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EE Np A pram wl I Vo - tf S "homes looked Ko: - authorized for payment; rn <4 $2.00 per year, Single Copy be. The judges found i very y difficult make a choice among the many homes that 'were d rte ou and lighted or the holiday se son: So many ght and Ei masy with the | gal | s0 many showed thats lo of and effort were madd ito! produce a gay appearance, ff ii pnd 7 | ~~. The final decisiogigras made for 3 first,--Miss Grace Dais, Mrs, Harold Martyn, and Mr, Len Clarke, Many were deserving of hongurable mention, Alan Walsh, Storey Beare, Bert Mav- _ GregovueBill Lowcock, Ed, Weeden, Gordon Goode, Keith Mark, J, 3 + Gib son, Archie MacMaster. ia "| eartier in the season, : This yy the first year that any / pris has beep offered in regard to this form of decoration, The judging is done affer dark so that the full effect of Histeoloured lights can be seen at ; |its be No set style was decreed; anythir that would show up in' the dark was considered. The Chamber of Commerce was very pleased with the jg of homes that responded, and it is hoped that the 'competition can 'carried on annually, After consideration the. committee may, de- cide that certain rules should be drawn up as a guide to them in choosing the winners, In this case an attempt will be made to. announce the contest i Town Council News Minutes of a Regular. meeting 'of Council on Tuesday, Dec. 80th at 7 30 pm. PRESENT--Reeve 1. J. Gibson and Councillors Arthur T. Cox, Irving A. 'Boyd, W. T. Harris, and Frank Godley. Minutes of Regular Meeting of Dec. 6 and Special Méting of Dec. 11, were adopted as printed on Motion, First Meeting of Council to be held Monday, Jan. 12th at 11 am. with ceremonies and then to 'adjourn' until evening. - ~ NEW OFFICE ADDITION=--Coun- cillor Boyd reported on' the' 'progress of the New Officé addition' and it was decided that it should be taken care of in 1958 business.' * Councillor W. T. Harris "reported on the purchase of a small parcel of land from Mr. A. M. Lawrence and stated that the nécessary arrange- ment§ have not been completed. PASSING . ACCOUNTS -- It was moved and seconded that the follow- ing statement of accounts he' hereby FATE 82, 588. 47 wo 11.88 : 8,887.60 171.70 367.14 35,68 General Dept. .......... Welfare Dept. New Office Addition: Property & Parks TA Street Maintenance ......ue Truck -Aceount i... Waterworks Dept. O.W.R.C. 25.00 Waterworks Dept. .....coi 6,028.92 Hydro-Electric ..i..ivivine.. 6,648.29 $4914.68 Carried." PORT PERRY Fire Dept. attend- ing Fire at Sonya Store, Brock Twp, It was moved and seconded that.a charge of $50.00 for Fire Truck and $2.00 per hour per man for; attendance of the Port Perry Fire Dept. at the fire of the General Store, Sonya, be sent to Brock Twp. ~ Carried. LETTER from the 'Lake Ontario Development Association Re advise if any.pdditional buildings are available |. or any concrete plan for the erection of an' industrial building. No addi- tional buildings available. SLEIGH RIDING on Streets--and if Caution signs should be erected-- The Clerk was instructed 'to phone Mrs, L.'McDonald and state that her suggestion fo put up signs to warn motorists was brought to the atten- tion of Council and that they are a: ware that children have been accus- tomed to riding on streets in the past and Council dislike to deprive them of their fun but feel that they cannot be responsible for children sleigh rid- ing, on streets, ag it is really the duty | of Council to keep the' roads 'clear for " motorists. MEMO--Gsarbage: ontract & 'Dog Control Febidl, 1958 to Jan, 81, 1959 held over un@ll Jan: 12th Meeting. LETTER 'from tHe Oshawa Hospi- tal re indigént. patients, dated Ost. 81 and Nov. 28th, 1968." = ' The Clerk w ledge their lettérs oft Oct, 81 and Nov. 28, 1058 and stite that the matter has| been brought to the attention of Coun- cil, lems of financing a; hospital and the * need for public support. 'We have our own Hospital in Port Perry which has been supported by a' grant from the municipality in the way of a de- benture payment, Our 'Thospital also provides for the care of indigent pa- Ws tients for other municipalities as well as for our own for which it only re- ceives the legal rate. 