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WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9,1974, PAGE7 lIa The Media in the U.S. After an extended trip to the United States, finally, 1'm back home, armed with newspapers and magazines from various parts of the country. The Canadian customs officer at Fort Erie (needless to say) was more than surDrised to see the back seat of my car stuffed with newspapers and Solandt Commission -Hydro Inquiry- Notice of additional public hearings into the transmission of power from Lennox to Oshawa 1. Take notice that the Solandt Commission will resume its hearing into the inquiry of the trans- mission of power from Oshawa to Lennox on November 6th, 1974 beginning at 9:00 a m. in the United Church of Canada Auditorium, Mill & Emily Streets. Newcastle and for such additional days as may be required and on November 13th. 1974 beginning at8:00 p.m. in the Kendal Public School, Kendal and for such additional days as may be required. 2. At the previous meetings of the Commission there was public support for alternative routes both north and south of the route proposed by Ontario Hydro in the western part of the study area. The Commission retained Mr. TW. Sparling to prepare the additional information required for a careful study of these alternatives. The specific purpose of the forthcoming meetings will be to consider these alternative routings and evaluate the feasibil- ity of a more northern and southern route as pro- posed by the public. The Newcastle meeting will emphasize the southern alternative and the Kendal meeting will emphasize the northern alternative. 3. Any interested parties who wish to present a brief or make oral representations at the forthcom- ing public meetings, either personally or through a representative, should indicate their intent to do so in writing to the Secretary, on or before October 28th, 1974. Such parties should specify in writing the area of their concern and indicate the nature of the testimony which they wish to give at the forthcoming meetings, and whether they wish to speak at Newcastle (day) or Kendal (evening). 4. The procedures for the continuation of the hear- ings will be that previously established by the Com- mission. 5. Ontario Hydros report and the Sparling study will be on view in area municipal offices and the Solandt Commission office. Ontario Hydros report may be purchased f rom the Ontario Government Bookstore, 880 Bay Street, Toronto, and sum- maries obtained f rom Ontario Hydro, Public Rela- tions Division, 620 University Avenue, Toronto 368-6767, local 25729. Copies of the Sparling study are available through the Solandt Commis- sion office. Copies of ail briefs filed and a map of alternative alignments will be on view in the offices of the Town of Newcastle, 40 Temperance St., Bow- manville, the Township of Hope, 72 Walton St., Port Hope, the Kendal Public School, Kendal and the Solandt Commission office. For further information, please contact: Linda R. White, Secretary, Solandt Commission 9th Floor, Ferguson Block, Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario. (416) 965-1431 KALNINS ON . .. Words f rom West Lynde by Norm Mealing As promised last week, this week's colurn will deal wiîth men's hockey, the general meeting, and a few other items that have come my way. Men's Hockey On Sunday. September 29th, I joined about 50 other people who had gone to Iroquois Park at 3:00 p.m. to watch the first game of the Whitby Men's Hockey League season. The action was fast and furious, and by the tirne I left, shortly after the start of the second period, six goals had already been scored. With eight teams of Il men each, and approximately 40 men either on the waîting list or willing to play as a substitute once in a while, the league appears headed for a successful first season. Credit for this success must go to Dan Pelletier, Recreation Director of the W.L.C.A., Bob Dion, Bob Grier, Ed Bain and Gerry McDermid. The Sunday afternoon time slot is the best for fans so why not head on down to Iroquois Park some Sunday around 3:00 p.m. and sec the old guys. Assessment Last week I reported that a re-assessment was underway in West Lynde, and implied that it had come about only after a great deal of pressure was applied. This is partly inaccurate. While there is no doubt that the pressure brought to bear on the assessment office and the politicians was a factor, the most important thing to remember is that the Assessment Act was amended to allow for a review of assessment, and that this amendment took effect during the summer months. So, as a result of a change in the law, and public pres- sure, a review is underway. We will see, in December, what adjustments, if any, take place. Around Whitb Whitby P.C. Association Mrs. Ruby Welsh, Corresponding Secretary, Whitby P.C. Association mistook me for a member of the Community Association Executive, and, in a letter received on Octôber 3rd asked me to announce the annual meeting of the Whitby P.C. Association. I have passed the letter along to Bill Hoffrnan, Commun- ity Director, but for those of you who may be interested the Whitby Progressive Conservative Association is holding its annual meeting on October 30th at 8:00 p.m. in the Legion Hall on Byron Street South. The meeting is for the election of officers of the Association, and will be followed by a wine and cheese party. Heart Foundation The Whitby chapter of the Ontario Heart Foundation will be holding a meeting on October 22nd in the evenin at St. Marks Church on Colborne Street. Call Bill Hoffman at 668-7170 for details. Minor Hockey Coaches for minor hockey-are needed. Call Dan Pelle, tier at 668-8129 for information. other periodicals. "Anything to declare," he asked. And, I proudly pointed to the stack of newspapers behind me. On establishing that I was a bona fide newpaperman, he mumbled, "Well i don't think we need this stuff to be declared." "Anything else?" he persisted. "No," said 1. Today I'm busy catching up with some of the news "fit to prin t" by some of the major newspapers in the U.S. The tabloid "New York Daily News" is probably the biggest and most widely read newspaper south of the border. The paper has close to 700,000 readers daily. It is a commuter's newspaper, easy to read in subways during rush hours. The News is basically, a "little guy's" paper, packed with crime stories and pictures. The photography is always par excellence and stories are brief and well written. One might say, an ideal newspaper for today's people on the go. By contrast, "The New York Times" is a broad sheet