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A Recently. the Star has received a large number of school class pictures, which we will be running over the next few weeks. Above are the students of Scugog SS No. 3, taken May 1, 1922. 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 7th, 1918 Mr. Wm. Reader, Scugog, has moved to Port Perry to live. He purchased the property of Mr. McIndless. Mr. and Mrs. John Nasmith, Utica, have bought a home in Port Perry. Rev. and Mrs. John Ford received word that their son Maurice has won the Military Medal for bravery. All Churches and schools are closed because of the Spanish Influenza epidemic. Although we do not have room to identify all of the students, the teacher [centre back] was Miss Fanny Oswald. Photo courtesy Mr. Cecil Fralick. Mr. Wm. Bruce, Seagrave, is building a new house. Mr. E. Griffen has the contract. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 4th, 1943 Reeve Letcher at a meeting of the Business men reported further progress in the matter of the Chiropractic Memorial to be erected at the water front, and it is evident that in a year or two we may expect to (Turn to page 6) PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., November 8, 1978 -- 5 letters Nuclear problems? Dear Sir: In a recent edition of your paper a letter was published from Dean J. Kelly of Port Perry. I will not attempt to deal with the inaccuracies in regard to uranium supplies, but I would like to correct the record in regard to the alle-> gations of Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass and the alleged "frightening link between cancer and atomic plants." Dr. Sternglass has been making allegations in regard to the effects of low levels of radiation for years - first from fallout and then from nuclear plants. His allega- tions were thoroughly dis- credited by the United States National Academy of Sciences in a report which said of his early work: It is clear that the correla- tions presented in support of the hypothesis depend on arbitrary selection of data supporting the hypothesis and the ignoring of those that do not." What that means is that Sternglass picked the data that supported his theory. It's a bit like a man who says that women are taller than men and goes on to prove it by measuring only selected tall women and short men. He is repeating the same land. He has chosen years before the plant started up when the incidence of cancer was low and years after the plant started when the in- cidence of cancer was high. If different years had been chosen it could be proved that living near a nuclear plant reduced cancer deaths. Neither process is accept- able. Dr. Rosalie Bertell has never carried out a study of nuclear power plants and the surrounding populations, so her allegations are unsup- ported. If a person is de- sirous of obtaining good information on radiation risk, he or she should read the reports of the U.S. Na- tional Academy of Sciences (The BEIR report) and of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the effects of Atomic Radiation (UNS- CEAR 1977) and it will be quickly realized that the risk at the boundary of a nuclear plant to an individual who resides there a whole year is negligible - equivalent to the risk from the extra radiation dose received in a trans- atlantic jet return flight due 0 cosmic radiation or from visiting Banff for a few weeks. Dr. Jack Cunningham of the Princess Margaret Hos- + THE CAMPAIGN There is nothing like a good old fashioned election campaign to get the adrenalin flowing and bring the blood to a slow boil. There is nothing like watching a couple of candidates on the hustings, standing toe to toe, hammering away at the issues, scoring points, jabbing, blocking blows, just like a good fight between two lean, hungry middleweights. Well, maybe that's the way politics used to be, back in the good old days. But it ain't that way in Scugog Township in 1978. The campaign is slipping along, smooth as country cream, nary a ripple to be found (at least so far, anyway). The first of a series of all-candidates meetings last Thursday night in Blackstock was a case in point. Why, there wasn't a fighting word uttered the whole night. I've heard tougher talk at a strawberry social. It certainly didn't remind me of some all candidates #meetings I've attended where you could feel the tension in the air, the antagonism, where you just knew that sparks would fly, where you just knew that somebody in the audience was going to get up and stick it right in the gut of one or all of the candidates. But not so over in Blackstock for the first meeting. Everything was oh so polite. The questions from the audience didn't put anybody on the hot seat and the whole meeting was over in just a little more than an hour. To be fair, of course, it should be said that there are no issues to capture the fancy of the voters this year in Scugog. Sure, taxes have gone up in the past couple of years, but obviously not