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ee rrr r---------- i er aA Photo of an old mill known as Beare's Mill which was situated at Highway 12 and the 10th i 60. YEARS AGO __Thursday, November 11, 1920 St. John's Presbyterian Church held their 64th anniversary. Rev. D.W. McLeod of West Hill conducted the services. Miss Muriel Cook, who has been in the employ of H.W. Emmerson, has accepted a position in Toronto. It is illegal to ride bicycles on the streets of Port Perry. . _The people of Blackstock are unveiling a memorial tablet in honour of the fallen heroes from there. 1 ing A : i? v Concession, south of Greenbank. Date unknown. 1Photo courtesy of Scugog Shores Museum] 35 YEARS AGO . Thursday, November 15, 1945 We found this amusing article in the Day by Day jottings of the Editor: A woman came into a leading dry goods store one day and spent hours questioning the salesgirls and having them bring out bolt after bolt of material without spending a penny. Finally one salesgirl asked "Madam, are you shopping?" The lady spoke indignantly, 'Certainly! What else would I be . POLITICS Municipal elections does strange things to people. For example, those candidates hoping that the voters will smile favourably on them November 10 will be out the next few weeks tramping from door to door in the cold night air of late fall. } . They'll be tacking up signs all over the Township, spending money for posters, flyers and advertising space, attending all-candidates meetings to take pot shots from the electorate, and generally trying over the next two weeks to say what they think the voters want to hear. Politics is an infectious business, and I sometimes can't help but wonder why. The pay is lousy, the hours are crazy, the phone rings at all hours of the day and night, the actual meetings of council are often tedious affairs with -much-of the-agenda- work pretty routine. And of course when an "issue" does pop up every once in a while, members of council often end up in the . precarious position of being "damned if they do, and damned if they don't." : But all across this province right now, the race is on, as thousands of men and women are trying to hustle enough votes to get themselves elected to a municipal council. I got a chuckle reading about the anguish experienced by a candidate for council in Toronto who spent something like $10,000 gearing up for the election and then filed his nomination papers a few minutes too late last Monday. The poor guy thought the deadline for filing nomination papers was the next day, and he was left out in the cold. Same thing happened over in Stouffville, where a would-be councillor confused his dates, and spent last Monday tacking up election signs when he should have been filing his papers at the clerk's office. e Stouffville paper said news of his disqualification sent "shock waves through the community' and left his supporters speechless. ) Poor fellows. They really do have my sympathy. But they wouldn't get my vote. If they can't figure out the time and date when nominations close, I don't think I'd want them voting on some major municipal issue like the price of dog tags. Of course, anybody can make an honest mistake, but not in politics. A lot of people seem to have the impression that an elected municipal council can pretty well do what it pleases, when in actual fact nothing could be further from the truth. (Turn to page 6) chotterbox ....... In the first place there are numerous provincial statutes under which all municipalities in this province must operate - everything from the powerful Municipal Act, the Planning Act, on down the line to the statutes that cover such things as tile drain loans and fence viewers. In the second place, a local municipal council has actual control over a very small amount of the dollars raised through property and business taxes. In Scugog, for example, about 60 per cent of every tax dollar raised goes automatically to the Durham Board of Education. Another 20 per cent goes to Durham Region, leaving about 20 per cent for local purposes. And of that 20 per cent, much is taken up for fixed costs like roads budgets and administration, fire departments, sports and recrea- tion programs. i Co ~ Essentially, the seven people sitting around the Scugog Township council table don't have too much leeway in either decision-making or spending powers because of provincial controls and the fact that 80 cents of each tax dollar is out of their hands from the outset. With these restrictions and with our inflation rate running at about ten per cent, reducing taxes is easier said than done these days. Even a reduction in spending is tough because of the inflation rate. What is really starting to hurt municipalities all over Ontario is the fact assessment growth may be lagging behind the inflation rate, and the provincial government (also feeling the pinch) has clamped a freeze on grants made to municipalities. Nevertheless, I would hazard a guess that the words most often heard across Ontario during this election campaign will be "let's cut taxes." Well, good luck. But as the saying goes "there is always a large shadow between the idea and the reality." TROUBLE IN PARADISE Over in Russia, they have a little different method of changing political rulers. They don't get defeated at the polls, of course, they simply "retire." . The Kremlin announced last week that Alexi Kosygin is out, retired due to ill health at the age of 76, to be replaced by a chap just 75 years old, and still wet behind the ears. One thing about the Russians, they don't believe in robbing the cradle when it comes to political and party leadership. Is it any accident that Kosygin's retirement comes just a few days after Communist Party boss Leonid Brezhnev publicly criticized Soviet agricultural out-put? Probably not, but it is interesting to note that they guy PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., October 29, 1980 -- § letters Photo inaccurate Dear Sir: In your last edition of the Star, in the photograph in the 'Remember When" corner, if memory and eyesight have not played havoc, we detect- ed a glaring inaccuracy. "It's been a long time since Highway 7A at Nestleton looked like this photo shows" is a mere understatement, since it never at any time looked like that. The obvious reason is that the picture is of the General Store that used to exist in North Nestleton and never at any time was adjacent to Highway 7A. This store was owned originally if memory serves, by our great Uncle Alfred H. Veale, (better known as Fred), his wife and family. Later it was sold to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Porteous, who resold to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mairs. During their ownership it was destroyed by fire during the early hours of the night. -To-the-right of the picture + was the house owned by Mr. and Mrs. Dick Suggitt and in the background the C.O.F. Hall which once boasted 70 active members (My grand- father, the late Peter Wright was financial Secretary of the organization for many years). Perhaps many current residents are not familiar with how Nestleton received its name, so we shall include a little additional infor- mation. The first owner of this store, Fred Veale, prior to entering the business we believe, had a blacksmith shop across the road from the then Salem Church. He was looking for a name for his place of business and my grandmother, his sister Annetta -Sophia Veale, who kept house for him prior to her marriage to Peter (Turn to page 6) Appreciate Coverage Dear Sir: The Canada Farm Labour Pool extends their appreciation to the Port Perry Star for the assistance they gave in promoting the farm pool service; particu- larly the day work programme. Our office is 'being used extensively by farmers and as a result we have recorded 1300 place- ments since April 1, 1980. It is interesting to note this represents double the activity from last year. Your assistance to the community is very much appreciated. Roly Coy Manager. replacing Kosygin is a long-time cronie of Brezhnev, going back almost 50 years when they both worked for Uncle Joe in the mining and steel industry of the Ukraine. Diplomatic observers in Moscow say that the Kosygin replacement will not mean much of a change in Soviet foreign policy as Nicholi Tikhonov had been performing Kosygin's duties for the past couple of years, anyway. Be that as it may, but any shift in leadership in the Soviet Union has a ripple effect in the West, and the day after the announcement last week, Wall Street took an eight-point tumble that spilled over into the Toronto market. Goodness, the Soviets don't need missiles and tanks to bring the West to its knees. All they have to do is change their leadership every couple of weeks and watch the "bottom drop right out of the stock market. (Turn to page 6) (port perry star 0 Company Limited Sam, (GQ CNA : (OU) z " > Serving the Township of Scugog Phone 985-7383 3 "ease J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager J. B. 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