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Lat WAP SAT ASANS ISA EAT VS FLATTER TINY REA Congratulations The Red Cross Blood Clinic held recently in Port Perry was very much a success. The 228 pints of blood collected far exceeded even the most optomistic hopes of the Clinic organizers. Members of the Port Perry Kinsmen and Kinette Clubs Clinic, and these people deserve a pat on the back. Also deserving a pat on the back of course aré the 228 persons who took the time to go out to the Clinic and donate their blood. It is most gratifying,to see response such as this from citizens in the Port Perry area, for the success of community-minded efforts can create nothing but positive effects. A future blood clinic is planned for Port Perry in October.' At this time, the Porf Perry Branch of the Canadian Cancer Society is canvassing. for: funds. The objective is $3,500, and if citizens of this area would be as generous for the Cancer. Fund as they were with the Blood Clinic, the objective can easily be surpassed. Giving, be it a pint of blood, or a donation for cancer research is a very simple matter. And the rewards of course are unlimited. Amalgamation With regional government for Ontario County looming nearer and nearer, a County Council Warden's Advisory Committee recommended last Tuesday that municipalities start discussing the possibilities of restructuring into six amalgamated municipalities. This would appear to be a concrete step in the right direction, for in the past County Council representatives have agreed on. very little with regards to restructuring at the regional level. One of the six proposed amalgamated municipalities is tobe made up of Port Perry, Reach and Scugog. Already these three local governments share proportionately the cost of maintaining a Fire Department, and a sanitary landfill site. Complete amalgamation is going torequire the ironing out of a lot of wrinkles. The Councils from Port Perry, Reach and Scugog are going to be meeting in the near future to discuss amalgamation. Not everybody is going to agree. There will be criticism, but hopefully, the criticism and disagreement will not stem from narrow, petty, or parochial thinking. parochial thinking. --If---regional---government indications are that is is, then let's explore all the possibilities with meaningful dialogue, communica- tion and positive suggestion. Warning to parents Now that the warm weather is here, parents should be telling their young children to keep away from swollen creeks, and especially to keep off the ice on Lake Scugog. At this time of year, the ice may appear to be safe, but it is not. And it is unlikely that even a good swimmer would last very long in the freezing water should he happen to fall through the ice. Last week in Oshawa, a young lad drowned when he was swept away by the current of a fast moving creek. Let us hope a tragedy such as this is not repeated.: Parents, make your children aware of the dangers involved. Set a good example for them. Keep them off the ice and away from spring run-off water in creeks and ponds. NAAN 0 PY ok is coming, and PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Na nr, Econ < (0m): > ray Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher - Editor JOHN B. McCLELLAND, Associate Editor WM. T. HARRISON, J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Plant Manager Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Onlario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Por! Perry Star Co. Ltd.. Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa. and for payment of postage in cash > Second Class Mail Registration Number 0245 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per year. Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy Wc | » Saas AR ~~ | 2 Our cup RUMWETH OVER "10 YEARS AGO Thurs., April 19, 1962 The Hon. M.B. Dymond, - Ontario Minister of Health spoke at the official opening ..dinner of the North Mass Servey on Tuberculosis, in the parlours of Trinity Uni- ted Church, Uxbridge. Earl Gordon Bailey, grad- uate of McMaster University and Osgood Hall' 'is now associated in the practice of law with Bruce V. Mackey, Oshawa. The ice went out this year » on April 15, . The ~ Brooklin lacrosse team will be minus three of their better: players season as Terry Davis is leaving -to play in British Columbia. P. Hall is in Australia and Bob Carnegie will not be playing regularly as he is taking a summer course at University. A Boy Scout fire got out of control at Chalk Lake. The" fire burned from the 3rd conc. to the 2nd conc. and this> about a mile across before it w. was stopped. 