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Bi piu = " re. bo SI FRET ED Aw, en ro) Elsewhere $8.50 per year. Single Copy 15¢ A lot of interest Now that council has committed itself to building an arena, the committee in charge can get down to the nitty-gritty of finance, site and type of building. Mayor Lawrence Malcolm has suggested that $100,000 be raised by public subscription and the council set aside perhaps $75,000 a year until building on the arena starts. Then the mayor would have council debenture the rest over five years. All of these details will have to be worked out - between the committee and council. At face value, $100,000 doesn't seem like much money to raise by public subscription, but that is just under $10 for every man, woman and child in Scugog. } Of course, the way people were throwing around their ten dollars for Olympic Lottery tickets, there shouldn't be any trouble with that amount. The more money that is raised by public subscription, the better, as it will reduce the interest charges that will have to be paid on the remainder. Estimating 1975 construction costs, the com- mittee said it would cost $750,000 to build the arena. If $600,000 of that was financed over twenty - years at ten per cent it would cost a total of $1,370,000 by the end of twenty years. Yes, that is $670,000 in interest over 20 years. If the township remains the same size that will be four and a half mills a year for twenty years on each tax bill. That is almost two and a half mills interest a year. There is little question an arena is needed and that some of it will have to be financed on the mill rate. What can be said is that, the more money raised by public subscription, the better it will be for everybody. : Short-sighted decision The decision by the Durham Board of Education to build a smaller addition to Cartwright Public School seems rather short-sighted. The decision, which was opposed by both local . trustees, will save a mere $70,000 and will provide two classrooms less than the alternative plan would have. Two classrooms may not seem like a lot but three portable classrooms will still have to be used when the new addition is completed. Board officials have predicted that by 1980 there will be fewer students at the school than there are now. This view isn't shared by many local people including the two trustees from this area. The $70,000 it would have cost to build the two new classrooms will be spent on the salary of two or three administrators in one year. If" the expected growth takes place in the immediate Port Perry area, there will be at least 500 more students trying to get into R. H. Cornish and Prince Albert Public Schools. Cornish is already a very large school and although Prince Albert could take more students, it certainly can't handle the expected increase. One way to solve the problem would be to send the students from Scugog Island to Cartwright instead of to Prince Albert and Port Perry. That way the two schools would have a much better chance of handling the expected increase, which will come at a time when Board experts expect a decrease in school population in Cartwright. It might have worked out just right if the Board had listened to our two local representatives. | PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Advertising Manager' : Member "of the Canadian Community Newspaper Associafion Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday, by the Part Perry Star Co Lid. Porl 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, PROVINCIAL CHECK-OUT COUNTER FEDERAL CHECK-OUT" COUNTER BILL MILEY IT'S A GAY MAD WHIRL Let's see. Where am 1? I know I was going to make a pointed, telling attack this week on one of the great evils of our society. But I can't remember what it was. } Maybe that's because I have three exams lo set, eleventy-four essays to mark, my bricks are falling out, along with my fillings, and my wife. who has just given me a. thrilling account of how she couldn't get the car started, is going to the hospital tomorrow. Ah, well, c'est la vie, as the Chinese say. You can't have everything running like clockwork in a world in which the most sensible creatures seem to be cockroaches. also have forty-four lelters to answer, six vital telephone calls to make, a speech to wrile. and a grandbabby to bring up. Then there are about seven thousand pounds of oak leaves to rake and bag. I think I'll send them to Bangla-Desh. Surely somebody there knows how to make oak leaf and acorn soup. Don't think I'm being hard and cynical. There's a lot of protein in those acorns. And I have twenty-eight squirrels, not counting children, in my attic to prove it. Maybe you think this is just the whining of a middleaged man, who can't cope with