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All facets ofil the racin fru.
• ternity in Ontario, both Harness.
and1.4orootilbrod horse racing,
owners and track management,,
have banded together In present.;
in _`rlef to.premier Roberts;
..g a .b
The brief, presented Deg, 20,
states:that, racing $41 the .pro..
-wince is in serious. . economic
trouble. -
A study by theTorontoana
meat co consultant `firm, •m,Woods
Gordon and Co., revealed _ the;
hardest bit members of the frac.
e in du o
.
d: are the div' , al h rse
,'ownersand breeders who, lost
$11,000,000 in 1965. •
eon - is easy to see. that
average Ontario resident simply,
cannot afford to ‘.,breed ror'- own
racehorses toda. 'unless ' he° IS
v
in the extremely. •rare.financial
position of being able to absorb
huge losses," said• George
Fr•,p,stad, a, Burlington constructs
ion' executive and chairman 'of
the committee representing the
Standardbred and Thoroughbred
orse Industries.
By showing a combined front
to the `government, something'
akin to a partnership of labor
and management in other'busin.
ess, the racing fraternity is hop.
•
ink to oonvi> ce the government to
return ,half of its present take
toce'higher p�rss,
a fin.
produ
uncial assistance for horse
breeders to; orneeded
equine,research; ,.
"fIorse racing is a three•wa
partnership ann.9i �gg government,
the race tracks afndhorse owners,'
and breeders," • said Frostad.
• "The first partner, e.. govern,'
ment, .with no-• laves ment •in the -
industry, �. eceive $10,70Q,000
from.the tax •onwagering 141965,
the year " the report '.covers. In'
1966 its take went up to $13,60,°,,
000, . • •
"The second partner,. 'the' race
tracks, with an investment
_M
exceeding$90 00.0 000 received a
modest: re rn on thatirivestment -
far less than the averageprofit..
making company' in Canada
-earned in 1965.
.:, "The third .partner,. the face..
horse 'owner and breeders, with
an investment ofmore than $50,..,
000,000 lost $11,000,000 'in 196. a'
and are now in, ae deteriorating
position; '
• "It Is evident the racing in.
• dustry is in a perilous economic.
position ,and that, improvement
is only possible if the govern.
ment re -invests a portion of Abe,
revenue it currently receives
from racing." - '
In, 1950, the Ontario govern.
meat was persuaded to lower its
tax on wagering from 12 1/2 ao
per' -Cent to six per cent through -•
--gradual _reductions over a six.
year period. • At the• end of the '
' six.year period, the. government
was receiving more money taking,
only six per cent than it had
received when removing 12 1/2,
Since then, the government has
increased its income from racing
two•and-a.half times because 'the
racing industry has -been able
to improve` itself by investing t he
money fbme'rIy ` en; y
government in • modern facilities -
and
_
and higher -class 'racing stock.
All those .involved in Ontario
.ho's'e racing -and there are, thou-
sands Of ,, indtvitrual owners,
breeders, trainers, grooms, in.
• vestors, are hoping •the govern.
ment :will remember. its past ex.
perience and go along with the
petition.
If not, the future of -horse rac.
• ing in.. Ontario is a bleak one,
according' to those directly "in.
volved. ,-
"There is .no question the in.
dustry_ .. will decline unless we
receive some aid," said Frosted.
•Eedy Heads
RCL Branch
Irvine E'edy of Dungannon' was'
installed as president of the L-4ck.
now Branch of the Royal Canadian
. _Legion. ...:.:�_.
Othelr,„.officers include, past
president, Walter Arnold; 1st vice
president, George Beaton; 2nd
vice president, Bruce Wamsley;
°aecretary.ir..easurer,--Harold Rit..
chie executive committee, Art
Charles
lto ins
° Ernewein,- C u
Tom Morrison, Ken Cameron ane
Noble Johnston;' sergeant at arms
Dave Moffat. . . '
An installing team, composed
of }lerman Young, Chairman,
Harold Cameron, Ward. Wacker,
W hired
McIntyre arid Jim Web:
ster from the Kincardine Legion,,
very capably installed the Luck.
.r"w
now officers, . --»
°During the meeting a motion
' .was passed to pay the Lucknow
Lions Club $168 representing half
, , the cost of swimming .instruction
for local ' children at the tees.
water pool during the -past
summer.
