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Mork d Se plik nl SEI Vr fe a ee FT ey wT ey o, = ZEEE We tip our 'cowboy' hat The Port Perry Chamber of Commerce has been criticized on occasion for one thing or another. Nobody's perfect. But as The Book says, 'by their fruits ye shall know them' and the recent western weekend was one of the most fruitful festivals staged anywhere in Ontario by a town the size of Port Perry. Sure a lot of people helped. Council gave the necessary approvals to keep anything legal. The Navy League donated part of its profits from Millionaires Night towards the cost of the reggatta. The Kinsmen, Kinettes, Gun Club and a host of others did their best to make the weekend a success. No one will deny that all participating groups deserve a tip of the hat for their efforts. But it was the chamber which co-ordinated the entire four days. It was the chamber that arranged for out of town promotion. It was the chamber that provided the work and the money to get the program off the ground. It is the chamber, and the chamber alone, that would have taken the blame if the whole thing had bombed. And so it is the Chamber of Commerce that deserves the priase of townsfolk and a tip of the editors (cowboy) hat for a tough job excellently done. AND WHILE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT The community picnic staged by Ivan Parkin- . son of Reach Township last Saturday night was fantastic. "Parky" says he is only in the berry business as a hobby anyway, so he spends the profit to put on the best party in the county for his employees and customers. More sceptical people have suggested that it is a darn good publicity stunt and an excellent advertising medium for a competent business- man. We don't care which theory is right. The old time music, old fashioned bonfire roasting the corn, the friendly old atmosphere is reminicent of the best of an era that is gone in most communities, and would be gone from here too if it was not for the single effort of ""The Berry Man.' - } It was a great night Parky. Thank you. Here we go again Elections are to be held October 1 and while the next few months will be a hectic time for newsmen, covering political rallies and so on, it will also be a time of relative peace and tranquillity. This seeming paradox is brought about by the fact that once a politician finds himself in a political battle, his view of the media changes. Where he once sat snug and smug in his political office accusing reporters: of misquoting him whenever he said something that made him look like a fool in retrospect, now he won't be able to do enough for them. And where he once wailed time and again that editors were slanting their stories (or their headlines) in an attempt to "get" him, he'll now be calling them up wanting to take them to lunch and complimenting them on the great job they're doing. SAARC NNSRRET! PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited ao Wee Sam, ¥% CNA = (OWNAY z E! § ", AD "ers pd Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and / Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher BRUCE ARNOLD, Editor WM. T. HARRISON, Plant Manager J. PETER HVIDSTEN, 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¢ h 4 BILL MILEY UGAR ano 332 PLUS 3 PLUS 10 PLUS 3 PLUS 8 PLUS 70 TIMES 2 . . . My wife cannot understand why anyone wants to travel, when he can sit in his own backyard and commune with the gods. I'm beginning to agree with her. Getting ready is kind of a pain in the arm, especially if you must have a vaccination. Obtaining a passport sounds easy. Heck, it's more trouble than getting married or dying. : All you have to do is fill in a form. The form is slightly more complicated than your income tax form. Then, you must find someone who will swear that you are who you say you are. This person is called a guarantor and can be practically anyone except your neigh- bour. Then you must obtain a birth certificate. This is fairly simple if you know where you were born. If you don't, or you happened to be born in Zilch, Yugoslavia, it can be complex. You must have passport photos taken. You can't just use an old snapshot in which you look your best. Passport photos are an old joke. They usually make you look like a zombie. Strangely, burs turned out well. We didn't pose for them, because we knew they'd be gruesome, so they came out relaxed. Besides passports and birth certificates, there is a myriad of other pother to look after, and you could use a full-time clerk for a week or two. Air tickets, money arrangements, hotel reservations, and who's going to feed the cat. A travel agent is almost a must in these days, when half the world seems to be on the move. He or she can smooth a lot of wrinkles and give valuable tips on how to win at least the occasional round in the game, Many people go to big agencies in the city. My travel agent, a personable young local chap, couldn't have been more helpful and efficient. (Aside to Bill Mandly: everything, by golly, had better be right, after