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Lz Reader's Viewpoint ~ Women just as capable Dear Sir: ..I remember the fair stand your paper took a few months ago over a local - problem with "equality in hiring practices. Because of this I wondered what your reaction was to the recent . statement by Mr. McLaugh- lin (head of the Royal Bank) that there was not a woman in Canada capable of sitting on the Board of the Royal Bank. I fail to see how a man who could make such a ridiculous statement can adequately fill the position he holds - not as far as I am concerned anyway. I want my money in a bank where the officers of the bank show 'a wider understanding of today's thinking. For a man to make a statement that alienates at least half his depositors shows poor business sense. If it is possible to have women cabinet ministers help run our country, female engineers, architects and doctors taking their place in the business world, I cannot understand why a woman cannot be found to sit on the board of the Royal Bank. Now, if the bank wishes to pick this woman from within the banking circles, I admit they might have a problem. Have you ever taken a good look around a bank? Lots of female tellers (the poorest paid positions) but where are the female bookkeepers and managers? If the banks only allow a handful of women to advance it gives them a limited few to make their choice from. Are they trying to tell us that running a country, healing the sick, designing buildings, teaching our children, etc. Encourages bilingualism Dear Sir: . 'Congratulations on the edi- torial on bilingualism. The bilingual policy mere- ly confirms the fact the 'French and English have always been the national languages of this country. It makes sense that we should all appreciate any opportun- ity we have to learn the other Canadian language... My husband and I hope that our children will be- come bilingual. Our oldest, at six years, attends Corpus Christi School, a French school in Oshawa. takes fewer brains and cap- abilities than sitting on the board of a bank? I think Mr. McLaughlin's thinking and business prac- tices belong to the 18th Cen- tury, I repeat, I want a better business man in charge of my money. In Port Perry, we have a well run branch of the Royal, and this is no reflection on it, but a protest against Head Office management. Yours sincerely, B. R. Smith. I wonder if it has occured to those who complain about the policy of bilingualism that French Canadians in our community have to make do in English most of the time. I believe most of us would find the reverse to be true if we were in Quebec. We could use English with little difficulty. I find the anti-French feel- ings that seem to occur fairly widely in English Canada another example of a gener- al spirit of intolerance abroad today. PORT PERRY STAR -- WED., SEPT. 29, 1976 -- 5 Praises Snowmobile Club for efforts * Dear Sir: Once again, another "show" weekend is over. By Monday evening the arena will be back to normal. For the general public it was a short and somewhat interesting diversion from the ,ordinary. For many others, however, it was much more. Of course, one must comp- liment the Port Perry. Snow- mobile Club and their organ- izing committee for their efforts toward getting the latest show together. However, let us not forget the people who show you the finished product. The inde- pendent business people who re-organize their lives, their business and their em- ployees' lives for the biggest part of a week and probably do this 2 or 3 times a year. Easy to say that they should do this to promote their products, but let us not forget their efforts to make the show interesting for you. In many towns surround- selves that the more langu- ages we know, the better. For the sake of Canadian unity, the best language English Canadians can learn is French. Yours sincerely, (Mrs.) Margaret Wilbur. ing us, the local "shows" such as home shows, trade shows, etc., are no longer, Let us in Port Perry be proud that in our community we still have many interest- ed people, both service groups and clubs, as well as sincere business men and women. Let's give them the support which they have worked hard to deserve. Yours truly, L. Kendry. Hunter, Asselstine Continued ion on council when former Counciller Bob Kenny retir- ed to become By-law Enfor- cement officer, also announ- ced his intention to seek a position on council for the new term. He said he was considering the area councillor's seat, but has not ruled out com- pletely the ward represent- ative's position." "It all