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2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, July 23, 1975 Section Two EDITORIAL COMMENT Three Days, Less One Businesses participating in the fa annual three-day Sidewalk Sale last w weekend were well on their way to ci establishing new sales records when ha rains Saturday morning virtually of wiped out the third day's activity. The crowds poured into town early ev Thursday looking for bargains and re the merchants were ready for them M with many super specials that kept c shoppers searching all day and on ti into the evening. It was more of the same on Friday when the streets th were jammed with people who came ci to see what was being offered. th Saturday would have seen a repeat of the crowds but for the B heavy rains that were welcomed by m.' Bligger Isn't Alw Anyone attending the special ac budget meeting of council on Friday m afternoon had to feei somewhat iii sympathetie toward the elected we members who could foresee man spi phone calis and encounters wi t t irate ratepayers when they received cc their 1975 tax bis and compared 1 them with 1974. diý The finance Committee had work- in ed for weeks on the details trying to ra figure ways and means of iessening oli the impact on citizens of the area. ti They finaliy received the amount Ca that Board of Education would TI require, then came the Region's r demands and the incidentais of other th special area expenditures, to be o'ý foilowed by the arnount of rnoney in that the town wouid need after yE receiving various grants and subsi- Ný dies and making adjustments bi among the municipalities that now la make up the Town of Newcastle. ai The baiancing act must have al continued for many hours with r2 Treasurer Joe Descent in the middle ec of the picture, advising, informing and telling counciiiors why legaily this or that just couidn't take place. 01 The auditors were probabiy in the M~ picture as weii. Pl At the most recent regular council w meeting, yet another delay took SI place in passing the budget, with the 1 provincial advisor caiied in to see if something couidn't be done to ease i the pain possibiy through additional d( grants or a minor miracle. I In the end, the grirn realities had 01 to be faced by counciliors because time was running out with the year rr aiready more than haif gone. The bg special meeting was heid on Friday Ic when most of the councillors and the a( mayor went over the details again, bi stressing the fact that they had a, Year of the We're just nicely getting into the Bowmanviiie Concept after several e, weeks of struggiing with the 41, Courtice Concept when aiong cornes V~ another fror Housing Minister rt Donald Irvine. It announces that ti $55,000 has been a pproved to P determine the feasibility of ser- iý vicing 35 smali communities within W~ the region. The study wili determine e the growth potentiai in each harniet. i Ail these studies should convince re young people that there's one vocation tht appears to have 2( a mighty prosperous future for c years to corne . . . and that's in ti Planning. Doctors, lawyers and f( other rofessions were once con- m sideredthe top avocations but from the anount f taxpayers poney that is going into these Concepts and Studie we would think Planning is i the place to be right now. Either that r or those Developers appear to be doing fairly wel and even Real r Estate isn't doing badly in this area. A Co-1rner fi them water 1974 Laedu iuways end wamenrflssnn thseiacty in ctiensrin of og) ara ( Than finay eceivedtheaeraout. that Scuogird od frcainwul dtseman an lthindtl of lifer Oneil arhea itxpendrs ob Buteivyer brarios ugrtan subsi-eN di an getakng adutet amonga thunicipltore thatnw rmers and those with gardens and, e suspect, even by some mer- iants and their staffs who must ave been weary after the two days hectic action. Next year, the annual shopping vent should be bigger and better if etailers, the Chamber of Com- erce, the Jaycees and others ontinue to cooperate as they did is year. More entertainment is planned for .e rest of Bowmanville week, to be imaxed on Friday and Saturday by .e annual Kinsmen Club's carnival. o, wherever you live, come to owmanville and have fun. You'Il be ade most welcome. iays Cheaper ctually reduced their mill rate for unicipal purposes while the others .volved continued to go their merry ay up the ladder of inflated pending without having to suffer he consequences of ratepayers' omplaints. The mayor tried his best to iscover if somehow they had erred n adjusting the transitional mill ate between Bowmanville and the ther three former municipalities in he amalgamated Town of New- astle, but didn't have much luck. he provincial advisor said they night have made things easier had hey spread the returned surpluses ver a period of several years nstead of giving it back all in one ear to