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Flowers of hope By Elizabeth Fulford President Central Seven Association for the Mentally Retarded In Canada, the second week of May is National Week for the Mentally Retarded.It's a time when we seek funds to provide training programs so vital to these Canadians. Your support is making workshops, residences and recreation programs available fo these people so that they can be a part of their community. In our Flowers of Hope drive we ask that you become a friend of the retarded. Being a friend means you care enough to assist us by providing funds for their current and future needs in your area. In this immediate area (Central Seven, Serving the New municipalities of Scugog, Uxbridge, and Brock) a new A.R.C (Adult Rehabilitation Centre) workshop is being considered. This would offer a vocational opportunity for persons to work in a sheltered setting. When the need is established the new workshop will be located in the area most central for the majority of applicants. In the Summer of 1973 Central Seven A.M.R. offered a swim and craft program at Uxpool in co-operation with the Uxbridge Kinette Club. This program enabled us to offer a weekly program for 9 weeks to children with special needs. This program was financed entirely through donations. Each morning through the school year, a volunteer assists on the school bus from Port Perry to the various special facilities in Oshawa. It is hoped that within the near future -a comprehensive program for all retarded will be available in the northern section of Durham Region. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday Grocery Stores will be giving out packages of 'Flowers of Hope" to all shoppers at Port Perry I.G.A., Dowson's Red and White, Trans General Store, Prince Albert, The Country Store, Nestleton, H. Martyn General Store, Blackstock, Blackstock General Store, Utica General Store, Wanamaker's General Store, Seagrave, Ferguson's General Store, Greenbank, 1.G.A. in Cannington and Young's Food Market at Sunderland. These stores will all be helping the Association in the campaign. For further information please feel free to contact any member of the association. Won't you please help. OPP welcomes you May 12 to 18 is police week in Canada. Across the country police departments throw their doors open to the public in an effort to promote greater understanding between the police and the public. The 185 detachments of the OPP in Ontario will also be open to the public during this week. The Whitby detachment which looks after Port Perry and surrounding areas, will have personnel on duty between 12 noon and 8 p.m. daily during the week to guide visitors around the building. There will be various displays depicting force functions and equipment. An interesting display open to the public during the week will be the Breathalyzer. Last year the Whitby Breathalyzer tested 537 persons on it. A qualified technician will be on hand to explain the operation of the machine to visitors between 12 noon and 8 p.m. Any group interested in touring the Whitby detachment should contact Constable D. Simmons or Constable W. Nethery. PORT PERRY: STAR Company Limited (Q CNA \ SA, Serving Por! Perry, Reach, Scugog and : (oun) 3 * IS Cartwright Townships ~S EN Kory P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher 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 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 Rate: In Canada $4.00 per year. Elsewhere $8.50 per year Single Copy 15¢ ] : ENNIS INNS AN AAA AAA AAA EES ROA TT BES . 3 ORE TOL SA RA VISIR RAE WLR TT APN WEARER FAY i Lo } RLAROLTS Wo " CALL ME WHAT you LIKE, PAL -.. YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN! S27, Mart 4 ill 2 A Ec ~~ ERR Ney I, BILL MILEY UGAR AND MY MOVIE CAREER ONCE IS ENOUGH Several items this week, none of them large enough to write a column about, but cach of them of such vital importance to the state of the world that they must not be ignored. Germany: a couple of leftovers. Prostitu- tion is legal there. In Kaiserslautern, there's a rather bleak four-storey building. Prob- ably financed by American aid. It is a (uh, shall'we say?) house of ill repute. In their rude and licentious way, the soldiery call it, "Four floors of whores," which has a nice echoic ring to it. But what caught my eye, at 11 a.m., was the huge neon sign on top of the building. It read, "SEX MIT heart." The word heart was not spelled out, but represented by a huge, red, Valentine-type heart, in neon. A nice touch. Another place in the same city was "Harry's." He has a good gimmick, which I'd like to see Eaton's and Simpsons adopt. It is a clip joint for suspecting North Americans. There are no Germans in the place. But you can buy anything from a Hummel figurine to a vast, lousy paint- ing. However, his gimmick getsem. When you walk in the door, you are