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Mat and PORE RATIONS ir pach Council meetings The newly elected council for the Township of Scugog takes over the affairs of this area in just three weeks, and it is time the councillors got down to deciding when they will be meeting. The day and time of meetings might seem like a small matter when considered alone, but in light of other facts it becomes of major importance. . Regional council has already decided to meet every 'Wednesday. It has already been demonstrated that Re- gional Council is too busy to receive deputations from the public. This means that if people are going to have any way of getting through to the region they will have to do so through the local members. If the Chamber of Commerce, the Ratepayer's Association or any of the other groups in town wish to make presentations to council at public meetings as they have done in the past, meetings will have to be held BEFORE the regional council meetings. It may be that some of the things submitted for consideration will be things that should be properly submitted at the regional level. If so, the original presentation will have to take place before the region meets, so our two regional representatives will have time to fully consider the matter before passing it along. At times the deputation may want to rewrite its submission to be sent to the region. Also, it is to be hoped that our regional representatives will not act in a vacuum, but will literally be council representatives to the region. In order for that to be possible council recommen- dations will have to be made long enough before the Wednesday meeting to allow our representatives time to consider all details. . Scugog council should: meet at night, so members of the public will be able to get to the meetings if they wish. Scugog council should meet MONDAY night so one full day will be available for regional representatives to plan for the Wednasday regional meeting. Human Rights Day Yesterday (December 11) was United Nations "Human Rights Day." The day, established by the United Nations in the same year that religious leaders established the World Council of Churches, comes fittingly enough at the beginning of Advent and in the midst of the Christmas season. Advent remembers the experiment which brought humble, uneducated fishermen, despised tax collectors and even war like Roman soldiers to the for-front of the world's first peace movement. Advent leads up to the actual beginning of the experiment, Christmas Day. The day when the most important news in history was broken, not to the Roman government, not to the scribes (reporters), but to farmers in their fields and travellers in the dessert. It was a dramatic lesson in Human Rights. It spoke better than words, to say that all men are indeed equal, and in the proper, divine order of things it may very well be that the first are last, and the last are first. That the despised things of the world can be used to confound the wisdom of the great. Human rights. The angel referred to it as, "Peace on Earth - Goodwill to men." _ Whatever you call it, so long as you extend it to. EVERY man, the Star supports it. PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Sar, (*cha : (um) Serving Port Perry, Reach. Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher BRUCE ARNOLD, Editor WM. T. HARRISON, * J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Plant Manager Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Part 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¢ "Wo Ho Ho... anD HAVE 55% Fy SE PASAT IRAN WRAP JAE SEY LIA bX WAY BEEN GOOD LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS 7" BILL MILEY UGAR ano Perhaps someone who has gone the whole course can tell me when one's children stop depending on their parents when it comes to the clutch. Is it in their forties, fifties, sixties? Certainly it is not in their twenties. Recently, we received a note from our son Hugh, to tell us he was taking some holidays and would be home for a few days' visit. - I'thought. *'Good. He's saved some money and won't arrive broke, as usual." He had. Some days laer, in a telephone conversa- tion with daughter Kim, we learned that Hugh had dropped in to see her, and had drifted off, muttering ' something about going to Chicago. That is a slightly round about way of getting to our place. And a few days later there was a collect call from Houston, Texas. You guessed it, Hugh. flat broke. Could we wire him money for bus fare to get home? He was crafty enough to call when I was at work. T would probably have refused the collect call, and regretted it later. Or I'd have shouted. "No, T will not send you the price of one serving of Kentucky fried chicken," and slammed up the receiver. But he sweet-talked his mother for five minutes before he popped the question. She was not only affronted but taken aback and didn't think quickly enough to tell him we were just off to Florida or the west coast or anywhere. She waffled a bit, and eventually said she'd see what his Dad said but not to expect