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RE 'chotterbox ... a ™ A eS TT ARS RAL NSS Sy Fy TAN (FO SAD, Go nal CEE Ms Mgrs: % i) Rh H 0 ALR AL RPE (RN ra Wed? ' . ] BATA LIP LE 99% 3 EVAL La Ek Ar } : oh EA . v » ¥ oF gsi ehude du ddsinniodhaidmocti & *s Although he's absent from this photo, Storey Beare was the coach of this 1934 Port Perry baseball team. The teams players are, from left, Grace Switzer, Merle Switzer, Clara Porteous, 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 3rd, 1918 Mr. D. McMillan has sold the Elijah Beare Farm north of town to Mr. C. Coulter of Bethany. Subscription for 1 year to the daily newspaper for the Globe was $5.00 Prof. Marsh of Pickering will give an address on Astronomy at the annual convention of the South On- tario Teachers Institute in the Town Hall. Betty Cawker, Ruth Carnegie, Isabelle Ewers, Jean Harrison and Cathleen Carnegie. courtesy of Clara Nesbitt. Photo Potatoes are selling for $2.00 per bag. Mrs. Albert Stevens is to be the caretaker of the Methodist Church. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 7th, 1943 High School opened with an attendance of one hun- dred and nine. - (Turn to page 6) Man, what a week it has been for the armchair jocks. Football, hockey and baseball. Yes, it it that time of year again when-all three sports overlap, and it is darn near impossible to turn on the tube any time of night or day and not find some kind of sports event. Except of course if you are still.an Argo fan and happened to tune in last Saturday evening when the boys in blue met the Stampeders and fought galllantly for their eight straight loss of the season. One could hardly call that game a sports event: a big joke might be a better word. Infact, if one was being charitable, one could call the whole Argo organization from top to bottom a big joke. But a lot of people I'm sure have their own rather more colourful description of the Argos. The big story of course, is the opening of the World Series between the Yanks and the Dodgers. And what a story it has been this year for the team from New York. What can you say about Jackson, Munson, and the rest of them? Fourteen games out of first place just eight weeks ago, they caught Boston, whipped them in a play-off and them dispatched Kansas City. For my money, I'm picking the Yanks over the Dodgers this year, and I'm picking them to ®jo it in six games. While baseball, hockey and football seem to be front row and centre these days, there was another sports event over the weekend in Montreal that should cause a few Canadians nationalists to sit up and take notice. Gilles Villeneuve, a young man from la Belle Province made history when he became the first Canadian to win a Formula one auto race. And he did it in style, wheeling his Ferrari around the 200-mile tight and twisting course, beating the best cars and drivers in the world, and absolutely delighting the home-town fans who numbered more than 70,000. The young man's victory is remarkable for several reasons. This is technically his rookie year on the Formula One circuit, he is driving for the prestigious racing team of Ferrari, and he did it on the Canadian leg of the Grand Prix event. Quebeckers and indeed all Canadian racing fans should be proud of this young man with nerves of steel. And: without taking anything away from the city of Montreal which put on the Grand Prix race, it seems a pity that the city fathers in Toronto bowed to pressure from a few neighbourhood groups and scuttled plans to hold the race near the Exhibition grounds. Alas, poor Toronto, second fiddle again to Montreal. Toronto's reputation as the most conservative, the most up-tight, and the most ludricous sports city in. North America is assured, while Montreal, the city that gets all 'the bad press pushed ahead with successful Grand Prix auto racing, a sport, by the way, which is probably one of the most popular spectator events around the world. Oh, well. Toronto sports fans can console themselves with the Argos this fall, Roger Neilson and his Maple Leafs this winter, and of course the Blue Jays next spring. I really believe the big sports bubble in Toronto is about to go "pop". Fans in that city and southern Ontario just can't be asked to go on supporting the pack of losers that masquerade as pro athletes year in and year out. If the Leafs fall short again this winter watch out for a full-scale revolution in Toronto-the-Good by irate fans who will stand up and say "'enough is enough. I'm mad, mad as hell, and I won't take any more of this nonsense." Can you blame them? - Still with sports but a little closer to home, the Port Perry MoJacks opened their hockey schedule last Sunday night and took a pasting on the chin by a team from Lindsay. I don't know what happened to the Port Perry team in their first outing. They looked flat and confused. However, I do think they are capable of much better hockey as the season goes along, providing a few rather obvious weak spots can be shored up. The team does have some talented players, and will provide some exciting hockey for Junior C fans in Scugog Township. And speaking of fans, there was a decent crowd out for the