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WH1TBFE$~~ IEpY,~$,913A~7 PAGE SEVEN You ChMt-hat Y meet the masitretg people in public waiting areas. Bus sttions. icket queues. Beverage rooma. A tele-vision winks jts eye,, fluttering ia vacant crer. It is tuned to PB% è1sowly grinding out a story exiciting nly to astronomers and' insomniacs. "Whatcha thinkin',buddy7' I know people 11k. that.. Corne up behind you, ùýik what you are .tlunking, and- then beforo you can reply, they lay a ham-sized fiàt between the shoulder blades, right over the. old î hockey injuiy. "Toui been sittin' there for fifteen minutés, haven't said a thing." "Baloney snowfiakes," I reply. It was Idesturn to ask for pardon. "Baloney snowfiakes. How id have a built-in drive that makes thom tako apart a baloney sandwich. They will always lay bar. tiie baloney, fold it eight times and take tiny bites out of the eclgo. Then, when they unfold it, you have ..." "Baoney snowflakes," said my visitor. "The question is," I ponder, "if this ls learned fiom siblings, or is ýredispc P tion." as"msu Pýs will make a one-hour special on it on. day," lie says. We. turned toward the. television. The wond.rs <f astronomy stIli beain from the single'eye. A silence foffows. 1 have no talent for cdut-chat. I préfer to paso time with a book. "How, about that Mulroneyr, eh?"This 'rz won't quit. 'Wouldn't ifl l;.ionie if Joe CIlark were to, b. -ti. guy who resc ues Bri a n from political oblivion?"' I ask in return. "Ah, doosn't matter anyrway." "How do you fi gure'itT Now h. shifts bis shoulders, set to pontificate. "?ulroney's on !the right track. He' just like moat Canadians, he's too timid to pursue it." "Tl 'me." "Se. that truck out there? I drove to the US. on the wveekend, filled up the tank, bouglit cigarets, a fiew groceries, coupla boxes of beer. Fiqre I saved forty, fifty bucha altogether. If that's what free tradissle about, tien r% ail for it. f What about CanadiansW jobs?" "Wed ail b. better off if -we just did away with the border. Letpeple worlc, live where tliey wanted." "'lbats an interesting conceW~. "1Sure. Bey,- prices are ail cheapor down there. Gaos is cheaper. Housos, are cheaper. Theinterest rates apttortwo lower. What'e -w. tiying to do here, anyway? tho e way everybody hoilered about the CBC cuts. Best they could do would b. to axe the. CBC. W. need it hike w. need a constitution." "And national unîtY?" ",you got mustard for bramas?If w. get rid <f the. border we don't need national unity. W. dont need the CBC-, W. don't need a consttution, tha±es for se. Be a great waY to Put Quebec in its place." Some arguments n.ed no reply. "Bleyw. want, bori televison, ail we have te do is tune in toW.BSI;e dont need the. CBC to do that." Hegstrs tti.teeiion. Tlhe figures on the screen change, and' witiiout catcbing the. exact words, I knaw the message lias, too. I r.acii forward te crank up the. sound. "mher. you are, ladies and gentlemen," says. the frizzle-haired announcer. 'W. need money. This parmwfll not continue until, you plione in and promisetesd money.- Send ix hundred dollars now and w.l give -o a set 'ofvideotapes of the senies. "mhey kidnapped the. show! What an ideal Hold the. show i--- ---1 "INVEIRLYNNo" 1300 GIFARD ST1'.EET, 1904 On. of the last of.the old estates of Whitby, Inverlynn was built in 1860 for. grain, merchant William Laing., Since 1870, it lias beon the residence of George McGflivray and his. descendants. The TV 9eo nea lh Whiteoas of Jalna, was iImed at this hous in 1971. 10 TZARS AGO from ti. Wednesday, April 29, 1981 edition<f the WiffIBmYPUEZ PEZOSl e Community Car. says many Whitby senior citizens are living in unafe homes. e'l'h. Lions Clubs of Durhiam Région held a convention ini Whitby Iast week., e Dr. Prederick'A. Cuddy,, who lias practised medicin. in Whitby for. 49 yoars, died at Windsor on April 18. *Whtbydentist Peers Davidson will tiry to rais. $1,000 for cancer reuearh ini the Kiwanis, bike-a-thon. 25 TZARS AGO from the. Thursday, April 28,.1966 edition of the WIEY WEZKLY NgWS e*-Tenders are being called for an addition to St. Theresa's Separate School. e Town Council is proposing that Anne and Cochrane Streets become a major north-south road with a Hlighway 401 overpasa. e Whitby fire lasses m ,1965* were the tlurd lowest in Ontario for municipalities with a. W<plto f 14,000. ~A. Fairman Home and School Association is holding its l5th anvray 75 TZARS AGO fromthe Thursda, pil27,1916 editionof the - WiffBY AmD CHRONIqCLEc e Col. JE. Farewell has been elected a bencher of the Law Society Ã"f Upper* Canada. a* The basement of the Methodist Tabernacle fiaoded Iast week, forcing services to ho held in the town hall. 0 Thirty teamé <f horsos and wagons are roquired for the 1161h Battalion's trek through Ontario County. e The last <f the prisoners from the. Guelph Reformatoiy, who are bùilding the Ontario, Hospital, left Wbitbhy this woek. liý Il