anything. He sighed with relief and told her where to send the money. I came home from work on a Friday after a hard week. All I wanted was to get my shoes off, have a quiet drink before dinner, and read the latest goodies about the energy crisis. And all T got was a family crisis, a scramble to the bank, and a dash to get to the telegraph office before it closed for the weekend. At first I stood my ground. Not a penny. Let him starve in Houston. At least he won't freeze to death (he'd airily told his mother it was 90 degrees down there.) : And she agreed. with me. "He doesn't deserve a cent. He was told he was never to do that again. Ungrateful young pup. Wh doesn't he hifchhike home?" Srice "Well," I said, '"'some of those southern states are pretty tough on hitchhikers. Throw them in jail for a month." I could just see. her thinking of her first-born slaving on a Georgia chain-gang or something of the sort. After a heated half-hour, we agreed that money isn't everything, that you can't take it with you, that he's the only son we have, that it would be nice to see him, and that I'd better hustle if T wanted to get to the bank in"time. It cost me about $115, counting the bus fare and grub to get home, the cost of the collect call, and the charge for sending the money. That's what I call sending good money after good. Of course, Hugh wouldn't dream of accepting a gift. It was strictly a loan. According to his figures, he now owes me $380.00. without interest, and will have the whole thing paid off any time now. According to my figures, he owes me $880.46, at eight percent interest, and he'll never pay it off. This has been happening to me for years. First, the kids go to their mother, and soften her up. The she comes to me, and softens me up. Then I go back to the kids and practically apologize for being so slow with the loot. © Of course, 1 reason, Hugh's only a kid. Practically a baby. He won't be twenty- seven until July. You can't expect him, at that tender age, to know enough to SAVE SOME MONEY FOR BUS FARE HOME! But that other kid. She's a different matter. She's almost a mother. And she pulled a swifty on us this week. Another collect call, on Sunday. Nice to hear her. Asked how big the tummy was. All very matey and maternal. Then came the punch line. Don, her husband, was on the way up from the city with their cat, to put in our care. He had to hitch-hike because he couldn't bring the cat on a bus. Her mother nearly blew a cork. The danged cat isn't trained. So we have two additions to the household this week. Two fal cats. One in the backvard, yowling to get in. The other watching TV, sleeping till noon, and waiting to put the bite on me for more bus fare back to his job in Quebec. I shoulda been a cranky old bachelor. 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 13, 1923 The Official Board of the Union Chyireh (Presbyterian (and Methodist). of Cart- wright, has passed a resolu- tion to check the abuse of the use of liquor in the township. Mr. John Warren, Prince Albert, barely escaped injury Saturday when his wagon broke down on the Provincial Highway. Mr. W.H. Clark, Port Perry picked up a bunch of pansies from his garden on december 9. The work of renovating the Town Hall is progressing. All of the joists under the floor had to be replaced. The basement will soon be used as dressing rooms for per- formers. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, Dec. 9, 1918 The Wilson Orchestra of Nestleton entertained the guests of the Worshipful Master and Officers of Fidelity Lodge, AF. & A.M. al a very successful "At Home" held at the Port Perry High School. : Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Storry, Port Perry announce the engagement of their daughter Ruth Velma to Keith Widden Mark. About 100 friends and neighbours of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hocken, Shirley, gathered at their home to honour them success and happiness in their new home in Port Perry. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 11, 1958 Donald McKague, Toronto, formerly of Sonya, has been chosen to take the official . portraits for the Royal visit to Canada. Congratulations to Bruce Miller of Port Perry who won first place at the Royal Winter Fair with his box of b viscerated Capons. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Rob Sutherland on the arrival of their daughter, Debbie Lyn. The Port Perry Glee Club has been asked to contribute to a program on the Richmond Hill Station, CJRH (1300). The Glee Club consists of grades 5,6,7 and 8 of Port Perry Public School. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Dec. 12, 1963 At the last meeting of the Fidelity Lodge, Mr. George Davey was presented with the Veteran Jubilee Medal, commemorating his 50 years as a Mason. Mayor Lyman A. Gifford and. County Warden J. Sherman Scott laid the cornerstone - of the new county courthouse and administrative building at Whitby recently. Miss Elaine Mountjoy, honour graduate of Cart- wright High School gave the 1963 Valedictory Address. Blade roast at 1.G.A. is 49 cents a pound.