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Bell Canada has spent near- ly $400,000 to put telephone subscribers in the Blackstock '986' exchange into the digital age. Orma Lyttle, local Bell manager said last week. Effective January 8, 1983, the exchange was served by high technology digital swit- ching equipment. This will not affect the normal monthly phone bills, said Mrs. Lyttle. On the same date, subscribers no longer had to give their number to an operator when they dialled their own long distance calls. Under a system known as Automatic Number Iden- tification (ANI) this informa- Bell spends $400,000 to put | Blackstock in digital age tion and the length of calls will be registered by com- puters for billing information. The Blackstock switching centre is located in the village of Blackstock, serving a mainly agriculture/residen- tial area with some cottage development along the south shore of Lake Scugog. Until January 8 it was utilizing step-by-step mechanical equipment to process calls. A Remote Line Module (RLM) has been installed in the Blackstock centre and will act as a satellite of a high- capacity DMS-100 switching machine located in Oshawa. The Blackstock RLM will Fae ds THrASTNY NR v . 3 . Ce w. ' Pra Ma a 7a Avy EN yr PR. ahd x A # f REN at li TF EAA SE oF ESL I dg APVENPRI I TL ! ta . y iN # , ad *.%) «a. . [x $7 aa aa CTE LT IBA A iad sib sea agi an Np GRA Jr i ab 2 ' ENG eC PES Sar Bh FETIP IP ' rd ., 4 , ARE 333 | LBL ISIS RRR 4 DCSE A SY Nel FY % hed? vi. "ah di PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, January 11, 1983 -- 5 . ols nS ot "dod ba ai tide sid dnnitaaidin initially handle. more than LOB INO ___ St OO (416) 985-7383 OO | PORT PERRY STAR CO. LIMITED 235 QUEEN STREET P.O. 80OX 90 PORT PERRY. ONTARIO. 1,260 customers. Higher capacity can be introduced by the installation of Add-On modules to the DMS-100 and the RLM. DMS provides a digital (code) method of transmis- sion instead of analogue (waves). The quality of transmission is improved, less copper wire is needed to provide equivalent service and the DMS machines take a lot less space than analogue switchers. "DMS machines use the most advanced micro- (Turn to page 7) Publisher J. PETER HVIDSTEN Advertising Manager J.B. MCCLELLAND Editor Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Community Newspaper Association. Published every Tuesday 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¢ bill smil THE FRENZY"S OVER It never fails. Never fails. Every holiday season, my wife, in desperation at what's ahead, hurls herself into some PROJECT that discombobulates the household, turns her into a vixen, and drives me right out of my skull. I well remember the year she decided to have some brickwork done in December. Of course, the weather turned wild, the bricklayers couldn't work, and we wound up with four thousand wet bricks in the back Kkit- chen. Dripping and smelling like wet brick. Another time she decided to have the whole family for Christmas; her parents, aunts, and assorted relatives. By the time she'd finished scouring and scourging, that old house was shining like two bubbles in a chamber pot, and groaning in every board. That's the year the kitchen floor was waxed so highly, I drop- ped the turkey on it when I slipped en route to the din- ing room. She didn't speak to me until about Valentine's Day. Sometimes, it's sewing. All else is forgotten as she tries to make clothes enough in three weeks for her daughter and grandboys to wear for a year. Material, tapes, patterns, pins, and needles everywhere. And I have the wound marks to prove it, should I pull my pants down. If she can't dream up something to push away the thoughts of Christmas, she'll tackle it head on with a baking spree. Every mixing bowl in the house is ac- tivated, the oven goes full blast eighteen hours a day and if you're not stepping in butter, you're stepping in flour, while the fancy cookies, cakes and puddings pile up to the point where the inmates of a logging camp couldn't eat them all. This Christmas, she outdid herself. Back in the fall, some idiot mentioned on the air that there were only eleventy-seven shopping days until Christmas. The old lady immediately went into a frenzy that would make a whirling dervish look like a statue. First, she went into her mechanic's routine. She bought a caulking gun, a wood chisel, a hammer, and a key-hole saw. All the door-knobs were to be changed, because they have a habit of coming away in your hand, a new lock put on the back door, though there was nothing wrong with the old one, except that you could open it with a credit card, and all the windows were to be insulated. Now, none of the door-knobs work at all, and you have to pull doors open with your toes or fingernails, the lock is on the back door and it's a dandy, but we have to leve the door braced open with a slipper when we go out, so that we can get back in, and the wind coming in around the windows would make your hair stand on end. Halfway through this job, which is why it wasn't finished, she declared the master bedroom must be painted. She got the ceiling done, with the resultant chaos of moving furniture and taking everything out of the closets, a half-day's job. - Just then she was struck by a desire to start taking piano lessons after some years away from the machine. Anybody knows you can't paint and practise the piano at the same time, so she hired a chap to finish the painting. This