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Editorial Topics Minor Hockey Week Once again it is that time of year when we are asked to support minor hockey, and to remind our readers of that already well-known slogan "Don't send - - Take your boy to the arena'. We are willing to do this because we agree there should be special recognition of the men (and women) who make minor hockey possible here. The local minor hockey association is composed of enthusiastic, hard-working volunteers whose efforts on behalf of local youngsters cannot be measured in hours or dollars. They make it possible for hundreds of our youngsters to take part in Canada's National sport. Every boy in town can have 'the opportunity to play, and none will be turned away. That's the kind of an organization it is. : ? More than that, they contribute towards the development not only of stronger bodies, but of healthier minds and better citizens. They keep: the youngsters off the streets and engaged in healthy, supervised sport. We do agree with the slogan "To keep a boy out of hot water - put him on ice". Our municipality has provided the ice, our volunteers do the work to "put him on ice". These Are The Types Spoiling The Fun The following is a portion of an open letter recently published by the Toronto Globe and Mail which the Ontario Safety League would like to see reprinted by every publisher in Ontario. ." . . . . | have notobjected-to people using my property for skiing and toboganning but recent experience with snowmobiles has led me to nail my gates shut to this public. On arriving at my property recently | found "the gate rails cast aside and snowmobile tracks criss-crossing it indiscriminately: over the hills and up and down nursery rows of trees grown from selected seed for conservation purposes. Tracks showed that the machines were aimed directly by alcohol-soaked drivers (as evidenced by the remains of bottles) at seveb-year-old oak, pine and apple trees nurtured through drought and predations of groundhogs and deer. : It is evident from broad experience that the popularization of the snowmobile is precipitating a damage to nature and disrespect for property which parallels that also experienced from a sector of the hunting enthusiast group. You may be assur- Irwin Haskett to recognize the above-mentioned type of damage in his current reassessment of snowmobile legislation. . . ." Victor Chanasyk Professor and Director University of Guelph Es PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED i v1 %» fi s, 3 poy Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas ' Sb: P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher i WM. T.- HARRISON, Editor 1; 4 7 Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoctafion if Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspap 14 ¥ ; ? Published every Thursday by The Port Perry 7, : Btar Co. Ltd, Port Perry, Ontario. 2 2 " %7 Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office 77; Department, Ottawa, and for. payment of postage in cash, Second Class Mail Registration Number 026% © Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., ©. Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy 10¢ EE Tah ed | shall be one of those asking Transport Minister AR SAGER AN CAL A 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 15th, 1920 The open air rink being run by Mr. John Roach is well patronized and is afford- ing good healthy recreation. Watch for the fancy dress carnival to be held for the benefit of the rink fund. The regular first meeting of the Port Perry Council for 1920 was held in the Treasur- er's office on Monday even- ing. Present were James Lucas, Reeve; Councillors -- J. Na- smith, C.A. Rundle, Jas. Wad- dell and Allan Goode all of whom took the oath of office. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 18th, 1946 Mrs. Merl Dowson has received a cable from her husband, Pte. Merl Dowson announcing his safe arrival overseas. : On Monday, January 8th, Myrtle, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Gordon Collins, Scugog and ~ Gordon only son of the late Mr, and Mrs. George Prentice, Manchester, were united in marriage by Rev. J.A. MacMillan, of Port Perry at the Manse. SIXTIES WERE PURE BOSH ~~ Thinking back over the year-end reports of the 1960s, I realize that all the experts painted a picture of a decade of violence and change probably unequalled in history. What is especially embarassing is the thought that I did the same thing, though I'm no expert. On second thought, it was all pure poppy- cock. It's true that The Sixties included these things, but the 1940s, in retrospect. make the 1960s look like a children's birth- day party: Noisy, disorganized, messy, but essentially kids' stuff in comparison, Surely it was in The Forties that today's. violence( revolt, drug addiction, sexual free- dom, disgust with the Establishment, and all the other goodies of The Sxities, had their roots. In the 1930s, those lucky enough to have a job were working for less than it costs today for a night on the town. As Toronto newspaper columnist Richard Needham pointed out the Great Depression was not brought to an end by our economists or politicians, but by Adolph Hitler. War cre --ated-jobs, wages went up, prosperity began. Sickening thought, but true. In The Sixties, we waxed indignance over Chicago cops for beating dissidents over the head. And so we should. But in The For ties, six million non-dissidents of all ages and both sexes were beaten, gassed or starved to death, And millions of others were obliterated without even waving a placard. How's that for violence? Revolt? It was everywhere in partisan groups and new nationalist organizations. And the rebels were just as long-haired and bearded and dirty -- and a lot hungrier than today's rebels. They, too, were of both sexes, as today. But they were fight- ing for something, not against everything. And they were laying on the line not just a clout on the head, a trip in the paddy- wagon. and a fine, but their lives; The Establishment? In 1945 the British threw it out, including that heroic but un- mistakable member of it, Sir Winston Chur- chill. That was a far, far greater thing than rioting on a campus. Atrocities? We had 'one, apparently, in: Vietnam recently, with the Yanks as vil- lians for a change. Vile? Certainly. But it was a mere trifle compared to the atro- cities of The Forties. On all sides. Tell your kids about Lidice, the bombing of Hamburg and Dresden, and what the Rus. sians did at Warsaw. And then there was the biggest one of all, committed by the Good Guys--the atom 'bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today's atrocities are peanuts, however in- digestible. Drug addiction? There wasn't any "pot" around. But I wonder how many alcoholics are wandering around today who got their start when they were 18, and in uniform? I could list you a dozen, from personal knowledge. Just multiply. Sexual freedom? Perhaps it wasn't as blatant -and self - conscious and publicity- conscious as it is today, but it was there lady, it was there. Now, I don't for one ~minute--mean--your husband. But those other guys." Wow! Change? Whole countries - disappeared. Millions of people wandered, homeless, New countries sprang into being. However, just as The Sixties weren't all rotten, neither were The Forties. They produced courage and sacrifice and a great sense of sharing and loving, amidst all the . hatred. They produced a generation that sin. cerely believed that a better world was not only needed, but could be built. They produced entire new concepts of world peace. They set the seeds for the end of "the old imperialism. Never mind that these have been frustrated and warped: since, And, as a sideline, they produced the millions of kids who are. now a mystery and terror and bewilderment to those relics of the frightful Forties. Nuff said? Fes ~Toronto Telegram Syndicate 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 20th, 1955 On Thursday afternoon January 27th at 2:30 p.m. the Community Hospital Aux- iliary will officially open the new Children's Ward in the Hospital. After four ballots were taken W. Harry Peel was elected to the highest munic- ipal post in the County of Ontario, Warden for 1956." It is the first time i212 17 years that Port Perry's Reeve has been -elected to the Wardenship of the county. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 21st, 1960 Congratulations to Storey and Bill Beare on the opening of their new General Motor's Showroom. On Saturday - evening the family of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Christie entertained them at the Flamingo Restaurant in Port Perry to celebrate their fortieth wedding anniversary. --All-arrived "at "the home of Dr. Donald Christie Man- chester, later in the evening ~ where a number of friends were waiting to offer con- gratulations and good wishes. A number of old school friends gathered together at the home of Mrs, C.C. Jeffrey. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. MM. Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. I. Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. K. Pearce, Dr. and Mrs. B. N. Smallman, Mr, and Mrs. J.A. Van Nest, Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Harris, Dorothea Koch, Mr. and Mrs, OW, Hancock, Mr. Norman McGill, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Carnegie, Mr. and Mrs. F.D. Slemmon and Mr, and Mrs. Hugh Nind. &