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page 2 the tribune thursday march 2 1972 established 1888 charles h nolan publisher james thomas associate publisher and editor robert mccalsland advertising manager published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 54 main st stouffville ont tel 6102101 single copies 15c subscriptions s600 per year in canada 1000 elsewhere membsr of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 editorial an ideal development considerable pressure is being exerted on whitchurchstouffville council to approve a second phase of the v l a subdivision at ballantrae so far each application has been rejected although one member councillor betty vannostrand spoke in favor of the extension during discussion held earlier last month we agree with council that a post ponement is in order but for different reasons we feel that the buildup in phase 1 should be completed first before the developer is allowed to proceed further we argue too that at least a portion of the present accommodation problem at ballantrae school should be overcome before another sixty homes are com pleted or even started in that com munity as for the subdivision as it now stands we feel its ideal not only for that area but for the town as for the services we can only abide by the opinions of professionals who say they are adequate the lot sizes and quality of construction would seem to provide owners with the best value in this area in years while stumbling blocks such as water sewage and the like have been in troduced on councils side of the argument members continually keep bringing some 500 maximum population figure contained in a former township official plan why 500 we ask why not 300 or 700 or 1000 we hardly think it fair to establish a blanket policy of this kind on all hamlets throughout the municipality we say deal with each development plan on its own merits whether its location is in vandorf bethesda or ballantrae as for v l a we only wish their selected site had been established in stouffville we should be so lucky sugar and spice all canadian x opera by bill smiley beneath our dignity whitchurchstouffville town councillor tom lonergan long noted for his im patient attitude towards unenforceable bylaws has taken aim on one of the last frontiers of individual responsibility the shovelling of snow from sidewalks he has described conditions in some parts of town as disgraceful and has asked that the law be either enforced or repealed councillor lonergan is right many sidewalk areas in stouffville have been a disgrace this winter and not only in front of vacant lots but in front of some homes and business places too many folks look on this chore as menial labor beneath their dignity others feel they are getting little enough for their tax dollar so let the municipality do it still others arent physically able to do it and wont hire anyone to do it for them and then theres the few who are just too lazy to do it feel privileged to select the category that suits you best while the town will eventually have to assume this work we would suggest that council assert its authority and enforce the bylaw as it now stands a threatened fine might spur a little action it might also provide some job- hunting students with a little seasonal employment airport guessing game a jumbo jet airport on the outskirts of atha monstrous passenger planes clipping the tops of chimneys in claremont hordes of overseas commuters streaming through green river exciting eh perhaps for some who take such things seriously but not for us unless the facts are based on something official for weve experienced the runaway imaginations of daily newsroom editors before but it sure sells newspapers that was why when folks began calling this office tuesday we couldnt sound enthused because we werent enthused there were just no facts available to support the story no facts at all from queens park or ottawa rather than pinpointing a place in pickering as the daily press has done well stick with the site of the nowdefunct century city scheme we suggested this location before and our opinion has not changed but then like the toronto star were only guessing too well what do you think of the cbcs widelytouted jalna series please dont answer that aloud there are ladies present ah with what hopes we looked forward to a truly brilliant allcanadian grand slam in the world of television all- canadian cast allcanadian material and a decent budget it would astonish the world dazzle the screen and all of the worlds great networks would beat a path to the cbc door clutching millions of pounds francs dollars and lira begging and pleading for the right to reproduce it so much for hopes the result merely shows that you can have on hand champagne caviar and filet mignon but if the cook doesnt know what hes doing it ends up as watery limp and lukewarm hash we have the champagne in the shape of gorgeous sets we have the caviar in a collection of firstrate actors and we have the filet in the rare beef of the original jalna novels but what emerges on the screen is the most hamfisted downright dog of a series anyone could dream up or nightmare up the champagne has been watered the caviar has been fired from a shotgun and the rare beef has been minced into hamburg i warned the cbc before the series began that i would roast it if it werent at least reasonably good its not even reasonably bad can you roast hash i watched the first episode with a mixture of disbelief and horror the second was a little better and hope sprang eternal the flame was quickly smothered by the succeeding wet blankets i thought i knew the jalna novels inside out but the series is so baffling that were it not for the names of the characters id be willing to admit that it was the bobbsey twin series i was thinking of the most coherent parts of the sunday night show are the commercials but even here you have to keep a wary eye because youre not quite sure they arent part of the plot so dense and unwieldy is the latter those faint screams you hear from your set are not static they are miss mazo de la roche author of the novels shrieking epithets at the cbc the director and everyone else connected with the mutilation of her manuscripts perhaps the most appalling aspect of the whole dreary business is that the cbc has actually sold the series to some retarded british network on the un derstanding that it the cbc will produce another 13 episodes in the series this is not just flogging adead horse it is giving castor oil to someone who is dying of dysentery you may have picked up the miscon ception that i dont like the jalna series quite wrong i love it its the best comedymystery hour on the air mind you the comedy is of the black variety its rather like making jokes as the british empire on which the sun never sets sinks slowly into the sunset but the mystery though there is ob viously no solution is fascinating sorting out the characters alone is more fun than reading a russian novel who is married to whom why when which are brothers which cousins is rennies second wife edens first mistress when is rennie going to get a new nightiegown the ramifications are endless and hopeless its a soap opera with a schizophrenic at the helm i wish theyd sell the dam estate and put gran in a nursing home and give ed sullivan a ring editors mail felray rejection 2 million assessment loss dear sir with respect to the letter tribune feb 24 i would like to clarify certain issues introduced by rural resident with respect to water sewers and school accommodation as it affects the vla development at ballantrae before a plan of subdivision can be