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EDITORIAL TOPICS It's Up To The Ratepayer! Townships of Scugog and Cartwright should be the most challenging held in this jarea in many years. It is to be hpped, that the ratepayers of each individual municipality will realize their important duties, use the franchise they have been given and cast their ballots for the person of their choice. In addition to the regular elections, candidates for Ontario County Board bf Education will be chosen, and the single person elected here, will represent Port Perry and the Townships of Scugog and East Whitby. In Port Perry, the present reeve, J.J. Gibson after holding this position for 12 years is being challenged by councillor R. Kenny, a member for -almost the same length of time on Port Perry Council. Deputy-reeve Bruce Beare was given an acclamation and will serve his second term in this capacity. Of the four candidates seeking three seats as councillor, Mr. Phil Orde is the only person holding this office on the present council. ; The newcomers are Alan Bertrand, who presently is a member of Reach Township Council, Kenneth Jackson and Joseph Podres both well known business men in the Village. Commission, chairman Arthur Cox and Ted Jackson have "both decided to retire. Consequently, the two, new members elected will be facing many problems, and without previous experience. However, the three men nominated, George McPhaden, Ted Griffin and William Williams are well known business men in the Village and anyone of them should have qualifications to fill the jobs satisfactorily. lj The election, which possibly at the moment creates more interest and excitement than: the municipal elections, is to choose, a representative for Port Perry, and the Townships-of Scugog and East Whitby for one seat on the new Ontario County District Board of Education. : Two of the most able young business men in) Port Perry, Gordon Goode and Howard Hall have accepted nominations for this election. Nominated from East Whitby are J. Lister Robinson and Douglas Clark. Either of the local candidates has worked On the local School Board, and both of them possess the capacity and experience to fill the position on the new Board. The candidates from East Whitby are no doubt strangers to this area, and one can only assume that the votes cast by the local ratepayers will-be in support of either Gordon Goode or Howard Hall. As a matter of fact, if anyone of the two is to succeed, the ratepayers of this community and the Town- ship of Scugog must come out in full force and cast their ballots for the local candidate of their choice. In favour of the local candidates is the fact that the total amount of eligible voters in Port Perry and Scugog exceeds East Whitby. Figures released from the- three municipalities show East Whitby with 1,798 ZL] 7s voters, and Port Perry with 1,813. Scugog Township i has" 1,210 voters, but the large majority are summer 7h residents, and at the outset only some 350 can-be 1) counted on to cast their ballots. i 7 To make this election a real success, the Star urges (0 . all ratepayers to turn out to the polling booths on i Monday, December 2 v i { . | 7 % # PORT PERRY STAR rg HH COMPANY, LIMITED i] Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor ' #2 Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association 2 Published every Thursday by The Port Perry - | Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association 7 2 Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. 2 Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office 7 + Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. Subscription Rates: In Canada $3.00 per yr. Elsewhere, $4.60 per year. Single Copy 10ec. Ee ee Municipal elections Monday night in Port Perry, The two stalwarts on Port Perry Hydro-Electric RE A "GOOD GRIEF! Are you still around?" BILL SMILEY | HATE NOVEMBER Don't worry, I do not have a plan for writing an almanac of the months. But I'm almost certain that most people share my view of November. It is a real bummer. It may be beautiful in Adelaide, Aus- tralia, with bikini-babes on the beaches, and the sun belting down. But in the true north strong and free, it's as sad as the wreck of a once-beautiful woman with no- thing left but good bone-structure and great black bags under the eyes. It is suitably introduced by Hallowe'en, that night when the instruments of dark- ness have their fling, and people put razor blades in apples and caustics in candies. It is a time when night comes early and surly, and we draw our shades and creep into the darkness of our sotils, and contem- plate with horror the five months ahead. No wonder Guy Fawkes and the other ° glys in on the deal tried to blow up the English king and parliament on Nov. 5th, 