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page 2 the tribune thursday august 27 1970 mi established 1888 wna c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 51 main st stouflville ont- tel 6102101 single copies 15c subscriptions 500 per year in canada 750 elsewhere member oi audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 editorial exciting year ahead sept 8 1970 will mark the start of the computer era at stouffville district secondary school and already we can hear the adults echoing chorus of what next but wait as complicated as the system may seem and as difficult as it is to explain we are confident of its success why because at long last the curriculum will be geared totally to the interests and capabilities of the individual student and its about time think of this subject choice almost unlimited grades replaced by levels the stigma of failure removed the list of benefits goes on and on all indicating a most exciting year ahead while the scheduling of this program was completed via com puter many of the ideas have been in practice at the elementary school level for some time to proceed with such a plan to the end of grade 8 or grade 6 as is the case in stouffville and then introduce the same students to something entirely new was hardly a practical approach by accepting some things and not scrapping everything local educators feel certain they have contrived the best of two worlds while they themselves may be convinced of this fact many parents and perhaps some students too may be skeptical here a form of education must expand beyond the walls of the brick building on edward street the system must be explained in laymans terms to the people on the outside certainly no simple task but vitally important just the same the high school administration would be well advised to accept the lesson learned at the county elementary level where little un derstanding between parent teacher and trustee was ever evident its something called public relations and personal contact is the only answer pride in accomplishment at the west end entrance to stouffville hangs a rather crudely scrawled sign that announces this village as the home of the all- ontario juvenile hockey cham- pionscrude you agree yes but the lack of artistic finesse is really not important what counts is that someone with a little jnventjve spirit and community pride sought this means to tell the whole world of the stouffville teams hockey accomplishmnent and why not whats wrong with a town tooting its own horn once in awhile not only in the field of sports but any other awardwinning success that might come our way with stouffville situated as it is on a major highway route into the resort regions to the north hundreds of people pass through here every weekend particularly during the summer season why not tell them something about ourselves for instance how many of our metro neighbors know this com munity has a canadian plowing champion who in september will compete in denmark against the best in the world how many toronto folk know that three stouffville ladies advanced to the provincial finals in the ontario lawn bowling championships we could go on we offer two suggestions erect a permanent bannertype sign across main street one that could be altered from time to time at little cost or better still make use of that faded industrial billboard structure an eyesore at the southerly entrance to the pon der osa when stouffville has a story to tell- lets tell it and not just to stouff ville people they already know but there are thousands who dont and theyre travelling past our front door every day editors mail dear sir i would like to take this op portunity to express my sincere thanks to the claremont and brougham fire departments on the expeditious manner in which they handled the barn fire at my place on saturday august 8th had it not been for the efforts of the fire departments and especially the claremont brigade i am sure i would have lost my driving shed as well as the barn i am most grateful to the fire departments and i would like to express my thanks to them through your news media william newman mpp ontario south sir as a member of the canadian association for humane trapping i would like to draw to the attention of your readers the horrible suffering that is being inflicted on furbearing animals in this province and all across canada i am referring to the barbaric and atrocious leghold trap which holds its victim by the paw until the animal dies either of starvation or freezing an animal is in many cases trapped up to a period of two weeks sometimes it even succeeds in chewing off its own paw and crawls away to die there are humane traps available to trappers now and more research is in progress to develop others i urge people to please write to their members of parliament urging them to instigate legislation to outlaw these leghold traps as soon as possible the canadian government must outlaw this crime against our fur- bearing creatures there is no valid reason for such unnecessary cruelty and absolutely no reason for our government to be so far behind other countries which abolished leghold traps many years ago j bicks finch ontario dear sir i appreciated your recent article where you let the people know we can do without the bums who insist in lounging around on the streets of town ive shopped in stouffville for many years and have always found the place friendly clean and free of this type of useless individual lets not spoil it its to be hoped that your police force clears the streets of these undesireables individual businesses and whole communities have been ruined before now by laxness in allowing their sidewalks to become bummers roosts your outoftown residents are all behind you wr landry whitchurch a my sugar and spice a holiday at home by bill smiley the poor the working class picniced in the park attended ballgames and watched parades in the evening they sat on the front porch murmuring gossip drinking lemonade and listening to the cries of their young playing run-sheep- run or redlight in the velvet dusk things have changed the rich now fly to the greek islands or japan or rome where theycan live exactly as they could at home but with slavies of whatever nationality assuring them that they are still the very rich the notquitesorich have deserted the big hotels and lodges most of which are on the verge of bankruptcy these places have in desperation become a haven for conventions and middle class poor tippers the original inhabitants once upon a time summer travel was for the very rich they went to europe on a luxury liner ate eight times a day stayed at fashionable places on the continent dressed for dinner and all that jazz while the rest of us sweated it- out the