The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

wxt rtfiwne tribune thursday july 24 ims i i i i i 1 i i i i i i li don io2ss established 1888- v- j ciiarljes h nolan i- is v publisher bkrnakd iilmd r thursday mmmainststorrvillonttelmioivbarre beacock editor toroo 3ll0sol copies mtacriptim mo per year in advunr m lumor canadisehwere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian ng manager f circulation canadian community newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number mm tnejtribuoe is one of iw inland publishina co limited 9 roup of suburban newspapers which includes tbe ajaxwhitbypickerino news advertiser brampton guardian burlington post etobicoke cazette markham economist and sunnewmarketaurora era oakville beaver i 4r osbawa tbis week and aussissauaa news jv f s welf arte dkanges sbiight ciiiia v the topic of welfare reform has surfaced at both york and durham regional councils recently while the york health and social services committee has been considering requiring welfare recipients to work for their subsidy a durham regional move to that effect was recently quashed by ontarios minister of community and social services the suggested changes grow out of a recognition of real defects in the way welfare programs operate through them people are best wishes for dr neit smith few business and professional people in stouff ville have the distinction of serving this community for a span of fifty years dr neil smith dentist who has just retired from his office above the canadian imperial bank of commerce building has that distinction and is a most worthy recipient of the several recent honors bestowed upon him dr smith was the second generation in his profession to serve stouffville his father before him still remembered by the older generation our honored citizen has been cited for his work in the church the lions club and sports field and his overall interest in the com munity has always been keen hundreds of stouffville and nearby residents who have been patients of dr smith throughout his entire career look upon his retirement as akin to the end of an era but they also wish the good doctor every hap- piness in his leisure years few will attain his record of service and the tribune is pleased to join dr smiths host of friends in endorsing the honors received and wishing him many pleasant years of retired life systematically shown that being unemployed can pay off studies have demonstrated that second and third generations of welfare recipients grow up never having observed or learned what work is about it might be added that many of the unemployed might feel that even if they did take a job they would not be serving any more useful purpose than they currently do for example besides earning an income what other benefit to society would result from spending the day at a factory producing foot deodorant they might wonder and furthermore welfare does serve a necessary purpose there are those who simply need help from the government or they would starve as they do in less affluent societies but the problems remain welfare and charity both tend to demean those on the receiving end they are an impersonal and even easy means of dealing with deeprooted problems in terms of changing the system having recipients work on certain public service projects might not be a bad idea at worst no more boondoggling would likely occur than in the average job today another possible reform would be for some welfare recipients to be allowed to earn a greater amount of money on their own while remaining on welfare rolls at present there is no great incentive to take a 70aweek job if it means losing your 70aweek welfare check this basic change was suggested but never implemented in the us while costing more at the beginning this change would pay off by affording some incentive to many recipients for seeking and accepting em- ployment once started work can be a con- 1 tagious activity at any rate discussion about welfare reform in york and durham is a healthy sign and we hope some tangible changes will result x jhs matter ispevital interest jand deeply concern that the people of- whitchurchstduffvillew s sugar and spice bill earned the life of riley by bill smiley vpters shortchanged we are barely seven months into the municipal term of office and itseems whit- churchstouffvilles school- board representative is resigning w trustee colin barretthas received a job transfer to leamington and although he has not yet resigned he has already assumed his duties there it is our opinion the voters of this com munity have been shortchanged by mr barrett who lost no time in reaching the decision that his job advancement was more important than the commitment he had made to serve as trustee s we would takea more tolerant viewof mr barretts actions if he had run un contested but as he fought a hard campaign and beat out the incumbent representative we find this intolerable it now appears the municipality might jbe represented bya board appointee who could well be mr barretts defeated opponent john macmurray mr barrett has been making statements to the press that his replacement should be chosen by the peopleof stouffville yet he never bothered to consider