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2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, September 15, 1976 Section Two EDITORIAL COMMENT Small Lotteries Suffering The current trend to big lotteries such as Wintario, the Olympies, etc. is having a considerable impact right across Canada . . . and all of it is not good. People are pouring money into these draws ho ing to reap big returns for their dollars. Whle a considerable amount of the money collected is being redis- tributed throughout communities in Ontario for worthwhile projects, most of them require that com- munity to come through with matching funds raised locally., All of this sounds great. So far, better facilities for sports, com- munity meeting places and arena repairs have been the result in areas that needed them. The lotteries and grants are having a side effect, owever, that in the long run could mean trouble, because they are competing with draws held locally. And you can't blame citizens for bypassing the purchase of tickets where the prize is only $1,500 or a similar amount when they can buy a chance on a lottery where they are distributing millions in prizes. In the long run, this competition is going to make things very tough for service clubs and other organiza- tions to raise funds for their worthwhile community projects. The Legion here is already finding life somewhat complicated for their monthly welfare fund draw and, no doubt, other groups will experience the same problems so that long term wise there could be major difficul- ties in small areas raising funds to match the grants that are available from the government sponsored lotteries. Should this develop, it will eliminate local involvement in fund raising with more and more responsibility being handed over to governments that already have taken over many services that once were taken care of by community volunteers. The end result will be, more civil servants and more taxes to pay for them doing the same work that used to be done for free by public spirited people. Not All Are Greedy, (Wingham Advance Times) One of the less desirable develop- ments of mass communications has been the tendency for commentators and other speakers to generalize when they talk of the various elements in our population, thus branding all members of any group or class by the reputation of the most outspoken. All unemployed become lazy; all union members become wage-greedy; all business leaders become covetous. Listening to a sermon from the United States on Sunday morning we were disappointed to hear a prom- inent divine railing against the dishonesty and basic greed of businessmen. The preacher did not become specific; he did not name the businesses or business leaders whom he believes to be human vultures. He simply spoke of business people in general as a class who have discardeduall rules of decency in their lust for more money. The speaker repeatedly stated that God looks after humans and provides for their needs. It sounded as though he actually believes that sitting quietly in a corner and waiting for the Almighty to provide is the Christian way to life. He apparently forgot about the parable o the talents and the fact that the servant who did nothing to seek a financial profit was cast into outer darkness. Of course there are crooked and greedy businessmen. You can read or hear about them every day. Similarly there are lazy farmers and incompetent doctors and misguided ministers. You seldom read an account of the righteousness and decency of the others. Why not? Because they comprise the vast majority in their own fields of endeavour, whatever they may be. Ministers of the gospel do not have any "corner" on conscience - as most ministers know full well. Business leaders, even though they may control huge blocks of money, are not necessarily evil. The old pirates of the industrial revolution are no longer with us. Though some businesses and their owners may be able to operate under a cloak of crooked secrecy, most of them freely disclose the nature of their earnings and the uses to which those funds are put. If you want to look more closely, consider the businessmen you know, right here in your own community. How many of them do you really believe are dishonest? The fact is that no small town businessman can afford to be crooked. His reputation, along with his clientele, would be demolished in a matter of weeks. The news media are frequently accused of disseminating only the bad news and saying nothing about the good. That is true, because good news is not news; it is the commonplace. We could be equally critical of the minister who harps unendingly on the sins of his fellowmen. There is so much to be said about the decency of the average man and woman. » Big Darlington Dump Dear Editor: First the Solandt Commission high power transmission lnes that will visually pollute our beautiful front from one end to the other in the -Town of Newcastle. Then the Darlington Nuclear Power Station on the Bowmanville lakeshore. Then the plans for the Eldorado Nuclear Limited plant at Port Granby -- and now the final indignity -- L35, a major garbage dump to be located in the Town of Newcastle in Darlington to handle all the solid residential, commercial, industrial, construc- tion and demolation waste generated within the Region of Durham from now till the year 1995. Dreadful, a real dreadful situ- ation. The fact of L35 was brought about this week as the result of publishing a Solid Waste Management Study compiled by the James F. MacLaren Company Limited for the Durham Regional Council. The work was commissioned by the Region of Durham in October 1974. According to the study, L35 will be created by expanding the capacity of the existing Darlington landfill site located at thejoth Concession