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page 2 the tribune thnby ftbntry 1 1968 illiimilllllllllllllljliiullitltnitllllllllllllfiultltlllllltltllllltlllltlllllliflllhiilllliiiitllllllllllllllllllllllhiiiliiiilillllflttllllllllltjiiiiiuiliiitlllllllui worth the price a number of citizens in town and in surrounding townships are asking for free telephone calling privileges into toronto undoubtedly a big saving would result to business people but just what percentage these form of the total number urging the move is not known since it is no longer a secret that the bell telephone co has plans to bring markham into the metro freecall area in the fall the requests from stouffville and rural area in between have greatly increased rates would be higher but would be only a fraction of what business places are now paying to ha private toronto lines what about the rank and file sub scriber would he make enough use of the new service to warrant an addition possibly a small flat rate for such calls would come nearer filling the needs of the majority of phone sub scribers so far the telephone company has re mained silent about the matter al though they are quite aware of the dis content some explanation should be forthcoming to clear the air someone always gets hurt the land freezing bylaw approved by uxbridge township council effec tive jan 15 has provoked some criti cism among residents within the muni cipality several that we have talked to have reason to be irritated others are just confused unable to understand why the action was necessary or what it all means for this reason we agree with clerk elwood foskett that a pub lic meeting should be arranged as soon as possible in an effort to fully acquaint the people with all the facts we commend the 1968 council and planning board for making this move when it did in fact we think its long overdue we agree too with the way- it was done some say that it should have been more widely publicized and that the public meeting should have been held first and the bylaw passed later one ratepayer called it a stab in the back when controls such as these are ap proved someone always gets hurt this is unfortunate but in the interest of the majority the procedure by the council in our opinion was a correct one its now or never there is little doubt now that pre mier robarts intends to proceed with his proposed regional education pro gram in 1969 there has been mixed re action to the plan area school boards such as exist to day will be dissolved in favor of super visory units established on a county basis personal contact between the in dividual ratepayers and trustee mem bers will be practically nonexistent it will be a case of like it or lump it with this type of big business con trol coming closer with each passing month we feel that present boards have a big job to do and so little time to do it we feel that if the area board of whitchurch is in agreement on the need of a senior school within its borders it should act in all haste to obtain that school the same holds true in mark- ham area 2 if the trustees adopt a wait and see attitude the require ments of students could be bypassed in favor of new buildings in more urban districts this could then mean the bus sing of children from lincolnville to oak ridges or from altona to picker ing under the new robarts plan the cost of education will be regionalwide not quite so direct perhaps but still com ing from the same peoples pockets on a broader collection scale this is the year of every board for itself and we feel the trustees should adopt the at titude of now or never why wait for spring why wait for spring to get your new car license plates there will be lineups the last week in february the people in the lines will be the same motorists who have been urged for three months by all types of articles and announce ments to get their plates early by the end of this month only about 25 per cent had obtained their plates in the first month they are issued less than 10 per cent are issued in the larg er centres the complications are stag gering as there is not sufficient staff to handle such a rush the point is the plates are ready now and you would do well to come in today and not tomorrow majority rights no one today ever mentions major ity rights the tv radio and daily press is crowded with cries about min ority rights we all stand wideeyed at socalled civilliberties groups who push for everything from drugs to obscene art these groups which continually hit the headlines are in favor of all the oddball items seeming to make the rest of us look like a group of old dod- dlers because we wont go alone with a concept of life which contains little backbone and no sense of morality and we are in the majority other of these socalled underpriv ileged groups think its fun to picket everything from parliament to foreign embassies under the guise of antiviet nam war or any other excuse to cause trouble we squares are getting a bit fed up with it all i 1 v area sleeps under winter 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com pletely new concept of freedom and equality that had a tremendous impact on the world perhaps the revolution in education will produce a similar freeing of the spirit of man allowing him to cope with the great and relentless pressures of this age and those to come education in this century the cen tury of the common man has been a failure on a grand scale it has failed entirely to come to grips with a society that has been turned upside down and inside out by two global wars mass communication a tremendous spurt of technological advance and a close hard look at traditions educators with a few notable excep tions have been timid shying from anything that might upset the system the public at large has ignored edu cation except to bleat about the cost as a result education has been a gen eration behind the times it has become a monolith of repression rigidity and conformity it has been an elephant waltzing with a giraffe but fresh winds are blowing through the concrete boxes in which young minds are supposed to be exhilarated excited and liberated and with many another