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Ss (e Ae £530) Cy BL GEC fe ROI SER AE Ra ER UNE I Ea Br Lv re IS Se ERS AT e | i J go ER \ on CROPSTICKS on 722 70m Bovis LIER | | g- # ERT ASO Se An Sh Li ib Clean-up needed on Queen Street "Arecent visitor fo Port Perry made a rather unfavourable comment about the amount of trash and litter on the sidewalk and in the gutter of the downtown area; TTT TTT One need not be an out-of-town visitor to notice that there is a lot of trash-cigarette packages, candy wrappers, papers, pop bottles and cans - lying on the main street. And people are throwing this assorted junk into the street because there are no receptacles. Surely this is a matter that should be of public concern. Port Perry recently held a successful winter carnival, and there are plans for something similar next year, hopefully attracting non- residents. Something like trash in the main street can only be detrimental to the impressions of the Village that a visitor might form. And trash in the . streets is also an unhealthy eyesore to those who work and shop in. the downtown area. The problem can easily be alleviated with the placing of proper receptacles that are kept on the street all-year round. The Village should look into the possibility of purchasing covered receptacles of the push-door variety. Or, the Village might consider giving thr Works Department responsib- ility for cleaning up paper etc..in the downtown area on a regular basis. Keeping the downtown sidewalks and street relatively clean is not a complicated matter. But it is one serious enough to demand immediate attention. PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED y > Yr, ( +WNA 2 (oun Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships 'p. HVIDSTEN, Publisher - Editor WM. T. HARRISON, Plant Manager. JOHN B. McCLELLAND, Associate Editor Member of the Canadian Weckly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assiciation . Published every Wednesday by The Port Perry ' Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class maill by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0266 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy 10¢ MILEY UGAR mo & PICE THE WAY IT WAS FOR BILLY THE KID In 'a nostalgic mood today, I've been thinking that, with the onslaught of the Speed Age, many of our fine old Canadian traditions have fallen by the wayside, died on the vine, or simply lain down and curled-- up- their toes. y : One of the first to go, of course, was the blacksmith. It hurts me to face the truth: "that most people today under thirty have never known the sensory joys of a blacksmith's shop. At this time of year, small boys used to - squeeze through the ramshackle: door, and edge as close as they could to the. fire, freezing their bums and roasting their * cheeks. There was a fine acrid stench of horse manure and scorched hooves. There was the leaping flame as the bellows blew. There was the ringing clang as the smith beat out the white-hot metal between hammer and anvil, and the satisfying hiss when the hot metal was plunged into the cold water. Ata certain age, most male kids would have settled happily for the life of a blacksmith, a free soul who spent his days doing the most fascinating work in the world. The decline of the smithy, of course, was brought about by the gradual phasing out of another tradition -- the horse-drawn vehicle. ~ I wonder how many kids of this generation have ever spent a winter Saturday "catching bobs". This was our term for jumping on the backs of farmers' sleighs. All day long the farmers canie and went to and from town. And all day long we hopped on behind a load of grain, left that for a load of supplies going the other way, picked up a sleight piled with logs for the return trip, and 'shivered with delighted fear as the farmers shouted at us, and even sometimes flourished their whips in our direction. As we grew a little older, about 12, we graduated to catching on the wing a cutter. This was more daring and more dangerous, because they could really fly, the runner - was much smaller, and the farmer could turn around and belt you one on the ear. Most of them, ofcourse, were pretty decent. I know now that they were more worried about us getting hurt in a fall than they were about the extra weight their horses had to pull. Then there were the butchers' cutters. These consisted of a sort of box with runners beneath, and a step at the back for the driver to stand' on. The horses were not plugs, but real road-runners that went like a bat out of hell. They were every bit as exciting as a Roman chariot, and the drivers were the envy of every boy, in fur caps, reins in one hand, whip in the other, as they tore through the town like furies. And I wonder how many boys have played hockey all day on a frozen