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Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, November 3o, 1977 5 Zbet Canablan 6tate5man Durham County's Great Family Journal Established 123 years ago in 1854 Also lncorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second class mail regisfrat ion number'1561 Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 62-66 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario L'IC 3K9 JOHN M. JAMES JOHN E. JAMES Editor - Publisher General Manager £ D ~ \t c~ I * o I. P" GEO. P. MORRIS BRIAN PURDY DONALD BISHOP Business Mgr. Advertislng Mgr. Plant Mgr. "Copyright and-or property rights.subslst in the image appearing on this proof. Permission to reproduce in whole or in part and in any form whatsoever, particularlY by photographic or offset process in a publication, musf be obtained from the publisher and the printer. 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Editorial Comment Big Boost for SPLASH Yesterday, the local SPLASH committee raising funds to instaîl an indoor pool and squash courts at Bowmanville High School received a ,tremendous boost when Publisher Bill Lupton of the Oshawa Times handed over a cheque for $20,000 on behaîf of Thomson Newspapers organization. The generousr donation, approved President of the Thomson organiza- :tion since his father's death, brings back memories of the first Lord Thomson of Fleet when he was just Roy Thomson, a man who had a "humble start and went on to become one of the most influential men and zone of the wealthiest in the world. He spent a considerable amount of time in Bowmanville in his early years, lat Bowmanville Beach, visiting his late uncle Frank 'Barb' Pethick. His niece Ina MacNaughton still lives here on Queen St. and Mr. Thomson senior continued his Bow- manville visits with her, long after Mr. Pethick had died. He also, graciously allowed his late wife Edna's name to be used for the new Day Care Centre on Church St. that was opened some time ago and Ken Thomson was present at the opening because his'father was sick at the time. Now, this donation to the SPLASH campai gn will continue that connec- tion and keep the memory of that outstandinig citizen alive in this area. It's gratifying to know that even in a worldwide organization such as the Thomson one there is still a sentimental connection with Bowmanville where founder Roy Thomson enjoyed himself in earlier years. 'Canada Leads Some Areas! Contrary to the belief of a lot of people, our country has shown some ability to go~ to the head of the class. -We actually have somie individuals, and groups, who have taken us above the average, and given us the -honyor of being num-ber one in certain categories. We refer of course, to such gallant -efforts as those put forth by the unions of this country who have managed to vault us into first place as the most strike-bound nation'in 7the world.' We evý,en managed to beat out strife-torn Italy by a sizeable margin. Japan's comments to Premier Davis seem a little more realistic in light of this recent revelation. Then there is always our wonder- ful postal code, which can direct the 'mailman right down to the side of ,the block that the*address is on. The only problem is that nobody can be bothered remnembering the six numbers and letters which comprise their own designated code, and the zcode is oniy set up to work in about Ssix cities at this stage. Needless to. say, no other country has a postal code anywhere near as effective as ours. Also, we just became number one in metric in North-America. Years ahead of the United States, who happen to control and participate in most of our economîc trade. 'No doubt we are already receiving the recognition we deserve for this far-sîghted move. While the U.S. stili remains in first place for political wrong-doing, and subsequent coverup attempts, we are closing in quickly on their lead. Our case for wrong-doing may be a little weak, but we could take the title on style points in coverup stupidity. Certainly the medical certificate for "loss of memory" has to be one of the most innovativrý excuses, ever used in politics., Finaliy, it appears -that we may strike a blow that will be heard around the world. Imagine, the first country to have a Prime Minister's wife pose nude in a porno magazine! Let's see anybdy top hgat. O Canada, we may be small, but we give our ahl! Setters t'O the EditorJ ;Dear Mqr. James, In these days of everyone wonidering bow to deai witb the problems of the raising of our cblîdren, we in Tyrone are wondering bow much longer until we face the problemi of burying one or