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s the tribune thursday october 18 ims ta ifrtbune james thomas editorinchief established 1888 charles h nolan publisher barrebeacock advertising manager editorial dept joann thompson jim hom display advertising dept lois widwaan maria emmsrson business office jowl marshman dormn deacon eileen glow published every thursday at 54 main sl stoufmua orrl tal 6402101 toronto phone 3611680 single copies 20 c subscriptlonrfslooo per year in canada 2600 elsewhere member of canadian community newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 the tribune is one ot the inlaid publishing co limited group ol suburban newspapers which in cludes the aaz whitby pickering news advertiser brampton guardian burlington post etoblcoke gazette markham economist and sun newmarket aurora era oakville beaver oshawa this week mlsslssauga news oshawa this weekend acton free press milton canadian champion and the georgetown independent 64021 00 sf5 361 1 680 editorials safeguard all busy corners automatic traffic lights will soon be in stalled at the intersections of warden avenue sth concession mccowan road 7th concession and the stouffville- gormley road the decision follows by more than a month the completion of both these projects and by just one week a serious twocar collision that may leave one person paralyzed for life the new and supposedly improved intersection at lincolnville was completed in 1978 and the accident rate there continues to mount but still no signals this summer major mackenzie drive was extended from woodbine avenue through to hwy 48 we predict a slaughter on this road unless somethings done to safeguard the intersections at mccowan and kennedy roads and warden avenue civilian citation deserved at the next meeting of the york regional police commission a stouffville father and son will be presented with a civilian citation for what police chief bruce crawford has described as an outstanding example of citizen participation in the maintenance of law and order in the community it was back on august 24 that jim rehill a teacher on the staff of stouffville dist secondary school and his son david 19 witnessed a robbery not far from their home a 17 year old youth had grabbed a ladys purse jim rehill and david reacted quickly apprehended the culprit and held him for police fortunately pursesnatching is not a common occurrence in stouffville most of us dont even think of it happening here but on aug 24 it did and two people witnesses to the crime knew what to do action of this kind should be recognized and were pleased chief crawfords recom mendation has been endorsed every town needs people who care enough to help others in times of trouble these are the good things we like to know about and so do our readers parking problem for years parking too close to intersections on main street in stouffville has been a problem for years with ones view blocked by parked vehicles its like playing russian roulette moving out into the line of traffic particularly on saturdays town council is attempting to overcome this two readings have been given to a bylaw that if approved will prohibit parking in certain areas before members take this final step they want to hear from you check out the list and if you dont like it tell them about it the ingredients for a happy halloween that magic night called halloween is fast approaching well prepared for the onslaught of pumpkingbnyers and jack-o- lanternmakers is lehmans gardens ninth line north near bloomington eleven year old denlse lehman displays a couple of samples jim thomas while commonsense should prevail in such areas this would be all too simple for the professionals who must do all things by the book they must take traffic counts first and if warranted instal lights later the sensible approach would be to do the two in one automatic signals will eventually be installed at lincolnville at kennedy and the stouffvillegormley road and along major mackenzie drive so why waste time money and lives putting off the inevitable the cold hard truth about such matters is the realization that no one really cares why because no one thinks for a moment that an accident at these corners can happen to him we know it can for we remember ringwood and bloomington and gormley and countless l other corners where nothing was done until for some it was too late so get with it guys and do the job right the first time around -atwheelepv- the tribune he last motion had something to do with improving our public image roaming around the town cut off my water byjimthomgs back in the good old days the weekly newspaper office was a kind of meeting place for people all types of people theyd stop by to talk maybe spend an hour or two on a saturday afternoon when nothing much else was doing the tribune was no exception and each caller was always made welcome very often some juicy news items were gleaned from these casual conversations such is not the case today sure folks still drop by but seldom do they stay more than a minute or two if their visits last longer its usually because they have a complaint they wished aired in print nothing social any more too busy i guess and so maybe are we because of this change in peoples ways i was surprised to look up from my desk thursday and see ron gibson the towns genial road superintendent standing there i knew what he wanted or thought i did youre working on the street and my cars in the way ill move it i stated without giving him a chance to speak he shook his head were shutting the water off tomorrow he explained likely the whole day but only in this block thought id warn you i thanked him and suggested it should present no serious problems then it came to me holy cow the bathroom ten of us here and no place to go whatll we do in a flash i dashed off a halfdozen hasty notes and left them on each employees desk it read simply no water friday- don t go while its simple to issue an order its sometimes difficult to make it stick par ticularly when one offers no alternatives at that point in time i had none strange isnt it how one takes so simple a service for granted until its withdrawn then its a catastrophe so it was with us friday fortunately two of the clerical gals were taken suddenly ill and didnt report in two girls in advertising were out on the road most of the time and our lone gal