life. Well, you're right. My bricks are falling out. Or they are being sucked out, by the gentle vines of this old Georgian house, which are about as - gentle as a giant squid. The roofer said, "Geez, Bill, your bricks are ldose." It sounds sort of obscene, like, "You have rocks in your head." But it's not. They're falling out. (Or being knocked out by the clumsy roofers and painters. Sh-h-h-h.) And my fillings are falling out as fast as I can, or my dentist can, put them in. He's a nice guy, and the most painless dentist I have ever had, for which I will cling to him until teeth do us depart, but you can't build pine trees out of stumps. And then there's my grandbabby. You'd think I would not worry about him when he's ~ a hundred miles away. But I do. How do I know those young sillies in the daycare centre are teaching him the right things. Do they know how to.ride him on a jigging fool to the tune of. **Did You Ever Go Into An Irishman's Shanty, Where Money Is Scarce and Whiskey Is Plenty?'"? Do they kriow how to.let him chew their thumb while at the same time whistling in his belly and waving his bare foot in the air to the tune of "Knees. Up, Mother Brown'? Well, maybe the young sillies aren't doing . too badly, as long as there are three of them to one of him. At least they're not trying to unteach him the good things he's learned from his gramps. UGAR ano SricE CL; Had a call from his mother last Sunday. She made it from a phone booth, as Mother Bell has not smiled on them yet. Asked her where the baby was. She reponded coolly that he was on her knee, tearing pages out of the telephone directory. He loves tearing up books, especially those of sacred institutes, like the Bell. 1 started him off with the inane coloured sections of the Saturday papers. He seemed to thrive on it, ripping them apart with gusto. relish, ~and any ketchup that happeded to be - around. I thought it wise to move him .up to telephone books, police reports, politicians' speeches, beer labels and such examples of Canadian culture. Turns out he's a boy after my own heart. . Go to it, Pokey. His real name is Nicov Chen, but I tacked Poley on him, and it has stuck. He pokes into everything that is moving, or still. If it's moving, he stops it ; if it's still, le makes it move, grinning fiendishly all the time. I tell you, it's a gay, mad whirl around here. Just now I was interrupted by two pretty girls at the front door, rakes in hand. I'd forgotten about them. They'd come to rake my leaves. For money, of course. Couldn't get any boys. : In the past week I have also dealt with sixteen students who are pbvious flunkers; one irate parent, several disgruntled teach- ers, and one invitation to judge a beauty contest. To top if off, in today's mail came an election flyer, from Ray Argyle, who syndicates this column, announcing his run for school trustee. He must be out of his nut... Everybody seems to be going a bit mad these days. but I'll lay odds that I get there before the rest of you. The Argyle Syndicate Ltd. Letters to the Editor Reader's comments in the form of Letters to the Editor welcomed at the Port Perry Star. Names must be supplied but can be withheld upon request. 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 13,1924 At the Seagrave Anniver- sary Service this year, pro- ceeds amounted to $240.00. The Public School children are planning a Grand Con- cert in the Town Hall with a new operetta, songs and folk dancing. - Plans for a new Public Library got under way and anyone wishing to leave subscription can do so with Mr. Hutcheson at the Royal Bank or with Mr. Farmer at the Star office. On behalf of the 1.0.D.E., six pictures made by Mrs. Nasmith and Mrs. Woods were presented to the schools in town. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 17,1949 At the turkey dinner in the Anglican Church some three hundred persons sat down to a delicious repast. Rev. J. T. Coneybeare was the ninister at this time. Mr. M. McIntyre Hood, managing editor of the Oshawa Times Gazette was the speaker at the Lions Club regular meeting. ~~' Sinclair Robertson Tommy Duff, Shirley, enter- ed two baby beef calves in the Royal Winter Fair. Mr. Glenn Demara of Scugog has just returned from the west where he has been employed for the last three months. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 19,1959 At the installation of offic- ers of Maybelle Rebekah Lodge, Nettie Aldred was installed as Noble Grand land Ruby Beare as Vice-Grand. Miss Lillian Couves of Greenbank was Valedictor- ian at the Port Perry High School' commencement exercises. Mansell Gerrow, R.N., was appointed director of Nursing at the Ajax and Pickering General Hospital. Mr. John Leask won the Lawara trophy for Show- (continued on page b) and 4.