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2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, February 23, 1977 Section Two EDITORIAL COMMENT It May Well Happen Here Ever since Rene Levesque and his Parti Quebecois took over in La Belle Province, the pros'and cons of that province separating or trying to separate from the rest of Canada have been hitting the headlines in all news media. Hardly a day has gone by but another speech on the subject has been made either by someone from Quebec, from Ottawa or somewhere else in Canada, to keep this news story alive and festering. Last week, a former citizen of the Solina area who has spent many years in Quebec called to see the Editor and brought a fresh angle. He's been working closely with francophones and told us that since Rene's victory they feel they have been liberated. If this is true, and- from all reports it may well be, Keith Spicer's scolding speech on the weekend about Anglo Canadians feeling superior to the French Canadians because of the victory at the Plains of Abraham takes on a reverse twist. Apparently, many Quebeckers over the years haven't forgotten that their ancestors lost out to the British and all the ills and slights that have happened to them since are to be blamed on the Anglais. Could be, we are not the only ones who have a racist bias. Another local chappie brought out an idea just as we were about to participate in that Big Brother bowling tournament on Saturday. We won'trmention his name, but he's the unofficial mayor of Pontypool. He suggested that as soon as pos- sible, we sôould hold a referendum in the rest of Canada, asking all citizens of voting age if they would like to keep Quebec in Canada. It's difficult to say just what this would accomplish, but if the vote 'wer'e over-whelmingly in favor, it would certainly let the Quebeckers know they are wanted in the family. If that were established, once and for all, it might have a bearing on the referendum they would be taking later on, and it certainly wouldn't do any harm, unless, of course, the majority of Canadians indicated either a lack of interest or a negative attitude which is highly unlikely. At the moment, we doubt if there is very much individual citizens of this area can do about it. Premier Levesque has already begun work on the referendum he plans to hold within the next few years and you may rest assured, unless things change considerably, he and his collegues are going to do everything they can to sell it to the citizens of that province. And, if the average francophone citizen of that province feels that their destiny of indepen- dence from the Anglo-Canadians has at last appeared on the horizon, he or she will vote for separation, come what may. If it's any consolation, the next few years undoubtedly will rank in historic significance right alongside the trials and tribulations, the satisfactions and disappointments that were experienced during that period that led up to confederation in 1867. Out of Many, One People By Erika Bfro To see the news is now an agony; the ecstasy of instant picture and captions now past. Hard to believe that our cities, in this wonderful country, so rich in resources and so wide open in space, have fallen prey to nasty racist incidents. We always thought, in Canada, that we were above that sort of thing. The typical White Anglo-Saxon protestant had overcome his initial dismay at the arrival of post-war fugitives and now viewed, with a more stable outlook, the new waves of immi- grants of all shades and races. Lives would be enriched, they were told, by the spice and new life; they would gain awareness of new customs and open homes and hearts to all peoples. For Canada always repre- sented, certainly to me, all that was good of England and the U.S.A. Ideals shattered. We read and hear and see blatant prejudice carried out in verbal and physical form. To be fair, the vast majority of people are appalled. But too large.a segment of the population is standing idly by - in the literary and figurative sense - while human beings are attacked because of their colour. Differences in creed have spawn- ed murder and bloody persecution throught the ages. Now it is colour and race that is plaguing man; the Archie Bunkers who cannot accept that colours other than White can be beautiful. And, in essence, what do we call White? An albino is whitish due to lack of normal coloration necessary to protect him from the sun'srrays, but none of usare the colour of snow or chalk. We, Caucasians, are all shades of cream and olive, some sallow and tawny - never a true White! Why then the purity syndrome? God may be a, mulatto she, for'all we know. We do know that God created all men and women equal. Nevertheless, even people of the cloth are wary of mingling of the races. They speak cautiously of inter-marriage, - meaning what? Inter-faith or inter- colour? The island of Jamaica became independent from British Rule on August 6, 1962. I visited there recently, after an interval of 23 years. I had loved that lush island and even in my youth felt unease over the