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Letters Tight abortion policy questioned It is also stated the hospital per- formed 186 abortions and has a tight abortion policy. At Petrolia in some cases the wells were free-flowing. Dikes had to be build around fields to hold the oil. ‘ More than 100 teams were used to move the oil to Samia. A special plank road was built for their use. Barry Hayes, chairman of the board at York Central Hospital, states “the hospital is very concerned about abortion”. Ontario’s petroleum area, centred around Oil Springs and Petrolia. With one in Pennsylvania they competed for the honor of being the first to be developed. About 1860 it was discovered that wells could be dug or drilled and petroleum (from “petrus” meaning rock and “oleum” meaning oil) ob- tained. Dear editor Your article “York Central abortions are concern" which appeared March 2 has left me confused. The tallow was used to make candles either by dipping or in molds. Coal oil could be distilled from coal. Coal oil lamps gave a much better light, but were too costly for the average home. As the pioneers became better established more land was cleared for pasture and bears and wolves were killed off. This made it possible to keep sheep. They provided clothing, food and tallow. Candles were a portable source of light that has been described as “merely disturbed darkness”. A fireplace was used by early settlers for cooking and heating. After dark it was often the only\ source of light; I know a few of them. They come home from work too tired to exercise the tropical fish. They settle into their easy chairs and it takes two hours of dinner, television and quiet before they start feeling human again. And then the telephone rings. ' One of guys Who is that calling? No one will I’m more concerned about the health of the old timers who are on the ice at 11 o’clock at night. By Sharon Brain THORNHILL â€" Everyone is fretting about the teeth of the seven-year-olds on the hockey rinks of Canada. Swimming pools are yawning death traps for small family members or for neighborhood children. Such pools need to be locked off from house or street. It’s a good thing Daurio was a minority of one favoring the motion that failed to loosen up the town’s regulations. Councillor Daurio should inform himself of the information compiled when Markham’s bylaw was prepared. He should also study the evidence from the inquest into That's if it’s really true, as Daurio suggests, that many property owners are ignoring swimming pool building bylaws. Cold fear should clutch the hearts of many local swimming pool owners at Thornhill Councillor Stan Daurio‘s remarks in Markham council Thursday. Pool bylaws protect you The Libetal is published evevy Wednesday by Menospan Communny Newspapers L-maed Nonh Diwsnon, which also publishes The Banner m Auvova Newmavkel The Woodbmige Vaughan News, and The Bollon Enterpnse lutnutonnv IIADI‘LI n PAGE A. PUBLISHER J.G. VAN KAMPEN Better lamps yesterdays by mary dawson 6111: Emma sharon sunshine 10101 Yonge Sweet, Ruchmond Hill LAC 4Y6 Omal Guys play tonight Although these lamps were a much improved source of lighting, they had their drawbacks. Pedestal and hanging lamps com- plete with decorated shades, graced the dining rooms and living rooms of the homes. Most households bought a gallon of oil at the grocery or hardware store. There it was poured first into a wide-mouthed tin gallon measure and then into a spouted can through a funnel. Plain glass lamps sat on brackets in front of a concave mirror to light the kitchens and halls. Glass lamps with round handles showed the way to bed. The cost was 25c a gallon. Now colored and scented lamp oil is sold for 890 a pint. Lanterns were used for lighting at the barns to do the chores on dark winter mornings and evenings. Perhaps the hospital would do well to take another look at its “tight” abortion policy in the hope of reducing the number of abortions performed. PEG O‘TOOLE, 457 Taylor Mills Dr. 5., Richmond Hill, Ont. ‘ A number of small distilleries were built. They eventually were phased out as the huge Imperial Oil Refinery was built at Sarnia. The cans came with a threaded cap for the top opening and for the spout. Often the spout cap was lost and a potato was pressed into use to cap the opening. By the barrel, kerosene or coal sold for 15c a gallon. There appears to be a contradiction in these statements since the provincial average of abortion is only 20 abortions for 100 live births “One of the guys says they are playing hockey tonight,” he says as he walks back into the living room and looks sadly at his easy chair. “I hope you told them you weren’t.” ever name names. It’s always just one of the guys. “Not exactly. I said I’d go if they didn’t have enough for a game.” When you’re over 30 there are never players enough for a game. To have enough, there would need to be a new line waiting on the bench every time the old one had gone up and down the ice. The retch test a Unionville child‘s swimming pool death shortly before the bylaw was prepared. That’s why pool construction bylaws have to exist. They’re to protect people from their own ignorance, Daurio being no exception. People just don’t understand the dangers of pools when they start to dream of relaxing in cool waters on hot summer days. They just don’t think when they start in on a doâ€"it-yourself backyard job. Making a pool safe is a complex, technical matter. Residents owning pools, or building one, should make sure they have a municipal building permit to protect them from themselves. If they haven’t a permit they should run, not walk, to the local building inspector’s office. It was a messy, daily job to clean the You can tell how many guys )1 Candles to h ydro Messy chore 75-cent fue/ EDITOR HAROLD BLAINE WEDNESDAY. MARCH 9, 1977 oil If we take “elite” in its popular meaning that membership in a group depends on something “beyond” one’s own effort and determination, then such a statement is both misleading Several of Gilmor‘s statements call for comment. However, let me take just one: “In 1961 only the elite in both academic and in economical social status were allowed access to a university education.