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Port Perry Star (1907-), 20 Nov 1947, p. 1

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Post Office Department, Ottawa. EDITORIAL PORT PER "FIVE 'DOLLARS/AND COSTS" - Half a dozen of our lo¢al boys have been fined "five dollars and costs" for being mixed in a brawl on the main street of Port Perry, on Hal- lowe'en. They are now undei bond for a year. All these young fellows have family and other . friends who are not proud of the escapade; and, although we have the names of the offenders, we see no value in spreading them far and wide to places and among people who could only form a wrong idea of the general character of the parties concerned, The fact is that there has been too much news- paper publicity given about law. breaikng in its many forms. There has also been a tendency to hush up matters when individuals high in social standing are concerned. : "Port Perry has had a good record as to the behavior of its citizens. Very rarely has there been serious law breaking. In such cases as have occurred, during the past forty years, all the parties concerned were known in their home town; their offences were fully discussed; and their punishment duly noted as a warning. - We are a very tolerant people in Port Perry; and in the matter of property destruction on Hallowe'en, we have accepted the stupid and some- . 'times dangerous practice as a matter of course. There is also 'another Port Perry characteristic ' \ (as in most places)--loyalty to the gang. Many a bad practice could be stopped if those who really know, and did not approve, had the courage ta "squeal". As Miss Spence pointed. out in her article "Mob Rule in Port Perry?" fun, pure and simple, is welcomed. Then why not encourage a gen- eral jollification and frown down on destruction and persecution of old and defenceless people? There have been some cases of this pestering of folk that.show a very mean and cowardly dis-' position. There is nothing funny about such conduct, \ But the situation (even at "Five Dollars and Costs") will not be cured if we take destruction - "and rowdyism for granted, and make no effort to guide youthful (and some adult) high spirits in réasonable channels. : EX Which brings us face to face with the $64.00 question -- "What are we going to do. about a skating rink this winter? One fact is self-evident--the folk who were responsible for the building of the present un- uged structure, are out of the picture for one rea- son or another--death, removal, or old age. How would it be to turn the surplus energy of _ the Hallowe'en tpye, into constrcutive channels - for recreational equipment and facilities? We need more of the spirit of shown by the Yacht Club and the Boy Scouts. . LL i The Royal Wedding / ~-- great football matches, The destruetion of-cholea Period WILDLIFE ODDITIES Wildlife oddities of unusual interest are brought - ~ to the atention of the Wildlife service of the De- partment of Mines and Resources in Ottawa from time to time, A bull frog in Quebec that swal- lowed two ducklings; a hen in Nova Scotia that returned after three weeks' absence, accompanied by a flock of nine sturdy wild ducks; 'a deer in Prince Albert National 'Park that chews tobacco; a bear with four playful cubs that meets trains at Jasper; and mony others. pr * * * TAXATION. COMPARED" | Britains emergency budget of last week which increased so many taxes on their people, has stimulated much discussion and comparison of tax - rates, particularly income tax rates. Income taxes were so high in the United Kingdom that it was not considered possible to raise them further, An increase to an already high purchase tax was per-- haps the heaviest addition to the burden imposed _ on the British people. The basic income tax is - v 9 shillings ($1.80), on every pound ($4.00) of in- 3 come or wages. A single person in Canada earning $1800.a , _ year pays $176 a year in taxes. With' the same salary in the United States one pays $220, and in Britain $361. A married person with two children earning $3000 per year pays $86 tax ih Canada, $133 in the United States and $442 in Britain, «ss : Each year Canadian National Railway. loco- motives trvel 91,000,000 miles, or approximately. . the