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TRI the PORT PERRY STAR CO LWMUTED 135 Quin STREL? Gon PO 80a 90 } PORT PERRY ONTARIO LO8 WO (410) 983-738) [| cn [=| J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager Member of the J.B. MCCLELLAND Canadian Community Newspaper Association Editor and Ontario Community Newspaper Association. Published every Tuesday by the CATHY ROBB Port Perry Star Co. Ltd . Port Perry. Ontario. News & Features Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for cash payment PRIZE WINN ES of postage in cash. OV\AN COM la MUN7y y A hy Sp << APers ASSO EWsp pers CO Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $15.00 per year. Elsewhere $45.00 per year. Single copy 35* J hel > © COPYRIGHT -- All layout and composition of advertisements produced by the advertising department of the Port Perry Star Company Limited are protected under copyright and may not be reproduced without the written permission of the publishers. To Settle Dispute Durham Region and the City of Oshawa are heading for court to set- tle the issue of who owns the Regional head- quarters building on Rossland Road in Whitby. Oshawa is claiming one third ownership in the building under the terms of an old agree- ment between the city and Ontario County. However, Durham Region's position is that the agreement became null with the formation of the Region in 1974. remember FY when? 4 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 30, 1925 About 9:30 p.m. on Saturday last, Mr. Ben Dunn lost his barn by fire. The fire started when he slipped through a manhole and dropped the lantern in straw. In a few minutes, the whole place was ablaze and everything was lost except for some small stock. Mr. Geo. Heusler, of Toronto, has purchased the Clements property on Rosa Street and Mr. S. Farmer has purchased the Wm. Currie property. Dr. S. E. Baker of Haliburton will commence medical practice in Port Perry about the 15th of May. He is a son-in-law of Mr. C.L. Vickery. F.T. Thompson specializing in the treatment of Hernia will be at the Sebert House on Wednes- day, May 6. The boycotting of all grocers who handle the 4.4 beer is urged by the local W.C.T.U. by a unanimous resolution. . 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 27, 1950 When Harold Avery was cleaning up a pile of scrap metal behind Mrs. Bolton's house on Perry Street, he came across a bomb. It was turned over to police chief G. Holmes who in turn handed it over the the R.C.A F. at Trenton. Two inspectors investigated and found it to be a live smoke bomb, but that it had not been dropped from the air. Port Perry Baseball Club was organized April 24. and elected Les Virture, President; Irwin Loyd, Sec. Treas.; Jim Tease, Manager; Bill Harper, Coach; and Sam Naples, Ass't. Coach. Feature number of a High School assembly was a Fashion Parade, starring Joan Aldred, com- mentator and John Waldinsberger, Ron McKinzey and George Rodd as models. The dresses, hats and accessories were "straight from Paris." 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 28, 1960 15 years ago, the ice 'Went out" on April 21. Scout mothers met on April 25 at the home of Mrs. Ben Pickard and elected Mrs. Jack Cook, president. Elected vice-president was Mrs. Stephens, and second vice-president Mrs.H. Hockins, treasurer, Mrs. C. Howsam and secretary Mrs. N. Mairs. Two false fire alarms called the Fire Brigade out recently. The cause was a short circuit due to moisture in the telephone cable. . Elected president of Port Perry Dairy Calf Club was Lloyd Wilson, R.R.2, Uxbridge; Bruce (Turn to page 6) Durham council voted last week to initiate the court proceedings to set- tle the issue, despite op- position from Oshawa members on the council. Durham will be hiring an outside lawyer to fight the legal battle, which is not expected to even get "into court until some time next spring, and a final decision could take "another year. Regional chairman Gary Herrema said Durham council could be facing legal fees of $15,000 over this issue. He added that while he would have preferred to see the dispute settled by the Ontario Municipal Board rather than the courts, he also believes there may be room for Art & fashion Nothing to do on Mother's Day? Mill Hollow Gallery in Utica will host a spring art and fashion show May 11 and 12, with special flowers for the first 50 mothers through the door each day. Gallery owner Georgia Youngs has lined up several big names for the occasion, including in- novative clothes designer Bill Fitches, designing partners Deborah Johnson and Nancy Lee, not to men- tion a collection of the latest John Richmond pictures. Although the May 11th show is by invitation on- ly, anybody and everybody is welcome to drop in May 12th. The 'gallery opens at noon un- til 5 p.m. but the fashion show starts at 2 p.m. Ad- mission is free. PORT PERRY STAR -- April 30, 1985 -- 5 Region, Oshawa to court negotiations between Durham and Oshawa before the matter gets to court. Scugog Mayor Jerry Taylor is in favour of the legal action, stating 'it's the only way to get this settled," He believes the Region's case is a strong one, as under the terms of the Durham Act, the building was part of the properties, assets and. liabilities assumed by Durham. However, Mayor Taylor said that if the courts rule in Oshawa"s favour, he is prepared "'to live with the ruling." There is more to this issue that just a simple claim to part ownership of a building. There has been more than one attempt in re- cent