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PRE OR | 0 Dn tl NSIS: Tes man SEA a Re, oy d i CRT ha Rb a fated Ln, Ene Et SN pi =¥ pe A EN LN ASE DITORIAL PINION Ny Lining their pockets We get the feeling that Durham taxpayers are getting justifiably sick and tired of the money grubbing antics of Regional council. It is important for Scugog taxpayers to remember that our representatives Reg Rose and Mayor Lawrence Malcolm failed to support the ten thousand dollars a year salary, and that the Mayor spoke out against the latest rip-off when council decided to try for a two thousand, five hundred dollar retroactive Christmas bonus. We should also remember that Scugog council members have voted themselves the lowest pay in the Region. While we can be grateful that our representatives are not as bad as the rest, that can not be used as an excuse for not speaking up when our pockets are picked by others. Some of the people who do support every suggestions which might line their own pockets at the expense of others are not far from Scugog. Whitby regional councillor Emm, for example, lives on the south side of the townline. If he moved across the street, he would be in Reach. "/ Our readers in Myrtle and Ashburn can take the credit for his vote in favour of the unwarranted $2,500 bonus, just as they can take the credit for Whitby Mayor Des Newman, who suggested the two and half thousand dollar rip off. STAR readers in Columbus and Raglan presented us with Jim Potticary, the Mayor of Oshawa who has decided to pay'himself more than some provincial premiers get. To start with council gave itself a salary of $200. a week, one third of it tax free. If that was all they got it would be enough, but not too much. It was not all they got. The farmers on council still get paid for farming, the preachers still get salaries as preachers, the teachers still teach and the salesman still sell. Councillor Emm, to use our bad example again, still operates a poultry farm and arrives early so he can take egg orders from other council members before the meetings. Uxbridge Mayor Putterbough still pulls teeth, rents office space and farms which can hardly leave much time for earning his political money. He recently told Uxbridge council that if it cut his extra $140 weekly salary as Mayor he would quit. Council should have let him. The councillors did not need $10,000 so long as . they intend to lgok on politics as a part time job. They certainly should have been able to afford to pay for their own beer at conventions out of $10,000, and they should be able to buy their own gas to get to work just as the rest of us have to. But they have ripped us off for these expenses in addition to their inflated pay cheques. Now they want a $2,500 bonus for whatever it is they did before January 1st, when Bill 162 said they should start getting paid. That's your money friend. Complain. ADS NAS PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Wo we, \ ', SA, (G CNA (umm) ~<a, \ "ors eS Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher BRUCE ARNOLD, Editor WM. T. HARRISON, J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Plant Manager En Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Part 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 Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rafe: In Canada $6.00 per year. Single Copy 15¢ RRA AAA AANA AAAS ASA A AAS rao o crc ond Elsewhere $8.50 per year. AN BILL MILEY UGAR ano "A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME . . ." What's in a name? Quite a bit, if you're going to be stuck with it for the rest of your life. When the young people were trying to think of a name for my new grandson, I started pondering on this whole business of Christian monikers. Naming of children seems to go in cycles. And the names in one generation seem either ugly or affected to the people of the next generation. ~ There was a time when girls were quite happy to be called Pearl or Ruby, Mabel or Myrtle or Elsie. If a girl were given a name like that today, she'd run away from home at the age of five. The same period produced boys' names like Elmer, Horace, Marvin, not to mention those two great poets, one Greek, one Latin: Homer and Virgil. That was known as the bad period to be tagged. Before that was the romantic _ period. In my mother's family, the boys | were dubbed things like Drayton, Emerson, Lionel, Ivan. On my wife's side, her mother was Sophia, and her mother's sisters were Charloote and Esther. Those ladies wound up as Sophie, Lottie and Acey, but the damage was done. My wife's mother named her Ivy and her sister Iris, but they didn't turn out to be a couple of clinging vines. My wife hates