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i 2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville. September 1,1962 Section Two Editorial Comment Taxes Go to Waist We were quite horrified to find last week that the government is encouraging Ontario taxpayers to overeat. It's sad but true. Ontario tax regulations clearly indicate that overeaters are aided and abetted by recent legislation. Gluttons get a break, while those of us who control our appetites will only get trim waistlines. Here's how the situation stands: If you go to an eating establishment ahd purchase one or two doughnuts, you'll be hit by sales tax on your snack. But if you buy more than five doughnuts, there will be no sales tax. That sixth doughnut (or muffin, tart, etc.,) lets you escape the greedy grasp of the tax man. Just what the government will do with all the overweight taxpayers who have gorged themselves on doughnuts by the half dozen, is not clear. But perhaps we will see a new tax imposed on those who are overweight. It could be assessed by the number of pounds above an acceptable average. It's a case in which government could be said to be living off the fat of the land. Who Hits What? There are still some people who like to argue that they are safer thrown outside a colliding vehicle than when kept within it. A study completed some time ago for Transport Canada indicates what was hit in the second collision -- that is, instants after the vehicle crashes, the collision between the occupant (s) and some fixed object(s). These refer to unbelted occupants, and add up to more than one hundred per cent because in some cases, the person hit more than one object. 5 per cent were fatally injured by the hood. 8 per cent came into fatal contact with the windshield. 11 per cent with the instrument panel. 12 per cent after hitting the roof. 20 per cent or one in five, were fatally injured by the windshield frame. 22 per cent collided with, or were hit by, the surface of the side interior. 30 per cent came into fatal contact with the steering assembly. 30 per cent also died after contact with the exterior of the vehicle, or other objects outside the vehicle. The Canada Safety Council believes that safety belt systems guard against most of these hazards. Thirty per cent would never have left the confines of the vehicle, and many of the other points of contact would have been less severe with use of proper restraint systems. Belts, anyone? Minister Refuses to Act On 2 Staff Resignations Mr. Claude Bennett has given the Concerned Citizens of the Town of Newcastle an answer to their request for an inquiry into the actions of the Council. The following are excerpts from his letter and full comments from his staff : "You and your fellow petitioners express concern over the conduct of the municipal authorities in the resignations of two employees. You and your delegation indicated that you were further requesting the issuance of a Commission of Inquiry under Section 180 of the Municipal Act. A Commission of Inquiry is not related to whether the decision was right or wrong. I am not satisfied that in this instance the issuance of a public inquiry is justified. This does not imply that I necessarily approve of the course of action followed by Council. Comments My staff have interviewed both employees. Neither expressed a strong desire to pursue the matter although both maintained that the request for their resignations was unjustified. Nevertheless they both indicated that they had followed the legal advice that they had sought and accepted the settlement offered. On a number of occasions we have attempted to contact Mr. Brown who made the allegations. Our last known address for this gentleman is British Columbia. He has indicated by letter that he has nothing further to add to his original statement. Indeed, he made the point that he felt his original comments would be held confidential. We are satisfied that the allegations of dishonesty could not be substantiated in any way. Indeed, apart from the report of the C.A.O. to Council relating Brown's allegations, there is no further reference to alleged dishonesty in any Council documents. Council appears to have been satisfied that this matter had no substance. It is unfortunate that this conclusion was not made explicit. Our inquiries lead us to believe that the differences in management styles between the employees and the C.A.O. precipitated the events that are the subject of his report. Insofar as the C.A.O.'s report in which the request for the resignation was recommended, the fact that the Council was forced to make a monetary settlement to attain this end speaks for itself. There is no doubt that Council's approach to this issue left a lot to be desired and it is indeed unfortunate that Council chose to act in this manner. However, the Ministry's responsibility is not to ensure that municipalities act in the most efficient and fair manner. In this particular instance the issue is to determine if the public good would be so much better served by instituting a public inquiry that under the formal Commission process would be required. We have come to the conclusion based on all the information available to us that such a commission is not justified in these particular circumstances. " For purpose of clarification the CAO is the chief Administrative Officer of the Town of Newcastle. Learns the Hard Way Sooner or later we all learn that age is catching up on us and the things we used to do with ease take quite a bit longer or are now beyond our present capabilities. His Worship found that out on Sunday night when he was thrown from a donkey and landed on the hard playing field. It was a rude jolt for the mayor who over the years has participated in old timers ball games, soccer games, broomball games, etc. Now as he goes on his appointed rounds with his arm in a sling, he might well come to the conclusion that these activities are for the younger set. He's done his bit for fund raising events of various types. Next time someone invites him to participate in an old timers game, he might do well to stand on the sidelines and cheer, it's much safer. 