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pace 2 the tribuke tbursy 2uy4 1567 hockey night in canada anyone who doubted that the con trol of professional hockey had some relationship to public interest partic ularly canadian public interest should now be thoroughly convinced by the current national hockey league play offs it should not be surprising when it is quite common for big tv interests to buy major league sports franchises and operate them as part of their industrial complex and these same interests will control the lime at which these events arc to take place they will also guard prime night viewing time already sold at fabulous rates true as this is it is disgusting to ca nadians who have been conditioned ov- confusion in court where docs woodbine avenue end and don mills road begin is there such a road in markham village as wellington street or is it highway no 7 wed like to know and so would the magistrates of traffic court in rich mond hill for the second week in a row mo torists stopped for speeding have con tested the cases claiming the identity of both roads is not clear agreed its merely a technicality but its taking up too much time personally we dont care what its called but we think the same name should be carried right through with a municipal bylaw to back it up the innocent need not fear the recent request for broader po lice powers has met with strong opposi- tion from a segment of the public and some voteconscious parliamentarians the start of a police state they call it perhaps these same people would pre fer to live in a slate of crime we have long believed that it is the police who are indeed handcuffed in their efforts to combat the criminal cl ement that is so prevalent in urban areas by allowing this the bad guy is in affect being protected by the very persons he would harm it doesnt make sense if you have nothing to hide would you mind a police officer entering your home without a search warrant we wouldnt laws arc made for the publics pro- lection too many in our opinion tend to use those laws as a means against detection this is the trend today and it should be stopped the innocent have nothing to fear would break the camels back pickering township police chief reg inald parker has been quoted as recom mending lhat the present area over which his department has control should be expanded to include the en tire municipality right now the pick ering force has jurisdiction over the dis trict south of concession 3 the remain der is policed by the opp from whit by what benefit would be derived from such a decision the rural residents scattered as they are except in hamlet areas arc a pretty lawabiding lot they require no more personal service than they presently receive even more im portant this service costs them abso lutely nothing with the farm folk already complain ing about high tax costs the heaping of an added expenditure could be likened to the straw that broke the camels back okbrio finance minister joffll m mtow 1hatw to the fgpmy ofthe pill there isa surplus cfsuois in onto m the high costs of pemoulwn will cruse tmesto rise again this veflru cr a quarter century to expect hockey saturday nights the handling of the nhl expansion program should have been the tipoff the us tv interests arc anxious to fill their less lucrative afternoon hours and though the league is stocked pri marily with canadians the dictates of the dollar prevail however it should not be a cause for national concern it is strictly a matter of business hockey on the pro fessional level is a business big busi ness and will be treated as such the days are gone when it can be classed as having special interest of national importance rating special considera tions theres nothing like a good oldfash ioned family fight on saturday night to relieve the builtup tensions of the week clear the air and get everybody squar ed around for a quiet sunday for centuries this was a tradition in many families but like so many of our other fine old customs this one has been virtually destroyed by television dont get me wrong i dont mean the kind of thing in which the brutal drunk en husband lurches home beats up his wife and kids robs the sugar bowl and piggy banks of their pennies and stag gers back to the pub and pearl this happened of course and still does but i mean the ordinary family fight the father a decent working man has gone uptown saturday afternoon with his si 50 allowance hes bought a pack of lags and had three of four beers hes mildly merry his wife has done the weeks shop ping she has lugged four bulging bags of grub a block to the car she has slav ed to prepare a good supper the baby is crying just for the hell of it the teenage daughter is whining about going to a dance with a known hoodlum the 12yearold son is still out fishing its almost dark and hes probably drown- cd and her feet hurt and the dinner is ruined because the old man is late twenty minutes late already well theres a dustup pa comes in with a happy smile and the old lady peels the hide right off him the boy comes in grinning with two speckled trout and gets a cuff on the ear the daughter whines on and is sent to her room the baby no slouch at the game yells like a banshee to get some atten tion and its all over like a summer storm pa is ashamed for cuffing the the kid ma is ashamed for blasting pa the boy gets doubles on dessert ma and pa plead with the girl to go out with the hood who really isnt a hood after all the baby gets a bottle right in the mouth and shuts up the kid cleans his fish ma docs the dishes dreamily pa goes out and roots around the rosebush sis flies out at the hoot of a horn baby burps and smiles in his sleep thats the way it was not too long ago but television has wrecked it now adays instead of taking out our aggres sions on each other we huddle before editors mail april 24 1967 dear sir ah who know claremonl will join with mr gerald allman in de ploring