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rase two the tribune stouffvffle out thursday may 21 1942 2ty timffmu ribmt established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario x eight to twelve pages average circulation 1650 copies subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa 250 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments the wise course for councils the spirit being exhibited by the municipal councils in both whitchurch and markham townships respecting road expenditures for this season are wise and sen sible the government dept of highways had drastic ally cut the amount of money to these municipalities on which the department will pay the usual 50 per cent it is customary and necessary each year to make out a budget of the probable expenditures and this must be ratified by the department early in the year when these estimates were submitted thousands were cut from them and the councils have wisely determined to hold their expenditures to within the amount set by the department if there is any tendency for the municipalities to disregard the budget and spent thousands of dollars over and above the amount set the municipal ratepayers would have to pay it all themselves for the departmental 50 per cent would not tie contributed further the department would be quick to seize the idea of further reductions next year in the hope that the municipal councils would shoulder still more of the road costs themselves in the toest interests of the ratepayers all town ships would do well to make every effort to reduce their road costs to the amount of the budget approved by the department of highways new walks appreciated as timely work the village council nas completed a program of cement sidewalk building that is a credit to their effort there was a popular demand for new walks and with the mounting accident list something had to be done we con gratulate the reeve and his councillors who staged the program just being completed the tax payers will not find any burden on their hands for careful manipulation of town funds in the past had provided the money in- advance to pay for the walks in cash that too is something more to be appreciated toy the ratepayers critics are liable to be a hindrance we do not envy rt hon wlm king his great job today as prime minister of canada despite the im pressive effort this country has made in getting on an in- dustrial footing such as was never dreamed to be possible to bolster our defences in britain and in other paits of the world there is still the insistent demand for conscription of manpower from certain quarters while there is equally as determined opposition to conscription in quebec f and to a much lesser degree in other parts of canada not all who voted for mr kings plebiscite are anxious to see conscription introduced what is a leader to do under these circumstances our opinion is that if the king government deems con scription of men more vital to the war effort than the pre sent tremendous and growing output of war materials then he should bring in such a measure on the other hand the government should not be stampeded by a group of politicians who only see some advantage to their own position we all want to win the war and it is a shame that there are those who will harass the government in its every effort no matter what turn is made however sin cere they do the war effort harm a leader with the wisdom of solomon and we do not concede mr king possessed that could not escape criticism in these days and this may be some comfort perhaps red cross supplies millions of comforts thousands of women are working in the 2600 branches of the canadian red cross society all across canada to keep up the production of comforts and cloth ing and hospital supplies for the relief of human suffer ing stouffville is one of the branches markham is another last year 6816804 articles poured into red cross warehouses from these busy branches for the reason that their mission is to alleviate pain and suffering in war torn countries and to assist those who have lost everything they possess we all want to help in the present drive to raise nine millions we give with a thankful heart to the knowledge that our own secur ity and comfort has not been infringed on success to the new newmarket paper vthe newmarket era and the newmarket express have amalgamated thus bringing one more of the few remaining twopaper towns in ontario to the common status of a onepaper town this is the logical thing to have happened in the newspaper field of that town and the tribune hastens to add its blessing to the new enterprise and to wish for the newmarket eraexpress the success it deserves mr andrew o hebb editor of the era will become editor of the new paper thus assuring the people of newmarket and district a high class weekly under the direction of a competent and able writer being trailed by the german gestapo not a pleas exp this is the lgtlt in the series of articles describing a trip to britain last september and october the writer hugh tenipun editor of the fergus newsrecord represented the canadian weekly newspapers association and the stories are written exclusively for the weekly newspapers of canada luxury goods trucks denied usable tikes the narrow lanes of the city itself an oriental cemetery with little tombs inside a high wall provided an odd touch twice the ship circled the city under the recentlvannounced losing height ana came down on ure uoiang order no usable tires the river beside a pan american or tubes may be purchased for clipper preparing to leave in a trucks enga chiefly in carrying few hours how nice it would be uxury goojs tne munitions and i thought to transfer from one supply department states plane to the other without even except for deliveries of ill never forget the night we left ireland behind and flew away toward portugal in the largest sea plane i ever saw the good ship berwick which later became famous when it carried winston churchill back over the atlantic from bermuda to britain we left the peaceful little village of adare in southern ireland about ten oclock on friday night driving by bus along the winding walled roads through a couple more tiny hamlets and down one last hill to the seacoast once again there was a hurried session in the little customs house though no baggage was opened for inspection one more entry was made in our