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-- ai « < iat od sR" rer AEA y . kad Caen vt, ere ey AIH ar § 18 fg . sate) # P - 3 * g . y . ' » ' - bsstsissdatamsdverbidanatidicn dod avoided as deive widow dvids web ansiaiiod aa rasan The above photo is a snapshot of the Prospect Ladies Aide garden party held at the 60 YEARS AGO 0 Thursday, October 31, 1918 The following gentlemen have been appointed Vic- tory-Loan Canvassers for Port Perry, Reach and Scugog - Messrs. George Rose, W.H. Harris, H.W. Emmerson,' and Joseph Baird. These gentlemen are authorized to sell Victory Bonds or they may be bought at either local bank. : Mr. Morley Campbell's many friends received a surprise last week when he announced that he had bought a farm at Utica and was going farming. Personal: The party who stole the two bags of sand farm of W.J. Cook in 1920. Photo courtesy of Mr. - Ray Cook. in cement sacks from the verandah of a home in the south-end of town the other night had better call and get the cement. -- TTA Mr. Wm. Reader, Scugog, has purchased the property of Mr. McIndless in the south-end of Port Perry and will soon become a village resident. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 28, 1943 The Township Clerk of Scugog Island, reports (Turn to page 6) sr b »2 00 | FN J HE JAE Bt "iw yrted . Vis vy ests & wh ey I ef - 8 Tre Cd EA PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., November 1, 1978 -- 5 letters Patience needed Dear Sir: Civilizations have come up and gone down for many different reasons. When anarchy swept around a country a *'natural reaction" had been at times to look for a "strong man' to restore "law and order' thus paving the way for a dictatorship. What is the origin of the authority of the Govern- ment? Our democratic society speaks about govern- ment by the people, for the people... That way the people have influence, through a more or less ela- borate system of voting, on WHO will govern them. Also every number of years, the tables can be turned around if the government misbe- haves; either by not doing anything at all to steer the country or by using its authority in an authoritarian way. When the inspired apostle Paul wrote Romans 13 these - were much more" dictorial government in Rome than now in our Dominion of 'Canada. Yet Paul writes: "Everyone must obey the State authorities, for no authority exists without God's permission and the existing authorities have been put there by God." A concrete case is now before us. The postal union chatterbox... Oops! We Goofed As you may have noticed, newspapers (including the Port Perry Star) are prone to errors. The errors can come in various forms: . Last week, one of these typical errors occured, and after being ribbed about it all week I thought it might be interesting to expound on how 'it happened. This particular spelling mistake happened on the front page, and the story was about a serious accident which happened last week near Burke's Falls. Now to give you some background, the article was set into type in the afternoon and placed on the page. Then about 11 p.m. on Monday evening, when everything usually begins to get a little fuzzy anyway, editor John McClelland noticed two -aspelling errors in the first paragraph of the story. Since our typesetters had left hours earlier, good old J.P. (that's me) was called on to make the correction. So I removed the paragraph, took it to the typesetting machine and proceeded to re-set the paragraph, being careful that I corrected the errors properly. And I did. But, since it was late and we were tired (our only excuse) when the correction was put back on the page we did not notice an error worse than the first two. Before leaving for home, John and I scanned the front page for errors. We checked every heading for spelling, made sure our story continuations went to the correct pages and checked the masthead to see if the dateline was correct. Allwas O'K......or at least we thought it was until the paper was printed, and in the mail. i That's when our bumbling error was brought to our attention. Our opening paragraph read as follows: 'Two well- known Scugog Island men are in separate hospitals following a serious car accident Saturday night near Burke's Balls that took the lives of a woman and a young bo 2 Burke's Balls! Where is that? That question must have been asked a dozen times on Wednesday. And then when the error started to sink in to the more scrupulous minds, jokes started coming. "Hi Pete, how are the Falls of your feet?' (ha, ha) "Hey, that's too bad about the accident near Burke's Balls, eh Pete!" (chuckle, chuckle) ~*Hey Pete, did you hear about poor old Burke?" (hee, hee, hee) And they go on! But it's O'K. We have broad shoulders here at the Star. That wasn't the first spelling error we've made and I'm sure it won't be the last. But I will assure you, we do try to avoid errors, even ° though it may not look like we read our proof sometimes. We get enough criticism in this business without purposely creating errors. But being human (probably more human than many) we do make errors, and periodically the errors are more embarrassing than others. Guess we'll just have to bite our lip and keep plugging away. \} Oh So Sensitive While I'm on the subject of spelling errors, one of the worst things that can be spelled wrong is a person's name. This seems to raise the hair on the back of some of our even more sedate citizens. You wouldn't believe how sensitive people are about their name. Now me, I just laugh and add it to my ever growing collection of strange jumbled letters, which in some way is supposed to resemble my surname. At one time we had a collection of over 50 different ways to spell Hvidsten. I have to admit that Hvidsten is not your average Canadian name, such as Smith, Jones, Brown, etc., so I don't expect a great deal of accuracy, but it would be nice if there was not quite as many variations as we receive. If your name has ever been spelled wrong in this newspaper, and you have found little sympathy when you complained, maybe you can understand when one of the latest spellings came through on a piece of mail addressed to Mr. Peter Hyverstein. Do you think that bothers me? You're damn right, it does! But the world isn't going to come to an end, and the sun isn't going to rise or fall on my name so I'm not going to .scream and shout about the injustice that has been done to me. No! Tll just add it to my ever-growing collection of unforgivables. Halloween will be over by the time most people get around, to reading this, but I thought it might be worth a mention anyway. needed a new contract for their workers. Some repre- sentatives of the government bargained with them. The unhappy ending was that no agreement was reached. It may be hard for the workers not to get the increase they had hoped for. But the hardest part is now for the elected government to do its duty of governing. A few days patience on the side of Ottawa is very wise, if it is followed, not by showing its teeth, but by calm deci- sive action in putting the postal workers back to work. It may be a bit unpopular to do so. But it is in the best interest of keeping Canada together. It likely will gain Trudeau some votes too, even though I am not a Liberal. John den Boer "R.R.2 Port Perry Language Dear Sir; : In a feature article Mac- leans magazine (October 16- 1978) says the Official Lan- guages Act (supported by all federal parties ten years ago) is in shambles. (Turn to page 6) Talking to my daughters over the weekend about the Halloween Evening, the little one, said that she was going to be a lil' Devil. I didn't have the heart to tell her that she didn't have to dress-up in a Devil's costume for her to be a devil, but the thought did cross my mind. Her next statement left me wordless also, when she explained that when she was a little girl, she was a witch, but her older sister was a witch this year so she would have to be a devil. Yes, whether it's your kids or mine, there will be hundreds of little witches, devils, ghosts and goblins on the street tonight (Tuesday). Please watch for them carefully in your travels. We don't want this Halloween to end in tragedy. A CLOSING THOUGHT - A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinat- es him, but a sympathetic woman gets him. 8 port perry star ) Company Limited wo & ', Phone 985-7383 -D 1, LR) = (+Cha (0 Ea rary Serving the Township of Scugog J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager J.B. 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