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tut 2 the stctfffyillt tr18une tharwky june xi 1958 3jhe touffuille xbxmt established 1s a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorised u indliaj aiail postoffice depu ottawa issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere 450 c h nolan publisher jas thomas associate editor our editorial comment cross in the proper place enforcement of a law which makes it an offense to cross an inter- setion against an existing traffic signal is designed to help promote safety it is not an action aimed at imposing hardship on anyone here in stouffville we have no traffic signals but wc do have desig nated places to cross the busy main st and these are at intersections as summer moves in and traffic be comes heavier we expect that our local police will continue their good job of aiding pedestrians to cross the street on open shopping nights however during the day pedes trians are on their own but they take the same care and precaution while we are aware that motorists driving through a busy shopping district congested with cars should move with caution we should not court disaster by darting out here there and everywhere along the street several near misses have oc curred in recent weeks which have drawn this precaution to our atten tion cross at the intersection and look both ways before doing so we are an impatient people to day a wait for a car seems intermin able something that shouldnt ought to be we walk out on this busy traffic artery preoccupied in mind with a thousand and one things such a move some day could be our last modern vehicles too are impatient and they cover great distances in a remarkable short time lets go a step further residents have become more conscious in stouffville over the past few years of the very fine recreation al park we have in this community thanks largely to a benefactor one arthur latcham our park has many facilities of which towns much larger than ours are very envious more and more people use the park each year sunday motorists use its cool shade and sports facilities almost every sunday during the sum mer this is fine advertisement for our town but there is one part of our park which we think has been neglected that is the stream which runs through and it always a rippling stream no matter how dry the sum mer may be the stream should be cleaned up its banks put into uniform shape and possibly lined with stone a partial job of this kind was done some years ago but since that time it has fallen into disrepair its a fine asset to have this stream running through the park grounds we should make use of it to the fullest extent by beautifying its banks and cleaning its bed- eager watchdog according to the exeter times- advocate the toronto star is per forming a valuable public service with its persistent digging into stock municipal officials in northern ontario held northern stock holdings of provincial and municipal oflicials in northern ontario natural gas co the stars latest revelations in dicate that members of port arthur and fort william councils as well as federal and provincial representa tives have held shares in the twin city gas co now controlled by northern previous disclosures show ed provincial cabinet ministers and while there can be little fault to find in public officials who make legit imate investments in canadian enter prise it is hardly appropriate for such people to have stakes in com panies whose fortunes depend upon the decisions made by the bodies on which these officials serve premier frost has promised a probe and the premier can be taken at his word however theres noth ing like having the eager watchdog like a newspaper behind the scenes to ensure all the details are told lilac time it is lilac time in ontario one of the most beautiful of spring- flowers is seen in abundant growth throughout this part of the province in many instances the lilacs have a story of the romance of the early days of the district here and there in fields and along fencerows are to be seen clumps of these beautiful trees how they got there or why appears puzzling until a closer check usually reveals traces of an early foundation a few old timbers or other indications that there was once a home difficulties of early settlers their struggles their hardships in a new strange land a womans strug gle for a little of the beauty so lacking in pioneer life all these thoughts come flooding the mind of the person seeing a lilac bush the lilacs are the only thing remaining of a very fond and very real dream of a garden where did lilacs come from they go away back in history about 1560 de busbecq brought lilacs from constantinople to vienna historians think the lilac has been grown in china and persia long before the time of our christ for there are words in sankrit and hindustani that mean lilac after it was introduced to europe it spread rapidly and history records that henry viii had six lilak trees in his royal gardens the lord appears to bless this popular bush with its lovely plumage viva la lilac for parents only vacation in a canadian park by nancy cleaver when you plan your vacation this summer why not include a visit to one of our canadian national or provincial parks these areas have been set aside for our enjoyment and benefit and for visitors from other lands they total almost 71500 square miles and offer a wide variety in beautiful scenery recently the record for the number of visitors to our na tional parks reached an alltime high with over two million visitors fourfifths of this total were native canadians and many of the group were family units mothers and fathers with chil dren mostly took advantage of the equipped camp grounds trailer parks or modest bunga low cabins there are luxurious hotels in some of our parks like jasper park lodge but a lew days at one of our national parks are not just within the reach of the wealthy the parks provide a wonderful holiday set- ting for a great manv people who must budget carefully eighty percent of the visitors i to our parks are canadians ca- j nadas system of national parks began away back sixtyseven years ago when the area around the