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2 The CanadianStatesman, Bowmanvile, Mardi 15,1978 SectionTwo_ ~anabîan ~tate~man Durham County's Great Family Journal Establlshed 124 years ago In 1854 Also lncorporating 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 3,K9 JOHN M. JAMES Editor - Pubisher GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr. É o q I * o I. JOHN E. JAMES General Manager BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. DONALD BISHOP Plant Mgr. "Copyright an-oproperty rjgbssu!bist in the image appearing on thisproo-f. Perînissio-n to- reproduce in whole or in part and in any form eatsoever, particularly by photographic or offset protess in a publication, musf be obtained from the publisher and the printer. Any unauthorized reproduction wil be sublect f0 recourse in law." $10.O-a year - 6 months $5.50 foreign - $21.00 a year strictly In advance adthougn every precaution will ber Tan fn avoid error, The Canadian Statesman accepti advertislng in.its columns on the understanding that if will flot be hiable for any error in the advertisemert published hereunder unless a proof of such advertisement is requested in writng. by the advertiser and returned to The Canadian Statesman business office duly signed by th advertiser and with such error or corrections plainly noted in writing thereon, and n that case f Editorial Comment You Can't Please Everybody Probably one of the most thank- less jobs in polities these days has to be mat of the Finance Minister at any level. He is the person who has to give the budget speech and no matter what he says, his remarks will be greated with derision by opposition parties. Right now, Ontario's Darcy McKeough is taking a beating over increasing rates for OHIP premiums because it will be a hardship on those on low fixed incomes. Nobody's complaining much because he also hit the sinners who smoke and drink. They are traditional victims who are always easy prey for governments looking for tax funds. You can certainly make quite a case against raising the OHIP premiums although a large per- centage of premiums are paid by companies who pay the full shot for their employees as part of their benefit program. Little sympathy is being shown for them although the total increase is bound to add millions to their costs and will upset their budget forecasts for the year. Unfortunately, most employees who have come to take such benefits for granted, will not feel any impact at all and probably won't appreciate the fact that they've just received a raise in pay. The basic fact remains that all of us continue to expect our govern- ments to do much more for us than we are willing to pay for in taxes or increased productivity. And the Finance Minister is the villain in the piece because he proclaims the bad news. No way to improve one's popularity. We don't envy him his job. We'd also like to make a comment concermng the smokers especially who are being faced with increases. Right now, they are the scum of the earth, polluting the atmosphere, possibly spreading cancerous fumes to others, burning holes in things and causing fires, etc. Laws have been enacted to prevent them from puffing in elevators and some public places. There's a widespread cam- paign to curb their nasty habit. In fact, courses are being launched, free and otherwise to help smokers break the habit. Do you realize what the impact on the economy would be if their efforts were completely successful? In this area, there are many tobacco farms producing millions of dollars worth of tobacco. They would be out of business, increasing unemployment. Factories where the tobacco is manufactured into cigarettes would be closed with more unemployment. The government would lose many millions of dollars in tax revenue that helps pay for other services. And the same situation applies to alcoholic beverages as well. So, the taxing governments just add a bit more tax to those with these vices instead of really hitting them so hard they have to break the habit or go broke. They don't want people to quit smoking or drinking. The cost would be too great. It's worth thinking about. Debate on Dump and Refinery We reprint here a debate in the House of Commons, Ottawa, which took place March 2, between Durham-Northumberland MP Allan Lawrence and minister of energy, mines and resources Alastair Gillespie. The debate was taken from the House of Commons official record- ing publication Hansard: ELDORADO URANIUM DUMP AND REFINERY GOVERNMENT INTENTIONS Mr. Allan Lawrence (Northum- berland-Durham: Mr. Speaker, I have a question for the Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources of which I gave him notice yesterday morning. On Tuesday morning, an environmental assessment panel under the jurisdiction of the Minister of State for the Environment published a recommendation that the Eldorado uranium dump and refinery proposal for Port Granby not be proceeded with. Even though that panel reports to the Minister of the Environment - this is the first time such a panel has come out with a negative recommendation respect- ing an important matter such as this - the licensing agency is under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources. As a matter of fact, the Crown agency of Eldorado Nuclear falls under his jurisdiction. My question is: What factor will this play in the decision by the minister and the government on heftfher or not to proceed with that refinery and dump project at Port Granby? Is this a binding recom- mendation on the government, or is it not? What is goingto happen now to Eldorado's application to pro- ceed? Hon. Alastair Gillespie (Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources): I think the hon. member has noted that the recommendation to which he referred was provided in the form of a press release, not a report, so I think it would be premature for me or anybody on this side to speculate about that particulat report until it has been received. The hon. mémber asks whether or not it is