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a --------rne Fos 2 Bn said John Robson, Chief sanitary in- Membes of Weekly The Canadians 'Newspapas THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE Patt id SVE SPE LE ols SA RNE & SSR ORR UB Ao BA SG § a a El a -- Notes and Comments ~The Funny Money Policy Although the Canadian Bank Rate has dropped fractionally in the past few days, it is.still at 'a ridiculously high level, A re- view of the chart for Treasury bill rates over the past few years indicates that the Canadian Government began to take leave of its senses about the summer of 1958. At that time they began to make money dearer. Apparently it was done with the thought in mind that this was a satisfac- tory way of controlling inflation. There- fore the Canadian rate was pushed from .87 per cent to a phenomenal high of 6.4 per cent. No wonder the huge conversion operation undertaken by the government proved to be so expensive and so unsuccess- ful. And all the conversion did was to raise the maturity of the government debt from six years four months to ten years six months. At what expense we put off our obligations for a mere four years two months! The effect of the high rate in Canada was simply to make money tight. The in- crease in the Treasury bill issue required to finance a Budget deficit of $600 million was largely put up by the Central Bank and private - investors. The banks suddenly found themselves short of liquid assets and had either to refuse requests for loans or to sell government securities which would hate added to the already serious slump in onds. 'Rising Costs of Education Tuesday of this week the schools of On- tario reopened to admit the largest enrol- ment of pupils this province has ever had. Throughout the province the same story is repeated over and over again. Insufficient accommodation and teacher shortage. The -problem of financing education is rapidly becoming more acute. Unless the provincial government can devote larger and larger sums to district and municipal school boards local authorities will find it difficult to provide any adequate educa- tional programme, Surely there exists some method for the I'ederal Government to supply funds for the provinces without disturbing that pre- The English rate is 3.47 and the Ameri- can rate 8 per cent. These countries are faced with similar inflationary pressures ° but unfortunately for them they are not in the same happy condition in which Canada finds herself -- Canada is .a country endowed with as- tonishingly rich natural resources and cheap hydro-electric power. Our oil, gas and mineral wealth along with our timber and wheat makes our country on a per cap- ita basis the richest nation in the world. Then why should we offer mee induce- ments for foreign capital to flow into the country while we at- the same time- drive domestic industrial capital to flow out by making money dearer and still dearer? Such a policy just doesn't, make sense, Ps The time has really come for the ment to drop its crazy obsession with ~ tary cures for high costs and high wages If our Govern- and rely on more epnfrols, : ment continues to play around with the Bank Rate the way it has Ve will need more than a Borden Commission Report to straighten out the mess. We've got to re- store our exchange equilibrium and achieve some sort of commercial common sense and it's a sure bet that we won't do either with the absurd manipulation of the Bank Rate that has characterized this government for the past year. cious thing called provincial autonomy. The truth of the matter is that religion comes into the picture and acts as a stum- bling block to any constructive attack on the problem. Public education should not be made the scapegoat of those who have a vested in- terest in private:8r religious forms of edu- cation. | Millions of dollars largely wasted in vast public expenditures should be diverted to meeting the rising cost of educatian. Tou rely largely on real estate taxes for educa- tional revenue is neither wise nor just. What's more such taxes are inadequate to the need. '| new political party to take the place i , the CCF president. He was sure they I Of Many Things by Ambrose Hill NEW POLITICAL PARTY --_-- Efforts of Left-Wing Political Mid- NOBODY BRUNG MAGGIE wives meeting recently at Winnipeg, Our Winnipeg papers gave a great far from breathing life into a new deal of space to the efforts of the political party of the left, appear to CCF and the Canadian Labor Congress have done no more than bring forth a to agree on general