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"A Family Tradition for 125 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, August 20, 1991 - 7 PRESSING MATTERS "TAKE ME OUT OF THE BAWWL GAME, AND MIKHAIL GORBACHOV" Shoulda done this column two months ago, but better late than never. Earlier this summer, during the 'after shock' seg- ment of the third {and still most recent} '91 attempt at respectable golf, the Toronto Blue Jays became the ta- ble talk topic. The Jays were blistering hot, looking as though they'd run away and hide from the other Amer- ican League East Division teams. All the folks at the table were old ball players. All follow the major league season with keen interest. None believe the Jays will win the Division title. Why? Because, almost to the last man {Long live Moo- kiel}, the Blue Jays aren't winners. They are whiners. Most Jays worry too much about things that don't win games. They worry about contracts. They worry about other player's contracts. They worry about batting high or low in the order, platooning, performance bonuses, personal statistics, not enough coaching, too much coaching, etc. They're too concerned about the conse- quences of 'extra effort'...which might win a game, but could also result in personal injury, and ruin a career. Their agents are more important than the manager who plays them. Imagine what would have happened if David Wells had pulled his mound tantrum thirty years ago? Tossing the ball toward the outfield would have been the last pitch Wells ever threw in the Majors. And the What bugs us most is how many Jays ignore the game itself, while checking to see if tv cameras are aimed in their direction. Watch after somebody makes a potential high- light play...you'll see eyeballs peeking in the direction of the closest tv camera. Often the ball cap comes off, to better expose the kisser. Some hot dogs can't even run off the field at the end of an inning without taking off the cap. Perhaps Dave Stieb should be excluded from the latter group. He doesn't know fans - or tv cameras - ex- ist. If stats were kept, Stieb would outright own the ma- jor league record for athletic supporter adjustments in a regulation nine inning game. We prefer to believe this is a subconscious act. Hey, the Jays aren't a total write-off. They may even be the best team - on paper - ever fielded by the Toronto organization. {Any team without George Bell merits consideration}. If they are the all-time best, that alone should tell us something. Look at the starters who weren't even with the team last year: Roberto Alomar, Joe Carter, Devon White, and most recently Candy Moldonato. Those players had amazing impact, much like Mookie Wil- son did earlier. If this team is hot, why do so many guys become pssuedo-superstars simply by showing up? "Sorry ex- cuses for super stars," he sez derisively. Who ever heard of a lead-off batter {Devon White} so incapable of y John J ames ball, the game itself is in serious trouble. | We predict the Jays will choke again in 1991, de- | spite the weekend series in Detroit. Overlook the worri- some fact that Sparky's Disintombed Dozen could easi- | ly have won all three games. Results of that matchup | are much more a damning indictment of the American | League East Division, than a preview of some inescapa- | ble destiny about to descend upon the 1991 Blue Jays. | {Note to all rabid Blue Bird Fans: don't worry | about saving this column for two months. A fastidious | young brother will do it for you}. In other news... The above seems fairly trivial, in light of what | transpired in the Soviet Union over the weekend. Mikhail Gorbachov has been placed under house | arrest by the Soviet 'Old Guard,' which you can inter- | pret as 'The Army' and a bunch of corrupt Communist Party Members about to lose golden arm chairs. | Definitely not the best news we've ever had, folks. | For a better idea of what may be in store during the next few months and years in the U.S.S.R., run down to the video store and re-rent Dr. Zhivago. Whether Mikhail was right or wrong no longer matters. What did matter most was Gorbachov's failure to clearly explain and prepare Soviet citizens, so they'd be able to endure the terrible transition period between Communism and Capitalism. Just like everybody over here these days, the Russian people expected instant rewards. before he hit the locker room. team captain's spikes (if the Jays had anyone with leadership qualities} would be buried in his backside performing the lowly sacrifice bunt, he isn't even given the opportunity to advance a man at first base in