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Although most the players are unknown, that's Arthur Brock [centre, back] of photo with the neck tie on. = The farmers are busy on the land, some of them well on their way through seeding. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 20, 1944 To save paper, and type metal in wartime, impor- tant changes have been made in the arrangement of the new telephone directory for Port Perry. Mrs. John Murray, Mrs. M.B. Dymond, Mrs. LR. Bentley and Mrs. Stewart MacFarlane attended the Provincial Convention of the .0.D.E. held in the Royal (Turn to page 9) Motor racing fans were no doubt glued to their TV sets Sunday as a young Canadian, Gilles Villeneuve, led the field for the entire 80 lap race of the Long Beach Grand Prix and brought home the checkered flag. For Villeneuve, it was his second straight victory and moved him into the lead in the World Championship driver standings, just two points ahead of Jacques Laffite, the . Frenchman who was leading until Sunday's race. Being somewhat interested in racing since I saw my first Grand Prix at Mosport two years ago, I now find it hard to digest when I see sportscasters and newpapers hide the results near the end of their programme or the back of the sports section. To thousands of racing enthusiasts, Villeneuve's victory at Long Beach was far more important than the Leaf's losing 6-3 to Boston. : But headed up in the sports sections of both TV and newspapers was the Leaf's losing and the fact that they will now meet Atlanta in the first of the preliminary playdowns. Big deal! A mere 18,000 were able to watch the Leafs go down to defeat and yet with an estimated 200,000 people watching a young Canadian drive to victory in one of the most' prestigious races in the world, the news only made the fifth page of the sport section of the Toronto Sun and a brief men- tion near the end of the sportscast on CBC Sunday night. Even the Blue Jays, who have lost in three consecutive starts got as much play as Villeneuve and the Grand Prix. It's too bad that everything in the Toronto sports media centres around hockey, baseball and football. It would be a credit to the news departments to shift these sports from the front pages on occasion to make room for events that warrant the extra publicity. But then, that would be asking too much! DON'T READ OR LISTEN Sometimes we wonder here at the Star why we take the effort on controversial news items to make sure that the facts are in order and that anyone reading will have no trouble in keeping details straight. Last week a good example of this type of situation came up when I was asked if it was true that the $353,000. that has been allotted for reconstruction of Queen Street was also going to be used for store-front refurbishing. The answer of course, was no, because taxpayers' money could not be used to renovate the exteriors or in- teriors of privately owned buildings. This is the same type of a situation that was conceived when the Chamber of Commerce talked last year of forming a BIA (Business Im- ring aad lioha ead dubious afd aotdund dos PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, April 11, 1979 -- 5 letters Nuclear madness Dear Sir: The Harrisburg Nuclear' accident could have been a holocaust had the hydrogen bubble exploded spraying radiation over hundreds of square miles. Air borne radiation is only one of the risks involved. Ontario has 10 reactors. It could happen Here! Dr. Arthur Porter, head of the Porter Royal Commis- sion said after the Harris- burg accident that the chances of a nuclear acci- dent are 100 times greater than that told Ontarians by _ Ontario Hydro. Oshawa is sitting in the middle of not one but soon two nuclear stations. Pic- kering on the west side and the new Darlington nuclear station on the east. The government has made no emergency evacuation plans, nor facilities to handle a mass evacuation, in the event of a disaster. Dr. Porter has denounced the "deplorable lack of communication between the establishment (hydro) and the people'. Pierre Berton and Charles Templeton, both learned journalists, have termed Ontario Hydro statements to the public as "lies". An. accident similar to DOX 2bY J. Peter Hvidsten provement Area) to beautify Queen Street. People did not read what was printed, only what they wanted to believe and therefore a very confusing situation results. So just to clear it up once again - Next year Queen Street is to be reconstructed at an estimated cost of $353,000. The money is to be used only for work done on Township property and NOT to any privately owned building. Enough said! BOWL OF CHERRIES : Anyone interested in reading a lighthearted, down-to- earth book, should pick up Erma Bombeck's lastest num- ber one pocketbook bestseller. The book, entitled, 'If life is a Bowl of Cherries - What am I doing in the Pits?" is now available in most book stores (even at the Star Office) and is worth the $2.50 in laughs. One example of the type of material it contains follows: '"'Dear Mrs. Bombeck, I do not understand Mothers. How come my Mom can hit anyone anywhere in the house at any distance, with a shoe? How can she tell without turning her head in the car that I am making faces at my brother in the back seat? How can she be watching television in the living room and know that I am sneaking cookies in the kitchen? Some of my friends also don't understand Moms. They want to know how she can tell just by looking at them that they had a hot dog and three Cokes before they came home from school for dinner. Or where they are going to lose the sweater they hated. We think it is spooky the way the phone rings and before we even pick it up she says, 'Five minutes!" We all agree no one in the world has super vision, super hearing, or can smell quite like a Mother. One guy said he had a piece of bubble gum once wrapped in foii in his shoe and his Mom said, "Let's have the gum. You want to tear your retainer out?" °° Since you write about kids all the time we though you could explain Moms to us. Sincerely, Cathie." The answer follows, in brief: Dear Cathie and friends, I found your letter most amusing. Actually, there is no mystique at all to being a Mother. We all started out as normal, average little children like yourself, who grew up and developed the usual x-ray vision, two eyes in the back of our head, bionic hearing and olfactory senses that are Three Mile Island, Pennsyl- vania plant with the added chance of a melt down and an explosion could mean the evacuation of a possible 115,000 people from Oshawa, and depending on the wind direction a possible evacua- tion of 2% million from Toronto. The resultant panic would make the China Syndrome a reality. We have been warned by a U.S. team of government researchers lead by Profes- sor Stephen Zamenbhoff of the University of California that previously believed low levels of radiation are now termed as serious threats to humans. Dr. David Bates, Profes- sor of Medicine at University of British Columbia and former member of the Science Council of Canada is sharply critical of Atomic Energy of Canada for play- ing down 'serious problems in judging risks of low levels of radiation." Dr. Bates cited several recent U.S. medical-scientific studies that show people exposed to levels of radiation previously believed harmless are now suffering unprecedented cases of cancer. Dr. Edith Van Marthens, a fellow researcher who (Turn to page 7) sharpened by wet gym shoes. (Don't ask what "olfactory" is. Look it up in the dictionary.) Mothers have never considered any of these senses a bonus. We call them instincts for survival. Without them, we would be mortal and vulnerable (Don't make such a face. It'll freeze that way and then where will you be?) Someday, when your Motherhood genes develop, you too will know when someone is in the refrigerator even though you are at a PTA meeting. You will sense your child is lying to you even while clutching a Bible in one hand, a rosary in the other and is standing under a picture of Billy Graham. Mothers are just normal people really." This book is great light reading ... try it! 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