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» ¥ or 3) "p "vote out. EE) ' i wh A vidrscmmt an adel ots Expires. $2.00 per year in advance, Notes -an Watch yur Label; it tells whe your sobription 5c. Single Copy $2. 50 -per year outside Canada, fie Comments A LESSON IN-CIVIC. ECONOMICS, Last week we stressed that the citizens of a omit could "have good local government . . . provided that they were _inter- ested in doing something. about it. - The reverse is true too . . . . if 'the people aren't interested in good local government they just _ don't get it. We quoted material from the history of the city of T,Omaha' and showed what a 'phénomenal success the people had when they took hold and did something about local government. We also pointed: out the reason for their doing so . . . the city had sunk itself in bonded indebtedness; was facing a "mill rate --of 46; had too high, and too uneven local assessment. In addition |; OY had apparently no more money to go on feeding into the in- efficient 'machine that was serving them-in the form of local government. financing brought about? First they had to have the interest of the people. You may well ask how were these miracles in local Once they were able to engender such an interest they had to select intelligent and able people to represent them on the Council . these became their appointees for office . . . then they got the All the local organizations which were connected with community service in any way responded by supporting a drive to get everybody to talk about community problems; to take an interest in civic. nominations; and to get out and vote. 'Once the new administration was matter did not end there, elected and it was truly representative of the people . . --dents didn't just sit back and let things slide . . . right on being interésted in civic matters. The the resi- they kept - plans and schemes for getting rid of their hopelessly heavy debt; they got facts; they worked out schemes; they took both a short, and a long term view of things. . tures, waste, and inefficiency were ruthlessly wiped out, Foolish; or unnecessary expendi- Neces- sary and important services were carefully and expertly planned on a 'pay-as-you-go' basis.' The whole detailed history has been kept as a record of this community' 8 attempt to inake democratic government work. That it has succeeded beyond their wildest hopes is literally no ex- aggeration, They have built new schools, increased and modernized the equipment; spent considerable sums on Tecreation "centres; in- creased by: three times the salaries of the teachers in the city; wiped out $25,000,000 of a $29,000,000 debt, and reduced their mill-rate to 12.95 and at the same time they have decreased ex- cessive assessment. What Omaha has 'dohe any community can do if the 'people want to. - civic government... Omaha had no specially gifted people with a genius for They were ordinary people such as you will find in any community. What does distinguish them is the fact that they did awaken to the serious condition into' which their community was slipping and they had enough courage and gump- tion to.do something about if. There is nothing mysterious abst local government. ~ problems. of any community are require courage, honest, frankness, and co-operation. -The straight-forward problems that We, each one of us, has a responsibility to SGgrnat that is. the kind of |' S 'local government we: get. It is a re "our community, to the country as a whole. nsibility. to ourselves, to Democracy can't work in the Dominion unless it works in the Port Perrys throughout the Dominion. "National Municipal League - According to the National Municipal League these are the results, of a lack of interest in your local affairs: y Undemocratic "methods in Elections. at : re ~ Spoils and _Corruptions. : Wasteful and Antiquated Systems. Overlapping of Services. Hand to Mouth Planning and Financing. . Unnecessary centralization and Bureacracy. Apathy and Ignorance. Acconiing to the National Municipal Langas $hig) is the remedy: "Active and informed citizens. . Citizens are asked to note the nomination esting at7o ok on the evening of Monday, December 26th in the Public Library. Apparently 'the usual low attendance is expected. crowd the building until the doors are pushed open! Let's YACHT CLUB NEWS. - So not-to be accused of advertising we will not mention the name of the 'magazine: but a well known Canadian _ journal 'has repeated it's ciirculation building offer of shecial Christmas rates. Several members took advan- tage of this offer last year and may want to re-new now, as well as the possibility 'of new subscribers wanting to get an idea on-the thing. If any- one is interested get in touch with the. Sécretary-Treasurer and