hot mineral springs at i banff in the rocky mountains was set apart for the use of the i pibsc in 1931 kundy the 2sh link in the chain of parks across the dominion was opened on the rugged forest region half way between moncton and st johnx detailed information about any one park or about all of them can be obtained by writ ing to the provincial govern ments and to national parks branch which is supervised by the department of national re sources ottawa anyone who looks over this literature will be impressed what a wonderful system of national parks we have stretching right across our thousand miles most of the parks can easily be reached by road or rail and there is plane service to some of them there are two outstanding wild animal parkselk island in alberta and wood buffalo in the same province and the n- wt banff is our oldest scenic park but jasper with its 1200 square miles is our largest our three smallest national parks are georgian bay islands ont prince edward island pei and point pelee ont this last park we visited last vacation and greatly appreciated our glimpses of that refuge for wild birds founded by the fam ous pioneer in conservation jack miner other scenic na tional parks arc fund nb cape breton highlands ns st lawrence islands ont rid ing mountain man prince ai bert sask waterton lakes al berta and in bc kootenay glacier yoho mount revel- stoke there are almost a dozen historic spots set aside as parks by the federal government and many more by provincial gov ernments above information from handbook canada 1956 these parks do preserve the primitive beauty of mountain slopes the countryside island areas river valleys country side and seacoast for this and future generations the na tional historic park sites are windows through which visi tors can catch a glimpse of days gone by they are of special use to boys and girls studying his toryjust as wild life and bird sanctuaries are a stimulus to observations of natural scien tific phenomena both by stu dents and just ordinary folk the protection of animals and birds given in these special areas is of great value too likely you will enjoy yourself so much that you will want to travel farther afield another summer to a different park the more interprovircial vacationing we can do as individuals and as families the greater will be our appreciation and understanding of other parts of our dominion travel in the right spirit with in a vast country 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 park adventures copyright laff of the week flooding is planned for st lawrence power project first electric power to follow tests a vita project which has 1 construction the flow had been been a dream of publicspirited diverted into a south channel men in both the united states additional water will be let into are tm nit youll be able to afford that tiling dear on top of the bmony im corns to ask b joa bough it atw women and children first ok january 2 1852 the s s birkenhead left cone ireland on her way to south africa she carried four hundred and ninetyfour british soldiers also twentyfive women and thirtyone children these together with one hundred and thirty members of the ships company brought the total to six hundred and eighty ships were much smaller in those days and consequently there was less accommodation and fewer comforts the ship steamed along at eight knots an hour all on board expected a long and tedious voyage when alcoa bay in west africa was eventually reached some changes were made in the personnel and the total muster then was six hundred and thirtyeight including thirty women and children in order to save time the captain was given instructions to hug the coast as closely as possible and orders were sent down to the engine room for full steam ahead the weather was fine but all were weary of a long journey the ship did not call for deep water so she was kept within two miles of shore suddenly in less time than it takes to tell the birken head piled up into some uncharted rocks just off danger point a terrific hole was made in the bottom of the ship water poured in so swiftly that many men were drowned in their berths captain salmond asked that there be no panic and con fusion his own calmness had a good effect on all the man in charge of the soldiers colonel seton spoke briefly to his men and not one man disobeyed his orders the soldiers stood at attention on deck those who survived say that not one man even murmered a protest the men were ordered in relays to man the pumps and thus keep the vessel afloat until as many as the emergency boats could hold had been taken off the darkness was intense and increased the difficulty in getting what few boats there were where they could take passengers actually there were only three boats in fit condition to be used three boats for over six hundred passengers the other boats were damaged by accidents as men tried to release them as soon as the first boat was ready came the order women and children first the ship was being swiftly crushed to pieces the sea seemed like an angry monster demanding its prey but not a man moved except to place the thirty women and children in the cutter in less than fifteen minutes after the ship had struck the first passenders were in the lifeboat the members of the crew and the soldiers carried on fulfilling every duty required of them there were several hundred horses on board and the frightened animals were given a chance to swim for shore their terrified screams rang out piteously in the darkness two more boats were filled and pushed off while the soldiers stood at strict attention the captain waited until the three boats were a distance away and in no danger of being swamped by frantic swimmers then he funnelled the message that all who cared to try it could swim for their lives when dawn came there were hundreds of mangled bodies on the shore all the women and children were saved sixty- eight were rescued from topmasts in all four hundred and fortyfive men were lost and including women and children one hundred and ninetythree were saved our quotation today is by longfellow what the leaver are to the forest that to the world are children