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Around the Region rArOUtld WORST* OF TWO CONCEPTS Allan Làwrence, MP for Durham Norhtumberland has blasted tlie recent budget submitted by Marc Lalonde, finance Minister of the liberal Government in Ottawa. ■; He said the minister did not offer aid to reduce unemployment but at the same time increased spending to a point of a $31,3 billion. . Lawrence said taxes will increase increase by fourteen percent. Lawrence said the longterm longterm impact of deficit budgeting for the next six years is disturbing. To look at French Immersion The Peterborough Vic- . toria, Northumberland and Newcastle Separate ' School Board may be encouraged to look into French Immersion in the area of Port Hope and Cobourg following a mèeting of interested parents. The group was told it is a matter of numbers and not cost !as grants generally offset additional costs. It was pointed out that some interested parents are now sending their children to the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of education education immersion program in Cobourg. The parents were told to let the board now their wishes as soon as possible. Wants additional computers The computer consultant for the Durham Board of Education has asked that the board spend some quarter of i&jtoSttion for 100 computers FM3-84. Computers would be spread ' throughout' the area and in elementary schools used as teachers' aids while in secondary secondary schools used for computer computer science and programming programming courses. Now wants jdice of profits ,Wi(h Chrysler Corp. showing showing a turnaround and an- noucing a profit for the first quarter this year the United Auto Workers now say its members want a share of the turnaround when they come to the .bargaining table later this year. Chrysler worker-had their salaries and cost of living benefits frozen in 1979 although winning concessions following a strike in 1982. Workers remain about $2.00 an hour behind GM workers at the present time. Expect salary increase for regional councillors Regional councillors are expected to approve a salary increase on Wednesday for themselve while at the same time give approval to a budget with a 4.8 percentage increase over the 1982 budget. Gary Herrema has been reported to state that he expects expects regional councillors salaries will increase frpm the ■ resent $13,890.00 to V 4,584.00. Come to agreement at Goodyear The United Rubber Workers Union and Goodyear Canada Inc. hâve reached an agreement as to contract settlement. The company has won their three shift, seven day option while Union has received improved salary schedules. The Union voted in favour of tljie package. Set to form survival group Financially troubled farmers in the Northumberland Northumberland County aréa are considering forming a chapter of the Canadian Farmers Survival Association and have decided to form a steering committee to elect, officers. About .fifty farmers were present to hear Allen Wilford speak recently at a meeting in Colborne. Wilford is president president of the Canadian Farmers Survival Association who went on a hunger strike when jail for theft of farm equipment during a penny- auction. The association has some 3000 to 4000 members in Ontario Ontario with an aim to fight the depression, it was stated. Oshawa facilities could benefit Gary Herrema, chairman' of Durham Region, has stated that the local economy should benefit from the recent recent federal government budget. He referred to the housing incentives and public works programs that could be undertaken in Durham through funding from the budget. Herrema felt the Oshawa Airport and the Oshawa Harbour Harbour could be two areas in. the Region that could also benefit from the Lalonde budget. t Twenty teachers could be redundant Twenty teachers were given notices last week that they are surplus to the needs of their schools in the 1983-84 school year. However many of the teachers will be placed in other positions that nhty become vacant, prior to the end of May when the exact number of teachers is determined. determined. Parking ban on 115 at Wilmot Creek The Ministry of Transportation Transportation and Communication has received approval of both the Town of Newcastle council council and Sam Cureatz for a parking ban on Highway 115-35, both sides in the area of the Wilmot .Creek. The ban has been recommended recommended by the OPP who fear fishermen will use the area for parking creating a problem problem for both the travelling public and themselves. It has been pointed out that a parking area has been created by the ^Ministry of Natural Resources just south of Highway 2 at the Wilmot Creek. It All Came To An End A couple of weeks ago I had written in this column that we at the Orono Times were printing some 20.000 three-colour letterheads letterheads for Peter Blaikie, a candidate in the running for the leadership of the Federal Conservative Party Party and of course we came out in support of Blaikie. ft all ended with the announcement announcement last week that Blaikie had withdrawn from the race. It was at this point that we began to take a bit of ribbing and both Sid Rutherford and Bill Tomlinson said my association and article was a "Kiss of Death" for Blaikie's hopes for the leadership. Tomlinson went a little further when I suggested that my support would now be directed towards Crosbie. Oh no, said Tomlinson, "that could mean the end of Crosbie." "Why don't you write about Trudeau just in case that your hecks works?" It just so happens that Trudeau's case is not before us at this time but I am mindful that he never answered my letter as to the chickens and his restraint program of six and five. I will keep this in the back of my mind. No, Crosbie looks good to me and after all, although l am not committed committed to the Conservative cause he did, when he presented his one and only budget, laid it on the line. We agreed with him in this but rather took exception to the dismantling of Petro Can and the mortgage mortgage interest deduction for income tax purposes. Crosbie has some of that wit of Diefenbaker and possibly we could use some of this at times. I might say that I now fee! the Liberals have gone too far in faking Petro Can into the retail business. Well back to Blaikie and those 20,000 letterheads. letterheads. We have some 12.000 still at the office and if they are, not picked up I intend to make them into pads and distribute them to'card-carrying conservatives conservatives and. save a few for my liberals friends who ^tre now figuring out what the Lalonde budget did do or did not do. As