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2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, May 12, 1976 Section Two EDITORIAL COMMENT How Stupid Can You Get? Of late, the universe has not been unfolding too favorably for Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his federal Liberals. It reminds one of the problems that the late Lester B. Pearson had with some of his colleagues who used their offices for personal gains. But, the most recent of the mistakes that cannot help but lower the popularity of Trudeau and his Liberals came last week, following the printing of a 'leaked' letter by the Toronto Sun, that indicated quite clearly that Trudeau had given the RCMP instructions to lay off investigating Quebec separatists. Trudeau obviously was furious over the breach of security that had occurred at what might well be called the innermost security sanc- tum. If the RCMP cannot be entrusted to keep secrets who, in the government's service, can be trust- ed? No wonder he was upset. 1 But that wasn't all. On Friday morning, the RCMP charged into the Sun's editorial offices demand- ing the letter they had published. When Editor Worthington refused to hand it over, they used the Official Secrets Act as a weapon and searched the premises, all the while being photographed by the Sun's cameramen, and generally being made to look like idiots. Finally, the letter was located and search terminated. Take a Cop to This is Police Week when the Ontario Provincial Police at New- castle will welcome visitors at the Newcastle detachments office on Friday to learn more about their activities and the equipment they use to do the difficult job of keeping law and order in the area. Unfortunately, the Regional Police apparently haven't anything similar laid on for this area but they too will be celebrating the occasion although their local office is not open for visitors except the regular kind. It's only fitting that a special week should be set aside to honor our law enforcement officers because with- out them life would be not quite as peaceful as it is. Even with them, it can become hectic at times, with crime of all types on the increase, especially in the larger centres. Several communities such as Mon- treal and more recently cities in eastern Canada have found how frightening and unbearable things can become if there are no policemen around to protect the civilian population, because whether we like it or not, civilization is held together by an extremely thin It Takes This would be a very pleasant world to live in if it weren't for some people. The above sentiment has to apply to whoever complained to the police about the members of the Bowman- ville Kinsmen Club who held their tollgate campaign on the front street at the east and west ends of town on Saturday, attempting to raise money for Cystic Fibrosis research. Unfortunately, the name of the party laying the complaint has not been made public, because it certainly would be a pleasure to find out just why anyone would take the trouble to go to the police station and lay a complaint. Were they held up for a haîf minute? Too bad. Anyone who would do that should really have his or her picture splashed all over the front page of this newspaper for everyone to see'. The Kinsmen sacrificed their time on a Saturday holiday for most of them, to stand out on the street in the chilly wind, their only hope of personal reward being the satis- faction of helping eradicate a disease that so far has baffled all researchers. The contribution they were making in being willing to spend their time in such a humanitarian activity cannot be measured in dollars and cents. Their efforts over the past few years have Sunday's Sun made the most of the incident as any publisher in the country would have expected. The search and seize gave the Sun a glorious opportunity to again pre- sent Trudeau as a Prime Minister who is leading his party toward a dictatorship. While they made light of it, the editorial and article left no doubt in anyone's mind that this was just another step along the way toward that goal. Memories of the methods used by Hitler and his minions were still too fresh in the minds of people to ignore such actions. No doubt, the opposition forces in Ottawa will have a field day this week in Parliament over the incident, as well they might, adding yet another nail in the Liberal coffin lid. And they will be supported by editorial comment in most of the country's news media. Frankly, we cannot see how the Liberal party federally can possibly regain its credibility before the next election. It is being racked by scandals, its leader has lost the support of labor, the news media and apparently the civil service. It's about time Trudeau's