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the tribune thursday june 24 ims r 14- ft v1 sit zjz s- 7 jft j- j- -j- uxbridge council legal move against gravel pit creditable the legal action between the township ol uxbridge and john b regan co ltd arm- bro materials and others is shaping up to be a pretty bizarre contest a couple of the more unusual aspects came out during the last meeting of township council in a letter municipal solicitor alec mclennan warned that an injunction to stop the gravel pit from operating might not be granted he explained that because the material is being used for construction work on the 401 the court might feel it is too in convenient for the defendants to issue an injunction before trial the point frankly escapes us what has the convenience of the defendants to do with the merits of the submission many people might find it inconvenient to have to pay a 30 years ago this week excerpts from the tribune from june 27 1946 dance hall riot whitchurch townships big cop just sworn in a week ago and whose weight tipped the scales at 225 pounds wasnt a bit too big for the job on hand last saturday night at wilcox lake when a crazy crowd of merry seekers whom police said had too much booze broke i into a riot when police attempted to make somearrests for assault- fine or lose their drivers licence what has that to do with the law it gets even more bizarre apparently the council has been warned that even if an in junction is granted the township could be responsible for all losses incurred by the defendants estimated at 10000 a day if this is common practice at law we suggest my lord that it falls somewhat short of im partial justice if such an order is made it would obviously be to the advantage of the defendants indeed they could logically argue for the injunction to be granted as the case is presently before the courts we are restrained from commenting on its specific merits we can howeverapplaud the action of council members in voting to persist with their case faced with a possible liability of many thousands of dollars it took real courage to go ahead v this is an election year for municipal politicians and the public will be watching closely to see how this matter is handled so far it has been all to the credit of the council government attitude on pickering will change with majority the struggle between the people in the area of malton and those in the area of pickering is likely to go on for a lengthy time to come the pickering lobby would have us believe that much more traffic can be handled s at malton than at present themaltbn area for many years a local landmark the old button hotel is now remembered only by the senior members of the community it stood at the northwest corner of what was then the 8th concession and the townline now highway 48 and the gormley road built in the 19th century the hotel was run by the button family for many years- after standing vacant for some time it was torn down in the 1940s this sketch was done by stouffville high school student cathy langdon and is just one of many efforts recently received for the centennial sketchbook j j sugar and spice welcome to the new golden age it seems when one looks around that the great revolution of the 1960s has petered out as most revolutions do and as usually happens after a revolution the pendulum is swinging toward conservatism n the savage sixties featuring a vicious war in viet nam student uprisings draft dodgers thegrowth of strident feminismand the blossoming of four-letter- words in the mass media have simmered down into the sacred seventies when inflation and unemployment are the bogeymen okifiviltffstismjmi nuifwl population are definitely notiniagreeriientafmostbbviousevidenceofithis istherace bystanders attacked- policeand at- prnmpn fh is for wident in r states- theres notva tempted to overrun their carwhen constable fjeury kidd and hamiltonpicked up two fellows who had assaulted acouplein acar and this started the general freeforall which was put down two hours later and only after ten policemen were on hand ignition wires were torn from the police carand sand was put into the gasoline tank police reported several rocks were thrown but only one personwas saidto have been injured there was a brief lull in the battle when the band at thedance pavilion playedthe national a them but resumed in full force as soon as the officers attempted to take away their prisoners eight fellows have so far been charged one was released on bail but two couldnt raise bail at thetime one of those charged is accused of destroying wiring in the police car swhile the officers were making an arrest fish derby ken laushway wellknown ringwood garageman received the second award last t week from the veterans association in the simcoe area who staged this years fish derby there on may 24th ancient goose following the publication of the age of a 25 year old goose on the farm of mr david pugh gth concessionof whitchurch the tribune has been informed of several geese that were said to have lived for more than 25 years but so far no one has come forward with a living bird to challenge the leadership in age of the old veteran in whitchurch while the government contends that malton is for president in hhe states theres nptva already taxed to capacity rf liberaliri sight its like a ganie of musical thik lvtnlfnn nrntocf ic uoalrmlphhvfho phairsil the malton protest is weakened byj the fact that agreat many of the residents moved into the area fully awarebftheproxirhityof the airport oj c- r the ontario government in its minority position is standing firm because it has to