he will give you the necessary information. *To-morrow night the- Club is mak- ing with a ping-pong tournament, 80 all ye who bat balls of celluloid about in a vigorous fashion flex your mighty 'muscles and attend the task of making yourselves famous in the annuls of the Yacht Club. Doesn't the prospect of being called the ping: one champ. of Port Perry Yacht "Club thrill you to. the yety 'marrow in LY; i ' FOR "MORE LOCAL NEWS TURN 10 PAGE 3 : $ 4 your bones? Ignore the cynicism and sarcasim of he of the lame brain and prepare to give battle. Somebody course, so the seagulls may take ad- 'vantage of the occupancy df others and gormandize themselves, 'New Year's. Dance too, December 30th, this year of course. However, other than. print that reminder we shan't go into that topic in detail, yet. HCAS. f Alpha Club The: last meeting was held in the Church of the Ascension with eighteen members present. Bill Williams: di- rected the meeting with Rev. J. Coney- beare as guest speaker, Business was discussed for the few meetings. before Christmas, Further information. will be given out next week concerning 'the Christmas pro- gram. The next meeting 'will be in the Presbyterian Church 'on Monday, December 6th at 8 p.m. All young people welcome, , 5 : Badminton ~~ - The local Badminton Club erter- tained players from Whitby Hospital [Badminton Club in a return Tourna- ment on Saturday 'evening. Some closely contested games were enjoyed. The tournament closed with Port Perry Paving won 13 games to Whit- bye 10 wins, i di! 3s chs Sd Li na They talked over | mentioned something about food, of Port Ty High School. Commencement Exercise" TT TTT -- eee SCHOLARS RECEIVE AWARDS * For the first time gince the building of the present Bort Perry High School the -Annual Commencement exercises were not held in the school. The United Church was chosen for this im: portant event because it offered, the largest seating capacity of any build- ing in the district. - This choice was justified by the capacity crowd who came to see the awards presented. "The Rev. John Coneybedre made the Invocation, following which the Rev. Clifford 'Smith, minister of the church, welcomed all present, and voiced the approval of the Church of the educational work undertaken by the School. Mr. J. Crane, Principal of the School, addressed the assembly with a special message to students and parents. y Mr. Roy Cornish, Principal of the Public School, presented the Entrance Prizes to the students ranking highest and recommended for High School En- trance -- From Port Perry Public School, Gary Lawrence; and from dis- trict, Isabel" Baylis. . Dr. Staples, District Inspector, pre- sented the Intermediate Certificates. Mr. Ronald Peel "the trophies as follows: '1. Smallman, R.B. Trophy, General proficiency in Grade IX, - Doris Nure. i 2. Mr. and Mrs. S. Farmer Trophy, best Agricultural Home Project, An- nabelle Lee. 3. The Gertrude Jackson: Trophy for Home Economies in Grade XI, to Miss Ruth Snawdon. 4. The Ron A. Peel Tr ophy for Shop Work, Grade XI to Peter Sulman. presented 5. The Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Hutcheson Trophy for Commercial - Work, Grade XI, Miss Barbara Woods. 6. The Zula M. Jackson Trophy for Matriculation in Latin and French, Grade XII to Miss Eleanor DeNure. -7. The A. M. Lawrence Trophy for Matriculation in Mathematics and Science in" Grade XII' "to Miss- Miriam Peel. - 8. The Dr. J. B. Lundy Trophy for Matriculation in English and History | in Grade XII to Jim Smeltzer. 9. The A. B. Cawker Trophy for the highest standing in five Upper School. subjects to Bill Brock, 10. The W. M. Letcher Trophy for Oratory 'and opepgo any student, to Miss Marie Thomas. Scholar ships presented- during "the evening were: . TT The Dymond Scholarship, valid $25. To best all round student of the Jun- ior Matriculation Class,"Miss K. Pren- tice, presented by Mr: Crane in the absence of . Dymond, ' LO.D.E. Scholarship. . For student for highest standing of the first two years, value $25.00. . Presented by Mr. .S N. Griffen to Miss Joan Real. Laura L. Jones Scholarship, High- est standing in English, Grade XIII. Value $10.00. Presented to Miss Nan- cy Gibson by Miss Harris. Lion's Club Scholarship, To the outstanding student in graduating class in scholarship and school activi- ties, Value $10.00. Presented by Mr. Art Brunton to Miss Mary Wilkinson. |" Dugald McBride Scholarship.' To the student with the highest-standing in English and - History in" Upper School, and who has no failures in Grade XIII subjects. Value, $26.00 Presented .to Miss Nancy Gibson by Miss Harris, Central Ontario - County _ District High School Board Scholarship, to the student with the highest aggregate standing. Presented to Miss Nancy Gibson by Miss