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toe mibunethursday september 29 n r ibht wrihum john montgomery editor established 1888 charles h nolan publisher barre beacock advertising manager eoltoklal oeftlaaagrt ltmvrt ktkh bounder display advertising dept lois widcnun art dixoo business office jmnminaman oofeodtcon- 6ilto clew b every thursday at u main st steuffvill onl th moliei toronto phone mtimo smaje eopins me subscriptions sisns per year la canada siloo elsewhere member of audil bureau of circulation canadian community newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number mm the tribune is one ct me inland publishing co limited group ot suburban newspapers which includes the ajawhibypickering news advertiser brampton guardian burlington post etoblceke gazette markham economist and sun newmarkelaurora era oakvllle beaver oshawa this week and mississauga news 6402100 3611680 editorials shortage of big brothers one man one boy is the philosophy of the big brother organization but un fortunately it isnt something that always becomes a reality at the moment there are still 32 little brothers in york region waiting for a man to befriend them big brothers is an agency designed to help boys without a father or a consistent male image either inside or outside the home often a boy is very confused about his role as a male when this sort of relationship is lacking and he may become withdrawn or hostile big brothers volunteer their time and gear their energies towards prevention of this sort of tragedy and they have a lot of fun in the process big brothers are expected to commit themselves to at least one afternoon a week but assume no other legal or financial obligation the only thing the organization asks of a big brother is a bit of time- and thats exactly the problem no one least of all young men seem to have any to give a fatherless boy organizations that rely on female volunteers on the other hand seem to be thriving oh know the same people always do most of the work but still when it comes to the crunch there always seems to be a woman available thats ready to step into the breach this used to be taken for granted in the old days when men worked and the women stayed in the home but is rather remarkable now that almost half the labour force is composed of women it is also extremely worrying we dont know why so many men refuse to volunteer but we do know that the consequences could be devastating what is it well tellyou that ordinary objects viewed in a dif ferent way are sometimes all but unrecognizeable was brought home to us last week when readers submitted their guesses in our what is it contest the answers ranged all the way from puffballs and balloons to bathing suit inserts falsies although most people identified the egglike objects in the sand as either pebbles turtle eggs or someones knees however on friday afternoon at 130 mike forfar came up with the 5 answer his entry a persons heels showing through the sand was right on and we congratulate mike for his perspicacity editors mail reader defends dog lady dear sir- i was saddened and cut to the heart as many others were and are upon reading your reporton the recent raid conducted by the police and the humane society against miss ethel blaedow and her dogs who love her so much anyone who states that her dogs were underfed neglected and left without water is absolutely wrong about this most honest and merciful woman if the animals were without water at the time of the raid it is because vandals went in ahead and emptied every pail and dish they could find as they so often did in the past even drowning her cats in a water tub water which she had purchased i know that the dogs were watered daily for i myself supplied the water out of my own taps for a whole winter even from my hot water tap because it would freeze before she could get it out to her animals she would go out with two threegallon pails daring bliz zards and high northwest winds nothing could stop her watching her going down my lane on such awfully cold nights i could only think of the suffering of christ for the sake of a sinful unrepenting generation such as he again will find today 7th concession road finally hard topped dear sir once upon a time there was a cobblers apprentice on a sunny day in late summer he finally finished a pair of shoes he had been making from the sole up it had taken him almost a year and at one time he had ripped out all the stitching and thrown the shoes into a corner then forgotten all about them then came the big moment when he proudly handed them to the old master and beaming at him asked here they are should i repair them right away ps the regional municipality of york anally hard topped the 7th concession north of the gormley road a couple of weeks igo anybody been over it lately yours truly hanshirsch lemonville riders thanked for rainy day fortitude dear sir community association for riding for the disabled and remedial riding would like to acknowledge with heartfelt gratitude the fortitude of all the riders who turned out for rideathon 17 in spite of the heavy rains which persisted throughout most of the day our most sincere thanks also must go to all the volunteers who worked a long wet day to alliour generous supporters on behalf i ofallthe disabled riders many many thanks 1 ps yonrs sincerely ypv mrsswynnerooke equestrian chairman furthermore she collects all the good leftovers from the tables of homes where she works bringing this over by taxi bus or a ride perhaps with one of the employees which her dogs relish as delicacies almost all of what she earns goes to feed the animals and buy conditioners for them which means many dollars this poor selfsacrificing woman all for christs sake is as innocent of wrong doing as the scriptural lamb but because she cannot afford nor has the time to look like a queen she is being mocked jeered and ridiculed with persecution on every side continually yet she forgives every time they do not know nor understand she will say then goes out to ease her heart with tears and the hope that people will eventually consider and wish to help instead of condemning her works of mercy and selfdenying let us no longer be like