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i } fia $17 ANC RR Ede Jf at This beautiful photo, submitted by Mrs. Art Brock, is the 1907 Port Perry High School Girls Basketball team. Team members are, back left, Edith Ross, Harold Valentine [coach], Mary Holman, Marjorie Mellow [captain]. Front left, 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 1, 1919 On Thursday last week, Mr. David Steele, mail carrier for R.R. 3, Port Perry (the Scugog Route) was struck with partial paralysis while returning from his daily trip. His horse brought him safely back to the Post Office where Mr. Steele received medical atten- tion. You'll have to get up early if you want to go to Toronto on the morning train beginning Monday next week. On that date the train will commence to run at 6:40 a.m. - new time. Flossie Mearing, Cassie Cameron, Kathleen Meharry, Alice Stewart and Marion McCaw. The team won two cups, one in Whitby and the other in Uxbridge. ' Mrs. Norman Phair and children of Uxbridge are visiting her father, Mr. R.W. Walker, Utica. Mrs. T. Smith, our popular liveryman, is kept busy these days and intends to purchase a car. Dr. E.A. Totten, who has been occupying Dr. Sangster's dental office during part of the war period, wishes to state that he is giving up the office on the last of April and will move to Port Hope. | Mr. Morley Campbell is home again 1dbking con- siderably better for his trip to Banff. (Turn to page 6) chatte So you think you're not making enough money to live comfortably eh! Well maybe you should change your profession or at least get a job that will allow you to purchase the added luxuries you desire. In a recent report in a Toronto newspaper it shows the average weekly wage for people working in Metro is $165, which works out to $8,580 for the year. But it is also estimated that in Ontario there are somewhere between 250,000 and 275,000 people that receive only the minimum wage of $3 per hour ($3.25 for construction workers( and that works out to $6,200 per year. But the top wage earners are not necessarily those you might think. Sure the professionals, such as lawyers, doctors, accountants and engineers are well paid, but there are many others who have jumped ahead of these professions in the wage-earning-war. For instance, did you know that the average pay for pilots in Canada is $42,000! And if you are fortunate enough to be a pilot of a jumbo jet like the 747 you could earn as high as $90,000 in one year plus his fringe benefits. Not bad when you figure that many of today's pilots started out in the Air Force or as commercial pilots in flying schools and worked their way up. Also in the high wage bracket are players in the NHL whose average is $92,000 per player per season. That's the average wage, so again there are many of the top players whose earnings are in the $100,000 to $300,000 per year category and this is with a five month lay-off during the summer. Politicians fall well behind the sports celebrities with the Prime Minister of Canada earning a mere $76,700. Other good occupations to get into that do not require a great deal of formal education include truckers, carpen- ters, chefs, etc. Truckers earnings have risen as much as 185 per cent over the past ten years, according to the report and now the average long-haul driver can average between $25,000 and $35,000 per year plus their benefits. This is based on a 40 hour week plus four hours overtime at time-and-a-half. So with all the talk these days about the physicians opting out of OHIP because they cannot earn enough, we should maybe consider what they have to do to earn the approximate $50,000 per year they are reported to be earning. First of all the physician trains for a minimum of seven years after high school, then when he-she begins to work they are subjected to a 50-60 hour week. And on top of that there are no health pensions, no vacation pay and no time off for sickness. PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, April 25, 1979 -- § letters Nuclear power ? Dear Sir: Instead of quivering with delighted terror and awe- some righteousness Dean Kelly (letter April 11) might try looking at some facts. There is no such thing as harmless power. Coal is a danger to the lungs and bodies of the men who mine it. It was a danger to those who used it producing whole populations of tubercular invalids. I read recently, "You are considerably safer living near a properly functioning nuclear power plant than near a coal- burning plant. (By the way, coal contains radioactive elements, and many coal plants emit more radio- activity than nuclear plants are allowed to emit). Nuclear plants, like every- thing else, can malfunction and become hazardous. Coal plants are hazardous when functioning normally." The old cities of Europe and even Toronto have shining bright new facades because buildings can be cleaned now that the pall of coal smoke no longer hangs over them....and the citizens breathe more safely. We know the burden oil fumes place on our lungs. Oil-powered vehicles kill on bOX by J. Peter Hvidsten But there is no reason for the Leafs or their fans to feel bad about the loss. The Leafs gave it a valiant effort, but On the other hand, a worker at General Motors who earns $300-$400 per week ($15,000 - $20,000 per year) can do so with little formal education. This amount based ona 40 hour week does not include the many medical benefits, holidays and overtime pay that GM employees receive. In other words, based on today's wages, a young man who left school early may have worked for ten years and earned upwards of $200,000 before a doctor, dentist, lawyer, engineer or any other professional that requires years of schooling, will have earned a red cent. Anyway, most everyone has the same opportunity to become what they want. If we opted out of school before we could get into the top wage-earning positions, that's our fault....... not those that put out the extra effort. Let's get off their backs. If baseball players, rock groups, and movie stars are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for what they do....... then there is no doubt in my mind that the doctors are worth every red cent they're earning. MAN, WHAT A SHOW! As I mentioned in an earlier column, I was fortunate enough to purchase tickets to see Man of LaMancha, starring Richard Kiley, at the O'Keefe Centre in Toronto some time back. Well, last Sunday was the day I had the chance to go and judge for myself what all the raving has been about. And I wasn't disappointed! It may be hard to say that the tickets were worth $22.50 per seat, but somehow the cost was lost once the play began. The show definitely deserves the ratings it has been gettinig and if you haven't had the chance to see it you should try and get tickets. Only once during the entire two hours and twenty minutes did the show lag, and then only for a few minutes. The rest of the time was filled with comedy, drama and excellent songs, performed without flaw by the cast. It was my first exposure to live theatre, other than performances given by the Borelians and Choral Society in Port Perry, and will undoubtedly not be my last. In short........... it was great! MAYBE NEXT YEAR Well it's all over for the Leafs for another year. They dropped the fourth straight game to the Habs Sunday night, who dominated the sweep with their consistently good passing and skating. the highways annually more Canadians than were killed in World War II. A side- effect of oil is the gradual paving-over of the earth. No one has been killed by a nuclear reactor. Damage to public health, if any, is unknown. Compare this with the record of earlier tech- nologies.....airplanes, ships and railways. The very first railway train killed the (Turn to page 6) Squash Dear Sir: I was very interested in your recent article about Squash, being an ardent fan of the game. I was not at all surprised to see little or no facilities for Junior Squash as there is in other sports such as. hockey, baseball, soccer, etc. This past season the first Uxpool Junior Squash League was formed, ages ranged from ten to seventeen. It was originally planned not to take anyone older than fifteen years of age. No sooner had the season started, the popularity grew, approximately twelve (Turn to page 6) were outclassed from the opening whistle by the powerful Canadian team. Even though the Leafs did look impressive on occasion, they were unable to keep the talented Montreal squad under control. The overtime goal by Montreal with the Leafs shorthanded on Sunday night has caused some controversy and complaints. No doubt fans feel that "Tiger" didn't deserve the penalty and if he had been on the ice the Leafs may have been able to score on Dryden once more. But that's not the way it was meant to be! If the Leafs had won, it would only have prolonged the series for one more game, but there is no way that the Leafs could win the series, or even should win against the mighty Habs. The best team won! (port perry star 3) Company Limited Phone 985-7383 » EJ . Gn : (0m) : ".- 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 0245 Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year Elsewhere $10.00 per year. Single copy 20c fry 5 '