newspaper, highly politically oriented, long on disertations and filled with mediocre pictures. Nevertheless, The Times has many readers - perhaps most of them in Washington. Many American readers are a little uneasy about the poli- tical power which The New York Times dispenses daily, As one New York reader put it, "It is a frightening situa- tion that a newspaper can have such a tremendous in- fluence over our political life". Apart from politics, The Times is probably the most complete newspaper ever published on Sundays. The Sunday Times weighs close to six pounds and is distributed all over the world. Even some people in Moscow read the Times. In conversation with my \colleagues in New York,,I learned that there are many journalists who would die to land a job with The New York limes. Staffers make good moncy and freelancers are particularly well paid. This is most likely true, because as in my own case I was paid for a photo story close to 500 dollars. One thing I must stress, the NYT recognizes professional work and compensates it more than adequately. A fairly new paper in the New York area is the Long Island's "Newsday" published as tab and therefore in a slight competition with the afternoon's "New York Posi" and the murnin meditions of ihe "Daily News". But, i feel, there is little competition really. Newsday differs W.L.C.A. General Meeting On Monday, September 30th, in the Theatre of the Henry Street ligh School, over 125 people attended the fall general meeting of the West Lynde Community Assoc- iation. The attendance was the largest for any meeting held to date, and the discussion which took place was of direct interest to everyone. John Bates, W.L.C.A. Treasurer, opened the meeting with a report on the financial situation of the Association. It seems that as of Monday night the books showed a balance of S 1,239.99 with all bills being paid. Dan Pelletier followed with a report on recreation. He listed the W.L.C.A.'s recreational accomplishments to date eg. Fun Day, Bowling, and Men's Hockey, and called for help in organizing the ice rinks in Central Park this winter, and the activities associated with those rinks. He noted that the tennis courts are in Central Park, and asked for volunteers to form a tennis club for nexi spring. Dan also said he wanted tol hear from anyone who wanted to start acitivities such as badminton, skiing and curling. Jack MacMillan, Membership Director, announced a meeting for street reps at 7:30 p.m. on October 20th at the Council Chambers. He also announced that memberships for 1974 - 75 would go on sale shortly, and that each home would be visited by the street reps. Ërian Evoy, President, announced that a committee was being formed to develop a financial policy for the W.L.C.A. The committee would present its recommenda- tions to the January meeting. Anyone interested should call Brian at 668-2764. When the regular business concluded, Jim Gartshore, Member of Whitby Council for the West Ward was intro- duced to the audience. Mr. Gartshore showed himself to be an able and articulate speaker who did not avoid dealing with touchy issues. On the subject of assessment, he informed the meeting that Council was organizing a meeting with the Assessment officials to get to the bottom of things. He assured the Executive of the W.L.C.A. that they would be invited. On garbage collection, he indicated that a second col- lection would double the cost of the present service from $122,000 to $244,000. He claimed that taxes in Whitby rose so dramatically in 1974 due to regional government, and illustrated this by saying that 55%-of the mill rate in- crease related directly to regional government. Mr. Gartshore indicated that plans for Central Park have finally been prepared, and promised to let the Association review them, and make suggestions. Generally speaking, Mr. Gartshore made a favourableim- pression, and I would say that the majority felt they were quite well represented. He scored a lot of points when he said he did not wan.t Whitby to become another Scarboro. All was not rosy, however, Mr. Gartshore, to a deafening silence, confirmed that 2 or 4 twenty storey apartment buildings are slated for the south-west corner of Jeffery Street and Dundas Street (Highway 2). This announcement, as you can imagine, caused a tremendous stir. And so it should have. And so it will. Bye for this week. Next week, column No. 1 on the high-rise crisis facing West Lynde. letters to, the 'editor box 206, w hitby greatly from other newspapers in New York in layout and visual format, including the actual presentation of the news itself. It is more "magazinish" and therefore appeals more to a serious-minded reader. The stories are somewhat long, but interesting enough to be read. Personally, I like the paper very much. The already mentioned Post has a clear sailing in the afternoon field. No competition, no razzle-dazzle stories to print. The Post, as you may have heard, is bristling with columnists. One day I counted 20 different columns! Newswise, the Post is like our own nondescript Globe and Mail. Fast-breaking news are not of great value, but they are acknowledged somewhere in the paper. The publisher and editor-in-chief is a woman who has "socialized" the paper to an alarming proportion. The Womens Wear Daily would have to take note of this. Outside New York, I bought the "Miami Herald", a Knight newspaper. Still very big, fat and lazy. Still plenty of nothing pictures and the stories are mile-long. The paper suffers from over anxious advertisers who keep filling the paper with trashy advertisements. The paper, I note, uses plenty of color pictures - some terribly washed out. The Tropic Magazine has slimmed down in size and editorial content. For a Knight newspaper a pretty poor showing. "The Chicago Tribune" is a better newspaper today than five years ago. I see the Trib is using more pictures and some of the photography is pretty. good. These days Chicago is a real newspaper town - four big dailies compet- ing for .the same market area. I feel the "Chicago Sun- Times" is partly responsible for all the news activities in and around Chicago. As a tab, it's a darn good newspaper. Finally, I'd like to mention two other well-known newspapers in the U.S. - the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. Both are similar in layout and editorial material. Both campaigned against Richard Nixon and both are filled with political garbage. These newspapers DON'T present news as they happen; they MAKE and in- terpret the news,-hardly a thankful task for the media in the United States.