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page 2 the tribune thursday august 6 1970 siife wit wnbum established 1888 wna 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 5750 elsewhere member ol audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 editorial slow to action after months of protest scores of meetings and almost a public uprising the ontario government closed the infamous whitchurch dump to industrial waste since it posed a potential threat to stouff- villes municipal water supply those who are battling to stop the scourge of gravel pit blight on the landscape of nearby townships have not been quite so fortunate while the municipalities at the outset were slow themselves to do something about this ravaging of the coun tryside the mines department did little or nothing to help them they refused even to testify in support of the townships once the pit operators were brought before a hearing then the government embarked on the same old route it established a committee which was anything but representative and certainly not impartial a freezing order is now in affect to be reconsidered by the ontario municipal board at vandorf in whitchurch august 24 a similar hearing will follow in uxbridge later this year it is to be hopedand ex pected that present restrictions will be continued as with the bremner dump whitchurch and uxbridge have been given the runaround on the gravel issue and public confidence in the government has again been severely shaken immediate and permanent legislation is required let it be the first piece of business on the queens park agenda this fall speak and theyll listen for members of markham township planning board to suggest they have no say in the question of rerouting don mills road around the hamlet of victoria square is pure folly a strong stand by the board and township council in favor of a by pass would carry considerable weight at the county level if the two bodies were so agreed we dont think they are and were not so sure the majority of community residents are either road routes in our opinion are a part of planning therefore the planning board should take a definite standfor the bypass or against it to sidestep the issue because don mills comes under county jurisdiction is merely a way of passing the buck while no engineer it is obvious that a community bypass would be costly certainly far in excess of widening the present route would it therefore be practical this is a point the residents themselves must prove we would agree with councillor jim jongeneel that a meeting be called in the victoria square hall to discuss the issue in full if the people speak with one mind the township will listenand the county too editors jaiy dear mr thomas i have just read the july 30th 1970 edition of your newspaper and felt compelled to write this letter your front page article runaway boat scatters bathers at cedar beach is just another in what seems an en dless series of quotes from the soothsayer of musselmans lake the resort operator vern davies to quote your article how much longer must we wait someone could have been killed could mr davies tell me exactly how many people have been killed by motor boats on musselmans lake as compared to the number of people that have drowned on his over crowded weekend beach the boat eyewitnesses said came in from the west catching thousands of swimmers by complete surprise thousands of swim mers you mr thomas probably know better than i that the city of toroato does not consider its swimming pools safe unless they have at lease one lifeguard on duty for every 2530 people in the pool say its as high as 50 could you tell me how many lifeguards were on duty at cedar beach for these thousands of swimmers another point mr davies with his trailer and camp sites has caused a considerable population explosion on musselmans lake now these campers some not all bring along power boats with them and have thereby increased the boat traffic on the lake considerably if mr davies is so interested in safety and not just interested in increasing his rowboat and canoe rental con cession as i suspect why doesnt he include in his campsite rental agreement that no camper shall launch a power boat on the lake of course this might affect his business as people may object to this as an infringement on their civil rights however mr davies seems to think nothing of infringing on the boating cottagers civil rights with his ap peal to council to prohibit the use of all motor boats on the lake it would seem feasible to me that you would not need a total ban but by limiting the number of boats launched on the lake on weekends the amount of boat traffic could be effectively controlled without infringing on the civil liberties of the taxpaying cottager getting back to your paper i must say that in the past i have enjoyed your paper immensely because of its nonpartisan downtoearth type of reporting lately however your articles especially on musselmans lake have become very slanted- with the slant pointing straight to cedar beach your special edition on musselmans lake was nothing but a covertocover advertisement for vern davies and cedar beach so much so that it would lead one to suspect that either vern davies is the reporter or you your reporter and mr davies sleep in the same bed i was under the impression that there were two major beaches on musselmans lake cedar beach and glendale beach but to read your paper of late one would almost think glendale beach had slipped into the sea whats wrong is glendale such a safe beach that nothing ever happens there is stu patrick deaf and dumb so that he cannot be interviewed and give his views on various matters affecting this lake in short i think its about time your paper got back to un biased reporting and maybe instead of tripping over the great gurus heels vern davies looking for a story you might try a new approach and get a diversity of opinions on various matters rs wigmore cottager on evans drive musselmans lake editors note for the writers information the tribune is publishing two lake specials this summer the second on august 13 it was the editors decision to divide news coverage between the two a gusher it happened during a fastball game at victoria square thursday a 200 pound st bernard taking a betweeninning stroll sought instant relief against the wire mesh of the backstop screen catching che umpire by complete surprise and drenching his right foot what are you trying to do questioned the official shaking his leg in the air turn home plate into a swamp sugar and spice the smileys in action by bill smiley what a day to write a light breezy column the rain is coming down so hard and steadily for the third day in a row that even the birds are walking the cat had made a mess on the floor when i came down threw her out into the rain and saw my garbage can on its side the contents spewed all over the lawn coons oh well the sun will shine again the cat will make a mess again and the coons will pry off the gar bage can lid again god is presumably in his heaven and alls wrong with the world but its the only one we have it hasnt been all bad this week tuesday a good