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page 2 the tbiblxe thursday july 11 1968 sniiuinimiiimiiniittiiwninihhiuiimuuiiniimnniniiiininiinmitituiiicuiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiinhinmitiihtuiiuiniaiimitiufiitinuiiiiiiinimimnti a new tone for june june has always been recognized as the month for brides now its the month for strikes there are the seaway workers the postal workers the city garbage col lectors the rubber workers the air line pilots and the list goes on and on june always seemed to rhyme with moon spoon and honeymoon it will be quite a different story to make it rhyme with strike pickets and walk outs to be able to establish economic harmony is going to prove a much more difficult job than carrying out the promises of married bliss that have always been the historic pledge of the month those talkative canadians it is a wellknown fact that cana dians are the most talkative people on earth this is based on the per capita use of telephones as compared with all other countries in the world the most exciting prospect to come to all these telephones users is that of 1 calls anywhere in canada three minutes of direct dialling in the hours between midnight and 6 am this may sound late here in stouff- ville but it is only 9 pm in british columbia rates for calls between ontario and quebec have been substantially low ered in other hours according to latest bell bulletins what the telephone company loses on the peanuts it will pick up on the popcorn with increased use the fact will still remain that with a country as large as canada the telephone is a necessity rather than a luxury un doubtedly the new rates will increase the traffic in many areas job shortage may alter school year school holidays a usual summer- long event could disappear along with other school customs of long standing the one thing that may push this change upon us is the short age of summer jobs for high school and university students this shortage may not be cured new technical equipment is eliminat ing many of these jobs and high la bor costs tend to make employers try to operate on a minimum staff situa tion during the holiday period a great many of the students are un skilled and this type of job is limited and will become more so this being the case there could emerge a major change in the uni versity calendar as well as the high schools summer work on the farms was one of the original ideas for the long summer holiday but the number now required in this field is dwindling fast in many cases the need for sum mer jobs for students is urgent for financial reasons but it gradually be comes less and less available some different system will need to be de vised longer school years have been sug gested while at the university of waterloo training in workstudy courses has been offered these in volve six months of study followed by six months of employment in business or industry inconsiderate weatherman june is over but the memory ling ers on there was little in the month of what we usually call summer wea ther it was much below normal june is supposed to be the month of roses and many other flowers and much of this bloom has remained hidden until just recently sport too suffers as summer goes and cool weather lingers on the sea son was well advanced before bowl ers were able to operate with any de gree of comfort while ball and ten nis have also suffered every year we go camping and every year i get the feeling that weve forgot something iillll 1sucar and spice ah that silver lining by bill smiley scenes like these can be captured with your camera when riding around the on tario countryside this was taken on the fifth concession of whitchurch staff photo if your family is anything like mine you must sometimes put your head down on your arms and weep quietly and bitterly we go through periods of passiv ity and morbidity to the point where mass suicide seems the only sane solution and with the perversity of life suddenly the clouds break the sun comes out the rainbow appears theres a pot of gold at its base and god is once again back in his heav en instead of hanging around the poolhall it began about ten weeks ago for the fifth time in the last couple of years hugh the wandering boy took off to make a new start and his fortune this time it was to be in the mines of northern quebec a week later we received a card from the fleshpots of montreal urging us to write and saying he had a job at expo jr we all wrote silence nothing for weeks and weeks at about the same time my wife got sick and couldnt write her uni versity exams had a small opera tion came home and lay around the house driving me mad kim of course had to get into the act and came down with mono nucleosis she was forbidden to study would she fail her year your humble servant as usual had nothing wrong with him except a rotten family however he just put his nose to the wheel and his shoulder to the grindstone and kept on running in circles hes used to it things got steadily blacker hugh maintained silence his mo ther learned she had to have a big operation and spent a month chew ing her fingernails right to the wrists as she waited for the hospital to call the ghastly operation and the news that she had cancer kim got surlier and surlier from being cooped up did my best wrote hugh a strong letter talked to my wife for endless hours about hysterectomies ovaries uteruscs malignant fibroids and such delicacies tried to humor kim into eating and sleeping then everything started to pop at once the hospital called and the old lady went off to her doom for three days i sweated out the opera tion and at the same time kims promotion from grade 12 which lay in the hands of the gods her teachers finally the dam broke all in one day wc hit the crisis hugh phoned from quebec city to learn that his mum was likely breathing her last kim was granted her year at school and that night a shaky old lady of about ninety called from the hos pital to tell me that she was alive though not exactly kicking during the next week the tide rose and the old family ship which had been high and dry on the bleak beach amid the rotting weeds be gan to float again hugh phoned his mother in hos pital and she was so glad to hear from him that she forgot to give him hell for not writing the missus came home from hospital with an allclear a beautiful scar and feel ing remarkably perky kim recov ered her health with amazing speed so as it stands now hugh has a job as a waiter in quebec city is happy and has stopped smoking and biting his nails my wife is over whelmed by the flowers and cards from friends didnt think she had many and shes feeling great on the whole kim is riding on a cloud because her brother has invited her to visit him in quebec city and shes going all the way by herself with no parents to ruin everything am of this is rather uninteresting but it is written as inspirational ma terial for those thousands of gallant men across the country who are about ready to burst into tears dont let it get you down jack behind every dark cloud there is a darker one just keep that in mind and youll be amazed at how you feel when the sun suddenly comes out if you can live so long this week next tale of an island byrayargyle in the absence of ray argyle who is on holidays frank devine ol the melbourne herald has written a guest column mr argyles column will return to this space next week sapporo japan within a cou ple of years bauxite and nickel ore mined in australia will be processed by factories in hokkaido the north ernmost island of japan the aluminum plant in particular will be a vast project costing an es timated 250 million to establish hokkaido has been chosen as the site for these enterprises