this before ac- cepting his putoftown position f mr barrett told the tribune he plans to get just as involved in the community of leamington as he did in this community but it is our fervent hope that if this involvement again takes a political turn the people of leamington will have the foresight tocut it short bydefeating mr barrett at the polls research stouffville repprts in 1888 stouffville was a small village only 11 years old there were many things stouffville needed street lamps sidewalks fire fighting equipment gravel on the roads electricity water worksaiid other such things a small village really not afford v stouffville however was a fast growing community arid the citizens active and- concerned in 1889 they circulated petitions requiring the immediate in stallation of many of these demands and by 1900 most were sated now stouffville is a small town and though prosperous and expanding it has lost something irreplaceable at one- time stouffville accommodated a pool hall- a movie theatre a curling rink a lacrosse team and a race track but the town has becoriie dependent on other communities for tnese entertainments gone are all the elaborate afternoon teas the garden partiesthe grandbld balls in daleys hall- no longer- can stouffville boast of sup porting five hotels and five tavernsfancy dress carnivals every week and wood cutting bees and afternoon sleighing in the winter has faded into history have we lost an essential element of our town this column written by research stouff- ville an ofy funded group appears regularly in the tribune the project is housed in the old library 6401859 well that big heat wave through the end of june and into july puts the lie to all those pessimists who claim our summers are changing getting cooler and damper that was a real oldfashioned scorcher even our big old highceiliriged house surrounded by shadetrees warmed up to the almostuncomfortable point after a week of high blue skies and hot yellow suns farmers were worried and a lot of people who hadto work through the heat were suf- fering and i had room for a lot of sympathy for both as i lay on the beach and wondered whether 1 should go in for another duck to cool off i have lots of sympathy but no feeling of guilt because i have paid my dues slugging it out in the heat many a summer when other people were cooling off outside and inside j there were several years of working as a i serf ron one of the big passenger boats that used to ply the great lakes we worked 12 hours a day seven days a week that was in the days when a long- weekend was just a long weekend with no holidays for the working stiff most of the summer i enjoyed thoroughly when we were up the lakes sleeping under blankets at night- and revelling in the hot clear days and cool nights of the lakehead or thunderbay as its now known but down at the lower end of the seven day runat windsor and detroit it was- another story that was then and still is the muggiest funkiest just plain hellhottest place in north america even the passengers perspired heavily the crew didnt perspire nor even sweat they rah like waterfalls when you nit the detroit river you knew it first by the filth of the water secondly by the lack of any semblance of breeze third by the stink from the breweries of- windsor there was no air conditioning in those days if you had a fan kicking around torrid tjred air you were lucky the passenger cabins wereairless the crews quarters most of them without windows or portholes were virtually unbreathable in and j the stokehole where the black gang fired the coal into the furnaces was an inferno why there wasnt mutiny down there ill never know but we were young and healthy and had nounions to tell us how we were being ex ploited which we were so after cleaning up the boat and standing under a tepid shower it was on with some clean duds and out to sample the joys of a night in detroit big- league ball games burlesque shows and something the yanks called beer it was pretty heady stuff not the beer for a 17 or 18 year old some of the boys had a little trouble making it up the gangplank then it was up to the top deck because there was no use trying to sleep in our quarters and sit there naked as the boat glided up the river into lake st clair and the first signs of a breeze again no sleep and a 12hour day ahead but who needed it then there was a summer working in a factory in toronto most of the factory was air conditioned it had become practicable by then as- the plant turned out film and cameras but guess who got to work in the machine shop down in the bowels with the lathes and thewelding machines ahdthe temperatureabout 96 in hot weatheryand swear it was hot all summer the guys down there were in a foul mood throughout their shift i honestly believe that in the various summer jobs ive had i have sweated enough to fill the tank of one of those new solarheated homes theyre talking about something like 40000 gallons and theres another type i feel sorry for thats the weekly newspaper editor of course theyre so spoiled now that some of them even have as i understand air con- 1s ditioning in their offices but in my day the office took the full blast of the summer sun from about noon on- outside