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an arn fe ges: } 3 ) fo Vl i] a} " (i "Town Fool" "WANTED" read the ad in the Aurora Banner a couple of years ago, 'one damn fool'. The job was already gone by the time | got there. The job entailed being on call seven days a week, 24 hours a day so the fool would be available to sit through unbelievable boring council meetings that go on past midnight in the hope that something can be dud out of his notes which might serve as the basis for a newspaper story. He would have to be 'willing to pose as an instant expert on anything and everything, ready to walk in on a moments notice and digest the most complicated technical double talk then try and translate it into ordinary English for news- paper readers. His day should start at 9 a.m., perhaps at a municipal pump house trying to figure out why the entire town has been without water for hours. All afternoon he may be out taking pictures of 6 year old piano proteges which are going to disappoint the talented youngsters mother no matter how they turn out. At night, dead exhausted; on those nights when he is not trying to stay awake at a council meeting he may be called to review a play with enthusiasm and tact or, perhaps, observe the excitement of the county Tse Fly associations relection of a matronly president for the 29th term in a row. If he refers to the gasket on the pump as a washer, the by law at the council meeting as a resolution or the tragedy at a drama night as a mystery everyone in town will delight at pointing out that he is just what the ad asked for. : If he expresses an opinion on anything he is not qualified. If he doesn't express an opinion he is sitting on the fence. If he says the councillor, actor or service club is doing fine work no one notices. But if he observes them making an error in judgement it is his fault -- not theirs. / I missed the job in Aurora, but got the one in Port Perry. =» And | love it. Bad behaviour According to reports representatives of the People or Planes committee disrupted a public meeting last week which the M.P. for this area Norman Cafik and Federal Works Minister Jean Dube had called to discuss the prices to be paid for land in the new airport area. Indications are that Mr. Cafik was drowned out with boos, catcalls and other childishness before he could even finish introducing the cabinet minister. One witness claims an egg was thrown. There is a name for people too rude to let a man finish making his point before interupting. Unfortunately the name is not fit to print. Whatever merit there may be to People or Planes arguments against the airport or whatever sympathy may have been generated for their cause has been lost now. The public has no use for such boorish behaviour or the people who engage in it. TRIN PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited { CNA Sa Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and < (OWA) : % $ Cartwright Townships 1, & "rs as BRUCE ARNOLD, Editor WM. T. HARRISON, Plant Manager J. PETER HVIDSTEN, P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher | Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office 0 Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $6.00 per year. Elsewhere $8.50 per year. Single Copy 15¢ PARANA ARAN ARRAN NCAA Yeu ast for running weler. . I ge you FYING wafer / BILL MILEY UGAR vo SPICE ITS TIME TO PAY A TRIBUTE TO ART I have three brothers-in-law. One is a srailroader, one is a lawyer, and the third is pretty ill right now. I've always felt lucky about them. Each of the three is a fine fellow, and we've got along with never an unpieasant word or experience between us. That's more than lots of brothers-in-law can say. Left alone, they'd probably be fine, but when the women involved start getting their knives into each other, often a coldness develops among the poor devils of husbands. My railroader brother-in-law went to high school with me, and we played football together on a couple of the best teams that ever came out of Perth Collegiate Institute and Lanark County. My lawyer brother-in-law worked with me on a chain gang one summer, when we were students, and it was the best dodge-work chain gang that ever worked for the Kodak company. We left no stone unturned in our constant vigilance to appear to be working when the foreman came around. : Both these chaps are around my own age, a bit tattered around the edges from raising families and paying off mortgages, but otherwise in good shape. My third brother-in-law is a bit longer in the tooth, and I always looked on him as somewhere between a second father and second big brother. Not that he acted either part. He treated me exactly as most boys would like their fathers to treat them. And he never, ever acted the bullying, know-it-all role of the big brother. He treated me as a human being. He never implied that I was a kid and he was an adult. When he was twice my age, he talked as though we were equals. He knew I was pretty callow when I was sixteen, but he never let on. We were two men of the world together, and I've appreciated it ever since. He'd take me fishing when I was a kid. there was no nonsense about him being in charge. We were just a couple of fisher- men. One fishing jaunt I still remember with particular pleasure. 