colonial type of rule. However, the people were beautiful. Jamaica has gone through periods of great unrest and political upheaval, like any budding nation, like any adolescent trying out his wings. One thing holds true: its Coat of Arms bears the motto 'OUT OF MANY ONE PEOPLE", and that is exactly what they are. Arawak Indians were the original inhabitants when the Spaniards arrived and conquered in the Fifteenth Century. Their blood mixed with the Arawaks' and subsequently with the British who took over in the Seventeenth Century, and all these mingled with that of the Black slaves who were forcibly brought over from America over the centuries to be exploited as cheap labour. By the Nineteenth Century, with the slaves freed, came the Irish and the Syrian andi the Chinese and the Lebanese who acted as merchants and traders. No Jamaican is pure Black or Chinese or anything else, for that matter. Each individual has blood in his veins of, forebears from many nations in many continents. As in Latin American nations and in Hawaii, colour does not count. Money talks. All are brothers because none can call the other disparaging national names. This consangunity may be the answer for the XXI Century. The blending of colours and shapes and genes makes for an attractive uninhibited people, united by the ancestry of travel'and conquest. I feel it makes for better stock. Injected with new bloodstrains, they may fare better than those species that have been inter-related, almost incestuously, for thousands of years. The best coffee, after all, is the one that is a 'blend' of Colombian, Peruvian, Jamaican and Brazilian beans. It has zest and spark and -vitality. The prejudice of the White, the attitude of a superior race in the Western world, has led to Holy Inquisitions and Holocausts, to mention but a couple of bloodbaths due to a mental aberration which held that Jesse Owens' hand was somehow less clean than that of good Adolf's. Let us not in Canada, in the name of God, start clawing at each other for reasons of pigmentation. Man appears to have a deathwish anyways and is on a path of self-destruction. Let us not pursue it in this particularly vile manner. 9, P h .Durham County's Great Family Journal Estabiished 123 years ago in 1854 Also incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle independent Trie 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 JOHN M. JAMES JOHN E. JAMES Editor - Publisher General Manager GEO. P. MORRIS BRI Business Mgr. Adve AN PURDY rtising Mgr. DONALD BISHOP Plant Mgr. "Copyright and -or property rîghts subsist in the image appearing on ttlis proot. Permission to reproduce in whoe or in part and In any form whatsoever, particuiarly by photographic or offset process in a puoincation, must be obtained from the publisher and the printer. Any unauthorized reproduction wil be subtect to recourse in law." $10.00 a year - 6 months $5.50 foreign -$2100 a year Strictîy in advanice Although every precauTion wiii be ta,.en to avoid error, The Canadian Statesman accepts advertising in its cotumns on the understanding thal it will rnt be hable for an' error n the advertisýemen pbIheheeude unless a proof of such eddvrtisement iS requeslcd in writing by the adVertise - r n o the'Canadian Statesman business office duly signed by the advertiser and wi such erroror corrections plamniy noted in writing thereon, and n thaf case if aay error sa nofed is not corrected by The Canadian Statesman its liabiiity shail not exceed such e portion of the entire cost of such advertisement as the space occupied by the noted error bears to the whole space occupied by such advertisement. r Report from Queen's Park by DOUG MOFFATT M.P.P. In this week's column I would like to release the resuits of my faîl riding questionnaire. Over 500 re- sponded to the questionnaire which were mailed out to every household in the riding of Durham East. Here are the questions and the breakdown of answers: 1. Do you think that the rent review should be extended beyond July, 1977? Yes 64 per cent, No 19 per cent Undecided 16 per cent. 2c Do you think that the preservation of agricultural land should be a priority item for government? Yes 88 per cent, No 10 per cent, Undecid- ed 2 per cent. 3. Do you think that the Second Marsh should be added to the Darlington Provincial Park as protected environ- ment? Yes 79 per cent, No 10 per cent, Undecided il per cent. Among the issues cited by, the constituents on the ques- tion of what their biggest concern was: unemployment, wage and price controls, preservation of natural re- sources and environmental pollution, industrial health, condominium problems, the high cost of auto insurance,tas well as a host of other problems. An overwhelming number talked about the problems of regional govern- ment and the high cost of essential services in addition to high taxes. 1 was gratifiect by the response to the questionnaire. Many people took the time to add personal comments and other opinions. I wish to assure you that these are valuable and do have an effect on our responses to Govern- ment legislation and on our own policies. 