Strieicient pets resident Thie strlkeby the Commu- nications Workers of Canada, against Bell Canada bas left at least ,one Wbltby resident a littie ýpset-. Donna Thompson of 303 Garden Street lives An a new houslng cooperative where workwas stillAn.g being done to nstail thie undeground telephone lineé. Last Wednesday, accord- ing to Thomtpsoni a pair 0f workmen- arrived, at thie work site, not fifty feet from ber.back door to finish Iaying the lune' underground -and complete the above ground boxes that hook Up neighbou- ring --homes. into, the Bell system. "However, theý ground was open for close to two-îêiîii7 she said. "Thee une was exposed An the trench."1 She pointed out that roughly 3o cbildren lAv e An the, development and-the- temptation to play..An thie trench was great. *- At 10- arM'. ast Wednesday morning two, workmen appearéd at tAie'site and 1 mninutes later, CWC, strikers showed up, Thompson. said. Ten minutes' later, the' workmen and the strikers left,.she said TAie Workmen came back at 10:30 'a-m., "4with the stirike rs An tôw like a posse," ThomÛpson said. Thie workmen then puiled up thie cable . and bo xed It, then pu4t their equipment An the truck; sud left,« she said. "There was a lot oëf shout- ing," Thompson said. While there was no vWn lence, "I ' bet you therie could have been," the 29 year-old, mother -of two young boys said. "If it had'carriedon'for another few mnutes." "&TAe pieketerswere Aigh- spirited, she said.' "They were, right on their (the workmüen's) tail.ý to' come backýagainý." ' -. _- I 1 "I1t looked like a lot of pressure. There were 12'or 14 maybe more, men. Ail these men pressurAng two guys," she said. .Pete Dawes,, the acting president of CWC Local 28,, said -lthe. cable would. be, dead" and of no potential, danger to.chiidren. He did'say, however, that' "lwe have roving picketing crews, out" and that the strikers fièom thie scene were from bis union.-, Dawes said 'that there were four workmen at the. Garden Street site, and that they were front BeIlls con- tractor,. GM ' Cas and that they, were -putting, in a new cable. As to violence. or potential*1 violence Dawes said, " .there-ý bas not been any Wo my knowledge." "'Our position, on tbe, local and national level, is we do t (picketAng) An a- peaceful' way," he said. "Ohrunions are An no way obligated toe obey them", he said. "The job bas been comple- ted as of- now <Friday,) " Joan Poirier, Bell Canada manager for, the Oshawa area said.* "I've been ýassu- red. that tAie'job bas been done and completed."' When contacted on Mon- day,-just prior to, press time,, Tbompson, said ý that the cables were stili exposed., >Tbompson said that sbe would like An b ,ave the expo- sed cables secured An such a way as not to produce a bazard to chiîdren in the co-op (average.age 13 and, under) who would be temp- ted to climb and play on thie boxes., Despite the fact that there is no power going through,' the cable, its size and weight' in an open metal. box could stiîl be dangerous.to a young, curious child. she said. Thompson said that thie job did not.look completed to the her, but that t would all depend on what Bell defined completed to be. Clar accses* Ã,1 f procrastin ation. By MICHAEL KNELL Free Press Staffý "They Ahave procrasti-,ý nated beyond belief", says the general mafiager of F.K. L. Manufacturing, thie owner of Family Kartways, Bob Clark.' >The "they" is Whitby Town Council and the pro-' crastination is about' the ex- pansion of the largest go- r ~kart track ini North America. <AUl of this for half a mile of track, Clark said. - At thie present time there are 115 go-kart tracks An Canada , 66 of them n i Ontario. TAie Whîtby track bas been ope n since 1959 and was taken over by the Clark famAly An 1963. The old track s two miles long and with the extensi on t will be half a mile longer: TAie town, closed. down thie new section of track two weeks ago saying that t contravened the town's bylaws. Clark says that since 1963, there bave -beeni 5 million rides ontAie track. By thie end of the year, FKL Manufacturing hopes to be the fAf tAi largest maker of the imall vehicles n tAie world, -Clark says. Commenting on the recent controversy concerning. .the trà ck,'Clark sai d$ "We.are safety conscious." But ie added, "If you try bard enough you can hurt your-, self." Clark 'said that the acci- dlent rate s higher among staff members- than t . s among. the karting public. « Everything is as -sfe as thie sport can be"', Clark sald. COUNCIL VIEWPOINT Ifeel sorry for them from a'business viewpoint," said Whitby Regional Cotfi- c"Illor Bob Attersley. "But from council's view- point it was clear as a bell," Ai said. Attersley, .Aimself-a 'busi- nessman, said that wAile.he, sympathized wi th FKL Mânufacturing knowing that they need the' summ er nionths to bring in extra, income, they have to follow thie rules set down by council "They were in tAie wrong to begin with" when - they started to operate 'tAie new section of -tAie track with niinistry of tAie environment approval, he said. Attersley said that "they' seemed quite happy when they left" thie July 23 council with tAie passed motion. The motion had three stip- ula tions before tAie new piece of track could beý operated. They are : that Family Kartways receive a certifi- cate of approval from tAie Ministry of tAie Environment for noise and emission levels developer enter nto a site plan approval; and, that they have prepared a zoning bylaw to allow agricultural and be used to operate "a go-kart -track. These conditions apply to new section of- track only. The land that bas been used for thie last twenty years s zoned "llegal non-con formAnung" which mneans that it As agricultural land that bas received special permis- sion to be used as a go-kart .CONT'D, ON PAGE 2, Fire w rites-off car John Embury stands next to his 1972 Vega which was that the Imetal became so bot that the back seat ignited. The destroyed when t caught on fire Monday afternoon. Mechanies car, which Embury had bought only three hours earlier was at Mike's Esso, Palmerston and Brock Streets, were doing worth,$1,800 and is a "write-off" in the words of the owner. some welding on thie rear end of the car when fireofias said Free Press Photo by Mike Knell .Des SA former Mayor of Whitby s concerned that a -pre- mature decision by council to hllow the expansion of Brooklin- would cause thie price of land there-to'sky- rocket. Des Newman expressed bis concerns An private talks with several Whitby coundil- lors before the July 23 decision An, stail thie expan- sion of the Village. Councl ordered staff An, prepare an overail report on ail the data on thie fnancial .concerned about Brooklin. impact of the growth of the hamlet on thie entire town. This report wÃŽll be made to coiincil in a committee-of-t.he whole, meeting ne xt month. Newman,ý mayor from 1966 to 1975, bas been relatively quiet about tAie WAitby polit- ical scene since Aie left office. t'My' concerns are- pretty fundamental" Aie said. "Council's about to enter nt o a developmnent agree- ment" with Consolidated Building Corporation (CBC) 'the major landowner An Brooklin, Aie said. lie said that tAie proposed development agreement, wbich is "'a completely dis- astrous document", could set the stage for "a serious escalation of the prices of tAe- land" by "four or five or six or ten times" .... "before a- single bouse got built there. " He not.ed dtat"tAie vast majority, of the land' As stili agricultural." rAie land should -be redes- ignated on -a gradual basAs, g'ewmari said. Newman said, Aowever, "'mr very much for tAie development of Brooklin." "WbVat I'm deeply con. cerned'about is the manner. in which the matter's been proceeded with," Aie said. "I think they (the coundilos bave ignoredý the general and reasonable comments of some people" within -town staff. 0f -thie committee-of-the- whole meeting Newman said "I hope a much more rational approach wAll comne out of that." 4 00à R E P R (ÀOO AÀ