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thursday feb 5 1970 the tribune page 11 editors mail the john deere com pany had anexceilent dis play at the farm machin ery show on the exhibi tion grounds toronto in attendance was branch dealer keith hutchinson left of stouffville chat ting here with george kovacs of hamilton gen eral sales manager peter harris oxbridge cold shouldered by 0mb dear sir justice should be brought to every mans door is the old principle on which englands coun ty courts and our district courts were founded but it is not a principle of jus tice that is given much regard by the ontario municipal board to judge from the fact that the re cent hearings relating to the gravel mining opera tions in the township of uxbridge were not held where they could easily be attended by the people whose property values and quality of living were at stake at a preliminary hear ing at the township hall in goodwood in the fall the chairman ruled that the facilities were inade quate and that the main hearing would be trans ferred out of the town ship to whitby the chief reasons reported were tnat there were no flush toilets nor a private room for conferences between board members during re cesses this decision caus ed a wave of affront and resentment to spread across the township as one of my neighbours put it they made us out to look like a bunch of hicks meeting in a barn two weeks ago i went to my first meeting at the hall expecting from the publicity to find some thing rather squalid but i found a pleasant room- able to seat at least 100 warm clean well lighted panelled with light wood tt has the natural dignity of a place that plays an important part in the life of the community and is respected and cared for by those who use it half a block away are the town ship offices where run ning water and private of fices could have been used by the omb members and ocs from toronto in transferring the hear ings away from the people affected the omb made it impracticable for most ratepayers to attend any part of the hearings and i deprived the township supporters of their right to the psychological ad vantage of playing on home ice gravel is a necessity and no one in the town ship can reasonably ex pect or wish the mining operations to be shut down the point at issue is whether the people of the township are to be al lowed to have any voice in regulating the how when and where of the operations township council passed a bylaw to secure such a right but it was challenged in the supreme court by the gravel industry represent ed by a huge array of legal talent and the by law was quashed now council are asking the omb to approve an official plan and zoning restrictions as another at tempt to establish some right of regulation over an industry that impinges on just about every man woman and child in the area every working day the strip mining is in flicting huge scars on one backed by research at master feeds farm master feeds stouffville 6401892 of the loveliest parts of ontario the dagmar hills are about three times as high above the lake level as hamilton mountain also there are many little used pits that seem to be started for commercial policy reasons rather than for the immediate removal of aggregate these are slow growing pock marks on the landscape that in some instances would need more than 100 years to work out at the present rate of extraction in addition the indus trys trucking operations are objectionable the noise dust and road wear are perhaps unavoidable but the overloading that leads to gravel being shot from the top of the pile at speeds up to 60 mph is inexcusable although i have been a resident here for only 16 months i have had glass broken on four separate occasions in ad dition to several showers of gravel that inflicted body damage but missed the glass the last salvo although it hit at an obli que angle was heavy enough to break both side vent and side window it can be imagined what this shrapnel might have done if it had caught a group of children waiting for the school bus on monday jan 19th the omb hearings opened in the majestic surround ings of the whitby court house uxbridge town ship was represented by one lawyer the gravel in terests by 15 evidence was completed by jan 23 leaving only the allimpor tant arguments by coun sel for the various parties friday jan 30 was set for this windup and crownig blow for town ship supporters the hearings were transferred to the omb building jitf toronto since most of the lawyers come from toronto while witnesses called by counsel were on the stand the conduct of the hoarings was impartial and thorough and must have impressed ati citi zen observers with its fairness but the handl ing of individual ratepay ers not represented by counsel was less happy when the proceedings opened a plea was made that the members of the ratepayers association that had been able to attend about half a doz en should be allowed to make individual state ments if they wished so that they could then re turn to their jobs this was refused and it was friday afternoon before the ratepayers who had stuck out at some pre judice to their employ ment were able to speak some must have wished that they hadnt bothered to wait on the stand some of the ratepayers were in terrupted more than once by the board chairman querying the relevance of what he thought the wit ness was going to say in evitably under this sort of pressure the ratepayers farmers office workers etc became confused and left unsaid some of the things they had waited through the week to say the board debated at some length before allow ing an engineer who had been on the stand previ ously as an expert witness to go on again in his ca pacity as a ratepayer the final ratepayer to speak was the reeve a second generation resi dent and owner of a very large property mostly for est he started to give some general background on the wav the gravel in dustry had developed in the township when he was cut short by the chairman saying that the board wasnt interested in his tory and that only evi dence relative to the cur rent application could be given the reeve didnt appear to want to go fur- ther after this no doubt the board was legally justified in apply ing these stringest stand ards to ratepayers who wanted to express a point of view but to see their chief elected representa tive cut down on a tech nicality and prevented from giving his views in getting together with a commerce manager just earned david c ramsay 38802 want to get together hero are some examples of the high interest commerce term deposits can earn you over certain periods commerce term deposits are just one of the high interest no risk ways we can put your money to work theyre cashable anytime at your commerce branch the commerce pays 7 on term deposits when the amount is 1000 or more and it is for a fixed period of time greater than two years your manager has other investment opportunities too drop in and see him amount 1 month 6 months 1 year 2 years 1day 5 years 1000 s542 3250 7000 15521 38750 2500 1354 8125 17500 38802 96875 5000 2973 17644 35000 77605 193750 10000 5945 35288 70000 155212 387500 commerce term deposits a better way to make money canadian imperial i bank of commerce west end barbershop hours mondav closed all day tues 8 am till 7 pm thurs and fri s am till 9 pm wed and sat s aum till 6 pan len david and bill keeping 3 registered hair stylists s 153 main st v stouffville ft iiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiuuiuiiuiimuuiiitiiituiiutiiiiiuiuuiiiiiiiutiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiu you are cordially invited to attend 1 the 35th annual meeting of j the childrens aid society of the county of york to be held wednesday march 4 1970 at 8 pm st marys anglican church hall 104 yonge st south richmond hill ontario guest speaker miss helen allen author of todays child the telegram ajmiiwuiiiiiiiiiiiiiihhiitw his own way was a ham mer blow to those resi dents who cling to the be lief that the municipality and the individual have some importance in the democratic system the omb will come up with a just ruling no doubt but there is con siderable doubt that it will be accepted as just by all the affronted people in this area it will be a ruling handed down from an eminence in toronto it would be understood and accepted much better if the people had seen it worked out on the one- level floor of uxbridge townships hall in good wood it seems remarkable that an imageconscious provincial government can permit an arm of gov ernment to antagonize a whole community by put ting the convenience of toronto lawyers above a basic principle of justice john e ricketts rr 4 uxbridge 3vehicle crash damage was estimated at 2000 in a threecar collision jan 30 on hwy ll at richvale the driver of the third auto involved was robert freeman 29 of rr4 stouffville look buddy i dont care if tt is a new idea spreader you cant bring it in here altona feed supplies co ltd 6401621 afte day you get more for your money best buyi save 14cl aunt jemima pancake syrup 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