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thetribunethursaydecljn s e ii i i i i i i i established 18ss ciiakies h nolan publisher james thomas associate publisher and editor robebt mccalland advertising director published every thursday by iriiaed publishing co limited at 54 main st stouffville oct tel 6402101 tjronto phone 3511680 single copies 15e subscriptions sc00 per year in canada 1500 elsewhere menber of audit bureau of circulation canadian coanuruty newspapers association and ont ario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 editorials give a littlegain a lot all secondary schools in york county including stouffville could be closed down in january however we doubt such a thing will oc cur for the sake of the students we hope not the situation as we see it has developed into a power struggle between the province and the federation caught in the centre of the squeeze is the county board it claims that unless queens park loosens the purse strings a little the current offer stands we fully appreicate the boards plight we feel the present impasse will be broken through a willingness by both sides the department and federation to give a little to gain a lot this gain while more or less than desired will win back the respect the trustees and teachers deserve voluntary recreation best recration or lack of it is cited as the no 1 problem in the town of markham unbelievable but true according to a survey conducted by the health and social services department and the regional planning department in york unbelievable we say because markham has one of the most organized recreation programs in the region with the cost ex ceeding by many times the budget in whit church stouffville but perhaps herein lies the problem editors mail dear sir your recent report by a representative of whomsley realtors stated that stouffville is a desirable residential location despite the possibility of noise from the nearby proposed airport rest assured that if an airport is sited at the proposed pickeringmarkham site stouffville will be in the highest noise zones at the end of a runway directly under aircraft which are taking off in addition the in their recreation is so well organized the incentive perhaps is lost the volunteer system is dead markham in recent years has spent thousands and thousands of dollars on facilities in the municipality they will con tinue to do so yet the people are still unhappy so the survey says we say overorganization is worse than no organization at all its killed the spirit in many a community and once dead its dif ficult to revive stouffville home was once a church creased traffic to this area will spell the end to the stouffville we know by converting it into an area of urban sprawl yours very truly cm godfrey rr1 goodwood ontario editors note while your predictions may prove correct they are not borne out by prices on the local real estate market ohuoney eyetyber thatbi blockjbusfer you uj4hed iae could tmve oaa compact this hrae was once a church its the residence of mr and mrs harry stouffer 201 second street stouffville originally it was the church of christs disciples located on tenth line it was later moved to second and william streets and used forabout 30 years the baptistry is still in the basement sugar and spice my energy crisis begins with getting up by bill smiley it seems that in the seventies the whole world is lurching as most of us do in our private lives from one crisis to another crippling strikes crippling food prices crippling political scandals and now the energy crisis socalled a crisis may be defined as a turning point perhaps its time we reached some turning points and did some turning in new directions what so many people of the affluent post war yearsdont realize is that crises are nothing new every generation faces them meets them and resolves them somehow war depression another war the bomb all these have been universal crises in this century beside those big ones a hike in the price of beef is less than monumental and even the expected energy crisis is small potatoes i must be hungry if the energy crisis becomes more than newspaper headlines and shortages and rationing occur it might be the best thing that has happened to the fatcat western world for generations we are in grave danger of turning into slobs physically mentally emotionally and morally maybe we need a good purge in the form of a sharp cutback in our soft way of living get rid of some of the fat event if it requires a surgeons knife take a day in the life of an average family someone very often the husband in these degenerate days gets up first and turns the thermostat up to seventy the beast in the basement starts gulping more energy our friend shaves with his electric razor he goes down and gets his orange juice out of another beast that has been burning elec tricity all night producing nothing then he flips on two burners on the electric stove one for coffee one for bacon and eggs when theyre ready he jams some bread into the electric toaster then the mother stumbles down and turns the burners back on father drives the eight blocks to work stinking up the environment and burning energy the kids waffle off to a school which is probably burning far more tons of coal a day than it needs to that school has thousands of lights which are on even on a bright day at home friend wife throws the laundry into an automatic washer which uses large quantities of hot water which has taken a fair amount of electricity to produce then it goes into the automatic dryer run by electricity then she tackles the ironing and we all know what heats an iron in this day she decides to wash her hair more hot water then she sits under the electric dryer with fresh coffee made on the stove burner at this time of year probably half the lights in the house are on merrily chewing up the watts