50YEARS AGO Thurs., April 20, 1922 Mr. Alex Vance has sold hisproperty on Ontario Street to Mr. Thurston. ; The editor of this:paper is 4 away this week attending a convention of the school trustees and ratepayers at Convocation Hall. At the Methodist Church on Sunday, the choir ap- peared in gowns for the first 4. time. Mrs. J. Shunk was elected BILL MILEY GENERATION GAP WHO NEEDS IT? There is a growing philosophy among ~ young people that goes something like this: "Work? Who needs it?" The theory has a number of foster parents. One of them is the exceeding ease with which one can get on the welfare rolls these days. Why work when one can draw enough welfare for a pad, however humble, grub and smokes? Then there is unemployment insurance. This i is even better than welfare to fall back on, though' it does require the occasional stint of that four-letter work we're talking about. Work for a few months, get yourself fired on some pretext, loll back on the mattress of Un. Ins. until it runs out, work again for a little while, and repeat the process. This is a way of life for some young people, and they make no bones about it. It doesn't occur to them that it's merely a refined form of stealing, and in most cases, I don't think they'd care if it did. As an aside, I think you'd be appalled by their attitude toward stealing. I conduct regular surveys in my classes on such subjects -- what used to be known as simple honesty. In most cases, the majority believes firmly that it's bad to steal from a friend, but it's perfectly all right to steal, or "rip-off" from any large institutions: chain stores, insurance companies, the govern- ment. I.wonder where they got that idea? It couldn't possibly be from hearing their dads talking about beating the tax collector, or their moms exaggerating an. insurance claim. Could-it? Back to the subject. What else influences this comparatively new non-attitude toward work? One is purely economic. They are completely frustrated by the free enterprise system under which they have been raised. It still offers great opportunities for the few who have enterprise and hick. Well, how many of us have both? You can have all the enterprise that's lying around, but if you haven't luck, you're a perpetual bankrupt. You can be a real lucker, but if . UGAR ano Seice you don't have any enterprise, all you do is win a few bucks at bingo or on the horses. Their real beef against the system, of course, is that it does not work. It does not create 'enough jobs. Therefore, why get an education, why even bother looking for work, if there isn't any? Another influence, or lack of it, is that of the church. It used to have two firm allies in the establishment and the work ethic. The church hasn't been able to cope. It is tarnished by its association with the other two, and the young people have turned their back on it, though I don't think they have lost the faith. They've merely lost respect for that massive body of rules and dogma and "an honest day's work for an honest day's pay," and the insistence that while life is pretty rotten, everything will be groovey in heaven. They are young, impatient, and simply will not buy that. As you may have expected, or hoped, or given upon, I am trying to make a point. I'm not against the attitude. If I didn't like work, I'd quit tomorrow. But there is nothing ennobling in work itself. It's an utter drag, unless you like what you are doing. The other morning, I was driving one of my students to school. He's a big, husky lad who has shovelled out my drive at times of stress. Asked him what he was going to do when he finished school. "Well, I'm going to work for a year, then maybe go to college." Asked him whether he couldn't get a student loan. "I don't want one. I don't wanna owe anybody anything." He continued, "My parents could give me the money to go to university, but I won't take it. They've worked hard all their lives for it. Why not let them enjoy what's left?" At this point, I ran off the road, and killed two girls from middle-class parents, who were confident that, despite the fact that they have no brains, their parents would send them to college and that they would there find a husband, and one boy who had told me he was going to extort every penny he could from the government in loans and grants, and never pay them back. president of the Ladies Aid of the Methodist Church, Sea- grave and Mrs. J. Wanam - aker as vice-president. 15 YEARS AGO Thurs. i. ~ Gary Edgar of Scugog Island and a student of Port Perry High School received the outstanding award from the Amateur Atheletic Union of Canada. The Tom Long- April 18, 1957 ¥ boat Trophy. This medal is awarded to the Indian student in Southern Ontario showing the greatest profic- iency in sports, leadership, character and general pro- ficiency. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Colbear of Manchester have moved to Blackstock. About one hundred friends and neighbours in Seagrave and area gathered for a house warming for the new home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter King. > Mrs. Paul Diamond was elected president of the Honeydale Women's Institute. 25 YEARS AGO Thurs., April 17, 1947 Port Perry Council set the tax rate at 48 Mills, division as to departments are, County rate 7.6 mills, High schools, 4.57 mills and Public School 11.43 Mills and in- crease over 1946 of 6 mills. Mr. and Mrs. A. Hubbert and family of moved to a farm north east of Manilla, formerly occ: upied by Mrs. Ivan Rodd. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kerry of Utica were guest of honour when their friends Ashburn ® and neighbours gathered in * Utica Hall for a party in their , honour before their depart- ure from their home in the community, Mr. and Mrs. Reyner of Whitby have bought the home and grocery store of Mr. John Munroe, Prince @ Albert.