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the PORT PERRY STAR CO LMUTED 139 QUEEN STREET £0 80a 90 PORT PERRY ONTARIO LO8 nO 16) 98% 738) (QC CNA (S| (049) J. PETER HVIDSTEN c=4 Publisher Advertising Manager Member of th J.B. MCCLELLAND i Canadian Community Newspaper Association Editor and Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the CATHY ROBB News & Features "334 PReZE WINNERS \ mM 1S Qe MUN 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 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. PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, March 19, 1985 -- 5 letters Maxine: Who are we to judge? Dear Sir; Maxine has left our midst and many will miss that person we knew so little about. She may not have lived a life style we would have chosen but who are we to judge. Are our life styles so perfect? How many people did she hurt, in- sult or criticize? How many times have we seen her downtown when? 60 YEAR AGO Thursday, March 19, 1925 At the Port Perry Horticulture Exhibition held at the United Church the winners in the double hyacinth class were first, Mrs. W. Real, second Mrs. Roy O'Neill. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Beare were in Brantford where they attended the fiftieth wedding anniver- sary of Mrs. Beare's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. McCauley. A large number attended the sale of Mr. Nor- man Woon, Seagrave. A party and a presentation was held in their honour before leaving the com- munity. They were presented with a purse of money by Mr. Herbert Eagleson. The Young Men's Parliament met in the S.0.S. Hall to discuss a bill for the erection of a new high school in Port Perry. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 16, 1950 Mr. and Mrs. James Boe celebrated their Golden Anniversary at their home in Greenbank. At the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toron- to, Mr. Alan Reesor passed his First Grade Theory with first class honours. He is a pupil of Mrs. J. E. Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. James Wright and family of Newcastle have moved into their new home on Queen Street. Mr. Wright has been the owner of the orchard on the hill for some time. Miss Adelaide Fennel returned by plane to Port Perry after a six week visit to Barbadoes and Jamaica. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 17; 1960 At the Skating Carnival this year, two solo numbers were taken by local talent. Miss Margaret Ann Witherspoon gave a beautiful ex- hibitiion of skating and Miss Margaret Terrett kept everyone laughing with her excellent clown- ing. Mr. John Wilde was the club professional this year. Mrs. Melleuish, a member of the Honeydale Women's Institute was presented with an Institute cup and saucer by Mrs. W. Mark before leaving to make her home in England. This year Honeydale Institute celebrated its 25th anniversary. (Turn to page 6) and been quietly thankful of the life style we have, of the family and friends we depend on. How many of us even took the time to say hello to her? Surely we need to ask ourselves how sociable we would be had we been without our mother's love from infancy. We also frequently take our fathers love for granted but this too, Maxine seems to have been deprived of. In fact, ac- cording to the article, Maxine was even re- jected by her father in adulthood. The article also seems to imply Max- Is system fair? Dear Sir: I wish to express my feelings on your coverage of Ms. Ped- dlar's death. Your writer and paper carried a human story, one of the best your paper has carried. The story brought to mind the age-old story where the affluent try to impose their views and ideas on the rest. Nations have done this to poor nations as long as life has been going. People to People. It said in your story, help was there under our terms. Why must we that have, try to make those that have not, submit to our terms. Help could have been given under her terms. Her life was her's to live as she so wished. Our help should have been given and her way of life should not have mattered. I know I can not change the age- old system where the rich nations make poor HELPFUL HINTS Floor squeaks"? Keep those squeaks silent by dusting them with talcum powder or drip glue into the cracks. nations submit or rich people make the poor ones submit to their views, but I can speak against it and I will. 1 know many who read this letter will not agree with me. You have your views, I have mine. Yours truly, Paul Saulnier, Scugog Township. ine carried the blame of her mother's death from infancy. What social skills, trust and love would we have learned having liv- ed her life. Lets take a good long look at the blessings we take for granted and be a great deal more charitable to those around us who do not have the amount of emo- tional and material wealth that most of us enjoy. Perhaps the article in last weeks paper, with very few exceptions, did not describe the attitude of the general population