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4 the tribune thursday april 2t ims fi v he triune established 1888 oiarles ii nolan publisher- nnv kpkvnnv barre beacock toronto phon miim sing eopi he ubscriptiens m00 per year in advirtfcino minam- i cnudjtwmebrwtxrt member of auoh bureau of circulation canadijn s tiab commuaity newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers i association second class mail registration number oitt fjfij3k i the tribune is on of rae inland pumisbinn co limited group of if mtv aiuwbitbyfrcktring news pii editor i i suburban newspapers wbidi includes the t advcrtiur brampton cuardian burlington post etobcoke gazette markham economist and sun newmarketaurora eraoakvillc beaver oshawa this week and mississauga news i i 1 dump closing ongoing saga hosing the york sanitation dump has the ministry of the environment has proven to be one of those things thats easier i decided to stay out of the conflict until the said than done vienvironmental hearing board finishes its he bearings those hearings are scheduled to hhrtp maybm a i seller dojjl- nearly a month has passed since the js bearings deadline for the dumps closure and nothing significant has been done to close it charges have not even been laid under the bylaw the police it seems are not willing to lay charges and the towns bylaw enforcement officer has failed to do so lake truck ban welcomed move trucks in the musselmans lake area have been a problem for a number of years last week york regional council banned truck traffic on the 9th cone from hillsdale rd to the aurora sideroad the bah follows complaints from area residents of- both the nuisance created by large trucks and the safety factor the road is narrow and winding especially where it curves around the lake v a truck ban was the obvious answer to the problem we hope the police will enforce the ban its on the books now arid if enforced which appears to be a big if could goa long way in eliminating the problem of heavy trucks on the 9th with the warmer weather upon us it would be a welcomed relief resume next week it appears to us that it will require either a strong stand on the part of the ministry which seems unlikely at this time or council action to take york sanitation to court to stop the dumping at this point it appears that an in junction is the only realistic way to close the dump even if the town does take the company to court that could prove to be a costly and drawn out fight which might still not have the desired result to close the dump it is a complicated plot one full of new little twists and turns each week seems to bring some new and unpredictable turn to the plot tune in next week and perhaps find out answers to the following questions can merlyn baker and mayor gordon ratcliff single handedly stop trucks going in and out of the dump will murray chusid pull off his masquerade and reveal himself to be en- vironment minister william newman will the owners of york sanitation break down and cry and admit they were wrong and close the dump the answers to these and other com plicated questions will likely be answered in the next few weeks stay tuned jjft sugar and spice lliirtyx years ago this week excerpts tom- the tribune i- from april 2s ims hometown weekly i read the daily papers read the home and foreign news- of all things here and yonder and of- leading statesmens views i read of wrecks and ware and murders sportsandi politics and crime 1 battles sudden deaths and fires and all the j happenings of time read the whole edition over- from the front page to the last notes and com- ments facts and fancies things to come and things to pass then i get the stouffville paper and with keen and eager eyes read the news thats never dull or dry for the news in stouffvilles paper tells of folks i know and love folks who are both friends and neigh- bours merchants too know what to shove having our good town paper swells me up with j real old pride with its breezy news and sayings i of friends from far and i wide i v i canadians are the lucky ones no speed limit change at the risk of arousing a large outcry from gormley area residents york regional council decided recently not to lower the speed limit on don mills rd nor to change the limit on the stouffville rd the reasons given were based on the fact that don mills rd to be renamed woodbine ave is an arterial road that means it is designed to be a through road used for people commuting to toronto an arterial roadis supposed to move traffic quicklydon mills rd funnels traffic from york region into toronto daily most of the people using theroad are commuters of one form or another i it seems tous foolish to reduce the speed limit further on this road it is a wellknown fact that speed is not the only factor in causing accidents oftentimes slow traffic or tieups can be a real cause unimpeded traffic usually moves along smoothly it is our contention that lowering the speed limit on don mills rd would not mean fewer accidents but could actually have the opposite affect impatient drivers might be prone to take more chances in slower traffic than if everybody is moving along at a faster speed