1 am also pleased by the number of people who have requested information on the NDP and our policies and the number of people who have signified that they wanted to join: 75, 1 attempted to address each person who responded by a personal note but ran out of time. If you have any further questions, comments, or advice please contact me. I~ Let rsoh ir 1 Silver Crescent Port Hope, OntarLo LlA 2C4 Dear Sir: The fact that I am a member of the Eldorado staff will undoubtedly lead some people to believe that I am a little bit biased in my think- ing; however, I write to you not as a member of that staff but as an individual with a little more perspective to offer in Eldorado's Port Granby expansion plans. Local media give a great deal of coverage to adversary groups, perhaps more than they deserve. Mr. Jean G. Cormier, Vice President Public Relations, The Canadian National, in a recent address fD Central Canada T.V. News Directors' Association made the follow- ing remarks: "I think most of you will agree that in recent times, irresponsible publicity seek- ers and professional crisis groups have had a field day. This is because the current predilection for the "How you are being ripped off today" story leads to too much immediate exposure for people with simple, neat and wrong solutions to complex problems. All too often, organ- izations with high sounding names represent but a handful of dissenfers. In the past, if bas sometirnes been easier to broadcast their sensational declarations then to go the extra step and find out who they really are and who they really represent." People say "Give us the facts" so Eldorado bas opened Information Centres to answer f0 questions of con- cerned and interested citizeos. These Centres are not staffed with fast talking professional deceivers but with our regular uine staff, and, insofar as evening and week-end work is concerned, give freely of their time without extra pay as a publie service to our commun- if y. Some of the visitors it the Centres are members of a local protest group and they say "I have already made up my mind I won't listen - it's all lies." If they would investigate a little further tbey would discover the fax payers' money did not pay for the brochure recently distrib- uted through the mail and tax payers' money wilI not build the proposed plant. Eldora- do's own funds generated froni its own resources will build the plant. A little further investigation would uncover that over the years Eldorado has contributed many millions of dollars in the form of' dividends to the Federal Treasury, and at the same time have always paid their way locally in the form of equivalent grants in lieu of taxes. There are some people who forget that Eldorado is made up of people - about 450 of us locally. They forget that we have a stake in the future of this area too, that our children drink water from the same lake and they breath the same air as they do. Unfortunately, most people are unaware of the thousands of hours being expended by our design people, the long hours that they spend work- ing, often away from home, the thousands of miles they travel seeking out the top experts and best design tech- nology in the world to ensure that this plant, if built, will be the safest modern science and engineering can provide. Abraham Lincoln once said "You can't please all the people all of the time." I suspect that our local, school teachers have had many top students during their teaching careers, but the criteria for top or best is surely not a hundred in every subject. Likewise, our local politicians consider they have a mandate to speak for the people in this area but we all know that none of them got all the votes cast. Similarly. we must expect that this. or any other project, will not please ail people. The important thing is that most people concur even if the most people don't get the most publicity. I thank you for the use of the forum provided by your news- paper to offer these further perspective thougbts. Yours truiy, F H. Hueston 436 9th Street East Owen Sound, Ontario Canada, N4K 1P3 Dear Editor, I am in my fifth year of tracing my mother's family tree. Apparently my great-great grandparents came to Canada from Ireland in the early 1840's landing at Halifax, Nova Scotia. The, farilv included eny great-great grandparents, Peter Flanagan and his wife Margaret McGowan, their oldest child, Mary, who was bora in Ireland l)ecembi il, 18:37, and Pet.er's l)iehebr John. Peter and his ain!y event ually moVe " 0IoOntaro be cause his next <)Idest child, William, was bora in Ricb mond hil on March 4, 1842. On the 1851 census for Ontario, Peter Flanagan and his family are listed as living on lot 29, Concession 4, King Township, York County. Children born in Canada besides William were John, Peter and Thomas. William married Harriet Sophia Maybee from Pennsy- ivania. These were my great grandparents, She died Sep- tember 5, 1921 and he died March 31, 1922. Peter Flanagan, the elder, died May 6, 1855, aged 44 yers, 4 months. Margaret McGowan died June 17, 1893, aged 85. Mary