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2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmnaavile, ljcto ber b, lgib ection 1wo E'DITOURIAL COMMýýJENT - You Can't Beat Volunteers :That was quite an amazing event at Newcastle Village on Saturday when Fire Station No. 2 was officially opened with appropriatec dfgnity and ceremonial speeches including well deserved accolades to the volunteer members of the brigade. These community minded.citizens put on such a concentrated cam- Sîgn over many months that it ecame impossible for council to pass them by or delay action that a.s now resulted in them having one of the best fire halls in the area. When Rod Carveth's garage became, available, brigade mem- bers saw an opportunity to at long last to get out of those cramped quarters they had been using for years, and taàke over suitable, enlarged quarters for their equip- ment. Andf they went, to work on council members and-any interested local citizens who could be persuad- ed to lend su pport. They distributed apetition callingfor action, ;attend- ed.council meetings en masse and generally pestered and cajoled until they were able to obtain a favorable decision. With ail the other priorities, thàt council had, it wasn't an easy campaign, but they made more noises than anybody else's squeak- ing wheel and finally got their point across. However, the work didn't end there. Once they had the commit- ment and were allotted some funds, they spent many hours of their own labor to make the dreamn corne true. Outsiders probably have no idea how much dedication and effort was put into painting and doing other chores around the hall before it was, completed to their satisfaction. Ail in ail, it was a masterful program that deserves a great deal of praise from ail citizens of the community. On Saturday, brigade volunteers were outfitted in their best spotless uniforms, proud as punch to finally see the magnificent resuits of their efforts. Those who attended the function couldn't help being infected by their enthusiasm and the grins of satisfaction that said so clearly "We did it, in spite of ail the obstacles encountered along the way. " Our hats are off to the members of Newcastle Village's Fire Brigade for a superb job that the entire town should be proud of; they are a mighty fine outfit and a credit to the commrunity. "~~~~~~/~ ryWCI ~ P'F/ EU4'ù)/IWTAR/O Buc/<5;75 jF/X 1P 7/Z Back on Campajign Trail Af ter ail these long months of snrk remarks and apparaent ndfeence to complaints it was rather interesting last week to see and hear reports of Prime Minister Trù*deau reverting to his most charming self and doing some campaigning for a change. Frankly, frQm what we received, he hasn't changed a bit, and when he wants to bé; can be just as charming as ever. Andç prossibly as conivincing. Certainly, his lot and the rot of Fèderal Liberals aifl over- the couintry has not been a happy one during the past year. With the stgýrise introduction of price and wàge icon1trols last Thanksgiving the populiarity of the government and its pa.ry support has waned badly to thé,- point where the opinion poils ha Ve themi rid-Ing well behind the Progressive Conservatives. Soù, Pierre must have decided that sonwhthin-g had to be done, probably at ' the urging of his Memrbers of Pariament who m nust be fearing for theirfture, Anyway, w are now seeing the chamrieleon change his coat from the 'who gives a djamn, we are God's chosen pol'to his sweetniess andlight garment and lecturing Toronto Liberals on their responsibilities. Quite a switch! For the first time since his election as party leader, the PC's Joe Clark is aiso emerging from his cocoon ai the same time, gradually finding his feet and his' voice as he attempts to counteract the impact of smoothy Pierre and his lovely and talentec wife, Margaret, who usually ap- pears along wîth him. To date, there hasn't beenany resurgence of Mrs. Clark, but that probably will follow shortly. Most interesting. Next week, when the CLC's Day of Protest either falîs flat on its face or really smacks the government and its anti-inflation poicies with a resounding blow, we shall see if the government in its own interest wil] continue the controls for the three year period or decide to ease up on them long before that time in order to boost party popularity and restore party confidence in time for the next election. Whatever your politics, the next year or two should be interesting and newsworthy. The Prime Mini- ster and his Opposition leader opponent are already setting the stage for some interesting and bitter debates in the monqths ahead, and we can't help, wondering if Pierre will once again be able to rally his forces behind him and win or if Joe Clark- will gain sufficient support to upset the apple cart,- or if Ed Broadbent and the NDP's current corporate welfare lbums campaign will make some inroads. We shahl see. I eprtFrom VQueens Park IU I by DOUG MOFFATT M.P.P.I by Doug Moffat, MPP, Durham East We have