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4 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville; December 31, 1975 EDITORIAL COMMENT An Interesting Year Ahead . It's difficult to realize how lazy one can get after holidaying for three or four days, the main activity being to stuff yourself with delicious food and afterwards wonder why you did it. Anyway, that's another Christmas gone by and it was a good one in most respects. We've still got about $1.50 left and enough turkey to fill sandwiches for at least a week. All the presents were great and most of them fit. We exchanged one we shouldn't have bought and made up for it with another one. So, that's not a bad average. There's no point dwelling on it so lët's get on with what's been doing and what's to come in the new year. 1975, about to be on its way to never never land, had its ups and downs. We went through two elections, the federal one re-electing Trudeau and his Liberals who fought and won the campaign on the basis of no financial controls and switched on Thanksgiving Day without a twinge of conscience to guidelines and anti-inflation measures. On Sunday night, we listened to the Prime Minister outlining his philo, sophical thoughts for the future, with its restructuring of values, habits and institutions. Just what he has in mind was still not too clear after the program was over, but it certainly means that the federal government is going to inject itself more and more into a great many sections of the economy. Sooner or later, he will have to be more precise about this radical alteration in the Canadian way of life; at the moment, nobody knows quite what he means, but there are ominous overtones that are quite frightening. Maybe our re-elected MP Allan- Lawrence will tell us what it is all about. Then, we also had a provincial election that almost wiped out Bill Davis and his Conservatives and nearly put Stephen Lewis and the NDP in office including Doug Moffatt from this area. So far, Premier Davis has been operating the minority government quite effectively but we can expect another provincial election in the spring, with a new Liberal leader in office. Following that big defeat for the NDP government in B.C., it will not be surprising to see the Conservatives returned with a majority this time, depending of course on how impressive the new Liberal leader's impact is on the electorate in the meantime. Locally, the region and municipal governments have been stumbling along, building up staff to handle the increasingly complex problems that have been handed to them. Cur- rently, the issues inelude water and sewer rates that won't be solved easily or to anyone's satisfaction. Unfortunately, just when these big issues have arisen, the provincial government has had to undergo a program of cutting back that has left its regional baby short of grants, and these will probably have to be made up through property taxes instead, which could be rough. The year ahead begins with many uncertainties. Just what the anit- inflation controls are going to do to business generllly is stilla mystery, but most pundits feel they will not encourage business to launch major expansion programs until they are sure of the ground rules. It might well be a year of marking time, and that isn't going to improve the unemployment picture any. Around here, home building con- tinues to be a major factor in the economy. A few new industries are, coming in quietly to fill up the industrial park and iftall goes well, most of them should be in operation by spring to take up some of the employment slack and possibly enable new residents to find' employment here rather than com- muting to Toronto every day. As we see it the big sales boom in cars the past several months could reverse itself in the next three months, slowing up production at GM and affiliated plants in the area with some layoffs. Goodyear already has quite a few laid off but new machinery coming into production there may bring most of them back to work, it is hoped. All of this is, of course, only our opinion. We hope we are wrong and that everything keeps booming along in this area but the climate doesn't appear to favor such a development. Now, let's just get over New Year's and see what comes. Whatever it is should be challenging and rewarding for those who are ready and willing to dig in and make whatever sacrifices they have to, in order to fulfill their ambitions and desires. Good luck and a Happy New Year. -j -M - W F YOV UI/M1A',TTO GT 7EVli',WF ('QifZî2 Report From Queens Park by Doug Moffatt, M.P.P. By Doug Moffatt, MPP, Durham East The Dàrlington Nuclear Sta- tion, a proposed development immediately west of Bowman- ville and south of the 401 on the lakefront in the riding of Durham East is the largest roposed nuclear power deve- opment in the world at this time. The nuclear station is supposed to be in production in 1984. Ontario Hydro has a number of good reasons for promoting this nuclear station and has done a background study to show the impact the generat- ing station will have on the area. But it seems