distance between the earth and the sun. AVE . Jack Boothe, Leaside, has issued a catchy Book- "let of cartoons which puts a question mark on its title--Let's ALL join the C.C.F. = EC 8 : ; The Maypole dance is being revived in England; and flowers are being given a place in the garden. Austerity may turn the British interests more thoroughly homeward; but will not neglect the plants by bombing, and. the natural result of ' -vegetable gardening, makes an irreparable loss. But the process of reconstruction has started. pa * * ® i The Dominion Parliament meets December bth: Trade, 'decontrol, Canadian- position on the U.N, and shortage of American, dollars, will likely he .. the Subjects for discussion. * . AY) HUGE NEW STEEL WORKS A new steel works, the largest and most modern. in Britain, is being built at Port Talbot in Wales, at a cost of £80,000,000 ($120,000,000). The work of clearing the site, which covers some 600 acres, 1 ne What Comes in by Mail began last April, as soon as news of\ Government sanction of the plan was telephoned to Port - 30. Talbot. In order to make room for the new structure, sand dunes, marsh, lakes and pastures have been dried, drained,. levelled, or filled in with deep layers of foundation material. Sixty coke ovens and part of an old steelwoyks have been demol- ished. This part of the work: alone is costing £6,000,000 ($20,000,000). : The new unit is the keynote of the whole plan to modernize Welsh industry. When completed, output. from .its huge blast furnaces will reach 1,000 tons of iron a day.- A feature of the plan is a new hot strip mill for wide sheets. These will be finished in a cold reduction mill which will be set up either side by side with the hot mill, or forty miles down the oast at Newport, The final * decision on its location, which rests with the Steel Board, has not yet been taken, : : * 0% x "THE PACE OF BUSINESS All stock averages have shown increases on both Toronto and Montreal Stock Exchanges during the past week. Papers and golds have been stand- outs;ithe former .on mooted further increases in price of newsprint; the latter on hopes for in- centive bonus on gold production. Bank deposits nearly touched $6 billions at $5,969 millions, the .highest on record, on Sept. over Sept., 1946, $180 millions, } Canal traffic at Sault Ste, Marie showed a 7,6% increase to 15,395,701 'tons in September over a year ago, Welland canal tonnoge same month rose 9% to 1,680,062 tons. troffic dropped 3.1% to 930,982 tons, = ~~ Wheat--and wheat in terms of flour--available for export from Canada is at present estimated at 200 million bushels, World generally needs more, but U.S. has harvested largest wheat crop op re- cord, ts ; Wire nail production Sept., 6,879 tons (1,640 a yearagol; nine months:66,659 tons (44,142 in 1946 tons. Imports (over 1 inch, and wire roofing nails) Sept, 384 tons; nine months 3,031 tons. Steel wire i production Sept. 27,266 tons (8,746 year ago); nine months 232,635 tons (162,887 in 1946 period). Shipments Sept. 8,740 tons (1836); nine months 80,478 tons (71,610), Car production has shown marked gain in 1947, Output in September up 54.6% over 1946 to 24,206 unit total; nine months' figure of 187,986 units represents: 65.6% gain, Pig iron production was 169,630 tons in Sept. (45,078 tonsiin Sept., 1946, when operations af- fected by strike). See Page 2 for further Local News Increase; over August was $137 millions and St. Lawrence canal' )-- Export Sept. 4}4-tons;-nine-months-2%------ » / dys in Toronto. "7 SCUGOG. £ § 0 _ Services at the regular hours at both Churches. on Sunday. > As Sunday was a wintry day but there ,was a very good attendance at Grace United Church and heard a grand mes- sage about St, Paul and his works, "I \Coming/ Home" was the message 1 the; ehoir. 2 ; 2 "The Church and our minister needs "|have the Scugog road job, so 'we Mr. Geo. Freeman and son George hope to have good roads as in the past. Mr. C. Reader, Earl Reader,.Clif- ford Rédman,-and. Len Hance have returned home with a couple of deer. Mr. Milton Demara has also return- ed home, his party will follow at the end of the. week, : . X Mr. Percy Jeffrey and family moved. to the farm which will be miueh hand- Miss Jean Wilson who is taking a course in Toronto spent the weekend with her parents Mr, and Mrs. C, Wil- son. oi Tay Mr. and Mrs, Causly have moved to Toronto, and Mr. and Mrs. Hodg- son of Cleveland, Ohio have moved there to make it their home.