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Tr on RANG A MO Pn TT EEE neon Yesterday's Memories 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 14, 1926 Feature film presentation at the Town Hall is Zane Grey's Thundering Herd. Miss Louise Carnegie dnd Miss Frances Mellow are delegates , from the United Church, Port Perry, to the conference winter school for Young People's societies in Cobourg, January 11 to 18. The loss was nearly $2,000 when an early Wednesday morning - fire was rung in by Chris Stephenson, who discovered a fire in the port Perry Planning Mill. Most of the damage was done to belts and pulleys. : Brock Bros. Co. advertises Men's heavy shirts 98 cents; boy's pullover sweaters 98 cents; and ladies white shaker night gowns 85 cents. Mr. E. Heayn, Brooklin has purchased a number of high class lambs from Grant Christie, Manchester and placed them on his farm on Scugog Island, which he recently purchased. 35 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 11, 1951 Milton Butson was elected president of Port Perry Rod and Gun Club for 1951. 0.0. Hamilton, vice president; Ott Hamilton, secretary- treasurer; Committee chairman: Shooting- Arthur Brock; Casting- Harry DeShane. Co On Monday, January 8, representatives for the badminton clubs from the district met in Brooklin Township Hall to form a league. Two members from clubs in Port Perry, Brooklin, Whitby, Ajax and Uxbridge attended. : January 2, 1951, marked the 25th anniversary of Harold R. Ar- cher, Port Perry, as a Géneral Motors dealer. On January 2, 1926, Mr. Archer became the fourth dealer to sign a contract with General Motors of Canada for the sale of Pontiac cars and parts. In years -of service, Mr. Archer is the oldest Pontiac dealer in the Dominion of Canada. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 12, 1961 Vinc's Barber Shop owned by Earl Jackson has been sold to Mr. Karl Shulz, Kitchener, Ontario. . The members of Cartwright Township Council, Bruce Ashton, Reeve Albert Gibson, Deputy Reeve, and councillors Merrill Van Camp, Lawrence Malcolm and John Hamilton were properly inaugurated. Inaugural meeting was also held in Scugog Township and all members of council were present. Anson Gerrow, Reeve, Clarence Carter, Victor Aldred and Cecil Fralick, councillors. "3 Mr. Wm. Luke's home near Honey's Beach was totally destroyed by fire. Very little insurance was kept on the property and hardly anything was saved. The Lions Club will spearhead a drive for funds to assist the family in their tragic loss. - The official opening of the new High School addition will take place on Friday, January 20. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 13, 1966 [ About 100 Port Perry businessmen and their sales staff assembl- ed in the Port Perry Legion for a sales clinic and dinner sponsored by the Star. Principal speaker and conducting the sales clinic was (Turn to page 6) PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, January 14, 1986 -- § Letters Good samaritans in Port Perry Dear Sir: | L On Friday, December 27, 1985, a friend and I were travelling from Oshawa to Port Perry when due to road conditions we Jost control of our car and subsequently landed, A player with the Lindsay _ Muskies Junior C Hockey team was taken to Port Perry Hospital Sunday night after being knocked out dur- ing a game with the MoJacks at the Scugog Arena. A spokesman at the Hospital told the Star Monday morning that Paul Fisher had been kept overnight and was in stable condition with a head injury. Further details about the specific nature of the injury or how long Fisher might remain in hos- pital were not available on Monday. The incident took place during third period action with play in the MoJack zone. Fisher, a forward with the Lindsay team was knock- ed down by MoJack defenseman Jeff Bricknell who was assessed a uninjured but partially buried in a ditch filled with si.ow on Simcoe Street south of the Town. Some very kind people from the. Port Perry area came to our rescue and I would like to publicly thank each of them Lindsay player taken tohospital after knock-out two minute minor penalty for high sticking by referee Alan Glaspell. For several minutes, Fisher lay flat on the ice as trainers ad- ministered smelling salts. He was helped to his feet, and still very groggy, it took two of his team- mates to assist him to the dressing room. J 'for being such good samaritans to travelling strangers. All of the people who assisted us were themselves under a great deal of stress due to the storm conditions, but their kindness to us was outstan- ding. Our many thanks to Bob and his two daughters from Blackstock . for making room for us in their truck and generously driving us to locate a towing service, and Ray's Towing for such prompt cheerful and effi- cient service when he had been tow- ing vehicles out of the sriow from 5:00 a.m. We would especially like to thank Phyllis and Morley