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SE Sl po dint Ts Py Let's give council a going away present Port Perry council decided it can not have a party for employees, council members and their wives this Christmas because it would require taxpayers money and they thought the taxpayers might get, i up in arms,' over such a thing. ; No doubt the same attitude is what has kept council members from spending any money on conventions this year. It is a commendable attitude. People elected to a council should be concerned with public opinion regarding the spending of tax dollars. But surely the people of Port Perry will find some way to let council know that, in this case, a few dollars spent on a Christmas Party will be okay. About.a dozen people work for the Village of Port Perry, not counting Hydro employees, and in a town this size that is fa major What other business in employer. wn with more than a dozen workers is not having a Christmas party for its staff and their families? The Port Perry STAR has its office party planned for next week. The n:en who care for our streets, the girls who collect our tax and water payments, the people who make sure our Hydro keeps functioning are first class citizens of our town, and are just as entitled to a party as anyone. The town owns Latcham Centre, so there would be no cost involved for hall rent. On New Year's Eve the Village of Port Perry and its council, and its staff will disappear like a ficticious pumpkin at midnight. When we wake up New Year's day we will be living in Scugog and Port Perry, with its history of more than 100 years, will be dead and buried. Let us at least give it a decent burial. If you know a member of council personally why not give him a call and let him have your opinion ° regarding his right to throw a, 'going away," Christmas party for his staff. If you do not know a member that well write a note to, "The Council," and drop it around to the municipal office before Monday (Council meets Tuesday.) Let's see the old town out with a bang. Carelessness causes forest fires In its final report for the 1973 forest fire season, the Canadian Forestry Service records a total of 7,457 forest fires in Canada during the year, affecting 2,974,000 acres. Although the number of fires is slightly less ¢ than the 8,063 recorded in 1972, the acreage of forest land .damaged has more than doubled, from + ~-1,293,000. . "For the month of October, there were 171 fires over 3,000 acres, compared with 228 fires and 21,000 acres in October of last year. The average number of fires in Canadian forests each year for the 10 years between 1963 and 1972 was 7,794, and the acreage affected 1,997,000. Quite a tribute to carelessness in the bush. gy m---- ------ PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Sam, {wr CNA S, "4 2 : (oun) : % § Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and 1, o fray 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¢ { TTR. LCA BTS 3 TRS TA WS nt abbas n mii alenkind Ns hb. V4 copbichinailsgaliat hi lid a I i 0 | "OH HONEY, REMEMBER THAT BIG BLOCKBUSTER. YOU WISHED WE COULD TRADE ON A COMPACT?" BILL MILEY UGAR ano It seems that in the Seventies, the whole world is lurching, as most of us do in our private lives, from one crisis to another. Crippling strikes, crippling food prices, crippling political scandals, and now the energy crisis, so-called. A crisis may be defined as a turning point. Perhaps it's time we reached some turning points and did some turning in new directions. " What so many people of the affluent post-war years don't realize is that crisis are nothing new. Every generations faces them, meets them, and resolves them, somehow. War, depression, another war, the bomb. All these have been universal crisis in this century. Beside those big ones, a hike in the price of beef is less than monumental, and even the expected energy crisis is small potatoes. (I must be hungry.) If the energy crisis becomes more than newspaper headlines, and shortages and rationing occur, it might be the best thing that has happened to the fat-cat Western world for generations. We are in grave danger of turning into slobs, physically, mentally, emotionally and morally. Maybe we need a good purge, in the form of a sharp cut-back in our soft way of living. Get rid of some of the fat, even if it requires a surgeon's knife. Take a day in the life of an average family. Someone, very often the husband in these degenerate days, gets up first and turns the thermostat up to seventy. The beast in the basement starts gulping more energy. Our friend shaves with his electric razor. He goes down and gets his orange juice out of another beast that has been burning SricE electricity all night, producing nothing. Then he flips on two burners on the electric stove, one for coffee, one for bacon and eggs. When they're ready, he jams some bread. into the electric toaster. Then the mother stumbles down and turns the burners back on. Father drives the eight blocks to work, stinking up the environment and burning energy. The kids waffle off to a school which is probably burning far more tons of coal a day than it needs to. That school has thousands of lights which are on even on a bright day. At home friend wife throws the laundry into an automatic washer which uses large quantities of hot water which has taken a fair amount of electricity to produce. Then it goes into the automatic dryer, run by electricity. Then she tackles the ironing,and we all know what heats an iron in this day. She decides to wash her hair. More hot water. Then she sits under the electric dryer with fresh coffee made on the stove burner. At this time of year, probably half the lights in the house are on, merrily chewing up the watts. And so it goes, right across the land, all day long. The television set burns juice far into the night. Advertising signs pop on and eat more juice. Industry belches its wastes and burns energy with a lavish hand. Right now, in our kitchen, the electric oven is glowing red. It will be for the next two hours. Know what's in it? One large potato, being baked. Multiply the juice being consumed by this one family by about five million in Canada alone and I think you'll agree that we're a pretty extravagant, even sluttish lot, when it (continued on page 18) * Thursday, 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 6, 1923 The highlight of Port Perry Public School's Con- cert was the Operetta, "Cin- derella in Flowerland." Tom Harris was 'Prince Sun- shine" and Mary Walker was' Daisy "Cinderella." Hood's Ford Motor Sales in Port Perry has a complete new line of Body types. Purchase a new Touring Car for $445. 25 YEARS AGO Dec. 2, 1948 Dave Wilson of Scugog Island has recently joined the Port Perry Scout Pack. Dave is only 14 but already he is a King Scout. Miss Rudy Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Wilson, Reach Twp., left ¢ recently for Africa where she will be a missionary. Grades IX and X of Fort Perry High School accom- panied by Mr. Crane, Mr. Crook and Mr. MacDonald made a trip to Toronto to see the Royal Ontario Museum, the Parliament Buildings and the Royal Winter Fair. Aileen Skerratt, Utica, was presented with the Dymond Scholarship of $25. given to the best all-round student of the Junior Matri- culation Class. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 4, 1958 Cartwright High School Students, Catherine Bailey, Clifford . Jackson, Bill Mar- low and Ted Schwartz re- ceived Honour Graduation Diplomas at the annual com- "mencement. Mrs. Hilda Buxcey and her family, of Port Perry placed a 3,500 mile trans - Atlantic telephone call to her father in England on the occasion of his birthday. A trophy was presented to Dave Mosienko, by the Lions' Club for winning the Lions Club Grain Award. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Dec. 5, 1963 Port Perry Reeve J. J. Gibson was the only nom- ination for reeveship in the current election and he was returned by acclamation. Construction is booming even in the winter months in Port Perry. The Odd Fellows Hall is nearing completion, the Baptist Church is almost finished outside and the fire- hall has it foundation in. For the 12th consecutive year, Mrs. M.B. Dymond was elected President of the Port Perry Hospital Auxiliary. Port Perry Author A former Port Perry man has recently published a book, '"'Sailing-Armchair to Sea Legs." Peter Sulman introduced his book to The Stouffville Public Library last week. Peter Sulman's father was at one time head of Port Perry Hydro and is well known for his work as a Scout Master here. The author is married to the former Mayrene James, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mel James of Port Perry. Mr. and Mrs. Sulman now live in Markham. | A»