in the vicinity of Lot 31. To start the expansion the district waste from Uxbridge Township will now be trucked to Darlington as the formerly used Uxbridge site dis- posal contract ended on August 31, 1976. When the garbage dump at Scott Township is closed in November of this year, the waste of Scott will wind up in Darlington. Action at Darlington will reach a peak in 1979 when garbage from Cartwright and Oshawa will be trucked in. According to the MacLaren Study, L35, a 250 acre area, is isolated with a high topographic situation. There is no farming in the area and the site is relatively dry with no surface water problems -- this is what the experts say. Councillor Bruce Tink, the Town of Newcastle's member on the Regional Works Committee was present at the meeting when L35 was discussed and it was his action that moved the proposition closer to completion by moving further engineering and hydrogeological studies "to expand the capacity of the existing Darlington landfill site." I have felt for a long while -- ever, since I saw what the Region of Durham was costing the people of Newcastle -- that Regional Govern- ment was a bust but this does it up Durham County's Great Family Journa' Established 2 years ago in 1854 Also lncorporafing 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 QCNA JOHN M. JAME Editor-Publisher S Ir GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr. BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. DONALD BISHOP Plant Mgr. 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Since the house has not been meeting during the summer we have not had a weekly column appearing in the papers. Now that things are getting back to some kind of normal procedure in legisla- tive matters we will be resuming the weekly column and hopefully I can manage to put together something each week of interest and of at least political and sometimes of far more reaching importance to the residents of Durham East. Before I begin this particular columa I would like to welcome those people who have moved to the riding during the summer months. For your convenience we maintain a constituency office at 26 King St. W. in Bowman- ville. We also have three telephone numbers for those who wish to reach their member of legislature or if you have any problems or questions. You can call the Bowmanviile office at 623- 9155; the Oshawaenumber is- 576-7880; and for those people in Newtonville and Orono, the Orono office number is 983- 9302. Over the summer I have had the opportunity to be part of the Select Committee studying the transportation of goods on Ontario's highways. This com- mittee has attempted to take its deliberations to all parts of the province to allow people in the various areas to speak to representatives of allthe political parties and have some input into the formula- tion of transportation policy for the Province of Ontario. Before beginning on the com- mittee I was aware there were difficulties in the transporta- tion of goods because of the dispute between those people who hold public commercial vehicle licences and a small but certainly active group of people who were avoiding the purchase of public commer- cial vehicle licenses and were maintaining some kind of transportation of their own for a number of shippers. This obviously had led to a good deal of confusion with those people who have gone to the expense and time of building up atransportation of goods service for all of the rural communities with the applica- tion to pcv licences and so on. They feel that they are not being treated fairly and people who are involved ln what is called independent trucking feel that the restrictions on transportation have been far too tight and that the public good bas not been served. As a result of the hearings we have held all members of the committee have come to appreciate that the trans- portation of goods by trucks in the province of Ontarlo is of great consequence particular- ly to rural communities and we have amassed a good deal of evidence to prove that the present system of licensing at least does support truck deliveries and shipping possi- bilities to rural communities. Oddly enoughathough, in our deliberations around the pro- vince and hearing a number of groups we have had very few people from srnall outlying communities either in the eastern, central or northern parts of Ontario inform us of the positive or negative aspects of. continued or in- creased legisuative licensing of trucking companies for the service of the public in Ontario. The one thing that all members of the committee agree on: the continuance of trucking over the entire pro- vince as a kind of public utility of critical importance to manufacturing and employ- ment opportuaitiesin al regions of the province is vital. This week the commit- tee is going to Washington to meet wîth the Interstate Commerce Commission where similar questions have been dealt with by American legis- lators. One of the other interesting aspects of this study is the fact that in North America it is possible for a citizen to buy a license plate in Ontario for an automobile and then drive through any part of North America with that particular license plate being legal passage requirements over any roads. The same is not true with trucks. For a trucking company to engage in travel in other jurisdictions it is quite often necessary for them to purchase some kind of extra permit, or trip permit or indeed in some states it is necessary to purchase a complete duplicate licence for that particular truck which only allows the trucktapass over the roads of the state. In one instance we heard from a gentleman who has a trucking company established in Ontario who had, in order to carry out hisbusiness in Colorado, ta purchase seven additional license