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The --'ndian *atesman, Bowmanville, Oct. 17,1973 EDITORIAL COMMENT Go Out and Meet the People 76 Elgin Street, Bowmanville, Oct. 14th, 1973 Dear Editor: -A few weeks ago a letter of mine was printed in the Statesman in which I said maybe one weakness of the churches was too much erudi- tion and not enough salvation. My letter was widely read. People do read the Statesman. Everyone agrees there is something wrong with the churches. But what? Consider this: How can a sermon meet the needs of the people if the speaker doesn't know the personal needs of each one? Moreover, how can he know each one's need unless he knows each one? Look up the word "know" in the dictionary. Maybe I might explain my meaning thus: I know the geography of Africa and I know one colored person. Which do I know better? A minister may know his congregation but is it a sea of faces or does he know each one? Ministers may say they haven't time for visiting everyone. IN IN I agree. Bowmanville has 9,000 or more people and 10 or less churches. Each church could be packed full every Sunday all year. They are not. I believe we need minis- ters who visit the people. They would fill the churches we already have. Later, we can always build more churches. Come on, Ministers of Christ, it is a great challenge. Preparing fine sermons for the faithful few won't do it. There are eight working hours in a day or 56 hours in a week. How about one hour for the Sunday service, two hours for preparation, and 53 hours a week meeting the people? Remember the joy in Heaven over the one sinner who repents, and also the Parable of the lost sheep. It didn't come into the fold to hear a sermon. The Shepherd went out to seek and to save (Luke 15: 4-7). Another point to remember: the Shepherd was busy but He took time. Quite a challenge for volun- teer shepherds to-day. And there are many lost sheep. Figures are facts. Yours truly, Mrs. E. Viola Eddyvean. IT'S TOUGH TO BE MIDDLE CLASS My daughter Kim and her husband are having a tough time these days. He's starting a post- graduate course at university, and she's well into an under-graduate course in advanced pregnancy. But that's not what's tough. Those things are normal, exciting and even joyful. It's the eternal problem for students, and for most of the rest of us, of money, scarcity of. At first, I was inclined to scoff. "Ah! You kids!. You don't know what it's like to be hard up. You get all those grants and loans. Why, when your mother and I . . . blah blah blah." Not that they're going to starve. They do get just enough to get by. But when you're young and impat- ient and have been spoiled in a middle-class home with most of the amenities, you get a little sick of "getting by." You'd like to buy an occasional roast, instead of trying to think of another method of making a delicious hamburg dish. In fact, at today's prices, you can't even afford hamburg too often. You'd like to go to a show once in a while, or have a party, or have the clothes to go to someone else's party. But there just isn't anything in the budget for these fairly simple pleasures. You'd like to have a car, like most normal people, and be able to drive into the country or visit friends, or go home for a weekend and have some decent food from the old folks' groaning board. Can't afford it. You'd like to have color TV, or even black and white, but there are no funds. You'd like some new, warm winter clothes, but you have to make do with last year's five-year-old shabby duffle-coat, and last year's leaking boots. If you're pregnant, you'd like to start making a nest, fixing up a home. But on the rent you can afford, you wind up in a crumby flat where you share the bathroom and the stove doesn't work and the decorating is in puke color and the thermometer never goes higher than 65. It can all be pretty depressing unless you have plenty of physical and mental fortitude. There's love, of course, to fall back on. But from what I've seen in my day, love flourishes a lot better when there's some bread on the Thieves Don't Take Holidays Not every thief is as brazen as the one which stole a chair practically from under a woman while she was watching her husband play in a Nicholls Oval concert earlier this week but not all thieves have to be particularly audacious in their attempts to take other people's property. They get enough help from some owners. Summer is the time of the year when most families take their holidays or spend the weekends at the cottage - and leave their property unprotected. While honest people are enjoy- ing their well-deserved rest with their families, thieves are often hard at work in their homes. There is nothing more disap- pointing than coming home from an enjoyable holiday and finding that one's home has been ransacked and valuable property taken. In Peterborough since the begin- ning of the year 99 break-ins or attempted break-ins at residences have been reported. Since June 1 the police department has investigated 33 such cases. Not all thefts and break-ins can be prevented but home owners can do a lot to discourage would-be burglars from entering their homes. Police and private security agencies usually recommend that people who go away leave the impression of being home. This means avoiding the ac- cumulation of mail, newspapers, milk bottles and other home-deliv- ered items on the porch. Doors and windows - even upstairs windows - should be left locked securely. Vacation plans should not be discussed in public places where thieves can easily be listening but friends, neighbors or the police should be notified before