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ar ci 4 toe tribune thursday oct 16 175 ft established 18ss oiarles 1l nolan publisher 1 pumibdvcrytlwrsdiystj4miasustoufvilloottelme10w barre seacock i toronto pbon mtimo single copies mo wbacriptions 4100 per yer in advertislne malum- caiudjllt40elswiiremnbrof audit bureau of circulitioa canadian 5 community newspapers association jnd ontario weekly newspapers 1 association second class null reaistrationnomoer mm atsl i the tribune is one of the mund publishing co limited group of hi suburban newspapers whlcb includes the afaxwhitbypiekering news c2v b l advertiser brampton guardian burlington post etobicoke gazette 7 i markham economist and sun newmarkeaurora era oakville beaver oshawa this week and mississaug news v leditdrials courtesy is still necessary as so often happens an interested group of people attended last weeks planning board meeting to oppose a proposed development near their homes and as sooften happens many of ese people but not all astounded us with their obnoxious dispositions and ill manners during the course of the meeting at which the board graciously allowed members j of the public to speak although they were not on the agenda snide remarks and rude comments were interjected by the audience these remarks were generally designed to cast some doubt on the competence or honesty of the board members one gen- tleman went so far as to call stouffviue a slum suburb of toronto a remark we feel most local residents would take issue with we believe that public participation in j municipal government will ultimately benefit the entire municipality but the truculent negative attitudes of many ratepayers can do nothing but harm municipal politicians have thankless tedious and poorpaying work already without thoughtless constituents adding to the problem by insinuating they have their hands in the developers pockets everytime they listen to a development proposal these people seem to forget that developers have the same right to appear before planning board or council as any other property owner and there is nothing sinister in the boards listening to these proposals as in fact this is an important part of the boards function public participation in these meetings would be much more constructive if people would do some research into the matter and raise valid objections rather than resorting to innuendo we can only commend council for their forbearance in dealing with this unnecessary rudeness with a foo poo here a poo tyoo there bible thought for the week from the living bible then god said let the water beneath the sky be gathered into oceans so that- the dry land will emerge and so it was then god named the dry land earth and the water seas and god was pleased and he said let the earth burst forth with every sort of grass and seed- bearing plant and fruit trees with seeds inside the fruit so that these seeds will produce the kinds of plants and fruits they came from and so it was and god was pleased this all occurred on the third day genesis 1913 ban motorboats on lake sugar and spice pros and cons of court news by bill smiley o council has started the ball rolling to limit boat speeds on musselmans lake a motion will come up soon to limit motor boat speeds bn the lake to 5 mph councillor becky wedley is the moving force behind the motion she feels that setting the speed limit will effectively end the problem on the lake her rationale for setting the speed limit is that people with very small motor boats should be allowed on the lake they present no hazard the first problem with setting a speed limit is enforcement it surely is difficult when so many boats operate police who will have to enforce the town regulations are likely to have a difficult time catching speeders from theshore how speeds will be clocked is another difficult matter the council would be better off to ban motor boats completely from the lake it is small enough to be able to paddle or row across in short order banning motor boats would be enforceable and would allow the lake to remain a quiet recreational area if council is truly interested in main taining the lake as a peaceful recreational area a complete ban is the only way to do so a limit on speed which can only be enforced with difficulty is only a halfmeasure musselmans lake has served well in the past as a summer playground almost without equal in this way it would be even better and serve more people if motorboats were eliminated completely we hope council takes this position when the matter is discussed and a motion presented tf- a nbie study is important the cancellation of the pickering airport has meant that all work connected with the project- has been suspended however an ambient noise study in this area will be carried out as planned and that is a good thing in the first place ho one has ever bothered to conduct such a study before an airport is built this could provide revolutionary data on noise levels in towns such as stouffvilie and whether aircraft noise intrudes on those levels the study takes on new importance too now that the project has been shelved tfie results may add to the cry for complete abandonment of the project on the other hand the