her name so I call her Suse, which seems to suit her. My own mother was on the ebb-tide of the romantic period. but she did name her daughters Florence and Norma. They wound up as Floss and The Brat, so it wasn't too bad. With the boys' names, my ma wasn't too bad, but my brothers are Byron Arnott Keith and Donald Allan Blake, and I'm William Bryant Thomson. y Serice Not too awful, really, but my brothers, emerged as Blake and Arnott. I have been called Billy, Bill, Willie and Will, among other things, but have never been known as William, except in legal documents. Iwas the lucky one. I grew up in an age of Jacks and Bobs and Bills and Joes and Toms. A Gordon was suspect, and a Homer was hooted out of the gang, unless he could find a nickname like Stink or Piggy or ireaseball or some such affectionate nomenclature. In my group, there was a Harold, an Arnold and Clayton. They were tolerated because they became Smokey Oakes, Goon Imeson and Pappy Warren. After my generation, a new wave of snobbery set in, as women started calling their kids after heroes in the Ladies Home Journal and British novels. There sprouted a whole crop of Peters and Stevens and Michaels and Jeffreys and Christophers and Marks and Matthews and Nicholases and Davids and Ians. There wasn't a George or a John in the lot. And the girls got it too. There were Samanthas and Natalies and Sonyas and Patrices and Lises and Pamelas and Elizabeth Janes and Rhondas and Debo- rahs. My God, were there Deborahs! I have five of them this year in a class with twelve girls in it. Finding a girl called Mary these days is just as tough as finding a boy called John. Oh, I'm not blaming the parents all that much. It's no joke, choosing a name. We were going to call our first-born Judy, because it was to be a girl. It didn't have the right plumbing, so we named it Hugh, after a Sir Hugh Smiley in Ireland. And do you know, the old skinflint didn't even put our boy in his will? (continued on page 15) y _ REMEMBER i AY A Phot a 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, Feb. 7, 1924 2 The annual installation of Officers at Old England Lodge, S.0.E. was held Tues- day evening. Two presenta- tions were made; one to Bros. T.J. Widden of a fountain pen and the other to Bro. Wm. Etley of a Past President's Jewel. Arrangements have been made to have the Band at the Rink every Wednesday even- ing under the leadership of Mr. V. Stouffer. A sleigh load of Ashburn villagers attended the open- ing of Brooklin Continuation School on Wednesday eve- ning. All wool serge in a wide range of colours is clear- ing at F.W. Mclntyre's for $1.95 yard. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, Feb. 10, 1949 Winners in the costume parade at the Port Perry Public School Carnival inclu- ded, Sharon Haugens and Jack Wallis for Junior's Fancy costumes and Bar- bara Love and Paul Peel for Senior's Original costumes. A plane, bound for Toronto from Fenelon Falls, landed on Henry Skerratt's farm, Utica, on Sunday to get gas. Congratulations Port Perry girls, Misses Donna Crosier and Edith Stone on receiving their nurses' caps at the Capping Exercises at the McLaughlin House, Oshawa. February 7. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 5, 1959 - The Port Perry Senior Hockey League has just finished a six game unbeaten streak and is now tied for third place. They will now attend the Tri-County play- offs and then they enter the All-Ontario O.R.H.A. Senior Play Downs. The Ontario County Junior Farmers' Association has entered the 2nd annual Inter County T.V. Competition to be held over Channel 3 in Barrie. Monday night Constables Harold Hockins and David Kernahan stopped a car on Hwy. 12 and discovered $400. worth of copper wire from the Port Perry Hydro Store House.. Charges of posses: . sion of stolen goods was laid on 3 men from Pickering, Highland Creek and Toronto. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 6, 1964 Council voted a $200.00 payment be made to Mr. Chas. Brignall to subsidize the operation of the ambu- lance service in Port Perry for at least 2 months. The Port Perry Girls Hockey Team lost 6 - 3 while playing host to the more experienced Uxbridge girls. linda Heayn, scored all 3 Port goals with assists going to Vickie McCarney (2) and Sheila Kenny. : Plans for a new Central School No. 3 to be built this spring have been presented to Reach Township School Board. The new school will accomodate the rural school population at Chalk Lake, Utica and Bethesda. The Ontario County Junior Farmers debating team have advanced to the semi- finals and will now compete against Northumberland. Members include, Marilyn Downey, Bob Robertson, David Hawthorne and Frank Barkey.