received in the office, a great many letters signed by the residents of the Riding of Durham East com- plainîag about, the rapîd increase la property taxation coupled witb an apparent lack ia some of the services enjoyed by other muacipali- ties. The property tax increases bave been due to a variety of causes and I would urge people who are sending la those particular letters and petitions to continue to do so and I promise you that we will put tbem to the best possible use and wherever we can affect some change la the way property taxes bave been escalating la the Region of Durham we will do our very best. Mail tbem either to 26 King St. W., Bowmaaville, or to Rm. 230, North Wing, Queen's Park. If you want a response 1 will need your addresses. 1 have received a number so far wbere people have not iaclud- ed their address and have just signed their namne and I find it difficuit to collect the correct postal address. I thought this week as well it would be worth sharing with members of the constituency some tbougbt that the NDP caucus bas had witb regard to property taxation. The Trea- surer la bis budget speech, last spring, presented the suggestion tbat there would be a switcb to market value assessment across the pro- vince to equalize the difficul- ties in taxation. After studyiag the suggestions put out by the Blair Commission on Taxation the caucus presented a brief to the Blair Commission last week. Our research bas showa that market value assessment will la fact make the kind of increases we.have alI faoed la property taxes even more uacomfortable la the next few years, t appears to us that the kinds of changes that will take place la the Region of Durham wbere we bave seen rapidly încreasiag bouse prices -and land prices, when this as- sessment is 50 per cent of the real market value aIl of our assessrnents will increase dramatically. The oaly other place wbere this- metbod of taxation bas been tried and studied properly, the Niagara Region, it bas become ap- parent tbat the residential property is the one area wbicb is most drastically affected. La the Niagara area it appears la a document wbich we bave from the Ministry of Revenue that after market value assessmeat came into effect la Welland a tax increase of 20 per cent on single family residences and a decrease of 16 per cent on multiple dwellings became a fact of lîfe. After very carefully lookiag at the evideace la the Niagara Region we find la almost every case single family residence and farm properties had assessmeat greatly increased and taxes greatly increased as a result. We object streauously to this proposai of the Blair Commission and we also object strenuously to the proposaIl haviag the govera- ment pay the taxes on farms and haviag those taxes then become a liability to the farm. What we argued for and preseated very clearly la our brief was a proper farm income stabilization policy in Durham Counfys Great Farnily j'iurna! 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Letters to the Editor 14n R17 Dear Sir: This letter is to request you: assistance in providinig infor. mation to the publie regarding The, Arthritis Society's up- and-coming campaign. We would appreciate you publish- ing the following information in your next issue. The students of the Bowman- ville Secondary School are conducting a campaign on behalf of The Arthritis Socle- ty, Oct. 6 to 13, in the communities of Bowmanville, Orono and Newcastle. All funds raised in this campaigr will go towards the ultimate goal to control ail forms of arthritis.>The Society spear- heads a nationwide attack on arthritis including researchr and education, Rheumatie Disease Uniýs at leading hospitals, information and direct patient care througlr our home physiotherapy pro- gram. Our gol for fuids in 1976 is $3,000. Our camnpaigin will involve door-to-door canvass through- out the week of Oct. 6, when your support is greatly ap- preciated. Thank' you for your co- operation. i-elp of tais nature is invaluable. If you bave any Ir further questions please do not - besitate to caîl me. ig Yours truly, - Brent Cochrane. Orono, Ont. Sept. 27, 1976 tt I the province of Ontario so that farmers would be able to stand on their own two feet and would not require govera- ment handouts by baving the goverament pay their taxes for ther n order to keep tbem in business. To us, the proposal by the treasurer makes no sense at ahl. One of the other proposals in the Blair Commission to wbich we objected was the adjust- ment of taxation on com- mercial and business proper- ties which after investigation we found would sigaificaatly increase the amouait of tax payable by srnall businesses, particularly srnall owner operated retail businesses. Ia fact, some of the larger businesses and industries would have their taxes reduc- ed if the proposai were irnplemented. We think there should be sorne form of differential business assess- ment which would at the very least discriminate la the favour of small business and that sbould