the wicked woman and her gang who when they saw miss blaedow come only to find all her precious little friends gone went on a loud jeering laughing spree saying he laughs best who laughs last to which miss blaedow replied that she had never laughed at her nor anyone silence dolores deverell egg throwing contest highland dancing the stouffville stont alias whitchurch weasel visits markham e1r i tug of war pet show sugar and spice smiley loses trousershis mind too by bill smiley this week i am perplexed by several questions and i turn for possible answers to the only people in the world i can trust for honest answers my faithful readers all four of them for example by what editorial inanity does the globe and mail which grandly calls itself canadas national newspaper run on its front page a fivecolumn by eight inches photo of pierre trudeau getting his hair cut what is the symbolism the hidden meaning the secret code the deep interpretive analysis behind this picture can anyone help is mr trudeau symbolically trimming his sails for a fall election is it to show that the pm is mortal after all and that his hair grows like that of us lesser beings perhaps its a secret warning to margaret that despite talk of a reconciliation hes not going to let his hair grow and become a flower child i dunno but it sure has me baffled next question where do things get lost to it seems to me that my wife and i have spent more time this past summer looking for things than we have sleeping looking for things that were right there right on that counter yesterday looking for things is one of the most frustrating irritating pastimes in this materialistic society of ours it has brought many a marriage to the teetering point and if the union was already teetering pushed it over the brink a couple of weeks ago she lost the keys to the car after a 12hour nonstop search no keys oh we had keys for the other car the battered old dodge only one catch it was in the garage and the keyless car was sitting right behind it immovable twentyfour hours later i called a lock- picking specialist he was out of town but would call me when he got back just before he did and i had to fork out eleventyseven dollars the old lady found the keys without looking they were in the vegetable bin with a turnip a butternut squash and a bag of cooking onions it was certainly the logical place for them then my new black 10 belt went missing it wasthe first belt id bought for 12 yearsand i was rather proud of it i knew it wasnt really lost because i always hang it up with my ties it was obvious that my wife in her eternal tidying had stuck it away somewhere as she so often does with things that i then cannot find but she swore as she always does that she hadnt touched it mentioning in passing that she was sick and tired of looking for things that i had lost naturally words followed in which the phrase car keys inadvertently popped out several times but the mystery of the missing belt was readily solved when i decided to wear my newbluefitlikeaglove summer trousersx couldnt find them high or low then with a flash of intuition i knew where my belt was it was with the pants because i never unbelt just hang the whole works on a hook it was quite a relief to know where my belt was it was equally reassuring to know that the pants were with the belt but it was slightly dampening to admit that both were lost they still havent turned up there are only two possibilities one is that a pantless burglar crept into our bedroom snatched my trews and crept off into the night once more modestly attired the second i dont even like to dwell on the last time i had worn those pants that belt was to a party it wasnt a strip poker party but it was a fairly lively one did i do a strip tease and forget to redress my little peccadillo did i tear them off on the way home from the party and throw them out the car window sounds silly but the other morning i went out to get the morning paper and there on my back walk was a pair of brandnew blue shoes with thick white rubber soles in a shoebox with only the lid missing only the lord knows who for what mad reason in what temporary mental aberration flang them there but they are just my size and finders keepers and this whole probe brings up the case of the missing socks what in the name of all that is unholy becomes of socks when they are put through the washer and dryer they never go missing in pairs always singles ill bet i have nine single socks in my drawer all different colors or knits ive gone down with a flashlight and peered a bit shaken into the interiors of those machines no socks they cant go down the drain or it would be plugged do they do a reverse santa claus and go up the spout of the dryer with the hot air its a little frightening as though someone were trying to tejl me something about my feet someone with a feet fetish just one more question where were all the editorial writers who are now screaming about the stupidity of changing highway signs to kilometers instead of miles when i was lambasting the whole metriccelsius nonsense almosta year ago can you gentle reader do a fast bit of arithmetic in your head when you encounter a road sign announcing the speed limit is 45 kilometers per hour when your speedometer is marked in miles per hour and will be for years to come will you happily pay your fine when the cop puts the big blue arm on you and claims t you were exceeding the speed limit by seven kph must we all start driving with a calculatorcomputer in one hand now these questions may not be as im- portant as somehow old is godhow hot is it in hell how long is a straight line how far does a rolling stone whither the flat earth society why does everyone pick on me i but they are poor things mine own and id like some answers window on wildlife coho salmon in ohtariofood for thought a half mile off the bronte shoreline tom bayer pointed the 14 foot aluminum boat into the gentle swell and throttled back to a nice trolling speed in short order favorite lures were clipped on and trailed out some 85 yards behind the boat this was flatline trolling in the truest sense for even with some added weight our deep running plugs were still wiggling along within