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Page 2, Thursday, March 23, 1972, WHITBY FREE PRESS The Snub In w ha t was probably the most un- p o t itical and honest answer ever dis- pen sed f rom Provincial Government Headquarters at Queen's Park , a government spokesman taking calis at a temporary number specially set up to answer questions on the proposed inter- national airport, told the WHITBY FR EE PRESS the reason Whitby had been excluded from questions posed in a government flyer distributed in the areawas that the provincial government "forgot Whitby", quote and unquote. The question in the government pub- lication, "What impact will the new air- por t have on towns such as Markham, S t o u f f ville, Richmond Hill, Ajax and O s h a wa? " aroused the interest of the "Free Pressi", who called the publ ished number advertising that questions deal- ing with the airport woul d be answered. "Wh y w as Whi tby excluded? ", we wanted to know. sing edn ion P r ob a bl1 y b ecause it isn't in the no iselands, " a spokesman by the name of Pennant answered. Nei ther c a n Oshawa be then, " we pointedout, and if it is one has to pass throughWhitby to get to the Motor City by any means of transportation. " "Well actually thetruth of the matter is, we forgot about Whitby, " confessed Pennant. "When we noticed we had for- gotten it was too lateasthe flyer was already on the press". . . . Now that's Tories for you. We decided to dial Darcy McKeough with the thought in mind that if the Pro- vincial Government had any further lit- er a ry endeavours in mind, would they please not do the County Town the dis- service a n d discourtesy of ignoring its very existence! Mr. McKeough was tied up (probably in k n o t s ) b u t Mr. Paul Little would speak for him his secretary said. "6u t h o w did they manage that?", mil Dear Sir; John Gilbert, Cl-HUM Rad io Station wias r i g h t when he hung t h e tele- phone up on Mayor Desmond Newman. A I1 Mr. Gil- b e rt wanted to know was some definite infor- m a t i on rather than the politi- cal hogwash he was being fed. How dare any- one ask "our g 1 orious lead- er if he wouid be w i1i ing to back the citi- zens of Whitby on any bieath? -l e c e r t a inly wouldnot1listen when they said I N O" to amal - gam amtion, the nevv Municipal Complex and the crazy Iro- quois Park scheme. He and counc il said "NO" onl1 y t o f 1 o o d v ictims when they were Ieftlw Cmwity bwn) Mail ~Phone Publish Editor Editoria Advertis Display Classifie Circulat C irclat - - Ron Winstanley - Phyllis Millar - Barry Schroeder looking for some relief to their problem. Some day , w e the t a x p ayers of Whitby, may w ake up to the fact that our Mayor and Councit have sold us down the river with grandiose id- eas rather than a d m i nistering to our needs in a sound, sen- sible and small town manner. A Whitby citizen.• a sked Little, epitomizing how we our- sei v es f elit. "This can't happen, we c an't ove r look Bill's riding.I" "BilI" being Conservative M. P. P. for Ontario South, William Newman, of course. But "Bill's riding", like the signifi-, c ance of Whitby couldn't have been ail th a t important though, as Paul Little for ail1 his promises tocall back that afternoon was still to be heard from at press time. So if any of our readers has an ex- tra sheaf of the Rotary Club's "Sketch- es of a County Town ", it would mak e an appropriate Easter gift for our shame- fully not-with-it provincial members at Queen' s Park. You might just sign t h e m I"Whitby L ives !"... failing that, some attractive brochures from the of- fice of the industrial commissioner might be propitious. A Town is Waiting.... After a winter of relative inactivity, t h e D o wntown Action Commi ttee, like an iodine bottle cleared of its cobwebs, w i I I for the second t i m e , come down from the dormant shelf. Resurrection day, Wednesday, April1 5, 1972, will see a 7:30 p.m. meeting in c o u n c i I chambers - and hopeful ly - a f r e s h a nd uninhibited stab at perking up Whitby's tired downtown face. Adding a concrete aspect to the res- u r r e c t i on m e eting willbe architect Peter Stolks with outlined plans for the B r i an Winter restoration scheme, an i m ag i n a t i ve idea, which, if brought further than the paper and pencil stage w oulI d r e store the southeast block of the downtown core, back to the roman- tic 1880 era. The heart of Whitby with its some- what faded but still linger ing atmosphere of o 1 d worid charm, needs a facelift. The one being proposed now could mean that the County Town would be the only c om p I e t ely restored downtown in the Dominion of Canada. Continued on Page '10 Hometown paper of Whitby, Brooklin, Myrtie and Ashburn. Published every Thursday in and for the people of Whitby. Offices - 301Byron St. S. Whitby - Box 206. Whitby - 668-61.11 er W. Bill"Durkee - Judy Durkee il Staff - J.Quail