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2- Orono Weekly Times, February 25, 1976 A Wf)RD OF PRAISE FOR THE LEADERS • Curing the past week the Orono Scouts and their 'associated groups as well as,those of the Girl Guides held events in recognition of their founder, Lord Baden-Powell. Dufing the holding of these events both Rev . B. Long and Mr. ■ H/ E,' Millson made ' mention of the importance to the " Organizations of the numerous leaders. • There is no doubt that their concern and leadership is •the important factor in the success of the movement both in this community and throughout the major portion of the world. Leaders and workers within the community set the . quality of the community and the environment in which its youth grow. This leadership is not related to only one sector of activity but throughout all activities for youth, scouting, Sports, religious and schooling. One could not but be impressed with leadership in Orono at this time. A full compliment of well-qualifièd leaders exist with the scout and girl guide movement and is again repeated in other areas such as hockey and church activity groups. We are most fortunate. In this, a word of praise for those leaders, who give of their time and talents to enhance and enrich the lives of the youth in this community making Orono a better place in which to live. ' JOE CLARK COMES TO THE FRONT Over the past wêek-end the Progressive Conservatives choose Joe Clark, an Albertan, their leader. Much has been said and written over this interesting convention but it will be some months before an accurate assessmenfcan be made of the choice. • > It would well appear that Clark is no crusader as Diefenbaker nor does he come before the electorate with the charisma of Pierre Trudeau. But these were characteristics which worked wonders in the past with the voters and there is no reason to believe this quality is still needed. He appears to this corner a true conservative judging from a policy statement to delegates at the convention. He would limit family allowances to families with incomes less than $14,000, unemployed in areas of work would be required to do community work for half a week each week unemployed, he would outlaw strikes in the public sector and replace them with a Public Interest Disputes Tribunal,, he also suggests that all or part of fees for a doctor's visit should be treated as taxable income for the patient. Also he suggests community service should replace jail ■ terms in certain cases and he wants more money spent on national defence. The list is quite lengthy even including higher prices for peak-load energy and oil prices raised to the world level. Qu ite an impressive number of changes and many of a contentious nature. Generally we find it is not so much the leaders who make change but the mood of the elctorate. - Letters to the editor Mri Editor : This letter is in response to. the letter, which was in the Wednesday, February 11,1976 edition 'of the Orono Weekly . Time, from our dear, sincere^ Councillor --Kenneth E. Lyall. Yes, I agree, the condition of Orono's business district street* following our recent snow storms has been fierce. Also, because of our fellow gnats' lack of consideration in parking their auto vehicles, the snow plows have had difficulty in carrying out their duties. But because of my lack of brains, being what I am, I have just one question to ask jMr. Lyall where are we supposed to park? Mr. Lyall states that the Municipality if doing something something about street parking-in Orono and Newcastle villages ----- they have chosen to distribute tickets to those illegally parked TER RIFIC!!!! After all, that's one way of getting around the subject of proper .parking facilities. Well, sir, we could always park on the side, streets, right? What h.ippens then, tin ••»'■ L our hard Working Spowmen wish to plow these Obituary CARL W. BILLINGS A life long and highly respected citizen of Orono and vicinjty, Carl Wilfred Swans- ton Billings, 1 passed away in his 79th year on February 2nd in Oshawa General Hospital after a brief illness. Born at the Billings homestead homestead north of the seventh concession of Clarke Township, Township, he was the youngest son of the late Samuel and Evaline Billings, being one of a family of four, all of whom predeceased him. A daughter, Edna, also predeceased him in 1939 and his first wife the former Winnifred Alice Staples, Staples, in 1945. Carl had many interests. He was an Elder in the Orono United Church, Past Master of thë Orono Lodge A.F. & A.M., Grand Steward of the Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario, a director, director, of the Durham Central Agricultural Society and of the Orono Horticultural Society, Society, a member of the Oronc Cemetery Board, among his other activities. He was an enthusiastic gardener and a good neighbour. He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife Eileen (Souch), and his daughter Audrey (Mrs. William McNaul) of Oshawa. The funeral service was held on Wednesday February 4th in the United Church anc was conducted by his minis ter, Rev. 6. E. Long. Interment Interment will be in Orono Cemetery Cemetery in the Spring. The many floral tributes, donations to the Heart Foundation Foundation and to the Orono Church Choir Fund were tokens of the esteem in which he was held streets as well? You know, store employees and main street dwellers are going to, get, not only angry, but sick and tired if they have to continue paying illegal parking fines until something is done to improve the conditions. Let's get serious now, Mr. Lyall. We fellow gnats would he more than pleased with our Cbmplimenting Councillor if he Would at least approach our municipality to have parking lots built in our fine village of Orono! Do you have any other alternatives? Sincerely, »■ ' The Disturbed Gnat. February 21, 1976 Dear Sir; Concerning the letter of Douglas Simpson in last week's Times about toy remarks in your Letters to the " Editor, February 11, 1976 edition over clearing of snow from Orono's Main Street. Funny how Mr. Simpson's letter went-he started out nattering about snow and wound up knocking my political political philosophy. His main theme.was that I am a negative political maverick maverick staging controversial shows simply to put down good government as envisaged envisaged by Mayor Garnet Rickard. Mr. Editor, Mr. Simpson has broached the matter of my political