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page two the tribune stouffvffle ontario thursday march 20th 1941 2uj t0uff trill ufribune established 188s member of the canadian weekly newspaper association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario eight to ten pages average circulation 1400 subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa 250 a v nolan jp editor and publisher editorial comment spring clean up in garden will prove profitable many insects spend the winter in protected situa tions in or near the garden some of these hibernate under trash or dead leaves many are to be found in the egg stage attached to the stems of standing weeds grasses or shrubs others may be hidden in cocoons or in the caterpillar stage in specially constructed cells or nests fastened to plants growing in the garden last season no matter what the stage in which they are now found all are awaiting the the coming of spring when they resume activity as soon as the snow disappears every gardener should interest himself in the business of spring clean up all visible egg masses and insect cocoons should be remov ed and destroyed many of these will be found on shrubs and low trees although insects commonly spin their nests also in stone piles on garden furniture and in protected situations around houses and outbuildings standing weeds and grasses in thee garden and as much nearby waste land as possible should be burned over odd marriage statistics canadas vital statistics are compiled in great detail nowadays and those for 1938 have just been issued the marriage returns show that in 1938 the greatest number of grooms married at age 24 and the greatest number of brides at 21 nearly onethird of all grooms were in the age group 2326 and over onethird of all brides in the agegroup 2023 in ontario as in canada 24 was the age at which the greatest number of men married and 21 the favorite age for brides in canada there were 120 grooms under 18 57 in ontario and 324 brides under 16 120 in ontario at the ther end of the scale there were 36 grooms in canada of 80 and over in ontario and 32 brides 80 and over 10 in ontario there were some notable discrepancies in ages a man in the 7579 age group married a girl 17 a bride in the 6064 age group married a groom of 27 a bride in the 5560 age group married a groom of 24 and one woman of 48 a man 21 no more hydro rebates for the first time in the history of the hydro system it has been stated no thirteenth power bill is expected this year the thirteenth bill represents the difference be tween the amount paid for power by municipalities in twelve monthly instalments and the amount the power actually cost the hepc sometimes it is a credit sometimes a deficit a story published the other day was to the effect that while no official announcement has been made the chairman of the hepc dr hogg had indicated that the thirteenth power bill would be abandoned for the duration of the war credits to municipalities would be retained by the provincial power commission to be used as a stabiliza tion fund when the war is over dr hogg indicated that a drop in the use of power after the war is ended will serious ly decrease revenues to offset this the fund made up of the thirteenth power bill accounts will be used to maintain rates this step looks like an easy and painless method of building a reserve pay of municipal officers on increase no more free service to municipalities may be the coming thing on the part of municipal councils com missions school boards fire brigades library boards and anything else formulated to attend some part of the work needed to be done to keep a municipality properly function ing there has been a strong tendency toward this end for some time and many municipal councils are now being paid a nominal sum where for half a century men did the work for the honor there was in it more recently we note that the police commissioners for the village of sunderland were demanding pay and the necessary bylaw providing for each commissioner to re ceive 2000 per year was passed by the brock township council this month if the job couldnt pay 25 to each trustee or com missioner one would have thought it could be done without pay however thats a start in paying police trustees still closer home the stouffville fire brigade want its members to be paid for practise nights during the summer the men receive pay attending fires but they are not paid for learn ing how to attend them effectively this issue will be debated at the next council meeting to which the fire chief has been invited to present his case numerous towns and villages pay a small fee to their councillors and board of health but so far stouffville has not done so it may be all right and fair to pay these men but do not imagine it will ever get the ratepayers a super- iour brand of councillor our greatest domestic problem financial post parliamentary debate at ottawa this week reveals wheat as canadas greatest domestic problem hundreds of millions of dollars badly needed for prosecuting the nations war effort are already tied up in unmarketable wheat all available storage is jammed and western farmers are now preparing to sow another crop under the most favorable moisture conditions in years to the soldier iu the field of action this mans job is allim portant a scientist of the national research council in ottawa he is testing the resistance to penetration of army steel helmets it is by means of such tests that quality is improved and lives saved in days of yore from the stouffville fjee press slay 7 1890 mr harvey brown of woodbridge has been engaged at shankels ton- sorial parlors to learn the barbering the stouffville bicycle club had their weekly run to claremont on tuesday evening miss nellie lapsley is the proud possessor of the first ladys bicycle that has come to town there was a good attendance at the market today but as soon as the farmers disposed of their pro duce they hurried home again to attend to their seeding the follow ing were the prices realized butter 12 to 13 cents eggs 8 to 9 cents chickens 40 to 60 cents there was a full house at the lacrosse boys concert in daleys hall last night and the program by local talent was well received mr fred miller was also presentwith his phonograph from the stouffville tribune march 1895 imrs a s leaney came home from sunderland on saturday evening where she had been visiting her father a vanbuseck quite a runaway occurred in the field at j mcconnochies on tuesday afternoon frank steckleys horse managed to get liberated and wreck ed the cutter w b sanders who has been in j the merchant tailoring business for many years has sold out to his son h w sanders and j bundy who will continue the business in the old stand in the postofllce block now button hardware block miss laura obrien has returned home from newmarket on sunday morning fire broke out in the hardware store of vanzant co markham and had got such a start before being discovered that j coakwells harness shop adjoining was completely destroyed mrs j j rae went to toronto junction on monday to visit her father who is ill we are pleased to see that mrs g s mcdonald is recovering from her recent illness miss minnie bray and master bert were visiting friends at mark- ham on tuesday canada possesses large ob reserve tnr sands have 100 to 230 billion barrels montreal march 11 canadians generally do not realize that the dominion possesses the greatest oil reserve