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the tribune thursday september 2 1i eoirokultdeptft whoxtm l lirs- display advemsum dewi l wmmuaart dxoi x- mu mryittonmy at s4 mla sttmmvaoatvtlm2mf3rmlo pticmmpumiaiif w c ncrip um ptrfr r t c d hit kbtt adtt o li nriih aj f cwwolly mawspapm assadathwaad owtuto waui nmnpwi aimdatim stcoad class bmh fc titttaw to m flwlouad pvblbfeleg cotumimd srmp t mbortaajmmpapm cdd nwadnrfivtr brampton gmrduicewliaalm poivetabicck oumtrauruum editorials dump hearing typical of government safety disregard a royal commission into the mining industry has found the ontario ministry of natural resources responsible for mine safety negligent in protecting mine workers from hazardous working conditions that often resulted in fatal accidents or permanent disability ontario ombudsman arther maloney has accused ministry of housing agents of railroading pickering landowners into selling their homes at a lower price than they would have gotten if they had waited for ex- propriation i we are of the opinion similar charges could be levelled against the ministry of the environmnet in their handling of the york sanitation dump on highway 48 throughout the protracted hearings on the issue of expanding the site the ministry supported the dump owners application although at that time there were no wells down to the main aquifer the entire proceedings were a sham because insufficient testing put arguments both for and against in the realm of speculation back in march or april the ministry few investigate pen last week the uxbridgecanadian penitentiary information committee held a series of open houses in the uxbridge area in order to inform the public about the proposed penitentiary reception centre slated for this area the results of the open houses were very disappointing attendance was sparse and many people ffthat did come failedto take an bbjectivelpok jsat the material presentedapparently the felt it was alljust a government selling job for the centre this view was totally unjustified the information displayed went to some length to list every possible disadvantage or ill effect to the community and the more positive aspects such as economic growth and rising real estate values were presented as possibilities only those that didnt come or came and didnt look missed an interesting informative evening i paper like a letter from home reader of the tribune says dear sir enclosed please find a money order for renewal of my subscription for another year sorry to be behind t i intended sending it early in july to be ahead once however with the continuously wet weather it was cut cut grass it grew so fast and with work in the garden it did not get s sent the tribune coming each week is like a letter fromhome we were taking it when living with my parents down in that district since the turn of the century and since coming up here until now it keeps me in touch with everything i enjoy it each week from beginning to end thanks amillibn and keep up the good works sincerely yours- flossie e gowlarid- park avenue 1 newmarket reported that on site wells showed what they euphemistically referred to as a chemical imbalance a phrase which could easily be interpreted to mean pollution since then no further information on the state of the wells has been released and yet we learned last week that paul isles senior environmental officer for this area has recommended officially that the site be allowed to continue its operation for an ad ditional five years this strikes us as a callous disregard for the safety of the residents of this municipality who are forced to rely on this dubious water provincial ministries have again and again shown that their first priority is to facilitate the profitability of industry at the expense of the people of ontario council has as yet taken no action on the preserve our water resources powr groups request to ask the ombudsman to conduct an investigation of the entire matter mayor gordon ratcliff has suggested that the approach to the ombudsman be a joint effort by tbvtown and powr and we agree fully a major problem in the towns struggle is that we are a small and relatively powerless municipality it has been easy for york and the- ministry to run roughshod over the in terests of the municipality the ombudsmans office with its jiigh public profile is in a better position to generate some much needed publicity since the government seems more inclined to react to adverse publicity than it is to act in the face of a potential danger to the public this is exactly what is needed x the sooner this matter is aired and voumpartiallyi-investigated- the- betteritwill be for all of us v i s sugar and spice joys and terrors of grandparenting by bill smiley like most grandparents if they are honest we are delighted to see our grand children arrive and overjoyed to see them depart started off this years summer vacation with a visit from our two grahdbabies and their mum when they left my wife and i went straight into a rest home for a few days to recuperate its not that they are bad little boys its just that they are little boys with voracious appetites for everything from mothers milk to peanutbutterandjamsandwiches dipped in fruit yoghurt to rides to the car wash to going to the beach to pickingstrawberries to i around in the grass being bitten by ants y 30 years ago this week none of those activities creates any real problem but this time the lord moving in his usual mysterious ways decreed that it should rain hard day and night for the first three days of their visit well that eliminated the beach crawling in the grass picking strawberries and going for picnics in the park