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Between You and Me, By RUTII COLES We must have towne that accommodate different educational groupe, different economie groupe, different ethnie groupe, towne where ail can live lu one place. Margaret Mead We enjoyed listening to and watching Mayor Bob Attereley on the CTV news Wednesday evening. We feel apart from hie obvious knowledge hie poeitive attitude je one 0f hie greatest assets. The reeults of bis attitude show Up right through the syetem hence the net result; Whitby je a good place to live and good place to locate any business., In the last few yeare to be negative seeme to be in style and what dreadful results we have seen. One has to be realistie and to know and see the trutb but. at the eame time this does flot need to take away al optimism, a view that good muet ultimnately vrevail. ties of life and it seeme gone forever. Breakfast in bed or snacks at bedtime, a bar for those who liked a drink before a meal, reading cars and playtimes for the chlldren. No matter how one tries it le impossible to get any feedback from anyone at any level of government when it cornes to dlecuseing thinge of relevance to the syetern. The reason why is quite obvious. To electrify our main hune railways, particulary in the high traffic density areas would provide several advantages. This of course would involve subetan- tial capital investment which would have to be spread over a number of years, say_2o to 30 years the same ae with any other mega project. In brief, the advantages would be the creation of many jobs which would be productive rather than non produc- tive. It bas been said that we have at the present time a surplus of electrical energy which of course could be' used thus giving a better return on the in- vestment of capital in our power stations. Further there would be lese reliance on fuel imported from other countries. Also to reduce pollution from diesel locomotive which would be an advantage for the en- vironment. It would be unecessary to prolong research as the experience of other countries wbich have liad many years in the use of mainfine electrification could be used; some with climatie conditions just as sever as ours. Why should we not use the expertise and ex- perience to upgrade our rail system and make it more efficient? The main problem le getting the bureaucrate up off their chairs, to be polite about it. We are many years behind in our thinking; when will we ever catch up? WHITBY FREE PRES Bridge resuits The following are the results of last week's play at the Whitby Duplicate Bridge Club. North and South: Mr. and Mrs. Lee Evans, 671/; Mrs. P.Ný Spratt and Mrs. Donald Wilson, 57½/; Mr. and Mrs. Del Wagner, 56h; and, Dr. and Mrs. Richard Ketchell, 53. East and West: Mrs. Betty Harlander and Mrs. Trudi Ruest, 52; Mrs. Bruce McColl and Mrs. Douglas Maun- drell, 51; Mrs. Jacoba Schram and Mrs. Henk Hellendoorn, 49%-; and, Mrs. George Steffler and Mrs. Johanna Flan- nagan, 46. The resuIts *of each week's play will be an- nounced in the following issue of the Whitby Free YEAR-EN Dl CLEAR-OUT WF NEED THE BALANCE 0F OUR IN STOCK VACUUMS CLEARED-OUT'BEFORE INVENTORY IS TAKEN'FOR 1983 SS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1984, PAGE 5 Don't Throw It Away Consuit The Wood Doctor We repair & refinlsh antique and old wood f urniture. FREE ESTIMATES ~ Do EIIott PICK-Up &DELIVERY SBrock Rd. N. 8321 75 ~Pickering Open 7Days AWeek . . . .. . . . Tbis ie an area where the media needs to be aware. Badly placed words can cause great havoc and the resulte can be catastrophic. We could compare it to these gray, sunless mor- nings. Has, the brightness and s un gone forever? Hardly. We know full well that tomorrow or the next daty the sunshine wil returu, and belp to warm our land on the coldest days. Whitby is in good health and promises even botter tbings lun times to corne. Let's follow the mayor's example and look for tbe best. We can't say this about the whole world nor can we expect everyone to follow our example. We probably eau say that thinge may get a lot worse and tbat is a very negative thought but we have to face the truth. As I looked at the Canada Geese flying by this morning a funny and foolish thought struck me. Suppose we were up in space looking down we rnight eee a similiar picture Io wbat we see on the television ecreen; just a part of the world at a time. <Wbat if instead of being round, a globe, the earth could be laid out fiat'from end to end. From space there, it would be, the good and the bad. What a dif- ferent picture it would give us and how would we react? Cildren wielding guns and other firearme. Bodies, bloodied and burnt and thousands dead before their lives had hardly begun. Children being used as pawns for the sexuaily sick and perverted people wbo eeem to be lu every part of the world. It would not make a pretty picture, any of it but at least the image would be clear. Seeing it ail at a glance, flot just the odd glimpse here and there rnight belp people from the whole world to pull it together. Not realistie and probably not possible but there might be hope. Rairoads lu most parts of the world with the ex- ception of North America are growing and exceiling in their field. An alternative. to our modes of travel today. Tbirty years ago we heard whispers of discontent when flying became the in tbing. "Trains are only for peasants,"I the young said who were travelling for large corporate giants. "Nonsense, " some of the wealthieet people in tbe. land wbo enjoyed and travelled by train. No one eau deny that plane travel is necessary and a good thing within reason but why was the raiiroad made almost obsolete because the plane came into prominence? Poor thinking and foolishness by goverument people. The same attitude stili prevails. Millions are poured into aircraft industry, the maintenance and,,_~ upkeep of airports. 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