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WHITBY FR~EE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23a,1976o PAGES whitby Vocel of the County Town ,Servng Over 27,000 Readers.l I Mi ke Burgess, Publisher-Managing Editor. Pubiished every Wednesday. Sy M.B.M. Publishîng andPh otographyhInc. The, Free Press Building, 121 Brock Street North, Whitby, Ontario. Assistant Edtor- BlakePurdy Contributing Editor - Jim OGualI Production Manager - Marie Burgess Dispiay Advertlsing Manager Robin I..yon Ciassifiled Ad'Manager'- Shelley Crowley Box 2060 Whitby Malling Permit No. 2Wq Phone 668-6111: Tpronto Lire,282-1004 Are you ready for today's exciting fact? 1 can tel you're just sitting with, bated breath, or whatever, on the edges of your chairs so here it is. English îsthc universal language of airports ail over the world. I'm bold that land- ing instructions are given in English anywhere in the world but nobody has told me why the airports 'chose English. I know l'in being rather bold in Uiis attitude but l'm not convinced that we Egii are ini the majority of languages nor am I convinced we are Uic superior race. I will admit Uiat we must 'be Uic most complicated and devious on this green, watery planet and i'm sure We would have been invaded b>' extraterrestial bcings by now but Uic>' probabi>' had Uic misfortune to do their preliminary scouting somte- where'in North America and that must have put offthi invasion plans for at least five decades. The Martians or Venus cratures or whatever' being Uiey ma>' have looked like in Uic science fiction annals most likel>' met with one of we English speaking creatures and neari>' went bananas trying to figure out the language. Which is why I. have flot been able to figure out why English is Uic universal language of airports'. Lct's take a look at Uic peculiarities of Uic Englishi language shail wc? 1I know you can't sec why, it's so difficult to understand or lcarn English because after ail you were boni of English speaking parents and quite likely English is the, onl>' language you've known mîost of your life. But how about the immigrant from Italy who1 has just corne to America, eager to find out if the streets arpe really paved with gold and anxious, to learn this peculiar English, language so he can get a job and earn some of that gold. So he goes to night school and learns the fundamentals and quite mistakenly thinks he's "off to the races". As the old saying goes, "A littie bit of knowledge is ài dangerous thing!" Wariting to keep up with current affairs our immigrant picks up the paper andlearns of'some hanky panky going on in Washington. He learns about a Washington plumber going to trial for some misehief at a place called Watergate. There's talk of some meeting rooms being bugged and a certain senator being publîcly enibarrassed by a naked lady in front of his mansion. "Strange," he thinks, "Why would a plumber have any- thing to do with a.room full of bugs, surely that would be a job for an exterminator"'. Now are you beginning to see a little light? How do we explain to our immigrant that a bug is flot necessarily ýa littie green thing hanging on a blade of grass but could be a little grey mike hanging on a siender wire. And if you think that's tough to explain tiy telling him that a plumber is flot necessarily a guy who unplugs your toilet but in Washington he could be a guy who arranges public scandais and tries to muin importanit people's reputations. A littie confused our friend decides to, take in an Amer- ican movie about a mechanic. That he can relate to, because after àll he used to fix bis own car back home and he knew a couple of the mechanics at the Fiat plant. So he pays his bard earned money and sits down to watcb a guy called a "mechanic" fix tbings so that people execute themselves ini some rather gorie ways. This mechanic doesn't fix cars but rather, peo'le. At this point 1 would have gone back to Italy but undaunted our friend thinks that perhaps he has flot mingted enough with the locals',so he takes a trip to the Park to- mix with thc English and leain more of their strange ways. As is wont to happen in public parks these days he runs afoul of the wrong crowd and before you can say, "'Have you got 5000 lira" he is confronted by a rather creepy looking individual who offers him somne "erass". Since hie has a whole lawn ful in front of his apartment, our friend declines but the pusher continues telling him how smnooth