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the tribune thursday september 8 1917 3 fg visitor to arabia saw thiefs hand chopped off in market tara kelcher who has just completed her first fifteen minutes in kindergarten already looks hored however it is also possible that the luaml neu orchard pai k pupil is vanning hecausp the night hefoi e school stalled she was too excited to sleep s annegret lnmiiii continued from page 1 how different saudi arabia really is re vealed gary he and a friend borrowed a truck it was of course a white datsun and went to the gold market it was actually a lot like at the stouffville sales barns explained gary except that in each of the booths there hung thousands of dollars of gold what really amazed him was that though much of the work was exquisite in its detail and craftsmanship everything sold for so much a gram the labour was thrown in for nothing after leaving the gold mart they went to the town square where more stalls were set up there was a crowd of white- robed people gathered around a man wearing a brown robe said gary i just saw a sword flash out of the corner of my eye then i realised a man had just had his hand cut off for stealing from one of the vendors the stub of the mans hand was immediately put in black pitch and then he was offered the hand gary paused and then said he declined it apparently the man got off lucky because public beheadings which are carried out in the public square are still very common crimes such as gary made many stealing are so heavily other interesting penalized because they discoveries during his violate the moslem weekly sleepless forays stouffville lions club enters 40th active season stouffville this year marks the 40th year of operation for the stouffville lions club i throughout its history the club has maintained an active role iij raising money for needy individuals and in support of worthy community projects s in the 19761977 year theclub raised 10380 of thii 5000 was raised through the cardraw the bikeathon made 3500 sale of christmas trees netted 1500 and 380 was the profit from the beef barbecue by bringing the ronnie prophetcarole baker show to the arena the lions earned more than 3000 but this sum will be counted in the revenue for the upcoming year it is slated to be donated toward paying for centennial activities ifnecessary jithis year the club actually gave out more than it earned it donated 11639 or 1259 more than was raised this however does not represent a perilous financial position for the service club as it has a surplus from other years stouffville lions donated money to finance leader dogs for the blind hearing aid equipment local young peoples organizations public speaking recreation services individual athletes and teams social services etc the largest single donation was 5000 to the new whitchurch- stouffville public library followed by a 2000 grant to minor hockey in town and 1000 to the local family life centres early in july a new club executive was elected president for 197778 is dr doug uxbridge tables gravel control law uxbridge a bylaw amendment which ijvouldjgive greater control of aggregate extraction in uxbridge i township was tabled after second reading last week the amendment to bylaw 1517 would have required all new aggregate development or redevelopment to be subject to development control of the planning at present the pits and quarries act overrules the planning act leaving municipalities helpless to control this type of in dustry within its borders the amendment would ensure that the municipal planning act takes precedence the amendment was first worked out several months ago after con sultation with gravel producers and ratepayers and has been circulated everyone had the op portunity to state ob jections said john paxton the councillor from goodwood however because of the crucial nature of the bylaw council wanted the opportunity to examine it and check all the details and despite the protests of councillors gary harrema and sandy ewen it was tabled until the next council meeting brodie paul roney past president first vice president ron lee second vice president jim richards third vice president ed macaloney secretary john smith treasurer tom wood lion tamer john moffatt tail twister bill richardson one year directors ross garrett and ron berry and two year directors bill davidson graydon card and story hour will start at library the whitchurch- stouffville public library will hold a preschool childrens story hour once again this fall the program will consist of stories learning games puppets songs and movies for three to five year olds it will be held from september 27 november 18 films for women the whitchurch- stouffville public library will offer a free daily morning film series from september 27 november s the program will be held in the new library gallery from 930 1030 am the series is designed to be of interest to parents and especially to women and mothers chief librarian terrence b verity describes the program as a chance for the young child to be in troduced to the librarys environment and materials registration will be held september 13 24 beginning at 930 am at the library no phone registrations will be accepted since registration is on a first come first served basis parents are encouraged to register as early as possible more information and brochures are available at the library religion which is a strong force in the country this means that there is very little crime ex plained gary however it also