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page 2 the tribune thursday june 10 1971 wht wnhunt wna established 1sss c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 5i main st stouffville onl tel 102101 single copies 15c subscriptions 500 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 0396 luanaoian weekly r association second c editorial fathers to the rescue for about forty young stouffville boys in the 8 through 10 age bracket the summer ahead looked like a pretty dull season while a team had been organized for the allstars dozens of lads not quite good enough to make the grade were sure to be left standing on the sidelines there appeared to be no one willing to look after them no one that is until a few fathers rolled up their sleeves and went to work appearance improved persons visiting the stouffville plaza in recent weeks have commented on the improved appearance of the premises not only the parking area and store en trances but the property fronting on main street winona drive and westlawn crescent such has not always been the case in fact for most of last summer the site was a disgrace an immaculate exterior is an excellent advertisement for what lies within be it a person attempting to sell himself or a plaza attempting to sell its products the centre as it appears today is not only an excellent advertisement for it self but for all of town we sympathize we visited toronto friday certainly no earthshaking event in itself while there however we took ad vantage of the opportunity to view the nowfamous yonge street mall a two- block long area of asphalt and concrete polluted by people rather than automobiles to a native countrytowner the whole makeup of the area while indeed imaginative was about as real as visualizing a howard johnsons restaurant in the middle of beachs dump it was phoney a masquerade an at tempt to convince a gullible public that a citys downtown commercial centre can with the wave of a magic wand be converted into something peaceful and pleasant fullsize trees shrubs and flowers growing out of the pavement hawkers and peddlers selling refreshments crowded picnic tables in the heat of a blazing sun thats living the artificial way we sympathize the stouffville park the pool the mid- town stream our own backyard it never looked so good a sad response the stouffville home and school association has been disbanded the decision follows a tabulation of replies on a questionnaire sent home with children ninety percent considered the organization as obsolete and a majority or more than 50 percent could see no advantage in replacing it with something similar while it is indeed distressing to see such an association fall by the wayside the attitude of parents in this regard is more distressing still out of 1000 questionnaires sent out only 150 were returned a disgrace and disgraceful too was the parents support of the home and school when it was meeting regularly theyd fuss and fume about costs transportation old school closings and new school systems but ask them to come out and hear it all explained and oh no that was too much to expect even the presence of stouff- villes own trustee and then vice- chairman of the board attracted less than two dozen listeners embarrassing admittedly not all programs were so controversial as to prompt fistfights on the floor in fact some were pretty dry but the potential was there now there is nothing and just at a time in our opinion when an organization of this kind is needed most editors mail dear sir the extension of cnr service to stouffville is a major breakthrough for transit users for the first time rail service has been expanded rather than reduced the canadian transport commission has adopted a key aspect of the com muter concept advocated by railroad boosters and proposed to trudeau it calls for a transit grid serving the toronto area including service on the markhamstouffville line nine years ago cnr was ordered to continue the torontomarkham weekday evening train in oxlike compliance with the order the oneway wonder leaves toronto at 515 arriving at markham 600 pm it stops and runs back empty there is no morning train last fall cn applied to discontinue entirely simultaneously cp applied to discontinue the torontohavelock service via the markham area cn cited the cp line as an alternative service cp cited the cn line as an alternative service vigorous objection was made over 13 days i attended hearings in peter borough toronto and scarborough where cp claimed big losses we showed that it made a profit on at least four of the days cited as examples up to 17500 a day cp claimed traffic didnt require extra cars so i offered to rent an extra car and run it for a week cp didnt accept the offer the commission ordered an inspector to check claims of overcrowding on one day the inspector found 170 people jammed into a 90 seat coach the passenger section was so full the inspector had to ride with the engineer the commission then ordered cp to run an extra coach while the decision was pending cp announced a 50 percent fare hike for stations in the commuter area after protests the commission ordered the fare hike rolled back we asked continuation of the havelock run and that markham service be ex tended on the uxbridgestouffville line and operated properly or abandoned the commission has adopted this view over the objections of the railway and ordered an extension of the markham led by murray redshaw clare mcguckin mickey hunt and don gib son they employed the personal ap proach buttonholing every prospective coach and manager they could find some by telephone some on the street the response has been tremendous so much so that on tuesday night a squirt house league was formed with all games in the ponderosa park its great to be a kid again ask any volunteer v- ill i head of household relatiomsmip to head op household cc other tongue nc suttz how do tou erljer cwmcye vo you have the use of a bajh or shower do you have the ue of a flush toilet q s-edofk- jou hefcaa i sugar and spice theres three choices and he likes none bill smiley boy show me a silver lining these days and ill show you a dark cloud its only a couple of weeks since i was crying the blues about being stuck with a jobless child for the summer and wishing my daughter could find work in this slim summer for students she has a job and she likes it its waiting on tables in a smart hotel dining- room overlooking the water the pays not much but tips are fair she has learned the joy of coming home with her apron pockets loaded with quarters dimes and nickels and arranging