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[ Editorial Comment ) Have They No Faith? Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, November 23,1983 3 -&T,.. F -• < j; h&'/t rty- i ; ( • ' X 'i,wi*ZL 7 ">.**,*/; „ » Horror stories about slow delivery of mail still crop up now and then, although we must admit we haven't heard lately of any really bad ones, such as were normal a while back. However, in recent weeks we have noticed among the huge pile of news releases and publications from assorted sources, a new and disturbing trend. The Canada Post Corporation at the moment is sending out articles for those folks interested in collecting stamps. While the articles may be of considerable interest to philatelists, we wonder just how many of them are located in this particular area and how much free space we should devote to keeping them informed. But, what really disturbed us was one that came in this week, the large envelope announcing in bright red ink that it was News Copy for Immediate Publication. It was sent by Special Delivery Express and included an article headed Stamps by Larry Mclnnis advertising a Canadian Philatelic Exhibition some time in 1984. Surely, it could have been sent by regular post. Has the Post Office no faith in its delivery system? For shame ! Metric Is All Messed Up At times we wonder whether Mr. Trudeau realized what he and his government were getting into when they won the battle to bring in a Canadian constitution with its attendant charter of rights. That charter has become the basis for a series of lawsuits which are denying or, at times, questioning the laws enacted by government itself. A case in point was the decision of an Ontario court a couple of weeks ago which served to upset the legality of the enforced use of the metric measurement system, so dear to the hearts of Trudeau and Company. A group of some 30 Opposition MPs several months ago purchased an Ottawa service station and continued to sell gasoline by the gallon as well as the litre, long after government legislation demanded "litres only". When the case came to trial the final decision was that the service station operators were within their rights to sell under either measurement. Net result at present is that both imperial and metric standards must be permitted -- although the government may well take the question to a higher-court. The break-through, such as it is, comes too late. Already, merchants across the country have been forced to invest millions of dollars in metric scales and marking devices. They are not likely to throw them away. -- Wingham Advance-Times Byline... By Peter Parrott What is the metric equivalent to a dozen eggs? I'll bet you don't know. I bet nobody knows. Does this prove that there's a scandalous shortcoming in our efforts efforts to convert Canada to the metric system? How can it be that while most of us are trying to forget there are 12 inches inches in a foot or five and one-half something-or- others in a furlong, the egg industry is still operating in dozens? Apparently, the industry industry has eggscaped the curse of metrifica- tion. And along with egg producers, I can think of at least two other groups, namely florists and bakers, who are still counting things by dozens. No doubt this is just an oversight. I suspect that the bureaucratic sub-committee which was placed in charge of the egg industry has not yet returned from lunch. Certainly, I find it hard to believe those mandarins, of the civil service who attempt to divide the whole world into 10's have stopped at eggs, flowers, and doughnuts. When the bureaucrats bureaucrats catch up with egg producers, I have no doubt that they'll be introducing introducing metric equivalents equivalents for eggs. I suspect suspect that a dozen will become (you guessed it!) ten. But this column wasn't intended to be an exploration of met- rification and the egg industry. Actually, it all began with a recent news release release on statistics concerning concerning egg production in Ontario. For example, the total number of eggs produced in this province province during 1982 was 167.8 million dozen. (There's that pesky nonmetric nonmetric word again). And, strange as it may seem, all those eggs are produced by just 786 farmers who have an average flock ranging from 9,500 to 10,000 birds. Some operations are smaller, some are larger. In fact, a few of them have between 50,000 to 500,000 chickens. chickens. Imagine a number of birds equalling five times the population of the City of Oshawa. The mind . boggles at the thought. The average egg consumption consumption for an Ontario Ontario resident totals 19.4 dozen in 1982. And that's an increase over 1981, when we ate 18.9 dozen. In fact, for the past five years, the consumption consumption per capita has been on the upswing. upswing. I'll bet you think farmers made more money on eggs during 1982 than they did in 1981. Well, think again. During 1982, the average average producer was paid 95 cents for a dozen large eggs. That's down four cents from 1981 Qtye (Banabian Statesman 623-3303 (JSna Durham County's Grwat Family Journal * Established 129 years ago In 1854. Alio Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono News Second class mall registration number 1561 Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 62-66 King St, W,, Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3K9 O i * JOHN M. JAMES Editor --- Publisher RICHARD A. JAMES Assistant Publisher GEO. P. MORRIS BRIAN PURDY DONALD BISHOP Business Mgr, Advertising Mgr. Plant Mgr, All layouts and composition ol advertisements produced by the employees ol The Canadian Statesman. 