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= Ua Oy SET SC DARI Ry wD AFT FORCE TE AH SE Font Ey x FEF 3 a x : LA Ae ry I EV TA AY " CIA Eaten a RC beg ik RE SAAS ats haga. 4 ca ATS Fwy Hy The steamer Crandella, named after her owner, Captain George Crandell of Port Perry was launched in Lindsay in 1891. She measured 120 feet by 31 feet and was certified to carry 450 - 60 YEARS AGO .-, Thursday, April 14, 1921. . Scugog Island is growing in population. A cordial welcome: to Mr. Joseph Pogue and family who have moved to the Island. Prices in F.W.- McIntyre store for Silk Hose, 29 cents per pair, Dress ginghams - 32. cents a yard, unbleached sheeting - 50 cents a yard. 0 the Kenosha." SO ----- passengers. The steamer burned in Lindsay on October 21, 1904, at which time she was known as Mr. Peter Ramer of Prince Albert, while cutting trees had the misfortune to break his leg. Mr. W. Crosier, Manchester was appointed road Commissioner. A welcome piece of news is that Mr. H.G. Hutcheson of the Standard Bank, Oshawa is moving back to Port Perry. i (Turn to page 6) ~ Dear Sir: PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, April 15, 1981 -- 5 etters 'Help for disabled home. For more information please contact the Voca- tional Development Project at 728-8252. - The businesses in the area will have an opportunity to participate when they are contacted personally by our Project Workers." "The Vocational - Develop- ment Project for disabled people has" been set up to compile 'an occupational directory to assist disabled people -in making career choices. a Our staff would like -to Thanking you in advance. contact the disabled in the Oshawa district who are Yours sincerely, interested in going to work, setting up a cottage industry Marlene Herbacko to market their goods or who Development Project can do contract work at : . Worker. ] J 1 ® (From page 4) LC countless hours each winter to give youngsters the chance to play organized hockey at both the house league and competitive levels. And while it is gratifying to have championship teams, it is equally as important to recognize the achievements of all those who make up the organization: executive, coaches, trainers, managers, referees, time-keep- 'ers, and of course the players. To the Atoms and the Pee Wee B's, our sincere congratulations on reaching the top and bringing championships to this community. Hockey as a sport and recreation has no equal in this country, and winning just happens to be the icing on the cake. There is one group connected with minor hockey "and sports.in general in this community which should not be over-looked. Without financial help from the many sponsors, sports for young people would be in difficulty. hott THE LEAFS IN SPRING As I write this, the Toronto Maple Leafs are down two games to none in their best of five playoffs with the New York Islanders. By the time you read this, the Leafs will be down three games to none, and the management, coaches and players of that marvellous team will be telling us "to wait until next year." - TFL Yes, when it comes to winning, the Leafs and the Argos are in the same boat, have been for years; and that boat has long since sunk to the bottom of the cesspool which masquerades as professional sport in the fair city of Toronto. The Leafs of course were not given much chance to beat the Islanders in the opening playoff round. After all, they finished 16th while the New "Yorkers finished first. That's fine. But the two games I have seen so far were without-a doubt the worst exhibitions of playoff hockey to grace the tube in a long, long time. Quite frankly, they were nothing short of a disgrace. Most of the Leafs played as if they could hardly wait for the season to end. The sad part was that the Islanders lowered themselves to almost the same calibre, playing with just enough intensity to soundly beat what has to be one of the worst teams in professional sport. : When the Leafs squeaked into the final playoff spot on the last night of the regular schedule, much was said and written about the playoffs being a brand new season, that anything .. canhappen in a short series, and the Toronto team might just be able to pull off an upset. What a bunch of garbage. The Leafs couldn't upset a cup of coffee. : I'm not a true blue Toronto hockey fan, so whether the . Leafs win or lose doesn't bother me greatly. But I am a devoted follower of the sport itself, and have always maintained that when hockey is played the way it should be played, there is nothing in the world of sport to rival it for excitement, toughness and sheer beauty. What ticks me off no end is that the Leafs are capable of none of the above. They are cheating both their loyal fans and people like me who simply like to watch a good game. And what bothers me even more, is that the CBC in this part of Ontario has denied me and others any choice in which hockey games we can tune in. There are five other Canadian teams involved in playoff action, but for TV viewers in southern Ontario, the only choice is the pitiful Maple Leafs. There should be a Royal Commission into why the TV hockey market in this part of the country is locked in a Maple Leaf stranglehold. From where I sit, watching the Edmonton Oilers upset the Montreal Canadiens in the two opening games would have been infinitely more exciting than the Leafs-Islanders games. Goodness, there are teams in the Port Perry Minor Hockey system which give their fans more hockey entertain- ment than these lazy, over-paid jerks in the blue and white sweaters. I know it gets a little tedious reading about how bad the Leafs are, and a lot of people probably are saying so what. But I think I echo the feelings of many hockey enthusiasts who are turned off the game when the Leafs are on the ice. To be fair, they did have a couple of bright moments in a long and dismal season. But the exhibitions of bad hockey they put on over the year far exceeded the few times when they actually resembled a hockey team. * Ina city like Toronto and the province of Ontario which are enthusiastic about hockey and sports in general, the 'Maple Leaf situation is nothing short of lunacy. ADVERTISING Have you noticed in recent months what seems to be an avalanche of advertising flyers inserted in the weekly and .daily newspapers? Last week, this paper had three flyers, which is unusually high. And in the issue of the paper you are now reading, there will be at least one. Not too long ago, one of the weekend papers had nine advertising flyers within its pages, and even during the week, it is not unusual for half a dozen to come floating out of a daily paper. . : Whether you consider flyers in your paper a nuisance or a convenience, they seem to be an advertising vehicle which more and more companies are using to get their message to the consumer. : : I am one who considers them a nuisance in the weekend paper, and I have had many adverse comments from people who buy the local paper at the Star office Tuesday afternoon. Nevertheless, the companies which use flyers as an advertising medium must think there are cost-benefit advantages. They must have come to the conclusion that _people are indeed reading them, and not just tossing them in _ the garbage. One of the theories béhind the use of flyers is that the advertisers believe that once they get into the home, their advertising value goes up because the flyers will stay on the coffee table or the book shelf for couple of days at least, and somebody is going to glance through them before they go out with the rest of the trash. : But I've got my theory about flyers, especially those in the daily papers. The news in the papers is so bad these days (OOX by John B. McClelland what with assassination, murders, stabbings, Russian tanks in Poland, wars in the Middle East, the high cost of , everything, and the damned Canadian constitution, that{ instead of throwing away the flyers as junk, readers are throwing away.the rest of the paper. Some smart cookie in the ad business must have come to the same conclusion. It is not the flyers that are junk, it's all the rotten news in the rest of the paper. It won't surprise me / if pretty soon, newspapers are inserted inside the flyers with = _ a small warning that today's news includes 18 murders, six wars, four assassinations, and two eye-witness accounts of what the police found when they raided a bath house in downtown Toronto. It's little damn wonder these days that advertising flyers hyping everything from dog food to tooth paste are gaining in reader popularity. . I'll bet that right now, the smart cookies in the ad business are working on flyers for television. 8 port perry star ™ Company Limited ¢ CNA Phone 985-7383 Sa_, Serving the Township of Scugog <S . . Py Yo =~ < > 1, & Ss 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, Ontago Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage ' incash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $10.00 per year. Elsewhere: $30.00 per year Single Coply: 25¢ J A,