offered a coke, a coffee, or a beer. And when you leave, you are offered a free gift; comb, nail-file, plastic car-key-holder, something. It's chic- ken stuff, but it's smart. In a lot of Canadian stores, all you are offered is a slice of cold shoulder. Trees. The Germans treat their trees as we would roses. they are carefully husban- ded -- and even wifed -- and produce the - expectant harvest. They are then cut up as carefully as bread. We whack ours down and burn them. Not that I'd want to live in Germany. Who wants to live in a country where the trains run on time, and highway signs say something as vulgar as Ausfarten? Movies: Recently I was involved in the making of a moive. I am here to declare, by the grace of God, that I do not now, or ever, want to be a movie star, a supporting actor, or an extra. You guessed it. I was an extra. Unpaid. 1 spent a beautiful spring afternoon running up and down hills, shouting, "Get him! Kill him! Hang him!" in a soldier's uniform, and brandishing a stout club. Why 1, as a soldier, was carrying a club, instead of a musket, I don't know, but extras don't question DeMille, do they? Trouble was with the movie., that we extras didn't know what the hell was going on. We puffed up and down the hills, got slapped in the eye by willow switches, and ~ jumped over logs, waving our clubs menac- ingly. It was pretty exciting. The first time. Then we did it over and over again, because someone had forgotten to take off the sun-glasses, or the watch. It was a period piece, and the beer cans and coke bottles didn't fit into the 19th century milieu. Must admire the camera-man, though. He climbed about forty feet into a tree, to take "down" shots of us idiots running through the woods, yelling, "Kill him! Get Him!" and such. Then he lay under a log, shooting up. getting crotch shots and feet shots as we did the same thing. Then he waded into a river (in April) and did the same thing. Finally, he ran backwards with a hand camera while we raced (or stumbled) toward him, shouting the same stuff. He tripped a couple of times over trees cut down with a 1974 chain saw. Biggest problem was not to laugh during shooting (as we call it). There is something eminently hilarious about a collection of middle-aged people, some of them with hernias and heart attacks, walking back up a hill, for the fith time, in order to come running down it again, because some silly ass had cried, in the excitement, "Go get him, Mike!" instead of "Kill! Kill!" and the sound man had picked up the modern expression. Depression: Not the psychiatric kind, .the economic kind. I'feel it in my bones. There's a big depression coming. Jolly good, is what I'say. We haven't had a decent depression in this country for years. There's almost a desire for one. The kids, of course, don't even know what one is. Heard a girl say today to another, "Vu gotny money?" The other replied, "Yabudy. Yabudy goddagesum cigrets." Priorities. But the old folks now. In fact, they almost have a nostalgia for it. They brag about it. Lumpy porridge instead of Krinkly Krun- chies. Hamburger, two pounds for two-bits. Mailmen working and danged glad to have a job. Railwaymen ditto. There are books, "Ten Lost Years," and plays dramatizing the Depression. And it was dramatic. T was there. For the ten Lost Years. And I didn't feel they were lost. Ask anyone. If you can find him. Or her? 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 15, 1924 Congradulations to the Rev. Milton Sanderson & Rev. E.O. Gallagher, on so successfully completing their course, the former in Victoria, and the later in Wycliffe Colleges. We are sorry to report that Mr. Richard Thompson of Prince Albert, had his arm broken while working in the stable with a horse. Thieves entered the premises of Mr. David Archer of Blackstock, on Sunday night and carried away nearly forty very fine hens. It is hoped that our constable is successful not only in catching but in re-storing the fowl. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 12, 1949 About three o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, the office of Drs. Rennie and Dymond was threatened with fire. Apparently the blaze started in the base- ment, the smoke soon filled the entire building. While the main part of the building was not destroyed, $2,500.00 damage was done. We understand a new industry is about to start on Scugog. Prof. Gray and Mrs. Jack Aldred hope in.the near future to be manufacturing clay art goods. A new build- ing is being erected on the Aldred farm. The 16th annual Business Men's Association Meeting was held today. Attendants were Mr. Bearey who thanked excoutivel and members for their splendid co-opeation and Mr. Geo. Emmerson, secretary and Mr. Gordon Reesor, treas- urer. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday. May 11, 1950 "Reeve Rae Ferguson has (continued on page 24) <b tg x