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\ Air Show will hit new heights The largest airshow to take place in Canada this year will visit Oshawa this weekend for two days of spectacular fun. = Satuffday and Sunday, May 30, 31 are the days. when spectators visiting Oshawa Airport will get to view this tremendous show. : : Featured at this two-day show are the famous Canadian Forces Snowbird team who have appeared in shows from coast to coast. They fly nine red, white and blue Tutor jet trainers and will thrill the audience for 25 minutes with their flying skills. Visitors will also witness a wing-walker, para jump teams, antique aircraft, experimental aircraft, hot air balloons 'and many other interesting and thrilling acts. The show begins at 10 a.m. and concludes at 6 p.m. both days. Cedar Creek News Mrs. Jans Van Der Wekken and daughter, Adrie of Holland have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Den Boer. They came for the Batter- nick Den Boer wedding. Mrs. Van Der Wekken is John Den Boer's sister. Mr. and Mrs. Engelbert Knible of Battle Creek, Michigan, U.S.A. were wedding visitors, too. Pay-TV Last month, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission agreed to begin accepting licence applica- tions for pay-TV from broad- casting and cable companies and will start granting licences at the end of this year. While large operators in the major urban centres have pay-TV systems virtually ready to go for their subscribers the minute New books New books arriving at the Scugog Memorial Library are as follows. The Wine and the Music - D Kaufelt; A Season of Delight - J. Greenberg; John Creasey's Crime Collection; John Lennon in his own words - J. Lennon; Bull Hunter - M. Brand (Western); The Ring of Fate - J. Bentley (Large Print); Child Abuse - E. Dolan (Young Adult); Jacob, Little Cat Tales - S. Hartmann; The Peacock Ring - K. Gordan; Health Quackery; : The naked and the Dead - N. Mailer; How Safe is the Food in your Kitchen? - B. Hunter 17% SHORT TERM CERTIFICATES '30to 89 Days Rates subject to change. STANDARD TRUST 165 Queen Street, P.O. Box 1318 _ Port Perry, Ontario LOBINO Telephone: 985-8435 or 985-8436 Member Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation pay-TV is available on the normal Mr. and Mrs. Den Boer took the Holland visitors to Ottawa to visit Martin den Boer. They enjoyed a boat trip thru the Thousand Island's too. . Mr. and Mrs. Rick Larocque and sons visited the new Wonderland Park last Sunday. Allin Keetch of Whitby visited George Kilpatrick in Port licences are granted, Ron Compton, vice president and general manager of Compton Cable TV Ltd. in Port Perry told the Star it is only a matter of time before offered to customers in smaller communities like Port Pe and Uxbridge. "There is no doubt that pay-TV is coming," he said in a recent interview. Cable companies in Canada have been interested in the concept for the past nine years, and Mr. Compton says pay-TV has been the main topic at conventions and work-shops of the Asso- ciation of Cable Companies for the past four or five years. Mr. Compton believes that once the CRTC begins granting pay-TV licences in Canada, his cable, subscribers in Port Perry" and Uxbridge could be offered the service in two to three years, maybe sooner. ~ Essentially, pay-TV provides subscribers with an extra channel (or more) on their TV sets bringing first- run movies, sports and general entertainment packages that are not PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, May 27, 1981 -- 3 The French Connection display their flying skills, and are performing the closest formation aero- Perry just a matter of time broadcast channels. The cost is a monthly fee in the $8 to $12 range per channel for several hours of nightly programming. Pay-TV subscribers in the United States can now sit in the comfort of their living room and watch first-run movies, commercial-free and without the editing and cutting sometimes done by television stations. They can see sporting events like prize fights which don't get on regular TV for weeks or months after they took place. The entertainment package can include the ballet, operas, stage dramas, musicals and variety shows produced for the pay-TV industry. The growth of pay-TV in the United States over the past six years has been aC nothing less than phenomenal, and Mr. Compton is confident there will be similar consumer demand in Canada once the licencing hassles have been sorted out. As an example of the growth south of the border, the number of pay-TV customers increased 23 times between 1975 and 1980, generating revenues of $800 million. American projections for the next ten years are even more astounding. They indicate the number of subscribers will increase from 10 million this year to 43 million by 1990, and revenues will total $8.4 billion in that year. Canada has lagged behind the United States in the pay-TV industry by about SALES SERVICE RENTALS < ELGIN KNOPP - PROPRIETOR * USED TRAILERS & MOTOR HOMES * COMPLETE MOTOR HOME SERVICE * PROPANE FILLING STATION - - QUALITY USED TRAILERS - 1980 GLENDETTE - 35. 1tip)........... $14,300 1974 AIRSTREAM - (oaded. 3111)... $11,950 1979 GLENDETTE - (veluxe. 25.51)... .... $9,995 1972 CITATION - a7nty................ $2,895 1979 GLENDETTE - (standard. 251)... ...... $8,900 1969 CITATION - sr)... $2,795 1979 GLENDETTE = (Hijacker, 27 t).......... $9,995 1978 CAMPER CAP - (with insert) $1 500 1978 TRAVELINER - 24tt)................ $6,999 I RH - ME $11.895 1977 FLEETWING - ust. $3795 L070 GLENDALE MINI MOTORHOME . $11, ¥ batics to be seen anywhere. See them perform loops, rolls and cloverleafs. six years, mainly because the CRTC could not decide on who should be granted licences here, and also could not come up with a definitive ruling on how much Canadian content should be included on a pay-TV channel. Mr. Compton says that the cable industry generally believes it can market pay-TV successfully with a 25 per cent Canadian content rule, and he agrees that some regulations are necessary to protect and develop Canadian talent and productions. But at the same time, he is critical of the CRTC for being "overly cautious' when it comes to Canadian content for pay-TV. "I don't think the CRTC should be dictating what people see on pay-TV the way it has for the broadcasters." Television viewing should be for entertainment," he suggested. Compton Cable currently has just over 2000 subscribers in Port Perry and Uxbridge and to give them the choice of pay-TV Mr. Compton estimates it would cost the company in the neighbourhood of $200,000 for the necessary hardware. Still, he feels over the long run it will be economically viable and profitable, and as a marketing tool, he is interested in offering what he calls added service. These include heat and smoke detection in the home, (Turn to page 7) * RENTALS * PARTS DEPT. * TRAILER SERVICE (IN PARK) 1971 HARDTOP ............. UT $1,800 Hwy. 7A - Port Perry, Ont. caiean 985-9151 A § ' 74 , 7 7 W i yl 3