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- 1 a oh yr teat Aen LAL YE XE ' \ . er} A Y v A |: by ° LS AR SR] IXY RSF RAY . KY 14 ' sie i they s i v ae TEER IY BE FEAR RR IVLELE SWE SARE TN TPIS SIT INE DRAIN I SN SPT i" A¥?¥ 3% bid ASL TCL Sod DLA HATE BAB AR Teta ) "pd 3 v.. % 3 0 IAT ETT stds tdeniticisat wack set mh dad mg ac sg dindels . PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, August 1, 1979 -- § 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 7, 1919 During the Peace Day Celebrations a tug-of-war was held between the returned soldiers and the civilians. The soldiers won. About 6 o'clock on Monday afternoon, fire broke out in J.C. Brown's implement shed and quickly spread to that part of the building occupied as an office by Hogg and Lytle. The whole front of the structure was gutted and will have to be rebuilt. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 17, 1944 to Toronto during the week-end. Dr. Harold Jackson returned to his home in Union, N.J. by plane last week after a pleasant visit with his mother Mrs. George Jackson. Mrs. Harold Jackson and son Stanley are remaining. The Port Perry Business Men's Association remember when Mrs. William Harrison and son Billy were visitors Ta nl id Ao, ov The above photo was taken in the early 1900's and shows a view of Pine Point on Scugog Island. Photo courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. D.S. Smith, Pine Point. decided to put on a street dance. The evening was a perfect one. The young people decided the orchestra and the entertainers were tops and many took home baskets of canned goods and others took home hams as prizes. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 19, 1954 Last evening Mr. William Brooks of Manchester, who is 84 years young, had the pleasure of seeing his farm from the air. The plane ws piloted by a neigh- bour Murray Holtby. He also had the pleasure of viewing the crops of his son's farm, Mr. Herbert Brooks. George Tripp, Brian Simpson, Bruce Simpson and Johnny Harper were successful in raising $3.00 to our Community Hospital by selling cool drinks of Freshie in front of the Post Office. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 20, 1959 Mr. Don Pargeter of Port Perry Dairy was notified last week that he was one of the winners in the recent coast to coast "Demonstration Drive Contest' featured by Renault of Canada and their dealers. Congratulations to Dorothy Carnochan for winning a miniature rocket radio in the Elmer Limerick Con- test. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Howsam and Judy, Mr. and Mrs. Don Carncgie, Beverley and Karen are vacationing in Haliburtcn. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 13, 1964 The four room school at Epsom is progressing favourably and school officials are hoping it will be completed by the time children return to school in Sep- (Turn to page 6) u J [ J Two incidents within the past month that have probably gone by almost unnoticed by the general public are 5 beginning to cause many people some concern. The incidents that I refer to are the deaths of four scuba divers at Tobermory, one of the most popular dive spots in Ontario. As little as a year ago I would have probaby given the incident little or not though myself, but since taking a scuba course last winter and on a couple of occasions having dived in this same area it does tend to make you think....... what ° could have happened? Unlike the death of a scuba diver in Lake Scugog last winter who was unable to find the hole in the ice after his life-line slipped loose, these divers had nothing to stop them from surfacing. But, the cold waters of Georgian Bay, on which Tobermory is located, are one of the main causes of death according to the experts. The deeper you go, the ° colder the water becomes and even with a wet-suit on, body heat escapes rapidly and this is when problems can occur. To give an example of the water temperatures at "Toby", when our scuba class started their lessons last January in a warm pool in Toronto, most of our practice I time was in water which was approximately 75 degrees F. and even after an hour in this pool, our bodies became chilled. At Toby for our first open water dive (first time out ® of a pool) the temperature of the water was 40 degrees F. Needless to say, if we had not been clad in protective wet suits, hoods, gloves and boots we would not have been able to stay in the water long before it "killed." Scuba diving is a very popular sport, and when the rules are followed and common sense is used there is very little chance of unfortunate incidents like the recent deaths [] happening. But being human, we tend to take unnecessary chances and don't always follow the rules to the letter. With scuba there are many things that can effect the safety of a dive and therefore everything that is taught in the class should be considered when diving. But scuba, even with its dangers, is a very exciting sport and one that I am glad that I have had the opportunity to get involved with. It has opened up a whole new world for me and if I continue to enjoy it as much as I have to date, I will seriously consider taking up underwater photography. There are so many things to see below the surface of the water that they are unimaginable when you are standing on shore. Just recently at a dive with a friend at F enelon Falls, I witnessed one of the most spectacular si; hts to date. Swimming below the falls, where the curre::t rushes back along the shore line and behind the falls, we came upon a bed of trapped crayfish. With the current nolding them against the rocky bottom and unable to get away there were litterly thousands of these little creatures of the deep piled atop of each other, and spread over an area about ten feet square. It's hard to explain the eerie feeling you get when you see this many crayfish together, but it is unforgetable. On the same dive, while picking up fishing lures off the rocky bottom of the river, we saw numerous large bass and it was a thrill to be able to watch them in their own environment without scaring them away. At another dive near Parry Sound last weekend, we were able to feed the small rock bass clam meat. LAKE ONTARIO SWIM While speaking about scuba, we received a news release last week about a young Oshawa man who will attempt to scuba dive across Lake Ontario next month. What are his chances? Well according to a number of people that I have spoken to that are well experienced in scuba, his chances are not very good. In fact most feel that he hasn't a chance in the world of completing the swim. It has been attempted on two previous occasions without success. So who is this man that wants to defy the odds and attempt to be the first to successfully complete the feat. His name is David Curry, and he is a 20-year old man who earlier this year received his honourable discharge for the Canadian Army and is now working as a manager trainee at an Oshawa dive store. The dive will commence late Friday the 24th of August from Niagara-on-the-Lake and is expected to finish at the CNE at approximately 2:00 P.M. on Sunday the 26th. It is estimated that Mr. Curry will be in the water between 30 to 40 hours. This according to the news release, in terms of exposure, is equal to twenty days of 35 degree F. weather without the aid of clothing or shelter. So, for Mr. Curry, the first and most important problem he will have to battle is exposure. Unlike a surface swimmer, a scuba diver is completely exposed to the elements and under the water the heat-lgss from the body is chotterbox ....... very rapid. And to make matters worse, he will not wear a complete wet suit, which he feels would cut down his mobility and circulation. Why is he attempting the dive? Well, according to Mr. Curry, it is to promote and enhance the sport of diving as well as the challenge. And on top of those two reasons, he will be accepting sponsors with all money raised by the swim being donated to a special trust fund for the Durham Branch of the United Handicap- ped Groups of Ontario. I have personally met Mr. Curry on a couple of occasions and watched him train in an Oshawa pool. He seems determined to accomplish this feat so all I can wish him now is......Good Luck Dave ! ( port perry star ) Company Limited awe ws, Phone 985-7383 Sa, (sca : (one) : --- > 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., Por! 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 02485 Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year Elsewhere $10.00 per year. 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