the late innings of a one-run game? If this is playoff base- well as them. No pain, no gain. In this case, the pain could be a doozer for us, as Letters io the editor NDP change of policy? To the Editor: Gord Mills is seeking public opi- nion on Bill 115, Sunday Shopping. (NDP seeking input on Sunday Shopping Bill, Port Perry Star, August 13, 1991). At a meeting with Mr. Mills he told me that "a common pause day was NDP policy." Does seek- ing public opinion mean a policy change? If the NDP is truly for the people it should dump this legislation and its inherent non- productive bureaucracy of civil . servants. The bill discriminates against a large percentage of workers. Why should only one segment of the population have a common pause day? Why not everyone -- hospital staff, doctors, fire departments, hydro workers, police and all those people in productive jobs in plants that run 24 hours a day? Yes, the plants that make pro- ducts that make money that make jobs that pay taxes to pay civil servants to tell us not to shop on Sunday. Mr. Mills and the NDP should be working on the real problem, the lack of productive jobs. Sincerely, Colin L. Kemp Mulroney impeachment To the Editor: I am sending this letter to every newspaper in Canada (1027) and I hope you allow me the oppor- tunity to update your readers on how well the impeachment of Brian Mulroney is progressing. We needed 2,300 sheets of peti- tions (25 names on a sheet) out across Canada for us to have a good chance for impeachment, at the time of writing Mike Charette and I have sent out well over 5,000 due mainly to the response receiv- ed from the women of Canada. Thanks to their determination and hard work there is no doubt in my mind that we will obtain on our legal petitions the million signatures that we require for impeachment. When it comes to impeachment it is well worth remembering that in the last century Sir John A. MacDonald resigned three hours before his impeachment was to be served, the last impeachment in Canada was in the late 1970s, when Justice Landreville of the Supreme Court resigned at the very last moment. Let each of us give ourselves a Christmas pre- sent, by having Mulroney im- peached before the end of 1991, then even though 1992 may not be a prosperous new year, it will at least be a happy one. Turn to Page 8 Thanks for information To the Editor: RE: My inquiry re D.D. Palmer. I have heard from Mrs. L. Beacock with info re - the above. She said she had seen my letter in your paper. So, I send my thanks for your advertising my request. I thank you very much. Yours sincerely, A. Elizabeth Crozier 45 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 14, 1946 On Wednesday of this week, the monument of D.D. Palmer, Founder of Chiropractic, was unveiled in a ceremony, by Hon. Mr. Michener, Provincial Secretary for the province of Ontario. Master Donald Long, Scugog Island is enjoying his holiday with his uncle Mr. Roy Hope in Reach. A number of local Junior Farmers attended the annual Sports Day of the Quinte Junior Farmers Association. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 16, 1966 Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Letcher are among the party of Ontario bowlers that are touring Canada. The Oddfellow and Rebekah Lodges and their families met at Birdseye Centre Park for their annual picnic this past week. Radio station CJBC's public affairs program Remember When 7? HISTORIC PHOTOS COU RTESY SCUG The Currie residence, 1878. Two-storey brick house is still located on southwest corner of Queen and Ella Street. Note in 1878, the house had a picket fence along Ella St., and in the background is the old Port Perry High School which was destroyed by fire. "Let's Find Out" is in town this week, recording about people and events in the community for broadcast on the air next Sunday. The program is a documentary featuring Port Perry as a typical Ontario community of 2,000 people. 30 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 17, 1961 A caravan of forty-five cars of the Horseless Carriage Club of Southern Ontario was in town on the Civic holiday. At least two of the cars had personal interest for some in Port Perry - one, a 1918 four cylinder Buick had been owned by Cec. Beare and a 1931 Ford was once guided by Dr. Rennie. Mr. O.E. Croxall, south of Manchester, had a yield crop of corn that stood over 10 feet tall, very unusual for this year. Dr. Walter Smeltzer of Port Perry has recently become an Associate Professor of Metallurgical Engineering at McMaster' University. PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 10