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page 2 the tribune thursday feb 5 1970 an official flag the village of stouffville now has its own official crest and while com ment on its makeup has been some what reserved one can only conclude that silence depicts approval the origin of the stouffville crest dates back to 1967 when a centennial committee of that year introduced the idea and set funds aside to see the project through it became a reality last month while each is entitled to his own opinion we personally like it the de sign embodies two identifiable struc tures the cfcyk tower and the flood control dam the date of incorpora tion is also included with this work now complete we feel a committee of council should be directed to set machinery in motion for the creation of an official village flag in 1977 stouffville will mark its centennial year of incorporation thats only seven years away a flag is one phase of centennial celebrations that should be started well in ad vance a raw deal we have long been admirers of the strict operational routine prac ticed by officials of the ontario muni cipal board rules of procedure are followed to the letter of the law sometimes to the embarrassment of speakers who tend to stray from the subject at hand while this businesslike approach is necessary to accomplish the most work in the least amount of time we feel the omb should adopt an en tirely different approach in the field of public relations we refer in par ticular to the hearing still going on and dealing with uxbridge town ships official plan and zoning by law here the ratepayers of the mu nicipality interested in this allim portant matter are getting a raw deal in the first place to begin sittings at 10 am is in itself a rather in convenient time worse still to shift the hearing from goodwood to whitby created another hardship to add insult to injury the concluding arguments in the case are being heard not in goodwood or even at whitby but in toronto resentment indicated by one resi dent is well described in a letter on page 11 we strongly endorse his re marks a travelling generation one only needs to scan the news columns of the tribune to see that this generation is travelling around the world to a greater extent than any before not only are the yoiing people already world travellers but they are getting a lot of their parents up up and away many thousands in the country and hundreds right within our local area are being in spired to take journeys they would never have dreamed about a few years ago in many cases it is through the example the encouragement and persuasion of one or more of their children we have on our hands a real gener ation of travellers and the students are chief among them europe fairly crawls with them during the summer and the remainder of the summer tourists who stay in the big hotels or take the package tours are in a great many cases the mothers and fathers of the adventuresome young students we have young people in stouff ville who have spent months even years as travellers in the british isles europe and asia we predict that this new decade will see a great deal more of this terrific travel with the students and young people lead ing the way to even more distant and interesting places places now little touched by the regular tourist groups a view from the top of the world for visitors to sky loft su and country club la uxbridge township the i view alone u worth the price of a membership this photo is taken from the 1400 foot level looking east peter harris sugar and spice oh the frustration of working i by bill smiley ive been thinking seriously about giving up my job as a teacher and settling for a lot less money and a lot more peace of mind and im not the only one colleagues right and left are un happy one would like to go into the hotel business an other dreams of buying some rough land on manitou- lin island and raising sheep others who have been teaching a long time are planning to quit soon and take a reduced pension rather than battle it out to the full term they cant face another five years of teaching apathetic lazy and insolent kids another friend who has taught happily for 23 years says he used to look forward to every day of it this year he admits he faces each day with a sort of vague horror still an other is socking every nickel he can spare into investments so that he can get out while he retains his sanity had lunch the other day with a chap who this year after some years of running his own business came into teaching in the technical de partment on his own he worked 10 or 12 hours a day at this lunch period he didnt stop talking for half an hour from the outside he thought teaching was a snap the pay was good and the holidays looked great now hes exhausted at the end of a teaching day though hes done no physical labour he said i never knew there were kids like these perhaps we sound like a bunch of old fogies whc are getting tired most of those ive mentioned are in their 40s not quite in the oldfogey class and theyve enjoyed their teaching for years but another colleague is talking about going to the northwest terri tories another is thinking of taking a job in a stael plant his wife also a teacher wank to get out and do so cial work at less money they are all in their 20s all of us are making quite reason able salaries it would be quite a wrench financially to quit especially for those who have roots in the com munity a mortgage and growing children to educate but the malaise is there and its difficult to put your finger on the trouble our wives are getting wor ried they ask what is wrong spe cifically and its difficult to give an answer that doesnt sound trivial its a host of little things which add up to one word frustration what is the trouble then i think there are two major sources first the pendulum has swung too far from a system that was archaic to one with ned permissivences every one is supposed to do his own thing sad truth is that a majority of teen agers hasnt got a thing to do they want to be entertained not learn theyll sit happily through a movie at school chewing gum but try to get them to talk about it express their ideas relate it to their own lives and they groan with boredom theyre mentally lazy as most teen agers have always been their fav ourite comment on a thoughtprovok ing stimulating movie is stoopid ive never believed in corporal pun ishment either as a disciplinary de terrent or as a spur but im begin ning to wonder i am hurt and alarm ed at the inci easing lack of courtesy the who cares attitude of the kids and the increase in plain dirty talk the language you can hear in a mod ern high school especially among girls would curdle your blood you can imagine the joyous rap ture of my wife to my proposal that i quit like the good little wife she is she said shed go anywhere with me and do anything as long as i was happy she made up a great list of where and how we could save money without the salary but the reaction has set in and in 100 casual little hints she is revealing the utter folly of it all but i was prepared for that and im going to keep her