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page 2 the tribune thursday january 7 j7t established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor jwna published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 54 main st stouffville ont tel 6402101 single copies lsc subscriptions s300 per year in canada 750 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mall registration number 0896 editorial personal touch is gone the recently ordained system of regional government is now in force in york the new town of whitchurch- stouffville entered the era without fan fare no wailing of sirens no blaring of horns no dancing in the streets no anything at midnight one could have exploded a howitzer on main st without creasing a single fender residents at lemonville bloomington bethesda and ballantrae report no noticeable signs of exhuberance in those areas either all they could see come saturday morning was the same as friday night nothing on the surface at least had changed dont be fooled things have changed and these changes for better for worse will become more obvious as weeks go by for instance theres no longer a stouffville police department or markham or whitchurch dont believe it give them a call and see the response regardless of office location is york regional police impersonal you say youre right and its only a start take a look at the makeup of the new whitchurchstouffville council if you live east of cone 7 north of dicksons hill and south of the gormley road your representative is tom lonergan he resides on loretta crescent and what about a ratepayer south and east of bloomington he is represented by ward 5 councillor mrs june button who lives in ward 6 gordon ratcliff is expected to understand problems of people on rupert avenue and merlyn baker is supposed to know all the folks at gormley even worse the mayors domain extends from a point north of mongolia to a point north of cedar valley impersonal you say youre right but negative thinking never solved anything regional government will have its benefits too im sure if we all try hard enough we can think of a few the snowmobile monster the word is out ban the snowmobile everywhere you go the conversations the same rule them off the road the sidewalks out of the parks the fields and the forests theyre too fast too noisy too powerful the devils contraption in spite of the public outcry mainly from nonowners provincial authorities have declined to issue further restrictive orders they dont wish to legislate this newfound industry out of existence and rightly so last year many tragic deaths were attributed to snow machines the toll this winter will likely be higher however were not impressed by such statistics for we realize that for every one that is killed there are thousands and thousands of people whole families who are finding winter enjoyment and recreation as never before long may it last we say place the responsibility for snowmobile safety where it rightfully belongs with the operator if he values his own life and the lives of his passengers hell take no chances if he doesnt tough luck further we have no faith in rules and regulations that cant be enforced put yourself in the position of a police officer trying to track down one of these machines much like a st bernard on the trail of a cottontail far away fields on friday the afternoon of new years day we visited the site of bruces mill conservation area markham township for a fee of 100 seven of us had two hours of continuous outdoor recreation the site is truly a playground paradise with a mileaminute toboggan runs a huge skating rink and crosscountry nature trails while hundreds of parents and children were frolicking on the hills and skimming over the ice we met only one family from stouffville the remainder the majority of ethnic origin were from outside the district this is difficult to understand certainly nowhere else are facilities available so close to home at such reasonable rates this weekend weather permitting load up the kids in the car and take them over youll have the time of your life the children will too editors mail dear sir i commute to work daily from the stouffville area to scarborough and have noticed in the last 6 months an alarming increase in the amount of traffic on high way 48 doubtless this trend will continue as the population in our area grows even larger and as metro toronto expands closer faced with this situation i feel it is time to place much stricter limitations on highway use by school buses i have recently witnessed several near ac cidents which could have resulted in fatalities and much needless traffic congestion all caused by these vehicles a school bus which makes pickups every several hundred yards causing all traffic in both directions to come to a complete halt simply has no place on a crowded highspeed 60 mph high way this situation creates far too many opportunities for rearend collisions at the very least buses should make pick ups at less frequent intervals perhaps only at the intersections with sideroads my final suggestion is that school bus drivers be encouraged to pull over to the houlder of the road when they notice the levitable long line of cars piling up ehind them after several pickups too frequently they simply plod on at 40 mph seemingly oblivious to the mayhem they create as a result some of the more impatient motorists sometimes take needless chances and pull out to pass from several places back not only the bus but also the less daring drivers this endangers the lives of the gamblers as well as the bystanders including the students gd tarver rr3 stouffville dear sir as a resident of valley road musselmans lake i wrote about one year ago concerning the problem of dogs scattering garbage about the area nothings changed ive even pleaded with certain people to keep their dogs off my property without success the only answer it seems is to call the humane society and have the animals picked up please if you value your dog keep it in your own backyard as i do it will make all of us a lot happier around here valley road resident sugar and spice long hair or slacks let them be by bill smiley during the fall i wrote a column asking for readers opinions on such worldshaking things as boys with long hair and girls wearing slacks to school correspondence on the subject is still trickling in the column was written just after the girls at our school had staged something of a coup detat slacks were forbidden one day about 300 of them turned up in slacks the principal sensibly enough met with a delegation of the girls heard their cause then asked the teaching staff for an opinion the staff numbers nearly eighty quite a few of them have teenage daughters an overwhelming majority of staff voted for slacks i among them next morning an announcement was made that girls would be allowed to wear slacks a student made the an nouncement and there was an audible gasp of pure incredulity when she added and also blue jeans well the world is still spinning on its axis the sun still comes up every day and its no more distracting to walk down the hall