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ken may midgets silver medallists worried but game mayor gord ratcliff entered the annual cne mayors bathtub race last week the waterfront crowd greatly ft enjoyed his inexpert maneuvering of the tippy craft and they were mayor wows cne crowd takes plunge lake ontario i knew i couldnt steer that thing but i thought i was getting the hang of it remarked mayor gordon ratcliff shortly after being pulled from the frigid waters of lake ontario i really dont know what happened he dabbed at a few stray drops running down his neck and squinted thoughtfully at the water i thought i was doing quite well and then i capsized just as i was going around the buoy then he shrugged good- naturedly and said oh well someone had to fall-in- he was quite correct if someone doesnt get dunked in the mayors bathtub race at the cne the crowd will feel cheated as it was the mayor wearing an old fashioned red and black striped bathing suit a yellow and black striped life jacket and carrying a large centennial flag made the ideal victim the first two heats had already been run without any mishaps and crowd was getting a bit restless when he appeared the mayor carefully spread his towel on the bottom of the tub and after a few minor ad justments prepared to board because of the tippy nature of the craft and the mayors bulk this proved a tricky exercise but with the help of several experienced pairs of hands it was finally ac complished and the mayor was launched unfortunately he im- 1 mediately had steering trouble because there wasnt enough room for both the mayor and the tiller in the tub every time he attempted to straighten the tiller the handle poked him in the stomach he finally solved that problem by tipping the tiller up in the air at arather unlikely angle and went puttputting away he was motoring around the course in a vague meandering style as befits someone who has never handled a boat and cant swim when suddenly disaster struck one minute he was at tempting to navigate around the marker buoy the next he was floundering in the water one of the faster boats had lapped him and the resulting wake had tipped him into the lake vi guess i got over in the wrong lane joked the mayor afterwards convert miles to kilometres speed limit signs in this area begin going metric this tuesday sept 6 and will be converted by the end of the month if you like most of the rest of us have failed to learn the metric system in spite of several years government propaganda then you will find the handy guide below a lifesaver mph kmh 20 25 30 50 50 8 60 100 absolutely delighted when he later capsized the mayor a good sport throughout said he entered the race not to win hut in order to publicize stouffvilles centennial annegret lamure bv pete sanderson stouffvilles ken may midgets captured the silver medal in softball at the 1977 ontario summer games in kitchener last weekend and their performance will have people talking for a long time some said theyd never seen such a gutsy group of kids while others termed their efforts impossible roy dennis coach of eberts said hed never seen a team with so much class while a mother of a gold medalist from north bendale questioned the validity of her sons 32 cham pionship win the standing ovation given the never say die team from stouffville at the conclusion of the championship final told the story of the weekend the may crew met longlac from northwestern ontario in their first game on saturday and emerged victorious by a score of 80 pitcher jim chilvers another story in the tournament fired a nohitter only a hit batsman in the fifth inning prevented him from pitching a perfect game his nineteen strikeouts combined with the batting of gary grant steve spang rob mcbeth and brad steel proved too much for the northerners two hours later the may kids squared off against north bendale chilvers again pitched superbly striking out eight batters but fielding errors and the absence of timely hitting hurt the may club as they went down to defeat by a score of 51 thirty minutes later elimination now pending the local club met picton two years previously the two teams had meet in oasa action the scores were picton 26 and 8 stouffville 0 and 7 at kitchener stouffville gained sweet revenge with their 91 victory chilvers allowed but two hits while striking out sixteen batters dave dart mike lafleur and third baseman spang led the parade at the plate as stouffville headed may plays port perry port perry tomorrow night friday at 8 pm stouffvilles ken may midgets take on port perry in game two of their best of three oasa zone finals game takes place at water st park in port perry into sunday still facing elimination and needing four victories to capture the gold medal taking one game at a time the may crew knocked off eberts at 9 am sunday mor ning dart catcher mcbeth and second baseman lafleur led the team to their 31 victory while mr chilvers allowed just four hits and struck out eleven at 11 am the may squad squeaked by guelph 53 as dave darts timely batting and rob mcbeths first inning two run homer sparked the local blub the game went twelve complete innings stouffville led 20 and 3- 2 but guelph tied it in the fourth inning darts two run double in the top of the twelfth inning provided stouffvilles margin of victory dart started on the mound but was replaced by chilvers who struck out sixteen while allowing just two hits with the heat starting to take effect and the fatigue of two back to back games quite evident stouffvilles chances against north bendale in the final seemed hopeless in order to win they had to beat the scarborough club twice their season record against bendale see may page it wrihum vol 90 no 17 whitchurch stouffville august 31 1977 20 cents 20 pages landlordtenant bureau nixed resplendent in red and black stripes mayor gord ratcliff prepares to enter the bathtub race notice he has his towel clutched at the ready stouffville mayor gordon ratcliff said this week he is not in favour of a regional landlordtenant bureau as proposed by the health and social services committee following heated debate and because the committee was divided the report was sent back to staff mayor ratcliff said to hire three employees to look into landlordtenant relations is too much too expensive but he added he would favour such a bureau if its scope was ex panded to include