'We therefore feel that our muniel pality is contributing its full towards hospitalization. above circumstances we must decline your MEMO---Port Pe oe ata to nko, A They fully appreciate the prob-| would like 80 kates notice before water is turned off, 'The Clerk was instructed to advise the Port Perry Bottling Works that whenever possible we will endeavour to give them notice but that some- times it is beyond our control, . MEMO -- Mr, Merlin Dowson re- questing bulbs with 'greater. wattage for parking 'area behind stores. This matter was left for Councillor Arthur T. Cox. ' CIRCULAR LETTER from the Hon. Michael Starr Re seasonal unemploy- 'ment. Filed for reference. MEMO--€ars parking on sidewalk on Perry Street, north. Council hope to give this matter attention during 1959. i RESOLUTION--Tt was moved and seconded that water accounts totalling $44.71 be written off the books. Carried. NOTE from Mr, R. Pile of the Ont. Hydro Re Add suggestion for resale Hydro Rate Revision. = This matter was left for the attention of the Hydro Chairman, Councillor Arthur T. Cox. " BICYCLE PLATES for 1959 and if to be sold at the municipal office. The Clerk was instructed to order the 'necessary Bicycle Plates. for 1959 and to advise the Chief of Police as follows: - The Clerk brought to 'the attention of Council that bicycle licenses be handled through' the Clerk's Office: It is the practice in all municipali- ties for bicycle licenses to be handled through the Police Department and the Council and the Police Committee feel that this practice be continued in Port - Perry. The issue of licenses is primarily for the purpose of theft or other loss. If you wish to designate certain hours in the week other than school hours when' bicycle licenses may be obtained; such an arangement would be satisfactory, It was moved and 'seconded that Counef] Bajopn, Uxbridge Hospital Opens January 12th The Cottage ingary Uxbridge, will be officially opened on Monday, January 12, it was anhounced last week - by 'the Board chairman, Mr. Robert Harris: The ceremony will be held at 2.30 p.m, with Hon. M. B. Dymond, Min- ister of Health, as official. appointee of his government. On the same day but at hours to be announced later, the hospital will be Jopen to the public for ihspection. <I wish-him success," .erops," said Mr. Fair, "it will depend Although the weather was most; un- favourable and the voting started out very slowly toward the end of the day the number 'of voters increased con- siderably and some-39% of the elect- orate cast a ballot. This is considered to be unusually high as about 50% of the voters are not winter residents, This is the first time in "ten years that there has been an election for the members of the municipal council on Scugog. All the members of the 1058 Council stood and all were re-elected, The vote was as' follows: For Reeve, Anson Gerrow ... Fd 1b - Milton Demara ..........ii.. Sr (U1 For Council-- Clarence CATLer fini 168 Cecil Fralick ....... George Smith ...... : ul Alvin Heayn .... wesisiisnen 184 Glen Hood... AON wraeioi132 Alvin Teno ......, TR YY 110 Murray Burnfield ......iiiins . We understand that Mr. Anson Ger- row; who is automatically a member of County Council, intends to allow his name to stand for election as Warden, of the County. It has been quite a number of years since a Warden has |: been chosen from this part of the County. . We think that Mr. Gerrow would do a good job in this office and Water Lack Hits Hard at Farmers The present water shortage in Ont, County. was described today as "the worst in iy memory during the past 12 years" by Lynn Fair, district rep- resentative of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. Lack: of rainfall during. June, July and August was listed as the: chiet cause of the shortage. The farmer without water has two methods of getting water, he: explain- ed. "He either equips Wimdelf. with a tank or pump, or buys his water from a tank truck. In the first method, the farmer with his own tank and pump either gets the water from a creek or spring, or purchases water from a municipality," he added. Several farmers. buy water from the town of Uxbridge, and the villa- ges of Port Perry and Sunderland. Second Method The secorid method is the buying of watér from a commercial business, A tank truck transports water to the farmer and dumps the water into a well or cistern for storing. The price for water in the Uxbridge district is approximately one quarter of a cent per gallon, It costs a farm- er about $5 for 2000 gallons of water. The farmer is also assessed for mile- age. "As far as damage to next year's on the spring, and how the water goes away," he said. "I don't think | we will notice it if we