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Old Fort Henry Turret when he earned 99 cents per dozen. There were similar declines in the prices paid for large and medium eggs. Only the small eggs gave the farmer a small increase of one cent per dozen. Based on, the fact sheet from the Ontario egg producers' marketing marketing board that I have before me, I could tell you much more about the humble egg. I could tell you that the average average hen produced 250.97 of them per year in 1982 and that the output output per hen has increased increased by close to 20 eggs in the past five years. I could note that 2.2 million dozen eggs were exported from Ontario Ontario last year. Or I could record that 70 per cent of the annual output output is bought by consumers consumers for table use, with 20 per cent sold to restaurants, hospitals and other institutions, and 10 per cent going to the processing market. Now we both have enough data on egg production production to make us more knowledgeable consumers of the product product when we sizzle the bacon in next Sunday morning's frying pan. But the nagging question question concerning the conversion of the dozen into the metric system still mystifies me. And, until I learn the metric equivalent of the dozen, I won't consider my eggucation to be complete. SUGAR and SPICE So Foul and Fair a Fall "So foul and fair a fall I have not seen." That's just as good as anything anything Shakespeare wrote or Macbeth Macbeth said. The only word that is changed is "fall" for "day". And you can blame the three witches: Pain, Boredom and Frustration for that. Fall fairs. Fall festivals. Excitement. Excitement. Color. A last fling before the dreary days of November and the icy, endless clutch of a Canadian winter. It's been the fairest of falls. After a summer so fine that no Canadian can quite believe it, we had a September September and October that have made us wonder why anybody would want to live anywhere else. Sun. Few bugs. Incredible August. August. Superb September. Glorious colors. Corn and real tomatoes stretching into October. Rotten kids back to school. Great golfing. Fine fishing. Utopia. Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it, you rotters. I can see you, sitting in the nursing home arguing about it, years from now. "Yeah, the fall of '83 was the best we ever had. Sun shone near every day. Fuel bill was nearly nowt. Didn't put on my long johns till October October first." "Yabbut", counters another old- timer, "that's the fall Trudeau decided decided to stay on." Heavy silence. Well, if you look back to the first paragraph, you'll find the word "foul". It's been a foul fall for yours truly. Oh, we intended to enjoy that fall. ' Go to the Fall Fair, go to a Festival. We went to a Festival, but we didn't make the Fall Fair. Me and the Old Lady, as we say at the Legion, took a late-summer shot at the Shaw Festival. No tickets, tickets, no room reservations. We just played it by ear. It worked. It was a fateful decision. Naturally, Naturally, we didn't see any Shaw, but thoroughly enjoyed "Private Lives" and "Vortex" by Noel Coward, and the musical "Tom Jones." Everything went well. The shows were good, better than lots of Stratford Stratford stuff we'd seen. Francis Hyland, Hyland, that excellent Canadian actress, actress, never really appreciated because because she hasn't gone to the States, was accosted, interviewed, and praised by my wife, was sweet, gracious, gracious, and laughed heartily at a reference reference to her first husband, George, an old friend of ours, who succumbed to the Hollywood fleshpots. The "Prince of Wales Hotel" at Niagara-on-the-Lake offered everything everything any big-city hotel could, at the same rates, but with much more personality. Their bell-boys are human beings, not insolent louts with nothing more than a tip on their minds. Waitresses, desk clerks, the same. Well, as usual, it was too good to be true. Getting cocky, God's favorite favorite angel was hurled into Hell, according according to Milton, there to pull himself himself out of the fire and swear eternal eternal vengeance. I guess I got cocky too, things were going well. We came back from a show, hadn't eaten dinner, and I proposed to bring up to the room a tray of food from the cafeteria (dining-room (dining-room closed.) No problem. Started up with my big tray of hamburgers and other connoiseurs, like mustard and french fries, caught my toe on the stairs, and catapulted, backwards, down two flights. Still had the tray in my hands when I landed, but nothing on it. (Reminds me of the time when I came in with two bags of groceries, slipped on a fresh-waxed floor and broke my nose on the kitchen counter, because I didn't have enough sense to drop the groceries.) Anyway, I wasn't hurled into hell for my pride, but have had a hell of a time since. Separated shoulder. As far as pain goes, I'd just as soon lie for a while in the enternal flames that Satan endured, until he pulled himself together. Football players. Hockey players. They get "separated shoulders", and are expected to be out of action for a while. That never bothered me, because it just doesn't happen to an aging teacher-columnist. Picked up, a bit startled, but not worrying, by two great bellhops, taken to emergency, sling put on, and doctor saying it would be a "week or more" before it was healed. Not to worry. That was just before school reopened. reopened. Spent most of September in a sling with something worse than a chronic toothache and earache combined. Tried to resume teaching in late September. Kids wanted to know why I was wearing a sling. Between moans and grunts told them several versions, all of which they believed. Said I went to a disco and these two old ladies, about 65, each wanted to dance with me. One was stronger than the other, and pulled my arm right out of the socket. Told them I'd taken a swing at a little girl