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Ny Geel SOUR, £5 BS IGRY IASHCPPRULAALIN SLY 2 AVY 4 AE FEES, 7 E8. Editorial Comments Parents to blame It was just a few months ago that the front page of this newspaper carried a news item headlined "Needed: Parents Who Support Their Kids." , That particular story dealt with one of the youth. groups in this' community and their inability to get parents to take an interest in the program. Not only did this make for less interest among the boys, but also threatened to result in the loss of a valuable local < facility. Well, we got quite a bit of criticism over that .one. Negativism, etc. But perhaps the only criticism we should be accepting is that we haven't harped on this point long or hard enough. Last week, the local Sea Cadet corps went under, with members and officials putting the blame squarely where it belongs. On the shoulders of parents. The writer recalls one annual inspection of the unit where the boys put on their best show, with the shiniest boots and sharply pressed uniforms, for an audience of two parents. RR : . What interferance? "Nothing could be further from the tryth!" states an_ article in the Canadian Federation of Independent Business magazine, Mandate. The article referred to Prime Minister Trudeau's comments on the shortcom- ings of the market economy. 3 "Our economic difficulties are the product of government's interference in the operation of the free markets,' the article continues. : . What interferences does the CFIB refer to? "Unemployment insurance, minimum wages, marketing boards, strikes in the public sector, government spending, subsidized energy, public employee pension plans, government make-work projects, all distort the workings of the market," the article concludes. Not mentioned, perhaps by oversight, was anti- slavery legislation and child labour regulations. There was no mention of corporate tax write-offs, tax incentives to business and industries. 1 Nor was there any mention of a host of other government free-market interferences, such as sorporate tax write-offs, corporate and business incentives anda host of other advantages of corporate continued on page 6 TAG BANS LAR sa OF TA CL ERE Ua RA BARA wt, A) HTH ne Loa - | \ R= =) SIV ) } Remember When.. . people have reported money '50 YEARS AGO February 18, 1926 A silver cup will be offer- ed for competition in a mile: race at the Port Perry Skat- ing Rink. This contest will be a "free for all" and the cup will remain the property - of Port Perry Rink Co. until it has been won twice by the same person. $2,500 - Eight room house for sale in Borelia, perty in excellent condition. (Not too bad A price). Owing to the absence of . Rev. W. Higgs, Sunday, the service at the United Church was taken over by Rev. C. E. Dyer, Greenbank in the morning and by Mr. R. B. Smallman in the evening. Both addresses were much appreciated. Bob Carnegie won two prizes for boys under 10 years old at the annual ice carnival last week. fine - > location on corner lot, pro- 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 15, 1951 Earl Howsam, Uxbridge, was elected president of Ontario County Hog Pro- ducers Association, Grant Christie, Reach Township, honourary- president and G. Rynard, Zephyr, vice-pres- ident. - Representatives to "the executive from the local townships were: Reach - Earl Howsam and Fred Christie; Scugog - Anson Gerrow and Cecil Fralick. - Six teams from the Ajax Badminton Club visited Port Perry last week and defeat- ed six local teams, 145 points to 140 points. The total circulation of books at Port Perry Library for 1950 was 7,297, an increase over last year of 1,486. © 15 YEARS AGO ~Thursday, February 16, 1961 . Chief Cameron of Port Perry Police Department informs that a number of taken from their empty milk bottles. It has been suggest- ed that persons buy tokens rather than leaving change in the bottles to discourage would-be thieves in their attempts of stealing money. Ontario County = Health Unit has issued a warning to persons making use of tem- porary water supplies dur- ing the current shortage due to weather conditions. The Unit urges extreme care should be taken -in the source of supply for drink- ing, preparation of foods, ete. Tenders will be called for major road construction work on the Oshawa-Port Perry County Road No. 2 to the amount of $200,000. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 17, 1966 After placing third in the Canadian Junior Pairs Championship in 1965, Anna - " Forder and Richard Step- hens captured top honours by. winning the 1966 cham- pionship in Peterborough, Thursday. The win is more noteworthy considering Anna is only 14 and Richard, 17 years -of age, and have only. been skating together for three years. Wayne Goreski won_ a medal by 'placing third in a slalom race held on-Sugar Hill at Gray Rocks Inn, St. Jovite, in the Larentions, Quebec. Janet Baird, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Baird, Port Perry, a'grade 8 public school pupil was a winner in the district's public speak- ing contest last week. Chief constable R. J. _ Cameron-«-- received an increase in his salary from $5,500 to $6,500 and the con- stable received an addition- al $600 bringing his salary to $5,600. Bill Smiley The Cold Snap There's nothing like a real cold snap to monstrous, until the