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W~TBYNVJWE RE8 BWRNESA M Y S, IDa, xPAGE 7 __PAG'ESEVEN." * ~ît O ur_________ Get the violets out of the Lry Writers who can't write, write for readers who can't read (or vice versa): Piet HMens. -Who Piet Mens is, and whether or -not I spelled his naine correctly, well leave te, another Urne. But lus point ]ives forever. That quote came te mind the other day as 1 made my lips tired reading aà local daily newspaper.:There, lo and behold, onr the Lifestyles section page, two hiadlines:- 'Canadians reading more* than evel> and StephenYinga .a great writerwho happens-to write horror.' To umderscore the message of the second headline, the best seller list 'on. the same page listed two of Stephen Kàing's novels as nwnbers one and two. Sonie accomplishment. But a great writer? Stephen King? Allow hlm bis due: he is a publishmiale writer with a great gift for plotting story limes. That the stery limes are suitable mainly for teenage nymphets ma be overstating the case. Study -the box office receipts fromn movies made from Stephen ine books. More tha haif are bouglht by teenage femnales, unless I made the figure up, which 1 did. But it still gives you fiomething te think'about. S Given the number of 4oks King has written, the amount'of money each bok earns and the millions exëtra provi-ded'by movie options, oeeWo0uld wonder whby he still writes. 1The answer: Stephen King is in reality a horror story factery in Taiwan, employing four hundred and eighty-nine persons and.sixteen robots. The naine Stephen King is an acronym for the eleven people who wrote. the computer prograrn te develop plot lines. Now ycu kow. ILeeft refer back to headline nwnbor one: Canadians reading more than ever.' Statistice Canada -spggests that the -average Canadian reads--g total of 24 books a year. Raxîks right behind watching telMvsior4 and listening te -music. Stats ICan a4so says that net, sales cf bocks -in Canada total aboût $9.6 million ann ually, cf which $4.3 million isý sales oý bocks by Canadian authors. Let:s ut that in perspectiye. *96xulion iworks out tte about 30 cents for every person n the country. Ea ch year. That is, one Ganadian li a lýunrd buys one bock each year (or eférybody buys oÏe ck 0Very hundred years). Compare$9ï6 million. (surelyý it must be $9.6 billion a yèa?) ;with the draft diýal made by the Philadelphia Flyers and Quebec Nordiques for a 19-year-old rookie. What? Four experiexnced players, two or three draft choices a nd,$15 million? And now the Flyers bave ýte work out a contrgxct that.l4ric Iàndros will sign. The mimd g àwsnumlb. Consider thej pocr Cauiadian author. Total sales in this country of Canada books are *4.3 million -- about what Bric will make bis, arst year with Flilladelphia (Plus marke ispiýnofs). Total royalties to all Canadian authors, at ten.per cent cf sales, amount to about $430,000. .Canadians spend, on the average then, about 14 cents each on bocks written by Canadiians.' Each Canadian on average, contributed about 1.4 cents a year on royltes to Canadian- authors. (That is, one. Canadian in two hundred and fifty, boys a bock written hy a Canadian. Or everybody buys a Canadian bock every two hundred and f fty years.) This authoring business isn't at all as difficult as Wes cracked up te be. Mer Lindros 'authored" Fire on 10 ,bep~i:~j', s.I ;i 5 77-1- ~ J it- 1 L i I mn BROOK TairEET nOOKING NOi rFaOm i OLBORNE ', . 94 lb. building, on Brock St. look almost the lame today as they did 49yerag, but tere in leus traffic. Ti". building on the eat side of Brock St. were cntutdbetween'.1874 and 1883. Wbitrfflvm ~phoo. 10 YEABS AGO frm .the. W desa, Jý 1982 odition oftheio *Whitby ha.d $18 millon li growth in the frattsix month cf 198. - *Dr. lim Hobbs was honoûred by the. Town cf Whtby for his effSot t immunize chldren in Idia against red messies. * ve former Wmhy m > tteded a râlreent -part for Forbes 'Doce McEwen who 'Thedft. Town cf y &;fr28years * lb Ton cfWhiby Pened its new TSurist Information Centre at Centennial Park. .35 YEARS AGO frcm thei. !U Jl 1957 edition d the WEILNEWS *Rpsidnts are djecting totii. Town euincls decin to bid a new Town hall at fth. north end of Contennial Park *Harry Cockburn is Whitbyls firet Queen'sScot. Th lb687.fot conret. eat pier has been ccmploed at Whitbty Harbour. * ver $Imfflicn in cooutrcticn0<lnduutrial andpublicbuildingsisbeng builtinWhitby. 100 YEARS AGO from th F u 1 892 edition et the * lhrse cattle were kllled inon. day -by trins at the Canadian Pacc Raiway rci t Myrtle Station. nelb Whitby and Oshawa Oddfellow Le1»sm wMl hold a decoration day for the. graves, of dcadmembers at Union Cometer n uy 5 * lb.re.i et fthe Nefi Ward are.chllngngthe reuidenta 0et th. Centre Ward te a *aI amlverey hba been appoented as Whitby'. chief consta t a msaay et $175 per year. 1I il