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i A , 0 "But the way things have been going the past 1S - "om 2-- PORT PERRY STAR -- Thursday, , Oct. 17, 1974 22 2G 0 2 2 22 2G 22S 2G 2262525 2626262526 26262526 262606 S555 525252S ¢ with Bruce Stewart Big city supermarketchanges | went home to the big city for the "Thanksgiving weekend and when | went to the supermarket for some groceries, | was a little [ surprised at some of the changes. : What first caught may attention was when | saw a heavily armed Brinks truck pull up to the store and the three armed guards carry three full sacks into the store. Since the guards usually take bags of money out, not into the store, | was a little confused, so | stopped the manager when he went by and asked him what was in the bags. 'Sugar," he said. "It is much more valuable { than just plain old money now, we really have to be careful with it." The manager said they had been doing that for the past few months and asked me if | hadnt noticed it before. i " | told him | had been out of the city for a while. "You will have missed out on quite a few » changes we have made in the past few months,' the manager said. "Here, let me show you around a little." As we walked down the first row, he asked me if | knew the store had converted to the metric system for all weight measurement. | asked him why. dl 4 "It's mainly because of the meat,'" he said. G [7 "'People still haven't gotten used to the metric system and still think they are getting a great 8] buy when they pay 50 cents a gram for steak." { "And we.have something up our sleeves for when people start getting used to the metric § system,' he said. 'We are going to do away with G Canadian dollars and use British pounds as our currency." ! "I can just see the consumer's face now when we mark on the package that it costs a pound a gram,' he said. "That should confuse them for a while so they won't notice the high prices." : We passed a newspaper advertisement on display and the manager beamed with pride as . he stopped to tell me about the new system of . advertising. "Our weekly specials used to be items specially reduced in price for the week," he said. "But now -we advertise whatever item hasn't gone up in price in the past week, as our special." GIG IGICICIC ICI CICICICICICICICIC 25353 ICICIC CGS CIC CICI CI CICICICICICICICICICICICIE GIGICICIGICAG 525¢52525¢ 3052525353530 AC CIC CACICICICICICICICICICICICICICIC SCICICICICICICICICT 5¢52525252525¢ 0 lope Lon Lage Layo La 5¢525252525252525¢ 52525252 ICICICICIC ICACACACACIACICE 52525¢ oo om om [op le Lope vp oe ope "And if something hasnt gone up in two weeks, we call it an extra special,'"' the manager y said proudly. "Our only extra special this week was on' toothpicks." 02S5252525252525252525¢5¢ 02525352525 52526 But he said toothpicks wouldnt last long at that price as there was a real demand for them now. SCI 3 "People didn't used fo worry about the little § bit of food they left between their teeth," he said. B 4 "But with the price of food now, every little bit counts." ! As we walked down another row, | noticed a i small room with cots and stretchers in it. | asked Hl the manager what that was for. "That's the recovery room," He said. "'I's for people who go into shock when they see the prices. They usually faint on the spot." "And we supply this recovery room free of Kl charge," he said. 0. | asked him why it was free. When he began to say "More than the price is right,'"" | told him | understood. "It is a funny thing, though,' he said. "We used to get most of our recovery room patients when there had been an unusually large weekly increase in something say 250 per cent.' when they have seen a price that was the same for two weeks in a row." : The shock was too much." 2 few weeks, | think we should soon eliminate the Lf : H H M4 ! ! H 0 A "But lately we have had more people faint A 3 | 4 H i fn A ! y News from Seagrave and area ° We very much doubt if anyone got their garden cleaned up on Thanksgiving -this year. It must have been a disappointing week-end, too, for the many travellers out for the last holiday of the season and for the brides on whom the sun didn't shine. Our church was the scene of a large wedding on Satur- day -afternoori when Mr.. Richard Payne and Miss Darlene Caldwell were unit- ed in marriage by Rev. J. Roundell. We suppose an account will appear else- where in the paper. Another wedding of inter- est to some is coming soon so on Saturday afternoon Mrs. Venner, Mrs. Tobin, Mrs. McNeil, Mrs. Nobbs and Joanne Nobbs attended the shower for Miss Sharyn Mor- timer in Pleasant Point Church. Our sick list is slightly shorter now, Mrs. James Durward has returned from hospital but the others still remain and we hear that ex-citizen William Moase of Port Perry is on the sick list too. Thanksgiving was the theme of the October meet- ing of U.CW. held last, Wednesday evening," For devotional Mrs. Ken Short occupied the chair, Mrs. Keen offered prayer, Mrs.- Barrett read the scripture and Mrs. Hurst gave the topic. . During the business period a nominating committee and - a turkey supper committee were appointed and plans made for the Fellowship - Sister dinner in late Novem- ber. ' Reta Boe, who was with her son and his family in King- ston. : Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Short, Miss Shirley Short and Mr. Verne Gillson had their dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Gary Twiner in Uxbridge. - The Bruce Carr family celebrated Connie's birthday and Thanksgiving in Orillia on Sunday. with Mr. and Mrs. Barry Nicholls and daught- er. We had some visitors too. Mrs. Peggy Lucknow of Tor- onto was with Mrs. Phyllis Wray for a few days. The Hilbert family. of Hamilton were home with Lunch this time was pump- ~ kin pie and tea. On Friday, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Carr attended the funeral of - Mrs. Carr Sr., (Bruce's great-grandmoth- er) in Lindsay and the burial in Eden cemetery. Those away from home for Thanksgiving included Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. R. Nodwell. Sylvia'and Joe Ellen Pol- lard of Stouffville spent a couple of days with Mr. and Mrs. Don Hunter and the others of the Pollard family arrived on Sunday. Mrs. Della Spring. of Rich- 'ville was again the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Les Third. « The Ron Wanamaker fam- ily of Oshawa along with the Neil Wanamakers had Thanksgiving dinner on Sun- day with the home folks and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wanamak- er were in on a repeat performance on Monday. Mrs. Coxworth and Shane of Uxbridge were with the CLUB ANNRENE DANCING 4-0) . . SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19th en Elimination Draw & Dance (See Kinsmen ad for futher details) / SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 JACK BAILEY & the BAILIFFS ~~ Don't miss the "Big Band Sounds" of BENNY LOUIS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9th Tobins for the holiday while father, Dane Coxworth was away hunting. Mr. and Mrs. Venner had family Thansgiving on Sun- day. Their guests were Mr. and Mrs. Tom Venner and family of Mississauga, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Newman and family of Omemee and the Martin Fishers with their boys from south of the village. ; Of course, Thanksgiving was' emphasized at - the church service on Sunday and Rev. 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