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page 2 the tribune thursday march 23 1972 ww established 1sss chables h nolan publisher f james thomas associate publisher and editor kobebt mccaustand advertising manager published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 54 main st stouffville ont tel- 6102101 single copies 13c subscriptions s600 per year in canada s1000 elsewhere membsr of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0s96 editorial land freeze necessary the government imposed land freeze affecting more than 150000 acres surrounding the proposed airport site was a heavy handed but necessary move by queens park and while it hasnt halted entirely a minor spree of speculative land pur chases one can only imagine what might have occurred had the province not acted as it did but as usual swift action arouses criticism in this case from the local level of government however these protests will arouse about as much sympathy as the squeak from a mouse whose tail has been trod upon by a lion in whitchurch stouffville planning chairman tom lonergan has been the most vociferous of all councillors he feels that hours of work put into the preparation of the towns new zoning bylaw have been wasted and for the present at least hes right but a 2 billion airport project doesnt occur in our midst every day so certainly the freeze should supersede any plan the municipality has prepared pass and enforce it whitchurch stouffville council has given first reading to a bylaw that will if passed place a 10 horsepower limit on motorboats using musselmans lake the move to establish safeguards of this kind at the local resort centre is by no means new discussions on the same subject date back to the old township regime so why then the delay in getting this legislation through surely by now members must be convinced that they are right so opponents of the scheme are wrong a public meeting will accomplish nothing at this point councils concern should not relate to the purpose of the bylaw or its need these conditions are obvious the town rather should know by what mearis it intends to enforce the power restriction once approved will shalimar beach the main laun ching site be closed off to all vehicular traffic meaning cars trucks and boats is the bylaw enforcement officer to be supplied with a boat of his own will the policing of the lake be done by the region will the cottage residents police themselves and if so who will watch over the boat operators who are non residents these are the questions that require answers not the need of the bylaw itself calling the departments bluff in spite of pressure from officials of the ontario dept of lands and forests there will be no deer hunts this fall inther uxbridge or pickering townships the council town of whitchurch stouffville has taken a similar stand were 100 percent on the side of the municipalities in this regard and we find the advice offered by the depart ment very strange regardless of figures produced by lands and forests officers rural residents in all three areas report few if any sightings of deer all winter why then we ask should hunters beallowed to track down and destroy the few that- are left with the rejection of the open season in the town and townships it will be interesting to see just how far the department will go to assert its authority if its policy in this regard is similar to the trend in planning queens park may order the hunt to proceed whether the tfocal councils like it or not yes weve become pretty small toads in a very big puddle editors mail dear jim it seems that the only side of the airport question that we have heard is the protestors there is also a farmers point of view to consider farmers have a big investment and it is a recognized fact that farm income is steadily declining many farmers realize they can not carry on much longer many of the protestors are people who work 5 days a week and have their weekends free farmers are not so fortunate but would like to have more leisure time as far as the need for the airport not many farmers have had the time nor the money to use the existing one so are certainly not in a position to know the need for a new one someone has said that opportunity only knocks once perhaps this is the opportunity that many farmers have been waiting for to open a way of easier and less restrictive means of earning a living providing the government pays a satisfactory price for our property we as farmers are willing to sell and relocate somewhere else where we can enjoy a more relaxed way of life walter g winn rri stouffville dear jim i as a dairy farmer own land on the airport site my buildings may be torn down to make room for either a runway or a terminal building according to maps i have seen six mflnths ago nobody wanted the north end of pickering twp now everybody wants it i am writing to say that i am willing to sell my land to the government if the price is satisfactory because i see no future in farming here when the taxes are so high people remark about the government taking all the good farm land in the north end of pickering township a high percentage of this land has been pur chased by speculators not intending to farm it themselves