The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

- ss my =e 0 WD - Q A ETH Ea ae Ee al Te, --_-- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, July 29, 1986 -- § Vi £2 Wf P OO i mM - by John B. McClelland The City of Toronto is now carrying out feasibility studies to determine what's involved in making a for- 'mal application to host the 1996 Olympic Games. It's a waste of time and money. It would be an even bigger waste of time, money and effort should Toronto go ahead with its bid and get accepted. God alone knows what kind of shape the world will be in when 1996 rolls around, but if the last decade is an indicator, things won't be much better. As far as I'm concerned, the Olympics are a joke and the Commonwealth Games have turned into a joke. The whole world of international sport had become a joke what with petty politics, foolish boycotts, the threat of terrorism and the sheer cost of staging the games which last a week or two. Why would any city go to all the expense of prepar- ing for the Olympics, only to see the games turned into a political playing field? The boycott by more than 20 countries of the Com- monwealth Games this week in Scotland is a typical ex- ample. The countries are not boycotting the presence of South Africans at the Games. They have decided to boycott Margaret Thatcher and her refusal to impose full sanctions against South Africa. It's ludicrous in the extreme. The city of Toronto would be far better ahead to sink its money into affordable housing, more sport and recreation facilities of a modest nature for all the citizens of the city, rather than building monuments for the elite few. The atmosphere of international sport has been poisoned and damaged beyond repair going back to Montreal, Moscow and Los Angeles, all of which were Subjected to boycotts for political reasons. The symbol of Olympic flame and flag is a joke these days. If the countries of the world can't keep politics and sport separate, then games like the Qlympics should be cashiered once and for all. ) * There are far too many second and third-rate coun- tries in the world today just waiting for the opportuni- ty to embarrass the host nation and to make a political statement by boycotting. I say Canada should not give them the opportunity. ) Besides, Toronto is going to have enough trouble building and paving for the Big Dome. Can you imagine the cost of staging an entire Olympics? Thanks, but no thanks. THAT'S A BINGO I've been folowing the trials and tribulations of Reg Hill, an Indian from the Nix Nations Reserve, who has run a-foul of the authorities for trying to stage private bingos on the Reserve. He says the authorities have no right to forbid this since it's on the Indian land. The OPP have said otherwise. Hill has been offering cash prizes for bingo nuts of up to $50,000 and people are arriving by the bus-load. He says his first two monster bingos left him $40,000 in the red, but he's convinced he can make some big dollars. Sure he will. Monster bingos on Indian land south of the border are making money, lots of it. And let's face it, Canadians love their bingo, just like they love lot- teries or putting a few dollars on the nose of a pony. Heck, I even know people who have placed bets on foot- ball, baseball and hockey games (horrors). I used to believe that Ontario should adopt some form of legalized gambling: betting shops for horse races, casinos and so on. But I now have to agree with the critics that the problems would out-weigh the benefits. ~ aE What this province should be doing is getting into the bingo game in a big way. - : Form a company liké the Lottery Corporation and stage monster bingos in all areas of Ontario on a regular basis. Hire agents to run them (like lottery ticket sellers) assure them a decent return, and rake in the profits. The money could be put to all kinds of good uses just like the profits from the lottery sales. If Reg Hill thinks he can make a profit staging private bingos, there is no reason why the government can't do the same. If the government took the initiative, it would do several things: satisfy the lust of a lot of people to play bingo for big money; feed the coffers of the provincial government, and put private guys like Reg Hill out of business. Gambling in Canada already is a huge annual business. The government should get in and tap these Sorces of revenue. If you don't want to pay, you don't play. This is one area of the economy I firmly believe the government should be in control. The Ontario Govern- ment should sell its Suncor shares and use the money to set up the bingos. It's a form of voluntary taxation, a very lucrative form. Just look at the success of the lotteries in the past_ decade. - # Yesterday's Memories 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 29, 1926 We are pleased to learn that Mr. Wm. Nesbitt, Jr. has been taken on the teaching staff of Public Schools in Toronto. Mr. Nesbitt is from Port Perry. . Rev. Wm. Higgs and family, Port Perry, have returned home from Madoc where they have been holidaying. Rev. Higgs will take the service in the United Church next Sunday. W.C. Taylor of Toronto, sixteen year-old grandson of Mr. Chas. Taylor, Port Perry, risked his life on Lake Scugog on Tuesday night in a successful attempt to save a capsized canoeist. 35 YEARS AGO : Thursday, July 26, 1951 Messrs. J. Allan, M. Letcher and J. Murray of the Port Perry ~ Men's Lawn Bowling Club won the cup on July 18 defeating teams from Peterboro, Lindsay, Cannington, Uxbridge, Oshawa and Bowmanville. _ Mrs. Jim Owen living on a farm between the 7th and 8th conces- sion lines of Reach is the proud owner of a double Petunia with 26 blooms f-2m 4 to 5 inches across, also 21 buds. - Mrs. Aldred, Scugog Island, who won acclaim at the Oshawa ~'C.R.A. Show with her exhibit of scale bone pictures is preparing to show them in the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver at the end of August. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 27, 1961 Three head of prize cattle, valued at $500 each, were stolen from the Malcolm Bailey ranch at RR 1 Port Perry, west of Epsom. The new x-ray equipment for the Port Perry hospital is now in- stalled and ready to use. The x-ray fund shows a grand total of $11,179.71, just $3,811.00 short of the top. Albert Fulford is holidaying at his home and will later resume his army service at Kingston. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 28, 1966 Congratulations to Lorna Wright of Blackstock and Dianne Wallace of Port Perry, local grade 12 students who have been offered admission to the first year of University at Waterloo Lutheran University on successful completion of two summer courses. Dr. Dorothy Barrales of Conception, Chile, spent a few days visiting with her cousin Mrs. Gerald Nelson and family of Port Perry. Mr. & Mrs. Grant Bright, Seagrave, were honoured at a picnic arranged by their daughter Jean Barbour and her husband on the occasion of their 25th Wedding Anniversary. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, . uly 28, 1976 Dorothy Nelson of Port.Perry and Arthur Forsythe of Oshawa have been credited with saving the life of a Little Britain man after a tractor overturned, pinning him face down in about six inches of mud. The pair worked over fieen minutes on David Duffy, even- tually bringing him back to life. Chuck Preston of Thuron Ltd. has announced a major expansion Letters Jail term is wrong message Dear Sir: One of the most disturbing stories I have ever read in your paper con- cerned the recent sentencing of a local farmer to a year in jail for making improper s* ' ments to the bank regarding his . order to obtain loans sufficient to keep his farm in operation. Obviously, it is wrong to knowing- ly make inaccurate claims to a len- - ding institution in order to provide adequate loan security, but court decisions should be made on the basis of intent as well as of fact, and I have serious doubts that this was a sufficient consideration on the part of the bench in the casc refer- red to. Clearly, the farmer intend- ed only to keep running his farm and supporting his family; he had no other motive. I am also appalled at the one year jail sentence. Whose interests will be served? The farmer in question would have been able to make ap- propriate restitution far more effec- tively had he been granted a condi- tional discharge as his lawyer re- quested. In retribution, he might have been sentenced to a certain number of Community Service hours counselling other debt-ridden farmers or providing some other useful service to the community. I resent the fact that my tax dollars will be used to incarcerate this in- dividual when neither the bank's in- terests nor the community's will be served by such an unimaginative sentence. Canadians should realize the im- portance of the farming communi- ty, not only in the provision of the food we all need to eat but also in terms of the significant impact which our agricultural industry has on the national trade picture. In my view, the jail sentence to which your article referred is sending the wrong message to our farmers and it is not in the public interest. A Communi- Nice experience Dear Sir: On the occasion of our anniver- sary, we decided to have our dinner with our two sons and their families at the Islander Restaurant (formerlly Club Annrene, Conc 10 Lakeside Beach), on the Island and it was one of the nicest anniver- saries my wife and I have had. The meal was just terrific, it was a smorgasbord all you can eat and the meal included your dessert and beverage. They are doing a real good job, clean tables and the floors, you could eat off, as the old saying goes. You can have your dii.aer and if you wish you can stay for a nominal charge and dance to a live band. I am not trying to sell a package of goods, this is a personal ex- perience, but when you find a real nice clean place the Islanders, and so near, it is a shame when some folks don't know about it. Good Luck Islander Management, you are doing a terrific job. Mr. and Mrs. G.A. Mahony R.R. 3, Port Perry, Ontario ty Service Order would certainly have been a much more productive solution. Yours very truly Sean J. Madsen, Communications Consultant Ottawa. Smart Planning Dear Sir: The housing dilemma is a com- mon. one which can simply be eliminated by smart planning. - Planned communities are common, where you find a housing mix of "singles, semi-detached houses, town-houses all on the same street. All blend into the same neighbourhood. People who are buy- ing, know exactly what type of hous- ing is in their neighbourhood, there are no "Surprise'"' developments two or more years down the road. Because Township Councils in the past allowed single repair businesses and junk yards to be built and out of check is the dilemma the present Council has with the (Turn to page 6) Letters to the Editor ... our policy It has always been the policy of this newspaper to encourage our readers to make use of the letters to the editor column. Our readers have a right to freely express their opinions and view- points on just about any subject, and we feel that a lively letters column helps make a better community newspaper. We insist, however, that a letter writer sign his or her name. On rare occasions, we will agree to with-hold publication of a letter writer's name, if we feel there are very good reasons to do so. Under no circumstances will this paper print an anonymous letter to the editor. While we enjoy receiving letters from our readers, we must continue to insist on knowing the identity of the writer. Dis