binding. I think he knows that the environ- mental review process is one involving a recommendation on the part of the particular committee. I see the hon. member is making a recommendation that the govern- ment should overrule one of the significant recommendations of the environmental review.panel. Mr. Lawrence? No sir, in no way is the hon. member for Northumber- land-Durham making that recom- mendation. I think the minister should read his mail again. The Minister of State for the Environ- ment previously gave the people of Port Hope and the surrounding area to understand that any recom- mendation coming from that panel would be considered by him to be binding. That is a statement of general governmental policy, and I think it is a very important one because this is the first time such a panel has come out with a negative recommendation. What is the sense of having these hearings and having panels do that type of work unless the government is going to pay strict attention to them? Is it a matter of government policy, and is this the major factor in the government's decision on whether to proceed, or is it not? That is a simple enough question. Mr. Gillespie: The hon. member for Northumberland-Durham issued a press release yesterday, dated March 1, in which he specifically recommended, if I understand him correctly from reading the press release, that the refinery should be built at Port Granby. Mr. Lawrence: No in the Port Hope area. There is a difference. Mr. Gillespie: The environmental review process and the panel, as I understand it, have rejected that. Mr. Lawrence: Mr. Speaker, I am seriously misinterpreted. There is a difference between Port Granby and Port Hope. There is an existing agency in Port Hope which belongs to the minister's department. It is quite different fron Port Granby. I hate to interpret the minister's own agencies to him, but the minister's Sugar and Spice A New Look 2, 22 4 According to a recent magazine article, this is going to be The Year of the Peacock. There is afoot a strong movement away from the grub and slob of the past decade or so toward some style and taste in clothes and appearance. I'l drink to that. As a high school teacher, I've been in the front lines during the battles over clothes, hair lengths, exposed navel, and such-like. Not as a participant - I was never unduly exercised over excesses - but rather as an observer. During the reigns of a couple of pretty conservative principals in a small town, I watched with some amusement, occasionally hilarity, their Canute-like efforts to stem the flood of horrors sweeping in from the cities. I think the first wave was longer hair for boys. Not the flowing tresses they sport today, many of them straight from the hair stylist, others with a hair-brush or comb often in evidence. Heavens, no. The first revels merely wanted to let their hair grow down to their collars. • No way. They were expelled, letters were sent home, they were offered the price of a hair-cut, and generally harassed. But that was just the tip of the ice-berg. A side skirmish at the'same time told teachers to keep their hair cut, wear a tie, shave off their beards (lady teachers some of whom had better beards than some of the men. didn't have to shave) and keep their shoes shined. Then the more docile girls got into the act, with the emergence of the mini-skirt. None of the youngermale teachers had the slightest objection, but some of the old maids of both sexes were rather horrified. 1 believe, if, I recollect aright, that one benighted educator suggested all teachers carry a ruler, and that skirts shorter than a certain standard be forbidden. (Or ripped off. I might have been one of the young mail teachers.) Beleaguered asministrators tried grimly to hold the line. Boys were not to wear "ice-cream pants" or jeans. Girls must wear skirts. Then came the deluge. County school boards, made up of mothers and fathers as cowardly as all the other parents battling the new wave of attire and appearance, cut the ground from under the adminis- trators by declaring that anything went as long as the student was "neat and tidy" or some such cant phrase. Wham! Hair sprouted in all directions from masculine ado- lescents. The girls hiked their skirts higher or leaped into jeans. Granny glasses and Mother Hubbard dresses became de rigeur with the more advanced girls. Afro hair styles and Jesus beards marked the more hirsute. Hip-hugger jeans and the bra-less look were a la mode. Girls ironed their hair. Curls were out, and pity the poor kid who had Letters to the Editor i I note with interest that the Dear Editor, fitteen dollars! U.A.W. is already telling its Charles Templeton isn't the Our joy at having saved workers to prepare for a long only one having problems with fifteen dollars quickly turned strike in the fall. As the the Motor Vehicle Licence to downright indignation as we workers have not voted to Bureau. Evidenly he waited In realized that just by chance strike but the union is telling four different lines before had we known to question the them to prepare for a strike it getting his licence. In Bow- clerk. If we had come in three is obvious that the way the manville, my husband was a days earlier, we would have workers vote will have no little luckier. He was just paid the sixty dollars without meaning because the union shifted once, from the regular question. has already decided there will line-up to the Transfer and Then we realized that this be a strike. Commercial one. must have been an isolated I thought that a union was I had been informed at this incident. Everyone has a bad supposed to be dedicated to office a few weeks earlier that day sometime. Now, our help the workers not to be the the licence for his pick-up neighbour who uses his half- worker's boss and tell them truck would be sixty dollars. ton truck for personal pur- what they can and cannot do. However, he learned that his poses too, reports that he also It is obvious that we need friend had only paid forty-five had