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Mr-, -- BIRD 'S EYE A VIEW. '~ -.14 QIA Il Scratch Another Year It's gone! That's right, another year shot by and 1 hardly even noticed it was going. There are just a couple of days left and 1 don't expect they will set themselves apart historically from ail those fleeting days that went before them. 1 suppose it's traditional that the last 4ays of any year should be spent gorging ourselves like a turkey for the slaughter. Mix this -with numerous drinks thrust eagerly mnto your hand and it's easy to see how thÎese last few days of 1974 have slipped by in a kind of a fog. One thing always distinguishes the end ot the year t or me. I spend, the three days leading. up to New Year's eating ail kinds of left over turkey and chicken. Why couldn't roast beef be traditional at Christmas? 0f course with to- day's ment prices we'd have to substitute ment loaf anyway. The end of the year should be a time when you can look back at aIl your accomplishments. In my case accomplish- ments is flot really the right description. A series of trage- dies would more aptly describe the mayhem that happened to me in 1974. True to form my streak of bad luck held out ail year. But, I look on' the bright s ide of things. 1 could have wound up rich and famous and then I would have gone strange figuring out how to handle ail the money'and the famne. The guys in the whitecoats are already eyeing me s0 i don't want to give them a good reason. If I remember correctly last year I firmly resolved flot to make any New Year's resolutions and 1 stili think that's the best policy. After ail what's the use in making resolutions that you, for reasons completely out of your control, may neyer bce able to carry through with no matter how hard you try. It's not that I believe in Fate because I believe you can make your life any way you want to but in my case I really think there's somebody out to get me. How else can you explain chairs that suddenly collapse under you, trees that mysteriously faîl over whiie you're stand-*ýng beside them, grass that turns brown under your feet, milk that turns sour WHITBY FREE PRESS, TUESDAY. DFCEMBER 31.,1974. PAGE 9 in the glass you're holding and Somne things too awful to print. So many things happen that 1 always expect the worst from experience. 1'm sure one. of these days when 1 finally get to the front of the line in the bank the girl will tell me they just ran out of money and to corne back next week. If the Free Press ever goes bankrupt 1 just know it will happen the daiy before I'm to get paid. Even simple things get to me like drinking two sips of a strawberry shake and having a chunk of strawberry solidly plug up in the straw Or spending my last dime to get a coke from a machine and watching the coke run down the drain while the cup stays- firmly in place'up inside the machine. If you think.Rodney Dangerfield doesn't get any respect you should fol' low me around for a w eek.. When 1 go into the liquor, store, before 1 can even place my order, the clerk gives me a dismal look and says,"Sorry mac, we don't stock Aqua Velva"'. Even more embarrassinrg is ,when 1 drive into the gas sta- tion and the gas jockey demands the money before he'll put the. hose in the tank . Once I went into a shoe store for a7 new pair of Hush Puppies and the clerk took one look at my feet and said, "Sorry Sir but we only supply shoes for normal feet!"' Heck I even remember another incident when the police were going to arrest me for falsely impersonating a Homo.Sapien. Yes, I've learned my lesson about making New Year's resolutions. 1 thinik it's best to throw caution to the wind and just charge into the New Year forgetting ail the disre- spect and tragedies from the previous year. Besides, as L think* back I know that 1975 can't be worse than '74 .. can it?? Regardless, have a Happy New Year!! -- U II'II'ERWhitby Realtor INFL I'I N ~Chiarges Fiat Fee at thie regular price yo gtFREE e FRENCH FRIES FOR 3 e 8 fi. oz. CREAMY e LOAF 0F GRECIAN BREAD olSandefs*Recipe C ACNDIAN COMPANV Colonel Sanders and his boys make it 'Ifinger lickin'good" t~~ cikeVQQh 301 Dundas Street W., Whitby; .973 Simcoe Street N., Oshawa; 474 Simcoc Street S., Oshawa; 574 King Street E., Oshiawa. Avamiable at above stores onlv George Sullivan, a Whitby Realtor has abandoned the graduated commission, system on the sale of' homes. His announcement came shortly after the Oshawa and District Real Estate Board said that members could decide individually how they wanted to charge for property sales.- Home owners selling through George Sullivan Limited, from now on wilI pay a fiat $500 fee plus the cost of advertising, regardless of the price the property selîs for. The advertising costs will be entirely at the discretion of of the Vendoç- who will be able to elect the amount he wishes to spend from a minimum of $50 Up. Whnlocal homeowners caîl in George Sullivan, they will be charged an initial $50 fee for an appraisal. At this point the 'vendor- will decide on the asking price, based on: data presented by the realtors on current market trends in that area. He wilI also decide how much he would like to spend on advertising the property. Sullivan will then com- pIe te ail necessary forms, take photographs of the house and erect a sign. On the sale of the property the vendor will pay a fur- ther $450 plus the agreed- amount of advertising costs, and his worries are over. This means that if the home sold for $60,000, his total outlay would be $500 plus as low as $50 for advertising, compared with $3,000 at the current rate of 5% commission. "The goverfiment, and everybody else for that matter, is concerned about the tremendous increase in the price of hou'sing"' said Sullivan."A great deal of this has been due to people deciding on a dollar figure for their home and- simply adding two or three thousarïdfor real estate fees. Under my new system 1 feel that both- vendor and purchas- er will benefit and hopefuliy we can bring somne stabiliza- tion and sanity back to the market place", he said. I believe tlÏat'thè policy that I have adopted to market real estate is a sjgnificant contribution to the average householder, making it possible for people to buy houses, that otherwise would have bleen deprived of the satisfaction of being able to iraise their family under -their own roof, providing the comfort and security that your own home is able to do", Sullivan added. "I believe that in a country such as ours, that every per- son that so desires should be able Io obtain their own residence".. "in my opinion'if the value of houses remained at a level that vanied littie fromn year to year, the hfomeowners would be considerably better off," he cniud 1 believe that the time to start fightùinfludation is now before it gets any w'orse," he s aid. "The general public- does noct want to voluntarily corn- bat inflation before it gets really bad, and it is difficuit for the gomernmbent to impTqose -riWîdl restrictions without the' support of the puMie. Ik does not take a great amount of brains or professional economnic skill to combat inflation but ittakes a determination and intestinal fortitude of the public at large including businesses* to start thre bail rolling". v.' ç' WCNMOND se poompsvs d t rsosd fluL.0 Kîn, ohs, ukMon b.Nuds bodyr i-uO b *vNdw~o. rlbi" 4upflise@ Try *» ognw m the le g# s rwhot imlksmLadaSalso vmicome. Atrcimals atendani. u~ b~sJ