plates at good. The people of our Town are paying through the nose for Region- alism and now the Darlington area of the Town of Newcastle through L35 is to develop into the garbage dump for the whole bloody works -- I'l be fighting this L35 thing at approximately $1 This meant when went on the roa licence capability where in the neigi eight to ten thous and this increas licensing had led( increased consum result of those1 placed on the vehi respect one ofthe committee is attempting to deal idea of making tri as intercbangeabl mobile licences pr There are some discussions along t this is one of ther committee willk Washington. We have also a deal with some of t taxation as it pertai transportation. It larly interesting discover that the1 Revenue is rea emphatic about taxes on fuel us, province whether( fuel was purchas province. I hada suppose along wi other people, that your gasoline tank at Detroit, andt from Detroit to Nia N.Y. you would i pay a tax on the am used because youf your fuel when pu the United Stat enough', what does that the trucking must make out a c of reports and in much fuel they wou they would have u trip across Ontari remit the appropri of gasoline tax.T seems a pretty pon of collecting rev other views no do made on that parti as the report of the is finalized. Some peopleï happens with a rep a committee and what really happe several months various pieces of by the government will be drafted drafting of that legi be based ln princ statements in the fi of our select comm I am finding iti interesting part ofp but I must add that from one city to ani and five days a sometimes to tii Region -- I can only hope th get the needed support fr people of Newcastle to aid m battle. Sincerely, Kenneth E. Lyall A Corner for Poets FAME And there was one great personage called Fame With whom we sought encounter by the way; Only a glance we thought would mean so much. At last it happened as I strolled one day I saw a light advancing far ahead. It neared me and I saw the face of Fame. But its bright face grew dim as it care nearer, And when at last I saw its features clearer They were not bright as I had hoped to see. Then I discovered others walked with him One on each side in garments clad And the were linked to hi bonds so stout That Fame could not escape alone. One stranger wore a disap face, The other face was all be with tears. And So I learned a lesson; deep. These shadows walk beside all the way: For Disillusionment proves] hol}ow} ight, And Loneliness goes with ti the weary way. -E.V. Ed 000.00 each. that truck d it had a y of some- 1hborhood of ,and dollars ed cost of certainly to er costs as a high taxes iicle. In this i things the seriously I with is the uck licences au q'Iin estyat "I HATE YOU, Bill Smiley! I hate interesting you!" This line was not from a hat line and disgruntled student, an irate parent, reasons our or an ungentle reader. It was my be visiting wife talking. ttempted to The occasion was our parting for the areas of our annual separate holiday, and she ains ta truck was a bit irate, ungentle and is particu- disa ,unee n ta me ta disgruntled-. Ministry of She had been up at seven, ironing ally quite my shirts and packing my bag. I was collecting up at the stroke of 10, well-rested ed n the and ready for breakfast. sed n the .Quite a bit of planning had gone assumed, 1 into our holiday. I was to fly to th a lot of Halifax for a weekly editors' if you filled convention. She was to climb into the ks with fuel rusty old Dodge and head west to see then drove her Dad for a few days. My daughter agara Falls, not have to and husband were to come and stay nount of fuel at our place for a couple of days, paid tax on with the grandsons. urchased in It all seemed perfectly logical and es. Od ily sml om Bt t. . es Oddly simple to me. But nothing is ever gcompany simple to my wife, except on those ompleteset fairly frequent occasions when I ar dicate how completely baffled by something ld estimate that must be fixed around the house, ised in that o and then and she finally does it with an ate amount exasperated kick or a triumphant This to me crow. We keep a lot of triumphant derous way crows in the basement for such venue and instances. ubt will be cular issue At any rate, on this occasion, it committee finally hit her, an hour before we split, that there was something ask what rotten in Denmark. She had been ort on such I suppose shopping and house-cleaning for two ns is over days to leave everything spotless or years and well-stocked for the kids. She legislation had been planning the meals and the of the day scrubbing and cleaning she was and the slation will going to do at her father's. And she ciples and had ben working like somebody in nal reports Upstairs, Downstairs to get me off nittee. on my jaunt clean and respectable. indeed an She got a bit grim around the lips parliament travelling on that last morning, but didn't nother four crack up until I came down, fresh week and from my bath and shave, and e United inquired urbanely: "Is my bag at I can packed? Thelimousine will be here rom the any moment to take me to the ie in the airport." That's when she emitted the opening line of this column. I knew what it was immediately. I patted her back and said: "There, there, dear. You don't have to start scrubbing at Grandad's the minute you arrive. Take a half hour break after the drive and have a nice cup of sombre tea." As'it turned out, everything worked fine. After pounding me a im with few on the chest, she had a good cry and we both felt better. She got the to walk floor scrubbed at her dad's the very afternoon I was out on the Bluenose pointed Il in Halifax Harbor. And she had cooked a good dinner and had the ,grimed dishes washed at her father's just about the time I was slurping înto