difficulty in obtaining the some type of organization that for the same type of truck. forty-five form. can protect us from the At the counter, my husband Oh, well, it certainly is unions as they are too big and was asked for sixty dollars. something to take your mind powerful and no longer care After hearing about our off income tax and unemploy- about the worker., friend's only paying forty-five ment! Yours truly, dollars, the clerk quipped, Sincerely, Jean Canavor "Well. you iust saved yourself Mrs. L. Parker panel was referring to Port Granby. It is a matter of government policy whether or not these matters are going to be decided. Can the minister tell us whether it is government policy, when these environmental panels make recom- mendations, to consider them seriously? Mr. Gillespie: That has been made very clear in the past by colleagues who are responsible for this area. But I would brng to the hon. member's attention and the the, attention of the House that the only application before the environment- al review panel was with respect to Port Granby. I have to acknowledge that this is in the Port Hope area, but there is no other application for the Port Hope area. So the hon. member is obviously with it, but he wants it right beside the place specified in. the application. - Port Hope Guide them naturally. She was a freak. Then the young devils wanted to wear cool clothes in the hot months, and June produced shorts that left nothing to the imagination, on both sexes, bikini halters on the girls bare feet in the classroom, and finally, beachwear. Every bit of it "neat and tidy." This was followed by the Grease Age, or the Sleaze Era, mainly marked by denim. Buy a new pair of jeans and a jacket, wash them, fade them, shrink them, scissor them so they had ragged fringers, tear holes in them, patch them, and sew some provocative or scatological sugges- tion across the buttocks. This particular eriod blew away completely the 'neat and tidy ' euphemism. Greasy hair, scruffy beards, no makeup and general grubbiness were the order of the day. Not a particularly pleasant age. Even I had to fight to avoid retching on occasion. And this particular movement dovetailed right into the new laws that lowered the drinking age to 18. In effect, it meant that kids from 14 up began to drink. Grade Eight girls were arriving at high school dances with a mickey in their purses. It also tied into a new barrack- room lawyer attitude on the part of some of the tougher kids. They knew well that punishment for infringe- merit of rules was almost a thing of the past. No strap, no detention, and expulsion merely a welcome couple of weeks-ioiday. Or screw school, I'll get a Job, easy. Well, things have changed. For the better. The pendulum has swung. The kids are starting to dislike slobbishness. Only those who ar( born slobs are keeping it up. Girls are wearing makeup, culottes, skirts, even dresses. Wispy boys' beards are disappearing.fShorter, neater hair-cuts are poppng up here and there. With jobs a lot tougher to obtain the old cavalier attitude 'toward expulsion has moderated. The older kids are hanging in their rather grimly, knowing that, however much they hate school, it's better than being one of the great mass of the unemployed, out there in the. snow. Whatever is causing it, the new look is a welcome change after the. sleaze days. Even my daughter, a^ graduate of the freaked-out look, is. beginning to shed her tattered jeans: for skirts and vests, smart sweaters,- and anything else ladylike her mother will buy her. But knowing kids, I'm rather sanguine about the chances of the improvement remaining stable. Any day now, the boys are-hable to start showing up in spats and shaven heads, the girls in corsets andý high-laced boots, like their grand- mothers. Now, if only the young men would. get rid of,those ugly Gay Nineties, moustaches ... ception of Port Hope, George 25 Years Ago Annis has stated. Thursday, February 26, 1953 Bowmanvilleresidents have E Bowmanville Barons bowed contributed over $3,000 to teh Ex-chief of Police Richard out of the Lakeshore Inter- flood fund to assist the flooded Jarvis who retired after.37 mediate "A" Hockey League areas of England and Holland. years as chief of police i town play-offs in Lindsay on Don Venton has joined the has been made a Life member Tuesday when they lost the engineering staff of the city of of the Chief Constables' Assoc- third and final game 13-3 to Ottawa, resigning from the iation of Canada. Lindsay Muskies. Five Bow- city of Woodstock as Bowmanville High School manville players Don Gilhooly Engineer. has'an entry in the Canadian who suffered a concussion in _____ and International Oratorical the first game, Buck Cowle, 49 Years Ago Contest again this year. Fred Jack Whiteman, Lloyd Hamil- Thursday, February 28, 1929 Billet will represent BH.S., h ton and Bill Bagnell did not Thomas Olsen, who this contest sponsored by the play in this encounter. Scoring purchased the Henry Hoar Toront Star. for the locals were Maxie farm on Manvers Road has Be sure t attend the Yourth, Bob Harmon and Bob been appointed general lustrated lecture on India by Bird. managerofiFirst Co.Opera Rev. J.H. Stainton in Eldad Wor. Bro. J.E.W. Philp, tive Packers of Ontario at a Church this Sunday. Newcastle, was honored for 46 recent meeting in Barrie. There .will be moonlight years of servicegiven to Town council is ponder skat at Taylor's Rink this Masonry in general and whether to buy the local HYdrO, Ohfisdaly oic.asb presented with a handsome distribution systems from the Official notice has been scroll. head office of the Hydo received that Major W.J. Hoar Court of Revisions have Electric Commission in has been promoted to the staff been held in all of the 24 Toronto, as other towns and of Durham Regt. and Major municipalities of the United cities are considering same. A.H.(Bert) Bounsall las been Counties of Northumberland Net sale price for the local coplani omndo and Durham, with the ex- system is $76,639.60. com man CCNA