to me that before we embark on such a mammoth undertaking all the questions that concerned citi- zens have been asking should be answered. For this reason I have tabled in the House a series of questions to each of the Ministers of the Ontario Government. I have asked each Minister to look at the Darlington Generating Station from the point of view of his or her ministry, with an eye to providing solutions to impend- ing problems or, to suggest changes in the project which will make tnose problems obsolete. At this tiie I don't intend to say that we are against the power developmentnor do I intend to say we are for it. I think the people in the area should have a full and complete explanation of the safety factors involved. We need to know what will happen to the environment, to hu- mans, to animals and plants. We also need to know what other factors will be involved. Will we have traffic problems as a result of the station? Will the access points from the 401 to the Darlington Station be suitable? How many people will move into the area as a result of the'development? These questions need ans- wers and I think that any development of this size must have all the potential changes it will necessitate explained first. I don't wish to be an alarmist, nor do I wish to be one of those people who say, "because it's new and because it's development, we should have it". The people of the area must be given facts and the right to make up their minds about the nuclear station on the basis of infor- mation- not opinion. Another item wish to deal with is the question of seat belts. A number of you have contacted me to express your oppositionmto this piecegof legislation. Ispoke against the Bill in the legislature for the following reasons. It seems to me that seat belts only partly protect automobile passen- gers. Many people, because of their size, or because of the physical discomfort seat belts can cause, can't use them. I think that the Government should be embarking on a campaign to require cars to be equipped with a passive res_ traint device. Air bags can be built into cars and will inflate on impact so that the passen- ger cannot be injured. The design of the car will prevent injury. And there are a number of other safety fea_ tures that the Government could insist be built into cars if they are really concerned with public safety. I proposed an amendment, that was defeated, to make school buses safer. At the moment seat bElts aren't required in buses. We bus students for 14 years(of their school lives and don't require Promises To Newcastle To Be Forgotten? There's more heat than light being generated, as they say, in the current debate about water and sewer rates in Durham. Every municipality is going to take a beating, it appears. But there is one argument that has been presented in council debate on the issue that seems to be getting little attention but which seems to us to cry out for some solution. That is an argument given byoNecastle Coun. Kenneth Lyall on Dec. 17. He pointed out that before work began on sewer and water services expansion in old Newcastle village, even before Durham Region was formed, the people of the village were polled in a plebiscite. In that vote, they were old what the rates Inf lation By John Squirrelly It has been our custom at home to increase the children's allowance each winter mainly because it is more difficult to push a shovel full of wet snow than it is to ride a power mower. So, since I have a rather long driveway, the three youngest have their weekly dole hiked from fifty cents to a dollar. I was about to hand out the new minimum wage when a visiting friend advised me that I would be violating the recently imposed frederal wage guidelines. (My friend is a federal civil servant, that is, he'sva part-time janitor at the post office.) "What you're doing," he said, "is giving them a 100per cent wage increase when they should be restricted to 12 per cent at the maximum. I had to admit he was right and tried to explain it to the children who are aged 11, 10 and eight. "Look," I said, "the law ia the law. Before I can give you the extra fifty cents, Ill have to apply to the Anti-inflation Review Board for permission. But Ill pay you three cents additional now and the other 22 cents when the Board says it's alright, retroactive to the first snowfall." "Retroactive?" asked eight- year-old Laura. "Absolutely," I said. "That sounds okay," she said. She leaned over to her older sister and whispered, "Rhonda, what's retroactive mean?". "It means he'll pay us later for working now, stupid." "That's crap." said Alan, our ten-year-old mili- would be. On the strength of this information, the majority voted for the services. Well, those services are barely in the ground and now the region proposes a new rate system with memories of those old rates still so fresh in people's minds. We are unable to suggest a solution to the dilemma that now faces Durham but it seems strange to us that the only workable solution seems to be one that is going to double everyone's water bill. What ever happened to the old