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(From page 1) Via service indicated that 90 per cent would continue to use the privately operated line even with a fare increase of up to 50 per cent. The Via service is slated to stop on September 7 of this year, and Mr. Parkes said it is not likely the private group could have its operation ready to go before October. The passenger Association is now negotiat- ing with Via to continue the service beyond September 7 so there is no interruption. Ever since last summer when the federal govern- ment announced the Have- lock-Toronto rail service would be dropped, the Passenger Association has waged a vigorous compaign to keep the line operating. The Association has tried VIA group plan to buy train court injunction over-ruling the federal decision to cut the Via service, and also has Been trying without success to get the Ontario govern- ment to take over the service under Go Transit. - If all the details can be worked out and the privately owned train does get on the rails this fall, plans now call for five day per week service from Peterborough to Union Station in the morning and a return trip in the evening. There would be stops at Burketon, Myrtle, Dagmar and Claremont in Durham Region. It is believed this is the first time a private group has attempted to operate a commuter rail service, although apparently the idea has been tried with success in the United States after commuter trains were taken off the rails. Mr. Parkes said the idea of buying rolling stock and operating a private commuter service was first suggested several months ago and its viability became more apparent as more study and investigation was carried out. The search for the rolling stock began about six months ago in Canada and the United States. The name of the companies the group will buy the stock from and the price tag has not yet been released. The business people who plan to buy the rolling stock and set up the private company are all members of the Toronto-Havelock Passenger Association, but the move is being done independently of the Association. PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday July 20, 1962 -- 5 the PORT PERRY STAR CO. LIMITED Ea 235 QUEEN STREET. CNA £.0. 80X 90. PORT PERRY. ONTARIO. LOB INO (416) 985-7383 CC) (549) [=| J. PETERHVIDSTEN Publisher Member of the Advertising Manager Canadian Community Newspaper Association J.B.McCLELLAND Editor A Ne w O 5200s nss0CIAN RNADIAN Comm UN 12 and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Otfice Department, Ottawa, and for cash payment of postageincash. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $15.00 per year. Elsewhere: $45.00 per year. Single copy: 35* without success to get a PITY THE POOR BANKS There's a lot of doom and gloom floating around in Canada these days. And not without reason. The Three Ugly Sisters, high interest rates, high unemployment, and steady inflation have produced a general alarm and despair that this country has not seen since the Thirties. Farmers and small businesses, traditional borrowers _from the banks, have their backs to the wall, and no hole to squeeze through. Executives in the $50,000 a year bracket, who have served their companies with servility for 10 or 15 years, are being turfed into the unemployment insurance line-ups. I feel sorry for them. Gone are the dinner parties, the theatre parties, the perks such as trips abroad and signing barbeques for business reasons, and the golf and country club fees tax deductible. ; It must be pretty dreadful to come home to your $70,000 house which as a $30,000 mortgage at 21 per cent, wi an unemployment insurance cheque in your pocket, are not evil people. Many of them have spent as a year to support a foster child in Guatemala or'someplace. They have kicked in to the church, ught a tag on every Tag Day and/fund-raising event. They are more to be pitied than scorned. They have not ground the poor under their heels. Indeed they have occasionally felt a vague pity for the guy with four kids who makes $15,000 a year. They have shaken their heads admiringly and thought "Don't know the check for a three-martini luncehon, and the big steak billsmiley how he does it." Aside from these turfed-out types, wandering around nibbling their fingers and wondering what hit them, my heart bleeds for others: the doctors who work 300 hours a week dispensing pills; the lawyers who have no pension - fund and charge you $100 to have their secretaries type something out in an hour; the accountants who grow fat as leeches on other people's attempts to beat the system -- in fact all the people who have been educated at great public expense (including teachers) so that they could carve a fine financial niche in our society. They are suffering deeply. But, today I am full of compassion, not to mention compunction, and I think we should extend our sympathy to the politicians of this great country, who are as innumerable as the sands of the desert. They are suffering grievously. Deeply. After offering themselves (and every cent they could borrow) to win a nomination, then an election, they are destitute. Except for their salaries, around $60,000 their indexed pensions and their law practices to return to. I know a politician right now who is laughting. He served several terms in the provincial legislature, a couple in the federal, sold a thriving business, and is sitting in Florida. He chuckles so much that his wife wants him to see a psychiatrict specialist in chuckles. She thinks it's like hiccoughs. He's chuckling because he gets two (indexed) pensions and the returns