study could show that noise will not be a serious problem in stouffviue in eithercase the study is important it will provide data facts and figures that should be useful in determining whether the airport should be built and if it does proceed what sorts of compensation must be offered to property owners in town the completion of the study is an im portant matter we are pleased that testing will- continue something came up on my saskatchewan holiday this summer past that rather in trigued me and i thought it might strike a chord responsive or otherwise in the breast i or breasts of my best friends the readers of this column i had thrown a small and unselect party on the last night of the convention at least it began small it grew steadily larger because it was unselect everybody who passed the open door of my room was hollered at to cummon in fortunately most of the people who were passing were weekly newspaper people with their wives girl friends or grandmothers with regard to the ladies i must confess said he gallantly that you couldnt tell the girls from the grandmothers perhaps that is because its womens jnernational year but i doubt it i have noticed in the last few years that- girls are becoming- more like grandmothers the glasses the long skirts the humped shoulders and for good or worse grannies are becoming more like girls smoking cigarettes drinking rye whiskey and elevating their bosoms with the aid of goodnessonlyknowswhat miracles of elastic to positively perilous positions well back to the party federal arid provincial womens lib starving editors rotten kids arid overpaid workers were dealt with fairly smartly and expeditiously they were all bad we agreed except for the starving editors the last bulwark in the fight for freedom law and order the old virtues and a return to the good years of the depression this was standard for a party and i was pleased that everything was so cool- but as every host or hostess of every party everywhere and every time knows most people sensibly go home to bed and mine host is stuck with the ragtag and bobtail of the party who still have a few bones stuck in their craws and want to wash them away with some fairly strong solvent it happened i wont mention names because they are two fine western editors good to their children kind to their wives pillars of their communities and i dont want them run out of town on some tonnip rails of a defunct line of the cpr not tarred and feathered but smeared from head to foot with printers ink and copies of their old editorials ill just call them ragtag and bobtail ragtag finally ran out of arguments and steam about 4 am but bobtail kept me up until 647 am the bus leaving at 830 for the fishing trip me going him not and i hope if he read this he is dying slowly and painfully from an incurable disease this is what they got hacking about with me as the judge should or should not a weekly editor run in his columns court news and that is why i thought your readers might have an opinion ragtag said ab- solutelyit is our duty no one can be spared we owe it to our readers if i rhyself r were convicted of impaired driving i would riuf it in the paper bobtail spoke thus blankbeep who do you think you are god the guy or the gal lias already been judged and sentenced by the law he or she has been punished all you are doing by priritingit in the paper is doubling the sentence exposing him or her to the scorn and contempt of friends and neigh bors and salivating sensationseekers who swoop like vultures on the garbage that is other peoples troubles as you can see bobtail was a little more poetic but ragtag was not to be downed so easily he fought back ok smartass what would you do if there was a murder in your town youll note that he had by riow dropped thesub- juctive i v bobtail id ignore it id say in the paper that s6andsohad passed away on suchandsuch if the calgary papers wanted to come in and make a big murder thing of it letem you know what id do id go and see the widow or widower and talk to her or him as a friend i wont bore you with any more the argument went on for two hours with the judge me looking at a nonexistent watch brightly mentioning that the fishing trip was starting in two hours and even calling room service to see what time it was so what would you do gentle reader if you were a weekly editor would you run the court news and break some poor mothers heart or do you think that the public has a right to know that the mayor got drunk and beat up his wife when i was aweekly editor i had to cope with this i decided with the full concurrence of my partner that there was no particular point in running court news too many people were being doubly punished and why merely for the delectation of the righteous strangely enough or not the people who howl and plead the most- when it is their family about to be exposed in public print are the most the less righteous are almost- proud that nephew elmer got his name in the paper v three days later on our fishing trip i reintroduced the subject and saw two weekly newspapermen this time from ontario practically coriie to blows over the issue daily papers treat the subject with the utmost cynicism they have a court reporter he or she