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A ------------ -- letters Young canoers disappointed Dear Sir: A friend of mine, Nick Cracknell, and I recently .canoed the Nonquon in the inclement weather of that day. We had practised for almost 2 weeks, first the river from the 8th concession to Seagrave and then from Seagrave to Port Perry on the lake. During these trial 'runs we had tried to keep track of our time and progress. We were deter- mined to break. the record for the 14 and under class, if we could enter that class as I was 15. On the Friday night we went to register. When our turn came we informed the registrator that I was 15, but had only been 15 for 3 weeks. Could we enter the 14 and under class? The person registered us in 14 and under, I then assumed that your age must be taken as of a certain date before the race. The day of the race came and we were ready. Our starting time was 8:05. Nick had a watch on to keep track of time. We reached the first - bridge in about 45 minutes. The men were completing that leg of the race in 40 LA BRAT HE STAN $F AAR A WET VERT ear ET a cdl he ads Badass PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday June 15, 1982 -- 5 the ( A LOB INO (416) 985-7383 (| PORT PERRY STAR CO. LIMITED 235 QUEEN STREET. P.0.80X 90. PORT PERRY, ONTARIO. (599) y= J.PETERHVIDSTEN minutes. We kept track of Publisher time until we reached the AdvertisingManager yacht club where our race was over. We figured our time to be around 2 hours 40 J.B. McCLELLAND minutes. This was very close Editor to the record. Our actual time was 2 hours 40 minutes 35 seconds: 5 seconds short of the record. We had won the race. When we went to the Latcham Centre to the awards ceremony we had been disqualified! We (Turnto page 6) AWADIAN COM, 8 ¥ A Ne CO) . 0 Meares, AssOCIANS [=] 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 cash payment of postageincash. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $15.00 per year. Elsewhere: $45.00 per year. Single copy: 35 bill smiley READERS OPINION He raves on: Would we have the educational horror in Ontario if we had one Minister of Education with some backbone. Tell me Mr. Smiley when do you people actually do any teaching. Be honest would you teach six months out of year if we put it all together? It seems to me that every time I go out in the street its full of high school students . . . "1 am disappointed with Reagan as he seems to have gone soft, but he sure made a wealth of friends when he put the screws to the unions. It didn't take him long to show who was boss. Would there be one politician in Canada with that kind of backbone? No bloddy way." 1 haven't changed any of the punctuation. Well Mr. Ross, you say what you mean, but I'd hate to be in a prison camp with you as the Gauleiter in charge. Let's go back a bit. I'd take even Joe Clark ahead of Pierre Trudeau, but I still wouldn't want a Thatcher or a Reagan. Mrs. Thatcher is a remarkable woman in many ways. But she certainly hasn't led Britain out of its economic slump. And she has recently supported by people like yourself, got her country into a difficult and dangerous war, which would destroy that economy. completely. Think of the oil bill. Mr. Regan has a great old Hollywood smile, was going to reduce taxes, balance the budget, scare the Russians silly and do all sorts of things. None of which he has done. He has produced a budget that would create a three hundred billion dollar deficit, and even his own Republi- cans can't swallow that. The U.S. is in a bad recession. ' Unemployment is high. I'm not blaming the man. But let's face it; he is just another politician full of hot air who can't deliver on the election promises. I agree about. Mrs. Thatcher's guts and those of our politicians. But about that education horror in Ontario. What horror? Confusion, muddling, changes of direction. But Horror? I ain't seen none, as my students would put it. And we do have a Minister of Education who is noted for backbone. In fact, Dr. Bette Stephenson is a terror, a miniature Margaret Thatcher, but not a horror. I'll be honest, Mr. Ross. Yes, we do teach six months in a year. In fact, we teach 10. And if we didn't have a long break in the summer, our mental institutions would be over-flowing. As well, I might mention that the teachers on our staff spent more than 5,000 hours outside the classroom, helping with student activities last year. Well, at least I keep my readers guessing. In one week I received a letter from Saskatchewan that accused me of being a right-winger, and another from Ontario suggest- ing I am a socialist. Sorry folks, but you can't label this old codger that easily. I am neither. I am merely a person who says what 'he thinks, within the bounds of common decency. Even though a third letter-writer says, '"Your columns are almost always interesting if sometimes just a trifle vulgar." The Saskatchewanian did not sign its letter, but attacked me for a column about welfare bums, the shrewd ones at the bottom of the heap who know every angle, and the shrewder ones at the top of the heap who know the right people, and are appointed to posts with immense salaries, like M. Juneau, or given choice architectural