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Port Perry Star, 25 Feb 1981, p. 6

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Lat SEER ROE WAR AA Aa hia a ut EEEPOUE LL ILE AAPOR BR Ra PH OR) Sm I IC G8 BOR DANE AONE 1 DS Me ER Pav A A AY A A a Tl a ana aia ions 6 -- PORT PERRY STAR Wed., February 25, 1961 March 19 Ontario election remember when ...? (From page 5) 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 23, 1956 The Women's Association Groups of the United Church held a Valentine Party at the home of the pres- ident, Mrs. Roy O'Neil. During the evening Mrs. Ira Anderson, who is leaving Port Perry to make her home in Toronto was taken by surprise when she was present- ed with an aluminum tray and a Hymnary. Mrs. Starkey and son Glen leave for Placerville, California to join Mr. Starkey. They travelled by the way of Vancouver to visit friends, one time Port Perry residents, Mr. and Mrs. C.B. Morton, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Tease. Fuel oil sold for 16'2 cents per gallon and stove oil sold for 20 cents a gallon. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 24, 1961 A "*Meet the Champs" dinner was held at the Fla- mingo Restaurant in honour of the All-Ontario Junior C Softball Champions sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. The Hon M.B. Dymond was the guest speaker. Port Perry High School Drama Club presented "The Heiress" under the direction of Miss Nora McCully. Students taking part were Carol Nesbitt, Jim Reed, Eunice Roach, Marilyn Reesor, Elizabeth St. John and Betty Couves. A new emergency standby power generator was in- ° stalled at the Community Memorial Hospital. Mr. Ralph Wilbur and Mr. Larry Kendall of Utica attended the York Presbyterian dinner held in Willow- dale United Church. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 24, 1966 The decision of the Department of Education that schools with a total enrolment of less than 100 pupils must join with neighbouring schools means that the three schools on Scugog Island will be closed. The oldest "of the schools on the Island, the "Foot" School was built -- in 1886, and is of frame construction. According to the reeve of Scugog Township, Victor Aldred, it was built by his grandfather William Aldred. Miss Lexie Love, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Love, Prince Albert, received first class honours in Grade VI singing recently. Miss Barbara Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Taylor, Port Perry, also received first class honours in Grade VIII singing. Both young ladies are pupils of Mrs. Grace Hastings and sing in the United Church Choir, Port Perry. Greenbank News - Mrs. Everett Hook has left for a holiday in Mexico with Mrs. Jack Gray of Port Perry. On Monday evening several familiar faces appear- ed on the "Take a Chance" television program over Channel 9. The Port Perry Senior Citizens chartered a bus to Toronto to take part in the show. Mrs. Jessie Ro- bertson won a guessing game contest and received * $300. worth of Tex-made linens. . 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, February 24, 1971 185 members and guests attended the Charter Night for the newly formed Port Perry Kinsmen Club. 24 young men were installed in the local club on Saturday evening. Scugog News - Mr. and Mrs. Nicholishen of Port View have sold their cottage and are going to try farm- ing at Milton. Mrs. Nicholishen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patte and has spent much of her life at Port View. Two hugh storage tanks for flour arrived and were erected at Flamingo Pastries Limited on Monday after- noon. Instead of having flour come in bags, tank trucks will deliver and blow the flour into the two tanks with a capacity of 25 tons each. The actual weight of the two tanks is 7,000 lbs. each. A rink skipped by Irene Carter won the coveted L.G.A. Trophy on Wednesday evening. Proprietor Dan Madsen presented the trophy to Irene Carter. Other members of the rink were Betty Brown, vice skip; Joy Ballard, second and Freda Cochrane, lead. (port perry star ) Company Limited UR Phone 985.7183 Sa (cin (0m) : ""-, rar " ot Serving the Township of Scugog J.PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager J.B. McCLELLAND Editor Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Onlario 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 0265 NE Proxy voting regulations Proxy voting is a provision for qualified voters who will be absent from their polling division on polling day and in addition, are unable to cast a ballot during the advance polls held March 14 and March 16. To vote by proxy, the necessary form may be obtained from any Returning Officer. The completed form naming the proxy voter must be certified by the Returning Officer in the electoral dis- trict where the vote is to be cast and it must be presented for certification by the person chosen to act as proxy no later than 7:00 p.m. March 18. After a proxy form is certified by the Returning Officer, it may be exchanged on polling day for a ballot. In proxy voting, the voter names another qualified elector in the electoral district to cast the vote. A qualified elector may act as proxy for more than one relative but only one non- relative. Proxy voting is for those electors who are employed in long-distance transporta- tion; are members of the Canadian Forces on active duty; away from home attending an educational institution; or who are physically incapable, through handicap or illness, from attending a polling place, and have been so certified by a medical doctor. : To be qualified to vote in the general election, a person must be at least 18 Chatterbox (From page 5) The post-war babies created unprecedented demands during each of the cycles. In the sixties, new high schools were built for them which are now sitting vacant. In the late sixties, they created a great demand for university educa- tion, so much so that the provincial government brought about the community college system in Ontario as an alternative. As the post-war babies began to graduate and enter the job market in the first half of