“ His justification was that more people were achieving the lower standards that previously achieved the higher ones. Whether that’s good or bad, it’s un- doubtedly a fact. (One must hope it isn’t true of medicine.) Pretty much the first third of Gilmor‘s letter consisted of un- substantiated invective: “misleading”, “scare tactics”, “twisted facts”, “unfair”, and “repulsive” are sample words. His frustration was understandable; for ultimately he found he had to agree with Stong that standards “had” fallen. By Wooburn Thomson It was interesting to compare local MLA Alf Stong’s article on Declining Standards in Education with PC nomination candidate Kerry Gilmor’s reply. Tacked on to Ryerson’s Walter Pitman‘s charismatic word-play on TV, and Education Minister Tom Well’s commitment to “beef up the system”. also on TV, it is all rather depressing. A bright white light was produced by an Aladdin lamp. This burned coal oil and used a cone-shaped mantel, in- troduced in the early part of this cen- tury. Oil lamps were also used to provide street illumination. Richmond Hill had a Mr. Brownlee employed as a lam- plighter in the 18805 and until the coming of electricity. . G i/m 0r ’3 in ve 0 five This was a chore usually assigned to the oldest daughter. Many fires were caused by upset lamps. lamp chimneys, trim the wicks and fill the lamps. Hockey is the game where you have a stick not just to hit the puck with. It’s also to lean on when you But they think it must be good for them because it feels so terrible. The only reward these guys are going to get is pain the next morning. Hockey is not exercise. It is torture. Maybe Gordie Howe could still do it, but only for a lot of money. ‘ SAM CHAPMAN is at it again! He's at it again! SAM CHAPMAN is at it again It’s insulting Whiter light And such students took their work seriously. In fact the hard work of those self~starters contributed, ironically, to the good name of the university degree. that today attracts so many who are neither prepared to work to go to university, nor prepared to work once they get there. For decade after decade, thousands upon thousands of students who were willing to “work their way through”, did just that. As for any denial of access to “all” who didn’t have an “economical social status" (if that means what I think it means), Gilmor isn’t presenting the facts. To describe the modest standing needed in the few high school subjects then required for university entrance as being beyond the capabilities of all but an elite goup, is an insult to the capabilities of the then Canadian school population. and insulting The Coleman gasoline lamp which came along a little later also featured mantels and burned gasoline under pressure. It also had its drawbacks. The generating plant at the rear of the Dominion went up with a bang on one occasion and was completely demolished. An earlier development was lighting by acetylene gas, manufactured by adding‘water to carbide powder. This was used in churches, halls and in the Dominion Hotel in Richmond Hill. Every oldtimer’s team has one enthusiast who has just quit competitive hockey. He’s the one You can also rest while you’re taking your turn in goal, waiting to be smashed in the face with a small rubber rock. Hockey is the game where your equipment bag weighs more than the desk you sit at all week. The first electricity in the area was First electricity A mm"! column or awn-on by our reader; Subm-ss-ons should be no more than too wards. typed prclerablv One function of the elementary school (lacking a supportive family setting) is to equip potential university students It seems likely that insofar as either university admissions, or the granting of degrees “cease” to be a consequence of competence (no matter who pays for universtiy costs or how wide its “doors are thrown open") we will sustain neither the value of the universtiy as a source of knowledge, nor the prospects of those who attend it, nor the quality of life in the society in which it plays such an important role. Finally, if you will allow me to make a positive. if perhaps unpopular suggestion, it would be this: Ultimately, what happens in and to a university depends upon what happens “not” in high school but in the elementary school. I would suggest Gilmor read the general assessment of Prof. Harry Johnson (Globe and Mail Feb. 19) who is one of the two or three most distinguished economists and scholars of international stature that Canada has so far produced. A trouble today is we are constantly bombarded with assessments of the situation by those who have scant qualifications for doing so. Throughout most of the ‘fifties and ‘sixties, when I was on a university staff, enabling