'We 'were out in the - middle of the lake when a summer storm caught us. No, or few, motors in those days. You rowed. We were as wet as though we'd jumped overboard. We got to shore, with the rain still pounding down. We tound a cottage un- 'occupied and managed to get in. We put up the stovepipes, got a fire going and foraged. There was a half can of tea leaves. So there we sat by a roaring fire, drinking hot tea and feeling like Ulysses just home from the Trojan war. It was not a miserable experience or a disaster. It was a joke, an adventure. Art sat there, smoking his pipe and regaling me with earthy stories, and I sat there, happy as a clam, feeling a real man, able - to cope with anything. He'd take me off to the cottage, when he was courting my. sister, and I was about fifteen. What a nuisance I must have been, but you'd never know it, from him. .When I was courting, I dragged home the critter who is now my old battleaxe, and her kid sister, who had tailed along. He drove the three of us to the same cottage, and he and my big sister accepted us and fed us without a question or a hint or a raised eyebrow. When the war came along, he was of an age atwhich there was no need for him to join up, no question of being drafted. He - joined the air force and spent four years of unheroic, uncomplaining service about two thousand miles from his family. He could have stayed home and made money as most of his contemporaries did. -He never said much, at times of family crises, though he was dragged into our large family. But he was always there, always steady, always the peacemaker. He hated rows, and scab-picking, and soul-searching, and when people got into that stuff, he'd change the subject or quietly leave. . Like my own father, he very rarely got angry, but when he did, attention was paid. He believed in the old adage, as did my mother, that, "If you can't say anything good about a person, don't say anything." And I never heard anyone say a bad word about him. He's a good Christian, a good Catholic, but a down-to-earth one, not one of those pious bores. He was no world-beater, and he didn't want to be. He was no intellectual, but he' had a wit as Irish as his good looks. He was always a kind, and, at the risk of seeming maudlin, I would say a sweet man. i I hope he reads this and knows how much his young brother-in-law thought of him when he was an impressionable kid, and ever since. And I hope the day is not too far off when he's out of fhat hospital bed and we can crack a jug together. a J ig 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 14, 1923 Mr. D. Carnegie's rink successfully defended the Whattam Cup, which 'they won in Oshawa last week. The opening of the pre: sent election campaign was " held in the Town Hall last Saturday in the interests of Dr. Jas. Moore, the Con- senrjvative candidate. During one of the recent electrical storms, Memory Hall at Utica was struck but no serious damage "occurred. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 10, 1948 On June 2, 1948, in..the auditorium of the Port Perry High School with an audience of 500 officers and members of the Blue Ray Chapter, No. 238, Order of the Easter Star was instituted. The pupils and staff of P.P.H.S. travelled to Lynn- brook Park on June 4, for a picnic to finish off the school year. The Port Perry Board of Education plans to inaugu- rate a Kindergarten Pri- mary Class in September, 1948. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 12, 1958 At the council meeting of June 7, Reeve J. J. Gibson reported that rehabilitation work on Well No. 1 was not progressing as well as planned due to the equip- ment of Railway and Power Engineering not being suit- able for the job. Miss Helen Honey, R. R. 1, Seagrave, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Honey and Miss Sandra James, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cyril James, Scugog Island, received their pins and dip- lomas at the graduation of the .1958 nursing class at Oshawa General Hospital. Deputy District Governor, Lion Art Brunton visited the local Lions Club on the occasion of their Twentieth Charter Night. Lion Art in- stalled the officers for the coming year. Lion the Hon. Dr. M. B. Dymond made a presentation of a beautiful plaque on behalf of the Lions Club to Lion Art for his services during the past year. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 13, 1963 Jeanne Williams gradua- ted from the nursing course 'of Oshawa General Hospital on June 7th. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar McQuade celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary. They were married in Blackstock on June 4, 1913. Congratulations to Miss Nancy Gibson, Greenbank, on winning first prize in the Farm Safety = Poster Conference open to Public School pupils of Ontario county. The prize was seven silver dollars. A resolution was carried at a special meeting of the Council of the Village of Port Perry, that the water- main _was to be extended along an existing street in Port Perry, the P.P. Waterworks Department will pay the cost to a minimum of 100 feet per guaranteed water user as AY * long as the council did not g have to open a new road. ERE A,