soak in the sun at the beach and a brisk 12yard swim wednesday a game of golf with the only person i know who can turn me from a jovial duffer into a thin- areascedar beach in the first issue and glendale in the second in this way sufficient space can be set aside to do justice to both lipped emotional hacker my wife same old pattern i try to give her a few tips she gets sore and tells me to shut up and try to hit a decent ball myself third time she tells me i get sore and the rest of the game is played in grim and stony silence with only the odd sneer to break the ice its the same as the way we play bridge together by thursday we were speaking again and that night went to an exhibition of modern art the artist is a former student of mine now i know what he was doing while we were studying king lear he was doodling powerful doodling to judge from his work gilbert gignac son of a very proud car penter and some day a famous canadian painter the exhibition was in the house of another talented young artist hugh niblock delightful evening punchbowl coffee and lots of talk the smileys as usual were the last to leave except for a draftdodger and his very pregnant wife they make pottery in a nearby village he loves canada nice young chap quiet gentle honest we made it to the car about 3 am me lugging a large painting and the old girl a big chunk of sculpture on trial got home and while i was putting the car away the police called asked my wife if our car had been stolen slightly baf fled she replied that wed just driven home in it cop asked her to check and make sure she was about to give him an argument when i arrived and told him no seems theyd seen it parked had been keeping an eye on it and we had slipped off with it when the patrol car was going around the block bizarre incident congratulated police on their efficiency and so to bed friday fair and fine good show as wed been invited yachting fair breeze good skipper hot sun blue sky hot chowder cold drinks and congenial company it wouldnt be hard to get hooked on sailing its virtually voluptuous spanking along at about six knots sails taut and none of the stink and noise of a motorboat it was like gliding into another world out among the green silent islands seeing it all as etienne brule or sam champlain might have over 300 years ago the only nautical terms im sure of are the suns over the yar- darm and time to splice the mainbrace but i would surely admire to have a boat like that you should have seen that poor girl scrambling around luffing the jib and raising the mainsail and struggling with the anchor her knees were red raw from kneeling on the deck while she hauled away at something or other we slid into a cove as silent and secret as it was 500 years ago then came the storm thunder lightning bathtubs of rain very pleasant to be a landlubber sit in the cabin drinking coffee and watch through the hatch skipper and wife in oilskins hoisting anchor and getting under way fine trip home 40 miles of sailing behind and only three people scared out of six daughter kim home saturday sick of squalid job in squalid city lip curled when she saw the artwork and heard of the boat trip snapped so youve joined the jet set have you jealous not exactly we havent enough fuel for jets its back to clipping the hedge tomorrow but its nice to fly once in a while in this world of in finite variety portraits it was warm in stouffvillc last weekapproaching 90 degrees but the heat wave couldnt compare with a perind back in 1953 when on sept 2 it soared to 102 the sidewalk on main street was so hot that tribune publisher cm nolan left was able to fry an egg witnessed here by elmer daniels centre village councillor of that day and howard paf malloy that was i years ago jas thomas mfc i shades of yorkville by jim thomas it was saturday eveningalmost midnight i was walking west on main returning to work with a creameddown cup of coffee my third and last for the evening at the mill street corner i could feel i was not alone and i wasnt for seated in a darkened area and in the centre of the sidewalk was a girl or at least it looked like a girl a wide headband holding back longish blond locks that fell down past her shoulders naturally i was a bit startled by it all and while similar sights are not uncommon in yorkvillein stouff- ville well its supposed to be dif ferent out here while i stood and watched two motorists were also attracted to the spot both stoppedlooked and then drove on something strange going on here i said to myself perhaps shes sick better call the police constable tom wauchope responded to my surprise the sidewalker- sitter was not a girl at all but a boy and the she now a he was not on a a trip as the saying goes today but only waiting for a a ride when the officer left so did shei mean he while i was momentarily shocked by the sudden change in sex i shouldnt have been for weve got more than our share of weirdos here who they are where they come from and where theyre going no one seems to knowor care but i do for i fear the image adopted by these creepy looking characters is fast becoming a way of life for too many of todays youth its infectiousa king of contagious disease with no known cure its revolting now i know very well what many a teen lad is sayingand perhaps some parents too youre calling me prejudiced antiyouth and all those convenient overworked descriptive niceties well im not i could care less if some guy wants to look like his flat- chested sister or an unshorn cot- swold sheep as long as his moptop is kept reasonably neat and clean now i ask youis that too much for the establishment to expect apparently for many it is and the sidewalk slouchers another offshoot of the yorkville crowd is now making the stouffville scene its obviously all part and parcel of the same kind of person for example just the other evening four of these louts were spread out in the pedestrian right-of- way at market and main forcing local shoppers to either walk over them or around them real gen tlemanly chaps bitter you say youre right for a time i had hoped toronto could have kept all its queers cooped up in their rat holes only to emerge on special occasions to lead protest parades hurl rocks through embassy windows and toss insults at police but no stouffville and metro are now too close the bridge bet ween urban and rural can be crossed quite handily were forced to take the bad with the good but how do parents cope with this pending problem thats the question thousands of mothers and dads keep asking themselves across the country my only reply is train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it but even this con tains no hard and fast guarantee perhaps just perhaps by the time my seven year old has reached thirteen the style trend will have gone the complete cycleback to brush cuts and knickers who knows the kids of tomorrow may even consider it a favor to help old ladies across the street theres no harm in hoping a bit premature a now renting sign has been erected on the site of the new pon- derosa apartment although work on the ground floor is just nicely un derway all weather air conditioning is an unwritten guarantee