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the tribune stoacville oct thursday july 30 1953 the stouffville tribune established 1sss member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations aothortod as eeeondclaso mail postotsce djt ottawa printed and issued everv thursday at stouffville ont in canada 250 elsewhere 300 c- h nolan editor jas thomas sports assist a v nolan son publishers notes and comments plan to enjoy retirement if you dont plan a retirement correctly you just wont enjoy it every person should have some sort of plans so that they may spend their leisure hours doing something that will make them happy if they dont then retirement wont be anything to look forward to now is the time to do this and dont forget it is better to plan too much than not enough select an activity you know and enjoy one that puts you under some pressure and tension hobbies are a good thing to consider when you plan your activities for the future start them now so that you can enlarge on them when your retirement time arrives some people have dreamed of a few acres near some small town so that they can raise their own pro ducts and have a few chickens others have woodwork ing hobbies where they can sell them and keep themselves occupied as well as some revenue collecting stamps is a good hobby if started early enough some spend the winter in florida and summer in canada they always have something to look forward to there are plenty of other ways to enjoy your retirement and now is the time to plan so that doubts and fears will not spoil it the canadian statesman for parent only visit our canadian parks by nancy cleaver the right to vote the right to vote is something that every canadian citizen should be interested in with the approach of the federal election the enumerators have been at work in and around stouffville and throughout the riding and their work is complete all those with whom they were able to make contact- and who possess the necessary qualifications can feel assured that their names are on the voters list when they go to cast their ballots on aug 10th however there are probably quite a number of eligible voters who would be away at the time the enumerators called and their names may or may not have been on the voters list when it was made up it is these people that attention is called to the need for taking early action to remedy the situation there is nothing more embarrassing to the persons who take voting seriously than to go to the polls on elec tion day and find that their name is not on the voters list thus if there is the slightest doubt as to their name being correctly listed they should take immediate steps to check with the returning officer education softer through lack of examinations the view that education has become softer through lack of examinations is shared by many including this newspaper ontario has had time to assay and some educators are assaying very dubiously the benefits if any accrued by the abolition of most examinations at one time not merelydid elementary school pupils have to pass an entrance examination to the high school or for rural pupilsf a more advanced public school leaving but in the secondary institution there were primary junior matriculation and senior matriculation hurdles to be surmounted like so many other of the new fangles in our education much of the former good appears to be left behind much to the detriment of the pupils once they get on their own even in public school the lack of the oldfashioned readin writin and rithmetic is very evident and many a busi ness man in engaging teenagers for work can testify to this statement alberta- seemingly is pondering the same problem for the lethbridge herald bluntly poses the question should all school examinations be abolished or should the departmental examinations be reinstated in grades x and xi in which they were abolished some years ago with education so much in the public eye these days it is only natural that these questions be asked the calgary herald says abolition of these exams has made school life softer and adult life harder and it is a dirty trick to play on our youth lets apply just a little common sense to our progressive education theories reaction in such movements is inevitable but whether it is justified depends on the facts the formal examinations set by the department and with special examiners marking anonymous papers had a certain disciplinary value at each important age of his upward progress through the secondary school the pupil had definite objectives and a definite test of his ability weve softened up a lot since those days and a lot of people are wondering whether our young people are the better for being able to avoid the selfdiscipline which examinations impose or is that a too mid- victorian view in these days of progress is the final pointed comment of the calgary newspaper mother could we go on trip this holiday why could nt we visit one of car nation a parks they showed a film tc the older pupils of a family camping at barll they had such fun junior exclaimed when he came home from school we couldnt travel far this summer but if a camp ing trip to one of jhe nearest parks turned out to be a good vacation for al of us we might lake a longer jaunt an other year 1 really dont know how many national parks there are or where they are located ill write for information junior offered eagerly teach er said the address was easy to remember national parks branch department of re sources and development ot tawa recently the record for the number of visitors to our na tional parks reached an all time high with over two million visitors pourfifths of this total were native canad ians and many of the group iwere family units mothers and fathers with children mostly took advant age of the equipped camp giounds trailer parks or mod est bungalow cabins there ie luxurious hotels in some of our parks like jasper park lodge but a few days at one of our national parks are not just within the reach of the wealthy the parks provide a wonderful holiday setting for a great many people who must budget carefully canadas system of national paries began away back sixty- seven years ago when the area around the hot mineral springs at banff in the rocky mountains was set apart for the use of the public in 1951 fundy the twentyeighth link in the chain of parks across the dominion was opened on the east coast fundy is in the rugged forest region half way between moncton and st bygone days from the files of the tribune 17 years ago reeve padget and deputy reeve james rennie were on monday for the old home town by blanley congratulated putting through county coun cil the taking over of the 6th con of markham by the coun ty and relieving the twp of the heavy burden of carrying it clerk hoover reported that unpaid taxes in july totalled 832843 a forty ton car of coal was placed in the bins at the big knowledge plant last week i which will be a comfort and necessity ifor the children and teaching stalls during the next winter season the school fur nace consumes forty to fifty tons each year it has been a long climb to the top j or pitcher earl cook ibut it appears now that- the lemonville flash has made the grade in three games cook has allowed hut two earn ed runs with two shutouts ov er rochester 30 and buffalo 20 thirteen pupils of stouff ville public school obtained their high school entrance standing without writing the final examination in addition the following seven who wrote have ibeen successful also one outside pupil the pupils in al phabetical order are