be a fact of taxation flilaOntario. Proposal number 6 of the Blair Commission recom- meads that ýpublic property sbould be subject to taxation as well. We really feel that while there may be some menit to this what is going to happea is that a tremeadous amount of bookwork is goiag to be necessary to have schoolboards, who will be the major sufferer, pay taxes to a municipality and then receive credit back. 1 arn concerned about how we can expand the tax base by using this very expensive and tirne-consum- ing method., There is a proposaI to tax al] properties/, owned by chari- table and cburch organiza- tions and we feel that this will hasten the end of some of the charities which have built quality of life into a lot of' communities. We see no reason at aIl to put tbis extra weight of taxation onl the volunteer sector at this time. ln the presentation of the brief, we suggeste(l to the co)mmission that, many of the si aI d goals of t he gavera- ment taxxation policy were completely out of step with the aims aad wisbes of the people >f this province and that tbey shouId retura tti the govera- ment with specific revisions. 'l'here is in (>ur view no sense al, ail in tùrdening further the residential property owaers and rural taxpayers of the province who are already at t he point wbere taxation is becoming one of the major expenses in their lives. Dear Sir: 1 arn writing you regards C_ sorne 'Observations' I have made. 1. I1940 my taxes on 115 iacres were $63.59. Ia 1951 ,nsaine property was $121.61. Ia ,e1976 saine property $1158.83. )fAnother farm I owned in 1951, r- taxes were $121.61. Now ýn$1183.35. A house 1W0 years old hpriced in Orono about $29000. ctaxes over $400, other homes gover $800 and as bigh as daround $1,300. What will hanother twenty five years )briag will Bill Davis and D iarcey MctKeouigh aloag with Regipoi.aI tov epnent an tr,!oi eSchlool Boards? Tbey al have iraned too mucb down our nthroats without co'nsenit of the people aaýd tax payers, mn tbe town (j.f Newcastle. Hope taxes are less, Cavan and Manvers accordingly and tgetting tbiags done, which is a )credit. Would any of the tmunicipalities in Victoria or Manvers, joia up with Lind- say? a decided "No". But Newman tried hard to convia- ce them. After listeniag to the mayor of Oshawa on T.V. I am more coavinced that ever, what my predictions were "That Dur- ham County would be the rnilk ceow for Oshawa and points west." Now, they. want to put their-garbage here too. "To bell with thern," Darlington 7and Cartwright perbaps to- gether. But not another Port Hope. Wake up Durham, and 7every village figbt for more 1recognition as to their rights in Durham Region. "There is an election coming up and every candidate should prove lie or she is a property owner in that municipahity. Another thing I consider crazy is, Wby should any purchaser of any property bave to buy 40, - 10 - or 4 acres to bave a home? Whea one acre or less would do. This means land wasted, growing weeds and golden rod, to pollute the country.' Industry, rnaybe "Yes" but not good agricultural land, I have to give credit to the mayor and Ken Lyall re water plant in Newcastle. It's good business and tbey were look- ing into the future of New- castle expanding in tbree directions, which it will and be required at present growtb. Also to Ana Cowman, who stated the $30,000 would be better applied on a new Arena, than for four or five rnontbs skating. The school board aeeds to, be put in their place too. Wby advance another $2,40é to these administrators, wben they are not worth the half of wbat tbey receive cornpared to teachers and oýbers? "Why hire consultants to do a job, that our elected representatives are supposed to do?" These thiags ail corne out of the taxpayers. The sooner the old boundary line between Durham and Ontario County returas, the better goverament we may have. These committees just keep passiag the buck around to escape responsibility. For ex- ample, Wrn. Stutt previous to 1910, sold to the C.N.R. about 60 f t. la width on the north bouadary lines of bis farm, for a railway line, whicb was in the village limits of the village of Orono. About 1935 after the tracks were takea up a representative of the C.N.R. came tbrougb this district, traasferred the deeds to the t i 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 27, 1961 Co-managers of the H. Powell Chemical Company, -- Roy and Herbert Powell closed the deal on September 2th, to purchase the old Bowmanville Hospital. A $15,000 fire on September l9th, razed the barn of Alex McRobbie, destroying one horse, 13 pigs, a considerable amount of farm equipment, including a new tractor and crops stored ini the barn. The first twins to be born in the new Memorial Hospital were Sharon and Karen Tait,' daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William Tait. Miss Mory Blue was guest speaker at the B & P Women's Club on Thursday and gave her impressions of t, conditions in England. Miss Arlene Rosevear, Ty- rone, attended