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"r Editorial Topics Chamber Of Commerce Week The week between April 19 to 25 is Chamber of Commerce Week. This is the 13th consecutive year the week has been observed throughout Canada and in a special message to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau says: "Participation in voluntary associations is one of the most effective ways of fostering democratic ideals and of achieving results through direct action. "The Boards of Trade and" Chamber of Commerce in over 800 communities in Canada invite this kind of involvement. "Greetings and best wishes to all of you on the occasion of Chamber of Commerce Week 1970". Locally, the Port Perry Chamber of Commerce has proven itself to be an important factor in the com- munity. The membership this year is about 60, but in most organizations, it is the executive which takes the initiative and sets the pace. The Port Perry Chamber of Commerce headed by Ted Griffin is fortunate to have members included among the executive to make it an active organization. The next important event to be headed by the local C of C this year is the annual Home Show, June 11,.12 and 13. Last year this show became a great success, not only- to merchants participating but the public showed a great deal of enthusiasm during the three-day event. ] Port Perry C of C is also spearheading the 1971 Cen- tennial celebrations to be staged during the year commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Port Perry as an incorporated Village. Through the years, the C of C has always worked in close co-operation with the Village council in regard to municipal matters. Possibly not always in agreement, the two bodies always managed to come to a harmonious conclusion in the end. : ' Credit Cards And Goods New legislation on unsolicited credit cards and goods has been announced by Honourable Bert Lawrence, Minister of Financial and Commercial Affairs. The new legislation, an amendment to the Con- sumer Protection Act, will mean that unsolicited goods may be treated as gifts, and that receipt of an unsolicited credit card will carry no obligation for .the recipient unless the credit arrangement is accepted in writing or the card is used. Unsolicited goods are defined as "personal property furnished to a person who did not request it". It does ° not include personal property that the recipient knows or ought to know is intended for another period, and a request shall not be implied by inaction or the passing of time alone. No action may be brought against those who receive unsolicited goods for payment, despite their use, misuse, loss, damage or theft. And, unless the recipient agrees in writing to accept the credit arrangement provided Continued on page 12 PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED 3] " Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas : P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Associatio Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association 'Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario, Authorized as second class mail by the, Post Office : Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash, 8econd Class Mail Registration Number 0268 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy 10¢ - iN i. ( PTI i | il HR dl | gil Sl HUGH BROKE HIS MIDDLE FINGER Can you whistle a Bach prelude and fu- gue without a memory slip? Can you hum a Beethoven sonata without sliding into falsetto or basso profundo. Darn right you can't. But I can. Almost; And it cost me only about $12,000. Trouble is, and this is a touchy point in April, none of it is deductible, That's what it has cost me, over the years, to provide a musical education for my family. After all that, | can whistle and hum, both of which | could do before. There's something wrong here, but | cant quite figure out what It is... I wish I had the 12G's in bonds at eight per cent. But my wife doesn't agree. We could have taken a trip around the world for that, but she still doesn't agree. As far as I'm concerned, I could have taken that $12,000 thrown. it off the end of the dock, and beer just as far ahead. Once again, the only one who agrees with me is I "Both my kids have degrees in piano. 'Both were talented: Near, but not quite at, the concert pianist level. Both eschewed (I like that word) a career in music, be- cause they wanted to be first. And they wanted to be free. ; Well, they're free. Hugh broke his . middle finger, and can play I Went Down To St. James Infirmary, with only a few bum notes. I think Kim could play The Happy Farmer, with a couple of days' practice. : : ! "But perhaps it's all been worth it. They've learned something. Hugh has realized that you can't, practise the piano when you're waiting table at the Chateau Frontenac or selling vacuum cleaners in Calgary . And Kim has realized that "her" piano won't quite fit into a three-room pad in Toronto, unless you want to sleep on top of it. What, brings all this to mind, and without bitterness, is the fact that my wife, a for- 4 . .on the local music festival. mer piano teacher, has become hooked once again, after a lapse of a couple of years, She's going every day and listening intensely to her former students. (Though she's a bit mif- fed that some of them are doing extremely well, despite the fact that they don't take lessons from her any more.) But her reports have cheered me. Things are just the same as they always were, I went through years of them, and I know the 'scene intimately, The festival mothers are still as friendly as an R.C. bishop and a Mormon lay preacher. The adjudicator is still rotten, giving the first-place certificate to the girl who played worst. Except when it's your daughter, or - your pupil. Then he (or she) shows an in- -sight into music that is superb. The kids are still sailing into their pieces at breakneck speed, which they can't pos- sibly maintain, and. breaking down in the middle, while their mothers and teachers turn purple as the youngsters fumble, and throw up their hands, and burst into tears. But perhaps the Old Lady is right. Thoes moments at the music festival, in other vears. were the closest to heaven and hell that I've ever experienced, with the pos- sible exception of shooting at.a concentra. tion of German tanks, which were firing bark at vou with bigger guns than you had. I've stopped breathing for as much as a dangarousiy long two minutes while my son 'or daughter weaved through a sonatina. | have gone out afterwards and smoked a complete cigarette in two drags, I have called the adjudicator a slob, a - cretin, moron, and, sometimes, a brilliant judge of music, Maybe the Old Battleaxe is right. Maybe it was worth $12,000. Anyway, I can whis- tle three bars of Tschaichovsky's something or other. . ~--Toronto Telegram Syndicate. 'gasoline " Thursday, April 21, 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 15, 1920 Mr. T.D. Bigelow is enjoy- -ing an interesting trip to the Far East- and expects to journey around the world and visit the chief places of inter- "est, Mr. A.E. Rogerson, pro- prietor of the St. Charles Hotel, has bought the Milner Farm, between Pettett's Point and, Seven Mile Island, and provision is to be made for summer campers, and later cottages will be erected. Two launches and a number of skiffs and canoes will be available to the guests. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 19, 1945 Mr. and Mrs. F.W. Brock have returned home after spending the winter in Florida. Flying Officer Murray Holtby, of the R.C.A.F. who has been overseas two years, has returned home. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Kerry, who have moved to Port Perry will be missed in the Head Community. Miss Lucille Jeffrey of- Toronto and Pte. John Jeffrey spent the week-end with their mother Mrs. Cecil Jeffrey. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 21, 1955 Port Perry Master Feeds Pee Wees shone very well in their trip to the Young Can- ada Tournamentin Goderich winning two games and then dropping the third to Temisk- aming by a 3--1 count. Mrs. W.W. Scott of Wind- sor," with Bobby~and Brenda is visiting her sister, Mrs. Bruce Beare. 10 YEARS AGO 1960 With the score 6 -- 1 on Monday night, the All Ontario Juvenile "C" Champ- ionship O.H.M.A. was capt- ured by Port Perry for 1969- 1960. Congratulations to Mr. William Brock, who has won Canada Council Fellowship. The category under which Mr. Brock won the $2000. prize is for Secondary School Teachers and Librarians. During the noon hour on attempted to drive his Volks- wagen to Port Perry. While crossing the Causeway, the car was pushed off the road by floating ice driven by wind. Mr. Hunt who had succeeded in getting out of his car was found clinging to a pole and Robert Duff and Don Wallace were able to rescue him. °