means there are no movie houses no liquor outlets and no dances or entertainments of any sort and of course women have no rights whatsoever all women have to wear unrelieved black dresses and are not allowed to show their faces or legs in public they are also prohibited from driving owning property or going into restaurants a man will go into a restaurant and the woman will wait outside for him with the children said gary sometimes the man will bring her out a drink gary was also amazed at the driving habits of the locals almost anyone can drive except women of course although theyre now trying to issue licenses to keep down the number of 12 and 13 year old boys driving he said apparently in saudi arabia there are no speed limits and no stop signs when you approach an intersection you honk your horn and go through said gary there are lots of ac cidents since there are no policemen in arabia if you happen to get killed in a traffic mishap the army is called in to in vestigate they leave the body in the car and notify the relatives to pick up the corpse if the family is poor or relatives are so far away that they cant come the car and body stay in the street until someone complains about the smell then the car and body i are removed and buried together said gary because of the severe penalties for theft no one would dream of touching a car lef tat the side of the road and consequently the sides of the road are strewn with cars if a 74 or 75 cadillac quits running the owner pushes it to the side of the road and buys a new one said gary there is no industry or skilled labour to speak of in saudi arabia so no one knows how to fix it the only thing they produce is oil laughed gary and they sure have a lot of it there is no doubt that arabia has oil to burn while flying over the country at night gary noticed numerous fires all over the landscape and- learned later that when oil bubbles out of the ground and threatens to run across the road it is set on fire to prevent it messing up the land scape it is estimated that over one million dollars worth of excess oil s burned in this manner every day into the city but after five weeks on the night shift he was transferred to days he now had to work from 6 a jn till 6 pm in the phenomenal heat of the arabian summer the thermometer that i took over didnt read high enough to register the temperature in the sun said gary he said the average tem perature was 135 to 160 degrees and 110 to 115 in the shade un fortunately there was nc shade in saudi arabia remarked gary wryly after working for three weeks in the sun he had lost 25 pounds and collapsed for the first time i was taken to the national hospital and the hygiene left a lot to be desired remembers gary he explained that it was incredibly crowded and dirty with blood on the floor it was a frightening experience just to be there he said gary was given a needle and some pills and he went back to work i was really pushing myself but i didnt want the country to beat me gary explained but two weeks later i collapsed again this time he was taken to a medical clinic set up for the us corps of engineers and spent six days there waiting for his papers to be processed so he could be shipped home gary who had by this time dwindled from 213 to 158 lbs was suffering from anemic dysentry and infectious hepatitis and was so weak he was unable to travel alone eventually someone was found to accompany him as far as mirabel airport in montreal however he had no way of getting home from there since he was too weak to go on to dorval airport and catch a plane there my cousin ron vautier went 40 hours without sleep to drive to montreal after work to pick me up and then drove me all the way back to north york hospital where a blood specialist was waiting said gary gratefully he explained that his wife and children were up at the cottage without a phone and he had been unable to reach them until the last minute his appearance was a real shock to his wife jo- anne she thought his emaciated looks gave him an uncanny resemblance to abraham lincoln but it didnt take him long to recover im back up to 170 pounds and plan to go back as soon as im fully recovered said gary i signed on for six months and i want to go back he paused and then added somewhat un necessarily i dont like to quit development day stays the same aurora yorks secondary school teachers lost a bid last week to have the date of a professional development day changed from nov 10 to jan 30 teachers were seeking the change because of what they called inadequate time to prepare programs for the day v the november date was chosen by the york county board of education with which authority to set the date rests because it coincided with a council for exceptional children conference in making the decision last may trustees agreed that it would allow interested teachers to attend at least part of the weekend conference teachers through their federation disputed the decision no more than 100 of about 950 teachers in the group will be attending the conference said eric mclean district officer of the local ontario secondary school teachers federation in addition the federation objected to the fact that the york board had opted for only eight of 12 days that the provincial ministry of education allows for professional develop ment the selection by the board of nov 10 as a country wide professional development day came as a complete surprise mr mclean wrote in a letter dated june 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