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2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, April 28, 1976 Section Two EDITORIAL COMMENT The Army Needs Our Support During May the Red Shield The Salvation Army has played a Campaign of the Salvation Army is vital role in the lives of many people being held in this community. The in Canada. The Army has provided goal for Bowmanville and district 1,396,766 meals for the hungry has been set at $5,000. furnished 785,767 beds for homeless The Salvation Army - more than men; has been responsible for any other organization - deserves finding 507 missingpersons and has our support both financially and cared for 1,541 senior citizens in morally. We should indeed support homes operated by the Salvation it. Army. The work carried on by the Locally the Salvation Army can Salvation Army is known by the always be spotted on the scene of a majority of local residents. The tragedy ready to render assistance servicemen and women who served at a moment's notice. during World War II; the alcoholic Only during the Red Shield who wants a hot meal and the campaign does the Army ask the woman of the street who wants to assistance of the community and the regain the dignity of life - they ail people it serves so well. knwoe h okcaregnsînî Let us ail do some serious thinking know of the work carried onsilently about the Army's slogan; if you by the Salvation Army.don't need our hep, we need yours." The child from the broken home You may neyer need the help of who needs a break to stay out of jail the Salvation Army but if you do rest also knows of the sympathetic assured the assistance will be understanding of those in the Corps forthcoming without any questions of the Salvation ArmyTAasked. Innocent Until Proven Guilty Having just come through that exciting hockey series in the NHL playoffs that has resulted in several charges of assault being laid by Attorney General McMurtry, we wonder if the situation is quite as clear eut as many people think. The subject came up in discussion with a friend who wondered just how those charged could possibly receive a fair trial in Ontario. Their alleged offences have been seen on televi- sion by thousands of viewers. Almost every newspaper, radio and television sports and editorial writer has commented on the situation pro or con. About the only way an impartial jury could be selected in Ontario would be to choose people with no interest in hockey, who also are blind, or deaf, preferably both. Even a judge who handled the case would be hard to find with no built in bias. Another aspect of this particular case against the hockey players is a comparison with another legalized sport where brutality is even more evident. It's called boxing. In that so-called sport the combatants have A Breath of "Too much law, too many offences and too many cases - they threaten the whole criminal justice system with collapse." Such is the opinion of the Law Reform Commission of Canada in a report tabled in the House of Commons *recently. It is a belief which those interested in meaning- ful reform of the Criminal Code would do well to heed. According to the commission report, there are 700 sections in the Criminal Code, plus 20,000 federal offences' and about the same number under provincial law. With such a high number of legal rules and regulations it is little wonder our prison system, termed one of the harshest in the Western world, is desperately overcrowded. There is a danger, however, that some of the commission's recom- mendations are going to cause overzealous and emotional reaction that may obscure their reforming spirit. Some will see the proposal to remove such things as abortion, indecency, bigamy, incest, ob- scenity and gambling from the May Be Cc As the nation fusses over what Prime Minister Trudeau meant about government controls of the economy and how they will affect individual freedoms and as the cry for human rights resounds around the world, few people seem to pause these days to consider how their own actions infringe the rights of their fellow man. In our sometimes frantic efforts to keep ahead, to eut cQrners, to look after ourselves, we too often forget that common courtesy, basic honesty and simple concern for others is a right that is fast disappearing. Concern for others is the oil that less padded protection than hockey players and the sole objective of each participant is to knock the other unconscious. What is the difference? Most people would agree that Mr. McMurtry is on the right track when he tries to persuade or force the team owners to crack down on unnecessary violence to clean up the game so that it won't die the way lacrosse did some years back. But, it's not going to be easy. In any close series, whether it be at the NHL level or way down in minor hockey, tempers get frayed both on and off the ice, in the stands, and incidents are bound to occur that could be interpreted as poten- tial assault court cases. People have tempers that get out of hand in such situations. We can well remember many years ago in Taylor's Arena here when 'during a playoff game, almosi all the fans in the rink were battling out on the ice, along with players of both teams. Violence and fights in hockey didn't begin just this year or last and they won't be wiped out tomorrow. Fresh Air Criminal Code - or at least to reconsider the penalties attached to them - as another step down the road to moral and social perdition. In some cases this may be true, but