ruth clarkson jessie chamberlain irwin borinsky betty leslie marjorie muston irwin rax- lin geraldine stouffer nor man davis rev le atkinson with his iwife son and daughter arriv ed in stouffville on thursday night from windermere mus- koka taking up residence in the united church parsonage which had been vacated only that morning when rev thos laidlaw and family left for toronto the brock road from chre- mont to brougham is to be treated with a preparation of clay and calcium as a dust lay er which is fine for a dirt road until such time as a tarvia top put on the road from stouff- ville to goodwood and ux- bridge the county of ontario would do well to lay the dust in uxbridge in the manner they propose to abate the nuisance in pickering twp the brierbush hospital has instituted an ambulance ser vice and will be prepared to transport patients and attend accident cases conveying sick or injured in the greatest of riding comfort the car pro vides a full length portable bed on rubber mounted wheels on which the puiem may be wheeled to or from the ambu lance a john detailed information about any one park or about al of them can be obtained by writ ing to ottawa and anyone who looks over this literature will be impressed what a wonderful system of national parks we have stretching right across our thousand milcsl the functions sened by our national parks are many fun relaxation a change of scene are uppermost in the minds of most holiday folk all of these can be found at our national parks and the varied accom modation can fit almost any family budget these parks do preserve the primitive beauty of mountain lopes the countryside island areas river valleys country side and sea coast for this and future generations the na tional historic park sites are windows through which visit ers can catch a glimpse of days gone by they are of spe cial use to children study ing history just as wild life and bird sanctuaries are a stimulus to observations of na tural scientific phenomena both toy students and just ordinary folk the protection of animals and birds given in these spec ial areas is of great value too eighty per cent of the visit ors to our parks are canadians the total combined area of these parks over twentyeight thousand miles comprises great investment in our na tional life these parks are de dicated to the people of cana da for their benefit educa tion and enjoyment these benefits can only be appreciat ed firsthand so do give pri ority to a visit to a national park in some part of canada in your vacatfon plans this year likely you will enjoy your self so much that you will want to travel farther afield another summer to a different park the more interprovin cial vacationing we can do as families the greater will be our appreciation and under standing of other parts of our dominion travel in the right spirit within a vast county like ours the third largest country in land area in the world can be a wonderfully unifying force so best luck to you with your national park adventure editors mail toronto ont i julv 20th 1953 editor i the tribune stouffville ontario dear sin i- there were two points in that news story former pre mier addresses fanners an nual meeting which had spe cial interest to me first this reference to the thoughts ex pressed by mr ec drury this fine old genteman with his heart in canadian farming deplores the declining farm po pulation the empty farms the useless barns as alarming con ditions and second dis satisfaction was expressed in the discussion session at the manner in which officials at ottawa and elsewhere quote farm figures and fail to make clear whether they speak of gross income or net income on both the above counts this reader is in agreement with the views expressed just so long as the productiv ity of todays mechanized agri culture served by an unusual ly friendly weatherman can continue to deliver the goods 1 suppose it can be expected that our scientists and our ur ban minded technologists should point with pride at the fact that in todays canadian scene we have 1 farm worker to 1 nonfarm workers and that we produced the greatest food and fiber crops last year in the whole history of cana da as one of the national ad vertisers puts it with 410000 fewer farm workers than as recently in 1939 so far so good i would be among the last to stress mini mizing the above achievement nonetheless it doesnt take more than a students eyes to discern immediately be neath the glamorized and en amel surface of the above tri bute to mechanize agricul ture the real dangers to which the above speaker drew atten tion all that this layman feels like adding by way of com ment is that when apparently the goose hangs high in those industrial towers it becomes easier under the current trends for the weatherman to atomise the hopes and tar gets of the assembly line econ omists i feel like supporting jhe viewpoint as to the need to differentiate between the gross and net farm revenues after all it is the net that really counts last years operating costs on our 615000 farms cal led for 1415000000 it costs real money to farm these days ppcli one of the most beautiful of the lakeside inn a canad- trophies ever put up for com- ian paeific railway summer re petition in canada will add ev- sort at yarmouth ns the trc en more spice to the thrill of phy is to toe kept at the inn hooking into a giant bluefin tu- the winners name will toe na in the famous biggame j inscribed annually on a shield fishing waters off the coast of to be placed on the trophy nova scotia known as the this is the first year that the lakeside inn tuna trophy competition has been held but the silver masterpiece stands jit will be open each year dur- more than 20 high and de- ing the period that the lake- picts one of the battling blue- fins breaking the surface and will be awarded annually to the contestant entering the largest catch to be competed for by guest side inn is in operation usu ally from the last week of june to midseptember all entries must be in by october 1 and a winner will be declar ed on oct 15 stouffville united missionary church mon august 3rd one night only time 8 pm ill lilt ml wk hm mm mm mm km proclamation i as reeve of the municipality of stouffville i hereby proclaim monday august 3rd 1953 civic holiday and being- the 76th municipal anniversary i would request that all businessmen and householders observe the holiday in honour of the occasion the eppley the gospel quintette penna usa sisters of york featuring vocal quintettes soprano and alto soloists artistic piano playing and organ instruments vibraharp electric hawaiian guitar saxophone trumpets two accordians and cathedral chimes institutions of learning wheaton college wheaton iii st paul bible in stitute st paul minn dunmure school of music harrisburg pa messiah bible college grantham pa one night only august 3rd in the united missionary church stouffville 800 oclock henry ogden reeve village of stouffville i special holiday dances saturday august 1st sunday midnfte august 2nd 1205 cedar beach park north shore musselmans lake van walker and his orchestra featuring the voice of walter scott dancing every saturday qoearfioht i youll enjoy the warm days and the refreshing cool pinescented evening breezes of ontarios vacation land and you can add enjoyment to your holiday by travelling the carefree way by bus ask your local agent about highyay tours to ail parts of the us a round trip fares wasaga beach 675 bracebridge 885 owen sound 940 subject to change tickets and information at wmxmmmimffvmm snowballs barber shop ph stouffville 278j2