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5 won Say bs - . ¥ LJ NN | ¢ a» 9 ® é , » v 4 é 5 Ld ol » d » - 5 4 + v * v Ti ATS 2 TARA ddr dade Sees a. = Port Perry Band, s Orde, Harold Woon, Mr. Hutchison, 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 8, 1917 Pte. A. W. Allin who is, with the Polish Legion at' Camp Niagara spent the weekend at home in Port Perry The Ww. P.A. through the Perry citizens were able to send 52 boxes valued at $5.00 each to the soldiers 'overseas. At a mass meeting of the Liberal Party in J Whitby, W.E.N. Sinclair was nominated Standard Bearer of the Liberal Party in South Ontario. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 12, 1942 ferred from Toronto to Orillia for further train- ing. Miss Isabel Honey, who is teaching in Green generosity of the Port - Pte. Lawrence Doble, Ashburn, has been trans-. Remember When..? ummer of 1931. Back left, unknown, George Davey, Bruce Snelgrove, John. Alf Andrus, Dick Woon. Second row, from left - Lloyd Hunter, Bob Cawker, Harold Burton, Arnold Roach, River, was home for the weekend. Mr. Percy Densham sounded the "Last Post" at the twenty-fourth Re- membrance Service in Port Perry United - Church. The address was given by Rev. Walter R. Tristram who is station at Bowmanville on Hefid- - quarter Staff. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 13, 1952 Over 700 Cartwright . property owners will be polled by a mail vote asking if they are in fav- our of purchasing a $12,000 fire truck and hose - that will cost in the ared of $7,751.25. Cecil King, School Board Chairman, an- nounced that the laying of the cornerstone at the new $250,000. Public Wilfred Sacieson, ay Bill Webster. Ben Ward, Art Jemison, Fred Densham, I. R Bentley, Vic Stouffer and Bert MacGregor. Front Photo courtesy of Lloyd Hunter, Port Perry. School will be performed next week. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 14, 1957 Miss Jean Vera Cros- ier, Blackwater, was united in marriage to Mr. Ken Norman Buttery, Bowmanville, in Sea- grave United Church. Uxbridge Times Journ- al held open house to give 'their friends an opportun- ity to see their new resi- dence. Speaker at the Port Perry Rod and Gun Club annual banquet was Mr. Stanley Branch, Repre- sentative of the Lands and Forests Department. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 9, 1967 Susait Tripp on behalf of the Port Perry Guides and Brownies presented a cheque for $220. to Mrs. W. Watson which will be added to the hos- pital building fund. Wayne King was pre- sented with the Valedic- torian Trophy by Student Council Chairman of the month, Brian Donnelly at " the annual Port Perry High School Commence- ment Exercises. A new regulation by the Department of Edu- cation replaced Easter Holidays by Spring Holi- days which will fall on the same dates each year. (March 16-24). Holidays will still be on Good Friday and Easter Monday. Congratulations to Mr. Harry Kiezibrink who has been appointed Principal at. Prince " Albert Public School. shwiietswioissdomrtoetapneioe soa wip hag ad Ae wn ed han de ity sid emda a) PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Nov. 9, 1977 -- 5 Reader's Viewpoint U.S.A. hockey costs Dear Editor: Having read a copy of the Port Perry Star dated Sept. 2T, 1977, 1 find 'your paper very informative and "in touch" with your local news. I was very interested in a hockey article on the sports page, "Mom, Dad hit by higher equipment prices". The equipment costs item- ized were very much in line (which is surprising) with our American costs. The only difference (a sizeable one) is the cost of registrat- ion. Here hockey registrat- ion is $130.00 per child with no break for additional chil- dren. Indianapolis with a metro population of 1.2 milion has 2 total of .615 kids ages 6 - playing hockey and only 4 » 36 high schools involved. In closing, Canadians be happy you have many more facilities, good knowledge- able coaches and, by U.S.A. standards, good registration costs! I would be very grateful for any comments or obser- vations. Yours for Hockey, Sam Detmer, 5201 N. College Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana. U.S.A. 46220 Remembrance Day Dear Sir: Is Remembrance necessary? On Nov. 11th, 1976, I stood at the National War Memor- ial in Ottawa. It was a proud moment for me and my family as my son, Boh, and a girl from New Brunswick laid a wreath on behalf of the "Youth of Canada". We realize how difficult it Day is for our children and grand- children to appreciate "Re- membrance Day' as any- thing more than a school _ holiday. My personal memories of the holocaust of war go back to Aug. 19th, 1942. As a member of the Canadian As- sault Force at Dieppe our units suffered heavier cas- (continued on page 6) c f PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Phone 935 7383 ¢ CNA Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwrigh! Townships J. PETER HVIDSTEN, 2ublisher Advertising Manager JOHN B. McCLELLAND EDITOR Member: ot the oy Sa, <u) > &J ety ASSOC Published every Wednesday by the Port Per: ¢ Star Co. LId., Por} Perry, Onlario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Departmen], Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Regislralion Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year Elsewhere $10.00 per year. Cc and Ontario