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i J » _ The Editor, FEA RETRO LAS IEE SEY 4 PIES i EW RETA OAR LB BR SA IE FEUER A SESS) Reader's Viewpoint Disagrees with councillor Port Perry Star, Port Perry, Ont, Dear Sir : For the second time this month, in reading your newspaper, I have seen the people of our community referred to as a 'barrel of apples'. See Port Pefry Star ~March-16,- 1977; page 1--- "Approve rezoning property Youth Home Opposition', and I quote: 'Neil McLaughlin told the STAR that he wanted nothing to do with such an establishment and agreed with the Rate-' payer who said the thing about the rotten apple spoil- ing the entire barrel." We, our children, and children's children, are human beings with a human personality: we have a mind, body -and soul: We ARE NOT a bunch of inert apples lying in a barrel, unable to do anything about the ones that may be 'turn- ing' rotten except turn rotten also. However, to go March 18, 1977. along with the metaphor, if some individuals and organ- izations" (suchas --Chimo) have the training and desire to remove some of the ones that are 'turning' while they can be 'saved', then I say 'All power to these people." and God Bless them. Dear Sir, Over the years the Star has followed Sports careers of various people from the Port Perry area. Perhaps the best known are Richard Stephens, Anna Forder and David Porter. However what of the other individuals "who have excelled at their particular sport but are receiving no "print" at home. This year I feel this situation is particularily brought out. Last weekend (March 3-5) the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic, Union (CIAU) held their annual basketball If Coun. McLaughlin, and the Ratepayer he _ quoted, wish to liken themselves to apples, that is their privil- ege, No doubt they consider themselves. to be the BIG APPLES!! Edith M. Brunton Port Perry. tournament in Halifax to decide the Canadian Basket Ball champion. As the tournament progressed it became increasingly evident that one player for the fifth- ranked team in the country stood out. This player: Jim Zoet. That's right, the same Jim Zoet who starred at Port Perry High and then went on to Kent State on a scholarship. In the tourn- ament he was named to the all-star team and during the year he was also selected to the All-Canadian team. But, what did he receive from the home town paper - nothing. Dear Editor: I am writing to you with the purpose of defending the younger generation that the STAR, last week, labeled as often being radical and belli- gerent. I agree with the STAR that. there is an outragious -and sometimes hopeless part of my generation, but lets look past the streets and Claims local athletes forgotten I realize that basketball hasn't caught the imagin- ation of the town but a more glowing example comes from the hockey world. Who, up until last week, was the second leading goal- tender in the major Junior "A league. Prince Albert's own Barry Heard. Who was the most sought after player by the leading club in the major Junior "A" (London Knights) this year? Prince Albert's Ed Olsen. These two examples I feel exemp- lify best my above com- plaint. These two individ- uals along with Mark Jobb into our schools, R.H. Cor- nish, for instance. There we find young and intelligent people participating in activities ranging from sports, - drama; music and yearbook staffs to library and French clubs. There the good outweighs the bad by a very large amount. My opinion is that this gener ation is more enterprising by Star (Oshawa Generals) and Tom Olsen (Bowling Green University) stand perhaps the best chance of becoming professional hockey players and perhaps enlightening more scouts to the fact that Port Perry has an excellent minor hockey program. Ed Olsen during the year, even though only playing a limit- ed number of games for London, had three separate columns written about him in the London Free Press. What did the home town paper say? Nothing. I realize the scope of (continued on page 6) PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Mar. 23, 1977 --'5 In favour of Chimo Youth Home and enlightened than any other generation ever has been. Now in regards to the planned Chimo Youth Home, if itis in fact true that many citizens of Port Perry are ready to take up petitions opposing the youth center, then I cannot fully express the disappointment I find from this fact. ' Please, don't think that.I am just some dumb kid-that doesn't know what he's talk- ing about, because I'm not. I have interviewed some people who-have dealt with this kind of thing before and who are counsellors in the Chimo Youth Services. 1° fully understand the prob- lems that could arise from the installment of a youth home into our community. But I am still all for it. We, the citizens of Port Perry, should not just sit back and push out anything that represents even the smallest change in our lives. Let's go ahead and do some- thing, help others. We should at least give the Youth Home a chance before we throw it out alto- gether. (continued on page 6) Bill Smiley The spinoff racket One of the great rackets these days is Norman Lear was the first TV producers 'Tyler. Moore Show,", spun, or spawned cheque at the same time. the television series '"'spinoff". . When a TV producér has a popular show, and one of the secondary characters is even' mildly amus- ing, first thing you know that character has a show of his or her own. This proliferates until you have spinoffs of spinoffs. It's like taking a bottle of fire whiskey, doubling 'the qhantity by adding an equal amount of water, and selling it at the same price per shot as the original. Then you take this mouthwash and further dilute it by adding more water, and "you go on selling this at the original price. It works fine and makes a lot of money until the consumer finally realizes he could get more bang out of a glass of buttermilk, and you are left with a large supply of gargle on to realize that people like watching bigotry and bathroom jokes even more than they like watching violence. Thus was born "All in the Family", one of the great money- makers of all time in TV land. From this was spun off 'Maude'. The bigotry became phoney liberalism and the bathroom jokes became bedroom jokes, but it-was the same slick formula, and it worked. It was only a step from the slick to the sick, and brother Lear came up with 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", which, while not quite a spinoff, is of the genre. Its favorite refrain is "Oh, Gawd. Oh, my Gawd". Excellent fare for the morbid or diseased mind. your hands, ~ Another good original