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SN ty CO oR a SM NA A Ee oA on { Adv A ARH DENTE SS NP Re eo = DITORIAL PINION os Se 2 nn i 2 "Put an end to this government secrecy ke Recent events in this country. have raised once again, a very basic question. Namely, is an elected government body, representing the will of a majority of the people free to withhold or dispense information from the people as it sees fit? The events of course are the publication by the Canadian Forum of a condensed or edited version of the Gray Report on foreign investment and the Canadian economy, and a following publication by a Montreal newspaper on the Liberal cabinet's reaction to the Gray Report. Both the report, and the cabinet's discussions had been classified as - strictly confidential. Now the furor is on, and the hue and cry is out. Mitchell Sharp has called for an investigation, possibly bringing the RCMP in, Conservative House Leader Gerald Baldwin has called for a special committee to investigate the "chaotic condition." - In the House of Commons, Con- servatives and New Democrats alike are playing politics with shouts of 'resign' aimed at the Liberal cabinet. It a wondef somebody hasn't 'called in the Marines, or the 82nd Airborne. While all this flap is going on, the public is still as much in the dark as ever as to what the Gray Report is aJl about, and -more important yet, how the government intends to act on it. The real issue is not that there has been a security leak, but rather the contents of that report. For _ indications are that it is possibly one of the most important documents ever prepared in this country. Its contents could affect the entire future of this nation, and could ultimately affect the lives of each and every individual in this couftry. ~_ Indications are that this report. makes the strongest.recommendations ever for. the control of foreign investment and foreign ownership in this country. With past trends and present economic . conditions in this country. hanging..in delicate balance, the report could not be more timely. "All _of 'which brings us back to the original question. Why has the government withheld this report? Why have cabinet discussions been so secretive? The taxpayers in this country foot the bills for these reports, and it is the taxpayers who 'will ultimately feel the effects of the Gray Report recommendations (if they are ever carried out.). ~ Never mind the investigations etc. as to how the" information was released to the press. Stop using this affair to play petty politics. If this Gray Report is everything it's cracked up to be, and apparantly it is or there wouldn't be so much commotion, then let's have it, on the table in no uncertain terms. J.B.M. PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED ae ¥, ) SAE, *WNA 2 (0m): o \ A . "as ps Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher - Editor JOHN B. McCLELLAND, Associate Editor WM. T. HARRISON, P. HVIDSTEN, Jr., Plant Manager. . Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Weckly Newspaper -Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assiciation Published every Wednesday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class maill by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subseription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single&£opy 10¢ 3 1X "4 MARINER 9 MARS PHOTOS News ltem ? BILL@™WMILEY. UGAR a 4. " RHP. To BORN 30 YEARS TOO SOON -- AGAIN My ied old yes almost popped au a ran down my cheeks the other day, like a couple of peeled grapes, when I read about the increases in pay to our armed forces. "My God," I groaned to my wife, "will you listen to this? A buck private is going to get $480 a month." She wasn't impressed. But she peerked up her ears and turned - down the corners of her mouth with my next remark: "And a colonel will be drawing - $1,960 a month." My brother, her brother. in-law, is a colonel. vn Out came the pencil and she started some rapid calculation. In about half an hour, while I sat there shaking my head with a mixture of shocked disbelief and incipient nausea, she blurted, "Do you realizes that young pup is going to be making $22,520 a year?" I nodded morosely. I had done it in my head, give or take a few hundred dollars, in eight seconds. "Why -- why, that's impossible," and her voice went up an octave. I just took the paper over and pointed to the cold, black print. : It was like swallowing a horse-pill without benefit of water, lor both ot us. While 1 had been slogging along serving as a weekly ° newspaper editor, sometimes hitting a high of $6,200 a year, and later as a, "teacher, he had been gallivanting around to all sorts of glamorous and exciting places. -Aide-de-camp to an Air Vice-Marshal in Europe. Boar-hunting in Germany. Com- mander of a fighter squadron in France. Liaison officer in Paris. Desk job in Ottawa. Back to Europe. Back to Canada to head a ifighter squadron at Val d'or, guarding us against the Eskimoes, then a soft touch at Colorado Springs in the States, watching the panic button, and skiing weekends. There was only one bright spot in my mind - as I reviewed this circuit. He's now stuck in Syracuse. Who wants to live in Syracuse? -But my wife wasn't finished. 