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~-- -~ ~- 4 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, May 23, 1973 ZEOITOIRUAL COMMENT TyroneHits the Jackpot They tell us, the Community Park at Tyrone was jammed on Monday nýght with people from al over the aiea who came to witness the only fireworks display in the area. Our congratulations Lo, the Commiiunity Pzark Association who went ail out in the, face of restrictions and gamnbled on getting their considerable investment back. We just hope they were able Lo make a few dollars profit in the enterprise they deserve iL! We suspect that the new .regulations covering fireworks pro- ,vided many organizaýtions with a welcome excuse for quietiy exiting from these community projects that have been increasing in cost but not in revenue, year after year. But, Tyrone apparently-,saw an 'oppor-, tunity and grasped it ... and were lucky enough to have the weather, go aiong w'ith themn and provide a perfect night for their show. You just have to hand it to the Tyrone folks and- express the appreciation of young and old for miles around, while stili giving credit to the other organizations here and in area communities who have carried the expensive bail for many years.. Few stores in town even carried fireworks'this year and to date there have beýn no reports of -anyone bei ng injured, so the r ather strin- gent restrictions appear to have had the desired resuit. Recovery wiII Takea.Long Time As the Watergate scandai con- tinues to unfold in the UnitedStates, the picture becomes more and more s'ickening as it reveals high level iintigue and rotten poiitics by men who suggest quite frankly that "the end justified the means" ... the end being the re-election of President IRichard Nixon and the Republican party. Ail the skepticism and cynicism that has been building up in young people over the years wouidappear to have been justified. How can we assumne otherwise as we contem-, plate thie political hankypanky that is now being admitted before the special committees working on unravelling the sordid details. The stench is bound Lo overflow into this counitry and have a definite bearing on the average citizen's attitude toward polities and political leaders, with the end result that our entire systemof government !oses much of iLs crédibility and people come to the natural conclusion that govern- mients are rotten and politics stinks fromn top Lo bottomn. Such an attitude -is bound, to refleet on the type of men and wonr who become our leaders in future and the leaders of parties in the United States. If prospective, candidates realize that once they have aliowed their names' to be entered in the political race, they will automaticaliy be, iabelled as power hungry crooks and connivers, reputable, honest men and women with outstanding ability wili avoid polîtical invoivement lîke t he piague. Why should they risk a reputation buiit up over many years in such activity? We fear that Watergate wilf leave a nasty residue,ýthat will tak e many years to overcome both in the United States and here. We. often discount the governments of what we" laughingiy cail the banana repubiics or scoff at the corruption prevalent in other parts of the world but now the shoe is on the other foot. We can oniy hope that the cleanup wiil be -thorough and complete, so the rebuiiding proces,:s may geL underway a-,,<-s quickiy as possible. Fortunately,,, for al concernied, the fact that' the misconduct was discovered and brought out into the open for ail to see is a good omien. IL may discourage others from com- parable misdeeds in the years to corne . . . and certainly squelches any programs to limit thefreedom on the press to investîgate government procedures. WNarning f0 Non- Subscribers (Frorn theFTOa m LaEeviewv) A man w1ho was too cheap to) subscribe tLo his hometown news- pa-ýper sent his ilittle boy to borrow his neighbor's copy. In his haste Lhe boy ran over an $80 hive of bees and in 10 minutes he iooked like a warty squash. lis father ran to his assistance, and failing to notice the barbed wire fence,-ran into that, cutting a hole in hisanaomyas well as ruining a pair of $20 trousers. The old cow Look advantage of the gap in the fence and k,-illed herseif eating green corn. Hleaing the racket, the wife ran out, upset a four-gallon churn of cream into a basket of chicks, drowning the entire bunch. In her haste she dropped a $235 set of faIse teeth, which the faiIy Ldog buriiied thinking it was a new type of bone., The baby, having been left alone, crawled through the spilled creamn and into the parlor ruining a $250 carpet., During the excitement the oldest daughter ran away ýwith the hired man, a stray dog broke up il setting