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ad AI to SO WO rs STE rr vie letters KA Ad 1 SLY $i ' ' Sun ardinltarcb lien obi dafimmnobiic debian s iumd hE BAS A Doesn't want to be a statistic Dear Sir: There is a personal reason behind all this. At age sixty-eight, [ am too young to be a sta- tistic. These = past few months, I have been run off the road four times. I'm sure of that by a drunk driver. Far too many people still persist in getting behind the wheel of their vehicle when they have drunk enough alcohol to make them incapable of handling what is in fact a potentially lethal weapon. And it is be- coming increasingly clear that harsh laws and harsher penalties - by themselves - won't put a stop to thé carnage on our highways caused by drinking drivers. If the drunken drivers came to be publicly re- garded as a pariah, shunned by civilized. society, we would "be much further along the way to preventing the damage they cause to our lives and property. If we are to prevent the damage to our lives 'and property caused by alcohol-related drivers, we must change our devil-may-care attitude towards driving after drinking and recognize it for what it is - a profoundly anti-social act. Instead of somehow tolerating it because everybody or almost everybody does it, we' should avoid it like the plague. A citizen who clears his sidewalk of ice and snow so visitors and passerbys will not injure themselves, will drive after drinking, where the chance of injury to another is infinitely greater. These same citizens would not dream of firing a rifle shot down the main street, because: (Turn to page 6) 4 vf ¢ 4 Se Sh ini dud das criodntatiaio datder rail PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, April 5, 1983 -- 5 + 3 TELS 4 o an A ay 0 M4 ¢ AS ILO ACL VY IE ™ EAN Sovran edd Lae nl y ot PORT PERRY STAR CO LNTWTED 135 QUEEN STREET Eon PO BOX 90 PORT PERRY ONTARIO LO8 INO J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager J.B. McCLELLAND Editor A PRRAOUAN COM 7S 12 Z on 5240 crs n3s0C Ak (416) 985-7383 oO (531) (= ] Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Community Newspaper Association Published every Tuesday 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 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 I'LL MISS THEM . . .. Nothing annoys me quite as much as the dear souls ~ who, when I'm telling them about my retirement, beam sympathetically, and exclaim gushily 'But you'll miss the students, won't you?" They are shocked and a little indignant when I tell them that I will miss the students the way I would miss a bullet-hole in my sternum, a punch in the mouth, a massive coronary. *'But I thought you loved your students," they croon bewilderly. And of course they're right. I do love my students, in the abstract. I also love apple pie and ice cream, rye on the rocks, lilacs, rag-time music and women. But that doesn't mean I've got to eat nothing else, drink nothing else, smell nothing else, hear nothing else, and feel nothing else, for the rest of my days. ] Imagine one day of sitting around eating apple pie and ice cream, washing it down with Canadian Club under a lilac tree with the tape recorder blaring rag- time, and a beautiful, soulful woman on your knee. You'd wind up with pie tasting of rye, sickly-sweet music, and a woman screaming because she had an ice cube down her decolletage and ice cream (chocolate) all over her bikini. i One could cope with one day of that. It might even be interesting, The combination has mnay permutations. But try it three days in a row, or ten, and you'd wind --up in a white jacket. What if the woman started smell- ing of rye, the apple pie tasted like lilacs, the"rye was hotter'n a fire cracker, and the music started sounding like strawberry ice cream? And that's how I feel about my students. As we us- ed to say in Germany, "'Genug ist genug," or something along those lines. Does the lion tamer miss the lions when he retires and goes into extensive plastic surgery on his scarred face, his torn legs? Does the janitor miss his broom? Does the sailor miss puking into the wind? Does the housewife miss the ironing? Does the plumber regret not having scabs on hig knuckles any more? Does the doctor miss head colds? Does the lawyer miss the people at parties who ask him if their wife/husband is divorceable? Certainly I'll miss my pupils. Just the way I miss the old rubber boots for fishing that I threw out twelve years ago. Just the way I'll miss being a prisoner-of- war on bread and water. ' It's not that I don't like kids. I do. but I don't go on and on and on being their father and mother and their baby-sitter and their friendly local policeman and their ingratiating psychiatrist and their grandfather and their jovial uncle. i I know perfectly well that the moment I retire, my potential students will be plunged back into the Dark Ages. None of thems be able to read or write or scrib- ble graffiti on the desks or go to the washroom twice every period. What is to happen to them? It may seem heartless to you, but it doesn't bother me in the slightest that good ole Mr. Sliggisg won't be there to suckle them at his literary breast, watch them blossom into hangunge that only a sailor wouldn't shrink from, and steer them into courses that will drive them to suicide. They can go and cry on someone else's shoulder about the rotten parents they have, and the terrible tur- moil of being a