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Lots of hot beach and golf weather in July, enough rain to keep the country from burning up, and a general relief from a long, hard winter. With the advent of summer, Canadians seemed to throw off the depression of The Depression we are in. Thumbing their respective noses at the darkening mood reflected in the financial pages, with their bleatings of growing unemployment, inflation untouched, and a dithering government, the masses of the country have headed in all directions, trying to squeeze a little enjoyment out of life before the steadily shortening days remind them of the cruel fall and winter ; ahead. Despite the lack of jobs and the gloomy forebodings of experts in all fields of finance and economics, the beaches are crowded and colorful, the beer and liquor stores have never been busier, the marinas are : jammed, and tourists swarm like 7 locusts -- welcome locusts, not the other kind. Although many people have been hard hit by the employment situation, there's still a great deal of bounce and resilience in the Canadian people, a good sign. We'll "I see if it keeps up, as things get worse. Maybe it's not bounce and resilience at all. Perhaps it's a kind of frysteria, an inner sense that the wojld is going to hell in a wheelbarrow, and we might as well enjoy it while we can. Something like the last days of the Roman Empire, with the Vandals knocking at the gates, the empire shrunk, and the once-mighty legions composed of foreigners and mercenaries. "What the heck! Next year my dollar will be worth 40 cents, so why not spend it now? We're going to run out of oil anyway, so why not buy a big car and enjoy it, keep the cruiser running, buy lots of booze because the price will go up again and again? Maybe we'll have a mild winter and the oil bill won't be so vicious. Maybe Trudeau will resign and Joe Clark will lead us further into the wilderness. Maybe the world will blow up. Let's live it up while we can." Is that what's going on in the subconscious of Canadians? I hope not, but I have a sneaky little feeling there might be something in it. Summer haze and lazy days have pushed away from our consciousness the black clouds in the Middle East: war between Iraq and Iran, the brutal attack on Beirut by the once much-àdmired Israeli forces (how ironic that that old terrorist Menachim Begin should pulverize a city and slaughter civilians to wipe out the Palestinian terrorists and Yasser Arafat, whose very name sounds vulgar). Sunshine and green golf links and blue water have shoved into «Ecorner our knowledge that three-quarters of the people in the world are living oh what we'd throw into the garbage over a month. Mea culpa. I'm as guilty as anyone. Did the people of Berlin grieve when Britain was being blitzed, night after night? Did the British sorrow over the fate of civilians when their bombers went out night after night and obliterated German cities, with the deliberate intent of terrorizing the Germans into submission oy destroying civilian morale? Not on your life. They both rejoiced, if anything. Human nature, I suppose. Cultivate your own garden and don't worry if the guy next door can grow nothing but bitter weeds. The summer hasn't been without its lighter moments, as far as the news goes. Personally, I got a tremendous hoot out of a couple of items. Chief one was the pre-dawn visit to the Queen's bedroom by some young nut, who sat and chatted with her in the middle of impregnable -Buckingham Palace. Never again will I read a novel about M15 or M16 «^Scotland Yard without smirking gleefully at the utter ineptitude of their "sécurity" measures. Another story that gave me a chuckle was about the guy who owns the shack in which the Dionne quintuplets were born wanting to move it to Niagara Falls, Ont., because he wasn't getting any tourist trade in Northern Ontario. I wouldn't walk across the street to see that place, and I don't think many others would. Tough Luck, Joe. On the home front, it's been pretty strenuous. We agreed to relieve our daughter of her two boys for the month of July, so she could concentrate on a university course. They arrived in June and left in August. It turned out to be about seven weeks instead of four. If I could somehow harness the energy of those two kids, I could forget about furnaces, air conditioners, and anything else requiring energy. Unlike oil, their energy seems to be undepletable. They can go from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. without a break and are driven off to bed only under threats of "no story, then!" And