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4 the tribune thursday feb 28 1sx4 i i 1 i i i i i i i i i l s il cna we as jr established 1888 ijwmh charles i nolan publisher james thomas associate puwuhrr and editor robert mccalsland advertising director published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 54 main st stouffvdle ont tel 6402101 toronto phone 3611680 single copies 15c sub scriptions 700 per year in canada 1600 else here member of audit bureau of circulation canadian community newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 editorials york educationa shambles we have to get the teachers back to their rclassrooms commented john mcmurray trustee for whitchurchstouffville following sundays meeting of the york county board this foolishness has gone on long enough every parent and most students will say amen to that but how j through voluntary binding arbitration suggests the board and we agree if the teachers are the least bit interested in the academic progress of their pupils and if the federation is really sincere in its desire for a settlement then there should be no hesitation by both parties to seek this kind of solution ifhowever theres more than meets the eye on this stalemate then the federation and the board should be forced to lay their cards on the table for all to see the outcome through negotiations or arbitration is uncertain at this time however one thing is sure the system as we know itis washout this newspaper has maintained this from the start the teachers have proved us correct the bureaucratic operation of schools in york county as presently practiced will not work unfortunately the department hierarchy at queens park and some trustees must be hit over the head with a hammer before they realize just how chaotic conditions have become there is no communication whatsoever between the teachers and the trustees nor will there ever be until the operation is re organized in our opinion the sooner the shakeup is approved the better york requires a twotier education system with the board as now constituted in control at the top at the lower level in each municipality would be the county representatives plus a committee of trustees to cope with issues affecting that area alone tier one would be similar to regional council tier two would be comparable to the municipal council one need only stop and think for a moment of the problems that would occur if whitchurchstouffville markham aurora or newmarket had no administration at the peoples level of politics it would be chaotic and thats what york county has in education chaos a communications shambles thatonly a lower tier of control can correct 7 gofa rye a ga a licence forw aad a t-oag- gertyon oti prnttfg- and driving sugar and spice editors mail arbitration the answer face it smiley youre over the hill cdear sir e i as a concerned parent feel it is time for jan arbitrator to be brought into strike negotiations between the school board and x the teachers and that the public be informed v to the demands of the teachers and the z offers which the board of education is making gin return e as a taxpayer in this area i feel it is only right that the public who are paying dearly for this strike should receive this in formation i also cannot comprehend how the school board can justify paying mr chapman his regular full years salary while he is teaching in another location i understand his stipend for the year is approximately 3000000 as a member of the education board york county this is unnecessary spending of a large sum of money deriving no benefits whatsoever for our local school system one member of the board don sim seems quite concerned about the students of grades 12 and 13 but in his speech there was no mention of grades 9 10 or 11 is he not con cerned with these children their year and their future are just as important as the higher grades jim hunt markham one of these days im going to have to sit down and have a little talk with myself it will go something like this look bill its time you acknowledged that youll never be in the british consols competition for the curling championship of canada lets face the fact that a great com petitive spirit tremendous desire and the heart of a lion are not enough you also need some skill and some muscles you curled in a local bonspiel last weekend won two lost two not bad youre a fiftypercenter in sport but on monday morning when you bent over to tie your shoe laces you couldnt straighten up again somebody had shoved a knife in your back just above the tailbone if your wife wasnt pretty handy at staightening things out youd still be going around on all fours why dont you forget that silly bisiness of running up and down a sheet of ice like a rabbit galloping sideways pounding the surface with a broom while some idiot yells sweep as though you were washing the dishes instead of sweeping your guts out why dont you stop blaming the ice for being too keen or too heavy when you know perfectly well it is you who is too heavy and not keen enough why dont you stop blaming the skip for not giving you the right ice when you know full well you couldnt hit his broom with a frontend loader why dont you give up the game except for the safe position of critic behind the glass where all the really good shots are made why dont you just go down to the recreation room at the curling club and fight it out with capt dalt hudson