years to start con- struction of a new Regional building on or very close to the site of the present headquarters. Regional councillors from the city of Oshawa have opposed any move to construct a new building. Mr. Herreme said he believes Oshawa coun- cillors want a new regional building in the city. ©" *"That"s the bottom line in this dispute," he told the Star. | But he is completely opposed to moving the headquarters to Oshawa stating that a new building should be on the present site. If a new building was constructed, several Regional departments now located in Oshawa, would presumably move to the new location, which is another sore point with Oshawa councillors. Scugog Mayor Taylor said that if Oshawa has a claim on part ownership of the building, it was simply an oversight not included when Durham was formed in 1974. STARDAZE PORT PERRY TAP WATER DOESNT lin Bl AI bill smiley TODAY'S SOCIETY he 2 yx We need some politicians with guts, who don't give Don't you get a little tired of the touchiness of modern society in which, no matter where you step, it's on someone's toes, no matter what you say or write, it's a slur on someone's background, colour, creed or convictions? About the only areas left in which one may chance a remark without fear of inflicting a wound are politics and sex. | It's extremely difficult to inflict even a bruise on a politician. He must have a fat ego in the first place, and he quickly acquires a brass hide to go with it. Add an ability to talk out of both sides of the mouth at once, and a certain skill in straddling fences, and you have cabinet material. - In the field of sex, there don't seem to be any limits any more to what can be said, presented or simulated. Movies, magazines and theatre, club us over the head with raw, unembellished sex, or seek to titillate the spook in each of us with highly-embellished, freaky sex until the whole once-exciting subject has become a crashing bore. Aside from sex and politics then, there is scarcely an aspect of the human scene where even angels fear to tread, lest they step on someone's sensibilities. Ethnic jokes are out, black is beautiful, gefilte fish is glorious. Rhodesia is rotten, poor people are more no- ble than rich people, gay is gorgeous, and the only real sin is to be old. Lord forbid that we should ever go back to the days when a Catholic was a ""mick" or a "dogan," a black person was a "nigger," an Italian was a "wop," a Chinese was a "chink," and so on. But I do get heartily sick of a society in which you have to tippy-toe all the time for fear of offending some touchy minority, or trespassing inadvertently on so- meone's weird religious affiliations. We are developing into a society with a snobbish sort of reverse prejudice in which everybody is lean- ing over backwards in order to appear not even to be breathing on anyone else. As a result, we are losing much of that good old Canadian crustiness and turning into a nation of nice nellies in whose mouths margarine wouldn't melt. Even our media reflect this trend in our society. With few exceptions, our newspapers are as bland as blanc mange. The letters to the editor have more bite, and are often written better, than the editorials. Our magazines are either tiresomely 'liberal' or narrowly nationalistic, or both. Tied in tight bundles, they make better firewood than they do reading matter. Television and radio news reporting, most of it.cull- ed from the late editions of newspapers, is incredibly unimaginative and repetitious. TV programs, on the whole, are pure pap, offensive by being so inoffensive. Public figures are so frightened of offending somebody or losing a few votes, that their public ut- terances come out as mush wrapped in marshmallow. What this country, and this society, need is a good dash of cold water from somewhere, to wake us from our mind-numbing, paralyzing "niceness." We need a Bob Edwards or a Gratton O'Leary to jolt 'us with some honest vituperation, some colourful name-calling, some hard facts, and some common sense. a diddle for the popularity polls, and who would give us the facts of life without any sugar coating. We need some educators with backbone to tell the people who claim that Huckleberry Finn is racist and The Merchant of Venice is anti-semitic and Catch-22 is dirty and The Diviners is digusting, to go fly a kite. We need about 10,000 fewer smart-ass commen- tators on what is wrong with this country, and a few hun- dred honest men and women to tell us what is right with it. To We need far fewer "reasonable" people and a heck of a lot more "unreasonable" people, who would refuse to accept something just because it's always been done that way, or someone might be upset if things were changed. We need some thundering editorals, some pulpits pounded, some stiff jail sentences for racism, some honesty in high places. We certainly don't need a "good war" or a **good depression" to make Canadians stop whining and bit- ching and mealy-mouthing, but we certainly need a "good" something to turn us back into the sturdy, in- dividualistic people we used to be. I haven't the answers. I'm no prophet. But I'm sick to the ears of a society that thinks: old people are a nuisance; young people are never a nuisance, super- markets are sexy; social workers can make miracles; and everybody is as good as everybody else. Perhaps if you agree with me to some extent, you would enjoy reading The Golden Age of B.S. by Fred C. Dobbs. It's rambling and it's coarse in spots, but it's right on. TE. Fara