hens,' the calves got out and chewed the tails off fou r fine shirts on the clothes uine, and the cat had a batch of kîttens.. Ail this just to save 15 cents. And in Lhis case, the poor guy neyer did get to read that week's edition. Doni't Let This Happen Lo You! Subscribe Today! Protect the Flower--Car Drîvers A spokesman for Teamsters LocalJ 727 in Chicago says that startin--g today guards will be stationed at the gates of every Ch-icago-area cemetery to enforce the union's new contract with the Funeral Directors Service Associa- tion. The contract states that oniy a casket spray may accompany a casket in the hearse of a funeral procession. If the family of the deceased wants any other flowers at the cemetery, iL must hire a flower car -- for $64.50. Famnily cars carrying flowers will not be permitted in the: funeral procession. And families will be discouraged fromr returning to the mortuary after the funeral and takîng flowers back to the cemetery. The new rule replaces one which allowed only six floral arranigeme- ments to accompany the casket. James E. Coli, Local 727 secretary- treasurer, sLa funeral directors brought the stricter requirement on themnseives by abusing the old rule. ",Remnemnber, the family doesn't have to hire a flower car," he said. "They can leave the flowers at the funerai hom e, or take them home or take them to a nursing home or whatever they want. But hey'rùe not going to geLý the, fiowers to the cemetery by stuffing them in, the trunk and put our flower-car drivers out of work." -Vancouver Province Uurham County's Great Family Journal EstýblishedI1!9 years ago in 1854 Also Incorporating The Bowmanviile News The Newcastle Independlent The Orono News Second class mail registration number 1561 E D Q f r Ij * .4 ~iJ L Phone Produced every.Wednesday by 623-3303 THE JAME5 PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED ,2-66 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario LIC 3K9 Phone 623-3303 JOHN M. JAMES GEO. P. MORR IS PATR ICK GOULD DONALD8I[SHOP Editor-Publisher Business Mgr. Sales Manager Plant Mgr. "Copyright and-or prpry righfs subýstisfn the image appearing on this -proof. Permission to reproduce in wholeor in pr and in any iormwhatsoever, particulariy by priofographic or offset process in a publication, mus" be ofne rom the publisher andthe printor. Any unauthorized reprodluction Will bc subjýect fo recourse m av,.'" $7.00 a year -- 6 mfonths $4.00 $9.00 a year in the U.S.A. sticiy ini advanice Although every precaýufion will be faken to.avoid error, The Canadian Stafesman aci.eptsadvertising in isclmson1 theunestnn thaf il wîlI noi be jiable for any error in the advertisement published heen runess apro of such adverfisemnent is requested in wrifing by the advertiser and reliirned te Tfi Cnaia tafesman busineçs office duly signed by the advertiser and wifh such error or corrections plail oe in w-rîng tereon, and in Ihaf case if any error se noted is not corrected by The Canadîan wt e-, o liaility shah 001 exceed such a porfioni of theentire cost of such advertîsement as the space occW~ied by lhe- nofed error bears to theý whole spoace occupied by such adverfisement. Report (rom Qoueen 's Park by Alex Carruthers M.P.P. TIIIlE BUD[GET following royal assent. receive a 'general support Bucagets are aîways the The budget has a numiber of grant equal to tour per cent ut target t'or considerabte criti- objectives. and the twoj per- the 1972 general levy. In cism. but the 1973-M4 budget cent increase in the sales tax flurhami County the following- brought down by the Hanor- must be considered w 'ith these -uPPor't grants will be provid- able John White, Provincial objectives in mind. They etlý Treasurer, while receiving incl,2ude: . Bowmaiville $140.000 almost unprecedented opposi- 1. The rastrof a greater. Darlingtan 70,000 tion with respect ta the energy portion of ithe lpraperty tfaxes (Clarke 14,000 tax has proven ta be a budget ta the growthta field. Néwcastle 17,000, structured ta meet the needs 2. Ta relieve ta a major 11ope- 6,000 of a rapidly develaping prov- degree the tax burden on Paort Hlope 126,000 ince. t hase with low or fixed ('avan 6,000 With the withdrawal of the inconle.Mîli-o 10,000 energy tax, the Op.position :>. Ta piovide needed finan- ftlanvers 10,000 parties have concentrated on cial assistance ta municipali- C'artwright 12,000 the issue that the government t ies and Io encourage through b) Grants for municipal pol- is acting illegally in collecting incentives, the reduction' of ice are increased from $1.25 ta the tax befare the legisiation municipal property taxes. $:3 00 per capita and t'or has been appravcd. Fram the 4. T1o reduce the provincial regia 'nal police l'ram $1,-é,)ta tirst