Darlington, Clarke and [ewcastie where it represented a ig reduction in the tax rate for them ast year. But, it was too late to do nything about that now. They could ilso readjust the transitional mill ate structure but that wouldn't hange things drastically. Finally, the budget carried, with nly two dissenting votes by members who registered their rotest but didn't really corne up with any ideas on how the budget hould be changed; they just didn't ike it. Next year, or the year after, hings may be a bit simpler but it's oubtful if the mill rate will be any ower; it may just be more equitable or appear so, across the board. Being in a big region, and a big municipality, plus havimg a county board of education rather than a ocal school board may have many dvantages and additional services, but that doesn't mean it's going to be a cheaper operation. Planner Frankly, the way the planners expect Courtice to accommodate 45,000 or 50,000 people and Bowman- ville up to 30,000 or more, we would respectfully suggest it's about time he province set up a study on Planned Parenthood to slow up the birth rate. If that happened maybe we wouldn't need the expected expansion, unemployment wouldn't be rising, our natural gas and oil. reserves would last longer aâd so on. In the past there were wars every 20 years or so to take care of the over-population but we don't have hem any more, it's too dangerous 'or the whole world. So, we certainly need something to slow up the population explosion. The pill has helped but there's stili room for something else that is more effective because our main problern at the moment is too many people. Let the planners go to town on that one nstead of working so hard to find where they can put more housing. 'or Poets t can play harmony When Nature's demand lessens. T'he sun sets splendidly )ver Scugog. It paints All the colors beautifully As if from special tints. 'ke Scugog is close to my heart s chords, arpeggios, melodies That îromt my soul may neyer part It's full or 'nopy memories. -Marion Ford Durham County's Great Family Journal Established 121 years ago in 1854 Also Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second class mail registration number 1561 Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 62-66 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario LIC 3K9 JOHN M. JAME Editor-Publishe S r GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr. BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. -E E D DONALD BISHOP Plant Mgr. "Copyright and-or property rights subsist in the image appearIng on this proof. Permission to reproduce in whole or in part and n any form whatsoever, particularly by photographic or offset process in a pubication must be obtained from the pubisher and the printer Any unauthorized reproduction wil be subject to recourse in law." $8.00 a year - 6'months $4.50 strictly in advance Foreign - $10.00 a year Although every precaution will be taken to avoid error, The Canadian Statesman accepts advertising in its columns on the understanding that it will not be liable for any error in the advertisemen pubished hereunder unless a proof of such advertisement is requested in writing by thne advertlser and returned f0 The Canadian Statesman business office duly signied by the advertiser and with such error or corrections plainly noted in writing thereon, and in that case if any error so noted is not corrected by The Canadian Statesman ifs liability shall not exceed such a portion of the entire cost of such advertisement as the space occupied by the noted error bears to the whole space occupied by such advertisement. //>oùVANlEYPECPA//< / U/oN LAIPY, &DDC.?i News Events Out of Will Prohibition Carry? . . . and other golden oldies. Montreal, August 25. - (Special)-"I believe prohibi- tion will carry throughout Canada and I will vote and speak in its favour." The above words were uttered today by Mr. Charles Thi- beault, Q.C., the famous French Canadian orator of a few years back . . ." . . . A few years indeed. Prohibition bas come and gone, and we turn to joint Russian-U.S. space missions, inflation and unemployment, and the outbursts of Ken Lyall in Council for our news in 1975. But back in 1898, prohibition was front page stuff in the "Toronto world", an eight page penny newspaper pub- Iished back before the turn of the century. The yellowed copy of the August 25th, 1898 edition of the paper, found in her late husband's trunk, was sent to the Statesman office recently by Mrs. Russell Griffin of Enniskillen. How times have changed. Another front page item published that day would surely curl the hair of present day feminists, and any editor wbo'd print it these days wouldn't seem to place much value on his life ... . Mr. Curzon Wanted a Boy And is Not Particularly En- thusiastic Over the New Daughter. New York, Aug. 25. - The World