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mm ge SRE SHAS AB TEA BL R05 ati Se p-- BE ------ oe AR a ne Cm Sm pe co Gr ST TA A Ee TN MR STE pe -- VILA Ha She to -- od iad ' |: | l} wr § STAR EDITORIAL PAGE hs © gf SAE ae Las 3 Yay $2 RON UK Fl YL SEAT 170A A I Tr A Thugsday, October 22nd, 1959 Saying "No" Mr. Flemming, is rapidly becoming an Ur AL i [} i expert at saying "No", vincial representatives that no increase in payments to So Mr. Fleming can say "No". It is a great art to know when, where and, to whom to say "No". The Civil Service deserved an. increage because the Government do anything about, the continued rise in the. cost, of living. If Conservatives in Great. Britain can hold it steady fora year a at a considerably lower level than here, The Hollow Men There are approximately two hundred members of our federal parliament who, in the widest sense of the jo are Mobing but hollow men, although they. may. be, very. fine ide, in'their own right. They. could drop out of public life withopt a trace and Ottawa, much less the nation at large, In Ottawa they would never miss them. This last week he told the Civil Servants that there would | . be no pay increases and before the howls of dissatisfaction had a chance to, subside he rounded out the week by telling the, pro- Y do hetter ere wonld be he provinces. turn it ems-unahle to, We live in a then gotten by the The private fall fairs and Comments it would appear that we ought to be able to fo than we have done, To begin with Mr, Fleming.might take a really good look at o The absurdity of our defense expenditure warrants a careful examination, done here might well he used, tc the wages of well-trained intelligent Civil Servants who may otherwise depart for the United States, Hi il band, some of our army or better still, qyer to the United money might be used to help the provinces - cope with the rising costs of education and - public works truly conducive to the expan- sion that should go on in this country. statesmen only little men? major job, is, tg work for, re-elgction.and.to that end he spends most; of his time. and devotes most, of hig, energy. in, attending. and picnics. in his riding ; in after. dinner speeches. to, local. Service. clubs. What the public. expepts of him.is nob.con. i -- -------- Sr -- . defense hudget. Saving Lo, ingrease We can afford to dis. Nations. _ The time of big, issues. Are our . oe administration, member 860n learns that his. are wasting their time and the tax-pgyer's. ducive, to good. government. and. wise legis- 'money, at the rate of an indemnity of ten' "thousand dollars per year; e this if they have been elected for three terms for. then they are entitled to a life pension. In our present parliament as it now operates a private member has great diffi- - culty in accomplishing anything worth- .No amount of study or attention - by him to legislativs problems ever leads to any change or improvement in government policy. The government is likely to ignore while. any useful idea about which off in the Commons debates is made up in advance. - In committees his work is just as futile. these committees there is always a lot of talk but political partisanship is so strong and firmly entrenched that matter may not be examined as deeply or constructively as they ought to be. the rare gccasions when the c come out with something worthwhile the. risk it that it will be pigeon lation. ven more than our present Ne dy platitudes. for its mind is parliamentary In his country, every eritical RZ 'On. ommittee does -haled ang for ends. about international affairs but ha: comment concerning immediate needs of It, seems to. think. that. an. MP, is a sort of combination welfave officer.and. ijormation bureau. for, his. constituency. 8 peoplg flock: to. him. te plead. pension cases, get mortgage money, interpret tax laws and lobby, for local, private, interests, "Is it any. wonder. that our Canadian politics. has, succumbed to-a kind of: intel- lectual sterility? A sterility in which all leaders- are involved. The Prime Minister. often - disappoints with Lester Pearson fails to make a A L373 clear statement of what his Liberal Party stands for. Mr. Coldwell talks like a sage ag not a Berhaps the. fault: really lies. with us. Perhaps we are represented by-leaders who give us what we.ask. We seem Jgsg con- cerned with ignorance and. injustice. than with lobbying fer aur petty and selfish ~ District UXBRIDGE COUNCIL DISCUSS TRANSIENT TRADERS LICENSES The matter of trancient