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PAGE 2, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1974. WHITBY FREE PRESS Flic provincial goverrnent of Ontarlo lias been known to do some pretty *wierd things, but ifs fates t mandate increasing the rates in aid folks homes and. making this increase RETROACTIVE' niakes us shake our heads ini dismay. We ean understand raising reifls as cost escalate, -but thte real CR UNCH is trying to mnake these increases retro- active ta April J. T/in tcreases range jonit eut to figrly per ccent antd in some cases could meai titat residen ts ivill owe sevýen or eight hundred dollars ifl back reuit. :11 ¶Now ivhere is somnebody on old age pension going ta, dig tip $800? Ând if tlteY don't t/he region ivill have di' corne good for titis, w/tic/ could mean an addifional region- ai expendituire of up fa nearly haîf a milion dollars ... jist t's Damned Ind'eceni ta pay back rett. Take the case of Whitby's Fairview Lodge, where the rates, ive re told have uîaw gane tep ta $1 1.84 per day, or approximafely $360 per~ montih. That's a pretty higli price for aid age pensiautoers fa be paying Jiôr a roof over their /tcads, a bcd, fhrce meals a day, aund a little nursing care w/tue tltey ivait out their rcmaining days. DESPITE ite Pcf that we have uzot yet obtained legal advice aut ttis inatter, we would mever-t/te-less questfia/tht/e legaiity aof fryiuîg ta t-aise 'reutts' retroactively. If would seem ta us t/ti uis situatfinwauid be comparable fa reuti/tg an apartmeuît at amn agreed t-en tal rate af say $200 pet- mout t/, anîd titeu six nitiths la fer ite landlordl decidi/tg ta raise t/te re/tt, ta say $300 per unn t/t, ntaking t/te inicrease retroactive and cxpecting the tenants ta pay $600 "I Q in back ten t. And you know and we know that this isn 't cricket. YET this is apparen tiy what the province is trying to do. The warst' part of the whoie seamy situation is that the province is forcing the region ta, compiy with the mandate under' not very subily disguised threat of refusing provin- cial gran ts. FVe cani on/y surmise that the province is either trying to force the region fo pay a greater share, or trying ta force ihe old fo/ks who are paying their own way ta leave these homes..or bof/i. I any case, it's a heck of a way ta treat aur Senior Gifizens or as Mayàor Newman put if f's dammed inde- cctt."1 The Great A*irl'ine Hoa'x If you've been ivatchiutg the newvs lafely you ntust have seen a recenf item about the air/mpes. T/tey dlaim they are iosing money hand over flst and in the US. Pant American Airlines wanfs t/te goverrtment ta subsidize them ta the tune of $10 million a year. Are zhese guys kidding? It's absolutely preposterous f0 thinik of the ait-fines askinig for a subsidy because t/îey are losing money. T/te fact t/t they are losittg uoney is because they have made sanie stupid mistakes. Although they c/aim ta be looking ahead, nîost of t/te air/i/tes includi/ig Air Canada started using 747's which gobbie up more fuel per mnile than any other commercial plane. Some of titese same 74 7s have nmade trips over the fA t/an tic with as few as seven paying passengers on board. I desperatian ta get mtore passeuigers the airlines started adding piano bars fa their jumbo jets and gh-ing fheir sfews stylish anzd mod lo ftes. Extra lights were added ta the point wv/ere i'here are fig/ifs fakiuzg off from Toron ta ht ternafional almost as fast' as the caoi trollers can safely gef thei itof the air. It ivould stagger t/te mind these flights are running parfialiy or ha/f empty. It also staggers the mimd f0 discover how much ,?f thte ever- increasing-in-price fuel these 74 7s use ta fly around haîf empty. To the air/mnes we say - running in the red?- tough toenails! If you are seriously worried about casts then eut down on the size of your planes, cut down on the nym ber of flîghts and change your thinking. But most of ail don't expect the governme/lt, whieh is us, ta pay for your mis- takes. ta find out how mnanv of Dear Mr. Burgess: For a fcw months 1 have been curious as to why you folks don't operate a colunn sucli as "Star Probe", or what have you, if you have the staff dispôsable for that sort of thing,.because I know you are tryîng to build up a citi- zens' support. Just now we have a lîrtle problemn on our hands that such a newspapcr relèrence medium could be rcferrcd 10. Here it is. For sorne reason Whtby had imiposcd on ît a Municipal staff with an Empire building type of objective but nol 100 much intcrest in the Industries that are already here and have been pumnping a sizable wage revenue mbt the cash registers bore abouts for some lime. Right now