funds available for our department to use at its discretion, were seldom exhausted. manufactured at a steam plant at Bond Lake to run the Metropolitan Railway cars along Yonge Street. It was then known as Niagara power, it being generated by water power at Niagara and transmitted by wires to this area. Hockey is the sport where the wife waits up till you come home. She’s not mad because you’ve been at the pub too long. She was sure the cardiac unit was going to call and say you needed your pajamas. This provided an excellent source of light for homes, businesses and streets and has been steadily improved. Although some fires are still caused by faulty wiring, overloaded circuits, etc., introduction of hydro electric power has cut down considerably on the number of destructive conflagrations. Hydro came to this area early (about 1910). who skates around boarding or knocking down anyone on the other team who looks like he might be getting near the puck. You can't always get onto his team. Hockey is not for oldtimers Oldtimers are over 25 Today ’8 trouble Wives wait (Woodburn Thomson of 120 Major Mackenzie Dr. is a 27-year resident of Richmond Hill. Now inactive for health reasons, he formerly taught at the graduate school of business ad- ministration at the Universtiy of Toronto. â€" Editor. But before we strangle ourselves in an Ad Populam web of rigid mass standards, we should at least realize what we are doing. For a society where the possession of a universtiy degree has increased in importance at pretty much the same rate as the rate at which standards of those same universtiy degrees have decreased, and in a society where exploding bureaucracies and the distrust of senior authorities have made competent discrimination increasingly suspect, the adquate reward and ef- fective recruitment of those teachers who possess this vital art will be dif- ficult. Teachers who acquire this art to an outstanding degree should be provided with routes to the most senior pay categories in the school system. The ability so to equip a student is an art. It isn‘t necessarily a product of teachers college or of fashionable textbooks. It doesn‘t necessarily in- volve the amassing of academic degrees. Replacing what my children still fondly remember as the “sugar bush farm” with hydro towers would be a sad and terrible thing. For some of them it may be the only thing they’ve ever seen that doesn’t include a cellophane wrapping as an integral part. Whole classes watch sap being Wrung from the maples, and watch as it’s boiled into sugar, right before their eyes. with three capabilities: first; to want to learn; second, to know how to learn; and third, to be self-starters. Thousands 6f schbolchildren are invited by the Bakers to visit every year. The Bakers man an 80-acre stand of maples where my spring maple sugar and syrup are produced. Mr. Baker tells them about the trees native to the area, trees that covered the entire landscape when the first Bakers came to Upper Canada as pioneers nearly two centuries ago. And while we‘re still on the subject of flora, I‘m delighted to note the Baker family of Vaughan has won the first round with Parkway Belt officials. Chain, magnolia thriving Jump into your jalopy this weekend and head for downtown Toronto. If you’re as desperate as I am for warm weather and can‘t afford to wing away to St. Martinique, here’s a less expensive alternative. Wouldn’t the sight and sound of an apricot make you feel warm all over? Toronto tropics Go directly to Allan‘s Gardens where you’ll find a huge Edwardian domed greenhouse surrounded by several smaller greenhouses. ’The nicest little two-hour free vacation in the world! Many are in opulent Bloom.VFoliage plants twist and sprawl and drip in equatorial abandon. But gee whiz. Is a crab tree the stuff of February dreams? Maybe it‘s the name. A crab just doesn't grab, you know? It doesn’t do for you what mag-nole- yuh or la-burn-um do. There are some magnificient magnolias in Thornhill. One mature specimen on John Street rings my chimes every spring when I drive past. Laburnum too I have a laburnum (also called a Golden Chain Tree â€" isn’t that yum- my?) in my back yard. But there are ways of winter- protecting borderline-hardy trees and shrubs, and “Couldn’t it b? super to try? Or what about some haray azaie'als and rhododendrons? Plantsi from all the exotic juneg pa‘r_ts of the _world _are gyowing here. Now‘ I’ve got nothing against our native trees, in their proper place, or time. Many of us, also in the grip of the G. F. 8.5 panted yes! yes!, and hallucinated wildly about soft sunshine, full-throated birdsong, and pastel blooms perfuming balmy air. A Libéral readér, mor'e stoic or less susceptible than the rest of us, wrote to say magnolias and labumums wouldn’t survive our harsh winters. She suggested planting some of the hardier native species such as flowering crab. Thornhill is on the very edge of one of the climactic zones, so what succeeds here could conceivably end up a pile of dead twigs three or four miles to the north. , The writer of that piece, presumany deep in the throes of the Gray February Betwitchets, mentioned laburnums and magnolias. I'm npt suggestihg our reader was wrong m her assessment â€" there’s evgry p95__s_ibility she’s right. By Lynda Nykor A few weeks ago a Liberal editorial suggested flowering trees and shrubs shgold be plan-ted around the region. Teaching mystery Native kinds Baker’s tale Iynda's lashes