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lAs <~ NEW YORK - -For the last few weeks I have been avýay ïrom nome, spending my leisure tirne h in grey, old New York City and Long Island. Speaking of New York, one might say it's a strange place to spend a vacation. Normally, working people like myscîf would choose more serene places for their holidays such as Florida, Hawaii or Mexico. But, th15 reporter, chose tu be different and be- sîdes, spends manyliours reading American newspa- pers, plus taking random notes of the American way of lite. Thus, as you may sec now, the tune for this article has been set. American newspapems versus Canadianail> publications. Home in the United States, I'm told by my friends and newspapem colleaguos, there are approximately 600 daily newvspapers. serving millions of readers fromn coast to coast. The actual numnber of active newspapers might be even higher. Who knows? Many of these pub- lications, augmented with special Sunday editions, are well read. The Tabloid format is fam more accepted in thîs country than in Canada, by >,oth the publishers and public at large. Su, it seems fair that 1 should start off my review with the largest and most talked-about newspaper in New York City,* "The Daily News". As a tab, The News lias an edge over the broadsheet "New York Times"'. Both are mornlng papers. As a commuter newsp- aper, The News is better read on subways, buses and on the streets. But, I'm a littie suspicious about the dlaimn that the tab size alune makes The News a more popular paper, First andi foremost, the News employ only highly skilled newsmen, reporters and photographers. There is nu tolerance for the weak and inexperienced ones. Il Hasn't this been some kind of month, eh? In (--rie fell swcoop summer's over, the election is over and the airport is finished. On the tail end of that our former mayor is out of a political job for the first time in years. i'm stili reeling fromn the resuits of the election. Not only was 1 surprised that Dr. Godrey won but 1 was amazed at the speed of the poîîs reporting in their resuits. 1 can recall not too rnany years ago that you had a choice of staying up ail nighlt to find out the results or you went to bcd with îhoughts of who was leading and wondcring if the results on the morning news would show him still victori- ous. In a way this new computer systcm lhas taken ail the fun out of the clections. Th-e results are in so fast it barely gives a candidate time to concede defeat. 0f course the question in my mmnd after the election was whether Dr. Godfrey could stop the airport. 1 thought he was elected because of his promises to fight the airport to the end and then ail of a sudden 1 came home from work one night and there was no more airport. There had been signs ail over the site of the airport pointing it out as the Great Davis Land Grab but it seemed the land was grabbed in vain. Meanwhile Mirabel airport in Quebec, flot too far fro m Montreal, is about to open a couple of runways. So for the present we'rc not getting an airport and the beautiful, sleek Concorde jet won't be landing around here unless it has to make a forced landing on the 401. Be that as it may if none of thcsc things corne to pass 1 won't really be heartbrokcn. ln fact 'm rather happy about the whole business. Many times on a Sund,--,I have tucked a camera under my wing and headed out for the country and thc type of scenery 1 like best to photograph. More often than flot 1 found that sccnery in the area bas since been bought up for the airport. It was rather sad to me to think that country beauty would ho lust to asphiaît and noise and exhaust fumes. 1 guess l'm flot the only one to feel the Ioss judging by the number of people who publicly proclaimed themselves dead set against the airport. So now as taxpayers (you did pay them this year didn't you?) w're faccd with a major decision - what do we do with an airport that isn't an airport any longer. Some anti-airport people want to turn a partiaily destroycd farm- house into somne kind of a shrinc as a salute to government decision making in the face of inuunting opposition that turncd around to overwhclrn the decision as being wrong. 1 hope they don't ask the press to cover the unveiling of the farmhouse-turned-sh rifle because the last lime 1 saw the farmhdouse the bulldozers had donc quite a job and it Iooked prettx' rickcty. It:WOulId ho just my luck the Frcc Press would hiave to crcct a sirine witliiii a sirinic showiflg wlierc a faithful reporter valiatitly gave up bis 11ife whilc îiying lo kecli ilie rcaders iinformed about the hletst on ile affi-airport shrinc. dI ntreally consider h-~itig a.Iaml"OS1-11lI11,00lu h HALA on... the height of my career. Now that we don't have an airport it's going to be interesting to watch how the government selîs or gives back the land 'they originaily acquired for the airport. The stories have been rnixed about the original purchases but it seems some of the farmers were delighted to corne into a lot of money and be rid of farrning forever. To mnany others it was heartbreaking having to leave the lands they had been on for decades and lands which they hoped to leave to sons and daughiters. 1 would also like to know what's going to happen to the miles of fencing that was put up to keep trespassers out and which is now so much galvanized his *tory. And there's a few thousand surveyors' stakes out there some- where as well. They should make the kindling for a great victory bonfire. Yes, ail in ail it was quite a summer wasn't il? We had record high temperatures, an election that killed an airport and two major political parties, and we lost a mayor. On top of that we had a Prime Minister who alrnost opened a World Plowing Match and a County Town Carnival that was tops as usual. What can we look forward to this winter? Well the old-timers tell me we're in for a long, cold and bitter wintcr and we have to find a new nmayor and it looks like gasuline and natural gas will go sky high. Kind of ruakes you wish we could keep sumrmer for a few more rnonths doesn't it?? Spray Cans Recent undocumented studios have shown that freon f rom aerosol spray cans interacts with other elements in the atmosphero to form fluorcarbons which may be depletmng the layer of ozone around the earth. 