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page 2 the tribune thursday april 8 191 isfoe rtune established isss c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 34 main st stouffville ont tel 6102101 single copies 13c subscriptions s500 per year in canada 900 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 editorial a demotion but why from a police chief to a constable under the new scheme of regional law enforcement such is the fate of stouff- villes orland keating he is deserving of something better much better many residents will no doubt recall some of the policing problems ex perienced here prior to his coming in may 1963 hooliganism was rampant vandalism was out of control individual officers paid to deal with such troublemakers werent even on speaking terms with each other the situation particularly on weekends was chaotic when chief keating took over he brought with him an air of respect and dignity to the office he cleaned house forcing the unsavory element to seek shelter elsewhere those who chose to stay soon straightened up or were charged and locked up common decency that this town had once known under the jurisdiction of the opp was returned and residents breathed a sigh of relief it appears however that in this very impersonal world these things are soon forgotten its every man for himself but we at this newspaper have not forgotten for we remember better than anyone the climate of crime and rowdyism that once prevailed towns folk of that day still living here would do well to remember it too and in doing so look to the man who eight years ago came to stouffville to do a job and did it orland keating regardless of rank has been good for this community his work here while obviously unrecognized by those in higher authority should not go unrewarded by we the people he has served so well those of us who know him better owe him that much no place in sport a young stouffville district hockey player could have been killed or per manently injured in a game at uxbridge march 25 angus macdonald of vivian was chopped down in an act of yet unex plained violence described by neutral observers as both vicious and disgraceful only the players protective headgear saved him even it was smashed by the force of the blow by now the referees report should be in the hands of ontario rural hockey association officials their action should be swift the penalty should be severe there is no place in organized sport for conduct of this kind the appeal works both ways any appeal to residents to shop at their own areas is always a twoway street heres the way it works looking for a sponsor for a baseball team this year how about a local merchant looking for someone to help with the town park how about a local businessman looking for a donation for your club how about asking the owner of one of our stores looking to do some shopping how about trying these same people that help us year after year but dont take these business people the wrong way theyre not begging for your business but they want it and to get it they know that their goods must be priced as competitively as the big stores out of the area they know you want value service and satisfaction and that if they give it to you youll come back editor 9 mail dear mr thomas i would like to applaud the committee in support of century city as well as join in with all the individuals in favor of this development in uxbridge township now that the land has been purchased and assembled by the developers the once was self pride of individual property ownership has gone since the developers have not been allowed to proceed for obvious reasons the evidence would only point to a contagious type slum area i feel the only way to better the region and keep it from downgrading even further is to create this city seeing that i was born and raised in the area in question i would like to return there to complete my livelihood the development of the city would make it much more encouraging for me to return as it would for many newcomers to the area bringing wealth prosperity and happiness to the greatest majority concerned incidently while i was reading a recent issue of your tribune i came across an anonymous letter which seemed to be strongly against any thought of century city as the author of the letter com plained about american financing of this project i thought to myself this person must be a member of that narrow minded group of canadians who drinks brazilian coffee out of an english cup and devours french pastry while sitting on his danish furniture after coming home in his foreign car from seeing an italian movie then picks up his japanese ball point pen and writes to his member of parliament complaining about the american take over of canada john smith scarborough dear sir i have been a resident of stouffville only a short time but i have been a subscriber to the tribune for many years during this period i have followed events in the community very closely and can recall the many problems ex perienced with the police including one action in the courts but with the arrival of chief keating in the village things seemed to change and since coming here myself i can un derstand why he seems to have the respect of everyone young and old alike it was therefore with surprise and disappointment that i read in last weeks paper that mr keating had been demoted from a chief to a constable such treatment is hard to understand and difficult to believe and everyone ive talked to feels the same i feel the council should approach the regional chief on this matter and see that this obvious error is rectified as soon as possible dennis mclean stouffville dear sir with reference to the tribune page 19 an article fmarch 18 under the heading reeve defends work of emo for the life of me i cannot understand how reeve wm gillespie can speak out against a service which he is obviously uninformed about as chief rescue officer for the county of york i beg to differ with mr gillespie our rescue service was on the scene train wreck and in fact did more than offered assistance as he can verify by mm i woiy etyeflbe 7fe lastoe before j wmf ovfom yol sugar and spice if he says so it must be true by bill smiley take my advice when your kid comes home from school and says breezily hi dad i have this project to do dont take the bait dont say a word beyond hrummph as you flip your newspaper up for a shield or better still head for the bathroom and lock yourself in never ever reply well whats it all about or is there anything i can do to help if you do youll discover inevitably that you have a project to do projects are all the rage these days in education give a kid a project and hell learn everything there is to know about the persian gulf the origin of sandpaper or the sex life of the blowfly he may never learn anything else in school a strong possibility but hell always be an expert in one field for the rest of their lives these kids will find some way at cocktail parties or formal dinners in casual conversation to drag in the gulf the sandpaper or the blowfly which is good most people know practically nothing about practically anything thus they can easily be put down by a forthright statement like but thats exactly what ive been saying the whole thing is in direct contrast to the solemn sedate secretive sex life of