support- ers in the House of Commons and throughout the Liberal party decid- ed to do something about changing their leader, before they hand the government over to the Progressive- Conservatives on a platter. He has obviously run his course. Lunch Week thread. Let that thread break or become entangled and the law of the jungle takes over rapidly. Police- men are that essential thread. So, let's love our cops this week and show them the respect they so richly deserve by making certain we provide them with nothing to do, no reports to make out, no robberies or other crimes to investigate, no speeding tickets to hand out and especially no occasion to rescue drivers trapped in wrecked vehicles following an accident. We might also suggest they not be called to settle family squabbles, search for lost children or anyone who may be drowning or trapped by a fire. Let's just be careful and stay out of trouble this week to give our police a break, so they'll be eager to get back into the battle next week, with their strength renewed by the knowledge that the folks around here really think they are great guys and gals who do a superb job for us. And don't forget to visit the Newcastle OPP office on Friday. They'll be happy to show you around. Ail Kinds been responsible for raising hun- dreds of thousands of dollars to help this worthy cause. It ill behooves any disgruntled and misguided soul who probably hasn't lifted a finger to help anyone but himself or herself to lay a complaint against them. It takes all kinds of people to make a world. Thank God there are more like the Kinsmen than the complainer. For shame! GOD OR GUNS God has the will to fashion still The little things sublime. War may bring death but Spring the breath Of earth's rebirthal time. The warm spring rain will bring again The green grass on the slopes; The crocus frail will still prevail Fulfilling spring-time hopts. Though war-lords strong parade along And work their bloody will, God fashions yet the violet' Bevond their puny skill. Let war-lords dire still fan the fire Or evil.lust for power; I found good cheer to stifle fear - Today the first mayflower. Durham County's Great Family Journa Established 122 years ago n 1854 Also lncorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent TheOrono 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 JOHN M.JAME Editor-Publishe s r GEO, P. MORRIS Business Mgr. BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. -E V. Eddy,, DONALD BISHOP Plant Mgr. 1"Copyright and-or property rights subsist in the image appearing on this proof. 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A good deal of interest has been shown in the last week or so about a comment made in the press with regard to my stopping the Hydro construc- tion at Wesleyville and Dar- lington, the two most recent Ontario Hydro projects in our general area. The people who assume that I have been responsible for stopping them give a great deal more credit to my strength in the Legis- lature than is in fact the case. First of all, the Darlington nuclear station bas been postponed for two years but, according to the latest an- nouncements of Ontario Hydro, will proceed as a nuclear power station at the expiration of that period. The Wesleyville plant has also been postponed for two years, although a great deal of public money has already been spent on the project and a tremen- dous number of man-hours and equipment-hours have been put into it. The new cloverleaf at Wesleyville Road on Highway 401 has been constructed and I believe that installation of most of the footings and piers to support the plant itself has been completed. Oddly enough, the announcement to postpone Wesleyville was made before the announcement to postpone Darlington and at the time it appeared as if Wesleyville would be postponed and Darlington would proceed. I questioned theusanity of that kind of announcement and immediately it was straight- ened out that both would be postponed. The reason for the post- ponement is not the massive political influence or power oP one Doug Moffatt, or in fact of the NDP. The reason for the postponement of these two plants is that the present government refused to guar- antee the bond issues of Ontario Hydro to gather the capital necessary to build them. The reason the Ontario government refused to guar- antee those bonds is that the Ontario government has bor- rowed too much money al- ready. It is simply impossible for this government to con- tinue to borrow money on future investment and hope that we will pay it back somehow. The borrowing rate has exceeded the rate of repayment and we are faced with a debt in the neighbour- hood of $2 billion. In the election campaign that was a major issue in the Liberal