to our NDP friends they live in some kind of dream world with everything growing on trees and thus no need to figure ... no need for pads. , Now my problem with the unused letterheads is not as monumental as the hundreds and hundreds of campaign buitonS "Due Zander had been producing producing in his shop on the banks of the Ganaraska east of the Ski Hill, My only solution for Dik is that he somehow or other (and no doubt he could think of a way) paste the buttons together to form some kind of water craft that he could float his Fanny down the Ganny come next spring during this annual event promoted promoted out of Port Hope.. Arriving at Lake Ontario he could drive a hole through the bottom, after, of course, making ar- ragements for a pickup by the Coast Guard. . This has been my first brush with federal politics which ended rather abruptly. A tree; is a tree- is a tree Newcastle council developed a bit of a wrangle when considering a request ' from the Bowman ville Museum Board in which the Town was asked to provide and plant a commemorative tree during Bowmanville's "Old Home" week. . Counc. Hubbard moved 1 that^ounc. Hobbs, being a member of the board, be delegated the authority to select a tree and make arrangements arrangements for the planting. Counc. Hobbs pondered 1 the arrangements and the type of tree that should be planted. He suggested it should possibly be more than a flowering crab as suggested by Counc. Hubbard. Counc. Cowman stated she felt the same way and that the tree should be fitting for the gardens at the Bowmanville Museum. Counc. Taylor said he agreed with the authority being being given Counc. Hobbs but would be looking for the proposal proposal and suggestion which should form part of a report by Counc. Hobbs to the general purpose committee. Mayor Rickard stated that the board of the museum was „ most capable to make the choice and that > Counc. Hobbs . being a member should pursue the matter with, the board. Flower Den 28, David's Crescent Orono, Ontario Bring this ad in and , get 10% off • your Mother's Day Floral arrangement Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, April 27, 1983-9 • A friend gave me a book recently that I missed somehow when it was published in 1969. It's called "PRIME TIME: THE LIFE OF EDWARD R. MURROW," by one of Murrow's friends and colleagues, Alexander Kendrick. I picked it up one night at bedtime, read for awhile and then put out the light. I tossed and turned for a long time and finally grabbed the book and a cigar and went downstairs to have another run at it. To say that I was shaken by what I read is putting it mildly. For the first time, perhaps, I realized how much ground we've lost in televsion since Murrow died, particularly in the area of hard political and social comment. It's probably just as well I didn't read the book in T 969. I hadn't spent 15 years in broadcasting then and I would probably not have understood everything that Murrow and his biographer were worried about. Now f find that my concerns concerns were theirs and that they're s'earing my vitals. ■ Since Murrow, information programming in the United States has become, soft, bland, and mushy. Without purpose, purpose, beyond entertainment, there is no substance. Despite PBS in the United States and the CBC in Canada, North American television on the whole, mass television, has become increasingly insubstantial. The medium is becoming the message, a concept that Murrow fought. It isn't the pipeline that's important; it's what it carries,. Carried a step further, it isn't the half-witted Anchorman . who is important, it's the news itself. No wpnder Murrow Murrow stayed away from television news. Witjàin our present present 30 and 60 minute formats, with relatively modest resources, we can only struggle to keep'.'Zmead of the leaks and stay afloat; ând nëver, for a pnoment, investigate investigate what's going on in the mile of oefean that lies under gs. Too often, we distort through.~çompressior|i we get it wrong, and we fail to put it iii|context. But outside of the news, with few exceptior^there is only entertainment. Just for a moment, mêSÉofe the television television we're getting against the televisiowErB^White once envisaged: "I think TV should be the Counterpart of the literay essay, should arouse our'.,fims, satisfy our hunger for beauty, take us on journeys, enable us to participate in events, present great drama and music, ' explore the sea and the sky and the woods and the hills.. . If should restate and clarify the social dilemma and the political pickle. Once in a while it does, and you get a quick glimpse of its pqtential." What we're getting getting instead of White's vision, is Pay TV and the promise promise ,ofi fleeting frontal nudity; a quick glimpse not of television's potential but of something rather more commonplace. Just outside of Guelph there's an unusual workshop. It hauses a collection of sdme of the most beat-up derelicts you've ever seen. A bunch of battered player pianos, organs, nickelodeons, and even early juke boxes. But give Ron Schmuck and his staff time to work on them, and the old crocks âre turned into classic beauties. Then they -are carefully carted to the Mississauga showroom of what Ron calls "The Great Canadian Nickelodeon Company." I spent a day with Ron, his wife Sue, Melanie, Dawn and Jim (that's the entire staff), learning the ins and outs of how they perform their miracles of restoration. They're a happy group. They obviously love the work and take pride in meticulously repairing; replacing and refurbishing what often appears to be just a pile of junk. I found the player pianos the most interesting. Especially Especially ohe of them --'a baby grand! The first I'd ever seen., The piano rblls go in a concealed slot under the keyboards. ; There are well over 3,00 rolls of music lining the walls of the showroom which include songs that go back to the turn of the century. . , • Ron started the company five years ago and says that the demand for the antique instruments is increasing con- ■ stantly. He thinks'it's because "people are. going back • to basics -- back td closer family ties. The pianos seem to fit into the picture.". Hé rtins into some interesting situations while travelling travelling around buying the mechanical music makers. |n one case, a little old lady's will was found in the back of a discarded player piano. Another time, Ron was looking over a battered piano and discovered vàluable old coins in it. And where do you find these historic musical treasures? "Just about anywhere," sâys Ron, "in basements, barns or Aunt Millie's parlour'." I