more childrea, We are alil cmplaining about the speeding, empty gravel trucks going east to SALCO PIT, tbreugb the hamiet of Tyrone. We realize the hailet and people of Tyrone are smnall in numiber and importance to these gravel truck drivers, but our concera for- everyone's safety is no smiall matter. These trucks are certainly ntot driven by mature, responsible men because then tbey would realize the full , danger of a speeding gravel Struck. <doing 50-60 m.p.h. in a 20 m.p.h. zone). I feel rather than being given driving tests, others would beniefit more if these drivers were givýen 1.0., and imaturity tests. Thtese trucks speed tbrough the four corners at eigbt o'clock in the morning, wbere 251-35 children and teenagers wait for their buses. Not one truck bias ever slowed for safety conicern of the students. Lunches and books are blown and moved from the sides of Oie road, by the breeze of each speeding truck. Many of our people are up in armis about thiese truck driývers, but wbho do we go to, for help? Eacýh departm3ent head or "REPESETATVE"we caîl for belp puts 'us off to someone else, or agrees, say they'll see wbat tbey can do and then forget the matter on hanging up the phone. 1 bave pboned SALCO gravel pit for any assistance and tbey assured me tbey would warn eacb driver to slow down. Within an bour, the trucks seemed to purposely speed up to show us they don't have to listen to anyone. Many of us have calied our guardians of the area, New- castle OPP, and on my first phone cali, I was sure they were going to help us. Well, we've sure iost faith in any belp from tbem. Sure, they sent out a black and white, sat direc tly across from tbe store, where they could be spotted a quarter of a mile away. 1 was, called minutes later, by O.P.P., to inform me that their cruiser had been spotted and the CB.'s in the trucks were busy broadçcasting the news.1 That was last week, and this week, 1 phoned again. Sure enougb, out came another black and white cruiser to sit on the nortb side of the main street.' Directly across from the previous location. On pboning in, I asked the officer if they couldn't park their car in someone's laue- way, s0 they wouldn't be spotted so quickly by the trucers. I even went over to the OP.P.'s car and asked him why he was parked in tbe wide open area. H1e started right off telling me he was wasting bis time even beiug there. He said tbey bave to park in the open to be seen and to get a go od, clear radar readiug. He said there really wasn't anything that be couid do and for that matter that we could do. The officerassured me again, how he was wasting bis time here lu Tyrone, then toid me how our problem wasu't too bad anyway. .The officer said Leskard Road bas far more trucks than we do, and besides North Toronto bas bad this problemn for years. There was no heip availahie. Does this mean if Toronto bas ten deaths and we oniy bavefive, ours are insignifi- cant and we are to forget about the problem? -After sitting for less than an hour, not stopping any gravel trucks or offeriug auy belp or solution to our problems, our "keeper" of the law,' left our bamlet again. Tbey did assure us that, they were patrolling tbrougb twice a day. To our knowledge no gravel truck driver bas heen stopped. in our area, s0 I guess we wasted our time calliug the O.P.P. The officer also assuredme that maybe the Durham Regional Police would dlean Up the area, in the, Spring. 11e said they are not as confined by silly rules as the O.P.P. What do we do in the meautime? Please pray for ail cbildren and residents of our area until Spring e1 One lady in the west end of ar Go»I-d's A Reader Weli, it 's nice to know that God reads my column. A few weeks ago a bit daunted after 80 days and nights of ramn, I wrote Him a direct and rather petulant letter suggest- ing that He turn off the taps, that, we'd got the message. Boy, He doesn't fool around. If I'd sent the letter b>' mail He would not have received it until next sprmng, when we'll probably need some rain. That's why I pt it in a column, which he obviously perused during a celestial coffee break. Within 24 hours, He had brought out, the sun, which I thought He'd mislaid permanently, and favored his favorite critters with a couple of weeks of the best weather we've had since July.' Well, Lord, it's been great and we're grateful. But there~s only one flaw in the ointment, as we say in literary circles. The weather's been 50 glorious it has sparked a round of activities at our place that has me staggering with fatigue and reelin g with confusion. As long as the rains poured down, we just sort of huddied