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the POR! Pteey STARE (O . MiTtD 238 Quttn STREET °C 8CA eC PORT OtREY OnTRRIC O08 INC 410) v8 738) J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager Member ot the Canadian Community Newspaper Association J.B.McC_ELLAND 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 Otfice Department. Ottawa. and tor cash payment of postage in cash IY 138 PE AS ADNAN OMm 3S Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $15.00 per year Elsewhere $45.00 per year. Single copy 35* Bah sexists! Vive la difference Dear Sir: Sexist! Sexist! Sexist! - I'm so sick of that much over - and misused word that 1 could throw up! I'm sure it will be religoted to the dic- tionary of fad cliches in very short order, along with current sayings like month or so, we've seen those letters written by certain persons with women's names Oppos- ing the Fair Queen con- test. Two letters -- and they have branded the pageant sexist (Oh no! There's that word again!) to such a degree What does sexist mean" That there is a ifference between the Sp | mean we just ad a beard growing con- test - it was not open to women or prepubescent males - how sexist! We just had the sexy man contest - There was no and if anything is to be branded sexist, my God that is. What is happen- ing if we can't enjoy and celebrate the difference without the fear of being branded a sexual bigot? Talking about dif- ferences - just the other night I watched a David 'caught between a rock that all the would-be par opposition to that from Suzuki special on the 2 and an hard place' (ED ticipants won those feminine-named biology of reproduction. © COPYRIGHT Al yout and compostion of sversements proces by th serine epartnert | i) in your own pet peeve Participate. letter-writing persons Now get the scope of this without the written permission of the publishers cliche). In the past difference -- men pro- duce 1000 sperm per se- | Merchants cars ymin q | puberty to death women produce a finite number of ovum - 1 a month from puberty un- til they run out -- no wonder there is that great attraction. It is so designed! Of course the things that create attrac- tion - when used in the negative - create conflict. The word sexism is the (Turn to page 6) hurt business Dear Sir: Several years ago there was considerable resistance from Queen Street merchants, to the elimination of angle parking on that street. De i" The reason for that ha ] resistance was that ment. The score was 114 to 108 and the members bal allel parking yielded of the team were: H. DeShane, Bert Fry, S. Col- only about #; as many Yours truly. Tom & Daphne Mitchell, Owners of Settlement House, Ted E. Bear Toy Shop, from my heart Card Shop, Port Perry. | Irememb | (when? 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 16, 1925 er ! . As STARDAZE INCL J a EE Induction Service was held in St. John's lins and O. Hamilton. Shas m r whe th "do Presbyterian Church for Rev. W.L. Atkinson who Taking part in the organization "lnter- md a " chants, ( provincial Visits," Bill Brock is spending the sum- mer at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fortin at Grand Baie County, Chicoutine with the intention of perfecting his knowledge of the French language. At the same time, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brock are hosting Miss Louise Lauriault of Quebec City who is here for the purpose of perfecting the English language. For the coffee drinkers: Yes! Our coffee is 10 cents a cup. But for the second cup of this delicious beverage, it just costs 5 cents more, says Terminal Grill. has accepted the pastoral charge of St. John's Church of Port Perry and Breadalbane Church of Utica. Rev. Mr. Scott of Cannington acted as Moderator. Special summer sale prices at F.W. McIntyre feature such prices as: Taffetine Dresses $2.25, Porch Dresses $1.25; Men's cotton socks, 25 cents; Men's leather belts, 35 cents and 49 cents. Brock Bros. and Co. advertises Women's navy blue print dresses for $1.45 and Leather strap shoes for $3.75. For the fourth year in a row "Chatauqua Week' is from July 17 to 24. Some of the featured He artists were Pietro La Verdi, the entertainer ex- traordinary; the Kiser Sisters and Frank Church. "Her Temporary Husband," a clean comedy built for the sole purpose of making people laugh and forget their troubles. These were only a few of the attractions advertised. & in spite"0f a two hour limit, insist on parking in front of their own stores, depriving their cust- omers of the very best available parking? To my knowledge, every merchant in Port Perry has parking available behind his store, and off Q Street | I ES l ueen Street. I for one believe that 148,000 --p JIM GREVE my customer comes E first, including when parking the car while shopping downtown. It's about time that in- 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 14, 1960 Chamber of Commerce, the Royal Legion and the Lions Club honoured the members of the Juvenile **C"" hockey team in the Masonic Tem- 7000 oC MUCK DEWNIKST a "lll NAAR AA An ---- ppushishsi ii anys ple on July 12. The occasion was to celebrate the Sosidenle merchants WY... A 35 YEARS AGO 0O.M.H.A. championship the team captured dur- heir ne wo ht <3 "4 7 per HVIOSTEN July 18, 1950 ing the last season. a NAA | i tr l Port Perry Rod and Gun Club defeated