S 5 FES AY BILE pe LR a IA nT ER fod fornfai ier Bh 3 RCT LL BS fn AY apt se Xo id Lara da DREN 17 * NSPE A Wi J : , , 5 i . 5 EE Ee a a a aa si SE: ME » Es a a EEN SSPE Ny THE PORT PERRY STAR Authorised as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa PORT PERRY ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 2nd, 1961 $2.00 Per Year, Single Copy 5¢ PORT PERRY COUNCIL NEWS Minutes of a regular meeting of Council held in the Municipal Office on Saturday, February 26th, 1961 at 9 a.m. a PRESENT -- Reeve J. J. Gibson, Deputy-Reeve W. T, Harris, Council. lors Arthur T, Cox, Robert A. Kenny, Irving Boyd. Minutes of Regular Meetings of Feb. 10th and 18th were adppted as typed on motion. Applications for Public School Crossing Guard--held over from last meeting. Council reviewed the appli- cations received for the above posi- tion and then decided the Chief of Police should carry on for the time being. PASSING ACCOUNTS: , The following statement of accounts were authorized for payment: Hydro co.oovvveviornnnerererirennns 62.95 Waterworks .......... wes 636.49 Street maintenance ....... weer 128.86 Waterworks, O.W.R.C. ... 26.00 Gen. Dept. cee. wenn 1224.08 Property & Parks ....... 80.14 $2160.62 Carried. "BY-LAWS 1217 and 1216 to Desig- nate Through Highways in the Vil- 'lage of Port Perry and to Regulate Traffic in the Village of Port Perry to be reviewed by Council and Mem- bers of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. John Orde, on behalf of the Port Perry Chamber of Commerce & Council checked over the map as pre- " pared by the Chief Constable Robert J--- Cameron, designating the Through Highways and Parking . Areas and their views on these: matters were the odd little bod] in No Parking Areas. The Clerk was instructed to draw up the necessary By-Laws and to have ready, if possible, for the next regu- lar meeting. RESOLUTION--That the $10 mem- "bership "fee to the Ontario County Mutual Fire Services Association for "the year 1961-62 be paid. Carried. . STATEMENT of Fines for January 1961--in the amount of $144.66: Mu- nicipal Share $61.71. Filed. - MEMO--1961 Road Estimates By- law: Construction .........c...... 5,000 Maintenance .......... 9,000 $14, 000 bring in their report on Road Expen. ditures for the year 1961, 3 HYDRO--Létter from Mrs, Margar- et Carnegie of the Blue Ray Chapter --*'On behalf of the members of Blue Ray Chapter, O.E.S., I wish to thank you for the donation of an Electric Percolator to our Hydro Showtime." Filed. RESOLUTION -- That the $20.00 Membership fee to the Association of Ontario Mayors and Reeves for the 1961. year 1961 be paid. Carried, LETTER from the Community Me- morial Hospital dated February 16th, "We wish to present the fol- lowing information to the Council of __the Corporation of the Village of Port ° Perry with respect to the new X-Ray equipment being purchased by the hospital, 5 The total cost of the equipment to- gether with the necessary renovations to the X-ray room amounts to appro- ximately $15,000.00. The hospital is requesting a grant of $4,000.00 from the four municipalities on a percent. age basis of 'patient days; and the Village of Port Perry is being asked for 46% of the said $4,000.00 that is $1,800.00 twoards the said equip: ment." RESOLUTION-- "That the Corpor- ation of Port Perry grant to the Community Memorial Hospital at Port Perry the sum of $1,800.00 to- wards the purchase of X-ray equip- ment and necessary renovations pro- vided the municipalities of - Reach, Scugog and Cartwright contribute a proportionate amount based on the patient days use of the hospital by _ residents of those municipalities. Carried. LETTER from Electric Heating As. sociation of Ontario, re the National Heating. and Air Conditioning Show, 'March 6-7-8, 1961--at the Automotive Building in C.N.E, Park, Toronto, Filed. 4 'the Corporation of the Village of Port 'ciency signed by yourself as Clerk of '| ing you all the necessary instructions "Held ovér until the Road-Committee | The-Clerk -was_instructed to. write} -Corporation-will-require-an-easement 'ment of Planning and Development for the Corporation of Port Perry to ments before making a committment. Moiiday afternoon fire "destroyed -the home of assist, the Caesarea Fire Department. MEMO -- Hawkers & Pedlars Lic- ense--re Fuller Brush; Avon Products, Familex, ete. It was decided that the Hawkers and Pedlars By-Law should apply to all non-residents and that those within the Municipality who are carrying on business should be 'assessed for business tax. LIST of Persons for St. John Am- bulance Course. Filed. PLAN of proposed Coin Laundry-- Septic Tank and Tile Field--for ap- proval. The Clerk was instructed to send this proposed disposal plan to the sanitary inspector, Mr. Walter Sonley. LETTER from the Liquor Licence Board of Ontario, dated Feb. 24, 1961. "I