around the boob tube and I had a perfect excuse for not getting the last of the grass cut, the leaves raked, the storm windows on, and various other chores too boring and miscellaneous to mention. But the, minute that sun came filtering into our soggy lives the Old Battleaxe whettedlher eàge and started whittling at me. Spent a sunny Sunday driving to the city and back (could have been Tyrone has been crowded off the miii corner twice by gravel trucks coming around the centre of the road. A lady in the centre of town bas to listen to ber china cabinet rattiing each time a speeding truck hits the bumps by the park laneway. A family east of Tyrone are terrified of anyone Ieaving their laneway, as the trucks break over the east hili doing at least sixty miles per hour. We ail wait witb anxiety until our smail, kindergarten children are picked up at noon, beeause hefore and during noon hour the trucks practicaliy push each other thirough Tyrone on the rush back to, the SALCO ph. I wish, 1 could hope even one truck driver would read this letter and feel a sniaii pang of conscience, but miracles like that we can't count on. 1 sure hope ail of this bad publicity SALCO is receiving from the Leskard Road people and Tyrone people, is not helping them in anyway. golfing) to deliver a couple of outfits our resident dressmaker had made for her daughter, the student teacher, which the latter had forgotten to Itake last!, timne she was here. The dummy. We found the student teacher in an adaned state of controlled hysteria, fingernails bitten to the, first knuckle, eyes ticing wildiy. She was to start teaching next day. My wife was convincedi, not without reason, that Kim would go to hier, first teaching assignmrent wearing jeans, a T-shirt and sneakers, about all the clothes she's got. I hope she had better luck than one of the student teachers in our school this wèek. Poor guy tried to break up a fight in the cafeteria between a cou ple of massive Grade Twelvers, and was kicked in the head.: Anyway, that blew the first nice day. But it was only the beginning. Our front door wouldn't open, our back door wouldn't close, and if you were in the bathroom and pulled the knob to open the door, it would come off and you might be there forever. Then the pole at one end of the clothesline was bowing toward the garage at a 45 degree angle. And the squirrels had chewed a hole and were enjoying daily coffee kMatches, at 6:30 a.m. Lawn was knee-deep'in you know what. Bricks were falling out of the back of the house, four shutters were missing, as were 10 shingles where the guys took off the ice last year. After a couple of days of "Bill, when are you going to . .. Bill, what «Aetters Could SALCO not send a representative of their firm, unknown to the drivers, of course, and see for themselves whicb trucks are speeding in Tyrone and Leskard Road area? Wbat is the answer? Forming our own vigilante comnmittee to terrorize. the truck drivers, sacrifice àn older, slower person or a young, carefree cbild to prove our point, or do we just ignore it because as the O.P.P. say, it's not as bad a problem as other people endure on their roads. We don't ask to bave the trucks rerouted, as that will just be passingý the buck to someone else. We are just asking the drivers to slow down and drive througb these build Up areas at 30 m.p.h., and no more! It inay mean the loss of one less load on their payroll but isn't that better'than the loss of one life or more? Truckers' - Don't say it can't bappen to you! to God belp you if it does! Thank you for listeniug, Cecile D. Bowers Tyrone S.E.A.P. Darlington, Box 256 Bowmanville, Ont. November 26, 1977 Dear Editor, The trial of the self-named "Darlington Dozen" on November 23 revealed that some details about the Octo-, ber lst demonstration at the Darlington Nuclear site appear to havle been overlook- ed by Ontario ilydro and members of the press. This letter is for purposes of clarification of those details. During the six hours of courtroom procedure, it was repveatedly mentioned by security officers of Ontario Hydro that "two" organiza- tions were involved in 'the demonstratiomi; S.E.A.P., anîd about the.* - - Bill, why don' t you cal . .. " I was forced into action. I told the old lady to caîl our neighbor, a contractor. I personally contacted my Grade 9 leaf-raker. I t7an inito Mike at the liquor store and mnentioned the storm windows. Well sir, things began to happen around here. Our front door openis and the back one closes. You can go into the bathroom and know you won't be there for days. The clothesline p oie no longer looks like, a postcoital phailic symbol. The storm windows are on. The lawn is raked.