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SERA OA nba a 60 YEARSAGO : Thursday, October 21, 1920 Mrs. George Jackson was elected District Super- Church, Greenwood. Reta Rodman and Meta Miller won the three-legged race at a sports day held at Port Perry High School. Real Estate: The Miller Farm, 145 acres on Brock Road, in Brock Township - $14,000. The Spencer House - fruit, stable and plenty of garden land - $2,000 Boys Suits - double breasted style with vest and knickers for $4.95 to $6.95. the class was Mr. Tom Watson [centre]. Young ladies Bible class of the Sonya Presbyterian Church in about 1908. Teacher of _intendent at the W.M.S. Convention held in Mt. Zion remember when ...¢ Photo courtesy of Mr. Doug Fish. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 25, 1945 Manchester United Church will re-open this Sunday -after being redecorated. Rev. Clifford Smith will be the minister. The official Board of the United Church chart- 'ered DeNures' bus and took the choir to Oshawa to hear a concert given by the Borden's Milk Company Choir which is composed of 25 male singers. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Henders, Scugog, moved to their new home in Port Perry. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Henry of Utica have moved to Peterborough. (Turn to page 6) Fs -~ PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., October 8, 1980 -- 5 es Public Service Strike Dear Sir: : I would like to comment on last week's editorial, 'The Right to Strike." Some of my information is based on an interview with a spokesman from a local federal government office. If the writer of the editorial " had made a similar contact perhaps some of the state- ments would have been modified. Those clerical workers who are considered "essent- ial to safety and security" are not allowed to strike. These include those respons- ible for financial security, issuing cheques such as un- employment, family allow- ance and pension. Nor are those "adjacent" to the clerks handling money allowed to strike. Most of those on strike who work in this area are women; most are base CR 1 and 2 whose average take (Turnto page 11) Unfair to PeeWees Dear Sir: Last week's write up in the Port Perry Star by Danny Millar was unfair to 15 young players of the Pee Wee MoJacks baseball team. This team didn't have a super year, but by no means were they disgraced during their league games. The MoJacks won 4 games in the York Durham league not 2 as quoted in the paper, and finished 4th out of 10 "teams in the final tourna- ment in Bradford, playing some excellent ball. They played in three tourn- aments during the season in Claremont, Lindsay and Bethany, not Omemee as stated in the paper. They lost badly at the first of the year in Claremont and also lost 3 games in Lindsay all by one McClelland run and winning the Bethany tournamen. Give them a little credit. They also had an excellent player named Paul Robinson who never even had an honourable mention. The team fell apart in the OASA playdowns and were badly beaten; that was a disappointment to them, the | coaches and manager, but these boys are only twelve years old: A lot of work goes into i forming a ball team, and having to read something like that after an enjoyable year with a great bunch of kids was pretty sad. Yours truly, Garnet Warriner Fred Cockerton Paul Solomon chotterbox ... POLITICS In a way the announcement last week from Yvonne Christie that she will be seeking the Tory nomination for the provincial riding of York-Durham came as a bit of a surprise to me. Just a few days before Mrs. Christie declared her intentions, there were strong rumors that she would be "running for the position as Scugog's rep on the Durham Region council in municipal elections November 10. And she confirmed that she had been giving Regional council very serious consideration. But let's face it, with the retirement from active politics of present York-Durham MPP Bill Newman who will not be a candidate in the next provincial election, any Conservative from the riding with aspirations to the provincial legislature knows that there is no better time than the present. A strong Conservative candidate in York-Durham riding will likely get elected in the next provincial voting, which probably will come in the spring. What is interesting for Conservatives in the Port Perry and Scugog area at this time is that there will most likely be *~two strong candidates from here seeking the party nomina- tion. What bothered me last week while watching part of the A ---- ou Sa, Scugog's regional councillor Reg Rose, who is getting out drama on TV was that the acting and the staging was so one of local politics this November has made no secret of the good, Ifound myself at times being entertained by the sheer {» CNA uum): fact that he is most interested in provincial politics and the intensity and ability of the performers involved. Make no ar Tory nomination in York-Durham. Both Mrs. Christie, and Mr. Rose have had "high profiles" locally for several years and they have excellent credentials for the nomination. With a provincial election probably coming next spring, the nominating meeting can be expected in late winter or early spring. And that nominating meeting is shaping up as a real good old-fashioned knock 'em down and drag em out affair, especially if a couple more candidates from other parts of the riding decide to jump in and let their names stand. It is going to be a very, very interesting meeting, to say the least. PLAYING FOR TIME Both the CBS network in the United States and CBC here in Canada were criticized for their airing recently of the television drama "Playing for Time." The criticism ¢ame from Jewish communities in both countries who felt that Vanessa Redgrave in the lead role of this drama was an unsuitable choice because of her views on Palestinian rights and support of the Palestine Libera- tion Organization. | I saw part of the CBS airing last week, and the drama based on the true account of Jewish survivors of Auschwitz who joined the camp orchestra, was pretty grim stuff for the tube. } It is difficult for any non-Jew like myself to assess the controversy over whether Redgrave should have played the lead role, and certainly there are wide variances of opinion among Jews over this issue. My gut reaction is that art and artistic integrity should remain separate from politics, and if any artist can reach a high plane then it should be accepted as such on its merits alone. My problem is that Auschwitz and the Holocaust represent such a moral absurdity for the 20th century and all of humankind, that any kind of dramatization, no matter how high an art form, still fails to add to the understanding of why it happened, how it happened, and what it means to the human race. The subject matter is so problematic, that quite frank- ly Ifind it difficult if not impossible to accept when depicted as drama or any art form. mistake about it, the level of drama was first-rate. But the mere fact that I could actually appreciate the dramatic and artistic integrity (as did other viewers, no doubt) just adds to the moral confusion and the dilemma. Quite frankly, I find it easier in my own mind to seek some kind of meaning to the Holocaust simply by reading the historical accounts and allowirig my own imagination to fill in the mental images, rather than the TV screen in my .comfortable living room. The legacy of the Holocaust is something that human- kind will have to live with, hopefully forever. It happened; an unimaginable example of human beings at their very worst. With variations, it has been going on since time began, and in some parts of the world on a lesser scale, similar horrors go on to this day. We remember the past, but we don't seem to learn any lessons from it, and that's not right. The Holocaust (or a part of it) is dramatized for the TV screen and a great controversy erupts over the politics of the star of that drama. Commercial sponsors of the drama are concerned that the controversy will lead to a boycott of the program, and thus less people will be watching the ads which are telling us which brand of tooth-paste to use. It's absurd. Sometimes it seems that there is no hope for mankind. And speaking of the absurd and hope for mankind, there is one guy who has been marching to a different drummer for years and getting away with it quite nicely, thank you. What can be said about Muhammad Ali, who at the age of 38, pocketed a nifty $8 million for going ten rounds with a guy named Holmes who used to be his sparring partner. Ali says this is the end, and judging from the fight last week, it probably is. But don't count on it. Heck, if the paying public will shuck out $8 million to watch him climb into the ring when he's 38, they surely will pay half that much to watch him do the same thing when he's 48. Won't they? [port perry star Company Limited -- Serving the Township of Scugog J. 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