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Let's All Participate! Guest Editorial by Dr. W. J. Cohoon Under the executive direction of the Chamber of Commerce andthe Centennial Committee many exciting events have been planned during Port Perry's Centennial 'Year. A great deal of credit must be given to the local clubs and organizations which, with their enthusiasm and support have made the planning easier. Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, local mer- and the Village of Port Perry. proposed Centennial Celebrations will be widely advertised and the residents of Port Perry can expect to have a very well attended Birthday Party. It is hoped that the people of our area will find the planned events wteresting and make time to attend as many as possibie. Opening ceremony speakers will inciude the Hon. N. Cafik, Hon. M.B. Dymond, Mr. White, Warden of Ontario County, Rev. R. Rose, Chief G. Edgar, and Reeve R. Kenny as host. Local clubs and organizations are being asked to donate their organizational abilities to help run the mumerous events that are planned. Already the newly formed Kinsmen Club has volunteered to run the Wednesday afternoon barbeque. The firemen will set off the Centennial Fireworks. The Loyal Orange Lodge is looking after the Thursday evening entertainment; the Cartton Show Band of "Pig & Whistie™ fame with several headline performers will entertain in the "Pub atmos- phere™ of our arena. The members of Odd Fellows Lodge have volunteered to perform the culinary duties at the big barbeque on Saturday. The merchants pian to organize a Mall on the Main . Street with children's rides, street market stalls, games of chance, street dancing and evening entertainment. On Friday evening an Olde Tyme Auction of house hold goods and antiques will be held. Articles for the sale are being sought, and everyone is welcome to put articles up for sale. Saturdays events include waterfront sports activities, regatta, beef barbeque, Centennial parade, and in the evening the Centennial Bail. Every afternoon and evening an acquaintance party will be in progress in the arena. A Centennial project, the establishment of a recrea- tional area in the expanded park area, has been proposed to Council by the Chamber of Commerce. The recrea- tional facilities will be designated for use by the local residents and will include: Tennis Courts, Shuffle Board Courts, New Baill Diamond, Lawn Bowling Green, Childrens play areas and attendant toilet and maintenance facilities. Encourage your friends and relatives from other areas to attend our Centennial. Make your Centennial Project the success of the proposed Port Perry Centennial celebrations. i ae Wie oo "PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED e Gina Bs Serving Port Perry, Reach, Seugog and Cartwright Townships ts ¢ P HVIDSTEN, Publisher - Editor Ze WM. T. HARRISON, P. HVIDSTEN, Jr. Plast Manager Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assiciation &, Published every Wednesday by The Port Perry $y Star Co. Lid, Port Perry, Ontario 4 Authorive? as second class maill by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0266 Subseription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr, | THE NDP PLAYOFFS BILL MILEY UGAR AND Spice | HOW SMILEY DEALT WITH OFFICER TYPES Last week I had a rare chance to do something I've always wanted to do, and I seized it with both hands and my tongue. I was speaking to the Vimy Branch, Roy- al Canadian Legion, at its annual observance of the battle for Vimy Ridge. The Vimy branch is unique in that nearly all its numbers are ex-officers of the Canadian armed forces. On the program for the banquet was Printed a list of the executive and the past presidents. It contained a bounty of Briga- diers, a confusion of Colonels, a mess of Majors, a wedge of Wing Commanders and a scattering of Squadron Leaders. Senior officers. Sitting ducks. Ever since my days as a fledgling fighter pilot, I've enjoyed a firm conviction that there is no possible way anyone can pound anything into the head of a senior officer. Here was a golden opportunity to prove my theory, and I sailed into it with gusto. I didnt use a phoney survey or a lot of statistical facts, but personal experience, and I let them have it with both barrels. As a flying student, I first ran into the obtuseness of the senior officer. This wing commander, the cheif flying instructor, nearly had a stroke because I'd tried to land from one end of the runway while another student was trying to land from the other. How was I to know the wind had changed 180 degrees since I'd taken off? During advanced flying training in Eng- land, a similar occurrence deepened my conviction. I was coming in to land, every sense alert and my mind dallying with a T2-hour pass and a chubby Land Army girl. Some fool down on the runway started firing red Mares. I went around again, and again he did it. I had checked the windsock carefully this time, so knew it was his fault, not mine. On my fourth approach, I did the usual cockpit check and no red flares went up. I rolled to a stop and the squadron leader was standing in his jeep, his face « sort shade. And once again the insenstivity of senior officers was dis- played. Not only did he call me a stupid clot who should be sent back to Canada in a strait-jacket, but the dirty dog cancelled my weekend pass. And all because I'd forgotten one little item on my first three approaches' putting my wheels down. Then there was my squadron commander in France. I was his No. Two and we'd made a dive-bombing attack, firing our cannon as we dive, which was our wont, not to hit anything, but to bolster our nerves. He shouted something on the way down, but I thought it was something silly like, "Hammer the Hun," so paid no attention, closed my eyes, as was my wont, and squeezed the tit. When we landed, he was in a terrible flap because I was the only one who had on his part. I think what really bothered him was that I'd shot off a bit of his wing on the way down. - Then there was the ridculous squadron leader in flying control who made me land with a hang-up. In those days a hang- up was not some trivial emotional distur- bance. It was a fused bomb, dangling by its tail from your wing. I tried to get rid of it over the sea. Nothing worked. Hopefully, I suggested, "Shall I bail out?" His reply: "Don't be . silly. We need that aircraft." Pilots were cheap, aircraft expensive. One bounce on landing and it would be meat, me, all over the landscape. And I was always known as Two-Bounce Smiley. Did you ever see a mouse with kid gloves on, walking on eggshells? That's the way I landed. But what hurt was that he wouldn't let me land on the metal air-strip, as he didn't want it torn up when I blew up. [had to land on the bumpy verge beside the strip. Just a few of the examples I gave to the senior officers in my audience of the bone- headedness of senior officers, They tbok it well, because, of course, they didn't under- stand. I offered to step into the alley, afterwards, with any senior officer. Provid- ed he was over 80. Two ancient bragadiers had to be forcibly restrained. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 29, 1956 The organization meetings for the Port Perry Lions' 4-H Club, the Port Perry 4-H Dairy Calf and the 4-H Tractor Club was held in Port Perry High School. Three 4-H clubs were also organized in Uxbridge. The ice went out of Lake Scugog on April 25th. Mr. and Mrs. George Wolf, Blackstock, attended the Press Club B-Line Bail held in the Royal York. : . 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 27, 1961 Brock son ice on Thursday, April 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 28, 1921 During a thunder storm, the store at Utica was totally oine Bert Middleton was 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 25, The Port Perry Hospital, a much needed institution has been provided for Port Perry by one person after another. Mrs. Swan carried on for a number of years, then Miss Fisher took over, and finally seventeen years ago Mrs. Whit- more took over the hospital. Mrs. Whitmore is still operat- ing the hospital but once again there will have to be a change. Mrs. Whitmore plans to leave Port Perry to live with her son dack while he attends college. per and Lioyd Ross of Utica have secured positions at Brantford. Mr, Maunsel Gerrow, Utica is moving to London. He has a Pasition in the Hospital there.