have a normal precipitation, however, if we have the same precipitation as we did 'this year, it could have an influence on the crops," he said. Summing it up, Mr. Fair 'described the shortage as affecting more people than ever before. "Never has there been a water shortage in such a wide scale," he concluded, Milton 'Cross, tefl mentator of the oki broadeast rom the Metropolitan York since the 'Program first 8 Air in Canad on. Christ: | shown here wi Now nek for Bia Ww tunity to The winter's Worst, drifting brought much of the traffic in Ontario County to a standstill on Sunday afternoon but by 7 p.m. nearly all roads .were again back to normal, At one time, High- way 12, north of Myrtle, was blocked to traffic, part of which included a snowplow heading for a county road which was fast drifting full of snow. Highway 47, in the Uxbridge area, was heavy. going most of the day but was back to normal driving. by 9 p.m. The traffic tie-up on Highway 12, : although brought about by heavy drift- ing, actually occurred when a series of accidents blocked the travelled portion of the road. For nearly four hours, a section of the highway from Myrtle north - past 'Prospect Corners, was closed 'while four. Provincial Police of- ficers attempted to sort out a rash of accidents in that area. In all, a dozen accidents occurred in this cotmty on Sunday, most of them in that area. ONE INJURED ! The only reported injury was Glen Somerville; 20, of R.R. 3 Uxbridge, who suffered a broken leg when his car crashed into a ditch in the blocked area; - Visability in: the 'Prospect Corners district was at times nil, during the afternoon, because of the drifting snow.' In a matter of minutes traffic piled up in the two-mile stretch and brought all north and south traffic to a halt while tow trucks-tried to get the vehicles out of the road. Waiting to get through the tie-up was an Ontario. County snow plough headed for Myrtle to plough the 9th concession from Myrtle to Claremont. When they finally got through, they foun the going heavy. Hilliop Herald | Well, here we are back to school after the enjoyable Christmas holi- days; but as Mr. Litt said, only this morning, "There" are only 40 school days until Easter examinations." A Cheerful thought! Due to the poor weather conditions the attendance of Port Perry High decreased 'slightly; -but our teaching staff was out in full force. Now that we have started on a whole new year the Intra-school bas- ketball games have commenced. On Friday, Jan. 9 our girls (jrs. and srs.) will travel to Uxbridge and our boys will compete with the Uxbridge boys at Port Perry. We would like to take the oppor- welcome Miss Shirley Snooks, a former student of Black- stock 'High, to our High School. Shir- Tey is Bonnie's cousin, See you next week if we haven't all frozen up by then! - Bonnie Foster. Port Perry Figure Skating Club i, S. S. Teachers Federation Annual Assembly Gordon Hunt and John Sanders of Pickering, Ron Mercer of Stouffville and Jack Judge of Oshawa from York- Ontario District No, 20 were among the 3560 delegates from all parts of Ontario who 'attended the three-day Annual Assembly of the 10,000-mem- her Ontario Secondary School Teach- ers Federation in Toronto last week. Dr. Harry O. Barrett, head of guid- ance of North Toronto Collegiate, was elected president of the Federation. Dr. Barrett is also first vice-president of the Ontario Teachers' Federation. Perhaps the most important steps taken by the Assembly were decision to rate "the teaching situation" in the 'various school areas across the province, and a decision to. classify teachers by the Federation itself ac- cording "to qualification levels, Every secondary teacher in Ontario will 'be sent a confidential question- naire asking how he rates the desir- ability of the teaching situation in the area in which he works. Quest- ions will cover "conditions of work," and an leadership in the community" "the general teaching climate" each area, On these findings, teaching areas in Ontario will be categorized by the Federation, to provide guidance to any member seeking information. Following three years of study by a special committee, the Federation adopted a plan to classify teachers according to their qualifications. Thus a teacher's qualification may be listed as Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 or Level 4, in such groupings as "academic", "guidance", "vocational", 'physical education", ete, - This new plan is intended to