in the world max ball of edmonton said today in an address before the canadian institute of mining and metallurgy the worlds largest known oil deposit lies in northern alberta and the famous socalled tar sands of the athabasca region contain sever al times as much oil as all the other proved reserves of the world estimates of the minimum content of the northern alberta deposits vary from 100 billion barrels to 250 billion barrels but he pointed out that exploitation must wait upon northward penetration of industry although a marked stimulus in the last few years was producing results smuggling 57 cartons of ameri can cigarettes across the border cost two people fines of 300 and the confiscation of the fags and that does not come under th head ing of being what is called profitable the problem is not simple our prairie economy is largely based on wheat throughout wide sections of manitoba saskatchewan and alberta soil climate transportation facilities and the skill of the people themselves are geared to wheat normally the growing of this crop proves profitable to the whole country but times today are far from normal the prewar export market in western europe has shrunk to the war demands of the besieged british isles for canada this can mean an annual outlet for little more than 150 million bushels last year we grew over 560 million bushels and we may easily repeat that performance in the coming summer home consumption for all purposes is not more than 125 million bushels already the canadian government has bought in surplus wheat to the tune of 350 millions and is making arrangements to take the balance of the unsold 1940 crop which is still in farmers hands by the end of the current crop year next summer the governments wheat com mitment will be at least 400 millions on this unsold wheat storage charges are accumulating at the rate of well over a million dollars a week this is greater than the prewar debit charges on the canadian national railway it is far too big a burden to superimpose on staggering and still soar ing war costs canada cannot afford to scrap its wheat growing machinery after the war the world will again turn to can ada for its bread and we will benefit from it doing so but neither can we afford to expand our wheat growing machin ery and especially at a time when markets are seriously restricted yet this is exactly the course we have been following since war broke out last year ottawa guaranteed 70 cents for every bushel of no 1 wheat farmers could deliver to fort william as a result wheat acreage expanded to record pro portions expanded indeed into marginal land never in tended for such a crop a substantial share of the nations income had to be diverted from the war effort to carrying an unwanted commodity many people who might better have been employed in war factories plowed up ground that might better have been left in grass means must be found and found quickly of checking this drain lest wheat not hitler exhaust our national credit bombs and chores o scottis farm by b leslie emslie its a wonderful experience to be awakened by the crack of a bomb and hear plop plop plop all around then look out of the win dow and see fires springing up here and there until the whole place seems ablaze so writes a farmer on the east coast of scotland who goes on to say that they have been fairly lucky so far the closest call was one night when eight high explosive bombs were dropped near by all but one fell in the river the house of a farm laborer was hit and set afire one person killed and three injured another time about 100 incendiary bombs were dropped around the farm buildings burning themselves out in the fields the jerry then machinegunned a hospital and at tempted to rouse a searchlight when a lewis gunner put finish to his career and the flaming plane came down in a field of standing grain but this farmer doesnt allow these inci dents to disrupt his daily routine even though his nights may some times be disturbed in the next sentence he tells of having gone out of sheep and in creased his dairy herd to 50 cows he is very pleased with a milking machine he has installed remark ing that it now takes less time to milk 40 than it used to take four milkers to do 28 cows feeding stuffs he said will be rationed in 1941 dairy herds getting preference potash in fertilizers too will be rationed but he has already taken the precaution to order his fertilizer requirements ifor delivery before spring there is no more private selling of fat cattle all have to be taken to a recognized mart and put on the scales being paid for at a fixed price per pound according as the grade is a b or c fourteen days in ad vance notice must be given of inten tion to offer livestock for sale the price of grain has doubled since the frkk french envoy capt george dargenlieu jnst arrived in canada is an ambassador of goodwill from gen charles do gaulle free french leader his mission he said is to explain ob jectives of the de gaulle movement to frenchcanadians and french men in canada after escaping tie nazis in france capt dargenlien was with his leader on the dollar expedition war started but potatoes have not gone up so much there is a stand ard price for each kind and grade cf product and our friend seems to deplore lack of opportunity to drive a bargain of the five brothers raised in this scottish home two are farmers two lawyers and one a graduate in agri cultural science now only onr correspondent remains on the farm and he is a special constable two- are airraid wardens and two are sn the regular army all are full of con fidence proud and determined to serve their country and defend their home the latest war savings slogan is would you rather save and lend or slave and bend business directory a c kennedy chiropractor church street stouffville monday wednesday fridays 9 to 12 am medical dr s s ball physician and surgeon xray office cor obrien and main phone 196 coroner for york county dental e s barker lds dds honor graduate of royal college of dental surgeons and of the university of toronto office in grubins block phone 8201 markhara every tuesday office in wear block dr j f weatherill office over bank of commerce office hours 9 to 12 noon and 130 to 530 pm phone office phone residence 180 18002 cloremont every tuesday office over bakers store phone claremont 1401 brierbush hospital government licensed slain street east stouffville maternity medical and surgical cases taken ambulance service registered nurses and 24 hour service mrs e r good phone 191 r g clendening funeral director ambulance service insurance see h o klinck obrien avenue for your insurance needs in fire life automobile burglar and all casualty lines thomas birkett general insurance agency representing reliable companies including lloyds of london england phone stouffville 25902 a c burkholder insurance canada life assurance co -also- automobile and fire harry m spang representative mutual life insurance co also mutual automobile insurance telephone 6g16 stouffville ontario barristers office phone residence phono 31g0 3514 arthur w s greer barrister solicitor notary pnbue 6 king street east oshawa ontario resident partner branch olseo wcpollardkc port perry uxbridge ontario phone 25 ie oneill stoufpviliie funeral dhtector and embalmer continuous telephone service day and night business phone residence phone stouffville marble granite works phone markham 9000 orders promptly executed p tarr proprietor phone 430s