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WHITBY FREE PRESS Volume 2, Number 15 (Voice of the County Town) BOX 206, WHITBY, ONT. Thursday, April 13, 1972. FREE HOME DE1IVERV Whitby - Brooklin Organize New P.O.P. Branch Of thecommunities East of Pickering opposing the airport, Whitby has taken the lead in numbers, so a new Eastern 8 r a n ch of POP has b e e n established w i th P a ul W icher of Whi tby, Eastern Chairman. T h e g r o u p which formed as an in- d i r e ct result of the mass meeting held in Brooklin Town Hall last Thursday, have held two subsequent meetings foi- 1 owi ng the 8 rooklin rally, and will meet again 2 p.m. Saturday to plan procedure in their fight against the airport. About three-hundred people packed the Brooklin Town Hall with the major- i t y o f the group recording strong op- pos i t ion to the government's proposai of a second metro airport for location in Pickering because of its thus far un- p r oven need and its imposing threat to to the environment. Fopty-two signed cards at the Brook- in meeting, indicating that they would help in an or-gani zed POP attempt to fight the airport. Two m ee t i ngs followed and at the second meeting held in Brooklin on Mon- day night, an executive was appointed. P e r sons attending the Monday night meeting came from Newcastle, Court ice and Bowmanvil le, as well as from Hamp- ton and Enniskillen. "The interest being shown by people from ail walks of life is encouraging, " sa i d a g r o up spokesman inBrooklin. " S ome of our member s include profes- sional peop le who have offered their help no-charge because they feel so strongly about the issue. " The group w i I I contact "Ducks Un- 1 i m i ted ", Hunting and Fishing Trade Magazines and other sources closely c o n n e c t e d with environment and wild 1i f e , and hopes to reach the apathetic spectreof the general public by consis- tent exposure of the hard facts, said the spokesman. Y U are robbing thousands of kids of something they so desperately need, with something unnecessary, and you didn't even ask, " says a disen chanted Brooklin youth in an open letter to Mayor Newman. .. Page 2. S o me town taxpayers don't want the artificial centre on Rossl and Road and told council so in a 2½ hour long debate. Story Pg. 7. IT' Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, dollars - every bit counts when you're serious about wanting to buiId new head- quarters for our Whitby Sea.Cadets. So for the twenty-four hours between 6 p. m. this Friday, April 14 and 6 p.m. S a t u rday, April 15, we hope they will keep pour ing in, in the form of telephone pledges through our telephone lines. Enthusiasm is being whipped up for thisspecial fund-raising event, and ef- for ts of the committee have paid off in bonuses with visits promised by Honey W e s t , D u s t y Stokes and Band, "The Marshall1 ofMaple Grove " and many other stage and recording stars at the down- town Whi tby Srock Theatre Head- quarters. M. C. Don Osborne invites you to visithim at the theatre to help him keep awake through the night; al though some- thing will be going on at any given hour during the 24-hour Country Music Mara- thonwi th visi ts by entertainers and pol- iticians. If you prefer topay avisit to the M a r a th on by daylight, "Uncle Benny" will be broadcasting remote over Radio CHOCO 1390 between the hours of 7 a. m. and 12 noon Saturday. As th e hands of the clock near 6 p. m. on Fri day evening, here at the Whitby Free Press, volunteer workers will be waiting for the phones to ring. D i a i 6 68-6111 or 668-9600 any time d u r i n g the 24-hour long Marathon and help bui Id a home for our Whitby Sea Cadets. The first person to dial in a pledge a t ei ther of these numbers w i1 I be aw- arded a free dinner for two at Le Chal- et compliments of the "Whitby Free Press". UN Whitby The Miii" "Rurnour Whitby, like any Canadian town with jus t the right distance between longi- tude and latitude to engender good in- te r- town communication, has fostered a n o t her of those mysterious municipal rumour s. The Iatest, which travelled along the grapevine to the FREE PRESS offices,, c a m e b y way of a concerned taxpayer who had just heard that 'Mayor Newman, and Doctor Hobbs had purchased Mel- Ron', at the Whitby Arena. A rumour usual ly dies a natural death when one can establ ish that it never did exist in the first place. Not wanting to get involved with the 'Joe told me-Hel1 en told him-Cecilia told her routine' back at the arena, we thought we'd check the rumour with the source being trumoured about', Mel -Ron Construction Ltd. "No damn it, it isn't true! ",. said an employeespokesman at the construction firm before we could even explain what the rumour was. The employee was another one up on the 'Free Press' too, having heard the rumour in question "at least three weeks ago. I When asked, Mayor Newman said he had heard nothing of the rumour, but em- phatically denied its implications. The 'battl e of Hobbs and Durkee' just cooling, we didn't interrogate the for- mer. Ïl' te,