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Single copy 35* © COPYRIGHT -- All layout and composition of advertisements produced by the advertising department of the Port Perry Star Company Limited are protected under copyright and may not be reproduced without the written permission of the publishers PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, March §, 1985 -- § letters Are animals more important? Dear Sir: Morals and ethics have been created by society. As such, certain act; are acceptable in certain cir- cumstances. Justice has nothing to do with law. It is simply a ward that you can find in the dictionary somewhere between jackass and juvenile. Sorry to be so cynical. The opinions expressed today are intended to 2. It make one think. remember v A 9 . ; when? 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 5, 1925 A 145 acre farm on the seventh concession of Reach, 8-roomed brick house, stables, straw house, hay barn, pig pen, chicken house and drive shed sold for $9,500.00, $2,000.00 down, balance at 5 per cent. The Port Perry High School Hockey team played Gravenhurst and won by a score of 9-6, in their first game of playoffs, lost the second game 4-3, but won the third game by a score of 6-2 in Port Perry. The lineup for Port Perry was Kaufman, McMillan, Dowson, Collacutt, K. Doubt, M. Doubt and Roach. An earthquake disturbance was felt in Port Perry. Buildings swayed in the downtown sections. Floors heaved, dishes rattled, hens were shaken off roosts. The most pronounced disturbance seemed to be felt in the St. Charles Hotel block. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 2, 1950 At the annual Hog Producers meeting held at Manchester Hall, the election of officers resulted as follows: Honorary President Grant Christie, President Earl Howsam, and Treasurer Alex Johns. Maybelle Rebekah conferred the degree on five new members, Audrey Geer, Hazel Gibson, Jean Smith, Mary Pickard and Ruth Foster. Miss Donna Samells placed second in a class of 30 contestants in the Kiwanis Music Festival held in Toronto for piano solo under 10 years of age. : 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 3, 1960 Mr. John Ballard was choosen as Carnival chairman for the Port Perry Figure Skating Club. The Star of this years show will be Miss Janet Carnegie, a gold medalist and a member of the Toronto Granite Skating Club. - The Port Perry High School Senior boys won the Georgian Bay Basketball championships. Prince Albert School won the "Elmer Safety Flag'. Mrs. E. Skelding, President of the Good Neighbours Service Club made the presentation to an honour student, Donna Lee Smith. Miss Susan Roach repeated a few of the safety rules. (Turn to page 6) 1. In the darkness of night a light flickers, a shot sounds and a deer drops in its tracks. A poacher is challeng- ed by a conservation of- ficer. The deer, gun and vehicle are confiscated. The whole episode could cost the poachers one thousand dollars in fines plus the forfeiture of his vehicle and gun. is night. The poacher spears another fish. Enough for to-night. By-law I would like to express further into the letter of Mr. J.D. Holman written in last week's paper of the unfair snow removal by-law proposed for Prince Albert and Port 'Perry. In my opinion, not on- ly does the by-law effect only half the people in the village, but, if our Coun- cil of Scugog Township could have taken a little time out of their "schedules to inspect the sidewalks in the village of Prince Albert, which comes under their snow removal by-law, they, would have surely notic- ed that the sidewalks' in many areas are more of a threat being cleaned off than the present snow covered. In certain areas the sidewalks are a disgrace. In many areas the sidewalks are broken and slabs of concrete are sticking up beyond the surface. It's beyond me how no one yet has been seriously hurt because of After the fisherman has put the fish in the trunk of his vehicle he is con- fronted by the conserva- tion officer and he loses not only the freshly caught fish but also his vehicle and fishing gear. 3. A train rumbles along the rails towards a level crossing. A vehicle races to beat it. Too often it doesn't make it. The driver's parents feel the guilt that it was their child who steered unsafe Our Council wasn't worried in the past sum- mer years of someone getting hurt because of the condition of the sid- walks. So I ask, Why Now? We, the people of the community, face as (Turn to page 6) the death vehicle; the vehicle borrowed for the evening. The parents of the other passengers ask why we allow drinking and driving? A noise of breaking "glass and the tearing of sheetmetal. Two vehicles collide shortly after mid- night and an impaired driver leaves the scene of the accident. Then located by the police and convicted, he or she often gets a licence suspended and a fine of a few hundred dollars. 