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"CaN you PICTURE THIS PLACE RUN BY juo GUYS NAMED 'Dean J. Kelly Dr. Tom Millar that **versatile virtuoso' is presenting a concert at the old Town Hall on Oct. 22nd. Tom is an accomplished concert pianist. Tickets are on sale at the Star office or any Town Hall member with proceeds going to the Town Hall. A grand piano is being installed for the occasion. COST of keeping a convict in maximum security is nearly $18,000. a year--more than most workers get in wages. A 25-year-sentence could cost more than HALF A MILLION dollars taking inflation into account. The cost of federal pens this year is $256 million...almost 4 times what it was in 1971. One wonders who is running the prisons--the convicts with their violence and unending demands or the government who gave in to their demands? Religious Persecution: Argentina has issued a decrece banning Jehovah Witnesses, the first such action since independence in 1810. Charles Eisenhower the sect president for Agrentina said the ban was instigated by "ultra-rightist Catholic elements close to the govern- ment." The sect has 3 million members world-wide-- 35.000 in Argentina. There are 600,000 Jews in the country--the largest in the Western Hemisphere outside the U.S. A number of years ago we heard of harassment of Witnesses in Quebec in an attempt to drive them out. From 1939 to 1956 - nearly 20 years - they were subjected to what was probably the most persistent and intense persecution of a religious group in North American history - first at the instance of the federal government and then at that of the government of Quebec. TV: the portrayal of President Harry Truman in 'Plain Speaking' was a masterpiece. The BATTLE OF BRITAIN and **Flight: The Passionate Affair'* should remind us of our past and heroic pilots and airmen who saved democracy from fascist aggression. Canada played a major role in not only supplying airmen with our Commonwealth Training plan but with the planes for them to fly. How close we came to defeat. Had it not been for those gallant men today we could be under the yolk of fascism--slaves.in our own land. I cannot for the life of me understand the attack on Toronto City Hall by those opposed to a statue of Sir Winston Churchill EAE i JIMMY rn' JOE 2" Ny being placed in the square. Had it not been for leaders like Churchill (a vanishing breed) we may not have had a civic square where freedom reigns. METRIC MILK: those familior quarts will soon be 1 litre...only 35 ounces instead of the.usual 40 oz. Don't look for lower prices for less milk. Dairy processors say that costs will increase because of the cost of the containers...more needed for the same amount of total milk sales. UNLEADED GAS is costing much more than the regular kind, although it contains none of the costly lead. Some places are ripping mortorists off with prices about 8 cents above regular gas, knowing full well they cannot use the lower priced stuff. Big signs at low prices for regular gas brings in the non-lead users to find the high prices. Non-leaded gas has octane rating of 93 while regular has a rating of about 94. I recall a report out of Ottawa some time ago said that it cost only about 1 cent a gallon more to make Premium over the regular, while it sold for 6 to 10 cents more at the pumps. Is the same thing happening now with the "'captive customers" that can use only unleaded in fear of damaging their engines. Even the nossels won't fit into the cars tank. Canadians are the most over-governed people in the free world. In the past 8 years the civil service in Ottawa has increased 50 percent faster than the rest of the work force. Federal bureaucracy has brought about the highest paid civil servants in the world...with senior staff receiving from 40 to 50 percent more than their counterparts in Washington. Ottawa has become a huge Octopus, producing nothing for the gross national product and devouring the economy like a parasitic monster. Adding to the fires of inflation are often higher than U.S. labor rates linked with an 18 percent less per man hour output, are causing U.S. companies to transfer their manufacturing to more productive U.S. facilities. WASTE NOT - WANT NOT Ontario users of hydro are increasing consumption at about 9 percent a year while south of the border the U.S. having gone through a small energy crisis (odd and even days for buying gas) etc. line-ups for miles at gas pumps, have for the second year in a row, cut down on energy use. The U.S. Commerce Clearing House says the demand for heat, light and power in all forms last year fell 71,078 TRILLION British thermal units. Even Cuba saved $2.2 million this year by recovering old bottles, scrap paper, etc and recycling them. 80 percent of the adult population in a street-level organization joined together to watch that water is not wasted and that lights are not left on unnecessarily. The world's population is increasing by 200,000 every day--two cities the size of Oshawa. I AA RR AA JR a a v 4 Position weakening in Pen controversy Our Tricky Dicky Award of the Year goes to the Uxbridge Times-Journal, which has apparently man- aged to reach relative safety by straddling the fence that divides those for and those against the proposed reception centre in the township. In an October 6 editorial, the Weekly suggests that council "'sit down and review the situation", perhaps to take a look at whether or not it is right to stick to their guns and refuse a vote on the matter at the risk of causing an almost irrepairable split in the commun- ity. Editorially in favour of the centre for some time the Times-Journal announces later in the October 6 editorial that it has not changed'its attitude on the subject. However, the 'sit down and review' certainly looks like an outstretched olive branch to the frantic and sometimes vicious opposition. As was the case in Scugog, the indignant cry of a growing number of Uxbridge residents is 'let the people decide by a vote on the subject', and until recently, the Times-Journal has seemed to view that solution as a kind of Tonsilocracy (Rule by the Loudest Mouth). Now the paper suggests a vote on the subject might be in order. So what's tricky about that? Get a load of the *'conditions" the Weekly suggests should be met by the federal government before the question is put to a vote. : The main "condition" is that the federal govern- ment would choose a site, complete with a written contractural agreement that that is where the institution will be located. *'It would be difficult for any resident to vote intelligently", states the editorial, "if he were left in the dark to where it might be built'. . One is almost moved to believe that intelligent and concerned people would bring soil-sampling kids and surveying tools to the site before feeling qualified to vote. The real reason for the condition, however, is very obvious, and shows that the editorial writer has a keen understanding of Joe Citizen and the, Workings of Democracy and the fundamental problem facing the penitentiary proposal. The Not-Near-Me principle. In other words, we all want them locked up (strung up, or whatever the case may be), but we don't want to do it, be a part of it, or even be anywhere near it. What the editorial does is take this principle and apply it on a very local level. By announcing the exact location, say in the west, we would probably see a return of good citizenship and public responsibility in east, north and south. If, on the other hand, the location was announced as in the east, we would likely see the $100,000 grant in lieu of taxes become too much to ignore in the west, north and south. If the pen were to go in the south, then the north, east and west would probably vote for those 180 or so new government jobs. And, Bingo, we've got a Uxbridge Pen. 7 Tsk tsk tsk. (PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited wre, ' Phone 985 7383 S- : Gon (am) : Cartwright Townships J. 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