The The prospect of hav- ing town water extended to the residents of the Alinonds Whitby area lias effected a num ber of written responses of reprimand to town hall. Mr. Rodd Appleby of 32 Cresser Avenue iii- formed the town that a neighbouring resident lias put his property Up for sale since the town informed subdivision residents the cost for water would be $300. per year for the next twenty years. "I expect to do the saine as soon as 1 can locate a home READERS WRITE CONT'D To The Editor: Firstly I thoroughly enjoyed Iast week's pa- per and would like to comrnend you and your staff.. 1 particularly en- joyed the story about "When Whitby Had Con- fidence" at the second annual Whitby Horse Show. 1 worked at thiat horse show. In1 those days the three factories in the town ail hiad somie- thing to do with horses. The blanket factory of Course muade horse blan- kets and also horse col- lars and whips. The buec- kie factory made buick les anid also harnesses. Tlie tannery prodticed leath- er for horse collars and harnesses. Turning to another subJeet, the puiblic mneet- ing at town hall was the first 1 attended in nmy whiole li'e. 1 thiouight it was a real pLIpet shIow exclLiding CounIcillors Attersley. Ninsselnman andi (ox. Thiey ( coLi ilî suire are a bLillinch of Cv- mien'. The inayor did not have a sm ucl on lis 1face like hiehiziin Qtieb-ec wlien die inewspapler car- ried his picture kissing the Frenchi beauity queen. At the meetinglhe lookedi inore like a spiaikechild thiat had just l1ad biis suic- ker taken awav froi uinder the chesterfields and bcds? Also I guess bis egg business wouid be poor ini olden days as rnost of the people could keep their own chickens. In town today of course tiiis is flot ailowed. Yours sincerely, Your friend, A. Bruce, Dunlop Street, Whitby. High outside the Whitby area where we do not have to drink someone 's sew- age," Mr. Appleby in- forrned the town. In closing, he won- dered just what advan- tages there were being part of Whitby "other than highi taxes and somewhat poor service&" Others like 'Mr. and Mrs. Leo Bryant of AI- rnond Avenue wrote that they, were "definiteiy not interested at the cost of $300.0per year over the next twenty year period." Robert H. Wy- lie wrote "We have sold our prop- erty and are now out of the picture." W. E. Brock, who ini- tiaily sent in a petition for a watermain to the Almonds area informed town fathers that ail who had signed the original petition considered th.e town's proposaI "out- Pri«ce of rageous" and could not understand why it would cost s0 much to mun a few pipes, such a short distance. "Why isn't there a non-profit fund for such cases as ours?", lie asked. "We should not have to go to the money-lenders for a bare necessity like water. Those with good wells would go in to help those witliout, lie sug- gested, but not on the arrangemen t suggested by council. Some of us are on pensions and could not afford to have our taxes aimost doubled. The oil- man brings oil to us but does not expect us t o mun a morigage to pay for his equipment, and neither would a gas com- pany, he said. In the meantime the septic tanks are con- stantly spreading their poison through the Water earth. We expect to pay for water but surely yoLI can spread the burden around to corne Iess than the sumn you suggest, he added. Ail letters have been referred to council's ad- ministrative committee and to Secretary-Mana- ger of the Whitby Public Utilities Commission, Harry C. Simpson. 15 WODS WUITBY FREE PRESS, TIIURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1972, PAGE 3 LO,'ST, $'IIiÀrooo00 Quoting from the 1971 Financial Report of the council Monday niglit, Harry Inkpen, vice- chairman of the Whitby Citizens Stury Group noted that whule the counicîl budgeted $160,351.00 in unclassîfied sections of their departruent heads, a total.in fact of $272,093 lias been spent. This represents a figure of $111 ,742 which was spent by this municipality under the titie of un- classified, so there is no way of the taxpayer know- ing where this money was spent, Mr. Inkpen pointe ou t. Partly responsible for this total figure was the town public works department which budgeted for $22,501 and spent $74,3 10 and the Recreation and Community Services Department which budgeted for $9,480 and spent $ 14,73 1. A note of interest pointed out from the re- port in a ciassified section was the expenditure out- iay of the Industrial Deveiopment department where $45,780 was budgeted for and $79,S62 was spent. The $111 i,000 represents the sum total of ex penditures under 'unclassified' and would in termn of buying power have paid for the new Heydenshore . Pavilion down at the lake. FOI $1 W AWANCE Classified 66S-6111