the seventies, they did two things: made jobs scarce for each other, and created a high demand for consumer goods when they did finally land their new cars, houses, stereos, etc., etc., etc. But suddenly as the seventies wound down and the post-war babies began to hit age 30, there was not a second wave of university graduates to press the same demands on the economy. Universities today are crying the blues, forced to advertise for students via TV and radio. Intense demand for anything creates shortage of supply which in turn pushes up prices. When the economy cranked up to meet the demand created by the baby boom, everything was fine, but prices went up. Now the economy is still geared up to crank out the same level of supply, but the demand has dropped off for many things. ; As the post-war babies hit their mid thirties, the demand is for such things as medical and legal services, second time around real estate purchases, pension and other forms of long term investments for retirement and so on. And what's frightening is that there are predictions that the post-war babies when they all hit 65 or 70 are going to break the country with the demand for social security in their old age and nursing homes. But 10 or 15 years after that, those nursing homes may be sitting vacant like the schools that were built for them in the 1960's. It's far fetched. But maybe what is really wrong with our economy is that we have failed to plan for the various demand cycles of the post-war baby boom. It is just a theory, but worth thinking about as we wring our hands and point to all kinds of devils as the cause of our problems. before you signit. - WHEN WE PREPARE YOURTAXES WE BACK tax laws, and we double-check your return We'll take your place, because nothing can take the place of good solid service. This year be sure. "HsR BLOCK mL tt aa sma THE INCOME TAX SPECIALISTS STEDMANS DEPARTMENT STORE PORT PERRY PLAZA 985-2255 HOURS: Monday to Wednesday 9:00 A.M. to 5:45 P.M. ; Thursday & Friday 9:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. - Saturdays 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. 4 prepared tax return Is questioned, we step in to represent you to the district 7/4 taxation office, all 4 year round, at no extra cost. We know all the years old on the day of voting, a Canadian citizen or British subject, and a resident of Ontario fer at least the 12 months prior to election day on March 19. Students away from home attending an educational institution may vote by proxy in the 32nd Ontario general election. Such students must have their names on the voters list for the polling division where they normally reside. Students may obtain proxy forms from any Returning Officer, but the completed form must be certified by the Returning Officer in their own electoral district. The deadline for certifying proxies is 7:00 p.m., March -18, the day before polling day. In proxy voting, the quali- fied voter -appoints another qualified elector in the elec- toral district to cast the ballot for him or her on polling day. The person acting as proxy must be on the voters list in the same electoral district. Raps phone rates (From page 5) "such outrageous increases. Increases that will cost us an additional $733 million on top of present rates. I urge all Canadians, not just Bell's customers to object to these unwarranted 'inflationary increases. Even those who don't have a phone are paying for it in higher prices to business, and increases in municipal, provincial and federal taxes. Write your M.P. in Ottawa - no stamp needed, or the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Com- mission, J.G. Patenaude, Secretary-General, Ottawa, KIA ON2. Karl Marx, the father of communism warned us that capitalism collapses when faced with inflation, high taxes and high unemploy- ment. With less than 19 per cent of the entire world's population living in a free society, every remaining democracy must fight infla- tion by resisting price increases in all sectors of the economy. Sincerely, Dean J. Kelly, Assoc. of Dedicated Canadians, Port Perry, Ontario itorial (From page 4) simply become more destructive, since the mothers and fathers would have to pay the bills. Beaulieu's attitude reinforces the concept that it is parents and not the children who are to blame for many of today's ills. He obviously believes that the parents who would have to shell out for their youngsters' acts of vandalism wouldn't be tough enough to control their own kids. They would patiently sit back and pay the bills for whatever the kids smashed up. Not in our family by golly! enough. Once would be Some parents, however, cannot control the circumstances which create problems in their fami- lies. One contributing factor is the necessity for so many mothers to hold jobs, outside their homes. Children, of necessity, must be left to the care of others and they miss the hour-by-hour discipline which is so important to a growing child. Too much money is also a problem - whether a child has too much for himself or whether he has less than his friends creates another hazard. A strong contributor to the situation is that today's children don't have enough to do. They have too much time on their hands and become bored. Vandalism offers a ready opportunity for excitement and the thrill of risk. Many young people today have never been required to earn the good things in life by their own efforts and therefore have no sense of values. Whether or not we can ever eradicate the sickening disease of vandalism remains to be seen. The old-fashioned family, where mother was the centre of activity and model for strong character and father was the image of fair but stern justice may be gone for all time - but a national bill of something more than $100 million a year for senseless van. dalism is a problem which deserves better solutions than Judge Beaulieu has to offer. -- Wingham Advance Times TERRA STEEL AFFORDABLE BUILDING SYSTEMS FOR FARM AND INDUSTRY MURDOCK R. BELAIR RR.2 SEAGRAVE, ONT. 416-985-2618 a = NN a RR EE -------- nS A le pi BN. in lin si

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