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Port Perry Star (1907-), 3 Feb 1966, p. 4

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* "Kendall in Port Perry hospital | hursday, Feb. 3rd, 1966 PORT PERRY STAR, T OA SO O® DOOD P > SEO® DOES Port Perry Star Co. Limited Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas NNN NAW, P. HVIDSTEN, \ Publisher MEBber of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. WM. T. HARRISON Editor Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. GOB rrr le Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Fort Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. Subscription Rates: In Canada $3.00 per yr., Elsewhere, $4.50 per yr. Single Copy 10¢ MAA Ad A A 8 8 a a a a a a a a a a a a ga ooo oo ag gi ll o_o NOOB oo uU Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mitchell EK. Chisholm, and family of Ottawa spent a Gordon Smith; Gent's Second GeGnt's First week with Mr. and Mrs. J. W, Hugo Bradley; Mitchell, | Bonnetta, Mrs. S. Howsam and Mrs, F. weeks, Mitchell visited one day with' Mrs. Violet Skerratt, Miss Faye Harper of Teach-'! e's College teaching in Oshawa ~this week, Sorry to Con. Néxt Euchre in two ---- Port Perry Council --we hope for a speedy re At a meeting held Tuesday covery. morning, January 25th, Reeve J. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Slack J. Gibson, Dr. G. M. Rennie, spent the week-end with Mr. & Councillor R. A. Kenny and Mus. Murray Geer, stormed in Messrs, Charles Knox, Robt. as road blocked. | Knox, Mr. Jost of the Polar Cold Storage Co. met with Mr, "Armstrong of the Ontario Wat- ing last week with Mr, & Mrs, Loy Resources Commission. The Chet Geer. question of industrial wastes Mr. and Mrs. Walt Mitchell, from the proposed cold storage : plant would create no problems insofar as noise and odours are concerned, in the opinion of Mr. report Mr. Larry Mr. and Mrs. Corless Ashen- hurst, Uxbridge spent an even- Kinsale spent Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs. James Mit- chell. Mrs. Alex Suteliff in Toronto tated how Sa h for the week-end visited with Stated however that these mat- her daughter Margaret. - are she the B i ror Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fisher of oY Council and the Board o Ashburn were supper guests - Health. last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kendall. | Chief R. J. Cameron reported Mr. and Mrs. Jansen have to Council on the activities of moved into the home formerly the local pool-room and advised owned by Mr. Wm, Philp. | that a by-law forbidding games Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Haugen ©of chance be drafted. This by- and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wil- law would prohibit the opera- liams of Port Perry visited tion of pin ball machines in the with Mr. and Mrs, Bert Mit-! Village of Port Perry. A ¥e-| chell on Sunday. i solution was subsequently made Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hitchens to have an appropriate by-law and Wendy were guests with drawn up. Mr, and Mrs. W. J. Mitchell at the cottage, also Mrs. Bonin and Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Roberts all port on prices charged by the of Oshawa. Cedarvale Tree Services Limit- There were fourteen tables of ed, and advised that the price Euchre played in Community for removal of trees is very Hall on Saturday evening. La-' reasonable ,and in some instan- dies first Margaret Gall; La- ces, the company has cut down EE TY * * Council was also given a re- Garry | lL EEE \ SRL - - -AND RATE A PRIVATE OFFICE?" MOTHERS SHOULD BE PAID A DECENT WAGE ~ News Jer - The first of the three Father and Son Banquets for the sea- son was held on Saturday even- ing, Jan. 29th at the Scout and Guide Hall, with B Cub Pack & i the 2nd Scout Troop in attend- ance. Sixty-three boys and fathers and guests sat down to an ex- cellent turkey supper well pre- pared and expertly served by the Scout Mothers Auxiliary under Pres, Mrs. Alma Reesor and Banquet Convenor Mrs. An- nie Wakeford, with able assist- ance from a number of Cub & Scout Mothers. Toastmaster for the evening was Gerald Nelson, representing the Group Committee, Head table personnel were: Rev. Alec Rice, Cubmaster Charles Reesor | and son Larry, Scoutmaster Bob Bell, Constable Rob Roy, Cub Stephen Brain and Scout Char- des Second Erma Watson; Con. trees for the wood. les Nelson, Scouts, Cubs Host Armstrong of the OWRC. He]. Other leaders present were: Scouters Bob Mansfield, Peter Sweetman and Assistant Cub Leader Glenn Van Camp. A feautre of the program was the Investiture of Glenn Van Camp and Donald Waldinsperger as Scouts, and the presentation of Second Stars to Cubs, Wayne Dowson, Billy Van Camp, Danny Harris, and Jamie McNab, In charge of the Investiture was Scoutmaster Bell and assisting, Scouters Mansfield, Sweetman