passports and we filed out on the pier and down a shaky gangplank to the launch it all seemed strange to me that night there i was in ireland where i had never expected to be behind us on the hills lights shone in the few houses not exactly what we had become accustomed to dur ing a month in england where everything would have been black on the pier a powerful searchlight swung around picking out at times the shape of the big winged boat out on the estuary throwing its black shadow on the cliff behind until it looked like two ships one grey and one black one launch had gone out with the mail and i climbed into another with a dozen fellow passengers one or two loads had already gone aboard the bay was rough and our launch went out beyond the sea plane drifting back past it the crew missed the rope thrown from the plane and tries again the second time they had better luck and we climbed aboard the big float which is a part of the body of the plane and down through the narrow door tho interior looked familiar this was another boeing plane similar to the clippers by which i had crossed the atlantic some weeks before even the pattern on the tapestry that covered the walls was the same but this was a later model and larger there were no berths for the pas sengers that night there wasnt room for them we were packed in too closely and we sat up all night in the comfortable seats after we rose from the water there were no lights either the plana was to fly down opposite the un friendly coast of france always in danger from enemy raiders and the only safe way to go was in the dark and even that wasnt too safe as we all realized so we sat sprawled around in all sorts of queer shapes trying to sleep and having some success at that aboard the berwick i dont think pan american air- wayswould have tried to fly a clip per on a night like that the waves were high and the wind was off shore that made it necessary to go away out into the estuary and taxi toward the land with tho ship gaining height fast enough to clear the range of low hills besides the plane had a heavy load three times the captain tried before he finally lifted off the waves and in to the air each time he went far ther out into the open ocean i sat at the little window and looked out at the waves thrilled beyond anything i had known on the trip before i could see two of the four huge motors and the long wing with a green light out near the tip the waves splashed up over the window when ttie motors speed ed up twice the waves were so high they came up over the wingtip ohscurlng the green light then we turned towards land and there was louder roar and i could feel the slap of the wave on the bottom of the ship growing less violent and finally disappearing and we were in the air the great ship circled towards the south the wingtip lightand all the interior lights went out down below little irish villages and the city of limerick showed through the clouds for ireland has no blackout minutes later there were two or three lighthouses and the moon shining on the open sea then nothing more but clouds for hours and hours libon from the airport lisbon as seen from the air is one of the most beautiful of cities the berwick arrived over the mouth of the tagus river just be fore tho sun came up over the hills behind lisbon the interior of portugal is quite mountainous in spots down elow a large fleet of fishing boats could be seen on the atlantic mostly little sailing ships but a few steam trawlers then there was estoril the health resort at the mouth of the river and then lisbon set on several hills a new airport was being built out side the city with broad modern roads leading to it in contrast to bothering to go ashore but war time travel isnt that easy in europe lisbon is one of the most roman tic cities in the world at present its a poor magazine that hasnt had some story dealing with lisbon and its refugees its spies the ger man gestapo and such like there has been a whole series of moving pictures about lisbon such as one night in lisbon the lady has plans and affectionately yours the general idea seems to be that anything can happen in lisbon i believe that is tiue anything can happen there and most of it does happen some of the things that have happened are probably more exciting than anything the fiction writers have produced but alas 1 some of the true stories must be kept secret until after the war i didnt see much of lisbon the first time i was there but on the return trip i saw far too much and i do not care if i never see portu gal again even when peace comes again i think i would decline an invitation lisbon after bark on the eastward trip the short stay in lishon and suburbs held some excitement but it was pleas ant the clipper arrived after dark my first impression of the tagus river was that it consisted of acres of mud flats the tide must have been low that night and the bright searchlights on the plane and on the shore shone on the mud as the clipper circled around in seaich of its anchorage the trip to shore was over a long pier that ended in the customs office there the british embassy people picked us up supplied us with plenty of escu- dos the portugese money and gave the taxi driver directions where to take us there followed a wild taxi ride through the nanow streets of lis bon and out of estoril it was far more exciting and undoubtedly more dangerous than the clipper trip across the bioad atlantic but we ariived breathless at the estoil palacla the finest hotel in portu gal it is this hotel you see in some ot the movies there was a midnight dinner in the magnificent dining room along with the crew of the clipper then a few hours sleep and away again in the early morning darkness to cintra the airport that is used by british dutch german and italian planes and so to england seven days in portugal on the return trip i spent seven days in lisbon which was about five too many it was midoctober when autumn storms were interfer ing with the clipper schedules at first it seemed i might have to wait ten days for a place on a clip per then it was more indefinite it might be three weeks as it has ice and fuel trucks carrying commodities direct to the home will not be al lowed new tires this means the department said no new tires for bread milk grocery fruit and other home deliveries the 96 tirerationing representa tives have been advised to refuse permits for