Weekly Fok Associal Single copy 20¢ EE Bill Smiley Give us a break Hf 0.K. God. We get the message. We give up. You may stop weeping any time over the silliness of your favorite creation, man. Although at times I'm not so sure it's weeping You're up to. I guess You tried to give us a little warning last winter, when you dumped more than 16 feet of snow on my humble abode. . But wayward children that we are, we ignored Your broad hint and went right on sinning the sins of pride and presumption, as we have done through thousands of years of floods and plagues and droughts and famines. So You decided to sock it to us, beginning about the middle of August. The wheat is rotting in the fields. The vegetables lie deep and putrefying in the mud. And the overcast is so bloodly. low that even-the birds are -- walking. Enough, Your Heavenliship. Don't let it rain no more. I've been searching my own soul to see where I went astray, and for the life of me can't admit that I've been more sinful than usual, to call down Your wrath in the form of 40 days and nights of xain. Maybe it's nothing drastic, but just a sort of general slip-page over the years, through- out Thy people. Let us now undo our shirts, contemplate our navels, and meditate on our sins, and perhaps You will stop the sluice and Tm on the juice. Personally, I've slipped a bit, and I don't deny it. Oh, I haven't lusted after my neighbour's wife, I haven't stolen anything except that pumpkin out at Foster's Farm the other day, as a Hallowe'en treat for my grandsons, and I haven't murdered any- thing larger than a mosquito for years. I haven't born false witness, except to the Department of Revenue, which doesn't " count. Maybe I haven't honored my father and my mother, but there wasn't much point, since they've been with You for years. Well, that takes care, rather roughly, of the Commandments. But what about the - Seven Deadly Sins, Maybe that's a horse of a different hue. Let's see. What are they? Oh, yes, I remember what the rector said one day in church. Pale Gas. Now, I am not suggesting for one moment that the rector was emitting from the pulpit colorless hot air. No, it was his way of Homeiership the Seven Deadly Sins. This t be useful for my readers, if they are ou with me, contemplating their navels and wondering wherein they have erred and are like lost sheep. Wet lost sheep. PALE GAS. P for pride; A for Anger; L for lust; E for Envy; G for Gluttony; A for avarice; 8S for Sloth, Now if we can just prove that we are scot free on those counts; I don't think, God, that you have any right to go on watering us like so much asparagus. I can vouch for myself, and I'm sure for most of my readers, if I deny the first sin, - Pride: What is thére to be prideful about when you haven't done anything to be proud of? Does it. count if you're proud of your kids for coming first in the music festival or growing the biggest squash for the Fall Fair? . Anger? No way. Well, maybe a little peevishness, like that litany of damnation hurled at the turkey in the blue Pontiac who tried to cut in front of you in traffic. Or a few barks at the old lady once in a while when she presents you with a $60 longdistance . phone bill. Or a slight scream of rage at the kids when they calmly say they are quitting school and going to Europe to find them- selves. But real anger? A firm "no" there. .- Lust? Most of us over the age of 30 don't even remember what it means. A fig for lust. Or a fig-leaf, if you v wan to be prim about it. Envy? Not a ONRNR, Not: among me and my readers, at any rate. Oh, we may turn a little green when we see someone smarter, more handsome, better dressed, or richer than we, but there is assuredly no envy involved. We enjoy being stupid, ugly, shabby and poor. Gluttony? Qut of the question. What do you think we are, pigs? Oh, there might be the odd one of us who has one or two or three over the eight when it comes to drinks. And I did hear that a few of my readers had to be hoisted from the table to the chester- field by a block and tackle after Thanksgiv- ing dinner. But you'll find a few bad apples in every barrel. And by the way, McIntosh apples are only $6 a bushel this year, and you can get through a bushel, the pair of you, in about three nights before the TV set. Avarice? Ridiculous! There isn't an avaricious soul in this fine land of ours. Except the doctors, maybe. - And the businessmen. And the lawyers and the teachers and the union workers and the dentists and the politicians and the civil servants. But I can't think of one avaricious three-year-old. As for Sloth, you can scratch that one off the Canadian list right now. Migosh, you'd think we were lazy or something. It's common knowledge that the gross national product of this - country "is only slightly -behind that of 14 other developed nations and well ahead of one of them. Lazy bedamned. Well, God, I think you've got Your signals crossed somewhere, and it's time you stopped wetting on us from a great height. Knock it off. We are beginning to get peed off as well as peed on, and if You aren't careful, we might all go to-the Devil. I wonder if the rector was right about that Pale gas? Maybe the letters stand for: Promiscuous, Asinine; Lazy; Epicurean; Greedy; Apathetic; Silly. Boy, if they do, we're in trouble. And I apologize God. The Argyle Syndicate Ltd.