platform; it appears to me that the Tories have reacted to Liberal criticism of over- spending and are taking the mnost dramatic way out in order to prove that they are a responsible government. Whe- ther you agree that they are a responsible government or not is not the point; the point is that somehow a number of areas of expenditure must be eut back. Unfortunately in our case that b as meant the stalling of these projects, whether they were needed or not, and now a number of people in the construction trades are out of work. To get to the other part of this issue -- do we need, can we afford, and should we buiid the two plants proposed? With regard to the Wesleyville station, I think that it should proceed now. Obviously we have invested a considerable amount of money in it, we have made a commitment, and it is a false economy to stahl the Wesleyville plant. 1 wouldnwelcome a government announcement or a Hydro announcement to proceed with the Wesleyville plant at this time. | Letters to the 68 Hunt St., Bowmanviile Dear Sirs:, After reading the comments of Planning Director Mr. G. Howden I just know that he neyer shops for a famihy. I do and shop in Bowmanville often but time and time again I drive over to Oshawa Centre to spend a few hours looking and BUYING. dNe are never there that we don't see people from Bow- manville who are over BUY- ING too, it's the variety you see and the chance to walk around and look that we do not have in town. YES, we do need a shopping centre SOON. There would also be some jobs for quite a number, too. Tbank-you, Y. Edmondson Dear Sir: As you can see by my address I live in the Waverly subdivision. Yes, I would like to see the shopping centres being built not just talked about. Besides the advantage of more jobs available for town people, there is too mucb money that should be spent here going to Oshawa and Whitby. Many of us could walk there. In hast weeks States- man Garnet Rickard wanted a new building for Council etc. because there was no parking at the old town hall, weli what -about-the reSt of us that haveto shop up there and have to drive as we can't walk that far, what about parking for us. Surely the council is not so stupid to see for themselves by the time the rest of the bouses and townhouses are occupied we will just have to spend our money in Oshawa as there will be no room here for us up town. Oshawa must really be laughing at al of us for our stupidity. Yours truiy, Mrs. William Darch P.S. A resident of Bowman- ville and Solina for the past 29 years. Dear Sir: And there is no doubt in my mind that you are a sir as no woman who has to do the grocery shopping, Christmas shopping, or just tries to find certain articles, would make such a ridiculous statement. I doubt very much that you've ever gone to the Dominion on a Friday, or rushed for a gift on a Wednesday afternoon, which happened to me last Wednes- day. I really don't understand your ine of thinking. You've polluted us with bouses and subdivisions and yet no more shopping facilities. People talk of so much traffic on the roads, the shortage of fuel and the bigh price of gas. And yet as the paper says 70 per cent leave town to do their shopping. Do you not see how much easier a shopping plaza wouhd make things for the people of Newcastle,rnot to mention the employment it would give, and to a lot of students. We beg of you to reconsider your foolish thought that we do not need a shopping plaza. FRUSTRATED SHOPPERS May 5, 1976. Dear Sir: I would like to enlist your Darlington is a different matter. I think a very careful look at the question of nuclear waste and nuclear use is called for. Ithas not, to my knowledge, beeii proven that nuclear waste can be handled safely. The potential for damage to our environment as a result of a nuclear accident at any of these plants is far beyond the benefits which we are apt to gain from the construction of such a plant. I have suggested, and I intend to keep pushing at this, that because of the size, location and present ownership of the property at Darlington, Ontario Hydro should begin the development of a solar- powered plant at that par- ticular site. There are none in Canada, yet in the next decade or so the world is obviously going to have to develop a technology to .produce elect- rical energy from the sun. It seems to me that this is the time for Ontario and Ontario Hydro to participate in such work. I believe much develop- ment towards this technology bas been done, and continues, in other countries. If we are at all interested in having clean, free energy from the sun developed into electrical energy, we should begin right now or we will never make a beginning. Our commitment to nuclear power, it seems to me, is leading us down a