and Reesor. Mrs. Van Camp presented her husband with his Scout hat and son Billy welcom- ed his father into the Pack and presented him with the Pack Badge. A lively sing-song was joined in by all present, Scouters Mans- field and Reesor in harge. Both leaders spoke of the work in the Pack and Troop and of the pro- SUGAR and SPICE ald Pargeter. To Fathers gress being made by the boys. More help to.take the Scouts on hikes would be appreciated. Constable Roy gave a few brief remarks and Rev, Rice had good moral advice for the adults and a humorous story .for the boys concerning -an actual ex- perience at a boys' camp. The Toast to the Fathers was ably given by Scout Greg. Goode, and capably responded to by his father Gordon, form- erly Cubmaster of the Pack. Tha remainder of the program was carried on upstairs under di- rection of the Leaders, and a real period of fun was enjoyed by fathers and boys as they engaged in a number of games together. Assisting the Chair- man Gerald Nelson with pre- parations were: committee members, Ralph Taylor, John Jefford, Allin Dowson and Don- OROROROTOTOTONOO Ee Oo By BILL SMILEY "midnight. A RED - EYED TEACHER Ever been on shift work? Most nurses have. Many industrial workers have. Farmers, executives, merchants, office workers -- and until recently, teachers --- have not had that delightful experience._ First time I ran into it was on my first job, when I was 17 -- back in the middle ages, some times known as the Dirty Thirties. 1 have been a stalwart champion of the working man ever since. It was on a steamboat on the Great Lakes. For a dollar a day. Seven days a week, I worked the graveyard shift. Except that in 'those days it was a shift.and a half, from midnight to noon. And it seemed to be rolling a little every Just enough to make you queasy. Sick at heart. sick at stomach, we groggily made our way to the galley. about 11.30 p.m., for "break- fast'. The night cook was a jolly Oriental gentleman called Sing. He couldn't sing, And he couldn't cook, either. But hic heart was in the right place. He knew we needed sustenance for the 12 hours ahead. Chuckling merrily, he'd pile our plates with greasy eggs, greasy ham, greasy fried potatoes. Some- times, for a change, there'd be greasy sausage and bread fried in grease. ATE % ~ Even a 17-year-old stomach, the human organ that most closely resembles a cement-mixer, couldn't take it. We used to push the greasy gob around the plate, and settle for some greasy coffee. But the clincher, the thing that really madé& our stomachs heave, that made us rush from the gallery to our jobs of cleaning out the lavatories, was the dessert, Triumphantly, Sing would sing out, "You like nice Boston Cleam Pie? TI got". Now, as you prob- ably know, Boston Cream Pie is a rich, nauseous concoction of custard topped with cream. Almost 30 years later, I stifl gag when I see it on a menu. As you may have gathered, T didn't like shift work then. And it hasn't improved much during the intervening years, This year, at our school, we're oh a double shift. A. combination of post-war baby boom and bureau- cratic red taper hive produced a situation in which the (populations of two entire schools, some 2,000 students, are sharing a building intended for half that number, The school board had two alternatives- . They could have each student hold another student on his or her knee all day, or they could run two shifts. They favored the former, because it would save on teachers, lighting and books. But some parents ' Dd eh te fie 4nd were pretty annoyed at the idea of their 88-pound daughters holding a 200-pound football player in their laps all day. So the school board fearlessly compromised, and voted for the shift system. And that's why your faithful reporter lurches out of bed at 6.15, wildly groping for the alarm clock, has a coffee break, if there is one, at 9 am., and cats lurch about 10.30 in the morning. In theory. it's wonderful. Teachers have all afternoon to sleep, golf, curl or hunt, and the even- ing to prepare lessons, Good for the students, too. They have their homework all done by dinner time, and can watch TV or wash their hair, or go to the poolroom. All we have to do is get to bed a couple of hours earlier than in the good old days! In practice,. it's horrible. Wives persecute hus- bands in the afternoon with shopping, scrubbing, repairing, nagging, If you sleep in the afternoon, you lie stark, staring, insomniacal, at night. If you work or play, you fall asleep in the middle of dinner, baked potato half chewed. ~ Nobody goes to bed any earlier than they ever did. And what we wind up with is a pedantry of red-eyed teachers, frayed at the edges, facing a gaggle of yawning teenagers, some of whom were » oy a.m. to catch the school bus, every morning --Toronto Telegram News Service

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