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page 2 the tribune thursday sept ii 1969 an unqualified success the stouffville trade show spon sored by branch 459 of the canadian legion has been recorded as one of the most successful single events ever organized here estimates put the attendance at about 10000 the legion under the leadership of president art dixon are to be commended for their efficiency and enthusiasm in the promotion of such a project we hope that it may be come an annual affair while exhibitors and their dis plays are an extremely important part of a trade fair program the side attractions too are popular drawing cards this was evidenced by the crowd that viewed the fashion show in the arena and the pet show- in the park both of these should be repeated next year with a few addi tions that could include a ferris wheel a merrygoround a baby con test and perhaps even a beauty pag eant with the park grounds so con veniently located the possibilities are limitless as a village or town increases in size and population there is often a tendency toward isolationism every man every merchant for him self this is unfortunate the trade show has helped to halt this trend here through a feeling of close cooperation one with another if a rekindled community spirit is the only visible accomplishment of such a program then the fair has been well worthwhile hit where it hurts last week the tribune carried an announcement of stiffer penalties to be handed out for driving offences this is a step in the right direction and will be welcomed by all those who are concerned over our everincreas ing casualty toll more and more cit izens particularly in towns such as stouffville are heard to remark that they dread going out on the highway and do everything possible to stay off it during the weekends drivers are becoming more and more wary of those great highway webs and their crawling lines of cars and trucks the traffic death rate has reached epidemic proportions and it would ap pear that the best innoculation is a strict crackdown of law enforce ment all of us are going to be just a little more careful with the stiff penalties under the new regulations a hundred dollar fine hurts particu larly when it used to be 10 we be lieve that these upgraded costs will go a long way to easing the foot from the gas pedal a great many forget about the con sequences and still cling to the be lief that it cant happen to me one confrontation with a speeding ticket under the new rates and these driv ers will not soon forget the conse quences parks department needs enlarging stouffvilles park area is growing and it is doubtful if the regular staff of maintenance men employed by the municipality will be able to keep up with this work as demands on their time increase for general community maintenance before the snow comes it is hoped have the vast enlargement com pleted at the park at the corner of west lawn cresc and rupert ave the extension will take in all the land west of the present park boun dary to the eastern boundary of park view home the park also extends from rupert ave on the south to elm rd on the north there is con siderable work to be done here to put this land in proper condition there are now at least two hun dred additional children in the hous ing development immediately to the west who will make good use of this recreational space in addition there are the seventeen acres of the main downtown park to be maintained and another small park area in the watson subdivision off tenth line south other property which could do with some municipal attention is the gore area at the junction of north and stouffer streets the cnr property where the railway would be more than willing to provide the land if someone would turn it into a beauty spot it was twentyfive years ago some action should also be taken preferably by the developer to es tablish a small flower and grass area in the centre of the culdesac on maystone court all these areas would and should require municipal attention defin itely the established park areas will take considerable care while the oth ers mentioned would greatly enhance the beauty of the community whether or not all this work can be handled by the present staff is a question which council might give at tention to when laying out work for 1970 as one who has travelled widely we can attest to the fact that many of the most impressive recollections of various communities at home and abroad are those of municipal parks and small beautiful areas summer season fades into fall the month of september and the summer season fade into fall such is the scene looking north over duflin creek from the 7th cone of pickering twp harry hooper do you remember ringwood ps ss no 2 whitchurch 1930 in spite of the years the resemblance in faces remain this photo taken in 1930 includes the entire enrollment at ringwood public school ss no 2 whitchurch how many do you recognize the teacher centre back is mr everton smith the children are front row i to r ray ferguson fred thorn dann filyer blanche mortson gladys harman evelyn lotton johnnie schell lloyd mctavish george smith murray vague may hancock may- zo hancock ruby thom elinor filyer