' (Y
John McGraw famed New York
ilLttiants' mange•'; -hatted .390 in
I ,games while playing for
ititithre'36 1899.
li
"By the time this appears
print, I expect that I shall have
severed anf association of 17
e the e . news
e a bats' s. And' it is not
a ._r i
15p 1105
without Seine .sadness that I do
,Sometimes it ,seem that our
life 'is governed by accident,
that: we ,�haye-very little, control
oar. it. •
Ilad • the . war .0 lasted -a few
months longer, had 1 takenr.a
differen .course at -university,
Or gone to a different college, I.
Would not, have met • my wife.
And had I not met that particu-
by
Bill
Smiley
lar girl .at that particular- -time,
I would never have been in the
• newspaper business, nor would
I,be writing -this column.'
Accident again took a hand.
We. were In the city: I had en-
rolled in a post -graduate cotlirse
in English. University teaching
was the objective.
Came the tragic' news that
my, brother-in-law (on my
wife's side) had been drowned
in a boating accident. He owned
a weekly newspaper.
• We hastened to the scene, to
be of what comfort we could.
CAR.
ADIOS
Why
'Bother?
And I pitched in, as ignorant as
Mrs. Murphy's cow, -to help.
keep the ' paper going for a
week or two, until -other ar-
rangements were rl nd.e Eleven
years .•1 was Still there.
.
'
From the beginning, Ywas
fascinated. This was better Own
the world of•ChaUeer and Spen-
ser and the Romantic poets, the
whole fleece -lined -we* Of the
scholar, This was life.
There. was an exciting',tempo
to .11 - that suited me. Monday
was a day of 'desperation. No
news, no editorials written, no-
body wanted to ..buy an adver-
tisement that early in:the week.
The-= Linotype operator wasp gett.
ting owly because you couldn't.
• keep hind busy and he knew
what was coming. ,
Tuesday, the pace accelerated
rapidly, The news began to
pour'in. You -madly dashed off
two sparkling editorials. You •
tried to make a sensible story'
of the donnybrook at last
night's council meeting. You
hit the street . and sold ads,
whether it was raining or snow-
ing or blasting*.hot.
Wednesday was even moreso•
Complaints, callers, classified
ads piling in, and the inevitable
Merchant waltzing,_ in, after the
.deadline,with a big ad you
simply hadn't room to print.
Proof-reading away behind.
People ixt'looking far free pub-
licity.
ub-
licity, /People in just ted chat
about town affairs, or their
grandchildren. And the lino:
type operator;,. dangerogs to the
point of .,being lethal; withiii'a'"
radius of 12 • feet of his ma-
chine. Work often till midnight,
putting the sheet to bed.
Thursday wasdecision day.,
Tao 'ma 'many' Can' ny ads, � n `are leaue.
this one ° out? Too much ,coun-
try correspondence. Which re-
porter willleast be le a t infuriated..
4f we leave her stuff till next
e t
week? Short a column of front
page news, Where can we dig it
t? The photos haven't ,arrived.
Ruslisto the- bus -station:. see .if
they're in,
But by' about 10.30 a,.m.,, she
was on the press, rind the..com'
farting thu nip and .rumble ;af.
the ..old.... machine was ?'award
enough .for nail the scrambling.
Th' ire. ,was "solid satisfaction in,
folding, stamping and mailing
the finished "product. You fet
as good 'as' hough ou'd lust
wrestled, an alligator to a spit
decision. ,
4t any rate, I was hooked.
Formeda.Partnership .with one
otheprinters,wet
n
f ._..c1. • ugh
the thi g.: We didn't have „AO
gents apiece. But we wend!' out
like a Couple of pirates-, hit ev-
"ery ' friend - and. relative we
knew, scratched. _ap - the . down
payment,,outbid every competl-
,tor. because we had ‘ nothing to
lose, and tbglt: on *war whatwas
probably the 'biggest mortgage
oil zany• eekly newspaper on
the ,continent,
-They ,were great . fun' those
first;' fewyears. Ttere wasn't
much caviar or champagne: Ev-
ery spare :nickel went into the
debts, But we made it, and
Ornade a *host of good friends
among weekly editors on the
way.
But I can tell you that run -
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Manager will answer
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-fully and clearly -
before you ,borrow:
That's -•one reason you
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:.10
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Mrs. Marian Doyle, a, tele.
phone operator,in'Brantfbrd; re.,
cently received an information..
call from ra Younger customer re.'
questing the telephone. number ;of°"
a friend
The voice 'was faint and some.
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and I'll look it up in the tele.
'phone book,"
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