it is equally true that laws against these types of offences have done littlë'to deter those who wish from committing them. Laws are only as effective as those who obey them. They are also only as effective as their relevance to the social trends of their time. Imposing penalties on acts which few consider to be criminal can only serve to create unnecessary tensions and tax an already overloaded legal system. To be sure, any thoughts of changing the Criminal Code should be prefaced with serious and considered debate, but uppermost in all minds should be the desire to make our laws reflect the society we live in. Emotional or ill-considered reaction should have no place in the discussion. One thing is sure. The com- mission's recommendations should be hailed as a breath of fresh air for the Canadian judiciary. --Smith Falls Record News ontagious keeps our daily lives running smoother and the strident demands on us are less jarring if we can expect that our neighbour will respect our rights. But, unfortunately, more and more it is everyone for himself. Politeness is for squares. Littering the streets with garbage is accepted. Cutting the traffic lights, pilfering from work, beating the government, departing the parking lot after denting a fender are examples of indifference to our fellow man. Little things, you might say, when compared with violations of the rights of minorities, the death bombings in Ireland Durham County's Great Family Journa' Established 122 years ago in 1854 Also Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second class mail registration number 1561 Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 62-66 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario LIC 3K9 tý A. JOHN M. JAME Editor-Publisher S r GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr. BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. DONALD BISHOP Plant Mgr. "Copyright and-or property rights subsist in the image appearing on this proof. Permission to reproduce in whole or in part and in any form whatsoever, particularly by photographic or offset process in a publication, must be obtained from the publisher and the printer. 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Report From Queens Park by Doug Moffatt, MPP, Durham East A number of people have spoken to me lately regarding the statements by Ontario's Attorney-General, Roy McMurtry, about the violent actions of members of the National Hockey league. As most people will be aware, the participants in professional hockey contests have become more and more subject to criticism because of the number of incidents involving brutal, savage and uncontrolled violence -- the latest being the hitting or attempted hitting of a police officer at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto on Apr. 15. Mr. McMurtry has instructed his officiais to lay charges in such cases, and for the second time in recent months this is being done. The owners and league managers have, unfortunately, adopted the attitude that fights and objection- able behaviour sell tickets and therefore the law should mind its own business. I happen to agree Nobody Showed completely with the Attorney- General on this issue. I see no reason why putting on a pair of skates entitles a person to behave like a hooligan and flout the law. I have been a player in hockey games, a coach and an official. I enjoy hockey. It can be fast, competitive and exhilarating. My son plays hockey and I hope he enjoys the game and learns from it. I must say, though, that the activities of the professionals make it difficult for coaches and parents to encour- age sportsmanship and citizenship when they see overpaid, glorified ruffians who get acclaim for their brutality and anti-social behaviour. If the professional leagues won't clean up their act, then the law will. The leagues have given no reasons for delay in self-policing, only lame excuses about money. Counter- feiting and theft can be very profitable, too, but no-one would suggest the law turn a blind eye there. Lean on them, Mr. McMurtry. Park Meeting Said A Worthless Effort Jaycee Vice President AI Wood advised the club last Wednesday evening that a public forum which had been called for Saturday morning, April 17, at the Soper Creek Park proved worthless. The Jaycees had called the meeting with the citizens of the community for input on what they would like to see in the park in the line of playground equipment and so on, but unfortunately nobody irom the community showed up A tour of the park had been planned followed by the meet- ing in the old mill but, although it was the Easter weekend, there was no mention of rescheduling a similar meeting. Another Jaycee project which is now off the ground is the sale of posters depicting the entire Town of Newcastle by its many businesses, mun- icipal buildings and other landmarks. The posters have been printed and will be available from local high schools where students will retain a percent- age for conducting the sales. Plasticized place mats bear- ing the same layout are also being planned, probably to sell at $2.50 for four. The unit will again this year handle the sale of Fiesta Passports in the Bowmanville area for the annual big event in Oshawa in June. The passports sell for $1.50 each with the unit retaining half which netted them $75 last year. The Jaycettes have stepped into the Soper Creek Park development by acquiring 1,000 Silver Maple seedlings to plant there. The planting, approved by the