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2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, June 8,1983 Section Two Editorial Comment What's The Next Step? If we didn't know it previously, we know now for sure that a great many citizens are fed up with this municipality being called the Town of Newcastle and want it changed to the Town of Bowmanville. There are a few objectors of course who are either not affected by the confusion of having two Newcastles within five miles of each other and some, from Newcastle Village, who seem to feel the name gives their community a wider scope than formerly. It's a pride thing with them, we suspect. We're not pressing the Bowmanville theme for that reason, although certainly it's quite a slap in the face for our 13,000 residents when our town is gradually being wiped off the face of the map and we rate no bigger type than hamlets of 200 or 300 people. We do feel that Bowmanville is a logical name because most of the services and headquarters for this amalgamated municipality are located in Bowmanville. The area is serviced by a hospital here, hydro headquarters is here both for Bowmanville and all other areas surrounding it. Municipal offices, except for some in Hampton and Orono are here and probably will in future be expanded here if and when a new municipal building is built to consolidate all the municipality's functions. Legion headquarters also is here for the area. Some think that this would establish two Bowmanvilles the same as we now have two Newcastles. Not so! The Town of Bowmanville is no longer any more than a postal address, it has no legal status whatsoever. So, what's the objection? Pride, prejudice or what? We think commonsense and clarification are more important. Probably the next move is to take the thousands of copies of the petition to council next Monday morning to get their reaction. We had planned a march to an evening meeting, possibly with a band or a couple of pipers to get publicity that might reach to Queen's Park, but there's no evening meeting until late this month and we hope the wheels can get turning before the middle summer months. Keep 'em coming. We now have a pile of petitions, it's hard to believe. Bowmanville's Status Eroded In New Ontario Road Map By Peter Parrott Have you tried to find Bowmanville on the new Ontario road map lately? The good news is that the name of the town has not been entirely eraséd from the province's official map. y But now the bad news. Alas, poor Bowmanville. Its name is listed in tiny letters about the size of the type that is used on shady business contracts. Read this fine print and you'll see one more reason why it makes sense to change the municipal name to Town of Bowmanville. You see, Bowmanville is today listed on an equal footing with such bustling metropolises as Port Darlington, Bond Head and Mitchell's Corners. We mean no disrespect to these communities and we are glad to see them on the map. But a stranger who looks at the road map will have no idea whether Port Darlington or Bowmanville has 13,000 residents or one-third of the total municipal population. We cannot help but wonder how much harm this does to town businesses since travellers are more likely to stop at areas having larger populations. How many travellers will eat and shop at Port Hope or Oshawa because Bowmanville looks like a mere whistle stop between these two major points. Port Hope and Cobourg, by the way, have been given large black type to proclaim their locations. Bowmanville, Cobourg and Port Hope are roughly the same size, but two of the towns have managed to hang onto their identities while Bowmanville has been reduced to small type. To make matters worse, the map does not clearly define the municipality of the Town of Newcastle, although the name floats on the page vaguely east of Oshawa without any reference point to say exactly what this Town of Newcastle is. Perhaps the names have given map-makers as much difficulty as the layman. It's high time that Bowmanville was not known as a fragment of the Town of Newcastle. Let's get Bowmanville out of the fine print. A Series of Tragedies We've just returned from the scene of another fatal accident South of Orono that probably could have been avoided, except from either human error, a mechanical malfunction or some other reason that we don't know. It doesn't really matter at that point, the end result is the same, more lives lost and tremendous property damage. This summer season is certainly beginning with its share of tragedies. Investigators are still checking to learn just what happened to that DC9 owned by Air Canada, to cause a fire on board that took 23 lives. From all reports, only the courageous, professional action of the pilot prevented the plane from crashing and killing all 46 aboard. He certainly deserves to be honored with this country's highest award and probably will be. We don't envy the police who take over when accidents such as these occur. No matter what the weather they are on the job, controlling traffic, /keeping curious onlookers from causing additional trouble, and later contacting