show, "The Mary 60 YEARS AGO Wed. March 28, 1917 ~ Mr. William Hope is leaving Scugog Island for the west. : Mr. James Short, Sea- grave, has bought the house owned by Mrs. Joe Tripp. Miss Anneta Buckler, Scugog, has gone to Chicago .to visit her " sister, Mrs. (Rev.) Crane. Mr. Norman Bradley who is on the staff of the T. Eaton Co., Winnipeg, has been to New York on a buying trip and on his return trip spent Sunday in Port Perry with his parents. Beare's Garage has installed a new Delco Lighting System, 35 YEARS AGO Thurs. March 26, 1942 Mr. Ernest Gilroy of end with his parents at Prospect. . Scugog Community held a miscellaneous shower for Miss Luella Fort Erie spent the week-, , Remember 2 When..? Jeffrey who was recently married to Mr. Malcolm Bailey, Mrs. A. Plough- man read the address. Warriner Lodge spon- sored a dance at the High School with music by Russ Creighton. ~At- the seed judging contest held in Uxbridge Town Hall, Mr. George Beare was in charge of 'the competition in the morning and Mr. F. H. Westney was chairman for the afternoon session. 20 YEARS AGO Thurs. March 21, 1957 Members of the 1.0.D.E. attended the ceremonies at the Court House, Whitby, when a group of 75 people. received their citizenship pers. Mrs. Alan Jackson, Manchester, accom- panied the Honeydale Institute to Fairview Lodge and assisted in the programme. At a meeting of the Greenbank Fidelis Club : "held at Mrs. Ruby Beare's, Mrs. Myrtle Rennick gave a demon- stration on making "felt A -- decorations. Mrs. S. Cawker and Mrs. Paul Diamond were appointed delegates to the Guelph convention. 10 YEARS AGO Thurs." March 23, 1961 Two young orators from R. H. Cornish Pub- lic School, Frieda Stein and Jayson Madsen, proudly accepted their trophies from Port Perry Lions Club President Gord Thomas, for their outstanding efforts in public speaking. The "W. M. Letcher" Rover Group of Port Perry provided some fine entertainment for approximately 400 resid- ents of Port Perry and district by sponsoring the North Mount Northlandia Concert Band in the High School Auditorium on Saturday. Capt. and Mrs. Ian Fotheringham and Craig, who has spent the last four years stationed in Germany are spending a week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Philip, Utica, before leaving for their new post in Comox, B.C. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cor- nish are spending a month's vacation in Florida and Nassau." "Phyllis" and "Rhoda", each starring one of the most self-centred, unpleasant women a writer could dream up, and each laced with borderline bad taste. There's nothing wrong with all this, I suppose, in a free enterprise system, and nobody forces you to watch the garbage. But there is only so much that the stomach will take before it will spew. And there is only so much that the mind will take before you will experience an intellec- tual vomit, and switch to watching the wrestling matches, where at least nobody is trying to pretend it's anything but phoney. However, perhaps I'm rushing my fences arbit.. I'm a realist. If everybody else is getting into the spinoff business, maybe I should jump on the bandwagon. . There's __money in it, and besides, it might-be one. 'way of putting an end to it. My record is perfect. 'Just after the war, I met an old buddy who'd become a broker. He was investing in gold stocks and hauling in the loot. Gave me a hot tip. I plunged, with some of the back pay I'd built up while in-prison camp. Met the guy six months later. He'd lost his home and his boat and was selling farm machinery. I owned 300 shares of muskeg in Northern Ontario. After that I stayed away from the market until mutuals were the thing. They were showing tremendous growth and potential. Once bitten, I hesitated, but then dived in with my $200 savings. It seems I arrived just after the mutuals had nibbled some of that biscuit Alice did so she could go through the rabbit hole, or whatever. They shrank almost overnight to $85 worth. Last November, in one last desperate effort to enjoy a luxurious old age, I bought two $100 Canada Savings Bonds. Two weeks later there was an election in Quebec, and now we don't even know whether there'll always be a Canada. In January of this year, I bought a second-hand Ford. A week later I read in the paper that the Ford Motor Company was making payments for extraordinary rust to owners of Fords in my vintage. Then I read the small print. The payments had ended on December 30, 1976. -My Ford has rust. g So, with a track record like that, maybe I can administer the kiss of death to the spinoff business. Thought I'd start by producing some spinoffs of my column, There's no problem about talent. My family is loaded with writers. Both my son and daughter specialize in pathos. They can- write letters so pathetic that you are weeping all over the page and writing a My wife can knock out a grocery list as long as your arm without even stopping to suck the pen. And she is not only talented as a writer. She's an outstanding and outspoken critic, as well. She can rip up the punctuation and purpose, the style and substance of one of my columns with both hands tied behind her back. Which is the only way it is safe to read some of them to her. And there'll be no difficulty about con- tent. My daughter is expert on Women's Lib, music, and mooching. My son. is fluent in English, French, Spanish, the Indian dialect of the natives of Paraguay, and mooching. And the old lady is an expert on every- thing, and admits it. She has been bottling - up this veritable fountain of knowledge for decades, except during breakfast, before and after dinner, and all weekend. Giving her a column of her own would be like punching a 20-foot hole in Boulder Dam. In two or three years, I might even get the grandboys into it. At the moment, they are busily stuffing their memory banks. As soon as they can write, you may expect some sizzling stuff: = Five Years as a Misunderstood Child: Daycare Centre Depression: the Inside Story on Sadistic Social Workers Who Make You Give Back 'a Toy You've Ripped Off From Some Other Kid If my column spinoffs don't put an end to the spinoff nonsense in about 30 days, I'll eat every paper in which this one appears, with or without ketchup. The Argyle Syndicate Ltd. PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Phone 985 738) Q CNA Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships LY) Sam, J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Publisher Advertising Manager John Gast, Editer Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesdsy by Whe Port Perry Star Co. LM, Por! 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