announces that Mrs. Curzon and the new daughter are doing well. Like Curzon's eldest daugh- ter, who is now two and a half years old, the baby girl just born is said to resemble her mother. Wben the announcement was made last evening that Look Ma, Wingham Advanced Times On general principles we are all in favor of the best use of new technologies and efficient automa- tion--but to . our own personal frustration we discovered recently there is a limit to the elimination of the human factor. It happened thus: Finding that we would be required to attend a meeting in Saskatoon in mid-August, we picked up the handy-dandy telephone to find out when the Air Canada planes go that way and how much we would have to save up for the ticket. It wasn't hard to get Air Canada's number from Mother Bell's info service-but it was something else again when we dialed the proper number in Toronto. Six times we performed the required finger exercises and six times we heard the familiar busy signal at the other end. Mildly wondering why the airline couidn't transfer a few beautiful stewardess- es from serving drinks over Thunder Bay to answer their telephones, we tried a seventh time, with a little more success. This time we got an answer. A cultured English voice informed us through the total impersonality of a recorded mess- age that al Air Canada's telephone lines were busy, but if we would just dial another Toronto area number we would be provided with flight information. Naturally that message was encouraging- although the recorded answer was proof that we had a long distance call to pay for, like it or not. So, with a few more flicks of the now faltering finger we reached the second-choice number and without any hesitation at all were privileged to hear yet another recording-this time with flight information. Highly enlightening! The voice on the wire told us all about the arrivals and departures for the particular day of the call-late in June. We learned with joyous surprise, that the incoming flight frorn New York would be late by a disastrous twelve minutes; that the outgoing hop to Shannon, Ireland, would be delayed for 32 minutes and that persons going to San Francisco could expect to take off right on time. Tremendous. Fascinating. Except that we were not going anywhere until August 13, so the flight patterns for June 23 were not of any vital concern. But, chalk up another long distance toll charge. Well, all was not lost. Knowing that we had to be in Toronto within a few days we decided to do it the hard way. On arrival in the city we consulted those famous yellow pages and found that Air Canada had a downtown office just south of city hall. That was the answer. Just talk to somebody human instead of trying to fight through our problem with a strip of plastic tape. What a relief. We strde through the Past the latest addition to the family was another daughter, there was disappointment in the neighborhood. Curzon himself was not overjoyed as he would have been had an heir been bora to him. He only sent news of the event to his nearest relatives. If Paul Godfrey and Metro Council think they have congestion problems in down- town Toronto these days, it might do them good to discover that it's not a new phenomenon ... Broken Axles at Main Corners Every few days or so a heavily laden wagon breaks an axle at the corner of King and Yonge Streets and im- pedes traffic for hours. Ys- terday it was a tallow man's wagon that broke down, and for most of the afternoon, every passer-by was up No Hands! the swinging doors of the Air Canada ticket office and jauntily breezed up to a counter at which two smiling attendants in female garb presided. Information at last! And we got information as soon as we spoke to one of the girls. She said, "Please take a number, sir." We liked thaf "sir"'bit, but really didn't know what she was talking about. The look of confusion on the old face must have been evident for a nattily-attired lady wandering around the public area then directed us to a machine over in the corner and after a. bit of coaching we found that with the proper technique one could extract a slip of paper on which, indeed, there was a number imprinted in 24-point type. Not having a clue what to do with the number we clutched it in a sweating palm and tried to sink inconspicu- ously into a penthouse type divan nearby. After some ten or twelve minutes that very same number was called over the loud hailer and we surmised our turn had corne-but, as you may have guessed, we hadn't the faintest idea about the next move. However, arising from the depths of our resting place we stood with mouth agape until a neatly-clad lady approached and directed us to a counter away off on the other side of the room and totally out of sight. Now we were making progress. Here was another chair-a form-fit- ting job from which we could gaze into the