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Tr J suck sadomt hluid ata dosti iy A PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Feb. 22, 1978 -- 5 35 YEARS AGO Emile Donnelly, R.R., Port Perry, and many stranded = i Thursday, February 18th, 1943 cars were just part of the trouble reported. Serving Port Perey, Reach, Scugog and ---- ---- : ol : Photo of the Port Perry Town Council 1897 shows from left, J. H. Brown, clerk; J. L. Forman; Constable Robt. McKnight [standing]; E. H. 60 YEARS AGO February 21, 1918 The Edith Cavell Society celebrated their 2nd anni- versary at the home of Mrs. E. H. Purdy on Wednesday. The Patriotic League sent a.cheque for $25.00 for the excellent work done by the society. Word has been received that Lieut. Camp has received the Military Cross for bravery in the field. The Cross was given on the recommendation of the men whom Liet. Camp was leading. Some of the winners in races at the Port Perry Sports Night, last Friday night were as follows: Kent Gerrow, Ruth Williams, Bill Harrison, Pauline Prentice, Ross Harrison, Claudia Coulter. Congratulations to Geo. Mulligan, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Mulligan, who recently graduated from the Bombing and Gunnery School at London. Geo. also received a commission of Pilot Officer. 25 YEARS AGO February 19th, 1953 Port Perry Post Office marked its "1st Century' of mail service to the community. The present Post Master - Purdy; S. Jeffery; F. Yarnold, solicitor; M. Rundle and M. Bateman. Photo was found at the Star offices while doing present renovations. George Hull is now helped by Mrs. Hull and her son,. Bruce. Tom Harris, a local lawyer joined brother Bob Harris as president of the Liberal Association. He succeeds Past President, William J. Carnegie. 20 YEARS AGO February 20th, 1958 A severe storm this week, with temperature well below zero caused many problems. Schools had to be closed, accidents involving Jim Smith, Port Perry, and A group of local businessmen surprised John Orde, with an appreciation night at the Club Embassy, Toronto. It was for his work and organization during the recent plebiscite on liquor outlets. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 22, 1968 Jim Bower, chairman of the Lions Club Hospital Fund-raising project, presented $1,000. to Scugog Town- ship Deputy Reeve Joe Dowson as the first installment of a pledge of $5,000. for the Hospital Building Fund. A rare incident occured on Mr. Les Beacock's farm, Continued on page 6 Reader's Viewpoint Efforts praised Dear Sir: Today when it seems quite popular to find fault with our teaching profes- sion, I for one want to praise the efforts of the Prince Albert School princi- pal, Mr. Kiezebrink, the teachers and staff for their keen interest and hard work in making available to the students of the Prince Albert School, an outdoor skating rink. As I watch the children enjoying themselves, some of them having never had the opportunity to skate be- fore 1 feel we are very fortunate to have teachers who have taken such an interest in the enjoyment of the children. A sincere thank you! Geneiseve Ausman Prince Albert. Restoration plan Dear Sir: It is exciting to finally see some action taking place on the re-juvination of down- town Port Perry. I am personally interested from several standpoints in the development of the project. One being that my Com- 'pany was also biding on doing the job that Anthro- gram is now doing. From most appearances they are doing an excellent job in terms of getting people involved in the pro- ject and organising a BIA. There is, however, one thing that rubs -me the wrong way, and it is not particular to the drawings presented by Anthrograms, for they are in line with what a lot of other small towns are doing - and that is really the point, the sameness is what bothers me. In North America we have already too much sameness with Macdonalds, Colonel Sand- ers, Beckers and the thou- sands of shopping centres that seem all to have been stamped out of the same design machine to the point of boredom. Port Perry has its shopp- ing centre, that practical sameness that is found in Continued on page 6 ES Canad: C pe > wo f PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Phone 985 738) Sa (0 foun): Cartwrighl Townships J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Publisher Advertising Manager JOHN B. McCLELLAND EDITOR Member of the wwe, " Published every Wednesday by the Porl Perry Star Co. Ltd. Porl Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Pos! Office Department, Offawa, and for payment! of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year Elsewhere $10.00 per year. Single copy 20¢ ity N. ASSOC i. and Onlario Weekly Newspaper Associat:oc TEER Bill Smiley seh Ee Some choice Tr Well, who are you