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SP Capi Seid acta oat Zio A Lo i Abn a he * -- - [} - 5 = a Ser Pac. WE Pee ¥ & £ -- 4 Deserves credit Bill Brock presented Port Perry council with a brief last week which was so well researched, so thoroughly thought out and so clearly written that even the sceptics on council had to pay attention, and eventually agree to the four requests which came at the end of the brief. Mr. Brock got paid nothing for his time or work. He had no obligation to assist council in this matter. He did it.because he cares about this community and he is prepared to work for what he sees as the general good. He deserves credit for that, whether you agree with his opinion or not. 4 A controversy such the one now raging over what to do with the old town hall is something most of us engage in only from the sidelines. Many of us just read about it and, in brief moments of courage, express a guarded opinion to our closest friends. A few of us are a little braver. We write letters to the editor so our views can be examined in public. But only one man has had the courage to stand up at a council meeting and put his ideas on the official record. By sticking his neck out on such a controversial subject Mr. Brock did what no councillor has had the courage to do. He took a stand. No doubt if Bill Brock's 'Port Perry Idea" proves to be a good one we will all want to jump on the bandwagon and share in the credit for it. If the idea fails we can safety sit back and shake our heads wisely. Thank God that in every community He provides one man with the intelligence to think clearly and the courage to stand up for what he thinks even if, like Bill Brock, he stands alone. Port Perry owes a lot to Bill Brock. Warning to Non-subscribers (From the Foam Lake Review) A man who was too cheap to subscribe to his hometown newspaper sent his little boy to borrow his neighbor's copy. In his haste the boy ran over an $80 hive of bees and in 10 minutes he looked like a warty squash. His father ran to his assistance, and failing to notice the barbed wire fence, ran into that, cutting a hole in his anatomy as well as ruining a pair of $20 trousers. The old .cow took advantage of the gap in the fence and killed herself eating green corn. Hearing the racket, the wife ran out, upset a four-gallon churn of cream into a basket of chicks, drowning the entire bunch. In her haste she dropped a $235 set of false teeth, which the family dog buried thinking it was a new type of bone. The baby, having been left alone, crawled through the spilled cream and into the parlor ruining a $250 carpet. During the excitement the oldest daughter ran away with the hired man, a stray dog broke up 11 setting hens, the calves got out and chewed the tails off four fine shirts on the clothes line, and the cat had a batch of kittens. All this just to save 15 cents. And in this case, the poor guy never did get to read that week's edition. Don't Let This Happen to You! Subscribe Today! , ¢ PORT PERRY STAR | Company Limited \0 Wy, RY Sa», G CNA : (ou) 2 EN A *) Rs oo Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher BRUCE ARNOLD, Editor WM. T. HARRISON, Plant Manager J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Advertising Manager . Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday 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 Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $6.00 per year. Elsewhere $8.50 per year. Single Copy 15¢ " T's A WALK-OUT IN SYMPATHY W/TH AIR CANADA MACHINISTS MILEY UGAR BILL "Ordinary Readers" Agree With Me About Education My views on education don't seem to upset the Minister one whit. He just goes around with his eyes shut droning that hypnotic chant, "The standards of educa- tion are not declining the stan . . ." However, my views do seem to strike a cord or a nerve or an open wound among a good many other people. A recent column on education has attracted more mail than anything I've written since I churned out, "Sex and the Editor." That was when I was a weekly editor, and it was a hot number, I can tell you. There were no leftover papers that week. I know. You want me to reprint it. Sorry, I'm a school teacher now, and as everyone knows, except a lot of teachers, schoql teachers must maintain the highest stand- ard of morality, sobriety and taste. Besides, it was harmless. Just a device to sell papers when circulation was slumping a bit. Where was I? Oh, yes, letters about education. Following are some excerpts from letters received from ordinary read- ers, if there are such creatures. I've never yet met a person who considered himself ordinary. And why should I? We're an extraordinary lot. If you don't believe me, take a good look at yourself, then at yqur neighbours, then at our 'leaders'. They may be a lot riffraff, but there's not one who is ordinary. From a merchant: '"You have stated publicly what a great many of us think, but our means of communication is not as wide as yours. The Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck courses they have in high schools and so-called colleges now would be a big joke if they were not doing harm to our young people and were not so costly . . . It would appear from the reports of the meetings that all is beautiful in education land and seldom is heard a discouraging word. In our local brain factory, the students seem to be running the