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WIi#tby, Free Pmsp, Woes", y, May 9,196 a Right wrong It began with a head of lettuoe. It is Sunday, the supermarket full of devout churchgoers, the Interact swiper thing has been moved to the customer side of the cheekout. "What'll they think of next, eh?" says one customer to a gum-snapping clerk, who is locked i a catch-as-catch-can W conversation with the clerk in the booth next. "Yeah, cheese," she says. "Self-swipe?" says the customer. "Nah, next you'il have to check your ownV order out," replies the clerk. "Swipe- your own groceriesr" The customer means, swiping the items across the scanner. The clerk isn't tuned in. WR "Store s'ecurity'll get you if you try that," she says, her- gurn going snap, snap, snap.____________________________________ The customer shrugs, Packs his own groceries, flot evenz2 - zÀMMeWlMW2àhme realizing he has forgotten the ice cream and will have to return four hours later for it. On the way out of the store he returns his cart to the buggy-tether, retrieves his quarter which he promptly returns to the customer service * deik. Borrowed. Slretehy supermarket bags slowly let down thefr loada as they are hauled across parking lots. Then he's at the cari slamming thedoor closed, backs out of the parking space, heads for the eiL. ThaL's when he sees the lady with the lettuce ini her - IF, hand. She is running across the parki»~g lot, waving the lettuce with one hand, pomnting at hlm, yes, you, in the little red car. He stops, backs the car out of the main raffic lane "You wanted me?" he asks. "Yes. Did you buy a lettuce todayT' asks the lady, handing the green bail through the car window. I found iL at the checkout." She adjusts her purse strap on her left- shoulder. "Thaka,"he replies, sheepishly. "You'd'do the same." Dunno. Earlier that week he had stopped in mid-Lraffic to retrieve a child's bal, toss iL back across two lanes of fraffic to the thankfujl girls. Maybe the lettuce was just the natural cycle. You do good,, you get the return. Naw, only a sap would believe that. What then? A small, human favour, lost in an urban landscape. Or is this the first -sign the Rabid Right iw~~c~~i ULIG RO TETNRH .18 Canadian Politic will cr mble ino dustThis d gnated historioel building je ocated north oftihe oyalIlotel. It wa b'uiltin-1862 The ight firmly believes that less government is better. and sorvod as a newspaper office until about 1900. At lght. William*Hemzy IHiggins, editor And maybe that belief, like the force that brought the and publisher of the Chronicle from 1857 o18,wo h oe9oTrnt.Topltn stachylitIeherts coldbe outedon o resrv ou frm he od osd 1M8 8,198editoxn oédtho ont.Tepii lende-ring anant way . fWB1TBY FREE PRESSinm young, of crime. AGJ But fear is not a good glue for building a nation, or a 100 hoFrdy, M SA 919G to n fh province. By the ime Frum and friends squeeze aHl the Wim h ITY. CHRON 1 eICE ofth votes they can out. of fear, Lhey may'find thaL we hbave nothing left to hold us together. Four cattie and two shoop werokidlled by lightning in Whitby Township on May 25. A committee of represontatives of Oshawa and Wbltby will work te cut down the bille Nodhing wiil stick- We won'L be able to help one another, between the two towns on the Kingston Road at a coot of $800. to camsfor one another, torun across a.parking lot for an A four-foot wide sidewalk bas beon constructed betweon King Brothers' Tannory and the 89-cent head of lettuce. atblotic grounde on Brock Street. it je exPected te last 15 yoars. liat may noL seem important. But iL is. Believe'iL. It is.