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Ce Vor --Créamery, Lyons Garage, with con- ~--necting automatic laundry and- living ~~ The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association a £ ' gf iikta PP) : ial THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE be -------- - Notes and Comments ~ Spot: ds a Kind of " In*Nokth Arfierica we have, in a mgnner raised: sport to the level of a fost of us'are sport-worshipers. of fipeaking, religion. © Thanks to the high' priests- cult we Have mastered a whole new lan- guage associated with the various forms to"which sport gives expression. bowling ; it has its own sacred jargon just as curling, has'its own, or as skiing has as basketball has its. learned the patter of the various cults we support from the ubiquitous sports writ- ers, sports announcers and sports casters. They dre all of a heirarchy from. the lowly once-a-week « correspondent to the grand mogul of them all, Foster Hewitt, - its or We. have the temples of sport, too, only we call them sport palaces or gardens, but they are really temples where we go as votive neophytes to worship. at the very shrine of the sport we love. We make sacrifices to these our new ~gods of the twentieth century too. spend 'money, we give up our time, we devote ourselves to the pursuit of revela- New Winds Not Ill It is becoming obvious that none of the new nations in Africa is keen about"lining - up 'with either the West or the Comniunist Religion tion regarding of the sport Take employed and We have not without There isn't a America that scandal. ity gather, th "Down throu shiped all so shiped their s We take ou make sure 'th over us; and enough, in m crooks . We Winds the emergence the world. © Bloc. Until the Congo fiasco hroke with - all its ramifications and contradictions, it 'appeared that the peoples of Africa, the ones who had thrown off the ancient yoke of colonialism, were looking to-the Unitéd Nations as a' sanctuary and a source of security. Here in the company of the ninety-nine member nations, they' expected to find Neegless. to say, these new nations are weak, confused and 'Their greatest weakness stems rivalries threaten all serious attempts to unite the new countries in some intelligent and con- help and direction. troubled. from irrational tribal certed action. The one hope is, of course, to find in the United Nations support for a pro- gramme and'a' policy free of domination from either of the two opposing world powers, Now that the Afro-Asian bloc Holds the ~balance-of power in the United Nations 'In order to pare, to weigh. in a 'totalitaria which dount 'if we 'te - ed above. come tools "of" they are-used wild enthusiasm for another converted touchdown or a ten end play. One of the greatest 'responsibilities of the alert citizens 'is: to teach people to think--the opposite of passive'acceptance. hink one miist learn to com- who would rob us of our freedom. Se them and in them we find interest and meaning and purpose, There is great solace for us in this day and age in our forget all about atom bombs and the un- worship of sport. We can the under-privileged in our goal or a Unfortunately, our 'religion of sport is its "corrupting influences. major professional sport in hasn't spawned a first class Wherever the sporting fratern- e gangsters and the under- world are quick to follow. gh the ages men have wor- rts "of false gods. And wherever and whenever they have so wor- ociety has been exposed to the corrupting forces of greed. ir sport too- seriously and those who have money 'to make out of it at 'it "doesn't lose its hold when the take gets big ove the gamblers and the . the money-changenrs. of these new! nations is "serving 'to draw together the peoples of ---- evidence, to ask questions. "Why" is one of the most important words in a democracy, one of the niost. suspect n state. "The great communication facilities we have to-day can be turned to good ac- ach our' children to check the vast amount of information they con- tinually receive by the standards mention- If radio, records, television are used with passive acceptatice they be- 'the! first strong dictator If to analyze, to compare, to stimulate our thinking then they: become assets, may-+take shape. In spite of the immediate strife that has stemmed from this new freedom in Africa, it is conceivable that such a programme shadows: 'and bring out the realities; to discriminate be tween accurate information and. harmful propagahda, District 'Doings is LION DOLLAR LIFT LOCK FENELON ne $1,00,000 hydraulic lift lock job in Fenelon Falls"has been 'announced by "Clayton 'Hodgson, M.P. and the village is 'all»agog.' Estimated cost of the project is 1,000,000. The Department of Transport has given notice to five business estab- lishments in 'Fenelon' Falls, located on the'island between the canal and the falls, to vacate 'their: premises on September 1, 1961. Phese 'business firms are Fénelon quétters, Kittles cabins, and K. Ni | cholls, "plutiiber. Thése premises have been occupied on a Yearly lense basis. Work will commence on October 1st, on a hydraulic Tift'lock