pro- vide a clear and definitive guide to teachers and school boards in matters of employment. While the average salaries of Ont. secondary school teachers increased during 1958 (up by $428 to an aver- age* $6,184) teachers' pay is. still not keeping pace with that of university graduates in business and industry and other professionals; thd Federa- tion's Field Secretary I.G.M. Robb said in his annual report, " "Until high school. teaching is more attractive financially," he said, well qualified teachers will remain in short supply. Changes in the methods of examina- tion for Grade 13 were announced to the assembly by Education Minister Dunlop, who told the teachers that in 1960 "objective" questions (i.c. those answerable by Yes or No, True or False) would be introduced. Up to 30 pex cent of each paper would consist of objective questions, replac- ing the traditional essay type, he said. Objective questions had proved to be an accurate measuring device for scholastic ability, Dr. Dunlop declared. After more than a year of study, a ten-man committee of the Federa- tion could come to no firm conclusions The Port Perry Figure skating Club, has now so many enthusiastic r bers that it has made plans f ing the services of a profe: 3 Buffalo structor. The club finds position to engage Mr. Port Hope and the Bo~ gure Skating Clubs. Until the present Meal, peed and Miss Georgia Brock gency, giving . the instruction to ti bers. They now feel that th has 'progressed to the point ti skaters would benefit from a qualified teacher. The mem! the club have been very. a6n a celling the work of Mrs. Stonag, in a Peterboro and wish to thank 4 one day recently, tary time and, man just escaped be- tributed to ruinder the debris, gent sucofiarles Paon, well known to rgérs at Pleasant Point, was an L¢ camp, He m taking part with Kelowna Mons, would be shut official emphasized 'there was no basis for fin iactures Shell cas- AMIS od ASE NEAR ager Rudolph each opera an commentary du The operas are afternoon on the ons have given for- his 'official release, ho performed with ald Chicago In the Placed on waivers, by another club, i back to O.H.A, mate at the institution and is re- ported to have been in the course of when the ceiling gave way. NO TRAILER CAMPS IN LINDSAY Several letters have beep yeceived by the Town Council from the Ops- Lindsay Planning Roard regarding a number of diversified matters, includ: ing zoning, tawn maps and camps for trailers. Last Monday night mem. bers of the Council were practically unanimous that trailer camps will hot be allowed within the town boundar- lés. It was pointed out that proper camps should be properly serviced ana at the present time Lindsay has not a suitable piece of ground for a eamp. anving.~'rienbilit: of expanding tha --Industry, Can. Man. Assoc. HOW TO LIVE LONGER Somewhere about the age of farty, husbands and fatheys usually get a- round ta giving serious attention to thinga like their wills, their estates and what would happen if inevitable death were to come along unexpected- acquired Insurance and perhaps in- vestments over the years, but it is usually around age forty (according to psychologists) that the enormity of the whole thing comes home and they force themselves into serious study of the grim possibilities. Now, for the first time, in most cases, there is a good long look taken at succes sion duties, The look at succession duties fre- quently concludes with the remark that a tax-ridden Canadian today, being wheeled infor an operation | young or old, just cannot afford to dle, This is an expression, of course, and as one young student of succes- slon duties remarked, it is not quite true, On hecoming dead, ohe has na- thing to worry dhout. It ia the fa- mily and successors who have the worry about whether or not they can afford the loss of the family tax-earn- er, Having reached this clear, unemo- tional conclusion, one such tax-earner said he would hurry home and explain it to the potential successors, a young, pleasant wife and three fine but somewhat exhausting children, His {dea was that, once his family was led by the teachers themselves, tained, were better qualified than any rqualifications and responsibility. "board-staff relations", 'educational |~ on an assist from Brown and Car- an assist from Tummonds and Ux- bridge tied it up at the 10 minute ing at 3 to 2 for Port. out to score two goals one at the 6 assist from Rattray, the second one Uxbridge boys all through