Parker. . ' Guest Sheakdr ~~ The Guest speaker for the evening Mr. A. H. Humble, Senior English Mas- ter. of Trinity College, Port Hope, spoke of the aims of education. These he held to be the development of a finer mind which led to: the develop- ment of a fine character. He stres- sed that the development of such char- acter required appreciation of all the arts, good reading, cooperation' be- tween all races and creeds. He be- lieved the ,over-enfphasis of national- ism tended 'to break the spiritual strength of the nation. The speakar illustrated his point by mentioning historical events in Germany. Mr. Humble contends that the individual effort, tied in with the cooperative effort is the essence of progress, -| was achieved when the De-' (3 w- SCHOOL CHORUSES One of the features of the ev ening was the singing of the scholars under the direction of Mrs. Elsie Dobson, Instructress. * The Choruses of Grades IX, X, XLXII gave beautiful rendition of many fine old songs and were great- 1y enjoyed. The Inter-High School Glee Club deserve special mention, The climax of the students efforts iraduation Di- plomas were presented by Miss Har- ris. The graduates are: Honor See- ondary School Diplomas; Robert Bell," Arthur Willianmi Brock, Nancy Dorothy Gibson, Edward Char- les Griffen, James Cecil Heayn, Don- ald Murray Lee; Frances Zula Gertrude Jackson, who obtained standing in at least cight Upper School Papers, Se- condary School Graduation Diplomas, Howard W. Hall, Eunice E,- Fishley, Helen R. Diamond, Eleanor M. De- Nure, Robert G. Helm, Elva..Luke, Miriam J. Peel, Aileen M. Skerratt, James E. Smeltzer, Marie V. Thomas. Mary Lou "Wilkinson, Lloyd Somer- ville, Bruce R. Gerrow. . dictory -address. Instead of saying 'farewell' she wished to say a friendly 'good-bye' to all she has known in and out of school. She expressed profound appreciation to the teachers-for their efforts on behalf of herself and fellow students. As the last item on the program, Mr. MacDonald - presented Peter Sulman with the Strathcona Crest for being the best shot in the school, Wesley Lane with his life saving medal and [the school lefters to those who earned them during the past year, Miss Lawrence presented the ath- letic awards and Jim =Smeltzer the public speaking awards donated by the Literary Society. : At the conclusion of the exercises the meeting adjourned to the school for refreshments and dancing. -- Corporation of the Village of Port Perry, 1949 By-law for fixing Nominations and appointing places: for voting and Deputy Returning Officers for, the en- suing Municipal Elections. "Whereas is is expedient to pass-such- a by-law for the Village of Port Perry; Therefore_the Municipal Council of the Village of Port Perry enacts as follows: "The meeting of _ Electors for the Nomination of Candidates: for the offices "of Reeve, Councillars and. Public School Trustees, shall be _held at the hour of seven o'clock'to eight |. o'clock, on . MONDAY, DECEMBER 26th, 1949, at the PUBLIC LIBRARY in Port Perry, and the Polling shall take place on MONDAY, JANUARY 2nd, 1950 Polls, if necessary, shall be taken at the following places by the Deputy Returning Officers herein named on January 2nd, 1950 between the hours of nine a.m. and seven p.m, : (1) Polling Sub-Division No. 1--at Treasurer's Office. Deputy -Return- ing Officer, Robert Harper, Esq. (2) Polling _Sub-division No. 2 at basement 'of United Church. Deputy Returning Officer, Cecil Heayn, Esq. (3) Polling Sub-division No. 3 at Public Library, Deputy Returning Officer, Joseph Allan, Esq. _ The Deputy Returning Officers shall cach-receive for their services the sum of 'Six Dollars, and the Jali Clerk, Four Dollars, Passed in open. Council, day of October, 1949, - First reading, 14th of October, 1949, Second reading, "14th October, 1949, Third reading, a? of October, 1949. .E. HAYES, Reeve. JOHN F. RAINES, Clerk. Ld a EE MAIL EARLY AT CHRISTMAS The Post Office Department suggest, the following dates to mail Christmas parcels and cards, To United States .......... Before Dec. 9 To British-Columbia ....Before Dec. '13 Alberta and Sask. ....... Before Déec. 14 Newfoundland ........... Before Dec, 14 Manitoba and Maritimes .......Dec. 15 Ontario and. Quebec ............Dee, 16 Local Delivery .......... Before Dec. 17 If posted later than these dates de- livery for Christmas 48 doubtful, the '14th - Annual ( CHRISTMAS BAZAAR & TEA--Presbyterian Church, Sat, William | Miss Nancy Gibson gave the Vale- |: "took flags. Port Perry Couple Married 60 Years Sixty years ago Mr. and Mrs, 'A. D. "| Peters - took the vows of. wed- lock in Agnes "Streets Methodist Church in Toronta, and continued to live in that city for twenty-five years, They spent the next ten years farming in the C laremont area, Mr. Peters