on the streetlong cool girls in shorts and tops and little cool brown kids in even less sauntered along oblivious to the heat- inside the editor stewed and sizzled trying to shake off pieces of paper that stuck to his damp hands trying to explain to ad vertisers why the paper was coming out late wondering if there would be any advertising next week and trying to wring an editorial out of a soggy brain maybe ill check things out with some of my old weekly colleagues at the convention this summer in saskatoon ill expect a cool answer yes sympathy but no guilt feeling now ifyoull excuse me i have to take my grand- baby out to the beach where we will sit in the cool sand with the waves washing over our legs and look at the girls in bikinis and dig holes in the wet sand and splash each other and jabber at each other in that special- language that nobody else seems to un- derstand and give not a single thought to all the poor steamy smelly masses working today never mind chaps ive got a rotten sunburn midsummer blues rby john montgomery thirty 7 years ago this week excerpts from the tribune from -july- 26 1w5 too much water there is- anabun- dance of water this summer in thetown j reservoirs so much so in fact that consumers are not restricted in the use of lawn hose fire chief del jennings has been asked to open a few hydrants to relieve the situation since the water is unable to escape through the overflows at the reser- i voirs fast enough to keep some from running over the banks v invaluable ddt pf-sssr- twevare more thin sis3sl anxious to get hold of that newest insecticide known as ddt while it cannot berccommendedfor farms since it kills every kindpf obug- including- those that arc beneficial i i it is invaluable forbulcesp shopsand honiespneol t two applicati6nsaseasonjs this midsummer weather drives me crazy s not that i dislike the heat arid the sun shine but to be more specific i hate the effect it has on me it absolutely devastates me- it saps my energywhat little there was to begin with and i am the next best thing -to- useless at work i would be completely useless except my employers had the foresight to stick me into a little cave of an office withbuta single win- dow r r one window to stareand daydream out of and my productivity would drop trom the- normal 20 per cent of capacity toanun- forgiveable zero x the point is i dont hate thisyeather but in fact like it too well and consequently it totally ruins me i get up in the morning look out at the sunshine arid then i literally have to v drag myself to work if i had things mywayand i dontii would spend my days loafing in the shade and the most strenuous project i would tackle would be snapping the top off a cool one normally i more or less enjoy my job but in this weather the only thing that keeps me at it is the fear i have of arousing the ugly side of my bank managers personality not to mention- my landlord who has an ugly disposition at the best of times without driving him to distraction by not paying- the rent- the reasons i have listed pretty well preclude my playing hookey so the only thing i can do is drag my lifeless hulk into the office every day- whether i actually do lariy work when i get there is a different story entirely though the only compromise i have come up with- is i manage to have assignments that require me to hang around the park at musselmans one week of holidaying is usually more ex- haustingthan six months of working i had to really drag my heels for about a month last year to recover from my holidays v of coursethat was an exceptional holiday se its not often you get tospend two rainsoaked weeks camping out with the mosquitoes and black flies of northern ontario throw in some expensive car trouble and a touch of sun stroke from that one clear day and youve got an unforgettable vacation holidays in reality arent much but they are the stuff of hours of idyllic daydreaming add this to the ennui brought on i by the weather and what you have left is little better t thana human wreck ijv the most tryingthing is sitting through council meetings which at their most exciting jj merit little more than a yawn and at their worst are indescribable oh well maybe it will rain tomorrow it always cheers me up to know that if i cant be out enjoying the weather at least nobody else fc can either v on the screens will kill ther this almost surrealistic photo tells its own story it was i association standi in contrast to the reflection of a car and niescfteduratn torn avhtotfewtadwriirt xfriowhrecenuy c jolin montgomery summer r the office about how tired and over worked i am and how much i need a vacation- this is a little silly as inniy experience v jbible thought for the week from the living bible the path of the godly leads away from evil he who follows that path is safe pride goes before destruction and haughtiness- before a fall better poof and humble than- v proud and rich god blesses those who obey himhappy themamwho puts his trust in eirdthewisemariisknownby his fcoriimoh sense and a pleasant teacher is thebestwisdomisa fountain of life to f thosepbssessingitj- to a fools burden is this folly- from a wise mind comes careful and persuasive speech proverbs 161723 z x 3 zi