traders licenses were deal with at couneil on Tuesday night when councillor Gould enquired if the two bakeries, Brown's 'and Stouffville who were delivering products in town had' purchased their licenses. = Clerk .D, Long, replied that Brown's had acquired their's earlier this year he had had no request from the Stouffyille firm. At this point Mayor Hochberg produced an applica- tion from the Stouffville Bakerjes that had been handed to him earlier that day. 3 Councillor Gould believed the town was lax in letting people come in and do business here and suggested all ap- plications for licenses should be dealt with on their merits by the advistory and financial committees. He also felt that anyone haying a transignt trad- ers license should haye to make appli- eation for renewal each year and that same should he reviewed hefore being granted, : Councillor Tipper stated that he thought town businessmen who. pay taxes and support their communities and donate everything that comes along sliovld 'be given some consider- ation and: protection. Outsiders com- ing in to do business leave nothing here, he said. : STOUFFVILLE PUC BUILDING _ TO BE HEATED BY ELECTRICITY ; ; "The new Stouffville Public Utilities Building which is to begin construc- tion soon at the corner of Blake and Main Streets, is to be an example of heating by electricity. Plans for the new building are practically completed. it was revealed at a meeting of the Commission and the Architects Telfer, Arnoldi, Douglas Berry and K. K. Pep: per, Wednesday night, . The Ontario Hydro Commission which has had to give approval te the plans, are most specific poncerning the T Doings NEWCASTLE COUNCIL APPROYE OF DISTRICT HIGH 8CHOOL The Neweastle village council at its October meeting, on Tuesday evening gave formal approval, for the building of High Schools in 'Darlington and Willbrook and approved the resolution asking the United Counties council to issue the necessary debentures for the mgney.to huild these schools, If the majority of the councils in the area approve, the: Durham Distriet High Schoo) Board plans to build a 500 pupil school in Datlington and 160 pupil school jn Millbrook ' CLARKE TOWNSHIP TO WITH. DRAW: FROM:QURHAM HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT The Durham District High School 'Board held a special meeting in Port Hope, Wednesday, Sept. 30th, with ope member gheent, The Board regpive a resolution from Mr. Waddell explained that the rese- lution as'it could have an'ipfluence on the bujlding program under considera-, tion. = The, resolution read as follows: "Resolved that this Council hereby ap-. proves. and 'support those, petitioners, requesting the Council -of the Town- ship of Clarke to withdraw from the Durham County District High School and to form a Township of Clarke High Schoo} Distrietito provide accom. inmodation for secondard education within this municipality. And $his Council now. proceed with all necessary means "to seek withdrawal from the said Durham County District High School as soon as possible." BOWMANVILLE SKATING CLUB SUSPENDS OPERATIONS The Bowmanville Skating Clb will syspend its skating Sepsis = he 060-60 season it was decided at a meeting of the chute beard of dipect- ors held at the yesidence of Dr. John Hendry on Friday evening. 'The rea- sons for this decision were the inereas- matter of installing so that the heat loss should be kept to a minimum, oo Clarke Township for their information. |" ed cost of ice rentals and a much T smaller registration for membership. It 1a hoped to resunie club skating next fautumn, 7 ¢ Rees. will ba refunded to. those who have paid on registering: this:.year. Re- gistration this sgason amounted to $154 compazed to gpproximatqly $600 at the start of former.sgasans. Operating costs this year would have been: Tee ventals, §1818%; Professional Skater, $700; Inoidentala, muslo, tests, advertising, eto., $600; plus Carnival expenses, - The specie) draw on which some tickets have already heen sold will be continued. NO TELEPHONE, OPERATORS IN UXBRIDGE - When the new Uxbridge dial ex- change goes into opsration an Bunday morning, Ogteher 18, thers will no longer be any telephgne operators located here, All local ealls will then be handled automatically hy the intricate dial switching equipment, and long dis- tance cally originating here wil] be connected here will he connected through exohange facilities in Toren: W ttisagh the "voice with a smile" will soon pass from the scene in Uxbridge, no permanent operators wishing to continue. in telephone work will be re- leased 88 a result of the changeover, according to C. E, Blosdale, Telephone manager: for this area, LIVE BETTER Electrically .... with an..ELECTRIC WATER HEATER 1about housewives. JOHN DRAINIE AT WORK Parents everywhere will recognize the problem faced by actor-broadecast- 'er John. Drainle ag he prepares for his daily radio program, Stories with John Drainfe. His four children try- ing to get into the act are (reading down): Kathie (18), Bonnie (14), Jo- celyn (6), and, Mike (10). Stories with John Drajinje is a 15-minute [Pro- gram broadcast daily on the CBC Trang Canada radio network. 