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AF SOLER ELA PECAN Fe YELP A TE X Ar dy WH PA AE 3 LAR DT Ca x EDITORIAL TOPICS Not On Queen Street At a meeting of Port Perry' council a few weeks ago, a motion was passed to have parking 'meters installed on Water Street. The decision made at the time, was with the idea in mind to raise additional revenue for further development of park fand at the lake front. The council should be commended for their progress- ive outlook, and the diligent efforts they are making to develop this most valuable area within the borders of the Village. Already much money has been spent, but in order to create a parkland to be proud of, additional funds will be needed. The parking meters on Water Street to be erected primarily for the reason of raising addition- al funds in_our opinion justified. . However, unless we are wrongly informed, the possib- ility of erecting parking meters along Queen Street have also been discussed in council. In our opinion, although not necessarily right, will be of no benefit to 'this community. This we believe is also the general opinion of the merchants along Queen Street. At a recent meeting of Port Perry Chamber of Commerce, the possibility of parking meters on the main thoroughfare was met with little enthusiasm. As a matter of fact, it was unanimously decided that parking meters on Queen 'Street would not be desirable at this time. During the discussion at this meeting, it was emphasized strongly that in many cases, the merchant himself is the offender, and could become the cause of meters being erected. Too often, he parks his own vehicle in front of his store, making it difficult for customers to find parking space. Granted, many towns and villages have parking meters on their main streets, but a number of these communities have also found them detrimental and have had them removed. Pe Over Arms Race The United States is spending $80 billion a year. -- 40 per cent of its revenue -- on death machines. We in Canada spend $1.8 billion on arms, which is 17 per cent of federal expenditures or three per cent of our gross national-product. We spend-less than one per -- - cent of the GNP on world development. Canada has its own little miliary-industrial-labor- union complex. From 1959 to 1967 inclusive, Canadian firms sold the U.S. $1,798,900,000 worth of arms, mainly aircraft, electronic equipment and explosives. Most of it went into use against the Vietnamese. In the same period, faceless Canadian government officials bought $1.600 million worth of armaments from the U.S. The United Church of Canada's Board of Evangelism and Social Service recently ordered a probe of Canada's involvement in arms trade. This is timely for the officials so far have refused to release figures for the U.S.-Canad- ian arms trade in 1968. We have reached a point in history where the milit- arists and their obscene toys are the major threat to the human race. Until real progress toward disarmament -- progress you can feel in your bones -- is made to happen, anxieties will worsen. And the youthful revolt will escalate. Because the root cause of disrespect of the young toward authority is the fact that "the authorities" . threaten to rob the young of their future. SHH 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, RE Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 = - Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., Elsewhere 2 $500 per Jour, Jingle Copy 10¢ HU RR SAA 3 4 22 SEN Pa BILL SMILEY Sugar and WEEKEND WITH SMILEY I never want. to wish my life away, but some weekends I could do without and be perfectly happy to have my life cut short - by three days. It started Friday. Somebody called the principal at the school.at 8 a.m. and said there was a bomb planted in the building. Very sensibly, he kicked all the students out of the plant, and kept all the teachers in-it. -- It was a rather brutal, but-efficient; way of pointing out who was dispensable in the system. Hordes of police and firemen added to the excitement. The teachers were twitter- ing like swallows, making bad jokes about ticking brief cases and other hilarious : objects. As an old fighter pilot, who had bombed, and had been bombed in more ways than one, 1 thought I should set a good example, so settled myself in a corner of the staff room and read poetry. Not a soul was impressed, which was rather depressing. The kids had a ball. It was like being locked out of jail. The smokers gathered in their outside smoking bay and reefed away on the weed as though it were going out of style: A number of young ladies, locked out of the school on a cold, windy day and lightly clad, climbed into cars with their boy friends to 'keep warm." The pool-room crowd headed