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a on ENE Se, Police seeking any info on van, three occupants Durham Regional Police are asking for public assist- ance in locating a van involved in the weekend death of a Brooklin man trying to apprehend thieves on his property. Walter Clark Major, 57, came out of his home at about 3 a.m. Saturday to find persons removing tires from his property, said Supt. Dave Edwards of the Durham Regional Police. When he approached them they got into a van and attempted to flee. Major lept at the van and tried to remove the keys from the vehicle, but in the attempt was dragged 400 feet before falling to the pave- ment near his home. Major was taken to J.O. Ruddy Hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. He suffered asphyxiation, broken ribs, a broken shoulder bone, a punctured lung and numerous con- tusions and abrasions. Major leaves three children and one grandchild. Durham Regional Police describe the van as a 1981 or 1982 GM vehicle with windows in the rear doors. The vehicle, which was last seen northbound on Ashburn Road towards the Ninth Concession, may have a damaged windshield. Anyone with information is asked to call the Durham Regional Police at 579-1520. St. John training St. John Ambulance trained 106,000 people in Ontario in first aid and health care during 1980. For information on courses con- tact the St. John Ambulance branch in your local phone book, or the provincial office at 46 Wellesley St. East, Toronto, M4Y 1G5. PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday August 10, 1982 -- § the S LOB INO / Ba {oO cn PORT PERRY STAR CO. LIMITED 235 QUEEN STREET P.O. 8OX 90. {w+ CNA PORT PERRY. ONTARIO. J.PETERHVIDSTEN Advertising Manager J.B.McCLELLAND Publisher Editor \AN CO AWAD Te MM UNIS A Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Week'y Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for cash payment of postage in cash. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $15.00 per year. Elsewhere: $45.00 per year. Single copy: 35¢ SUMMER TIME Well, I hope you're having a nice, peaceful summer, taking it a little easier in the hot spells, sitting on the front porch or the back lawn in the evenings, contemplating the folly of man's world and the joys of the natural world. Or, if you're two, or three, or four generations younger, I hope that you are lying on the beach, brown as chocolate, every eye on the three inches of your bikini. Ladies first. If you're the same age, and male, I hope you spend your days at the same beach, the sweat glistening on your virile body, as you and a buddy flex every bronzed muscle, one eye on the bikinis, as you toss a frisbee back and forth, making incredible one-foot leaps to catch it, or throwing it between your legs, or whatever turns your crank. Or I hope you have a job, when so many don't. Or that - your new baby doesn't have the colic and cry all night. Or that your husband leaves the golf course in time for dinner that is completely dried out. Or that you don't come home from the golf course or the bass fishing and find a note from your wife: "TV dinner in the fridge. Am over at the Blanks for cocktails and skinny-dipping." See how unselfish I am. I want for you all the things I don't have. True, I'm on holidays as most teachers are. Roll on, September! . We have had visitors for four solid weeks. Daughter, then son-in-law then son. But at least they've only stayed a few days each. The really formidable guests are the two grandboys who have been here every day. And night. And morning. Let me say at the outset that they are lovable, smart, articulate, and a delight to the heart of the most hardened bill smiley sinner. Well, I'm beginning to think of myself as one of the latter. I've known it all along, of course, but I fear I might drop into the next category below that. In some benighted, sentimental moment last winter, I told my daughter we'd take the boys for July, as she had a - chance to take a special course at university. Have you any idea how long July is? The promise was the equivalent of saying, on some New Year's Eve, full of good or cheap spirits that you'd take Aunt Mable, who had already been thrown out of three homes for the aged, owing to obstreperousness, mope and gawkery, for a month. My wife knew better, but she gets sentimental too, once in a while. That is, everything sinks to the bottom and becomes muddy. So they are here. <No problem," 1 assured her, when she became unsettled and unsedimental. We'll put them in the YMCA Camp for four weeks. It. runs from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and we'll have time to shop, play some golf, enjoy ourselves." It didn't sound too bad, - if you didn't think about it. And we didn't. I went on: "They'll be so tuckered out after six or seven hours of games and crafts and stuff that they'll come home and fall asleep like babies." Well, I was partly right. But they ain't babies, anymore. They are 6 and 8. And the Lord, in his intimate wisdom, chose to endow kids that age with enough energy to keep them going, full tilt, for about 19 hours a day, and still want not one, but three stories at bedtime, by which time I can scarcely talk, let alone make up gory stories, their favorite. Just to help things along, my wife did something