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the tribune thursday november 13 wis if whi wtiiiim established 188 charles 1l nolan publisher- don bernard pumbhtdcvcry thursday t m main st stoukvill onl tel mo2101 vaar torooto phone mmoft single copies kc lubserlptions h00 pr yr la v caiudasi tmchcwbcr member of aodh soruo of circulation canadian j community newtpaperf association and ontario weekly newspapers i association second class mail registration number om the tribune is one ot the inland publishing co limited group oi b suburban newspapers which includes the alaxwbitbypickering news advertiser brampton guardian burlington post etobicoke caiette i marknam economist and sua mtwmjrki aurora eraoakville beaver nj oshawa this week and mississauga news i i i i i- i i barre beacock advertising manager ft i- i i i creative planning needed 1 i stouffville is in for some spectacular growth in the next five years recently the council sent the dulverton subdivision to the provincial government for draft plan ap- proval mayor gordon ratcliff has said that grim reminder to all motorists in recent months the tribune has reported several accidents involving gravel trucks including two fatalities while not all of the incidents have been the fault of the truck operators there does appear to be a problem with the driving habits of at least a few of the drivers one private operator told us the problem had to do with a few irresponsible drivers often they are immature and inex- perienced he said speeding and recklessness on the part of a few has also been attributed to the policy of some companies of paying by the load rather than the hour but provided drivers are paid enough per load to make a decent living without speeding we trust they will take special care in the coming months v we hope that some of the grim news we have had to report recently will serve as a- reminder not only to gravel truck operators but to all of us on the road these days construction could start next summer all this shows that stouffville is to grow in the next five years it will likely double its present population in the next 10 years this is inevitable being so close to toronto council will require a great deal from the developer an addition to the sewage treatment plant rechannelization of duffins creek plus construction of an eastwest road will all be paid for by the developer total cost is something over 2 million the plan is massive by stouffville stan dards it wiil take in 135 acres and will include 473 detached house and 68 semidetached units there will be four parks by contrast the college- park subdivision now under construction will have 180 homes we hope that the council is tough in these negotiations the character of the town is at stake we hope that some creative plan ning will be involved stouffville does not need just another subdivision it needs one that will be an asset to the town thought l for the week q from the living bible the girl my beloved one is tanned and handsome better than ten thousand others his head is purest gold and he has wavy raven hair his eyes are like doves beside the water brooks deep and quiet his lips are perfumed lilies his breath like myrrh his arms are round bars of gold set with topaz his body is bright ivory encrusted with jewels his legs are pillars of marble set in sockets of finest gold none can rival him his mouth is altogether sweet lovable in every way o such 0 women of jerusalem is my beloved my friend solomon 6 1016 survey blind fund drive i j i i a worthy project i the stouffville lions club has always been a communityoriented service group ahd- has contributed much to making r stouffvilleabetterplace to live the lions are embarking on another project in effort to aid local blind people a jfund raising drivers now underway local j facilities to aid the blind arein the works i a target figure of 2500 has been set doortblopr canvasingis now being carried out and will continue until this coming i saturday nov 15 the lions are to be congratulated on this i project it is up to you to dig deep to contribute 1 to such a worthy cause r day care provides acid test a survey- by regional officials early in december will provide the acid test for those people advocatinga day care centre in stouffville the region has three centres operational with one soon to open at thornhill community centre there are owned andoperated by the regions department of health and social services v the survey team will attempt to obtain firm commitments from people who would use the day care centre if it were built in stouffville a number of people have been pushing for such a centre the region is reluctant to go ahead without a firm indication that the need is a real one j fl-v- v i x wefeeithat government sponsored day care has proven tobe of jiigh caliber but the cost c has also been thigh- without a firm v commitment from the people of whitchurch- stouffville nofurther action should be taken potential users are being given a chance to express support without that support- a regional day care centre in stouffville