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letters Sipco dealer confused, angry Dear Sir, After reading the letter in the Port Perry Star last week from Federal NDP candidate Roy Grierson, I find myself confused and angered by his attitude. As a candidate for public office, I wonder how he could represent me, if given the chance. A system which forces the general public to pay 46 per cent of their gasoline dollar to a governing body which competes with the independent business- man in the same market cannot in my opinion be called free enterprise. The Independent Bus- inessman is also a member of the general public. Fair competition for marketshare is what holds the prices to a reasonable level. A system whereby any competitor has an un- fair advantage in the marketplace and uses predatory pricing pol- icies to lessen his com- petition is in direct contravention of the Combines Investigation Act. I've never heard of an Independent forcing any neighboring rival out of business with predatory pricing policies and I'd like to know how you formed your opinion of Independent competi- tion practices. Eliminating our Governments from the gas business would act I agree solve my pro- blem, but sir, the government already gets 46 per cent of all revenue generated from gas sales, plus tax on all related equipment, plus income tax, plus corpo- rate tax, how much more do you want? A governing body is to (Turn to page 6) PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday. July 10, 1964 -- § the PORT PERRY STAR CO LIMITED 235 QUEEN STREET PO 804 90 PORT PEARY ONTARIO LO8 NO (40) 985.738) J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager Member of the J.B. MCCLELLAND Canadian Community Newspaper Association Editor and Ontario Community Newspaper Association. Published every Tuesday by the Port P: CATHY ROBB rt Perry Star Co Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. News & Features Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and tor cash payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: in Canada $15.00 per year. Elsewhere $45.00 per year. Single copy 35* © COPYRIGHT -- All layout and composition of advertisements produced by the advertising department of the Port Perry Star Company Limited are protected under copyright and may not be reproduced without the written permission of the publishers. } L Pa hu remember when? 60 YEARS AGO A : Thursday, July 10, 1924 The meeting of School Trustees, was held in Brooklin. In the re-organization that followed the program the "following officers were elected: President - S. Farmer, Port Perry; Vice President - J. Richardson, Pickering; Secretary/Treasurer - Jno. Mark, Seagrave. . At the Town Council meeting Reeve Figary was ap- B |__ pointed a delegate to attend the Good Roads convention in Toronto. Constable Nesbitt was granted a leave of absen- ce to attend the Convention of Chief Constables' Association. ; Mr. and Mrs. John Minty, of Winnipeg, former residents of Port Perry, passed through town for a visit on their way from the Empire Exhibition. 35 YEARS AGO i Thursday, July 7, 1949 Flight-Lt. John & Mrs. Buzz, who have been stationed in Labrador, visited Port Perry and Mrs. Buzz's parents Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Hall. John A. Penwright won 1st prize at the annual Rod & Gun Club Outing by catching a 5% 1b. bass. Ernie Fisher caught the smallest bass. As the Port Perry Semi-Final Boys Baseball game got underway on Monday, the top 5 batters were DeShane, Healey, Martyn, Harper and McGill. 25 YEARS AGO - Thursday, July 9, 1959 . At the Port Perry Council meeting, Mr. R.J. Cameron (Midland) was appointed new Police Sergeant for the village of Port Perry. Also at the Council meeting, Mr. Wm. Beare brought forth a letter from the county District High School Board requested $300,000 instead of $250,000 for an addition to be built onto the High School. Norman P. Aldred, son of Mr. & Mrs. Norman Aldred, Port Perry, was appointed as Radio & Television Director of the McConnell, Eastman & Co. Ltd. Advertising Agen- cy. The Manchester Cubs and Scouts bused to Orillia un- der the supervision of Mr. & Mrs. A. Martyn and Mr. Al Craig, to see Her Majesty the Queen. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 9, 1964 Guide members of Port Perry raised $50 at a garden party for toys for the Sick Children's Hospital. The presentation was made by Susan Roach, Marsha Mulholland and Susanne MacMaster. Port Perry Constable Robert Roy fired three warning shots in the air, when he discovered two of Reesor's fuel trucks being stolen. Guide 8 atherine-Nelson left by plane for a week in Winnipeg. She will then travel by bus to a campsite at Por- tage La Prairie to spend two weeks. Catherine was chosen from a group of guides to represent the Central Area. 15 YEARS AGO . Thursday, July 10, 189 Five Port Perry High School students will be among 100 students from across Ontario who leave on a Student Education Tour of 11 cities in eight of the western European countries. The students are: Mary Nelson, Joanne Jackson, Beverley Carnegie, Larry Mark and Larry McNenley. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Ploughman, who were married on July 12, 1919 on Scugog Island celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on July 5th with a dinner party being held in their honour at the Odd Fellows Hall. A real estate firm listed the following property for sale in July 1969: "Country Estate' - stone and frame bungalow on 1 acre lot, south of Port Perry. sliding lgass. doors to patio, finished rec room, nicely landscaped with excellent gardening lot - $31,900.00. A new 3 bedroom brick bungalow in Sunderland, with large livingroom, fireplace, mahogany cupboards and full basement at a selling price of $19,000. with $4,000. down payment. Two hundred and twentyypupils have entered swim- ming classes at Poplar Park. \At Wellsprings Park, Mrs. M. Ives is in charge of 100 swimming students, the youngest being only three years old. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 10, 1974 Phe officers and members of Port Perry Orange Lodge No. 3272 and the Fife & Drum Band were in Good- wood on Saturday where they took part in a Contingency Parade with Goodwood Lodge. They also attended the Orange Walk in Bowmanville on that day. Port Perry Lions Club Bantams stretched their League Record to 11 in a row as they easily defeated Claremont 13-2 on July 3rd. bill smiley WHAT WEALTH! Garage sales are quite the fad these days. Many people make them part of their lives. They troop around town watching for handmade signs and check the ads in the classified section. Drive around any small town and you'll see a cluster of cars, in front of a house. 'Must be a wedding or a funeral," you muse. Then you see a pile of junk with a hoard of human magpies darting around it, snatching up bits, beating each other to another heap of rubble, like seagulls diving and screeching for a slice of french- fried spud. It's no wedding. There are no vows exchanged, ex- cept that you takes what you gets, "for better or for worse." It's no funeral, except for those who pay six bucks for something that cost three, ten years ago. It's a garage sale. i This phenomenon resembles a mini-auction-sale minus the auctioneer. The garage sale allows the pro- prietor (often abetted by some of his neighbours) to get rid of all the useless items overflowing the garage, the tool-shed, the basement and the attic. It sometimes brings in two or three hundred dollars to the vendors, and the garage-sale groupies go home all excited because they have bought a three-legged chair, a horse-drawn sleigh, an umbrella with only one spoke missing, or six paperback novels for a dollar. One of my contemporaries, an habituee of these 'bizarre events, was more than a bit thunderstruck when he found at one sale that he could buy text-books from our school, duly stamped as such, dirt cheap. He remonstrated with the owners, pointing out that the books belonged to the school and had been stolen by their children, but they'd have none of it. They wanted cash. So much for human nature. These were taxpayers who had helped buy the books their kids had stolen, and now wanted to sell them back to the system so that other kids could steal the books they were still paying taxes for. May I digress for a moment? Kids do steal books. Regularly. They don't consider it 'stealing.' It's just taking something from a big institution. That's not steal- ing, according to about fifty per cent of them. It's just like Dad not declaring something on his income tax, or Mom ordering a dress from Eaton's, wearing it to a par- ty, then taking it back to the mail order office and retur- ning it, claiming it was "too small' or had smudge marks in the armpits (after she'd discoed in it for four hours.) They wouldn't steal from a friend. They might steal from their parents but they have no compunction about "ripping off' a department store or the government. This is fact, not fancy, as I've learned in discussion about morals. Back to the garage sales. There is no suggestion of stealing here. Both parties, buyer and seller, are perfectly aware of what's going on. The seller is trying to get rid of something he doesn't need. The buyer is buying something he doesn't need. It's a classic exam- ple of our materialistic age. We want to get rid of some of the garbage we've bought, and the buyer wants to buy some more garbage. The epitome of a garage-sale-groupie would be a person who goes to four garage sales, buys a lot of junk, then has a garage sale to dispose of it, preferably with a small mark-up. But they're fun. A friend of mine, who'll make a bid on anything, even though he doesn't know what it's for, has bought two old-fashioned horse-drawn sleighs. He has worked on them until they are serviceable. All he needs now is couple of beasts to haul the things. He'll probably wind up with a camel and a Shetland pony (and will make a fortune hauling people around when we run out of gas.) Well, I wish I'd had a garage sale this spring. First, I'd have sold the garage, a venerable institution. None of this electronic eye, or press a button and the door opens. It has a vast door, weighing about eight hundred pounds. You hoist the door and it slides on pulleys and cables, and at the right moment, on a good day, it stops rising just at the height to tear off your radio antenna. The balances, filled with sand, aren't quite enough from crashing down on your hood, but I've fixed that. To one, I've added an axe-head, to the other, a quart of paint. Perfect balance. A real buy. Behind the garage is a sort of tool shed. I say "sort of** because when I've sailed into the garage on a slip- pery mid-winter day, I've sometimes gone an extra foot and crashed into the tool shed, which now leans about thirty-eight degrees to the north. I'll throw in the tool shed with the garage, but not its contents. Migawd, the stuff in there would bug the eyes of either an antique dealer or a garage-groupie. I have garden tools in there that haven't been used since Sir John A. MacDonald's wife told him to get his nose out of that glass and go out and stir up the garden. I have at least four perfectly good tires for a 1947 Dodge. I have enough holy tarpaulin (or is it holey? I've never known) to build a theatre under the stars. There's a perfectly good set of golf clubs, a wee bit rusty. There's a three-lggged garden tool that must have come over with Samgle de Champlain. There's a three- wheeled lawnmower (mechanics special). Six hundred feet of garden hose that a little adhesive would fix. (Turn to page 6)