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tjbfisjjkai 1 the tribune thursday feb 7 874 1 i i i i i i i i i i i cna ributte established 1888 charles ii nolan publbhcr james thomas asset late publisher and editor robert mccalkland advertising director published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 54 main st stouffville ont tel 6402101 toronto phone 3611680 stogie copies 15c sub scriptions 700 per ear in canada16 ooelseu here member of audit bureau of circulation canadian community newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 editorials boards new weapon secondary school teachers in this area as well as several others have carried out their threat for mass resignations it is supposed to be a free country and on this basis the teachers are free to adopt any course they consider best to achieve their ends however one cannot but question the leadership when the strategy of mass resignations is carried out it would appear in our opinion that a pile of resignations to a shcool board is the equivalent of handing your opposition a cannonball and inviting him to drop it on your right foot with resignations in their hands the school board has a potent weapon for negotiating purposes rolled into a neat little package the shortage days are over and board members may well realize this as a golden opportunity to do a little weeding in the staff garden the boards concerned could well take the position that now you have all quit we will take you and you and you if you want to come but you and you can stay out as we have made arrangements for more suitable replacements the teachers for their part who express a great deal of concern about public support could well find more if they became an out- andout union their lofty exclamations of professionalism which is supposed to preclude striking as the man in the street would say simply turns people off nurses have come out of their professional shell and joined unions and there has been little denunciation minister wins respect dare to be a daniel such a man is ontarios housing minister robert welch he proved this thursday by attending a meeting in the community centre at cedar grove a site comparable on this occassion to any biblical lions den the majority of people present in cluding some not remotely related to the project undoubtedly did not anticipate many straightforward replies for highranking politicians are professionals at being evasive but not robert welch he stated his position clearly accepted personal protests sincerely and answered all questions honestly editors mail dear editor 1 seldonvwrite letters to thejocal paper but i feel i speak for many parents of grade 8 students who sent their children to stouffville secondary school friday in fact i may also be speaking for parents of students grades 9 through 13 first for the pupils who remained in class grade 8 im told there was little discipline at times and on occasions none at all those who wished to work were disturbed by those who didnt and with no supervision thiswould naturally occur despite this there were few converts there seldom are when the word ex propriation rears its ugly head nevertheless robert welch is a man to be respected not only for what he said but how he said it we were impressed however despite his sincerity we raise two questions first while the airport proposal is indeed a federal matter we contend it was initiated by ottawa with the full knowledge and cooperation of queens park secondly we feel the airport and cedarwood are so closely related they must be considered as integral parts of an overall plan can one proceed without the other can they coexist these are important considerations that cannot be ignored students from grade 9 up roamed the streets all morning or sat in the restaurants while buses performed a jitney service back and forth first delivering then picking up the board of education in their usual toplevel terminology called it a non- instructional day far better for everyone concerned if the principal had turned the lock on the door thursday night and left it that way as for noninstructional im beginning to think this term readily applies at sdss whether the teachers are present or not the system in my opinion is all wrong and the results are obvious mrs jacqueline baker stouffville rr 2 sugar and spice hes called poor thing nicov chen by bill smiley whats in a name quite a bit if youre going to be stuck with it for the rest of your life when the young people were trying to think of a name for my new grandson i started pondering on this whole business of christian monikers naming of children seems to go in cycles and the names in one generation seem either ugly or affected to the people of the next generation there was a time when girls were quite happy to be called pearl or ruby mabel or myrtle or elsie if a girl were given a name like that today shed run away from home at the age of five the same period produced boys names like elmer horace marvin not to mention those two great poets one greek one latin homer and virgil that was known as the bad period to be tagged before that was the romantic period in my mothers family 4 boys were dubbed things like drayton ei tson lionel ivan on my wifes side her mother was sophia and her mothers sisters were charlotte and esther those ladies wound up as sophie lottie and acey but the damage was done my wifes mother named her ivy and her sister iris but they didnt turn out to be a couple of clinging vines my wife hates her name so i call her suse which seems to suit her my own mother was on the ebbtide of the romantic period but she did name her daughters florence and norma they wound up as floss and the brat so it wasnt too bad with the boys names my ma wasnt too bad but my brothers are byron arnott keith and donald allan blake and im william bryant thomson not too awful really but my brothers emerged as blake and arnott i have been called billy bill willie and will among other things but have never been known as william except in legal documents i was the lucky one i grew up in an age of jacks and bobs and bills and joes and toms a gordon was suspect and a homer was hooted out of the gang unless he could find a nickname like stink or piggy or greaseball or some such affectionate nomenclature in my group there was a harold an arnold and a clayton they were tolerated because they became smokeyoakes goon