should a provincial election return the tories with a healthy majority some startling changes in attitude might be immediately forthcoming in the meantime while this- tugpfwar j continues the big loser will be the travelling public the war that continues does little but defeat the need for a solution to serve the general public interest j public to be ignored the canadian parliament may get around this week to voting on the contentious question of capital punishment and it may be that the prime minister and his cabinet who are abolitionists will rule the day should this be the case the will of the vast majority of canadians is to be ignored the cabinet has already done away with capital punishment by shortcircuiting the law on such a regular basis that any deterrent aspect has been completely removed the chances are the majority rule of parliament will win and the only way in which the majority of the citizens can have its way is to turf out the incumbents when the op- portunity arises mmmm chairs in whichevery participant is striving to be a little farther to the right than the guy who made the last speech i im not entirely unhappy about this swing of thev pendulum while revolutions- often produce freedom they also produce excesses and that of the sixties was no exception itproduceda violence a callousness and a viciousness that was probably unparalleled in western civilizations history rememberthe kids were on drugs the parents were on the booze cops were called pigs language- that would shock a sailor came out of the mouths of babes it was fashionable to be filthy if you were young 0 rock replaced anything resembling music to be listened to cults of various degrees of obscenity flourished muggings multipled hijacking hit the headlines jt was a nasty nervous decade for society to grope through and as a basically con servative person im glad its fading even though it has left a fair bit of detritus as it ebbs not all of it was bad of course many of the old shibolleths were swept away and replaced by something saner the social political and economic status of women took a giant step forward there was a new honesty as much of thestuff our parents used to sweep under the carpet was pulled out looked at squarely and found to be merely funny not j frightening jyh there was ariew and healthy skepticism toward politicians culminating in thenot so v incredible discovery that some were liars some crooks some both 1 our institutes of higher learning got a good shakeup aridtheir traditional stuffiness swung toward something verging on license inshort a lot of the phoniness of our society was exposed for what it was a lot of rocks were turned over and a lot of things crawled out from under them and died in the hard clear light thats all to the good every revolution must crack some eggs to make an omelet and every revolution inflicts wounds some of them savage but society is the sum total of individuals and just as an individual who has been- mugged knifed raped or otherwise abused must retire and tend his wounds so must society there must be a healing time perhaps the scared seventies is such a by bill smiley time certainly there is a trend hard rocki music hoist on its own petard is being replaced by country and bluegrass music transcendental meditation is replacing the acid trip most people are fed up with the pure pornography that has flourished even that sacred cow hockey has turned people off including aficionados with the mindless but contrived violence of its goon shows hijackers are harried andhunted down maybe just maybe were in for a brief golden age in which the arts will flourish ripoffs will become a thing of the past- ex cellence will be restored asan aspiration of the young and children will honor their parents but dont hold your breath maybe just maybe movies will start having a plot again and policemen will be pals not- pigs and music will be enjoyable riot excruciating and vandalism will vanish but dont hold your breath maybe just maybe town engineers will go around holding hands and singing i think that i shall never see a sewer lovely as a tree but dont hold your breath maybe just maybe politicians will start letting their left hand know what their right hand is doing and remove both hands from the pockets of the taxpayer but dont hold your breath 7 im a realist i dont holdmy breath so whatever its worth welcome to the new golden age hanging not an easily made decision co stouffville centennial 18771977 ri first chain bank came in 1890 stouffvilles first chain bank opened for business here in 1890 it was the standard bank later to become the bank of com- imerce- and in more recent years the canadian imperial bank of commerce the standard bank first began business in canada in the year of con federation 1876 and by 1890 had eighteen branch offices mr j elliott was the first manager and the bank occupied the same today mr elliott was born in northern ireland arid came to this country in 1881 he served atnewcastle markham andcannington prior to being promoted to the managership of the stouffville bank mrw fcowie of oshawawas the president of the standard bank of canada bumper stickers one of the early centennial publicity items will be car bumper stickers which are now ready for distribution it is ex pected that a housetohouse canvass of this item will be undertaken shortly so thatas large a coverage as possible can be at- tained throughout the summer months craft fair i representatives of the library board were present at the regular centennial committee meeting thursday and their proposal of a family and craft fair for late may or early june has been