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Every summer thousands of boat owners take to Ontario's lakes and rivers. Every conceivable craft from rowboats and canoes to 40 foot yachts take advantage of the miles of waterways in this province. Unfortunately, some of our land-based pollu- tion problems get transported onto the water. Here are a few hints for you, the boater, to ensure that the waterway you use remains clean. Don't litter. Any cans, bottles or wrappers that go out in your boat should be taken back to shore for proper disposal. Debris thrown over- board is more than just an eyesore. It can be hazard to swimmers, boaters. Handle fuel and oil carefully. Fuel slops and spills should be avoided for your own safety as well as for the protection of water quality. A little bit of spilled fuel goes a long way. It makes a big ugly slick on the water. Take it easy. Running your power boat flat out continually makes a racket that others on the lake don't apreciate. It also burns up fuel and engines fast, and in some areas the wake from fast boats cause erosion problems. Slow down and make a few friends along the way. Protect your water supply. If you have a fresh water tank aboard, fill it only from an assured safe supply such as a municipal water system. If you have any doubts about your tank, sterilize it with one ounce of household bleach for every three gallons of water for at least 12 hours. Then flush it well with clean water. Remember. It's better to be safe than be sorry. Clear your channel. Underwater debris and weeds off your dock can lead to trouble. There are aquatic weed killers on the market, but the best bet for the small boat owner is still to get out in the water with a rake to clear the area. Keeping it clean The more things change . . . In London, England, a member of the House of Commons stood up to propose a bill banning traffic from the heat of the city. His arguments were eloquent. It was costing the city a fortune to clean up after the traffic. The air was getting progressively fouler. There was even some evidence that in- creased traffic was a contributing factor to some human illnesses. And the noise was unnerving and disrup- ting city life. Sound familiar? Well, the legislator made his bid for closing the streets before the turn of the century and the traffic he complained about was horse- drawn. } There were real reasons for complaint. Long dresses sweeping the ground was con- tinually getting befouled. The residue from the horse traffic may even have made high button shoes a practical necessity. Of course, he was laughed out of the House. The horse was indispensible -- everyone knew that. Everyone was wrong. The horse, and the pollution that had to be cleaned up by a man with a shovel and broom, disappeared from the streets with the coming of the automobile. Cars don't pollute the ground. They dump their wastes into the air. PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited A Crs Zr ao Wey. Sam, ¥* CNA = (OUNAY = EA 5 ») 70, "ers SS Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher BRUCE ARNOLD, Editor J: PETER HVIDSTEN, Advertising Manager WM. T. HARRISON, Plant Manager Member of the Canadian. Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Lid., Port Perry, Ontario : Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash fox Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $6.00 per year. Elsewhere $8.50 per year. Single Copy 15¢ A | "H i i] 3 t water skiers and other . g THE TOWN HALL -- AS IT USED TO BE This is the old town hall showing the bell tower as it looked originally when it was built in 1873. Photo courtesy Bill Brock, Lake Scugog Historical Society BILL MILEY UGAR ano BIGGER THEY ARE HARDER THEY FALL This is going to be a tough column to write. I'm on my holidays, it's a bieautiful summer day, hot but not muggy, and I'm as lazy as the cat, who is curled up in "her" chair, dreaming. In winter, she eats like a hog and becomes replusively fat. In summer, she subsists principally on bees, ants and butterflies, and slims out into a tigress, stalking her domain, the back yard. Her domain underwent a big change this week. Two old friends dies. You might say they were cut down in their prime. They were twin elms, lofty and graceful. I've spent many an hour slumped in a lawn chair watching the birds and the squirrels in the elms, listening to the'whispering of the two lovers as they leaned toward each other and caressed each other with their limbs. Hey, this is getting pretty sexy. Last spring they came out in leaf, but by mid-summer they were dead of the Dutch elm plague which has blighted my part of the country. : I was going to have them taken down this summer, anyway, but my plans were spurred a bit when a small limb fell off and concked my neighbour on the head, and then a large limb came down and fell on my neighbour's house. They're good neighbours, but that's carrying things a bit far. : I'd heard all sorts of horror stories about the fantastic prices people charged to remove trees. I was assured that it would cost me a couple of hundred dollars per tree. £ This was nonsense, horror stories so often are. I located a tree surgeon who works for the hydro. His estimate was $65. "Each?", my wife queried, and I kicked her sharply on the ankle. She is always worried about any deals I make. She thinks I have no business sense and will be diddled #} every turn. She is right about the first premise, but I have never yet been diddled, because I trust people. She doesn't, and has been diddled Several times. Anyway, that was a firm price for both trees, and I didn't shopgaround because I thought it was. reasonable, and | there's nothing I detest more than trying to beat somebody down on a price. Srice Well, it was pretty exciting. George arrived with ropes, chain saws and four husky assistants. Instead of taking the trees down in pieces, he was going to fell them in the back yard, toward the house. It's a pleasure to see an expert at work. He sized up the trees by eye and reckoned they wouldn't hit the house. I had to take his word for it. If he'd misjudged, one tree would have slammed through the French doors and right into our living-room. He went up the tree like a monkey and fastened ropes around it. The other ends of the ropes w ere snubbed around trees near the house and the boys stood by, ready to pull. . . Snarl went the chain saw. Heave went the boys. WHAM! Down came fiumber one, right where he'd lined 'er up. A few minutes later, down came number two, almost missing the peony bed. Then they went to work like so many beavers, some wielding chain saws, the others piling brush. In three hours from go the trees were down, sawed into fireplace length, and everything cleaned up. I have ceased worrying about the energy crisis in this country. I have enough elm blocks stacked in wood piles all over the yard to see us through until at least the year 2,000, and after that somebody else can worry about it. There's something snug and homely about a wood pile. Now, instead of looking out and seeing flower beds that need weeding, I can sit and look at my wood piles. } . I didn't lift a finger myself, but I feel a smug and satisfied when I look at all that wood as any pioneer ever did when he'd just finished cutting and stacking his wood for the winter. ' There's only one cloud on the horizon. It's too good to be true. I'll bet that right now, 'some beady-eyed bureaucrat in the Department of National Revenue is trying to figure out some way of collecting tax on that wood. He'd better not succeed or there'll be. trouble. He can sales tax me, income tax me, property tax me; but if tries to tax my wood pile it will be the final straw and there'll be murder done. The weapon will be a two-foot elm block, dropped from the bathroom window. 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 19, 1923 Reports wre received by the Reach Council from several sheep valuators concerning the loss or in- jury of sheep caused by dogs. Thomas Dewey, Len Soper, Earl Tummond, Chas. Howsam and Lawson Honey have all lost sheep. Council moved that a bounty be given to anyone who shoots any dog worry- ing sheep. Warnings: Two persons in this area were fined $5.00 each for placing used pos- tage stamps on their letters. Congratulations to Mr. 'Rosswell Dobson, Manches- ter, on having passed the elementary Rudements with Ist class honours, 96 per- cent. Mr. Dobson is a pupil of Miss Florence Hill, Port Perry. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 22nd, 1948 Congratulations to Cart- wright Fife and Drum Band, who chartered a bus and went to the 12th of July celebrations in Cobourg and againbrought the cup home. The Cartwright L.0.B.A. also received a prize. A number of Prince Al- bert residents attended the trouseau tea at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vic- kery in honour of their daughter Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Christie and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Farrow of London are on a motor trip to Algonquin Park, Ottawa and Montreal. Congratulations to Scout Leader Bud Sonely and Mrs. Sonely on the arrival of the, first Girl Guide in Port Perry. Mrs. J. Sherman, Toron- to, spent the weekend with her sister Mrs. S. Farmer. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 17,1958 Thanks to the generous support of community or- ganizations, individual citi- zens, and business estab- lishments, the new addition to the Scout Hall is almost completed. Lloyd Wilson of Uxbridge has been nominated to represent Ont. County 4-H Clubs before a Provincial Selection Committee for the Wm. H. Danforth 4-H Club Leadership * Training Scholarship. Mr. Herb Hooey, Black- stock, who. is almost 84 years old marched in the Orange Parade in Bowman- ville this year for the 57th time. His grandson John Wolfe, 4, marched with him. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 18, 1963 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nottingham, Little Britain were honoured at an Anni- versary _ celebration marking their 35th anniver- sary. } Port Perry "Merchants" took possession of first place in the Northern Divis- ion of the Oshawa City and District - Major Fastball League when the doned the Brooklin Concretes by a score of 4 - 3 on Tuesday night. Rev. S.J. Hillier, retiring as minister from the "Brook- lin. United Church conducted 'the serviee at Blackstock United Church on Sunday.