principles for a mouse -- and a pretty sick mouse at that. Reason is that farm groups, as well as quite a few labor unions affiliated with the Canadian Labor Congress, old story about the hillbilly who came [€8Y that the new party may be to the city for the first time. socialist-oriented, or dominated by He stood in front of a bank of des the Canadian Labor Congress, or both. vators in one of the big buildings, and When the proposed new politicnl he was completely fascinated. An old party was first Proposed more than a lady, bent and wrinkled, hobbled up year ago, Canadian Labor Congress to an elevator, pressed a button, and | President Claude Jodoin saw it as a the doors opened. She hobbled in and labor party designed to serve as the the door closed. The hillbilly listened political arm of the C.L.C.. Now Mr. to the noises and stared at the flash- Jodoin denies paternity, stating that ing lights for a couple of minutes. the new party "is not he Congress baby." Way Mr. Jodoin sees it is that for the Congress to: be directly in- nillbilly gawked and shook his head volved in the .sponsorship of the new He was convinced some magic had party would inhibit it in dealing tith changed the old woman into a voung any government of any politicial hue beauty. "Holy cow!" he exclaimed, |" "progressive Legislation". Con- "I shoulda brung Maggie along." .| gress, therefore, will preside at new Only trouble with thet story is that tparty's birth, but according to My. you don't hardly find no hilllbillies like Jodoin, will leave its future support to! that any more. - Leastwise, not in the the CLC's affiliated union members. neighbourhood of Winnipes. The! Mr. Jodoin may have some difficulty of the CCF, which has failed to win over the farmers. I read all the re- ports, and they made me think of the Then the doors opened again, and out stepped a lively young woman. The Clipped Comments CHAR PAK AAS TSE: Ee Cy LT | Sa Et ai IRS nA aA HE A. i i a tllB a i Ds Thursday, September 10th, 1959 FREIGHT RATES With Railway freight rates "frozen" by the Federal Government pending the report of a Royal Commission to investigate railway problems, new wage demands by the non-operating rail unions are signularly unrealistic and ominous. The Royal Commission has not yet announced plans for its hearings. It is a foregone conclusion that the hear- ings and preparation of the Royal Commission's report will take months ---perhaps even as long as a year. Yet the non-operating rail unions despite the low level of rail earnings and de- spite the low level of rail earnings and despite the fact that railway freight rates are frozen, clearly expect higher wages for their members when the present contracts expire on Dee. 31st. The situation has the earmarks of a major crisis in essential rail transport before many months have passed. It is strange that those provincial gov- ernments that so vigorously oppose all and any increases in freight rates should remain silent in the face of new union rail wage demands. --The Letter Review "UNION CRIME" Incident of Granby police sergeant, expelled from membership of the Policemen"s union because he chose to help fight a fire when he was off duty and on bis own time, remains unre- solved. Granby Policemen's union has tried to whitewash its own unpopular action by reaffirming expulsion of Sergeant Viens, arguing that the Granby policemen - violated union rules by fighting a fire that, according to the union, was already under con- trol and where no lives were in dan- ger. Whatever the facts, case of Granby Policemen's union is flimsy. Union rules that impose upon-mem- bers a penalty of that kind for deeds consistent with good citizenship should have no place in Canadian <n. ciety. Issue is now squarely up to Granby City Council. If Council is wise it will refuse to dismiss Sergeant Viens for the supposed "crime" of behaving as a good citizen, in fighting a fire while officially off duty. --The Letter Review TYPING PADS See THE PORT PERRY STAR In the High School the same staff meeting had plenty of noises and persuading farmers and other groups, flashing lights, but there wasn't a as well as quite a few CLC member | farmer for miles around who didn't "MONS: that he is politically non- realize that the old woman who step-. partisan, and that the Congress is in' ped into the seminar was still around now way involved in political action - the premises somowhere. hostile to both Conservatives and This reaction on the part of farmers, Liberals who are far from being hillbillies, was most annoying to Mr. David