'Mis ozone layer filters out damaging ultraviolet rays frorn the sun. DRAPERY made to measure -just bring in - your measurements ï: NEW ARRIVALS for FALL SPECIAL :- FI BREGLAS 5 SHADES $10 per yard TERGAL SHEERS $498 & $598 PATTERNS BT SUMPLICITY & STYLE WHITBY FABRUCS 215 DUNDAS ST. E. WHITBY (ofo eM m# ,offce> OPEN TILL 9:90 EVIRYDAY E3Y FR.EE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8,1I975, PAGE 5 lFurthermore, the Star (unlike the Timnes) is slow in extending recognition to Canadiari newsmen. Theo- retically, they talk a lot abouthelping aspiring Canadi- an journalists, but in practise the picture appears to be quite the opposite. The Star uses more' foreign news services anid syndicates than any other Canadian newspaper 1 know off hand. Even a love-lom column is inmported' fromn the United States. The "Newsday" in Long Island, however, is com- pletely a different kind of newspaper - perhaps in layout, much dloser to a news magazine. Personally, 1 like Newsday very much. The paper is neat and well organized. Moreover, this publication has recognized photog- raphy as an art formn. Every week there is "Picture Gallery", a handsomne two or three pag'e display of photos in an essay form. The editors reason that an odd picture here and there in a daily ncwspaper is flot doing justice to a> creative mind. 1 also note that Newsday's layout is very dlean, simple and eye-appealing. Good layout is a must to complement a photographer's work. We (photogra- phers) ail love good exposure which should serve as a footnote to ail picture-lovingnews editors. would be almost unthinkable for a coilege grad to land an editorial job, strictly on the basis of his three-year schooling and a shiny diplomfa signed by people who have hardly seen a big city newsroom a few minutes before a deadltne. But this (for an inexperienced person getting a job) is stili possible in Canada, as 1 was told recently by a London Free Press reporter. With a demise of six daily newspapers in New York atone over the past 20 years, it seems understandable that only the very best havc survived and, therefore, have found well-paid jobs on the remaining thrce Metropolitan dailies - Post News and The Times. The News, basically a piçture newspaper, is at its best on local crime stories and photography. The latter is of the highest quality 1 have seen, particularly excel- lin gý in spot news. By contmast, we have a scruffy- 1o ing tabloid in Toronto - a relativrcIy poor imitation of the News, using some of the ideas that The News his been using for many years. Basically, the difference between these two tab- loids is quite simple: one employs the best talent avait- able throughout North America white the other tab (in Canada) pays little attention'to professional standards. Comparatlvely speaking, we are just learning. Often we confuse flag-waving nationalism with hard work and sheer' profession alism. At' the present lime, Canadian newspapers can be accused mostly of not trying hard enough to keep their own talent at home. Instead, often enough the best brains are al- lowed to drain across the border into the United States. The New York Times, as some of you may know, is not so much a New York newspaper. It is haîf inter. national in scope. Times, like The News and Long Is- land's Newsday thives on top-quality journalism and responsible news coverage. Politically, however, the Times fluctuates. The Jewish-Arab conflict has created a dibemma, much to the chagrin of the Times own people in the upper echelon. Closest to the Times format is our own Toronto Star. But, that's where the similarity ends. The NYT has developed highly synchronized teamn work; 'the Star's news coverage is somewhat spotty, coupled with fickly editorial policies. NOTICE NOTICE of an application by the Regional Municipality of Durham for approval of a by-law imposing a special charge respecting the water works systemn of the Regional Municipality of Durham. IT is, the opinion of the Council that ail residen- tial buildings in the Regional Municipality of Dur- ham not being a single family building, a double building or a duplex building, and aIl combined residenýial and non-residentiat buildings having more than two dwelling units, after the passing of this by-law, may impose a heavy load on the water works system of the Region, by reason of which expenditures may be required to provide additional water works capacity which would not otherwise be required. THE Council of The Regional Municipality of Durham intends to' apply to the Ontario Municipal Board for approval to impose the charges upon the owner of every residential building, the owner of every combined residential building and non-resi- dential building in the Regional Municipality of Durham erected or enlarged after the passing of this by-law. The total sum shahl be collected on the follow- ing terms and apply to each unit to be constructed: (a) for bachelor dwelling units and one bedroom dwelling units $225.00 per unit; (b> for dwelling units containing two or more bedrooms $450.00 per unit; ANY charge or charges imposed under this by-law shaîl be made payable at the time of an application for water works connection and shal be collected by the Works Department of the Regional Municipality of Durham. This By-law shaîl not apply to: (a) every building on land exempt from taxation under any general or special act; (b> every building on land in respect of which an Agreement has been entered into with« the municipality under Section 33 of The Planning Act or any predecessor thereof; (c> every building or any land in respect of which a contribution to provide water supply facilities has been made within ten years previous to the application for a water connection; (CI) every residential building having not more than two dwelling units; (e> every combined residential or non-residential building having not more than two dwelling units . ANY ratepayer may within twenty-one (21> days after the first publication of this notice, send by prepaid post to the Clerk of the Regional Municipality of Durham at 605 Rossland Road East, Whitby, a notice in writing stating his objec- tion to such approval or to the imposition of the special charge. THE Ontario Municipal Board may approve the special charge pursuant to the statute, but before doing so it may appoint a time and place for public hearing when any objections will be considered, but notice of such hearinig will be given only to those persons who have given notice of objection as provided for above. DATED at the Town of Whitby, this 8th day of