mediation of disputes between neighbours about such subjects as drainage and line fences v tempers flared when a report outlining the need and possible method for establishing a bureau came before the health and social service committee argument broke out that saw councillors accuse staff of trying to buck their decisions and staff accuse the committee chamber of commerces first sidewalk sale a success stouffville the first annual chamber of commerce sidewalk sale got off to a brisk start last friday morning as hordes of shoppers descended on main st even before merchants werefinished setting out their goods most merchants reported excellent sales throughout friday but experienced less business on saturday most of the action seemed to be taking place in the downtown area but according to vic or chard of orchard mens wear in the plaza it worked out quite well mr orchard was the only merchant in the plaza to have an outside display overcast weather and heavy traffic through town were blamed for the tapering off of business saturday all the merchants are really happy commented chamber of commerce president jack chambers mr chambers said sales at the iga were excellent and he sold 100 cases of butter tarts at 24 dozen tarts to the case there must be a lot of butter tarts floating around stouff ville he commented mr chambers although he described the sale as the best one ever was quick to add it will be much better planned and advertised next year more entertainment ac cording to mr chambers is necessary this year the only entertainment was provided by a piano player who was lined up by murray wilson shoes the chamber of commerce said mr chambers will try to entice craft people from the outlying areas to join the sale next year that would fill up the gaps so people would shop the whole street he commented although business was brisk during last weeks two day sidewalk sale it seems there is always time for some friendly conversation here minnie redman sitting seems o be having an enjoyable talk withiga employee louise oquinn more pictures page 3 of acting on a report filled with absolutely unreliable figures it began with the com mittees request last month that staff investigate the need for a bureau the request was the second in 18 months the last report t was put together by chief ad ministrative officer jack rettie who concluded at the time that it would not appear feasible to institute a new regional service purely advisory and which would appear to be of limited assistance to a very small proportion of people within the regional area not satisfied with that answer the committee now chaired by mayor david schiller of richmond hill requested that staff take a second look at the need for such a bureau the request was prompted by reports that the provincial rent review office in richmond hill was receiving many land lordtenant calls and by a situation in both aurora and richmond hill where tenants were without heat because a landlord failed to pay his utility bills the report tabled last week showed that about a dozen calls went through municipal offices in july six calls went through the region during the same month 52 calls were received during july at the rent review office in richmond hill several calls were received during july at the bureau in peel and in metro toronto about 1500 calls from york were handled last year for a total of about 125 per month based on that need the report recommended the establishment of a oneyear pilot project funded by the federal canada works program to determine more accurately what the need might be but when committee members met thursday to consider the report they found that mr rettie had prepared an alternate report distributed at the beginning of the meeting that argued against establish ment of the bureau no light man hit with hammer toronto a stouffville man suffered a fractured skull from being hit over the head with a hammer last wek brian bonner 29 was struck by a fellow worker on an ellesmere ave construction site the man asked mr bonner to light his cigarette and mr bonner replied he didnt have a match and began to walk away he was struck with the hammer as he walked away the man was sent to scarborough general hospital with a depressed fracture of the skull charged with wounding is gerald lafontaine 27 of walmer rd present to defend the ad ministrators report were regional chairman garfield wright regional solicitor ted oakes and his assistant bruce allen as the discussion began and quickly grew heated it was clear thai thejrift went deeper than the disagreement about a bureau the rettie faction argued that the figures from toronto are absolutely unreliable that there is no demonstrated need because calls to municipalities are very few and that the bureau work is in fact legal in nature and not of the sort the region should take part in when committee members grouped in a defense of the report mr oakes suggested that if there was in fact a need for the bureau it should be properly and permanently established and the idea of a pilot project scrapped jt was atjthat pojnt that the committee began to splifinits response while mayor schiller continued to defend the need for a bureau markham councillor ron moran began to question the merit of hiring unemployed people to run a bureau under canada works regulations at least three see expansion page 14 airplane crash being investigated dr thomas j heinz of the cachet country club rr 1 unionville and three passengers had a narrow escape sunday evening while flying from parry sound to buttonville airport york regional police said the pilot noticed he was low on gas as he approached the gormley area he notified air traffic control at the buttonville field and at 832 pm belly flopped onto a field on the east side of leslie street a short distance north of the gormley road they were very lucky people remarked sgt ken robb of 19 division yrp the plane just missed a range of high hydro towers and because it is also an aqua plane the undercarriage was sturdy and was not damaged all occupants were in good condition the department of transport aircraft control are investigating mia a shih tzu belonging to june jacksonseems to take a rather dim view of the pony tall her owner is putting in her hair the long haired pet was one of the entries in the markham kennel club dog show held at the markham arena last weekend v annegret lamure 1