very short-term road, considering that the amount of fissionable material available to meet al our future energy needs will be used up in about 35 to 40 years. I can sec no reason at all why we should proceed with a nuclear plant. If we are going to need that power, let us at this time develop a solar energy plant at Port Darlington. Ediütor co-operation again this year in assisting us to carry out a research program on Ruffed Grouse supported by the Ministry of Natural Re- sources. If you could bring the following information to the attention of your readers, we would be most appreciative. As part of a continuing research program on Ruffed Grouse at the University of Guelph, we are attempting to collect a sample of eggs from the wild. The eggs are, required to provide grouse for use in the research projects. Because of the great dif- ficulty in locating nests, it is necessary to have the co- operation of as many people as possible. Anyone locating a nest within one hundred and twenty-flve miles of Guelph is asked to mark the location, but not to disturb the nest. They should contact us by phoning collect to: Betty Campbell (519) 824-4120 ext. 2703 during office hours. At other times, caîl coleet to: Ah Garbutt (519) 821-3056, Don Price (519) 821-1207, Murray Pengelly (519) 824-0255. We will come and pick up the eggs as soon as possible and will pay the locator one dollar per egg for bis trouble. The number of eggs collect- ed in an area will not be sufficient to harm the local grouse population. All captive birds are, of course, given the best possible care. Your co-operation last year was most appreciated. The birds raised from eggs we collected have allowed us to 25 Years Ago Thursday, April 26th, 1951 Frank C. Kydd, now living in Cuba bas forwarded a cheque for $1,000 to tne Mem- orial Hospital Fund. The son of John Kydd, who along with Dominion Organ and Piano Co., is successfully operating a sugar plantation in Cuba. Cold Spring Beverages will now be called Smith Bever- ages, according to William (Bill) Smith, who purchased the business from Elmer Ott and officially took over Satur- day, April 14th. Orville J. Henderson was recently elected President of the Durham County Club of Toronto. Going after a cat up a hydro pole, Neil Martin, aged 21 was instantly killed when he was knocked to the ground and broke his neck after hie contacted a live wire. He was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Martin, Orono. On Friday evening, Black- stock Y.P.U. presented a three act play "Raggedy Man". Taking part were Wilma Toms, Stuart Dorrell, Joyce Venning, Doreen Van Camp, Jean Griffin, Merrill Van Camp, Glen and Lois Larmer, Bill Ferguson and Richard Van Camp. Directed by Mrs. Earl Dorreil, entertained be- tween acts was supplied by Marjorie McLean, Beryl Larmer and Allan Bailey. A capacity audience enjoyed the play immensely. Red Cross S Exceeds Blo Collecting.3, by Peter Parrott Three hundred and thirty- nine units of blood were collected at last Wednesday's Red Cross blood donor clinic held at the Lions Centre in Bowmanville. This was above the clinic's quota of 300 units but below February's total of 370 units.- Another clinic is scheduled make a number of significant findings. Thank you for your co- operation. S Yours sincerely, Allan Garbutt for A.L.A. Middleton, Associate Professor. The Canadian Cancer Society urgently needs the help of all Canadians to participate in its essential and humanitarian program of re- search support, publie edu- cation and service to patients. Give generously when the volunteer canvasser knocks on your door. #Sri Il Mf M In a recent issue of Canada's so-called national magazine, Mac- lean's, writer Walter Stewart'has an article trying to show that Cana- dians are not the quiet, sober, gray, decent people they think they are. I could have told him that years ago, and have used it as a theme in this column on some occasions. Perhaps the self-perpetuating myth, at home and abroad, that we are sensible, tolerant, respectable, and rather dull, has been fostered by our generally colorless press and equally colorless poiticians. The facts, as Stewart pointed out, in describing several brutal and violent strikes, are otherwise. Canadians, on the wholeare not tolerant. I am young enough to remember when such expressions as "Jew him down", "nigger in the woodpile", "dumb Hunkie" and "greasy wop" were current in the home and on the street. If you came out with -one of those today, you might just be looking for a purple eye or a fat hp from a militant Jew, black, Ukrainian or Itahian. As a result, Canadians have switched their intolerance a bit. We can tell Newfie jokes, because the victims are a long way off. We can tell Paki jokes, because the victims