home opener, which is a good sign. But they made about as much noise at the game as you might hear at a funeral. Granted, there wasn't a heck of a lot to cheer about, or maybe the concrete walls of the arena muffle the sounds, but it seems that the fans who did come out to the game Sunday night were content to sit on their hands. SAY THANKS So, Thanksgiving, 1978, has come and gone. While I'm sure that some people did take the time to reflect on what the day means and a few may have even stopped for a while to express their sincere thanks, others were too busy griping about the price of turkey. Canadians in the autumn of 1978 are pre-occupied with griping, sounding off about just about everything from the state of the economy, the failings of the Trudeau government, the problems in the post office, bilingualism, etc., etc. We are a nation of gripers, always have been. But if you take a good hard look at what's going on these days, any citizen in this country of Canada really has a lot to be truly thankful for. . Canaidans have had 30 years of unprecendented prosper- ity, a quality of life for almost everyone un-matched anywhere in the world. The province of Ontario is richer that most countries. Canada has never known revolution, internal war, a direct threat to our borders, or massive natural catastrophe. We have never experienced famine or plagues. hl L 4 sr ht fav IBA go A LA RA } ; AR 3s asd" rs ' a ahh baat bide bt ss ol atu cu dics itinciion hE 2) PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., October 11, 1978 -- 5 letters Atomic plants a risk Dear Sir: The Royal Commission on Power Planning says Ont- ario could save $34 billion and scrap at least two plan- ned giant nuclear plants by cutting the growth of de- mand to 4 percent per year. The Commissions report to the Ontario cabinet says that nuclear constructich after "1985 should depend on the availability of radio-active waste disposal sites. On October 16th, 1977 the Toron- to Star reported in a front- page story that "Pile-up of Nuclear Waste could close Pickering." A major problem if Hydro goes ahead with their plans for more plants -- Ontario will run out of uranium by 1995. Hydro has spent millions upon millions for a heavy water plant that is not needed now, nor in the future. The real problem for people living in Oshawa and Southern Ontario is the frightening link between Cancer and Atomic plants. "In a 5 year study by Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass, Uni- versity of Pittsburgh pro- fessor of radiological physics found a direct link between cancer rates and how far people live from nuclear reactors. McClelland Between 1970 and 1975 the detailed study shows that cancer deaths in New Eng- land and Connecticut in- creased sharply around two nuclear reactors. The cancer mortality rate rose 58 percent in the town of Water- ford where the Millstone plant is located. Five miles away the rate was 44 percent in New London. Forty miles away in New Haven the mortality rate was 27 per cent and the rate for the state of Connecticut as a whole was only 12 per cent. Cancer deaths actually declined in four states with- out nuclear power. Dr. Rosalie Bertell, a former senior cancer re- search scientist at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, N.Y. declared "of course there is a link be- tween nuclear plants and cancer." Dr. Sternglass warned that "each year we close our eyes to the data..... we increase the risk of cancer". The nuclear waste disposal is an added risk for we who live in Southern Ontario. It costs millions of dollars to clean up Port Hope and Blind River. Oshawa is sitting in the (Turn to page 6) Our quality of life in the 1970's is higher than ever before. Take a look around, the basics of life such as food, clothing, shelter are denied no-one. Luxuries are taken for granted by most. Our system of education at all levels, considered among the best in the world, is accessible to all. The health care system in this province is envied by people in the States and most other countries. Our economy? Sure it looks bad, what with unemploy- ment, inflation and a falling dollar. But look at the want ads in the daily papers. There are hundreds of jobs; wage increases for most people have kept up with the inflation rate; people have income to dispose of, travel agencies are humming with the business of travellers willing and able to vacation abroad despite an 85-cent dollar. Yet despite our fat lifestyles, despite the wealth of this country and the quality of life enjoyed by its citizens, we continue to gripe. I'm no great fan of Pierre Trudeau, but if he is dead right about one thing, it is his criticism of Canadians who can do nothing more than complain, in a country with the highest standard of living in the world. Think about it, take a look around. There are precious few of us who have real legitimate beefs about the way we live. Nothing to be thankful for this October? Balderdash. i h port perry star Company Limited Phone 985-7383 Sam, {r CNA (0m) : rary Serving the Township of Scugog J.PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager J.B. 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