to replace the présent locks numbers ~33- and 84. This will*resnlt in 'water 'cofserva- tion. It'hag*heeri"estifnated that over 1,000 small' crafts passed though the locks during the past navigation seg- | son, - The Iobks also will be" 'degpend- to reduce thé figed far operation of te old" swing Bridge. The also will he deepéheéd to refilaced "and - relocated - eliminating tw dangerous curves in the road. The lift lock "will also' make the thidligh the 16cks much 'easier for lafiger "¢raft, many of which have. heen seen in Fenelon in:the past few: yeéhrs, The department ot transporte plans indlude the heautification of the vi- oifity of the locks and it may be for this reason that the island is being vdéated, . : JAMES HORNICK APPOINTED y BE LINDSAY PUBLISHER Wictoria Publishing Company an- ndtinces 'the appointment of James Alan Hornick as publisher and gen- "eral manager of The Watchman-War- '| that nione of 'the 'other members of "He ditt eds S. R. Pitts, owner and | publisher since 1940. _ Mr. Pitts is! retiring to pursue a broad range of business "interests, but has consented to. make himself available to The 'Watehman-Wardef in an advisory-ca- | pacity. Mr. Hornick, at 37, is a veteran of 22 years' newspaper 'experience -and has won 18/national awards for news- paper, magazine, television and 'radio writing ,and 'for photography. Assignments have 'taken him to' 10 'provinces,' éxtensively throughout 'the United States, six times to Euiope and to Mexico, Teeland'and Greenland. On' one memorable decasion he Toft | Toronto on a Friday might to inter-| view a British industrialist.in London, England. He "was "back home 48 hours--and 7,000 miles--later. | Mr, Horhick is terminating' his 'em- 'ployment 'with' The: Toronto Daily! Star; "where - he~has-beep~assistqnt ' 'City editor for"the*past"18 months. At The Star, he supervised coveétagé of the recént-Domirfori-Pravireial fis) 'cal conferénce in Ottawa, ES LINDSAY HAVE OPERATING DEFICIT 'OF '$41,000 FOR'f960 * The "Battle of the Budget Wéaded into" turbfilent waters' last "Monday night" when Mayor Jos, Holtom told Council that Lindsay. had an dperat- / ing deficit "of ~$41,000. last-year.- It 'was Yenlized that here was Another '| bitter pill for the taxpayers. of the disconcerting fact when he and- FinAnce Chairfaan Aeheson had 'at- teridéd 'a meeting with the Town audi- tors that morning. ~~He- expressed keen disappointment 'council were at:this meeting to which all were invited, Deputy-reeve Aches son and 'himself had spent séveral hours in reviewing the annual state. ment of the Town business with the der}: effective May 1, learned about the* large deficit which affected many town departments, he explained. On suggestion of I" Gordon Pepper. the auditors will be asked-to appear before the Town Council next | Monday to discuss the town's year- énd veport'in full. Asked by The? Warder how the {$41,000 deficit would be handled, Chairman Acheson replied, he "sup- : posed the 'only way would be to levy for: it, "Alb depgirtments are doing the.best they can!in preparing their budgets "and _are* working day and night _in_a_ supreme effort to keep to { the' absolute minithum in all things. Lr ---- 'PICKERING "TWP, COUNC IL TO 'CONSIDER' PURCHASING SEVERAL INDUSTRIAL SITES 3 A suggestion by councillor: Ross, * Deakin: that - Pickering Twp. Counqil should. seriously @#onsider the purch,, ase of - industrial land, preferably "fiofiting on Highway 401, met with . + the approval of Wm. A, Willson, Qen- eral Mgr, of Metrd Toronto Industrial Comission... Mr Willson addregsed +| &* pubis meeting in Brougham on, ight, "There's too much dickering with the private property owner," suggest- | - ed councillor-Deakin. He also fayour- 'ed'an 'advertisement of Pickering's | gular buginess in a drive towards the list Roxy Webster, It is a good thing assets In the Fiflancial Post nnd fn- dustrial 'magazines, Reeve Shermafl Scott warned that' The Mdyor said he becamé 'Aware *atich @ program could prove':.very "EoBtly to the taxpayers. "There is a, 'point béyond which we can 'commit the township," advised the Reeve. He | conténded, However, that such a pro- "ject would-tend to place n pride con- trol on industrial properties. : noted that the Péwnship of Scirbéro had put sueh a plan into practice with considérable success, He poirited out that. the purchase of land wuld re. quire Ontarfo Municipal Bi ird ap- auditors and had among other details proval, '| théir own interests and in the interest 'announce 4 mew study on the rela- _The_function--of- TR intelligent were f Aho no Bill, people is surely to interpret; to reject the Report From Parliament "By "Michael Starr, M.P. Minister of Labour A busy week on Parliament Hill. The National Productivity Council got down to business with a full day's meeting under the chairmanship of George DeYoung, President of Atlas Steel. "The Minister of Trade and Com- merce and myself were present. | could not stay all day as [had to attend a meeting on amendments to the Unemployment Insurance' Act. The new American Ambassador, Mr. Merchant, is coming to pay his respects in