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---- A ------ NT ATT una POS pp IN Li letters Brown a dangerous woman Dear Sir: There is a dangerous woman lurking in our midst, Mary Brown. " Why is she dangerous? Because she is obsessed. with her mission, and being a woman she feels she must prove her point, at any cost. The censor board pro- blem is no longer about sex and violence. It has been turned into a problem, and question, of & choice. Brown wants to take away choice, not realizing when choice is taken away, you purge what is unique in the individual. Once freedom of choice is removed, we become a socialist state. She contradicts her own views, on one hand saying constant viewing of porn causes sexual derangement, while admitting she sees hundreds of porn films, yet she remains un- .scathed. Why? With mind firmly in place, she has risen above us, only our weak minds can be such affected, by such cinema junk. Of course, there should be some form of censorship, but she "should start with the stag films on Yonge St., not the soft porn at theatres or in our homes. Those same stag films which contain kiddie porn, sodomy and bestiality are as danger- ous as Mary Brown. By attacking soft-core porn, she has admitted her defeat in her fight against hard core, she can't stop it. The question is how- ever, can she be stopped? By snipping a (Turn to page 6) PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. November 13, 1984 -- 5 the St OO ( Bs una (QC CNA #0 80X90 PORT PERRY ONTARIO LO WO pe -- (410) 985.738) CD a | J. PETER HVIDSTEN =) Publisher Advertising [lanager Member of the J.B. MCCLELLAND Canadian Community Newspaper Association Editor and Ontario Community Newspaper Association. Published every Tuesday by the CATHY ROBB Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. News & Features Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for cash payment of postage in cash. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 RES 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. remember when? 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 13, 1924 The Public School children are planning a Grand Con- cert in the Town Hall with a new operetta, songs and folk dancing. Plans for a new Public Library got underway and anyone wishing to leave subscriptions can do so with Mr. Hutcheson at the Royal Bank or with Mr. Farmer at the Star office. On behalf of the 1.0.D.E., six pictures made by Mrs. Nasmith and Mrs. Woods were presented to the schools in town. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 17, 1949 At the turkey dinner in the Anglican Church, some three hundred persons sat down for a delicious repast. Rev. J.T. Coneybeare was the minister at this time. Mr. M. McIntyre Hood, managing editor of the Oshawa Times Gazette was the speaker at the Lions Club regular meeting. Sinclair Robertson and Tommy Duff, Shirley, entered - two baby beef calves in the Royal Winter Fair. Mr. Glenn Demara of Scugog has just returned from the west where he has been employed for the last three months. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 19, 1959 At the installation of officers of Maybelle Rebekah Lodge, Nettie Aldred was installed as Noble Grand and Ruby Beare as Vice-Grand. Miss Lillian Couves of Greenbank was Valedictorian at the Port Perry High School commencement exercises. Mansell Gerrow, R.N., was appointed director of Nur- sing at the Ajax and Pickering General Hospital. Mr. John Leask won the Lawara trophy for Showman- ship and Sportsmanship in boys and girls in the Holstein class at the Royal Winter Fair. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 17, 1964 Mr. N.A. Sweetman, a native of Scugog Island was the speaker at the High School commencement. Miss Carol Ann Morrow was the Valedictorian. Claudette Boulanger, a graduate of Port Perry High School, received the Bapco Paint Supply Award of Art 'Material for excellence in her first year studies at Alberta College. Ron Wanamaker was installed as Noble Grand of War- riner Lodge. Miss Barbara Webster received her Gold Cord in Guiding. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 13, 1969 Mrs. Norman P. Aldred, was the Silver Cross Mother and placed a wreath at the memorial plaque in the Port Perry Memorial Library on Queen Street. Mrs. Aldred lost her son in air combat over Hamburg, Germany in 1944. Jay Madsen, chairman of the local Port Perry Collec- tors Club Coin Section, won first prize for his display of Canadian large cents at the 9th annual Coin-A-Rama Show held in Oshawa. Damage was estimated at $3,000 when a small barn in Prince Albert was destroyed by fire. The barn was owned by Allan Coates. When the firemen arrived, the fire had already spread throughout most of the building. Mr. A.M. Lawrence, proprietor of Lawrence Pharmacy for 40 years sold his business to Mr. Gordon F. Parkin of Oshawa. The present staff in the store will remain and Mrs. J.M. Rose will continue to serve in the dispensary. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, November 13, 1974 Late last week work was started on a 16-unit, $250,000 motel-hotel complex near the corner of Water Street and Highway 7A. The name of the motel will be the Railroadhouse, and it will a two storey building, with com- pletion expected for the first phase by spring. A shocked Scugog Township council accepted the resignation of Township Clerk Neil Brodie on Monday night. In a brief letter read to council, Mr. Brodie said he was resigning for personal reasons, and it was to take effect immediately. Damage was estimated at more than $80,000 in a dairy barn fire on the property of Peter Hoogeveen in Blackstock on Monday afternoon. The fire could be seen from Port Perry, as huge clouds of smoke billowed from the barn. No injuries were reported, but a quantity of hay and straw was destroyed. Township council made a grant of $2,500 to the Port Perry Chamber of Commerce to help pay for the new ten- nis courts. The Chamber has already paid $7,402 towards the courts this year and has a paving bill of $5,275 yet to pay. The Chamber said it would pay the rest of the bill. Work has begun on the third and final floor of the new Community Nursing Home on Lilla Street. It is hoped the $700,000 project will be completed by early March 1975. The new building will accommodate 75 people and will be 32,000 square feet. bill smile SOMEBODY HATES ME Let's see. What's new today? Ah. College teachers going on strike. Librarians coming off strike. Auto workers going on strike. U.S. won't help with acid rain. Police demand return of capital punishment. Russians accuse U.S. of non-cooperation in their new "peace" overtures. Man stabs woman 48 times and is sentenced to three months. Well, the magnificence of the world is unfolding in its accustomed manner. But all is not lost. A black bishop from South Africa has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Eugene Whelan has not been sent to Italy. (Not because he was Liberal). It must be giving Joe Clark, who has been stabbed in the back so often it's become a minor irritation, and has had his heart cut out and thrown to the wolves, a great deal of satisfaction to be the ropeman on the guillotine. Feel some pity for poor old Eugene, and poor old Bryce Mackasey, who didn't get to go to that villa in Portugal. One of two things happened. Either they had too much pride to scuttle into a judgeship or the Senate, or they were too greedy to settle for something so small and so sordid. Your guess. You may, believably, wonder what all that leads to.. We shall see. It's extremely difficult today to be an alert, aware, compassionate person when policemen are shot like rab- bits, there is war all over the world, children are starv- ing, men beat up their women, and you haven't even got your leaves raked. As a sad, sad result, we are inclined to turn in upon ourselves, to blot out the horror and the violence and the brutality of society, and to lock ourselves into a lit- tle cupboard composed of money and "things' and ""relations," hoping the nasties go away. They won't. Perhaps our wincing and flinching are an example of the human spirit trying to stay alive in a time when the brutishness of the Middle Ages looks like a Sunday School picnic, in comparison. Perhaps it's something older than that: a retreat to the family, the cave, the tribe, when the earth shook and the great beasts howled their final agony. And man whimpered. Hey, that's pretty good, eh? Don't worry. I'm not going to go on like a guru. I'm just trying to establish the fact, which every reader knows, that our own affairs become more important than a train wreck in Italy, a flood in India, or an out- break of the dire rear in Hayfork Centre. To get to the point, the Mulrooneys are after me. Not Brian and Mila, bless their hearts. They can take a joke. They wouldn't try to rub me out. I don't think. No, it's the double oo Mulrooneys that are upset. | made an unfortunate remark in a column about '""Mulrooney" sounding as though it was the other side of the tracks. It was about as funny as an old rubber boot. But I did applaud the lady Mila, for many aspects of her character. Now this. In my old paper, where I was editor, ap- pears this scurrilous bit: "Re Bill Smiley's column So far as Mila Mulroney and a 'name sounding from the wrong side of the tracks' is served up by 'Mr. Cons- tant Mouth, 1944, Bill Smiley (ex-naxi war camp nightmare)', "A Mulrooney myself, I ponder "constant-mouth's deeds of heroism or heroism-/not. "And do not make sport of his torture, nor judge his (imprisoned utterings) he now sings: 'fell well' for '""He that cannot praise." It is signed: "Barbara Mulrooney, Clan Mulrooney, 3-dimensional writer - poet, - artist humanitarian." What is the name of whatever is a three- dimensional writer? Anyway, there were a lot of...and ...'8 in the published letter, suggesting it was original- ly libellous or worse. Just don't plant a bomb in my bathroom, or I'll have the whole lot of the Smileys down on yiz Mulrooneys and we lived on the other side of the tracks, too. When we felt like it. But closer to home, somebody hates me. It's sort of nice. I'm sick of being a good, gentle, kind man like Bill Davis, Prime Minister of Ontario, who was also described as shifty, ambiguous, slippery, ruthless and so on. Media tripe. A man from a neighbouring township, wrote me a hate letter this fall. It was supposed to be witty, but devolved into sheer malice. It was an attack on teachers. I'll quote only bits. Most of it is libel. "Willy, you remind me of the provincial handle on the thundermug -- always there but never in.... You, along with that ef- fete corps of over-rated and overpaid so-called teachers, are always articulating some complaint about municipal, provincial and federal legislature." I won't bore you with the rest of it, because it is bor- ing. It suggests that none of us has the guts to tackle the establishment, or run for office. Robert S. O'Neill, I was a town councillor when you were wetting your Pampers. [ have been challenging the Establishment for years, in this column and face to face, I have been president of a large tourist association. President of a publishers' association. Treasurer of the local Red Cross; Member of the Library Board. Member of the church board. I am tired. Of you and the Mulrooneys; Get stuff- ed, both of you. --