l>ACGI-2,IIULRSOAY, SEP11,MIWR 13, 1973, WIIITIIY URi- l'RIESS dito rleal IT'S YOUR CHOICE Tbere's always a lot of controversy about supporing downtown merchants as opposed to shopping at* the plazas or shopping centres. No arnount of publicity by the media can influence to a great degree where a customer wiIl shop. What can directly influence a customer's shopping habits is how he or she is treated at a certain business establishment. Therefore if the people of Witby wil shop downtown at least once they are giving the merchants an opportunity to convince the shopper that downtown is the place to be. . it sounds rather simple doesn't it? Some merchants apparently don't tbink so and obviously don't care. Their attitude seems to be that they should sock it to the customer on the first visit in case be doesn't corne back. Although there doesn't seem to be much logic to this way of thinking what else can you think about a downtown variety store that charges the kids a quarter for a bottie of pop or an eating establisbment that nicks you 70 cents for a crummy' hamburger? These are the kind of gouge artists that give the wbole downtowni area a bad name and these two mentioned above coincidentally, didn't even bother to take part in the first downtown street mail during the County Town Carnival. The Whitby Free Press stands 100 %7 behiiid those clowntown merchants who are doing their best to serve the customers ini a way that will make them want to return. Hiappily, we can say this covers the majority of downtown merchants but to those gouge artists who are doing their best to rip off the people who have taken the time to shop downtown we can only wish them wbat they truly deserve ... an early bankruptcy. ELECTION CANDIDATES The politicèiI scene as we predicted in last week's FREE PRESS prior to the opening of nominations has flot changed, now that nominations are over, excepting the addition of five more candidates: Joy T7hompson and Vernon (Mickey) MacCari Ward 4 (east); Sam Hollingsworth Ward 1 (north); Frank Sugden Region; and Patrick Dooley for Mayor. (the scbool candidates are not included). There "I be three acclamations: Ward 3 (centre) Tom Edwards; Ward 2 (west) Jim Gartshore; and Separate Scbool Representative to the County Board, Gerry Noonan. T'hese three positions were flot contested. The Regionai Councillor race (two to be chosen) bas hecome a four - way contest with the 'nomination of Frank Sugden. As mentioned in last week's FREE PRESS the other candidates are: Councillor Gerry Emm (Ashburn), Bob White, and John Goodwin of Whitby. The nortb ward (l )is between Councillor Don Lovelock and Sam Hollingsworth, both of Asbburn. qçniergencies 668 - 6700. The Whitby Fret Press is YOUR Whitby newspaper, apd you have a say as to what appears in it. So support 'YOUR commpinity newspaper ... it is tht only local .newspaper-that' besides being circulated throughout the Town of Whitby proper, is mailed out through tht Post Office to the outlying rural mras. THE WHITBY FREE PRESS IVOICE ,OF TH-E COIJNTY. TOWN) Nomnetow" papo of Whitby. Brooklin, Myrtie end Ahburn; s.rving Ajax end Pickering. Publi*ted r"rv!1'w's*v Publlswd by Whkbhy Fr.. Prou Imc., 'kuno Herifild. Preuldsn. &%il Oow JM. Whitby. Phone 668-1 i Editor: Mmgie burgess Assitant EdItor: Jim Quail Advertislng: John MacMillan ,GrahIc Arts: Marie Rutter MAI LING PERMIT NO' 2941 Whitby Police Confiscate Ont Pound of Marijuana Whitby Detective Partiar- che and Constables McGreg- or and Van Doleweerd last Saturday confiscated approx- imately one pound of a sub- stance believed to be mari- juana.1 Tbree people were arrested and cbarged with tbe posses- sion of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. Charged are: Patrick Do- uglas Madigan (19) of 1400 Dundas Street E., Whitby, Frank Lavalley (18) of 357 Rosedale Dr., Whitby, and Earl Lahaye (21) of 258 Lupin Drive, Whitby. Tbe accused will appear in Court on September I 8tb. Break - In Early Saturday morning, the Sportsman's Corner, By'- ron Street South wasbroken into and three rifles were stolen (rom the display win- dow. Charged witb break, enter and theft is Randy Small (18) of 512 Lannonberry Twr 215 [ast Monday night Town Council passed a by - iaw authorizing tht %ale of 215 acres east of Thickson Road S. and south of Flwy, 401 to JDS lnvestments Ltd. for $2,000,1 45. Tht package of landjust nortb of Crystal Beach, is presenti>' known as tht Po- well Farm, Blackburn Farm and Camp X. Tht selling price of ap- proximatel>' $9,303 per acre dots not include an addition- ai $1 ,200 per acre which wili be paid b>' JDS lnvest- ments to tht Town for tht installation of watermains. JDS Investments bas ag- Iue Whitby Fret Pem is nuo Brock Street South location. Court, Oshawa, who was ar- rested shortly after the oc- currence on Dundas St. E., near Blair Park. The stolen rifles were recovered. Police Chase Whitby Police spotted a