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®- { gia : & J Puesday as host of CBCTV's. Qf -~ [3 J Be i A EE I Ui tira h intel AA! TAY Rey 3 AT $9 Fi 1] > FER at Wt sity, 21 hal Eas i a ds AR 2 ') 4 : THE PORT PERRY STAR Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa ~-PORT PERRY, ONT,; THURSDAY, MAY 4th, 1961 $2.00 Per Year, Single Copy 5¢ ---- Assist. Agriculture Representative Transferred to Bruce County June 1 Alvin Blades, assistant agricultural representative for Ontario 'County, is being transferred to Bruce County as assistant agricultural representative. The transfer will take place as of |. June 1st, 1961. Gary Hutchison, assistant agricul- tural representative for Lincoln and Welland Counties, will be coming to © | Uxbridge in the same capacity. Mr. Blades began his duties in Ont. County, on January 2nd, 1968. He has been working mainly with the 4-H Agricultural clubs and the Junior Far- merg' Association. } b is a graduate of the Nova Sco- Agricultural College, and received his B. Sec. in Agriculture from Mac- donald College, Quebec in 19566, Be- fore coming to Ontario County, he spent a year with Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Montreal, and a year with Oakdale Golf and Country Club, Toronto. Mr. Blades has done a fine job for agricultural, while in Ontario County. The best wishes of a multitude of friends will go with Mr. and Mrs, Blades to their new County of Bruce. | Scugog Council The regular meeting of the Scugog Township Council was "held in the Town Hall on Tuesday, May 2nd, 1961 at 8 pm. Reeve Anson Gerrow and Councillors Cecil Fralick, V. Aldred and C. Carter were present, Minutes of the last meeting and the .C/R were read and adopted on motion, CORRESPONDENCE-- 1. From the Dept. of Municipal Af- fairs enclosing a Summary of Amend- ments tojthe Planning Act. 2. Dept. of Health re Abandoned 'Cemeteries and-the care of same. "8. Community Memorial Hospital, Port Perry, acknowledging grant Jor -ray machine, + 4. Dept. of Lands and ol re structed to write Mr. Léman stating that there will be no deer hunting on Scugog Island. 5. Dept. of Municipal Affairs, re 50% interim payments for Winter Works, DEPUTATION from Platten Island Ratepayers Assoc. requesting that ac- tion be taken re conditions near Lake- side Beach, MOTION--It was moved and sec- onded that Mr. R. Holder be given the contract. for spraying weeds on the Township roadsides. MOTION--That we buy signs num- bering "each Concession and other roads in the Twp. and committee for this project to be: G. Hood, C. Dinlik and C. Carter. MOTION--That we tender for the collection of garbage from the Sum- mer cottages, Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted, tenders to close May 18, 4 p.m. MOTION--That the Council notify Rougedale Construction Co. to enlarge the cottage on Lot 7, Plan 640 to the proper specifications according to By- Law No. 1176. MOTION--That any person found _open_ Deer Seasons, _ Clerk was in-| dumping garbage on the Twp. roads WILL BE PROSECUTED to the maximum penalty. } BY-LAW No. 1194 being a by-law to levy rates of taxation for 1961 was read three times in open council and passed. Total Farm & Residential--51.6 m. Total Commercial ........coceuvuene 63.4 m. PAY LIST--On motion the follow- ing accounts were approved for pay- ment: Roads <u iuimemnn $460.94 General .......ccoveiineinnn 421.711 pt 7 1 EINE I $882.66 Motion to adjourn to meet again on Tuesday June 6th, 1961 at 8 p.m. or at the call of the reeve. Grass Fire "In spite 'of the wet dull weather which we have been-having a lively blaze caused the Fire B#fgade to be 'called to a fire in the field behind Seriber's property on the West side of Rosa St. last Thursday evening. Inspector Speaks In Toronto Miss Lotta McNeill, inspector of public schools in Uxbridge-Port Perry] area spoke at a week-end conference of the Ontario Federation of Women Teachers Association in Toronto re- cently. . Miss McNeill, in addressing the Women teachers advised a life incor- porating both play and work and "An ability to accept ourselves as we are and go on from there", She spoke of the constant demand for the unu- sual as being evidence of-a neurosis. "I believe penmanship, care and |- order are still at the foundation of good teaching", Miss McNeill con- tinued. Teaching is one job no one could bear to do poorly, the children won't let them, Q FOR QUEST Versatile veteran of CBC radio and Quest. This series brings the arts to television, largely in an experimental manner, and will include words with) mosis 8.. J. Perelman, drama by Saul Bellow, musie: with Lambert several CBO-TV. dramas and was pro- ducer and founder of CBO radio's " - a" "Free Enterprise! COMMUNITY STUDIES By Mr. Gary Boyd (who is studying at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon) The other day we had a chance to chat with a young scientist at one of the new institutes for community studies which have been set up re- cently by. Canadian universities, At last the social sciences are beginning to get down to brass tacks the way that physics and chemistry did a cen- tury ago. The results of these new researches promise to be fully as re- warding, and revolutionary, as de discoveries of hard sciences have