the editors mail bag wroxeter ont i same period the price of wheat may 31 195s has dropped almost 21 percent and canada for at least half a century will reach the most sig nificant stage in its progress to realization on july 1 that is the date scheduled for flooding the vast headpond area at the st lawrence power pro ject to be followed in a matter of two or three weeks by the production of first power symbolizing international co operation of the highest order this historic development was launched jointly by ontario hy dro and the power authority of the state of new york fal lowing sodturning ceremonies in august 1954 upon completion scheduled for 1960 this tremendous pro ject will have an ultimate capac ity of 1610000 kilowatts from 32 generators half of these units will be in the ontario hy dro plant named the robert h saunders st lawrence gener- i ating station in honour of a late hydro chairman who was one of the most active advo cates of the development blast c00foot earth dam plans for the flooding on in undation day call for the blast ing of the 600foot earth dam known as cofferdam al by the detonation of 30 tons of dyna mite at 8 oclock on the morn ing of that day this dam ex tending between sheek and barnhart islands about 2a miles upstream from the two adjoining powerhouses is the remaining barrier holding back the mighty force of the st law rence river from the area where construction of the pow erhouses has been proceeding in the dry the 100foot wide gaps in cofferdam al will be breached by the dynamite blast and the remainder of this earth dam will be loosened sufficient ly for the water to sweep through and wash it away in its initial spectacular break through the water is expected to reach a crest of some 20 feet in height it will then swell for ward and steadily finger its way towards the powerhouses engi neers expect that within three or four days the water will have reached the level required for testing the powerhouse equip ment at the same time an en tirely new lake of approximate ly 100 square miles will have been created as the water rises the sites of seven former communities and part of an eighth included in a 20000acre area where some 6500 people resided will be submerged in their place however now stand modern carefully planned communities at key points along the new shore line these were estab lished by ontario hydro in car rying out its farreaching re habilitation program indications are that many visitors may come to witness the breaching of cofferdam al from vantage points at a safe distance from the dynamite blast as the impounded waters are released the gates of the long sault dam will be partly closed forcing part of the river flow into the north channel leading to the powerhouses during the headpond area through the operation of the iroquois dam about 35 miles upstream from the powerhouses in all some 3s000 acres on both sides of the river will be affected area clear of all shipping by arrangement with the de partment of transport the area will be clear of shipping prior to and during the time when the water is rising following in undation all navigation will fol low the new seaway route in the international rapids section making use of three new lock had progressed to the point where concreting was started since that time it has contin ued even through the coldest months of the winter and by- early 195s the last big concrete pour had been completed ap proximately 96 percent of an estimated total requirement of almost one million cubic yards of concrete has now been placed in the powerhouse structure construction of the first bank of transformer pockets has now been completed and the in stallation of mechanical and electrical equipment has ad vanced to the point where four of the 16 units will be ready for ssssts tneutrahet circumvent the power project lmpor tant adjunct of the main dam the focal point of the project and powerhouse was completed which has effected farreaching late iast vear this nwmm and dramatic changes through out the 15mile international rapids section of the st lawr- structure extending for 3i miles along the canadian shore involved the placing and com- ence riyer is located some two j pact 0 over five million cu- miles west of cornwall there the canadian and united states powerhouses merge at the inter national boundary forming a continuous structure with an overall length of 3300 feet and a maximum height of 162 feet above foundation the power houses which will act as a grav- bie yards of glacial fill the dyke together with similar ex tensions to the dam on the am erican side will keep the waters of the new lake from spilling over its banks control structures while the entire output from ity type dam are known as the st lawrence power pro- when a fellow does just enough work to get by he cant buy very much these days editor the tribune dear sir one of your metropolitan con temporaries carries a feature story built upon a labor re search brief in which the clc canadian labor congress of fers a 7point accelerator pro gram for the benefit of the back to work movement in the cana dian economy among the pro posals which in the main look good to me i see the following higher purchasing pow er everybody is for this it says as everybody is against sin no easy solution is avail able however as one of your readers who feels that the dangerously down ward curve in the buyingpower of canadas 578000 farmers is definitely related to todays 500- 000 canadian jobless along the pavements in city town and vil lage i feel that organized labor should at least keep both eyes open in moves which are seriously aimed at higher farm purchasing power in the circumstances those labor re search experts should find it re vealing to at least ponder the following curiously opposite trends as recently spotlighted by the organized wheat farmers on the prairies in a brief sub mitted to the wheat commit tee of the federal cabinet only a few days ahead of that clc brief a since 1947 the aver age weekly earnings of those employed in industry exclus ive of the primary production industries have increased by 773 percent b it took one boxcarload of grain to buy