il "smokes". He tells our immigrant he caný take a nicetnip to get away from it all and since our friend hias just made a rather long trip from Italy he is not only not interested but be will probably neyer learn to speak English in the next 20 yea rs cspecially if we natives help him. And who can blame him?...certainly not we educated English speaking Canadians eh? Right on! (what- ever that means!) Housing study grant A $55,000 housing study grant bas been approved for the Regional Municipality of Durham 'to determine the feasibility of servicing 35 small communities within the region including Ashburn, Myrtle and Myrtle Station, Housing Minister Donald Irvine' announced recently. The study, to be fmnanced under the Ontario Housing Action Program, will deter- mine Uic growth potential in each hamilet, he said. 1 It wilI also recommend the type and scale of develop- ment most suitable to each of thc comniunities, based on adequate sewer and water services, said Mr. Irvine. "Mhe information gath- ered will be an important input to Uic region's official plan and will enable objective decisions to be made on Uic future of the. communities," he said. Other communities in- volved in the study are Black- stock, Blackwater, Caesarea, Cannington, Columbus, En- niskillen, Epson, Gamebridge, Goodwood, G r e enb a nk, Hampton, Kendall, Leask- dale, Leskard, Manchester, Manlla, Nestîcton, Nestleton Station, Newtonville, Orono, Port Boîster,. Port Perry', Prince Albert, Raglan, Sand- ford, Seagrave, Solina, Sund- erland, Tyrone, Udora, Utica, and Zephyr. LITTLE CAESAR IROQUOIS PARK ARENA - WH ITBY THURSDAY, JULY 240 1975 SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1975' 8:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM WILSON AND LEE LTD. MUSIC STORE 1 87 Simcoe St. N. Oshawa SHORTY'S CIGAR STORE 121 Brock St. N. Whitby PICKERING COFFEE SHOP Pickering CENTRE SMOKE SHOP 52 Harwood Ave. S. Ajax MAC'S MILK LTD. 261 Michael BIvd. Whitby SPORTS VILLA LTD. 184 Bond St. W. Oshawa SHOPPERS RECORD AND TAPE MART Oshawa Shopping Centre Oshawa WHITBY RECREATION DEPARTMENT 105 Coiborile St. E. Whitby THANK YOU FROM THE 1974 Caornival Quson Debbie Foskett 1 would like to express my thanks to ail thoser who made my past year as Carnival Queen a mnost enjoyable and memorable one. STO - PR-OVINCE 0F ONTARIO Royal Commission on Violence in the Communications lndustry By Order-in-Council 1299/75 of May lth, 1975 a Royal Commission to study the possible harm to the public interest 0f the increasing exploitation of violence in the communications industry was established. The Royal Commission has opened its offices at Room 810, 151 Bloor Street West, Toronto M5S 2V5. Telephone (416) 965-4593. The Royal Commission's Terms of Reference are: 1. To study the effects on society of the increasing exhibition of violence in the communications induqtry; 2. To determine if there is any connection or a cause and effect relationship between this phenomenon and the incidence of violent crime in society; 3. To hold public hearings to enabie groups and organizations, individual citizens and representatives of the industry to make known their views on the subject; 4. To make appropriate recommendations, if warranted, on any measures that should be taken by the Government of Ontario, by other levels of Government, by the general public and by the industry. The Royal Commission invites interested persons. groups and organizations to send written briefs or letters on these matters. 1. Ali written submissions should be sent at, least three weeks in advance of the public hearing in your area and in any eventno later than May 31, 1976. 2. Persons wishing to appear before the Royal Commission to present oral briefs should forward a written summary t0 it at least three weeks in advance of the hearing they wish to, attend. Hearings wiii takr.e place from the Fait of 1975 to the Spring of 1976. A later advertisement in this newspaper will give precise dates and locations. As of August lSth, any persons wishing to cornmunicate with the Royal Commission on pertinent matters may do s0 by phoning the Royal Com missions toll-free number: 1 -800-261-7091. Ail submissions should be addressed to The Royal Commission on Violence in the Communica- tions lndustry, 151 Bloor Street W., Room 810, Toronto, Ontario. M5S 2V5. The Hon. Judy LaMarsh, PC., Q.C., LL.D., Chairman His Honour Judge Lucien Arthur Beaulieu, Member Scott Alexander Young, Member