imeson and pappy warren after my generation a new wave of snobbery set in as women started calling their kids after heroes in ladies home journal and british novels there sprouted a whole crop of peters and stevens and michaels and jeffreys and christophers and marks and matthews and nicholases and davids and ians there wasnt a george or a john in the lot and the girls got it too there were samanthas and natalies and sonyas and patrices and lises and pamelas and elizabeth janes and rhondas and deborahs my god were there deborahs i have five of them this year in a class with twelve girls in it finding a girl called mary these days is just as tough as finding a boy called john oh im not blaming the parents all that much its no joke choosing a name we were going to call our firstborn judy because it was to be a girl it didnt have the right plumbing so we named it hugh after a sir hugh smiley in ireland and do you know the old skinflint didnt even put our boy in his will second time around we took no chances the kid was to be called kim which would suit either sex we thought it was different the only kim around was kim novak a dozen years later there was a kim on every streetcorner well like all grandparents not wanting to interfere just trying to be helpful we tried to ram a name down my duaghters throat for her infant but most of the good ones were gone in her own family connection there are already a peter and a paul a david and a hugh a steven and a patrick a matthew and a darcy all the good ones were gobbled up we suggested geoffrey and mark and michael and others and at each shed say echhh that reminds me of the kid was a week old i was getting desperate i asked my students to help me they really tried they came up with charley and coolhand luke and jim and oscar big help well i know the suspense is killing you ill tell they named the poor little kid nicove chen nicov pronounced kneecove is a character in a dostoievski novel chen pronounced shen means in chinese first born her mothers face didnt fall more than a foot my bloodpressure went up only twenty points however he said smilingly its kinda cute when you get used to it russian chinese and his last name is sieber which is german a real conglomerate as soon as hes up to mine im going to call him kneecap roaming around frustrations of an expectant father a t- z water sprin eternal nature can this scene is britton cone be beautiful in any season on the property of lloyd 7 wbltchurchstouffville near lemonville the icebank surrounds an everflowing artesian well the water drains into a nearby pond jim thomas l sr one week ago this date sunday jan 27 we were expecting the unexpected yes the weary old stork undoubtedly pooped from five previous trips was again winging its weary way towards 381 rupert avenue taking all things into consideration i had pinpointed the birds flight path at somewhere over hudsons bay this i thought would bring him in for a safe sure landing about 3 pm wednesday my af ternoon off but something happened the venerable old guy got caught up in tail wind and drifted in on tuesday around noon its a girl no we didnt plan it this way and yes were contributing tc the population ex plosion but whats a fella supposed to do when for us anyway the only acceptable safeguard is a handshake and that at ten paces shocked you ask not now the initial jolt came last may my nerves have settled a little since however had the wee gal ignored the services of air transport command and arrived c 0 d from simpsons id have been a bit suspicious but unprepared boy were we un prepared for neil now five was to be it three and two that seemed sufficient for folks of moderate means so we did what most parents do when they reach the end of the line we gave everything away well almost everything about the only useable item i could scrounge from the basement was the carriage and it was hard to find com pletely buried out of sight out of mind my wife however acting on a womans intuition i suppose had stashed away a few personal things more likely for memorys sake than anything else now theyre a necessity in the role of expectant parenthood the mothertobe has the lead and so she should however the part played by poor old pop while not so exhausting in a physical sense is a terrible strain mentally i know ive been through it six times now and the last was worse than the first trouble is for us anyway its always a rush and rushing invariably creates problems for example on hwy 48 en route to hospital we were caught behind a slow- moving garbage truck i couldnt pass and he wouldnt pull over nothing to do but wait on the bloomington road we trailed a string of four loaded gravel trucks grin and bear it at vandorf a speed trap luckily the officer was out of his car over the distance four traffic lights hit everyone red still eighteen miles in twenty minutes not bad while the road hazards when youre in a hurry are frustrating enough the ordeal once inside the hospital is worse i acted badly for instance with jean in obvious pain i refused to give the receptionist my name until by jim thomas she summoned a nurse she insisted and so did i the result was a standoff who is your physician she enquired dr graham i answered quickly doctor graham calling dr graham the lady monitored into the pa with no response and no wonder for dr graham was still in stouffville she wanted our hospital physician a kind of builtin delivery system they have now days with prompting i remembered his name and she corrected the call next i couldnt find my insurance cer tificate which in a hospital is an un pardonable sin i had everything else from a sunoco credit card to my drivers licence but no insurance but after ten minutes of frantic searching success then i had to help fill out one of those private family forms a thing i dread they ask such personal questions like what year was your wife born hummm now let me think im 44 and my birthdate is 1929 im older but how much older four years or is it six im not sure she types in 1933 with a question mark second question when was the last time your wife was in hospital another toughie lets see this is 1974 and neil is five so that would make it 1969 or was it 1970 she types in 1969 with another question mark and so on but thats all history now the most difficult question must still be answered her name my choice is finis which in anglosaxon means the end f t yrvx