rr i lower speed limits can save lives theres no doubt about that but it has not been proven that lower limits on arterial roads actually would cutdown the number of accidents there are enough tieups on don mills already without adding more every so often im reminded of how very lucky canadiansare we are not smarter than other people- goodness knows we are no more industrious we are just luckier because we happen to be living in this country at this time when you consider that we are just a drop in the bucket of the worlds population you can see just how blind lucky we are millions of people on earth today are literally starving to death they will be dead stone dead in days months a year millions more are just above the starving line they eke out a barren blunted hopeless existence just one step away from the animal these hordes are subject to all the other things that go with a minimal existence besides hunger- cold disease ignorance fear and perhaps worst of all helplessness andwe endlessly we canadians aboutjsuch horrors as inflation pbstalstrikescjes and all theother relatively piddlirigiburdens we bear we howl with outrage when butter jumps 15 cents a pound some of us nearlyhavea strqkewheri- the price of beer and liquor is raised the very wealthy feel a deep inner pain because they can retain only 55 per cent of their inc6mei- biit what does it all amount to the con- by bill smiley frounce setenstjhie pot alongvman street sumption of butter will go down for a few weeks then rise to new highs the con- sumption of alcoholic beverages will riot even tremor but go steadily upward and the rich will become richer v talk about fat cats or buxom beavers and were it the lucky canadians the envy t of the world oh yes we have poor people quite a few of them but you would be hard put to it to find anyone in canada literally starving to death or freezing to death- or dying because there is no medicine for disease truth is the vast majority of canadians eat too much suffer from overheating rather than cold and are much more likely to die from too much medicine than they are from- disease and even the poorest of pur poor with all the buffers that welfare provides are materially millionaires compared with the poor of many other countries l s you mister wheelingyour biiick down the highway and beefing about the cost of gas might just as easily be pulling a ricksha in calcutta wondering whether you could last until you were 30 so you could see your first grandson you young fella who made 10000 in six months with a lot of overtime and quit working so you could draw unemployment insurance could be sweating it out in a south african gold mine or a bolivian tin mine for enough bucks a week to barely feed your family and you ms whining about the mess the hairdresser made or complaining about the cost of cleaning women could be selling 1 yourself in the back streets of nairobi to keep body and soul together if youll pardon the expression l but you arent and im not and we shouldnt forget it mates we were lucky we live in canada but it was watching television that blew up the puffedup dream that life was after all good and gracious cosy and comfortable warm and wonderful there on the news with nothing to hide it was the noncanadian world children with bloated bellies and stickthin limbs of the starving other children torn and bleeding andscreaming with pain s o mothers howling their anguish because they had lost their children and couldnt find them i and everywhere on that naked screen people suffering terrified runninglike rats from- nowhere to nowhere but at least we can stop bitching in our backyard and face the facts that were not smarter or harder working or better looking just lucky the high poobalis at york region are breathing easier these days thanks to the pre election generosity of the provincial govern ment without higher provincial grants the regional levy would soar 47 percent that was based on a budget that was painfully worked out over the past weeks one 14hour budget session managed to trim nearly 1 million from the original estimates but that did not appear to be enough the increase was still to be 47 per cent enter darcy mckebugh on his whitecharger with an election budget if there ever was one originally the region was told there would be no significant increase in unconditional grants from the province but the budget managed to include some extra goodies the regional increase will still be con- siderable probably around 30 per cent but that is easier to live with this again shows the fragile nature of regional governmentas set up in ontario as a creation of the provincial government depends on the province for its economic survival i it turns outthat 1975 is likely to be an election year that means increased grants but what happens next year without an election the province may pull the rug- out completlyas its deficit soars v it wouldbe better to provide the region with some independent source of income such as a fraction of the sales tax or a percentage of the provincial income tax that would mean some financial independence for the region and some certainly in financial planning its spring