PAGE 8, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1973, WHITBY FREE PRESS KALNINS ON YONGE STREET MALL This week, despite hot and humid weather, I paid my annual visit to Yonge Street Mail. As you may know, the Yonge Street Malt, is a relatively new institution but a popular one. Before I go any further, telling you about this mall, I'd like to bring back a few memories of this famous (and sometimes infamous) street. Can you remember the days when Yonge street was cluttered with old street cars and shabby - looking buses? Can you remember when TTC started building the first subway - only to Bloor street? And, can you remember ail the union squabbles and colourful battles over strip joints? Yes, I can and the only thing I can add is 'those were the days.' Of course, having the fame of being the longest street in Canada, it's bound to produce some unforgettable fragments of Canadian history. Now, let's look at the Yonge Street of today with its present, car - free mall. I think the idea as conceived a few years ago was an excellent one. It still is, but for some reason it's not working out that well. More and more so - called criminally oriented citizens are patroniz- ing the Malt. The night I walked the Yonge Street Malt I saw a dozen police cruisers parked near - by. There was a fist - fight in progress at Yonge and Dundas. An hour later two drunk females were causing a disturban- ce and Vagabonds (oh, yes!) were roaming around, bent on mischief. By ten O'clock in the evening, the Yonge Street Mal was a beehive of activities: noisy street fiddlers on every corner, long - haired youth begging for money, bouncy - looking girls showing off and using obscene language and sad - looking 'winos' staggering ail over the place. On top of that, the Mail was filled with street vendors, drug pushers ( I was twice offered hashish), and small - time prostitutes on the lookout for prospective customers. Actually, it was quite a scene. At this point, I think the outdoor mail has already outdated itself. It seems to me there is no really good reason to walk up - and - down Yonge Street, unless you are about to do some shopping. The 'entertainment' that is provided at the mail is of low calibre and often downright cheap. How long can you subject your tender ears to bongo drums or guitar music? As one older lady told me: "I'm starting to get some headaches from ail that noise around me." At present, as I see it, the Mall's future looks rather bleak. Only newer and brighter ideas may save the Mail from self - destruction. Mr. Bob Catton of the Whitby Swimming Pool Com- mittee is presented with a cheque for $410. by nine year old Dianne Lund of the Whitby Swimming Team. The money was raised by the team at the "Dunk - the - Celebrity" booth at the County Town Carnival. This donation to the swimming pool campaign by the Swim Team brings their total contribution up to $2,176.41 BIRD'S EYÉ by Jim Qumil· THE SIMPLE PLEASURES No matter how you eut it some people have cushy jobs and can sit back and enjoy the simple pleasures of life. Most of us work hard for out bread and the chance of kicking the boss in the slats is very slim indeed. Have you ever thought about the select few that can actually take out their frustrations when they get in that sadistic mood. One that comes to mind immediately is our friend the customs officer. I don't know about you but it seems that whenever I happen to be in the position of going through customs I always get a customs officer who, for some particular reason or another, just happens to hate his fellow man at that moment. I don't have to describe him because you have probably encountered the type. You arrive at the customs after a holiday and your suitcase is packed with souvenir goodies, a little contraband liquor which by some coincid- ence is three times more than the legal limit allowed, and the top row in your suitcase is dirty underwear. Well the whole affair is highly predictable. The guy had a spat with his wife at the breakfast table that morning and you are the one chosen. After answering the usual inane questions you are instructed to open all your bags. The first two cases he just pokes with a look of disdain but the one with the underwear and ail the goodies he wants to check. As he spots the booze he perks up. He caught TOWN OF WHITBY HELP WANTED DEPUTY RETURNING OFFICERS POLL CLERKS AND ELECTION POLLING PLACES are required for the Municipal Election to be held on Monday, October Ist, 1973. Persons interested are requested to call the Town Clerk's Department, telephone number 