(welcome) 'Mr. and Mrs.' Orr Jeffrey, Clem, + biiss Nettie Melnychuk "spent the week with her sister Ann at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Fralick. Miss Mary Reader of Peterbourgh spent the weekend with her parents Mr, and Mrs. Charles Reader. . Mr. and Mrs. R. Tetlow and Phyllis visited her" parents Mr. and Mrs. John Pearce on Saturday. * C--O FOOD FOR BRITAIN The Committee working on "Food for Britain" wish to report that boxes were sent to a number of families in October -- and on November "17th, Christmas boxes were prepared--gay with red and white tissue paper, red ribbon and stickers, and filled to 15 Ibs. with tinned soup, meat, milk, tea, cocoa, puddings, Christmas cake (two Ibs.), dried fruit, candy, ete., with a Christmas card and friendly note in cach box, : This work ~will -be carried on throughout the -winter, with the con- tinued interest and help of the towns- people, in the hope that some comfort and happiness may be brought into the lives of these our friends. : Radio has.reached its zenith of re- porting, and millions of loving ad- mirers of Princess Elizabeth listened to the world-wide broadcast of the wedding ceremony when the beloved Princess became the bride of Licut. Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edin- burgh. . Great was the pagentry, and great was the rejoicing. The time of the wedding was set at Greenwich, but clocks' in every .land marked " the bridal hour as the hour for listening to the word picture of the world's most happy event. Co Radio and press have vied with each other to tell the people the royal love story. It is Britain's happiest hour in many years. } ------ te Large Crowd Expected at Commencement Exercises The Auditorium in the Port Perry High School will be filled to capacity on Friday evening, November 21st for the annual Commencement Exercises, t-which time words of congratulation and praise aye extended to the stu- dents who have done well in the var- ious lines of activity during the past school year. 7 . The guest-speaker this year will be Rev. G. Keith McMillan, B.A, B.D., a graduate of the school and at present a prominent. minister in Toronto. At the Commencement Exergises this year will be presented the trophies which: have been donated to the school by a number of prominent citizens. In- cluded in the list of presentations will be the Athletic Awards, Public Speak- ing Awards, The Laura L. Jones prize, the I.0.D.E. Scholarship; the Lions Club: Prize, and the School Letters. Throughout the evening, those pre- sent will enjoy musical numbers con- tributed by the students. . The Valedictory- Address this year will be given:by Miss Betty 'Wilkinson, H. L. Durkin, Chairman of the Board of Education will preside over the ex- ercises and will give a review of the year's activities. 1"The "Royal Wedding", by the poet' Love, O King of Peace", and "Weep Not- for Us"; a poem by Mr. James Young, of Oshawa, written for Nav. 11, was read, The Minutes were read and approved, roll was called, the treasurer's report was received and an interesting business period followed. Mrs. O. Lane and Mrs. E. Masters took charge of the social program. 'Are You a Builder?" was read by Miss Socha; "In the Garden", a duet, was sung by Mrs, P. Dalwein and Miss Viola Butson; Mrs. F. C, Wilson read, Editor ind Publisher SAMUEL FARMER Young conducting the service, Inter. ment was in Pine Grove Cemetery, Prince Albert. The pallbearers were two sons, Earl and Elmer and four sons-in-law, John Bray, Fred Beadle, James Lee and Edgar Cooper, A The flowerbearers were all grand- sons of the deceased. Friends and neighbors extend sin- cere sympathy to the family in their bereavement, . TTT laureate, John Mans; Mrs. A. Eyers favoured with a piano solo; Mrs, Lane pleased the gathering with a vocal solo. A. contest, the answers being' the titles of old congs was rather in- triguing: The hostess served sand- wiches, cake and ice cream which made a most enjoyable ending to a pleasant afternoon, Murs. Ivor Kingdon, of North Bay, is spending a