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LJ J 4 i 4 Saritssinmmi dat us sensi an de ERs OR a PS Se TN --" a EI waa tab niu cbs tamarisk ae Eee mode of travel. 60 YEARS AGO Honey, Port Perry. A family of nine. brothers This photo was taken before the streets were covered with asphalt and the car was a popular E. H. Purdy's store was more recently the. home of Pickard's Hardware and now , dictory Address was Thursday, Nov. 27, 1952 Former P.P.H.S. stu- Remember chosen from a national Thursday, Nov. 22, 1917 given by Miss Lois Wray. enrolment of 73,482 to A noteable family re- , represent the Province of union took place at the Ontario at the 26th Nat- home of Mr. Charles 25 YEARS AGO ional 4-H Club Week. Neil McLeod, Black- water, with his Hereford vo, i i ld ENE 0 ierliatus o body od Le a - is occupied by Young's Hardware. Beside Purdy's is the store owned and operated by Cawker Bros., which is now occupied by Carl the Butcher. Photo courtesy Scugog Shores Museum . t Roy Gerrow and Robert Couperthwaite were the winners of the Lions Club Grain trophy. Both boys will be presented with attrac- tive trophies by the Reader's Viewpoint Dear Sir: {t is gratifying to finally see Canada's largest news- paper, The Toronto Star, in an editorial Nov. 20, 1977 proclaim "Banks Should Pay Interest on Daily Basis. 1 have been fighting for this for years and more than a year and half ago wrote two stinging columns on the mat- ter in "Kelly's Corner", tit- led 'The Great Bank Rob- bery' parts one and two. At the time the Canadian Bankers Assoc. attacked me as did the local manager of Canada's largest bank, The Royal. Of the five questions I asked to be answered by the banking association or the local manager not one was answered. In part here is what the Toronto Star editorial had to say: 'It's only simple jus- tice to all who put their savings in banks: Pay inter- est on savings deposits on a daily basis. The banks currently calcu- late interest on the basis of "minimum monthly bal- ance" or "righ h quart- erly bal ". In other words they oy interest only on the smallest amount in "Banks should pay daily basis interest' your account during a given month or quarter-year. In the latter case, this means that if you keep $1,000 for a full three months in an ordinary savings account, your nfoney will earn $14.38 at the current 5.75 per cent "interest rate. But if you withdraw all but $100 on the second last day of the quarter, you'll get only $1.44 in interest - even though the bank will have had the use of your $1,000 for 89 days. That's not fair, and the excuses the banks give for continuing the practice don't wash. They say it would be costly and difficult to figure interest on a daily basis. 'Admittedly it would cost more to pay the depositor his due, but part of the extra cost could be offset by drop- ping expensive promotional gimmicks. | As for difficulty, the banks should blush to mention it. In the first place, they've always been able to compute interest on a daily basis when the customer owed them money. In the second . place, this is the age of the + (continued on page 6) and one sister met to- gether for the first time in 36 years. Mr. Charles McArthur has greatly improved his dairy stables. Every- thing is in a thoroughly up-to-date and sanitary condition. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 26, 1942 The High School audi- torium was crowded Fri- day evening on the occasion of the annual commencement exercis- "dent, Peter Sulman re- turned home with the Ryerson Tech. basketball team. The local seniors handed them a 55 to 51 defeat fn a close battle. An alarm system .in- stalled by William Motor Sales averted an early morning break-in, when thieves tried to enter the garage through a win- dow. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 28, 1957 Miss Donna Samells of Port Perry was one of 14 steer won the champion- "ship in the Hereford Sec- . tion at the Royal Winter Fair. Neil was also a strong contender for the Grand Champion and the Queen's Guineas.: . 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 23, 1967 A sum of $225. was collected by the Port Perry Rangers in their "Walk;a;thon" from the Scout Hall to Uxbridge and. back. The money was pledged to the hos- - Manchester has just re- chairman of the Grain Club committee, George Smith. Miss Lois Cawker of turned home after spend- ing an enjoyable 10 days vacation in Jamaica. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Reader who celebrated their 64th Wedding Anniversary on Sat. Nov. 25, 1967. (PORT PERRY STAR Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Company Limited Phone 935 7183 Sate (Q CNA S-_ "res wo Serving Port Perry. Reach, Scugog and + (oun): Cartwright Townships J. PETER HVIDSTEN, ~ublisher _ Advertsing Manager JOHN B. McCLELLAND EDITOR Member ot the Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc and Onfario Weekly Newspaper Associa' Published every Wednesday by the Port Per Star Co Lid. Por! Perry. Ontario es. This year's ~Vale- - pital building fund. Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage \ in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0285 Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year Elsewhere $10.00 per year. Single Copy 20¢ Bill Smiley Have a nice day If you read in the papers one of these days about some middle-aged guy Going berserk and punching a pretty young waitress or ~ bank teller tight in the mush for no apparent all, "Have a nice day". It may happen in a restaurant. It will be Just after that waitress has served me lukewarm soup, followed by filet of sole. The filet will turn out to be of the boot variety, rather than the sea variety, and I will just have broken a tooth on it. As Iam fumbling fragments of bone out of my face, she will sashay off to serve another custom- er, hips twitching, and toss over her should- er at me a gay "Have a nice meal, now'. That's, when I will let her have it. Or it might occur on a Friday afternoon, in the bank. The weather forecast is for blizzards, I have 300 miles to drive tomor- row, my wifeisina snarky mood, I'm on my way to have two teeth extracted, and my arthritis is giving me a fairly lively fore- taste of hell. And this young teller, her feet aching, slaps down my withdrawal, sum- mons an exhausted smile from down around her pantyhose, and chirrups, "Have a nice weekend, eh?" It's not the grammar or the verbiage I object to. It's the utter insincerity of the suggestion. It means just about as much as if the speaker blew his-her nese and spat into the wind. And it's pretty obvious where it came from. It's one of those American imports that should be bannéd.at the border. It has crept across via the airwaves, issued in treacly tones by signing-off disc jockeys and game show MCs. And it has been copied by Canadian media people, who ape automatically the mispronunciations of their U.S. counter- parts, such as eggsacution for "execution" and noshus for "nauseous". From there it has spread like the Black Plague into our airlines, hotels, restaurants, and even our sacred institutions like the banks. I haven't been in a bordello lately, but I'd be willing to bet that when a customer totters off shaky and unshaven into the cold dawn, the madame will coo after him in dulcet tones, 'Have a nice day, now." I have a strong suspicion the damn thing originated in the deep south, along with such heart-felt maxims as "Y' all come back real soon, y'heah." Which means roughly, if you want to be ripped off again in our joint, we'll be happy to oblige. I refuse to believe all those waitresses, air stewardesses, bank clerks are spouting this garbage from deep in their hearts' Those gals are tuckered out. They don't give a diddle whether we drop dead, as long as we do it in front of somebody else's wicket. No, they've been coerced into this phoney farewell by the Simon Legrees they work for, the type who think that if the clerks utter such slop in the Holiday Inn in Texas, they should do the same in the Holiday Inn in Toronto. And they're the guys I have it in for, not the poor underlings, forced to sold their lips with an artificial, cynical so-long that raises the hackles on the likes of me. At first I responded to this silly utterance with a reluctant and very concise "Thanks. You too." As 1 became more disgusted with the obvious falsity of such as the dentist absent- mindedly muttering 'Have a good day"' just after he'd drilled two and yanked one, my response subsided to a grunt. Next step will be to look one of the idiots -who issue this inanity right in the eye and calmly ask: "Are you kidding? Who told you to say that? Do you mean it? What do you care what kind of day I have? I don't really care what kind you have." This might make a few of the more sensitive ones blush. But most of them would just drop their jaw and wonder whether old Smiley had got into the sauce, to make him so snarly. It may take stronger measures, and I hope many of my readers who agree with me will join in putting a halt to this pernicious poop. Ifit happens in a public place, perhaps we should call the manager and say 'This young lady-man is interfering in my private life, in my democratic right to have a rotten day-weekend if I feel like it. Now you, buster, just tell her never to insult another customer with that silly saying, or I'll take my business elsewhere." This is the only language understood by the type of turkey who things such garbage as 'Have a good day" is good public relations. Hit him where it hurts. In the P.P. panic pocket. Perhaps I am over-reacting. I have been known to do this in connection with Celsuis, metric, politicians of every hue, greedy unions, misleading advertisements, town engineers, school administrators, and about 12,000 other things, including the highway robbers known as garage mechanics. Maybe it will pass away, along with other such worn-to-the-heels expressions as "That'll be a frosty Friday" and "All righty' and the current ubiquitous "Tur- key', which seems to cover a multitude of mental and physical abberrations. But in case it doesn't, keep your dukes up, you purveyors of "Have a good...."" The Argyle Syndicate Ltd SN RN E TT a ine "va el "RL "4 | mia 3 Wane #8 SE Gre a a 3G . 2. 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