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Ertaih i NEA A ANT : hv pb ALE AREAL Aad A IST Ws ¥. ALAIN EACH LEE 7 ST SS) 1 eh SA eA AN f @ 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 19, 1917 Lieut. Charlie Carnegie is in Scotland in charge of large lumbering operat- ions connected with the forestry department of the army. The directors of the Port Perry Fair have added a children's department to their prize list. The barn of Mr. R. D. "McTaggart, Seagrave, was struck by lightning, and rendered Mr. McTaggart unconscious for a time. : 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 16, 1942 Three more of Port Perry's boys have joined an active service unit and will leave for camp this Baker, Archie Anderson week, - They are Bill' @ BO Ee AN TRY re Ses This photo, circa 1890, shows the building which now is occupied by Brock's Department Store on Queen Street, Port Perry. When newly constructed, it was the premises of the Ontario Ernie Hayes and Will Chapman, witnessed the Grand Lions Parade in Toronto. The Annual United Church picnic was held at Birdseye Centre Park. At Port Perry Council, - a motion was passed that Mr. H. G. Hutcheson be appointed Clerk-Treas- urer of the Corporation of Port Perry and Dr. Dymond was appointed Health Officer. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 24, 1952 Mrs. Dennis McKinzey, Manchester, sails this 'week to Scotland where she will visit until late October. : Atkinson Foundation donated $4,200 to Memorial Hospital. The Kenosha Hotel, (TY DIP sndaincd a ia HOP Bank, left, A. Ross & Sons, general merchants, right, the Masonic Hall, Law Office of Billings and Yarnold and N. F. Paterson, Q.C. Photo courtesy Scugog Shores Museum Mr. Les Smith was the speaker for the July meeting of Port Perry Calf Club at Port Bolster picnic grounds. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 18, 1957 Mr. and Mrs. Art James and son, who have been stationed in France for nearly two years are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mel James. Mrs. Jack Crosier, Utica is holidaying in Washington, D.C., with her daughter Donna and family. One hundred & forty 4-H Club Boys and Girls took a trip to Toronto where they visited the - Parliament Buildings, Art Galleries and differ- ent places of interest. 10 YEARS AGO water, was crowned as Ontario County Dairy Princess and received the crimson sash from last year's princess, Marilyn Beatty. Construction began Monday on the grounds east of Manchester to continue the planned Goodwood-Manchester road. Mel-Ron Construction Ltd. of Whitby, was awarded the contract to build the new grandstand Reader's Viewpoint Vet answers Humane Society Dear Sir: I read with some interest your news story of July 13 concerning the operation of the Ontario Humane Society Shelter at Thickson Road. As a veterinarian and a member of the Council of the Ontario Veterinary Association I take exception to Mr. Kirkland's charges under the section headed clinic. Veterinarians are con- cerned with animal control as much as anyone else. Studies and symposiums have come to the conclusion that extensive owner educa- tion and strict enforcement of animal control bylaws are the answer to the stray dog difficulty, not spay clinics, cheap or otherwise. The major dog problem now facing cities is not an animal surplus but a sur- plus of poorly supervised pets. His facts on the grant re- quested are also incorrect. The Society requested a capital grant of $30,000. If the contract for animal control with the Society was terminated during the first five years, 20 per cent of the grant would be returned to the municipality for each year left in that five year period. After the five years had expired no portion of the grant would be return- able. All veterinarians as well as humane societies are up- set when a pet has to be destroyed because of finan- cial restrictions. We, how- ever, also see many cases where a family decides to destroy an animal for many other reasons. We would therefore like to see a more reasonable approach taken in educating animal owners to their responsibilities of care. Who will decide what is low income? I certainly feel it is unfair for those who do not wish to own pets and those who conscient- iously look after them regardless of income levels to pay for those who refuse to whatever their reasons may be. Mr. Kirkland's feelings and allegations of Associa- tion pressure are entirely without foundation. State- ments made like this give (continued on page 6) PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Phone 85 7383 (Q CNA Serving Por! Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwrigh! Townships ) 3 v a LAL TN ~~ ~ A Fo TT < oP at the Fair Grounds in Port Perry. When com- pleted the new grand- stand will hold 600 people. Hospital Campaign Chairman Joel Aldred has complete faith in the residents of Port Perry and area to raise the $62,000 needed to bring ° J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Publisher _ Advertising Manager JOHN B. McCLELLAND EDITOR Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Por! Perry Star Co LM, Por) 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 a LA ", and Merl Dowson. Caesarea, was burned to Thursday, July 20, 1967 the hospital fund up to ow a Single copy Thc 4 Lions Bert Hutcheson, the ground recently. Norma Jibb, Black- $250,000. iS & ; XL - 0, B r-- % ¢ Gas = -- AL Bil About Weddings Co 35 a xp -- _ Ae Weddings are for women. During the pricking at the nape of my neck, and route you choose to go. ¥ entire ritual, as practised in our society, men are inarticulate, inept, and in the way. : : This was my conclusion after attending the recent wedding of a niece. Not that it wasn't a lovely wedding. It was. She's a grand and beautiful girl, Lynn Buell of Brockville, and. with the aid of her young sister Pam, her remarkably calm mother, and her fairly distraught father, she came through the cereriiony with flying colours, She even "did fairly well for herself," as we used to say. She hooked a doctor. Well, at any rate, a medical student. All she has to do is support him for three or four years, and they'll be rolling in medi- care. © He seems like a decent, in-offensive chap, like all the other males at the wedding. At least he had on a shirt and tie, and didn't want to get married in jeans and beads and a caftan, like so many Joung punks these days. He doesn't even ve a beard, so he may be OK. + But he was practically un-noticed, there reach over and hold lady's hand when the parson intones, 'for better and for worse, in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer," and all that stuff that makes your hair stand on end with hindsight, And I don't miind the two or three hundred dollars it cost me to attend. Not at all. The last wedding I was at - my daughter's - cost five times that, and all I've got out of it is two grandbabies and the establishment of the Bill Smiley Bene- volent Fund which caters to indigent daughters, their husbands, and any off- spring they may have. ; Nor did it bother me in the slightest that 1 had to drive 600 miles, round trip, to see my niece given away. There was a torrential rain all the way there, and heat and a hangover from a magnificent recep- tion all the way home, but that goes with the territory. What I did mind, just slightly, now, was y shrugged this off. You can't take it with you, no matter what But little did I realize that my wife was going to do three things simultaneously: create her own costume for the wedding; lose 10 pounds; and get a tan. Just try it, ladies. She is one of those people who don't know their own limitations, demand per- fection, and drive everyone around them straight out of his skull. Since she started sewing a year or so ago, she thinks she can tackle anything in the ahute couture line. I granted that she could whip out a golf skirt or pair of smashing slacks in a day, and knock off T-shirts for the midgets in the family while the dishes were soaking, but I was leery about her tangling with a wedding dress. First week was sheer hell. I told her to knock out a "little, white dress' for the wedding, and she came up with some old wives' tale that you can't wear white to a wedding - that's reserved for the bride. In addition, the sun didn't shine for tanning, and the diet seemed a dead loss. Maks | omic uip to The city to buy But the sun shone. She stole a half-hour a day from her 10-hour sewing stint for sun-bathing. And suddenly the scales began to work, instead of sticking, as they had been for two weeks. In the midst of it all, so wound up about weddings are women, she found time to dash out and buy me a pair of pants and a fine new white shirt. I was going to wear my old gray flannels that I bought three years agp for $18 and a clean golf shirt. The pants are a bit lumpy around the pockets from carrying keys, $6 in change, and golf balls, and the shirt has a cigarette burn in the collar, but otherwise ther're fine. There was no way she was going to get me to buy a pair of black shoes, so she said I could wear my hush-puppies and she'd say I forget my dress shoes. Not only did she finish a real zappo of a skirt with a matching vest, but a polka-dot blouse to go under it. New shoes, of course, a tan, and - believe it or not - a brand new figure with almost 15 pounds vanished into thin air. She was a knock- out. ' Why don't women put all this creativity and will power into something besides a wedding? : The Argyle Syndieate 14d. $i VIE Pad ph UT Ne an hn I a pe - a So RR a Ty a 2 or \ , X i