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Nuclear War film frightening Dear Sir: Recently, I sat "with a group to view the film "Do you lave this Planet", featuring Dr. Helen Caldicott speaking on the effects of Nuclear War. (This film can be obtained through the local library). Needless to say, I was jolted into realizing that I have been like a driver sitting in front of a caution light, assuming it may never change to Red. Parts of the film were technical with information and staggering figures relating to the power stored a specified target - within minutes by just pushing a button! Scenes of the massacre at Hiroshima in 1945, pictures of people who have carried a disfigured body through life because of injury at that time, left me thinking "What did we do and what are we still doing to the human race?" I remember when "Hurrah, the war is over" sounded clearly over the air waves. That may have been 'Victory' then but it opened up the possibility of annihilation with a third Since several countries have enough power already available to level this planet, itis folly to continug building on destruction. No one knows the future, but I am con- vinced God, the Creator of this beautiful world, the One who gave man dominion over it, never intended that we destroy ourselves. Let us endeavour to ease the suffering and hunger, learn from one another and teach the uneducated a better way of life. The Bible says "Inasmuch as you have done it unto the least of PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. September 21, 1982 -- 5 the sto PORT PERRY STAR CO. LIMITED ( I 235 QUEEN STREET. * CNA P.0.80X 90. PORT PERRY. ONTARIO LOB INO /a (416) 985-7383 [ &) ; J. PETERHVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager J.B.McCLELLAND Editor A \AN CO " 5) 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 cash payment of postage incash. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $15.00 per year. Elsewhere: $45.00 per year. Single copy: 35¢ up in bombs which can reach world war. Ind (Turnto page 6) bill smiley h TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE . There must be something sweet about our big old house. We've all heard about somebody having a bee in his bonnet. But a hornet in the bathroom? I just killed a dirty big brute a few minutes ago, disposed of the corpse, sat down at my typewriter and heard an ominous sound, like a tiny chain saw, looked up for the source and saw three more of the beasts crawling on a window. With nothing else handy, I picked up a particularly waspish letter from one of my readers, and beat them to death with no apologies to conservationists. You don't play around with hornets. ~.-They'd obviously crawled in the open bathroom window after being "exterminated"' by the chaps doing brick work on the house. They'd run across a nest in the 'bricks and thought they'd killed all the hornets with an aerosol '"'bomb."' They hadn't.- : During the summer, one of my grandboys was stung by wasps, cosily nesting in a wood-pile. We eliminated them with a vicious counter-attack. Last week, my wife, touring the outside of the house to check the bricks, came across a huge, old-fashioned bee-hive attached to a corner of a window. It was not uninhabited, as a little careful observance proved. I had experierice as a kid with these things. We'd find them in the woods, get a long stick to knock them down, and usually get well stung in the process. So, it was down to the store to get a "bomb." The instructions said to use it at dawn or at dusk, when the bees are quiet. I decided to do the job at dusk, so had a little snooze after dinner. Woke up when my wife came in, beaming as though she'd just won a lottery. She'd climbed a ladder and bombed the bee-hive, silly nit, without even having me there to hold the ladder for her. Anyway, we got rid of that lot. A few years ago I was having a new roof put on the house. The roofers ripped open a hornet's nest and the neighbours were treated to the sight of three men doing what appeared to be a Spanish fandango 30 feet up in the air. It was funny, but not to the roofers, who were badly stung. To bee or not to bee. I hope that is no longer the question. I don't want to wind up with a bee in my bonnet - about bees, wasps and hornets. But I wish they'd go and build somewhere else. A lot of other strange things went on this past summer. The back of my house looks naked after being covered for years by a beautiful vine. Had the whole thing torn off because it was creeping into my brick-work like an octopus. Somebody stuck two lines of stakes with red tops around two sides of my house. Somebody else put dabs of paint of various hues all over my lawn. Green, yellow and red. I suppose one's the Bell, another's the gas company, and the third is the public utilities, or maybe just someone who