reading ot the bill the debt, which has grown signifi- $5.00O per capita. NýDP men bers have filibus- cantly as a result of detic1it c Grants ta public librarieýs tered using cvery means fa 'financing designed ta expand anýd museums are icesd delay passage of the legisla- the economy and reduce laIDurham County the in- tion, and at the same fime fr neplymnturease rep)resents approxi- pahIiticaýl purpases accuing 5.ii To preserve the faily tcy 1.05. a ncrease th g'ermetof ain,g tr n adecrea"se te ra $5.85ta$490. or illegaliy. Parjiiamentary rcc- upI-ardI pressure on food Iib:iriy services in Bwa ords show that ail govern- CaOStIS. ville, Part Hope, Millbrook, ments regardless of political These objectives are ta be Necýýastle, and Clarke and character have by tradition raie in the follawing Hope Townships, This is an made taxes effective on a manner: increase of over 100 per cent in certain date, and retroactive a> AIl municipalities will aIl the municipalities except Millbrook. These grants, T LOc a11 Am %hîch are based on popula- un dqe- t s tion, have been doubled to $1.35 ver capita fram 65e. 9 vn V r, td) The province wilI in- Eè ,0 0 " ý r crea se its support ta school Ten stu'dents from the and involvement- this y ear. boards tram 58 ta 60 per cent Bowmanville area are among In addition, "ýa successful of the cast ai' education 36,150 young Canadians who effort was made ta increase ýprovincial grant increase wiIl be employed through participation fram rural $î<îîî~î Opportunifies for Youth prog- areas". The ratio across the e) Grants in lieu of taxes will rams this summer. ,country is 55 per cent rural be paid ta munîcipalities on, $8,090 bas been awarded ta projects and 45 per cent urban past secandary institutions, the local projeef which will projects. provincial hospitals, and cor- be a theatre group called the The local projeet cornes rectional institutions, at a cost Little People Performers. within a few hundred dollars of $8 million. These grants will Eighf of the' 10 students of the $8,209 average cost per benefit Bowmanville and Mill-- involved attend Courtice Sec- prajeef. This is down from last brook particularly. ondary Sehool and six are in year's average -cost of be- -Asý-sistanceta oFaumlerýs their final year. the other twa tween $10,000 and $11,000 per .- and Business memnbers of the group have projeet. The releas e from , 1. Grants ta relieve farm completed their first year at Ottawa cited "increased SUP- property taxes will1 be in- university. port fromi private firms and creased f rom 25 per cent of the One of the Little. People individuals in the communi- tax levy ta 50 per cent at a cost Performers is Marg Bell, a ties, who are providing suP- of $50 million ta the province. grade 13 student at Courtice. plies, fixnds and facilities ta 2. Succession duties on farm She indicated that the theatre many of the projects"~ for theasesiîbeogienvra group will tour recreation decline in the average cost perpeido25ers departirnent playgrounds in projeet. pro f 5vas Bowman'ville and area this Miss Bell indicated that the 3 amrwl ealwdt summer and. entertain the Little People Performers will make a tax-free gif t up ta yaungsters with a series af be borrowing some of their $50.001) ta his children. short plays. costumes and props fram the 4. Succession duty is eliminat- ,Miss Bell said thaf the OFY Courtice Drama Club, among cd betwcen spauses on trans- projeef hopes not only ta others, ta help defray their fer of assets. cost $5 million). perform for the children but costs. AIl but $350 of their 5. Families confrolling Cana- also ta involve them in theatre $8,090 grant will be devoted ta dian businesses will be allow- games and sucb in an attempt the salaries of the participants cd six vears ta pay succession ta stimulate an interest in in the project. duties (cost $5 million. drama in the playground, The, students Who will b-. sitnc aldiiul youngsters. returning ta high sehool next 1. A sales tax credif of anc A news release from Secre- year will earn-$70 per week, per cent/"of personal incarne tary of State Hugh Faulkner while those who will be in tax exemptions will be allow- indicatedthat there will be a university will receive $90 per cd providing $90 million in fax total of 4,334 OFY projects this week. relief ta low incarne families, summer with grants fotalling The local proîeet will begin senior cifizens and individ- $36.5 million ta date. on June 25th, wîth the first uaîs. For example, a family af e The release sfated that an production slated for the week fu n e eto 30 'increased empbasis was of July 9th. It wiîî run nine fu n e eto 30 placed on communîty services weeks until, Augusf 24th. $36. exemption. 