all the things that little city boys who live in a square box on the ninth floor should do when they go to visit their grandparents in a small town and with all that rain there wasnt a lot of point in going to the car wash an experience full of joy and terror the supreme moment of his visits for young pokey jj alsomeant thacihstead jf riding his brand- new tricycle around the yard and up and down the sidewalk under the maples itvright inthe family on both sides hes out and looked at the big boats and the little boats and saw a real train and some real railroad tracks pretty heady stuff for a little city kid but three and a half days of solid rain with two lively vociferous kids 2 years and five months is about as restful as trying to relax in a boiler factory im just getting to know my second grandson who labors or delights as his mother would say under the name of balind its a madeup name that sounds nice so his mother says i call him young bill in a crafty stroke with inheritance in mind no doubt he was jgiven the plebean second name of william as it turns out and as my daughter didnt know v excerpts from the tribune of september 5 1946 billy for you a resident of uxbridge was fined 25 for striking a police officer on duty and at tempting to effect an arrest in police court the accused pleaded that the officer struck him several times with a billy wellafter all whats a billy for bakers sweetner last week a west coast enquirer com municated with the manufacturer of bakers sweetner in stouffville with a view to ob- taining the much sought for substitute for sugar in quantities of 500 gallons or more for shipment to china where a market was waiting of course the chemist just cant produce enough for the home market in on tario consequently he could riot entertain any thought of foreign trade being opened at this time ingredients that go to make the sweetner are now scarce and mr baker is accordingly hampered he is finding it necessary to restrict all purchases to stipulated gallonage writing in the richmond hill paper under the initials of dmf someone has the following article concerning the stouffville chemist and his range of products in the past two years thousands of canadians have enjoyed unlimited rhubarb and apple pies preserves pickles and con- fections because of a womans faith in her jhusbarids ability to find a substitute for sugarathis wifes insistence george e baker- phmb- of stouffville went- from concocting fly sprays- and liniment to research on sweetners he experimented for a year and a half while mrs baker an excellent cook tested and tasted the results the basis of his sweetner js saccharin a con- centrated artificial sugar discovered in1887 but it tends to bitterness when cooked mr baker has successfully eliminated the bitter taste and put it up in an easily handled liquid form with full directions for use long chatty notices in the classified columns introduced the new product to the public one forthright woman customer asked mr baker if he wrote them when he chuckled assent she said well you must be crazy- crazy or riot the adventures pf mom and pop their golden wedding anniversary their ten children and their colloptious meals have amused thousands of readers and brought results he plans to expand when space is available as he anticipates a steady market even after rationing is lifted mr baker a descenaent of pioneer set tlers was born on a farm near gormley friends are now pestering him for a substitute for soap but he feels that he is plenty busy with his sweetner poke wasforced to- ride it around in a screaming circle inside the house- through the kitchen into the hall into the livirigroom arid backto the kitchen shouting a shrill here i come scattering various bricabrac and adults and frequently running over one hand or other of his baby brother who was creeping about on the livingroom floor shrieking with anger- when hed get his feet tangled up arid wouldnt move or yelling for soriieone to pick him up or spewing up his latest nursing in great viscous globs it sounds terrible but it wasnt really it was merely bedlam i enjoyed every minute of it when they were both having their afternoon nap which almost never happened simultaneously pokey and i are still the best of buddies whichis great but can be a little trying its wonderful to feel thetrust as the tiny tough hand clutches yours or you get a big hug and kiss for nothing but the other side of the coin is when he wont let anybody but my grandat put on his socks and shoes or pull up his pants after a big pee or get him second third and fourth helpings when he wants more beans we did get away from the women and childeri for one idyllic hour when it was merely drizzling and drove through the park down the main drag to the dock and there got named riotorilyfor me but for his great- greatgrandfather william thomson on my side and for his great-great-ijreat-great- grandfather william bull on my wifes side both were good men and pioneers william thomson was slidemaster at calumet island in the ottawa river in the lumbering days william bull was the first settler at colpoys bay on the bruce peninsula a fine man well educated who was the first indian agent in that area so young bill itsj going to be for me just as nikoy chen is pokey for me young bill began life as a bawler a fat little guy who looked like winston churchill and screanied like the witch of endor in five months he has improved tremendously he has lost three chins and now has only one extra one he has an endearing lopsided grin huge bright eyes and a delightful chortle i think well keep him after aii well just to add to the excitement the a kids greatgrandfather made