this period, beautiful goal by and. Uxbridge came through at the 4.53 mark with a goal by Harrison from Lickess. goalie and at 9.25 from MacMillan to end the with a score of 6 to 5 for Port Perry: 'Johnston for of ging. ) ly and unhappily early. They have | by Queen's Park. as schools fof supervision qualifications." . The retiring president of the Fed- eration, James W, Singleton, principal of Northview Heights Collegiate, North York, operred the conference with a call for a "good controversial fight over education philosophy," to be "secondary 'and . staff He criticized the tendency of his fellow-teachers to avoid speaking out in public, seemingly in a desire to a- void controversy... Teachers, he main- others to discuss education--and they must speak up or abdicate their tra- ditional position of leadership. Next year secondary teachers will use a different basis for negotiation with 'local school boards throughout Ontario, following the adoption of a new salary schedule for the Federa- tion. The figure for starting salaries will be based on the medium salary earned in the first' year of employment by university graduates in business and industry in Ontario. : In addition the salary schedule a- bove this base will be expressed in terms of percentages, rather than dollar amounts as has been the pro- cedure, depending upon experience, - : » Bantams Win At Uxbridge The Port Perry Bantams journeyed to Uxbridge Tuesday night brought home the honors with a score of G\to b. and The local boys opened the scoring at the.5.06 mark with Menzie scoring negie. At 7.45 Uxbridge tied the score with a goal by Harrison from Brown. Oke grabbed a fast one at 8.30 on mark with another goal by Harrison and the assist going to D. St. John to end the period with the score stand. In the second period Uxbridge came minute mark by B. St. John on an came at the ten minute mark and the boys outplayed the local The last period started out with a Gibson unassisted At 8.15 Tummonds past a wonderful Johnston scored scoring poked the puck Only one penalty in the game. at Letter From New Zealand TO MRS. GLENN HILL : Here are some . excerpts from a Christmas letter from a woman in New Zealand who has been writing to me for the past two years ever since she saw an article of mine in Chate- laine magazine. Her name is Pat Rol- ertson; she has three children, _ "I am writing to greet you all be- fore Christmas in case the big envelope and card are not delivered before Christmas. Kathleen went up to Guides last week just before her eleventh birth- day and loves it. ing about summer camp in January. She does not wear her uniform- for 3 months until she is enrolled... The children ave just doing their summer exams, Sunday School break-up is this Sunday too.- Our "Young Wives" are entertaining the older. folk of the and supper. Our family Christmas dinner will be' either stuffed roast leg of mutton or roast' fowl, home grown potatoes and beans, peas, if ready in time. We will have ice cream, jelly or trifle instead of traditional pudding as it's usually 190). with a huge pink watermelon, ror- geous, crisp and juicy. you sent in October but a surface mail is due to-day. Will write and let you if they come. "PAT. P.S.--Your Christmasgeard was first of season to arrive" Tuberculosis Still a Major Health Problem next 16 years rather than the last 50," stated Mr. D. L. Crozier, Port Perry, Chairman of the Christmas Seal com- mittee of the Ontario County-Oshawa Tuberculosis Association. "The suc- cesses of the past have been so en- couraging that there is great tem- ptation to dwell on them and not lok squarely at the TB Problem as it is to- day. It is much more pleasant to culosis is only a twentieth of what it was when the seal sale started years ago than to face"the fact 1 there are sl 9,000 new ¢ which B a with an..ELECTRIC 19.35 of the fiagt period going to ent, The scr government is not too dainty wonderfage in the retailing of liquor Uxlelf, surely it is being hypocritical in the extreme to take this attitude about liquor advertising. or | WATER HEATER Already she is talk-" Parish with a Christmas play, carols so hot here at this time of year (80 or Mother is just back from the shop Tn No sign of magazines you mentioned . "The focus is on the future, on tie ° think that the death rate front tuber. Pes FT tEake How About That! UnSengy 4 times - et A or Taha gecording oO th Book of} es Today a of fF Dnar aay are Southpaw. ( PK a Sah 5 5" 5 Ww h_.