Flanagan married Matthew Clancy. He died May 15, 1881, aged about 85 years, and she died June 10, 1911. Peter Flanagan, Margaret McGowan, Mary Flanagan, Matthew Clancy, William Flanagan and Harriet Maybee and ail buried in St. John's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Newmarket, Ontario. Children born to William Flanagan and Harriet Sophia Maybee were Peter, John, William, Mary, Hugh and Oakley. Peter married Margaret Ann (Nancy) Tunney June 28, 1893; John married Bertha Mudge from Michigan but I can't track down a marriage date; William married Mary Montague April 5, 1899; Mary married Walter Leppard No- vember 28, 1899; Hugh mar- ried Ethel Jane (Jennie) Gedney August 22, 1904; and Oakley married Catharine Loretta Tunney November 22, 1909. My grandparents were Hugh Flanagan and Jennie Gedney. It's my opinion there are some Flanagans or McGow- ans or other relatives living in Canada who may be in possession of a family bible or some sort of family records who could assist me in tracing this family from Ireland to Canada. I hope this letter will bring some response from any Flanagan or McGowans in Canada who are part of this family tree. Yours truly, Ted Briggs General Dehvery Bowmanville, Ontario Feb. 19, 1977 To E'hlîor :Ieply to 'l)elight ed Ct'i eli s" tel 1er. Dear Deightued; Il your delight isas great as your bad taste you must ind(l tbe deiighted". Il' your understanding of people aiid Ibeir motives is as great as your inexacrable faste, then your lack of understanding needs some enlightening- if that mind isn't too closed and dark to allow the light some roorn., Ken to the knowledge of the writer has never done any whining. "Whines come from sour grapes", it's true. None from Kel. Only defense of himself against nonsense rumours. Oh yes, he's been wrong occasionally--but the first to admit it when so. 1 venture to believe the readers of these columns DO enjoy reading Ken's writing. It is always informative and has the gleam of humor so sadly lacking in your little note. Psychologists state un- equivocally, people are quick to accuse others of the traits they most dislike in them- selves. Mrs. Joane Lyall SIGNED her name, as she gamely took up cudgels for ber man. Bravo, to both Lyalls. They are good citizens, the best. They care. They do not skulk or sulk. Think it over delight- ed. Sincerely, R. Lilley Editor's note: Good for you, R.LilIey. Buat, whlere you unearthed that word 'inex- acrable'? It's a new one on me. Do you possibly mean 'exorable.' 49 Years Ago Thursday, February 23rd, 1928 An illustrated travelogue will be presented in St. Paul's lecture room on Friday, February 24th. See the Cana- dian Rockies, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Catalina and Sait Lake City with Mr. W. O'Boyel, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Carruthers as guides. Choice musical program interspers- The seventh annual sale of Durhams County shorthorn breeders will be held at Beith's Stables on March 9th. Alfred Shrubb who has been coaching at Oxford University for the past seven years sails today for Bowmanville where he will take charge of Bow- manville's Cream of Barley Camp. He will instruct child- ren of the town in sports, football, baseball, cricket, vaulting and running. Gregory Colmer and Smnith Ferguson were in charge of- Trinity Y.P. on Monday. Assisting in the program were Misses Montogomery, Werry, Hathway, Argue, Bragg, Sar- gent and Semon. The recrea- tion committee Percy Cowl- ing, Lorne Plummer and Cecil Bellman again livened up the meeting' In the recent bond selling campaignrconducted under the auspices of the Boy's Older Parliament of Ontario, the Bowmanville Branch reached its objective of $125. Winning silver medals for selling $15 worth of bonds each were Herb and Greg Colmer, Win- ton Bagnell, Allan Osborne, Arthur Bell and Lyle Wood. Arthur Bell and Lyle Wood. Darlingf on. v ln the Dirn and )istant Past 2.5Vears Ago Thursday, February 21st, 1952 The annual meeting of the Public Library Board, held on Wednesday, showed that only 260 members belong to a library that is well stocked with books. A fire on Thursday in Burketon left homeless a widow of eight weeks and ber three small children aIl under eight years of age, Mrs. Leo Toutant. A presentation was made to Mrs. W.H. Densen on Thurs- day, on the occasion of her 25 years of efficient service at the Ontario, Training School for Boys, Bowmanville, James R. Reynolds has been appointed Clerk to the East Whitby Township Council, succeeding William E. Noble. The 1952 Executive, of Branch 178, Canadian Legion is as foiiows- Pres. Lloyd Preston, 2nd vice-pres. Rae Abernethy, sergeant-at-arms Ross McKnight, secretary Howard Brooking, 1st vice- pres. CA, McDonald and freas. John Rice. Norman Rundle, courier of His Majesty's mail on R.R.6 for Imany years saf in Memorial Arena for thefirsf time and saw Bowmanville trim Cobourg 9-2. Mr. Rundle is over 80. Fîre Chief Lucius C. Hooper in turning in his annual Fire Report f0 Town Council sfafed that during 1951 the local fire brigade answered 35 calls in all with 12 of these