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page 2 the tribune thursday may 7 1970 biased attitude the attempt of john heamen department of waste management for the ontario government to whitewash the dangerous situation at the bremner dump site drew the ire of the capacity crowd of ratepayers who attended the public meeting on the subject in the high school last week and rightly so that any government representative should show such disregard for the welfare of five thousand citizens is unbelievable mr heamen expressed his biased attitude on cbc television shortly before the meeting began he indicated he had been pressured by a handful of industrial firms to keep the dump going he antagonized the huge gathering immediately by suggesting that if the dump was closed several thousand people might be out of work this statement was quickly challenged by reeve laushway who said that these people out of work if such would ever be the case was nothing compared with the poisoning of the municipal water supply for the entire population of stouffville and some of whitchurch township mr heamens parting shot which drew rounds of boos from the audience came when he had the audacity to suggest we were not being good neigh bors by refusing to accept this industrial waste material from toronto his contempt for the danger to our water system is astonishing his clear indication that he was much more concerned with the operation of a few moneymaking industrial plants than the contamination of a public water supply has made him the prime target of the wrath of the local citizens stouffvilles public water system which has been in operation for more than sixty years has been the envy of many ontario municipalities and to have its very existence threatened in such a flagrant manner is certainly a black mark for queens park something more serious a cloud of suspicion hangs over the clerical staff and department heads within the municipal office township of whitchurch the whispering campaign while louder now following the fire friday has been going on for several months since election night to be exact it was at that time that deputyreeve lawrence hennessey blew the whistle on an alleged tax fund shortage within the municipal coffers later it was somewhat reluctantly revealed that the delinquent account was about 900 some insist it is much more it is our opinion that the council of 1969 handled this matter badly and this includes the then deputyreeve who was as much aware of the alleged discrepancy as anyone because mr hennessey chose to break the news when he did after his election defeat few people took him seriously many called it sour grapes as we write this sunday the reeve has called a special meeting for monday morning some statement with regard to the fire is anticipated whatever the result it should be ob vious to all members both past and present that incidents of such major significance cannot be concealed in some back room closet in whitchurch at least the skeletons keep right on rattling too many fouls as a lad of nine or ten we can recall playing softball in the schoolyard at old ss19 markham there was one boy who had a mania for hitting fouls the practice would continue strike after strike until most players out of sheer frustration finally quit then one day in desparation the team held a meeting and drew up a new set of rules johnny didnt like it and protested loud and long without success peace was restored to the diamond and everyone profited by the decision in the township of uxbridge a new set of restrictions on gravel mining passed by council and approved by the ontario municipal board has incurred the wrath of crawford reid president of the aggregate producers association of ontario he claims quote the township is trying to change the rules in the middle of the game leaving operators facing losses of capital in vestment in plants and equipment mr reids complaint will not likely be denied by council the truth of the matter is that like little johnny the majority of gravel firms in uxbridge committed so many fouls a rules change was felt necessary to keep the municipality in tact by mr reids own admission gravel operators did not live up to expectations with regard to rehabilitation of open pit sites why not because as long as they could tear the guts out of the township without fear of bylaw enforcement they did the result of this mass mutilation is plainly visible in a kind of eleventhhour plea for mercy mr reid states that operators are fully prepared to do what is right and reasonable for the protection of citizens affected by such operations to this we reply its too little and too late editors mail to the editor we the students of grade six sum- mitview public school together with mr boadway mrs lewis and mr drolet wish to express our sincerest thanks and appreciation to the people of stouffville for your overwhelming response to our noon buffet april 29 we also wish to give a great deal of credit and our heartfelt thanks to mrs joan davidson who coordinated the luncheon and to the many mothers who gave so generously and willingly of their time special thanks go to mr ken wagg who sliced the meat to the board of stewards of the united church for the use of facilities and to the a and p store for their generous contributions mental health week mental health week may 1 to may 7 is recognized across canada as a time to give extra throught to the suffering and loss of productive capability which result from mental illness yet so much of this can be prevented through ap propriate programs of education social action and early counselling your york county branch of the canadian mental health association has an ambitious program for 1970 and need your support our annual fund raising drive will take place june 1 to june 7 please think about it during the next month and help with whatever you can when our canvasser calls mrs faye ocallaghan secretarytreasurer canadian police week the canadian association of chiefs of police with the endorsement of the government of canada and the at torneysgeneral of the ten provinces has announced the establishment of a wht wtthum established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 54 main st stouffville ont tel 6402101 single copies 15c subscriptions s500 per year in canada 750 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mall registration number 0896 sugar and spice life in the san by bill smiley went for a chest xray today and had quite a reminisce with the doctor who examined me it turned out that he was the secondincommand at a sanatorium where i spent one of the most dreary years of my life hes retired now and does this work as j a parttime thing he told me i wouldnt believe what has happened to the san when i was there it held about 1500 patients it now has 300 average length of stay then was 18 months today it is three months tb wasnt a comparatively simple thing when i was there three people died in three months in one ward i was in because their lungs were so rotten they couldnt breathe two of them were in their 20s the tensions frustrations and monotony of life in a sanatorium have been described often enough it was like being in jail except you couldnt walk around and always hovering in the air canadian police week from may 10 to may 16 in respect to this announcement it is my pleasure to extend an invitation to the public to visit the facilities of their ontario provincial police force during that week our members will be