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Port Perry Star, 29 Jan 1975, p. 4

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ASE I PAI ER A LARNER EE as hin des ALAM L er FA) SRA AMA [3 gail . HA . FAA EE RSNA AR SOONER bl EARN hn Fa veda hi dodo aaa ATRENSR RAY | Editorial Comments High cost of living Complaints.in regard to the high cost of living is the much talked about topic not only in Canada, but throughout the entire World. But if prices are compared between those in Canada and some of the European countries, Canadians are pretty fortunate and have little to complain about. This writer, only recently returned from a brief visit to Norway and found prices generally much higher than here. Even some of the essential food commodities were a great deal more expensive. One price that comes to mind in particular is meat. One Ib. of the better cuts of beef is priced at about $5.50. Bread and milk is much the same as here because of government subsidies. There are many other items including clothing, 10 to 25 per cent higher than in Canada. Luxury articles such as liquor and tobacco, the Norwegian Government taxes to the hilt. A bottle of Scotch whiskey sold in Canada for $7.85, is obtainable by a Norwegian customer for 85 kroner (Norwegian currency) or about $16.50. A package of 20 cigarettes is double in price, about $1.50. One gallon of gasoline priced in Canada at 60c to 65c, reaches the incredible price of about $1.50. An automobile considered a luxury in Norway makes anyone think twice before a purchase is made. No cars are manufactured in the country and the majority operated -are of the smaller type, either of European or Japanese make. An Opel Record, manufactured by General Motors in Germany, is priced in Norway at about 60,000. kroner or about $11,500, and can possibly be compared to a medium-sized car in this country. Comparison here is made only with Norway, a country today enjoying quite a high standard of living. There are other countries even worse off, so when we talk about inflation, a World-wide adversity, Canadians are certainly much better off, at least now, than most other countries. Christianity at its best Bruce McLeod, past moderator of the United Church, is going to spend the next year doing "anual labour in a Costa Rican village, the current -ue of The United Church Observer reports. Dr. McLeod resigned in November from his " pulpit at Bloor Street United Church, Toronto, and said he wanted a year off to plan his future. He told The Observer he had decided to spend the year, beginning in July, ""hoeing and hammering" to build a village for abandoned children in the central American country. The village is the first of several planned by a new Canadian organization, Pueblitos Inc. Dr. McLeod says it's hoped the first houses will be ready for the children by October. Nestleton Remember When..? 50 YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO nominated for the office of Stephens left for Calgary ®. Thursday, January 29, 1925 Thursday, January 26, 1950 Warden of Ontario County, where they will compete . Stewart Collins, Port William J. Heron, Reeve of with the best Junior skaters Uxbridge Hockey team Perry and W. Augustus and Brock Township was elected. in Canada. } The Canadian beat Port Perry and 250 fans py. Greenfield were winners Community Memorial Championship competitions travel by special train from 4 a duck shoot sponsored by _ Hospital entered its seventh are being held in Calgary Uxbridge to see, their boys port Perry rod and Gun Club year of service to the public. this year. } win. and held at the High School. Mr. Anson Gerrow was The Ontario County Junior Manchester - The past Farm prices were quite a installed as Superintendent - farmers choir under the weeks have been a terror for controversial topic even 25 Of the Scugog "Head" Sun- direction of Mrs. Grace = 4 | icy footpaths. years ago. 1500 farmers day school. Hastings won top honaurs at Honey's Corners - Record from Ontario 'and Durham Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Duff the annual Junior 'Farmers 28 below zero withpo sign of counties met at Port Perry have moved from their farm Conference in Toronto. , a January thaw! Wood High School and demanded a: Shirley and will take up Prior to the "At Home hauling is the {principal that the Federal Govern- residence in Port Perry. this year, the graduating occupation these days as ment establish adequate At the evening auxiliary of class of 1945 met at the many as twenty teams goout floor prices under all lines of the W.M.S,, the officers were Flamingo Restaurant for a: nearly every day. farm commodities. Loud- installed for this year, reunion. Those present were = | At the Church of the gpeakers hung throughout President Helen Bathie, Jack Whitmore, Toronto; Ascension, the rite of Con- he schoolroom to accomo- Vice-Pres. Kay Walker, Miss Spooner, Toronto, a firmation was admistered by gate those who didn't get Treasurer Hazel Crawford, teacher of the class; Harold His Lordship, Bishop jpside the auditorium. Rec. Secretary Joan Lane St. John, Toronto; Wes Sweeney to the following Hugh Ormiston, Brooklin, and Press Secretary Doris Jackson, Toronto; Miss - candidates: Mrs. Victoria was elected president of Williams. Coulter, Toronto, teacher; Beck, Gertrude Reid, Lois Qptario County Holstein Mr. Stuart Lane was a William Stone, Blackwater. Lundy, Gwendolyn Etty, (lub. Lloyd Smith, R.R. 2, student teacher at Utica this Jack Cawker, Toronto; week. Stella Wilson, Muriel pgp Perry, was elected Emmerson McMillan, Tor- Coombs, George Irwin, vice-president. onto; Mrs. Robert Wilkinson Wilfred Stevens, Orval Robt. J. Harris, Mayor of 10 YEARS AGO (nee Vera Moase) Toronto; Druean and Robert Brown. Blackstock High School hockey team played the Juniors . at Gordon's arena, lots of fun and a very close game with the score 3-2 for Blackstock. Uxbridge and a former Port Perry boy, was elected president of Ontario County Law Association. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 28, 1960 Thursday, January 28, 1965 At the Port Perry High School "At Home", Miss Susan Roach of Manchester was chosen Queen and Miss Gail Forder Princess. Anna Forder and Richard Mrs. Hause (nee Kathleen Day) Willowdale; Miss Par- ker, teacher; Mrs. Torrens (nee Doreen Johnson) King- 'ston; Miss M. Harris, Port Perry, teacher; and Robert Five candidates were Williams, Bowmanville. rs m i m . Bill Smiley Now I'l pointstraight, Cliff ! Came across a new party game recently, called Mons Pubsi and wood labelled me I have a map, showing this unusual Nor is mining left out. . There is an ancient and thought you might like to try it on your . Shewor Forest. Pay no attention to them. world, drawn by an excellent cartoonist who mine, begun by the Incas, called Old Pala all be an with some friends of ours who They Hl suffer enough in the next world for gi oo island-called Nomani Pills, Aviifsh, Ovi Mins. ' Al i " . like to he with words and create wild puns. si Sea vA Sirasiic os) Jar a son Island (the poet Donne), on which is a ar ss as lard ier t ; ) , . Oh, . . , and Yew Wood, and She Wood, and They had a bit of problem and one said to they'll suffer. lighthouse called Gotta Light and a cape Hee Wood, and of the bi the other: "We seem to be in dire straits." called Cape Waukin. All we need is a Y'all Wood ReLISe: 198 biggest of all The other replied solemnly: = "Yes, Dire But not as much as you'll suffer when your ~~ Bullfighter's Cape. ) : Biot Sousngky: - 4Ve4, Dire guests get into the swing of things, and start Someone drew cities, so that on the map There are points, succinctly titled Getthe spots Tuorea bY Freak o producing such items as Melon Coulee and we have Greater Kappa City and, in small ~~ Point and Point a Forder. pe pe, eve. Sherbet Shore. print Lesser Kappa City. In these cities may There are dan i a ¢ - ! * f gerous, dirty great rocks Or something like that. And they were off. Perhaps what you should do is partition be found such things as the Public Library, looming just off Dire Straits. They are They tried in on some of their friends, and your guest into groups, give each group a Brut Al Copse (a small wooded area,) anda fearsome to sailors, and no wonder "mh + the result was a collection of puns that even geographical term, and see what happens. narrow street labelled Gunman's Mall. are known as Acid Rock and Country Rock, Shakespeare would have blushed at. Thus, you might say to one group: On the map is a kindom called Kindom of ~~ There are a couple of sounds eS called All you need is a knowledge of geographi- ~~ "0.K., your topic is bays. Let's hear some Kum (ruled by King Klimact Eric) and Mersey Sound, another Safen Sound cal terms and a total inability to blush at the ~~ bays." So you get such items as Hound-dog above that is a smaller adjunct called There are a couple of depressions or atrocious puns you produce. Bay, and Stagat Bay and Brought to Bay. Higher In Kum, and below it another called faults, in.the map. One of these is Kronic __Some of your friends will undoubtedly try, To another group, you submit streams, Lower In Kum. Depression the other is Itzer Fault.' if 1 know people, to turn it into a and they supply such doozers as Uptha Just off the State of Nymphomania lies There are elevated coast lines. These are pornographic geographic game. This is Creek, Niktha Creek and Sleau Burn. If Kumin Sea, in which are found a Fast Eddy ~~ dubbed Base Cliffs, Treble Cliffs and the: almost unavoidable; because there are alot there's an alcy in the crowd, he might and a Current of Ents. High Coast of Living of people with dirty minds, unlike you and suggest Live R. At the basis of this body of Then there are the great blank spaces on Got the idea? Try it out. I guarantee me. . ~ Water is Font of Life, and running off from the map. One is entitled Ara Plain, and the youll be ill in twenty minutes. But don't let These excrescences on the face of our the main river are Minna Rills. In there other Just Deserts. them pawn off on you such junk as _ pure and bland society will come up with somewhere you will find Compression And there are hills and mountains. We Generation Gap, Parr Gulf, and Cape Porn filthies with Sunapha Beach, the State of Springs. have Kitchen Range, Ovatha Hill and Duty. be Nymphomania in which we find a mountain Don't go away, it gets worse. In front of Cols. The Argyle Syndicate Ltd. v LJ SR Va y ] ey C0 g I in ge Bh ; A RL Ty SN a }

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