formula of cutting the suit to fit the cloth? And, while we're at it, what ever happened to promises made to the people of Newcastle village so few months ago? -Oshawa Times on the- Ho me Front tant. "I'm not slugging those at $50,000 or somethng like, shovels around for a lousy that. It's a hardship for us all. three cents more." However, l'l refer your case 1to what's-his-name and have "It's only until I get an him ring ou u ", answer from the Board," I He cal ed shortly after. pleaded. "Just be patient." "Allo, dere," he said, "old I filled out the 16 page what's-her-name, the Heng- application and sent it off to lish lady here, just explain me Ottawa and, a few days later to your problem and I think I received a reply. That was got a solution there for you. nearly two weeks ago and my Your kids areon strike now, driveway hasn't been shovel- heh? Well, what you can do is led since. Nor has the garbage call in a provincial mediator been taken out. And they to give a report on this and ten haven't cleaned up their days after he hands in his rooms, either. report you are in al gal ÊDosition to lock them nllout. The correspondence from y the way, how come you got the Anti-Inflation Review five hundred children?" Board indicated that a 100 per 'I haven't got five hundred cent increase would not be children," 1 screamed, "I've permitted unless I could show only got three." an historical wage relation- "Eh bien, three hundred ship with at least 500 of my ain't so bad, either, Mffi other children. Dieu!" "And I don't Want to I phoned the grandmotherl lock anyone out," I yeeed, "I looking lady on the Boari just want to give my kids, a "This is preposterous," I raise because they work exclaimed, "I haven't got 500 harder in the winter.i other children." "Well, I got some frends.in "That's too bad," she said the Opportunities For Youth "because if you had you'd be office.Icould getyout fouror receiving over ten thousand a five thousand dollar grant if month in baby bonuses and you like.I you likely wouldn't have this "But I just want to pay my problem." kids fifty cents moreia week, "Look" I said between I protested. clenched teeth, "all I want to Sorry," hesaid, 'it's t of do is g my kids a raise the question." because ey're doing more I called the chlldreif to- work and so they'll have a bit gether and told them what the more money to spend at the Board had said. "But," Isaid, corner store." "'m oing to defy thern. I'm "That's very noble of you, bng r ehe e 'dpay I'm sure," she said vaguely you a dollar a week." Three "but it's quite impossible. I soprano cheers split the air. mean, we all have to pull in "However," I warned, "I'm our belts. Heavens, my salary going to have to deduct a has been frozen at $40,000 and nickel a week from your pay to what's-his-name, that French start a defence fund in case we fellow on the Board, is stuck get caught." them to wear seat telts.l we expect them to start i belts. It doesn't rake sense to me. Sethol Pus u. are exempt fror meýring belts, but you in joýr pri car have to bucklé . We can make school buse euchrsnf than they are 41 present without seat beLsi We have the technology. tbe Govern- ment must have the courage and the foresight1to insist on changes now. Another proble nI can see occurring is with the insur- ance companits. If you are unfortunate enugh to have an accident that y-ou did not cause, and weec pot wearing a seat belt at tle me, you will be charged with failing to wear a seat belt under the Ontario Moto Vehicles Act. If you go to cotrt to recover cost for injuries $ustained, the amount of he award,dIam sure, will be réduced because you failed to Lake the neces- sary legal recautions to protect yoursplf. It seems to me that unsérupulous insur- ance companies will use this legislatior s a means of reducing payments to acci- dent victirts. 1 urge the Minister to eo beyond the seat belt law wh h will be in force oJamr st and embark right now on a program to make automobiles and buses truly safe and alleviate the need foi sqat bets. I wish to extend the very best wish§s of the Christmas Season to hveryone. in this festive season, one thing will become quite evident in our society - not love, peace, or brotherhood, but, instead, the fact that more people are killed every- day by the automobile than by any other means, Side by side, in one weàpon, we have deadly power and innocence. A ton and a half of metal flying through the air in the control of a measly human being is one of the most common place pictures in our society. If you can fill the tank and get the car, you're off - no need for insurance (you'll never need it, will you?) Nothing can affect you in your swift little box - weather, road conditions, light, dark - and you can't affect anyone or anything else, serenely moving along at 70 mile-, per hour. So it's raining or snowingj or icy or foggy or dark - the speed limit still says 50 and the cops know that that really means 65, so 'll be home at 10:30. The car is such a common place object that it is not recognized for the very lethal thing it can be. As if this consideration