leaving so that they can check the house periodically. Asking a friend to drop in from time to time and put the lights on in different rooms also helps; it gives the impression that the house is occupied and scares would-be burg- lars away. Having a list of the serial numbers of appliances is important in case a burglary does occur. It gives police a better chance to trace the stolen items. Peterborough Police Depart- ment does everything in its power to prevent crime and to catch the criminals. But every citizen must do his share in protecting his own home by not making the thieves' work easier and the police's job more difficult. Carelessness is the thief's best friend. -Peterborough Examiner Comner for , £Poets MEMORIES TO LIVE BY What are your memories? Here are mine: Forests of the happiest trees Black currants growing on the vine, Fields of wheat at harvest time, Fence posts in the straightest line White clothes blowing on the breeze, Walking Just about a mile To school. Christmas plays, An organ's chord, harmonic- Learning, yearning, joyful days, Friends who never heard of panic. Memories, yes. We live by them. Discard the sad! The pity pitch Throw gently, silently1 in the ditch. Positive thoughts make miracIes; Hopé can erect a pinnacle! Fond memories help us to live to-day, Seeking God's guidance all the way. -Marion Taylor Ford FROM LOOKOUT HILL DURHAM COUNTY FOREST The sumac blushes as the morning dawns; The oaks spread their purple carpet at my feet, While the stately pines begin to yawn, As the new day they must greet. The auburn ash flashes its beauty, Across the vast, still land, Like a newly written symphony Beyond the far distant strand. The Mantis rests beside me On the log. We pray. The sun Strokes us with rare beauty. "Thank you, for another Autumn Dear God, Thy Will Be Done!" -by Marion Taylor Fora uurnam County's Great Family Joprnal Estpblished 119 years ago in 1854 Also Incorporatfng The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second class mail registration number 1561 Phone Produced every Wednesday by 623-3303 THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 62-66 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3K9 JOHN M. JAME; Editor-Publisher GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr.. 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Letter to the Editor 265 Erskine Ave, dam, believing the stagnating read "The Cen Toronto. flood waters caused deaths of Victoria Cour Sept. 30, 1973. from fever and ague. Kirkconneii. Dear Editor: Finally after Gov't. inter- Ailsi- h hf I was surprised to read in the Statesman of Sept. 26, of Lake Scugog being man-made by a dam built in 1882. Was this date an error or ignorance of the facts? About 1827 the government. contracted William Purdy and his sons, Jesse and Hazard to build a ten foot dam on the Scugog River with a saw mill in 1828 and a grist mill in 1829. In return for this, Purdy was given 400 acres where he built his house and barn, being the start of Purdy's Mills'(later Lindsay). The mill-pond took several months to fill and flooded so much land (about 60,000 acres) that farmers from Cartwright, Manvers and Ops townships, armed with pitch-forks, flint-locks and axes marched to Purdy's Mills and hacked away the vention, a new mill was built in 1844 with a dam's fall of only seven feet rather than Purdy's original head of 12 feet. This still backed up suf- ficient water to form Lake Scugog. Anyone wishing to ,learn moreof Lake Scugog's early history and how the Scugog River originally flowed south (now it flows north) should Proposed Second WeIl in Orono tennial History nty" by Watson t dn v iiArn ai e est o you auring our emergency transition. I now you'll make it. Yours truly, Mrs. J. L. Purdy, Toronto, Ontario. M4P 1Z6 Ed's Note: Sorry about the error. That's what happens when we clip from other papers instead of doing our own reasearch. A second well could become a reality in the Police Village of Orono despite the fact the Village will be dissolved as a municipality as of Jan. 1st., 1974. In the Dim and Distant Past 25 YEARS AGO' THURSDAY, NOV. 4,1948 Ski Club Officers for 1949 are Pres. Don McGregor, Secretary Helen Tait, Treas. Doug Harnden, Transporta- tion Jack Tait, Entertainment Ab. Darch, Building S. Sturrock, Advertising Art Hooper, Congratulations to Tanya Goddard and Teddy Cramp who were prize winning pupis in the 1948 Grade VII and Grade II respectively, piano examinations in Oshawa Dis- trict. Tanya won the Bow- manville Rotary Prize and Teddy the Bowmanville Music Club Prize. Mrs. Carl Devitt, and sons Wayne and Terry, have re- turned home after spending a holiday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Smart and sisters, Mrs. Audrey Smart and Mrs. R. Dixon, Edmonton, Alberta. Providence Forum met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Barnett with 25 present for the first Radio Farm Broadcast of this season. The discussion topic was "Boy Meets Girl". The next meeting will be at Mr. and Mrs. R. Hendry's on Nov. 8th. Fried Green Tomatoes. Wipe tomatoes, do not peel. Cut in one-third slices. Sprinkle with salt. Allow to stand 1 hour. Dip slices in seasoned flour and saute in hot fat until tender (about 8 minutes). Serve on platter around meat. The East Durham Swine Club coached by Agricultural Representative Ed Summers made a remarkable showing at Port Hope Fair. Following are the top five. Alex Martin, Newcastle 1043, Keith Wood, Orono 1023, Alex Moffatt, Orono 1021, Arnold Brackenridge, Millbrook 1017, Ivan Fallis, Millbrook 1017. 