Lewis, | --The Letter Review awrence MeLaughling Piano Solo by Catherine Bailey; Little Perry Gran- the new party was dressed up especial- del Janey Boratvy nied by Jin Pins ! ly to appeal to farmers, and it was ! on with the guitar and meutit-or. | . gran; Reading by Mrs. J. A. McArthur: aan o them not to be gape Musical number by Miss Heather Mos- sed, ew farmers came and tool. a - look, but only on their own. None of of aroma on hs fa aeeor ten et te or Sots Honan dian and Clifford Dayes on the guitar. : The young couple were then present- ed with a living-room chair, a blank- let, clothes hamper and miscellaneous rifts. Both bride and groom made very fitting replies, thanking all for the sociability, gifts and good wishes. Lunch was then served, after which must have been taken in by the pro- paganda of big business. After all, Blackstock Quite a group of villagers enjoyed BROOKDALE-KINGSWAY NURSERIES AT BOWMANVILLE HAVE NEW OWNERS One of Bowmanville's best ~hept sense to obey the signs." secrets came to light Tuesday after- noon when Norman J. Scott announce. that he had sold Brookdale-Kingsway Nurseries. TEENAGE PARTY HALTED BY | District Doings themselves Monday night when they had a charivari for Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Smith. 3 Tuesday night a good number en- joyed a social evening in the Com- munity Hall in honour of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Smith. The programme elee thing to do when they are ig- mediate lacrosse team began their took the form of a progressive euchre nored, it is just plain asking for semi-final series against Huntsville in tnd at the finish Mr. Chas. Venning trouble." It is a matter of common the northern town, on Saturday, Sept.! who was acting M.C. for the evening POLICE NEAR BROUGHAM Officers of the- Whitby detachment, The Purchasers are Elmer T. Bant-{ opp arrested, and seized a quantity ing, well-known nurseman; John E. Chester and Ian H. Smith, both of To- ronto. They will take over immediately with Mr. Scott continuing in an, advisory capacity for up to a year. The news was broken to the large staff of employees at quitting time ¢n Tuesday, just a few hours after the deal had been completed. HEALTH UNIT CLOSES AREA AT WHITBY TO SWIMMERS Contamination of the water and shore in front of the Ontario Hospital and the beach immediately to the west has resulted in the area being con- demned for swimming, according to Dr. W. E. MacBean, Medical Health Officer for South Ontario. Signs were posted in the area last Iriday on the basis of oral and visual contamination. It is not expected that the area will be re-opened immediate- ly. J / - . Fe section of the lakefront is the only area that has been affected this! summer and all other swimming sec- tions on the lake are considered safe. A new series of twelve tests were collected from the lakeshore area on Wednesday morning and sent to To- ronto for laboratory checks. "The area will be opencd to swime mers just as soon as lhe tests show that there is no danger in the area," spector for the South Ontario' Health Unit with headquarters at Pickering. Reports of a number of people ig- noring the signs, especially adults ac- companied by children, has resulted in criticism by officials. x "The signs would not have been pnt up if they were not absolutely neves- sary," said one official. "These signs are not put up to scare people, but of heer and nine motor cycles to break up a well planned all-night party on a Brougham Friday night. . Police said the group had brought | bedrolls with them and set up beds in; vacant farmhouse. | Three cruisers, manned by Corporal Norman McCombe and Constables H. Hawkins, Morley Richardson and Eric Trowell converged on the side road: which 1uns north of No. 7 Highway. | It is a blind 10ad. ' i Teen-agers of both sexes, some un- der 16, were trapped in the area. The motorcycles were seized and loaded onto a truck. No names will be released until the police have cen- sulted with the Crown Attorney. RURAL CHURCH DECLINE CITED ) The depletion of rural pariches as niany farm people move to urban cen- tres is posing serious problems to churches, William Drummond, an Ot- tawa economist, said last week at Mr. Drummond told the United Church of Canada annual evangelism conference at Whitby that since the Second World War the Canadian agri- cultural force has dropped by a about 40 per cent, The result had been a considerable reduction in rural church members, and many ministers sent to rural areas had become discouraged and frus- trated - when they