ten feet of the surface now we settled back to rehash a few past fishing trips my companion was in the midst of displaying a new reel and as i leaned forward for a closer look the fish struck the initial shock almost tore the short rod out of my grasp and now as the big fish peeled off line i hung on and yelled almost im mediately it surfaced a broad silversided salmom throwing up sprays of water in the afternoon sunlight frantically it fought to shake the lure while i held the rodtip up and tried to keep the flailing line taught then it was hang on again as the big fish dived and when this tactic failed the line went slack it was heading fo the boat i tried to reel in fast and take up the loose coils remembering full well what had happened last season for then toms similar sized fish had made a pass under the boat twisted off the lure and headed for rochester this time however he came up to one side speeding along with his tail and fine cutting the surface like a small shark by now he had tirculed the craft and just as i thought he was beginning to tire he made another flip and dove again then the line went limp in the spring of 1969 the ontario ministry of natural resources began planting pacific coho salmon in streams at the western end of lake ontario waterways like the credit river and bonte creek traditional spawning streams in years gone by of the legendary atlantic salmon raised in ontario hatcheries from eggs spawned in bc 4 to 6 inch smolts were introduced to these waters now 15 months old they would imprint on the characteristics of the stream into which they were released gradually the young coho would work their way downstream to the deep cold expanse of lake ontario once in the big water their rate of growth would escalate to tremendous proportions as they gorged themselves on an abundance of alewives and smelt in fact the following spring exactly one year after their release fishermen on the south shore near jordan would be catching coho salmon averaging three to five pounds but that increase in size though remarkable in itself cannot compare with the fantastic growth attainsd by these same fish during the final four or five months of their life for in that period as they congregate off the mouths of their adopted streams their weight will soar to an amazing 8 to 14 pounds some even greater there were many reasons why the ministry got into the salmon stocking program first they wanted to provide angling close to the large populations that fringed this end of the lake coinciding with this plan was the question of predation by lamprey eels on any existing fish and whether or not the lake habitat itself could support such a fishing industry because lampreys attack large fish and due to the phenomenal growth of salmon cohos and to a lesser degree chinook were chosen then of course there was the puzzle about pollutants in the fish themselves looking at the projects results some eight years after its inception tends to put figures on both sides of the ledger theres no doubt the fishermen have angling they used to only dream about the heavy bag limits also prove lake ontarios capacity to support a great populace of large fish the attacks by lamprey eels also has been greatly reduced with the introduction in 1971 of a stream control program against these sucking predators but the bitter pill and the one thats hardest to swallow is the chilling fact the salmon are picking up potent chemicals and though theres little danger for the average fisherman eating the odd salmon the warning signals are already out dont eat too many salmon pregnant women shouldnt sample cohos lake ontario salmon show high con centrations of pcb and mirex such newspaper headlines focus attention on facts that above all else are the most important of the whole salmon stocking program for if these big fish dwelling in the same waters we drink are becoming a health hazard how long before the water itself is safe now the spotlight of public opinion begins to pinpoint those responsible for this deplorable condition and to demand ways and means of stopping it and as pollution is caused by man that means you and me too so we all better start a little soul searching not just for the sake of the salmon and the sport but rather for our own ultimate survival the latest on the salmon program is that it will likely be phased out this year initially it was a stopgap project that if successful would eventually see the reintroductiori of lake trout and rainbows for the planted salmon are not too successful in their reproductive efforts here but the lakers and byartbriggsjude rainbows are so in many ways its a straight matter of economics and any second thoughts the ministry might have had con cerning cohos disappeared last january for the federal government passed a law at that time prohibiting the transport of any fish or spawn across any international or provincial boundry without a diseasefree certificate british columbia couldnt furnish proof their stock was 100 per cent clean and so ontarios spawn source was lost michigan found out the hard way for they already had permanently closed up at least one hatchery because of this persistent fungus relocating and rebuilding such complete hatchery facilities are not top j priorities in these days of tight budgets so every effort must be made to retain what we have in the meantime well have at least two more big salmon runs in 1978 and 79 at which v time the rainbows and lake trout will start i making their presence known attempts are i also under way to hatch from salmon eggs gathered locally but the percentage so far has been very small so the fishing will still be there and the pollutants oh yes but maybe i not any worse and possibly theyll start to decrease in some areas with better monitoring knowledge and increased public awareness tom slipped the net under the struggling salmon and hoisted it aboard as i removed the hooks and held it up it was a moment of v real satisfaction and yet thinking back maybe it should really have been a moment of appreciation for while the 11 pound battler had shown me its great fighting qualities s kind had revealed other more important factors to the scientists and public in general