have for acknowledgment your letter of the 22nd instant and the Pe- tition forwarded by you through Mr. Kenneth Jackson which was received on the 23rd day of February. The Petition contains the name of Ken- neth F. Jackson and others and is addressed to the Municipal Council of Perry, asking for the Submissipn of a question under the provisions of Sec- tion 72 (2) of the Liquor Licence Act. "Are you in favour of the sale of liquor under a dining lounge licence for consumption with meals on lic- ensed premises. The necessary Certificate of Suffi- the Municipality and bearing date of the 22nd day of February, 1961, is properly attached thereto. I am re- turning the Petition herewith, as it must be held by you for a period of four to six weeks during which time it may be examined by the Managers appointed to represent each side of | the question. At the end of that time jt must be returned to this office for final filing. The Board has set Wednesday the 26th day of April, 1961 as the day this vote shall take place. I am to- day notifying Mr. Roderick Lewis, Q.C., Chief Election _Officer for the Province of Ontario of the receipt of the Petition and of the date set by the Board for the holding of the vote. You will be hearing from him during the course of the next few days giv- in connection with the holding of this vote." REQUEST for Easément along the West side of Ash Street. Mr. Bruce Mackey and state that Ash Street running South from Scugog St. has a width of 48.84 ft. according to the original survey. -- Recently you obtained for the Corp- oration of Port Perry an easement of 8 ft. of the Gerrow property along the East side of Ash Street for the purpose of constructing Hydro lines. By reason of interference of trees hydro have decided that they prefer to run the lines down the West side of the Street, and for this purpose the over 8 ft. of land on the West side of Ash Street. "This Tand is all owned by Mr. Ger- row excepting a corner lot owned by Mr. Jesse Buxcey so that it will be necessary to deal with both of them. Mr. Gerrow intends to develop his property in which case the Depart- will undoubtedly require him to pro- vide sufficient land along Ash Street to make a road of regulation width of 66 ft. This would mean conveying to the Corporation of Port Perry 17.16 ft., part of which can be taken from each side of the road, Therefore it might be possible for you to obtain a conveyance of the land now rather than an easement. Would you please act as solicitor' obtdin a conveyance or if this is not possible the required easement. - Please let me know of any develop- On motion Council Adjourned. Fire at Nestlelon G. Buschlen; RR. 1 Nestleton. Port Perry fire Brigade were summoned about 4.80 pam. to Heavy Rains Cause Flooding Heavy rains combined with ice cakes and debris caused considerable flood- ing in Port Perry last Thursday. Many culverts were blocked with ice and the water was unable to get through in the usual path. Every- where reports were received of flood- ed basements, as water was not soak- ing --into the ground, folk on -high ground even suffered from the "run off" and all low lying areas were flooded. On every East-West street water was running when the large culvert on Queen Street became blocked for- cing the creek to back up as far as Scugog Street. The picture shows the condition on Queen street at noon on Thursday when the water rose to a depth of eight feet or more to overflow the road and made a re- gular cascade over the wall at the bowling green. : Once the culvert was cleared the rush of water flooded the bowling green, the club house and the base- ment of the Library. It was neces- sary to shut off the furance and the library was closed for a couple of days to eléan up. As soon as the frost is out work will be started in cleaning out the drainage ditches. More Fans Needed Play off games will "start this Sat- urday, when the Port Perry Juniors will meet the team from Orono fin the. Memorial Arena, Port Perry. Our local hockey team has been very successful and have shown fine sportsmanship and team spifit. Many of these lads were the ones who con- stituted the All-Ontario Juvenile "C" Championship team of last season. They were awarded a banquet and honoured by local officials. All this is very fine and was no "doubt-much-appreciated-by-the-team; BUT the thing they would like most -of all is a really good crowd of fans at their games! All the banquests, trophies, jackets and certificates won't mean half as much to the team as a crowd of enthusiastic supporters. Just as a point of interest we learn that the Uxbridge team on-Monday of this week had an attendance of over 900 at their game. Surely Port Perry can give their all-local boys team as good or better support. -- Ontario County 'Fed. of Aqzicvltnr. The directors of the Ontario County Federation of Agriculture at their re- gular monthly meeting on Tuesday evening, February 21st, voted in fa- vour of sponsoring another Board -School -this- spring.