notquitesorich but still wealthy flocked to the great lodges and summer hotels st andrews by the sea manoir richelieu jasper and banff they were safe there from the hoi polloi and subserviently served by secretly incolent bellboys and waitresses the moderately welltodo had a cottage perhaps a days travel from home with a backhouse an icebox with real ice in it coaloil lamps and a rowboat they lived quietly simply and went to bed with the whippoorwills t tree within a tree i south of goodwood on cone 3 ux- bridge a freak of nature has produced a mountain ash gt owing from the centre of white birch and some of us have problems growing petunias have fled to mexico city scan dinavia or the carribbean where they can still escape the hoipolloi the moderately welltodo still in many cases have a summer cot tage but it is now two or three or more hours of maniacal driving they now have indoor plumbing a refrigerator electric lights and everything from a power cruiser to a canoe some are bereft because they receive only one tv channel and the working class as they used to be called when they worked they hire a trailer and cover two thousand miles or they rent a cottage and sandandsun it for two weeks or they get together and fly in to a fishing lodge there are a lot of reasons for the change everybody has a car high ways are better holidays are longer and you even get vacation pay and of course air travel on chartered flights has made it possible for people with nothing to go almost anywhere the only people who are poor enough today not to travel are the young people but that doesnt stop them with rucksack and sleepingbag they can cross the country on next to nothing we just got home from our big trip for the summer 110 miles to visit granddad my sister and her husband are in england my brother and his wife send a card from a cruise on the rhine a colleague with four children drops a card from virginia a reader bob cunningham of omaha has just encircled the great lakes an old friend and wife are spending three weeks in europe and i sit in the back yard with a sixmile trip to the beach as my great expectations theres something wrong somewhere each and every one of those people has been telling me how broke he is for years however i mustnt be bitter just because none of those people can afford what theyre doing doesnt mean i should be envious i was a bit burned by a card from my daughter she set off two weeks ago to hitch to vancouver with a friend her card says they are just about to leave cape breton by ferry for newfoundland seems a ather circuitous route to van- ouver with no money well they may all think theyre really seeing the world but there are some pretty exotic things right around here for example we might slide out tonight to a little fresh vegetable roadside stand four miles out of town pick up some sweet corn eat it and have a whizbang of an evening watching a rerun of green acres theres not a one of them who can do that portraits of the past two members of the stouffville lions club the room the occasion was the annua ladies george rodanzt left and george pearce served as night the date was nov 30 1952 almost 18 vears bouncers to remove president ted edwards from ago ted cadieux 4mk let justice be done at loo per head by jim thomas the village of stouffville has a municipal police department that includes one chief four constables one cruiser and an operating budget of 45000 this is for 1970 with a population of little over 4200 did you know that stouffville also had a police force back in 1846 thirty years before incorporation when the population was something less than 800 well its true only they were commonly referred to as minute men rather than police constables although vigilantes might have been a more appropriate term for my information i refer to a very unique piece of legislation found within the family archives by jack skinner somerville street the introduction reads as follows constitution and bylaws of the association for apprehending and prosecuting felons organized at stouffville feb 10 1846 while several hundred copies were likely printed there are few if any others available today it is mr skinners intention to place the booklet in a museum for safekeeping some of the clauses within the constitution and subsequent bylaw are this association shall be called the stouffville association for ap prehending and prosecuting felons this association shall be governed by a president vicepresident secretary treasurer and a com mittee of nine other members any person may become a member of this association by paying the sum of one dollar as entrance and the like sum of one dollar if required as annual sub scription and such other sum or sums as the managing committee may from time to time deemi necessary for the exigencies of the association this association shall not take cognizance of any feloneous act that may be committed on the property of persons who were not members at the time such felony was committed the treasurer and secretary shall each receive such salary as the board of management shall deem sufficient remuneration for their services no person shall be considered a member of this association until he has paid his entrance fee and any member refusing or neglecting at any time to pay his share of ex penses shall receive no benefit from the association until such arrears are paid any member of the committee divulging any matter that should necessarily be kept a secret shall be expelled from the committee no member of the committee being present at any of its meetings shall be allowed to give any in formation to any absent member of any of its proceedings should any property be stolen from any member of the association a reward of 25 or such sums as the committee may deem necessary shall be given to any person giving such information as shall lead to the detection and conviction of the thief and the recovery of the property the association shall furnish 4 pistols and 4 sets of handcuffs and other necessaries required for the minute men to defend themselves when in search of stolen property said pistols and handcuffs to be left in the hands of the secretary when not required for use the association will not pay any unnecessary expenses for liquors etc to persons employed as minute men that parties sent out in search of felons or stolen property shall not receive more than 150 per day for horse and 1 per day for man ex clusive of travelling expenses and such parties to render a detailed account of their expenses to the committee subject to the approval of the committee rt members having lost property and becoming satisfied that it has been stolen are requested to notify the secretary as early as possible that was justice stouffville style 124 years ago 4