wag born at Udora 84 years ago. at Richmond Hill. They have three daughters, Edith of Toronto; "Hazel and Mabel, of Glaremont; and a son Bert Peters; of Atlanta, Georgia, also ten grandehildren, and eleven great- grandchildren, - family dinner at home. The elderly couple claim their longe- vity and happy marriage to a "plain Christian life" and never wore them- selves out "trying to keep up with the Joneses." : _ Mr. and Mrs. Peters are in fair health and able to be around. Cartwright-- Nominations At the annual nomination meeting of Cartwright Township, the following offices for 1950: REEVE-- W. G. Bowles Bruce Heaslip (acc.) me COUNCILLORS-- Ivan Cochrane, Wesley Sweet, George Black, Allan Suggett. Also nominated were John Smith, Harold Beacock. * - BOARD OF EDUCATION-- "Wallace" Marlow, John Hamilton, David Wilson. Also nominated was Harold Beacock. Members remaining on Board are Wilfred Jackson, Harold *Larmer. NEW CLERK APPOINTED-- After some forty years of service as Townwship Clerk Mr. Wm. Beacock has resigned and Mr. Henry Thomp- son, who has been Treasurer, has been appointed _ Clerk- -Treasurer,: and will open an office at Blackstock. or a oo -- * L] Brownie News There was a véry good attendance at the Brownie meeting at the school on Friday. - "Fairy March preceeded the opening ceremony. Before start- ing their work for the day the Bronwnie enjoyed two rollicking games. Sixers were turned into en- gines and. much fun was had as they raced to assemble their cars around the sheds. "Then the pack became farm animals for the -other game. Second class girls worked at their homming while the advanced girls Tweenies worked at tenderfoot. Kaye Hastings was en- rolled by Brown Owl and took thé squeeze home for the week. -- o> ONTARIO HOLSTEINS AT ROYAL G. R. McLaughlin, Elmcroft Farms, carried off the Reserve Grand Cham- pion for mature females with Elmeroft Dewdrop M, Elmceroft Queen R. Triune who was Grand: Champion at the Peterborough |' C hampionship Show was winner in the dry 4. year old class while Elmeroft Olga topper the dry three year olds. Way Brook Legacy, shown by O. Chambers, Wilfrid, was second in the Senior Bull Calf class. Elmeroft winners in the group classes included 3rd dairy herd, 8rd and 5th Senior Get-of-Sire; 3rd graded herd, 4th breeders' herd, and 5th junior herd. A total of 254 head of Holsteins were judged by Prof. George E. Raith- by of Ontario Agriciliva) Lollege. 3 Notice To Subscribers We have decided to offer a Special Subscription rate ;to all paid-up sub- scribers who wish to pay for their paper in advance; this saves us the expense of sending out notices, This offer is: - oie : Z years paid in advance .......... $8.26 (a saving of 7bc,) . 3 years paid in advance (a saving of $1,00) If your label reads Nov. 49, Dec. 49 or any month in 1950 you are a paid- up subscriber and entitled to make use of this offer. PORT PERRY STAR CO. LTD. AALS aR ry BUNCE A ph a REE or Murs.--Peters™-started life The event was, marked by a ast were nominate, to fill the municipal}. "the" "| Scugog. "the weed-cutter Port Perry Rod. 1& Gun Club Copy of Letter to Mr. Ryan, » id Mr, Ryan, Supt. Engineer, - Trent Waterways, _Peterboro, re Water Leaks at Lindsay 'There-has--beeri- several rumors of late as to what is to be, and is being done to remedy and stop the leaks in the flumes, and 'spillway at the old Flavelle Mill now owned by Mr. Hen- derson, . Has there 'been an appropriation 2 by. the Department of Trans- port to make the necessary. repairs to the flumes and spillway at the old [= mill? 2. Is it true that the cement dam re- cently repaired is to be raised-to-about a foot above. the -present level, that the lake water level may be raised? 3. If the above mentioned work is to be taken care of, will "this be gone ahead with this fall? T hanking you for_this fforination. [ am, your very truly, Otis O. Hamilton, President. 2 - - Reply to above -- Dear. Sin: This will acknowledge your two letters of November 17th régarding proposals to shut off leakage at the old mill on the Scugog- River at Lind- say and Wo raise the erdst of 'the De- partment's dam at Lindsay for the purpose of holding Lake Scugog' at a higher summer level, : ge These matters are under considers: tion in the Department and- 1 have written them enquiring whether any information is available « on -thig sub- Jeet at present. "You also refer to the. appreciation of your Club for the repairs made this summer to the dam at Lindsay and for cutting "of "the "woes "in Lake My understanding is that will "be operated on Lake Scugog next year. - Yours truly, = -- T. J. Ryan; Supt. Engineer, ATTENTION All Veterans . The Canadian Legion are "holding their annual meéting and election of officers on Tuesday, Dec. Gth, in the Port