from Darlington. Dollar sales of General Motors of Canada for 1976 were a record $5,190 million., surpassing the $4,335 million in 1975 by 20 per cent. Net income improved to $160 million, exceeding the $111 million in 1975 and the previous record of $114 million in 1973. Net income as a percentage of sales increased to 3.1 per cent in 1976 from 2.6 per cent in 1975 but continued below the 3.7 per cent level of 1973. The increased earnings in 1976' compared with 1975 were the result of signifîcant increases in the volume of export sales. Unit sales to the US. and other countries increased by 32 per cent compared to an increase of 5 per cent in Canada. Earnings on sales in Canada were held *EHRftHUEK NEEERRU EE SBillISmiey CO the Anti-Inflation regulations. Donald H. McPherson, President, said the combined retail sales of General Motors cars and trucks were a record for the fourth straight year. "This achievement exceeded the performance of the overall automotive industry in Cana- da as combined industry car and truck sales were two per cent below the 1975 record level, ' Mr. McPherson said. Factory sales of cars, trucks and buses produced by Gener- al Motors of Canada in 1976 amounted to 715,000 units, 20 per cent above the 595,000 units sold n 1975, and refect- ed a grea fer nunxrber of vehicles exported to the U.S. G.M. of Canada sold 271,000 units which were imported from the United States. Oh Canada We have such a crazy climate in the sung this country that by the time this She lea appears in print some dingbat will when she have spotted the first crocus peeping again, bu its dainty head through the snow. driveway But right at the moment, any such that goe crocus would have to come from the totter, b garden of King Kong. the hous This winter has been not a little "Whyè unlike a sort of arctic King Kong - a she queî vast, uncontrollable monster laugh- winter d ing with fiendish glee at the prospect I don'i of puny mai trying to cope with his golf gam whistling, frigid breath, his frosty fast and: and fickle fingers, and his extremely gone toof bad case of dandruff. either th Around these parts we've had 13 to 15 feet of snow, depending on whom She wo you are conversing with. If you are she wake talking to me, you'll learn that we've March br had 18 feet. My wife would say: to her pi "About twelve and a half feet", in Isles for that sickening righteous tone of hers loaded wi that has made me hurl the hatchet bikinis or and the butcher knife deep in the 16 you go an feet of snow right behind the kitchen or so. Lo door, to avoid temptation. She's a Though we have a pretty good nuts. running parry-and-thrust on every- But it's thing from pea soup to politics, from helped, golf to garbage, we just don't fight atrocious about the weather. Until this winter. It's the c Now it's hammer and tongs almost This isr every day. And I seem to have enough. wound up with the tongs. first, it h& I stagger out through the blizzard $240 for f every morning, brush the snow off plowing; the car, serape the ice off the snow-shov windshield with my fingernails boosts, to because she has lost the scraper, items fori and sit there freezing my poorly 650 buck padded bum for 10 minutes, warm- spending ing the beast up. north, st Then I bomb the vehicle out of the Canada! driveway, risking my life every You can morning; because I can't see to spenda anything coming, from any dir- did. I cou ection. I park it on the street. oil bill by1 On the odd occasion when she I could i decides to shop, she minces out to plowing a the car, heavîly garbed, climbs into able to qu a warm wagon, parks behind the four hours supermarket and walks 40 feet to the a peculiar door. Every time she goes out, it has of course stopped snowing for one hour, the heart atta wind has dropped for one hour, and age? gleams palely for one hour. aves the car out on the street i comes home. I clean it off uck it through a drift into the y, climb through more snow es in over my boots, and reathless and forlorn, into e. do you make such a fuss?" ries. "It's been a beautiful lay. " min ber scoffng at my e, being able to ski twice as far as I, this winter she's far. One of us has to break; e weather, or me. n't be so dam' smart when s up on the first day of the eak and finds a note pinned llow: "Off to the Canary 10 days. Hear they're 'ith Scandinavian girls in (gasp!) topless. Why don't d visit Grandad for a week ve. Fahrenheit Bill." Celsius and it drives me not only my wife who has with the aid of this winter, to depress- me. ost. rough reckoning, but close From last November the as cost me, approximately: uel oi; $120 for driveway $50 for the kid next door, velling; $60 for battery w trucks and other winter cars. That, my friends, is ks for the privilege of the winter in the true trong and freezing. Oh. n well say that I didn't need all that. Well, I dang well ild have saved a bit on the burning the furniture. And have saved a bit on the nd shoveling if I had been li MV î3 >- s a day. But iu seenî x way o save money. And ,by now I'd be dead of a ck, so where's the percent- By CCNA •