the next of kin to notify them of the accident. Also, they often have the gruesome task of trying to identify victims. Firemen and ambulance drivers also play a major role at any of these accidents and do their job well, often under the roughest circumstances. They see a lot of death and destruction, but never quite get hardened to it any more than do news people; there's an after shock that often prevents or interrupts sleep for some time, especially if youngsters are involved. Last weekend was really the first big one of the summer season, with many highways in the province overflowing with traffic. There will be another big one over the July 1, Canada Day holiday and we can only once again say please drive carefully, so the police, firemen, ambulance personnel and medical people at hospitals or funeral directors won't be looking you in the face, without you being able to say anything. We won't be too put out if we don't have an opportunity of taking your picture being carried away from your wrecked car. There's other news we'd rather report. Weit Canabian Statesman 623-3303 (♦CNA Durham County's Great Family Journal Established 129 years ago In 1654. Also Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono Newe. Second class mall registration number 1561 Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 62 66 King SI. W„ Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3K9 y< ID JOHN M. JAMES Editor --Publisher RICHARD A. 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SUGAR and SPICE T More Letters This week, another attempt to catch up on my correspondence, and a jaundiced look at that great Canadian farce of the early 1980s, the six-and-five "restraint" program. It's amazing how far the tentacles of Canada's community newspapers carry this modest column. I've had letters from all over Canada and the States, from England, South America, Australia and New> Zealand. Her old friends will be glad to know that Mrs. Jean Rankin (nee Crosby), now of Gisborne, New Zealand, "just about reads the print off the hometown paper, The Chronicle." (Dunnville?) Her letter, sent end of March, says there has been no rain there since October, and they're pumping water from the river. And women's lib thrives in N.Z." Mind you, the town planners should have been doing something (about the water) years ago. Pity more females were not on the town council." You have been busy, Jean, since you left for New Zealand 36 years ago. Six daughters, one son, and nine grandchildren. Thanks for the note, and hope you got a good look at Thè Royals when they were there. Mrs. Rankin says, "I still jump up to attention when my own National Anthem plays. Usually, only time I hear it is at World Games, etc. " Closer to home, Mervyn Dickey of Prescott, Ont., chides me for a recent slam I took at the business of bribing Canadians to read Canadian books, by offering used lottery tickets as part payment. It was the principle, not the practice, that made me squirm, Mervyn. As you point out, the Half- Back program was a real boon to small-town libraries with minuscule budgets, enabling them to buy new Canadian books they couldn't otherwise afford, by hoarding used Wintario tickets. I may scorn the crassness of the idea, but I'm a pragmatist. I practically flog my students to collect the lottery tickets, so that we can buy a couple of hundred books my starving English budget can't manage. Typically, the plan, which benefits Canadian authors, publishers, booksellers, libraries and schools, as well as individuals, is being cut off at the end of May because so many are taking advantage of it. And what's the matter in Faulkner, Man.? Don't they have wire clothes hangers there? A letter from Mrs. lise Hofbaurer.chides me for a column in which I mentioned the proliferation of those pets, hangers, until you throw them out in a rage. "I read your article every week in the Interlake Spectator. I'm an old woman now and to move my fingers I cover empty hangers. Would I like to have those hangers you throw out! But how could you send them to my post office. If I had your address I send you some covered ones your clothes won't fall down. I pay you the postage back. Excuse my english, I'm german. I learned myself. I'm 53 years in Canada, 50 years here in Faulkner. Have to celebrate soon my 50th wedding day alone, my husband sleeps for over 16 years. Moved by this letter, as I was, my wife went out and bought some hangers in fancy colors, and they're on their way to Mrs. Hofbauer. And an old ghost turned up, again from the west. Dated Innisfail, Alta. "Have often wondered if you were the same Bill Smiley I met in Holland, in a railway station, time, Oct. 1944. "There was about forty Canadians, mixed regiments, Canada Scots, Regina Rifles, which I was one, Winnipeg Rifle Regiment, Black Watch, etc., 3rd division. "Jerry had marched us into this railway station. When they were ready to move us out, you were missing. They finally found you hiding in one of the cupboards. All I can remember is that you called yourself Bill Smiley and that you had been a fighter pilot. We would up in Stalag 