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oy od 3 § 2 : Seat Louie Your blood 1s needed One of the things that Canadians just naturally take for granted is that if you go to a hospital and need blood, it will be there and will be free of charge. . As long as most Canadians can remember it has been like that and it'makes it seem like a very natural thing. But it can't continue fhat way if people don't turn up at Red Cross Blood Donors clinics, such as the one that the Port Perry Kinsmen club is sponsoring on Wednesday, October 2 from 1:30 to 4:30 and 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. It will take place at the Port Perry United Church. By taking a little time out to attend the clinic you could be saving somebody's life as well as protecting a Canadian way of life. In countries like Spain, Portugal and Greece, blood donors are hard to come by and the hospitals pay as much as $20. for 500 ml. of blood. It is not unuasual to see a mother with her child that has leukemia, sitting in a clinic with money in her hand just waiting for somebody to come in and } give her child the blood he so badly needs. Groups like the Port Perry. Kinsmen Club deserve credit for helping the Canadian Red Cross in such a worthy cause. - We have enjoyed it all September 19 it was 11 years since we had the privilege of taking over the ownership of the Port Perry Star. Those years have passed by fast and has also seen a lot of progress and changes in the weekly newspaper industry, including the Star. On that date in 1963, the Star had a circulation of 1,100 and was type set on a Linotype machine with handset headings and advertisements. This gradually changed over the years with improved equipment of various kinds. Today the production is entirely different compared to that of 11 years ago. Typesetting is done by the more sophisticated photo composition and the printing is done by the web offset method. : The progress of the Port Perry Star has indeed been gratifying during that period. Your local paper is well accepted in the new Township of Scugog and we enjoy a circulation of 3,700 compared to the 1,100 in 1963. (This is an all paid circulation in contrast to many other weeklies claiming larger circulation by free distribution and have noguarantee free copies are even read.) We intend to keep-on producing a better paper in the future for the benefit of readers and advertisers. The public can certdinly be of greaf help in the production of a better informed newspaper by participating in various ways such as informing us about events of interest or take a more active and direct part by writing letters to the editor expressing likes or dislikes on important com- munity and other projects in the planning stages or already completed. The columns in the Star are open to all as long as the topic covered is written in an acceptable manner and we have the name of the writer on file. NRA Vs NE 2 ae oo 3 =X PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Sa, (#cha 2 (WR) z ra = Serving Por! Perry;*Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships. P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Part Perry Star Co Ld, Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $4.00 per year. Elsewhere $8.50 per year. Single Copy 15¢ én MENRF IE MY A DhX SAP IFEPE RAN | . ERE" i BREN LR |B Aa NEL a "THERE ARE 11MES, GLADYS, I'D LIKE JO KICK THIS WHOLE ROJ7EN BUSINESS " BILL MILEY HERE'S A BOOK WORTH READING I've just finished a book called "Ten Lost Years." In my opinion, it should be required reading for every Canadian under twenty- five, and pleasantly, if occasionally bitter reading, for everyone over fifty. The rest are too old to care, and too late to save. With another depression coming up, and remember, you read it here, it might serve as some sort of survival chart for the young people heading into the next depression, and a justification for the older people, who are so hymie about such things as electric lights that aren't turned off, food scraps, that are thrown out, and clothing that is perfectly good, but ten years out of style. It's impossible to tell young people about your own experiences in the Great Depress- ion. And it deserves the capital letters. When you try to tell the rising generation about your own Depression experiences, they merely groan, roll their eyes, and think, "Yuk. Here goes Dad, or Grandad, again, whining about what hard times are really like. What a drag!" That's why the young people should read the book. They simply can't realize, as they scoff their two-bits worth of french fries, that grown men worked ten hours a day for that same two-bits, during the Depression. They can't realize, as they shoot a quarter into the pop machine for a Coke (capital C) to wash down their french fries, that if you took out a girl during the Depression and had a quarter in your pocket, you were rich. According to the book, the hardest hit areas were the Prairie Provinces, the Maritimes and Quebec. Ontario and B.C. were the only provinces in those days