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£ & he A Le BE 4 ¥ i 3 i § | CHS At home Queen Student council president Lynn McLaughlin was named Cart- wright High School's At-Home Queen; Saturday night at the annual formal dance. Lynn has planned organized and participated i in near- ly every event of her Grade 13 year, so it was no surprise when the pretty teenager was given the crown of honour. Oops! Feed truck through the floor When Chicken Little said, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling," he must have been referr- ing to an incident at a 4th concession farm near Manchester Thursday afternoon. It was approximately 4:15 p.m. when a truck owned by H.-H. Goode and Son of Uxbridge backed into one of Jericho Farms' many barns, loaded with more than two tons of bagged and loose mixed feed. The barn, which owner Dave Morris figures is at least 90 years old, h withstood the weight o hundreds of heavy vehicles including trac- tors and other equip- ment, but the Ford diesel bulk feed truck must have been too much for the old beams. No sooner than the truck had backed halfway in the barn, did the floor cave in, spilling the back end of the truck and its contents into the basement below. Fortunately, the truck didn't disappear com- pletely in the gaping hole holiday. usual. Victoria Day The Port Perry Star offices will be closed on Monday, May 20 for the Victoria Day Because of the holiday, the Star will be published on May 22 next week, a day later than The deadline for all advertising and editorial material for that issue of the paper will be 12:00 noon on Tuesday, May 21. Ads and copy for that issue can be left at the Star Of- fice on Friday or Saturday of this week. Victoria Day is the first "long weekend' of the summer and we wish all our readers an enjoyable holiday. But please, no matter what you're doing, take it easy. -- a jacked-up John Deere manure spreader underneath the vehicle prevented _it from crashin wn to the barn basement. "Nothing runs quite like a Deere," quipped one of the farm employees, eyeing the truck's precarious position. No one was hurt in the accident, but as Mr. Mor- ris pointed out, the driver of the truck "must have lost 10 years off his life, he was scared so bad." A crane was called in Friday to pull out the heavy truck which was wedged half in and half out of the barn, much - like Winnie-the-pooh stuck in the rabbit hole after eating too much honey. Mr. Morris isn't too concerned about the cost of fixing his floor. He has some posts already on his property and expects the repairs won't cost him a whole lot. If anything, the acci- dent was good for a few laughs. "I just couldn't believe my eyes,"' chuckled farm manager Wyck Holder. 'I've never seen anything so funny." Real estate boom . across the Region The demand for residential properties in most areas of Durham Region out-paced last year's record clip during the first four months of this year, according to Cliff Crowell, president of the Oshawa and District Real Estate Board. Vol. 119 No. 24 Mr. Crowell said that figures compiled by the Board show that up to the end of April, MLS sales were 9.8 per cent ahead of the 1984 figures. There were 1364 MLS sales reported to the Board during this period, compared with 1230 last year. In dollar terms, the 1985 sales amounted to $99.6 million, as opposed to $83.5 million last year. , "The contributing fac- tors to this strong market are low inflation rates, softening of interest rates, a wide variety of mortgage financing op- tions and a generally renewed consumer con- Tuesday, May 14, 1985 fidence," he said last week. In 1984, the Real Estate Board recorded its best year ever for MLS residential sales, and Mr. Crowell said that while it is too early to tell if 1985 will top that record, (Turn to page 2) there is "a Stuck fast in a gaping hole after falling through the floor of a Manchester area barn, this Uxbridge feed truck resembles Winnie- the-Pooh plugged tight in the rabbit hole after eating too much honey. Above, Jericho Farms owner Dave Morris looks on (right) while manager Wyck Holder prepares to.at- tach a crane to pull the truck out. See story for details. \