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"14 a nisi rt nsdiad bad aicisdammiin da dass $e" ¢ = 3 An interior view of Jones Bros. Millinery Department. The store was situated on Queen St., Port Perry in the building now occupied by Mersco. From left, the women are, unknown; Maggie fj Ro 4 Gn) aA Brooks; Miss James, a milliner from Toronto; Olga Diesefeld and Katie Sebert. Photo courtesy of Scugog Shores Museum. 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 3, 1918 . Mr. Allen Goode has commenced work on his new creamery. This will be a fine building when finished. Mr. John Stone was re-elected reeve for Reach ~ Township by acclamation. Mr. Peter Hood will be reeve for Scugog. Mr. Samuel Jeffrey won the contest for reeve in Port Perry by one vote. -- Mr. and Mrs. Elgin Real and family, Winnipeg, were- - with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred McClintock, Prospect. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 1, 1943 Leading Aircraftsman Hughes Williamson, "RCAF of Sonya, has arrived safely overseas. Gunner Merl Dowson, who is stationed at Debert, N.S., is spending a few days leave in Port Perry. - Josephine Kamn has taken over the duties of Dr. M. B. Dymond during his absence. Mr. Creighton Devitt- was elected reeve for Cart- wright. He.won by 56 votes over Mr. Wilfred Bowles. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 1, 1953 The oldest citizen of Port Perry, Mrs. Susanna Moase was presented with a life-sized charcoal portrait by Mr. Archie Farmer on behalf of the Port Perry Star and the Cities Service Oil Company. Port Perry and district's new $150,000 32-bed hospital will be officially opened on Wednesday, January 7, 1953. Mr. Harry Peel was acclaimed reeve for Port Perry. Councillors will be Mrs. Hugh Santer, Grant Tease, Dr. M. B. Dymond and A. L. McDermott. Mr. Ivan Kerry, a well-known Port Perry poultryman won a s ial award for his-salesmanship efforts as a representative of Toronto Elevators in the new Maritime territory. 20 YEARS AGO A Thursday, January 2, 1958 Mr. and Mrs. George Davey celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 4, 1968 Local skating stars, Anna Forder and Richard Stephens will leave by plane Monday, January 8, 1968, for Vancouver, where they will compete for top honours in the Senior Pairs Championship from Jan. 9th to Jan. 14th. David Porter, also a well-known Port Perry skater and his partner, Miss Janet D'Altroi of Barrie, also leave for Vancouver where they will be competing in the Novice Canadian Dance Pairs. At a council meeting at Scugog Municipal Hall, Mrs. -Retta Hardy was presented with appreciation gifts by Reeve Victor Aldred. Mrs. Hardy recently retired as caretaker of the Hall after 20 years of service. Winners of the Christmas Home Decorating Contest were: Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Rider, 128 Alva St.; Mr. and Mrs. J. Forester, 2 Simcoe St.; Mr. and Mrs. H. Martyn, 240 Mary Street. Reader's Viewpoint Words of praise Dear Sir: On behalf of the students, staff, and parents, of Cart- wright Central Public School I would like to express our thanks to the Roads Superin- tendent, Mr. Suggitt, and his staff; also the bus operators Rohrer and Dorrell, and Mr. Vine, and their drivers, for the assistance given to us during the snow emergency on Tuesday, December 20. Although our buses were late leaving and the students were late getting home, we were able to handle this situation much more quickly than in other parts of the Township. Mr. Suggitt call- ed in his plows and brought them directly to the school, and with the co-operation of the bus operators and driv- ers, each bus was led home by a plow. We were con- sequently able to load our last bus by 5:00 p.m. We received many calls from parents who showed sympathetic understanding - of the situation and I know that the residents of Cart- wright Township can be proud of the service render- ed by those concerned. Yours truly, D.H. Hogg. B.A., Principal, C.C.P.S. Chamber gets group insurance For the past. year, the Scugog Chamber of Com- merce executive have been studying a number of group insurance plans, and have just recently selected the plan they feel is the best. The plan is offered by the Great West Life Assurance Company who is represent- ed in this area by Wm. Laurence Evans of Ux- bridge. The plan offers group life, accidental death and dis- memberment, weekly in- Continued on page 6 PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Phone 985 7333 Sa (0 {IE ""-," Serving Por! Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Publisher ~ Advertising Manager JOHN B. McCLELLAND EDITOR Member ot the Canadian Community Newspaper Assou and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Associa' x Published every Wednesday by the Port Per, Star Co. Ltd. Por! Perry, Ontarin Authorized as second class mail by tre ost Offuce Oepartimenl, ONtawa, and lor paymen' of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 026% Subscription Rate: in Canada $8.00 per year Elsewhere $10.00 per year. ou v,, Single copy 20¢ Bill Smiley The Mounties Canada is split right down the middle these days. And I don't mean the Quebec _ thing. It's the Mounties... On the one hand, we have people screaming that the cops with the red coats are a bunch of scoundrels. On the other we have an equally vociferous group defending their every law-breaking deed. I agree with both sides, for a change. I hate the thought of living in a country where my phone can be tapped, my mail opened, and my property broken into by a secret police. But I think people who believe that any police force, in any country, that can combat terrorists, kidnappers and high- jackers without breaking the red tape of the law occasionally, are extremely naive. Every so-called civilized nation in the world has its secret police, as any spy story reader can tell you. The only difference lies in their eptitude, and the degree of dévious- ness and ruthlessness employed. They run all the way from the bumbling British M.L5 through the slippery American C.I.A. and the sharp French Surete to the Rugged Russian K.G.B. and the brutal, simplistic sadists of some South American countries. Among the secret police of the world, I imagine the RCMP are probably ranked about 48th, coming just after Iceland and New Zealand. They simply are not ept, devious or ruthless enough to stand any higher." Despite all the thundering fulminations of the hot air artists in Parliament, the idea of the Mounties as a secret lurking terror in this country, threatening the civil liberties of all of us, is almost hilarious. They haven't enough money, men or brains at the top to be anything more than an irritant. They are probably outnumbered by members of the Opposition looking for publicity, dissident former Mounties who have quit the Force because they had to get their hair cut, and smart journalists who seem to have no trouble turning up the redcoats' latest caper whenever they feel like it. It's true they have been accused of all sorts of dreadful things, most of them illegal. They have tapped phones and planted bugs. As do industrial spies and the Mafia and probably a lot of other organiza- tions we don't know about. They have opened private mail. I'd like to know how they go about this, unless they' stand by a post-box and snatch the mail from your hand as you're about to drop it in. Otherwise, they could wait three weeks to get their hands on a likely letter, the way our postal service works. They have committed arson, so they say. So have a lot of merchants, but the latter call it having a fire sale. Burglary. They stole dynamite, go the charges. No pun intended. Not a bad idea, really, when the dynamite belongs to some bad guys who are known, with good reason, to be about to blow up something they should not with it. They have withheld, deliberately, inform- ation from the politicians who are supposed to be keeping an eye on them. So what? If they told the politicians everything they were going to do, the latter would either try to grab some votes by stopping it, or try to grab some votes by taking credit for the act, if it worked. This is some crazy country, when it comes to secret service work. Remember that poor Russian spy who tried to turn himself over, with a load of documents, to Macken- zie King, back in the cold war days? He was told to go peddle his wares elsewhere, and the poor guy walked the streets in winter, looking for someone to defect to. Somebody finally took him off the streets, and he uncovered a huge Russian spy ring in Canada. Thén we had the massive overkill when a two-bit outfit in Quebec, the FLQ, pulled a couple of kidnappings. What a shemozzle! Hundreds of ordinary citizens were arrested with nary a habeas of a corpus, the army was called in, and the kidnappers made monkeys of the mounties and the Montreal gendarmes. After strangling one of the victims and turning the other loose, the hoods were escorted by police to Montreal airport and flown, free, to Cuba. And thus Canada's police forces, with incredible ineptitude, announced to the whole world that the way to deal with terrorists is to buy them off. It's been going on ever since. Sorry, but I can't get all worked up about the RCMP, and its alleged trespasses. It's great stuff for the Opposition, but it's more like Gilbert and Sullivan than the Gestapo. That doesn't mean I'm not aware of the potential gravity of the situation. Some- times I hear a soft click just after I've picked up the phone. Maybe it's the Mounties. But most likely it's my wife, on the upstairs telephone, trying to catch me making a poker date when she's going to be out to sewing class. (I usually let the other guy talk, put down the receiver carefully, race upstairs and catch her in the act.) And when I took my grandboys to see Santa Claus at the big department store, I warned them, "Don't say a word to that guy in the red coat with the beard, even if he asks what you want for Christmas." He probably has a dossier on me. When I was 17 I wanted to go and fightin the civil war in Spain. Years later, 20 years before apyone else in this country, I urged editor- ally that Canada recognize Red China, 1 once inadvertently voted NDP. And you know what those add up to. "He's a RED!" as-they'd have said 30 years ago. Today the Mounties probably - have me down as a "potentially delinquent liberal with leftists tendencies," in a file marked TOP SECRET. The Argyle Syndicate Ltd. rn > a & TRE Shs | a ys Sr £2 Lh a a IP Ko RA Pa SN Eo] Pe ERD Rhy LN I, NY, ES BO a ei EX: oy bd ny Fr 7; wey fd os EASE AR FE -- rs ae I