in Grade 9 on first day of school, not realizing she knew karate. karate. Said I'd been arm-wrestling with my grandson, aged nine. They are a little dubious, but, "That's too bad, sir", was the general reaction. Don't ever get a separated shoulder. shoulder. If you do, tell the doctor to cut it off at the joint and sell it to a limbsbank. It would be less painful. inov. 20,1983 Dear Sir: Correct the problem in the proper way. This is how G. Verney concludes a letter regarding regarding the tunnel under Highway 57, Unless I use the tunnel, I must cross busy Hwy. 57 (which is the Wavcr- ley Hoad exit to Highway 401). There are no traffic lights or pedestrian cross-walks serving serving this area. Crossing Hwy. 57 either in a car or on foot is fearful enough, The tunnel offers a reasonably safe way for children going to school, or residents walking to the store, etc, To me, the tunnel is the lesser of two evils. The tunnel is a second-class walkway for the first-class tax payers of the Waverley Road area in Bowmanville, Specific problems arc linked with the tunnel, After six and a half years I have seen at various times: garbage and newspaper newspaper bundles (even set on fire), mud and flooding, ears and motorcycles, 10-speeds, urinating children, mid defecating defecating dogs. Bullying of school children is (he Worst problem, The guard is there to see that the smaller children are not scared and punched by some bigger ones. The tunnel and the paths connecting it are isolated enough for some kids to get away with picking on others. Since the guard was hired, I have hoard of no such problems. It seems the proper way to help correct this problem problem is to deter the bullies with a very visible guard. The safety of the smaller students (my son is in Grade One) gives parents a sense of security security that was lacking. The benefits benefits of the guard greatly outweighs outweighs the costs. The tunnel guard is definitely definitely as necessary here, as is any guard anywhere hired to protect protect children who walk to school, I do not complain that I support crossing guards in other areas of Bowmanville, Someday, the tunnel may be replaced with a better system, G. Verney makes a good point to write about the tunnel, Perhaps Perhaps an alternate crossing will he possible, hut right now there needs to be lighting in the tunnel, There must be dnmngcproof lights available, Can we have lights in the tunnel?' I repeat, the tunnel is a poor excuse. It may be safer, however, however, than dodging cars and semi trucks on Hwy. 57. I'm sure much thought was given in deciding to hire the tunnel guard. The guard is welcomed by the people in this area. Mrs. Valerie Clancy AlonnaSt,, Bowmanville A world reunion, to end all wartime aircrew reunions, will take place September G - 9, 1984, in Winnipeg, Canada, for all nationalities who have ever flown in an air force of the British Commonwealth. The purpose is to reunite comrades who have a special bond between them, by virtue of their unique experiences and recognized contributions lo the peace and freedom wo have enjoyed for almost four decades, Four days of activities are on the program, including Command reception rooms, n banquet, concert and hall, a visit to a flying training station, an mr show, gala luncheon, static displays and n cenotaph parade and memorial service. Previous reunions were held in 1970,1976 and 1980, each one being larger and more spectacular than the others. Registrations are well ahead of previous reunions, mostly from flyers who attended one or more of the previous ones. Special air fares and charter flights are being arranged to bring former airmen from other Canadian provinces and abroad. Registrants will be kept informed. Write now, or phone (204) 489-9250, either to register or get further information. Registration is $105.00 (Canadian), plus $95.00 for wives. A hotel deposit of $50.00 also is required for each person. The address is: Reunion '04, P.0, Box 2039, Winnipeg, Man., Canada R3C 4113 "Fabrique A Taiwan (made In Taiwan)." I purchase the time in « Canadian Tire Corporation Limited store for $1,29. It was the sole product of its kind on display. Recently my seventh book was published under the title, "Ink In Our Soul." One reference is to Tommy Douglas, former Baptist preacher at Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, well-known politician. A writer said of Tommy: "He's a little bit of sanity in a big asylum." From the hell of depression, the sanctity of church, the manipulation of politics, the cave-man clubism of strikes, Tommy moved ahead in his thinking, One day in Calgary lie said: "The role of labor has changed over the years and strikes no longer serve the purpose for which they were initiated." While I went home witli my purchase, I thought of Tommy and the Canadian condition, especially the labor strike in British Columbia. Far off in Taiwan there were human,s dullfully nt work "making a better mouse trap," Foster M, Russell November 7,1983 Strcctsvillc Secondary School would like to announce the celebration of its 25th Anniversary on April 27th and 28th,1984. Any assistance in informing former students and staff would be appreciated. A special plea is being made for relevant photographs which could be duplicated and returned. Please address pictures, requests for advanced registration, or other inquiries to: Mr. Larry Bebenscc Strcctsvillc Secondary School 70 JoymarDr. Strcctsvillc, Ontario L5M 1C.3 or phone: 826-1195. I LSI-) LKFTOVKILS After (iliristmas dinner is over, lie erenlive mid use leftover leftover lurkey In casseroles, salads and slir-fried dishes, says Monica llemimonl, foods and nutrition specialist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food's rural organizations anil services brunch.