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60 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 24, 1921 - In the Cartwright Council News, Mr. Charles Venning was appointed constable for Cartwright Township. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Bruce and daughter of Seagrave are now settled in their new home on Bigelow Street. 4 Compare these prices with todays - Pink Salmon - 20 cents a tin, Canned Corn - 16 cents, Cheese - 40 cents a pound and Swifts Lard (20 pound pail) - $4.90. ~~. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 21, 1946 Parrish's Hardware Store is under new manage- ment. Mr. Harry Peel took over the ownership. The store had been in the hands of the Parrish family for well on to three quarters of a century. Army personnel on the Il. de France which landed in Halifax and are expected home are Pte. C.G. Robinson, Port Perry; Pte. Johnston, R.R. 1, Myrtle; Cpl. MK. Luke, Prince Albert; Gnr. B.N. Moase, Port Perry. Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Taylor have transferred their business known as Taylor's Restaurant to their two sons J.D. (Jimmy) and W.S. (Bill) Taylor Jr. Nursing Sister Ruth Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Les Hall has been appointed Nurse-In-Waiting to Princess Alice on the air trip. of Governor-General Party of Washington and jhe Bermudas. N 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 22, 1956 Harold Jeffrey has returned to Port Perry where "he has taken a position barbering for Mr. H.H. Mulligan. Attending a leadership training school for Junior Farmers held in Brampton were Muriel Lamb, Ted Lamb and Lois Sanderson. Mrs. Grant Christie and Mrs. Gladys Archer are visiting the Dr. A.G. Christie family in Baltimore, Maryland. Attending the Royal Winter Fair at Kemptville were Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Dorrell, Miss Joan Hoskins, Glen Larmer and Richard VanCamp of Blackstock. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 23, 1961 A banquet was held in honour of Mr. Bruce Ashton, who was recently elected Warden of the United This photo of a man was taken by Port Perry photographer W.H. Leonard. He is believed to have lived in the area, but his identity is unknown. Do you know who he is? [ Photo courtesy of Janice Smith.] Counties of Durham and Northumberland. Over 250 guests were present in the Recreation Hall, Blackstock for the occasion. Dr. M.B. Dymond, Minister of Health will be the guest speaker at the Port Perry Junior Farmers meeting in the High School. Dr. J. Price will show slides taken on his recent trip to Cuba at the annual Dinner Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. (Turn to page 6) ' PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., March 25, 1981 -- § letters The sport of broomball Dear Sir: Broomball! Just mention the word to some people and they draw pictures in their heads of gladiators on ice carrying their brooms over their shoulders like ancient cavemen with their clubs. There's nothing further from the truth than a statement like this one. I've been quite fortunate to watch a few games of the other sport (hockey) on the tube in which lately it appears the professionals have been authorized to dress in such a fashion. Broomball at one time or another may have had few and far between incidents of blood-betting, but since the conception of the OBA in 1976 with a constitution and strict rule book there's a slim chance of this happening now. Take for instance, a broom fight constitutes an automatic two year suspension,. and some leagues such as Port Perry hit the pocket book with fines. In hockey, what do they get; a handful of games and a minor fine compared to the salaries they receive: Not much comparison! I've been appalled by what I've seen and read about in recent weeks, what with games like Boston- Minnesota, Toronto- Philadelphia, and St. Louis- Toronto. Imagine being paid $100,000 per year to carve up a fellow man with a 6 foot piece of lumber, or get a license to punch somebody's lights out. Most people would be serving a jail term for the same actions. It doesn't appeal to me! What about the children who watch their idol "bury the hatchet" in the forehead of another youngster's idol? These little ones could be our future NHLers, and are they going to learn this from the examples set by the big leaguers today? Another point in Broom- ball's favour is, what do the over-age juniors who don't make it to the NHL do for a competitive sport? Quite a few fellow broomballers in fact are just such people who couldn't leave the stream of play,-and -so took up the challenge of a new sport. In some areas of the province, the calibre of broomball is equal to that of NHL Hockey. In closing, give broomball a chance, come out and watch a game, you may be impressed, after all one day maybe your son will be playing it, instead of the other sport. Yours truly Dave Dalton Port Perry, Ontario EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Dalton is on the executive of the Port Perry Broomball Association. The views expressed in this letter are his own, and do not necessarily represent those of the Association. lost nearly 2700 votes. chotterbox ....... THE ONTARIO ELECTION This was the election touted as probably the most crucial in the history of the province: . Ontario has it fair share of problems in 1981: a sputtering economy, plant closings and lay-offs, double-digit inflation, acid rain