made the bedroom so dazzling that the bathroom suddenly appeared sleazy, and it had to be painted. By some strange osmosis, this in turn made the kitchen woodwork absolutely shabby and the paint job spread downstairs. Had you kitchen painted lately? I wasn't against having the woodwork done, but I can see no point in- painting the insides of the cupboards. She can. After they've been emptied and thoroughly washed. We have enough cupboards in the front and back kitchen, to hold enough stuff to withstand a three-year's seige. As I'write, it's all sitting in liquor boxes, on the kit- chen floor, in the front hall, in the vestibule, the living room and the basement. If you want to make a sand- wich, you go to the basement for bread, prowl through eighteen boxes to find a knife, look for the butter in the box with the winter boots, and find a slice of ham in a box on the attic stairs, in with the soap, the adhesive tape and the thumb tacks. You'd think that would be enough to keep Christmas at bay. Not at all. She suddenly decided that after 36 years of marriage something or other, we absolutely must get a stereo outfit, with cassette, the whole works. Simple enough. We had only two hi-fi machines and a cheap cassette recorder. For three weeks, I huddled in my chair in the liv- ing room surrounded by liquor boxes, listening avidly while she experimented with two different sets of speakers, various microphones and about 300 yards of wire all over the floor. Whichever speakers she liked, I eagerly agreed were the best. Then she'd change her mind. She wanted to get perfectly clear the mistakes she made while prac- (Turn to page 6) remember wh 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 11, 1923 Markham defeated the Port Perry Wolves in Inter- mediate O.H.A. hockey at Port Perry by a score of 5-3 in a fast, clean game which featured a ten minute overtime period. DeShane of Port Perry was sensational in goal. The Scugog Council met with all its members present to subscribe to the declaration of office. The Reeve, Mr. Geo. Sweetman, took the chair. Mr. J. Alldred put through a by-law appointing' Pathmasters and fence- viewers. Representatives from Sunderland, Uxbridge and Port Perry met at Uxbridge where after considerable discussion, it was decided to organize the Ontario County Junior Hockey League, composed of teams from Can- nington, Uxbridge, Sunderland and Port Perry. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 15, 1948 At the 1948 inaugural meeting of the Port Perry Coun- cil, a number of citizens were present. Reeve Hayes . called on Rev. E. Bruton to open the proceedings with a prayer and the reading of scriptures. The Port Perry Boys Basketball team won first Canadian Amateur Basketball Association honours in a game to the tune of 57-32. Sparked by the fine checking of Stuart Lane, the high scoring of Rod Foster and the defen- sive play by Mac Christie, the team had Lindsay baffled all the way. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 9, 1958 The annual meeting of the Port Perry Memorial Library was held in the Community Room with Mrs. A. MacFarlane in the chair. Mrs. Bruton, Mrs. Cornish, Mr. Harper and Mr. Jefford were also present. Mr. Whitby was absent from the meeting. Very encouraging annual reports were read. The 5th Anniversary Birthday Party was held at the hospital and was a really happy event. About one hundred guests attended. Mr. Herb Brooks, the first chairman of the Hospital Board told the story of thé hospital's begin- ning. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 10, 1963 The inaugural meeting of Scugog Township council was held in the Town Hall. Declaration of office was taken by each of the following: Reeve - A. Gerrow; Councillors - V. Aldred, C. Carter, Jos. Dowson and C.B. Hoult. Rev. C.C. Gilbert opened the meeting with prayer. The new Senior Citizens Club held their second meeting in the Municipal Building. Club President, Mrs. Jessie Robertson presided. Two new officers were ap- pointed: a second vice president - Mrs. M. Cullen and a corresponding secretary - Mrs. George Holmes. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 11, 1968 Port Perry local firemen have reported that $141.85 has been collected for the Canadian Muscular Dystrophy Association. Port Perry's population grew rather slowly this year with only 32 persons being added to the numbers. Interest rates advertised for investment certificates through a local agency were 6 %%, calculated twice yearly. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, January 10, 1973 Port Perry's New Year's baby finally put in an ap- pearance on Tuesday, January 9th at 6:10 a.m. when Mrs. Joan Platt gave birth to a 7 Ib. 10 oz. boy at Community Memorial Hospital. The new arrival was welcomed into the family by his two sisters Ruth and Brenda and father Harry Platt. : The municipality of Cartwright has decided to appoint one member of council to the Scugog Shores Historical Museum board which will now have nine members. The local Historical Society has hopes of expanding its mem- bership in the Cartwright area. Lt. S. David Murray reported to the C.F. Base in Chiliwack, B.C. on January 2nd. David is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Murray of Port Perry. Mrs. Ingram has decided to retire from her position at the Library after 30 years. An Afternoon Tea had been planned in her honour. a tT Se > * . 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