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INNA CUIVRAG WIN Wn mpm WE Baa --. A PORT PELREY STAR CO LiMiTED 135 Quittn STREL! (CG CNA #0 801 SC POET Oty ONTARRIC O08 INC "0 98% He) [a | I cn (=) J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager § Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association J.B. McCLELLAND 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 Ottice 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, June 18, 1985 -- § letters The Senior Citizen pension issue Dear Sir: 3 In watching the Minister of Finance dur- ing the budget speech when he spoke of de" indexing pensions for senior citizens, I thought he was out of touch with people. Mr. Wilson takes it for granted that people in their senior years are financially well off. Any people | have talked with are not agreeing with Mr. Wilson that they can remember when? 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 18, 1925 The County tax rate for 1925 will be eight mills, one mill less than last year, while the budget for the year will be $184,170 compared with $198,049 in 1924, a decrease of $13,878. Mrs. H.S. Brock was appointed County High School Trustee for Port Perry High School. Moffatt Motor Sales Ltd. was advertising Oldsmobile Six, a new six cylinder car for prices from $1,295 to the Deluxe Sedan for $1,895. 50 years ago, a musical comedy was presented in the Town Hall by the Joyful Musical Comedy Company. Admission, adults 50 cents, children 25 cents. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 15, 1950 Port Perry Junior Farmers boys and girls softball teams were victorious at the County Field Day in Uxbridge. Mr. Fred Christie was elected chairman of District No.4 of Ontario Agricultural Societies which includes Ontario, Durham-Northumber- land, Victoria and Haliburton. Sunday morning and evening services at the United Church were devoted to observe the 25th anniversary of the Uniting of the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational Churches in Canada. "Corky," the well-known swimmer and water clown, visited Birdseye Center Park and assisted in the official opening of the swimming pool for the 1950 season. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 16, 1960 For the first time in the history of Port Perry, teenagers and others will be able to roller skate on indoor surface. The arena will be open twice a week for this popular sport. A hit and run driver caused $50.00 damage to a truck parked on Queen Street Saturday. Mr. John Beckett, Scugog, had left his truck angle parked on the north side of the street when it was struck by a car proceeding west. A great many boats were put into Lake Seugog during the weekend. As they were being launch- ed, two R.C.M.P. constables checked them for safety measures. A smaller, modified plan of the proposed ad- (Turn to page 6) afford to take a cut. In the past, when pen- sions for senior citizens were not indexed and did not keep pace with infla- tion, it resulted in larger periodic increases when it was time to catch up. Sometimes, there never was a catch up. A good example of large increases from time to time has been the salaries of Members of Parliament. They will go for several years without a raise and then receive a large percentage in- crease. That usually Urgent appeal Dear Sir: The Archives of the Scarborough Historical Society are actively look- ing for documentation of Scarborough's past. ¥ significant era in Scarborough's history was the rapid industrial and residential develop- ment of the 1950's. Dur- ing that decade a good number of people left Scarborough in favour of farms in the Port Perry - Greenbank area. The Archives are hoping that photographs, letters and land records that left Scarborough during that period are still available for perusal by committee members. The Archives will gratefully receive photocopies of relevant documentation. Please call either Helen Thomson, 366 Bigelow St., Port Perry, 985-9133 or Bruce McCowan, R.R.1, Pickering, 683-4270. leady to a great deal of complaining from the public. We only need to look back to the last salary increase for Members of Parliament when they went up in the neighbourhood of 50 percent. Our senior citizens do not want to be the brunt of complaints about significant increases in their pensions just on the doorstep of the next federal election. Nor do they want to be bought federal election in 1988 or 1989. Our Members of Parliament was one of the Conservative M.P.'s to support Michael Wilson when he ran for the leadership of the Con- servative Party. 