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King Street, Seagrave, Ontario, a a long, long time ago. Photo caurfesy Mr. Ken ) Holliday. 60 YEARS AGO -. . Thursday, April 3, 1919 The Ontario Legislature is introducing an Act which will authorize the payment of a percentage of the . cost of the erection o Community Halls in rural municipalities. The Bill provides that the Government shall pay. 25% of cost of such halls up to $2000. These halls wiil hopefully furnish a meeting place for the community for dances, social events and meetings. St. Andrews Presbyterian Church gave the retur- ning soldiers in connection with the congregation, a royal welcome home. '- 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 8, 1944 There are six Port Perry boys serving overseas with Major Connie Smythe's Battery, and are known as 'The Scugog Kids'. They are Gunnér Len Colbear, Grant McDermott, Fred Colbear, Ken Hillier, Walter . (Mike) Sheridan and Jack Sangster. The employment picture is changing all the time now. The young farmers who have been working in the * munition factories during the winter must return to the farm now. Farm sales are very much in style. Ted Jackson has been on the runall the time. : Ih, urn to page 6). i . ELECTRONIC AGE - While going through the usual pile of morning mail last week I carne across a photograph and news release about a / new calculator that has been developed. . - Although it looks like a calculator this new electronic gadget is really an extension of your telephone and can be : used in a number of ingenious ways. It's called the Rapidial ~ automatic telephone dialer; and it brings some space technology to your home or office telephone. Hidden in its maze of circuits and memory banks is the ability for the Rapidial to store 20 entire phorie numbers.' Just hit the button you desire (eg. Police) and this machine . dials and lets you hear the other party answer before even bothering to pick up the receiver of your phone. it will even indicate a busy signal without removing the receiver. And Torany unprogrammeyl numbers, this amazing little devise can turn -into a touch-tone phone dialer, by hitting the appropriate buttons. " The company which manufactures the Rapidial says it's just the thing for business people and anyone who feels . better about having emergency assistance with thetapofa . single button. The only thing it didn't say was........ how much! LOU WHO? Anyone who is an avid or even occasional reader of the Toronto Sun will have noticed the last few weeks that they have beenyplugging daily, the arrival of Lou Grant, (star in the Mary Tyler -Moore and Lou Grant TV shows) to.. the paper as picture of * Every columnist, news reporter and even rtoonist has __ - jumped on the bandwagon for "the coming of Lou." They: are not too happy about the hiring of Lou as city editor and - - have daily been pounding away verbal assaults at him. One columnist goes so far as to say, if this failed American broadcast turkey touches his stuff, hel break his arm. But let's hold on a minute agd get this whole thing - straightened out. There are two things that I find rather puzzling and I think I have figured out what the game plan is in the offices of the Sun. The two things that bother me are, 1. Lou Grant and 2. Ed Asner. They will both be in Toronto at the same time! Now that may not seem strange to you at first, but let me explain. Ed Asner is the man who plays the character "Lou Grant" in two television shows (Mary Tyler Moore show >a --e © Glok and Lou Grant) and is being billed as a good friend of the Lou Grant the sun is claiming to be hiring." Mr. Asner will be in town for the next couple of weeks shooting scenes for a new movie in which he is a'star, just at the same time that 'Lou Grant" will be taking over the city editor position at .the Sun. ; Coincident, I doubt it! - You see Ed Asner really is'Lou Grant and the Sun has jumped on the promotional bandwagon to get some mileage and publicity out of the.man. . It is my opinion that the Sun's Editor-in-chief, Peter Worthington has indeed hired Lou Grant (Ed Asner) for the trial period which they have announced, but only as a figure head in that position and only for as long as Ed Asner has to " be'in Toronto to shoot his test film. When the shooting is completed, the Sun will fire Lou Grant so that the double-named character can go back to Los Angeles to the sun and sand to continue in his chosen career (TVand movies). "So for the next couple of weeks we should continually see the name of Lou Grant in the headlines and newsstories of the Sun. I can only hope that the Toronto Star and the will not fall for the gimmick and give the Sun anymore ink than they have already given themselves. And what's the cost of this publicity stunt. I doubt that it will ever be revealed, but you can bet your bottom dollar that Ed Asner and his namesake Lou Grant don't work cheap. My guess A ~aboilt $10,000 for the use of his name! LA MANCHA And speaking of promotions.... I don't know how many other 'people in the area have gotten caught up in the Man of La Mancha craze, but I found myself paying dearly for it. Man of La Mancha will be playing at the O'Keefe Centre in Toronto for a limited run of eight weeks and.if it's a sell-out like they predict, 175,000 people will have seen this famous musical before it packs up and moves off to another city. After seeing a couple of commercials on the TV screen and reading the newspapers I decided that I would like to get tickets to see the performance and especially the incredible Richard Kiley who is on-stage for all but 15 _minutes of the 140 minute non-stop play. "When in Toronto last week I stopped by the box office at the O'Keefe and stood in line to secure tickets for the performance. While standing waiting I decided that I would try and get the best possible. seats, because for a few extra PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., March 28, 1979 -- 5 x . 4 WR 'Congratulations 'Dear Sir: Sorry that this letter is a bit late but better lgte than never. I am writing in praise of youth. In this case the young talented performers from R.H. Cornish Public School who competed in the 22nd Annual Sunderland Lions Club Music Festival. On Monday evening, March 12th, I attended the first of three evenings of 'Stars of the Festival" concerts at Sunderland and was-truly proud of the Port Perry young people. These - '"'Stars' were the first place winners of March .5 to 9 competitions,' That programme, included the Port Perry United Church - Junior choir; 7 choirs and 1 band from R.H. Cornish Public School as well as 12 duets and solos which included vocal, piano, and instrumental numbers. This was a total of 21 awards out of 32 on that evening that came to Port Perry. Although these were only - the first place winners; 1 know that in most of the. competitions, second and - third places also went to other Port Perry young - people. May I heartily congratu- _date the teachers who put in "long hours training and developjng 'the... musical tant of these young people. ongratulations to all and keep up. the excellent work! Sincerely, Bunny Rowland Port Perry. Question Selection Dear Sir: Carlene Kirby's overview of the game of Squash in your March 21, 1979 issue represents, in our view, great journalistic research for, as they say, "it's right on." -We do, however, question why your paper selected one Don Fraser to pictorially - > by J. Peter Hvidsten symbolize representation' of Scugog residents in this great game. While we are obliged to work with "Pushy" (excuse us, "Mr.") Fraser here at Durham College, we choose not to yield to his particular type of racquet flailing game. '""Stomper" (excuse us, (Turnto page 10) dollars it would be well worth the investment. Finally arriving at one of the ticket booths the man asked what day I would like and I decided that a Sunday afternoon matinee would probably. be the best. Deciding that April 15 should be a good date, because it was Easter Sunday, the man punched the information into a keyboard and said with some surprise, 'yes, there are some good seats left on that day." I ordered four tickets, -(17 rows from the front and centre of the theatre) and as he pushed them towards me and informed me of the price I almost<passed out. I'm too embarassed to tell you how much the tickets cost, but they would have made a good down payment on that new lawnmower I'll be needing soon. Now -all I can hope is that they are worth it. If they're not I'll let you - know. { (port perry star NJ Company Limited Phone 985.7383 Sais, (G CNA £0): ee LIS 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 in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year Elsewhere $10.00 per year. 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