I've warned her about for years. Coming downstairs with a big : basket of laundry, she slipped and put her arm through a window on the landing. That wasn't so bad. She'd only severed an artery. But instead of leaving her arm out the window, and letting the blood drip on the ground, she pulled it in, and spouted it all over the carpet on the stairs. Doctor, stitches, carpet cleaner, possibly new carpet. O.K. We can cope with that. Accidents happen. But ever since, she's been practically useless, with one arm bandaged. So. My routine now is to get up at seven, sort out what the boys are going to wear today (nothing ever seems clean) make them wash, and brush their teeth, make their breakfast, make and pack their lunch, break up a couple of fights about which wears the dry swim suit, drive them over to the camp, and pick them up about five. They are always the last out of the showers and somebody has lost his towels, drive them home, get dinner (usually fish and chips or a pizza) play soccer with them until the mosquitoes drive us in, and try to wrangle them off to bed by 9:30 when story-time commences. It's a good life, but an active one, as some idiot once said, somewhere. Imagine what the weekends are like, with no day camp. In many ways, they've improved since last time we "had" them. So far, only one aluminum back door smashed by a well-aimed soccer shot, the clothes-line broken by a bit of Tarzan climbing, the polished wood - floors looking like a wino's spectacles, and most of the door-knobs missing in the house. I can recall when they were destructive, as little boys. And only three weeks to go. les remem ber wh 60 YEARS AGO : Thursday, August 10, 1922 Successful Lawn Bowling brought the Carew and McCarty Cups home to Port Perry from the Lindsay tour- nament. Blake Cragg, Greenbank was very fortunate in only breaking his leg after falling 40 feet onto a binder, from the peak of a barn where he was working. Hundreds of autos passed through Port Perry on Saturday and the most unexpected sight was an enormous blue tally-ho. Among those who have radio-phones to enjoy concerts are Messrs. C.C. Jeffrey, Jack Carnegie and John Swain. Sample street lights have been placed at the Willard corner, Sebert corner and in front of the Post Office for public inspection. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 14, 1947 Messrs. K. and E. Minshell gave a tour of their 34 acres of newly developed tobacco farm in the Nestleton area to a group from Port Perry. The new pews for the church at Scugog have arrived. Mr. Hugh Santer has obtained another truck for his coal and wood business. A few items on special this week: Radios - $47.50; 5 cu. ft. freezers - $375.00; vacuum cleaner - $99.50 up to $138.00. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 15, 1957 Highway 12 from Manchester is to be resurfaced and work is to begin immediately. Peter Lawrence, Dave Mosienko and Allan Bailey, a Port Perry High School trio, took part in the Amateur Musical Contest at Peterborough Fair and came away with 1st Prize. David Jefford won the Junior Championship Silver Cup at the Big Cedar Assoc. Field Day at Lake Simcoe over the holiday weekend. Mr. and Mrs. James Harrison of Chicago were visiting with his brother Mr. Wm. Harrison. Wrestling was introduced at the Port Perry Arena with a large turnout for the feature bout of Mightly Ursus against Gene Kiniksi. 20 YEARS AGO 'Thursday, August 16, 1962 Carole Stanley was chosen Miss Regatta '62 at the Lake Scugog Regatta held at Caesarea over the weekend. atulations were extended to Mr. Bill Carnegie who was recently elected as DDGM, Ontario District of the Masonic Order. Rt. Wor. Brother Carnegie is a mem- ber of Fidelity Lodge, Port Perry. Joan Clarke, Cecil Noble and Grant Jones will be going with the Junior Farmers on a bus tour of Eastern Ontario and Quebec. Port Perry Pee Wees will make their debut in the 0.A.S.A. Playoffs at the new ball park this coming Friday. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 17, 1967 Mrs. V. Skerratt, R.R. 4, Port Perry has been judged a five-time winner in the annual Handicrafts competitions at the Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto. She won four firsts and a second in the various classes. Miss Anna Forder and Mr. Richard Stevens were in Erie, Pennsylvania this past weekend where they partici- pated in an Ice Show held there. Local council announced that the Ontario Provincial Police will take over policing of the village on September 1st, 1967. A capacity crowd attended the "Old English Pub Night", sponsored by the Legion Ladies Auxiliary of Port Perry. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, August 9, 1972 Former students of Greenbank Public School met 'with teachers Mrs. Ruby Hook (Wilson 1916-1918) ; Mrs. C. Taylor (Forsythe 1922-31); Mrs. Aleta MacFarlane (Fer- guson 1924-29); Mrs. Della Moore (Johnson 1949-50) and Miss Fern Edwards (1919-21) over the weekend. The plan for a subdivision known as High Chapparral Homes received approval from the Planning Board at a recent council meeting. While trolling in the Washburn Island channel, Don ° Urquhart of Oshawa, managed to hook a 14 pound muskie using a black and silver plug lure. The fish took 20 minutes to land and measured 40 inches in length. - v " . 2 ee Pay