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Rian dee 8 7 AN 0 Or CS hy a LAN Ph PTR YE I i 3) TYE CFD EES Rae SERRA letters Cruise Missile testing insane Dear Sir: The credibility gap between the govern- ment of Canada and the people of Canada is widening with each passing day. However, necessary it appears to be, the testing and de- ployment of Cruise and Pershing missiles is immoral and insane. There is no DEFENCE against nuclear weapons; that concept vanished in August 1945 over Hiro- shima. Nuclear weapons can not be used. There is not such thing as "limited nuclear war", therefore those weapons and their delivery systems are in reality our method of - self-destruction; suicide! ~ Canada has an oppor- tunity to support the superb rhetoric of Prime Minister Trudeau and his policy of suffocation; a ban on nuclear weapons testing and the systems used to deliver them. Except that Mr. Trudeau has gone against on his own theory. Canada also signed the McCloy-Zorin Agreement in 1961 supporting the "elimin- ation of all means of delivery of weapons of mass destruction". That too has been convenient- ly forgotten. Stopping the testing of Cruise missiles (or their guidence systems), is not an integral step to- wards nuclear dis- armament and peace, it's not even a big step, but it is a step. Perhaps its the only step Canada can take alone. Where are the major- ity who oppose the test- ing of the Cruise missile, and support "general nuclear dis- (Turn to page 6) SARIN ATE: the PORT PERRY STAR CO. LIMITED ry 235 QUEEN STREET CNA £.0.80X 90. PORT PERRY. ONTARIO LO8 NO _-- (416) 985-7383 H-) I CN | =) J. PETER HVIDSTEN Member of the Publisher Advertising Manager Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario J.B. McCLELLAND Editor Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office BNADIAN COMMU ¥ Ye En o% Department, Ottawa, and for cash payment of postage in cash. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $15.00 per year. Elsewhere $45.00 per year. Single copy: 35° bill smiley WHO'S FOR A BABY BOOM? Isn't it kind of nice to see the government putting the boots to some financial wheeler-dealers for a change, instead of bluntly telling us common chaps that we must toe the line with 6 and 5, with inflation, that the working man and the farmer are greedy and should be happy that swollen rates of usury have come down, and that there's a Big Rock Candy Mountain in the Sky, if we just continue to trust in it (the government)? Isn't it kind of sad that a government should sit around on its big, fat tail, contemplating its big, fat navel, practically turned inside out because the com- fortable pot-belly has so grown with pats on the shoulder, campaign contributions, and suggestions that, whatever happens can be covered up, or obfuscated by comforting stuff like, 'You're doing fine, Jack. I love ya. Just don't get caught."? Isn't it kind of nice that, once in an ice age, democracy actually works? That a placid government even a majority one, which usually turns over every controversial issue to a Royal Commission which re- quires three years and millions of dollars to produce a report that nobody reads, can be forced into taking - strong measures by an intelligent, well-prepared and determined Opposition, and actually has to get off its butt before the fandango is danced to its last note? Isn't it amazing that government, with its huge staff of "experts" in practically everything, doesn't have a clue that: some trust companies are shaky; people are polluting other people's water; we are building national and provincial deficits which will put our country fair- ly quickly in with the Third World countries; our defence forces are a snigger around NATO; our industries, in general, are still in the 1950s, as far as equipment, management and production are concerned? Wouldn't it be wonderful if someone could put the boots to the government, as the latter has done to private enterprise? The only person who can is the Auditor-General, and after a couple of front-page stories which prove that the Canadian public is being sold everything but the Brooklyn Bridge, he is swatted off like an annoying mosquito. Wouldn't it be great if people actually read the state- ment of the Archbishops, that people are more impor- tant than policies, rather than snarking "Why don't they stick with their beads,?" or, "If they're right, why don't they let the Canadian Manufacturers Association re- write the Ten Commandments.?"' Wouldn't it be simply splendid if some "non- working' housewife, who has been putting in sixteen hours a day, seven days a week, for twenty-five years, walked up and gave cabinet minister Judy Erola a tax allowance for non-working spouses.? This is the worst column I have ever written. Nothing but questions. Of course, they don't need answers because they are rhetorical questions. But the sentences are too long. Too many clauses beginning with "which." If a student offered this as an essay, I would rip it to ribbons. Maybe it's because I'm becoming confused, like everybody else in this country. But who, normally a de- cent, responsible citizen, willing to share, to contribute, to work out something better, can be anything else but confused when he finds himself surrounded by veniali- - ty and apathy in high places, anger in the middle places, fury in low places and whimpering from all