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) t ( ) Editorial Comment We Weren't Even Close Our plans for Monday morning were crushed on Saturday night when our Lotto 6/49 numbers didn't correspond to the winning $13.9 million digits. But, then again, we're probably just as happy they didn't. Originally, we had planned to hire several Brinks armored cars, phone Mr. T for protection, change our name, grow a beard, and do whatever else necessary to avoid the attention and pestering that haunts lottery winners. Especially the winner of the largest jackpot in North American history. But, needless needless to say, we don't have to worry about any of that since we didn't even win $10 in the draw that caused such a craze. But, what if we or someone we know had won? Regardless of what anyone says, $14 million is certainly going to change the lifestyle of the winner. After all, one could live very comfortably on the interest payments alone. And the constant requests for donations and loans, coupled with jealousy and bitterness bitterness would force the "lucky" winner winner into a life of hiding. That amount of money is simply too much to just fall into anyone's hands. Unfortunately for the person who selected numbers 2, 12, 29, 31, 44, and 46, lottery officials are bound by law to make public the name of the winner and publish photos of that lucky person. It is not sufficient to send your lawyer to pick up the prize since the public has to know who actually won the big jaclpot. However, it is clearly spelled out on the back of each ticket that publicity publicity goes hand in hand with winning, winning, and consequently, each Lotto 6/49 player is agreeing to the rule by purchasing the $1 ticket. Perhaps the best news to- come out of the whole 6/49 craze is the government's idea to put a ceiling on the first prize jackpot and increase increase the subsidiary prizes. This share the wealth concept would still finance the rest of the first prize winner's life while increasing the chances of additional winners. But, how far can this lottery lunacy lunacy go? What is the difference between between the fanatic who pushed a shopping cart full of tickets into Lotto 6/49 computer terminal, and pumping thousands of dollars into a Las Vegas one-armed bandit? In our mind, there is little difference between the two casinos, other than one is run by the government which supposedly frowns on gambling. An evangelical minister in Etobicoke has described it accurately accurately by saying that the government government is pushing and exploiting human weaknesses by selling lottery lottery tickets. Psychiatrists are concerned concerned that the whole lottery business business brings false hopes, disillusionment disillusionment and despair. And we don't like it because we can't even win a free ticket or $10 in any of the draws. Most of the time, our numbers are so far from the winner's, that we check to make sure we're even in the same draw! We tried everything from wild guesses to strategically planned sequencing to pick six numbers that would win the big prize. We picked birthdates, golf handicaps, shoe sizes, computer memory sizes, telephone numbers and newspaper page numbers to come up with six digits that would pay big. Unfortunately, Unfortunately, it appears that someone else had a better system or a better golf handicap to claim the prize. It will be very interesting to see how the winner deals with his instant instant wealth now that he has become become a real life J.R. Ewing in "Dallas." "Dallas." If his reaction is anything like previous winners, he will be cashing cashing his multi-million dollar cheque with mixed emotions. Winning the big prize would have been nice, but we're just as glad that we came to work as usual on Monday morning, rather than beginning beginning a life of seclusion with more dollars than sense. r By Peter Parrott When you see horoscopes horoscopes co-existing with computers and space shuttles, you just can't help but marvel at mankind's mankind's ability to hedge its bets. On the one hand, we live in the 20th century. But, just in case the scientific scientific textbooks can't explain everything, we scan the horoscope. Why? That's the very question I asked myself as I scanned Dr. Chase's Almanac. The book contains, both patent medicine advertisements advertisements and horoscopes. Suddenly, it occurred to me that the two are very much alike. To understand horoscopes, horoscopes, you have to think of life in the Orient five or ten thousand years ago when wise men had a lot of time to gaze at the night sky and think about the stars. Remember, this was in the days before wise men had to publish books, conduct research, research, or mark essays. This was in the days