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4 the tribune thursday august 28 i5 i i i i i i i t i i i ke rtbunie barre beacock established- 1888 s ojarlesil nolan publishers don bernard pvmhlwd every tmrsdayal 54 matostsiwrifvtmt oat ttlmo2101 editor toronto plica m1um sogl copies jk sabscriptioos mm per year in advertisine manaiw i tailor cnoitehewtieremem6rofawlilbreiofelreltioncnj rt manager community newspaper auoctetioa and ontario weekly newspapers i association second class mail registration mmber 0m itsh i the tribune is one oflke inland pobhshiofl co limited group of inpv- suburban newspapers which includes the aiexwhitbypickering news advertiser brampton guardian burlington post etobkoke oaiette markham economist and sun newmarkevwwora era oakville beaver z oshawa this week and mississauga news- j r edttorialk ff higher dbj fees e i answer tb soamng costs canine control since kennel inn of aurora received the contract to handle canine control duties for whitchurch stouffville 6000 miles have been logged by the patrol vehiclev ikeririel inn also handles the service for aurora and king neither of these two municipalities could compare with -whit- church stouffville both in miles travelled by the canine control officers and the number of dogs picked up ji in other words the cbstof patrolling this area is considerable in our opinion which appears to be shared by a number of members of council the canine control servicd should be selfsustaining one way of doing thatis by raising the fee for dogs tags xi- the other way is to levy heavy fines on people who allow their dogs to run loose and causea disturbance for neighbors as well as outright destruction ripped garbage bags with the contents spilled out oh the ground is mutetestimony to the way people allow their dogsto run free there is no excuse for that it is patently some people might feel that our society is going to the dogs the dog problem was discussed at some length at a recent council meeting the consensus was that increased dog tag fees would necessary to offset the cost of dump decisioii is long overdue sixteen and a half weeks have now passed since the conclusion of the environmental hearing board hearings on the highway j48 dump site enough time has passed we feel- for a decision to have been reached there is no real way of knowing whether the provincial ministry of the enviroriiheht is stalling until after the upcoming- elections i before releasing the information but if the decision goes against the town that would seem a likely possibility- at least it raises- f people who do not own dogs to be some unpleasant suspicions r subsidizing the canine control service through if there really js something potentially- their taxes dangerous about the dumps location and wev y council should act quickly to raise dog tag feel that there is it makes it all themore- feesyarid impose heavy fines on those dog- imperative for a speedy decision y owners thoughtless enough to allow their mr newman the people of stouffville are animals to run free it is the only fair thing to waitingfor an answer do go transit jsterdce need is finally ttognizedl frequent gray coach bus service will never do 7 that lr s transit concept is sound and the need rjealr the government whether progressive conservative or liberal should be pushed and prodded into making such a regular service a reality th j coliii barrett did imake his mark mdrchard halts house demolition work jhirtyrv yetsirs ago this week excerpts from thej tribune of aug 3i 1m5 one of the worst sneak robberies in the local farming- district reported for some time came to light on sunday when it ws discovered that a set of wagon wheels rubber tired had been removed from a wagon theyre our again the magazine ped- dler is calling at the homes and at business places again and stouffville had its first such peddlar last week since the war ended surely there is some needed work these fellows can do other than going from place to place pestering people about ordering magazines these orders could be sent direct through regular channels never at a higher rate than an- agent will ask anffij subscribers will be sure their money reaches the proper place too often the canvasser is a fake so this warning is issued to our readers in advance ssugar and spice war prisoners reunion not for bill y by bill smiley v go transit service from stbuffviile to toronto would certainly be welcomed by-the- people in this area the announcement recently by premier william davis ofesbfc lishment ofthe service may be viewed suspiciously by those who feel that election v promises are a dimeadozeh i but rather than think of it as a cynical political gimmick we should see it as promise and commitment from the premier of 9 j ontario after the election if mr davis i happens to be returned to office the govern- t ment should be pressed and pressed hard on 1 making good j t a fullblown commuter service with v i frequent runsreoufd certainly go a long way in v persuading people to leave their cars at home the present onceaday commuter anil in- bible thouabk forthweejt from the living bible lord you are my refuge dont let me down save me from my enemies for you are just rescue me bend down yoti ear and listen to my plea and save me be tome a great protecting rock where iam