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Letter to the Editor Needs assistance Dear Editor: May I ask for assistance from any of your readers - could be relations living in Brock, Scott or Reach town- Sp RAO AA AAAS The robins are back sing- ing their welcomed songs to proclaim the arrival of spring, but one wonders if it can possibly last. . oe Ada Ee oh a Spb SLES Parents should warn their youngsters of the dangers of run-off, which léaves road- side ditches, and small ponds overflowing with lake, but it is advised to keep the children away from it at this time of the year. We have been fortunate in Scugog in the past, but a PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Mar. 16, 1977 -- § Early Spring arrival hazard to children little reminder from parents in spring time could avoid any tragedy from occuring this year or in years to come. who might have knowledge, of the life history of Mercy Eliza Scott, wife of Thomas Scott. They farmed near Saintfield, Ontario. I do not know Mercy Eliza's maiden name. Being in her early twenties when her husband Thomas died, ..she._could. have married... again after 1882. If she had" sisters and brothers . there ships. If she lived a normal life span, she could have died in the 1930's or 1940's. I would like any infor- mation about Mercy Eliza to help complete the Scott family history. Yours truly, Andrew Arksey, R.R. 1, Granton, Ontario. NOM 1V0 'Opposition to Chimo youth home (continued) give Chimo representatives a chance to talk to people in the area to get their react ion--and hopefully approval. But a letter from Chimo before council at the Mon- day meeting requested councillors to go ahead with the third reading. Coun. Vernon Asselstine said he was at a Scugog Ratepayers Association meeting held with Chimo representatives, and it was his feeling that there was no great opposition to the pro- ject voiced at that time, even though most of the neighbours in the area were represented. The zoning change bylaw will now be circulated to all 'landowners within 400 feet of the property. Council has the authority to withdraw the bylaw providing suffici- ent reason is provided, or the Ontario Municipal Board (which has final say in such rezonings) can con- duct hearings on contenti- ous zoning changes. During the past week, with: temperatures soaring near 18 C on occasion, motorcycles, bicycles, con- vertibles have become a common site on the streets of Port Perry. Area resid- ents have even shed their winter clothing and can be ..seen walking in shirt sleeves in the warm sun. It is a beautiful time of the year, but with the snow having melted as quickly as it did, it presents a few hazards to the children. Police investigate break-ins Police are investigating three break-ins last week in the Scugog area. On March 11, the home of Frank Baxter of R.R. 2, Port Perry was the target. Someone had attempted to enter the residence by removing a bedroom window screen. The pre- sence of Baxter's dog in the residence apparently scared the would-be intruder off. On March 12, the home of Frederick Dantzer ~ Wys water and could be a dis- aster if a small child slipped and fell into the icy waters. Although Lake Scugog has had one of its thickest ice formations this year, with over. 24" in some spots, the ice is now becoming slushy and is beginning to break away from the shore line. On 7A highway at the cause: way the ice is now starting to make way for the flow of water coming through the culverts. we It is quite likely that there is still a lot of ice on the burglarized. Entry was gained by smashing a win- dow. Three portable tele- vision sets, valued at $400., were stolen. On March 13, a 25-inch colour television set and a quantity of stereo equip- ment, valued at over $900., was stolen from the home of Ronald Frederick Middle- ton, R.R. 2, Port Perry. Entry was gained by break- ing a window. School. Jenifer Carriere, Jamie Ross (centre) and Rick Creuzburg go through a scene from the play "Come What May' at a rehearsal held Monday in prepar- ation for tonight's Drama Night at Port Perry High Bill Smiley Who Needs Taxes? There's something wrong with the econo- mic set-up of our society. This conclusion was the one I came to after checking over my T4 form the other day. I turned white and then red when I saw what everybody is clipping out of my pay cheque, The first, and worst deduction is for income tax. The feds got me for more in taxes than my hard-working father ever made in the two best years of his life put together. Then I started wondering what I get from Ottawa for my thumping contribution. I wasn't exactly impressed when I totted it up. I don't get welfare or unemployment insurance or the old age pension or the baby bonus. I get the Trans Canada highway, which I use every 12 years, if I can find a spot in the never-ending line of Americans hauling trailers or campers. I get the CBC, which. is one of the country's great losers, finan- cially and culturally. I get the Mounties, Who needs them? I get protection from our gallant armed forces, who could probably wrestle Iceland to a draw, although I wouldn't bet on it. I get the privilege of contributing to those handsome pensions of MPs and civil servants with their cosy, built-in excalation. I have the privilege of 60 YEARS AGO Wed. March 13, 1917 A number of friends and neighbours. gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Davey, Scugog, to bid them fare- well before their move to Port Perry. Mr. A. J. Carnegie was elected as 4th Vice Pre-. sident of the South Ontario Liberal Assoc., held in Whitby. Mrs. Morley Campbell were elected to the executive. Rev. J. W. Bunner, pastor at Manchester had a successful wood bee recently from Mr. W. W. . 'Holtby's woods. He now , has a good supply of wood on hand: Lieut, C. Vickery has been detailed to take a course on the Lewis Auto- matic Gun in Toronto. 