reforestration program of the Ministry of Resources, is tentatively planned for this Saturday (May 1) beginning at 9 a.m. which it is thought might be suitable as a Jaycees family day. If the planting is held Saturday, il will follow close on the heels of a social evening which the Jaycettes have also planned for club members on Friday evening at Shaws school, featuring a pot luck meal. Development Dropping Off Newcastle Statistics Show There bas been a consider- $1,665,591 while those issued 128 in 1975 to 85 this year. able decline in housing for the same period in 1976 The statistics also show that development in Newcastle for have come to a total of only where 35 building permits the first three months of 1976 $972,398. were issued in 1975, the compared with the same Figures show that the total number has dropped to 20 in length of time last year, brought in from building the housing development statistics have indicated. permits dropped 51 per cent sector for this year. Newcastle's chief building from last year in March to Commercial industrial and inspector, H.G. Wight has $664,672 in 1976. institutional permits, how- statistics showing the building The actual number of ever, have risen from seven in permits issued from February permits issuedover the three 1975 b 17 in the first quarter of to March last year totalled month period declined from this year, Mr. Wight said. $e t s Revenue from the building permits, Mr. Wight said R dropped from $5,445 in 1975 to o$3,165 over the same period hav96. t ecoetatoaofol Bowmanville, Ont., Although Mr. Langs bas tme this year. April 17, 17 consented to act as treasurer - OBITUARY RAISE $8339.75 FOR CNIB for our 1976 campaign which ALYMER PRESCOTT Dear Sir: wiil be held in October, he A life long farmer in the On behaîf of Mr. Don tendered his resignation as area, Alymer Prescott aged Ferguson, District Adminis- campaign chairman at a 85, passed away iorExtendi- trator, and the Bowmanville- recent meeting. At present we care Nursing HomeOshawa, West Durham Advisory Board are trying p , find someone on Saurday, April 7th, 1976, to the CNIB, 1 should like to replace hlm as chairman, and, following -a lengtby illness. thank you for coverage given to obtain the services of tbree Educated ai Shirley Public us in connection witb our other people to act as assist- School, he was the son of the campaign for funds. Final ants. laie William and Ida May tabulation indicates that re- In order to carry onCNIB Prescott. ceipts amounted 10 $8339.75. work in the Bowmanville area Born in Reach Township, he The success of the campaign more efficiently and effective- had farmed at Hampton and was due largely the efforts ly, consideration is being Enfild, retiring in,1955. For of Mr. Les Langs, our chair- given to have our local board the pas five years he had man. We mus not, however, amalgamate with eiher the resided in nursing homes. overlook the public who do- Northumberland Advisory Surviving is a twin brother nated so generously, nor the Board or the Region Of Alfred, a brother Edgar and a volunteer canvassers who de- Durham Advsory Board. sister Mavise, oM$3s35Wilber voted many hours of their Yours truly, Smith. time for the CNIB cause. A.A. Merkey, (Sec.) He was predeceased by a sister Hazel (Mrs. Lew Rahain), step-sister Flossie (Mrs. Will Hemphill) and step-brother Charles. The funeral service was held on Monday at the Morris Funeral Chapel, Reverend Paul Erb officiating. Pall-bearers were Earl and Don Prescott, Ross, Ken, Clifford and Lloyd Smith. Interment Pine Grove Cemetery, Prince Albert. 25 Years Ago Thursday, April 19, 1951 Up to April 15, Bowmanville property owners paid $85,431,01 on 1951 taxes, according to Town Clerk Alex Lyle. This represents more than one-third of the total tax roll for the year which has been set at $12,241.84. Seven directors have been named for the newly formed Bowmanville Skating Club. They are chairman, Mrs. Lawrence Mason, Sect'y - Treas., Mrs. J. McNulty, Mrs. Morley Vanstone, Mrs. Tom Palmer, Mrs. Russell Hall- man, Glenholme Hughes, and Don Shay. The Bowmanville Public School Board will receive $1,983 from the Ontario Government this year to purchase text books. Courtice defeated Bowman- ville C.O.F. 1-0 in a sudden death hockey game played April 6th in Oshawa Arena and became the Darlington League Champions. Murray Osborne scored the lone goal. All league games have been referred by George Cawker. Miss Mary Jury, daugk er of Rev. and Mrs. Gordon S. Jury, was stage director of the play "The Golden Days of Good King Charles," by Bern- ard Shaw and presented by the University Alumnae Club at the Dominion Drama Festival in Toronto. In the Dim and Distant Past 49 Years Ago Thgrsday, April 18, 1927 Gooderham and Worts, Tor- onto, have been granted a license for a radio station at Burketon Junction, 12 miles north of Bowmanville, which will operate on a wave length of 330 metres, with the call letters CKCW. DDGM., W.J. Crowhurst of Durham Lodge, No. 78 Port Hope, presented 50 year pins to C.M. Cawker, J.H. Cryder- man, Nathan Horne and George Baden. Among those listed as radio owners in Bowmanville are W.J. Bagnell, C.A. Bartlett, Art Cole. W. Cully, A.H. Densem, H. W. Lapp, E.S. Naylor, F.C. Pethick, W.H. Spargo, C.W. Slemon, Fred Vanstone, and W.H. Yeo. Toronto Daily Star, Canad- ian and International Orator- ical contest held district finals in Cobourg. Winners were, Bowmanville, Merrill Fergu- son, Cobourg Birnie Hodgetts, Campbellford, Ma.rgery