always welcome safe from all attacks for you have issued the order 4 save riie rescue me 0 gb unjust arid cruel men 0 lord you alone are my hope ive trusted you from childhood -yes7-you- have been withlme from birth and have helped me constantly no wonder i am- always praising you a psalms 7116 a although the tribune has been critical of schopfvbpard trustee colin barrett for his untimelydeparture from town it should be ma8e clear that mr barrett has made a significant contribution to stouffville during v i fiis seven years here iimr barrett has been active in the lions jclufi and the united church he hasbeen one pfntliempre vocal trustees on the board of educationahd was instrumental in establish- merirpmheistanding committee system ivin short we feel that the previous editorial was too negative perhaps the main v thrust- should have been against companies such as guaranty trust which gave mr permission to run for the board then a fewjshbrtj months later transferred him to ianoerv branch mr barrett has certainly done his sliare in making stouffville a better a place jo live it is unfortunate that there is work left- to be done on the board vr ilivit is too much to hope that mr barretts successor will carry on with the strong leadershiij he has thus far displayed a friend brought to my notice a news story the day he wanted my opinion of its contents the story was headed former war prisoners hold prairie reunion it stated that more than 500 former prisoners of war from britain the united- states and canada gathered at moose jaw recently for a 30th reunion the rest of the story was a little nauseating the reunion was held in an at mosphere riot unlike the prison camps they survived in wartime there was barbed wire a bazooka two machineguns a german flag people dressed up in german uniforms and caricatures of wartime german officers i gave my reaction to my friend a bunch of middleaged boys clinging to the only real thing that ever happened to them that sounds harsh at firstglance if its possible to glance at something and hear it but it satisfied my friend its incredible he said i too would like to see some of my old friends from prison camp but to talk not to play games i agreed i would like to see some of my xoid friends from prison camp for about half ah hour not for a threeday reunion with wives tagging along and perhaps this is whyl dont attend the annual reunion of former prisphersofwar though i am invited every year and i guess im not the only one there were 500 at this reunion from three countries where are all the othersthere were 10000 airmen in the camp i was in only one of many n a coupleof other items emerged from the news story guess where the chaps were entertaihedyn the officersmess at moose jaw secondly7 it wasilthe first reunion of pows in 30 years to beheld outside toronto what- does this suggest to me a littler- clique of torontobased exofficers who have kept the thing going- for who knows what adolescent satisfaction l whatever you may have heard or read elsewhere prisoners of war who were officers didnt suffer all that v much i know i was there we were not required to work in factories or mines or on farms as were other ranks i- know of no canadian officer who starved to death though grub wasmightly slim in the last few months perhaps one in 1000 was beaten tip for some misdemeanor i was onvof them and it was my own fault s it was- no bed of roses and i dont minimize the skill and daring of those who- tried to escape but looking back- it was all juvenileand boyscoutish lookouts secret passwords disguises cavingin tunnels in terminable planning and end results about as dramatic as one degree celsius there was suffering of course but it was not beatings and torture and starvation not for canadians it was not physical but psychological as far as military discipline went most of the bodies had far more freedom than they had had on their units but there was the simple fact that you were in jail and somebody would shoot you if you tried to get out quite the opposite to modern canadian jails and there was the great feeling of waste of knowing that the best years of your life were going down the drain while other young men werekissing girls and drinking beer and staying up all night and doing all the other foolish things young men do there was bordeom and monotony and stagnation and frustration and a little lurking fear that the latrine rumors might be true that hitler had ordered the ss to eliminate all pows when germany faced ultimate defeat- i s but there were compensations there was a tremendous sense of oneness against the enemy there was the fascinating meeting of different ideas and cultures a great and almost immediate education in itself throw into one room the following a young actor from the london stage a kid from a prairie farm a glasgow toughie a dublin hooligan an australian sheep farmer a welsh poet a rhodesian schoolboy a nor wegian railworker thats a bare sample toss in an american from california and a west indian singing calypsos and a belgian bookmaker and a polish count and a few other assorted odds and sods and you had a typical group at least in my camp i wonder where they all are most of them certainly are a long way from moose jaw and a small group from toronto whose members can afford to fly to a