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Printing one's name gives weight and ir. ¥eLy 2b) Toronto, We can now ge WI So credibility to the letter and the arguments being made. ; ursday, July 27, i i One of the best attended games of the season took Mr. and Mrs. Storey Beare and son Ian of Guelph , Whike we urge our readers to express their oni 4 p the public f f our letters to the editor place on Thursday night when the south married men are holidaying with relatives in town. fonsiia the pubic JoTum of olf ieiters 10 , defeated the north married men 23-19. Emmerson pit- Sgt. Charles Brignall, R.C.A., left on Sunday to column, we must at the same time reserve the right to 3 ° ched effectively after the second inning. D, Carnegie, report to Ottawa for futher instructions after a month edit letters with regards to good taste and liability. | Nasmith and Nasmith, D. Carnegie, Archer, Emmer- at home. Letters to the editor should be typed (if possible), ; son and Deshane scored. (Turn to page 6) double spaced, or neatly hand-written in ink. as 3 eo 4 by John B. McClelland | ASIATTERED DREAW he second amr oxursion Lean, economic ime, Despite hat marvellous scievement re | J ° "This is one small step for man; one giant leap for For me the dream began to pale when it he ut men on the moon, but we can't properly manage our } mankind." ' obvious that this incredible example of human achievement DP Sotrees here on earth bs It was ten years ago this month when those words really wasn't going to do very much for mankind in general. Our interest i he world of outer space has not i electrified the world. Instead of the dawn of a new age here oe Sais of diminished of coursé-¢But rather than real discovery, the B Man was walking on the moon, the accomplishment of ~~ understanding, A Sogpereiion lie an public's fancy is being tickled by science-fiction as : one of his oldest dreams. Planet went on pretty muc oy 3 3 bea sclentifi portrayed in films like Close Encounters and a host of § The sheer impact of that occasion was heightened by Those infamous moon-rocks turned out aSCIentiiC others that cater to superstition rather than the quest for the fact that we were able to watch via television man's bust, destined not to provide us with further knowledge, but ~~ © knowledge. The American and Canadian popula- ® rst steps on the moon. rather to go on public tour, like some side-show attraction in lion czn willin gly spend hundreds of millions to be Irecall it vividly, sitting in front of the TV set in therec 2 tacky travelling circus. Some of the moon-rocks wound entertained by such films, but I venture to say that there room of my parents' home, seeing those shadowy images UP as paper-weights on the desks of Houston executives. No © "1% © outcry if the U.S. announced it was stepping up t4 from the moon more than 235.000 miles away. doubt they made lovely conversation pieces. the space program 0 It was a stunning moment, even for someone like On one of the later lunar excursions, there were Even the brave men who actually took those walks on Ps myself who has always been rather non-scientific in allegations that some of the spacemen were involved in a the moon have fallen on difficult times with psychological $ outlook. In fact for that very reason, man's first steps on little commercial hanky-panky, by carrying pennies and roblems, break-downs, booze and so on. We seem to prefer {} . e the moon had a profound impact on me, not because 1 letters to the moon and back to earth. Such a coin or letter Pre space lores to be the fictional kit. i looked upon it in terms of a scientific or technical Would of course have considerable value to a collector since i achievement (which it was, of course) but rather in the they would be one of a kind. . (Turn to page 6) k{ broader sense of mankind's will to move forward, to Spacemen of course have bills to pay like everyone else, 5 expl dd to the total of all his and I guess they just saw this scam as a neat way to make a kJ plore the unknown, to add to sum 0 : y 'y knowledge quick buck. But it was crass and so demeaning. For me, pi 'I felt at the time a sense of euphoria, a hope for the Anyway i was one more little thing that helped to pop the port perry star py drea moon balloon. e. . Tuts GS A of walking on the I think the incident that really killed it for me was the Company Limited i: energy for just about anything. charge that the moon walks were all a hoax, nothing more fi Alas, at the time I was either unaware or had forgotten than a scheme cooked up by the U.S. government to scare Phone 985-7383 : that the main reason Neil Armstrong was walking around the Russians and at the same time boost morale among the : on the moon was the American fear a decade earlier that American people, who at that time were involved in a very 4 the Russians would beat the U.S. to the punch in space unpopular war in Viet Nam. i kind here Impossible, I said to myself. No American government Serving the Township of Scugog o 2 LJ S7loration End gainsome of sirateglc advantage would go to all the trouble to hood-wink 220 million of its 2. PETER WVIDEVEN if Shocked by the Russian sputniks of the late 1950s, it Citizens just to score a few Brownie points in the «PETER HVIC 4 was President John Kennedy who pledged just before his propaganda war with the Russians. Advertising Manager 14) death to put an American on the moon before the end of the Well, as the world found out during Watergate, etc., the n 1960's American government was capable of going to considerable J.B. Mc LE LLAND Thus Armstrong's walk on the moon in July, 1969, and lengths to pull the wool over the eyes of the people, so or N his immortal words had their genesis in the fear and hatred ~~ Maybe the idea of a giant moon-walk hoax is not so Member of the N i} of ig Cod Wi. Fanistotes. oy refuse to believe it was a hoax, but the "and aE aie With this in mind, it is not surprising that the entire ' Poh ney ne poe) 18 moon venture of a decade ago, has paled somewhat, and fact that somebody, somewhere made the suggestion leaves ' "afar Co. 1d. Port Perry, ontario pb while the event is still etched in my mind, the euphoria has me a little sad. And after all, how will we ever know for V3 long since gone sour. sure. . Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office pi g She it not for the fact that this month is something of Even when there was serious legitimate criticism Department, Ofte, 36 ior payment of postage Ab an anniversary, the feat would hardly get a passing raised about the billions that had been spent to put a man on 2s o thought the moon, b Sean to 80 along hy the argument that the Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 ) J ' ourse. beca " money w ve been better used for medical research or Moonwalks, of c game Sian Place In the ern Ay more food. Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year \ few years after Armstrong's achievement. 0S But now, ten years later, I'm not so sure. The American | Elsewhere $10.00 per year. Single copy 20c¢ 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 17, 1919 A view of Church Street, East in Blackstock, Ontario. Photo courtesy of Mr. Ralph Sadler. Mr. Thos. Crosier of Manchester has sold his residence to Mrs. Roach of Whitevale and will now sell project back to Blackstock Arena committee with instructions to get another price. The committee had voted project. The project calls for the (Turn to page 10) construction of a concrete block addition to the Black- everyone can remember the names Armstrong and Aldren, but I'll bet few can recall the names of the men involved in manned space program is now in limbo, a victim of tough Letters Policy As a community newspaper, the Port Perry Star welcomes letters to the editor from our readers on any issue or subject. Our policy concerning letters is that the writer's name and address must be included with the letter. We will publish an unsigned letter provided we know the identity of the writer. However, we would strongly urge that all letter