~ Several inquiries | had been made from the participants of last year's school and it was felt 'that "this interest was sufficient to warrant sponsoring a similar school this year. The details have been left to the Education Committee who will | work in co-operation with Ontario Federation of Agriculture .fieldstaff and the community Programmes Branch of Dept. of Education. The directors also voted fifty dol- lars to the Farm Safety Council, af- ter hearing- the request for financial agsistance from it's new chairman, Norman Lehman, Claremont. Dave Crone, O.F.A. fieldstaff, pre- sented a typical Agreement--one gim- ilar- to those that rural people are asked to sign all too frequently. He pointed out some of the clauses con- tained in such agreements and the involvement that signing some of these agreements can cause. Arrangements were made to pre- pare the 1961 Budget and to plan for the Zone Rally which will be held in Ontario County.in June, Reports were received from Mrs. Morris Martin, Udney and' Lorne Tin. dall, Goodwood who were the two par- ticipants from Ontario County in the Fifth' Rural Leadership Forum which was held at Niagara Falls, earlier this month, ~~ Both were appreciative of the opportunity provided for them through the Federation of Agriculture 'and expressed that it had been a most rewarding experience. : 'Chamber of Commerce The regular monthly Luncheon Meeting of the directors of the Cham- ber, was held on Monday, Feb. 27th at the Flamingo Restaurant. Main point of business being the planning of the Annual Meeting of the Chamber, this year to be held on Monday, April 10th. Along with the general business connected with an Annual Meeting, a special evening of slides on Cuba, recently; aken by Dr. "J. Price, will 'be show : Mr. John Orde, as Fo centative of the Chamber, reported on his meet- ing with Council, to discuss the chan- ges to be made in the near future, of some of the present stop signs to yield signs. Once again the parking problem in Port Perry was discussed at great length and it was decided to meet again with council and try to come Jup_with_a_concrete plan to correct | this very bad situation. A meeting with all Retail Merchants will be called as soon as something 'definite has been decided in this matter. The incoming president J. Price, President J. Orde and Past Pres. T. Griffen, to form a nominating com- mittee to fill the 6 vacancies created by the completion of their 2 year terms on the board of: H. Mahaffy, G. VanCamp, J. Orde; T. Griffen, A. Panabaker and S. Beare. -Phe Secretary was instivcted to or- ganize and distribute' the tickets for the Annual Meeting | fs soon as por. sible. S-- Twp. of i Council News February 6th, 1961-- All members of Council attended the regular meeting? held on above date. 1g The members of the Volunteer Fire Brigade were present, en mass, re- questing the balance of the Fire Levy. The Caretaker of the. Rink was pre- sent requesting certafn supplies, Mr, Putsey Sr. of Caesarea was present requesting immediate action with re- gards to installation of Caesarea St. Lights. , Also that the Building By- Laws should be stiffened up consider- ably: That the minimum cost of a new building to be approved as a re- sidence should be greatly increased. A deputation of ratepayers request- ing that no action be taken with re- gards to the leasing or renting of the unopened portion of the Road Allow- ance west of TA between Concessions 6 and 7. 'The Tenders for Building Inspector and Weed Inspector were opened and were as follows: Kenneth Samells, 'Blackstock-- + (Continued on Back Page) "The Heiress" by The Port Perry Drama Club Without any hesitation I belieye that we have seen the best perform- ance of a play by local talent in a good many years when we watched the story of "The Heiress" unfold on the stage of the High School last Fri- day evening. Written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, the play is based on Henry James novel "Washington Square". The student actors and actresses entered into the spirit of the times and held the attention of the audience throughout the evening. Many of the scenes would have been a challenge to professional actors. The judges must have experienced some difficulty in choosing the best actor and actress, as each one por- trayed his part in an excellent manner. Best actor, Jim Read as the father, Dr. Sloper, and best supporting actor, Bruce Ballinger, as the suitor, Morris Townsend. The best actress, Lawr- ence Clark as the Dr.'s daughter, Ca- therine, and the best supporting ac- tress was awarded to Elizabeth St. John, as Aunt Lavinia. The stage setting was well handled to give the setting of a