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Page 2, Thursday, July 13, 1972, WHITBY FREE PRESS the tail A ci ass ic example can be made of the Lucien Motel issue on how the tax- p a y e r becomes disenchanted with the municipal politician - and why. The municipal council, in tail-wag- ging-the-dog behaviour, showed visible a p p r e h e ns on Monday night when the motel operator's application for a lic- ence came before them. Their appre- hension, w h i c h seemed to be based a gr e a t deal upon their bad experience w i t h other motel owners, with which Lucien Motel has no connect ion, came a littielate; the Byron Street motel built with a permit granted by the council's own staff is already in operation. There was a lot of council parlance that the hotel operator should have ap- Splied for the licence before now and the attitude, "We can revoke a licence any- time you know" was evident. The 1ayman, as has been proven when t h e ordinary working m a n dec ides to wags Editor,îa'ý,1-1 C o. mmnt' buy a house, is often 'taken' because no- one takes the trouble to explain to him the better or cheaper way. So often the little man must plough his way through bureaucracy from the municipal level and up. If council had any difficulty with al- lowing construction of the new Lucien Mote i it is hardly the time to be dis- cussing it now. Concrete w al I s shoW themotel is well beyond the 'discussion' stage. AsCouncillor Robert White so aptly put it: "We should be stopping the pro- cess at the permit stage not at the lic- ence stage. il The ordinary layman is not paid to know the intricacies of permit and Iic- ence granting. Town of Whitby staff iS. It is I ittle wonder how a man like L u c ie n Chares t could become disen- c h a n t ed w i t h our municipal bureau- cracy. ...When Get Together 1- adr wIr[I~UÂIiteI( Sir, OnMonday, June 28 my son was p 1 ay ing basebal1 atPeel Street Park. At the same t i m e there was a occer game being played in the s o utheast portion of the park. When the soccer game ended, someof the soccer fans decid- ed that it would be faster to walk ac- ross the bail field than walk around. In doing so, they hild up the bail q ame for a couple oi minutes. When the Ump ire and both coaches ask- ed the four AD- UL TS toplease go around the field th e y received no answer, just dirty looks. At this point, iasked them if they would mind hurrying a little. As they continued theircasual stroli I pointed out to them that we didn't delay their soccer g am e ,& we would 1 i k e t o continue with our baseball game. We finally got some res- ponse. I was told "Go to hel! " I don't know too many soccer fans, but if this so-cal- led sports fan is anexampleof what 1can expect I sin- cerely hope 1don't mee t too many more! Douglas J. Weales, Georgian Courts, Whitby, Ont. Hurrah for the Whitby Frce Press! I am glad that someone is looking into things going on in our town. The Osh- awa Times has never realy prin- t e d a n y t h ing to help a person like myself to find out things I feel I have a right to know. Two things I wonder most: i. Long ueuil, Que- bed. 2. Convent- ions. W hat does the twining of our two commun ities do except provi de our p a r t y ing council members with a whale of a week- end ? What is the cost to t h e town, whose money cov- er s that, and what good does it dome, THE TAX- PAYER? Conventions are supposed tobc ed- ucational I am t o 1 d . What good can corme of us se nding unqual if- ied men to con- ventions? Where, my dear council members a r e you using this educat- ion? Itvwould seem to me it is buried in the good times you have. It sure doesn' t show up on the roads but it does on the taxes. How come? What did i t cost THE WHITBY FREE PRESS 1 (Voice ot the County Town) Hometown paper of Whitby, Brooklin, Myrtle and Ashburn. Published every Thursday in and for the people of Whitby. Offices Mail phone Publisher Editor Editorial Staff Display Advertising - 301Byron St. S. Whitby - Box 206. Whitby - 668-6111 W. Bill'Durkee - Judy Durkee - J. Quail to sen d all those c o u n cil members and their wives to the Mayor and Municipal Conven- t i on i n Que bec City? I know they didn't pay them- selves. Yes , we got our mayor inas Presi dent, well, v h oop-e-doo-so- w h a t ? More par- ties and good tim- es? i arm ti r e d of paying the shot for ail this type of thing with nothing in our town toshow for it. What do you oth- e r folk feel about thesethings? i am interested in see- ing th i s letter in print. But I do not want my name pr in- tedas once before I did and the res- uit was sarcastic phone calîls to my home from one council member, an d there the in- qu i r y ended with nothing more done then nor since. I love Whitby as the old town used to be, but I also have a healthy respect for grow- th and development but not a t the ex- pense of the ord- inary working person. Yours truly, A middle class /4~1~ fffP0ÀAV~A ,HANA~f W/T/i A ~tJQM~fS5>~ftfFT/ Bank Manager Harold Eaton and Assis- t a n t Manager Harold Simpson thought it w as time to change the image of the bank a iittle, hence the sign in a down- t o w n Whitby Toronto Dominion Bank. Mr. Eaton said the sign has been ready for a while and they were just waiting f or the warm weather to put it up. He also promised better things to come... so w a tch that window! And with two g r e a t names I ike Simpson and Eaton, how can they go wrong? READER'S FORUM Question Can you please determine for me why the ball diamond a t Peel Park is not, being used? Doug Weales, Georgian Court, Whitby. Answer According to Town of Whitby Recrea- t i on D i rector Gerry Gellette it is a problem with a backstop. The screen on the bail1 diamond apparently must be moved 6 fe e t back from town property needed for a road allowance. The park, he assures, can be used again when the obstructing backstop is moved. READER'S FORUM READER'S FORUM is a weekly feature for the readers of the Whitby Free P r e ss. A i questions must be signed and dei ivered to Box 206, Whitby. Questions need not be of a political nature but must be of a local nature. Ron Winstanley taxpayer paying at the upper class rate. . . . .......... the dog We've heard that one before The struggle of t w o newspapers in one community seems to be repeating i t s el1 f once again as the Whitby Free Press learned I as t week a brand new Whitby paper is about to emerge. Let ter s of announcement will be m a i l1e d by August 15 the editor of the ne w venture informed the Free Press staff at our anniversary party Friday. The new paper he says, has a chief a i m i n mind, "to put the Whitby Free P r e s s ou t o f business within half a year. " Oddly enough, he also claims there is no political money behind t he new enterprise. Simpson & Eaton