the few farmers that are left work some of this land for the main purpose of trying to control the weeds as for our beautiful countryside as some people call it i have cleaned up my share of dead trees weeds and garbage dumped on the side of the road which eventually ends up on my property so if the price is right ill quit milking cows 7 days a week 365 days a year and move on to an easier way of living allan murray rr2 claremont mr editor your paper and others have been full of letters from people giving their ideas about the new airport this i am sure is only the opinion of the minority many of my friends are just waiting to get a buyer i think the airport is the greatest thing thats happened here in a 100 years the government knows some people will be upset and have to move when theyd rather not but really the airport is for people millions of them they have weighed this against the handful in convenienced emotion is one thing but its not the stuff on which progress is built catharine larrimore markham rr hey refenber the olp adage about amapplea my sugar and spice old friends purest gold by bill smiley in agony when i expound on the virtues of hard work meeting your payments and all that crud it seems that the only people with whom i am still on the same wavelength are old friends now im not going to give you an analogy comparing old friends to old wine although i do think they should be kept in the same place a cool dry spot to be brought out at the exact moment i have brought out some of my old friends at the wrong moment one in particular can wreak havoc with my domestic relations were having a lovely barbecue for example his kids are drifting in and out and then he says something like smiler remember the night we picked up those two and i leap smartly into the breach and holler oh yeah those two unusual clamshells at the beach while his and my wife exchange looks and make mental notes and prepare future thirddegrees however as they say when they dont know any other way of getting back on the track some old friends preserve not only their sanity buyltheir sensebf 11 ill f- xf humour- recently had a letter from such dave mcintosh a toiler in the bleached vineyards of journalism he says he has been writing politics in ottawa for the canadian press for two centuries this is known as understatement or litotes if you are taking english from me and arent you glad you arent we went to university together fought mostly our way into the regent palace in london together and he set me up with the coldest woman i have ever met when he couldnt keep a date and had me fill in dave was the only nonfreak in north house which sounds like something out of dickens and was a residence it sounds like a modern euphemism meaning someplace you are put away the jocks didnt like him because he laughed at them if you are not up on the latest slang jocks were the in those days crewcut boys who knew that the way to get ahead was to be on the team marry the right girl and kick the right people in the face as you climbed the ladder they unfortunately are still with us the only difference is the ferocity of their sideburns as compared with the shortness of their crewcut the aesthetes didnt like him because he laughed at them if you are not up on aesthetes they are the people who chuckle overthe latest vicious review of a play who parrot anyone who has ever uttered a bon mot who are seen at all the right places but couldnt write a paragraph or a scene or a poem they are the flies who buzz around a carcass it must be dead if it shows signs of life they shriek with alarm and retreat into generalities like well after all hes only doing his own thing if his thing is vomiting on the carpet thats fine sorry chaps didnt mean to get mean i have a toothache mac and i became friendly because i was the only nonfreak in middle house we were talking about old friends and in his letter dave said something that struck me he said weeklies are a gold mine hes right and that brings me to another old friend my favourite weekly naturally its the weekly of which i used to be editor it was with great delight that i read recently a letter to the editor in said weekly it stated the former editors thats me were gentlemen i agree latest issue states that bill smiley is a fine man and a great writer i think the writer of the letter thus proclaiming has either a drinking or a mental problem but i dont even care although i like most people who have one foot in the grave and the other foot butting out the cigarette thats putting them there i become increasingly averse to change why cant my wife be the way she was when i married her sweet dumb in nocent and believing that my opinion was more important than hers why cant my daughter say yes dad instead of look dad why cant my son do something besides shake his head dear jim yes we farmers are for the airport obviously a better and more level tract of land was not to be found when this site was the one selected out of 54 yes this would be a good farming area if all the farms were worked as they should be worked but speculators buy up farms then leave them to grow up in weeds take a drive around the site in the summer and see for yourself most of the good land