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Ed ESATA LL eBoy SER FL ¥ : J 8 EN SORRY ' - } *. A ra » ' / Mi PLR A A PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Feb. 1, 1978 -- 5 Reader's Remember When..? Viewpoint i i I vs 3/5 Blackstock Hall i ' a, ! . :. : mean a thing. The hall has oh Page toghi stock come been maintained for years ge. of us are learning more all DY the parks based and the 1X i yw i women's institute. a the time. If you Arlt in At this time the board A . agreement with the ones feels that that is hg who make the laws, just say 'co tha anyone x I'm not 'going to do it i] making money they should 10 it doesn't work for every- help with the upkeep, which Sh ' 2 is considerable. But the Ais L one. Maybe you need to ; " ho hold Re have been a council senior citizens, whno 0! hn | member or some such care parties Siete faery AR { : ; : . we w Pat { thing, At any Iie; in this attendance of fifteen tables, , { case, concerning the town ° f dhere t 7, hall, whether a law has SIMPL refuse to adhere to at been passed by a concerned the law. So they go over the th » group of citizens, namely heads of the parks board ¥ the parks board, it doesn't Continued on page 6 $ ° Thanks, Fire Dept. Dear Sir: and then they walked home. ! 3 t May I express my thanks It is so easy to stay at . pd as one grateful citizen of home where it is warm and & 8 Re T . Port Perry to all the Port safe and hope someone else The Harness Shop located in the former Dowson's Children's Boutique, on Queen Street, Port Perry. Perry . iremen rho np ons bd tae dome. Red & Whit P ) so tirelessly and long in the . e building and now the home of the hoto courtesy of Mrs. Glenn Hill storm last Thursday to help one and all, fellows, for a 60 YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO those stranded in cars. .job well done. } Thursday, January 31st, 1918 January 30th, 1958 . I had a husband and daugh- A grateful wife and Word has been received that Flight Lieut. George Mr. Ray Cook received burns to his face and nostrils ter out there for six hours mother, oo Howsam is now in France, and that he recently brought while working on a discarded refrigerator. The accident and it was the firemen who down a German aeroplane. occurred at the J. J. Gibson Poultry Plant, when the rescued them and gave Ruth Short, Due to the town lights failing there was no show this ~~ amonia gas in the unit exploded. them a ride into the fire hall Port Perry. week but tickets will be good for next week when "The . Mr. Lloyd Fawns reported -finding- a Canadian : : : ' Rosary" will be played. Weather Balloon behind his barn. It was about 5 feet high : with a radio device attached, and a parachute to let it . 35 YEARS AGO down slowly when the balloon breaks. PORT PERR Y STA R January 28th, 1943 Company Limited Flight Lieut. James Kerr, R.C.A.F. was in town 10 YEARS AGO Phone 515730) apt, during the weekend. He was a guest speaker at the Lions Thursday, February 1, 1968 En {| Club Meeting on Friday night. Anna Forder and Richard Stephens, smartly dressed While shoeing a horse, Mr. Cyrus Switzer was in their Hudson Bay coats and fur hats left on the morning Serving Port Perry, Reach. Scugog and knocked down and trampled resulting in a broken leg and train for Montreal where they joined other Olympic team Bortwrkika Tounstips : a dislocated;shoulder. He was taken to the Port Perry members for their overseas flight to France, to compete 3:.PETER HYIDSTEN, i Hospital. Fy in the Winter Olympics in Grenoble. erlang Mise ' A well-known resident of Reach Township, Mr. Grant L MechELLanp 25 YEARS AGO Christie has been awarded a Centennial Medal in Conogion com Member ate . ; January 29th, 1953 recognition of his valuable service to the nation. and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association iB Jessie McArthur of Blackstock was one of six girls Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Dowson on the Published every Wednesday by Ihe Port Perry | across the Dominion of Canada to attend the Coronation occasion of their 50th Wedding Anniversary. Sif Co. 119.. Por} Perv: Osarin | celebrations in England in June. The H. H. Goode and Son Feedmill, including a large Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office | A Port Perry resident, Mrs. Dhel Bentley became the grain elevator; two Canadian Pacific Railway sleeper Depariment, Oifawa, 3rd Hr payment of postage | first woman in Ontario County and possible the province cars and a box car and part of the C.P.R. station were . ass Mai Rectan Ne ons . to be chosen for jury duty. - destroyed last Thursday evening in a fire which started RESORT: 2 nail Regi eon Numer shortly after midnight. i oh gang ha -- eo ------ Bill Smiley Modern Society Don't you get a little tired of the touchiness of modern society in which, no matter where you stép, it's on somebody's 'toes, no matter what you say or write, it's a slur on someone's back-ground, color, screed or convictions? About the only areas left in which one may chance a remark without fear of _ inflicting a wound are politics and sex. "It's extremely difficult to inflict even a bruise on a politician. He must have a fat ego in the first place, and he quickly acquires a brass hide to go with it. Add an ability to talk out of both sides of the mouth at once, and a certain skill in straddling fences, and you have cabinet material. ® In the field of sex, there don't seem to be any limits any more to what can be said, presented or simulated. Movies, magazin- es ahd theatre club us over the head with raw, unembellished sex or seek to titillate the spook: in each of us with highly-embell- ished, freaky sex until the whole once- exciting subject has. become a. crashing bore. eh ' Aside from sex and politics then, there is scarcely an. aspect of the human scene where even angels fear to tread, lest they eo step on someone's sensibilities. Ad Ethnic jokes are out, black is beautiful, gefillte fish is glorious, Rhodesia is rotten, SN poor people are more noble than rich people, gay is gorgeous, and the only real sin is to be old. Lord forbid that we should ever go back to the days when a Catholic was a "mick" or a '"dogan," a black person was "a "nigger," an Italian was a '"'wop," a Chinese was a "chink," and so on. _ But I do get heartily sick of a society in which you have to tippy-toe all the time for fear of offending some touchy minority, or trespassing inadvertently on someone's weird religious affiliations. We are developing into a society with a snobbish sort of reverse prejudice in which everybody is leaning over backwards in order to appear not even to be breathing on anyone else. : As a result, we. are losing much of that good old Canadian crustiness and turning into a nation of nice nellies in whose mouths margarine wouldn't melt. Even our media reflect this trend in our society. With few exceptions, our news- papers are as bland as blanc mange. The letters to the editor have more bite, and are often better written, than the editor- ials. : Our magazines are either tiresomely "liberal" or narrowly nationalistic, or both. Tied in tight bundles, they make better firewood than they do reading matter. - ; Television - and radio news report- ing, most of it culled from the late editions of hewspapers, is incredibly unimaginative and repetitious. TV programs, on the whole, are pure pap, offensive by being so inoffen- sive. Public figures are so frightened of offend- ing somebody or losing a few votes, that their public utterances come out as mush wrapped in marshmallow. What this country, and this society, need is a good dash of cold water from some- where, to wake us from our mind-numbing, paralyzing '"'niceness." + We need a Bob Edwards or a Grattan O'Leary to jolt us with some honest vituperation, some colorful name-calling, some hard facts, and some common sense. We need some politicians with guts, who don't give a diddle for the popularity polls, and who would give us the facts of life without any sugar coating. We need some educators with backbone to tell the people who claim that Huckle- berry Finn is racist and The Merchant of Venice is anti-semitic and Catch-22 is dirty and The Diviners is disgusting, to go fly a kite. : We need about 10,000 .fewer smart-ass commentators on what is wrong with this country, and a few hundred honest men or women to tell us what is right with it. We need far fewer "reasonable" people and a heck of a lot more 'unreasonable' people, who would refuse to accept some- thing just because it's always been done that way, or someone might be upset if things were changed. We need some thundering editorials, some pulpits pounded, some stiff jail sentences for racism, some honesty in high places. We certainly don't need a 'good war' or a 'good depression" to make Canadians stop whining and bitching ait mealy- mouthing, but we certainly need a "good" something to turn us back into the sturdy, individualistic people we used to be. ~~ I haven't the answers. I'm no prophet. But I'm sick to the ears of a society that thinks: old people are a nuisance; young people are never a nuisance; super- markets are sexy; social workers can make miracles; and everybody is as good as everybody else. Perhaps if you agreed with me to some extent, you would enjoy reading The Golden Age of B.S. by Fred C. Dobbs. It's rambling and it's course in spots, but it's right on. The Argyle Syndicate Ltd. ERT SYN [5 REO