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! -Letters Local blood donors, attention Dear Editor: The following letter is drawn to the attention of donors of the recent Rotary Club of Midland Auc- tion. The 1986 Auction was very successful raising close to $14,000 which will be used to fund com- munity projects in the area. Without your support, there would be no auc- tion. The members of the Midland Rotary Club, in- Dear Editor: I really appreciate the letter you sent me and the information, too. It was jam-packed with infor- mation I needed for my report. I enjoyed the inter- view and I'm very happy I had a chance to get this interview. I find your paper very well put together. Unlike ours your paper covers more deed, all members of the community thank you for your valued donation, your continued interest and your generosity. Please accept our best wishes for your con- tinued success and again, our thanks for con- tributing so generously to the success of 'The Auction". Yours sincerely, Midland Rotary Club Jam-packed information local happenings than ours. Michelle, I do not know how to thank you for the information you sent me. I really appreciate your time and effort. Thank you very much, Mickey Kritzell a i x LJ 1 Thanks for trying by Carey Nieuwhof Why is it that 98 per cent of all jobs in this country have certain hiring requirements? Yet the most important job in the country has non? Is this a question that has plagued you for years? Likely not, but if you really think about it, it will likely trouble you for at least a few hours. If you wish to become a lawyer, you must pass your bar admissions course. A doctor has to fly through medical school before flying through any hospital corridor. If you want to work in a car fac- tory, you must be able to run the equipment. Yet all you have to do to become prime minister or president is get elected. That, my friends, is a scary concept. Let us turn to some musty old history pages to focus on this frightening concept. We _ look Stateside in the year 1840. Within a year, a man by the name of John Tyler will become the 10th president of the United States. Tyler had been dabbling in Virginia politics as a Democrat. He shows up at a Whig (the Republican party's predecessor) presidential nomination convention for interest's sake, and to help his friend, Henry Clay, win the Whig presidential nomination. Clay loses. William H. Harrison wins. Harrison is the Presidential nominee. The Harrison cronies look for a suitable vice- presidential nominee - someone to serve as Har- rison's running mate. About five candidates get turned down. An idea strikes someone. How about throwing old John Tyler on the ticket as the V-P contendor? The convention agrees. The Whig nominees for president and vice-president are Harrison and Tyler. Tyler is not too thrilled about being put up for the nation's second highest office, but he ac- cepted because he needed the $25,000 a year he would get as vice-president. "After all,' he says, "as vice-president I'll sit at home in Virginia and read books anyway. The vice-president has no of- ficial duties (back then anyway), so it'll be a great salary and some good leisure." He and Harrison won the election, and one month after their inauguration as president and VP, Harrison died. Early one morning, Tyler got a knock on his door. The message came in: "Con- grats man, you're President". ; Talk about irony of ironies. The man showed up --Penetanquishene Citizen-- Published by Bayweb Limited every Tuesday at 74 Main Street, Penetanquishene, Ontario 549-2012 Second Class Mail Registration Number 2327 Page 6, Tuesday, May 6, 1986 Publisher: Andrew Markle Manager: Judy French Editor: Michele Gouett at the convention out of interest and to help a friend, and less than nine months later, he is the president of the U.S. Moreover, he is not even really a Whig, he is a Democrat. Even worse, he really didn't even want to be president. Now tell me that doesn't make you glad you weren't an American in 1841. In my books, Tyler wasn't such a bad president after all, but how he got to that office has the potential to terrify. In Canada, things aren't much different. We don't really have any horror stories like Tyler's up here, but the process of choosing a prime minister does not forbid such an event from happening. Look at our present head honcho, Brian Mulroney. He went to law school (something which qualified him for one career), practiced corporate law in Quebec, later became president of a huge company, and then turned his eyes toward politics. In 1976, he ran for the Tory leadership and lost to Joe Clark. Then in 1983 he ran against Joe Clark and won. The following year, the Liberals self- destructed, and Mulroney sauntered through the rubble to claim first prize. Today, he is on the way to Tokyo to help determine the fate of western Canadian farmers. Never did he pass an exam to see if he was qualified for the prime ministership of this domi- nion. He won the 1983 leadership convention because Joe Clark lost the government in 1979. He won the election of 1984 because he had a good looking