has gone to pot why wouldnt farmers be for the air port when theyre forced through taxes to pay for comrriuhity centres and arenas which are of no benefit to them saturdays big crush at malton airport was a sure indication that present facilities are not large enough to ac commodate todays travellers the airport site is immediately west of claremont with its northern boundary the uxbridge pickering townline and its southern boundary north of hwy 7 were sure the federal transport minister and ontarios treasurer do not need any help from dr godfrey and clark muirhead both of uxbridge township to run pickering townships proposed airport project donald dunkeld rr2 claremont dear sir i cannot help but question the tribunes editorial policy after reading the issue of march 9 in one instance you criticise the cbc technicians for blacking out the national hockey league broadcast and then suggest with reference to the proposed airport that pickerings got it and will have to make the best of it in my opinion the losing of ones home presents morn of a problem than missing a hockey game far better to gnash our teeth over noise pollution and environmental damage than over interruption on the boobtube k robinson rr2 claremont dear editor as the mother of two preschool children i was sorely disappointed to read in last weeks tribune that mr harry hunt would not be continuing on as the principal at ballantrae school after the june term it would have been a privilege to have had my son and daughter attend classes under mr hunts capable supervision and i know i speak for many parents who already have children enrolled there it is a certainty that whatever en deavor mr hunt assumes in the future he will be witn the same success he has enjoyed in the past our communitys loss will indeed be anothers gain mrs june carter stouffville rr3 downside up party by jim thomas were heading into a federal election i can feel it the signs are everywhere and while some folk shrug their shoulders in disgust claiming all politicians to be nothin but a buncha crooks i disagree to me the preelection period spells excitement with a capital e its also a time when the little people the voters suddenly grow ten feet tall and the candidates particularly those wishing to retain their posts are whittled down to size just call it the great leveler but theres a bothersome side people are all the time trying to pin a political tag on me aha the liberals say hes a davis man trudeau through and through aci cuse the conservatives and the ndp their comments send little columns of blue smoke curling up from the keyboard i so you see wherever i travel between now and that ultimate trek to the pollsi im an outcast a misfit a turncoat an enemy spy so it was thursday i attended a conservative nomination meeting in uxbridge now you may not believe this but in my 21 years of patrolling the district newsbeat it was my very first insight into a gathering of this kind and i committed two grievous errors j first i arrived late having to babysit for an hour while my wife attended choir practice and second i pinned a george ashe badge on my lapel not knowing- frank mcgee and his deputies had already taken over the auditorium by storm the place was packed in fact if ij hadnt been carrying a camera i might haveeen forced to siew theroceedihgsj from a recessin thejrafters the long aisle leahing friorif the rear oi t the hall to an empty chair up front was littered with obstacles to start things off clark muirhead aji trueblue conservative councillor fronj- uxbridge pulverized my voting hand with a shake that curled my toes next some sandford potatopicker called rrie a dirty old grit and i staggered to a seat reserved for some gal who fqr personal reasons unbeknownst to me haft suddenly made a quick trip to the toilet- i left immediately on her return noli wishing to incite a riot besides she must have weighed close to 200 i found an empty chair close by but out of range and settled down to enjoy the show but all the while i waited for the- platform promenade to begin i couldnt put the name of the party completely out of mind think of it progressive conservative the originator must have been some 3 kind of freak who buttoned his pants up the back wore his underwear flap at the front and had trouble distinguishing his right foot from his left somewhere sometime somebodys got to take a stand and choose one or the other either progressive or con servative but not both but then again this could split the party i for i honestly find it hard to think of bob stanfield as a progressive and a gentleman like george hees can hardly be considered conservative so suppose to keep peace in the family theyve linked the two together hoping for the best of two worlds ridiculous i and ridiculous it was for if the steady stream of leggy braless gals that paraded around the uxbridge auditorium last thursday wa meant to promote the stanfield ii e qf conservatism then norm cafik5 nomination must have been pickering nudist colony think it might have been a a great man another gem same ad notice would thffy my gloves from evening and left me t please phone a local correspon dears lets see what stick this week a even licked a swizzli gold all right