behind a seventeenyearold whose voluptuous bottom is revealing itself in tight blue jeans than it is to do the same thing behind a girl whose skirt is almost up to her navel perhaps youd be interested in some readers comments this is from a lady in georgetown who points out that she is no teenager but gets the pension dear bill smiley what has long hair to do with whats under it it is the teachers duty to dig what is under it and teach them how to make best use of it im all for the kids getting back to the fig leaf if they want to i am also all for teachers cooperating with them in doing away with wars and poverty both of which we should be ashamed of this is from a gentleman in grand valley who is retired now sir about girls clothes i personally like girls wearing a navy blue skirt at least to the knees with a white blouse and of course the hair neatly tied or pinned or a net to keep it in place so it wont fall into a bowl of soup now please tell me how these things called slacks are comfortable as the most ot them 1 see are so tight right from the ankles up so tight they cut right into the body i feel if some of our nice- looking females could get a look at themselves from the rear when they are walking down the street they would make a few changes sir i agree with you for the same reason i dont wear kilts im bow- legged a lady from park hill a long letter these are excerpts so not all girls can afford a new midi wardrobe nor do too many want it but why have slacks so tight that an onlooker often cannot help but wonder if with a bit more wiggle all would blow why indeed about long hair on boys the lady says if teachers of this day cannot tell their pupils with long hair and beards that the pictures that this world has of jesus are greatly varied then it is no wonder that the children are getting the run- around if the generation of today were to be asked what is and what is not old- fashioned im certain their answers would be as varied as their clothes from acton slacks for girls boys with long hair i have three girls and it would save me a lot of money if they would be able to wear slacks to school as for the boys wearing long hair i say beg preach let them be what makes us want to tell youth what to wear how to look if a child or young adult does not know what is best for himself we had better take a second look at ourselves thats just a sampling theres a very sensitive letter from willy blok hanson who is an artist but i cant find the darned thing oh yes here it is sum marized if the longhairs and beardies of today would follow jesus also in his actions instead of only in his looks they would be very acceptable indeed today tomorrow the same as yesterday girls wearing slacks why not cold is cold for boys as well as girls slacks for sexy novels skirts for math im bewildered n portraits of the past colty corners public school ssi i markham twp is now closed but the building remains on cone 6 north of unionvillc the year is i9i4i5 and the pupils arc front row left to right edna whitty lester wealherill bruce hagg henry nobbs billy harper jack warriner milford slots phyllis wyatt centre row left to right audrey roberts gloria cleverdon beatrice gingell irene brillinger hazel bagg gladys gingell robt mcdowell harold nobbs rear row left to right douglas cleverdon rene whitty fred nobbs jack harper iorne harper the teacher is leta a bunker from rags to respectability cindereua story part ii by jim thomas it is seldom if ever that i coitinue a story from one week into the next ifs not fair to the reader you miss the irst and the followup falls flat you niss the followup and theres no conclusion it was for this reason that i referred to the telegrams story of dec 24 in which a 7 year old cinderella girl xom ux- bridge township now 25 and married tells in her own words the event that led her from rags to respectability since last thursday howevfr i have been beseiged with calls peopfe wanting to know how it all ended the tale unbelievable but frue dates back to the fall of 1952 eighteen years ago i discovered catherine aid her two younger sisters ages 3 and 5 grovelling in the dust and dirt of a pigsty hovel three concessions east of goodyood the girls dressed only in flour saoks- could not talk but instead utteredonly inaudible grunts like the pigs in the rtaarby pen where they played the kiddies all three of them were signed over to the childrens aid society and admitted immediately to tospital for speech therapy in the proper en vironment and with proper instruction their progress was rapid catherine tells it this way i remember my home only vaguely it was an isolated farm on a rsrt road in an area where the soil was mostly sand and a living hard to earn wt had a small house two rough bedrooms and a kitchen with a stove and table there were eight of us including my parents and grand mother when we were hungry we ate vegetables out of the garden at supper time we helped oiirseljestofood from the table and went to bd when we were tired we used to play a lot in the pigpen we sisters communicated with grunts perhaps we copied the pigs i do not know i never attended school and i doubt whether my parents woulil ever have sent us although we were ignored i cant remember being beaten we sometimes went to church apart irorh that we never saw anyone besiies our own family then one day a stranger came we didnt know who he was but it must have been the telegrams russ cooper he reported our case to his office later we were visited by another reporter ron kenyon who specialized ir science and medical writing- he was authorized to obtain help for us the telegram paid all the bills 3000 to keep us in the hospital for sick children and 500 a year at long as we were wards of the childrens aid by the time we had been in hospital six months it was nearly christmas there was a huge christmas tree in the foyer we all sang carols with the doctors and nurses in school i completed up to the end of grade 8 then on to business college and later to an accountants ofice my one sister is married and mother of a baby boy my second sister is a student nurse my two baby sisters are adopted one by a minister and one by a doctor i am married to a professional man he is everything i could want kind patient and a good sense of hurcsr we have a little boy of two he seejns to be growing up normally so this christmas our familys apartment has its own christmas tree beautifully decorated we plan a happy time together but i have reason to know that toys and tinsel are only symbols back of the gifts my son will receive the things that really matter the love of his parents something that we as children never knew but do we like little cinderellas become princesses and live happily ever after no in true life a cinderella does not recover from illtreatment as a child the best efforts of the cleverest doctors psychiatrists psychologists and speech therapists cannot undo all the damage for all three of us there are so many things people today think dont f like the love of parents for their children to a child love matters more tbap anything else and i should know i