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2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville. January 5,1983 Section Two [ Editorial Comment It's Hard to Settle Down Always the Christmas and New Year's festivities result in a backlash of lethargy, probably because most of us aren't accustomed to having so much free time without deadlines to meet and clocks to be punched or being around just in case there's work to be done. For the past couple of weeks, it's been a drastic change of pace, a slowdown after a hectic month that takes some time for adjusting. Finally, at the end of that period, when the wheels have almost ground to a halt, the tempo has to be picked up because the joyride is over and it's back to the grind again. And that takes a bit of doing that is resisted by every bone ana muscle in your body. But, here we are again, looking at et another year and so far there asn't even been a baby born at Memorial Hospital, and none in prospect for the immediate future. What are we to do without a picture of the first baby of the year born here? This is disastrous. Why, we can remember when there were four babies born here on one 29th of February, a real bonanza for that Leap year. Now, we can't even come up with a New Year's baby. What is this world coming to? Also, we have just received a complete list of the salaries of our non union staff for the Town of Newcastle and have almost come to the conclusion that we're in the wrong business. No, we have no intention of publishing a complete list. Instead, we've broken it down into four categories so no one will be too embarrassed. Certainly, staff members weren't doing nearly that well when we were just the comparatively little Town of Bowmanville, now celebrating its 125th anniversary. Two staff members of the 32 are receiving more than $40,000 yearly, five are between $30,000 and $40,000, 20 are between $20,000 and $30,000 and only four, are between $10,000 and $20,000, with the lowest at $14,248. Not too many below the poverty line. But, enough of this, although we don't know if those salaries also include any raises that have been or will be in effect shortly. We also have never heard just what happened concerning those merit bonuses that were to be given to staff ' for dedication to duty. Did they all receive them? Life Sure Is Complicated! be spent on necessities? If we look to the other side of the coin, we see that people who are earning a regular salary are complicating the problem by saving their wealth at record levels. This savings irregularity is known as "The Paradox of Thrift." Simply stated, an increase in thriftiness decreases the equilibrium level of income. People are not spending their money and accordingly, goods and services are not being purchased. Taxes are not being collected from sales and the reduced demands leads to layoffs and plant shutdowns. This causes another blow because workers will not have the money to purchase goods, and personal and corporate income taxes are not collected, leading to larger government deficits which ^rnust be financed. When unemployment insurance payments are added to this, the burden on the government's budget is compounded. Where does it all end? This is the rhetorical question the governments face daily. As long as money holders are skeptical about the nation's economic future, they will hold on to their savings. After all, a penny saved is better than a penny spent. A penny saved isn't taxed ! If the festivities of the New Year celebrations were any indication of the state of our battered economy, we certainly must not be as badly off as some experts believe. While travelling from party to party to cover the usual "Auld Lang Syne" overtures, we certainly saw no sign of thriftiness. Toronto and other major cities experienced New Year's revellers unlike any year in recent memory. Yet, the top story the next day in many newspapers centred on the drastic shape of our economy, and the message from the Ontario Federation of Labour warning of the possibility of violence from the unemployed if interest rates should climb. The Chief Economist for the Conference Board of Canada, Thomas Maxwell, feels that another dose of crippling interest rates is a possibility in the coming months as the United States attempts to finance its huge deficit. If this should happen, economists feel that it could spell disaster in Canada. Then why, if the economy is in such turmoil do we see unprecedented crowds of people jamming the stores and shopping centres?. Why are people able to drop $50 or more for tickets to see sports events when this money could However, we won't dwell on the matter at this point, assuming that they are all hard working folks, doing their utmost for the welfare of this our beloved community. We, like so many other establishments are in the process of a revolution that ties in with those fantastic micro-chips. Some of us have come through previous revolutions in the printing and newspaper industry that have changed our whole mode of operation. We can even remember when much of our display type was set by hand, picking out individual letters and putting them together to form a line that was upside down until you adapted to reading the stuff that way. Then came the Linotype machines in their various forms that spewed out metal type at what was fantastic speeds in those days when a good operator had mastered the complicated keyboard. Not so long ago, they all were scrapped when electronic photo compositors were introduced and hot metal went the way of the wooden and individually set type. The latest gadgets that are about to take over everything from front office bookkeeping to typesetting are just coming into their own. It's all done with computers that have better memories than ours and even have vocabularies of many thousands of words that can correct our mistakes. The biggest problem at the moment is that new models are coming out so rapidly that one bought today probably will be obsolete next week when a less expensive one will be on the market. It's a new world far beyond our wildest imagination and, frankly, far beyond our present expertise. Young people will be able to adapt easily, but for those over 40 years of age, there will be problems. We are still trying to figure out the new math and haven't even spent too much time on becoming familiar with Celsius or metric and don't suppose we ever will. So, as we head into good old 1983 we only hope that we'll be able to cope with everything that's ahead and will do our best to provide you with newspapers that you will enjoy and welcome into your hoiries. May you all have a good 1983 and look forward to meeting new challenges. 