i and sot goesright across the land all day long the television set burns juice far into the night advertising signs pop on and eat more juice industry belches its wastes and burns energy with a lavish hand right now in our kitchen the electric oven is glowing red it will be for the next two hours know whats in it one large potato being baked multiply the juice being consumed by this one family by about five million in canada alone and i think youll agree that were a pretty extravagant even sluttish lot when it comes to being prodigal with natural resources that are going to be exhausted and can never be replaced n i havent even mentioned such ridiculosities as electric toothbrushes and electric carving knives dont get me wrongrm nospartan ill drive to work rather than walk rand leave that great hulking rusting monster that required so much energy to be built and burns up so much more sitting in the parking lot all day the point is i could walk to work and it wouldnt hurt me in fact it would be jolly good for me and i dont expect my wife to get out the scrubboard and wash her hair in rainwater but it might be jolly good for her if she had to women and men have too much time these days to sit around and worry about their nerves our fairly immediate ancestors didnt have time for nerves and ulcers they didnt need pickup pills to get going there was no alternative to just getting going they didnt need three martinis to whet their appetites they were just plain hungry nor did they need sleeping pills to get off at night they were just plain pooped im not scared of an energy crisis it might even be interesting anyway i have my own energy crisis every day when the alarm goes of f at 7 15 thats what i call a real crisis roaming around return of the little village store have we advanced too far too fast is this longing for the good old days only a fanciful desire by a segment of citizenry to reach back and pull the past up to the present or haul the present back to the past while its foolish to suggest this could or should be so theres undoubtedly a move afoot to retain the good things of yesteryears im all for that for you over 40 folks ladies included what do you miss most the horse and buggy the wood stove the oil lamp oatmeal porridge the oneroom school perhaps all of these one of the things i miss and there are many is the iittle countrytype store oh i know there are still a few of them left that too few of us patronize but im talking about the country store in the village where people stopped shopped and talked awhile all day if they liked admiitedjj the selection fell far short of the modernday supermarket but the at mosphere the interior fairly reeked with friendliness yes bring it back you say presto its back like magic the location is 346 main street north in markham just look for the sign that reads mount joy emporium i spent an hour there saturday i could have stayed all afternoon the site is as perfect for the proprietors as they are perfect for the site for both reflect an inner warmth that says without saying come back again doug johnson had felt for some time that north markham mount joy needed a grocery store wife lyndas interests tended towards antiques so they did what any compatible husband and wife team would do they combined the two groceries and antiques and opened up an emporium the building itself goes back prior to the 1850s daniel strieker operated a pump works there his apprentice abraham moore carried on with a son kora taking over from ab in the 1900s the roffey family entered the picture around 1914 with fred reid assuming the business in 1945 while this is 1973 and not 1850 the interior of doug and lyndas store reflects more than a touch of the past it is the past first as you enter a bell rings it rings again when the door closes to the right is a large spinning wheel to the left is a markham twp bylaw dated jan 1 1868 it warns farmers against allowing pigs to run at large rooting and filling up ditches and doing other damage the fine on conviction ranges from fifty cents to 5 another collectors item from out of the past is a list of the sunday dos and donts as enacted by the province prohibited on the lords day were activities such as seeding harvesting fencing and ditching building and construction of railways except of necessity and mercy buying or selling of liquors cigars and newspapers all pleasure trips by train steamer or other conveyance all gambling tippling and profane language all public meetings except in churches by jim thomas hunting shooting and fishing all bathing in any public place or in sight of any place of public worship or private residence breach of the order carried a fine of from 1 to 500 the shelves of the mount joy emporium are lined with tin containers imprinted with such brand names as purity oats ridgeway limited old country tea zebra stove polish symingtons granulated gravy christie biscuits and robin hood porridge oats on a wall is an impressive advertisement for speight farm and freight wagons the king of the road the stores front counter dates back to 1870 the cranktype cash register is of 1917 vintage an iron wood stove holds a position of prominence it was sold saturday on con dition it remain until a replacement is found a spittoon sits close by doug and lynda will provide additional chairs so local natives can gather round and swap tales about the good times of yesteryears the spittoon may come in handy one anticipated visitor chews tobacco doug and lynda welcomed a steady stream of visitors saturday some to look some to buy all were impressed this is just what markham needs commented one customer other things have come and gone because we didnt support them but by gosh were gonna support this for he was- remembering back to day of yore when he wac a smalltown lad hed never forget the village store where everything could be bad