straight down- town, Eventually, the school was cleared and we got a sort-of half-holiday, while the police searched the building. Everyone rather enjoyed the break in routine except 'my-elf. To someone who is perfectly or- ganized, such a discruption is ver disrupt. ing. It was a fairly hair-raising day for the teachers in charge of the school's annual musical comedy, to be presented that night. Would there be any audience, with the local radio station announcing, hourly, that there might be a bomb in the school? Needless to say, there was no bomb, and there was a huge audience, and the:mn-ira'. fortunately, was anything but a bomb, Happy ending. Who made ¢he phone call?" Was it a kid who had been bawled out the day beforé&? Was it a crank? Was it a taxpayer driven beyond the brink. Nobody knows, but it will come out some day. Well, nothing wrong with that, you say. Just a little extra excitement, and no harm: done. -But I knew what was coming. These things "all run in three's, as any old pilot will tell you. De _ed up talking until 3 a.m. aimed at Spice Saturday, I played my first golf game of the season. I discovered that either I'd gone blind, or Old 'Nick was moving the ball' just as I swung. Talk about a lack of communication. I was right. Sunday morning, at six sharp, I.was visited by the lightning flu 'bug that has been decimating classes lately. I barely made it to the bathroom, where everything came up. except the traditional ~ kitchen sink; and a couple of times I was _ sure the sink was coming. It goes without saying that that was my Sunday to take up the collection, = Shiver- ing and sweating and tottering, I made it through the service. And if I don't get to heaven, on that performance alone, some- body is going to catch hell. 'Sunday, our new kitten who had been perfectly trained from the day we brought him home, going to his Jitter-box as though he's been doing it for years, suddenly de- cided to join the teen-age revolt or some: thing, and found a corner, right at the back of one of the kitchen cupboards, where you couldn't quite reach him, which was' more. to his liking. Sunday evening, after being assured by four different experts that Pip, the Kitten, was a male, a lady dropped in and dropped 'a pall by announcing, with proof, that he was a lady. A big, ugly, yellow tomcat loitering in the vicinity when | threw the little monster outside in the morning un- derlined the point. We had a visitor. Sunde, night who stay- I arrived at work Monday morning physically and emo- tionally ravaged. And who was there? A sweet young woman, a former student, who's going to be a teacher, and wanted to "observe" me in action. Some action. " --Toronto Telegram Syndicate AN AID TO EDUCATION " The Youth Allowances program, which came into effect in September, 1964, is encouraging Canada's 'young people to continue with their education, The allowance of $10 per month is paid for any child of 16 or 17 who resides in Canada, is maintained by a parent, and is in full-time attendance at school. It "is also paid for mentally or physically impaired children if ~ they are medically certified as unable to' . attend school. Quebec has a parallel program called Schooling Allowances. "50 YEARS AGO Thursday, = May 29, 1919 Captain H. Williams of the 5 48th Highlanders addressed a 8 meeting in the Town Hall regarding YMCA work. At the regular meeting of the council it was passed that notices be put up regulating the speed' limit of automob--- iles and' motorcycles to 15 miles per hour within the limits of the corporation. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, - June 1, 1944 The. Young People's Union .- put on a really good program last Thursday, and their next . presentation is anticipated with pleasure. Scugog Chapter IODE are asking for the War Service Appeal, all ladies who can knit to respond to this urgent appeal. One hundred and seventy five pairs of socks are needed at once. This will give. each of our local boys two pairs of Socks. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 3, 1954 The first baseball game of the season was last week. This season's team will consist of a few of the old stalwarts of the former Tri-County . team, such as A. Cawker, Johnny Waldinsperger," Bob Healey, Bill Harper, Ross Mac- Lean with an addition of new blood - Bud Warriner, Gary Lawrence to name a few. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 4, 1969 Four High School students entered projects in the Ford Motor Company Industrial Arts Exhibit in Toronto. Two of the boys were successful in winning awards. Arnold Kerry and Richard Carnegie received honourable mention for their enteries. This was quite an achievement because enteries came from all over the province. K * Ld