the loss of trees from the main street which is going to happen judg ing from the report in the tribune last week this is just one more conse quence direct and indirect of the gravel industry throughout our region from spring through late fall over 90 of the tonnage of vehicles passing through clarcmont is the endless pro cession of huge semitrailer gravel trucks often they pass at 20second in tervals and less all other traffic could rarely be described as anything but very light thus chopping down the irces and widening the street while spoiling ihc character and appearance of the street will serve to speed up the gravel trucks through clarcmont and further increase the already great hazards to children and other traffic alike yours very truly c t muirhead rr 1 clarcmont r seven years ago a birds eye view of main street this is a view of main street looking west from he top of stouftvilles clock tower rorer varley of gormlcy who took the picture had his car drums momentarily deafened when the bifj clapper in the turret bell sounded out the hour of hrec luckily for him he didnt try for the photo at noon r varley 1960 thos n shea limited opens new real estate office on main street in stoulfvillc donna ratcliff stouffvillc rr 4 has been awarded a gold medal at the fest ival of sicrcd music held in davenport united church toronto the great soporific on saturday nights dinner balanced on our knees we pour all our aggressions into a stiff body- check or a saloon brawl in a western as a result the fine old family fight on a saturday night has degenerated in to a querulous quibble about whos go ing to get up and fetch a beer during the commercial however i am glad to say although the family fight is dying it is not qiite extinct the other day i read with growing fascination of a christinas eve squabble that has to rank with one of the great ones it took place last dec 24th and the legal aftermath is now in progress as the newspaper reported it this young fellow admitted he drank be tween 30 and 40 bottles of beer during the day that is some beer drinker you try putting down about four gallons of beer the day before christmas or any other day and i guarantee youll have a by bill smiley belly the shape and a nose the hue of s claus himself not to mention the beers coming out your ears it gets better the champ as we shall call him had an argument with his brother who threw him out of the house imagine the glug and undaunted the champ climbed a tree maybe he thought it was a pear tree and he was a partridge who knows anyway brother stepped outside with a shotgun he claimed he fired a shot in the air not knowing the champ was up a tree but several pellets entered the latters anatomy the champ testified that he couldnt remember swinging his motherinlaw around by her hair although he did ad mit having a fight with her it sounds like a swinging party im just glad i wasnt there but it proves that the family fight still has a little steam in it even though it is disappear ing from our way of life this week next the bank act by ray argyle canadas new bank act which went into effect this week has already made life a little more livelier for the nations traditionally staid old chartered banks the prospect of increased competi tion and the opportunity to develop new fields of business has gingered up banking to the point where it seems they really want to lend out all that money theyve been hoarding in their vaults this in fact is exactly what the banks do wish to do theyve mounted one of the biggest loan campaigns of their history looking to 1968 when in all likelihood the ceiling on bank inter ests rates will be removed entirely the new bank act fathered by for mer finance minister walter gordon but brought to life by mitchell sharp took two years to find its way through the various stages of parliamentary pas sage and despite rough sailing much of the way the act emerged almost intact the one main change resulted from a recommendation of the porter royal commission on banking and finance the new act contains a clause limiting ownership in new banks by one group to 10 per cent although the new west- bank will have 10 years to meet this provision for the balance of this year a new interest ceiling of seven and onequarter per cent replaces the old six per cent it must be remembered however that even under the six per cent rate total interest actually worked out to about 12 per cent for most borrowers as of jan 1 next the interest rate will for all practical purposes disap pear because the average rate on short- term government bonds is now running below five per cent just as loan interest rates will fluc tuate so too arc there changes in rates of interest paid on savings loans the bank of montreal and the canadian im perial bank of commerce were the first to offer four per cent on nonchecking accounts compared to the traditional three per cent bank savings rate the mammoth bank act which con tains more than 160 clauses is seen as providing a basic economic framework for the growth of the country the next 10 years the act is scheduled to be revived every 10 years but the cur rent review was delayed by the 1963 and 1965 elections one of the most important new clauses permits the banks to make na tional housing act and conventional mortgage loans up to 75 per cent of property value hopefully this will eventually bring more bank money into the housing field the slow rate of home construction is today regarded as one of canadas main social and eco nomic problems but so as to prevent the possibility of any banks obtaining a stranglehold on the countrys economy the new act re stricts a banks holdings in any other company to 10 per cent of the voting shares the act also- ensures that there will be free competition between the nation ally chartered banks and the near- banks particularly trust companies by barring any director of a trust or loan company which accepts deposits from