I just about ran out of stories. But the boys were great fun. And I hope you had a great summer, too. Dear Editor You recently carried an article about Whitewater rafting rafting on the Ottawa River. Your readers may be interested in a different kind of outdoor experience in which I participated participated this summer. The experience was a Kayaking course at the Canadian Out- word Bound Mountain School (COBMS) near Keremeos, B.C. Outward Bound has 2 schools in Canada. The other one is the Canadian Outward Bound Wilderness School (COBWS) near Lake Nipigon in Northwest Ontario, The 8-day course started by me flying to Vancouver on June 18, 1982. After a 7-hour bus ride the next day I arrived at COBMS. The 6 other members members of my patrol (4 guys and 2 girls) introduced themselves and we met the 5 instructors who would be with us the rest of the course, We were issued a Kayak, paddle, sprayskirt, helmet, shorty wet suit, life jacket and sponge. If you wondered why the sponge was given out it was used to bail water out of the Kayaks without without having to get out of them. The Similkumeen River on which the course is normally run in Keremeos was swollen by a late runoff from the surrounding snow-capped mountains. The river was cold! silty and unsafe for novice kayakers. Only one other guy and myself had been in a kayak before the start of the course. We spent 2 days practicing rolls, braces, turns and stops in the kayaks. By day we were on neighbouring lakes and by evening on the waters of the Keremeos town swimming pool, I well remember the frustration of the attempted rolls and the satisfaction of the successful ones. The instructors had by this time found a substitute venue for the course. We packed all our gear into the school vans and the kayaks and paddles onto a trailer donated by Placer Mines, All the patrol members got into the vans and we drove to Horseshoe Bay near Vancouver where we caught the ferry to Nonaimo. After driving 1 hour from Nonaimo up into the interior of Vancouver Island we reached the Nonaimo and Cowichon Rivers, There we camped for the rest of the course. . The Nonaimo and Cowichon Rivers seemed designed for novice kayakers. They had sections of fairly easy rapids followed by increasingly difficult difficult ones. Most of the rapids were followed by a pool. In the pool there were usually several several large rocks which created eddies in which you could rest, To get a rest however, you had to stay upright through the rapids and make a successful turn into the eddy. If you didn't stay upright the pool was a convenient place for the instructors to fish you out and help you get back, into the kayak. If you had the poise and skill the pool was the place to try ana roll yourself upright, If you had less skill you stayed upside down in your boat until one of the instructors brought the nose of his kayak within your reach. You could then grab it and do a hip flick to get yourself upright. The use of the word "his r ' just a moment ago should be clarified, There were two very competent women instructors and they were every bit as helpful ns their male counterparts. As the course continued even the most timid members of the patrol were shooting intimidating rapids. If you listened for the sound of rapids and scouted ahead you could be fairly confident of not getting into a situation you couldn't handle, When you were scouting ahead you made a plan of the best course to get through the white- water, You then had to paddle aggressively to follow the course you wanted, If you wanted to take a few more chances you could rely on the instructors to be there to help you out of a jam. I don't recall ever being in a situation I felt unsafe with, probably because every reasonable precaution seemed to have been taken. The role of instructors often assumed was to urge patrol members to take chances, to go back into the rapids and play there, to put the nose of your kayak into the pillow of water flowing over a rock and to keep it there without flip- S over. I'm glad they did i me to be a little more daring, There was a sense of com- eradoire a few friends were ■ made and a physical challenge challenge was had. I recommend the experience of an Outward Bound course in B.C. or Ontario to anyone. Since the Outward Bound Association is worldwide I know what I'll be doing in summers to come. Don't get the impression they only have summer courses. I just haven't yet found the winter one I really want to do. If I had any complaint about the kayaking course it would be that when you're kayaking on Vancouver Island you should do it for at least 3 weeks at a time. Perhaps even a standard 24 day Outward Bound Kayaking course should be arranged on the Island. Garfield Payne the prime minister of Port Hope High, I'm really looking forward to the year ahead ! Your high school years are really the best time of your life and we intend to make this year the very best of them all! I'm really looking forward to seeing you all on September 7th. Sincerely, Prime Minister - Tammy Yardy Dear Editor; Well it's getting to be that time of the year again. Back to school! Fun? Well, this year at Port Hope High School you can count on a super fun year I We have a well planned year ahead and some really enthusiastic people to, make things happen! As a grade 13 student and Canada has a constitution. How's yours?