directions, can keep himself looking at the plateaus, rather than the valleys? There I go again. Another rhetorical ques- tion. Another rambling sentence. O.K. Let's get off this querulous note. I'm getting as bored as you are. No more questions. Short sentences. Right? Right? Getting rid of Trudeau is no solution. Nor is Joe Clark, who would sell his aged grandmother on the slave market to become prime minister again. Even for two weeks. What this country needs is another baby boom. It would take a couple of years to get it going, but if the whole nation would get down to it, or up to it, the economy would soar once again. All our industries were geared to the fantastic boom of babies after World War II. Everybody needed diapers, booties, baby buggies, toys, smashed spinach, soothers, talcum powder, maternity dresses. Then, a little later, shoes, snow-suits, tricycles, orthodontists, TV sets, records, jeans, six-dollar hair-styles, granny glasses, mini-skirts. The economy was booming. The Post Office was deliverying the mail. Politicians were paid about what a plumber makes today, and they were worth every cent of it. The national debt was just a tiny cloud on the horizon. Unemployment was a bad word from the Thir- ties. Every kid was going to go to university and be rich ever afterwards. There. That's my solution. It's as sound as that of any economist I've read. Who's for a Baby Boom? Speak for yourself, of course. Include me out. But let's get the country back on its knees, at least, if not on its feet. remember when? 1 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 15, 1923 Port Perry Council hired a Clerk-Treasurer at a salary of $900 per year and a town electrician at $25 a week. Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Nott announced the birth of a daughter and Mr. and Mrs. A. McDermott announced the birth of a son. Army Captain Langford gave a lecture on the Great War (WW1) at the Port Perry Town Hall. The captain showed more than 100 slides of action at Vimy Ridge, Napoo Corners, Eloi and also the Rhine. There was a sale on washing machines, regular $21.00 reduced to $16.75. 35 YEARSAGO Thursday, February 12, 1948 Should young people in love sit together in a chair meant for one, sip soda from the same straw or embrace in public. Of course not. Shocking. Soon no one in town will be willing to talk to you if you engage in such uncouth behaviour. For these and other tips on how to behave properly all a young person had to do in 1948 was send 30 cents in coin to a Toronto address. Church attendance was down in Scugog due to unusually cold weather. A 'very special" meeting of the Port Perry Businessmen's Association was held at the Public Library to discuss the new skating rink. Mr. and Mrs. E. Donnelly became the parents of a son. Twilight on the Rio Grande starring Gene Autry was playing in Port Perry. Pablum was 45 cents a box. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 13, 1958 Ed Sues was hired by Cartwright Township as Assessor at a salary of $850 yearly. - Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Houghland of Pine Grove an- nounced the birth of a daughter, Esther Irene. The Department of Highways paved No. 12 Highway from Whitby to Brooklin. Enumeration of voters for the 1958 March election began in Port Perry. Port Perry Juveniles downed Uxbridge 8-4 in a recent hockey game. The Devil's Hairpin starring Cornel Wilde and Jean Wallace was playing in Port Perry. A drama and music evening at Port Perry High School featured the play Nellie McNab. Bologna was 35 cents per pound. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 14, 1963 A program titled "Life and Love" was held at the High School, sponsored by Port Perry Ministerial Association and local Scout Troops. John Hamilton was elected president of the Car- twright Progressive Conservative Association. Ontario ridings MP, Hon. Michael Starr reported that the government of John Diefenbaker, of which Mr. Starr was a member, had been defeated by a non-confidence motion from the Liberals and Social Creditors. He ac- cused the opposition of obstructing Parliament. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 15, 1968 Mrs. Marietta Raines celebrated her 96th birthday recently. Friends and family gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Raines for the occasion. Port Perry High School has chosen this year's "At Home" queen, Lynne MacGregor and princess Linda Greenly. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, February 14, 1973 Scugog Chamber of Commerce made the decision at a special meeting to cancel all Winter Carnival events ex- cept the Broomball Tournament and Logging Camp Sup- per due to mild weather conditions and a lack of ice on the lake. The Village of Port Perry has begun the necessary procedures to rezone land on Bigelow Street so that a Senior Citizens Residence can be constructed. Two Cartwright High School students participated in the Public Speaking Contest sponsored by Bowmanville Legion. Cindy Van Camp entered the Junior Division and Richard Gunter placed second in the Senior Division. "Thanks to the Star - Jethro is back home!" appeared in this edition of the paper. Jethro the cat, wandered from his home in Epsom and was found approximately 5 miles away. His owners placed a "Lost" notice in this issue and the cat was back home again. nti FEA Tent a