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* Wall as Reader's Viewpoint Victim of hit-and-run accident Editor's Note: Mrs. B. York of Toronto, involved in an unfortunate accident in our area on March 28, hopes that the person involved will come forward. She thinks the driver of the other car was from this area. Dear Editor: To. I was the victim of a Hit and Run driver last Sunday morning, March 28th, 1:45 a.m. on Concession 2 Road, around Seagrave, Ontario, "while travelling northbound. I was driving my 1974, 2 door white Astre Hatchback and had my husband Al, along with Mr. and Mrs. Leo passengers, when / suddeny a '2 or 3 yellow crew cab truck (approx. '74 model) 'was. coming at me from across "the yellow double lines with his bright light blazing. After the collision: he stop- ped away south on thé road (the fork of Conc. 2 and the "old" road into Seagrave). He turned dround a drove and stopped away up the road. We spoke to each other briefly' under the heavy winds and snow squalls. When he realized the OPP were coming, and after admitting he had in fact been drinking, and after seeing my husband bleeding pro- fusely about the face - decided to take-off!. Letters to the Editor The Port Perry Star welcomes letters to the editor from its readers, however, all letters received must be signed by the writer and include address and phone number to be cansidered for publication. Any letter we receive "'yhsigned" will not be published. We would writers submitting letters to use their name, but it will be withheld upon request, and a pen name 'may be used. The STAR reserves the right to edit all letters received and to withhold any that do not appear to be in the best interest of the community. courage those So he got away and the OPP are seeking him. Approx. '$700.00 damages to the Astra are realized and so | * damaged headlight and per- haps fender; all on the drivers side. A footmark dinge on the passengers side the damage to the truck is a / might be visible. missing westcoast mirror, Mrs. Betty York Firewood stolen from Scout Hall Dear Readers: This letter is to tell you fehomy about a certain per- son in our town who is very stall, has never had proper upbringing, and can not be og He sets a bad xample for our youth. A person who I hope will, when he reads this, feel very low, but I don't know how much lower he can get. Here is what I am so uptight about. Last week a local firm gave to the Scout-. Guides a box of wood to use at their Scout Hall. This wood was for our youth to enjoy ipstheir fireplace and camp fires... Well, a man driving an orange coloured car was seen backing up to the Scout Hall and loading up his trunk with the child- ren's wood. Now i ask you, what sort of person would steal from the children we try to bring up properly? How can we show our child- ren the proper way, if we go and steal? Our prime minis- ter said what has happened . tous? We want all the'time, and we say he does not mean us. Well, he did! So Can we not stop and live as God-meant us to live in "Love thy neighbour', not: "steal from thy neighbour"? Now I hope the wood stealer will come and "ex- plain to the children where their wood has gone when they ask. I don't know how -to tell them, you took it and why you took it. I hope you enjoy your wood, but you could. have asked us for it. Yours truly, Paul Saulnier "Akela" PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Apr. 7, 1976 -- 5 Bm Scugog CofC facelift plans Deak Sir: } In reply to-a recent pro- posal" by the Port Perry Chamber of Commerce that the sidewalks on Queen . Street. be widened, thus de- creasing the available park- I ing space by ten cars and Angle parking is much "more convenient and easier than parallel parking. As.for the contention that "angle parking is ugly I feel that cars should he parked with a view to safety and ease her than aesthetics. that parallel 'parking rather pd for the other proposals, than angle parking be the rule. [completely disagree with these proposals. If the present sidewalks were re-, surfaced and kept clear of snow, ice and dirt - and merchants goods - they are sufficiently wide. Surely the stores are adequate to display goods; sidewalks (as the name implies) are to walk on. me of the awnings over the stores on Queen Street are, I agree, dilapidated but even so they shelter the shoppers from rain, etc. Perhaps Queen Street does need a face-lift but d®greas- ing parking space can only decrease the number of shoppers. Yours truly, A Shopper. Praises workmen Dear Sir: Civic workers did a fine job of the past winter of 1975-1976. 4 Memories of snow storms will. remain but the men who have worked 'on the snow- plows and sanding trucks, did a fine job. Considefing the elements of bad weather, extra snow and ice this winter, our men who worked on the roads, etc. did a fine job to provide a service to the public and taxpayers on all the roads of Scugog Township. They should be commend- ed for a job well done. R. W. Smith R.R. 5 Sunderland Bill Smiley Ch icken cheeps When I was a boy, I used to have occasionally what were known in those days a "'bilious attacks". They included a splitting headache and a stomach so jittery it would accept nothing but hot lemonade and lady fingers of toast. They would last two or three days, during which I would withdraw from the world into whooping and pain and darkness. Today, of course, I would be sent first to a speciali to a psychiatrist, who would decide that I was too sensitive for the world and put me ho would diagnose migraines. . If they persisted, I would then probably go - "ever chanced to have one, would probably v-"have been a reasonable parallel. on tranquilizers. At age 10, I'd probably be an addict. We've come a long way. In those days, my mother would spend hours stroking her fingers through my hair, and gently rubb- ing my scalp. And I would emerge, Tejoin the world, and ravenously gorge the s that had been starved for a day o I haven't had one of those attagKs since I was a kid, though a bad hangoyer, if I had May I'm not too sensitive for the world more. But I have been feeling rather bilious, occasionally, in the last year or two. And 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 8, 1926 Mr. Ronald Peel in a thorough and interesting article in the STAR writes about his success when he had 125 pullets produce 1,000 dozen eggs in seven months. Cawker Bros. are mov- ing their butcher shop to the store next to Morri- son's Drug Store. Zane .Grey's Border Legion will be shown at the Port Perry Picture Threatre in 'the Town Hall, Saturday, April 10. Admission Adults 25c, children 15c. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 5, 1951 At the annual meeting of the Community Memorial Hospital it was unanimously decided to proceed with the con- struction of the new hospital. Extensive damage was done to the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Bowles in in the poultry business. Reinember | When..? Blackstock, when fire broke out around the fireplace. Help from the community and Port Perry Fire Brigade saved the home from being a complete loss. Mrs. Gordon Jeffrey was the teacher at Reach 'No. II on Monday in the absence of Mrs. Bailey, whose little son Alan is on the sick list. " 15YEARS AGO Thursday, April 6, 1961 Tax rates went up in 1961, residential 11 mills and commercial 10 mills, following the present- ation of a budget by the Finance Committee headed by Deputy-Reeve W. T. Harris, showing expenditure $289,093.22 and receipts $112,993.02, leaving a balance of $176,100.20 to be raised by taxes. Port Perry Juniors won the Ontario Semi-Finals by defeating Parry Spund four games to two. The Roy Scott rink * made a perfect 8-end in the last Bonspiel of the curling season held in the local curling rink. Other members of the rink were E:! Kennedy, 'lead; Alf Jackson, second; Frank Honey, vice. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 7, 1966 Mr. -R. Larocque of Cedar Creek reported Monday that he had spent dver-one hour and a half watching a flying saucer hovering around the County Road to Oshawa. At first taking the bright object for a star, Mr. Larocque got his bino- culars and saw red and green flashing lights at quite a high altitude. Gale Forder earned the highest proficiency award, the Gold Cord and the presentation was \ made by her mother, Mrs. Harold Forder, at a geremony in the United Church. The local Heart Fund was successful in collect- ing $802.75 during the campaign for funds. ever the curious observer, I have looked --- giving him a 50, because he had promised around to find what was causing the problem. Finally, I zeroed in on*it. The nausea is caused by the whining of university profes- sors concerning the communicative skills of today's students. They's never put it so simply. But what they mean is that two thirds of the people hey accept into university can't write a can't express themselves orally i in standard English. It's perfectly true, of course. But why do they whimper about it? Why do they try to blame the high Schools? Why do they accept these students in the first place, if they're not up to scratch? I'll tell you why. It's because they are so hard up for money, they'll accept anything that can pronounce its own name and isn't - walking on all fours. The universities have lowered their own standards, even the best of them, and proliferated their courses, and introduced "Mickey Mouse' courses and highly flex- ible guidelines in the desperate effort to get living corpses onto their campuses. They are body snatchers of the 20th century, in the scramble for government grants. A dozen years ago, if you failed a subject in your graduating year in high school, you failed your year, and repeated it. Now- adays you would graduate, even though your over-all average was 56, and some third rate university call Sir Wilfred McDon- ald University of the Fine Arts would sweep you into its folds with little squeals of delight. And six months later, the head of the English Department at good old (five years) Sir Wilfred would bemoan in the . 'newspapers that the college had to set up a course in remedial English, because it wasn't being taught properly in the high schools, and the Head of Math would say the same thing. It would never occur to them to look at the high school marks of Joe, who, with many peers, is giving them the headaches. They would find that Joe actually got 47 in English, and was given 50 as a gift, so as not to "hold him back". A mark of 50, to anyone in the know, means a failure. They would find, on inquiring, that Joe had received 42 in math, department talked his math teacher into BRS decent sentence, let along a paragraph, and but the guidance: So he nf, he would never take math again. enrolls in architecture. I have taught under both the old and new systems of education. The old was ridicul- --ous, a formula of rote learning. The new is just as silly. It is so muddled that no one, least of all the students, knows what is 'going on. Such words as effort, challenge, excellence, have 'been thrown out like stale dishwater. They have been replaced by flexibility, individual choice, a good learning situation, and the creativity of the child. What poppycock. What it means is that everything is twice as easy as it was, the chance of failure is remote, and the students are being shoe-horned into an alien world that is as different from school as Dracula is from Anne of Green Gables. But all is not lost. What the university people, and those who would revent*to the old days of lock-step, regimented educat- ion, fail to realize is that teday the high schools are, at least, giving some insight into the human spirit, compassion, dignity, and what life is really about, to thousands of young people who, a decade ago, would have been turfed into the factors and dead end jobs at age 16, grade 10. Maybe that's one of the good things about high unemployment. There's no room for this generation, so they stay in school. They learn something. The Argyle Syndicate Ltd. (PorT PERRY STAR Company Limited ' Phone 98% 733) Oe o's, % CNA 1 (0) : . Ss , 5 "_ "ra; ot Serving Port Perry. Reach. 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