reports only cases before the judge which will make a good story the salacious the sensational the bizarre only those that will make the reader chuckle or slaver what do you think perhaps your editor would beinterestedjn your opinion does he or she run court news does it serve any purpose you judge write him or her write me care of him or her i would really like to know how or- dinary decent human beings feel about this viewpoint niagara jaunt proves enjoyable by don bernard without arid ttiejvbrrns which eat away from withirir odcvlt anchored a stately tree but no of life shell remains of its former ilnding us of the impermaiience niagara falls on an october weekend may rot sound like a dream vacation but we decided to take a chance on the weather and spend some time away from it all i had a few days coming to me so thanksgiving weekend looked like the best time to go away prior to that my wife had arranged to billet some dutch people who were with a choir making a north american tour she was quite excited at the prospect especially as the choir was from katwijk a village not far from where her mother lives with the time off i was able to give part of one day to my garden and managed to do about half the work i had hoped to do thursday evening we picked up the people we had a member of the choir and his wife and a journalist travelling with the group after an interesting talk we all went to bed johanna and i gave our bed to the visitors and so we slept on the couch perhaps because of the situation neither of us got much sleep that night friday we had a leisurely breakfast of homemade pancakes and then headed for a shopping mall the visitors enjoyed the mall which was unusual for them i suppose we would have liked to show them more of toronto but time was very short after a quick supper- the choir member whose first name was bernard hadto be at the queen elizabeth building at the cne by 630 pm we arrived in time then waited until the show started at8pm choir had over 100 members and a foikdance group was along to provide a break in the music piano and oboe soloists also f orm wi part of the program it was thoroughly enjoyableandthe choir provided a varied program from hymns and spirituals to secular folk songs from different countries- after the concert home againand to bed saturday morning we had to be up at 6 am to have them at the bus by 830 when they were toieave for muskegan ohio the next stop on the tour from there we decided to go on to niagara falls thus we had two nights without sufficient sleep we were looking forward to a peaceful night in a hotel room although we were fearful of spending a night in the same room with bekah niagara falls was crowded despite overcast and cool weather busloads of tourists mostly from parts of the united states could be seen everywhere we walked along the falls enjoying the natural beauty but a walk through some of the streets running from the falls proved disappointing there were about six kinds of wax museums none very appealing the rest of the street consisted of gift shops all with the same souvenirs restaurants and motels after a walk through that area we were totally tufnedoff it seems to be mans nature to see the exploitation of a natural attraction as per fectly legitimate we went to our hotel room early and set up the crib provided by the hotel we managed to use a bedspread to create a separate en closure for bekah letting her play until she couldnt play anymore assured she would fall asleep quickly after two feeble cries she was gone- beings tired out ourselves we went to sleep early expecting to catch up on our sleep it didnt work out that way however it seems that just after we put out the light everybody was returning to their roomsdoors started banging and toilets started flushing all around we woke up sundaymorning after a third relatively sleepless night sunday proved to be the nicest day of all we drove along the niagara river north from the falls queenstbn heights proved to be a delightful spot and we walked around the park near the brock monument the view out over the niagara river was quite spectacular fortunately while the leaves had passed their prime in the stouffviue area the colors were bright on the niagara peninsula the drive along the river provided to be the highlight of our trip after visiting some people in niagaraonthelake in the af ternoon we headed back tostouffville con tented with our trip we are gradually catching up on our sleep and felt good after a weekend that proved to be both full and unusual for us ml 30 years ago this week excerpts from the tribune from ocober 18 1345 you cant keep a good man down so goes the old saying and it is particularly ap plicable to mr willis monkhouse who has just enjoyed his first aeroplane ride mr monkhouse is shortly tojorour townoc- uogenarians but v daunted he as up for a flight the other day with ernie stouffer a stouffviue boy now operating a- garage in toronto and who makes frequent flights over his native vi 1 1 a ge mr monkhouse was taken for a spin over the city- of toronto arid was greatly thrilled with the sight he says he is quite ready to go up i again and would like- nothing better than to have a birdseye view of stouffvillej 4