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" MW SC Ba 1 BY 4 EAR Ed OY . . EY "Gat | A % » NCE rad ve LTS IEP 4 in is% Lav . 2B SIL I HCL oF aT tA . . 1.3, 2d Ard FERRY LE ¥1 . ¥ . How many of our oldtimers can remember - ment dock at the bottom of Queen Street? This photo was taken prior to 1938 when the cement waterbreak was built along the shore from the 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 15th, 1918 For some three or four years bees have been thick up at the Primary School, and Mr. W.H. Doubt thought he would investigate matters. After some search, the of honey. A barn owned by Mr. James Lakey, west of Man- the old changehouse at the end of the govern- swarm was located and Mr. Doubt found about 150 Ibs., dock south. It would appear from the photo that boating and picnics were very popular back then as well as today. Photo courtesy Mrs. H. Clark. chester along with hay, barley and implements was totally destroyed by fire. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 5, 1943 Arthur Williams, C.C.F.. won the Ontario Provin- cial election August 4 with 8415 votes, against J.D. An: derson, Liberal and Geo. Hart, P.C. Continued on page 6 PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, August 16, 1978 -- 5 Drought affects corn Because of the summer drought, many Ontario corn farmers will realize no return at all from their crops this year, according to a leading agricultural expert. + With no government finan- cial relief or compensating price increases in sight, in . some areas only farmers who have taken out crop insurance will even recover seed and fertilizer costs. Dr. William C. Leask, recently-appointed General Manaer of the Seed Corn Division of Maple Leaf Mills Limited, Wallaceburg, Ontario, said that inadequ- ate rainfall in central and western Ontario has meant that corn crops in seriously affected areas will yield from less than 50 per cent of normal performance down to no yield at all. Dr. Leask is also a former association professional of the Crop Science Department at the University of Guelph. "Even allowing for normal rainfall in August, the drought-stricken farmers will have a lean or even disastrous year," Dr. Leask said. "Rainfall in the latter part of July is essential to allow pollination and ferti- lization to occur, otherwise there will be a lot of barren ears at harvest time." "By the end of July plant growth has largely finished except in the latest planted fields, and only plants which have reached a height of about two meters will ap- proach a normal yield," said Leask. 'This year many plants have grown to only about one meter, and some "chotterbox ---- Monday morning, the first day back at work after a week of vacation, and the typewriter from which these words are supposed to flow seems like an alien object, unfamiliar, foreign, slightly intimidating. The thought processes have slowed down a little after a week of playing golf, lazing on the beach, and taking in the quiet evenings of a small northern Ontario town. Vacations are very nice, of course, but it's tough to get going again once you get back to work. Speaking of vacations, publisher Peter Hvidsten Jr. is off for two weeks on Canada's west coast where among other things he will take in the annual convention of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association. With Peter away, we'll do our best to stay out of trouble. It would not be very sporting for him to come back and find the Star facing a law suit or something like that. That brings to mind a rather funny story I heard once about the staff of a weekly newspaper who played a devastating joke on the publisher when he decided to get away from it all for a few days. o~* With the publisher away it seems the boys in the print shop decided they would have a little fun, and printed up several mock front pages of the paper 'with a gigantic headline saying 'Judge Orders Paper Shut Down". These dummy pages were then plastered all over the front windows of the newspaper office, and to complete the gag the boys got a huge chain and padlock and clamped it on the : front door. Well, you can imagine the publisher's reaction when he returned home and found that not only was his newspaper under the gun, he was locked out of the office as well. The boys went along with the joke until finally the humour of the situation was too much for them. I understand, however, that the publisher was not overly amused at the time. In fact, it was several months before he would allow anyone to even mention the incident in his presence, and almost a year before he finally managed to crack a smile at the thought of it. WESTERN WEEKEND Having just returned to Port Perry on Sunday I missed the Western Weekend festivities, and while maybe it is not exactly fair to comment, more than one person has told me that the three-day affair just didn't seem to have it this ear. It is no secret that Western Weekend has become the runt of some jokes-by local residents who say things like "it's a good time to be out of town"; and so on. The most serious criticism I've heard is that Western Weekend lacks a focal point, a spectacular event or centre-stage