2. Pensioners eligible- for f property fax credit will rec- Sta'IIsG îf S opf o'rcive an increase of $50making a total credif of $100. (Cost $40 'million). Her eco d Co eer3. Present property tax credit for those on low incarne Reieearly with a second Motnt 5mai and Prinlces,, $90 plus 10 per cent of property career in mmd", is the advice Margaret hospîfals. She fax less anc per cent of taxable of Miss Viola Camblin who, equipped and organized Len- incarne wiîl continue. For after a~n outstanding career in nox and Addingtdn Counfy renters if is $90 plus two per nursing is miaking' a bid into General Hospifal af Napanee. cent of rent less one per cent af the business world. Miss Camblin served astaxable incarne (cost $160 Miss Camblin, a close friend director of nursing at Ross million). e.g. Married man - of the Reverend James Gil- Memorial Hospital, Lindsay two children - properf y fax cpeintaft op anin Bob- and as assistant director af $500 or $2500 rent and $600 cayengagf s nBb Whitby Psychiatrie Hospital. taxable incarne. Tax relief - She graduated tram, King- I believe the governmenf's $904pluso10 per cent f $500 - stnPyhare optladproposed plan for earîy retire-$10-neprctof60- stan~~~~~ PscitiSosia n 140.-ý $6 - $134. plus sales fax bas worked in nursing admin- ment is a wonderful thing"i', credif of $36 - total fax credit istration for nearly 20 years. she says. -Older people ben-e- of $170. At Kingston General Hos- fit from warking but fhey need 4. Provincial park fees are pifaI and Toronto General a year or fwo in which ta removed for all Canadian million of xvbîch xiii be assigned ta muinicipaliti'es for reliefio'ai te pîapcrty lax. The incm'case aofIvia per cent in thie sales fax, therelore., docs nal appear 100 signilicant when considercd v ifh fthc incirased benctits ta munici- palilics and pi operty awners. The piclure appears cvcn brightei- whcn vie recognize that the unempioymnent rate in the provincc is iess than tour per cent. that a record 140.,000 nexv jobs were creafed ini Ontario in 1972. and that personai income is expectcd ta risc by 12.6 per cent ii 1973. 25 VEARS AGO Thursday, May 27th, 1948 Rev. T. Edwin Hancock who cames frorn Newcastle and bas been preaching at Ponty- pool and Rev. R. Merle Thompson,,a former resident af Nestlefoîi, preaching in Oshawa, were ordained Wed- nesday night at the Bay of Quinte Conference of the, United Church of Canada held in Smiths Falls. At fthe Investiture in London Ontariao, May 17, Hubert Melbhourne, Hoaper, Toronto, son af the late Mr. and Mrs. Herseýhel Haaper,was present- cdI, with the insignia Award af Mem-ber of the Order of the, British Empire by bis Honor, the Lieutenant Governor of Ont aria. Mr. and Mrs. John L. M\etcaîf!, Bowmanville, cele- brated their diamond wedding anniversary on Sunday, May 16 at the home of their daughter. Also helping fa celebrate were *their seven children, Noble, Bruce, Roy, Pearl, Norman, Williamand Otis. Orona Red Cross collece d a total of $277.94 in the recent drive for funds. Congratulations ta Mr. and Mrs. Ted Kersey on their marriage on Saturday. -The Senior pupils of Brad- Icy's School, with Iheir teacher, Miss Eileen Farrow, cnjoyed a'trip ta the Royal Ontario Museum at Toronto on Tuesday. On Monday Morning the old organ in St. Joh~n's Anglican Chureh will be dismantled and a new organ wili be instailed. Miss Dorathy Brooks, Mrs. Alex McRobbie, Lloyd and Beverly, lef t tram Leross, Saskatchewan for a two weeks visit in their home town. 49 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 5th, 1924 Durham Rçgt. will go ta camp on June 10 fa Port Hope and ta Belleville on June l6th ta take part, in the, V.E.L. celebration, returning home June L8th. Company Head- quarters open every night. W. J. Hoar, Major. Have, your hand read hy scientifie palmist' (lady-) bas read the hands of many distinguished people. Hlere for a few days, Balmoral Hotel, Room 7, 10Oa;m. - 9p.m. Terms $1.00., , Princess, Bul Bul, the Par- isian Nightingale in a Comie Opera in two acts under the auspices of Orono Horticultur- al Societ y in the Opera House, Friday, June l3th. Mr- F. C. Xanstone annaunc- es the milI will be closed Wednesday afternoons during Jonc, July and August. Mr. John Gliddon, Union, Ontario, was guest of Mn. and Mrs. J. T. Hooper and other aId frienýds here lasf week. Whitby Presbytery met in Port Perry on May 28th and induce d Rev. A. A. Thornley info the Port Perry charge. He was formerly located ai Shel- bourne. Bowmanville Flying Club flew their second aid bird race Saturday, May 31 tram Wood- stock, a distance of 113 miles airline, Resuits foliow: 1sf V. Jcf frey, 3 hrs. 50rins.; 2nd F. Býottr-eli, 4 hrs. 32 mins.; 3rd R. Diiiing, 6 brs. 30 mins. Ebenezer 'Sunday Sehool Anniversary will be heId