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~~ a Bs N | ! ~y director, Norman Watson in the front, conducting the choir. Capacity crowd appreciates ~musical by local performers (Contributed) From the welcome given by the President of the Historical Society, Bill Brock, until the last song presented by the Choir, there was not a lull in the delightful musical evening, titled, 'Summer Sequel to A Victorian Parlour" The nostalgic Victorian theme was set by a garden party scene, with Grandma (Hazel Slemmon) and Grandpa (Charles: Reesor), celebrating their 50th an- niversary with the aid of the maiden Aunt (Jean Nod- well) and the maid, (Beryl Pearce). Conversation leads naturally into favourite old songs performed by a splen- did choir under the direc- tion of Norman Watson. Themes of the songs were acted out, such as a ball player (Debbie Ireland) in "Take Me Out to the Ball Game". Lola McEachern {gand Glenn Larmer both wore tulips during a ren- + dition of "When You Wore a Tulip", and the dancihg couple Virginia and Charles Clifford, made all of us want to go to St. Louis where they met. A couple (Grant Hunter and Thelma Rowland), waltzed to, "And the Band Played On", the lady hav- ing the most striking straw- berry blonde hair ever seen in Port Perry! George Sa- mells, accompanied by Alp- ha Samells, as he has been for 48 years, sang "Out Behind the Barn', one of his collection of old country songs. The two guitarists, Ivan Allin and Irvin Gibson brough a more modern note to the program with several selections, and also played in sketches with the choir. The group who called to congratulate Grandma and Grandpa came complete - with jokers. This group in- cluded Lucille Gray among several others. The versatility of choir was obvious when Marion Weston and Janet Vernon sang "Just a We- aryin' For You", followed by Albert Harper singing, "Swimmin with the Wim- min" and oh the bathing beauties, who were Virginia Clifford and Joyce Scriver. And where did they find those bathing suits? The duet by Irvin Gibson and a Letter from Ministry clarifies 7A situation The Ministry of Transpor- tation has 'dropped a propo- sal to transfer responsibility for a portion of Highway 7A to Victoria County. The portion of highway concerned is 10 miles from just west of Yelverton to beyond Bethany in Manvers Township. ~The proposal had met Prof. Leo Johnson to speak at » Latcham Centre Prof. Leo Johnson of the Department of History, Uni- versity of Waterloo, will be speaking at the Latcham Centre, Monday night at 8 p.m. . Prof. Johnson is the aut- hor of 'A History of the County of Ontario" publish- ed last year. Prof. Johnson will likely be talking about the recent history of the area from 1870 onwards. with considerable opposition from Victoria County and other groups. That section of Highway 7A will continue to remain under provincial juris- diction. In a letter to the Presi- dent of the Scugog Rate- payer's Association, Mr. R. Coy, the Executive Director in the Ministry, Mr. G.H. Johnston says: "The Minister has asked me to reply, on his behalf, to your letter of March 25, 1974, concerning Highway 7A. "You may advise the members of your Asso- ciation that the Ministry has reviewed the proposal to transfer Highway 7A and has decided that this road should remain under pro- vincial jurisdiction. "Insofar as improvements are concerned, the Ministry has 'no construction pro- grammed in the foreseeable future for the section speci- fied in your letter." the. mysterious lady friend was almost drowned out by laughter from the audience. The box social, complete with boxes, auctioneer and gentlemen bidders and their partners was a setting for two songs by the choir. This was followed by a square dance, at the piano Myrtle Snelgrove, Bruce Snelgrove on the violin, cal- ler Maurice Fralick and a livelier set you have seldom seen. Helen and Clifford Redman, Eva and Grant Hunter, Roxana Webster and Charles Reesor, Gladys Thompson and Glenn Lar- mer were the dancers, and those full skirted old cos- tumes showed how graceful those styles were. Eleanor and Ralph Bailey and their two delightful (continued on page 19) P2RT {§ PERRY TAR Second Section Volume 108 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, Wednesday, Apr. 24, 1974 - No. 26 | Star invites readers to take partin writing contest For the third consecutive year, the Port Perry Star is offering its readers to parti- cipate in a 'Journalism Awards' contest. The contest is Canada wide and sponsored by Canadian Community News- paper Association, of which the Star is a member. This writing contest, under the title of 'Our Hometown Newspaper" is open to all Star readers and should be a frank descrip- tion or opinion of just. what a community newspaper means to you, the reader. Submissions should not be less than 250 words and not Picture shows the five member special committee of the Oddfellow and Rebekah Lodges, conducting an eye testing campaign at the R.H. Cornish Public School. In the forefront are Jeff Ireland, who had his eyes checked for ""lLazy Eye" and Alpha Samells, Chairman of the Committee. From left in the back are Georgina Moore, Wakeford. Norene Crosier, Louvella Graham and Annie more than 700 in length. The Star will give a cash prize of $50. to the best local submission entered in the contest. The winners con- tribution will be published in the Star prior to being entered in the National contest, which carries a (continued on page 19) Children receive eye test Over fifty young toddlers between 3 and 5 years of age were tested for 'Lazy Eye" by a special commit- tee of the Oddfellow and Rebekah Lodges at the R.H. Cornish Public School on Friday. "Lazy Eye" is a defect that needs to be detected at an early stage and treated. It can lead to blindness later if undetected at an early age. The medical term for "lazy eye' is Am- blyopia. The eye testing commit- tee is part of a region wide campaign launched by the Oddfellows and Rebekahs. The campaign has been approved by the Medical Officer of Health, Director of Public Health Nursing and the Co-ordinator of Day Care Centres in the Durham Region. Another open clinic will be held on Friday, May 3 at the R.H. Cornish Public School from 9 to 12 a.m. Children aged 3 to 5 years and not attending kinder- garten will be tested free of charge. The members of the spe- cial committee are: Alpha Samells (Chairman), No- rene Crosier, Annie Wake- ford, Louella Graham and Georgina Moore. ' i Hi