before before we developed all of the labor-saving de vices which take up so much of our time. Anyhow, wise ones developed the idea that the stars represented gods and goddesses who wandered about the night skies like miners miners with lamps on their heads or campers carrying carrying electric flashlights. People began to suspect suspect that the movements movements of these celestial fires had something to do with what happens in everyday life. Today, we know that stars consist of nuclear chain reactions going on so far away that the immense distance makes your teeth ache. And we know that planets planets are gigantic spheres ofrock stuck in an orbit around the sun. So it's hard to believe that the planet Mars can make someone mean and ornery or that the planet Mercury can make somebody else a nice guy. What is the attraction of the horoscope? I suspect suspect that it survives in the modern world be cause it provides a kind of free psychological therapy which is as easy to administer as the aspirin. Just as patent medicines provide provide a quick and easy cure to physical aches and pains, horoscopes act on our psychological psychological hurts. The patent medicine, even if it does nothing on the scientific level, at least gives the patient patient the impression that he will soon get better. And that feeling of well-being helps the body to cure itself. Similarily, the horoscope horoscope helps to unlock our own common sense and use it with confidence. confidence. We may read, for example: "You have occasional doubts. But you enjoy challenges and can succeed through persistence." That kind of advice has always been part of the conventional wisdom. wisdom. But we would not heed such garden-variety garden-variety insight if it came from a friend or acquaintance. acquaintance. However, if it comes Qttfe (Eanabian StatCBman 623-3303 (JcNA Durham County's Greet Family Journal Established 130 years ago In 1854. Also Incorporating The Bowmanvllle 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„ Bowmanvllle, Ontario L1C 3Kti 4iD V L h JOHN M. JAMES Editor -- Publisher GEO. P. MORRIS Business Mgr. BRIAN PURDY Advertising Mgr. RICHARD A. JAMES Assistant Publisher DONALD BISHOP Plant Mgr. All layouts and composition ol advertisements produced by the omployeea of The Canadian Stalesman, The Newcastle Independent and The James Publishing Company Limited are protected by copyright and must nol be' reproduced without written permission ol the publishers. $15,00a year ~ 6 months $8,00 strictly In advance foreign -- $45.00 a year Although «ivory promotion will ho tnkon to «void wror, Thu Ciinuduin ülalouniiin accoptr. ndvoMismg in tit; columns on Ihu undiMStmiUmg Ihnl it will nol bv luihlo lor any error in Ihn mlvurlismiumt published heimmder unless n proof ol such advertisement is requested in writing by Ihu advertiser and culurned to Ihu Canadian tltdlesman burliness otfieo duly signed by the adwrtit.ui and with such uimi or corrections plainly noted in writing thereon, and in lhal case il any error r;n nolotl u; not corrected by Ihu Canadian Statesman its liability shall nol exceed such a portion of the entire cost ol 'inch idvuiliMmunt as the space occupied by the noted emu beam to the whole space occupied try such advertisement Vanstone's Mill Dam SUGAR and SPICE A Tribute to a Fine Lady > Surely it is permissible to write more than one column about the loss of a woman you have lived with for more than 37 years? Well, I'm not going to. I'm going to let some others do it for me. The letters and cards and donations to the scholarship fund are still piling in from all over the country and ï'm going to pick a random few and let them say it. Here's an old school friend: "I remember the countless times we walked to school together, both to Colpoys and then to High School. I always loved and respected Ivy for all her good qualities. She was a good example for me. Helen (Farrow) Robb." Suze, as I called her, loved rapping with young people. Here's a note from Blair Shakell, a friend of my daughter, now living on the West Coast. After the condolences, "You and Suze have played an important role in my life. Your kindness, generosity and support of Marlene opened a world of possibilities to her, which, by extension has greatly influenced the course of both our lives. We will be forever thankful to you both for permitting us to be married in your lovely garden that autumn day 13 years ago. "Suze was intelligent, sensitive and demanding of honesty and logic in argument. I remember her challenging the clarity of my thought and the emotional foundation of my reasoning, compelling me to re-examine my ..motives and my goals. Through all "UDe fighting words, I always felt ' welcome." There's