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BRR RMB WARK WQS SSX DITORIAL | PINION End Of An Era For those of us who work with the printed word and moke our living from it, the news thot the Toronto TELEGRAM will soon cease, publication is saddening indeed. Although a newspaper is essentially a business. designed like all businesses to make money, there are basic elements that distinguish it trom all other business operations. A newspaper, be it a large daily, or a small weekly establishes a kind of personal contact when it comes into the living rooms of its readers. It talks" to its readers, giving them information about the commuynity, the country, and the world they live in. If this communications link is severed, it is rather like losing an old friend. And the TELY has been a tradition in Toronto, and an old friend to many for 92 years. In the age of television and other forms of split second communication, the newspaper's task of providing up to date information is a difficult one. But it is especially disheartening to learn that the City of Toronto with a population of over two million, and a potential readership of perhaps half thet many cannot or will not support three daily newspapers. Perhaps Mcluhan is right when he infers that people are getting lazy when they sit in front of the "tube" to get their information rather than read a newspaper or a book. We would certainly like to think otherwise. Aside from this, what of the 1,200 or so em- ployees of the TELEGRAM who stand to lose their jobs? True, many of these are involved in the business and clerical end, and will find employment elsewhere in the business community. But whot of those responsible for the actual content of the newspaper-the reporters ond editors- many of whom have spent their working lives in the newspaper industry? Some will find employment in other forms of publication. Yet others may be forced to forsake their newspaper talent and experience to find unrelated em- ployment. Or worse, some may leave this country completely to tind employment. in either event. both the canadian newspaper industry and Canada may suffer the loss of talented people when the TELEGRAM ceases publication. For these reasons, and the sentimental reasons os well, we fee! the Canadian newspaper industry has cause to regret the decision to close down the TELEGRAM. &, 'ist | PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED Cau -- Serving Port Perry. Reach. Seugog and Cartwright Townships P HVIDSTEN, Publisher - Editor ied WM. T HARRISON P. HVIDSTEN, Jr. Plant Mansger Advertwing Manager Memt<r of (be Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Aasiciation Publched every Wednesday by The Port Perry Star Co, Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class maill by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0266 Subseription Rates:.In Canada $4.50 per yr., Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy 10¢ SS STOP! You mry wor GET AWOTHER GHAaWEE. BILL MILEY UGAR ano S PICE THE IVY-COVERED changed. Thus, my old room, 269, is now HALLS OF LEARNING Teaching in our school this fall has been a combination of walking the plank and running the gauntlet. When school opened, about fifteen hun- dred kids and eighty teachers walked into something that looked as though the Irish Republican Army hati been using it for a couple of years as a testing ground for bombs. A new addition, about the third since I came here, was in its gloroius death throes. That means it might be finished in six months. It was begun a year ago. It wasn't so bad during last winter and spring, because most of the construction was outside: brick piling and stel work. In fact, it was quite lively, especially in the spring, with the Italian workers ogling the girls through the windows and being back, and drinking beer on the job ind laughing. during the summer, the termites; the workers, got into the mausoleum the result, for a while at least, is com- F The termites are the electricians, plumbers, floor and ceiling men and others of that ilk. If you aren't tripping over an electric cable or walking through some E202 or 204, I'm still not sure which. Time was, when a little grade-niner would ask,"Sir, can you tell me where Mr. dacklin's room is." I would answer with sublime confidence, "Sure. Just along the hall to the boiler room, turn right, and it's about three doors down on your left." Now I haven't a clue where Mr. Jacklin's room is. I think he's moved somewhere and the place is so big I couldn't tell the kid how to get there if I did know. In the proposed cafetorium (a bastard _word if there ever was one), the windows were sealed off because it would be air conditioned. Then it was learned that it wouldn't be airconditioned. Can you imagine what it will be like in there with the in a class by themselves, like carpenters who would never tackle anything bigger than an out-door privy. Perhaps I wrong them. Perhaps they are hampered by rigid budgets. But I cant imagine any firm that specializes in designing schools being asked to build something that combined aesthe- ties and utility However, there's always a bright side to things. The public address system is not working. The bells are not working. These are two boons and I hope they never get dale left for Red Deer, Alber- ta. Mr. C, N. Werner of Hamil- ton a former Public School principal here dropped in for a visit to the Star. * . * 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 13, 1956 248 students enrolled at Port Perry High School. New members on the staff are Miss Yvonne McFadyen, Cobourg, Miss Georgia Brock and Mr. Gerald Cole, Oshawa and Mr. Ray Litt. One of Port Perry oldest business establishments closed its doors of 46 years of serving Port Perry and district. It was the blacksmith shop of R. B. Smallman. Port Perry High School student Miss Louise Boulanger of Saintfield won a two hun- dred dollar bursary to Ontario Teachers College also attend- of Prospect. Miss Eileen Cherry and Mr. Terry Hodgins were united in i 4 so 6 calves, 8 hogs, a thresh- ing machine and other mach- inery was also lost in the blaze. Mr. Robert Vernon was the winner of the Hospital Auxili- ary draw, his prize was $100.00 or a trip to New York. ' Miss Ina Keizibrink of Prince Albert has entered Oshawa Hospital to start her nurses training. Mr. Barry Abraham, Sea grave begins his training as a private in the C.P.R.O.C. of the Canadian army, Camp Borden. Anna and Gale F order have ; : Hi ii i i i