Whitby Volume 2, Number 20 FREE HOMÉ DELIVERY Thursday, May 18, 1972 oti ve, Suspect ed In a thought provoking, signed Ilet- ter, whicharrived at the offices of the WH 1. TB Y FREE PRESS on Friday, May 12, a h ighl y respected former member of Town of Whitby staff dis- closed a suspicion of an ulterior mot- i v e behind the move of the municipal building to the Rossland Road site. "There is a purpose behind the move to Rossland Road which has not yet been made clear to the members of council or to the ratepayers, " wrote t h e former staff member in a t e t ter enclosed with an "against" vote from a Free Press advertisement, 'Mes- sage to the Electorate' in which the town taxpayers are able to vote "for" or "against" the Rossiand Road muni- cipal complex. i n hi s comments on the compliex, the former staff member al so made note of t h e question of legality in trans- ferring the present municipal building to an y person or persons who would use itfor anything else but a town hal1. Quoting f r o m the Arthur H. Al1in will, benefactor of the Dundas Street town hall he said Alin -had recorded in the will: lit is my intention that the residue of my estate shall be used for the building of a new towr hall. ' "it i s questionable in my m i n d whether t h e transfer of the present town hall to the library board is leg- al;certainlyit is not morally sound, " charged the letter's author. The former staff member also ad- vised that neither Toronto or Hamil- te n, both of which are experiencing downtowr. renewal, has moved its ci ty hall from the downtown. 11s a p r o p e r t y which adjoins a cemetery a suitable location for a town haîl, and wil1 the new town hal1 provide accommodation for welfare and indus- trial development departments?l', he asked. Making reference to the manner in which c o u n cil arrived at the vote, to proceed with the Rossland Road com- plex, he po i n ted out that "no satis- factory answer was given to the ques- tion as to whether the council was ig- noring its own procedurali bylaw. "if council can ignore its own bylaws, surely this priviledge is extended to all citizens,I he remonstrated. Council's contravention of its own bylaw was brought to its attention at the special meeting during which the In a lon g distance tel ephone cali placed 4 a. m. Wednesday, May 17, the Whitby Free Press was ab te to confirm that the letter in its possess- ion had in reality been signed in the hand of the person whose name ap- pears on the letter's bottom. The name of that person wiIl not be released by the paper. MAD There is ce r tainly no doubt about i t. A character calling himself "the m ad hatter " w i i i surelty be the most bizar r e candidate in the running for Whitby mayor this time round. "M a d h a t t e r ", who asked not to ha v e his r e ai name divulged by the Whitby Free Press at this time, has promised the paper first chance for a front page photo when he publicly ann- ounces his candidacy. Supported by a group of Whitby high school teachers (substantiated), the "madhatter" is often seen at local s oc i al1 gatherings, wearing atop his profuse and fri zzy hair, amagnificent, black top hat, from which his name originated. His Itailsi, worn over un- pretentious b i u e jeans and ab o v e a p a i r of w e I -scuffed sneakers, are comp i ete with a gingham and calico patch or two at the back. Causing somewhat of a stir, %mad h a t t e r " has been attending various public and social functions, and says hewill probably cause even more of a s t i r when he begins to arrive at the scene of activity in a chauffeur-driv- en c a r. But once his campaign gets under way he will abandon the latter I u x u ry as "afterall lm just a comm- oner, why pretend otherwi se?" The* new vote seeker will also conform to what one normally expects of a polit ici an land carry the odd stinking cigar." When asked by the Whitby Free Press editor to whom he had just an- nounced his intention to run for may- or, "Why all the plumage?1", he simply quipped:. "Why not? Every politician w e a r s a facade or costume of some kind or other.Il s . .... ... .. FAMILY, RESTAURANTt whitby Mill T Tr. E "'THE MEET