0f Many Things By Ambrose Hills TALKING TURKEY A friend of mine raises what I con- sider to ba the tastieat turkeys in the 'world, and I've been drooling over them every Christmas for a long 'time. He, his' wife and the family. work like the very dickens raising, plucking 'and marketing the turkeys, 'but they have been doing very well from them financially, Because qf this somewhat indirect interest in the turkey-raising business I watched with interest the press re- leases, from 8 meeting of the Cana- dian Turkey Federation in Winnipeg: thg other day. They had an amazing controversy. Before them wag a resojutlan (it passed) calling for federal legisla- tion making it illegal for chain %tares to use turkeys as "lpgs-leadera". It was claimed that one store In Van- couver hought turkey for 36 cents a pound and sold it for 36 cents a pound. "That is definitely a loss leader," said the proposer of the regulation. "Housewives would buy just as quick at 39 or 48 cents." In my opinion the man is wrong However, he was able to get his resolution passed, and turkey raisers will be asking the gov- ernment to force the stores to make "three ta five per cent net profit and under no circumstances to sell at lesa than the retail merchant's cost." Jf 1 1 . the government follows its wsual caur- sg, it will give in and pass the legis~ lation, Now this whole thing seems rve- markable to me. On. the one hand, farmers complain that the difference between what they get for thelr pro~ duct and what the stores charge Is top great. But in this case, we have the same farmers asking the govern-. ment to make it compulsory for the stores to charge enough to net a pro- fit of three to five per cent, That jg a whopping big percent, too, Most chain stores make only a- bout two percent profit on a dollar of sales. It seems to me the turkey farmers are on the wrong track. They should want their turkey sold at the lowest possible profit to the stores consistent with careful handling, refrigeration and packaging of the produce. The Flower the price, the greater the can. sumption. Ta force the stores ta 'make high profits on the sale of turs keyi seems to me, atileast, to be very '| had buginesa for the turkey raiser and for the consumer, A turkey man from Harrow, Ontarlo, made that same poing; but apparently he couldn't con- vines his tellaw Larmers. I.get many, letters from farme | who complain about the spread be- |'ening was an example of this. The | --Creation Hymn--Bless the Lord O We have every reason to be thank- ful, now that our Anniversary of Scu- gog has come and gone. What a dif- ference even an hour makes? After planning for some big event, as the houn approaches, we. begin, to wonder Whether tha response will be good or, poor: 'do about- it; then. Having made ade- 'quate plans, seasoned with confidence in our people, and much prayer, there is no need to be fearful. Sunday ev- weather certainly was unfavourable; but by 8.00, p,m. our. Church was fill- ed to overflowing. The music was wonderful, and. the message was chal- lenging. The Lyric. Male. Choir sang amy. soul--Steal away--Can't yo heah me moanin' Lord--Going Home-- and Mr. Herb French sang "Have thine own way Lord." Dr. George Telford took as his theme "How to Behave in Church! _ Thank: you. so. much. Ladies for lunch provided after the Service. We. won't say too much about the Morning Service; only to say, that the music and the message were equ- ally good; but the congregation was- n't there, May be, we can only stand one Service, even though the day be 'Anniversary Sunday. The next big event will be our Fa- they & Sqn, Banguet foy qup Sgouts and Cubs. The Mother's Auxiliary are busy planning for this, and tickets will soon be available, This will be our third supper, and we look for- ward to it with great hopes. It is most encouraging that we have never been disappointed. Almost