enough to get people stomping mad and ready to see heads roll. In fact, it is interesting to note that the first couple of questions that came from the audience were on a matter not usually thought of as being within the jurisdiction of a local municipality; vandalism. It has been a problem in Cartwright in the past year or so, and it has been a problem in other parts of Scugog as well, a problem that seems to be on the increase, and seems to have no logical explanation or solution. But that's another matter. Getting back to this election campaign, maybe it is just as well there are no crushing issues in the Township this year. Looking at the horrendous problems facing other munici- palities, and watching the mud-slinging, low blows and dirty stomping, our smooth sailing here doesn't look that bad. But it sure makes for a dull campaign. Surprisingly, considering the lack of issues in Scugog, there seems to be a considerable amount of interest. chotterboXx ....... Candidates who have been out knocking on doors tell me that there is concern and response among the electorate, that people are keeping track of who is running for what, and that they do plan to get out and vote on November 13. BALMY Sitting here in the office, watching the comings and goings along Queen Street in the late afternoon, it suddenly came to me why the candidates are all acting like good-will ambassadors to the UN. It's the weather, just like a summer afternoon. How can anybody out campaigning get upset or mad when the weather is as lovely as it was last week. What we need is a good snowstorm, cold, wet, windy, slippery November weather. A couple of hours on the campaign trail in that kind of weather might put a few of these guys in a slightly more belligerent mood. Municipal elections in Ontario used to be held the first week in December, just when we start to get a taste of old man Winter. It was tough campaigning, it was tough for voters to get out to see and hear the candidates, and it made everybody mad to have to go through an election. Maybe that's why things were different in the bad old days. Good grief, I hope the province doesn't decide that municipal elections should be held in July. I don't think I could stand the excitement. On the serious side of this election for a minute, it is a measure of the calibre of the candidates that so far at least, we haven't seen any dirty pool tactics. Maybe the bad old days of "knee him in the groin" campaigning made for better copy on the front pages, but the ill feeling created often made for lousy government after the final votes were tallied. Make no mistake about it. Scugog is going to need good government over the next two years. And while we don't have an issue on the front burner such as the gravel pits in Uxbridge Township, the seven men who eventually end up on the council are going to face some crucial decisions. The reconstruction of Queen Street in Port Perry will be one such issue; the planned expansion of the Scugog Public Library will be another, as will the rate of new residential "development, and the expansion of the industrial base. And the time is not too far down the road when Scugog Township will have to either undertake a massive renovation to the existing municipal office on Perry Street, or find a location for a new building. In short, it is not going to be a cake-walk for the new council. THE ARGOS Finally, at long last, thank goodness, it all came to an end on Sunday afternoon. process around the Millstone nuclear plant in New Eng- (Turn to page 6) The Argos, a miserable excuse for a pro football team lost to another miserable excuse for a team, the Tiger Cats, in a game, believe it or not, determined which of the two made the playoffs. That either team even had an outside shot at getting into the Grey Cup is a sad reflection on the state of football in eastern Canada in 1978. For Toronto it was a season of one disaster after another, complicated by poor management decisions and even worse judge of football talent and human character. For Hamilton, it was simply a case of talent spread too thinly. While it may be great fun to ridicule the Argos, serious football fans cannot help but realize that the game is in deep trouble in this part of the country. Fan support for those $100,000 overnight wonders and other assorted cry-babies and slackers simply can't go on. And when that happens the League itself could go down the tube. It's time somebody cleaned house in the Argo organiza- tion. It's time it was run like a football team rather than a showcase for puffed up egos. ( port perry star Rh Company Limited \0 » Phone 985-7383 Rs Gon : (Onn) 2. v, A d "Cag ae 0 Serving the Township of Scugog J.PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager 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 20c _ J ki IA EERIE WE SREA hE By Tt EEG . AI i BM La ~~ TT ACL Ae oR DA Cm Raa =X , e A eT ew na "s oy i i ' 1 , ISK Cn) ss . arr Te Tos ee ir LS ---- -- Se nes a