limpid eyes of a person we assumed was, at long last, the girl with the information we had been seeking for three or four days. And by golly we were right. Gulping faintly and breathing heavily, we imparted our request for informa- tion about when the big airplanes left for Saskatoon and when they might bring us back. No human voice replied. Big eyes simply turned to a keyboard, typed in our query and then waited until a TV screen printed out the required information, which she then lab- oriously wrote, with an old-fashion- ed ball-point pen, on a slip of simple Canadian-made paper. Heart burst- ing -with gratitude we accepted the slip and as an after-thought said we supposed the same flight schedule would prevail in August. Without another word those beautiful eyes filled with scorn, and a dainty hand reached for thé slip of paper and tore it to tiny shreds before our wondering gaze. Then the voice emerged, cold as an Arctic wind. "Why didn't you tell me you wanted to fly in August? The flight schedule changes July 1" Perhaps we should not have been so bold, but after she had repeated her type-it-in, read-the-screen, write-a-new-slip routine we .tmidly asked in return, "Whny the hell didn't you ask me when I wanted to travel?" Progress is really great, isn't it? In the Dim -- and 25 Years Ago Thursday, July 13, 1950 An ex-Newcastle boy, Mr. R.M. Wright, Toronto, was the winner of the new 1950 Studebaker car at Newcastle Hall on Saturday. Mr. MiJton Tamblyn drew the winning ticket. The draw was sponsor- ed by the Newcastle Rink- ettes. Reverend Frank Yardley, of the Courtice-Ebenezer circuit, bas accepted a call as minister of Knox United Church, Embro, with duties to begin in September. Hon. W.A. Goodfellow, Board Chairman, Melville S. Dale and Hospital Superinten- dent, Miss Lenore Harding took part in tbe laying of the date stone at the Memorial Hospital. Laff-Quiz is coming to the arena on Saturday, July 22, under the auspices of the 10.0.F. Ed. A. Summers was honor- ed for 20 years of service with the Durham Federation of Agriculture, at their annual picnic in Orono last Wednes- day. Mr. Summers was pre- sented with a Rolex watch and his wife, a bouquet of roses. Don Morris of the F.F. Morris Co., gave his class- against the smell of the ification talk contents of thabox, which was Friday. not by an means fresh or Miss Helen pleasant. came the bri Hanna on Sat July 8th in Tri Can the shopkeepers of Bowmanville matc these For Eaton's and Simpson's specials?-Tbe cost to Men's suits - $5.00, Corsets - tbermal gene 35 cents, Irish Linen Handker- will increase b chiefs - 5 cents (reg. 10 cents), 170 per cent Men's Fancy Bicycle Hose - 25 tbree years, cents. 5-year financiî mitted to the( ----- Board, by Ont And yet, in a world where Toronto this w change is the rule rather than gy Board is the exception, it's nice to know hearings on R: that 77 years later we cah stijl 29 per cent r annually depend on: 1976. Canada's Great Exposition Tbe forecas The grandest display,tbe primary I embracing the livestock, increase on agricultural and industrial electrical syst products of Canada . . . New by 61 per cent and wonderful attractions, actual 1974 le positively greater and better mates tbat than ever. kilowatt will j .and stlT going strong hco974 to $147 i in 1980. By Bill Si e MUCH ABOUT NOTHING Recently. I lis1ted some of the things I dis5iked in our society. When I'd finished, I thought to mysef, "Boy, youBare a nasty old piece of work. Do you realize you've barely scratched the surface?" For a week or two, I went around thinking, in 10 or 20 second spurts, every three or four days, that I was a Curmudgeon. Sobe of my younger readers will not know what a curmudgeon is. Weil, tcornes frorm the root word "mud". We ail know what mud is. It is dirty. It is cool under the toes, unless it is in the forrn of a riud pack, which is good for" the wrinkles. If your name is Mudd, you are either in the doghouse, or you are a ]oser. hope that is clear. To the root word "mud" (unless we want to root around in the fud a bit longer), we attach the prefix curm e A cur, asmeveryone knows, is a cad with teeth, and sornetimes a moustache, who plays the villain in old-fashioned melodrama. In new-fashioned melodrama, he also has teeth, but in addition he has a big beily or a bald head, and he has becofe the hero, as in Cannon or Kojak. Stili with me? We now have "eurudd, signifying a mean guy ,who, is cool under the toes, has wrinkes, or is a loser. Sometimes al three. Now we corne to the suffd , "geon", which is of more obscure vîntage. It is of Hungarian antecedent, and it seems to have meant original'v souething we pighticay tcoloquiall "a dumrny that mak s a lot of siliy lnd unnecessary noise without getting anywhere," which is rather a contradiction in terms, cone to think of it. There are rnany perversions of the original, of