of Port Perry towards Maxine. Sincerely, Bev Muir, Port Perry. STARDAZE bill smiley ¢ Instead of the manna and honey flowing from Ot- tawa in the form of baby bonuses and pensions, we might get some terse manifestoes: "People who have more than one and half children AVOIDING TROUBLE Some people like me, believe in rolling with the pun- ches, rather than sticking out our chins to show how many we can absorb. I have found that, in general, if I avoid trouble, trouble avoids me. If I know that some pain in the arm has been try- ing to get me on the phone, I also know immediately that he or she wants me to do something that I don't want to do. Therefore, I take the phone off the hook, and leave it off until the pain has found some other sucker. Another invention of mine to stay out of trouble is patented as Nega-Prod. This is short for Negative- Production. The theory is simple. The more you pro- duce, the more problems you have, whether it is children, manufactured goods or farm products. The more children you have, the more emotional and economic problems you create for yourself. The more goods you produce, the more you have to hustle to find customers and meet payrolls. The more farm stuff you raise, whether it's beef or beans, the greater your chance of being caught in a glut on the market. Our great national railways caught on to this years ago. When they had lots of passengers, they had lots of problems. People wanted comfort, cleanliness, decent meals and some assurance that they would get where they were going on time. There was much more money to be made, and fewer problems, by transporting wheat and lumber and cattle. So, the railways began treating people like cattle. Passenger trains became uncomfortable and dirty. Quality of the food dropped like a stone. And they never arrived on time. Presto. End of problems. No more passengers. So the railways were able to cut off non-paying passenger lines, get rid of all those superfluous things like station agents and telegraphers and train conductors, and con- centrate on taking from one point to another things that paid their way and didn't talk back: newsprint, coal, oil, wheat. Perhaps this is the answer for our provincial governments, which, are quickly and quietly building massive mountains of debt for future taxpayers. Perhaps they should just stop building highways, and repairing those already in existence. We'd all be sore as hell for awhile, but as the roads got worse and worse, most of us would stop driving our cars. The governments would save millions of dollars now spent on highways, and they could fire two-thirds of the highway cops. I don't quite see how the governments could use Nega-Prod to get out of the liquor business, which cer- tainly produces plenty of problems. The booze trade is so profitable that asking government to abandon it would be like asking a millionaire to forsake his coun- try estate for a run-down farm. Perhaps if they had a Free Booze Day, once a week, every week, say on a Saturday, it would solve a number of problems. It would certainly reduce the surplus population. This, in turn, would cut down, drastically, the unemployment figures. Should the provincial governments find that Nega- Prod is all I've suggested, some of it might spill over into the federal government, usually the last to catch on to what the country really needs. will be sent to jail for four years. Note: separate jails." "Persons who plan to live past 65 and claim a pen- sion will be subject to an open season each year, from October 1 to Thanksgiving Day. Shotguns and bicycle chains only." "All veterans of all wars may claim participation by reason of insanity, and may apply to Ottawa for im- mediate enthenisation."' These might seem slightly Draconian measures, but they sure would put an end to a lot of our problems and troubles. Think of what they would do for such sinful activities as sex, growing old, and hanging around the Legion Hall, playing checkers. But we must also think of the economic benefits. With a plug put into that river of paper money flowing from Ottawa, taxes would drop, inflation would vanish and undoubtedly, separatism would wither on the vine. People would be lined up six deep at the U.S. border, trying to get across, and that would solve, in one swell foop, our unemployment difficulties. We could go back to being hewers of water and car- riers of wood, which was our manifest destiny before the politicians got into the act. Fishermen or lumber- jacks, in short, which most of the rest of the world thinks we are anyway. Nega-Prod may seem a bit lofty and abstract at first glance, but it works. I know from personal experience. Every time I try to make something, or fix something, it costs me a lot of money, and I get into a lot of trouble. So, I have a policy of never trying to fix something or make something. It's a lot less trouble to put up signs: "Beware of falling bricks; Not responsible for slivers from picnic table." And so on. Co]