and a host of other nagging little devils that just don't seem to want to go away. And lurking just off stage in this election was the double-barrel issue that seems to be bothering Canadians from coast to coast: the Constitutional debate and the energy pricing squabble. Yes, looking at these issues one would have to conclude that the election last Thursday was indeed one of the most crucial in Ontario's history. Yet, by about 11 o'clock Thursday night when most of the ballots in the 125 ridings had been counted and Bill Davis was basking in the glow of a majority denied him for the last six years, it was soon apparent that almost half the voters in Ontario were so concerned with the problems they didn't even bother to vote. In our own riding of Durham-York, the voter turn-out was dbout 56 per cent. On a province-wide basfs, the t t was even less, something like 51 or 52 per cent. What conclusions can be drawn from these rather disturbing figures? My guess is that those who did not bother to vote were either so turned off by the tone of the campaign they decided to stay home out of sheer frustration or boredom. Or, on the other hand, they may have figured Bill Davis, Stu Smith and Mike Cassidy were all talking the same language and none of them could do much than talk about how to solve the problems facing the province. Joking aside for a minute, a low turn-out in any election may be an indication of extremely deep frustration on the part of many people, I start to worry a little when a very -large block of citizens can't be bothered going to the polling station to spoil their ballots as a form of protest. __ While the Tories may be permitted a week or so to savour the victory they won, they must start to think why nearly 50 per cent of Ontarians stayed home on Election Day. } Here in Durham-York, the unofficial results show that the Conservatives gained about 300 votes over the 1977 election; the Liberals stayed alfnost the same; and the NDP In terms of popular support across the province, the NDP lost nearly seven per cent winding up with 21.2 per cent. This low figure is causing the New Democrats a great deal of concernright now. Not all of the erosion can be attributed to the fact that Cassidy as a leader has an image problem. There is no question that the mood of the province and the country is swinging to the so-called right and people want less government, not more. There was one post election analysis I read which said that had it not been for the considerable efforts of organized labour in getting out the labour vote for the NDP, the party might well have been wiped off the political map in 1981. The NDP this time around lost a dozen seats, and it does appear that left of centre policies are less and less popular with the electorate. The overwhelming victory in Durham-York by Ross Stevenson came as a bit of a surprise to me, although there was never much doubt he would retain the seat for the Conservatives. I must admit I thought the Liberals and the New Democrats would poll stronger than they did. The final results indicate to me that the Conservatives and the Liberals were able to get their supporters out to the polls on election day, but some 2600 NDP votes vanished into thin air. Since election day, there has been a lot of speculation about the fate of all three leaders in Ontario. I agree with the theory that this was the last campaign provincially for Davis, Smith and Cassidy. Smith and Cassidy will either step down on their own in the next year or so, or get the heave-ho from their respective parties. Politics is a lot like hockey. When things go bad for a team, it is not the players who get the axe, it is the coach. But in all honesty, both Smith and Cassidy have a host of problems appealing to the masses. As for Bill Davis, his speech to supporters on election night after the results were known sounded for all the world like he is thinking of maying on to bigger, but no necessarily better politicial conquests. If Davis isn't a candidate for Joe Clark's job as leader of the national Conservatives, I miss my guess. And who could blame him? He's been leader in Ontario for a decade, fought to re-gain the majority denied him for six years, and there is no shortage of strong personalities in his cabinet who have aspirations to the provincial leader. In short, there is not much left for him at the provincial level. And at age 51, he is really just coming into the prime of his political life. Davis may be bland; his oratory dull enough to put you to sleep in five minutes, but he has an elusive quality about him that when he says "trust me," people believe him. It is a quality found in very few politicians these days. I believe that one incident during the campaign did wonders for Davis, and that was the loud and potentially violent confrontation with a woman who had lost her job over the recent illegal hospital strike. : I watched that confrontation on television. Davis didn't budge an inch. He stood eye-ball to eye-ball and told that woman that the laws of the land must be up-held, period. It was precisely what a lot of people wished they could have said themselves. (port perry star ) Company Limited Phone 985-7383 Sans, Gon (0mm) : OLR). © "r Rs 25" Serving the Township of Scugog Subd i -- PX) 4, 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 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $10.00 per year. Elsewhere: $30.00 per year Single Coply: 25¢