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Page 6, Thursday, January 6th, 1972, WHITBY FREE PRESS THE SA GA 0F 71 FROM APOLLO 15 TO "IDIAMONDS ARE FOREVER" -by Jim Guail 1971 is gone. 1t's time for a new year, new cal endars and new goals. This is not to say 1971 is forgotten. It will take a whil1 e to stop writing 1971 on those ch e q ues or letters, but most of al1, i t will take even longer to forget the many history-making events of 1971. Of course to the staff of the 'Whitby Free Press' 1971 was an historic year, in that on June the 30th, the first 'Whitby Free Press' w e nt out of the print shop a n d into the streets to announce a new paper for Whitby. T h e 'Whitby Free Press' took over where the 'Argosy', a former town paper left off when it died and the Free Press ran in competition with the 'Wh!itby Worl dt to try to keep the citizens of W h itby informed about the news events of the County Town. Thebattle between the Whitby World and the Free Press ended just over a month ago when the Whitby World sold out leaving the Free Press the sole newspaper in the Town of Whitby. A stormy entrance That first issue back in June made a s t o r m y entrance, if you'il pardon the pun, because the big story was the worst iightning and rain storm experienced in manyyears. So fierce was the lightning t h e Pol1 ice communications room over the Fire Haliwas struck alongwith scores of other buildings in the area. Muhammad Ali Further away many other events were h a p p e n ing to make 1971 worth remem- b e r i n g. In N e w York Ci ty's Madison Square Gardens, MuhammadAli took his f i r s t beating in the boxing ring on the receiving end of Joe Frazier's skiliful boxing gloves. it was a defeat which sur- p r ised AIi more than anybody, and one w h i c h he graceful ly acknowledged but Have you been noticed lately? 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The wedding set the stage for a birth by Mrs. Pierre Tru- de au of a boy, Justin Pierre in an Ot- ta w a hospitai on December 25th, 1971. The Prime Ministers' residence would ring with the cries of a newborn child, an occasion which had only occured once before. In the "Hansard", which is the off icial copy of what is said in parlia- ment, members of parl1 iament would con- gr atulate a prime minister on the birth of hi s child and this had never before been recorded. S u r p rise weddings seemed to be in vogue in 1971 as N.D.P. member of parliament for this area, Ed Broadbent took a wife in a small, quiet ceremony in O t t a wa. In the December 15th issue of the Free Press the front page showed a picture of the newly marr ied Ed Broad- bent driving around on a ýmotorcycle with his 12-year-old step son, Paul. Gordie throws in towel On the sports scene in 171, a colour- fuI and highly rated hockey player dec- i ded to throw in the towel and call it quits. After twenty-fiveyears of break- ing and s e t t ing records, Gordie Howe figured itwas time to "Take a vacation" and so he subsequently announced his r e t i r e m e n t. In thi s same year a new n a m e to golf, Lee Trevino, won golf tournaments as easily as if he had in- vented the game himself. In football, the 'T o r o n to Argonaut s' made their first Don't miss Oshawa'S FIRST and ONLY BURLESQUE SHOW 0 Continuous 0 0 Mon.- Thurs 6.30 - 12.30 * Fri., Sat. 3:30 - 12:30 3 1) W-TIle • • REVUE • * 96 King East 5 Girls 0 Oshawa Each Show 1Y2hrs. * *....*.............. I. e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e G r e y C u p appearance since 1952, but went down in defeat in Vancouver against the Calgary Stampeders with a score of 14 tol11 in a game filled with fumbles and recoveries. So many fumbles were there th a t a fter the game the ci ty fathers in T or onto were taking a new and harder 1lookabout the possibilities and feasibil- ities of artificial turf for Toronto. County Town Carnivai In July of '71, Whitby had its annual Coun t y Town Carnival and the Whitby Free Press ran a special edition on the e vent s of t he c arnivai. There were sightseeing tours and a beauty contest, a so a p-box race, sports tournaments, a p a r ad e, displavs and enough events to thr ill the town for five days. In the same issue the Free Press reported the n e w s r el1 e ase of a sports-recreation complex planned for Whitby which would cost $70million and would be located on the south side of the 401 highway just west of the town. The next issue would follow this up with pictures of the plan- ne d complex and another story on the opening of Whitby's Heydenshore Pav- ilion on Lake Ontario. Vietnam Across the ocean in Vietnam the fight- ing did not let up and the United States was the scene of many more demonstra- tions to end the war. In May Lt. Will1ian C a 1 I e y was convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese viIlagers in a small hamlet in Vietnam cal led My Lai. So expensive w a s the war for the United States that on August 15, President Nixon announ- ced a 90 day p r i c e and wage freeze in his country. He wouldfollow this up with a 10% surcharge on imports into the U. S. And so in 1971 Canada severly felt thepinchof the United States' economic problems as dozens of Canadian workers were laid off. Continued on page 7 THE FRIENDLY "We're young, but FLEA MARKET growing fast. " We 23 PRINCE ST. buy and self any- OSHAWA thing. 725-9783 CHINESE FOODS CAtI THE c lif- 1 1 10% Pick 116 IVUGÇ~ÎT 668-7021 "EAT BETTER FOR LESS" OFF on FREE Home Delivery Up orders FaSt Take Out Service SUNLIGHT RESTAURANT IUNDAS ST. W. AMPLE PARKING AT REAR q