convention and try to recapture something that is gone forever for the same reason i have stopped going to reunions of old fighter pilots i went to a couple enjoyed them but there is a tendency to maudlinism exaggeration and downright lying about longgone days these potbellied blad wife-ridden- rightleaning class- conscious middleaged poops are my old comrades no way my memories of prison camp and fighter- piloting are far more fun than meeting some redfaced paunch who roars over the nose from the bar hey yeah arent you jack jack wiley yeah we were at sagan together i was atbarth wancha tameet the wife l all the wife wants is not to meet me but to be sure that george is on his feet for the final evenings ball at which she will peer with her sad crumpled 50year old face at all the other sad crumpled 50year old ladies and wonder what the hell thekids are up to while shes hoofing it up in moose jaw i told a little of this to my friend he understood he was a german officer with rommel badly wounded in north africa i spent three years in a us prison camp and is now a canadian citizen where are the shows of yesteryear tnonmakjjglkethlspackapd onejeightyanj more it was interior which reminds one of another eratnot the plastlclwklngiflashy onebf the carsfeatured at the whitchrjchstouffvito museum aug 17 in dashboard appointments of the present generation of autos theanuque and classic car show therewat a coftate elegance to the t john montgomery ojn when riiy friend the book representative lent me- his autographed copy of man in black johnny cashs story in his own words i muss confess thati was less than enthusiastic v my only firm knowledge of johnny cash were through his songs a boy named sue and ring of fire my brother and i used to dry dishes in the kitchen afterlunch and listen to the latter song among others on the radio ifell into a burning ring of fire i went down down down and the flames grew higher and it burns burns burns that ring of fire the song never excited any great en- thusiasm inline and a boy named sue always seemed oneof kind in a negative kind of way country music itself to me was someone singing nasally about my bleedin heart i strongly expected the book to be nothing less than hokey- but out of an innate sense of politeness i read the first chapter i liked it the second one was good too as was the third and the fourth now i have finished the book and found the whole thing en tertaining along with being on occasions shall we say inspiring for one thing there are not too many people who have lived the kind of life johnny cash has as a boy he worked in cotton fields with his family in arkansas and at night listened to the country and gospel music coming over the radio he dreamed of entering the music world himself some day he finally realized his dream became a star and commenced taking amphetamines as a means of staying alert and confident during his appearances after a while however the combinations of uppers along with alcohol and downers just about literally killed johnny cash in a 1966 photograph in the book he looks roiighly like the kind of person you might expect to walk into the savannah georgia mens room at midnight ive been there the sort of man mothers warn their daughters about a another picture however taken in 1974 shows a big hulking healthy and happy man man in black iv iby fed wilcox h h something had happened to cash in the meantime 1 the book centres on that something carrying through the theme of his christian faith from his boyhood to the present ihatetosayitjbutinmany ways the most r interesting parts dealt with his lowest down andout days his pill habit caused him to cancel whole tours wreck his first marriage and do things like going out in the desert with his jeep at night and start rolling down a dark hillside with no brakes or lights on he was in short nutsy and had enough money- to wreck scores of cars hotel rooms and guitars v some people think i used to be tough and now im soft cash wrote the opposite is true i used uo be weaker and more vulnerable erratic unpredictable and even unapproachable by most the cashbf those days became a legend in the bars and nightclubs of nashville and each trippedout escapade became another cash story r trouble was he was miserable and nearly killed himself many times over the crisis h came to a head whenhe was put in jail for his seventh one night stand this time in lafayette georgia the sheriff- ralph jones was a longtime fan of johnny cashs and was brokenhearted at having to lock him up in the morning jones had cash come upstairs and gave him back his money and his pills do with your life whatever you want to he told him just remember you got the free will to either kill yourself or save yourself and it was at that time that cash decided to do the latter he went home and holed up in his -bedroom- for days while- becoming unhabituatedtto- amphetamines friends and family watched over him during the time and kept him away from his bennies what makes the book as a whole worth while is that its all true there- isnt an ounce of discernible phoniness country music fans i suppose would enjoy- some behindthescenes incidents in volving elvis presley charlie pride and other biggies altogether ive decided that my book representative friend is pushing agood product j a-