doris graham centre row i to r walter smith bruce davis howard barkey muriel hancock joyce filyer duncan mctavish dorothy timbers jean pipher irene timbers marie lotton jessie mctavish margaret smith jean davis mary graham back row 1 to r frankle pipher gordon ratclift harry thorn harry davis roy hancock jake baker dorothy lotton evelyn filyer helen stoulter clara miller frances filyer ruth davis olive hancock sugar and spice aprons or diplomats why dont girls just get married the way they used to what is this desperate thing in modern society that insists a girl must get a degree or become a nurse or learn a skill such as punching an adding ma chine frightened frantic parents with the shadow of the depression peek ing over their shoulders are ram ming their daughters willynilly into something they can fall back on the irony of course we want them to get married eventually tea nice boy with a nice job and pros pects a nice home nice children a nice neighborhood and at the end a nice pension but first we want them to have anywhere from 13 to 19 years of education so theyll have some thing to fall back on we are admitting that if they get married theyre going to be abandoned di vorced or their husbands are going to die at 28 so they have to have something to fall back on why dont we just let them get married and fall back on their hus bands for a living my wife has been falling back on me for almost 23 years and im still in reasonable con dition even though my back has fallen a bit into my front i suppose you think this is just a diatribe well youre right butthere is a reason for it my wife and i have nursed cursed wheedled and needled our daughter through high school she hated it in grade 11 loathed it in grade 12 and abhorred it in grade 13 but by a combination of blackmail bribery and piteous whining we made her stagger through the pro cess i promised if you just get your grade 13 you can do whatever you want go to college get a job drop dead but youll never regret it already shes regretting it now she has to go to university which shes about as much interested in as she is in catching leprosy this whole column is inspired for uninspired by the harrowing effort of getting kim organized at univer sity she thought she might be able to hack university if she had a pad of her own a grill to burn beans on and burn toast on and maybe a sleeping bag on the floor and a few psychedelic posters and a few cock roaches and her cat for company this was all right by me ive slept in barns and box cars this was freedom from home and parents and all the awful things they represent such as cleanliness and godliness and so on but here mum had different ideas and her mum as i have reason to know is a domineering forceful overpowering and illogical woman like most other women so kim is going to stay in a nice home with a very nice middleaged couple as far as shes concerned its getting out of purgatory and into hell ive never heard of anybody being kicked out of hell but i imagine shell manage it within about three weeks if you have a teenage daughter you will know what i mean theyre ab solute slobs until theyre married when by some strange process they go around emptying ash trays before anyone has used them but three weeks of dirty bare feet and a bedroom that looks like a sal vation army oldclothes depot and a bathroom that looks as if it went down with the titanic and even that charming calm landlady wii be screaming out out however i guess the trip was worth it we met a nice lady in the registrars office who reads my col- by bill smiley umn hello nice lady keep an eye on my beloved we had a couple of roar ing fights with subsequent tears which is good for everybody and we got home after a fairly disastrous stopover with friends to be greeted by our other rotten kid the vacuum cleaner salesman who has decided to go back to university after two years of dropout who has made 3500 in the last eight months who has maybe enough money to pay my fees who was just dropping in at the old oil well to se if it was pumping somebody said life is short and life is sweet thank goodness its short j0iatotkbtiifo dear sir i wish to congratulate mr w gor don duncan on his recent letter re ccm and century city i believe he summed up the feelings of many residents who moved to this area from metro we have seer firsthand how some of these rosy developments can affect a community sure they provide employment and create in dustry but in order to control this benefit much planning must be done re building bylaws noise abatement garbage disposal and possible air po llution two of these industries one manu facturing liquid oxygen and the other glass have established plants in scar- boro and the people now find they are subject to undue noise as well as dust particles settling on their homes and cars i think that as a newspaper you owe it to your readers to assess the impact the present ccm plant has had on the community of weston do the people that live nearby have any complaints how did it affect the local merchants also there have been other plants dumped into semiurban areas and communities have developed around them what has been the effect on the people perhaps