which weren't in really desperate condition, and they were bad enough. This is a very creditble book, to anyone who lived through those Ten Lost Years. The author went out with a tape recorder and interviewed hundreds of people who went through them. The results are funny, tragic, and extremely Canadian. It could never be misunderstood as a British or American book, though those countries suffered equally. Canadians then, in their pawkish, stub- born and often stupid pride, would go to almost any lengths to avoid "going on relief. This was almost a sin, and always a last resort. And 'relief' could be ten or twelve dollars a month, for a family. A nickel had to do the work of a dollar. After three years of drought and grass- hoppers, many prairie farmers just walked away and left everything: house and machinery. The average cash income from farmers in the Maritimes, including the UGAR AND Srice wealthy ones, was something like: forty dollars a year. What a modern kid from a middleclass family would spend in a month on clothes and treats. People' died, -not of starvation, but of malnutrition. Oh, I remember! I was only a kid at the time, but I remember. It all happened sort of gradually. My father was a fairly prosperous merchant, but he was too kindly aman, bless him to crunch people who were hard up. He gave them credit. He lost his- business. He had too much money on the books, and not®nough in the till to meet the mortgage. Stunned in his late forties with five kids, he sank into depression. There wére no jobs for anyone, let alone middle-aged-men. My mother took over. - 'She took in boarders. In the summer, we rented rooms to tourists. A clean bed and a huge breakfast for $1.50. She sold home- made baking. She was an Avon lady. And we went inexorably into debt: the butcher's, the grocer's, the coal man. But there was no way we were going to go on relief. It was shameful. Somehow, we staggered through. My older brother got a job in the bank at six dollars a week. My sister got a job in a store at eight dollars a week. They kicked most of it back to my mum. That was the deal in those days, everybody pulling together. But it was mighty hard on the young workers, who, today, would be going to college on government grants. We never went hungry. A lot of hambur- ger, at three pounds for a quarter. A lot of baloney. A big, perpetually simmering pot of soup. If the porridge wasn't finished in the morning, it went into the soup pot. And I remember the odd time when we had something I've never tasted since. This was when the butcher would advance no more credit, and there wasn't a cent in the house. Potato-skin hash. I wouldn't mind a good feed of that tonight. You take some baked potatoes and put them through the meat grinder. With the colour of the potato skins, it comes out . looking like meat and potatoes. Fry itupina pan with some onions, dirt cheap, and you had a pretty good dinner. Top it off with home-made bread and raspberry preserves, and you'd had a gourmet dinner. It beat hell out of the modern frozen TV dinner, both for nourishment and flavour and was probably better for us than most of the garbage modern kids eat. No, we never went hungry, and there was always a bowl of pea soup and home-made bread for the hoboes who arrived at the kitchen door, half-frozen and half-starved. But I never realized what miracles my: mother and father performed in those days,, and I wish I had, sooner. 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 25, 1924 Scugog Head Church, held its anniversary. An excellent concert was given by Miss Osborne, and Ross Roach's Orchestra, both from Port Perry. oo Remember Women's winter coats for only $8.95. Pleated Skirts fro $3.25? Rev. Carmen E. Dyer, was the preacher at the Breadalbane Presbyterian Church in Utica, when it held it's anniversary. Mr. W.A. Christy was appointed as Envelope Ste- ward to succeed Mr. Jas. Stonehouse, deceased at the meeting of the Quarterly Board of the Methodist Church. ' 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 22, 1949 The village has decided to tear down the old shed on Paxton Street which is the last trace of Northside Bus- iness Enterprizes of the 1870s. The Port Perry Lions Club held an "auction sale and received a good sum of money to give to the Recrea- tion Centre. Miss Beryl Larmer of Blackstock is taking her nurse's training in Peter- boro Hospital. Mr. Hubert Long grew an unusual potato that was one and a half pounds and was sixteen and three-quarter inches by twelve and a half inches. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 24, 1959 Meulemester pitching for Brooklin Intermediate C, pitched a 30 strike out game, and went twenty-three innings to beat Dresden 2 - 1 in the finals. Mr. Roy Smith of Port Perry, lands two good size lunges from Lake Scugog. One was twelve pounds and the other ten pounds. Mr. R. Ostrosser, a highly trained specialist in hearing problems, conducted a clinic for the people of Port Perry in the Emmerson Motel, (continued on page 5) / i « - & CA <Q | ¥ |