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Senseless destruction Once upon a time there was a group of working people who "decided to pool their hard earned money, build a modern structure, then have a contest to see who could be the first to destroy it. That sounds like an unbelievable fairy tale, and we wish it was. Unfortunately it is is true. The people of Port Perry have pooled their taxes and are spending $20,000 on washroom facilities for the south end of Palmer Park. If the way the public has treated washrooms at the Latcham Centre in the same park serves as an example the $20,000 facilities should last about 2 days. When the Latcham Centre first opened Village Council left the washrooms unlocked for the first weekend. Within minutes toilets were plugged and damage was so discouraging the village had no choice but to lock them again. Now some fool(s) are busy destroying the drinking fountain on the outside of the building. Council is considering spending more of your tax money to hire a man to guard the building so you can not destroy it any more. The STAR is aware of the fact that only a few are responsible for the damage, and that the few may not even live in the Port Perry area. Nevertheless, it would not hurt local ratepayers to help keep an eye on the place and report anyone we see damaging building. We can not help but suspect the mentality of people who do such things. As Deputy reeve Phil Orde pointed out at a recent council meeting, "There must be something more exciting to do than shove stuff down a washroom.' : Keeping it clean L J with Bill Dodds Northern lights . . . From Sudbury, there's some bright spots in the news. This month marked the official opening of a new water pollution control plant. It's a milestone for the whole province, because it means that every city in Ontario now has sewage treatment. Of course that doesn't say the water pollution control job is done. There is room for improvement in the treatment facilities of some communities and there are still smaller centres working for treatment of their wastes. The plant in Sudbury, a $6.5 million installation, since last December when it started operating, has been contributing to the improvement of land around the city as well as to the improvement of the water. Sludge from the treatment plant is being used by the International Nickel Company of Canada Ltd. to mix with sterile mine tailings to produce arable soil. With this sludge, grass is growing on barren land. This use for sludge eliminates a disposal problem " 'that can be' a headache for treatment plants in other communities. On the land not yet restored to grassland, INCO has a dust control program under way. The company is spraying a glue-like chemical mixed with water from a small plane onto the dusty tailings. This chemical binds the soil from blowing away and yet forms a membrane porous enough to let water soak through. The company is confident it can restore the barren land and this program controls dust until the reclamation work can begin. Company Limited 0 Sam, es CNA : (0m) : 2) N 7p, --- os Serving Porf Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher BRUCE ARNOLD, Editor WM. T. HARRISON, J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Plant Manager Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port 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 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $6.00 per year. Elsewhere $8.50 per year. Single Copy 15¢ Wl 0 somEBODY GOT Wl THE BRIGHT IDEA THE UNEMPLOYED SHOULD MAN THE NAVY'S FOUR CREW- LESS DESTROVERS STARBOARD, STUPID / WELL, SHIVVER WHERE'S THE POOP DECK --1'M PooPED / My TIMBER | "PORT PERRY STAR | BILL MILEY UGAR ano DOCTORS SHOULD NOT BE SCAPEGOATS Have you ever noticed that when politi- cians get themselves into a bind, they look around for a patsy, or scapegoat? They did this with education in this country. When the big space race began, the politicians rode the wave of public demand for more schools, more schooling, and practically whipped the system of education into spending more and more money on bigger and better schools with more and more expensive gadgets and facilities. Then the taxpayers, reasonably enough, began to howl about the sky-rocketing cost of education. I don't blame them. So what happened? The politicians made a 180-degree about-face and stated sternly that they 'were going to hold the line on education costs. They should have held the line a little more firmly in the first place, instead of feeding a fish until it was big and strong and then letting it tear all over hell with the spoon in its mouth. Natural patsy for this political manoeu- 'vre was the teaching profession. Teachers were presented, with the aid of some of the politicians' tame journalists, as