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the tribune thursday february ita lfi wrthtxne james thomas editohnchlef established 1888 charles h nolan publisher barrebeacock advertising manager edftoftlal dept ed schroeter jkn hod display advehttsbm oept lois wldeman business office joan marshman oormn deacon eileen glover published aary thursday at 54 main st stotrrmjie onl tal 6402101 toronto phona 3611680 single copies 20 c subscriptions xtooo par year in canada 2600 aumrhara uambar of canadian community newspapers associatio and ontario waakiy newspapers association second claaa mall registration numbar 0896 the tribune is one of the inland publishing co umhad group of suburban newspapers which in cludes the ajax whitby pickering news advertiser brampton guardian burlington post etotoicote gazette markham economist and sun newmarket aurora era oakvllle beaver oshawa this weak ausslssauga news oshawa this weekend acton free press milton canadian champion and the georgetown independent 6402100 3611680 editorials physicians shortchanged many physicians including several here in stouffville arent happy with financial restrictions currently imposed by the provincial government through the ontario health insurance plan commonly referred to as ohip while most people dont really understand the doctors plight even worse dont care we do further we sympathize with the position in which they now find themselves for theyre caught in a bind in our opinion for the time and expense involved in reaching the position he holds plus the importance of the service he performs a physician should be far and above the highest salaried person of any profession bar none after all in many instances life itself is in bis hands already many doctors have left ontario for the united states if this trend continues the situation could become serious what we suggest is an ohip plus plan whereby anything over the ontario insurance rate schedule would be billed directly to the patient in other words if a doctors fee for treating say a sore throat is 11 but ohip pays only 765 the recipient of the service would pay 335 the arrangement should serve two purposes it would give the physician the fee he deserves and reduce office calls that dont require the services of a doctor in the first place need lighted intersections a collision occurs at the intersection of fifth line whitchurchstouffville and the bloomington road the motorist travelling north or south is obviously in the wrong he should have stopped the sign said so so why didnt he thats what the police will ask if the drivers still able to answer more often than not he wont second chances are unlikely if belted broadside by a gravel truck he got what he deserved witnesses will say so much for that however we have something to say about all such roads intersecting a main highway there should be some type of illumination other than what is provided by an automobiles headlights we dont mean automatic traffic lights just an ordinary street light powerful enough to illuminate the area also the stop signs should be larger similar to whats provided at the corner of the ninth lane and the bloomington road why the concern you ask because we drove through the in tersection at fifth line and bloomington tuesday night without realizing the main road was there until too late we were lucky but the next guy may not be so furtunate board must communicate we never thought thered come a day when this newspaper would support the hiring of another communications officer for the york county board of education however were now convinced there is a need an urgent need for such an employee not that the position should be a pr post board members should boil in their own oil but theres a job to do in reaching the people that not even the weekly press can ac complish not effectively over such a large and complex area this newspaper has found that in dealing with basic issues a oneonone approach is best for the past five months trustee harry bowes has met regularly with the tribunes editor in an effort to get to the bottom of problems that we feel may be disturbing to parents and taxpayers the arrangement has worked well so well a similar program is now in operation with linda carder of the regional school board in durham therein we feel lies the secret of communications to cut through the bureaucratic red tape that binds the board as a whole and explain in the simplest of terms what trustees are attempting to do this will be no 9 to 5 job it will entail speaking engagements newsletters panel discussions and yes perhaps even a newspaper believe us if this responsiblity is taken seriously the successful applicant will earn that 20000 salary the sign is hardly necessary course closed reads a rather redundant sign at the entrance to spring lakes golf clnb west of hwy 48 near ringwood theres always a chance however that some enthusiastic duffer might try a round of snow golf jim thomas j blessed be the tide that binds roaming around a professional wrestler left his mark by jim thomas im a wrestling fan or was thirty years ago or so i seldom missed a match i was working for eatons at the time commuting daily to toronto from home the one break in the week was thursday that was fight night at the gardens and regardless of what big names occupied the card i was there believe me for a single farm boy to spend the night in the big city was really something on occasions id even stretch it into two staying over at the ford hotel so as to catch bob hassard george armstrong danny lewicki and the toronto marlboros in action the following friday some fun while the hockey was great the marlboros had a fantastic team in 1950 wrestling or rasslin as some folks called it was no 1 a bunch of us from work would buy up a halfdozen seats in the blues and hoot and holler for our heroes the good guys against the bad but good or bad they were great the talk of toronto back then whipper billy watson com manded just as much respect as daryl sittler does today and he packed the place like in most sports each spectator has a favorite mine was yukon eric a broad mountain of a man who posed a real threat to watsons british empire crown the one night the two met for the title close to 16000 fight fans were on hand i dont remember who won probably a draw but i do recall the tension within that huge crowd i suppose i sat on the edge of my seat like everybody else white watson and eric were headhners in those days there were others equally good or bad the miller bros fred atkins gorgeous george killer kowalski and lord athol layton are a few who come to mind but what of the fight game today a recent centrespread by columnist allen abel of the globe and mail seems to suggests that bonebenders past couldnt hold a candle to the muscular matmen of the present