final moment of horror furnace work any more. dealer." Call your oil a Let rotten cat in to get warm. Rotten cat make you realize how fragile is our ciyiliz- ation. We had a dandy recently, with temperatures far below zero in real (Fah- renheit) degrees for quite a few days. It brought the usual plethora of dead batteries, burst water pipes, and ancient furnaces giving up the ghost. I am firmly convinced that if Canada had a solid month of 30-below temperatures, the country would fall apart, physically, men- tally and morally. There's something insidious and fearful about a prolonged cold spell. You sense that some giant beast is outside there, creeping implacably nearer, silent and PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Phone 985 738) 'C CNA Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Publisher Advertising Manager John Gast, Editor Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. L'd.. 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 0245 Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year + Elsewhere $10.00 per year. Single copy 20¢ when claws of cold steel will clutch your throat, and your eyeballs will pop out and hang on your cheeks like frozen grapes. Our house is normally a toasty one. The merest touch of a finger to the thermostat, and we laugh at the cold. Not so this time. First it was a draft around the feet. We threw an old coat down at the back door, where the beast was intruding his icy tentacles. The temperature went down. Next, while the thermostat read 70, the * thermometer read 58, and wouldn't go higher. We closed off the back kitchen, where there is a sink and a johnny. It got colder. We retreated upstairs to the TV room, and plugged in an electric heater, and waited for the cold spell to end. The thermometer plunged. The icicles on the south roof took on awesome proportions. During a foray to the kitchen for food, I checked the downstairs powder room. In the sink, where the tap habitually drips, there were a perfect stalactite and a perfect stalagmite, not quite meeting. In the toilet bowl, there was a sheet of ice, glare, six inches thick, and two black squirrels, forced out of the attic by the cold, playing their version of road hockey. Outside lurked the Abominable Iceman. Downstairs the furnace coughed valiantly, like a man with emphysema and one lung. The thermometer read 56. Beginnings of panic. The furnace-men weren't coming until next Thursday. you make appointments with them months ahead, like a dentist. Call the plumber. *'Nope, nobody here on a Saturday, and besides, we don't do Called oil dealer. Situation getting grim. Thoughts of moving to a motel. Certainty that car wouldn't start, and taxi as easy to capture as lost virginity. Oil dealer chuckles jovially. "Are your filters clean?" My what?" "Your filters. If they're dirty, your furnace can't breath." : Ask wife. Filters clean? She says the furnace man usually puts new ones in, but last year he said they didn't need changing. Tell fuel dealer. He chuckles heartily. "They should be cleaned once a month. 'Try taking them out altogether for a while, and cgll me back." "How do you take them out?" Diagram given over phone. By some miracle, I find and remove the filters. They are black as Toby's you-know-what. An our later, temperature up to 58. Another hour later, up to 60. Cheers of victory.. Put electric heater, face down, in toilet bowl of downstairs johnny. Emerge from TV room redoubt. Four p.m. Saturday. Sun shining. Venture forth. Car starts. Go Downtown. everyone jolly. Horror stories abound. Colleague spent four hours and $28 getting car started. Friend had all upstairs pipes burst, water, water everywhere. Neigh- bours's almost-new furnace conked out at 1 a.m. Another colleague with brand-new house, brand new electric heating system, was able to get temperature up to only 17 degrees, with help of fireplace. Feel better. Own suffering trivial. Return home in good mood. Wife furious. showed gratitude by committing No. 1 and No. 2 all over'back kitchen, where ice in john now melted. But house a lovely, balmy 68. The Beast once more defeated. But he'll be back. And down deep, I don't really trust our technology to cope with Him. Furnaces, for example. . They're much too complimented for an ordinary mincompoop to deal with. They require a guy with a Grade 10 education and a skill with inanimate things. Second last time I called the furnace man, the furnace was dead. Not even a cough. "Try pushing the starter button," he suggested. Now, I knew some cars and most aircraft have a starter button. I thought furnaces just started up on their own, when the cold weather came along. After three trips down cellar and three trips back up to the phone, I located the starter buttons, two of them. I pushed. Nothing. I pushed and pushed and pushed. Zilch. £7 Called the guy back. He said he'd come. sot home from work, the furnace was humming, asked my wife what he did. "He pushed the starter button!" she said, deliberately and witheringly. That cost me twelve bucks. But I, and my contemporaries, will have the last laugh when we run out. of oil and gas and go back to coal furnaces. = Then we'll see who the experts are. We know that coal furnaces are not inanimate creatures. They respond to a couple of bangs about the ears with a shovel. The Argyle Syndicate Ltd.