now tires retreaded tires new tubes or retreading ser vices for trucks used principally in the transportation of wines beers liquors soft drinks cosmetics etc since turned out it might be never a prominent canadian who re turned a few weeks later had to go by way of africa brazil and trinidad to get out of lisbon the city is full of people trying to get out for some of them it is a mat ter of life and death they must leave before the germans get them a place on the clipper was not to be measured in mere dollars rhen though it cost over 500 west bound so i stayed in lisbon with seven other canadians and as the days passed slowly our plight be came so desperate that we returned at last on a refugee ship part of a cargo of cork as bishop renison puts it as i have said lisbon is beauti ful from the air so is the rest of portugal that i had seen from the plane from the ground parts of the capital city are beautiful and everything is interesting but under its picturesque exterior there lurk dangers even in peace time now the whole city is full of danger and intrigue for the first time the question of money began to bother us when we learned we might be in lisbon indefinitely we could bring only 40 each in american money out of england under the strict wartime rules out of that we had to pay our fares home fiom new york other expenses began to come up we held a conference and pooled our resources at last finding that we had just enough to stay one week at our hotel in lisbon we knew nothing of the language for two days we lived like paupers hoarding every escudo till the biitish embassy came to our aid and guaranteed our hotel bill headquarters of the gestapo we stayed at the hotel victoria in lisbon not at the expensive palacia it had been recommended to me by an american foreign correspondent in london its new and clean he said so long as you dont mind staying in the same hotel as the head of the german gestapo in portugal i laughed that off in london that sounded like an added adven ture so on my recommendation we stayed at the victoiia it was new and clean and cheap and the meals were good and we saw the head of the gestapo not just once but too often his men kept a close watch on the eight canadians it gets on your nerves in a few days the avemda da liberdade is the main street of lisbon the name as you may guess means avenue of liberty it sti etches north and south up a broad valley between lisbons ten hills the avenue is reputed to be one of the most beautiful in all the world i dont doubt it it is wide down each side is a broad load way in the centre is a fourlane highway in between the outer strips and the centie are gardens with palm trees and edible chestnuts and benches to sit on under the palms and on the grass here and there are sidewalk cafes where everything can be had to diink from ice cream sodas and strong coftee to much stronger things the roadway circles around many monuments or fountains with goldfish swimming in the wateis and all the sidewalks are of mosaic little pieces of colored marble laboriously laid by hand into pat terns not only are there scrolls and flowers but the history of portugal is written there for those who can read the language up and down the avenida there business directory dental e s barker ldjs dj8 honor graduate of royal colleen of dental surgeons and of tho university ot toronto office in grubins block phono 274 markham every tuesday office in wear block medical dr s s ball physician and surgeos xray office cor obrien and unix phone 196 coroner for york county insurance thomas bffikett son general insurance ageacr stouffville ontario established 190s insure in reliable companies ix reasonable rates v prompt service phone 25902 stouffviua h o klinck stouffville ont phone j30j for your insurance needs la fire life automobile burglar and all casualty lines a c burkholder insurance canada life assurance co -also- automobile and fire barristers- jis a steady stieam of traffic on the roadways at the sideoldfashioned street cais with open sides pass every few seconds i never saw so many street cars on one street any where automobiles are mostly tiny cars and one could ride half a mile in a taxi for six american cents most of the people are on foot many of them with bare feet there is poverty everywhere in portugal and it intrudes even on to the beautiful avenida hundreds of women pass in an hour with bas kets on their heads containing silvery fish or grapes or flowers men cany cases of wine or heavier loads one day i followed an old lady she stopped occasionally to pick things off the street at last she sat on a bench and i sat down beside her she opened her hamper inside were bits of metal on the lid of the basket she had a horseshoe magnet with the magnet she test ed all the metal scraps the iron ones she put in one pile the non- ferrous in another theres no need for salvage campaigns in lisbon office phone residence pkoac 3160 351 arthur w s greer barrister solicitor notary pantk 6 king street bast oshawa ontario resident partner branch ofiec wcpollardkc port perry uxbridge ontario phone is office phone elgin 7021 residence pnoor kingdale 71cs samuel d borins barrister solicitor etc 503 temple bldg 62 richmond street w toronto brierbush hospital government licensed main street bast stouffvflk maternity medical and surgical cases taken ambulance service registered nurses and 24 moor service mrs er good phone 1h alh lah from banks fost offices defartment stores druggists oroccrs tobacconists book stores ani msot retail stores l e oneill stottfpvrxilb funeral dbrector and embalmer continuous telephone service day and night business phone residence phone r g clefldening funeral director ambulance service phone markham 9000 a c kennedy chiropractor churoh street stoaffrujfe monday wednesday friday 9 to 12 am phone ki 4812 res ha07h ernest w hunter chartered accountant auditor residence office 61 chilton rd room toronto 57 bloor st w a s farmer licensed austioneer 20 years experience york county uxbridge and picker- ing townships farm stock and furniture sales a specialty telephone stouffville 7309 address gormley po clarke prentice phone agincourt 52 w3 mhhkea licensed auctioneer for the counties of york and oa- tarlo successor for corpl ken prentice of casf and of the uto j h prentice former prentice ft prentice farm and farm stock sales a specialty at fair and rea son ble rates