for instance, our small outfit, which is cntircly locally owned, including the staff, is creating and sclling lines of goods designed and made here., It is, 1 think, the oldest of the present gencra- tion of industry at least, but for some reason when wc attempted on three separate occasions some years ago 10 have signs placed on Broc k and Dundas Strecîs 10 direct peoyple how to gel here, we got a cold turn down. ,Now we find signs put up in front of our plant, the only ones on this side of Euclid Street, refusing permission to park our own cars or even allowing customers to park at the plan t. When we made the deal with the town to bring the factory here, this town, like most small towns, was broke and desperate. For years the îown built up a mammouth operation dcsigned to bring indusîry here. Now most small towns have gone full circle to the point whcre îhcy are îerrified of pollution, therefore mnust be scîcclive, yet no one hias thougbî of cri lisizing Ibis ouîfit in that regard. But we have to live "ýon our own fai" 50 we have 10 consider evcry nickel. Happîly îh is is abouti the only outfit ovcr thc last 1-5 ycars ihai hiasn't tîad 10 shul down simply because everybody, from the President down, bias had to do wvbat you have 10 do. nanicly to puî our pride in our pockcî and do whai- ever job neccssary, physically and mcnîally, therefore it is a little irri laling t10 find ithe continuous attitude of the town quite bappily doing everyîhing for outsiders and miaking il unnecessarily toughi for ai lcasî ibis Company and 1 believe for somne other likely outfits sîrugglîng to make Whitby a good revenue iown 10 live in. As you are of course vcry well mwarc, iî's easy to miake a living, but sorncrhing cIsc 10 make a life. Everybody in this outfiî from top to boîîom is trying to make an assured livihood for the grow- ing number of people, with very limiled finances ai our disposal therefore every arbi- trary imposition on our oper- alions is noticable. We have had a number of customners or prospective customers wbo have fôund it very difficult to find our plant because of no direction sigtos but Ibis is a very smnall part of the Problems. You know, theceasy thing to do would be to regulate us to parallel parking, if indced ihere was any rule nccded on regulations for this one hiaîf block of thc strcel. You will find, 1 îhink, whaî 1I hesitate to explore, ibat there is somne rcason be- iid A this. You miîght care to investigale. Hlavînig composed ai weckly by-linc colunin for our late wcckly newspaper. 1 feel an itch tb gel back into the swing ofthiis sort of îbing but 1 hadve to00 much of a job at ibis desk. I'd like your opin- ion. Meanitine, conigratula- tions on your growing succcss. Sîincerclv yours, G. A. Andersoni, Presiden ti THIE WILLIAM J. ANDERSON (O.LTD. FREE PRESS ADS PAy To ADVERTISE IN VOUR WHITBY NEWSPAPER CAL L 668 -6111 IS IN YOUR HANDS Dupont's $5OO,OOO Expansion Construction is expected to stant within tlhe nexi few weeks on a $500,000 cm- ployec services expansion ai the Du Pont of Canada Planti on Dunlop Drive. A 36' X 100' two-storey addition. which will be aI the south-west corner of tlhe existing plant facing Dunlop Drive, will provide new office space for adifinistration, ieclnical and purchasing. The present office space will be re-modelled into an eni- larged and niodernized cafe- teria. The prescrnt lockcr roomi will be modernized and ex- panded with imedical facili- ties up-dated by adding an office and examining roomn. "This is a people-service not a production expansion", said Plant Manager, Paul Evans. "We have had many production expansions since the plant was buit in 1959. This expansion will provide more breathing rooni in the plant". The addition is designed by Whiitby architect, Alan Wilcox. General contractor for the projcct will be select- cd witini the next few days with work scheduled to be coinplcted by early spring. About 225 are enrrployed at the plant which produces packaging film widely used in the food industry and as milk pouches; plastic netting used in food packaging and. nylon monofilament used in brushes. CIRCLE TAXI 128 BROCK ST. N. WHITBY, ONT. 24 lIRS. ~1 RE-dr rt Provincial Junior 'A'- Hockey Whitby Knobý Hili Farms vs. Toronto Natilonals -Iroquois ParkArn Sunday, September 29 Game Te 7:0lem THE WHITBY FREE PRESS <Voice of the Cotinty Town) Hometown paper of Whiîby, Brooktin, Myrtie and Ashburn aiso serving Ajax and Pickering. Serving over 26,000 readers. Published every Wednesday by Whitby Free Press Ic. Bruno HaxiIaid, Presideni. L,.wa&éà a! the Free Press Building 121 Brock St. Norti' Witby. 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