is the wrong arm of the law by john montgomery unthinkable vi years excerpt from the tribune from november 15 1945 break for reporters the muctfabused newspaper reporter is getting a postwar break the science of electronics has provided him with a perfect defence against the person who says i was misquoted i didnt say that a pocket model wire recorder produced by utah electronics canada limited and now available to civilian users will take down with absolute ac- j curacy anything any speaker or terviewer says after the speech or iri- terviewis over the reporter -canplay- it back in his own office with accuracy i guaranteed 1 i if after a reasonable period following publication the speaker or interviewer has not complained that he was misquoted the wire is simply demagnetized and used again if there are any complaints the complainant is simply invited to come into the office and listen to his own voice and his ownwordsv il its going to be tough on politicians but lawfully nice for the reporters editorial upholds spanking the merits of spanking as a deterrent to juvenile crime were voiced by bench and bar in the court r appeal at toronto recently at the hearing of an appeal against 1 the sentence omwo years in the ontario reformatory upon 15 year old boy for the theftof two automobiles this is a stand which is being taken by many who are convinced that definte steps must be taken to curb the wave of crime which is sweeping the nation as one of the aftermaths of the war in many instances no doubt juvenile delinquency can be traced to the absence of the male parent and the inability of the mother to control contributing factors are the large volume of lurid pulp magazine storiesand wifibvies in whichcrime the criminal a vi tvvfcr jit isencouraging to note that the house v6f commons isconsidering legislation to sjbiuafronif canada jthemagazines iwhlchu feature cririielaand gunplay vathe government should go a step fur- thercand banicrime movies -i- teacher demands doom 10 limit as trustees of- the york county board of education try to find a way to limit the 1976 budget increase to10 per cent one has the impression that the taskv is doomed from the start r the one important factor j is teacher salaries if- the york county teachers are anywhere near as militant as their toronto couhterpartsthen a budget increase of 25 per cent is more likely that of course is inflationary the only hope for relief to the harried homeowner who pays the shot is restraint on the part of the teachers actions of the toronto teachers show clearly that restraint is notih their collective vocabularies the other day i had a rather unpleasant experience when i went to court to fight a speeding ticket the incident itself was rather a trivial one but the implications are rather serious and farreaching i feel jthat what happened to me is likeiyhappening- to others but to a much greater degree it all started a month or so ago when i was driving east out of stouffville along main and just past the 10th line i came over the crest of the hill there and right into a radar trap the first sight i had of the officer he was already half way out of his cruiser- to flag me downbefore applying the brakes i glanced at my speedometer which registered 38 mph he walked upto my- car and told me he hadclocked nie at 4b mph to which i replied i was only doing 38v very snottilyhe told me his radar is ac- curate within point two of a mile and he then- asked for my licence and ownership i gave it to him and he went off to his cruiser wrote out a ticket for 10 miles over the limit and gave it to me not another word was exchanged i was 011116 angry although as it turned out not as angry aswhen i went to court as it seemed tometheofficer was halfway out of the car wen ifirst saw him in my opinion he didnt have to get a reading as he couldnt 7 clock me until i came over the crest of the hill and as i mentioned before my speedometer read38- j my other complaint was i felt it was a c- cheap ticket police traditionally have used some discretion in hahdingout tickets and i felt hewas really trying to stick it tome the original idea behind radar traps was to increase road safety yet the way this officer used it constituted nothing more than harassment the only reasonhewas in that particular location was it afforded him a good hiding spot there was no safety factor in- volved s i got the ticket it was the middle of the afternoon when no children would be about the road was dry and the traffic was extremely light that particular stretch of road is safe enough to guarantee there would be some speeders i mentioned using discretion earlier and by this i mean police have traditionally considered such factors as weather pedestrians and traffic when giving out tickets i dont feel he had any justification for giving me a ticket for doing eight miles over the limit although he maintains i was doing 10 even at 10 under the almost ideal conditions that day most policemen wouldnt have issued a summons for those reasons even though it was only a 13 ticket i decided to go to court over it my court