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Ada WIA EAI SANA YE SE Vs ai 4 ¢. RT he Cawker left for a trip to Western Canada. An aeroplane lighted in the Fair Grounds on Sun- day and immediately a large crowd congregated to see the pilot make a few minor adjustments. Friends of Miss Ethel Miller, Greenbank, met at her home and gave her a shower. She re- ceived many lovely gifts." 35 YEARS AGO" Thurs. October 8, 1942 Mrs. LR. Bentley, Mrs. A. Brock and Mrs. J.E. Jackson attended. the first fall meeting of the position John Bowerman, bottom deck, left, was the owner and builder of the "Cora", a boat which took parties Millan left Port Perry to start her training with the Women's Division of .the. R.C.AF. at Rock- - cliffe. I! Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Prentice, Scugog, are moving to Port Perry. Mr. James Doble, re- cently of Ashburn, who has been employed in London, Ontario as a radio operator has left for Montreal to take up new duties. Miss Mamie Hardy, Honeydale has taken a teaching at Brockville High School. po ro 3 < fo SF ing RR No x Chimong Lake near Peterborough. The boat was later sold to the Carnegies, who used it for hauling of men for one and two day trips from Lake Scugog to logs. 60 YEARS AGO "College Chapter Alum- 25 YEARS AGO majority of 250 delegates Thurs. October 4, 1917 nae at Ontario Ladies Thurs. October 2, 1952 at Whitby, Ontario. Messrs. Albert Or- College, Whitby. Mr. Roy Scott, a 54 chard and Aylmer Miss Florence Mec- year-old Seagrave farm- 20 YEARS AGO Thurs. October 10, 1957 Port Perry Ten-Town won the Ontario County Softball trophy when they defeated Port Whitby 11-4 in Whitby. South Ontario Plowing Match will be held on the farm of H. Malcolm and er was re-nominated as Ontario Riding's C.C.F. candidate in the next Federal election. : Reeve Ernie Hayes states that the Ontario Hydro Electric Commis- sion are planning to close their offices here, and the billing and inside Sons, Brougham. office work will be taken Mr. Jack Griffen, Port over by the village. Perry was the speaker at The first Port Perry - Prince Albert Church on district man to head the Sunday. Progressive Conserva- tive Association in 48 years is Dr. M.B. Dymond, who was elect- ed as president by the 10 YEARS AGO Thurs. October 5, 1967 Bell Telephone lectur- : (continued on page 6) PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Oct. 5, 1977 -- 5 Reader's Viewpoint Property owner says lot levies unjust Dear Editor: Through your paper 1 would like to bring to the attention of the public, what I think is an injustice re- garding lot levies imposed by our local council. Your paper has already printed two articles regard- ing the levy imposed on a lot in this village - owned by me, C. Miller. I would like to make the public aware of all the facts in this regard. In 1969 I bought a house on Begéelow Street. In 1975 I bought the ad- joining lot on MacDonald St. with a house on it. « I hold separate registered deeds to each property. Provincial law says that adjoining properties regist- ered in the same ownership (continued on page 7) Canada War Museum Dear Editor, The Canadian War Mu- seum seeks to strengthen its collection of military arti- facts and at this time es- pecially wishes to acquire uniforms, weapons, medals, military books, insignia and photographs concerning the military history of North America from 1604 to the present. Artifacts relating to the allied and enemy forces from the First and Second World Wars, and from Peace Keeping Assign- ments are also of interest, as are the common every- day items used by Canadian Military personnel in the war zones, In rest areas behind the lines, and at home. These are for display, future reference and re- search in the Canadian War Museum in the National capital and other allied Canadian Military mus- eums. The Canadian War Museum would be pleased to hear from you if you are able to assist in this re- quirement. Yours truly, L.F. Murray, Chief Curator, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ont. KIA OMS. Published every Wednesday by the Port Por Star Co Lg. Por! Perry, Ontar.o Authorized as second class madd by Me 1nd Office Department, Oltawa. and 106 payment of in cash Sccond Class Mail Registrat.on Numhar 0285 Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year Elsewhere 310.09 per year. (PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Phone YAN 1143 (CG CNA Serving Port Perry Reach. Scuaog and Cartwriah! Townships J. PETER HVIDSTEN, ~ablisher Advirl:ang Manager JOHN B. McCLELLAND EDITOR Ate bur of th Canadian Cominunily New Lap ¢ and On1ario Weekly Newspaper ASSOC ia" St, > -t, 5): ed '. Asson rtane Single copy 20¢ illey Why I'm a teacher Friends of mine in all walks of life can't understand how I can stand teaching as a vocation... With striking originality, they ask: "How can you stand it?" So, with another 10 months of