Achievement Day at Blackstock and recei- ved a silver spoon for complet- ing ber unit with Bowmanville Country Cl -ub. In Bowmanville 48 building ? ~~NApermits have been issued since January with a total value of $272,610. In Darling- ton Township 96 permits, valued at $398,750 were issued. Betbany basebaîl team de- feated Blackstock at Janet- ville on Thursday, to win the diction over the Newcastle North Durham Cbampionship CommunityHall. two years in a row. Sincerely, Mr. Talbert Kellett has sold Kenneth E. Lyall his 200 acre farm in Tyrone to Councillor. Mr. Darrow of Toronto. ýeprevious owners for the cosl Yapproxirnately for the trans- fer. The Ont. government pir- cbased this farm for refor-est- ration, which included tisç road, whicb goes into, the centre of the village of Orono, anîd was kept up by Clarke 6Council. Then later, the Ontar- io government foreed Region- al Government on us, witl scertain boundaries including etowns, villages, and hamlets in the Region. Now the Regior 5don't want to own this road, 1maintain it or bring it up tc 1regulations required. The Senior citizens own property, just nortb along side of this road. Can't build, selI or jget anywhere. Who owns this road, The Ontario goverament the Region or who pays the taxes? Clarke is taxed higher than any other township next to it, and gets the least attention. Orono needs a Senior citizen home, se-werage at once, before an out break "of fever', as of 1910. Any conservative candidate running for M.P.P. in this riding, will have as much chance as a snow ball on a red bot stove, and getting hotter. Even our young Conservatives are getting ashamed of the party. 1 haven't seen Morley Beatbs, "Obituary." His short bora cows must bave chewed it Up. Yours truly, A long time Conservative Editor's Note: You don't sound too happy about some- thing. Dear Editor: Concerning the Newcastle Community Hall Board. It bas been brougbt to my attention that a story is going the rounds of the former Village of Newcastle and district that "Councillor Ken Lyall bas resigned from the Newcastle Community Hall Board. " Before the story goes any furtber and is embellished any furtber 1 would like to comment on the subject. I, as a Town Councillor, was appointed to the Newcastle Community Hall Board as a Town representative. Since that time, wbile attending Hall Board meetings, 1 bave been dismayed to discover wben Hall Board accounts were being discussed that Commun- ity Hall Board members are paid monies out of Hall Board funds for work done by these members in the Hall beyond their Hall Board duties. This work consists of main- tenance work and supervising duties. Lt is my opinion that this work should be done by non-Board members. Not knowing what the legal or moral position was of Hall Board members taking money for work done in the Hall outside their Board duties, I proposed the following motion at the Board meeting Monday. September 27th. "Be it resolved that the Newcastle Community Hall Board seek legal advice as to the legal position of members of the Newcastle Cornmunity Hall Board witb regards to possible confliet of interest when mnembers receive pa y for work done on behaîf of the Board beyond Hall Board duties." No member of the Board would second the motion so the motion died with no action being taken. In view of this non-action, I stated that 1 would not attend any future members of the Board as a Town Council appointee as 1 did not wisb to be party to any questionable actions by the Board. It is my intention to report the details of this situation at a meeting of the Newcastle Town Council who hold juris- In the Dim and 49 YEARS AGM Thursday, October 6, 1927 The following executive was elected at the annual meeting of the A.Y.P.A. Pres. Mr. L. Hamel Cooke; vice-pres. Mr. J.A. Gunn; sect -y Miss Audrey Lamb; treas. Mr'. B. Baldwin. Visitin g committee Miss Boylan, Miss Densem and Mr. J. Gunn. Agnes Vanstone and Doro.. thy James defeated Alice and Florence Werry in ladies' doubles and Art Kent and Gerald Bradd defeated Ted Mason and E. Quinn in the junior doubles of the Bowman-,I- ville Tennis Club finals. $15,000 is needed to belp defray expenses of building and furnishing the Nurses' new residence. South Ward report for September - Room 1ý - Jr. 2nd, Frank Tighe, Greta Raby, Lloyd Trimble, Ruth Henning, Thelma Little, Sr. lst, Leon- ard Somerscales, Ross Rice, Frances Hearl, Evelyn Cramb, Jr. lst, Beulah McQuarrie, Charlie Somer- scales, Charlie Rice, Ila Sutton. Neil Stewart - Teacli- er. Mr. Thos. Cartwright who has been the faithful mail carrier on Rural Route No. 1 for the past four years has sold his equipment and eontract to Mr. S. Olver who took over his duties on October lst. Mr. Cartwright has accepted a position as night watcbman with the D.O. and P. Co. facory ERRKRmuwxxmmmxumxx By Bill Smiley N Sehool Daze and lawyers and such had a hope of going to college. These people feel a righteous indignation that their moderate incomes are taxed to support those