Feasby, the pro- prietors of the Railroadhouse Motor Motel on Scugog Street, who warm- ed us with coffee and the kindest of hospitality while we waited, con- cerned and shaken by the ex- perience. Many thanks again." Sincerely, M. Graham, Oshawa, Ontario. BELVEDERE Li xg1° ge ------ = -- li = "WHY DID WE EVER LET HIM WATCH 'LOVE BOAT'2" THE WORLD OF Bill Smiley KEEP ON LOOKING UP eB MN A ad Looking back at 1985 is a particularly negative ac- tion. Don't do it, unless you want to remind yourself that human life is pretty cheap in the eyes of the gods or whoever is running the joint. India took some heavy lumps. First, the mess at Bhopal, where a carbide company took a leak (no pun intended), and thousands were killed or made gravely ill. Then the mysterious crash of Air India off the coast of Ireland. No survivors. Just ordinary people, going home to visit relatives. Can you imagine the terror as they plunged toward the sea? Screaming, clutching babies. No no avail. The brutal cold of the North Atlan- tic gave up almost nothing ---- a few bits of flotsam and jetsam, a-few bodies. And other air crashes, not so spectacular, but just as deadly for those who died. And the ghastly shoot-out at Malta, where nobody seemed to know, or care, whether the rescuers were shooting terrorists or passengers. And the hi-jacking of an entire cruise ship in the Mediterranean. But even these events paled when compared to the grotesque tragedy of the earthquakes in Mexico and Col- ombia. Not only about 40,000 dead, but thousands of 'others with their lives over-turned, their crops destroyed, their homes lost. And we worry because the price of Christmas trees has gone up again. Things haven't been much sweeter at home, even though Canadians live in the best country in the world, and seem to be immune from great disasters, except for the danged winter. Rancid tuna, tainted buffalo meat (who eats buf- falo anyway?), crumbling banks, and a government that can't seem to put one foot in front of the other, without putting the first one in its mouth. Mr. Mulroney's gang, without his personal public relations - facade, makes you start thinking rather longingly for Pierre Trudeau, who at least despised the media and made no attempt to conceal it. However, we mustn't be morbid. We must look up, not back. I saw a black squirrel yesterday looking up - at his home in one of my oaks, and calculating whether he had time to sock away another five hundred acorns for the coming months, when all the squirrels do is have sex, sleep and eat. And I saw a solid citizen, looking up at the sky and saying, "Jeez, more snow coming." + These are the positive attitudes we must adopt if we are to emerge next spring, pallid, but survivors: Looking up. I've painted a rather dark picture of 1985. Forget it, and look up. And if you get some freezing rain in you eyes, don't blame me. Just go to the liquor store and buy some wine with the anti-freeze in it. That'll clear your eyes, though it may not do much for your liver. Personally, things have gone well with me. I've only been waiting for a hospital bed since Thanksgiving and will probably be tucked in, waiting for some of those unspeakable "tests,"' by April. None of my old friends has died recently, and I hope they can say the same for me. : I've lost only one hub-cap this winter trying to get into my garage. I've pretty well mastered the art ---- and it is an art ---- of cooking for one: I sit down at the crack of noon and figure out my menu for the day. Man does not live by bread alone. He needs peanut butter, as well. While I'm working on my menu, I have bread and peanut butter and a banana. Lots of protcin. ~ Then I write some notes to myself, It's unhealthy to think about food all the time. Memo: Get that tea- pot, the only one in the house fit for guests, back from ugh, who "borrowed" it last weekend: call Kim and e if-ghe's still out of a job; stop smoking; stop drink- thing stronger than barley water; get windshield erfixed; pay 1983 income tax. And so on. They cer- tainly take my mind off food. By that time, I'm pretty exhausted, so I have a lit- tle "'Zizz," or, as the bourgeois call it, "snooze." This takes a lot of energy out of me, because I dream of not having paid the utilities bill, the phone bill, and the gas bill. I wake up in a nervous sweat. At this moment, it's time to think about dinner. So I plod through snow to the garage, go downtown, buy a paper, cigarettes and hooze, and drop in at the delicatessen where I order a take-out of their delicious hot goulash. That takes care of dinner. Sometimes I strike it rich. Turkey dinner, wonder- ful with all the fixings, with some old friends. Talked the lady into half an apple pie. Unfortunately, my son came home that weekend. He likes pies. Mustn't go on like this. 1985 was great, if you're still alive. 1986 is going to be a fine, fine year. That is, if you keep looking up. But keep an eye for seagulls. S