a day or two. The first meeting of management and labour, called by the Minister of Trade and Commerce and the Minister of Labour, went off well. Consider- able progress was made with accept- ance in principle at least of the idea of labour and management co-opernt- ing down the line. Certainly the extension of this prin- ciple could" mean tremendous differ- ence in labour-management relations in this country. All it needs is a new look at labour: management dealings. Why should not . both sides try to get along in of the Canadian public? Another interesting get-together lately, as a means of amassing more information 'about current problems was a meeting called by the Canadian Conference on' Education. "The Chairman was Kurt. R. Swin- ton, und the meeting was called to tionship" between unemployment 'and education, Among those in attendance, in ad- dition to myself as Minister of Lab- our, was Mr. Jodoin, President 'of the Canadian Labour Congress, and Mr. W. George of the Canadian Manufac- turers' Association. Also in attend- ance was Mr. George Roberts, Prin- cipal of O.C.V.I. in Oshawa. The House recently gave first vead- ing to a new Bill sponsored by the Minister of Labour, und dealing with the rehabilitation of disabled persons. The Bill would co-ordinate existing plans and programs and would! enlist Federal. and Provincial co-operation. The Department of Labour, 'under would co-ordinate Fed- eral activities in the field of vocation- al rehabilitation and would also pro- vide for rescarch. A National Advisory Council on the Rehabilitation of Disabled DPer- sons is provided for under the legis- lation, The Council Chairman: will receive remuneration and other mem- bers would be allowed travelling ex- penses. The whole basis of the new legislu- tion is to encourage a more positive attitude among the Provinces towards disabled or handicapped persons. At the present time there are many people who, for lack of training or other assistance, find themselves un- able to earn a living. e Many of these people are not able to get in touch with the proper au- thorities in the Province in which they live. In many cases they are not aware of the services which are available. =A "more positive attitude SOEs these people, as provided in the legis- lation, would result in many -more being assisted than is presently the 'ease, Postmortem on conventions was the order of -the day in the Commons on Monday and 'Tuesday, with both the Liberal' and Conservative rallies com- ing in for analysis and criticism. «Members on. the Opposition - side said that the Conservative rally was dull; and Government members main- tained the Liberal rally in Ottawa in January was completely without or- nization, he flurry arose on Monday tolioqr ing a Liberal non-eonfidence motion. '|'and spilled over on Tuesday. 'He. © 'By Wednesday, the House Had got conventions pretty well out of its system and was buckling down to re- "Faster: recess, Of Many Thing 'Many Things- By Ambrose Hills CLOSE UPIOF/ CLOSE UP? "If you watch 'CBC-TV for very long, you are likely to be convinced that' the proletariat gets' pushed a- round badly in Canada, A program called CloseUp, which is usually well done, sells this brand of thought all too often. If a moral were stamped at "paid the man' $26 a day during the kind, 'Maundy Thursday, at 8 p.m. to be reminded in this forceful way © and wuffered: death upon the Cross, ---- Thursday, March 30th, 1961 'bably read: "Free enterprise is in a messy--vote socialist or communist." Of "course, no such bold moral fs flashed on the £creen. The indoc- trination subtle, sustained, and clever. . The little man is depicted as a phshover for the big bad manipu- lators of our free land. Once in a while, when the pro- gram tries really hard to sell the idea, others decide 'to take a close up of Close Up itself--and what they find looks rather worse than the "fixing" that was so widely deplored in American telecasting. There was the case of the so-called divorce witness in a multitude of fuked adulteries. It turned out that the faking was faked and while Close Up remained exciting, it beeame a good deal less persuasive. Now there is the case of the "un- employed" Hamiltonian, whose pride was damaged so badly because, at 48, he was too old to find employment in this cruel cold Canada, with its devil- take-the-hindmost form of organiza- tion. Mr. Starr, the Minister of la- bor, took his own close up of this one, He found that the "unemployed" man over whom we had all eried and with whom we all sympathized, wasn't in such a sorry position after all. He had quit a $6000 job because he didn't think it had a future, To citizens in the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub. lics, that kind of a job would have looked like past, present, future and Heaven all rolled up into one! Fur thermore, the "unemployed" man had job opportunities which he apparently thought best to pass up, at least until his Close Up appearance was aver! According to Mr. Starr, the CBC 15 weeks he was engaged while the pro- gram 'was being produced. He has now 'been flooded with job