the trip across country to see his second greatgrandson he got a royal welcome from pokey who pointed at him yelled dats my greatgrandat gave him an unsolicited hug and kiss and from young bill who gave him a drooling grin a momentous few days the like of which one in a lifetime is enough sparing consumer credit causes alarm by sinclair stevens mp countdown stouffville centennial 18771977 only four months remaining until the start of stouffvilles giant yearlong cen- tennial celebration prominent in lumber business mr joel baker was born on the old baker homestead on baker hill 48 high way most of his life was spent on the farm but he was for many years extensively engaged in the lumber business in this area at one time he owned a shingle and lumber mill at ririgwood and later rana- sawmill at baker hill yj in 1883 he built the brick residence at 20l mamyscwhowoccupied byjs delaurier he had retired from the farrii- and combined with l l baker to operate a lumberriiffl in stbaffviilecx i4h- cieirlyarecordr state that joel bakery was a man of influence in the early years of whitchurch township and he served on council for a number of years when he moved into town he became an early ad vocate of better drainage efficient street lighting and a municipal water system during his years as a resident in town he built three more substantial brick homes meetings of the various centennial committees will be resumed this month one hundred arid five years ago this fall villagers assembled to see the first arrival of a train on the nippissing narrow gauge people proclaimed it a great step forward from the stagecoach at this stage n the hlstoryof the village there were few v houses in what is today referred to as the x westendv v- canadians more and more buy on time- our consumer credit in relation to per sonal incomes may now be the highest in the world a dubious honor once held by the united states in 1960 canadian consumer credit as a proportion of our disposable income was 155 per cent compared to 16 per cent in the us in 1974 this ratio had soared in canada to 231 per cent compared to 194 per cent in the united states on average every member of our employed labor force owed more than 2250 of consumer debt in 1974 canadian attitudes to credit apparently have modified since the 1950s it has become more acceptable to separate the pleasure of acquisition from the pain of payment by the use of credit our chartered banks have been the leaders in servicing the public in their desire for credit twenty years ago the banks held only 152 per cent of the personal loans in the country currently they hold over 55 per cent of all consumer credit which itself has expanded tenfold from 29 billion to almost 30 billion today last week the minister of finance in- troduced a white paper on the canadian banking industry in which he made certain proposals for changes in the bank act which will be revised in the current parliament if the governments proposals do not actually favor the banks they certainly preserve the status quoin our financial system it is im- portant lhat a balance be maintained to en- sure that one type of financfal intermediary is not allowed to dominate the whole system our banks now hold over 42 per cent of the total assets of all financial intermediaries with theiraggregate size about 80 billion of which 90 per cent is held by five banks it would be easy for the banks to drive other competitors such as trust companies mort gage companies or credit unions out of business precautions must be taken to ensure that an unfair competitive advantage is not given to the banks for example if they wished to raise interest rates payable on deposits they could virtually sop up all such money that now flows into trust and loan companies that would end those companies in reviewing the proposed changes to the bank act parliament must be satisfied that the changes will not permit any sector par ticularly chartered banks to dominate the canadian financial field since 1967- the year the act was last revised- banks have been increasing their share of total assets of our financial system from 348 per cent to the present 42 per cent this increase restored the banks position to what it was in 1957 all agree we need a competitive banking arid finance industry in canada but as the royal commission on banking and finance pointed out in 1964 competition is an uneasy state and however much they may thrive under it businessmen have an inclination to protect themselves against it we must therefore be alert to developments which would lessen competition or threaten its vigour that will be parliaments challenge in the coming months linked with our explosive growth in credit our banks have allowed their leverage that is the amount they borrow in relation to their own capital to accelerate tremen dously in the white paper mr macdonald pointed out banks in canada have increased their leverage to what is for them an historically high level somewhat higher than the rising level of leverage in other financial institutions it will be important at committee to gain evidence as to whether present bank leverage which stands at almost 30 times their equity compared to 14 times in the early 1960s is prudent if the white paper suggestions become law in future your friendly banker in ad dition to giving you a consumer loan will also be selling you your urban transit tickets along with your municipal provincial and federal lottery tickets antique car rally article appreciated dear sir we wish to thank you for the coverage you gave us last week for our annual antique car rally the museum board and i thank you vv yours truly mary hopkins curator wsmnsenm k