largely be cause compared with the other isl ands of japan it has plenty of open space and is free from smog and oth er industrial nuisances in short it has the desirable qual ities that could be claimed by almost every area of australia hokkaido occupies about a fifth of japans total area but its population is only a little over five million the population has advanced by only about 500000 in the last decade and natural increase accounts for virtually all of it hokkaido officials frankly admit that more people leave the island than come to settle in it and that most of the new settlers ar rive only because they are sent by their employing companies or govern ment departments it is only an hour by jet from sap poro hokkaidos lovely capital to to kyo but that is enough for young hokkadojin to feel left out of the feverish action of modern japan the prolonged droughts that pla gue cattlemen in northern australia have their equivalent in the wicked winters that descend on hokkaido every few years wiping out farmers and as recently as ten years ago pro ducing conditions of nearfamine on the island as in australia enthusiasm for settling and developing the north ebbs and flows there has been an ebbtide for the last few years partly as a result of the bad winter of a decade ago during which the national gov ernment found itself heavily burd ened with financial responsibility for farmers it had settled in new develop ments nonetheless after a few days in this land of soaring mountains still- smoking volcanos thick forests in which huge and fierce bears run wild exquisite lakes surging rivers broad green pastures and almost drinkable air one feels the japanese have been much more methodical and purpose ful in their approach to developing their north than have the australi ans the hokkaido development agency is a fullfledged government ministry created in 1950 the minister in charge is usually a man of consider able consequence in his party often a youngish man on the rise more than nine percent of japans public works budget is spent in hok kaido although it contains only five percent of the population the government is extremely co operative about improving harbor and road facilities to assist big com mercial undertakings such as the ja pan light metal companys projected aluminum plant hokkaidos successful campaign to become the site for the 1972 winter olympics was masterminded by the national government and is giving impetus to a huge program of road construction that will bring lasting benefit to the island advice has been sought in canada ard scandinavia on suitable building designs and the steeproofed solid houses of hokkaido are completely unjapanese in appearance seeing them one is reminded how little progress australians have made toward developing an architectural style suited to their northern climate crowded japan of course needs hokkaido more than australians at present need their north but japan ese preparations for the time when ihey may need it very badly seems disproportionately advanced in com parison with australias wht wtihunt established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stouffvllle tribune limited at 54 main st stouffvllle onl tcl 6402101 single copies 10c subscriptions 400 per year in canada 600 elsewhere member df audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mall post office depl ottawa wm i awunt they called me a murderer harry hooper asst editor when my two sons were small my wife and i bought them a dog nor a purebred just heinz 57 varieties judy became quite a pet she is a most obedient and intelligent animal i believe she knows what were thinking- it was not long before she was to have pups she had always been kept in our back yard and never left to roam but male dogs have ways of knowing such things it was thrilling for the boys they spread the word they were going to have pups and brought their friends to see how fat she was growing 4 the time came she had seven balls of cuddly fluff that won the hearts of the household do you know what its like to raise seven pups and a mother plus having every child on the street knocking on the door to see the pups i assure you its a problem especially when both parents are at work all day each year judy became a mother in spite of pills and sprays in despera tion we took her to a vet he could do nothing to help she had had too many pups to spay her would kill her we determined to watch her even closer determined to protect her even more closely alas again she became pregnant i am beginning to get fed up with this said my wife i agreed we found with each lot of pups it was more difficult to find homes for them thirtytwo pups had been placed but we were running out i knew i had to do something about it but what i couldnt get rid of judy my family would never part with her i decided i would drown all but two i felt this was the most humane way to solve the problem i did not tell my family thinking it better to keep my plans to myself later while reading my paper i was informed by my wife that judy would have her pups that night the time had come i did not relish the job but i saw no other way the next morning i arose early none of the family being awake and crept down to the basement opening the door i heard faint squeals from the rec reation room there was judy lying on her blanket with six puppies 4 i stood looking down at them with judy looking at me as much as to say what do you think of that lot i be gan to have second thoughts should i forget it and go back to bed or should i get on with the job the more i thought the more convinced i was that it was for the best the pups wouldnt know and it would be better for judy as she would have difficulty feeding them i got a bucket of water and went over to the pups i would leave two males as we had found females hard to find homes for i closed my eyes and felt around they were warm and slippery one two three four i opened my eyes to see judy looking straight at me i felt sick checking the sex i dropped them in the water in a few seconds it was t all over as i returned upstairs i did not feel proud of what i had done but there was no other wav i thought i had better tell my wife what i had done i woke her with a cup of tea and told her judy had had her pups i said she had six i left two what do you mean you left two she asked i drowned four i answered how could you do such a thing she exclaimed i wanted the floor to open up and swallow me tears were stream ing down my wifes face meft the room quickly and went back to the kitchen and sat down i had done it to solve a problem i love animals and detest any one who mistreats them but i believed what i had done was for the best as i sal there thinking things over my oldest son came in has judy had her pups i thought i heard them he he enquired what could i say to him at that moment my wife entered has judy had her pups mum he asked yes dear she replied at which he darted downstairs i waited he reappeared with the two pups she only had two he remarked dis- appointcdly i had to tell him she had six son i drowned the other four i said a lump in my throat tears filled his eyes looking straight at me he said youre a murderer i felt terrible for the next few days when my fam ily looked at me i know they were thinking what a terrible thing i had done when i saw the pups it didnt help i kept thinking it could have been cither of them that i had drowned years have passed since this all hap pened we have been fortunate judy has not become a mother since but as i write this its her time again one thing i know she can have twenty pups and some way iii find homes for all twenty ps anyone wishing to have a loveablc fluffy puppy can contact the writer at this office