i cry a loud sincere halle- luia go into an elementary school today you maybe shocked to death instead of sitting in neat rows facing a teacher and putting up their hands so they can spout some meaningless information which has been memorized youre apt to find the children wandering all about the room doing things looking up in formation actually talking to each oth er which of course is pure heresy it looks like anarchy but it isnt the teacher is teaching not just telling the kids are learning not being taught no longer are they little sponges each in editors mail stab in the back dear editor not until i received my copy of the tribune last week did i learn of the ac tion by uxbridge township council that virtually freezes the sale of farm land for residential development id like to know just whats back of it all and why the bylaw was passed without a public meeting first there was very little said about it at the nom ination in fact only one candidate mr hendy even mentioned it if i recall the speeches correctly now its like be ing stabbed in the back my farm is worth very little for farm ing purposes in fact on a very windy day half of it could blow away but for all that i had received a very reason able offer for what future purpose im not sure nor do i care now that deal is all oil and im left with 100 acres of sand that doesnt provide hardly enough income to make a living and pay the taxes im not suggesting that the council is not working in the best interests of the township but i feel that many like myself are being hurt by new regula tions that wc didnt know about thanks for the space victor pearson uxbridge rr 3 his own compartment there is a flow ing of ideas a joy in finding out for ones self go into a high school the teacher is supposed to be reading a poem prefer ably written at least 100 years ago then he is supposed to elicit from the stu dents with a series of childish ques tions which bore the bright ones and are ignored by the dumb ones the meaning of the poem then there is sup posed to be the search for similies and metaphores then he is to put an analy sis of the poem on the blackboard the kids copy it down and everyone is happy they have done a poem they are being taught the joy of poetry they are being educated but whats this theyre not even sit ting in rows but in a circle theyre arguing about the poem which was written three years ago they relate it to their own lives the discussion may run from hippies to drugs to broken hearts to religion to joy to beauty they may still be fighting about it when they leave the classroom dreadful disor ganized its all disgusting and degenerate but its happening and not just in the class room there are field trips in geogra phy imagine going right outside where the geography is a visit to parli ament by history class shocking his tory should be in books where it be longs a trip to the theatre for an eng lish class sheer depravity that shake speare can be pretty filthy stuff if it isnt carefully censored my wife tells me that some of the professors at university are actually teaching these days instead of just talking at you where will it all end the iron hand has been removed and one of these days were going to be faced with a gen eration of kids who like school so much theyll have to be kicked out at 16 this week next all for one by ray argyle next weeks constitutional confer ence will take canada another step along the road away from britain re ducing further the countrys weakening links with our traditional institutions ironically at the same time as most of the country appears ready to demol ish the ties between canada and brit- tain which in recent years have been more symbolic than real closer links are being forged with france as eng lishspeaking canadians strike out to a new destiny within north america our frenchspeaking citizens have suddenly discovered and been discovered by their own mother country but the upcoming ottawa conference sponsored by the federal government to consider a bill of rights to be attached to the british north america act will spend more time looking inward to ward our own two solitudes rather than outward toward london or paris all the provincial premiers are to at tend the conference theyve been given a grounding in the agenda by justice minister pierre elliott trudeau who visited the 10 provincial capitals in pre paring for the fourday session a suc cessful conference could make trudeau the man to beat in the liberal leader ship sweepstakes while prime minister pearson didnt plan it that way the conference has turned into the second round of ttoe new constitutional dialogue the first was of course the confederation for tomorrow conference last fall in tor onto organized by ontario and enthusi astically supported by all the provinces out of that conference came a re markable degree of good will and a sig nificant softening of attitudes by the western premiers previous to that get- together they had hardly recognized quebec as part of canada let alone willing to consider reshaping the coun trys government framework in order to accommodate the onethird of our population of french origin but by the time the confederation for tomorrow conference had ended it was evident a fresh wind was threaten ing to blow away the cobwebby old bna act the session also marked a radical turning point in the strategy and tactics of quebec premier daniel johnson it now appears that mr johnson came out of the conference convinced that ouebec could gain more by going along as just one of the 10 provinces in the neverending federal and provin cial power struggle quebec actually had much in common with the other provinces in seeking common increased provincial powers- instead therefore of taking on otta wa and all the other provinces it now appears mr johnsons goal is to spear head a common assault by all the pro vinces instead of a special status for quebec thus the things which quebec wants for itself it will ask for little prince edward island as well under the new confederation sought by quebec ottawa would retain control over foreign affairs defense citizen ship and trade and commerce but the