philosphy, therefore therefore I would like to take this opportunity to outline mine more fully. As Mr. Simpson has contrived to misunderstand misunderstand me, perhaps a few words of explanation will make my position in municipal municipal politics more clear to ■ everyone. Follow the lead of an outstanding Canadian politician politician who said recently "I did not enter public life or politics to offer false promises nor did I enter public life to compromise my principles merely to survive and stay on as an elected politician." To begin, with, I deeply believe that the sunshine is for everybody. By. this I mean that nobody gets favours from Town Hall because they are somebody--law must be applied applied evenly and justly for everyone. I am an ultra nationalist who has travelled widely in my day who knows and fully believes that Canada, by ah measure, ranks with the greatest countries .of the world. The richness of our country, envied by the rest of the world, it shared equitably for those who will ' work/ cqn provide more than enough for all of us. I firmly believe that every Canadian-every Canadian- has the right to good schooling to the full limit of their ability Every adult has the right to be gainfully employed, to get married and raise a family and to own their own home with a piece of ground commensurate with their income. income. Cassandra's Corner THE PC CONVENTION AND TV The coverage given the Progressive Conservative Leadership Convention last weekend was TV at its best, through the magic of television we were able to witness the high drama, the tears and smiles and to almost smell the smoke and taste the cardboardy flavour of the coffee passing back and forth among the delegates. Regardless of political persUation one could not fail to be touched by televised . programmes of this kind --- yet there are people around who want to put blinkers and muzzles on the news media. Its a crazy world ! ABBREVIATIONS (perhaps the demise of the English Language) For years English language scholars and teachers have accused Americans of mutilating the English language with their slang and atrocious spelling. Well, I can live with colour without a'"U" and to-nite without a "GH", even "Fuzz" and "man" at the end of every sentence can be accepted, but, these stupid acronyms are a little too much to swallow. The other day I trie<|to read an article on housing, but after reading some 200 words I was so bogged down with RHOSP, RRSP, CMHC, HOME etc., that I gave up in disgust. I suspect that bureaucrats "AD-men" and other manipulators choose catchy first letters and then fit words to interpret them. If this trend continues, unabated, then our speech pattern' and sound will resemble the noise emanating from a farmyard on a mid-summer's day. How many of these acronyms can you decipher? - they appear almost daily in the news papers : - OCAP, RRAP, NIP, PIN, OEC, EEC, AIB, AHOP, etc. This last example of abbreviations, gone wild, I will decipher for you, as I am sure you would .never guess the meaning -- H A L O, believe it or not means "High Altitude Liason Officer" and is military slang for an army Padre or Chaplain. Like man this is really too much, man! VENEZIA Restaurant HWY 115 and 35 > 2 Mile South of Orono Phone 983-5651 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK We Specialize in: Pizza - Mea ls ALSO . Weekend Specials Everyone who is ill, aged or ' unable has the right to be sheltered by the taxes of their, fellow Canadians. , To this, short'outline of my political philosphy, I would also, like, to state a personal, belief that this great country- of ours has-in the main-been badly served, if not betrayed in the past 109 years by- the majority of elected representatives representatives who thought-and think, more of themselves, their - families, their position, their • party and their purses than their duty to Canada and Canadians. Back to Mr, Simpson--Quid Pro Quo. Mr. Simpson holds that I speak out negatively-monot- onously.. • To this I reply that.I believe that Mr. Simpson has served the Public Utilities Commission Commission in Orono for quite a while as an elected official and that he is presently Chairman of that Commission. In the past several years there have beén . two sharp rises in the cost of electricity to the Orono PUC customers and a further rise is presently in the offing. During these events I didn't hear the voice of Douglas Simpson as an elected member member of the Orono PÜC holler loudly and fight against these unjust raises in the cost of a need basic to all PUC customers. customers. Not a peep. •• Ontario Hydro is deep in ' plans to cohstruct the World's largest'puclear electrical generating generating station on the outskirts outskirts of Bowmanville. In view of what has' happened in Port Hope, Hydro plans are sure to raise problems for all of us. I haven't heard the voice of Douglas Simpson condemning the Hydro project. In fact, Ï have never heard the voice of Mr. Stepson at all on any public subject-pro or con, monotonously or not monotonously except through his letter to your paper last ^eek. Further, &e have a ridiculous ridiculous situa tidn here in the Town of Newcastle where we have three Public Utilities Commissions Commissions and one Rural Divis- , ion of Hydro, One PUC-on which Mr. Simpson sits is in Orono, there is another in the former •Village of Newcastle," the third in Bowmanville and there is an Ontario Hydro Rural Division in Darlington. All hand me downs from the previous 'municipal governments. governments. . I haven't heard the voice of Douglas Simpson-who-is very close to the situation, crying out againstltheduplicatioh and overlapping bodies that c; not help! but add to the hiM.. cost of electricity in our community. In fact. ! also fail to hear the voice, of -Mayor Rickard--who sits as a. member of ; the PH' s all of them, objecting to this • silly and costly situation! I regret that my stand on snow clearing on Orono's main Street has been misunderstood misunderstood by Mr. Simpson. I also regret that this misunderstanding misunderstanding led to an attack on my political philosophy. I further regret if anyone believes that I would be so stupid as to direct an attack on the life style of Orono People. There had been complaints about the snow conditions on the main Street of Orono that required some comment 1 made the comment. This, I do not regret. 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