that.) He told me something about air tares that is almost unbelievable. A return ticket to the UK. can run all the way from a Christmas charter at $187 to a regular - flight at $626 (under two weeks). I shudder to think what a first-class ticket would cost in the latter category. Seice Of course, a business man can write off the $626 as expenses, and to the little old lady going back for a visit after fifty years, that $187 special might represent months of scrimping. Even so, something smells, in the. discrepancy. Travelling is not cheap, unless you want to swim across, which I've contemplated a couple of times as the bills mount. Only reason I haven't developed the idea is that my wife is a good swimmer, but only for about thirty yards. I'd hate to see her go down thirty yards off the Halifax docks, and have to do all the rest on my own, with nobody to tell me I was steering the wrong course. * Not cheap! Good gravy. Just looked dver the items before we even left the house. Air ticket -- $332; passport photo -- $3; passport -- $10; birth certificate -- $3; limousine to airport -- $8; Britrail pass -- $70. Those are just the basics. Multiply by two if you're a couple. Then there are the everpresent extras: new clothes, expenses to get to city to get passports, and the inevitable sundries, too numerous to mention, as the auction sale ads put it. That's before you get on the plane. You still have to eat and sleep for three weeks after you get there. However, I've cut the whole thing down quite a bit by cancelling our two daily paper deliveries for three weeks. Saved about $6.50 right there. Our Britrail pass allows us to go anywhere in the U.K. It may come in handy. We may be riding trains all night, every night, to save hotel bills. And we're taking along an eight pound salami and six loaves of bread, so we might come through. I have a vague idea that this column will not go down as one of the greatest pieces of exotic travel literature ever written. But it is a little hectic around here. six hours to takeoff, my wife is just starting to pack, I have to go down and sell my soul to the bank manager, get up to the school and look after some items for September, see young Wilson next door about feeding the cat, call the boy about mowing the lawn, pick up the dry-cleaning, get the books back to the library, and somehow in there, try to have a shower and shave. We might make it, but I wouldn't bet higher than even money. ) I'll try to do better next week, when you'll have a despatch from the Nag's Head, Middle Wallop, England. a 50 YEARS AGO Mr. R.M. Holtby, Port Perry is leaving about the first of. September for Bri- tish Columbia where he is to be judge of Holsteins at thé New Westminster Fair. Mr. D. Boe has bought the house on Mary Street, the property of Mrs. E.C. Bruton, Port Perry. Frist Port Perry troup of the Boys Scouts have re- turned home after spending a week camping at Stephen- son's Point. A new dump for the town of Port Perry has been created to replace the one which was to fill in the marsh road leading to the bridge. Rev. R.G. Carruthers and Mr. C. Venning, Blackstock motored the indoor baseball team to Centre Island last Friday for a friendly game. The score was 12 to 10 in favour of Blackstock. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 26, 1948 Jack Kirkham, C.P.R. foreman at Myrtle Station has been given charge of a extra gang and is working S_}~ "| on the front line. On August 15, 1948, Mr. Blake Cragg, presided and Mr. P. Taylor, of Port Perry Baptist Church gave the address at the Centen- nial Decoration Day Service of Bethel Cemetery. The church site and cemetery were purchased from Edward Bassingthwaite in 1848. Congratulations to Miss Claudia Coulter, Port Perry who attended Havergal Ladies College, Toronto and has passed the seven Upper School Examinations which she tried. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 21, 1958 Mrs. Ralph Dusty, Seagrave (nee Miss Ruby Leask) Dairy Princess for Ontario County will take part in the preliminary con- test for Dairy Queen on Thursday, August 22 at the C.N.E. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Leach, Manchester, motored to camp Ipperwash, Saturday. Their son Albert returned with them after spending seven weeks training at - Cadet Camp there. Two members of Blackstock's Y.P.U., Robert Strong and Ron Hosking were selected to attend the Hi C camp at Quin-Mo-Lac, August 23 - 30. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 22, 1963 Bruce Ballinger and Bonnie Wallace, both Port Perry High School students were notifed by the Ontario Department of Education as being Ontario Scholars. Seventy members of the Flett Clan gathered at the Blackstock. 'Recreation Centre for a meal together on Sunday. Visitors came from Port Perry, Bowman- ville, Oakwood, Cannington, Toronto and Peterborough districts. The forest industry's ex- penditures for goods and services to support. wood- lands and mill operations in Ontario amounts to an estimated $1.5 billion annually. Ce CRT -- I ------