are pretty helpless. And if you are too "tolerant" to indulge in either of these, you can always run down the Yanks, and feel like a virtuous nationalist. Sober? Canadians are about the worst drinkers in the world, with the possibile exception of Scots, who get ugly, Irishmen, who get belligerent, and Poles, who get gloomy. Maybe we are the worst. We get all three. If you do happen to be a decent, sensible, middleaged person, and you don't behieve a word of this slander, drop in to your local bar or beer parlor on a Friday night. There are scenes that would nake Hog- arth, chronicler of the 17th century gin places in London, quail in his cravat. I once sat in a beer parlor and watched this scene. Four commer- cial fishermen came in. Tough, violent men. They sailed into the beer as though there were going to be a brewery strike within the hour. And within the hour they were drunk and ugly and vicious. One called another a "sonuvabitch", an old Canadian expletive often used as a tçrm of affection. The other. in maudlin mood, retored "Don't you talk about my mother like that," cracked his glass in two on the edge In the Dim and Dis tant Pas' 49 Years Ago Thursday, May 12th, 1927 Bowmanville loses a popu- lar and useful citizen in the removal from town of Mr. Alex Elliott, Jeweler, who with his family left Wednes- day morning for St. John, N.B., where he bas been employed by one of the largest retail jewelry firms in that city. Charlie Cawker has won first prize with his essay on Fire Prevention. On Monday and Tuesday at the Royal Theatre, "The Kid Brother" starring Harold Lloyd will be shown. Miss Bertha Tamblyn daughter of the late W.W. Tamblyn, formerly of Bow- manville and now of Toronto, bas written an anthem, "wait Thou on God", which was chosen out of 900, by an American firm, to be publish- ed. Solid brick house for sale, eight rooms, one acre land on the corner of Liberty ~Street and Concession. For quick sale $2,500 or less. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. F. Haddy and Jack and Miss Agnes K. Haddy, have return- ed from a trip to the Mississippi Valley. Miss Violet Scott, Port Hope bas been Deputy Registrar of East Durham since her fatber's deatb. Woc. Clinic ýod Quota 39 UJnits for May 28 at the Courtice Secondary Scbool. The Cour- tice cinie is for studer- attending the school or those who missed the opò'ri> tunity to give blood hast Wednesday The next blood donor elinic to be held in Bowmanville will take place in August. of the table, and jammed the ragged edge in the first speaker's face. Blood and language flowed freely, but there wasn't even a fight. It was just arlother Saturday night in Canada, and not untypical of an evening in that beer parlor. "Putting the boots" to someone who is down is something you might associate with the slums of Glasgo- or Paris or Hamburg. It is not a, that unusual on a Canadian Satur- day night. Reasonable? Courteous? Cana- dians? Don't make me laugh. Just take a drive on a four or six-lane highway. Admittedly, most people fit those two adjectives, but there is a large minority who make Canada one of the worst places in the world to drive, as any American will tell you. Just the other day I was driving on a three-lane, one-way highway. Solid old Bill was in the middle lane, gauge right on the 60-mile per hour himit. Suddenly, a car cut in front of me from the left lane, and, simultaneously, one from the right lane. Both were trying to get into my lane, about 50 feet ahead of me. They almost collided, before veering off like a couple of startled trout. Neither had any reason for passing me. I found myself almost wishing they had crashed, if it weren't for me being the filling in the sandwich. Ask the people of southern England about the First Brigade of Canadians in World War. Il. Find out something about the Halifax riots at the end of that war. Ask your Dad if he was among the Canadian Troops who booed their own prime minister at Aldershot, in the same struggle. If I were in a tight spot, I'd just as soon have a Canadian back to back with me as anybody else. We are tough and brave and resourceful. We have a wry gift for not swallowing BS, no matter who is dishing it out. But let's be honest. We are not a. nation of gentle, reasonable, toler- ant, dull, sober, clear-thinking nambie pambies, as so many nations, and so many of our own politicians, think us. We have'too much wild blood in l us, from all those immigrants wh ,e been pouring into this paradise4for 200 years. We are tolerant. We are bad drinkers and drivers. We have a propensity for violence that may explain our great reputation in a couple of wars. You can watch it all in the hockey playoffs. RR*URRUKRUUWERUUUWRi Sua aind Spi By Bill Smiley TheWI'ld Ones 7vean r