river, when a hard shot the goalie missed might slide for a quarter of a mile. We never had to worry about ice-time, or changing lines. We could play until we were pooped, then sit by the bonfire until rested, and have another' go. And there were always twenty or thirty playing at once, so everybody got a whack at the puck. Some great stick-handlers came out of that era. Think of the depths to which we have sunk. The smithy, with its light and shadows, its reds and blacks, its earthy smells, its sense of life, has been replaced hy the garage, a gas and oil, and its unspoken assurance that this-is-gonna-cost-you-plenty-buddy. The cutter, swift and light as a bird, no longer skims the snow. It'has been replaced by a stinking, snarling, skidding beast that onlymodern man could abide -- the. snowmobile. ; : No more meat-cutters, careening around the corners on one runner, delivering in any weather. Now, we plod like zombies through the supermarket, to moronic piped-in music, and pick up the odourless, antisptic, cellophaned packages the great gods Dominion, Loblaw or Safeway have assigned to us, and carry them humbly to our. cars, three blocks away. Our kids have to get up at five a.m. to play hockey, and if they're not real "killers," get about four minutes iced-time. Ah, those were the days! And I haven't even begun on the most vital of all winter ~ equipment -- the puck consisting of a frozen horse-bun. Snowmobile regulations REGISTRATION Your motorized snow vehicle must be registered with the Ontario Department of Transport before it is driven on or off a highway. The registration plate must be attached to the front, free of dirt and Wobseured by any part of the vehicle or its oad. If you change your address, you must notify the Department within six days. INSURANCE The owner of a motorized snow vehicle who drives or permits the driving of the vehicle on a highway must produce evidence, upon the request of a police officer, that the vehicle or the driver of the vehicle is insured under a motor vehicle liability policy. DRIVER'S LICENCE A 'motor vehicle driver's licence is required. to operate a motorized snow vehicle on a highway. It is not required for operation off a highway. PENALTIES - The owner, as well as the operator, is liable for penalties for infractions under the Motorized Snow Vehicles Act and its Regulations, or* under any municipal by-law. : sterile thing with its cement floor, its reek of 50 YEARS AGO Thurs., Feb, 23rd, 1922 Reeve Rundle received word from Mr, Parker, Hy. dro Commission that open meetings are being arran. ged at which the uses of electricity on the farms to be illustrated by pictures. The St. Charles Hotel is being remodelled and will be changed so that it will make two stores Old citi- zens can remember when there were five hotels in Port Perry, two at Prince * Albert, two at Borelia, two at Manchester, one at Pros. pect, one at High Point. In fact there wcre thirty-one hotels in Port Perry and vicinity. The German field gun presented to Port Perry hv * the Canadian War Trophies Department has arrived and is now on view in front of the Post Office. = 25 YEARS AGO Thurs., Feb. 27th, 1947 The Brooklin Junior Far- mers held their 10th anni- yersary dance in Brooklin Hall. ; Mr. John Pearce of Stu- gog Island celebrated his 82nd birthday. Ice on lake Scugog is from-16 to 22 inches thick, People are busy putting in a supply for next summer. __ One hundred Boy Scouts and friends attended the annual banquet in the Unit. ed Church, . Sam Griffen presided. Guest speaker was Rev. H. Heskett of Cannington. A Tepresen- tation of a number of hooks outlining: Cub and Scout work, was presented to th» library by Stewart Lane. 15 YEARS AGO Thurs., Feb. 28th, 1957 Mr. A. W. Brock has been elected a 'Director of the Oshawa Skeet Club, and also the position of the Vice-President of the Prov- ince of Ontario Skeet Asso: ciation, Mr, Brock is the President of Port Perry Rod-and Gun Club. Miss Reta Willard of Port Hope, formerly of Port Perry has been moved to an executive position in Oshawa, 10 YEARS AGO Thurs., February 22, 1962 Carl's Barber Shop moved across the road to a part of Popert's Billiard' roocin. Mr. and Mrs. George Samells. celebrated their thirty-fith- wedding anniver- sary. A team of Lion members from Port Perry competed in a twenty rink bonspiel at which Cannington Lions were host. Port Perry team . consisting of Storey Beare, skip, Bill Beare, vice-skip, Gord Prentice and Stan Bru- ton came home with third prize. Brooklin will again be represented "in the senior series of the Ontario La. crosse Association. Aver 200 people gathered in the Greenbank United Church for the presenta- tion banquet in honour of Hugh B:ird, Blackwater, who won the Canadian Plowman championship at the iterations} competi tions held at Brooklin. 1 B ]