plums like that other chum of MR. Trudeau's. Not for an instant was I talking about the poor devils who must have welfare to put bread on the table and shoes on their kids. But waht really hurt was that the letter from Sask. accused me of becoming another Gordon Sinclair, whatever that means. I am no more like Gordon Sinclair than Gordon Sinclair is like Joan of Arc. In the first place, I am not a millionaire. He is. In the second, I don't think I'm right about everything. He does. In the third place I've never met the man, haven't read anything he's written for 30 years, and know him only as that old man on that dreadful dog called "Front Page Challenge," whose first question usually is 'How much do you make?" 0.K. now for Jim Ross of Exeter, Ontario: he writes with force if not much style. I'll give you some excerpts, along with my comments on answers. "Enjoy your column and most times agree with you. I was rather upset with your comments that (Lord forbid) we didn't need a Thatcher or a Reagan. Surely old fighter pilot Smiley isn't a socialist although I guess most teachers are. "Margaret Thatcher has more guts in her little finger than all the politicians in Canada put together. Would we have the chaos in the post office if we had one man in Ottawa with the courage of standing up to the post office union instead of cowering in a corner while postal clerks crapped on him"? As I remarked, Mr. Ross writes with considerable emphasis but little elegance, and in a master of the sweeping generaliztion. No, Mr. Ross, not all teachers are socialists. Nor are they all married, or Anglicans, or Rotarians, or women, or men, or grasping, or rich. No teacher I know is the last. They are just people doing the best job they can with the material they have. Tell you what should be done, perhaps, if we can find a wall long enough, we'll line up all the postal workers and teachers and shoot them, the dirty pinkos. It would certainly help solve the unemployment problems. remember when? 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 15, 1922 At County Council special grants were made of one- half mill each to the villages of Beaverton and Port Perry for the purposes of improving the streets. Groceries - Cash and Carry meant cheaper foods. Salmon - 30 cents a tin, tomatoes were 15 cents a tin, shredded wheat was 16 cents a package and new cheese was 25 cents a pound. Mr. Fred A. Kent extended an invitation to visit his rosary and flower garden at "Beechcroft." At St. Johns Presbyterian Church, Mr. and Mrs. F.W. Mcintyre were presented -with a tea service in acknowledgement of Mr. McIntyre's many years of choir leadership. 35 YEARS AGO _ Thursday, June 12, 1947 The Port Perry Band, under the leadership of Mr. Vic Stouffer put on a very enjoyable concert at the High School. * Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Santer have moved to the Woods home at Borelia, Miss Clare Glass, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Glass won a scholarship for her work while training at Oshawa Hospital. Rev. W.P. Brown, who has spent his retiring years on Scugog Island celebrated his 100th Birthday. 25 YEARS AGO Thursdayd, June 13, 1957 Darlene Mickie, age 10 years, won the prize for the biggest fish at the Carp Derby. The fish weighed in at 10 pounds. Mr. D.L. Crozier was installed as President of the On- tario County TB Association at the annual meeting held in Oshawa. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 14, 1962 Port Perry Merchants Ball team defeated Brooklin's Stevenson Motors under the new floodlights which were just installed at the ball park. Charles Trenka of R.R. 3, Rort Perry graduated from the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto with honours as a Mechanical Engineer. At the Cartwright Council meeting, tenders are called to tear down the old Township Garage (formerly the old Presbyterian Church). 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 15, 1967 The Lions Club of Port Perry subscribed to a special edition of Readers Digest which have enlarged type to aid residents with vision impairments the opportunity to read these books. Carson Construction Limited, Claremont placed three top bids for the schools at Utica and Manchester and vacant property at Chalk Lake, which were being sold. A fourth piece of property, the school at Prospect was sold for $2,550 to Mr. Warner Malischewski. Offset printing became the method used by this newspaper making its debut with this edition of the Port Perry Star. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, June 14, 1972 A Sunday afternoon fire caused an estimated $3,000 damage to a two-storey frame home on Scugog Island, which was occupied Mr. Danny Maundrell. A spark from a rubbish fire ignited wooden shingles on the roof the home. William James Carnaghan, son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Carnaghan of Blackstock, graduated from the Univer- sity of Western Ontario with an honours B.A. in Jour- nalism. He is presently on the staff of the Peterborough Examiner. In 1972 an automobile advertisement listed a 1972 Dat- sun fastback with a 4 cylinder engine, gold with matching interior, radio for the economical price of $2,295.00.