been. Already important facts about the nature and evolution of smaller com- munities are being found out; some of these may seem obvious when one comes to think about them in the right perspective, it is just that per- spective that organised community studies provides. What is a town? Aside from being a collection of buildings inhabited and otherwise existing in proximity it is a collection of co-operating people. It is not just the town council, the police department and the post office which make a town, but rather all sorts of people who work together voluntarily in organised and unor- ganised groups to solve their common problems and improve the way of life they value. Each town has its own personality, conservative, or extrava- gant, friendly or cold, which it tends to maintain and develop over many "years despite changes in the inhabi- tants. Port Perry for instanee has always been a progressive and gener- ous sort of place. It has adapted well; to the disappearance of the timber. industry, to almost total des- truction by fire, to the appearance.of cars, to two world wars--what other town has a living war memorial in the form of a library--to the prob- lems imposed by the growth of Osh- awa, and so on. "It has done se be- attracts as residents the sensible res- ponsible sort of people who realise that their future and their childrens future depends on their voluntary ef- forts to cooperate in solving the com- munities' problems. The main work of making a town what it is, is undertaken by the volun- tary groups, from the council, and the fire brigade, on to the business mens' associations and the womens clubs and circles, and of course the church groups. Consider for a moment that there are many men and women in this' town who give upwards of an hundred hours a-month of their time to voluntary associations. If we had to pay. for this time at current hourly wage rates the tax bill would be up by about a quarter of a millon dollars per year! That is what voluntary co- operation epntributes every year to making Port Perry a pleasant place to live in. In Indonesia and Pakistan and most of the backward areas of the world the biggest setback to progress is the lack of any tradition of voluntary self- assistance, It is all very well for the government to step in and build a new road or irrigation system, but if the people who use it have never learned to get together to look after what they have it doesn't last very long. : It has been discovered that for a town to survive its voluntary organi- sationg must first of all be oriented toward the immediate problems of community -life, and should not have such narrow and specific aims that they can't adapt to new problems. If a rink or a hospital is needed the clubs of a town should be able to get together to act as a rink or hospital committee, or to help form separate ones. There are only a limited num- ber of 'workers and leaders in any community, and so" oply a limited number of really effective groups can be formed, beyond that number the whole community is weakened by new ones. When the International X elub has a new club drive, with carloads of people fromylarge centres heading off to surrounding communities to form X clubs because of the ad- mittedly excellent work done by the X clubs. What is often not realised community, and by tying up all the leaders so that nome are available to form new. groups to solve new. prob. Stage series, 'cause the very character of the place | is that by splitting the workers tna lems the community's chances of sur- vival may be greatly weakened. A village of six hundred which already has a dozen church groups and three service clubs probably needs another service club 'like a hole in the head', Fortunately Port Perry seems pretty healthy in. these respects as you may gather from. reading about the co-operatively achieved events on the Star's front page. But it seems like a good idea to have a notion of the sort of things todays scientists, the social scientists are turning up. Quick Action By Driver The quick thinking of Alexander Wasiluk, 84 year old truck driver from Oshawa may have saved the life of little Julie Hall when she tried .to cross Scugog Street in a blinding snow storm about 4:30 on Tuesday. Mr, Wasiluk who was driving a Brewers Warehousing Truck east on Scugog St. thought he saw something dodge out into the road in the path of his truck and quickly wheeled the the truck south into Allan St. but the left side of the truck grazed the girl and threw her into the ditch where she suffered facial cuts and bruises, It is reported that the child, who was on her way home from a music lesson, had waited for two cars to pass that were coming from the east, and then ran across the road appar- ently not seeing the truck approaching although the headlights were on due to the heavy fall of snow at the time. No charges were laid against the driver, who is the father of five children. Chief Cameron investigated the accident. Julie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hall was taken to the hos- pital by ambulance where she was attended by Dr. John Diamond. Guide and Brownie Mothers Auxiliary The April meeting of the Guide and Brownie Mothers was held at the home of the President, Mrs, Les. Mc- Donald on Tuesday the 25th with 20 ladies present. The Guide Promise was repeated in unison. The President welcomed visit- ors as new members, also the "old faithfuls". A word of appreciation was voiced to those who helped clean the silverware at the Scout Hall one recent morning. 