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lic haanaidadtis AIO nE-- RES mm---- < ™ [Sef Pe OCTOBER 31, 1968 - Sod was turned Monday afternoon on the property of the new Medical Associates building which will be constructed on Paxton Street across from the hospital. Turning the sod is Dr. Cohoon and looking on is Dr. Price, the first of four doctors that will occupy the building. - remember when ...¢ 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 21, 1921 At the Reach Township Council meeting it was decided that the price to be paid for work done on the roads in the Township on and after the 18th day of July be 50 cents per hour for man and team and 25 cents per hour for a man. ". Workmen are busy repairing and decorating the Public and High Schools. Mr. George Davey was in Toronto attending Masonic Grand Lodge. Miss Aletha Barrett of the General Electric Company, Toronto is spending her vacation with her parents at Manchester. Mrs. H.O. Dobson, Manchester has remodelled her home. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 18, 1946 Billy McLaughlin, young son of Mr. and Mrs. C. McLaughlin was hit by a car in front of his home. He was taken to Oshawa Hospital for x-rays. Congratulations to Norma Fines, Kay Prentice, Phyllis Tetlow, all of Scugog in passing their entrance examination. Jack Goode, Jack Griffen, Fred DeNure, Grant Mitchell have returned after spending two weeks at Danforth YMCA Camp, Lake Simcoe. Mr. and Mrs. E.G. Mitchell gave a garden party to the entrance class of Port Perry on the occasion of the - birthday of their son Grant. Mr. Archibald MacMaster started employment this week at Beare Motors. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 19, 1956 Hazel Wallace, Port Perry is celebrating her thirtieth year of continuous service with Bell Tele- phone Company in Port Perry. The Nestleton Women's Institute celebrated fifty years of achievement in Nestleton Community Hall. Mrs. W. Heron, area secretary was the guest speaker. Mr. Foster Roland and Mr. Jim Farmer have accepted positions with the Engineer Audit, Survey (T urn to page 6) PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, July 15, 1981 -- § letters R.B. says thanks Dear Sir: It is with great apprecia- tion that I write and thank the staff of the Star for giving me great publicity with pictures and comments and also the perfect write-up commemorating my 100th birthday. I am sincerely grateful yet very humble. So many of your readers have éxpressed to me their appreciation about the Port Perry -Star accomplishment. May 1 also have the privilege to thank the 138 people who sent me congrat- ulations upon attaining this memorable occasion. It is impossible for me to acknow- ledge all their cards. Yours truly, R.B. Smallman, Port Perry VIA Rail cut-back Dear Sir: Despite an order from the Canadian Transport Commission to continue operating passenger services, N.O.P. spokesman Les Benjamin stated last week that 16 VIA Rail routes may be cut by the end of this year. One of those included on the list is the Toronto- Havelock train which travels through Myrtle Station and carries local residents daily to and from their jobs in Toronto. Transport Minister Jean- Luc Pepin declined to comment on the accuracy of the statement. However, he conceded that the corpora- tion is awaiting the outcome of a current review which will be announced later this month, thereby determining whether or not some routes will be designated Com- muter services. That parti- cular distinction has certain serious implications regard- ing eligibility for Federal subsidy, which is necessary to keep the trains running. Irate passengers, boarding at every station along the Toronto-Havelock route, are bracing themselves for the prospect of frantically searching for other methods of transportation, if this happens. Apparently, the GO system, which is subsi- dized by the Provincial Government, has not inten- tion of replacing VIA Rail on this route. Yours truly, Leslie A. Parkes Port Perry chatterbox SPORTS GONE CRAZY There was a time not too long ago when sport was clearly 'defined by the season of the year. It was simple. Baseball was played in the summer, football in the autumn and hockey in the winter. These days, sport, like the rest of the world is topsy-turvy. There are no more simple definitions. As I write this column in the middle of one of the worst heat waves in a long time, baseball is not being played because of the strike, the Canadian Football League schedule is well underway, and the sport pages of the daily newspaper have been filled with a hockey story, of all things. I'm referring to the announcement of the line-up for Team Canada 1981 vintage, which will face off in about six weeks against the cream of the crop from Russia, Sweden Czechoslovaki and so on. They'll be chasing the Canada Cup, and it may or not be co-incidence that there is no Toronto Maple Leaf on the Canadian squad. That just couldn't have anything to do with the fact that f owner Harold Ballard but nothing nice to say about international hockey,in fact won't even let the game be played in the building he owns on Carleton Street. Granted, the Leafs don't have many calibre players in their line-up, but I bet my last hockey puck that Al Eagleson just couldn't resist the snub of Ballard by not including any Toronto players, not even Sittler. I was glad to see the Canadian line-up does include the Philly Rat, Ken Linseman. If anyone can drive the Russians batty, it's Linseman. He's been getting away with murder in the NHL for a couple of years. I wonder if the Russians will bring their own rat poison. - All this hockey and football news in the middle of a July heat wave is great fun, of course, but try as I might I still can't get used to the idea that these sports are big stuff this time of year. With no baseball news, other than the idiotic negotiations, sports editors are hungry for anything to fill the white space around the ads. So, hockey, football, tennis and golf are getting more than their normal share of ink. At least it's the tennis and golf season. Speaking of tennis, John McEnroe will be back at Wimbledon next year to defend his title, and while officials there won't admit it, they will welcome him with open arms. Pro sport is big money and big business, and even though the snobs who run Wimbledon are sniffling about McEnroe's by John B. McClelland behaviour, they know that his appearance at the tournament will attract attention.- The owners of NHL teams aren't hypocritical when it comes to knowing what kinds of individuals help to fill hockey arenas. McEnrose might be a boor, a lout, a spoiled brat or whatever you want to call him, but all that stuff is just part of the mark he has made on the game. Tennis tournament organizers are going to be falling over themselves to get McEnroe to play in their events, and that goes for Wimbledon. Tennis fans are just the same as any other pro sport fans. They like good guys and bad guys, heros, and vill ans. I'm waiting for a John McEnroe type to emerge on the professional golf tour. That would be something. Golf is the last pro sport where everything had to be just oh so perfect and civil. Tradition prevails, the crowds are polite, the golfers never publicly question a judgement by officials, and even dress code rules are enforced. Golf is such a polite game that spectators actually applaud when a player misses a two-foot putt. Can you imagine John McEnroe playing the 18th hole of the Master's at Augusta, having an argument with the chairman of the rules committee? (Turn to page 6) Se vgo9 J "Ah, peaceful Lake 2 )) --