side- show." i From a mother: "We have seen the system deteriorate rapidly. We have a son in last year law and one daughter in her last year university' who managed to be outstanding students who could read, write and spell and didn't have wise and wonderful sex education in the school. What has that brought us? An epidemic of v.d. and related social problems." She goes on: "Another problem is too many working mothers. Women's Lib will hate me! One of our finest teachers told me he could 'tell in a week which children Serice had mothers in the home, and which ones had working mothers." From an ex-teacher: "I am one who was educated in the old way and used to love grammar class . . . My daughter who is a Grade 2 teacher, says what terrible English the children use . . . I'm sure that the high school students of today who are AND "dropping their language courses are doing it because they don't have the basic English grammar." From a minister: 'Let me put in a word for poor spellers . . . Teachers insist that spelling laws are like the laws of the Medes and the Persians--unchanging, unchangeable, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be . . . So geneation after generation we persist in foisting (or is it foysting) the spelling quirks of the middle ages unto our children." It's foisting, but I agree. From a teacher: "I do not wish to needlessly send your blood pressure up andther point, but sorrow like company and your May 24th article was welcomed in our school as a most timely and healthy counterbalance to the . . .irrespoonsible articles from the Blank County Board of Education . . . our board likes to be very avantgarde in the rush towards dooms- day." Hey, teach, tere's a split infinitive in your opening sentence. Well, that's just a sampling of the leters. I don't agree with everything they say, but I'm pleased there is evident concern about the quality of education. And I don't plan to keep hacking away at the subject. There's nothing duller than a farmer who can talk about nothing but farming, an editor who can talk about nothing but newspapers, or a teacher who whines all the time about education. It' near the end of June and I'm too hot and tired to get excited about much of anything. I've just crawled out from under an avalanche of 255 essays and short stories which I marked in my "spare time" and I have almost ceased to care how anybody spells anything. And I must say that there's a tremen- dous interest in education during that last week or so. Guys and dolls who have spent approximately as much time this year on their school work as I have spent being a millionaire have suddenly lost all their apathy. They come up to their teachers with the most appealing, wistful smiles and wonder whether they are going to be recommended, or whether they'll have to write the exams. } They're pitiful and pathetic, but they'll see that old Smiley has a heart of solid steel. Or butter. 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 21, 1923 ~ Fishing in Lake Scugog has been unusually good this season. Maskinonge of ten and twelve pounds have been plentiful as well as bass. One lunge near Cae- sarea Park is reported to have weighted 17% pounds. A numper of students from Port Perry have re- cently passed examinations in various branches of study in Toronto educational in- stitutions. They include: Miss Jean Crozier, modern languages; Miss Bessie Crozier, household econo- mics; Miss Grace Rose, household economics; Miss Miriam Harris, English and history; Miss Elizabeth Allin, math and physics; Harold Jackson, medicine: John Harris, law; and Douglas Lucas, law. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 24, 1948 -Headquarters Central command at Oakville announced that Port Perry High School Cadet Corps was selected as the most efficient Cadet Corps affili- ated with the 11th Armoured Regiment. The trophy is a cast silver sta- tuete of a cadet saluting and standing on a backbase. Last Friday afternoon Mrs. Steer and the pupils of Prospect School joined the teachers and staff of Man- chester School and held a picnic in the school grounds there. On Saturday, June 12, Edith Orma Peters, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Peters, Port Perry was united in marriage to Edward Joseph Drouilland of Toronto. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 19, 1958 The Annual Carp Derby was held on the weekends of June 1 and June 8 on the Port Perry dock. Prize for the largest catch went to Janet Bagshaw of Toronto. Congratulations to Miss Helen Parrott, former stu- dent of P.P.H.S. who gradu- ated in the class of 1958 from Oshawa General Hos- pital. Helen also won the prize for Surgical Nursing. Mrs. Gordon Prentice won the lucky draw at Stone's Men's Wear Store. She will receive a man's made to measure suit. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 20, 1963 Saturday, June 15, was the first anniversary of the official opening of the new building, home of Branch 419 Royal Canadian Legion. President Clara Warren, Treasurer Doreen Hope and Sgt. at Arms Marie Mon- ahan, representing the Ladie's Auxiliary presented a cheque for $500 to reduce the mortgage on the build- ing. The Port Perry Mer- chants have lost the last two home games but they have been unbeatable on the road. The Port Perry U.C.W. met Tuesday, June 11 for their annual pot luck supper. Approximately 60 persons enjoyed the supper.