accepted and added to the list of monthly events bench donated an oak bench courtesy of the womens institute has been placed in front ofutt post office- the bench is another with assets of 2000000 thehead office v- e5ffiffi bench is another vwas located in toronto v p v u i largest parade 5jsj l l- stars concert v- argesi pa plans have already begun to hold stouffvilles largestparade ever on the july 1st weekend 1977 the special projects committee is considering a tv stars concert f or the arena for august 1977 v personally im supremely grateful i didnt have to make the decision as to whether captial punishment will be abolished at the time of writing this column the news has filtered in that- the vote came in favor of abolition but there still remains third reading before this will be final i wouldnt want to have to cast a vote because i havent really made up my mind admittedly every time i hear an account of some sadistic killing of children murder during armed robbery or terrorist execution my immediate outraged reaction is that the perpetrators should die for it y v but then when i think things through to that actual brutal process whereby my fellow citizens acting as officials of the state ac tually take another human being and murder him by hanging him from the end of a rope then rrn not so sure its the right thing to do hanging especially- is a bloody grisly affair if the hangman misjudges the victim is left to strangle slowly or if the error- is the other way the condemned man is decapitated on at least one occasion in canada the victim was hanged cut down he revived and was hanged again an hour later i a very unpleasant business indeed then there is the moral aspect is the hangman although free of any legal guilt not morally just as much of a murderer as the man he or she in these liberated times executes john robert radclive who retired as hangman in 1899 was haunted by those he had taken to the gallows i used to say to condemned persons as i beckoned with my hand come with me now at night when i lie down i start up with a roar i as victim after victim comes up before me i can see them on the trap waiting a second before they face their maker they taunt me r until i am nearly crazy with an unearthly fear i em 200 times a murderer buti wont kill another man mr radclive said following his retirement- t- s canadas most famous executioner and the one whose name has been given to all his predecessors arthur ellis was divorced by his wife when she learned of his vocation and after his retirement he was treated as a- pariah and found it impossible to get em ployment another valid argument against executions is that where an innocent man has been convicted there is still room for restitution to the injured party if he has served some time in prison but there is no way the state can make things right with a man they have strangled on the end of a rope such miscarriages of justice although rare are not entirely unheard of in one case a few years ago the britishgovernment granted a pardon to a convicted murderer six years after hisexecution there also seems to be a basic hypocrisy when we say that murder is so horrible a crime that the only fitting punishment for it is murder that sounds suspiciously like catch 22 if capital punishment is retained and im not sure it should be then its use should not just be restricted to killers of police and prison workers i dont believe the lives of either of those by john montgomery officials should be more sacred than the lives of innocent bystanders to a crime in fact an argument could be made that these people are trained and paid to takethe risk of being killed by criminals a reason i often hear in support of capital punishment is that it would soothe the sense of moral outrage felt against a particularly vile murderer by the public there would be a feeling that justice had been done that somehow the scales had been balanced- but does taking the life of some misfit loser really compensate for the lost life of a constructive member of society possibly a person supporting children on the other hand do hired killers professional bank robbers or trained terrorists really deserve any mercy i dont know i do know that- i dont envy those members of parliament on whose shoulders the decision lies i would think any of them who have conscientiously considered the issue would have passed a few sleepless nights thinking of the 11 men on death row who are waiting to learn whether they will live or die government faltering by sinclair stevens mp the present ad ministration has a supreme capacity for getting into trouble their programs are faltering legislation- pro gresses slowly and only after extensive amendments the economy is limp as it functions below capacity nscandals hover arid buzz around those in power v the bilingual program has been a cornerstone in mr trudcaus approach to politics few have challenged the concept many agree in principle it is needed to strengthen confederation but many more harbour deep resentment to the concept in practise now bilingualism may be facing its greatest challenge a challenge that could have been avoided if the govern ment had not been so obstinate the current hassle between the air traffic controllers the airline pilots and private aircraft owners on the one side with the federal authorities on the other b serious it is the pilots who carry the clout they are well off well organized and they are in a i a good tactical position how can you require a pilot by injunction or otherwise to fly arid jeopardize his own life and the lives of others if he feels it is unsafe to do tee economy page 7