416 boxes of Guide cookies were sold, but there are some remaining for purchase. The Secretary's and Treasurer's re- ports were given and adopted. There are 2 Guide uniforms size 18 and 16 respectively for sale. Plans for the annual Mother's Day Bazaar on Sat, May 18th were concluded, with many willing helpers volunteer- ing. All available members are ask- ed to come to the Hall the Friday ev- ening prior to the bazaar, at 8 p.m. to prepare for the big event, also at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Guide Cookies were sold at the meeting. Group I served cake and fce-cream. All members worked busily at pre- paring articles for the bazaar. Utica Store Damaged by Fire Wednesday afternoon, May 8rd fire caused considerable damage to the store and conténts owned by Lakey and MacGregor at Utica. 'The Port Perry Fire Brigade were called to quell the blaze in the general store which has been operating in Utica for a great many years. It being Wednesday afternoon, the store was closed and no one was around at the time the fire broke out. The were also called, when at first it was feared that it might get out of control but on their arrival the fire had been pretty well extinguished. It is thought the fire started from wiring in a cooler and a great deal of damage was done to the large stock of merchandise by the heat, water & smoke, 1.0.0.F. News The members of District 41 and particularly Warriner Lodge were deeply grieved to hear of the sudden passing of one of our esteemed mem- bers, Bro. M. Letcher. The 1.0.0.F. has many fond memories of the work done by Bro. Letcher and will remem- ber the contributions he has made to our Order. Bro. Letcher was Noble Grand 1927-8, 1928-9; D.D.G.M. 1932- 83 and an officer of the Grand Lodge of Ontario in 1948. As a tribute to Bro. Letcher 88 members of our Or- der were present at the funeral ser- vice held by Warriner Lodge Sunday evening, April 28. - One more year and he 'would have been an honorary 60 year member, On Monday night, April 24th War- riner Lodge did have the honor of _| bestowing a 50 year jewel on one of its members. In keeping with the evening the officers chairs were filled by veteran members with Bro. J. Gib- son, P.G., P.D.D.G.M: filling the chair of Noble Grand. Bro. Gibson also pinned the jewel on Bro. Norm Palmer the recipient and many reminiscences were exchanged to the delight of our newer members. Bro. Palmer was able to récall the officers of Warriner Lodge who were in the chairs when he was initiated. Our present D.D.G.M. Bro. Glenn Wannamaker also of Warriner Lodge presented a 2b year jewel to Bro. A. Dowson, P.G. on the same evening. The congratulations of all members of this district goes out to these very youthful veterans. . A fitting climax to our Veterans' night was a supper of barbequed chicken, District No. 41 Church Parade Don't forget District No. 41 Annual Oddfellows Church Parade and Ser- vice at Port Perry United Church on Sunday, May 7th at 7.00 p.m. Bros. are asked to fall in at the Lodge hall at 6.30 p.m. to parade to the Church. The Cgledonia Pipe Band from Osh- awa will lead the parade. Sister Re- bekah"s will form a' Guard of Honour at the Church. The public are cor- dially invited to this evening service. Murray Holthy Chairman of / Pasture Competition Committee The members of the Ontario County Pasture Committee mét recently in the Department of Agriculture Office, Uxbridge, for the purpose of re-or- ganizing the Pasture Competition for 1961, and revising the rules and regu- lations. The object of the Competition is to promote a better understanding and appreciation of the value of good pasture and good pasture manage- ment. = The Pasture Competition is open to any farmer in Ontario County with livestock grazing in the field. Mr. Eugene Lemon, Stouffville, has been appointed judge... He will score the pacture in June and again in August, ~The winner of the Ontarlo County Pasture Competition will be eligible to compete in the Zome Competition and if suecessful there, will have a an chance at' the Provincial Ohariplons ship. The committee 4n hares of the 1961 Pasture Competition is as fol- lows: Murray Holtby, Port Perry, chairman Heber Down, Brooklin . Lloyd Wideman, Stouffville Lorne Bagshaw, Uxbridge George Paisley, Uxbridge Cliff Redman, Port Perry Ed. Oyler, Port Perry Milton Parkin, Brooklin Bill Heron, Sunderland Entries for this Competition close on June 1st, 1061. + Any farmers wish- 'ing to join the Ontario County Pas-| ture Competition this year should get in touch with the Department of Ag- rieulture, Uxbridge. Uxbridge Fire a Early Morning Accident Glenn Murray Hill, 36, of R. R. 1, Port Perry overturned the car he was driving with a resulting damage of approximately $700. Mr, Hill was on his way to work about 6 am, Wed, driving east on County Rd., Tth Con. Reach when his car went off the travelled portion of the road and flipped over in the ditch. Fortunately