1 hope that he will listen to the complaints of our senior constituents and will get the ear of Mr. Wilson. The pension changes are still to be voted upon and are not scheduled to take effect until January 1986. It is time for the federal government to recon- | sider the de-indexing of | pensions. We are talking about people and people should never be taken for granted. off with increases in pen- sions just before the much for your interest in Yours truly, this appeal, 1 am, Bruce Glass, 1984 Liberal Candidate, Victoria-Haliburton Lindsay, Ontario. © Yours sincerely, Bruce McCowan. STARDAZE ~~ FA PAN Sai ToL A 5 AL MosT oe 1, THAI st CONE: 59) Thanking you very bill smiley CURSE OF THE 20TH CENTURY A newspaper article the other day reminded me of one of the inexorable laws of modern life: Things multiply in inverse proportion to their use. It is a simple fact, and we've all been through it, that there are certain things in life that multiply like rabbits, and others that invariably disappear forever. No matter how hard you try to get rid of pennies, they just build up, and if you carry your loose change in your pants pocket, as I do, after a week you are listing heavily to the right. You pile your 18 pennies on the top of the dresser and start again, and a week later you have 22 pennies in the same pocket. Another multiplier is the single sock. Start out a new year with 12 pairs of socks. In three months you'll have six pairs and six odd socks. In six months, you'll have 12 single socks. After years of suffering this, I've counter-attacked. I now buy 12 pairs of identical socks, so that after six months, at least I have six pairs of socks. Ladies used to have the same problem, before the invention of panty-hose. But this discovery hasn't lessened their problems. In the old days, if they got a run, they usually had a spare single to match the good one with. But now, if you get a hole in one leg of your panty-hose, you're scuppered. Out they go, the intact one with the bum one. Women also have other multipliers in the singles division: earrings and gloves. How many women in this fair land have seven or eight exquisite single earrings and four or five superb single gloves? It's quite fashionable these days for a man to wear a single earring, and a practical chap who lost a glove would wear the other and put his bare hand in his pocket. But women don't think that way, and the gloves and earrings proliferate in their solitary glory. Old keys are diminishers. I have lost two sets of keys to my present car, and sometimes search for half an hour to find one of the new sets I had to order. The new keys to the new locks disappeared, and I had to take off the locks and go to the key man for new ones. | wonder where they are, at this moment? The new ones that is. Paper is definitely in the multiplier list, especially if you are a writer and/or teacher. I sit to write this col- umn in a sort of tunnel between two massive piles of paper higher than my head. Makes me feel like an old badger. Bottles, particularly those on which there is no deposit return, pile up about as fast as you can empty them. But prepare to take back your beer-case of emp- ties, and there are always two missing. Where did they go" Is there a guy, or a dame, hiding behind the fur- nace who sneaks up when you are heddy-byes, drinks two of your beers, then eats the bottles? For the ladies, the wrong shades of lipstick and half- empty bottle of nail polish multiply, along with saucers for which the cups have disappeared. Wire coat hangers reproduce like rats. The other day, while attempting to get my coat out of the closet, I knocked down six empty hangers. I carefully fished them up from among the parts of the vacuum cleaner, took another 40 empty hangers off the pole, tied them all together with cord, marched calmly into the base- ment and hurled them into the woodpile. Two weeks later. I knocked down eight hangers while getting my coat, and sat down and wept tears of fury and frustration. Pencils multiply, but there's never one in the house when you are trying to take down a long-distance phone message. Odd buttons multiply until it seems like a button fac- tory. But when you need two the same size and color, forget it. You have six thousand buttons, no two alike. You think you don't take many snapshots. Been to the attic lately"? There are twelve boxes of them up there, right from your own baby pictures, through your courting days, into your own children at every stage, and about five hundred of the grandchildren. But just try to find that especially good one you wanted to send to Aunt Mabel. Completely vanished. Shoes multiply. My wife had about thirty-six pairs, most of them out of style, just like that outfit she had to get the shoes to go with. She had to tear my comfor- table old shoes out of my hands to put them in the gar- bage. I go to a half-price sale, buy three new pairs, and they sit there, stiff and stark, while I go on wearing the old shabby ones. Stamps run out; magazines pile up to the ceiling. Bills and receipts multiply while bank accounts diminish. Pornography flourishes as sex drive diminishes. Television channels multiply while their contents diminish in quality. Workmanship diminishes as cost of it soars. And I've just touched the surface. How about acid rain or fish? Or safe, salted highways and holes in your car" Was it always like this, or is it just a curse of the twentieth century"? Make up your own list; two columns, one headed Multipliers, the other Diminishers. It will shake you.