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LB ARS PRS 2 ath a ast fo Mr iy AT LEI Nelr AYN 0 PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., October 21, 1981 -- 5 SEPTEMBER 9, 1965 - Five women from Port Perry's Community Memorial Hospital were Awarded their 10 year pins. Recipients of the pins 60 YEARSAGO Thursday, October 10, 1921 - The long felt need of local veterans of the Great War has at last been realized by the institution here of the branch of the Grand Army United Veterans. The Pres- ident for the organizationis Dr. W.A. Sangster. 7 were from left, Mrs. L. Elsner, Mrs. D. Mackey, Mrs. W. Watson and Mrs. J. Gray. Seated is hospital superintendent Mrs. E. Hook. The C.P.R. Train struck a motor car driven by Mr. 'Wm. Cook of Lindsay, just north of Raglan. Mr. Cook was taken to Toronto General Hospital with severe injuries. ; A.L. McDermott will open his funeral service rooms inthe Ebbels Block, Port Perry. « County wontheJ.N. Parret Trophy at the annual plowing 35YEARSAGO Thursday, October 16, 1946 Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Parker have moved from Ottawa to their new home here on Cochrane Street. Walter Smeltzer, Science student at Queen's Uni- versity left last week for Sarnia where he is employed with Imperial Oil. Shoes - loafer style ladies - $2.50 per pair. Growing girl's shoes could be purchased for $2.98. Mr. R.J. Harper is attending the 125th Anniversary of McGill University in connection with a graduate's reunion being held in Montreal. 25YEARSAGO Thursday, October 18, 1956 Mrs. James, of Seagrave celebrated her 90th Birth- day. The International Plowing Match got underway at Brooklin, with 87 contestants including 29 competitors inthe classes for boys and girls. Inthe Annual Inter-School Track & Field Meet, Port Perry had three champions - Intermediate: Sharon Haugen; Senior Champ: Erika Benschop and Phil Clarke was runner up for the Junior Boys. Mervin Storie, Bill Brown, Chet Geer and Ralph Wilbur have nearly completed the forms for the new hall foundation at Utica. 20YEARSAGO Thursday, October 19, 1961 Anson Gerrow, Port Perry, Warden of Ontario championships held at the Vermilyea Farms, Belleville. A good number of sports minded citizens attended a meeting in the Municipal Building to discuss the possi- bility of securing flood lights for the present ball park. The Port Perry High School football team won their first game of the season against Sutton 33 to 3. Chick Carnegie, Ivan Luke, Larry Davidson, and Ardis McArthur rant he ball over the touchdown line with the rest of the team playing equally as well. 15YEARSAGO Thursday, October 20, 1966 J.J. Gibson, Reeve of Port Perry, was among those who officially opened the new direct distance dialing system at the Bell Telephone in Oshawa. The members of the Port Perry Fire Department held their first annual Open House in the new Fire Hall. Mr. and Mrs. J.K. Lawrence have donated a two storey log house to be used as a Historical Museum in Nestleton for Cartwright Township. 10YEARS AGO Wednesday, October 20, 1971 The '"Meals on Wheels' program has received many contributions from local groups and organizations and will be available for senior citizens in Port Perry chotter We all know the moral of the tale about killing the goose" that lays the golden eggs. - We just might be seeing a modern day version of that old story as the oil bosses from the OPEC countries can't quite seem to agree on how much they charge the world for a «barrel of the black stuff." There are strong hints the OPEC world price may plunge to a relatively cheap $34 per barrel. The reason of course is that world demand for oil is dropping. OPEC is a cartel in the purist sense of the word. When the members served notice fo the rest of the world that the price of oil would be severely controlled and jacked up at drastic rates, the reaction was predictable. Those countries which must import oil took serious measures to reduce consumption. On top of this, large amounts of money were spent to find the "tough"' oil in places such as the bottom of the North Sea, and the oil sands. And a lot of money has been spent to develop alternative sources of energy. It hardly seem possible, but right now there is a glut of oil in the world. The supply is exceeding the demand. And the situation for those poor struggling OPEC states will get "worse. Isn't that a pity? : The final blow for OPEC may come in the next few years as there are indications the supplies of oil beneath the Atlantic Ocean off Newfoundland are enormous; one report said there _is enough to supply ( Canada's present needs for the next 100 years. - Canada and the United States are the largest per capita consumers of