a series of articles on the pros and cons of industrial buildup might prove interesting and informa tive m r jones goodwood dear editor due to recent incidences of death to fish and animals the public are being made aware of the need for great care when using insecticides there is another fact that should be made known to the small percent age of the public who are inclined to selfserve themselves under the cover of darkness on vegetables such as cauliflower and cabbage it is necessary to use the type of spray that leaves the product unfit to eat for three to seven days as there will be a poison residue the grower is not going to put up a sign with the date of the last application of spray therefore while it may be cheaper at the time to go shopping some dark night the end price could be very expensive the grower should not have the added worry of whether the people who left only a pile of leaves on the road are still among the living marion barry rr 2 stouffville dear sir through the tribune perhaps the residents in the area of rupert ave and wesllawn cresc can prevail on village council to make this intersec tion a 4way stop throughtraffic on rupert from cone 9 to the ponderosa proceeds far too fast concerned parent ofilsb t ibrtfmne established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stouftvllle tribune limited at sj main st stouftvillc ont tel 640s101 single copies 15c subscriptions 500 per year in canada 750 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario wtekly newspapers association second class mall registration number 0896 captain noah ri p by jim thomas the month of september has not been declared open season on min isters most pastors are already ag reed that they are fair game the year round for some strange reason the ma jority of clerics resent criticism i believe however that they must ac cept at least a share of the responsi bility for sagging church and church school attendances across the coun try many are just not in touch with the times im a presbyterian but dont ask me why i really dont know nor do 1 care the truth is i could switch to pentecostal mennonite or baptist tomorrow and it wouldnt bother me a bit the difference between them all in my opinion is so minute that we would accomplish much more solid ly welded into one but as yet the christian separatists are too strong to make this reasoning a reality as a teen lad i often made it a practice to attend services on a sun day evening i seldom went to the same church twice but visited dif ferent denominations throughout the district i always came away feeling a wee bit better for having been there last sunday i did the same my wife and children kept the faith how ever and went the way of all devout presbyterians i attended elsewhere the location of which i choose not to reveal a rapid head count of the congre gation placed the number at 96 i then estimated the number of young people present between the age of 12 and 20 there were 8 including six girls and two boys and one of these was in charge of the cradle class theres surely something wrong here i thought to myself and bro ther there surely was while my credentials fall far short of a bd degree im as qualified as any layman to judge a ministers worth this pastor at least in the pulpit left much to be desired for instance the prayer it was much too long he asked the lords blessing on everyone from the ail ing organist through to queen eliz abeth fifteen minutes later i was fighting to stay awake one elderly gentleman in the row ahead had al ready succumbed to the temptation still he droned on finally ending up on a sweep of the mission fields in outer mongolia the hymns five in all included six verses and the chorus of each three of them no one seemed to know ex cept a lady near the front with a high soprano voice she should have sung three solos but the worst the sermon follow ed the collection at any other func tion the patrons would have demand ed their money back it was that bad the topic was taken from the 6th chapter of genesis the story of noah and the ark he recounted in detail all the experiences of those terrible forty days and forty nights but never once did he apply the lesson learned to 1969 so almost one month after neil armstrong michael collins and ed win aldrin have completed a trip to the moon and back the minister talks in glowing terms of a wooden boat perched on top of mount ararat if he had gone as far as to explain how captain noah was able to get all his animals fish and fowl off that moun tain it might indeed have helped a little but no he just left everyone kind of hanging there those few who were conscious enough to care for those of middleage and older attending church on sunday is a way of life an obligation for young people today such is not the case and a travelogue of noah isnt going to get them there i feel that a pastor must link his topic to the times the twentieth century only this will keep the teenager interested the elderly cannot hold the church together forever this sunday count heads in your congregation of the total how many range between 12 and 20 if the number is high its likely your minister has exchanged his swim suit for a space helmet