offers. "Was the CHC again "fooled" hy someone whose story It related 2 Well, as Mr, Stare said so -tellingly, "If the CBC wants any veal facts before launching upon a program of this they can easily obtain them," weeks, The Afternoon Guild will meet in the chureh hall on Tuesday, April 4th, there will be a Euchre on Thursday evening, April 6th, the W,A Easter tea and bake sale will be held on Saturday, April 8th, the W.A. and Evening Guild will both meet on Tues. day, April 11th, and the Church School Teachers' Group will hold its monthly meeting on Thursday, April 13th. The Deanery School of Religion will be held in Oshawa on Monday nights for five weeks commencing April 10th. Those interested may register at the first session for any one of five courses, which include: "Teach Your- self the Faith", "Living With the Bible (a life of Christ)", "Christian Behaviour", "Prayer «and Persons Life", and "Brothers of the Faith" (a study of some great Christians of re- cent times). Further details are available from the Rector. The Evening Guild has embarked upon a project to obtain an automatic coffee urn for the church kitchen. This involves the saving of many la- bels from food products. The urn can be procured free of charge if enough labels are collected. It is hoped that all the ladies in the church will help with this undertaking. Lists of labels to be saved are being dis- tributed through the officers of all the church ladies' groups, or may be obtained from Miss Pat Clarke. We would like to express a word of thanks to those who have helped the church school during the year by tak- ing classes when regular teachers are absent. These include Mesdames Mor- row, Hodgson, Knight, Bell, Rennie and Glass; Miss Snowdon, and Mr. Gardner and Mr. Becker. Their as sistance is very much appreciated. Members of the Evening Guild are reminded that thelr talent money is due at the next meeting, April 11th, The annual spring Rummage Sale will he held on Saturday, April 22nd... _. - [] [] District Doings EAST WHITBY TAX RATE UP 10.5 MILLS Anglican Notes By Mary Becker The healing service of the Laying On of Hands will take place tanight, in the Church of the Ascension. At this' service of Holy Communion, those de- siring healing for themselves or others may stay at the Altar rail after wel ceiving the Sacrament, for thd Lay- ing On of Hands. The Stripping of the Altar. will conclude the Service. Tomorrow, Good Friday, the tra- ditional service of meditation upon the . Cross will 'be held from 1 to 3 p.m. | On Easter morning, the Holy Com- munion" will be celebrated at 11.30 a.m. There will-be-no church school that day, so that families may be to- gether for this joyous: service. ~ In- fants and children up to 4 years may be left in the church hall, where baby sitters will be in charge. The children of the church school are reminded that they should bring their Lenten boxes to. church service the Sunday after Easter, April Oth, when they will be presented. As this column will not appear next week, the following are the main events coming up during the next two I i the total levy on commercial and in- + mills on a total assessment of $422, While East Whitby Township Coun- cil found it possible to reduce ity gen- cral township rate, the total tax rate in the township for 1961 will show an increase of 10.5 mills. Much of -the---increase is- due 'to Fiaimg "eduen-{ tional costs, At a special meeting Thing night dustrial property was. struck at 65.2 | 440. The total levy on farm and residential property will be 62.4 mills on a total assessment of $2,920,165. RE-ASSESSMENT OF LAND ~-PROBABLE-FOR WHITBY A decision on re-assessing land values in the Town of Whitby will be made within the next two weeks. The finance committee will make a report as to whether the Town of Whitby should follow the lead of -parking. for town. land in county rates for 1962. .| STOUFFVILLE INCREASE RATE 6 MILLS Stouffville taxpayers will pay just about six 'mills increase in this year's tax rate, made up primarily of in- and a half mills will go to the county, one of which is for the much publi. cized hospital program, and two mills will be needed for public school costs. General purposes which include auddi- tional police, works department truck and salaries will also take another mill. i The new .rate for residential taxes will be 71.48 mills as compared to 65.6 last year, and for business and commercial 74.46 mills as compared to 68.5 in 1960. The total amount of money required by the budget $281,877.91 and the total sel. 4 on which this will be levied is $3,788,- 016.84. The additional money re- quired this year as compared to last is approximately $29,000, of which the county & schools require $18,000. $12,000 EXPENDITURE ON NEW VICTORIA COUNTY PARK At the recent March session $12,000 was approved by County Council, to provide for the new Victoria County Park near Kirkfield. The$12,000 will include the provi- sion for salaries of two employees, picnic tables, water supply, changing rooms, "storehouse, garbage cans ete. The 66.6 acre park property pur- chased from the federal! government for $3,600 will be taken over by the County this month and it is hoped to hive it opened to the public this summer it was pointed out. i "The park which has a large sandy beach is located on the former Me- Pherson farm along the Trent Canal. It will have no facilities for ® Yin B -- rym Prince Albert Holy Communion was observed at church service on Sunday assisted by Mr. F. Vickery and Mr. E. Marytn, Word arrived here of the passing of Mr. Stephen Lampkin of Brandon, Man. He married the former Miss Florence Martyn. "Mr. Lampkin is a Prgther-in-law to Mr. and Mrs. Win. Martyn whot tended. Sunday callers with Mr\ Wm. Martyn included Mr, G.. Mark, afd Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Morison and Ken all of Toronto. Mr, and Mrs. L. Beacock and boys were Sunday visitors with his mother Mrs. W. E. .Beacock, Nestleton. Mrs. Wm. Jeffrey spent Sunday with her daughter, Mr. and Mrs. B Snelgrove and family. Mr..and Mrs. Frank Gibson visited recently with Mra, Ansel) and family, Orillia. Mr. and Mrs. R. Butson with Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Waggs, Oshawa, algo calling on the gramma Mrs. Clay. to sympathy is ex- Ajax, the Village of Pickering and Pickering Township and raise the assessment on its land, or continue to fight the claims of the assessment department of the County of Ontario. It has been indicated that the county will claim. under- Afgsesament Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. Gibson included Mr. Thompson, Sunderland, and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Anderson, Stouffville. Mr. Robt. Heayn of Toronto Bible "College with his pATents } Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Heayn.- - The eyes of all Christian people are turned to Calvary and Joseph's sepul- chre with mixed feelings of sorrow and joy. On Friday we commemorate the' erucifixion' of our Lord. ' There will be services of worship through- out all Christian lands and tegether with those of all ages we will wend our way to the Church of our choice, and there bow our heads in sorrowful 'remembrance. "We shall have a ser- wice in our Prospeéct:Church on Fri- day commencing at 8 p.m. There will be special music when Kay Smith will sing for us accompanied by our pian. for all who profess the love of Chsist that He loved us so mitch that He {ook upon Himself the form' of man thereby proving to us in no uncertain terms 'that He is the greatest lover of man, - We do invite all our pepole to come and worship with: us on Friday eveh- ing. Then again on Sunday we shall all be in Church: 'Not-many af us will need any ocoakhig ofi Easter: Sunday. The Churches will ba filled to" aver- the end of each episode, it wauld pra< and lifted up. It was this spirit of jov- that, changed for us Christians, the meeting together on the first day of the week for Praise and Worship in- stead of the seventh. Jesus who died on a Friday rose victorious over the grave on a Sunday. so every Sunday is Easter for the Christian. "+The sacrament of Baptism will be administered at Manchester Church. All who have children to be baptised bring them on Sunday and let them enter. into their Christian Heritage through the holy symhol of the clean- | sing by water. Attendance at our churches on Sun- day. was remarkedly good. Since, the visitation of our Stewards at, Man: chester thére has heen a greater res sponse. We asked the congregation for a weekly offering of forty dollars District Churches. "Scugog, "Manchester and Prospect just like an Anniversary. Our com- municants class after the service keeps growing each week; the hour goes very quickly. - So also is our class on Monday evenings on the lsiana. The girls met at the Mange this week. The ladies of the W. A. were busy dec- lorating the basement of the church on the Island. - There will be a "Flow- er Show" on the 29th and all the ladies of the pastoral charge are invited. We do hope. that it will be a big sue- cess, and will tell you about it in the next issue. . Our Cubs on the Island i nre meeting on; Thursday evening as /it was not suitable for the ladies last Monday. Then at 8.30 the Choir will . practice. , at our: chyrchea on: Sunday and once "again wé say to our choirs "Thank you s0 much fer your. wonderful contri bution." its allocation for and Mrs. L. There will be special music - and we are now well in the thirties. ' Happy birthdays to Donald Holtby The best way to finance the church is of Prospect and to Harold Leach of to attend and give your offering. Our, Manchester, . Our, prayers on behalf: smallest pianist played again for us of all who are not well, and to those on Sunday. Thank you Susan Roach, whe are confined to their homes. Your just keep on and someday your Mom- Minister and family take this oppor my. will nat be quite so nervous for tunity to wish you one and all a happy you, We were happy to have so many and joyous Easter, flowing and hearts will be comforted children with us. At Prospect it was: triumphantly in all our lives. ob 4 creased county and school costs, Two May Christ hve ) A Nl 3 OL rar aca Te peti ae CW ee pT a) NS ay hone i 4 LS : ¥ v