wife, and because we Canadians were sick of Pierre Trudeau and his buddies. Simple as that. One wonders if anyone has ever given any thought as to how power is attained in this western world we live in. Does anyone care that you can win this high office with one half of your brain missing? All you have to do is fool a leader- ship convention and the electorate in general, and you have run of this land for five years. You may be scared now, finally realizing that we have no guarantee that our leaders are compe- tent or sane. Do not lose any sleep over it. I was always taught that if you didn't like something, you were to conquer it. So, lose no sleep. Drive to Ottawa and start hanging around leadership con- ventions. Some day, you too can be our leader. --Eetters-- The Penetanguishene Citizen welcomes Letters to the Editor. They must be legible, signed (by hand), and carry the writer's address and telephone number for verification. Pen names are not allowed and anonymous letters will not be published. Letters published by _ this newspaper do not necessarily reflect the opinion of this newspaper, its publisher or editor. Dear Editor: Waubaushene part of our school is not taking We read your news story about the recycling part. We are doing it ourselves. But thanks for ( race. You called us garbage collectors and we trying. x don't like it a bit! We are collecting clean stuff, Yours truly 2 oS not smelly stuff. ete ms 2 "= SS ae Re oe eS Only one Waubaushene school is competing andee Sibley 4 and seat is St. John's. We are Fesserton and the Chris Richardson Winged sca venger Canada geese have been a problem in Midland's _ specimen, and his brethern, were flocking around Little Lake Park in recent summers. Anevenmore the park store on Sunday, hoping to pick up some common sight in the park is the seagull. This _leftover, or dropped, French fries. '= ' give Bak hol xperts give baker a CNOICe Ray Baker Continuing last week's saga on the badly fold- _ at once so it does four pages at once. All the press creasing. You lay the newspaper on the stair emphasis on Section A page 10, here is what I will ed, out of centre-crease in the Toronto Star person (actually the word pressmen was used) threads to paint the hallway. The double crease do on behalf of you long suffering readers from newspaper which still persists, and buries the _ has to do is ensure a couple of things. That the does not conform to the step and you slip on it. Wasaga Beach to Penetang, from Stayner to Vic- print. crease or fold runs top to bottom, in the middle You lay the newspaper on the kitchen table for toria Harbour. The cause anxious to fine tune my technical facing the correct way, at the correct intervals. your son's finger painting. You now find absorb- As soon as this column is in print I'll send both . skills in the folding of newspapers, I had a mean- Otherwise the pages are mixed, you lose acol- _ing (no pun intended) the article you passed last last week's and this week's to the Star, Attention ingful conference with the experts in the hallow- umn, it's diamond shaped, or opens the wrong week. The print is hidden in the bad fold! Paper Circulation Department. It will show the problem, pre ed sanctum of Markle Community Newspapers in way. aeroplanes do not fly straight. The list is endless. investigation, technical input and probably cause. : Midland. So far so good. But machines do go wrong, go As everyone knows, if you see something in the _ I'll take it as a person challenge to set the record At least two editors, two office staff and a key wrong, go wrong, and it does a double crease or _--_ newspaper, it's Gospel truth, right? Your unques- _ straight, or at least the crease. | executive from head office were pressed into ser- goes off centre. tionable answer to any query is, 'It must be true, And if that fails, I'll send it to Star Probe. That vice for an instant think tank. After careful Then comes the scrap allowance. I read it in the paper" and at that point silence should do it. deliberation based on their collective experience The pressman/woman has a certain scrap reigns. it came down to two possible answers: allowance after which they are all good! By a The only exception is the letters to the editor : 29 deduction that would do credit to Sherlock section and, of course, the editorial column, done THIS WEEK'S QUOTE: "A good detd never | ( It's the whatsit in the machine that does it. Holmes the last three month's scrap has beensent _ by the editor him/herself, which is never true. goes unpunished". McGiver - T.V. series. i Or, it's the press-person setting up the machine to Simcoe County. But it has been spotted and So, in order to eliminate this three month Ray Baker is a freelance writer. He and his j that's doing it wrong. chronicled and investigated. scourge to the area with consistent miss folds in family live in Penetanguishene where the Star is be Apparently, the newsprint is printed both sides 1 am now listing some of the dangers in double - the news section of the Toronto Star, with special borne. ; : : t ] ° , ts scary that anyone can be Carey Nieuwhof | ( '