found small con- gregations, He suggested one answer is to set up parishes four or five times as large as the old parish and have one central church to gerve the area. BROOKLIN ENTERS SEMI- FINAL SERIES to protect them, It is not a smart- The Brooklin Meadowerests inter- scheduled side road one mile west of h Whitby. | 5th. The next games are scheduled for lin. The teams play best of seven series. If necessary, other games will be, played on Sept. 22 at Huntsville, Sept. 24 in Brooklin and Sept. 26 in Brook- in. Brooklin finished in second place in the intermediate Lacrosse Association guests met in the "ommunity Hall standings. Top place went to Fergus. TOBACCO LOSS IN HAIL STORM MAY AMOUNT TO $400,000 The heavy rain and hail storm last week inflicted severe damage to the "tobacco crops in Durham and North- umberland Counties. The heaviest damage was sustained in the Kendal area, although fields near Centreton were also extensively damaged in Wednesday night's storm.: Many farms in the Kirby district were also badly affected. | ~It has-been estimated that damage- may amount to $400,000, still this is not as bad as hud as had first been thought. Officials of the Tobacco Growers' Association predict that the crop in the United Counties may still be worth $3,200,000. » CONSUMERS PLAN GAS FOR PETERBOROUGH A $260,000 expansion project, first phase of a $2,000,000, 6-year program to make natural gas available to all homes and industries in Peterborough, ,was started by The Consumers' Gas Company on August 24th, | Work over one month by three con- struction companies will add 16 miles to the gas distributing system in four different areas of the city. } i Design, installation, inspection and testing will follow official gas pipe- {line building codes, and will be under the supervision of 8. J. Pellegrini, area engineer for Consumers' Gas, } Plans to supply natural gas to other municipalities in the Peterborough area are also under way. declared Mr. and Mrs. Smith as win- ners and invited _them to the front i Sept. 12 in Brooklin,, September 17th | where they were presented with a "at Huntsville and Sept. 19 in Brook- floor lamp, a table lamp, a blanket and a card table. = Both groom and bride made pleasing replies, after which a bounteous lunch was served, and all had the opportunity of con- gratulating the happy couple. Wednesday night the Women's In- stitute with Si. .ey Institute as Meeting opened in te usual manner. Mrs. F, Hoskin read the scripture passage. Mrs. Velva Bailey was appointed delegate to the Central Ontario Area Convention in the Royal York. Tor- onto, Nov. 4-6. | The roll call was well answered by | the name of distinguished Canadian Woman. Decided to send a donation' to the Senior Citizens Home in Co- bourg. The Motto--What soit of a + Nation would ours be, if every Giti- Crossley Hunter B.A, D.D., from Tor- zen were just like me?--was replied to by Mrs. Stuart Dorrell who told | eeveral duties of a good citizen. Cur- rent Events were given by Mrs. Herb, Taylor. ma Wotten, accompanied by their mo- ther, sang the Ballad of the Teenage Queen. Mrs. Arthur Bailey gave n paper on Ethel Chapman of Toronto, Smellie of Port Arthur, Two of Can- nda's distinguished women. Miss Joanne :Mozienko favoured with a piano solo. in, group leader, thanked all who had presented such an interesting and in: formative programme. Mrs. Court- ney Graham, on behalf of Shirley In- stitute thanked Blackstock W. I. for I the invitation to visit them. IA dainty lunch was served by the group and a social time enjoyed. Thursday evening quite a good crowed attended a shower in the Com- munity Hall in honour of Mr, and Mrs. Don Ellis (nee Eleanor Schemilt). Mr. Charlie Venning was M.C. and the following programme was presented-- A vocal solo by 'Leonard Saunders, who also played the Bones. ~ Both these numbers were accompanied by Miss Catherine Bailey; Reading by | morning wervice, and in the evening ,Crace United Church Choir sang two Patsy, Joan, Carol and Nor-! oe Ge ' and Mrs. Murray Byers on Elizabeth' Mrs. Frank Hosk-! pk : SN RA EY A ta RAS IRr sp a dance was enjoyed with music pro- vided by the Dayes Brothers and Jim i Hutchison of Oshawa. