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, EE pm Pr Siig mts. 2 ge ai i ---- ~ da a "4 a --e, LAT ls aS NS) J FSR ET ------ | | fy 22-54 a J wa. a tA REN a 3 » 7 » ' v . $A Pt Foe \ FE BT vi $5 Je ¥ 31755 oA 4 is ) § . de ' ' LA. 2 ' : 5 > PPS y : "a IPE ' ' "oN Many things have changed with the game of hockey over the years, but he most evident one. by looking at this picture taken in 1908 of a Port Perry team is the uniforms. Members of the 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 12, 1918 J.D. McMaster, V.S., is opening up an\pffice in Cawker's Livery until further notice. Miss Alice Ford is home from the tern Hospital, Toronto enjoying a needed holiday afterer strenuous work as a nurse during the Influe epidemic. N Mr. Leonard Burnett, who has been in York, team wore turtle-neck sweaters and knee-long padded pants. And note the hockey sticks.....no tape. Photo courtesy of Bessie Ferris, Port Perry. England for the past 12 years as Immigration Agent for the Dominion Government, was in town this week. Mr. Burnett has resigned his position and intends to make his home in Ottawa. W.F. Crosier, Utica, had a splendid wood sale last week, quarter acre lots averaging about nineteen dollars. (Turn to page 6) CHRISTMAS CHILD I promised myself I wouldn't do it. I said no way would [fill this column space with stuff about Christmas, and how the day passed at our place. But getting into work this week and finding myself staring at a blank page in the old typewriter, I decided to go ahead and relate one little anecdote about my personal Christmas of 1978. It was the first Christmas that my three-year old son really understood. Last year, he knew that something was going on, and he had a great time with the wrapping paper, but this year he had a concept of Santa Claus. And of course on Christmas morning when he spied all the loot under the tree, he knew that it just wasn't any ordinary day. No siree. I'll admit that my wife and I probably went a little overboard with the gifts for him, not to mention the truck loads of parcels that arrived from aunts, uncles and grandparents. Anyway, he got just about everything, from a gigantic rocking horse that took me two hours to assemble Christmas Eve, to a new bike with almost as many options as my car. By the time we got all the presents unwrapped, the living room floor looked like the toy department at Eaton's. He had a great time, playing five minutes with this, two minutes with that, taking a couple of quick turns around the dining room table on the bike, and generally reacting like any three-year old on Christmas morning. By noon hour my wife and I were exhausted. I settled down in an easy chair to put my feet up and enjoy a wee bit of Christmas cheer. There, to my surprise, was my three-year old, playing quietly on the rug. But he wasn't playing with one of his new toys. The bike was idle, the books unopened, the gadgets had stopped whirring, and the child's record player was silent. Less than two hours after he had opened all those gifts, he was playing away happily on the rug with an old toy car he's had for a couple of years, one of the first toys we ever bought for him. The paint is chipping off, and it looked pretty pale beside all the new loot that arrived Christmas Day. I watched him for about 15 minutes, and wondered to myself if we couldn't have just wrapped up that old toy car, along with a few sensible things like new clothes, some "how-to" books and so on. Oh, sure, I know that he'll get around to finding pleasure and satisfaction with many of the new toys, but watching him playing contentedly with that old toy car, I couldn't help but think that maybe I had just learned something from my three-year old. When it comes to toys, it is not quantity or quality that counts, it's what a child likes and gets used to. Next year at this time I have a sneaking suspicion that battered old car with the paint, coming off will still be his favourite. Maybe those gigantic companies that crank out the new toys every year (and are probably right now getting geared up for next Christmas) could also learn something about what children like and don't like, and more important what they need and don't need. What the heck. Christmas is for kids, isn't it> Who am I to start griping about too many toys for children and too much money to buy them? PREDICTIONS Every year about this time, the newspapers are filled with predictions about what's in store for the coming year. Since I don't believe in the future, I've never really tried to come up with a list of predictions for 1979. But here goes just the same. A few of these will be offered in all seriousness, and others will be more or less wishful thinking on my part. 1. Pierre Trudeau will step down as Prime Minister after Margaret wins an Oscar for her acting in her first ever feature length movie. The two of them will get back together again and open a cheese shop in a small town near Quebec City. 2. The Argos will win the Gray Cup, the Blue Jays the World Series and the Maple Leafs the Stanley Cup. Toronto sportswriters will have absolutely nothing to write about. Harold Ballard will open a cheese shop in a srhall town near Timmins. 