4. Suspension of the licence is almost useless. A licence is checked on- ly when an offence has occurred and any person driving with a suspended licence will drive most carefully in a borrowed vehicle. But if a vehicle seized (Turn to page 6) STARDAZE a HOW COME. THE CAR WON'T MoVE HARRY? iTS BG POT HOLE TIME IN PORT PERRY, DEAR .... this. WAR TIMES Boy, the world is in some mess today, isn't it? With two world wars in this century, and the oceans of blood shed in them, not to mention the limited wars in Korea and Viet Nam, you'd think mankind would come to its senses, sit back and say, "Hey, chaps. Enough is enough. Let's sit back, cultivate our own gardens and have a few centuries of peace and friendship. Let's relax a little, try to make sure everybody has at least two squares a day, stop burning up irreplaceable energy, and make love, not war." Not a chance. All over this planet people are starv- ing, shooting, burning, blowing up, raping, mutilating, and demonstrating, all in the name of some non-existent ideal, such as freedom, or nationalism, or language, or religion, or colour. And nobody's making a nickel out of it all, except the purveyors of weapons. All over the world, in vast areas of Asia, Africa and South America particularly, there are probably 300 times more refugee, orphans and just plain starving people than there were at the beginning of this century of enlightenment. World War I, with its millions of dead, produced a bare decade and a half of peace. It also signalled the beginning of the end of the fairly fair and benevolent British Empire, allowed the beginning of the massive international communism, and by its punitive peace terms. laid the foundation for World War II. That one produced as little, or less. It vaulted Russia and the U.S. into the great confrontation that has been going on ever since. It wrote finis to the British Empire and reduced that sturdy people to a drained, impoverished, third-class power. It split Europe down the middle between two philosophies, communism and capitalism. It launched on the world the final weapon by which mankind could write kaput to his own species. Has it smartened anybody up? Not exactly. Today we have Iranians beating on Kurds, Chinese glaring at Russians, Cambodians hammering Laotians, blacks fighting blacks all over Africa, Jews and Palestinians toeing off, dictatorships in South America, India in tur- moil, revolutions in Central America, Irishmen blow- ing up each other with giddy abandon, old Uncle Tom Cobley and all. We don't seem to learn much, do we? The United Nations, a noble idea, conceived with a touch of the greatness man can aspire to, is a joke, albeit an expen- sive one, merely a political sounding-board for every new pipsqueak nation that wants some publicity, along with plenty of foreign aid. The U.S., which emerged from W.W. II as a great, powerful and wealth nation, has been terribly weaken- ed, chiefly by its external affairs policies, or lack of them. and the meddling in foreign affairs of the notorious CIA. It had its shining moments: the Marshall Plan to put devastated Europe back on its feet; Kennedy's showdown with Kruschev over the Cuban missiles in- stalment an attempt to make a better deal for blacks in their own country. But these were flawed by other events and at titudes: the backing of right-wing dictators around the world: the loss of face in Korea; the treatment of Cuba; the meddling in the affairs of other nations; the fairly indiscriminate supplying of arms to anybody who could pay for them; and finally, the abortive, badly-burned- fingers mess of Viet Nam. At home right now, the States has growing inflation and unemployment, belligerent blacks and hardline unions. Abroad "it has lost a great deal of credibility, and seems to be pushed around by anybody who has plenty of oil. - American imperialism is coming home to roost, and there are a lot of vultures among the roosters. Cuba is an out-spoken enemy. Mexico, sitting on a huge oil deposit, is cool, considering past grievances. The Philip- pines are gone. Japan and German,the losers in W.W. I1, are the winners in the economic war. The U.S. dollar is no longer the international monetary standard. The Panama Canal is going. But let's not forget the tremendous power that lies in that great, half-stunned nation of the Western hemisphere, the U.S. of America. The giant may be slumbering, having nightmares, twitching in his sleep. But he's far from dead. There is still a great, latent vitality in the States. With strong leadership, and a renewed sense of purpose, the Yanks can make a tremendous comeback, as they have proven more than once. For our sakes, they'd better. Despite what our ubi- quitous nationalists blather, Canada is riding on the coat-tails of the U.S., and you'd better believe it. If they suffer, we suffer. If they bleed, we hemmorhage. Let's not give it away: our gas and oil and water and hydro power. Let's trade shrewdly, like a Yankee. But let's not get mean and stingy and narrow, either. let's be neighbourly. For the simple fact is, that if Canadians get all upright and righteous and miserly, refusing to share, they could walk in and take over this country and help themselves And nobody, nobody in the world, would lift a finger to stop them. End of sermon. en ai