Mr. Hill was only slightly bruised in spite of the ex- tensive damage to the vehicle. The accident was investigated by Con. Williams, Golden Wedding Anniversary With the blessings of a beautiful Sunday afternoon of April 80, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Stone celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary at the home of Ken and Mildred Rodd. Their three daughters (Ruth) Mr, and Mrs. Hugh Strong, (Alexa) Mr. and Mrs. Gordon McMillan and Mildred, Mr. & Mrs. Ken Rodd and 4 foster children who have enjoyed a happy home life with them, Mr. Wm. Keen, Mr, Dick Sysum, Mr. Danny Rukaruk and Miss Dianna Stickwood along with 12 grand children and 2 great grandsons every- one wished them many more happy years together. The happy couple seated among a floral arrangement of golden mums, renewed old acquaintances of many life long friends from Seagrave, Osh- awa, Toronto, Port Perry, Goodwood and Sunderland districts, After a friendly fellowship, the guests were greeted with a dainty lunch served by the grandchildren. decorated with their wedding -cake and flowers, where Mrs. Doris Barnett and Mrs. Wm, Moase served tea. Mr. and Mrs. Stone were astounded by the many lovely cards and beauti- ful gifts received from their friends and peighbours. Each received a watch from the family. Mrs. Stone has enjoyed good health but Mr. Stone has been an invalid for the past few years, and wish for them many 'more -years of happy life to- gether. = The-table was | National Hospital Day There is one business in town that has no shut-downs. Its lights burn day and night, round the clock, as its staff work ceaselessly at the import- ant job of restoring health. This business is the hospital; fami- liar to us all but probably taken pretty much for granted by many: Within its walls many skills are combined in caring for the sick and injured. In Ontario alone, more than 50,000 men and women have dedicated their careers to hospital service. However, these hands that help to heal would be seriously hindered with- out our help--the help needed to pro- vide more beds, more equipment, more trained staff and additional facilities to keep pace with growing demands. Community support and understand- ing is vital if our hospital is to con- tinue to provide the best in patient care and treatment for those in need. You depend on your hospital--can it depend on you? OPEN HOUSE will not be held at Community Memorial Hospital on May 12th this year since alterations are under way in preparation for in- stallation of new X-Ray equipment. However, at a later date, upon com- pletion of the above, we will be hav- ing a tea at the Hospital so that all members of the community may have an opportunity to see for themselves the improvements which have been made, As you will note, the Women' 8s Hos- pital Auxiliary are holding a tea on Friday afternoon May 12th, at the Municipal building. Lions & Ladies Visit T.V. Station with their ladies were priveleged to visit CFTO TV on Monday evening. The occasion was Lions Club Ladies Night, and the evening started with dinner at the Tam-O-Shanter Club after which the group went on to CFTO where arrangements had been made to visit the station and they were able to watch the news broad- cast, weather and sports, when Joe Crysdale interviewed his guest Steve Ridzik, pitcher of the Toronto Maple Leafs Ball Club. New X-Ray Equipment for Our Hospital While we did not have an article in the Port Perry Star last week, never-} theless the women of the Hospital Auxiliary have been working steadily to achieve the goal of $7600.00 which we agreed to raise for the new X-Ray equipment for our Hospital. We knew there were other worthy causes for which money was being col- lected 80 we thought we would not start an intesive campaign (or canvass if necessary) until after the tea which we are holding on National Hospital Day, May 12th next. As we hope you already know this tea is to be held in the Municipal Building, and we do want everyone who possibly can to come and spend a little time there with his or her friends. The proceeds from this tea will, of course, go to- wards the new X-Ray equipment. There is considerable work to be done in connection with the installa- '| tion of the new equipment, and work has already been started at the hos- pital. In the meantime some of our friends have been good enough to send in their contributions, We acknowledge these donations with sincere apprecia- | tion, and once again the Star is be- ing good enough to insert a thermo- meter to show where we now stand. The mercury has still some distance Nestleton Presbyterian to go, so let us all work hard to get] get it to the top. , : DONATIONS FOR X-RAY Previous Total .....ccuvmiinin $4,806.00 1.0.0.F. Lodge striction nioy we 26.00 Ladies Aux. to Port Perry ' 'Branch 419, Can, Legion... 16.00 Cadmus W.A. and W.M.8. ... 50.00 Can, Legion Branch #5, Port Perry rssnnenens 100.00 Church Ladies Aid ........... 10.00 Nestleton Women's Institute 10.00 Scugog Chapter I1.0.D.E. ..... 100.00 Greenbank United Church W.A. 60.00 A Friend 6.00 Total to date .....cceuvunriinne $4,760.00 $16,000-- $12,000-- 0 uh $9,000--- $6,000-- --$4,760.00 $8,000-- Fb a vie The Port Perry Lions Club together i F