from his business. Now, before my store of pity runs out, I want you to consider the Canadian banks. There is where my deepest sympathy lies. The are in Desperate Straits, which are just across the channel from Dire Straits. After logging anywhere up to 60 per cent profit last year, they are whimpering with fear. Their shares have gone down. Their profits have gone down disastrously. Woe is the land! The Canadians being beaten by the Russians is a blow to our national pride. But the idea of our banks not making lots and lots of money will drive many of us to suicide, I have little doubt. In fact, the banks are so wild to make money that they send out begging letters imploring you to get yourself into debt with them. A friend of mine recently opened a letter from one of our Canadian banks. It was addressed to her father, assuring him that the bank would be pleased to give him a loan. Her father had not only never borrowed a cent from a bank, but had been dead for 19 years. A bit macabre, right? I'm sure the banks of Canada have some pretty smart guys working for them. I've never met one. The only people who seem to have any brains in Canadian banks are the girls -- tellers and such, poorly paid, always pleasant, working for about half what a postal worker gets. The managers have invariably been ill-educated, clueless, pawns who always have to call up the Queen in Montreal or Toronto or Vancouver to decide on anything more important than how many rolls of toilet paper to order. Nice fellows, but clueless, unless you wanted to borrow money without putting up your grandmother as security. And she had to have $15,000 in Canada Savings Bonds. To heck with the poor. Pity the poor banks. Right? remember wh en? 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 20, 1922 About 125 Lodges took part in the July 12th parade in Lindsay. A special train ran from Cobourg to Lindsay and picked up a good crowd at Port Perry. In the Municipal election for Reeve of Port Perry the contest was between Mr. Figary and Mr. Rundle. Philip . Figary won the vote by a majority of 101 votes. - This advertisement caught our eye. 'Cures Sick Soles." It is the soles of the people I keep in view for I am the doctor of boots and shoes. Quick service - Low prices. Lewis Diotte, Port Perry. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 17, 1947 Mr. Lawson Honey had the misfortune to fall from a wagon and break a bone in the vertebrae. In the Lions Club Carnival, Bill Taylor took first prize for the best decorated car and Herb Brooks got second prize. Net proceeds for the carnival were $450.00. A new Post Office has been installed at Mr. D. Fines booth at Scugog for the summer months and is named Platten's Post Office. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 18, 1957 Mr. Jamie Hunter, Queen's Scout of the 1st Port Perry Troop leaves to attend the World Jamboree in England. The Lions Club presented him with an engraved wallet and a sum of money before leaving. Scugog Foot School was damaged by fire and a shed nearby was fully destroyed. Mrs. Elsie Dobson has returned from New York where she was attending the Peter J. Wilhousky, 1957 Masters Class in choral conducting. Greenbank Church celebrated its 60th Anniversary. Rev. Kenneth Lee preached the sermon for the morning service. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 19, 1962 David Godley and Ron Kennedy from Port Perry High School are spending seven weeks at the Central Command Cadet Trades Training Camp at Blackdown Park, not far from Camp Borden. Fire destroyed a pole barn on the property of Jim Davidson, just south of Port Perry. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cox were successful in winning the Livingstone Trophy for the second time in four years inLawn Bowling. There were 32 teams taking part. H.W. and W.G. Emmerson are moving their office to the location opposite the post office. They will be located in the building previously vacated by the Royal Bank. Miss Lynda Kyte of Blackstock spent two weeks at Adventure Camp for Girl Guides at Doe Lake and Marlene " Tomchishin attended International Pioneer Camp. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 20, 1967 Construction began on a continuation of the Good- wood-Mancester Road further east to the Oshawa Road. The new section will also eliminate the five corners at Manchester and Highway 12 which has been one of the worst traffic hazards in this district. Two local men were charged after a break-in at an apartment owned by Mr. S. Levinson at the corner of Queen and Water Streets. The two men allegedly smashed the door in, ransacked the place and started a fire on the floor of the apartment before being arrested by police. A fire caused extensive damage to a tractor owned by Mr. Bruce Cummings, R.R. 2, Port Perry as a spark ignited fumes from the gas tank while Mr. Cummings was using the tractor to mow grass at the Fair Grounds. Linda McLaughlin was named Durham County Dairy Princess for 1972. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, July 20, 1972 Sherilyn Metcalf, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sonley of Port Perry and Judy Anne Wallace, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Wallace of Port Perry, graduated from the Oshawa General Hospital School of Nursing. The Ontario Cabinet has approved regulations forbid- ding non-returnable polyethylene three-quart milk con- tainers. The ban was announced by Environment Minister James Auld. Canadian Homes magazine recently featured interior and exterior photos of the home of Dr. and Mrs. RM. Price, located on Lilla Street.