668 - 6803. Wm. H. Wallace, Clerk 405 Dundas Street West, Whitby, Ontario TENDER FLOORING CONTRACTORS SEALED TENDERS will be received until Wednesday; September 5th, 1973 2 P.M. LOCAL TIME for the replacement of tile flooring at the Ontario Provincial Police Detachment, Whitby, Ontario for the Ministry of the Solicitor General. NOTE: To obtain Tender Documents or further informat- ion regarding this Tender, please contact Mrs. E. M. Neale, Ministry of Government Services, 322 Kent Street West, Lindsay, Ontario. Telephone: 705 - 324 - 9188 The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Ontario G. F. Mounsteven, Regional Manager, Ministry of Government Services, TENDER OPENING No. 31C - 094 MINISTRY OF GOVERNMENT SERVICES somebody! He spreads your dirty underwear all over the counter and removes the booze to stack it up in a grand display and you can see his eyes light up with the pleasure of having nailed somebody and finally having gotten even with his wife for her horrendous treatment that morning. You are the victim and the more you squirm he loves it. By the time he impounds your liquor and makes a grand display of replacing your underwear he is fairly brimming with delight. Customs agents are not the only ones who may inflict misery on you at a whim. The guy directing traffic at a highway detour also has a fair grip on how things will go for you the rest of the day. If your yellow Volks offends him or by some chance a mosquito happens to bite him at the exact moment you approach the single lane detour then you might as weil figure the jig is up. With a poker face he whips up the stop flag and then proceeds to stand easy for what you know is going to be a long wait. I have been stuck in front of this type for so long that once I actually sat in my car and watched the flag man's beard grow before my very eyes. If it hadn't been for the beard growing I would have thought he was dead. I was tempted to hold a mirror under his nose to see if he was still breathing. One of life's little mysteries is when the lowly cater- pillar emerges from the cocoon to suddenly become a thing of beauty called a butterfly. Another is when a loud noise causes the flag man to suddenly stir and after a big stretch and a leisurely yawn he becomes a green light and with a howl of the tires the waiting traffic finally takes off to try to make up the lost time. I can just hear the flag man going home and bragging to his wife about how many car radiators he caused to boil over that day. Another guy who can make a similiar claim to his wife is the guy at the ferry dock who keeps you waiting for mysterious reasons. It seems like an eternity from the time the last car is off the ferry till the time you are finally given the signal to drive on. Most of us have to plug along from day to day and the only way we can releive our frustrations is in our dreams but a chosen few like the bus driver who sits in the hot terminal with a bus full of people and the air conditioner turned off but the smelly motor turned on can take out their little hangups on you and 1. Gad, what I wouldn't do to be a pilot sitting leisurely in the lounge sipping a coffee and doddling over a smoke while 200 steamy passengers are cooling their heels out in the terminal waiting to board the plane. What a feeling that must be! Truly one of the simple yet unattainable pleasures of life. NOTICE CLOSING SALE OF PERRY AND ASH STREETS Take notice that the Council of the Corporation of the Town of Whitby intends to pass a by - law for tbe stopping - up and closing and also to authorize the sale of Perry and Ashi Streets lying north of the Canadian Pacifie Railway right - of - way in Part of Lot 26, Concession 2, as shown 0on Perry's Plan east of Brock Street in the Town of Wbitby. The subject streets are designated as follows: t1) Perry Street is designated as Part t on a Plan deposited ini the Registry Office for the Registry Division of the County of Ontario as 40R - 1163. 2) Ashi Street is designated as Parts 2 and 3, on a plari deposited in tbe Registry Office for the Registry Division of the County of Ontario as 40R - Il 63. And further take notice that on Wednesday, September 26th, 1973, at the hour of 2:00 p.m. in the Couneil Chambers of the Town of Whitby, a Committee of the Council will hear in person or by his Counsel, Solicitor, or Agent, any person who claims that his land will be prejudicially affected by the said By - law. Dated at the Town of Whitby, this 23rd day of August, A.D., 1973. Wm. H. Wallace, A.M.C.T., CLERK, 405 Dundas Street West, Whitby, Ontario