to a man, the fathers have attended, and have shown the keenest interest. There should be a time when father and son And there is nothing we can{, District Churches Scugog, Manchester and Prospect derful. feeling in all our hearts to have the backing of every father of the boys under our care, Please then mark on your calendars NOVEMBER 7th, Supper will be served in the Manchester Church Basement at 7.00 p.m. : Last Saturday, afternoon and even. ing brought together Sunday School workers from our area, to participate in a "Work Shop". It is usually most difficult to start anything new, but having commenced, it augers well for the. future. It is so much easier to blame those who do not come to Church and Sunday Schoo), and Young Peoples Meetings, as being. careless and indifferent, This pleases our "ego"; but may be, that is not the whole truth. It may be, that we could be dull and uninformed, and really are not giving a great deal, The writer always comes away from such gatherings feeling that he knows so little, and that there is so much to be done, and better ways of doing them. The Church needs light, and warmth, and love; and we need to take advant- age of every opportunity to pool our knowledge and our experience in Christian living, The Leader of the Adult Group Rev, James E. Smith was most stimulating. Both young and old can become interested in the Church. The disciples forbade the children to approach Him; but Jesus stretched out His arms to welcome them, We want children in Church as well as Sunday Sclico). How can we prove to them that we really want them, and that they have something to give as well as receive? Pleage remember Young People, 'United Church, Let us have a regu- lar rally of all the Teenagers in this whole Port Perry Area, Carol Smith of Greenbank is your Secretary, and" will be giving full particulars. You will he entertained after the Service by the Young People of Prince Albert. United Church. Next Sunday we revert back to STANDARD TIME. This will be the last Sunday of our Summer Schedule. Our Services will be 9.15 a.m. - 10.15 am. - 11.16 am. On the following Sunday, November '1st, we will com- mence our Winter Schedule, which will be---Scugog 10.15 a.m. -- Manchester 11.156 a.m.--Prospect 1.16 p.m. There will also be a Sunday evening Service at Scugog "Head" at 8.00 p.m. on Nov. 1st, when the Minister will preach, and the Island Choir will sing. We do invite you one and all to come and worship. Very shortly the Minister will commence a. Series of Sermons based on the New Book "Life and Death" published by our Church. Here are some of the Headings: --"Is there opportunity for repentance and sal- vation after death?" -- "Ig there a Purgetory 7""--*"What fellowship havo the living with the departed 7"--"Will Christ come again?" It is not possi- ble to have any discussion in the Church Service; but if there is inter- est, arrangements could be made for a discussion Group either on Sunday evenings or during the week. Our prayers and love go out to those in Hospitals--Mr. Frank Cro- sier, Mr. Fred Jackson, Mr. Earl In- nis, and Helen Innis, We are pray- ing for you, and for your anxious loved ones. Happy birthdays to Rar: that you have planned for an evening Service on Sunday evening, November could step qut together, It is a won- 8th at 8.00 p.m. in Prince Albert bara McCartney of Manchester, and Sharron Painter of Prospect. God bless you all. GOVERNMENT PRICE SUPPORT When Government engages in busi- ness activities, about the most certain thing is that transactions to which it is a~party will be conducted at a lass to. the taxpayer. This, it seems, is just about to happen again in the case of: butter. With more than 100,000,000 pounds of price-support-accumulated butter on its hands, the Canadian Gov- ernment is casting about to find some- where to dispose of part of the surplus at a loss. Most likely candidate at the moment appears to be the United Kingdom, which faces a butter shart- 'age becauge of summer drought con. 