provinces would garner vast new powers in the fields of social and economic affairs ranging all the way from baby bonuses to divorce laws a vital key to the new sharing of pow ers would be that the provinces would be entitled tu their share of federal funds but ottawa would not be able to tell them what to spend the money on at present the federal government sub sidizes various programs which the pro vinces must go along with if they are to receive the fvnds such is the case with the medicare plan on the federal lawbooks to go into effect july 1 some of the prov inces want to spend federal medicare funds in such fields as housing and edu cation instead but under the present constitutional setup they must go along with ottawas bidding or lose out en tirely wht wrthunt established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stouffville tribune limited at 51 main st stouffville ont tel 6402101 single copies 10c subscriptions 400 per year in canada 600 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newrpapers association authorized as second class mall post office dept ottawa an unwelcomed guest to bring a guest home for lunch without prior notice can be a pretty cruel thing wives resent this kind of thoughtlessness on the part of their husbands and i must admit you cant really blame them i have learned from experience that it doesnt pay to pull this stunt more than once and still hope to keep peace in the family i tried it saturday and only now five days later is my wifes blood pressure returning to a state of normality the guest i brought home was a full grown billy goat every once in a while i enjoy a visit to the stouffville stockyards ltd high way 47 one mile north of town for me the uncontrollable attraction to this site stems from an inborn love of country life and here you see it all sellers by the dozens and wouldbe buy ers by the hundreds crowd into the place consuming ever inch of parking space available on the cow palace grounds and theres a good deal more to see than just cows surrounding the sales barns is a kind of domestic zoo you name it and its there i priced huge black and white rabbits at 5 apiece a competitor just down the line was selling them for s3 two girls walk ed back and forth with a bushel full of collie pups they were asking 4 each a bargain hunter offered them 5 for the lot but was turned down there were chickens ducks pigs dogs and pigeons there was even a pair of pea cocks tagged at 65 i wasnt particularly interested in any of these besides with animal control being what it is in stouffville where could a guy retain a pair of pigs with- out running foul of the law or his nei ghbors i decided to bypass the whole menagerie and return once again to the suburban shoppers world on main street it was then that i came face to face with the most ungainly looking beast that ever was born a bedrag gled billy goat while we stared at one another a prospective customer ap peared how much he enquired of the owner twenty dollars the man replied too much he said and walk ed away within the space of ten or fifteen minutes a halfdozen more stop ped to check the animals worth their t reactions were exactly the same the price was apparently too high how about you asked the owner pointing his finger in my direction are you kidding what would i do with a l goat start up a doortodoor paper route spoke up a sideline onlooker that i didnt know smartaleck i an- swered under my breath is the price still the same eighteen dollars take im or leave im ill take him i said confident of a recale before leaving the premises but such was not the case no one would give him a second look let alone any money i was stuck with the beast and i knew it there was no thing else to do but lead him home and contact one of the drovers to take him off my hands i roped him to the bump er of my car and drove ever so slowly south on hwy 47 into town i kept to the back streets as much as possible but i had the feeling that people were watching and many were i could see the blinds go up all along stouffer street and the curtains separate on church goin farmin said an elderly gentleman on edward street out shov elling his sidewalk nope just quit this is all ive got left i answered he hustled up the front steps to tell his mrs they both watched the parade out the kitchen window a halfdozen kids trooped behind in great glee as if they had never seen a goat before in their whole young lives no one came too close however for old billy didnt exactly smell like evening in paris i either the odor or the sight of this uninvited guest brought my wife to the front door she raised her hands in an obvious sign of indescribable horror what in the world have you got there she asked as if she really had to be told a goat i said where did you find him i didnt find him i bought him i answered you what i bought him bought him i continued it was a bargain only eighteen dol lars i would think you could have put your eighteen dollars to better use than that do you realize that that much money would have paid over half of this weeks grocery bill i was fully aware that i had done a very foolish thing but didnt want to admit it before the whole family ill sell him for a profit youll see just let me tie him up to the back porch until i find a place to house him overnight old billy was a heavyhaired beast j who could stand quite a bit of cold be sides the weather although a little on the damp side was quite mild for jan uary i felt that one night outside would do him no harm the kids thought it was great to have a real live animal around the house t they would gladly have brought him in side on sunday after church i started phoning everyone i could think of who might want to buy one male goat good naturcd cats anything and loves child ren the word soon spread by nightfall i had a customer i asked him a breakeven price of 18 his highest offer was 16 and he would not budge a nicklc i accepted the loss and let him go somewhere between stouffville and metro an ungainly looking goat has a new home but at times when the wind blows out of the northwest id swear that old billy is still standing just outside the back door