daycameand i went up to aurora and pleaded not guilty i was guilty of speeding but riot of doing 10 miles oyer the officer got up to testify was sworn in identified me personally as the person he had charged and told the judge he had clocked me at 42 but had reduced it- to 40 this was the first i had heard of this and i was so surprised byit i never questioned him about it i told jhy version and since the court automatically assumed i was a liar i was convicted j the p only consolation i had was my fine was knockedownfrom13to 10 whoopee i was then directed to a roonioff to the side where i was to wait to pay up as it happened the officer was also in- that room he was fairly surly and seeiried quite indignant that i had come to court- he didnt much want to talk but i kept bugging him youdidnttellthetruthupthereisaid hereplied fie didnt know what i was talking about and kept repeating he had let rmeoff s r- i told him he didnt know what he was talking about and i asked him why when he stopped me he specifically said he had clocked me at 40 if in fact he had clocked me at 42 he replied he didnt haveto tell me what he clocked me at only what he was going to charge me with in my opinion a ridiculous argument i told him and i wasnt lying that if i had been going 42- 1 would have paid up without complaining i then he said something about i was the guy who was going to the golf course i told him that was ridiculous because not only did we not talk to each other but i dont even gold he sort of shrugged and said i coufdrit expect him to remember everybody this struck me as odd as he had not five minutest- earlier testified under oath that he rerriem- bered who i was j i asked him how he knew he had let me off sincehe couldnt remember who i was he answered hehad it in his notes j that sounded logical c except he never w9 looked at his notes wherihetestified all he had was a carbon copy of- the summons he gave me and it certainly never said anything about 42 mph he waseitherlyingprhewas shockingly casual about his facts while testifying under oath the thing that bothered me was i could have been parked at the side of the road at the time and i still would have been convicted1 was automatically disbelieved j r 1 was mad enough when i left thecourt to consider appealing the case buttdiscbveredif would have to put down a 50 deposit which m would not be refunded if i lost i talked to a lawyerj know and he was shocked not that the incident had happened but that i was naive enough to be upset about- it he said it happens all the time arid he ac- cepted it as a fact of life my own case i know is extremely ini significant but it makes me wonder when an officer does something like thatover such a trivial matter what would he do or say to obtain an important conviction it was not my intention to besmirch all l policemen in this column as many are cer- tainly worthy of respect for their devotion to their work and for their honesty ff a while ago i drove to the hardware store to buy a rubber stopper for my car what size asked the clerk oh sink size i guess he tapped his yellow pencil rhythmically on the counter we have oneinch inch and a quarter inch and a half gee i dont know i always thought they only came in two sizes bath- and sink whats it for well actually i need it for my car he seemed perplexed- what are you plugging up j v- my gas tank aha his eyes brightened lost your gas cap did you i nodded gas caps for old vivas are hard to find he fingered his elegant little moustache you parked out front i was well lets have a look he flourished his tapemeasure one and seveneights should do it he concluded but im not sure they make that size anymore he started checking through his boxes systematically just when i had resigned myself to stuffing the gas pipe with an old rag he waved an antique yellow plug1 l found itv he said with satisfaction by annegret lamure later with the chain clinking rakishly i h tootled off to the local gas station the usual fellow was at the pumps we have a little rituals he says fillerup i say coup- pelabucksworth this time was different he said fillerup and reached for the gas cap it wasnt there he looked at the plug then he fingered the chain thoughtfully just pull i encouraged he seeiried most reluctant finally he tugged the plug came out with a soft plop just like pulling atoothhe grinned our eyes met for the first time he saw not a battered white vauxhall viva with a woman inside but a plumpish woman who lost gas caps sitting inside a vauxhall a person t m we smiled at each other in recognition v then check the oil he said businesslike and gave my windshield an impersonal swipe with his dirty sponge i j since then i have tanked up at a lot of places and gotten a lot of guffaws and giggles but my favorite is still the local station wehaveanew says coupplebucksworth i say just pull then we both smile y it is a great pity then that my stopper is getting all cracked and worn it will hive to be scrapped v i j w ia x- but theres that new winemaking supply house i thought i might try- they have these beautiful m