> Even the squirrels are frustrated by a piece of tin over their hole. You might think I'd feel pretty good. But right in the middle of al this executive organization of mine, mny wife got us into one of those log Jams we haveabout once a year. She decided to get the living room rug cleaned. Quite simple, really. It's just a littie old, Indian rug, 12by 18, that can be roiled up and carried anywhere by six men and a camel. She arranged for it to be picked up. Then she decided to have th e hardwood floor done whiie the rug was away. She lined up a floor man. She decided the under-rug, was ready for the dump, which it was. She called the under-rug man. Then she learned that the floor finisher had to have ail the furniture out of the living room, to operate his sander. This, required a couple of moving men, as I have a sore back. We decided to take the chesterfieid the Greenpeace. Further, the distinction between the two groups was drawn by refer- ring,,to the offenders on Hydro property; as "Greenpeace", and those remaining outside as SEAP., Although it is true that six of the twelve arrested were from Greenpeace (Tor- onto and London), the other six were not. In fact, more than two groups participated that day: members of Energy Probe, Panda (Brockville), KCNR (Kingston Coalition for Nuclear 'Responsibility), Voice of Women, CANTDU <Godericb), OPEN (Ottawa), PEOPLE or PLANES, and Walk for Life (Toronto) rep- resented the right of Ontario Hydr and the Ontario govern- ment to impose nuclear power on the people of this province without a full public enquiry into its implications for this and future generations. Besides public demonstra- tions, many of these people have taken time to prepare and present submissions to the Royal Commission on Electric and the dining» room table out through the French doors and leave them, either in the back yard or the garage, covered with plýastic. This was vetoed by ecoler îheads, of which there were 'very few Ieft, by this time. Oh we had a busy busy Hal- lowe'en, I can tellyou. The sanding machine was roaring, like a bu il moose in the living roomn. You had to vault over the chesterfield to answer the trick-or-treaters. And the latter set fire to a vast pile of dry leaves out at the curb, with a nice breeze blowing, and the neighbors phoned the fire department, reluctant to see my garage and two vintage used cars go up ina pDa-boom! We ve weathered the storm. Through sheer executive genius, I got ail the right reople in the right places at the right time, I haven't lifted so much as an ash tray, and after having a tooth' extracted, I found that I couldn't eat for a few hours. but could manage a little straight rye sucked through a straw. But next time, Lord,, please don't be so literal-minded. T hose Indian summers get my wife so excited she'l be the death of me. And I still have to pay off Jim and his carpenters, Mike and his heiper, the rug cleaners, the floor sanders, the under-rug peoplle. and the leaf raker. If someone said to me "ýGet thee to a nunnery, " I'd probably take him up on it. And find that the nuns were having the whoie convent redecorated. Editor Power Planning (Porter Comm.) Ail those concerned believe Darlinigton Nulear, G.S., should niot bave been excluded from the terms of reference of the Porter Com- mission and the Environ- mental Assessment Act (1975). In closing, for the benefit of Ontario Hydro officials who stated on November 23 that they did not 'know what S.E.A.P. stands for, it is "Save the Environment fromn Atomnic Pollution." We hold thîs as our main objective. Yours truly, Dorothy Boden, SEAP-Darlington To the Editor, As parents of six children of our own wbat better way to share that experience than by becoming a foster parent. There is great need for homes fo- the teenage cbildren. Having raised our own cbildren througb their teens we know it is nlot an easy job as childrën are so different. Wbat most teenagers want is to be accepted for thiem- selves, to have som--ebody listen to them, to talk about their plans and dreamns, and let them know tbey are important and that- they are wanted. The teenager doesn't mind going by your rules and helping out wherever pos- sible; in fact they need rules in wbich to guide their lives. 1 tbink the most important thing is to keep a line of communication open between yourself and themn and the problems wýil solve tbem- selves. We enjoy being foster parents and kntow you will too, It's a rewarding experience. Ken and Freda Mvavrnard t and Sce 1 , MMOMMW% 1 A oz- i. ,Y-"£4f 'q"d atax ý N A l ewi e 1 ýl