de- pends," he said, "on who comes forward." By announcing his consid- eration of the area seat, Asselstine hopes to draw out other candidates for the Cartwright position. He hopes the December contest will be an active one, and said that it is already turning out to be interesting. He warned, however, about the public expecting "too much" from their elec- ted council, pointing out that the local authorities can pro- gress only within the guide- lines of regional, provincial and federal governments. "Although," he said, 'we must take the initiative." Roland Coy of Blackstock dispelled rumours that he was running for council, say- ing that at one point in time he has seriously...and eager- ly...considered the possibil- ity, but that recent upswings in activity of the Farm Labour Pool and his own cattle business doesn't leave enough time to do the coun- cillor's job properly. "I'say I'm not going to run, and that's not without some disappointment," he said. 'Perhaps the next time around." --Coun. Bob Brinkman said that the time demands of his new job as head of the nursing staff at Uxbridge Cottage Hospital does not provide adequate time to do the council job properly. As announced earlier, Brink- man has used the last few weeks to "evaluate the time available". Can we not say to our- Bill Smiley The joys of summer End of summer notes. Can't think of one, single, useful, constructive thing I did during 'the past summer. Which is as it should b2. 1 did threaten, once or twice, to paint the back stoop and the picnic table and chairs. But on the days when I was ready to put the stain on the picnic equipment, it rained, thank goodness. And I never did figure out how to paint the stoop. The cat sleeps there all day. I was either going to have a cat with green feet, or I'd have to tie him to the lilac tree until the paint dried, which I thought was a bit inhuman. One of the big events of the summer was having an oak tree taken down. It was about 'was quite a thrill to watch the tree-slayers, two of them, scrambling away up into the blue of a summer evening, slinging ropes around in all sorts of mysterious ways, shouting to each other, like a couple of sailors reefing the foresail around Cape Horn, and lowering the mighty oak in sections. I now have four woodpiles in my back yard, about six cords of firewood, on which all sorts of people are casting an envious eye. Forget it, friends. It cost me $300 to have that oak down, and I'm going to enjoy it, if I have to keep the fireplace burning day and night all winter. That was a bad week. Just after the oak 70 feet high and two feet think at the base. It . came down, the automatic washer in the 8. SM VEARS AGO Thurs. September 30, 1926 Mr. Albert Orchard, Port Perry, has just the West. He says they have had winter there, six inches of snow, the sleighs running and most of the crop unthreshed in the stooks. ; Mrs. Edna Jackson brought a very large egg to the Star office. It was laid by a White Leghorn pullet. It measured 7" x 81," and weighed slightly over half a pound. On breaking the egg open, it was found to contain another perfect egg. Mr. Charles Geer is busy getting his fall plow- ing done and will take possession of his Utica farm in the spring. 25 YEARS AGO Thurs. September 27; 1951 Individuals champions at the Port Perry High School Track Meet were: Senior boys - Earl Bacon; Intermediate boys. - Roy returned from his trip to. 7 Renmiember " When..? Lane; Junior boys - Jim Baylis; Senior girls - Mayrene James; Inter- mediate girls - Betty Powell; Junior girls - Ann Chapman. Three carloads of friends of Prince Albert arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eadie, who recently moved to Oshawa from Prince Albert. The group pre- sented the Eadie family with an electric kettle and extended best wishes for happiness in their new home. Mrs. Mary Taylor, Port Perry, had the pleasure of having her brother-in- law, Mr. Robert Taylor of Glasgow, Scotland, spend a few days with her and her family. 15YEARS AGO Thurs. September 28, 1961 A. W. (Bert) Gibson, Deputy Reeve of Cart- wright Township, placed the first call on Black- stock's new dial service to Mrs. Stella Littleproud, B.C., an aunt of Mr. Gib- son and a former resident of Utica. Men and equipment of the Peel Construction Co. Ltd., have started road improvements on Queen Street and Scugog Street. A detour will be set up on Queen Street while a new cement culvert is built at Bowling Green creek. Improved drainage ditches and culverts will be constructed on Scugog Street. 