49 YEARS AGO THURSDAY, OCT.30,1924 Mr. John Percy has been appointed Financier for the A.O.U.W. in this town for the balance of the year, to fill the position made vacant by the death of John McMurtry. The Annual meeting of Bowmanville Soldier's' Club was held in the club rooms on Monday evening, October 27. Officers elected were Pres. Dr. G. C. Bonnycastle, Vice- Pres. R. J. Gill,- Executive Committee Geo. Humpage, L. A. Parker, R. Thompson, C. E. Bounsall, Geo. Crombie, care- taker A. C. Fewster. A committee was appointed to arrange an Armistice Supper on Tuesday in the Balmoral Hotel. Rev. H. B. Kenny preached anniversary sermons at Mill- brook on Sunday, while Rev. F. H. Howard, S.T.L., took charge at the Tabernacle, Belleville. Splendid representatives from Bowmanville and Tyrone Women's Institutes enjoyed a visit to Solina Branch on Tuesday with the meeting held in the church, prettily decorated with Au- tumn flowers and foliage. Community singing with Miss Lena Taylor at the piano, was enjoyed, with the regular business meeting conducted and Mrs. Cecil Pascoe and Miss Edna Reynolds were chosen as delegates to the Provincial convention. Miss Annie Gardiner rendered a piano solo, Mrs. W. J. Challis a reading, a vocal duet by Mrs. Alex Colville and Mrs. R. Thompson accompanied by Mrs. J. Gunn. Emile Roy, aged 30, farmer of Cavan, was almost instant- ly killed Tuesday, when a knife on a corn cutting machine became dislodged and flew through the air, inflicting a deep gash which severed his jugular vein. The first of next year, the new Regional Municipality of Durham comes into effect and with one stroke, all municip- alities within the regional structure will cease to have any powers to control or distribute water. This ruling is enclosed in Part IV of Bill 162, an Act to estabiisb the Regional Municipality of Dur- ham.. Under the heading, 'Reg- ional Waterworks System', Section 55, paragraph (2), the Act so states 'On and after the lst of January, 1974, no area municipality shall have or exercise any powers under and Act for the supply and the distribution of wate Orono municipal officials, however, were not too greatly concerned about this provi- sion. The project was first started some two vears ago, and despite numerous set- backs and holdups, appears to be now heading towards completion. William McEachren, a member of the Municipal Advisory Department of the Ontario Municipal Board, was contacted by Orono Village Officials. Mr. McEAchren suggested that in his opinion the project could go ahead once ail the details have been satisfactorily worked out. It was further suggested the change in Municipal adminis- tration, with the creation of the Regional Municipality of Durham, would have no bear- ing on projects that adhered to existing regulations, were ap- proved by the OMB, and, were started this year. TYRONE Eleven tables of Euchre in Tyrone Hall on Friday night with the high going out to Mr. Percy Vancamp, Mr. Eari Prescott, Mrs. Molly Horst- man, Mrs. Arvilla Barrett, Mrs. Marg Perris, Mrs. Bertha White 50-50DrawMrs Evert Watson. Lunch was ser- veci. No card game this week but will be back in full swing later. Miss Hettie Reyinga held a shower on Monday nigt and Mrs. George A i dread on Friday night for Miss Maxine Alldread, who is to be married on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Goble were visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Goble and girls, Ponty- pool. Mr. & Mrs. Lorne Alldread, Carman, Manitoba are visit- ing Mr. & Mrs. George Alldread and relatives. and Spice By Bil Smiley table and some bread in your wallet. My wife and I went through the whole bit, but I can't help feeling more pity for today's young couples than I ever felt for us. First of all, we were products of the depression, and didn't expect much. When we did get a little windfall, we counted our blessings and promptly went out and spent them. I remember the time one of my uncles dies intestate. By the time the estate had been cut up among the numerous nieces and nephews, we got something like $102.50. It was manna from heaven. We went straight out and bought a radio, a case of beer, a bunch of stuff at the delicatessen, and had a party. To heck with tomorrow or next week. ,But I must admit that life was a lot simpler then, and a great deal cheaper. We had a child, and we got more pleasure out of him than we would have from color TV, a penthouse apartment, and a Cadillac. We had a furnished flat in one of the grimmer sections of the city. Shared the bathroom. Furniture was Salvation Army specials. But my wife redecorated the place, and it had two entrances and a backyard d with real trees and grass. It cost $15 8 a week. Furnished. Today you can scarcely rent one room for that. We had a total income of about $130 a month. That covered rent, food, clothes, transportation. About once a month we'd have a real b blowout. Baby-sitter (75 cents); movies (75 cents each); half a dozen os cokes (36 cents) and a bag of peanuts (15 cents). Wow! That's B living. We weren't bored, or desperate. We talked, read, studied, listened to J the radio, gloated over our child. Holidays, I worked in the post office or in a factory, to pick up a few extra bucks. Smokes were roll-your- owns. It wasn't bad, but I used to get mighty sick of never having a dolla that didn't have a slot waiting gulp it. I've never been sorry that my plans for post-graduate work and three or four more years of poverty went up in flames and I was tossed by accident into the hurly-burly of the neWspaper business. Today's students work hard at dull summer jobs, save every nickel, get grants, but have to scrape on the edge of poverty and shabbiness. I pity them. CCNA