greedy, grasping people whose chief interest in life was wresting higher salaries from the down-trodden taxpayer. This was patently untrue. The average teacher would be reasonably happy if he got an annual increase sufficient to keep even with inflation, and a reasonable raise to recognize his experience. Exactly what happens in most businesses and professions. But teachers are born patsies. In the first place, they aren't very militant. They are more interested in teaching them in going on strike. In the second place, for generations in this country, they have occupied an am- biguous position in our society. They are accorded a certain respect, but at the same time have been looked on with a certain scorn, as rather shabby profess- ionals who need to be kept in their place by the people who pay their salaries. , Business men could whore and drink and practise shady dealings, but teachers were to be an example to the community. They mustn't gamble, drink, smoke or stay out late. They could own a car, but it should be second-hand and a certain increasing skill and vintage. they could go to church and sing in the choir, but they couldn't go to the tavern and sing in the bar. That's all changing, of course, and teachers are actually being regarded as people, with feelings and faults. But the old, straitlaced hangover of our pioneer society is still there. "Teachers are a timid lot," the politi- cians say to one another. "Let's make them the goats." And so they do. But perhaps the politicians are not going to be able to walk so easily over their latest patsies -- the doctors. . After creating a medical health plan that is iniquitously expensive, the politicians, as usual, respond to the cries of outrage by looking around for a goat. They have chosen the medical profession. Now, everyone who isn't blind and deaf knows that docotr today, unless he's a bumbling idiot, enjoys a fat income. What's wrong with that? Just because you and I didn't have enough brains and guts to slug away at medical school is no reason to envy those who do. A doctor spends about six years drud- ging at pre meds and medicine a gruelling course. It costs him roughly $12,000. Then he has a year or two of internship in which he is paid about as much as a lifeguard. After eight years, he has a few books, some skills and is probably heading for the age of thirty. And he must start at the bottom again, to establish himself. He will work about 60 hours a week, snatch the odd holiday, neglect his family and often destroy his own health. By the age of fifty he's an exhausted man, unless he has learned to pace himself. Sure, he's well off, by most standards. Big car, house, expensive holidays. But he hasn't time to enjoy much of this. And he's also paying big taxes on that income. Let's take a look at a friend of the doctor. they were in school together. The other fellow dropped out in Grade 10. He's now making $11,000 a year. : But in the intervening ten or eleven years, the doc's friend has made $60,000. So, plus the $12,000 it cost for the medical education, friend is $72,000 ahead and has his family half-raised and has his mort- gage in hand. It takes the doc a long time to catch up, and when he does, he's earned it. A few doctors might cheat, but most of them are honest, dedicated, and mighty hard working. The politicians' attempt to regulate doctors' incomes is a shoddy piece of work. Harold 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 5, 1923 Port Perry's Lawn Bow- ling team consisting of S. Jeffrey, (skip); J. Nasmith, (vice skip); C.V. Purdy, (2nd), J. McClintock, (lead), has again won the Whattam Lawn Bowling Trophy in a victory over Whitby. Miss Gertrude Stavin has been hired by the Port Perry School Board to teach for the coming school year. Miss Stovin is replacing Miss Duffield who has ac- cepted a teaching position in the Public School at New Toronto. Favourable weather at- tended the Garden Party of the Church of Ascension on June 27th. A pleasing feature of the program was a dance routine performed by four Port Perry girls: Misses Louise' Carnegie, Helen Lucas, Marion Goode and Francis Mellow. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 8, 1948 Recent weddings in the community included Lois Mae Reader (Scugog) to George Luke Alice Marie Turner (Port Perry) to Clair Vincent McNenly (Saintfield); Norma Louise Ransberry (Montreal) to Harold Rutledge Forder, (Blackstock); Elizabeth Rose Wilkinson (Utica) to Donald Norman Ballard (Utica). Port Perry's Girls base- ball team travelled to Janetville for an exhibtion game last Friday evening and came home with a 17 to 9 win. (Raglan); 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 3rd, 1958 Sunday, July 6th will mark the change over of the telephone service in Port Perry. When the new dial