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£0 at ye i a Oy WS RASTA RYE Ey {7 " ANU EIT WT AS FES y £2 (DREN Mh AR . FAR B03 AS 3 HEHE i AT PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., March 21, 1979 -- 5 Excitement mounts Ne ad 'Manchester 'Corner Store and Innes garage in the early 1900's. Photo courtesy Ray Dobbs. 60 ¥EARS AGO Thursday, March 27, 1919 High School students will have to stick to their studies this year. No certificates will be granted for the education received on the farm. - 'Departmental examinations for matriculation, etc., do not begin this year until June 30th, nearly three weeks later than last year. $1.10 each will buy F.0.B. at Delta, 25 cows, mostly high grade Holsteins, freshening in good season, from three to eight years old, right every way. Cash with or- SAAR Eo SERRE 2 5y x der. Reference, Merchants Bank, Delta. J.C. Eyre, Chantry, Ontario, Leeds Co. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 30, 1944 The people of Port Perry will be interested to know that the Port Perry High School is the model used in setting up a new High School System in the Province of Ontario. We were told that the High School "Musicale" + (Turn to page 6) THE GREAT ONE Skipping through a recent copy of the Glengarry Times, - a newspaper that serves a rural area east of Ottawa, an ad for an up-coming attraction at the Alexandria Hotel caught my eye. The hotel was plugging an unusual entertainer booked in for a three-day gig, and if the feats mentioned in the ad are true, "The Great Gaetan" must be something to behold. He was billed as the "man who eats everything". Without a word of a lie, I swear the ad said The Great Gaetan in the Alexandria Hotel will eat a 12-gauge shotgun, and a running shoe. } And that's not all. He can drink five beers in under 20 seconds, smoke a cigarette without letting out the smoke, and knock back 24 beers in just two hours. Can you believe it? I'm not so sure: shotgun, five beers in under 20 seconds? wonder. I once knew a guy in northern Ontario who could eat a beer glass. He'd sit in the tavern with his buddies, and after a few beers, they'd talk him into this feat. He would take an empty beer glass, the small tavern kind, and "chomp", off would come a piece of the rim. He would chew the pieces of glass down to powder and then spit it into a napkin. "Chomp". Another piece of glass would go into his mouth to be ground down to powder./ After 15 minutes or so there would be nothing left of the/beer glass. I watched him do this on a couple of different occasions; he never cut the inside of his mouth, and for all I know he may still be sitting in that same tavern chomping happily away. But that's nothing compared to what The Great Gaetan is supposed to be able to do. Good grief, with entertainment like that, any hotel could get rid of the topless waitresses. However, the clincher in the ad which ran in the newspaper was an apology from the hotel which said: Due to circumstances beyond our control, the Great Gaetan was unable to appear last Thursday and Friday." Maybe he had a touch of indigestion, or maybe he was in some hospital having his stomach pumped. A 12-gauge shotgun: really. a 12-gauge It makes me MAGGIE I have a feeling in my gut that I should not make any mention here about the behaviour of the estranged wife of our Prime Minister. But I can't help my self. Like just about everybody else, I am both fascinated and disgusted with Mrs, T., I terbo guess that is why her name is a hot topic of conversation these days, and the first printing of her book 'Beyond Reason' has been snapped up in total by book sellers who know that the great mass is hungry for this kind of stuff. Or should I say starving. One thing for certain, the arm-chair psychiatrists are having a field day, offering all kinds of explanations about as arrival of Town Hall piano nears Excited and anxious may be one way to describe the feelings of Town Hall /1873 directors as they await the arrival . of a brand new Heintzman six foot grand piano, valued at $10,500. The piano was recently purchased by the committee and will arrive at the hall this Saturday for installation on a special pad. The platform has been construc- ted so that the piano may be moved to different locations around the hall without damaging it or affecting the sound quality. First to use the beautiful ebony finished piano will be a man who has performed at the Town Hall on two other occassions and has gener- ously donated his time and talent for a third concert on March 30th. The man, Dr. Tom Millar, will present an entirely new program of classics and will no doubt fill the hall as he has in the past.- The gala celebration for the purchase of the piano which takes place the night of Tom Millar's concert will also include. a buffet recep- tion following the program and is open to anyone wish- ing to purchase a ticket for . the after-concert gathering. The initial kick-off for the by John B. McClelland purchase of a good piano for Town Hall 1873 was started last fall when the Scugog Choral Society held a special performance of My Fair Lady and donated the $900 they raised towards its purchase." = Since then numerous donations, one of $1000, have arrived and the committee has been able to raise over $2100 to date. Other fund raising events will be taking place during the coming months and the committee hope that a Wintario Grant for half the cost will cover the remaining portion of the purchase price. A spokesman for Town Hall 1873 told the Star that with the purchase of the piano, the committee will now have an easier job of getting top-notch performers to come to the hall without having to pay the $400 rental -fee necessary to have a good piano shipped to Port Perry from Toronto. "Be A Grand Supporter" is the slogan the Town Hall committee has adopted for their fund raising scheme, and any donation, whether large or small, would be greatly appreciated by the group. -- is......My calculator doesn't go that high. It's a lot anyway. What Al was saying in theory, anyway, is that a very minute amount of mass is capable of producing huge amounts of energy. = And that is probably the most important theoretical discovery of the 20th century, maybe of all times. It certainly made Al a household name. While Al is thought of in terms of science in general and why Mrs. T. does what she does and wants to tell the world. physics in particular, it is obvious that his mind functioned about it. So here is my two cents on the subject. I don't believe for oneminute that Mrs. T. is the flightly innocent, vulnerable, flower child in late bloom that she would have us all believe she is. No way. As far as I'm concerned, she is a cold, calculating business-woman, who sees an opportunity to make a bundle of bucks from the gossip-crazed.masses. She'll say and do just about anything for a headline, knowing full well that every column inch in the papers and every 30-second clip on the 11:00 o'clock news means money to her, big money. She's cashing in, and more power to her. One media hack in a Toronto paper last week went so far as to say that she is, well, not quite all there, if you know what I mean; that she has a problem, or rather a multitude of problems. Hogwash. The only problem Mrs. T. has right now is how to keep the momentum going until that book of hers hits the stands later this spring. The potential book sales got a dandy little shot in the arm last week when a Toronto judge handed down an injunction forbidding the CTV to carry an interview on the air. It was the best kind of publicity possible. You think Mrs. T. is silly, dumb, immature, and an acute embarrassment to herself and the rest of the country? Not a chance. Anyone who can pull the wool over the eyes of the Canadian public is neither dumb nor silly. And after all, she did manage to get herself hooked to Pierre Trudeau, and make him look like a fool. That takes smarts. Just ask Joe Clark. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AL Albert Einstein, were he alive today, would have celebrated his 100th birthday on March 14. His famous theory, E: MC2 has become part of the vocabulary of every school child, and is. somehow synonymous with the 20th century. I had forgotten just what exactly old Al's famous equation stands for. So, I looked it up, and it came back to me in a flash. Energy, it seems is equal to the mass multiplied by the speed of light squared. Now, light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, the square of that and ranged far beyond the constraints and boundaries of logic. His genius lay not in the fact that he eventually formulated his famous equation, but rather that somewhere along the line the idea came to him that it was possible. The former is mechanics, the latter is pure philosophical . - genius, metaphysics, outside the realm of conventional logic and reason. ' While the world stands in awe of Al's gigantic intellect, «(Turn to page 6) 8 port perry star | Company Limited {> CNA Phone 985-7383 Serving the Township of Scugog # : (oun): o~ > N "rag as J.PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager J.B. McCLELLAND Editor Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association . and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. 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