week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Redman. i I 'Ray Duff, of Peterboro, was home over Kriday evening and Saturday. Mrs. James Gibson, of Greenwood, is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Archie Johnson, Mrs, Stanley Linton, of Port Perry, spent Wednesday of last week at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Cooper. Mr. and Mrs.' Norman Jackson, daughter Betty, and Mr. Harold Cook, of Toronto, were Sunday visitors with the Roy Percy family. Mrs, Harold Stredwick, Mrs. Fran- cis Briggs, Miss ThelmasBriggs and Mrs. Flora Cook were visitors in Oshawa on Monday and attended Cal- vary Baptist Church in the evening when the Wigden Trio began the first of a series of three meetings, Mr, and Mrs. M, Cryderman and children visited with Mr. Cryderman's parents, in Keswick, on Sunday. Early Monday forenoon. they received the shocking news that his father had passed away suddenly while at work. Much sympathy is extended to the family in their sorrow. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Birkett and children, of Raglan, were guests on Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. R. Manns, Mr, Desmond Bailey who arrived re- cently from. England, has hired with Allan Downey. . The W. Ash famuy were in Toronto on Saturday to see the Santa Claus parade. - 2 . Sunday motorists found traveling on the ice-coated highway almost an impassibility. Traffic! was tied up here in our willage and cars and trucks were: in the ditch or cross-wise of the pavement and unable to make the grade until the sanding machine came along about 4.30 p.m. As We were about to drop this letter in the mail box, we learned that Mrs, Francis Briggs had the misfortune to fall and it is supposed a limb is broken. She was taken to Oshawa General' Hospital, . On Sunday afternoon while sitting with some of his: family. about him, Mr. William J. Cook passed away most unexpectedly. Heshad nat been in the best of health for several months, but was well enough to be up and around all the time, He was in his 85th year. | For many years he farmed east of Prospect but retired in 1921, he and his family moved to their present E-- ------------ PP \ | ~~ Myrtle Station The Kingdom of God--was the sub- ject of Mr." S. Saywell's sermon on Sunday morning.. He used Math. 13: 24-36 on which to build -up his good message. 'The usual children's story is always a little sermon in itself and is appreciated as much by the adults as by those for whom it is given. Sunday School next Sunday. morn- ing at 'the regular houx--10 o'clock. Church service will follow at 11.00 o'clock. Communion service for Myrtle and Raglan congregations will be held in Raglan Church at 7.30 p.m. on Sun- day next, | Rev. G. W. Gardner of Columbusr will be in charge. The Woman's Association met in the regular monthly. business and social meeting at the home of Mrs. Roy Percy on Wednesday afternoon of last week... Seventéen; members and six visitors were. present. The president opened the Remembrance Day worship service with. a poem of remembrance; Mas.~H. Hudgin offered prayer; Mrs. fhe help of everyone.' All are glad: to welcome, Mr. and Mrs. Dotti Crozier 'home again from / their holiday trip to Florida. ing Annual Christmas Bazaar, Presbyterian Church, Sat., Dec. 6th ier thansa half a mile to go. 'All were glad to see Mr. Cecil Fra: lick out around again: o Mr. Ray' Hobbs is spending a few and Lois are moving to Port Perry this week but we do not feel that we have lost all that move to Port Perry, for at' Church and suppers. 0. Lane read the Scripture lesson; | Mrs. C. Harrison and Mrs. D. Luery | beautiful hymn prayer--"O God of vor RE ; took up the real estate business. In 1922 he was elected as a councillor to {the West Whitby Township Council and again in 1931 and 1932 he was a member of the council where he work- ed zealously and successfully for the taxpayers in the north end of the town- ship. His business interests made him well known: for many miles around and he will be missed by a large circle of relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs, Cook, the former Mary Hannah White, were married in 1886 and celebrated their Diamond wedding on September 26, 1046. I Surviving hint are his widow; four daughters--Mts, John Bray (Maud) 'on the townline, east; Mrs, Jas, Lee (Vera), Greenbank; Mrs. Fred Beadle (Blanche), North Oshawa; Mrs. Ed- gar Cooper, (Ruby), Toronto; five sons--Clarence, Elmer and Keith, at Myrtle Station; Ray at Port Perry, and Earl, of Oshawa; twenty-seven grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren, The casket was banked with many lovely: floral. gifts, tokens of the es- teem and respect in which Mr, Cook was held. ' The funeral was held from the fams we are sure to see them all quite often gang as a duet Henry Williams Baker's ily residence on Tuesday -afternoon with Mr. S. G. Saywell and Yr. James Ontario County Hog Producers -A meeding-of the Ontario County Hog Producers' Association was held in the. Agricultural Office, Uxbridge, on Thursday evening, November 13th, with a large crowd in attendance. president, Mr. Harper Newman, culled ow Mr. Wm. Newman, Lorneville, to deliver his address. The substance 'of his address was as follows: "In the years before the war, we had speculated markets,. for example in grain, Then shortly after the war started, the - Western Wheat Board took wheat out of the hands of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange and the Government placed a ceiling on barley and oats, and bonused farmers $5.00 an acre to grow barley and oats in- stead of wheat. Under stated prices and subsidies, we made a bargain with the United Kingdom to supply them with certain quantiites of bacon. Then under these circumstances and due to weather conditions, there was a fear of a ¢rop failure in Ontario this year, On September 1st ceilings and subsides went off grain. Up. to that time this year, the same number of bushels of oats and barley had been delivered -to the Lake head Elevators as had been in 1946, and yet the farm- ers rouldn't get grain, However, when the ceiling went off grain and the prices rose, the farmer could get all the grain he 'wanted. The result is that the farmer'is losing approximate- ly $7.00 on every hog he sells, even if he has his own grain. The quality of our bacon is as good as any being sold in the United King- dom and we 'have been giving conti- tuity of supply. Why-thien should our farmers be forced to take a loss on every "hog they produce? We must be militant and demand that we ret something in return for our labour. To-day we are tied down to an export market which should be a safety. valve for our surplus. This is a national responsibility and should be treated as a national problem. We do not want to see the price of grain go down and we do not want to ask the people of Britain to pay more for our bacon, but we do want a higher price for it." It was moved and seconded that the meeting heartily endorse the resolution passed by the joint meeting of the On- tario Hog Producers' Association and members of the Marketing Board, on October 31st. . Carried, It was also moved and seconded that coarse grains be taken off the Winni- peg Grain Exchange and hamdled by a grain board, such as the Wheat Board that mow exists. Carried. - Another resolution was to the effect that the embargo on the export of beef cattle to the United States be lifted. > MANCHESTER Mr. Lloyd Cowan, of Carnarvon, is visiting his sister, Mrs. A. Roach. Mrs. Harold Reesor and son David, are home from Nova Scotia, where they have spent a couple of months with Mrs. Reesor's parents, Christie Bros. and W. F. Crosier are exhibiting stock at the Royal Agri- cultural Winter Fair, Mrs. Fred Warren and children and home. which. he built and Mr... Cook Mp and--Mrs--Hugh-Strong--and-chil- dren attended the Santa Claus parade last Saturday. Miss Joyce McKee was home from Toronto for the week-end. There will. be no service in our Church here next Sunday, but at Pros- pect at 2.30 there will be a joint ser- vice and sacrament and baptismal ser- vice with Rev. Mr. Gardner, of Col- umbus in charge. We hope many from Manchester-will be ahle to attend. * Sunday School will be at the usual hour of 10 a.m. Mr, Geo. Leach was the lucky mem- ber of the party of hunters from this "rvdens, Toronto, on Monday night, Mr. and Mrs. J. Ward and Ruby; ° Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Myers and Shar- on, Whitby, with Mr. W. F. Thompson, on Sunday. - Mr. W. F. Thompson received