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(J '60 YEARS AGO March 7th, 1918 So you think our roads are bad now. This is a photo of 7A'highway in Port Perry [date unknown]. - On Tuesday the Port Perry Bowling Club elected: President - George Gerrow; Vice-President - Jas. Car- negie; Secretary - E. H. Purdy; Treasurer - Wm. Graham, Mr. and Mrs. Cutts invited the people of Port Perry to see their pictures before they go to the Royal Academy in Toronto for exhibition. In 1918, at D. Corbman"s store in Port Perry you could buy Straw Hats for 10c, Clothes Pins, 2 doz. for Sc and Door Handles and Hinges for 10c. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 4, 1943 The first Annual Father & Son Banquet of Port Perry Boy Scouts & Wolf Cubs was a very enjoyable affair, and satisfying. Gordon MacMaster acted as referee at the hockey game Tuesday night between Port Perry and Brooklin. Port Perry emerged victors, after a good game, with a score of 6-2. the menu prepared by George Channell was most Quite a difference from our paved roads of today. on "Eggs for Britain" over C.B.C. Mr. Peel is considered an authority on poultry. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 5th, 1953 A local hardware accountant, Elgin "Hutch" Hut- chinson was the winner of the Lions Club "Gala Night" draw Friday night. Mr. Hutchinson became the winner of a DeSoto Firedome 8, valued at $4,600. After 6 weeks of service, the Community Memorial Hospital has averaged 16 patients daily. A total of 81 patients have been admitted, and 27 operations performed. - : : 20 YEARS AGO March 6th, 1958 The Carnegie Bros., Robert, Harry, Gordon and Donald are starting their Grand Opening celebrations tomorrow, after joining the Crest Hardware organization. Port Perry Lions Club honoured H. G. Hutcheson, » With a life-time membership on the occasion of his 86th birthday. Mr. Hutcheson has been with the club since November, 1937. " Murray Ross, won Best Supporting Actor Award at the annual Inter-School Drama Festival held at Sutton. PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Mar. 8, 1978 -- 5 Reader's Viewpoint Need Organization Dear Sir: Concerning Restoration in Port Perry: The comments I hear from many quarters -- "this kind of parking" -- "that kind of look" -- "new sidewalks" -- garbage re- ceptacles' - "etc. ete." -- to - me, underscores one fact and brings me to one in- escapable conclusion -- HOW BADLY WE NEED TO GET ORGANIZED! Getting organized is pre- cisely what B.A. is -- a Business Improvement Area. It seems like "motherhood", everyone thinks something should be done to- improve the business area of Port Perry - but what? The proven answer in many other parts of our province is the B.I.A. The B.L.A. is fundament- ally just an ASSOCIATION of the business people with- in a designated area, form- ed into a democratic body, to deal effectively with such problems as improving _ their surroundings and their marketing ability, in a uni- - fied way. Such an Associ- ation provides a forum for all Tre voices to be heard -- allows all information to be gather- ed and assessed -- permits professional advice to be sought -- allows budgets to be set and money to be raised equitably -- permits majority decisions to be made --- and only then, most importantly, provides the unified voice and the neces- sary leadership to get the job done. The goals to be acheived -- their priorities -- and the amounts of money to be spent then become subject in which all interest- ed parties have their say. I say, "now is the time to get our eye back on the ball". The questions now are not "this kind of park- ing" or "that kind of gar- bage receptacle". _ The question is "how will the job get done, that we all want done, if we don't get organi- zed to do it?" Certain. quotations seem appropriate to me. "United we stand -- divided we fall". _-Perhaps also the political analogy is appropriate. "Let all the voices be Continued on page 6 PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Phone 585 7383 (CG CNA Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Publisher ~ Adverlising Manager | JOHN B. McCLELLAND } EDITOR ' » Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc ©. and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Associat:or Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Lid, Porl Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for paymen! of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 07285 Mr. Ronald Peel took part in a roundtable broadcast Continued on page 6 Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year Elsewhere $10.09 per year. Single copy 20¢ 1 A New Look According to a recent magazine article, this is going to be The Year of the Peacock. There is afoot a strong move- 'ment away from the grub and slob of the past decade or so toward some style and taste in clothes and appearance. I'll drink to that. As