Union The local bowling team of Fred DeNure and arg con alt benehit in the £3 2 | Rod and Gun Club in the annual casting tourna- (Turn to page 12) sone 3 J i cad te \- ody LJ cA -- "Though obviously a man of sound common sense, I wonder how, in your youth, you got involved in flying a fighter plane, let alone risking combat in one. (Ed. note: me too!) I remember during those war years, wat- ching a young fellow land his old Avro Anson like a wounded pelican in the middle of our freight yard and walk away from the wreck looking a little sheepish. Soon after, and nearby, another boy flew his Harvard trainer at full speed into a grove of trees one foggy morning. He didn't walk away from that one" Speaking of education, he says he attended five dif- bill smiley YOU CAN'T PLEASE 'EM ALL It's extremely difficult, as any columnist knows, to please all of the people, all of the time. In fact, if this column had done so. it would be extinct. Half my readers get so mad at me that they can't wait to read the next column, so they can get madder. The other half sort of enjoys it, forgives my lapses and looks forward to what the silly twit is going to say next. In the last couple of weeks, I've had some letters from both sides. A Manitoba editor is thinking of cancell- ing the column. Reason? "Too many columns dealing with personal matters." I quote bits from his letter: "While it is understandable that family members are dear to Bill Smiley .. I feel our readers might tire of how the grandboys are behaving. Once or twice a year would be sufficient" I should be so lucky. You are quite right, sir Once or twice a year would be sufficient, for the grandboys' visit. And from Vancouver, a young mother writes to say. "Keep on writing about your family and grandboys I love these columns." The editor was fair He added: "Columns, other than family-related, are good and have received favourable comment from our readers * Thanks. I get letters from religious people who accuse me of being the right-hand man of the Devil, when I jesting- ly remark that God must have been out to lunch when he was drawing up the menu for this year's winter I get letters from other religious people who send me dreary tracts and letters full of Biblical references, with the hope that 1 will print the lot. And 1 get letters from still other religious people, mostly clergy. who enjoy quibbling with me over a point but urge me to continue writing as I do, to make people think. But on the whole, it is not exactly a dog's hfe 1 remember receiving a fairly vicious editorial blow from a weekly editor who said 1 wrote too much about teenagers, because 1 was a school teacher. I retorted with a bit of tongue in cheek In high dudgeon, he cancelled the column It's still going I wonder if he's still the editor of that paper. deciding what his readers can read. (Had a number of letters from his subscribers supporting me, none supporting him) I receive letters from places like Baker Lake, N W.T . excoriating me for talking about the tough winters down here, which to them is almost the deep south. And I get a letter from my kid brother retired and living in Florida, with pictures of the house, flowers, | and an outline of this day: coffee and morning paper, walk down the beach with the dog. etc The swine. Wait till the Florida flies get to him in July and he wants to come north and visit me for a month No room at the Smiley inn, little Smiley On the whole, the letters I get are delightful A typical example came in the other day from Bill Fran- cis. Moncton, B.C He says such nice things about the column that T blush even to read them, and would never put them in print But more to the point, his letter is witty, infor mative. alive. He's no chicken, a WW I infantry ~ private. I'll quote a bit ferent schools and doesn't think much of today's big schools Of the new permissiveness: "Anti-social behaviour today may be blamed on everything from sun spots to Grandpa's weakness for women and hard h- quor, which all agree is a vast improvement on the old concept." A strapping at school and another at home for being strapped at school His last school was graded "superior," because it taught to Grade 11. Equipment consisted of a tray of mineral specimens, the remains of a cheap chemistry set. and a leather strap. but managed to turn out a number of people who went into the professions. Bill Francis says 'The school's rather good record was due not only to excellent instruction. but also to drawings. from a radius of five miles around, those whose eyes were fixed on distan. joals and whose legs were equal to hoofing it back and forth There was nothing wrong with my legs and I lived nearby. "Just a little light upstairs, they said: a handicap I've learned to live with "Now. some seventy years later and a little wiser, I ave become just an old fellow round whom the wind blows in the laugh of the loon and the caw of the crows and the wind whistles by so dreary and cold, in chilling disdain of ways that are old. But this feckless old fellow just putters around and heeds not the wind nor its desolate sound Cares not a whit for what the winds say, just listens for echoes of things far away.' I think that is wise and honest and real May I feel the same. I'll be in touch, Bill Francis. You're a literate man with some brains in your head. An unusual phenomenon