Ackerman, Oshawa, Hazel de Guerre, Blackstock, Verne Trewin and Millbrook Jean Fairbairn. A petition to pave Welling- ton Street from Scugog to Liberty was made at town council on Monday but was incorrectly made out and must therefore be re-present- ed. In the Editor's Mail R.R. 4, Bowmanville, Ont. Apr. 26, 1976 Dear John: On behalf of the Participa- tion House Project (Durham Region) Inc. I wish to express appreciation to you and the Canadian Statesman for the advance publicity regarding the "Parade of Stars" Tele- thon on CITY-TV Apr. 24 and Apr. 25. Yours respectfully, Mrs. Ralph Campbell, Chairman of Volunteer Centre in Bell Tower. Sugaran Spice By Bill Smiley The Big Lie When you manage to totter through to what is euphemistically called these days "middle age," you are supposed to be able to relax a little, slow down, take it easy, enjoy all those things you never had time for before. After all, your kids are grown up now, and on their own. The mortgage is paid off, or nearly. Passion is not exactly spent, but let's say that you don't exactly turn to jelly at the sight of a big buzoom. If your health is reasonable, you should have a quarter-century of mellow living ahead, time to travel, to contemplate your navel, to read all those books, to cultivate your own garden, before you are quietly shuffled off to one of those institutions with the ghastly names, like Sunset Haven or Trail's End Paradise. I am here to state, quietly but with grim ferocity, that this is one of the Big Lies perpetrated by our society on young people when they are raising their children. It's a lot of poppycock, chaps. Take my advice and have all the fun you can while you're young. Go to Europe, buy a farm, take a year off. Do what you want to now, because you won't have time when you're middle-aged. I just sat down here for a minute, to stop my head spinning, and it struck me that it's the first chance I've had to sit down and take my usual cool perspective of life for weeks. Life is not exactly a gay, mad whirl when you're middle-aged. It's more like a case of the blind staggers. Just for example. If we're not running in one direction to see our two grandsons, we're running in another to set their 83-year-old great-grandfathe Recently, in a wave of good feeling, we decided to treat my daughter and her husband to a night out. They are students, broke, and never get out. So I hawked up the price of a dinner and a show, and my old lady told them we'd be delighted to baby-sit. Fine. Any grandparents would do it. But it was akin to a disaster. First-born grandbaby, Pokey, was so wild with excitement at seeing his favorite toys, servants and syco- phants, that he ran around the apartment like a demented chip- munk, up and down over the furniture, leaping into arms, jab- bering and laughing and roaring with defince at any effort to cool him down. And the other guy, the little, fat new one, is a bawler. He doesn't even bawl at the drop of a hat. He bawls at will. And at Suse. That's my wife. I'm Will. The young couple left at 6:30, baby asleep, Pokey fed. Two minutes later, the bawler was at it. Two hours later, he was still at it. Somewhere in there I'd managed to stick our dinner (a frozen chicken pie) in the oven. At 8:30, my wife was sitting with him on her knee, trying to give him a bottle with one hand and spear a bit of chicken pie with the other. Across from her, I sat with Pokey on my knee, feeding him every second bite of my meagre portion. At 9:20 we had them both asleep. We collapsed. At 9:45, little fatso woke up and bleated for titty. He scorns the bottle. Suffice it to say it was à long evening. But that was unusual, you say. Most of your life is pretty tranquil and even in tone. Well, that's what you think, Buster. I didn't even curl this past winter, and scarcely had time to blow my nose. Right now, aside from a full day's teaching, I am doing the advertising and publicity for the school Open House, preparing to be a guest on a panel discussion and modelling for an art class. In my spare time I mark papers and prepare lessons. Modelling, did I say? Yep. I'm a model. The art department at the school wanted a live model. They conned me into it by pretending they wanted somebody with character in his face. Well, I have lots of that: wrinkles, broken nose, bloodshot eyes, the lot. Later, I discovered the reason I was chosen was because I was the only teacher who had a spare that period, except for one woman teacher, and she refused to model in the nude. I didn't. I was all for it. So were the student painters. But the puritanical old administration wouldn't allow it. They were afraid they'd have girl art students fainting all over the place. Not in awe. In horror. So I have to do it in a loincloth, with a mask over my eyes so they won't know who I am. You think I'm busy? You ought to see my wife. Aside from her regular housework, she teaches piano, knits and sews (simultaneously, it seems to me), prepares the income tax return, chooses and uses new paint and wallpaper, runs around trying to find clothes for two grandsons, and gallops down to Simpson's order office to return things three times a week (it was she who put Eaton's catalogue out of business.) And we haven't even started on the gar' yet. So. Just a word of wisdom to you young people. Don't swallow that bromide about a serene middle age. It's about as serene as Saturday night in the corner saloon. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Ye won't have time when ye're old and gray.