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PYLE Coit sit ARTEL Y The i BS VI EO : d . KIAR IIMS shadunssbanidodorilivebocst mandosibinnis RIV RINTRDENEGERY. WCRI dL | & Thompson's. courtesy Ivan Gray. A lot of Blackstock area residents should recognize this photo taken 'in the mid 1940s. The picture shows milkman Grant Bentley delivering milk into the Blackstock Red and White store which is now owned by Note old style of gas bowzers outside of store. 1 oy Remember When. oT 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 9th, 1918 James McGregor, Allan Goode, A. W. N. Campbell and W. R. Murray were among nine persons from this area that had telephones installed in April. Mr. F. W. McIntyre has 'been notified that the ship- ment of laces he ordered from Switzerland was lost when the steamship was tor- pedoed and sank. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 13th, 1943 Last Friday afternoon Port Perry, Reach and Scugog passed the objective of $167,000 in the Victory Bond drive, and became the first District to go over the top. Mr. Phillip Orde was at home with his mother Mrs. M. Order on the weekend, and during his stay launched his sail boat "Spray". Even 25 years ago, Brock's Department Store was sell- ing Sunworthy wallpapers, only at that time the prices started as low as 12c. 25 YEARS AGO , Thursday, May 14th, 1953 Fifty Canadian girls will sail next week for the Coron- ation in England. Among these girls is Port Perry's Jean Samells, who along with the others will be a guest of W. Garfield Weston. Photo Continued on page 6 aaa A El Being in the newspaper business, we at the Star closely scrutenize other newspapers from various parts of the country. Every Wednesday and Thursday our mail box bulges with papers from other small communities from numerous provinces across Canada as well as Ontario. While attending a convention in Toronto recently, we attended a seminar on editorial and photo layout. During this meeting the guest speaker raved about the composition and photo ideas of a California weekly called the Claremont Courier. As we are always looking for new ideas and ways to improve the Star, we subscribed to the newspaper upon" returning from the convention. 7! od Since then we have received a number of copies and we find that the U.S. paper presents an entirely different concept in weekly newspapers than we are accustomed to seeing in Canada. While not totally in agreement with the layout and design it does present some interesting concepts. : One of the most amusing is-the-method in which they ~ list some of their major personnel and their titles. For ~~ instance, under the heading "editorial" there is Hope Waingrow, a peripatetic editor; Thelma O'Brien, enquiring semanticist; Merre McGehee, lone star recorder and Geoff Manasse, visualization strawboss.: In "Production", they list Linda Ware as a very graphic coordinator; Bette House as chief artisan and Donna Mcllvaine a phototype soloist. This is where the fun begins! Under the heading 'miscellaneous but extremely + important", they have Nanci House, the princess of address - and Frances Diaz, Courier courier. Now, let's take a moment and evaluate just what types of jobs these people really have. A 'Peripatetic editor' in Canada might be known as a wandering reporter; an "inquiring semanticist" is quite likely a copy editor or proof-reader and a "visualization strawboss" might better be known as a layout and design artist. A "'phototype soloist' is undoubtedly the girl in charge of the entire typesetting operation and a 'very graphic coordinator' a paste-up artist. In the "miscellaneous" catagories we have two very flashy titles. Nanci House is listed as the "princess of address', which in lay terms v give her the job of Pe hotterk controlling subscriptions and mailing list. But the best of all is the title young Frances Diaz gets. He's a "Courier courier", and that's just another way of calling him a newspaper delivery boy. So you can see, they hand out titles down south in California in a pretty flamboyant way. Before leaving the Clarmont Courier, there is one more little item of interest to relate. If you had a dog, cat or any other type of pet to sell or give away in Claremont you would not look for items to appear under the 'for sale" column of the paper. The Courier carries these items under a héading called *'dogs, cats and other best best friends". We at the Star are not about to change our format to this extent, but it is interesting to see how others operate their papers. - CAR FEVER ---- Every year about this time, people start digging out their garden tools, lawn mowers, window cleaners and all sorts of "spring things" to prepare themselves for the warmer months ahead. But not me. Recently I have spent considerable hours inside a barn, where for the winter I stored my prize possession. My pld corvette! / "As a young lad, about the age of twelve, em to own one of these new sporty cars that General Motors had developed in the mid fifties, but it was a dream......a dream I never figured would come true. , Then about two years ago I was offered a 1960 corvette at a price that I considered realistic, and bought it. During the past winter the car has been stored in the dark corner of a barn covered with a bright orange tarp, and last week was 'coming-out week." Having sat idle for six months, I proped up the hood and removed the air cleaner, then poured a small amount of gas down the carburator. It felt good to once to once again to sit in the drivers seat, and with one hand on the wheel, the other grasping the key....one foot on the accelerator and the other pushing on the floorboards I began to turn the engine over. It only took a brief moment before the engine fired up and there it sat purring, still half covered with the tarp. After letting it idle for a few minutes, we pulled off the PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, May 10, 1978 -- 5 editoriol POoQe Could Be Worth It The Port Perry unit of the Scugog Fire depart- " ment have asked the Township council for some $6,000 this year to set up a coded identification system for all residences in the rural areas of Ward | (old Reach Township). A delegation of firemen from the department spent more than two hours Monday night explaining the system to members of council and making a pitch for the necessary funds. It seems like a worthwhile system that should be given every consideration. However, some mem- bers of council appeared slightly taken aback when told by the department that setting the coded system up would require about 700 man-hours of work, and the firefighters want to be paid $6 per hour for the work. That seems like a lot of money to pay to members of a force who are volunteers, and in these times of fiscal restraint when the tax-payer is groaning under the burden, members of council are probably right if they feel that it is a little too much. much. On the other hand, the protection of our property and lives is of vital concern to everyone. If the coded identification system, once implemented, helps get firemen to the scene of an emergency even ten or five minutes quicker than they can now, it just might save somebody's house or barn, or a human life. The council is faced with a decision of coming up with $6,000 that is not in the 1978 municipal budget so that firemen can implement the system this year, or they can wait a year and include the funds in the 1979 budget. Not an easy decision. But dollars and cent would lose all meaning if in the next 12 months or so a fire-fighter at the scene of a tragedy muttered, "'if only we'd gotten here a OX by J. Peter Hvidsten tarp and began preparations for manoevering the car out of its secluded corner. It was only then that we found a mother hen was sitting cosily beside the back tire on a nest of nine eggs. Not wanting to disturb the mother, we took a snow scoop and slid it under the mother hen, nest and eggs and gently lifted them all out of harms way. After that it was just a matter of getting the car out of seclusion and now the work of preparing it for its 1978 spring debute is underway. Hopefully by the long weekend in May, enough of the cleaning and polishing will be done to bring it out. With my luck.....it'll probably rain! : » port perry star 1 Company Limited Wwe Ns, & ', - 1, = (OU) z E) =< > Phone 985-7383 : Gow Serving the Township of Scugog J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager 0 J "ay wo J. B. McCLELLAND Editor Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage 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