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WhItby Fre Pros. Wo JarMay'4Z i99C3. ae7) Poils apairt? The following transcript was delivered in a choco- late vanilla cone-shapec envelope. To protect his sources, the author has eaten the envelope. BOB: Wally Balloo here, bringing you by the magic of imagination and time reversa], the. . .(drumroil sounds) Bob and Rae show. RAE: Thanks WalIy. Now for our first guest on tonight's show, 1 introduce the only person left in Canadian politics old enough to remember Bob and Ray. BRIAN: WeIl, not really. But Michael Wilson, hie neyer had a sense of humour. BOB: You know, Brian, there was a day that I would not have understood that. BRIAN: Don't sweat it, Bob. Once, you were an ordinary socialist. Then you got power. It's not anything to be ashamed of. BOB AND RAE: (In unison) But sometîmes now we feel like split personalities. Sometimes we feel as though we are holding two thoughts at the same time. BOB: One of us believes that Tommy Douglas, a founding father of the NDP, gave us a sacred trust. BRIAN: I have publicly promised my mother that our social programs are a sacred trust. Nevertheless, I will help you fight that off the Tominyrotter. It is not to be taken lightly. RAE: But I'm not like y ou, Brian. I really believe in this trust thing. 1 really do. I do. I do. R.AE: But when it cornes to financial matters, Brian, hey, I ahnost said Brain, wouldn't that be a laujgh, ha, ha, ha. No, in financial matters we are polis apart. BRIAN: Well, I believe that balancing the budget is the most important job a government can do. Next to kissing American butt. BOB AND RAE: (AVain, in unison.) That's awful stuff. We would neyer think that way. We believe in a Canada: one Queen, one flag, one country. BRIAN: My friend Ronald Reagan agreed with that, too. a L , his country, bis Nancy. RAE: If we don't contain the deficit, then we'll be deep in doggie do. BRIAN: You must fight off the Tommrotters. A manys gotta do what a man's gotta do. We'il cut back government spending, slash programs, lay off civil servants if necessary. RAE: Not me, no siree. No Tory way wouid I do tbat. We'll cut back government spending, slash programs, lay off civil servants te avoid steps like that. BOB: Yet something in the back of my mind keeps telling me to forge t the deficit, to plunge ahead, to spend, spend, spend. BRIAN: Beware the Tommyrotters. It is part of becoming. RAE: Brian Mulroney has not captured my mind, I can think for myseif, I can fire civil servants, I can slash spending, I can remake the face of socialism so history wil neyer forget. BRIAN: The deficit. If's a huge green pile of greenback dollars, higher than the Rockies, stretching fromn coast te coast, over and over and over. What the Tommyrotters wouid bury us with. BOB: My deficit could pave the Four-oh-won riÇit-of-way from Kingston te, Windsor with dollar BRIAN: Mine's se big it could cover Prince Edward Island in dollar bis. It could pave a path fromn coast te coast in Canada five hundred yards wide. BOB: I tried counting te a billion last night. It put me te sleep faster than you can say Floyd Laughren. BRIAN: My friend Billy in Washingto n has one even iger. Ls is se big it would go ftrm coast te coast inhs c *untryIL-s:-p hreemes ide.A LOADIN O IORSE COLLAIRS FROM THE BUCKLE FACTO1W, 1912 These bundles of horse collars were made at the Martin Manufacturing Company, where the IGA plaza is now, on Brock Street South. Seated on the wagon are George Bravener, an lànidentified nman and a Mr. Forrester.WhtyAciepoo 10 YEARS AGO froni the Wednesday, May il, 1983 edition of the WIITBY FREE PRESS " The Whitby Hotel bas changed its name te Dixie's Roadhouse. " Whitby swimmer Anne Ottenbrite was disqualified in a swimming meet in Leeds, England for using the 'doîphin kick!' " Christina McDonald and Lori Strong of Whitby are to participate in the Canadian National gymnastics finals. " Ontario LieutenantGovernor Pauline McGibbon will crown the May Queen at Trafalgar Castle School on May 14. 35 YEARS AGO from the Thursday, May 8, 1958 ecition of the WH1TBY WEEKLY NEWS " The Town of Whitby bas purchased the Samuel Trees' property at Dundas and King streets as a site for a new town hall. *Two miles of Whitby streets will be paved for the first tme this year. *Port Whitby residents are opposed to a proposaI to close their firehaîl on Watson Street. *Whitby is proposing to build an animal pound and hire a dog catcher. 80 YEARS AGO from the Thursday, May 8, 1913 edition of the WflITBY GAZETUE AND CIIRONICLE " Several members of the board of education have resigned in opposition to repairing Henry Street Public School. They would prefer te tear it down. " Work bas begun on the new residence of Dr. Horace Bascom on the corner of King and St. John streets. " R.B. Stewart, contractr for building the Canadian Pacific Railway through Whitby, bas organized a basebaîl tearn. 0 The Temperance House Hotel in Broolin is for sale. Apply te N.W. Clil 1 m 1 1 t'i