a high school teacher, I've been in the front lines during the battles over clothes, hair lengths, exposed navel, and such-like. Not as a participant - I was never unduly © exercised over excesses - but rather as an observer. During the reigns of a couple of pretty «conservative principals in a small town, I watched with some amusement, occasion- ally hilarity, their Canute-like efforts to stem the flood of horrors sweeping in from the cities. I think the first wave was longer hair for boys. Not the flowing tresses they sport today, many of them straight from the hair stylist, others with a hair-brush or comb often in evidence. Heavens, no. The first rebels merely wanted to let their hair grow down to their collars. No way. They were expelled, letters were sent home, they were offered the price of a hair-cut, and generally harassed. But that was just the tip of the ice-berg. A side skirmish at the same time told teachers to keep their hair cut, wear a tie, shave off their beards (lady. teachers, some of whom had better beards than some of the men, di e emergence of the mini-skirt. None of the younger male teachers had the slightest objection, but some of the old maids of both sexes were rather horrified. I believe, if I recollect aright, that one benighted educator suggested all teachers carry a ruler, and that skirts shorter than a certain standard be forbidden. (Or ripped off. It might have been one of the young male teachers.) Beleaguered administrators tried grimly to hold the line. Boys were not to wear "ice-cream pants' or jeans. Girls must wear skirts. Then came the deluge. County school boards, made up of mothers and fathers as cowardly as all the other parents battling the new wave of attire and appearance, cut the ground from under the administrators by declaring that anything went as long as the student was "neat and tidy" or some such cant phrase. _ Wham! Hair sprouted in all directions, from masculine adolescents. The girls hiked their skirts higher or leaped into jeans. Granny glasses and Mother Hubbard dresses became de rigeur with the more advanced girls. Afro hair styles and Jesus beards marked the more hirsute. Hip- hugger jeans and the bra-less look were a la mode. Girls ironed their hair.. Curls. were. out, and pity the poor kid who had them naturally. She was a freak. Then the young devils wanted to wear cool clothes in the hot months, and June produc-. ed shorts that left nothing to the imagina- tion, 'on both sexes, bikini halters on the girls, bare feet in the classroom, and finally beachwear. Every bit of it "neat and tidy." This was followed by the Grease Age, or the Sleaze Era, mainly marked by denim. Buy a new pair of jeans and a jacket, wash them fade them, shrink-them, scissor them so they had ragged fringes, tear holes in them, patch them, sew some provocative or scatological suggestion across the buttocks. ~ _ This particular period blew away com- pletely the "neat and tidy" euphemism. Greasy hair, scruffy beards, no makeup and general grubbiness were the order of - the day. Not a particularly pleasant age. Even I had to fight to avoid retching on occasion. : / \ And this particular movement dovetailed right into the new laws that lowered the drinking age to 18. In effect, it meant that kids from 14 and up began to drink. Grade eight girls were arriving at high school dances with a mickey in their purses. It also 'tied into a new barrack-room lawyer attitude on the part of some of the tougher kids. They knew well that punish- ment for infringement of rules was almost a thing of the past. No strap, no detention, and expulsion merely a welcome couple of weeks' holiday. Or screw school, I'll get a job, easy. Well, things have changed. For the better. The pendulum has swung. The kids are starting to dislike slobbishness. Only those who are born slobs are keeping it up. Girls are wearing makeup, culottes, skirts, even dresses. Wispy boys' beards are disappearing. Shorter, neater hair- cuts are popping up here and there. With jobs a lot tougher to obtain, the old cavalier attitude toward expulsion has moderated. The older kids are hanging in there rather grimly, knowing that, how- ever much they hate school, it's better than being one of the great mass of the un- employed, out there in the snow. Whatever is causing it, the new look is a welcome change after the sleaze days. Even my daughter, a graduate of the freaked-out look, is beginning to shed her tattered jeans for skirts and vests, smart sweaters, and anything else ladylike her mother will buy her. But knowning kids, I'm rather sanguine about the chances of the improvement remaining stable. Any day now, the boys are liable to start showing up in spats and shaven heads, the girls in corsets and high- laced boots, like their grandmothers. Now, if only the young men would get rid of those ugly Gay Nineties moustaches..... ma ira SEES pen RT PL Ee