gracious liv- ing room of a wealthy family. The play was directed by Miss N. McCully assisted by Mr. Pashler. Before the play commenced the High School Cadet band, entertained us with one or two numbers, These se- lections were well handled and show- ed that our cadet band has been care- fully trained to give a good perfor- mance on parade day. While we ap- preciated the excellence of their train- ing we could not but wish that there had been some way to "Mute" the instruments for inside renditions. Between acts Miss Rosemary Nod- well gave us a few fine selections of the bag pipes. Of course Rosemary was suitably garbed in the plaids, and handled her instrument very well, A great deal of work and enthu- siasm must have taken place behind. scenes, and to those who helped in this way we offer our congratulations, for the resulting presentation was worthy of your efforts, and will go down in the memories of most of the High School students as one of the great moments of their school life. W.I1. Holds "Afternoon Tea 'Mrs. Barthau_ held an Afternoon Tea at her home for the ladies parti- cipating in the Cooking Course. Final arrangements for the County Day to be held in Claremont with seven other Institutes were discussed. A Skit was planned to point out some of the lessons in the course. A discussion of the importance of having a pleas- ant and friendly atmosphere in the home, especially at the table was stressed. The ancient proverb "That it is better to share a crust of bread with. a friend than. the finest feast with an enemy" was used as an illus- tration that pointed up the psycholo- gical principle of the pleasure of eat- ing. The finest food in the world is of no avail in a hate-filled atmosphere or where the children are dominated by overbearing and hostile parents, criticized and scolded throughout the meal. On the other hand, children can soon learn to use the refusal of food as a weapon over the parent and obtain a negative sort of attention by commenting on likes and dislikes and by generdl unpleasant behaviour. It is pointed out that fathers in particu- lar set a pattern for pleasant and friendly mealtimes and that-they re- frain from making negative comments about the food. Happy, pleasant, well balanced children will come to the table eager to enjoy the food and re- late the day's experience with mon and dad. The smallest child should be allowed to enjoy himself at this family time together. A plastic place mat and plastic dishes can cut down on the minor catastrophes that occur from little hands. Many of us in our adult years make many a blunder at the table. Emily Post the noted au- thority on etiquette, once upset cran- berries all over a white linen banquet cloth and was mortified at the sight. She relates how her host got to his (Continued on Back Page) their family and society, New Developments in Education Discussed ed By Secondary S. Teachers The Annual cation Conference of York-Ontario District Secondary School Teachers, held in Port Perry, on Thursday, February 28, discussed new developments in Education. Dr. D. Carlton Williams, M.A. Ph.D., Director of the Department of Exten- sion of the University of Toronto, ad- dressed the teachers and spoke of the influences within and without the field of education. He mentioned the in- terest in new methods of teaching ma- thematics and the consideration being given to the modification of the or- ganization of Grade XIII. It was his opinion that the time had come when there was a need for an evening Col- lege to give an adult education with a curriculum below the college degree level. Mr. Williams drew attention to the impact upon life of the growth of urbanization in Canada and the auto- mation of industry. He felt that the mass median of communication now hold great implications for education, but that television, while it extended CW.L Spring Conference The Ontario County South Region of the Catholic Women's League held their Spring Conference at St. Gre- gory's, Oshawa, with approximately 100 persons in attendance. Rev, L. McGough: of St. Gregory's celebrated Benediction in the Church followed by the- Conference in the Hall. The highlight of this Conference was a Panel on the Christian Family Apos- tolate theme, composed of: Mrs. Arthur O'Connor of Pickering; Mrs. Kathleen Ireland, of Ajax; Mrs. G. Bell of Port Perry; Mrs. L. Bloye of Whitby. Mrs. _C._J. Kelly, Spiritual. Con venor of the Toronto Archdiocesan C.W.L. was Moderator of the Panel. --Each Member of the panel an- swered one question in detail, in the form of an address. Dealing with the teaching of prayer in the home, Mrs. A. O'Connor stated: "Prayer begins in the cradle. Children are natural imitators, so parents pray that they will give a good example always" . . "J "It takes time," patience and consist" ency, but prayer and example is a '| life-time job for the parents". --*"T'he- mother who brings up her children in love and fear of God with a sense of responsibility to themselves is supreme among women". It was with these words that Mrs. Bloye concluded her talk on the ability of teenagers to nc- cept responsibility. --Mrs. Bell showed the inadvisa- bility of teenagers of going steady and instructed parents as to their role -in-direeting-their children through this phase of growing up. "One of the greates tsecurities a teenager has, is bein gable to explain why their Mo- ther or Father won't let them". --The school should only supple- ment the work of -parénts as religious educators. The parents remain the chief religious educator and the home still remains the chief school of re- ligion", so stated Mrs. K. Ireland in answer to the question--Does the res- (Continued on Back Page) New Time Clock At Arena Hockey. fans have long been asking for 'a time clock in the Memorial Arena, Port Perry. Last week one was installed. It is an electric time clock, oper- ated automatically from the timers booth 'and will tell the score and the length of time to play in a period. It is planned to have wings on the clock, where local merchants may rent advertising space, The total cost including the instal- lation is less than $1000. the classroom could not replace the work and res- ponsibilities of the teacher. He noted that growing demands for books at public libraries and the larger record collections despite the advent of radio. Guests of the teachers for the day included representatives of the high school boards in the district. Mr. R. Couzens, President of the 0.8.8.T.F., commented on the efforts of the Fed- eration to give assistance to teachers who wish to raise their qualifications as teachers, Filed trips were planned for the afternoon by the Commercial and In- dustrial Arts teachers at Oshawa. Mathematics teachers were visitors at the IBM plant in Don Mills, Music teachers and English teachers had an opportunity to observe some class- room work in Toronto. Miss Eileen Parker of the Port Perry High School Staff and Chair- man of the Professional Development Committee, organized the successful and useful Conference. Telephone Letters To be Changed To Numbers. Seven-figure numbers will be in- troduced in Port Perry coincident with publication of the 1961 directory in July, JW. Lowry, Bell Telephone manager for this region, said this week, #2 oT number will not mean an actual change in dialing since the letters Y and U of Yukon will simply be re- placed by the corrésponding numbers --9 and 8--on the dial," Mr. Lowry said. "When the change takes effect, the present number YUkon 65-1234, for instance, would become 985-1234." "All Port Perry numbers will be pre- fixed by the three digit code 985. In all cases, they will be completed by the last four figures of the" present numbers. Under a similar change, all Oshawa and Brooklin numbers 'will also ap- pear in seven-figure form in the July directory. "The change to seven-figure num- hers is being made under the All- will eventually. embrace most tele- phones in Canada and the United States," Mr. Lowry said. "ANC {makes more telephone numbers avail-. able than does a numbering plan in- volving letters and numerals." Mr. Lowry pointed out that under the two-letter, five-figure numbering system, such as is in effect here now, certain letter combinations cannot be used to form exchange designations, For example, the "XK" combination cannot be expanded into a word. Un- der the seven figure system of num- bering, this difficulty is overcome thus making many more telephone numbers_available for use throughout the two countries. Mr. Lowry explained that with the gradual build up of a Direct Distance Dialing network in Canada and the U.S., enabling telephone users to dial their own long distance calls, the two countries are being turned into one vast telephone exchange. As, in a smaller exchange, there can be no duplication in telephone numbers, so some 60,000,000 disfintinctive ones are now needed. Another important advantage of all- figure nambers.is the elimination of the possibility of misspelling or mis- interpreting exchange names. Also the possibility of confusing the letter "I"" and the figure one and the letter "0" and the figure zero, {s eliminated. Keep Off The Grass With continued spring-like weather it's not too early in the year to warn the children to keep off of the lawns, So many youngsters have heen making a habit of cutting corners that 'the path will soon be cut so deeply into the mud ag to destroy the grass roots, entirely. Please mother, warn your children to Ay. on the sidewalk, ~ 0.HA Junior Play-Off - Orono vs. Port Perry - Sat., Mar. beyond four walls, .. "Introduction of the new form of Number Calling. (ANC).-plan- whieh mmm Zoe A EIN may 4 t iL FLY TRA