approved it must go through ap proximately 24 departments both provincfal and regional qualified per sonnel must decide if it meets all requirements with respect to the felray develop ment a report from ga missingham p eng district engineer ontario water resources commission reads in part as follows it would appear that precipitation falling on the property plus the water recycled through individual disposal systems will more than meet the water supply requirements of he subdivision on a perennial basis no serious interference with water supplies outside the subdivision is expected i had our survey and projects branch of the division of water resources review the hydrologists report and have received agreement with these conclusions to rural resident if you wish to obtain a copy of the soil survey of york county report no 19 it shows a huge area of brighton sand in and around the ballantrae area this type of soil has excellent drainage and filtration qualities combining this with the water report shows the area to be self- sufficient in the provisions of services at acceptable provincial standards the problem of overcrowding at ballantrae school has not been caused by the low number of children attending from the vla subdivision the closing down of the small rural schools and the transporting of them to ballantrae is the root of the problem i would suggest to rural resident that further development with regard to vla cannot be approved at a later date since the act expires in march of 1974 this would result in a loss to the municipality of the fine people you refer to whose presence will benefit the community there will also be a financial loss of about 2 million in additional assessment we would be pleased to answer any questions from interested residents in this regard feel free to call 2973487 any time during daytime office hours the developers felray investments ltd dear mr thomas i have been requested by the rural people of pickering township to make a statement on the proposed airport in the township to my knowledge there has never been any negotiations between pickering council and the federal government as to the report in the daily newspapers it has been suggested that this was picked up off an old map of an earlier proposed site i am sure that there are many guesses as to where the airport will be located and we will only know when the federal government decides to let it be known to the public jack anderson councillor ward 1 pickering township dear jim i read your recent editorial re the stouffville juvenile hockey team and your personal opinion of juvenile hockey in general while it was perhaps a bit unfair to paint all juvenile clubs with the same critical brush i must agree that in most games i have seen and ive seen my share the competition has been pretty crude in spite of this i do not feel juvenile hockey should be dropped instead i think it should be incorporated into stouffvilles overall minor hockey program where the management and general team operation would come under tighter supervision this past season its been looked on as a kind of outlaw league and i use the term outlaw in its most cynical sense jim hannah leadership candidate with the announced resignation of ontario liberal leader robert nixon there has been some speculation as to his successor prominently mentioned as a candidate is donald m deacon york- centre on this subject mr deacon replies as follows some people have asked me if i shall be running for the party leadership i would say to you as i have said to them that my chief concern in political life is to see that control of ontario is taken away from the bureaucrats and returned to the people where it belongs if leadership of the liberal party can help achieve that result then it is possible that i shall be a candidate for that responsibility but this is all in the future in the meantime i am here to help you as your representative at queens park doamirfc ffidunt example of courage by jim thomas after 21 years in the newspaper business ones outlook in certain areas o5 news coverage can become clouded impersonal even cynical ive honestly tried to avoid this ap proach regardless of how uninteresting how repetitious the event but still from time to time that old feeling of cynicism comes creeping in like dec 6 1970 a twocar collision on what was then the third concession of whitchurch township the time was well past midnight and when i arrived the occupants four in number had already been admitted to hospital my attitude was just another accident the story occupied eleven lines of space in the dec 10 issue of thr tribune but strangely enough i never could put the incident completely out of mind for i later learned that one of the vehicles reduced to a mangled pile of scrap was driven by a 19 year old teacher margaret orr by name of r r 1 newmarket margaret was pinned in the wreckage of her auto for almost an hour at tendants at the scene had to cut away a portion of the frame before she could be freed veteran police officers aria firemen spoke in hushed tones describing the agony of her ordeal that was the last i heard of margaret orr but i could not forget the shocking sight of that crumpled heap of junk that once had been a car had she survived was she per manently paralyzed had she completely recovered somehow i had to know five persons in the newmarket telephone directory had the same sur name on the second attempt a lady with a very pleasant voice identified herself as margarets mother she in formed me cheerfully that her daughter was again teaching at a public school ir sharon and yes she felt she might spare me a few minutes outside of regular classroom hours at 330 friday i visited the school and informed the office secretary the reason for my being there she readily agreed to have margaret call around funny isnt it how your mind draws pictures of someone you feel you know but have never met mine did as i waited ten or fifteen minutes fop margaret to appear but how wrong the mental image i had envisioned this was not someone em bittered by a stroke of fate that had placed her in hospital more than four months not someone still grieving the loss of five months in her first teaching year not someone lamenting the fact that her right foot is tightly confined to a steel brace none of these but rather a warm pleasant girl whose cheery personality was reflected in the faces of her 32 grade 3 children it was obvious they worshipped her margaret remembers little of that terrible night and somehow it seemed heartless to ask her to try margaret can recall only heading towards home and rounding the s curve on the bogarttown cutoff the next thing she remembers is opening her eyes to see doctors and nurses standing around her bed by a coincidence her principal was one of the first to arrive on the accident scene he broke the news to her parents margarets injuries included a frac tured hip a broken kneecap and a broken foot both legs were badly crushed damaged to such an extent that double amputation was considered however physicians worked miracles and by september margaret was back behind her desk a different grade but still in the same school the position was kept open said margaret appreciatively the staff was really great throughout her long recovery period her parents visited her every day the town of newmarket or even sharon cannot lay total claim to this courageous young lady margaret is originally from the twp of king at tending kettleby public school she is a graduate of g w williams secondary school aurora to be a teacher has always been my dream she said thirtytwo smiling faces say thanks for coming back