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a pt | Rr NES RE Sl Srl dn PORT PERRY STAR, Thursday May 6th, 1965 Port Perry Star Co. Limited Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. WM. T. HARRISON Editor Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc, Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. Subscription Rates: In Canada $3.00 per yr., Elsewhere, $4.60 per yr. Single Copy 10¢ Not Always The Bost Consolidation of Schools is going on rapidly. One of the latest proposals is that some of the schools in Dufferin county be consolidated with schools in Grey county, Ont. The department of education wants to form a school area of 3,000 students in which there would possibly be up- wards of ten schools of 300 enrolment. These would serve five townships and parts of two other twps. The Shel- burne Free Press & Economist suggests that newcomers to the area would ask how far their children would have to travel to get to school. In many cases it would mean 40 miles in each direction. 3 The consolidation of rural schools into large schools is not the answer to the problem of modern elementary -and high school education. Even in cities the very large school perhaps is not as efficient as it should be, and it may be that part of the ill discipline of these schools is due to their size. Quality does not improve with size. A Lot Of Payroll "A survey just completed", says a news: story out of Ottawa, "shows that almost one out of four--25 per cent of the population -- receives a cheque each month payable wholly or in part by the public purse". In the survey month, December last, about 4,500,000 Canadians received cheques drawn on the federal treasury for pensions, al- lowances, salaries, wages or other payments. More than four million of the monthly cheques are 'in the category of social security benefits -- family al- lowances (2,712,000), universal old age pensions (999,000) disability and blind pensions (61,000), veterans and de- pendents pensions and allowances (178,000), old age as- sistance (105,000). Nearly another half million of the cheques cover wages and salaries -- civil servants (202,- 000}, employees of government agencies and proprietary corporations (131,000), the armed forces (120,000), and the R.C.M.P: (9,000). The Ottawa report notes that while the number of recipients has risen by one million to 4.5 million over the past ten years, the cost to the treasury in that time has risen from $6 million to $11 million per day. And that's a lot of payroll for the taxpayer to meet. gny in , Port Perry. FIFTY YEARS AGO MAY 5th, 1915 Dr. R. L. Graham has sold his dental practice to John Beldon Lundy, 1.D.S., D.D.S. formerly of Brantford. Dr. Lundy will live in!Dr. Gra- ham's residence on Cochrane Street. L * [ 3 The biggest event of the year will take place Thurs, June 3, at Port Perry. Motor Cycle Races, Baseball tourn- ament, Athletic Events, aad First Class Music. A Grand concert in the evening, for which a number of the most famous artists of the concert stage have been engaged. Keep this date open, and celebrate the King's Birth- E. L. Ags of Comnbtio, 25 YEARS AGO THURSDAY, MAY 9th A number of Members of the Port Perry Lions Club visited Peterboro on Monday evening to attend a Zone meeting. At the meeting Lion H. G. Hutcheson was elected District Deputy. Wing Commander George 'Robert Howsam, M.C., who has served in the R.C.A.F as Director of Training for the last two years, has been ap- pointed the Senior Air Staff Officer for No. 4 Training Command, with Headquar- ters in Regina, Sask. The Willard Grocery Chan- ges Hands--It is with regret that we learn tthat Mr. H. Willard has sold his grocery business. For over fifty years he has carried on in the grocery business in Port Perry. The purchaser is Mr. surrounding forebiory. TEN YEARS AGO THURSDAY, MAY5 th Utica-- Interested members of the community met in the basement of Utica United Church and voted unanim- ously to rebuild ,the Com- munity Hall. A building committee was appointed un- - der the leadership of Mr. Bert McKercher. * * * New Store Hours. Com- mencing Friday, June 3rd, stores and merchants in Port Perry will remain open on Fridays until 9:00 p.m. * * * New Bell Telephone book delivered during the past week and subscribers were urged to check their listing, A total of 35183 telephone books were distributed in Oshawa, Cobourg, Bowman- ville, Port Hope, Whitby and By BILL SUGAR and SPICE FRIGHTENING, ISN'T IT? Are you frozen with terror, these days? You're not? Then wake up, you vegetable. You're sup- posed to be. Haven't you noticed the relentless campaign to scare the living daylights out of us ordinary souls? There seems to be a conspiracy, in the communica- tions media, to put you and me and our wives and kids into a perpetual state of fear. Advertising is the most prevalent, though not the most powerful, weapon of the scaremongers. It is suggested that if we have greasy hair or a greasy sink, we're sunk; that if we don't use a certain soap, we stink; that if we don't drink a man's beer, we're a bunch of you-know-whats. Well, all this is enough to set up a certain nervous tension in the ordinary amiable chap. What man wants to admit he's a failure because he can't rush out to his friendly neighborhood dealer and snap up an all-new Super Aurora Borealis Shooting Star Sedan, with safety belts? Or has dandruff? But this is for the morons, You know, all the people who don't read this column. If they want to wind up with acid stomachs, upset nerves, mi. graine headaches and irregularity, as constipation "Is now known, serves them right. Anybody who is frightened by that kind of advertising deserves it. But it is not on the humble commercial-watcher that the big guns of the horror-brigade are trained, It is on the serious reader - viewer. They have moved, lock. steck and frightfuls, into the news- paper, magazine, book and "serious" TV field. Every time I pick up, leaf through, or switch on one of these media, somehody is trying to frighten the wits out of me ahout something. It's a bit hard for a fellow to cope with, Black headlines or graphic pictures suggest that I'm supposed to be shaken rigid about Communists and cancer; birth control and bingo; high school drop-outs and homosexualism. Simultaneously, I'm supposed to be stricken by integration and insulation. If I'm not in favor of the former, there'll be a terrible blood-bath. If I'm agin the latter, my heating bill will soar. Sometime during the day, I'm supposed to be whimpering in a corner because of: high-priced funerals; the computer, which is going to put me out of a job; the unfulfilled housewife; and all that leisure time I'm going to have next year, when au- tomation takes over. You'll notice I haven't even mentioned nuclear fission, which.is old hat, nor the squirrels in my attic who, at this moment, accord- SMILEY ing to an article, are chewing my wiring to start a fire in which we'll all be cremated, and do we have enough insurance? If people weren't basically so tough, sensible and mean, they'd all go to hed and pull the covers ovef their heads, Fortunately, we're as sensitive as an old rubber boot. But, in case the scare-distributors are bothering you, let me give you a formula that is guaranteed to steady the nerves. One thing at a time. Communists -- most of us are twice as scared of our wives as we are of the Red menace, Juvenile Delinquents--hit them on the head. Hard. Cancer -- you want to live forever? Creeping Socialism -- better than the galloping type. The Computer -- 80 who wanted a job in the first place? Leisure Time -- be happy to have a chance to sit on your butt, Unfulfilled Housewives -- fill them. Population Explosion -- see Birth Control; also Nuclear Fission, High-Priced Funerals -- you don't have to pay. And so on, ~--Toronto Telegram News Service