bitter, my third lobster and listening to a good Dixieland band in Halifax. And Fame it took her only two hours to get the car started for her return trip, just Fame a about the time I climbed aboard to be coddled by stewardesses on my return trip. I think separate holidays hem all like that are good for any marriage. And it seems even better for the dyvean woman in the partnership. She got States had led to a rather busy summer for myseif. As the committee finalizes its report I hope I will be able to inform persons in Durham East of some of the other conclusions that we are reaching. WR' k, M M M 25 Years Ago Thursday, September 6th, 1951 The $72.000 Orono United Church will be officially dedicated at services to be held Sunday, September 6th and l6th. The old Orono Church was completely de- stroyed by fire Feb. 19th, 1950, about six months after reno- vating operations were com- pleted. An enrolment of 835 Public School pupils set a record attendance on opening day at Bowmanville. An Ontario grant bas lowered the cost of school books in the lower grades and which are supplied by the school board. Called to the home of Ivan Farrow, south of Orono, on Saturday, Game Warden Ken Tolmie, shot and killed a bald eagle that was killing chickens at Farrows. Residents will now pay $3.75 for a private line with Bell Telephone Co., an increase of 70 cents per month. Private business ines go to $675 from $5.00. Mr. David C. Peter com- menced duties this week as the new director of music in Central and Ontario Public Schools and at B.H.S. Blackstock Fair was of- ficially opened by Hon. Mayor Foote on Saturday. Officials of the Fair Board are Bruce Heaslip, past pres., Howard Forder, pres., Neil Malcolm, lst vice-pres., Fred Trewin, 2nd vice-pres., Henry Thomp- son, secretary-treasurer. In the Dim and )is tant Past 49 Years Ago Thursday, August 25th, 1927 Mr. J. H. Abernethy painter and interior decorator bas been awarded the contract for general repairs, ainting and varnishing the Bowmanvile Post Office. It is believed this is the first time the Post Office and customs buildings has had" a complete repairing and brightening up since it was built la 1903. The Bowman House Inn is being completely modernized. The following business men have formed a limited corn- pany to run the Inn. Pres. - T H. Knight, Vice Pres. - G. Edmonston, Sect'y. - Capt. E. Dickinson, Treas. - W. P. Corbell, Director - Major W. J. Hoar. Seven year old Jimmy Hart, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hart, Cowaa Bldg., tawa, wbile playing witb bis little sister, on Thursday, fell into Vanstone's pond near the waste gates and was drowned. R. S. Mcbaugblin, president of General Matons bas con- sented to send his Irish Hunters and Thoroughbreds to Bowmanville Fair on Wednes- day to give an exhibition of jumping. Boys' Athletic Society of B.H.S. elected as president - John James, vice president - John Millson, secretary - Morgan Luany, Treasurer - Gregory Colmer, fonm V rep. - John Millson, IV - Stuart Chandler, III - Frank Jamie- son, II - Oscar Jamieson, I - Allan Osborne. SugarN AN By BOi SmileyN H Ioiday Time hom rested, refreshed and looking wonderful. I got home exhausted and looking like a skeleton with white hair. It must have been that sea air that tired me out. Another thing. Splitting like that is about the only way we can get to see our old friends. She had a grand vise and some good talks and even wer for a couple of drives with some of her longtime friends, and caught up on all the sensational dirt on everybody. And I went for a sail on the Bluenose, walked around Citadel Hill and sank the odd refreshment with some other old grumps as we reminisced about the days whE selling a $10 ad was the highlight or- your week, and getting out a 12-page paper was about the equivalent of cleaning the Augean stables. My old friends in the business are in pretty good shape, considering that most of us are grandfathers. Quite a few are semi-retired, turnin over the papers to sons and daughters an themselves working a day or two a week. That's the way I'd like to ease into the twilight years. But I don't have a paper anymore, my son is in Paraguay, and my daughter is bus having babies. I wonder if they'd seli me a piece of the high school where I teach, so I'd have a good racket going to pass along to my grand- sons? There were some poignant mo- ments and some funny ones at the convention. There was a tear in most eyes and a lump in most throats when Cecil Day, one of the grand old publishers of the Maritimes, was given a standing ovation and choked up completely with emotion when he tried to respond. There was sheer delight in listening-in as one editor trie to talk to a pretty and charming young French lady in pure Ottawa Valley French. There was great fun, and not a little confusion as Don McCuaig of Renfrew, Per Hvidsten of Port Perry and Bill Smiley of Midland planned, well into the wee hours, the Grand Post-Convention Tour to Paraguay, starting on Nov. 12 from Pickering Airport in a Sopwith Camel. And there was a very warm anc unexpected experience for yours truly. No, it wasn't sitting next to Joe Clarke and Maureen McTeer and Robert Stanfield in the coffee shop. It wasn't listening to a speech by Howie Meeker, though both these things happened. It was t e announcement of a new award for Canadian community newspapers: Outstanding Colum- nist. It was a well-kept secret until this humble columnist was called to the odium and presented with a han some plaque and an even handsomer cheque. I was so flustered I didn't know whether I was receiving a Standing Ovation or just a Warm Clap. Whichever, thank you, chaps and girls. There are some excellent columnists writing for our papers, and I'm glad you said it efore you had to say it with flowers. top,