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sre PT A Ga Ni ws LEAT MAS BTR 4 60 YEARSAGO i Thursday, November 24, 1921 The County Road expenditure for this year was $117,190.98. At the November meeting of Reach Township coun- cila By-law was drawn to permit the Manilla Telephone Company to build and operate telephone lines in the township. . Dr. Alexander Graham Christie, head of the Depart- ment opf Mechanical Engineering of John Hopkin's University, received an announcement of his election to the National Chairmanship of the Power Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 35YEARSAGO Thursday, November 28, 1946 A most attractive decorating scheme has been carried out recently in the local Post Office. The work was done by contractors from Whitby. Mr. Meredith McKee of Manchester won a special prize donated by Dawes Brewery, for showmanship of 1946 foal at the Royal Winter Fair, Toronto. Dawn Marie Slemmon, nine year old granddaugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Jeffrey was interviewed by one of the officials of the Humane Society over the CBC net- work. Dawn spoke in the interest of the Humane Society. She has organized a club in Ottawa, and owing to her efforts a Junior Humane Society has been formed in Port Perry. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 29, 1956 Mr. J.J. Gibson is delcared Reeve by acclamation. Nominated for council were Frank Goodley, Tom Harris, Art Cox, Irv. Boyd, and George Homes. Four are to be elected. Forschool board Walter Sonley, Dr. MacMaster, Charles Reesor, Stan Brunton, Archer Farmer and Cec King. Threearetobeelected. This year's Ontario Inter-County Livestock Judging Team were Hugh Baird, Blackstock; Paul Bryant, Sunderland and Harold Howsam of Uxbridge. They placedeleventhinthe overall competition. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, Movember 30, 1961 Scugog reeve and Council were elected by accla- remember when ...¢ mation. Reeve C. Fralick, Councillors V. Aldred, C. Hood, C. Carterand J, Dowson. . At the Blackstock Commencement Exercises Mr. Lawrence Butt gave the Valedictory Address. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Reader celebrated their 58th Wedding Anniversary, with a turkey dinner at the home of Frank Reader in Oshawa. 15YEARSAGO Thursday, December 4, 1966 Mr. Joseph Dowson, representative for the Hospital Board announced that construction of the new hospital would beginon May 1, 1967. } Four members of Port Perry Figure Skating Club executive accompanied Sandra Hall, Sharyln Reader, Heather Stevens, Jean McTavish, Jan Baird, Janice Pentland and Julian Diamond to Peterborough on the weekend wher they tried out for amateir coaches. All received badges which enable them to assist in teaching. Mr. and Mrs. Grant McDermott entertained at a delightful get-together on Saturday evening for former business associates of Grant. Among the guests at the party were Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Farand, who had driven down from Sudbury for the reunion. Mrs. C.T. Cairns is flying by C.P. Air on December 7thto Honolulu, thence by Air New Zealand to Auckland. She will be residing in the city of Wellington with mem- bers of her family. Birthday greetings were extended to Mrs. Florence MacDonald of Epsom on the occasion of her eightieth Birthday this coniing week. Mrs. Lucille Gray was acclaimed as Deputy Reeve for Reach Council for another term. Mrs. Marg Wilbur, Fred Christie, Reginald Foster, Neil Hunter and Armour MacMillan are seeking one of three seats on council. At theregular meeting of council it was learned that the Village will be asked to pay $1,800 as part of the cost for a topographical map of Port Perry which was pre- pared by the engineering firm of Canadian Mitchell Associates. The village is being billed for the mapping because the firm of Totten, Sims, Hubicki has used the map on behalf of the Village for the preparation of a drain- agestudy. (Turnto page 6) THE MAN IS RIGHT It is not very often that I agree with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau; either what his Government has done in the past decade or his style of leadership. But there is one thing in which I have been in consistent agreement with Trudeau, and that is his often stated opinion that Canadians don't know how damn well off they are, and that we are nothing but a nation of cry babies. Trudeau repeated this again last week in Vancouver in a speech to (of all people) a group of Liberal supporters who had paid $150 a plate at a fund raising dinner for the Liberal party. : What the guests heard from Trudeau made them choke on their broiled salmon and maple mousse dessert, and of course the tongue lashing made headlines across the country. Essentially, Trudeau told the well-heeled Liberals that B.C. people complain too much and are unaware of what is happening in the rest of Canada. He said it is those who live at the foot of great mountains who are often the last to climb those mountains. And he asked aloud whether Canada is too big for us, and whether we can handle this country. Well, obviously, the speech didn't sit too well with some of those at the dinner and several walked out complaining that the Prime Minister had insulted them. One woman said the speech was garbage "from a senile old man." Trudeau may be a lot of things, but one thing he is not is senile. He may have been addressing a group of British Colum- * bians, but I think he was speaking to every Canadian in this country. .Never before in our history have we had so many people complaining," carping, marching, demonstrating, signing petitions and so on. . Last week, there' was 100,000 union members on Parlia- ment Hill. Native and women's groups are.camped perman- ently on Parliament Hill in their wrangle over what the Constitution guarantees and what it doesn't guarantee. Seems that anyone with a cause (no matter how important or silly the cause may be) is running around the country flapping pieces of paper and popping off at the mouth against government. I have a fair amount of respect for organized labour, but the claim by one labour leader that 100,000 people would return to Ottawa to occupy the House of Commons is asinine "and pandering. Quite frankly, I am fed up with every Tom, Dick and Harriet in this country demanding their rights, damn few of them willing to talk about obligations and responsibilities. erbox by John B. McClelland I don't blame Trudeau one bit when he gets