the public from being appointed a director of a bank one of the most controversial clauses of the act was the one regarding foreign ownership of canadian banks while finance minister sharp is known to fav or maximum competition among cana dian banks this docs not apparently ex tend to encouraging american banks to compete in this country total ownership by nonresidents will be limited to 25 per cent however the mercantile bank bought from dutch interests by new york bankers will be exempt from the clause for five years this means in effect the us owners of mercantile have five years in which to make an orderly withdrawal from canadian banking now that the bank act has been streamlined and modernized what will the basic effect be on the average cana dian it appears that banks will a little more like regular businesses seeking out your patronage just like the corner grocer or the hardware store the ef fects should be good established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey adverlisinz published every thursday by the stouffvtlle tribune limited at 51 main st stouffvillc ont tcl g02101 single copies 10c subscriptions 400 per year n canada 600 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authoring as second class mail post office dcpu ottawa s m color comedy music mania 67 the color was excellent the talent was good the comedy was that in a nutshell was our impression of music mania 67 we attended both shows as a seated cash customer on friday evening and as part of an esti mated 1100 in the standingroom audi ence on saturday the saturday night crowd was the largest eer in the stouffville high school auditorium the show sponsored by the couples club of the united church has become a perennial favorite with musiclovers in the area many travelling long distances to attend although several of the numbers sung by the chorus were firsttimers for us they were all done wonderfully well we still lean towards songs that every one knows so the audience can join in an inaudible singalong but there is a variance of opinion on this score solo ists jean hammond mary harris jim rehill and frank steele shared the solo spotlight and each deserve 4star rat- ings we would still like to see more of this talent combined into ducts theres nothing like oldfashioned harmony to stir an audience and the audience did need a little stirring especially on fri day when they sat on their hands throughout much of the show they loosened up a little on saturday the production team should not teel too badly about this however standing ovations and voluntary encores are not common to stouffville crowds its a conservative town in more ways than one mr addison take note with the exception of the fathers of confederation skit and the railroad building routine the comedy portion of the program died an agonizing death many of the jokes fell as flat as the proverbial pancake or the humor pas sed completely over the peoples heads once again it was stouffville conserva tism that took its toll the dancers under the direction of molly mumford were magnificent both in presentation and appearance their precision steps showed results of months of practice a tip of the ra hat to maestro jerry waite and his orchestra we must sin gle out especially the instrumental- prowess of ccc horton whose ability borders on the professional it goes without saying that music mania past present and we hope the future is amateur talent at its very best its amateur in that the majority of par ticipants are known on a firstname ba- sis to seventyfive percent of the people present one little lad nudging his mother summed it up this way heh mom he said that old man up there is dr petric he looks in worse shape than dad five minutes later he elbow ed his mother again heh mom he repeated that other man up there is mr boadway our principal he wears that funny lace to school too and so it goes we hope it never stops we dont smoke the number one reason is wc count it an unnecessary luxury that wc can afford to do without number two wc feel that its injurious to ones health and number three wc just dont like the taste of a ctearcttc be it king size filter tip menthol or any other advertised optional gimmicks on saturday while walking past the stouffvillc iga en route for an after- v noon coffee break wc spotted a large window sign which read welcome to the pleasure of nicotlncfrcc smoking try filter king bravo contains whole some leaf of lactuca saliva a variety of lettuce instead of tobacco now weve heard of kids smoking corn silk out be hind the barn but an adult smoking lettuce leaves on main street it must- be some kind of joke anyway wc squandered forty cents on a pack of 20 to sec if they would meet the standard of satisfaction and pleasure so stated on the red white and gold container the very first puff was an excruciating ex- v pcricncc we turned green white then green aain wc coughed sneezed and wheezed wc let the air clear a little then read further down the directions as you know it takes a few packs to become accustomed to any new brand when you discover the full pleasure of nicotlncfrcc bravo and the lack of morning taste you may ask as others have who ever thought a no-nlc- otinc smoke could taste so great ad- mlttcdly the first was the worst the second two days later was a slightly improved sensation and the third well its still to come will they sell wc re- fuse to make any rash predictions at the present time after all it was yours truly that cavc batman only two months on television and hes still flying high one thin well say for the bravo brand if youre brave enough to get past the first pack you could be nlco- tinefree for life the whitchurch area board will be sorry to lose the services of lcmonvillc staff principal mrs betty sanders betty and husband bill will be moving to moosoncc this summer to teach on an airforcc base there all wc can say is that its lcnionvillcs loss and moov onces gain