Perry Armouries, We would like to see more-interest shown by the activities, as we believe they may find | veterans in - it benefice vial to their welfare, THE PORT PERRY. STAR CoO. LTD: « Authorized as ating Class Mail, "Post Oflice Department, Ottawa, © - Port Perry, Nov. 17. a 'Martin, at the parsonage. _|some. 1] Published by . > ' S . v 2 g Married PORT" PERRY Ww EDD NG. ' A quiet wedding was soleninized on Thursday, November 2: 25th, when 19 ard,.became the bride. of James Alex- ander Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. Rev, Clif. ford Smith officiated. - Given in "marriage by her brother, Mr. Ben Pickard, the bride wore hor mother's wedding gown of batiste lace and a halo of. or: ange held her long silk net veil. ers. were red roses. "After-- the "ceremony the bride's mother received at her home wearing violet crepe, with a corsage of pink roses. © - For a trip to Toronto and points west, the bride travelled in a gray coat with persian Lunb tri, and wine accessories, "They their home in Peterhoro. blossoms "Her flow- EE at A REPLY Port Perry, Nov. 28 The Editor, - Port Perry Star: Dear Mr. Editor; May we be given some space in your columns to reply to the * from petitioners paper last week, - published _in your Reading it, and also previouk week, one gets the impression that the route of the I. indsay Bus was changed at the instigation of one or both of us, sinee the parking across our drive has been somewhiit stressed in both letters. Mig we state public- ly and emphytically that at no time have either of us complained to Coun- cil or'to- anyone else about the I, indsay bus, or any othér bus for that matter. 'We would point out that the Lindsay hus has never obstructed our drive and we would also state.that the matter of the bus that did on occasion block our drive was entirely private con- cern dealt with between ourselves and the. company concerned. "We have at ho time objected to the buses being packed--in front of our office. even--though--this has caused inconvenience to our. patients. We realize that the busds provide a necessary service to the citizens of Port Perry and so long as the term- inal is located in the vicinity of our office we are quite content to have the buses Laci where the Couneil decides Dr. G. Dr. M. Remiiie y M. B. Dymond op NOTICE . POWER SHORTAGE: For the next five or six wecks there will be an acute shortage of electricity. All consumers are requested to make a voluntary saving of at least 5%. A state of emergengy now exists and in order to avert power cuts, ex- perienced last winter, THIS SAV ING MUST BE. MADE. We earnestly solicit your whole-hearted co- -opera- tion, "Legion | HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER COMMISSION OF ONTARIO "N. A. Belfry. 'by "*M. evident that Frost has drawn from Drew as far as he can without 'offending too much those he mustn't 'withdraw' from. We are afraid _that_this i§ a Bay Street pun. « + a It's quite "The Communists have accused the Vatican of using the 'system of the medieval * inquisition™~ because it threatens to excommunicate any Catholic who sell 'communist liters- ture . Apparently, the Commies just don't know history, [J L * LJ # The Calgary Stampede ended in To- ronto this year when-it was brought to an abrupt stop by the: American French Canadian Alouéttes. LJ LIES EN The Rugby season is over . . but don't warry our spectator complex can now "loll comfortably in front of the radio during the long wint nights as we listen half. dreaming our way through the National Hockey League program disturbed only with the periodic straightening up that comes ++. with the old familiar ~-- He shoots! He scores! " The Passing Show A.C." . » " The Canadian Banking system be- gan in 1817, . © dnd you can bank on it that it has done a powerful lot of banking Since then. Ld * * France has overwhelmingly voted for a United States of Europe . Well, it's nice to know that her ZOov- ernment agrees about something, ) «+ sw + It is rumored that C. D. Howe is to be next "Defense Minister . . How this will be done or when is ill a question. - . LIE I : The Chief-Designate of the British Air Staff says: "It is as dangerous to under-rate the Soviet air force as it is to over-rate it." Let's just rate it! y LIE . The Liberal" Government admits breaking the law . . but assures us that it won't do it any more . , at least the government is contrite. The Landlords who startedseounting' their chickens may not sée them hatch «+. at least not in Saskatchewan . .|and probably in Quebec and Dritstia, December 3rd, at £3 P. m. Dorothy Grace Pickard Ruriciiter of - Mrs. Pickard and the late John Pick- and - will "make -- 'Open Letter" the one appearing in the Star of the * td Ld TE tier rk Fal a Fe FY an Zin {5 ha? re wa i A