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PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, April 10, 1984 -- § PORT PERRY ONTARIO LO8 WO the next corner. "To say Scugog Town- although there maybe some of that here. Scugog Shores Histor- Township continues to (410) 985-7383 (aD (04 §) Scugog -- a garden of Eden? pr -- = i | ¢ ' Publisher L Vers = . Advertising Manager M esr Bir; . ship is a good place is a For the past number Weekend, Blackstock ng Canadian Ce Association It's officially SPRING terrible - understate- of years, everyone has. Fair, Port Perry Fair, J.B. McCLELLAND and Ontario Community Newspaper Association. i because Mother Nature ment. become accustomed to last but not least Santa Editor Published every Tuesday by the | gives us lots and lots of It shall he the Garden enjoying the celebra- Claus Parade (Port Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. { new things -- new ten- of Eden of the Region of ti f CATHY ROBB | 8 tions of the Port Perry Perry). Each of these Authorized oe bye Postion "ants for our birdhouses Durham, where most Figure Skating Club, years saw visitors News & £asiures Eine lars mau ) Nt Tee | = new grass - new people are good and local hockey teams, welcomed to our fine postage in cash. | leaves on our trees --- considerate. Itisa place Pine Ridge Garden community and with the FE . . new flowers, and butter- where you can hang on Club, Canoe the Non- dedicated people of the , r Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 > flies -- so you feel better to your traditions, can quon, Caesarea's Scugog Beautification ve Eo oy already and now getafairshakeandlack annual boat Regatta, Committee, this year is Qpi2 arin : BL beeriphion Rats: 0 Canacs $15 00 p81 4 9 v summer is just around of discrimination, Pioneer Days (at no exception. Scugog sewhere $45.00 per year. Single copy: 35 ical Museum), Western 2 | ! | | remnember when: 60 YEARS AGO <- Thursday, April 17, 1924 A 25 percent cut in the domestic hydro rate is expec- ted by Reeve Figary after interviewing the Hydro Elec- tric Power Commission. The minimum rate should now be $1.50 monthly due-to the substantial surplus earned by the Commission. On Monday evening, in the Port Perry Parish Hall a Horticultural Society was formed with about 70 members. Elected were President, Mr. F.A. Kent;. 1st Vice President, Mr. H.G. Hutcheson; 2nd Vice President, Mr. S. Jeffrey. . Mr. George Smith, High Point, reported that one of his ewes gave birth to four lambs and they are all alive and doing well. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 14, 1949 Best wishes go to Prince Albert newlyweds, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Jeffrey and Mr. and Mrs. Russell Shaw. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. A. Roach, Man- chester on the birth of a daughter Susan Ruth, on April 7th. Congratulations to Jack Green, Blackstock, who was named Grand Champion Showman at the annual student demonstration at Kempville Agricultural School. Jack took a total of 8 first in 16 possible entries. Three new houses are under construction in Port Perry by Mr. Art Cox, Fred DeNure and Mr. George Samells. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 16, 1959 The Northumberland Durham Police Association donated $100 to the Port Perry Minor Hockey Association. A former Port Perry resident, Mr. Eric Nasmith of. Toronto, won the Seaway Week symbol contest, sponsored by the Globe & Mail. Mr. Nasmith received his designing education in Toronto and Chicago. Miss Pauline Beacock and girlfriend, of Epsom, flew to Bermuda for a holiday recently. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 9, 1964 A baby boy, Paul Robert Storry, and a baby girl, Gloria Ruth Graham were both born in Port Perry Hospital on March 31, 1964. Their mothers, Mrs. Robert Storry and Mrs. Roy Graham discovered later that they also had the same birth dates, being August 18th. Frank and Albert Millman entertained a group of their friends at the school on Saturday evening in honour of their birthday, April 1st. Friends and relatives gathered at the Oddfellows Lodge Hall to honour the 40th anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mark on March 28th. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 10, 1969 A party was held at the Scugog Island School for Retarded Children on March 25th to mark the occasion of the 1st Anniversary of the school's opening. Miss Isabel Strong presented the Emmerson Insuran- ce Agency Trophy to Captain Scott Wilbur of the Port Perry Tyke All-stars on Saturday. The trophy was presen- ted to the consolation winners. An act of vandalism was discovered early Monday morning at Pine Grove Cemetery, Prince Albert by the caretaker Mr. Ross Alsop when 12 stones were damaged. The act was done sometime between late Sunday night and early Monday morning as everything was in order on Sunday. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, April 10, 1974 After a decision on Monday night by local Council, the Port Perry Public Library has been renamed Scugog Public Library. At the Library Sectary's request, the building will be known as the Port Perry War Memorial Library building. : Council accepted a tender from Zering Pontiac Buick Limited for supply of a cab & chassis for a new truck for the fire department. The tender was for $4,318.46 with delivery from existing stock. P.C. Jim Hunter, recently graduated from the Ontario Police College at Aylmer. He has been with the Oshawa Police Department (now Durham Regional) for the past three years. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Neil Hunter of Greenbank. Mr. Howard Malcolm of Malcolm Farms, Janetville was elected vice-chairman of the Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board for Durham County. bill sm; SWITCH JOBS WEEK I'm not much of a one for special weeks. It's not that I don't approve wholeheartedly of National Cat Week or National Sauerkraut Week. Though I'd just as soon tickle a snake's belly, I'll scratch a cat's ear if I have to, and I'll choke down a forkful of sauerkraut, though I'd enjoy a mouthful of mouldy moss equally well. It's just that I don't become aware of them until they're dll over. By the time I realize it's National Fireworks Week, and have written a hot editorial about it, we're right into National Fire Prevention Week, and there I am, telling everybody to run around with a match in his hand, sending off rockets. All this preamble, as any idiot child could guess with one head tied behind his back, is merely a crafty way of leading up to my nomination for a special week. I'm fed up with everybody being fed up with his job, and wishing h e, or she, could do something else, that looks twice as rosy. For example, a butcher wants to be a surgeon because he believes he was cut out to cut up, there's more money in it, and anyhow, it's easier. A dentist thinks he'd make a dandy politician, but he hasn't got the pull. A street cleaner wants to join the air force because he knows how to pilot. If you are now whimper- ing for mercy, I'll tell you about National Switch Jobs Week Here's how it works. Once a year, for a full week, each of us has a chance to tackle that job we know we should be doing if an evil fate hadn't tossed us into our present rut. It might be a mite confusing, but look at the fun we'll have. Best time to have this special week would be right about now, when everybody is completely browned off with winter. Say you're a hydro linesman, and you think teachers have it so much better. Nice warm classroom, when you're out in the piercing wind. Snug in bed at night, when you're called out to fumble with a broken line after the sleet storm. Hours nine to four, and two months' holidays. Well, all you do is take over a classroom during National Switch Jobs Week. There'll be no trouble getting a classroom, because all the teachers will have switched jobs with truck drivers, because the latter make more money, according to the teachers. . And there'll be no shortage of truck driving jobs, because all the truck drivers will be working in fac- tories, as they're sick of being away from home so much. And there'll be no lack of factory jobs, as all the ordinary hands will be moving up into the executive of- fices, where the work is so much easier and the money so much better. Naturally, there'll be a lot of executive vacancies, because all the bosses are sick of the ten- sion and responsibility and all they want to do is have a little farm of their « wn, where they can get back to the simple life, sleep "iights without sedatives, and con- quer their ulcers. Farms? There'll be lots of them. The farmers will all be taking over stores, so they can sit around on their fat butts all day like the merchants, and watch the bank balance grow. The stores will all be available, of course, because all the merchants will be away sailing on the Great Lakes where the REAL easy money is. See how simple it is? It works for women, too. All the housewives would become models, all the models actresses, and all the actresses would be able to revert to being the simple little housewives they are at heart, with eighty-dollar aprons tied becomingly over their bullfighter's pants. Personally, I'm going to put in for a preacher's job during the grand switch. Work one day and spend the rest of the week drinking tea and shooting the breeze with jolly old ladies who are only too glad to help you run the church. You can't beat that for an easy living. Well, how does it strike you? Myself, I think it's the greatest idea since psychiatry was invented. One week's dose of the other fellow's job, once a year, would sweep away all the envy, malice and boredom that afflicts the human race. I can just see them at the end of their week. The hydro linesman would be scrambling frantically up the highest pole he could find. The teacher would be read to adopt that lippy teenager he couldn't abide. The oA driver would be hurtling down the highway with a song in his heart and his foot hard down on the gas pedal. The factory hand would be crooning over this lathe. The executive would be tossing down his tranquilizer pills hilariously. The farmer would kiss the first cow he saw when he got home. The merchant would hum a merry tine as he gaily punched out the accompaniment on the dash register. Friend housewife would be so glad to get out of that girdle she had to don as a model, she'd sail in and redecorate the whole house. And yours truly would be just as overjoyed to get out of that dog-collar, and be able to swear, look over the dames, and have a beer again.