reporter had assignments galore to keep her on the hop circumstances it seemed had taken care of those situations but what about the rest of us a noonhour lunch at the regal restaurant was glorious relief and no one was the wiser however the times in between were pure agony sure i could have made a deposit at the commerce bank a few steps down the street but with no current account there the staff might have suspected something strange going on besides for a f sugar and spice no problems if nothing done bybillsmileyj some people like me believe in rolling with the punches rather than sticking out our chins to show how mapy we can absorb i have found that in general if i avoid trouble trouble avoids me if i know that some pain in the arm has been trying to get me on the phone i also know immediately that he or she wants me to do something that i dont want to do therefore i take the phone off the hook and leave it off until the pain has found some other sucker another invention of mine to stay out of trouble is patented as negaprod this is short for negative production the theory is simple the more you produce the more problems you have whether it is children manufactured goods or farm products the more children you have the more emotional economic problems you create for yourself the more goods you produce the more you have to hustle to find customers and meet payrolls the more farm stuff you raise whether its beef or beans the greater your chance of being caught in a glut on the market our great national railways caught on to this years ago when they had lots of passengers they had lots of problems people wanted comfort cleanliness decent meals and some assurance that they would get where they were going on time there was much more money to be made and fewer problems by transporting wheat and lumber and cattle so the railways began treating people like cattle passenger trains became un comfortable and dirty quality of the food dropped like a stone and they never arrived on time presto end of problems no more passengers so the railways were able to cut off nonpaying passenger lines get rid of all those superfluous things like station agents and telegraphers and train conductors and concentrate on taking from one point to another things that paid their way and didnt talk back newsprint coal oil wheat perhaps this is the answer for our provincial governments which are quickly and quietly building massive mountains of debt for future taxpayers perhaps they should just stop building highways and repairing those already in existence wed all be sore as hell for a while but as the roads got worse and worse most of us would stop driving our cars the govern ments would save millions of dollars now spent on highways and they could fire two- thirds of the highway cops i dont quite see how the governments could use negaprod to get out of the liquor business which certainly produces plenty of problems the booze trade is so profitable that asking government to abandon it would be like asking a millionaire to forsake his country estate for a rundown farm perhaps if they had a free booze day once a week every week say on a saturday it would solve a number of problems it would certainly reduce the surplus population this in turn would cut down drastically the unemployment figures should the provincial governments find that negaprod is all ive suggested some of it might spill over into the federal govern ment usually the last to catch on to what the country really needs instead of the manna and honey flowing from ottawa in the form of baby bonuses and pensions we might get some terse manifestoes people who have more than one and a squatter to be caught redfaced on the managers ivory throne would be tantamount to grand larceny and that kind of front page news i dont need for eight long hours i wished i had never switched professions that i had stayed on the farm where i was born and raised there one could let nature take its course be the location a corner fence row in the back forty or the shady side of a barley stook out of sight out of mind not so in town where everything hinges on the mechanical a line break be it intentional or accidental be it hydro or water can create unprecedented problems even to the point of throwing a guys customary practices out of kilter while i didnt mistrust the road superintendents word the situation around 2 pm became so desparate i pushed on the plunger to test the result it simply gurgled wheezed and gasped thats when i ran agonizingly cross- legged into the meadow lands at the northern extremity of mill street and barely made it while residents may have wondered at the strangeness of my gait i offer apologies only to wilma woodchuck a ringside spectator to the whole affair progress it seems is hurting both of us a half children will be sent to jail for four years note separate jails persons who plan to live past 65 and claim a pension will be subject to an open season each year from october 1 to thanksgiving day shotguns and bicycle chains only all veterans of all wars may claim participation by reason of insanity and may apply to ottawa for immediate euthenisation these might seem slightly draconian measures but they sure would put an end to a lot of our problems and troubles think of what they would do for such sinful activities as sex growing old and hanging around the legion hall playing checkers but we must also think of the economic benefits with a plug put into that river of paper money flowing from ottawa taxes would drop inflation would vanish and un doubtedly separatism would wither on the vine people would be lined up six deep at the us border trying to get across and that would solve in one swell foop our unem ployment difficulties we could go back to being hewers of water and carriers of wood which was our manifest destiny before the politicians got into the act fishermen or lumberjacks in short which most of the rest of the world thinks we are anyway negaprod may seem a bit lofty and abstract at first glance but it works i know from personal experience every time i try to make something or fix something it costs me d alot of money and i get into a lot of trouble so i have a policy of never trying to fix something or make something its a lot less trouble to put up signs beware of falling bricks not responsible for slivers from picnic table and so on 0