more, but that's the essence. And she got along well with older people as well. My uncle, so ill he can scarcely write, took time to write a note. He is 91. From her father, also 91, wrote, his heart sore, and called her "our, dear, sweet, loving Ivy." Mrs. R.A. Dinniwell remembers the Bull girls, Iris and Ivy, being noted for their beauty in those parts, in an interesting letter establishing a relationship between the families, She is 81. Les Taylor, from Florida, writes succinctly and sincerely: "I am truly sorry, Bill." He knows it. He's been through it. I could go and on. Bill Jory, an old student, now a journalist, remembers a summer day in our backyard, working on the school yearbook. He still can't spell. Friends have been calling me, asking me out for meals, trying to cheer me up. But I said I wasn't going to write a column. I give the last word to Ray Hughes, my brother-in-law. We married those beautiful Bull girls. Ray's brief eulogy at the funeral was eloquent and moving, better than I could have done. Here it is. "I have been asked to say a few words about Ivy, or Suze, as Bill called her and by which she is known to many of you. As her brother-in- law, I have had the great good fortune to be much involved in her life and that of her family. I loved Ivy and I know she loved me. "I know Ivy to be a warm, loving person. Bill and Hugh and Kim were the centre of her life and she loved them, mothered them, tended for them, worried with and for them and frequently scolded them. This same love was given unsparingly to other members of the family -- her father, her sister Iris, her brother David, and there was still lots left over for the rest of us. "Ivy was a passionate person -- she loved with a passion -- cared with a passion -- and she lived with a passion. To be with her was an event -- a happening -- something special. Suze had a facility for listening -- for focusing on you -- you were for that moment, the centre of the world -- important -- special. She cared. "When with Ivy, a joke, was somehow funnier, music more beautiful, colors more vivid, life more exciting. "Like us all, Ivy was not without her imperfections, shortcomings, -- the same qualities that made her unique, presented challenges that most of us are spared. But she fought these imperfections and conquered many of them. "Ivy brought the same love and passion to her music which absorbed so much of her creative life and which she instilled so successfully in Hugh ahd Kim. One of the joys of her life was teaching music. Ivy would be thrilled to know of the music scholarship established in her name. Bill, I know, is grateful for this gesture. "We are here to share in the mourning and grieving of Bill and family for the loss they and all of us feel. But after today, when we think of Ivy it will not be of death we think, but of life, for she had it in great abundance and she gave each one of us a little more of it." 1 14U Ontario Street, Bowmanville Jan. 11,1984 Dear John; As I have mentioned in the past about the high salaries and a bonus for doing a good job, I must say it is starting to show up as follows. Most people have now re- from a conjunction of three planets, one star, a half dozen astroids, and a comet, then it carries carries some weight. So if we take the advice advice of the horoscope and find that it works, we give credit not to ourselves, but to fate and the stars. Until it has been logically logically proven that the planet Pluto has an effect effect on a little baby born in Bowmanville, I'll continue to be rather critical of horoscopes. horoscopes. But, then, according to Dr. Chase's almanac, being critical is second nature to individuals like me born between August 24 and September September 23. It's in the stars. ceived their new assessment notice and the enclosures that came with it. You will notice that in their explanation they tell you to take your assessed value and multiply it by the mill rate of 359.836 and this will give you your taxes. Now, you must understand that this figure came from the assessment assessment dept. Based on these figures I proceeded to figure mine out and I came to the conclusion that I have been overcharged by roughly $90.00. I proceeded to the office of the administrator to start proceedings for a rebate. After discussion with the administrator administrator (and lie also gave me the figure of 359,836) we find out that the proper figure for the taxpayers in Bowmanville Bowmanville to use is not the above hut the figure of 387.688. As you can see there is quite a difference, difference, You know we do pay good salaries and bonus payments payments for a good job and at this point I have to wonder if the good job is supposed to be done for us or to us. You know, John, 