'ditlons in continental Europe. Whether Britain buys Canadian hut- ter att bavgain prices far below the support price floor of 64 cents a pound bepends upon whether New Zealand takes umbrage and raises a diplomatic hue-and-ery about Canadian butter go- ing to her traditional market in U.K, It is strange that Canadian taxpay- ers, who foot the bjll for this sort of economic folly, don't get mad enough to do something about it, --The Letter Review THE STEEL STRIKE One Notable feature of steel strike in U.S. is attitude of steel industry's customers. Kar from complaining about the interruption in the supply of stee] and the inconvenience it has caused, most customers support the stand of the steel manufacturers. They do so hecause steel-using industries have as great a atake as the steel in- dustry itself In halting the wage-price spiral. Many users of steel are right- ly worried that any marked increase in steel prices would bring them face to face with the unpleasant necessity of raising their own prices to meet the extra raw material cost. Apart from this, manufacturers who are users of steel also recognize that basic issue in strike is make-work union rules, which impair efficiency and needlessly add to production ¢osts. Sooner or later, issue of featherbedding, now to fore in steel, must be faced by othqr and smaller industries as well, If steel industry lost the battle on feath erbedding it would be the greatest set- back ta Industry progress generally for years--a setback of which the ef- fects would be felt on hoth sides of tha border fap years to come. AE 2 --The Letter Review «-- tween their price and the price to consumers. I would sure like to hear their views on thi resolution which ig ERE Canada Ltd.,, on of the biggest of SMALL BUSINESS LARGE IN NUMBER It may come as a syrprise to many Canadians that "big business" hasn't taken over in this country to the ex- tent that many of us have been led to belive. Actually Canada is more characterized by small businesses than by big ones. Interesting figures on this point were given recently by Rhys M. Sales, president of the Ford Motor Co. of Canadian businesses. According to the figures for 1966, the last year for which figures are available, 52,000 companies in Can- ada reported a profit. Of these, only 408 had asseth in excess of $1,000,000, That left more than 61,000 Canadian companies with assets of less than one million, Mr. Sales also gave figures showing that in 1956 there were 37,000 manu- facturing establishments employing a total 1,383,000 people. But only 140 of these establishments had more than 1,000 employees, and 34,000 had less than 100 employees. Even more strik- ing is the fact that 25,000 establigh- ments had less than 16 employees each. Big eompanies are in a better posi- tion to meet competitive prices. But a big company is often the market for smaller husinesses which supply goods and services. --Stouffville Tribune WHEN ARE WE TOO OLD? Notion that people lose their effi- ciency and should be arbitrarily retired upon reaching a certain fixed age has been neatly exploded by recent de- cision of Appellate Court of Indiana, which has ruled that "professional men and women are known to be at their best upon reaching the age of 70." Court ruling is result of petition made by Elmer Role, who was arbi- trarily retired from his post as police chief of Ligonier in 1956 on graund that ho was too old for the job. Court, in decision. ordered lawer court to re- hear Mr. Boles petition for reinstate- ment and back pay, rightly notes that the Common Law has never held that a person becoming 70 "suddenly lost status in being a man and . . became a disabled shell of his former self." ~The Letter Review MAGAZINES FOR CHRISTMAS The year round gift! intended to force the spread wider. See the Port Perry Star Clipped Comments Cedar Creek Mr. and Mrs. Albert Trick and fa- mily. of Oshawa visited with the Bruce Cummings family last week. Miss Flossie Spencer and brother Richard attended a family Thanks- giving dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Manns, Raglan. Mrs. Larocque's sister, Mrs. Lil Smith of Hamilton has heen visiting the Laroeque family since last Tues- day. Ronnie Larocque visited relatives at Magnetawan last week. When he left for home on Sunday the snow was 4 inches deep and still snowing. Charles Parm returned to Toronto on Saturday. or Mr. and Mrs. George LaRuz of Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Banks of Pickering and Mr. and Mrs. Atwood MacRae, Linda and Carl of Oshawa were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harris. Mrs. Kilpatrick has been a patient in Port Perry Hospital since Sunday. Mr. Sam Parm was in Toronto on Monday. Miss Flossie Spencer attended a pre- sentation in Raglan on Monday even- ing for the newly weds Mr. and Mrs. Bob Holliday of Columbus. The bride was the former Donna Bray. tua fUEL toys ~=AT ITS BEYT-~ JUST GIVE US A caw) 00 THE REST | ' AGENT Phone YUkon §:2872 PORT PERRY ONTARIO i a nr en oe ta at?