10 YEARS AGO Thurs. September 29, 1966 Mr. Irwin Tripp, a busi- nessman for 34 years in Port Perry, recently sold his service station at the corner of Union Ave., and Highway 7A, to Mr. Charles Reesor, also of Port Perry. Workmen from Lake Scugog Lumber are busy completing the new front addition at the arena on Water Street. When fin- ished, the addition will contain two dressing rooms and showers, as well as an office. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Smith, Prince Albert, motored to New Bruns- wick, to visit their daugh- ter Shirley, Mr. and Mrs. H. Garvey and children. basement blew its guts. The dryer was shot too, so this was another $700. An exciting installation, The washer and dryer won't go down our cellar stairs. The boys had to rip out the stairs and lower the machinery. But they labored with great good nature and ingenuity. We didn't lose a single man. Nor even a married one. It could never happen if you bought the outfit from one of the big, out-of-town firms. They'd just sneer if you said: "The stairs have to come out." That was a $1,000 week of pure loss. But it was somewhat redeemed the following week when I went to Halifax and won an award which included a handsome cheque for $500. It made me think God was back in His heaven, after being out to lunch for a whole week. That Halifax is quite a place. It looks like a city in Germany, circa 1950, that has been badly bombed, and is rebuilding. Beautiful new buildings rising right next to deadly, three-storey slums, with winos hanging out the windows. Last time I was there was in the spring of 1942, on my way overseas, and Halifax was real 'crud then. Cold, wet, dismal, blackout, poor food. England looked like paradise after war-time Halifax. Now it's a swinging, lively city. Had a fine trip on the "Bluenose II", all sails set, spanking along in the sunshine. Don't miss this, if you're there. Watched in fascination as a prominent western editor fell asleep, not once, but three times, during a speech by Joe Clark, a potential prime minister. Humored an eastern editor who, armed with a credit card from the Grand Trunk Railway, personally signed by Sir John MacDonald, thought he could finance a trip for several of us to Paraguay. . Listened to a number of editors of my vintage tell me they're rich, retired and work one day a week, "just to keep my hand in"'. Which, of course, means interfering with their sons, or daughters, who are trying to pay off the old man the tremendous sum he wanted for the business. Gave sage advice and a bottle of rum to a young woman called Alice B. Toklas, who assured me she had quit running around with Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald apd all those rotters. And then, of course, we've had The Boys, as they are now called. The Boys are the two grandsons. When they are here, it takes four adults full time to keep things even minimally sane. One is at the hell-on-wheels stage. The other is at the crawling, 'if you can't eat it, pull it over on your head' stage. And every time our daughter leaves, with The Boys, we are cleaned out. She goes away with a big, green garbage bag full of steaks, chicken, pork chops, a box full of canned goods, and a pillow case stuffed with new clothes for The Boys and herself. Next morning, we have to go shopping to get enough grub for our own breakfast. Then there's been the golf. No matter what she does, my wife is an enthusiast. She believes that nothing succeeds like excess. So we've played golf every day. She is really a rotten player, because she reads books about golf and practices her swing. I am just ordinary rotten. I'm afraid we're going to be thrown out of the golf club. If anyone had tried to tell me that my sweet, shy bride of a few years ago would come out with the language she uses on the golf course, I'd have said: 'Sir, pistols at dawn, or nine irons at nine. Take your pick." I try to help, in a gentle, sincere sort of way. When she flubs a shot, I merely point out that her grip was slack, her stance sloppy, her backswing too fast, and her head went up like a toilet seat, and she screams at me, right across the fairway. I heard one elderly lady golfer saying to her husband, quite concerned: 'Mark my words, she's going to kill him. Why do you think she takes her seven iron home every day, after they play? 1 hear he's well insured." All in all, it was a pretty fair summer. | think. The Argyle Syndicate Ltd. PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Prone 985 718) Sar, (C CHA : (0m) : -_-- Serving Port Perry. Reach. 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