stolen car being drivemi about town last Saturday morning and wben they tried to stop it wound up taking part in a chase at speeds up to 80 m.p.h. (ini town). Wbile being chased, the driver of the stolen car crashed througlx tbe fence separating Hopkins and Champlain Ave. from Hwy. 401 to get on to tht highway. The Wbitby Police officer was not deterred and also went tbrougb the fence onto the bighway, finally stopping the stolen car near Pickering. Arrested and charged with possession of a stolen car, dangerous driving and breach of probation (resulting from a prior conviction of car theft) is seventeen - year - old Gary Milheron of 71 Ritson Road N., Osbawa. i o s,*. ACresW reed to complete 600,000 square feet of industrial sp- ace on this site withiin five y'ears, following the instal- ation of tht water facility. Mayor Des Newman poin- ted out that although the property had not been ad- vertised '"Council considered three offers on this land and tht JDS offer was by far tht better."f Counicillor Johin Goodwin was the oni>' member of Council to vote against the sale. longer locahed ah the old Ptnding the compittion Brock Street NORTH, we are operating ont of temporary offices at the Whitby Professional Building, 304 Dundas. Street West. Oui teephone number 668 - 6111 remains the saine. If no answer caît 668-6767. We wish to apologze for any incouivenience we may have caumed anyone who went looking for us nt our ald location. .meetng o! âUUsUfl Hcave Busy Weekend be held at the Ontario ILadies' College in October. Mrs. Russell Collins of 320 Byron St. N., Witby, president of the Castle Chap- ter, extends a cordial invit- ation to ail former students of the Ontario ladies" College to join tbe Alumnae. This season 1973 - 74 marks the I Oth anniversary of the Col- lege as a College. For further information caîl Mrs. Collins at 668 - 3714 or Mrs. Lamb at. the College 668 - 3358. Penny Rouse (12) presents $12 to Mrs.Altamae Eberlet (Resident ual Chairman) of the Whitby Swimming Pool Campaign. The money was raised at a neigbbourhood carnivai held in a local backyard. From left to right are: Donna Raetson (8); Mrs.Eberlee; Penny Rouse; Todd Fleming (10) wbo helped with the carnival. Photo by Mîke Burgess ITHIS WEEK from 'Ottawa FIGHTING INFLATION Prime Minister Trudeau outlimed in the House of Commons a series of mea- sures to combat inflation - ,some will require legisiation to bc put into effect. - The expected five cent increase for bread has been halted by a subsidy for wheat consu mcd by Canadians. - The government will subsidize the cost of milk up to five cents a quart in those provinces where prices to consumers are held down for a year. - A freeze has been pla- ced on the price of gasoline and beating oiîs to last until January 30, 1974. Steps wil also - be tak en to ensure that Canadian prices are protected against international increases. -- A new pipeline is pro- posed to ship Canadian oil into the Montreal market. - Family Allowances will be increased to $1 2 per child in October and the increase will not be taxable. In Janua- ry, the federal government plans- to increase Family Allowances to $ 20 per child. - Basic old age pensions will increase from $100 to $105.30 and the total pen- sion, with guaranteed income supplenient will go (rom $170.14 to $179.16, effec- tive&October 1. - The 2% ceiling on the annual increase in pensions paid under the Canada Pen- sion Plan is to be remnoved. TRADE TALKS IN JAPAN External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp met in Tokyo last week, with Japanese Fo- reign Minister Masayoshi Ohira and other Japanese of- ficiaIs for two days of talks on Canada-Japali trade and economnic relations. RAIL STRIKE ENDED Legislatio n ending the nation-wide rail strike was approved by Parliarnent last week. The legislation ordered 56,000 striking railway cm- ployees back to work after having disrupted rail and ferry service since July 26 by a series of rotating regional sti-- kes which eventuailly took on country-wide proportions. The legislation' increased the basic average houri>' wage for the Non-Operating Rail- way Unions to $4.19 by July 1, 1974 from the cur- rent rate of $3.54. Train and ferry service started back into operation again after the Labour Day weékend. EXPORTS UP Canadian exports rose to $2.07 billion in Jl> as com- pared with $1 .99 billion1 in lune - an inctase of $8 million. Whitby polilce C4istIe Alum nas F"irst, u Aa- ..£ %AmAb.d. AO The Castle Chapter, Ont- ario Ladies' Coilege Alumnae will hold it's first meeting at the home of Miss Hazel Worfolk, a well known Whit- by girl, bas taken up residen- ce ini the Parterre Apartments. The meeting will be at 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, September I 8th and will take the form of a ".White ElJephant" Auct- ion. Following the auction, pl- ans will be finalized for the Annual Night of fards to WE HAVE MOVEI