on Sunday. RHev. W. A. Hunnisef t, mninister at the Fred Victor Missîin, Toronto, wijlipreach. On -Monday the play , "The Wi)oing ,of Miss Cnd"will be presented by 50 members of the sehool., Sugar'f~Spc By Bihl Smiley HOW V WE' 1VE RUI NED SCHOLSAND There a.ppears to be a generai and growing concern abou the quality of education these days. Not, only are teachers concerned, and. they are, but students and parents are beginning to feel that they are being short-chànged. A couple of letters to the editors of two daily papers recently were revealing. In one, university student stated, that he had read a 2,000-word essay, -written by a friend, who was an honior student,. In the essay, there wasi one (1), sentence which did not havea speliing or grammar error. And that was the sentence in which lie repeated the professor's topie. In- the other letter, a girl who dropped out of school three years ago because of the rigidity of the sy stem, was flaming mad. She returned to Grade 12 this year and discovered, as she put iL "that education had disappeared in 'the interim." This young lady said flatly that wile t'eachers used to teach for the average in the class, they are now teaching toward the poorest stu- dents, with the keen and bright ones leift to fend for themseives. In her opinion, standards had dropped drasticaiiy in three years. TPhere are few teceswho w,,ould not agree with lier on, Éhe iast point. Administrators and "educa- tionists", whatever they are, right up to the minister, blandiy assure the public, via the media, that standards have not been lowered. Perhaps they should Lake off their rose-colored glasses and ta îke a good, clear look at reaiity. But Lhey have managed to wrap thiemselves in such a fog of educational jargon that they wouldn't know reality unless iL came up and bit them. 1What's happened? Maybe I'm prejudiced, but I don't think the fauit lies with the teachers. To my definite knowledge, they are work- ing harder than ever, under steadily worsening conditions. They are teachïng as many as two more classes a day than Lhey were three, years ago. They are doing more of the unpleasant and uneducational chores than they did. Such a: one is "trough patrol" as some teachers caîl cafeteria super- vision. The name is not inaccurate. 1A few years ago, supervising a students' dance was ain extra chore, but few teachers really minded iL. One chatted -with the stucients, deplored their taste in msibut feitf that a good ime was1belinghg by a11h. Eve-rybody wvas dressed up and' happy. The lights in the gym were turned down but not- out. There might be the odd case of a kid smoking pot or slightly under the influence but they were rareties. A. regular Sunday sehool picnic. Mowadays it's more like Satur- day night in Dodge City. A darkened gym except for the stage where four or f ive baboons caper, and scream incomprehensibles to the accom- paniment of a volume of sound that would make a boiler factory sound like a cemetery. Someone has thrown up again in the, boys' washroom. Two grim-fac- ed cops stand by the entrance. A teenage girl is caught rum-running not one, but six mickeys of rye. In the good old days, years ago, a young buck could wear his own' mickey in his hip pocket, covered by his jacket. Today, his pants are so tîght he couldn't get anything in that pocket so he has some littie girl take iL in for him. But six! I'm drifting away from my topic, but not entireiy. The defiance of rules, the demand for new "rights" is ahl part of the school scene today. It's a curious mixture of apathy and mindless defiance. I sound as though J'in blaming the kids. I'm not. They're human.' They'il take what they can geL and demand more. They're a pretty decent lot, on the whole. But what girl won'L wear hip-huggers if she's allowed to wear jeans, or a blouse slt to the navel if she doesn't have Lo wear, a 'bra? What young man of sixteen wouldn't like to have a crack at growing a beard? No, the real cuiprit is neither teachers nor kids. IL is the littie empire-builders in the system. They are so far away fromthe ciassroom, and the taxpayers, that they have acquired a god-compiex., They've neyer been in a classroom, or not for years. And if they are to preserve and expand their, empires,, Lhey must appear ro be doing something. So they scratch each others backs, comne up with revolutionary ideas that were stale forty years ago, and hide behind a squid-like emission of gobbledygook such as "input", "feed-back", "Écommunications", "concepts" and "individual needs." These are the barnalcles on the good shipEducation, and unless h1 is careened and they are scraped c_ ruthlessly, they're likely to sink her. " ~- qn t/he Ôirn Çùstant £Past From the Statesma Files m CCNA