oil, but these countries are using more natural - gas, propane, electricity, coal, and even Solar power in place of oil. If all these trends continue, I think we are going to see the break-up of the OPEC cartel, and if that happens, a barrel of oil might very well be selling for a song. There are very noticeable cracks already in the cartel, and I think most of us would gets a very large chuckle if the whole thing came Sumbline Speaking of one of ne more poignant ironies in the cruel international scene these days is that the United States is bankrolling terrorism of the worst kind in a dozen different areas of the globe. The U.S. buys about half of all the oil produced in Libya, the north African country run by a madman named Kadaffi. Besides being nuts, this guy openly supports with money and / by John B. McClelland guns just about every terrorist organization operating today: from Cuba to Lebanon to Northern Ireland; from Central ~ America to southeast Asia. When a terrorist bomb goes off, or hit men gun down a 'judge or politician anywhere in the world, there is a good chance the money in one form or another originated in Libya with Kadaffi's seal of approval. And half his money comes from the United States. In interviews, Kadaffi has made no effort to conceal the fact he is not opposed to starting World War 3, and God help us all when he gets his bloody hands on nuclear weapons (if he doesn't have them already). This one international madman may be the single most serious threat to peace. However. like most despots who emerge on the world stage from time to time, his days i in the spot-light may be numbered. - Still on the subject of oil, anyone who has been to Calgary in the past few years knows just what oil and gas dollars have done to that city. While the city has more millionaires than any other in North America, seems all the money may be having a rather negative effect on the residents. The city's suicide rate has more than doubled in the past 20 years, it has the highest divorce rate in the country, and more Calgarians are treated for 'stress-related' diseases than anywhere else. Kinds of makes you wonder which would be worse: having to live there amid all that dough; or having to live elsewhere - and going a little crazy with envy of Calgary's good fortunes. "Good grief, if things are going from bad to worse in the fair city of Calgary, can you imagine what it must be like to live in the capital of Saudia Arabia? Very tough, I'm sure. But over there, they tend to take a slightly different approach to "social problems." In Calgary recently, the city fathers (and mothers) tried to 'pass a by-law to crack down on prostitution in the streets, The by-law wound up in court which ruled the city doesn't have the authority to pass or enforce such, a rule. In Saudia Arabia, they don't worry about by-laws. Prostitutes are stoned to death in the public squares. 'vee and Finally, I see that in a small way, some Mid East petro-bucks are being re-cycled into Canada via the Inuit of the Northwest Territories. Arab princes apparently have an extreme fondness for falcons, especially the gyrfalcon. And the government of the and area residents within a very short time. Wayne Taylor, of Shanley Street was voted out- standing carrier boy for this district by the Toronto Daily Star. Wayne was among other carrier boys from all over Ontario who were honoured at the Westbury Hotel, Toronto and he received a plaque, a crest and $20 cashinrecognition of his efforts. Mr. and Mrs. Mansell Gerrow celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with 235 relatives and friends being on hand to offer their best wishes. NWT has granted permits to the Inuit to allow them to take .50 of the birds for sale to the Arabs, who are willing to pay $10,000 and up for one. Well, in typical Canadian fashion the hue and cry has gone up from bird lovers everywhere. What a crock of nonsense. The white man has been ripping and tearing his way across the north for the past 20 years; building roads, airstrips, drilling holes in the ground, taking just about anything he damn well pleases. Suddenly, when a few Inuit get a chance to make some extra dollars, the do-gooders are up in arms. My answer is this. Even if those 50 gyrfalcons are the last ones in Canada (which they certainly are not) the loss would not come within a thousand miles of compensating the natives of that part of the country for what the white man has taken and damaged, in many cases beyond repair. ( port perry star ) Company Limited Phone 985-7383 Sam, r Eo : (ou): Serving the Township of Scugog ol 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. 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