for the un disputed russian billard championship of the club after all you beat him once five years ago when he was only 72 and while were having this agonizing appraisal why dont you do the same about your golf a few years ago when you were shooting in the nineties it is true that jack nicklaus and arnie palmer were trembling in their boots they knew a comer when they saw one- v vt but as often happens to a dark horse charging for the big money something happened it was bad enough having a trick shoulder and a trick knee but it was when you started pulling those trick shots that you should have quit like the booming drives that used to go 100 yards straight up and 100 yards straight down landing twenty feet behind the tee why dont you just play golf with your wife whom you can beat handily if you remember to say woops dont lift your head just as shes starting her swing yep its pretty sad when ydu have to get down to the concrete and discover its fresh- poured cement but thats the way it goes with us aging athletes we have only our shining memories to fall back on i was a pretty good track and field athlete in the sprints and jumps one year i was a cinch for the junior championship everbody told me so the night before the track meet i went out with some other guys stealing grapes an overzealous gardener chased us four miles next day however with a by bill smiley tremendous burst of pride and speed i managed to finish third in the 100 yards fourth in the 220 in the days when you didnt have to be a big slavering brute with haunches like hams i was a pretty fair football quarterback and i have a broken nose and two rickety knees to prove it in the airforce i enjoyed and was good at formation flying only trouble was that i sometimes formated with the wrong people oneday i tookoff in a cloud od dust spotted anomer typhoon my leader and joined him in close formation rather to my surprise he circled the airstrip and landed i did too i climbed out and walked over to ask him hat was wrong id never seen him before in my life my squardron was off in the wild blue yonder somewhere one man short i cant help envying the kids of today they can learn golf and curling sports they can use until theyre decrepit while they are young when i was a kid golf was for the rich people earning away up around 3000 a year my only acquaintance with golf was diving for balls into the river water hazard into which the lady golfers pumped ball after ball we sold them back for a dime as for curling that was a game played by eccentric old gentlemen on an outdoor rink but by golly the rich and the eccentric old gentlemen didnt go to the poolroom and we did maybe i started too late to amount to anything on the ice or the links but ill take any of these other old fogies on on the green felt cloth this rockets a duel no a rocket manufacturing plant hasnt opened in the town of markham this huge musle is only a model located on the premises of canadian propane limited hwy 48 north of i6th avenue jim thomas roaming around forty dollars for a cheap red sticker i by jim thomas picked up your new licence plate sticker yet you have okay so laugh while i stand in line you havent ill hold your hand today feb 28 is it the absolute deadline so authorities say no extensions no reprieves no excuses do it now or walk personally i think we wouldbe drivers should join forces and boycott this govern ment collection scheme why for several reasons first the fee is too high 40 for my little 302 v8 a tortoise of a thing in terms of speed yet forty dollars it is an extravagant price for something i dont need and it hasnt got and to think im classed up there with the aristocrats of society the chrysler and cadillac guys heck with a little effort my ford would fit in a lincolns trunk and how come the threelevel rate system anyway why should a father of sue and driving a standardsize car be forced to subsidize a loner who boots around town in a bug discrimination i call it discrimination of the worst kind second there are too many cars on the road anyway and its getting worse sundays traffic was terrible like a holiday weekend in july the weekdays are vorse ask the commuter third the upkeep cost to the car owner will soon make the pleasure prohibitive gas insurance repairs all going up the skys the limit an eleventh hoar holdoat fourth we all should walk more anyway put the family buggy up on blocks and travel on foot what a joke we never walk anywhere not even around the corner for a jug of milk were spoiled but for all these problems few ever protest even complain me either except for the payment of fotrty dollars for a cheap little sticker that hurts i dont know about you but for me a new set of plates was something pretty special id fondle them polish them admire them the cost although exhorbitant seemed trivial to pride of ownership even the car appeared to take a new lease on life like after a wash and a polish it seemed to run better but this year wow henrietta will be madder than a wet hen and i dont blame her imagine a 40 red sticker and pinned to her tail too immodist i call it downright im modest thats my main reason for postponing the purchase to the 11th hour so i can sneak out in the quiet of the night when alls asleep and slap it on then ill sit back and hope hope that the virile chevy that sits in the drive next door doesnt get any wrong ideas thats one relationship that would never work 4