them in neat little piles and counting them over and over anyone who has ever worked as a slavey knows the sheer scroogelike delight of coun ting tips but theres always a catch and in this case im the one who has been caught and not for the first time the catch is that the job is about ten miles from home and there is no tran sportation to and from bus service is strictly from the stone age and its too far to take a cab and take any money home i guess 1 dont have to draw a picture good old dad its not the money i mind about 100 worth of gas and five dollars depreciation on the car most of the journey is on a highway under con struction service to stouffville with morning and evening service and continuation of the havelock line this is a new policy direction reversing the previous pattern of steadily reducing rail service it is the second real victory for transit users since we ran the suc cessful barrie experimental train first the ctc ordered continuation and upgrading of the cn guelph service now the havelock continuation and the stouffville extension mark win number two if transit users continue the pressure we may yet get a transit grid so badly needed john c medcof mt albert ont its the fact that she starts work at 730 in the morning we are a onecar family she doesnt have a drivers license so its up at the crack of 6 am for yours truly i am not at my best at 6 am except on those occasions when i havent got to bed yet good old mom can also drive the car but she always seems to have the vapours at 6 am i have two alternatives one have kim get her driving license in which case im stuck without a car all day two buy a second car let her use it and fork up price of the car license and insurance the latter considering what shell probably earn would put us about 500 in the hole for her summers work how do you like them for alternatives ive scrabbled desperately at other solutions i might be able to hire a boy to take her out and pick her up for about 400 a day plus gas that doesnt seem too profitable and hed probably rack up my tired 1967 model i could physically kick her mother out of bed and make her drive but i havent the guts to do this at 4 pm let alone 6 am i could let her hitchhike but i dont like girls hitchhiking at 7 am that is i dont mind the girls but the hitch hiking why she might be picked up by some renegade and id never see her again that on second thought would solve the problem ah its just one of those rotten little problems that will have to sort itself out ive got another problem today i havent felt so tough since the germans beat me up about twentythree years ago did you ever fall down a mineshaft i hadnt either until a couple of nights ago at least i thought it was mineshaft drove some people home into their driveway no lights outside the house invited in for coffee stepped out the drivers side and straight into an ex cavation nobody had mentioned tore a quarterinch of skin tissue and muscle off my left palm sprained the thumbs on both hands raised a lump the size of a baseball on my left thigh twisted my right knee hit my chest on something else and have a great purple- some you win some you dont by jim thomas i often wonder what percentage of arguments are won by fathers with their eldest sons i often wonder too what percentage of arguments are won by husbands with their wives this past week i had a confrontation with both nothing violent mind you merely an expression of opinions for and against in the first i was the winner a major personal victory for the cause of all parenthood in the second i lost badly the initial debate concerned an old phobia of mine or hangup as the kids call it today its long hair a style trend with so many young guys that i thoroughly detest now dont get me wrong ive nothing against the lad with wellbrushed locks to the top of his collar but that peekaboo look like a cotswold sheep uh uh it has to go so it was at the noonday meal friday i turned to son barry now 8 and suggested he take a quick trip to the barber after school what a shock do i have to he asked wrinkling his forehead into furrows of total disgust for a moment i was speechless then reswallowing the last forkful of potatoes i replied with a firm yes you do have to but some of the others he protested never mind what the others do 1 interrupted would you rather look like a girl he hunched his shoulders like he really didnt care but care or not come four oclock he was off to the barbers licketysplit and ive heard nothing more on the subject since so father the supreme head of the- house had faced his first crucial subteen test and had won hopefully the trend in- the next five years will change back to brush cuts to a boy of thirteen i may not be quite so convincing only time will tell my argument in a losing cause was related to charitable donations and while i dont consider myself a scrooge theres got to be a limit on a bodys generosity particularly a body with seven mouths to feed our policy has been something fori everyone but all organizations must be local that is they must assist folks in the immediate area not necessarily stouffville but certainly the community it was again at noontime when the door bell rang my wife answered when she returned in a couple of minutes she held a slip in her hand what was that all about i asked thinking it was don lehman collecting an overdue garbage account just someone collecting for metropolitan toronto mental health she replied bravely knowing full well the repercussions that would follow metropolitan toronto what i asked in a voice that disturbed the whole household you know very well what we decided on things like that i know but it was miss and shes such a nice girl i didnt have the heart to say no besides i only gave her one doilar one dollar it seemed like pouring a j cup of water into the pacific ocean disturbed as i was for the moment five minutes later all was forgotten on saturday i received the following letter or at least jean did i opened it by mistake it read dear friend you are one of the lucky winners of the mental health lottery draw we are happy to enclose your prize on behalf of the mental health metro canadian mental health association our congratulations and thanks for your support sincerely john m hannant executive director pinned to the correspondence was a cheque for 50 andgold bruise that hits me like a spear when i cough can barely manoeuvre the stairs but apart from that feel terrible but good thing im a tough old nut scrambled out unaided dripping blood and bad language it makes the transportation hangup recede a little 4 a