like who i ask the paper mentions big john studd ricky steamboat dono bravo and nick bock- winkle never heard of them me neither the story goes on what the 7000 patrons saw scrambling around the ring was a succession of superbly structured young men who bear faint resemblance to their gim micky grandfathers of the gruntandgroan game seven thousand spectators a far cry from sixteen thousand of thirty years ago gimmicky grandfathers the ultimate insult how do i know well ill let you in on a little secret one evening after a main bout right here in stouffville tommy nelson the match promoter asked me to accompany him to one of the dressing rooms and i hesitatingly agreed there he introduced me to one of the combatants a chap by the name of bulldog brower how do i remember how could i forget my right hand still hurts sugar and spice im a member of the antimetric club bybillsmiley j after about 10 days of solid blizzards and bad driving low temperatures and a lower temperament my social intellectual and emotional life hovering around zero fahrenheit i wondered what to write about this week came home from work picked up the mail and there was a fat package from something called amc ottawa i turned it over a couple of times wondering whether the initials meant ancient military curmudgeons from some veterans outfit or all men cowards from some rabid womens lib crowd not to worry democracy is still rearing its bruised and battered head here and there in this our native land the package was from antimetric canada its single and avowed purpose the stamping out of the metrication of our fair white country it contained an honorary membership card a bumper sticker which shouts pound out metric a newsletter with a number of spelling and grammar errors a personal letter from the president a petition to send to my mp a full page of antimetric propaganda and a quiz or survey loaded with questions along the line of when did you stop beating your wife sample question do you realize that under the metric system that sic the far mers will loose sic money and the dairy cartel win answer yes no how can you answer a question like that with a yes or no personally i think its high time the farmers were pried loose from some of their money and the whole thing is putting the cartel before the cow another sample do you believe that people come before computers well yes and no we were here before the computers but when it comes to arguing with one over a boo- boo on your chargex its obvious that they come before us and i have a secret hunch tha theyll be here long after the human race has disappeared chattering and giggling away among themselves about how they so finally and so easily got rid of us just one more sample do you want the canadian public to pay 200 a gallon for gas answer depends on whether you think a gallon of gas is more important than a pound of beef if the ayrabs can get 2 a gallon for it and you dont have any thats what youll pay if the beef farmer can get 3 a pound for sirloin and you dont happen to have a steer tied up in the garage thats what youll pay elemental these questions are being sent to mps migod i hereby resign my honorary mem bership in the antimetric canada organization i am much more sympathetic with their aims than their means but i wonder where they were when i was carrying on a lonely singlehanded but valiant fight against metrication a year or so ago i detest metrication and all it stands for conformity unification anonymity and confusion for everyone over thirty years of age ask any shopping housewife what she thinks of it she will probably if she has thought about it reply that its a lovely op portunity for the food barons to rip everybody off except those equipped with a pocket calculator and endless time on their hands a gram here and a millilitre there add up to millions over a year editors mail takes strength dear mr thomas your jan 31 editorial entitled elected to make decisions said what needed to be said politicians are no longer hardnosed law makers but wishywashy milktoasts who bend with every hot breath vented by parents and taxpayers when i elect a trustee or a ward coun cillor i expect him to do a job to the best of his ability if i think hes not ill boot him out or try to the next time i exercise my franchise sure theres nothing wrong with making recommendations but people must stop this do it or else type of tactic the man or woman whos willing to stand up and be counted even against the mob has my support even though i may not necessarily agree with him or her thats what impresses me about our mayor eldred king before hes through is going to make some enemies in doing so hell gain a lot of respect i only wish more politicians had his kind of strength eric jenkinson rr 3 stouffville and now lets hear from industry ac cording to it changing to the metric system was going to make canada much more competitive in the world market we are about as competitive as greenland and our single biggest customer the us has not gone metric though it is toying with the madness vhen i want to know how cold it is i tune in to an american tv weather report get it in fahrenheit subtract another ten degrees for the difference in latitude and say to my wife holy moses woman no wonder the pipes froze it was 12 below last night and she knows i dont mean centigrade math and science teachers to the con trary the world got along very well when every nation had its own terms of currency measurements and weights in the days when the sun never set on the british empire the british pound had a solid ring to it anywhere in the world they didnt give a diddle about changing it to annas or yen or marks same with the american dollar for a century or so it was worth a dollar not whatever the swiss and germans and japanese decided it was worth there was a quaintness and a difference and an individuality about currencies and measures and wieghts that is being lost in these days of international conformity if a british horse stood 40 hands high and weighed 14 or 44 stone in a british novel that was good enough for me he was either a big horse or a little horse i didnt have to get out my calculator if bassanio wanted to borrow three 3000 ducats from shylock i knew that was no v 7850 and was satisfied i know i have no more chance of reversing the metric thing than i had of another of my lost causes that pale pink maple leaf on a dirty grey background that is canadas national flag but i wish the amc luck and im going to use my bumper sticker if only to annoy my neighbor a math teacher who has been flaunting a think metric sticker for several years my sticker is bigger white printing on red with a big hammer pounding down on the slogan pound out metric the organization also has a stubborn lit warcry i rather like we wont move our feet an inch