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* * 3 2 aw % » ¥ i 3 & 8 ( i 1 4 LB 3 » » 'Y + & 8 12 3 v . ® 3 RJ | 4 14 MRD) Ln ASE Sa VOR she Sat _ 60 YEARS AGO Thurs., October 18, 1917 The date is unknown for this photo of the cast of "The Rivals" lent to the Star by the Scugog Shores Museum. Participants in the play are, back left - Smith Ferguson, Hildred Patton, Mansell Jackson, Miss Lynch [teacher], Norman Philip, Grace Rose, 35 YEARS AGO Thurs., October 18, 1942 Crosier. Patton. Oshawa. 25 YEARS AGO Harold Jackson. Middle, left - Aleta Ferguson, Ralph Honey, Olive Wallace, Ernest Gerrow, Jean Front, left - Orval Switzer and Gordon Photo courtesy Scugog Shores Museum pledged $100. in support of Minor Hockey in Port PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1977 -- § Appointment made to savings bond campaign David C. Hetherington has be&n appointed organizer in the 1977 Canada Savings Bond Campaign, payroll sav- ings division, for the Oshawa-Whitby area. The territory includes Osh- awa, Bowmanville, Picker- ing, Whitby, Ajax, Uxbridge, Port Perry and Port Union. This will be Mr. Hethering- ton's second Canada Savings Bond Campaign. This year marks the 32nd anniversary of Canada Sav- ings Bonds and during the period 1946-1976 inclusive, more than $7.9 billion in Canada Savings Bonds was purchased through the Pay- roll Savings Plan across the country. Last year in this area, 9,307 employees bought a total of $6,063,000 worth of Canada Savings Bonds through payroll savings. During the Campaign, which runs from mid-Sep- tember to mid-November, CSB organizers will visit about 2,800 business and industrial establishments in Ontario to help set up payroll savings plans for the pur- chase of the new series by employees. CSB buyers on the payroll savings plan will be- intro- duced to a new bond this year - the Compound Interest Bond which replaces the familiar coupon bond of past years. The compound bond, which will pay interest on interest, is one of a number of changes being introduced this year to enhance the flexibility and security of Canada Savings Bonds. In addition to the Com- pound Interest Bond avail- able on payroll savings plans at places of employment, investors have a choice. They can buy either this bond or the Regular Interest Bond wherever they bank or invest. Both bonds are dated Nov- ember 1, 1977, carry a nine- year term and provide 8.06 -percent average annual yield to maturity. Interest rate in the first year is 7.0 percent, then 8.25 percent for each subsequent year to maturity in 1986. In excess of $219 million worth of Canada Savings Bonds was purchased by more than a quarter of a million employees through payroll savings plans in Ontario last year. Canada- wide in 1976, a record $619 million worth of Canada Sav- ings Bonds was bought through the payroll savings plan by more than 815,000 Canadian residents. Pte. Randolph Switzer has been awarded the Military Medal for keep- ing up field telephone communications under terrific shell fire. Sergt. Harry Abbots has also won the Military Medal. {Two popular young people in Port Perry were united in marriage on Oct. 11, 1917 - Miss Aileen McCaw to Mr. Harold Emmerson. Mr. Frank Bailey has bought the lot and orch- ard from Mr. H.E. Briggs in Prince Albert just east of his own property. The barns and pig pens of Mr. Wm. Pollack, Sea- grave were totally de- stroyed by fire. A military demonstra- tion will be staged in Port Perry consisting of 45 Air Force men, 35 Army men, 17 vehicles and 2 Officers. Miss Gladys Joblin, Quebec, spent a few days with her parents, Scugog. The following Black- stock men have gone west to help harvest the grain crop - Lloyd Wright, Dalton Dorrell, Reg Middleton, Ernie Swain and Bert Hoskins. District Deputy Char- les Reesor and his Degree Team of Warri~ ner Lodge, were in Oshawa installing the officiers of Corinthian and Phoenix Lodges, Thurs. Qctober 23, 1952 Harry Harran, veteran angler, Caesarea, caught one of the largest fish of the season, a 26 pounder. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bushby, Greenbank, celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary. Robert Harris, Ux- bridge lawyer, is seeking the Liberal nomination. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Starkey are on an ex- tended visit to Oakland, California. Mr. Charles Venning and Mr. Wilfred Wil- liams are adding a wing on the east side of their garage in Blackstock. 20 YEARS AGO Thurs., October 17, 1957 Port Perry Lions Club Perry. The Chamber of Commerce also pledged $100. to further minor hockey in Port Perry. Lion Bert Hutcheson was installed as the first life member of the Lipns Club, Port Perry United Church Choir are presenting Gilbert and Sullivan's '"H.M.S. Pina- fore" in the Port Perry Public School. Sister Grace Love was installed as Noble Grand of Maybelle Rebekah Lodge. 