thinking about a shack and a potbellied stove and potatoes and porridge for a while yet itll do her good recently a petition signed by 27 residents in the east end of stouff ville was forwarded to mr ronald m hall supt area 2 york county board of education the parents were requesting that pupils attending grade 7 and 8 classes at the high school be transported both ways by bus the boards reply reads as fol lows dear mrs mclntee and parents i am in receipt of a petition sent to me by you on behalf of a number of cosigners who are parents of grades 7 and 8 pupils who attend the stouff ville district secondary school i have enclosed a copy for you and for each of the persons who signed the petition of the york county board of educations policy statement on the transportation of pupils subsequent to the receipt of your letter mr bruce hunter our area business officer who is responsible for transportation arrangements in area two travelled over to stouff ville and measured the distances from the various residences indicated on your petition to the secondary school his report states i checked the dis tances and the farthest anyone would walk could be 17 miles if they went by harding gate your letter did state that the distance the students walk is on the average of 2 miles to school mr hunter checked the dis tances by the milometer of his car thus according to our measurements the homes concerned are all within the 2 mile limit provided for by the york county board transportation policy for students in grades 7 and 8 you mentioned in your letter that the school system is responsible for your children attending classes at the high school and that there is no choice in the matter you are entirely correct in this matter the york county board of education endorsed a proposal made by this office to more effectively utilize the existing accommodation at the high school and to eliminate the need for portables at orchard park school i feel i should point out to you that the distance from your homes to the high school is almost the same as that- to orchard park public school i can hardly agree then that because the children are attending classes at the secondary school that the distance they have to walk is increased con siderably in your letter you indicate the- children of the west end have bus service in the mornine to orchard park public school at a nominal cost i should point out to you that those childdren who have bus service from the west end of the village of stouff ville to orchard park public school are those children in kindergarten who live beyond of a mile from orchard park school and those pupils in grades 1 to 6 who live beyond 1 mile from this school in addition a small number of pupils have been is sued with temporary bus privilege cards as there was some room on the 1 bus serving this area no one using this service to our knowledge pays anything towards this bus service other than the funds directed to the county board through the municipal tax rate if you or your group are aware of anyone charging children to ride on our buses i would appreciate it if you would bring the matter to my attention in summary then i must indicate to you that according to the policy of the york county board of education your request cannot be granted chil dren who are in grades 7 and 8 are not entitled to transportation until their walking distance to school is beyond the 2 miles stated in board policy should you wish to discuss this matter further i shall be pleased to meet with your or your group r m hall superintendent area two mm wxt wtiiunt established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising publbhed every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 54 main st stouffville ont tel 6402101 single copies 15c subscriptions 500 per year in canada 5750 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 the state vs norman cassimiri by jim thomas norman cassimiri of stouffville is as well versed in the loopholes of the law as most lawyers he should be hes tested the authority of the statutes often enough and with con siderable success too by now his name is familiar to almost anyone certainly it has ab sorbed more than a fair share of printers ink in the last few years to those who do not know him this fiftytwo year old husband and father of three owns and operates the mansion house a kind of sophis ticated title for a threestorev board ing establishment on main street the majority of tenants who re side there are decent lawabiding folks they dont bother norman and norman doesnt bother them but when something new comes acalling trouble seems sure to follow that something new included three young eirls penny caroline and faith the trouble that followed oc curred jan 24 norman found him self facing three separate charges of indecent assault the provincial courtroom at rich mond hill was comfortably filled friday most of the cases were rather routine and dispensed with in short order by judge russell g pearse the police the press and some of the pub lic were loath to leave however they were there to see the show the state vs norman cassimiri its strange in a case of this kind how every observer suddenly becomes an expert on law they will assess in their own shallow minds the guilt or innocence of the accused they will attempt also to second guess the de cision of the judge theres a little bit of perry mason in all of us here is the scene on one side the defendant nattily dressed in a light brown suit white collalr and tie hardly the image of one who had spent five previous days and nights behind bars three rows back in the gallery the plaintiffs giggling carelessly be tween whispers facing the bench the crown at torney a citybred man a bit bored by suggestions of suburban scandal to his left the defendants soli citor attempting to save his client and himself but not doing too well at either and elevated over all the judge determined to eliminate the legal en tanglements meant to impede the progress of justice like a game of chess each makes his move on the first play the charg es are reduced and the accused pleads guilty next the defendant seeks per mission to change his plea a request for adjournment is refused the soli citor threatens to withdraw a recess is granted ten minutes later the case resumes the solicitor apologizes the apology is accepted the defend ant retains his solicitor the case proceeds evidence is presented a conviction is registered there is a plea for leniency the sentence is im posed four months in jail the court room clears but the argument does not erjd there in the corridor on the stairs in the lobby and on the sidewalk the discussion goes on the qcs of make believe are having a field day why all the interest why all the talk the answer is simple the plain tiffs are girls and the public over re acts to situation like this on whose side then would the sym pathy lie if norman cassimiri had clipped a male boarder on the beak the truth is no one would really care but girls uhuh thats different as one police officer put it its quite alright to stare at the show case but dont lay a hand on the mcr- cnandlse 9