1 really think that if the amount of time was spent on our business business rather than worrying about how I get the information information there would be less chance for such mistakes as I have mentioned, While 1 was in the administrator's administrator's office this morning, I inquired us in when u rep. from the Town of New castle would be going to Newcastle England and I did not receive a reply. But, don't forget you heard it from me first. As the new year lias started, I think it would be appropriate if the council would show on the attendance record the times each member is absent, late and at what time they arrived, mileage received and for what purpose, just so the taxpayer can keep up-to-date, you know as one Councillor always tells us figures speak for themselves. There arc a lot more questions questions that I would like to ask but I hesitate to at this time until I finally get the trap unfolded that has been set to get at my source and also if 1 ask too much then the mayor and staff (ns they were directed directed to) will never reply to my unanswered questions such as gas mileage, mayor's gown as to what account it was charged to, etc. In conclusion, John I was very impressed this week when I read about the progress progress the Town of Whitby has made with their industrial promotion (and never had u dinner). Maybe the powers that he could take an example, Also, 1 milieu where the business business community tdowntown) in Oslinwu hove agreed that the city will have to raise the parking meter rates in order to come up with the necessary money to provide more parking. parking. Hell, they have got to be nuts, why don't they do the same as some other places and stick the taxpayers for the bill. With that, John, I will say so long for this time, Yours Truly Ken Hooper P.S. I have just been given a document (Confidential I asume) which states in brief that il would appear that Ken Hooper has documents that arc Confidential and indicating indicating that a tough policy should be drafted to ensure that he does nol gel any more and all I can say to them is good luck to the staff in their investigation and if you do find out I will bet that you as staff will be powerless powerless to do anything about il. My suggestion to staff is do the job that you are being well paid for and forget about me getting information, alter all what do you "have to hide? 1 already know about salaries and how much you lost under the anti-inflation rules and how you would like to retrieve it hack plus mure, I am also aware of vacation allotment and days off, so what else is there to know? Ken. Ed's note: Re the trip to England. Someone here suggested suggested you might be interested in making the trip to represent the town. No doubt you would receive unanimous approval from council and staff, provided provided you would stay there. Dear Editor: Congratulations to the Newcastle Lions Club for their best ever dance on New Year's Eve 1983. Our party, of about 30 people, stopped going to the dance for a couple of years because it was becoming a madhouse, too many people! We heard it would be different this year, so we decided to give it one more try, What a difference! Thanks to a limit on the number of tickets sold, there was room to relax at the tables, no more wrecked clothes trying to squeeze between the chairs to reach the dance floor and once there, no more elbows in the ribs trying to dance. The music was great, the colored light show enhanced the festive mood and the food was superb. The fabulous Chinese hot buffet, from King Garden, sure won hands- down, over the soggy salads and cold, curled-up meats of previous years. Bill Van Dyke, take a how! Let's have more likeit! Happy New Year M. Colder L. Grcentree and the gang Tony Brand Re-elected President of Visual Arts Members of the Town of Newcastle Visual Arts Centre have re-eleetcd Tony Brand as president of their organization for 1984, A slate of 13 directors and members of the executive was chosen last Thursday, January 12, during the Centre's annual general meeting, KIIYiede Haunsbergev, co-ordinator of the Centre, explained that a new regulation regulation adopted by the board allows for a total membership membership of no fewer than 10 persons, persons, The membership may, however, include up to 14. Directors include: Eva Kraft (treasurer), Lloyd McKobbiu (vice president), Gladys Couch, Jessie Sle- mon, Larry O'Connor, Joan Greenway, Maureen Remington, Remington, Ron Hi Hips, Patricia Patricia Hawkins, Evan Ham- merstrom, Marian Zakarow, and Dr. John Higginson. A fourteenth member will he appointed at a later date. The guest speaker at the aiinunl meeting was Brian Beattie, a consultant for the Ministry of Citizenship and Culture.