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RES Toh re TY Dp es AY BEATIN SES AL 5S QE AEA RL Sa NY 4 3 2x PA L) 9 % Editorial Page| ! 'Meeting With Purpose It is understandable council is disturbed about the deficits incured in the operation of the Arena the years, 1966 - 1967. The meeting Sunday was call- ed for the purpose of reorgan- izing and appointing a new. 'Arena Board, under the terms of the Community Centres Act. Although not too many attend- ing, the group of persons pre- sent certainly showed a great deal of interest and enthusiasm. It was strongly emphasized that council was desirous of making the Arena operate with a profit, or at least break even. This is all very well, but we must agree with some of the: speakers, that if this policy should deprive the youngsters of Port Perry and surrounding communities from participating in their favourite winter sports, it would be wrong. Members of the Minor Hoc- key Association expressed the view that an increase in ice . rental time for local organiza- tions could jeopardize the con- tinnation of league hockey. No doubt council and the new Arena Board will see to it, that this won't happen. : Economic Conditions Favourable Letter of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The Commercial Letter states that business activity had con- siderable momentum, monetary conditions were more settled, productivity performance seem- .ed to be improving and there were a few signs that price pressures might be improving slightly. The pace of economic activity during the balance of 1968 should result in an increase of about 7 per cent in the gross national product for the entire 'year. This 'would mean an in- crease in real output in the neighbourhood of 3.5 to 4 per cent. In the first six months of 1968 the increase in the gross national product was about 5 per cent, with higher prices accounting for 2 per cent of the increase. Exports were up 16 per cent in total, with exports to the United States up 25 per cent and accounting for almost the entire increase. The consumer sector was strong with total outlays run- I RR SA 'the Consumer Price Index at SI : Do You Remember? | ning in the neighbourhood of 9 per cent above the first half of 1967. Government expendi- tures were approximately 7 per cent higher than in the first six months of 1967, business invest- ment in plant and equipment was slightly lower ,but outlays for housing were at Teast 20 per cent" higher than in the first half of 1967. _ Price increases at the con-- sumer level continued at about ~ the same rate as last year with 154.7. in June. 1968, up about 2 per cent from the 'previous December. ~Bmployment in-general was Fos buoyant in the first half of 1968 than in the previous year with total 'employment in June 1968 running about 3 per cent higher than a year earlier and the rate of unemployment seasonally adjusted was 5.5 per cent. While total output of the economy was rising firmly through the first half of the year, financial conditions were extremely unsettled. y SH - been thrown to .the wolf. 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 12, 1918 Dr. J. D. Berry a resi- dent of Port Perry for the past ten years has moved to Agincourt where he will continue practicing. Mr. Frank' McClintock has sold his farm to Mr. Ed. Clements of Pleasant i Point. Two Port Perry boys, Sergt. Gordon Pargeter &* .° Pte. Joseph Cassidy of the Medical Corps expect to go to Siberia. Miss Ethelwyn. Hutche- - son will attend St. Marg- - aret's College. Miss Hinman, Colbhourne will he the teaphar at Manchester school. 25 YEARS AGO . Thursday, Sept. 9, 1943 Mr. Ted Leahy has en- listed in the Air Force and will be stationed at Manning Depot, Toronto. year saw the laying of the corner stone for the new center church on Scugog. "Clarence Parr, Black- stock-has sold his farm to Mr. George Johnson. The Parr farm has been in the; family for sixty years. "Corporal J, L. Sweetman leaves to take up his new work in Alaska. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 10, 1953 All time high attend- ance at Port Perry Public School this year. = Prin- cipal. Roy Cornish reports the attendance at 294 nupils Port Perry Chiefs won the North Durham Cham. pionship for the second - year in a row when they downed Bethany. The first twins born in the local hospital arrived on August 26. The proud parents are Mr. and M James Cameron, Mei Mrs. Jessie Robertson on behalf of the Hospital Auxiliary presented the - babies with a knife, fork and spoon set. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 11, 1958 Mrs. Dymond, wife" of the Hon. M. B. Dymond was presented to. H. R. H. . Princess Margaret during' the recent Royal Tour Four Port Perry men, Dr. G. M. Rennie, broth- ers Jack and Mac Hope and Gordon Morrow were rescued from an over- turned boat in Lake Scu- gog. Mrs. Marie Taylor was a prize winner in the knitting competition at the C.N.E. : Port - Perry' Merchants won the Eastern Ontario Championship. when they won 2 out of 3 games INSEL _INapanee, _ the great democracies. bullied and tortured and starved 'for seven AAAI heel ARE Sy SRL A ARTI NU GCE RU Still Trying to Uncork the First Course CZECHS ARE TOUGH Even a banker couldn't find a bad Czech these days, as those brave and sturdy peo- ple, international underdogs, are the cyno- sure of the world's admiration. It takes guts to shout insults at a man holding a gun on you. : ) As in any other country, of course, there are bad Czechs as well as as good ones; _. But good and bad, they have been giving Big Brother a hard time of it. ..Remembering Hungary, the Czechs had enough sense not to tackle the wolf with bare hands. For the same reason, they knew there would be no help from else- where, if they did. But they managed to make themselves as "indigestible as Phasibie for that same wolf. It's not the first time the country has In the late _ thirties, the British and French threw them to. a German 'wolf, - while the big Slavic brother to the east turned a blind eye, It must be a bitter thing to be a Czech. Here you are, a good, honest Bohemian. After World War I, you are thrown in with those lousy Slovaks and told you are now "a citizen of a brand new country. So you ~work like a dog for fifteen years and turn your country into one of the finest examples of democracy in the world. 'Then you are betrayed. By whom? By Then you -are or eight years by the German invaders. The war ends and the Germans: leave. The Russians don't. out, you try to put the pieces back together. It looks as. though it might be possible. But you are on the wrong side of a certain curtain, So the Communists stage a coup and for the next decade or so you are a communist. But you have a love of freedom and in- dependence and you chip away at the iron blanket until a crack of daylight appears. And you are betrayed again. By.whom? By the great communist powers. 3 aa (10 When they finally get It's 'enough to make a saint Cynical, And _ : 2 give up on them. They are tough, passion ate and practical and some day they're go- ing to come up smelling of roses. Tough? There's a Czech dentist in Tor- onto who was tortured by the Gestapo, hung up on meathooks and has the scars to show it. He was going home for a visit this-summer. - I hope he didn't. ) Passionate? - Put four Czechs together, [e start a political discussion, and in five minutes you'd swear they were going to kill each other. I had some Czech friends in prison camp and they fought furiously, Czech against Slovak, communist against - republican. But they turned a solid front to the rest of us, and to the Germans. Practical? One of these friends 'was Andros. His second name had no vowels. Something like Mrckzy. When the Ger- mars marched into Czechoslovakia, he stole a plane and. escaped. He fought with the R.AF., was shot down' and captured, ; He expected to be shot any day. ; (Continued on Page 16) PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher . WM. T HARRISON, Editor Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association' Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd, Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class mail by the Post 8 Office Department, Ottawa, and. for payment of postage in cash. Subscription Sain, In Canads $3.00 per yr, 'Per year. Single Copy 108.}