11B, Falmgbostal. Several of us escaped and were back in England, April, 1945.1 have farmed since and in 1973.. retired. I have a saying for my forgetfulness -- I have a western brain, wide open spaces. Yours, Bill Shewkenek." Well, Bill, my memory of that day and later is crystal clear. You and the other "grunts" were put in one box-car. After being thoroughly beaten up, I was put in another, with the German guards, as I was a dangerous criminal. Don't you remember the two Canadian Army officers, Capt. Bob Brownrigg of Calgary and Capt. Roger something-or-other? They treatedyou guys like dirt. There was a big German guy from the west, a conscientious objector, who dressed wounds with whatever he had. Remember how they marched us through Holland after we left the train? Sleeping in barns? Eating hot spuds Dutch farmers boiled for us? The night the Mosquito night-fighter attacked the train? The officers and some of the guys in your box-car escaped. They were recaptured and some of the guys in your box-car escaped. They were recaptured and I met them later. Hows that for memory after almost 40 years? Well, there goes my space and I haven't even opened fire on the six- and-five fiasco, which is strictly five-and-dime stuff, in my opinion. I'll hoard my ammunition until another week. R.R.4, Bowmanville May 31,1983 Gentlemen: Reference: Council (Committee) (Committee) Meeting, Monday, 7:00 p.m., May 30 Rezoning of 319.23 acres for Waste Disposal Do you want to become informed; informed; to be proud of your representatives? I urge you to attend a meeting as above- mentioned. I learned the following from representative Hubbard, the people's choice! (a) She received thirty- seven (?) letters from industries industries in the Town of Newcastle -- all of whom would immediately immediately fail or, at least, occasion occasion even greater unemployment unemployment in the area should these firms he deprived of the opportunity opportunity to deposit their waste in 319.23 acres of PRIME agricultural land. The application to rezone this parcel parcel has been made by Regional Regional Reclaimers. (b) Councilwoman Hubbard will uphold this application should it mean laying her job as representative on the line! Ycssirce! (c) To investigate the claims of residents of the environs environs of the present landfill site (formerly known as Hale's), Councilwoman Hub- hard took her "Henry Kissinger" Kissinger" (would it had been "Alternatives to Waste Disposal Disposal in Landfill sites) and awaited awaited the rolling of trucks. She saw (?), heard only "two trucks in two and one-half hours, I lie whole day"! (d) Others of the committee are airy fairy, letting their allegiances, or should I say, intelligences, be swayed willy- nilly. (according to the same councilwoman). (e) I learned, also, that Ms. Hubbard, of only two council members last evening, introduces introduces personal recriminations recriminations into lier judgmental discourses discourses on vital issues? ! What price democracy?? Sincerely, W. Bail l June 6,1983, Dear Mr. James; On behalf of the Bowmanville Bowmanville High School band parents, band members, teachers Mr. Trcmccr anil Mr, Parker, I would like to extend our appreciation for the extensive news and photo coverugc given to the various musical events during the past school year. One of the highlights this ear was the very successful and exchange with Vincent Massey Secondary School from Windsor. This success was due mainly to the hard work of many people involved such as: the efficient organization organization by Mrs. June Brown and her banquet committee; the Bowmanville Lions Club for providing their excellent facilities; the sponsorship of the concert by the Bowmanville Bowmanville Real Estate Board and organizing by their representative representative Mrs. Hartford; and the parents who billeted the Windsor Windsor students. All this community interest mid co-operation has been greatly appreciated and we are all looking forward to interesting musical events during the '83 - '84 school year. Sincerely, Berta L. Avery Secretary, Bowmanville High School Band Parents June 3,1983 To the Editor; Dear Sir, I don't believe it! How could they do this to me? Every week for eight weeks there was another clue for the Mystery Merchant Quiz, Every week my husband and I would discuss the clue, sometimes sometimes mildly disagree, and check the book "Picture the Way We Were" to see if we could figure out who the mystery merchant was, Now it's all over. Pictures of the winners have been shown in "The Statesman" and a thank you published. But where are the answers to the quiz??? Please let the Bowmanville Bowmanville Business Centre know that I think this is a very unsatisfactory ending to leave us all up in ■mid-air. if you published the answers and I missed them please tell me and I'll buy another copy of the "Statesman" and check it again, Sincerely, (Ms.) Evylln Stroud P.S. I'm sure I can't be the only one who would also like to know the answers to the other 125 question quiz you ran In honour of the town's anniversary, anniversary, Ed's note: sorry about that. We'll check it out.