likes painting lawns. I've never seen any of the mysterious painters, and am beginning to grow uneasy. If they all start putting in cables and gas lines and water lines under my lawn, anything could happen with today's workmen. Can't you imagine them getting all tangled up down there? Pick up the telephone and you get an electric shock. Turn on the tap and gas hisses out. Flip on your furnace and water comes gushing through the ducts. We've had workmen hurtling in and out all summer carrying pipes and things, as we switch to gas. We've had men come and dig up the lawn in the wrong place, replace the sod sloppily, and leave another gash that will turn brown and die. We've been awakened every morning by great thuds and pounding on the brick-work as the brick-work progresses. But I feel sorry for the masonry men. They just get their scaffold up and the rain comes pelting down. They sit in their truck until it clears up, climb the scaffold and get soaked in another shower. We had a family from the middle of June to the middle of August, three days holidays, then more family. Two 90th birthdays in the connection. My heart sank as that letter arrived near the end of August, that cheery little letter from the high school principal telling us about Opening Day. I felt as if I'd had no holidays at all. To cap it all, I'm broke. New furnace, and brick-work cleaned me out. Painting the house will have to wait until next summer. And I hope you had a grand holiday, too, especially if you took it in August, which was more like October. remember when? - 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 21, 1922 'Mr. and Mrs. Percy Denshance of England have moved to Port Perry. = Latest reports are to the effect that the hydro power is to be turned on this week. At the arinual meeting of the Rink Board, the directors were re-elected and authority was given to paint the rink this fall. ) il The Port Perry Business College is starting its fall courses. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 18, 1947 Mr. and Mrs. Wagg of Prince Albert were honoured at a party before moving to their new home at London, On- tario. : Miss Doris Duff of Myrtle Station is training for a nur- sing position at Oshawa General Hospital. The 18th of October has been set for the dedication of the new Scugog Church. ; Dr. Donald Christie, Manchester attended the conven- tion for Veterinarians at Guelph. ____ 25YEARSAGO Thursday, September 19, 1957 Tripp Construction Company were successful in receiving the tender for the construction of a supply system in the village of Sunderland. The Bell Telephone are working at laying the main underground service cables for the new dial system. The cable is being laid just inside the sidewalk on Queen Street. Hugh Baird of Blackwater is one of two Canadians competing in the fifth World Plowing Match at Peebles, Ohio. There are thirteen other countries with entries. Port Perry Star is celebrating their fiftieth year in editing this newspaper. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 20, 1962 At the Legion Branch 419 Ladies fall meeting Cmdes. Monaghan and McNenly were named delegates to the Provincial Convention in Niagara Falls. Carl Luke has been appointed as president of the Port Perry Softball Association. Malcolm Bailey won the Eaton Special for the highest number of points in the Cattle Class at Port Perry Fair. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kerry entertained on the oc- casion of their two daughters' anniversaries. Mr. and . Mrs. Allan Walsh (married 15 years) and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Fisher (20 years). 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 28, 1967 Miss Margaret Spence, a former student of Port Perry High School received a gold Buffalo Day Medallion from Mayor Baker of Regina, Saskatchewan during a Youth Programme, sponsored by the Provincial Gover- nment. Five local car dealers have combined their efforts to give the public an '"'Autorama Display" which will be held at Port Perry Arena this week. The recently appointed by-law enforcement officer will receive a salary of $5,000. annually. The decorative street lights purchased by Port Perry's Chamber of Commerce three years ago will be turned on from November 15th until January 2nd, 1968. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, September 20, 1972 Port Perry Snowmobile Club, which was formed about one year ago will hold a Snow Show at the Port Perry Arena with 16 different manufacturers promising to display their 1973 model snowmobile. *' A large barn on the farm of William Kuyt, R.R. 2, Seagrave was destroyed by a fire believed to have started by combustion in a grain storage area. The Port Perry team of Grant Real, Arthur Cox and Alma Cox was successful in capturing the Baxter Trophy in a tournament held at Oshawa.