again pass the earplugs h by sheila mcleodi pi i i while stouffviliitesquietly corraled over in the ponderosaor shored up in balmy baycrest are joyously opening their homes to the sounds of spring along here ohmain we are battoningdownfront doors and checking the double glazing on streetside windows once more in the migratory cycle its time for the great grey gravel trucks to pass this way oniheir jtrek to and from their favorite feeding grounds in northeast quarries they come around five on the first bible thought for the week from the living bible vv so warmly welcome each other into the church just as christ has warmly welcomed you then god will be glorified remember that jesus christ came to show that god is true to his promises and to help the i jews and remember e also came that the gentiles might be saved and give glory to god for his mercies to them that isvwhat the psalmist jmeantiwhen he wrote i s will praise you among the genulesand sing to your jfnamev and in anoiiier 1- piace beglad ojyva 5 people the jews- csv k romans 157i0r 3- morning warm weather of imminent suf focation forces open our bedroom windows they come stampeding past without respite angrily blowing their stacks and swishing their tailgates dyer the bump each main streeter claims is outside his door they growl through in tandem like live monoliths bound for the ark 1 mind you im not squawking i cant very well anyone who knowlingly makes his home next to a busy provincial highway can like i told the folks out in the malton zone take his nef lumps or leave it vforlo years now ive taken my lumps with the bumps and grinds of main street traffic each year ill admit the passing parade seems less awesome- maybe the bloomingtbn bypass has syphoned off the noisiest monsters maybe ive just become more resilient theres no doubt prolonged exposure to stouffvilles main core requires just as much stamina and enduranceas prolonged isolation up in pine orchard perhaps its this tenacity that sets the longtime main streeter apart from the normal run of residents and makes him easily distinguishable on the other hand it could be the ear muffs he wears in midjuly or the way his eyes constantly click leftrightleft with a look of resignation the legacy of hours spent waiting to jockey his car out of his driveway perhaps its that distracted air of ex pectancy which comes from having too many important curbside conversations scrambled by heavy horsepower from being left to- speculate on items like luscious blond brrvummmbrmm house on brmbrummm stacked brrmrm24burrum call 640-brmm- brmm our house at the east end of stouffville is grafted to main by a wisp of a lawn and the sidewalk thats about as close to the action as you can get without being demolished by a diesel the pioneers who built the original cflapboard dwelling obviously didnt an- tidpate that the dirt track outside the front door would ever become a fullfledged high- way even though activity along this section 0 wortffaded lgnmarltlng the entrancetotom tommunlryowever wefecomlng long before the airport wasat ite boisterous peak seemi totell the story of that commttnttya it disappears wmoimcedijfvrt j v with theeomfogbf the pickering airport changes lnthe ted wilcox considering our solitary east end grocery nowadays its hard to believe the hub of village commerce was out this way in the early 1800s j according to the tweedsmuir history a fascinating collection of newspaper clip pings photographs and personal observations compiled by the womens institute and kept for reference at our local library there were three taverns oh or about the corners of 10th line south the red brick building still standing on the west side was yakes hostelry -almost- opposite was the globe hotel r in these convivial watering holes far mers travelling to and from northern town ships stopped along with the local lads for refreshment there the sporting fraternity haggled over wagers lost and won on the cock fights and horse races the area earned the name brimstone point and the history points out with fine understatement it was riot noted for its f orderliness i when the nipissing narrow gauge railway trundled its first train into town in 1871 eastend trade brazenly sashayed west towardsthe tracks r ultimately of course rail traffic slumped with the increasing clatter of cars buses and trucks along the main road suddenly stouffville station was not where its at any more- s w weill out here in the far east weve been waiting waiting for the pendulum to swing this way again for the resurgence of com merce a macs milk maybe and the return of that former pioneer sparkle to this section of town theres no doubt the transition is on its way already itsbeen hinted that cemetery j lane our most notable deadend road will be renamed davis avenue after philip davis a pioneer east- ender who operated his furniture and un dertaking business on the west corner and that twin theatres could very wellarrive on our 10th line crossroads rebirth of the east is imminent but listen dont look for any expectant main strceters to be out anxiously pacing the sidewalks were too busy sealing ourselves off from 9 the sounds of spring- nvr ia i