my chosen way of life under way, I thought I'd look at it, and try to give them an answer. Perhaps we could start with elimination. It would take an act of God, or a.change of sex, or something equally dramatic, to make me an engineer: I have just completed the job , of trying to change a typewriter ribbon.. It took me 30 minutes, I wound up with ink all over my fingers, my face, and a clean shirt: And guess what came out when I began - typing? Red words. It was one of. those half-red, half-black ribbons, and I'd 'got it upside bassackwards. The only reason you are reading this in black is that it is being reproduced by someone else, My lack of engineering skills precludes my making a fat living where the real money is these days: as a repair man. If you have a son or daughter pondering a career, for the dear goodness' sake, steer it into fixing things - plumbing, electricity, TV, cars. Took my lawnmower to a repairman the other day. It wouldn't start. Picked it up three days later. The bill was $41.16 - one dollar and 16 cents more than half what I have paid for the new machine a few years ago. The bill for labor was $27. You could have a baby for that not so terribly long ago. I've never wanted to be a scientist. Can't see spending my life in a lab trying to find a new additive that will make clothes whiter than white or a new chemical that will make deodorant dryer than ever. Medicine, since I have never had a secret desire to be God, held little appeal for me. It's a noble profession, and you can make a pile of money by peering into people's apertures, probing their flab, making their blood. spurt; 'and writing prescriptions among other things. : None. of those things turn me on, though. Dentistry, ditto.. 1 can see no particular . charm in standing at an angle most acrobats couldn't maintain for 10 seconds, gawking at gums and crumbling renovations. .One look into my own mouth would give me night- mares for a week. To heck with the $50,000 a year. Then there's the law, of course. There's a great deal of poppycock about the majesty and the integrity of the law, All of it stems from lawyers and judges. But I wouldn't care to be associated in a profession where there is, despite all disclaimers, one law for the rich and another for the poor. Shakes- peare said it nicely: 'Let them hang all the lawyers." Another field that brings in a mighty good buck is accounting. But where's the future in that for a fellow who can't even account to his own wife for the way he behaved at the party on Saturday night? Quite a good career these days is "working for the government." Certainly you'll never be fired, unless you turn up drunk four days ina row and rape four different secretaries. Even then, you'd probably just be "trans- ferred to a less sensitive area," or put out to _pasture on a pension. When 1 was a student, we used to say scornfully that if:you couldn't' do anything else, you went into the ministry. This was a base canard, of course, but the delights of the parsonage never really got me excited. I wouldn't have minded pounding the old pulpit a bit, but I couldn't have stood the old biddies and the back-stabbers and the constant mendicanting. What I thought I might be was a professor of English. Sit around in a book-filled study, dispense wisdom to awed students, and give the occasional brilliant lecture. Well I've since met some of my old friends who chose that path. They're more boring that the guy who comes to fix my furnace. What I really and truly wanted to do when I was young and romantic was to become a foreign correspondent. Influenced by movies, I wanted the works: trench coat, snap brim felt hat, bylines from Hong Kong and Nairobi. 1 ~ TR IP Tra Th 3 VRAIN £ Nearest 1 got to that was editing the country correspondence from contributors to a small-town weekly. That wasn't a bad vocation, except that you worked 60-odd 'hours a week and never made any money. I guess my secret desire for years was to be a writer, Preferably a pipe-smoking, enormously popular, immensely wealthy one, several times divorced, a world travel- er, a lecturer in great demand, yet with a depth, a plus quality in my novels that would put me-up there with Hardy, Conrad, Hemingway. With three or four of my novels turned into smash hits on Broadway ly Hollywood. And all my own hair and teeth. _Only trouble with that wish was that I was too lazy. Oh, the talent was there. No question about that, as we novel-writers manque can assure anyone. So instead of becoming a Hemingway, 1 became Bill Smiley, a chronicler of the tribulations and the trivia of the mid-20th century. And not a whit bitter or disillusioned about it. That wasn't quite enough to keep a body alive, so I became a teacher. Not only because most other professions fill me with nausea or loathing. But because I like young people, words, ideas, and two months hclidays. The Argyle Syndicate Ltd.