a small combine in 1946 ie just 1s50 bushels today it takes 2vi carloads or 3900 bushels and c since 1947 there has been an increase of more than 50 percent in the cost of the things and services the farm the average moneyvalue of bar ley has declined 27 percent and oats 36 percent ruralurban worker stouffville june 2 1958 editor the tribune dear sir in his article the twelve gates last week your contrib utor archer wallace refers to a minister who held the an cient view that the heathen are perishing and apparently won ders how many hold such a view today though we have no means of knowing exactly how many as he states the number is considerable certainly the majority of missionaries today hold this view i know that just over a thou sand of the 1500 missionaries in japan do so and there may be more in many countries of south america and certainly in china more than half the prot estant missionaries held this view and i suppose all catho lics do this means that the great number of people at home who are supporting ail these missionaries also hold this view in the very primitive areas of the world where living is really hard or even ddngerous it is extremely rare to find a mis sionary who does not hold this view except a few communist idealists the same issue of your paper carried the news that the united missionary church had raised the personal salary of their missionaries from 700 to s750 a year for doctors teachers and nurses what is it that con strains such highly trained peo ple to work under trying and primitive conditions for a mere pittance compared with what they could earn at home the report states they arc not crs must buy while in that laboring for money but for the souls of men in the same issue you quote a letter from the rev f mulr a missionary of the united church and great friend of ours telling how he led a large parade of children through city streets and found himself lost on the way to the church why are peo ple willing to make fools and spectacles of themselves in this way because they believe that these people need to know the way of salvation mr wallace believes there is no need to go to the heathen because they are perishing but on the other hand we believe that the spiritual life of the christian church depends to a very large extent upon the mis sionary spirit surely this is a strange example of confusion of cause and effect or putting the cart before the horse are missionaries to endure priva tions possible separation from children and danger from dis ease and other things just so tne spiritual life of the church at home may be maintained on a healthy level very few of us would feel called to go on those grounds i believe it is only when there is real spiritual life in the church at home that any feel constrained by the love of christ to obey his command to go and preach the gospel thro ughout the world where he is still unknown mr wallace thinks that men like the minister who believed that people who are without christ are perishing are mis taken when one remembers all that jesus and the new tes tament writers said about the love and mercy of god it docs seem as if many leaders have inadequately understood the spi rit of jesus what are some of these references the most well known which comes to mind is jesus statement to nicodemus god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life he who believes in him is not condemned he who docs not believe is con demned already paul says by grace are ye saved through faith and his preceding words show unmistakably that this faith must be in christ god who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved us even when we were dead in sins hath quickened us together with christ paul was writing to those who had become chris tians at ephcsus and was com- conlinued on page 5 the modified outdoor type in other words the generator units are located in concrete enclosures fitted with removal hatch covers for easy access the early stages of construc tion were highlighted by the building of the tremendous cof ferdams designed to seal off the main structures from the swift- flowing waters of the st lawr ence one of these temporary dams is the cofferdam al ex tending between sheek island and barnhart island a second and much longer cofferdam known as cofferdam cl was constructed between the canadian mainland and the tip of barnhart island approxi mately 500 feet downstream from the powerhouses extend ing for a distance of some 4500 feet it comprised 60 steel cells each 65 feet in diameter these cells were anchored by fill ma terial totalling some 450000 cu bic yards from the 24mile area between cofferdams al and cl approximately 650 mil lion gallons of water were pum ped out to permit the building of the powerhouses in the dry on march 31 of this year con struction reached the stage where cofferdam cl could be breached and its removal is now proceeding last big pour by february 17 1956 work on i the ontario hydro powerhouse ject will be derived from the generating units in the adjoin ing powerhouses their opera tion will be greatly influenced by the use of control struc tures the long sault dam curving gracefully for 2240 ft between the new york main land and a point near the head of barnhart island will help ex ploit the drop in water level along the 125mile stretch be tween the east end of lake on tario and the powerhouse site and bypass water not required for power production the completion of one of the cofferdams associated with the construction of the lon srit dam early last year choked off the flow of the lopg saint nap- ids with dramatic suddenness ex posing the rocky river bed for the first time when this sec tion was reflooded upon com pletion of the permanent struc ture the longfamiliar spectacle of the historic rapids had dis appeared tamed to submission by the long sault dam the en tire section will become part of the vast headpond area when flooding commences at tiie main dam and powerhouses a second impressive series of piers and sluiceways spans the main river channel some 25 miles upstream from the long sault dam between iroquois point on the 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