teen, and the "fact" that all their other teachers are down on them, and that's the only reason they are fifty-percenters instead of eighty-percenters. They can tell some other gullible that they didn't know that their assignment was due, that the reason they missed the test was that they!d missed the bus. They can give somebody else the big blue or brown stare of utter sincerity while they lie through their teeth about why they have thrown someone else's book out the window, or why their desk has suddenly overturn- ed, or why their desks are covered with pornography. Don't get me wrong. As individuals, I love them. Who could be sweeter than Shawn, wide-eyed, who tells me that the reason he didn't write the test was that he hadn't (in two months) read the book? Who could be more appealing than Lisa as she ex- plains that the reason she is falling behind is not her boyfriend, perish the thought, but her parents, father a wife-beater, and mother a drunk (both of them turn- ing up for Parent's Night; the father a milquetoast, the mother a Sunday School teacher)? What can you say when Greg mutters, shamefaced- ly, that he didn't get his essay done because, he, heck was skiing all weekend because, like, it was the only decent weekend all winter? » Maybe the reason I'm so soft is that I never told a _ lie, was never late, never slept in, never missed an assignment, and sat like an angel in class, when I was a student. Whatever, I'm gonna miss them exactly as much as they're gonna miss me. In both cases, like a tooth- ache. : NPT TR 2 rem ber when? 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 5, 1923 The Salvation Army opened a mission over McClin- tock's store in Port Perry and began holding three gospel services a week. . Port Perry 1.0.0.F. was sponsoring a film night featuring the Prodigal Judge and "a comic reel with 1000 laughs". 2 ' Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Wilson of Greenbank became parents of a son. ~ 35YEARSAGO Thursday, April 1, 1948 The interior of Port Perry's Roman Catholic Church was completely renovated and redecorated. "Student choirs at Port Perry High School presented a musical in the auditorium: ; Dr. and Mrs, Morley Hardy of Honeydale had a son. 'Home in Oklahoma' starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans was packing them in at the theatre in Port Perry. There was a sale on ladies shoes at 98 cents a pair. People were complaining about inflation rates. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 3, 1958 Sharon Haugen was selected At Home Queen for Port - Perry High School. Port Perry won the minor hockey trophy for the second year in a row. Students at Cartwright Public School were perfor- ming a concert which included the operetta "Tales of Sausage was 49 cents a pound, bacon was 69 cents per pound and hams were selling for 79 cents a pound. 7 : 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 4, 1963 Port Perry Hospital began keeping medical records on microfilm and reduced the amount of storage space needed for its records by 90 per cent. Firemen answered a call to the Lilla Street home of James Irwin and put put a fire started by an oil burner. Port Perry Midgets captured the Central Ontario "B"' championship. Team members that year included: Richard Stevens, Roger Stevens, Joe Prosser, David Ballingal, Gord McMillan, Dale McNenley, Graham Powell, Chris Dowson, Jim McMaster, Larry Skerratt, Roger Pickard, Bob Lee, Ralph Ballard, Barry Beare, Bill Beare and Ted Hallett. ' - Jerry Lewis was starring in 'Errand Boy' at the area theatre. A seven ounce tin of pink salmon was 59 cents. You could buy ten grapefruit for 59 cents and sliced bread was 21 cents a loaf. hig ice moved out of the Nonquon River on March 27th. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 4, 1968 Carol Wotten became the At Home Queen for Car- twright High School during the 10th annual 'At Home" for Cartwright High School. Rev. L.H. Fowler, D.D., secretary of the Presbyterian place the memorial stone in the Burns Church, Ashburn. Creamy white cauliflower heads were selling for 35 cents each; 1 1b. bag of coffee was 75 cents and spaghetti sauce with meat or mushrooms was 33 cents for a 14 ounce tin. 10 YEARS AGO : Wednesday, April 4, 1973 The ice disappeared from Lake Scugog early Sunday morning, April 1st. It has been 20 years since the ice went out earlier. In 1953 it broke away, from the shores on Mar- ch 237 Turning back to the last century for the earliest date it shows March 20th and the year was 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Drew "and family left for England by BOAC for a 3-week vacation. An advertisement for a local department store listed these items for sale: Desert boots for men - $10.95; Boys trousers (slims 8-18) $1.49 pair and youths flares and bag pants ranged in price from $9.95 to $14.95. The 1973 Cancer Society Campaign got off to a good start when the Bell Telephone Employees Community Service Fund donated a cheque for $100. Presenting the cheque was Art Catton, Reeve of Reach Township and employee of Bell Canada with Campaign Chairman, Ar- nold Roach receiving the donatf®n. The Malmont Farm Novice team captured the Lakeshore "B" Championship by eliminating Uxbridge 2- 0 in the final game. They also beat out Uxbridge 4-0; Beaverton 7-0 and Stouffville 4-1 during the championship games. . ~ Peter Rabbit". : ) Church Administrative Council of Toronto was present to