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» 3 «© aarnb oni ARTI UNI HU RG SRA TOR EE 1570 WLR TN EYER Pal: ru 0 BUR NB NR SRS To Ua ACRE OB BH HO SIN ad PAR 1 SS A ER ad FE Sou This hockey team was the winner of the Uxbridge Rural hockey league for the season of 1935-36. Members of the team from back left, Ralph Veitch, William Keen, Armour McMillan, Del Catherwood and Wilfred Evans [coach]. 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 6, 1919 Wanted - A girl or woman with good experience in general housework. Wages $25.00 Phone 84. Dr. F.E. Luke, 167 Yonge Street, Toronto's leading optician can be consulted about your eyes for glasses at A.J. Davis Drugstore, Port Perry on March 13th. Don't miss seeing him. Satisfaction guaranteed. b a Wie Front row, Ronald Lee, Lloyd Lee, Enoch McKnight, Ivan Beare and Kenneth Lee. Absent from photo Eimer Lee and Benny Ross. Photo courtesy Armour McMillan. iy + 33 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 2, 1944 Pte. Robert Carnegie, C.D.C. of Toronto and A.C. Gordon Carnegie, R.C.A.F. of Manning Depot, spent the week-ends at their respective homes here. After two and a half years in England with the Royal Canadian Engineers, Sapper Bill McCartney _ arrived home last week. (Turn to page 6) PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, March 7, 1979 -- 5 Fish huts off ice by March 15 The department of Natural Resouces says that ice fishing on Lake Scugog should start to improve this week and will continue that way until March 15, the last * day that ice huts are allowed on the lake. Ice fishing activity has slowed recently because of poor catches, and the depart- ment says this may be partly due to a reduction in the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water which slows the feeding process of the fish. The improvement should start to take place this week as stronger sun-light pene- trates the ice to reach submerged aquatic plants which in turn will give off oxygen into the water. The department says that tests this winter have revealed no serious prob- lems with oxygen levels in the lakes, but adds that if the dissolved oxygen content falls below two parts per million, it can result in serious winter fish kills. The Lindsay Natural Resources office says that officers so far this winter have issued 22 warnings for unregistered ice huts on Scugog, and if the owners don't have them properly registered within two weeks of the warning, the huts and contents can be seized. Shoot dogs The department of Natural Resources warns that Conservation Officers may shoot dogs on sight if they are found running deer, and dog owners face fines if their animals are found running at large in areas populated by deer. The warning came from (Turn to page 8) rustling. work. Beef Thief The soaring price of beef has caused some people to turn to desperate measures, even Thieves forced open the rear door of Pine Ridge Packers just east of Port Perry on Highway 7A sometime during the night of February 26 and made off with four hindquarters of beef valued at over $1,000. As of last Friday, police had no suspects in this case but are continuing their investigation. The th eft was discovered the next morning by manager Ted Whitfield when he reported to LITTLE HERBIE Little Herbie Quinones, a seven-month old tyke from Brooklyn, New York, is well on his way to being a household name in Toronto and the rest of Ontario. Over the past few weeks, Herbie has become the -darling of the Toronto media, with stories of his health problems and subsequent transfer to Sick Children's Hospital for life-saving surgeéry, making the front pages of the newspapers just about every day. Herbie, the son of poor parents, was born with a defect in his stomach which puts pressure on his wind-pipe during feedings, causing "dying spells" when the flow of air is cut off to his lungs. =~ Herbie needed surgery to correct the problem, and the only doctor able to perform the delicate operation is at Sick Kids in Toronto. The media latched onto the story when it was dis- covered that red tape over who would pay was holding Herbie back from the precise medical care he needed. Once Herbie's plight made the front page, the rest became very simple indeed. Prominent Metro politicians spear-headed a fund raising drive to pay for his stay in Sick Kids. The surgeon, Dr. Robert Filler, waived his cus- tomary fee, Air Canada chipped in with free tickets to fly his parents to Toronto so they could be with him during the operation, and a posh downtown hotel put them up, free of course. Amid great fanfare, microphones, television cameras and popping flash bulbs, Herbie arrived in Toronto February 25, the three-hour surgery took place the next day. The doctors said it was successful, and the chances of Little Herbie growing up healthy are good. It was a marvellous story and the media made the most of it. A hundred times better than any soap opera, it had all the trappings to catch and hold the fancy of the reading and viewing public. Little Herbie and his struggle for life made far better reading than the parliamentary debates, the fall of Iran, double digit inflation, a war in Viet Nam, rising taxes, or even the latest hockey scores. People have become inundated, swamped, over- whelmed with the daily news that is supposed to matter, such as wars and taxes. They are'fed up with rambling politicians, crime in the streets, and the price of gold in Zurich. The average man and woman on the streets these days has an insatiable hunger for stories they can relate to, stories they can feel somehow involved with, stories that will take them away from the hum-drum of their own personal lives, and the uncontrollable events going on in the world. What amazes me about the Herbie story is not so much that the public took a real fancy to every word. But it was a graphic illustration of how powerful the media can be. While Herbie literally strangled in red tap for several months as health officials tried to decide what to do with him, a couple of stories on the front page and bingo, Herbie is on his way to Toronto, a pot-full of money raised from the public to pay his bills, and the necessary surgery com- pleted. If all continues to go well, Herbie may be ready to go home with his parents in another week or so. If the media can motivate action by politicians and bureaucrats in this case, why can't public sentiment be harnessed for action on other issues and causes? The answer is really quite simple. As I mentioned earlier, the public can look at a case like Herbie's and relate to it directly and personally. But more important, the man on the street feels that in a case like this he can have a say in the outcome. He can help the cause simply by throwing in a few dollars to the Herbie fund, or writing a letter to a newspaper. In short, John Q. Public can participate in an event made "big" by the way the media handled it. Maybe that's the way things should be. Maybe we need more stories about situations like Herbie's, stories which some of the time, anyway, wind up with a happy ending. Maybe the media, which get accused of all kinds of things, can play a more positive role in shaping the "little" events of our times. : Incidentally, the Herbie Fund that was raised by the people of Toronto and Ontario more than met the expenses the little guy would need to have his operation at Sick Kids and the surplus has been used to start a permanent fund to help any child anywhere in the world come to that hospital for necessary surgery. What a nice thought in this the International Year of the Child... It's enough to warm your heart, and take your mind off all the junk that turns up on the front page of newspapers everywhere, not to mention the six o'clock news. THREE-YEAR OLDS Have you ever had a conversation with a three-year old who is just beginning to unravel the secrets of speech and language? otterbox ...... al Some of the things that a three-year old can come up with will get you every time: fresh, original and completely logical. One day recently I was sitting at the kitchen table with my three-year old, peeling and cutting an apple for him. "Daddy," he said. "Can you cut that apple into pennies for me?" "What?" 1 answered. pennies." "Why not?"', he asked. "I can't cut an apple into "Well, I don't know, I just can't. You can't cut an apple into pennies." "Sure you can,' he added. "The other day you cut my apple into quarters. Why can't you cut it into pennies?" Logical? You can't beat the logic of a three-year old. How about that for a play on words? 8 port perry star A 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. 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