going to vote for when they call the election? The youthful, righteous, quivering jowls, or the aging but still elegant shrug? What a choice! One of the guys is so hungry for the big job that he looks as though he can already taste it. The other is so mesmerized by failed bilingualism and his personal feud with Rene Levesque that he wouldn't know an 'ordinary tax- payer if he climbed into bed with one." Of either sex. If Joe Stalin were alive and well and living, say, in Moosejaw, he'd probably .garner more votes than the other two put together. ~~ That other Joe was chosen leader of the - Tories by a handful of votes. Approximat- ely 49 percent of the convention delegates didn't want him. Since then, one of the latter has become a Liberal cabinet min- industry, almost toppled government a couple of decades ago, when he uttered it in the famous Pipeline Debate. Red-blooded Canadians across the land shuddered in horror at this scornful atti- tude toward that magic figure. Today, a politician could stand up in Ottawa and say: "What's a billion?" without raising a ripple. A minor example: the government people in charge of unemployment insur- ance have launched a $1 million advertis- ing campaign to warn cheaters of the sytem of the dire consequences should they be caught. What a farce! The system is so full of holes that it is 'being Fipped off - legally it must be added - to the tune of millions, and we all know it. It's a nice commission for the advertis- ing agency handling the account, but they are the only bodies who will get anything Certainly not the millions of people like me who a) pay into the fund and b) will never get a nickel back from it. That leaves, as readers, the guys who drew up the ad, the civil servants who authorized it, and a scattering of pension- ers who can afford a newspaper and read everything in it, for want of something better to do. But what's a million, if it keeps some advertising types and civil servants happy, and makes the blood of a few pensioners boil? Unfortunately, those ads and that million, along with many more squandered on such pettifogging piffles, don't mean a thing to the man or woman in Glace Bay or Sudbury or Chilliwack who has been out of work for a year, and has no prospect of being in it in the near or distant future. Clark carps and Piere pontificates and with slavery, racism and having a bath Saturday night, whether you need it or not, all the trappings of a vicious, misguided past. So be it. It's their funeral, not mine. They are the ones who will be paying the horrendous taxes for welfare, medicare, unemployment insurance and indexed pensions for civil servants when I am sporting about in the Elysium fields with a couple or three nymphs. What with the half-hour coffee break twice a day, the calling in sick when you have a hangover, the sneaking off at noon Friday for the weekend, and various other little games, which you know about as well as -I, .we are turning .into a nation of lay-abouts. And we're already beginning to pay the price. Ad to this incipient separatism and the ER a a RST a sy HEN a a y v3 a ' ister, another, his Quebec "lieutenant," out of it. Who is going to read the ads? Broadbent issues broadsides. And factor- stranglehold of the mandarins on the TY : has faded into the woodwork. Certainly not the people who are cheat- ies close because Canada's prices are too wafflers at Peking-on-the-Rideau Canal, aad | His opponent, the ubiquitous Pierre, be- ing. They already know all the loopholes = high because Canada's wages are too high and you can see why I, and many other ta) 3 devilled by domestic troubles, a sagging economy, high unemployment, a feeble dollar, and an apparent lack of touch with and fine print. Only the very stupid are caught. a. Certainly not the employers who also and because Canada's production is too low. Many people - mostly young people - rejoice at our release from the slavery of the honest Canadian, look forward to another federal election with a certain lugubrious- ness. It seems to be a question of "turn the | reality, looks and acts every one of his cheat, "laying off" a skilled workman "Work ethic," even though they don't rascals out" or '"'turn the turkeys in." y { nearly 60 years. when things are a bit slack, with a tacit really know what it means. To my Nuff said. Don't think me a gloom-pot. J 4 » Bi What's a million? This famous line, agreement that he go on unemployement generation it merely meant doing an It's 2a.m. and I've just put No. 2 grandson PE : spoken by the arrogant but extremely insurance until things pick up, when he honest day's work for a day's pay. bed. For the fourth time. He loves those | competent C.D. Howe, buildér of Canada's will be "re-hired." . Today's generation ranks the work ethic late movies. : % : . &