overpaid teachers and those expen- sive buildings and ail those young layabouts who shoul d be out working, when they, themselves, gel' absolutelyý nothýing out of their education taxes. Weil, tough toenails, Oldtimers. You'helped elect the governments that are bleeding you. And another p oint. We ail have to pay, sooner or later. you and I are leaving these kids so far in debt they'll neyer get out. The critics don't bother me. I work hard at my job, and 99 per cent of the teachers in the country do the samne. We are not ali either a Socrates or a Jesus, but we do the best we can with what we have. You know, we 're not turning out pulpwood or sausages or cake mixes. We 'are not producing a- product, whatever the manufactur- ers and business people think we should be doing. We are dealing, every day, -for several years of their lives, with that most intricate of mechanisms, a human being. And we are doing that at the 'most sensitive and delicate stage of its metamorphosis into, aduit. Try that on for size. And we're not doing it that badly. The old, mindiess authoritarianismn, which attracted the weak and the bullies into the teaching profession,_ along with many first-class people, is gone. That's good. The old system, under which kids from professional families went on and kids from poor families went into service or factories or common laboring is gone. That's good. We're trying to offset the mindless garbage of television by teaching kids to be curious and skeptical and challenging of the shoddy and insidious. And that's good. Let me give an example. I was in the bank during the summer. Right behind me was Ed, a boy 'd, taught about three years ago. He'd been caught drinking beer in a car in the schooi grounds, and was expelled for a week. Asked him how, things were, going. &'Oh, pretty good, Mr. Smiley. I'm in construction with Mose. Remem- ber Mose? " I did. Mose was a large, good-natured fellow who had s 'tag- gered through the two-year course in high school. Ed showed me the cheque hie was cashing. I almost fell on the floor of the bank. Those two guys were making, each, almost as much as 1 was, after years of education and experience. Thirty years ago, they'd both have wound up on the% end of a pick orr shovel. 'Nuff said. It may be costingý you an arm and a leg, but education today is doing more than churning out cheap labor for the masters, of society. a That strong gust of wind you felt in rearly September, as the nation's sschools re-opened, wasn't a warm tfront moving in from the west. It was hundreds of thousands of mothers giving a simultaneous sigh of relief at getting their offspring out of the house and out from underfoot for five days a week out of the next 10 months. There was another gust of hot air at the samne time. This one came from the critics of education, who are numerous as the sands of the desert, and who wonder, in print and aloud, what the taxpayer is getting for-his education dollar. Well, for one thing, hie or she is getting me. For the next 10 months, I will devote myseif, at a nominal remuneration, to the task of trying to teach young people how to read, write and speak their own language with some degree of accuracy. Like, you know, it's crazy man, but that's the way the frisbee flies., Far be it from me to bite the hand that feeds me, but most of the crities are ahl wet. Some, with extra-bright children, are furious that the, public school system does not provide enriched courses for their kids, so that they'l emerge from high school with the equivalent of a private schooi and a university education. .But they don't pay any more school taxes than 1 do, and I have no children in school. U'm helping pay for their kids' education. Others, too lazy or scared to discipline their own kids, expect the schools to do it, then are the first to sue a teacher who finally, being human, can't resist giving their darling a whack on the head. A growing number of critics take up the chant of "getting back to the basics," when they find that their kids can't do long division without a calculator, can't write a servile letter, and know more about sex than they do about science. What these people really mean is: "Why don't them there teachers give the kids a real good training in the- basic elementals like what I got? " These are people who can't do short division, unless it's -two into four, use the dash as their only p unctuation mark when writing a ltter, and know nothing about eîther science or sex. Theres another type of critic. This is the type who deals in figures. He is infuriated when hie sees that the town council spent 46 per cent of its budget on education and only 22 per cent on the Works 'Department. he'd rather, spend money on straightening out roads than on straightening out his kids' heads. There is one critic for whom I feel some sympathy. This is the mis- named Senior Citizen. He, or she, neyer got much education, because in those days you had to go to work, and only the elite, the sons of doctors