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Keith Hodgson (Mildred Brown) who were married in Bowmanville Friday evening. The reception was held in the Reereation Centre, Blackstock; e)so the wedding supper which was catered to by the O.N.O. Club. " School opened Tuesday with the following teachers:-- Central Public School--Mrs. Phyllis Mitchell teach- ing Grade 1; Mrs. John Venning principal and teaching Grade 1 and 2; Mrs. Roy Turner 2-3; Mrs. Lane of Port Perry 3-4; Mrs. Ivan Mountjoy 1-5; Miss Hall of Lucan 5-6; Mr. Grant Campbell 6-7; and in the old Piackstock Public School, Mr. Neil Lailey 7-8. as last year, namely -- Mr. Gordon Paisley of Dunnville, Principal and .teaching languages; Mrs. Litt, Port Perry -- English; Mr. Sebben, Port 'Ferry--History and Geography; Mr. Jack Berry, Guelph--Mathematics and Science; Mr. Neil Bailey--Shop work: Mrs. Blake Gunter--Home Econom-' ics. Caretakers are the same as last yvear--Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hamilton the Public School and Mr. Mountjoy the High School. There has been a good deal of de- corating done in each of the schools and a new well and water system in- stalled in the Old Public School, Those from this district teaching ir. other parts are--Miss Jessie Me- Arthur in West Hill Collegiate, Scar- boro; Miss Betty McArthur in George Harvey Vocational School, Toronto; Miss Joan Venning in George B. Lit- tle School, Searboro; Miss Gwen Wil- | son in Ellsmere School Searboro; Mrs. Mildred Colley, Bakers School, Dar- lington; Mrs. Herman Rodman (Kun- ice Wilson), Buchanan School, Secar- Lloro; Miss Joyee Graham, Brooklin; Mrs. Neil Bailey, Port Perry; Miss Doreen VanCamp, Cobden; Delton Fisher, Bireh Cliff Heights, Scarboro; Mrs. Arnold Taylor, Enniskillen; Mrs. Don Sinclair, College Hill School, Osh- awa. Mr. and Mrs. Milliard Fallis, Baden, spent Wednesday night with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Johston and called on other relatives Thursday. Wayne Lee, Oshawa, ford Dayes on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs, Walter Ferguson, Fn- niskillen, were Sunday dinner guests cf Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dayes and fa- mily and attended Decoration Service visited Clif- fat Nestleton. Bruce | | Several from here attended Kin- mount Fair Saturday and needless to say a great many have or are attend- ing the C.N.E. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Hillman, Tor- onto are spending two weeks with Mr, nnd Mrs, John Venning. Those from Cartwright who attend- the wedding of Mr. David Swain, voungest son of Mr, and Mrs. Lewis | (Continued on Page 5) R22 a aa a ZUR A ZUR SOR ISOS | fur FUEL " HARD se FAST, SOFIL-UP NOow..! YOUR LOW TAWA ST woner aes 3 "OLD FATHER Win Eg"! coMinG | § 'Gord. A. Prentice FARM TRADE AGENT ) 4 Phone YUkon 5-2572 PORT PERRY ONTARIO A OR CE RL RR RES BUR District Churches Scugog, Manchester and Prospect Sunday was another beautiful day snd a very special day for Manchester Church --- Anniversary services were | held in their church with Rev. E. onto as their guest speaker. The Jr. 'armers Male Quartette sang at the rumbers. At Grace Church in the morning guest speaker was Rev. Geo McQuade of Whithy. With the children all back to school this week it marks the begining of the fall seésion and the organizations are starting into their fall programs. | "Grace Church W.A. meet this week at the church when Mrs. Alan Martyn of Prince Alhert will he <howing her pictures, "Prospect. W.A. meet on Sept. 17 at the home of Helen Holthy. Manghestér are holding their an- mil fowl Sapper at the church on Sept. 18, Supper from 5 till & pa. Next Sunday the three church ser- Next. Monday, Sept. 14, the Brownie Happy birthday to Sharon Crozier, end Guides will have their first meet- | Barbara Holtby, Bill Nixon, George ing of the fall term and the cubs and scouts will meet as usual on Tuesday. Smith, and Kimberly Midgley who will be having birthdays this week. AN LT vices will be un er the direction of the young people, \ Rev. M. G. Butler, B.A. of BrookH "Will be the guest speaker, and | lead in the assisted by Mrs. i MY WORD Four British writers combine spark- KR : a wt They are Frank Muir (with wmous- tache) and Dennis Norden, the two @ Junior choirs will ling wit with their knowledge of the script writers of Take It From Here, "Mrs. T. Redman, English language to produce a hilari- and Nancy Spain (top left) and E. a Wilson will now ous half-hour of literary fun and Arnot Robertson. My Word starts be in charg of the Secugog junior games in My Word, a BBC transcrip- "off to be a quiz show but ends up as "choir, and | Miter school 4% the ehurch. pi \ . rosronietciariicogrrry®irr- Hs mT AFAR pk CREE | meet this Thursday tion program carried each Sunday on "a free-for-all of spontaneous wit and | CBC radio's Trans-Canada network. comment, VEEN i ae Aly arts i Cy va ~ ph 5 Di * > CHS ASD, LY va he Sn AT le A I ens