35 YEARS AGO Thurs. March 19, 1942 At a meeting of the Farm Bureau held in the Port Perry High School, Mr. Wm. Newman was the guest speaker. Mr. A. C. Buckley, of George Jackson and Mr, When..? the Attorney-Generals Department in Toronto has bought the home of Mr, and Mrs, Jas. Lucas. Rev. Mr. Tristram of the Veteran's guard is home for a few days. Mr. Robert Simpson of Chapleau has gone to work in Parrish's hard- ware store. Mrs. Robert Clark, Epsom, attended the Red Cross Convention in Tor- onto recently. The members of the young People Union in Port Perry will attend the Y.P.U. convention in - Hampton. 20 YEARS AGO Thurs. March 14, 1957 What might have been a major fire, but for the pt action of the Port hs Fire brigade when they were called to a chimney fire at the home of Mr. Keizebrink, Prince Albert. Sargeant Arthur James of Port Perry, a member of the Royal Canadian Dental Corp. at the R.AF.'s Nato Air Divis- ion Headquarters is teaching basic = English and Canadian Geography to a Hungarian refugee who intends coming to Canada to the Hamilton area, Misses Muriel Lamb, Carol Midgley and Mr. Ted Lamb of Manchester attended the Junior Farmer's Conference at Guelph. 10 YEARS AGO Thurs. March 16, 1967 Brooklin Jr. Farmers won the 2nd Ontario Jr. Farmer Drama Festival held in Uxbridge - on March 4th with their pre- sentation of "Rise and Shine'. The cast consist- ed of Diane Graham, Pat Stell, Dave Hawthorne and Carol Wilson. A boys' choir and a mixed choir from Cart- wright Public School won two firsts in the Peter- Kiwanis Music Festival on March 7th. This feat was accomp- lished with the help of Mrs. R. Turner, choir leader; Mrs. Wannacott, music supervisor and accompanist Mrs. Ven- ning. ' Past: President Lion Storey Beare of the local Port Perry Lions was elected Zone Chairman of District A3, Zone 10S at the Zone Meeting of the Lions Club in the District held in Oshawa on March 12. kicking in so that Otto Lang can fly around like Henry Kissinger. I help pick up the tab for those federal- provincial meetings, at the last of which so - many of the provincial premiers were hard into the sauce that it wound up in a verbal donnybrook. I also receive the privilege of helping to pay for Skyshop bribes in Quebec, and nuclear bribes in Argentina and Switzer- land and Israel and lord knows where else. ~T have the additional pleasure of helping to pay for a wildly proliferating civil service that offers me such inessentials as Manpowers, ads telling me not to smoke or drink too much, and vast quantities of propaganda churned out by the hacks of Bytown on the Rideau. I am permitted to help pay for the annual deficits of the Post Office, the CNR, the CBC, and practically any other 'business' run by the feds. In addition, they'll let me kick in to help pay over native Canadians millions of - dollars for a lot of moose pasture and tundra that wasn't worth a plugged nickel until someone decided to run a pipeline through it. As 1 said, somebody has got things backward. The government offers me all sorts of things I don't want or need, and fails to offer me any of the things I do need. And that's only the beginning. Insurance companies are taking me to the cleaners: fire, life, term, health, automobile. And the only way I can get even is to set fire to the house, smash up the car, contract a disabling disease, or die. It doesn't seem fair. I paid a chunk into the Canada Pension Plan. The only way I get it back is to get old. Unemployment Insurance cost me $172. and I've never been out of a job in my life. The union cost me $325., which is probably used for a fund for a strike, in which I will not participate. In addition, they levied me $1,750. toward a pension plan. By the time I get around to collecting from it, one of two things will have happened. Either I'll be dead (and I hear there are no pensions in heaven), or my annual pension will be worth three loaves of bread and a can of beans, with inflation. And the whole thing expands downward. The provincial mafia nails me for hard-top ds into cottage country when I don't have a cottage; weed cutters, geologists, fishing inspectors; health care for every hypochondriac in the province; homes for the aged and homes for the insane and home for foster children; and a hundred other things I do not need. Then the county takes its cut. I help pay for reeves to go and get drunk at the Good Roads Convention, for County Health Units, County Assessors, County educational empires. And finally, the municipal mafia puts the gears to me, for arenas I don't skate in, swimming pools I don't swim in, healthy salaries for firemen and cops and every other bird who can get on the payroll. But when I say "Don't cut down my trees, please," they tell me I am standing in the way of progress. Nor does it end there, unfortunately. It comes right into your own home and sits down beside you at your own hearth. The old lady wants a gourmet cookbook, $20.; the daughter wants $250. for fees for a university course; the son should have a little donation in Paraguay to keep him from starving; the grandboys need new shoes at 12 bucks a rattle. I don't need a single one of these things, yet I am the one who has the tamboureen constantly shaking under my nose. Free enterprise be hanged. There's nothing free about it, and the only enter- prise involved in the considerably amount used by various parties to separate me from every nickel I earn. On the other hand, maybe I' m lucky that I don't need a single item from the endless list of garbage for which I am being clipped. You have to get old or sick or stupid or poor to collect most of them. The Argyle Syndicate Ltd. PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Gn prone ws a Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships J. PETER MVIDSTEN, » Publisher Advertising Manager John Gast, Editor Member df the Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc at.on and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. L¥d, Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for paymen! of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0245 Subscription Rate: In Canada 30.00 per year Elsewhere $10.00 per year. Single copy 2%¢ 4 5 A a a. IR SS EM Nd -- - LT