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Bowmanville 9 » 125th Anniversary Celebrations Get Underway with Flag Raising ( -- SUGAR and SPICE * For T X Well, a typical week. Went to a euchre party and learned that I was even more stupid at euchre than I am as my wife tells me -- at bridge. And that is abysmally abysmally stupid. Fact is, I don't like games in which one must use one's mind and at the same time depend on Lady Luck. And my wife loves them. I had to, almost literally, drag her away from the euchre party. And I hate navigating, navigating, which I also contend, contend, despite the protests protests of all the old World War II navigators who thought they bombed Essen when they were bombing an orphan asylum, asylum, is a trade for idiots who depend on such weird things as mathematics mathematics and physics, and not the trade for an intelligent person who believes in witchcraft, The Lord, and a good pilot to get them home. So almost endeth the lesson. My wife navigated navigated home, in rain. I Birds merely steered the brute. And she learned that the shortest distance distance between two points is whatever way the car goes, with me at the wheel. After I gave up on her math, I turned, to my intuition. We got home, finally, but the guy behind me wondered if I was leading him on a wild goose chase. Perish the thought. And speaking of wild geese,,I had a visit from my grariaboys. There seems little connection, but there is. I took them down to the park to see the wild geese, to me an on-going source of awe. They're not really wild. They're smart. They are Canada geese who have discovered that it's easier, and saves a lot of wear and tear on the wings, to dump themselves in the local park, and feed heavily on bread crumbs and fish-'n-chips, rather than fly south. Cost of flights south is even affecting the geese, let alone Canadian turkeys, who pay enormous sums to get in the sun for a week in winter. Anyway, the boys thought the geese were for the birds, yuk, and that the sea-gulls were much superior. Until I threw a bread-crust and they watched a great gander and an insignificant insignificant sea-gull go for it. No conflict. The kids apparently learned some deep lesson about Darwin, because they started throwing stones (potential Toronto Argo fans? ) at the sea-gulls. I also learned some other things, while the boys were here. I always always do. My own kids were brought up in middle-class, properly repressive circumstances. circumstances. They weren't to swear, break things, get their clothes dirty. They were to be respectful, respectful, not ask embarrassing embarrassing questions of adults, and vote against the government. These grandboys are completely irrepressible. irrepressible. They might be a little quiet, patiently, contemptuously, during a five-minute harangue after they've just knocked a lamp off a table, but it's just a cover. They roll their eyes at each other. They don't swear, but they know all the words, . as a little listening will confirm. They break things with abandon, always coming up with the wide-eyed explanation explanation that, "It just broke." They jump, deliberately, into puddles puddles that will soak them to the navel. They call me "Bill." How's that for respect? They ask embarrassing embarrassing questions. "How come your hair is black, Gran, and Bill's is white? Why do you put your teeth in a glass at night, Bill, are you afraid the fairies will get them, and not leave you a dime? How come Gran gets mad when you fall asleep with your mouth open, Bill? Hey, Gran, why are you getting so fat in the turn- SkU '$Fpe4 my? Are you going to have a baby?" We had some people in on Sunday, and a little girl, three, fell in love with the worst of the two, Balind, and followed followed him around all afternoon. Her father reported that she didn't get to sleep until ten that night. The divil's influence. And I also learned something about our society when I took them, and dumped them, at a matinee at the local cinema. First of all, it cost $1.50 to get in. Each. It was a dime in my day. Second of all, acting the big wheel, the affluent, benevolent grandfather, I gave them a buck each for treats. They looked rather askance. I checked the prices of goodies. No wonder they were askance. One dollar would not even buy them one (small) box of popcorn and one small pop. Sixty cents for a narrow box of stale popcorn and fifty cents for the smallest pop. And Balind dropped his dime, when I made it up to $1.10. What a rip-- off. The show opened at 1.30. The movie, a cheap cartoon, began at 2:00 and ran for an hour. And there, at the popcorn popcorn counter, in a townf that is one of the worst ! in Canada, as far as the ' recession and un : employment goes, were all these little kids, waving waving two and five-dollar bills at the popcorn girl. Some recession. Some hard times. Their mother had a convenient migraine, and their gran had guests to prepare for, so the boys and I spent most of our waking time together. It was like spending a weekend with two charming con artists. You know perfectly perfectly well you're being taken, right down to the horribly expensive games they want for Christmas, but it's so much fun that you scarcely feel the shaft going in. 140 Ontario St. Bowmanville, Ontario Dec. 30/82 Dear John; Well here it is nearing the last day of the year and I have just finished reading your last editorial entitled "Three Years of This? Yuk" and I say to you what else did you expect? Let us take a look at the situation as I see