3. Ontario Cabinet Minister Frank (Topless) Drea will quit politics some time in 1979 saying he tried his best to clean up the bars and restaurants in Ontario. He'll open a small bar in Oakville and bring topless waitresses back to that fair community, claiming the people have spoken. 4. Former Scugog mayor Lawrence Malcolm will officially announce his retirement from active politics, and he'll open a cheese shop in a small town near Nestleton. He'll close it up about November, 1980. 5. The present Scugog council will become embroiled in a tremendous controversy when the provincial Cabinet orders a re-zoning change to allow a topless restaurant and strip-tease joint in downtown Port Perry. The Cabinet order will be signed by Frank Drea. 6. Bryce Mackasey, the newly appointed boss of Air Canada will get into all kinds of hot water over the issuing of free air passes to members of the Parti Quebecois. He'll be . oY Lr v : A 'e ' LR SE SIE 536 . J 4 pan, ii KES Ee PB ] PORT PERRY STAR -- Thursday, Dec. 28, 1978 -- § letters o nA . | J srs Y "a we AT {8 Fl) . ; FEA o* "Uy 5, AW LATS ° aa a REARS EE LV SRS LAPT WALES SNAPE SHEET At KEES A FE WW hEETE, SIE LR oy Wants answers Dear Sir: The following letter was sent by the sender to M.P.P. © William Newman. The Cabinet decision in favour of Carl. J. Rush raises troubling Questions. The first is why the Cabi- net of Ontario would over- rule the Durham Land Division Committee, the Scugog Municipal Council and the Ontario Municipal Board to undercut the authority of these three groups and to weaken local efforts in planning and zoning"? The second is why did Cabinet make their decision in favour of an individual when no large principal or general good was served? You must be aware that if Cabinet gives no answer to these questions very dark suspicions will flourish. The highest government body cannot defer to an exclusive ly private interest and give no reason. Yours truly, W.H. Graham Greenbank, Ontario British Orphans Dear Sir: I am former managing editor'of The United Church Observer and' columnist on The Globe and Mail of Toron- to. I am doing research dealing with the arrival in Canada of thousands of orphan children from Britain in early years of the 1900's. would be pleased to hear, by letter, from people through- out Canada who came to this country through the various organizations such as Barnardo Homes, Macpher- "chotterbox we." son Homes, the Fairbridge Society and so on. I would also appreciate letters from persons who worked for any of these organizations (or others like them) or in whose home any of the children were brought up. My mailing address is 303 St. Lawrence St., Whitby, Ontario, LIN 1H2. All letters will be gratefully received and acknowledged. Sincerely, Kenneth Bagnell "© e . hi replaced by Rene Levesque who will suddenly declare that. independence is gauche and passe, and that all Canadians should fly for free. 7. The boys of the Scugog Fire department will not get a raise in pay this year. One of their truck# will not catch fire, but the hall will burn to the ground on Hallowe'en. 8. The Port Perry Star will get hit with a slander suit causing publisher Peter Hvidsten Jr. and editor John McClelland to close up shop and start an underground paper in Blackstock. When that fails after two issues, they'll go to work for Lawrence Malcolm in his cheese shop in a small town near Nestleton. Happy New Year and don't forget that you can't buy the truth for 20 cents. * (port perry star ) Company Limited Phone 985-7383 Serving the Township of Scugog J.PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager J. B. McCLELLAND Editor Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage incash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year Elsewhere $10.00 per year. Single copy 20c we A - a nt SRR NIE ~ ra ed . 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