'Why didn't you stay in the air force?' I. gave her some 10fty reply about being my own man, and not wanting to wallow around in peace-time on the taxpayer's money. I didn't mention that AND the air force wouldn't have had me if World War III had broken out twenty minutes after' World War 1I_ended. : Then, in the gloomy silence that followed, I started thinking back. When I joined up, . we got $1.30 a day, or $40 a month. I sent home $20 a month to my mother. We got paid every two weeks so I had a handsome $10 to 'blow. I'll never forget the time I lost my $10 bill about twenty minutes after pay parade. It was at Manning Pool in Troonto, with about 10,000 airmen--on--hand. The next couple of weeks were slim pickings. But I made it, by borrowing. That's when I started borrowing, and I've never caught up since. : 3 But it wasn't so bad, really. Beer was 10 cents a draft and a dollar went a long way. 1 . didn't smoke. Girls didn't expect you fo take them out for drinks, dinner and the theatre. They just expected you to take them out. Hotel roomswere no problem; on weekend leave. One of us would check into the old King Eddie in Toronto, and take a single room. Price was $3.00, with 10 per cent off 'for servicemen. Then about five more would sneak up and six of us would share a single room, sleeping three on the bed, crossways, * the others on the floor. Average cost, 45 cents each. We didn't need much sleep anyway. Wages went up with each increase in rank. As I recall it, when I was commissioned, I got about $6.50 a day. This was wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, in those days. The Australian and U.K. officers envied us bitterly. They were paid about half that, to maintain the standards of an officer and gentleman. °° I don't envy the servicemen their in- crease. They have a job that is especially thankless in peacetime. But if I were quite a few years younger, I'd be running, not walking, to the nearest recruiting station. But my kid brother is another matter. I'm smarter than he is, though he'd never admit it. I could always beat him up. He's got his only child married off to a wealthy English- an. He's going to have a fat pension in just a few years. { It's only fair to serve notice on him that he may have long-term, perhaps permanent, guests, when he retires and picks out his villa in Spain. 3 oy 8 5 WHEN = SRY Yo SLVR a AY -' B0 YEARS AGO * Thursday, Nov. 24th; 1921 At a well attended hoc- kéy meeting it was decided " to.enter a team from Port Perry in the O.H.A. "Inter- ° mediate" series this winter, The following 'officers were chosen, Hon. Pres. George Jackson and W. H. Parrish and Art Carnegie, Vice Pres. Dave Carnegie, Sec. "Treas. J. I. Bowerman, Man. PY ager Hugh Lucas and coach John Roach, During the absence of Mr. W. H. McCaw, G.T.R. ticket agent who will spent .the winter in Florida, in- formation and tickets may be secured at the office of H.W. Emmerson, ie A Curling club' was organized in this year with W.H. Letcher as the President. v5 "26 YEARS AG Thursday, November 21, ° 1946 hy A happy time was spent in Blackstock United Church in "honour of Mr. and Mrs. Jabez Wright who are leaving the community for : their new home in Oshawa. After two years in the Port Perry Branch of the ---- | -- Canadian Bank of Com- 'merce, Mr. Tapp is being moved to Bradford. Mr. and Mrs. E. Hayes entertained -the staff at a farewell party in his honour. ; If you needed a permanent wave in 1946, the price was Just $1.95 and'a shampoo and ---- style setting was only . cents, : . Four bus loads of studen from Port Perry High Schoc visited the Parliamnet Buildings, Museum and Royal Winter Fair. 16 YEARSAGD -- ¢ Thursday, November 22, 1956 Mrs. Reg Fodter, gare _ Greenbank held a surprise party .in honour of her mother Mrs. Amos Rodd, IY who. was celebrating her 82nd birthday. The Brooklin Juniors, last years' Ontario Junior D Champions are stepping up, this year into "C" class competition, = In the Wednesday Night Bowling league Mrs. Joy Ballard feld the high single with 269 and Dorothy Jar- dine, high triple with 627. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 16th, 1961 Roy Ormiston of Brooklin won a trophy at the Royal Winter Fair for the two best 'animals bred by one owner. Mr. R.M. Holthy the first fieldman for Holstein- 'Friesan was the donor of the trophy: Kenneth Ross. 19, was seriously injured in an ex- plosion and fire which destroyed Ross Auto Body on No. 2, County Road, five miles north of Oshawa. Mrs. Doris Nottingham was installed as Worthy Matron of Blue Ray Chapter for the 1961 - 62 term. ® term. : !