were not enough, automobiles are the wea- pons of the very worst type of premeditated killer - the drunken driver. With one intoxicated swerve whole families have been murdered by the idiot who knows he is going to have a few, but still does not make arrangements to get home with a sober mind at the wheel. Especially in this, the Christmas season, with parties and informal gatherings so prevalent, the effect of alcohol behind the wheel will become too prevalent. Canada stands to lose over 100 citizens in less than two weeks, and over half of these traffic deaths will have a connection to alcohol and subsequent driving. This area stands to lose a few inhabitants during the same period, their crumpled cars, just recently in your driveway for a glass of New Year's Cheer, in one of the corners of the front page of "The Statesman". Must have been something with the steering, eh? Certainly it couldn't have been the drinks - you were mixing them light and he only had three. Bull. Alcohol and driving is inexcusable. A drinking driver' (whether he killed anyone or not) having his licence removed for three months is stupid. Let's revoke licenses for life. Let's institute mandatory addiction help for these people if it is required. Let's really blast people who don't measure up to spot-checks. Let's watch underage drinking (over 300 people between 16 and 24 won't make it to 25 this year). We've killed more people on our roads now than we have in both World Wars put together. We've got a battle before us and we won't have to fight it in the skies or on the sea, but only on the land. That in itself is tantamount to a World War. A Happy New Year. 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In the Dim and Distant Pasti 25 Years Ago Thursday, Dec. 28th, 1950 - Newcastle Arena is now in the final stage of construction a nd should be ready for operation within a few weeks. Expected to cost between 20, and 25 thousand dollars the committee in charge stili need more contributi°ns tu raise the needed few thousand dollars necessary to complete the job. Donations may be made to the Newcastle council or any member of the building comnltee Remember don ations are tax free. Over 131,800 items of out- going mail have been handled by the local postal staff from December 14th to 23rd Keith McGill was in charge of the m ailing station set uptempor- arily in the Town Hall to aid in the extra rush at Christmas. Mrs. Lorne Kerr and Mrs. Gerald Purdy sorted letters and parcels while Miss Peggy Dippell was in charge of stamps Also at the Town Hall were Mrs. Norman Woodcock Messrs. Don Grant, and John Bishop. Regular workers in- cludedMrs. Alice Clark, Allan Clarke, Frank Mohun and Ross Souch. A brass quartet consisting of Jim Nokes, Bill Tait, Bob Then Evans, and Jack Kitson play- using ed and sang at the Bowman- sngville H{ospital for the Patients any on Christmas Day. Each uset patient was given a rose by the ivate Women's Hospital Assn. Letter to the Editor* 244 Liberty St. N., D Bowmanvlle, Ont. December 22nd, 1975 Dear John: I'd like, through your week- pa per to publicly say Thank You" to the Kinsmen Club of our good old town who gave such a lovely experience on Sunday night to so many ladies and gentlemen, by their tour of "The Christmas Lights" for Senior Citizens, both to the S.C. Club and so many of the patients from nîl the nursing homes of Bow- manville. They are a very fine group of men! Assisted by their good wives working along with them, who organized tLhe tour to give a little brightness and joy at this time of year to feel good is "just be alive in our crazy world of strife, etc." The tour was a great joy for so many elderly people, to see the lovely decorative lights of so many homes, to be handed lovingly in the cars and out again, guided by our police escort and then onto "Memo- rial Park" to a lovely lunch given by their Kinsmen La- dies, homemade, served by them. Such lovely goodies!! 49 Vears Ago Thursday, Dec. 3Oth, 1926 Mr.. and Mrs. Christian Rehder will celebbrate nhir Golden Wedding Anniver on New Year's Day.\- reception will be held in tIeir honor at the home of their daughter Mrs. B. J. Hazel- wood. Six candidates have been nominated to fîll three vacan- dies on the Public School Board, Chas F. Rice, G. L. Hall, F. C. Colmer, Wm. Brock, Cliff Caverly, and W. P, Corbett. Under the chairmanship of W. J. S. Rickard, Shaw's School Christmas party was a most enjoyable event. Messrs. Wilbur Baskerforce and Gor- don Ashton with violins, ac- companied the children in choruses with Miss Beatrice Bragg on the organ. Miss Sadie Allin was awarded the rize for highest standing in enior Fourth, which went by reversion to Charlie Clem- ence, Sadie having won the award the previous year also. Second prize was won by Helen Rickard. In the Newcastle Public School report for December the standings were Jr.111 - Jean Rickard, Marie Henning, Hubert Anderson. Billy Brunt, George Graham, Gwen Wil- liams, Harry Couch, Alecia Williams, Margaret Couch, Margaret Toms, Mary Van Dusen, Lyle Moore, arion Alldread, Mary Chaplin and Harold Brown. The