10 YEARS AGO Thurs., October 19, 1967 At 4 a.m. Tuesday morning, the Port Perry fire department was call- (continued on page .7) (PORT PERRY STAR Phone 935 733) S- A En : (um): Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Departmen, Oltawa, and for paymen! of postage \ Company Limited REN +, ', Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships J. PETER HVIDSTEN, ~ublisher Advertising Manager JOHN B. McCLELLAND EDITOR Member ot the Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Associa ~ . Published every Wednesday by the Port! Perry Star Co. Ltd, Port Perry, Ontario in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $8.00 per year Elsewhere $10.00 per year. Single copy 20¢ a Bill Smiley There is something delightfully inconsist- ent about most women which can make strong men moan and gnash their teeth but provides a certain amount of inadvertent hilarity to those of us who have given up long ago. After years of blowing every nickel we made, the old battleaxe and I decided to start saving some money for our old age. Neither of us will make it; I because the old corpus will likely cash its ticket before that time, and she because she'll never grow old. But it seemed a good idea at the time. - Thad no idea what it would lead to. But it did. First thing I noticed was that it cut down severely on my extra-curricular act- ivities. - 2 ; 'Hey, sweetie, is it OK if I join the poker club this fall? They need me. 'They play so many old women's games that they want someone to teach them how to play real poker. It would practically be the same as teaching night school." 03 "Bill, you know perfectly well the answer is no. We can't afford it. We're trying to . save money, not throw it away." No use reminding her that on the couple of occasions I played with these infants of the game I came home with so many quarters in my right-hand pocket she thought I'd broken a leg as I limped in the door. . "Uh, dear, there's to be an old fighter Ah, Women! pilot's reunion in Edmonton this October. Golly, it would be kinda nice to sneak away for a few days and see some of the old..." "What do you do at those reunions? Besides tell lies and drink?" "Well there's a whole program. Speeches. A dances. Wives are invited. Howja like to go? They're a great bunch. Guys'll be there from all over Canada and the States. Australia. Britain. We didn't do a thing all summer. Let's get away from it all." "From what all? You mean from me. You know I wouldn't be caught dead at a fighter pilots' reunion. A bunch of boozy old men standing around, half-pickled, waving their hands in the air. What would it cost?' "Well, there's just the air fare. And the hotel. And the convention fee. And a few odds and sods. 'For the two of us, it would come to only about $700. And if you were sure you didn't want to come, I could make it alone for $500. Stony silence. Not a word, a gesture of encouragement. She went off, rather tight around the lips, to watch TV. I sat and pawed rather wistfully through the reunion: literature. Next day, when I came home from work, it had all disappeared. There was a small pier of ashes in the fireplace. But that's not all our saving binge has affected. I'm not that selfish. I'm not going to kick up a fuss just because my social life has been wiped out so that I can have a hamburger and a half, instead of splitting one, when I'm an old dodderer. No, there's a lot more. My wife, in her zeal to save money, has started reading the food ads for the first time in her life. Could any of my readers use 20 pounds of flour? The old lady used approximately five pounds a year, for frying fish and stuff. The other day, because it was half price, she bought a 25-pound bag. It sits in the kitchen, moves from one location to another, like one of the seven dwarfs sleeping off a hangover. off a hangover. The house is filling up with bargains. She: bought 12 cans of peas at 30 percent off. We never eat canned peas, preferring the frozen ones. We'll never get rid of them unless she makes a massive canned pea casserole and invites all our friends to dinner. We would then have no friends. Yesterday she came in gleefully and dumped a whole bag full of razor blades in my lap. Half price! By the time I get half way through them, an orderly will be shaving me in some Sunset Heaven, I go into the bathroom and literally stumble and fall over sticks of roll-on deodorant which are spilling out of the drawers. There was a special on them, and we have enough to pass a few along to dur eventual undertaker. : Any day now, I'm expecting a truck to drive up to the back door and unload half a ton of potatoes, because they are 10 percent off when bought in bulk. Open the freezing compartment in the fridge to get a couple of ice cubes, and you are liable to be brained by an avalanche of frozen hamburg, 10 pounds of it at 45 cents a pound, wrapped in half-pound packages. That's 40 hamburgers. I eat about four a year, grudgingly. I was thinking of having some brickwork done on my house this year. But bricks are expensive. I think I'll use frozen margarine instead. We got a great buy on it: 37 cents a pound, and we have 82 pounds in the basement. , We have two beaten-up old cars. It was always a decision: which one shotild go in the garage. No more problems. Now they both stay out on the street. The garage is full of turnips, squash, vegetable marrow and cabbage, every one a bargain. There's no question. We're saving money right and left. And just the other day, my wife announced the coup de grace. If we move quickly, we can get a terrific deal on a new dining room suite. It's been knocked down from $1,800 to $1,500. Any readers who are having trouble saying money in these troublous times need only drop a line. At Smileys' The Price Is Right. RS RT ONS MTOR AVY Gh LU -- ¥ ys . h * WA a Ra = oy ~ a tr : SE et NT ea