angry at a country that has grown fat and lazy by almost an accident of geography. We are resources rich, incentive poor and always willing to let somebody else carry the load, take the risks, just so long as we get enough in return to make our nest kinda comfy. We have had it too good for 35 years, and it really has not taken a great deal of effort or sacrifice on our parts. What Trudeau is telling Canadians is that now, in 1981, when the going is getting a little rough everywhere in the world, we don't have the guts to pay the piper. Patience is not one Pierre Trudeau's virtues. He has always been impatient with those who disagree with him, or with those who fail to face what are fundamental realities of today. The free ride is over. Instead of everyone looking for somebody to blame, or looking for someone to bail them out of trouble, Trudeau is telling us once again to bail ourselves out. I got a chuckle out of Ontario treasurer Frank Miller groaning about the cut-back in transfer payments from the federal coffers. This guy is part of a government that just spent $650 million for 25 per cent of an oil company. And no doubt Miller will be on board when that $10 million jet makes its first flight. I'll bet that during the last provincial election, Miller did a lot of carping about the size of the federal deficit. And now when it comes time to bite the bullet, he complains. Everyone in this country is complaining these days, including me. But my only real complaint is that we have too many complainers about everything else. I'm tired of petitions, demonstrations, lobby groups, action coalitions (whatever they are). I used to love a good cause. Today, they bore the hell out of me. I'm tired of my country of 24 million chronic bitchers, running around looking for somebody to point the accusing finger at. And to use the analogy of the mountain, I'm tired of those who are looking for a lift over the mountain, when they should be trying to climb it themselves. Look, I'm not saying we don't have some serious problems in Canada these days. I know that we do. But the solution is not to go begging or crying or looking for scapegoats. Canadians must get up off their knees, accept the fact that times are changing, learn to adapt to these changes and get on with making this country better in spite of it all. Like I said before the only sure thing is thatthe free rides are over. PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., December 2, 1981 -- $5 letters No parking signs Dear Sir: Last week while driving my truck from the parking lot behind the Post Office in Port Perry, I" attempted to use the Post Office driveway onto Queen Street, only to be confronted with a car parked in the same driveway just off the street. After waiting for a while, the driver of the car refused to back out, locked his car and left the scene. Since I had much further to back up I called the police and waited 80 minutes. When the officer arrived, he said we were both in the wrong, and that two wrongs don't make a right. For the benefit of others, no parking signs should be erected for the driveway to clear this matter up once and for all. Yours truly, Lloyd Dawson Port Perry Government waste Dear Sir: The Auditor-General has criticized the federal govern- ments bookkeeping prac- tices and revealed at the same time (November 18) that Ottawa failed to report a $9 billion additional deficit to its $86 billion deficit at the end of August. The actual debt is now a whopping $95 billion. The $9 billion "error" was due to the Trudeau govern- ment's failure to record the according to Auditor Gen- eral Kenneth Dye. Canada just recently gave an additional $500 million loan to Poland although Poland already owes Canada $725 million which will total $1.2 billion by the end of 1982. Poland's debt to the West is some $24 billion. There is no way Poland can pay us back. Romania another com- munist block country cannot pay for the nuclear reactor Canada supplied. Romania owes the West $10 billion. (Turnto page6) "significant cost' of low cost loans and other foreign aid Aside from the fact I'm tired of listening to people argue and bitch about everything, one of my major fears is that Canadians are creating fertile ground for what could be a new political movement that could take advantage of all the fears and hositility in the country today and offer what looks like quick and easy solutions to our problems. Ronald Reagan pandered to these fears in the American people when he won election a little more than a year ago. While I agree with some of the measures Reagan is following (to get tough) he is finding now that's it is a lot easier said than done. But getting back to Trudeau for a minute. What he has been trying to say to Canadians for a lot of years is that we had better not take to much for granted. We had better learn to work a little harder and maybe expect a little less. And more important, if we as a nation put as much energy into positive and creative thinking about solutions, as we do into sobbing and bitching, there is more than time enough left to put the country right and pull it out of the doldrums. We still have the opportunity to be masters of our destiny, if only we could break out of the chains and take hold of that opportunity. Trudeau is on the way out, and a lot of Canadians will be glad to see him gone. After all, he's the guy everyone loves to hate. I'll be glad to see him go also, not because I hate the guy for what he's done or the way he's done it. But rather because once Trudeau steps down, the country won't have somebody to conveniently blame for all the problems. So maybe, _ instead of blaming Trudeau, all the chronic bitchers will have to look elsewhere, like at themselves. And maybe they'll start to channel their energies into positive action, rather than just -arfother demonstration, petition or letter to the newspaper. I don't think this country is going down the tubes the way some people would lead us to believe. But if it does, don't blame Trudeau. Just take a good look in the mirror. port perry star Company Limited J.PETERHVIDSTEN J.B. McCLELLAND Publisher Editor Advertising Manager Memberofthe Canadian C ity Newspaper Associati and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. * CNA Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for cash payment of postageincash. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $10.00 ayesr" Elsowhere: $30.00 per yedr. Single Copy: 25¢