tables looked ai lovely and at eachp lace a favor in the shape of 'A Christmas Candle'. It was made of a bar of soap for the base, (I presume its soap! Haven't examined it, shan't 'til the festive season is over, its too pretty to open it now!), and a wash cloth rolled up, decorat- ed with red ribbon stripes, red pipe cleaner to represent the flame, decorated with tulle holly! It must have taken a lot of time to make them, they looked lovely. To see all the smiles on everyone's faces enjoying everything and Sreeting friends of bygone ays must have made the Kinsmen think it was a worthwhile effort. Methinks we don't half appreciate all the work done by all the organizations of this town of ours. To the Lions Club especially, whose hall th( Bowmanville Senior Citizens Club uses for their monthly meetings and weekly card parties every Thursday after- noon. But more especialIy to the Kinsmen and their ladies, our thanks again for a lovely occasion and party of Dec. 22nd. May God Bless ail your activities. Josie Hughes Is Our Democracy D-ying?9,2 Several men of learning have observed in times past that, al- though democracy is the ideal form of government, i has never been knwn to succeed. If you are a stdent of history youtwili be able to fnid ample evidence to support this pessimistic observation. Man achie- v 1d is nobiest stature in the great democracies of the past - in Rome, in Greece, and in more modern times, in Britain. Why, then, the conclusion that government of the people, by the people and for the people will never sutvive for long? T'he great republics of the past ev/entually degraded into dictator- ships, controlled by kings or political lEaders who were strong enough to seize and hold the power of life and ®ath. The emergence of such rulers and the destruction of self-govern- mhent was, in most instances, occasioned by a combination of reed and iaziness on the part of the common citizens of those lands. The rugged farmer-soldier who believed passionately in the worthiness of his occupation and reahized he must fight for his country when the need arose, was the backbone of his democracy. Honesty and a sense of justice were not merely virtues to which he paid hp service: they were the basic tenets of an entire way of lhfe. As these sturdy and industrious citizens and their sons and grand- sons proved the wisdom of their choice, the wealth of their democra- cies began to accumulate. Gradually the universal disease of greed set in. The man who could stoop to a little, craft or could shout louder than his neighbor found he could trick or force the government into handing over an ever larger share of the public wealth. In the course of time the pressure of personal and class demands left the governments of the day in chaos. Over-burdened by the debts they had incurred to placate the hecklers, all semblance of democracy was abandoned when some individual politician with enough clout to take command arose out of the ruins. Dictatorship became a fact. The entire process was gradual. The grandfathers who warned a new generation that government hand- outs and entertainments were pav- ing the road to ruin were laughed at as dotty old fools who had never learned how to get their piece of the public pie. By the time the grandchildren had enough experi- ence to understand the warnings, it was too late. It would be very difficult to convince present-day Canadians that some personal sacrifice is vital to the survival of our kind of self- government. We have, however, already demonstrated that lack of any form of sacrifice or self- restraint inevitably brings govern- ment intervention. During the past five years scarcely any country in the world has given a more blatant demonstration of greed and self- interest than has Canada. Most of us are in favor of wage and price controls - as long as they are imposed on someone else. We are ready to cripple the nation's economy, leave its youngsters without schooling or commit any other public mischief just as long as we can reach for a bigger piece of the pie. The fact that almost every one of us is more prosperous than at any time in our hives seems only a reason to make us demand more. If you doubt that fact observe where the most frequent strikes and the highest wage demands are taking place. Almost without exception you will find them ii those trades and professions which are already among the best paid in the land. So - the suffering publie demands more and more government inter- vention, which means more and more government control over our daily lives. At some point before long we will find that government controls have become so entrenche that we will never more have a hopt- of returning to the freedom we once enjoyed. Government will become bigger and more powerful; stronger- and more ruthless leaders will be needed. Eventually this sort of leader will be able to get ahong without a cabinet. He will substitute a new brand of inspectors and the inspectors will shortly become enforcers. Sounds pretty gloomy? You'd better believe it. - Wingham Advance-Times Deadly Power and Innocence AZWAY