it. First of all at the inaugural meeting the mayor stated that the council must work together, and also in this economic climate we can not justify ANY INCREASE IN TAXES. At the end of this statement, all members of council openly agreed with the mayor's statement but Councillor Hobbs and at that time you will remember that I told you that he would probably, prove to be right and this is what happened. In a committee meeting, a motion I am told was made to the effect that the budget be prepared with a 5% increase (so much for the previous statement). This motion was seconded and Coun. Hobbs presented an amendment to the effect that the budget be prepared with no increase in taxes and he could not get a seconder (so much for what the other members said when they agreed with the mayor). Next, the council got into an argument over spending up to $7000 to redecorate the mayor's office and the one next lo it and one councillor was accused of changing her vote, So what, that is the right of an elected official. When they think it is wrong, then they have that right, and more power to them. I remember a member of council stating to me that she was opposed to the purchase of a piece of land but then turned tail and supported it wholeheartedly. Then there was the name calling in regards to a yellow politician which again I ask is this the true meaning of co-operation? You make comment that we have three more years of this and I must say to you John you are again wrong, it is only 35 months (it sounds better). In relation to the upcoming budget (taxes) I feel that if this council took all of the unnecessary money out and all of the frills out (such as the $400,000 we have already paid for.) And all of the one time projects that arc now done and all of the frills that will be given to some top staff, plus putting more into the reserve funds for who knows what, plus starting to act in the best interest of the laxpaycr, then who knows we could end up making it a little easier for those on a fixed income or who have now been laid off of their jobs. The council might also look at some of the previous budgets as 1 sec where some of them have gone in the area of $35,000 deficit and I say to you this is not good business. Well John I guess 1 have said enough for this time hut in passing I do note that you have not as yet published a list of the top salaries, hut then again I guess you eventually will get around to it, Incidentally, I understand that the council added one more duty on a person and this in turn raised the salary of the job oy about $2200. My question is this -- if he had a full day's work prior, then how 50 Years Ago Thursday, January 8th, 1033 W. E. N. Sinclair, K. C., M. P. P., House Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, was elected Mayor of Oshawa, last week, by acclamation. Thomas S. Holgate, former mayor of Bowmanville, was re-elected to the Bowmanville Public Ulilitics Commission by acclamation. Also serving on the commission are T. H. Knight and Mayor George W. James, The Orono School meeting was presented with the annual financial slaloment by Trus- lee It. It. Waddell, which showed a cash balance in Ihe hank of $9907.30. Miss Clara Aslilce is a nursc-in-lraining at SI, Michael's Hospital, Toronto, On Now Year's afternoon al Norm Taylor's Emporium, Ihe Bowmanville O, II. A. Inlcrmcdiate loam defeated Orono 7 • 0. Team members can he do more (you see, I am wrong again, the answer is work harder). So much for now, but in closing it might be interesting to know how much our legal for Bowmanville were - Goal, Hooper; Defence, Chartran and Densem; Centre, G. Piper; Wings, F. Jamieson and I. Piper; Alternates Candler, O. Jamieson, Jackman and Cameron. DIM AND DISTANT 25 Years Ago Thursday, December 28th, 1958. Captain and Mrs. Norman Coles, Mrs. Charles Albin, James Garvock, Mrs. George Forsev and Waiter Dempsey wei e busy last week packing Ihe Salvation Army Christmas Cheer Baskets. Magistrate It. B. Baxter, Police Chief Bernard R, Kitncy and Constable H. It. Cornell, O. P, P. stated recently that they are very pleased with the results of the Iraffic clinics held in November and December, ami Ihe interest shown, Future Iraffic clinics are slated for Ihe coming year, and will be held at I lie Town Hull. bill was for 1982. Yours Truly Ken Hooper P.S. I also notice where Councillor Hamre has finally admitted what I have been saying all along and I am pleased to know that she The Memorial Hospital Board met on Wednesday evening and it was announced at the meeting by Glenholme Hughes that the finance committee has inaugurated a pension scheme for hospital employees. Present at the meeting were Ivan Hobbs, Harry Cryderman, Glenholme Hughes, Harry Jose, Mrs. Bruce Mutton, Mrs. Charles Warren, Ray J. Dilling and Stanley Wilkins. Clarke Council passed a motion last week authorizing the payment of a fox bounty in the Township of $4. per fox. DIM AND DISTANT 10 Years Ago Wednesday, January 3rd, 1973. The first baby of the New Year was born to Mrs, Sid Wybenga, of Newtonville, at 4.30 a.m. and the second to Mrs, John Hancock of Orono, at 10.45 a.m. Town council lias approved agrees with me on certain matters. Also, if I could use a little space to advise some council members that my home is my castle and not a convalescent home for dissatisfied councillors. Ken the sale of industrial lands to Allin Cable Reels who purchased purchased 6.64 acres of property for $23,240 from the town ana plan to build a new plant on the Broken Front Concession Front within the year, and also to a new, unnamed electronics firm who purchased purchased 1.7 acres at $5,450. A $25,000 fire ravaged the home of John Bundle, Middle Road, on Thursday night. The fire is believed to have started in. the workshop area of the' home. Winners of the Legion Liter-' ary Contest in the various: categories were Stewart Smith, Cathy Coulter, Susan Vice, Therese Brown, Cynthia: Brown, Barry Van Camp, Billy Francis and Elaine Slade. Mrs. Coverly was judge, Mr. and Mrs, Douglas Kemp and family, spent the Christmas Christmas holidays in Florida, In The Dim & Distant Past