word recently of the death of Dr. C. H. Weatant at his home in Winnipeg, on October 30th. His wife, the former Lottie 'Thompson, a sistér of Mr, W. Thompson, predeceased him some years ago. The sympathy of their [friends is extended to Mr. Thompson, Mr, and Mrs, Lorne Thompson, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Ward and family, Miss Edith Lakey, Toronto, with her sister, Mrs. George Smith, over the week-end, The. mass meeting of the farmers of South Ontario was held in the Brook- © lin Hall, Nov. 17th to discuss present After a short business session, "the situations--high feed costs and low prices of farm produce. - The meeting was regsonably well attended. Mr. W. J. Wood, Alliston, outlined the situation and plan of Provincial Fed- eration, A number of farmers voiced | their opinions and a resolution was sent to head office to be sent with re- solutions from other county groups to the Minister of Agriculture, The re- solution stated that as farmers have done a good job during war years under pegged prices with the assurance that they would receive better condi- tions after, find them in a much worse position than ever before, and ask that ° some immediate action be taken. Sorry to have to report Mrs. Kil- patrick on the sick list, at persent con- fined to the Port Perry Hospital. All are hoping to hear better néws soon. Mrs. Smith and Lloyd were guests with her niece Mrs. Charlie Webster, Uxbridge during the week. Miss Wilma Cochrane and Mr. Jas. Lynde, Sunday fea guests with Mr. and, Mrs. Keith Crozier and Carol- Lynn, on Scugog. d RX The sympathy of the community is extended to Mrs. W. J. Cook and fam- ily, in the death of Mr, Cook, on Sun- - day, November 16th. Mr. Cook was well known here, having farmed east of Prospect for many years. Mrs. Roy Cornish, Port Perry, visit- ing friends in the community last week, Telephone Employees Hold Banquet The Employees' Association of the Woodbridge and Vaughan Telephone Company held their annual banquet on November 17th, 1947, at the 'Presby- terian Church, Markham. There were 2 members and guests present; Two former operators were to have been presented with gifts from the Associa- tion. However, neither were able to attend and therefore the gifts will be presented at a later date. They were Miss Dorothy Thompson, now Mrs. Gordon Wilson, of Whitevale, and Miss Pearl Long, of Uxbridge. After the dinner Mr. B. J. Newell led the sing- song, accompanied by Miss Joyce Campbell. Mrs. Mae Bagg and Miss Leona Smith from - Woodbridge then sang a duet. Mrs. Arnott Coumans gave two very appropriate readings. The speaker for the evenings was Mr. Blatchford of the Bell Telephone demonstration on "Talk Tracks That Turn". = This talk brought us up to date on tha latest inventions in the telephone industry. Micro-waves and how they react proved very interesting to_his audience. To close the enjoy- able evening Miss Leona Smith rend- ered a very beautiful solo entitled "Bless this house". Everyone then ' sang "Auld Lang Syne". After the closing, Mr. Kinnce, the chairman of the meeting extended an invitation to all present to see the new office. | Mr: Leach 3} f RECN Sv locality. r. Leach shot two fine Ce . do Manitoba Signs . . Ld -- ===" |Dominion-Provin- . . . PROSPECT |cial Agreement. . om Dear Mr. Farmer: Tr Rev. - Mr, Gardner, of Columbus Together wlth six other provinces of United Church will conduct Commun- ( ion dervice in Prospect Church on Sut- day, Nov. 28rd at 2.30 p.m. There will also be Sacrament of Baptism. The Manchester congregation will unite with us for this special service. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Yeo and Elaine, Mr. Geo. MéClintock, Mr, and Mrs. Wilson, Myrtle Station, attended the Ice Capades at the Maple Leaf | 'anada the Province of Manitoba has signed a Dominion-Provincial Agree- ment with the Dominion Government. For Manitoba this agreement has helped to make possible our plan now in operation to retire the whole of the existing Manitoba public débt over a period of thirty-five years. . (contifived on page two)' ON Hc? Company, whe -gave-a-very-interesting-------------- IL frm, Rtas Eien raat » = FN AN - ---- a STN Po ON A Ld ~ " eT i OE er Xr

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