the blowfly they simply cant field that one if its properly delivered and you can always change your adjectives to suit the situation it could be the wild exotic orgies of the blowfly which comes in heat only on leapyears actually projects are nothing new although some young teachers act as though moses had just been up the mountain again and come down with a great stone slab inscribed projects we had projects when i was a kid i remember one in agriculture i chose to build a model of a henhouse wisely as i was perfectly aware even at that tender age that i couldnt nail two boards together without making a hand sand wich and equally aware that my father was a master craftsman even so it took a lot of time i had to spend about five evenings in his basement workshop praising admiring and fetching cups of tea before the job was done it was a beautiful little hen house with windows and swinging door i got an aplus despite my experience of the whole fiasco of projects i got myself hooked recently daughter kim was home from university out went the bait dad i have to do a project in anthropology sounds interesting warily ready to run i asked what it was fairly secure in my utter ignorance of the subject it turned out to be a project on folklore any area i breathed easier i was still swimming free she let out a little more line said shed considered doing one on the legends of the ottawa valley lumbering days with particular reference to my greatuncle mountain jack thomson reckoned to be the toughest lumberjack in the valley reputed to have killed four men in fist- andboot fights i got excited nibbled the bait and began spinning yarns about mountain jack she responded with the appropriate wow thats really great dad then it emerged that she had to go direct to human sources not the printed word and we realized there wasnt time to round up all the relatives and talk to them both downcast suddenly under the influence of the excitement and too many coffees i came up with a new project and tossed it at her the curse of the great lakes she raved that was it shed been born and raised on their shores and of course i knew all sorts of interesting oldtimers dont you dad we talked long and feverishly and it looked better and better i had swallowed the bait all she had to do was set the hook next morning the whole thing looked insane but when i started to swim quietly away i found i still had the hook in my mouth and the line was taut hundreds of miles and a couple of weeks later we had talked to regional 4bqunt good friday for most but not for me by jim thomas for the past couple of minutes ive just been sitting here silently staring at the calendar on the wall behind my office desk my eyes are fixed on only one figure april 9 immediately below the number are the words good friday and while i dont mean to be sacreligious that date april 9 is anything but good for me indeed black friday would be more appropriate its my birthday ill be 42 perish the thought it depresses me 1 and no wonder just think my wife said only the other night when susan graduates from high school youll be 50 and when neil obtains his diploma youll be 58 yes i answered honestly i only hope my pension cheque can send them on to college the conversation ended on that rather pessimistic note and i hobbled off to bed yes i can see it all now susan stan ding there her diploma held tightly in both hands while the principal introduces me as the familys proud grandfather and that believe it or not is what an overage father can become to his kids i fear its beginning to show already for instance when the boys talk hockey which is continually im always comparing the players of today with those of yesteryears like who is turk broda or gordie drillon or max bentley to them theyre nobodys and backyard baseball cmon dad throw us your fast one theyll say one pitch and game over ive just thrown the ball and my arm right over the fence and new years day at bruces mill fell off the toboggan and nearly broke my neck and even worse last summer a four- mile bike hike to dicksons hill and back wore me out for a week but thats the penalty you pay for marrying at 29 the attempt to make up for lost time can be fatal but ive persevered just as my parents did fortytwo years ago the date was april 9 1929 i arrived and the stock market crashed so this friday good or bad im keeping my fingers crossed historians commercial fishermen light- keepers and lake captains kim had a 4 1 stock of stories ships sunk without trace indian legends mysterious murders and exotic anecdotes like the pianos floating ashore at duck island must admit i enjoyed every minute of it old friends were generous with time and invaluable with memories that reached far back into the 19th century but its my last project at least until my first grandchild sidles up and says uh granddad i have this project at i school reading the lake simcoe advocate march 21 1968 i might add in closing that for a volunteer organization more than 90 percent are volunteers the emo has barely survived with no large thanks to the so called informed vigorous public servants such as mr gillespie norman foster chief rescue officer editors note as we understand it reeve gillespie was referring only to the ontario county branch of the emo of which he is obviously more directly concerned dear sir on the subject of extending the 640 exchange into the free call area of toronto i feel its about time some consideration was given to those sub scribers who neither want it nor need it those people who might benefit through closer telephone contact with metro can always at very little extra cost hook up with the 294 exchange at markham i sometimes call long distance too but 1 dont expect others to pay a portion of my bill why then should i be forced to pay others bills i know of one community of 58000 people just west of toronto that does not have a free call service to the city many however have installed their own direct line wg dear sir as a resident of valley road musselmans lake i would like to register a complaint concerning the dog problem in this area i fully realize this matter has been aired before but as yet nothing has been done about it i once had a registered beagle but had to have him put away because of con stant complaints i have also had my cat fixed so it wont fight with others that come calling still we cant sleep for the noise what is the answer mrs h bizeau rr2 stouffville dear sir this matter may be none of my affair j so if you refuse to publish my letter ill understand i am a resident in the former town of markham but i enjoy hockey so much so that i brought my son up to stouffville saturday to see your peewee team in the 4 ontario finals it was a great game and even though neither of us was acquainted with the players as individuals we enjoyed every minute of every period the thing that struck me however was the smallness of the crowd i later enquired and found the attendance to be something like 440 surely from a town of 4000 or is it 9000 now there is more interest than that not even bobby orr on television should have that kind of affect on fan support anyway my boy and i are coming back tuesday and we may bring along a few of our friends just to show them how good kids hockey can really be wishing your team every success jim webster lincoln green drive