attraction which all the other activities can gravitate around. Going with the same events and formate year after year is bound to cause people to lose interest. After all, you can only go to the well so often. Despite the criticisms, most people would have to agree that Western Weekend is a good thing for the community. Those who do take in the events and dances seem to have a good time. Maybe there are some creative people around who would like to get involved in the organization of the activities and suggest some new wrinkles and twists. I'm sure that the Chamber of Commerce committee responsible for the organization would be happy to listen to any suggestions for next year. THE GAMES The 11th Commonwealth Games came to an end over the weekend in Edmonton and Canada's athletes walked away with more gold medals and more medals period than any other country. The Games are being hailed as a great success, not only because Canada faired so well in the competitions, but also because the facilities were brought in on budget, and compared to the Olympic orgy of spending a couple of years ago in Montreal, treasuries of Edmonton, Alberta and the federal government are not going to be in perpetual debt because of the Games. That's nice. And it is also nice that so many young and old athletes from the Commonwealth states could get together for what has been called the "friendly games". But were they? The Games are hardly over and already Canada is" coming under some criticism for placing too much emphasis on winning and injecting nationalism into the events. Canada is now facing the same accusations that we levelled against the Russians and the East Germans after the Montreal Olympics: namely that our competitors form an elite team and win only because of massive support from the national government. Just as Canada and about everybody else are simply outclassed by the robots al machines from the Iron Curtain countries who pose a athletes, the smaller states of the Commonwealth didn't have much of a prayer against the well-oiled group who wore the Canadian colours this time around. The federal government has pumped millions into "amateur" athletics for facilities, training and so on, while in some commonwealth countries the annual per capita income is just a little more than the cost of a good pair of track shoes and warm-up suit. ' It is obvious that the true spirit of competition in the Olympics has long since falled by the wayside, and the same thing is happening to the Commonwealth Games, where success now is being guaged not in how the game is - Leask said. severely hit fields stand only knee-high." "There is also extreme variation in plant height and maturity within fields," "This plant-to- plant variation will probably carry on until harvest time and show up with varying percentages of grain mois- ture in different areas of the same field." Dr. Leask pointed out that farmers can expect little financial relief from govern- ment assistance or from price increases to offset their production losses. The fed- eral government's price stabilization policy protects farmers only from extreme fluctuations in price, not from actual crop losses. Farmers producing only 60- 70 bushels per acre this year instead of the normal 120 - 130 bushels per acre can expect no cash compens- ation. However, if they had produced normal yields in a depressed market, they would be compensated. At the same time, Dr. Leask said, the extremely heavy corn-producing areas of the American mid-west and those of eastern Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba have had no drought and yields are expected to be normal, if not excellent. Since the entire average annual pro- duction of corn in Canada amounts to only about 2 per cent of total North American output (144 million bushels of more than 6 billion), poor production in parts of Ontario alone will not lead to a general shortage of corn or widespread price increases, he said. A played, but rather in how many gold medals a country wins. While I watched a lot of the competitions on television, and quite frankly admit that I felt a little bit of pride when a Canadian won an event, I also feel that the accusations of elitism levelled against Canada are true. And that is saddening. It looks like the day has arrived when a true amateur, someone who competes and trains part-time for the sheer joy of it, simply can't keep up to the full time amateurs who are subsidized by the state to run and jump and swim, all in the name of winning. Well, maybe that is a tough fact of life that the purists will' have to learn to live with. Canadian athletes are obviously proud of their achievements in Edmonton. But whether the elite system is working in his country will show up in two years time at the Moscow Olympics, and Canadians are _ forced to compete against the very best in the world. The Olympics don't really determine who the best athletes are, but rather which country pours the most money into supporting them. We'll just have to wait and see what happens in Moscow in two years time. The proof will be in the pudding, as the saying goes. 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