pleased to welcome visitors in the more than 190 ontario provincial police offices throughout the province eric silk commissioner like a couple of vultures were two things surgery and your culture surgery meant hacking out most of your ribs on one side to collapse a lung that was too far gone or removal of the lung if your culture a sputum test broke down within 12weeks you had another three or six months added to your sen tence i was lucky all i had was a shadow on my lung i felt fine i never had a positive result from tests and i couldnt even muster enough sputum for a culture but it still wasnt much fun perhaps i acclimatized better than most id had a year in prison camp not too long before good training for life in the san i had learned that time does pass however snaillike in such cir cumstances but i was dreadfully lonely at first and pretty resentful toward the gods i had been married six weeks when the shadow on the lung was discovered about a week later something else was discovered my wife was pregnant we were about 200 miles apart with no money for train trips to visit this was the worst period how times change nowadays my wife thinks nothing of spending 10 on a long distance call to one of the kids for no particular reason in those days i was on full pension i think it was 55 a month and the government kept back speak your mind are you satisfied with the new system of education under the york county board whether your answer is yes or no all parents will have an opportunity to discuss the pros and cons of the new program when mr arthur starr ad dresses a meeting of the stouffville home and school association wed nesday may 13 at 830 pm in the multi purpose room at orchard park mr starr is the trustee representative for both stouffville and whitchurch he also serves as the boards vicechairman at the conclusion refreshments will be served your attendance is requested mrs m lynde secretary history in glass theres a beautiful stained glass window in the front of the claremont united church it was donated to the congregation by helen netta michell the inscription reads in loving memory of my father and mother wj michell died july 17 1924 mary story died march 20 1932 my two sisters jennett i died oct 24 1947 and m agnes died feb 6 1936 ministers secretary for 10 years a bronze plaque below reads in 1832 wm henry michell came over on the sailing vessel esther which took 12 weeks to reach canada he took up land but was by profession a lawyer and was for a number of years the only lawyer around claremont john michell started a general store south of the village wm henry michell gave claremont its name i am his youngest granddaughter living 1966 helen netta michell 15 of it to help pay for my keep so it was letters one a day theres still a bushel basket of them in the attic full of purple prose what wed call the baby and stuff i feel like an old fool when i read them now and my wife weeps and wonders why i dont write poems and gooey stuff to her nowadays but i shook down into life at the san and as always in retrospect remember mostly the good things and thefunny things i began a writing course and won a prize i wrote scripts for the san radio station i played chess for hours a day with the guy in the next bed and became a tolerable though erratic player most of us were young veterans and we had a certain esprit de corps which meant beating the establishment for example the food was nourishing but lousy like all institution food one chap had a wife who smuggled in bacon and eggs and onions every night about an hour after the nurses had snuggled us down and while the night nurse smoked and drank coffee the action would begin out would come the illicit hot plate and the forbidden frying pan the spryest usually i would whack up a great reeking feed and with one lamp carefully screened wed play poker until 4 am no wonder they had trouble rousing us at five for our morning wash if it was a special occasion maybe a birthday wed chip in and buy a mickey oh yes we had a bootlegger who was also a bookmaker among the patients he was tubercular and also diabetic dying on his feet but he staggered around the wards each day taking bets and orders youd be surprised how far a mickey goes among four tb cases when they havent had anything stronger than milk for a month like most of life it wasnt all bad portraits from the past remember this geyser on main street it occurred in november i960 in front of the stouffville post office when a power shovel snapped a water pipe under 60 pounds of pressure jas thomas mr life can be fun at forty one by jim thomas had a birthday april 9 over the hill read a fateful sign on a comic card but im feeling fine cause life can be fun at fortyone a cake with candles all around could have burned the whole house down ive gained another extra pound but lifes still fun at fortyone a special gift a brand new bike pedalling morning noon and night traffic hazard awkward sight life is fun at fortyone married late at twentynine five arrivals since that time wife says time to draw the line but lifes still fun at fortyone working on past two or three to die in bed thats not for me sleepings a waste cause dont you see lifes too much fun at fortyone house enlarged still what a fix with surprise arrival number six businesspleasure just dont mix to keep life fun at fortyone entertainment strictly from tv late late shows are more for me stay up often till well past three but lifes still fun at fortyone extra rooms funds are laggin car is loaded springs are draggin now shoppin for a station wagon and life is fun at fortyone church on time something new completely fill up one whole pew almost drown out the soloist too life sure is fun at fortyone three in school two to go sure would be an awful blow if number six should join the row cause life is fun at fortyone not a grey hair yet in sight wifes arrived in a single night toilet exploded what a fright lifes sure some fun at fortyone water water everywhere i could only stand and stare soaked clean through my underwear and life is fun at fortyone changing diapers sure am slow safety pins a curse you know pains clean down to my big toe life should be fun at fortyone susan has piano brownies too barry wants to throw a few paul a needle nothing new life is fun at fortyone cathys trike in disrepair neils outside completely bare a patient wife in near despair and life is fun at fortyone it takes a lot of self control to play the part of a fathers role for years can take a heavy toll and some of the fun from fortyone but ill carry on for one year more barring the wolf from the front door hoping the future holds in store the same kind of fun as when fortyone do your part commencing may 10 a mass cleanup campaign has been planned for stouff ville the period has been unofficially authorized as cleanup stouffville j week we feel the project is an excellent one while the program will include dozens of children theres no reason why adults shouldnt pitch in and lend a hand too recently the grade 2 class of orchard park school embarked on a cleanup campaign of its own under the super vision of mrs doreen brown they covered a portion of the stream that flows through town this area that seems to be a favorite depository for refuse produced everything from v broken bottles to car tires throwaways of this kind are a form of pollution and while the problem is a general one the solution can be found only if each individual man woman j boy and girl plays his pari