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{ } f | 4 L 7 | Remember When..? PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Sept. 14, 1977 -- 5 Reader's Viewpoint Dear Sir: Claims metric system of no practical benefit people. No one asked the people if they wanted it - it 60 YEARS AGO cents; Wm. Nesbett was chief of police in Port Perry " from 1914 until about 1937. He was born in a log cabin on Seven Mile Island in about 1868, which % pint 30 cents, sixties. teacher is the new coach means he' was still a police officer well into his Photo courtesy Scugog Shores Museum The latest government nonsense is the changing of our highways from miles to metric. Like the tempera- ture change to metric it has no valid relationship to other measurements. The cost in Ontario just for high- way change - some $600,000. The cost for the entire metric fiasco about $100 million, and to what end? We were told that it would increase trade.. yet over 70 percent of all our exports go to the U.S., who have voted down the metric system. Over 90 percent were against changing the high- ways to metric. Canada's largest news- paper the Toronto Star, in a sfinging editorial called "Metric Madness on the Highways," says "NO ONE HAS SHOWN ANY PRAC- TICAL BENEFIT". The whole business has been a Burn's Presbyterian triumph of official pedantry was forced on us. The U.S. asked its people and even Britain as part of the com- mon market showed both miles and metric until their people became familiar to it. Not Ontario ... one day its miles, the next its metric, and with it a $10. ticket becomes a $16 ticket in metric, an increase of 60 percent. The attitude of Highways Minister Snow and Solicitor General Mac- Beth when questioned on the sudden inqrease in metric fines sounded as con- fused as the system they had introduced. The arro- gant remarks by McBeth left much to be desired. Millions of Americans drive to Canada each year and are not being informed at the border about the change and many are being unfairly fined. This insens- itive attitude can only further drive away our U.S. Thursday, Sept. 13, 1917 The teacher at Raglan school for the next term is Miss Lottie Kellington, Miss Low is the teacher for Prince Albert Public for Seagrave. Mr. Clarence Vickery has been appointed assistant-Adjt." of the " 208th Battalion. 'Mr. and 'Mrs. 'Alfred Barrett are visiting friends in Manchester. Mclntyre's Millinery will open this week. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 10, 1942 Port Perry Public School opened 'with an enrolment of 180 pupils. Mr. Roy Cornish is School and Miss Elliot assorted colours. Made to measure suits and over-coats $29.50. Miss Dorothy Joblin, Scugog will teach school in Pickering. Mr. David Bentley who has been working in Prince Edward County for the summer has returned to continue his school studies. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 11, 1952 Mr. Roy Scott, Sea- grave farmer, will most likely be nominated again as C.C.F. candi- date in Ontario County. In the "Over 90 Birth Club' congratulations are extended to Mrs. Susamma Moase, Port Perry and Mr. A.R. Wheeler, Seagrave. of the Lions entry in the Oshawa and district basketball league. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 12, 1957 Mr. Roy Ormiston, Brooklin and Orval Chambers, Wilfred, tied with 137 points each for the Premier Breeder of - Holsteins at the Black and White Show on Port Perry Fair day. Don Popert and Irene Ptolemy, Port Perry, escaped injury when the motorcycle they were riding collided with a car driven by Sinclair Rob- ertson. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 14, 1967 evening. Mr. Art Brown Church turned the first sod on the new church site in Ashburn at an impressive ceremony with . Rev. Wm. Black officiating on Sunday 10. Murray Stone, RR 2 Blackwater, was award- ed the Canadian Imper- ial Bank of Commerce Special which goes to the 4-H boy or girl obtaining the highest points in showmanship. There was a successful sale at the manse (Utica news) last Wednesday is the new owner. Jo-Anne Harris, Green- bank, has entered the Nightingale School of | over common sense. The annoyance and confu- sion particularily to older drivers is just one example of both the Trudeau and Ontario governments disre- gard for the rights of its PORT PERRY STAR tourists. We have a tourist dollar deficit with the U.S. of $1,240,000,000 (billion) plus an auto trade deficit of $1.7 BILLION in the first seven months of this year - (continued on page 6) Company Limited Phone 985 7383 Sa, Serving Por! Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships J. PETER HVIDSTEN, POblisher ~ Advertising Manager JOHN B. McCLELLAND EDITOR Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc *: and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Associaton Nursing, Toronto. Farmers on Scugog Island are fighting a battle with thousands of Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Porl Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Depariment, Ottawa, and for paymen! of postage in cash principal. Paint sale - enamel, 1 Perry Ivan Parkinson, Port High Norman Anderson, an School Elder and Treasurer of Blackbirds that are in- festing their corn fields. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year Elsewhere $10.00 per year. Single copy 20¢ Bill Smiley I Told You So When you want to rub somebody's nose in something, its customary to say, rather smugly, "I hate to say I told you so, but...." Well, I don't hate it at all, I thoroughly enjoy it. So here goes. Nearly a year ago, I wrote a column about the vultures ga to rend and tear at the still-quivering flesh of the Liberal party in general, and the Prime Minister in particular. Remember? The Tories, still flushed with excitement after electing a new lead er, were in a state of Why? Because public opinion polls showed them steadily gaining in pop-ular appeal, and Liberals steadily decreasing. Political pundits across the country were trumpeting the beginning of a new era. The Liberals were pretty blue. Trudeau was all washed up, said the experts, licking their lips. The government was on the ropes, waiting for the knock-out punch. At the time, I tried to introduce a note of reason, or at least common sénse. ry alone among the prophets, I warned while the big Liberal machine was -- ing and seemed almost moribund at times, it was not quite rea ¢ bind Whal do 8 Tot dulte ng blun do "you think all those Libera country are going to do? Lie down and play dead?" I reminded readers that while Trudeau seemed the most unpopular man in the country, so had that perennial winner, Mackenzie King. Nobody paid any heed. A few people paid me the extreme insult of insisting that only a dyed-in-the-wool Liberal would have written such a vii Then, mysteriously," the polls began to change. The Tories big edge began to slip, even though the government went on bumbling and Now, after almost a year, the figures are reversed. The Tories were wiped in by-elections. They have lost four members of caucus, through switches and resigna- tions. Right now they are as shaky as the Grits were 10 months ago. What happened? Well, for one thing, young Tory leader Joe Clerk came on like an old rubber boot. It didn't help that the media, disappointed because no political blood was being shed, savaged him ferociously. Next, Trudeau was tossed a political bouquet when the P.Q. won the Quebec election. Suddenly the whole country began bleating about the destruction of our sacred union. Overnight, he was trans- formed from that "arrogant dictator- socialist (take your pick) in Ottawa' to 'St. Pierre, the white hope who alone could turn back the savage hordes from Quebec and salvage Canada's maidenhead. At exactly the propitious moment, his beautiful young wife began rolling and stoning around and we all sat with baited breath. The soap opera ended perfectly with the flagrant young hussy leaving the poor, dear man alone with all those boys to raise. Finally, add the sheer perversity of the Canadian voter, and you have all the reasons for the Liberals once more flying high, ready for an election any time, and the poor old Tories wondering why the roof "fell in. . Don't for one moment think that the reversal in fortune, in less than a year, is due to any perspicacity or boldness on the part of the Liberal government. Far from it. Let me refresh your mind. This is the government that rejected wage and price controls when the Tories (Robert Stanfield) wanted them; then turned around and bare-faced hypocrisy and applied them. This is the government that was going to "wrestle inflation to the ground." Guess who's won two out of the first three falls. This is the government that allowed the postal workers to tie up the country for five weeks, then slammed the door on the fingers of the air traffic controllers when they called a perfectly legal strike. This is the government that has sat by bemusedly and watched unemployment climb to frightening levels, without stirring a finger. This is the government that dithered over capital punishment and waffled on gun controls. This is the government that threw make middle-aged civil servants learn French, instead of spending those dollars on teac it to children. on teaching it to children. This gn the government that has set up a propaganda service and has acknowledge black-lists of Canadian citizens. This is the government that sold you a $100 Canada Savings Bond which is now worth 93 cents, on a good day. This is the government that preaches control and constraint and pigetices neither in its own spending. Now. Let he who dares call me a dyed-in-the-wool Liberal. The Argyle Syndicate Ltd.