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« 3 8 3A N opt bh - A) 2 ! @cw 2 (OUR) z -_----»" CHRISTMAS MESSAGE By Rev. R. C. Rose How many times have you been reminded that there appears to be a difference between the religious Christmas and the secular Christmas? . Perhaps you asked yourself, ""What is all the hustle and bustle of the season really got to do with Christmas?" It is true that it is very easy to loose sight of the real Christmas. If we look hard enough we can find something of the "Ghost of Christmas past' in our modern observance and sometimes that something has a real connection with Christmas. Most people would describe Christmas as a joyous time and many express their joys in different ways. There is the joy of good companionship and food, we experience the joy of entertaining, the joy of anticipation and the joy of family and loved ones. Joy has always been a part of Christmas and we find it expressed in the carols od the past; "Joy to the world the Lord is come", All my heart this night rejoices" and, "Good Christian men rejoice". All of which reflects the message of the angels, "Behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." This was the message of God's loving kindness and God's giving. It is this gift that is the beginning of joy. One thing we have all experienced at Christmas is that if a gift is to bring joy it must not only be given but it must also be received. The Scripture tells us that God loved and God gave - *'His Son". It is for us to receive. May we all know the joy of receiving our Saviour this Christmas. We appreciate your help This will be the final issue of the Port Perry Star for 1974. In the production of a weekly newspaper we have a number of persons involved we tend to forget. These people are not on the staff, but vitally important to the success of the Star. These are first of all the correspondents who faithfully every week send in their contributions of happenings from their hamlet or small community. Another important group of people adding greatly to the quality of a newspaper are all those men and women in charge of organized amateur sports who also take time out to present our readers with news and accounts of the many phases of sports in the area. There are others sending in accounts of meetings, writing letters to the editor, etc., all so important in the production of a good newspaper. And if the growth of this paper is a measuring stick, we are pretentious enough to believe we are producing a good weekly newspaper. We should not forget the members of the Township of Scugog Council, with Mayor Lawrence Malcolm at the helm, for their fine co-operation during the past year. A vital part in the making of a newspaper. We extend to all of you, including readers and advertisers, a sincere thank you with the best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. -P. Hvidsten, Publisher ANS ~~ "PORT PERRY STAR 'Company Limited a0 wy, Sa, rary Serving Por! Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher 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. Ltd., Port Perry, Onlario 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¢ BILL MILEY UGAR ano THOUGHTS FOR THE SEASON And the same to you! I probably should have sent off a Merry Christmas column to all my readers about the first of November, to make sure it was received by December 25th. 3 I know this won't be. But it's not your faithful chronicler's fault, nor the fault of your favourite weekly newspaper. The entire blame must rest on the broad shoulders - they have to be broad - of that modern phenomenon of efficiency, Canada Post. People in that august institution must. be afraid of getting their hands soiled by handling "the average weekly newspaper, full of violence, rape, murder and mugg- ings. They probably use a shovel. Shovel it into a corner until some day, between coffee breaks, they are so bored that they resort to sorting and sending the weekly paper. When I was in the business, we used to mail the paper onThursday, and people in Ohio or Texas would receive it on Monday. Nowadays, I count on my weekly paper being a week late in arriving. Time after time, I've been tempted to take up my typewriter and dash off an encouraging note to a weekly editor who has written a particularly pungent editorial, only to pause - in the certainty that by the time I'd received his paper, and the time he'd received my letter, the hot issue he'd attacked or defended would be three weeks old, and as cold as a corpse. i Well, we mustn't be mean at Christmas, must we? Although I don't see why not. The same miserable sods are going to be around on Boxing Day, and the same inefficient, insolent institutions will be back in business on Jan. 1. Since it's too late to wish everyone a Merry, I'll put everything in the past tense, I hope you got exactly what you wanted for Christmas, whether it was a baby or a kazoo or a sober husband. I hope you got Joy. And if you didn't, I hope you were happy with Myrtle or Hazel or Pearl or Genevieve. If you wanted a pair of those foam-rubber kneepads for scrubbing, I hope you got them. And if you wanted a mink wrap, I hope you didn't. . I hope you were not pregnant if you didnt want to be, and were if you wanted to be. I hope you didn't bust your bum on those new down-hill skiis, or bust 'your: heart on those new cross-country skiis, both of which you are too young or too cold to be doing Serice anything with except feeding the living room fire. If you are old and lonely, I hope you received a warm telephone call - about 15 minutes worth, and not collect - from someone who is young and loves you. .And if you are young and lonely, I hope you got a long telephone call, collect, from someone who is old and loves you. If you are a farmer, I hope you slept on Christmas Eve with visions of sugarplums and reindeer fast in your head. Jeez, a guy con't make any money on beef these days. Might as well get into reindeer. . If you are a schoolteacher, I hope you remembered at Christmas that you too were once a fat and ugly duckling, riddled with pimples, shy to the point of fainting if asked a question, lazy as a cut cat, sort of dirty, really, ahd _yet a striving, yearning, beseeching human bean. If you were a mother at Christmas - well, all I can say is that I hope you believe in a life after death. And if you were a father, well, all I can say -is- that-I-hope-you;-too, believe in-a world in -- - the hereafter. Preferably segregated. If you are a business tycoon, a union leader, or anyone in the upper echelons of education, I hope your ulcer ruined your Christmas dinner. If you are an old maid, and have been lurking these many years in the fold of your "sick" mother's nighty-gown, I hope you decided at Christmas to unlurk. Same for old male spinsters. Unlurk. Boy, that almost sounds like a dirty word, if you practise. Try it. Unlurk! Whatever happened at Christmas, hang in there. We need you. We hewers of wood and drawers of water, as-Canadian are known, have to stick together and keep on hewing drawers. Every time there comes a crack about hewers and drawers; I burst into a hue and cry. Bursting into a hue is fairly simple. 1 can turn purple on very little provocation, as my family will tell; -- Almost anybody can hew or hue. But the drawers are the problem. Nobody wears drawers any more. How can you cry them when there ain't none. This is a problem that Canadian are going to have to give a good deal of thought to in the coming year. Well, those are my season's greetings to Awl and Sundry (my legal representatives), as well as to all you faithful readers. And lang may your lum reek, on New Year's Eve. : The Argyle Syndicate Ltd. "School 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 25, 1924 Among the Port Perry Students who are home for the holidays are John Brock, - M. Harris, Bessie Crozier, Harold . Jackson, John Raines and Miss M. Jackson. The principal of Port Perry High School, Mr. H. Follick, told the Star that in the middle and upper schools Departmental Examin- ations, 18 First Class Hon- * ours, 50 Second Class, 34 Third Class, and 115 Credits were obtained by the pupils. For the first time since the big rink was built in Port Perry there has been skating before Christmas in Port Perry. Norman DeShane, caretaker has been on the job constantly. At the Port Perry Christ- mas Fair, geese sold as high as 22c 1b. and chickens at 30¢ a pound. This year at the High School Christmas concert, Mr. Arnold Roach played a cornet solo, he was also presented with a medal for the most points in the Junior Boys field day champion- ships. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 22, 1949 The Anglican Church was re-opened after it had been closed for some time during renovations. Rev. J. T. Coneybeare, who seems to be building up the congre- gation, is to be congrat- ulated. The Port Perry High gymnasium or assembly hall could be rent- ed until midnight for $3.00 and after midnight $4.00. It was free to all students for school functions, also to all non-profit organizations where there was no admis- sion charge. At the nomination meeting in Port Perry for Council this year, three names were submitted for Reeve, they were: Ernest Hayes, Ted Jackson and A. L. Mec Dermott. : (continued on page 24)