course. We find the suffix i such words as "Injun," "engine" and "john"'. But the original meaning is in there somewhere. An Injun, for example, is one of the original "In" people, who rides around in everdi- minishing circles, ermitting war- whoops, until he is shot off his horse. Think of your car. The engine makes a lot of silly and unnecessary aniea unecessar mnie swidtou goere anywhoere, hcar gts sontwhredictnn thermsin roeaio eTiwhere ittanprersins the. Argna, of course, ef the isuffix ancohn".a od jhnmann .at Rotary on Pritchard be- de of Ephriam turday evening, nity Church. Pistant Past 49 Years Ago Thursday, July 29th, 192$ Miss Gwendolyn Williari., in England studying music, and staying with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Graff, was recently presented at the Royal Court of the King and Queen of England. Mr. C. Jonas Thornton, ex M.P., Orono, has been ap- pointed Returning Officer for Durham County in the Federal election to be held September 14th. Report for S.S. No. 19 Darlington Entrance - Reta Carr, George Millson, Dorothy and Donald Harris, Jr. IV. Sr. IV - Wesley Yellowlees, Sr. 11, Jr. Il - Gladys Yellowlees, Howard Millson, Marjorie Collacott, teacher. Arthur E. Garbutt, who recently resigned as super- visor of Oshawa Public Schools, has been appointed District Manager for the Sovereign Life Assurance of Canada Limited. we are planning another community sale. So, if you bave furniture furnishings or any other articles you don't need and would like to turn into money, bring list to us and have it included in sale. Do it now while in the mood. J.J. Mason and Son. Phone 50. The choir of Kendal United Church, led by Mr. James Swarbrick, lumber merchant of the village presented an evening of song on Sunday, in Newcastle United Church. cast Huge Increase ifuel Ontario's 'ration stations by an estimated during the next according to a al forecast sub- Ontario Energy tario Hydro in 'eek. The Ener- holding public ydro's proposed ate increase for t predicts that oad and energy the provincial em will increase by 1980 over the evels and esti- the cost per iump from $68 in 1978 and to $185 The escalation of fuel and production costs will result in higher electrical prices for consumers. The forecast pre- dicts that the electric rates will jump an additional 25 per cent in 1977 and another 20 per cent in 1978. The report predicts that total expenditures on fixed assets for the provincial power system will be increas- ed by more than $14 billion during the next six years and that Hydro will need to borrow some $12.5 billion in the same period. The hearings are expected to last until late summer. A total of 27 associations, com- panies, utilities and indivi- duals are intervening in the hearings. und Spics ey toilet. Or water closer or back- house if toilet offends you. This item of hardware indulges in a great deal of unnecessary noise, whether receiving or transmitting, and is, usually going nowhere, except -h trains, buses or airplanes, when it is so active it has to put up a "busy" sign most of the time. On ships, of course, with their innate sense of superiority, the "john" is called a "head". This came about when one of the head men in the British Navy, Admiral Sir Dudley Pount, affec- tionately known to his jolly tars as "dud", once went looking for the "john" and \discovered a lot of Common Seamen, and a very common lot they were, lined up with one of the symptoms of scurvy known as "dire rear". In the interests of clarity, this has nothing to do with the term "rear admiral". Understandably, Sir Dud flew into a high rage, the only type allowed to senior officers, and uttered a good deal of silly and unnecessary noise, or "geon", when he had to wait his turn for the "john". As naval tradition has it, this led to the wedding of "dud" and "geon", meaning a john that isn't working, or a senior officer with a red face, or a towering rage, whichever you choose. That's one of the beauties of the English language. You can take your pick. And you know what you can do with it. If you have followed me carefully through this brief but enlightening exploration into semantics, I am sure you have corne to the co. iclusion, as I have, that I am not a curmudgeon at all. I am not a mean guy. I haven't hit a little kid since mine grew un. I am not cool under the toes. My feet heat something terrible in tis weather. . arm not a loser. How can you know you're a loser when you don't know what it is to be a winner? I do not go around making sW" and unnecesary noises, except wheni it is absolutely necessary. And finally, I feel that I am definitely getting somewherei. Older? I'd like to end with a little poëÌ( dedicated to those keen students of the vagaries or our vocabulary who have followed me down this pitfallen trail, That Smiley While he Is often in high dudgeon Is no curmudgeon, But wily.