1605, in the famous Gun-powder Plot. But it was. probably so ruddy dank that they couldn't keep their powder dry: No wonder World War I ended on Nov- ember 11th . Even those tough and stub- born fighters, the Germans, couldn't face going through the rest of another nasty November. ' 2) It's a month of soaring fuel bills, last year's rubbers vanished into thin air, mud and wet leaves tracked onto the clean kit: chen floor. "A month of putting on snow tires a day too late, storm windows a week too late, and studying for exams, a month too late. R It's a gray 'month," This, in Canada, is symbolized by Grey Cup Day. Isn't that . appropriate? It couldn't have been a Lord Sugar and Spice} Brown or Blue or Green or any of those distinguished names who donated our foot- ball cup. It had to be a Lord Grey. Oh, I suppose, for the lunatic fringe of our population, November has its merits. It's deer-hunting month, when one can go out and muddle around in the marshes for $10. The only comment I have here is that the deer population is steadily increasing. Thanks to the incredible ineptitude of .most hunters, people like Skinny Yyonch, the deer are safer from hunters than the church is from tax-collectors. : And it's a grand month for those other nuts -- the rainbow-trout fishermen. I can't think of anything, on those bone- shaking, moist-laden November mornings, up to your .navel in ice-water, more con- ritis, neuritis, bursitis and plain old rheu- matism. November has a certain grim charm for the misanthrope -- the guy who wants everybody to be as mean as he is. For once, he knows everybody is as glum as he, which makes him glumly happy, or happily glum, ; It's a month when every normal Cana- dian gets a rotten cold, which hangs on, with varying degrees of misery, until the 24th of May. It's the month when Christ. 'mas advertising reaches -a zenith of stu- pidity. ] It's a month when your kids quit univer- sity, when your roof springs a leak, when your furnace decides it is worn out. When your old back-ache, stunned by summer's sun, starts to ache back. When your car's "fall tune-up" turns into a major overhaul. ~ (Continued on Page 15) OF DAYS | 3 | GONE BY 50 YEARS AGO November 21st, 1918 . Port Perry was granted an extra mail service Between Port Perry and Myrtle Sta- tion, to connect with the 4.59 P.M. train from Smith Fall's to Toronto. "Manchester school opened this week after being closed for four weeks because of Influenza. ' The 62nd Anniversary of © St. John's Presbyterian Church will be held Sunday, December 1st. Capt. (Rev.) T. Dodds, B.A. of Sonya, will conduct Divine Services. High Grade Australian Op- posum Fur muff and neck a pieces $40.00, Siberian Wolf stole made up in pretty style ° $10.00. 25 YEARS AGO ~ Thursday, November 18, 1943 At a Rod & Gun Meeting © recently Mr. Taylor, Port Perry business man present. ed a trophy to Mr. Walter Colton, Oshawa for the larg- * est fish cought in Lake Scu- gog this season. A party was held at the ® Prospect' school to honour Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Smith on their recent marriage. Miss Alice Parry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Parry of Port Perry officially spon- = sored H.M.S. '"Seabear", and christéned her with a bottle of champagne, broken as she started down the way. Alice is 18 years old and was at-° tending school when she de- cided that arcs, torches, wel- ding rods and masks offered the career that suited her best. 15 YEARS AGO : Thursday, November 19, 1953 District Deputy Pres. Larry | McCarthy of Cobourg Lions | Club made his official visit to the Port Perry Club. Rev. B. D. Armstrong was pastoral charges of Burns Church, Ashburn, and St. » John's Church, Port Perry at Burns Church, Sunday, Octo- ber 30th. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Reader celebrated their Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary at their home on November 25th. . The Minister of Health for Ontario Dr. McKinnon Phil- lips spoke to the Honeydale W.I at their November meet- ing. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 20, 1958 The College of Optometry of Ontario has announced that Garnet V. Gray, Ux- bridge has passed the exam- inations.with honours, quali- fying him for the O.D. De- = gree. The fine autumn days we have enjoyed have been the cau'e of the most acute water shortage in many years. A large' number of wells in this area are dry and "water is being hauled to supply the 'needs of the farmers and re- sidents. This has led to an- other problem. Unauthorized persons have been found try- ing to force open the hyd- rants in order to fill their » tanks, This results in dam. aged water hydrants, waste of water and extra pumping needed to keep the water tank filled. inducted as minister into the /