher rear row centre is nelson tomlinson the students are rear row i to r mabel cassle i jennie rawson mary barclay edith slack kathleen storry centre row i to r hlllyard bryan magnus morgan g harold dickinson will scott front row i to r cliff pilkey perry slack tom scott ellwood henderson clark i rawson iniiiiiuiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiihi 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i j 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 j 1 1 1 1 1 it 1 1 ii j 1 1 1 it 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 j 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 r 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 j h 1 1 j 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me instead my bursitis is practically neutral the income tax deadline is nearly a whole month away i found the toe rubber thats been missing for a week what more could a man want the muffler hasnt fallen off my car i havent had a toothache for six months i almost made a crucial curl ing shot the other night what more could life offer my son is making his mark in the world of dining rooms some nights he makes as much as 35 and some nights 5 and hes making something else noises vague but au dible about going back to school my daughter came home from school today smiling instead of scowling her mother asked her what she was smiling at as she came in the door pokerfaced things are definitely on the upswing around here now dont get me wrong im no pollyanna i know that though gods in his heaven even on weekends alls wrong with the world i know that there are little black clouds no big ger than the rocky mountains on the horizon there are black panthers and the yellow menace and brown guerrillas and white gorillas and pink eleph ants and blue singers and reds un der a great many beds there are broken homes and brok en marriages and broken garterbelts practically everybody you meet over the age of eight months is either emotionally disturbed or senile we have explosions in the popula tion the stock markets and the fur naces of the nation taxes and insur ance and even the important things like bread and milk keep going up cars are not being as well made as tin cans the nonreturnable bot tle is our biggest threat since the bu bonic plague the maninthemoon has lost his image and mr trudeau is following fast tomorrow there will be a blizzard and fhc day after the muffler and tail pipe will fall off my car my piles will reactivate ill lose both toerub- bers but today i dont care the yellow sun is kissing the white snow and the latter overcome by passion is melting by bill smiley im in such a state of euphoria i think i could even go out and have a whale of a time with a girl called gloria if i knew one jqmtoebihyo dear sir from the early days when quaker gould founded uxbridge and men- nonite stouffer lent his name to your thriving village there has been a healthy rivalry between the two places being an old stouffville boy my husband sandy stewart is constant ly extolling the virtues and advan tages of his own his native village to me an uxbridgeite while malign ing mine each week he looks for ward with eager anticipation to the arrival of the tribune not being quite so interested in the doings of so many total strangers i must con fess to reading the paper with some what less enthusiasm however i must admit to a growing interest in your column roaming around i do not profess to being a literary critic but i do think i recognize a good thing when i see it what is more i come right out and say it i believe in giving credit where credit is due consequently i wish to congratu late the publisher editor and staff of the tribune for its recordbreak ing win of five awards at the ontario weekly newspaper association con vention in ottawa more particularly i wish to congratulate you mr thomas on winning the honor of writing the second best column in all the ontario weeklies i heartily agree with the judges that it is id go so far as to say that it is the best while attending grade 2 in the ux bridge public school i met with a similar accident as you nobody sent me a valentine the teacher cruelly sent me home in shame and embar rassment years later while teach ing in an ungraded school in prince edward county i often had to shovel deep snow to make a path for the pupils to go to the outhouse it was at the end of world war i when no men were available for the job of janitor i had to be teacher janitor woodcutter and general factotem many times in the spring thaws and freshets i had to carry the smaller pupils across the deep ditch over which the older ones jumped to get to the john unlike your stem child hood teacher i lived by the motto when you gotta go you gotta go what price dedication irene stewart 35 hawkridge avenue markham dear sir your article concerning our reeves queens park hearing has created more anxiety in my mind as to whether or not there will be a stouffville after pending regional government legislation is enacted a few weeks ago when first reports of meetings in the southern part of york county were carried in many papers given local exposure our own council went scurrying like mice in a mill to try and organize a brief to present stouffvilles case and perhaps save it as an entity in the new sys tem of government this brief has now been presented and what it appears to be is a flag to stop a moving train with regards to the hearing itself it does appear as if the shades are to remain drawn on this very im portant question as reeve laushway tells us that the discussions were of a private nature i would hope that when discussions on matters as important as our autonomy takes place certainly we can expect more enlightenment than we have so far received i would like to ask reeve laush way or any other member of council if they feel we have submitted this brief on time to be of any conse quence or are they withholding any disclosures because we have no other recourse but to accept the decisions of the department of municipal af fairs in closing i would like to compli ment you on your coverage of cur rent issues in stouffville and the at tention you pay to creating public spirit jack watson stouffville lht srtiune established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel eoey advertising published every thursday by the stouffville tribune limited at sj main st stouftville ont tel 6s02101 single copies 15c subscriptions 500 per year in canada stjio elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mail post office dept ottawa why builders grow gray by jim thomas an addition is on the way at 3s1 rupert avenue now stop right there i know what youre thinking but its not true by that i mean no brother or sister is immediately contemplated for su san barry paul cathy or neil at least none that im aware of our most pressing problem at the moment is how to adequately accom modate the ones weve got for this reason were building two extra bed rooms onto the original house and construction is proceeding right on schedule to infer that we are doing the building is hardly a fair statement of fact the truth is i couldnt hit a sixinch spike with a sledge ham mer let alone tackle anything as com plicated as this im just not cut out for this kind of trade putting the storm windows on in january and taking them off again in july utilizes about all the brain and brawn i can muster while admittedly no specialist with a hammer or saw i dont mind attempting to superintend the job for the most part my suggestions have come about two days too late it means tearing out ripping up or pulling down work that has already been completed according to specifi cations it wouldnt surprise me one bit if all three men take a flying dive into the backyard bird bath before theyre finished i dont really mean to be difficult its just that i have trouble making up my mind my wife if anything is even worse and this doesnt help the situation one bit the initial plan called only for a glassedin car port when it was three quarters com plete we decided to extend the struc ture up another storey l the original addition was to have been one large room now we have two small ones we had expected to heat it with oil now its electric and the wiring weve got more wall plugs than a tv store and fixtures first it was all lamps and no ceiling lights now weve got x both the windows we agreed on two both to be normally small weve still got two but both are abnormally large and so it goes ah through these periods of inde cision the contractors have been most cooperative its just possible theyve experienced this kind of pro blem before we hope so if not it would be safe to suggest that jerry acton al danielis and bert clarkson are counting the hours when the ordeal will all be over in spite of the cost and confusion theres something kind of exciting about building something new even for a non doityourselfer weve dubbed the addition the crows nest and every day the kids draw straws to decide who will occu py the upstairs sanctuary poor old mom and dad arent even included weve been relegated to the lower dormatory to live out lifes few remaining years in peace and se clusion besides climbing those stairs every night could take its toll why rush things theres no denying that splitlevel living has its advantages for instance our builtin observa tion post provides a twoway scan of an entire village block when the scenery becomes a trifle dull to the south i need only to tread ten paces to the north for a view thats entirely new with the springtime season fast approaching the outlook from the lookout should be better than ever and if payment becomes a trifle burdensome this summer i might even install a telescope with all pub lic privileges at twentyfive cents a peep