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"Gimme the doctor-patient relationship, governments don't last" 4 -- PORT PERRY STAR, Thursday, March 10th, 1966 FOP PPI VP POVIPPOVOPOOOROD Port Perry Star Co. Limited Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas aa P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. WM. T. HARRISON Editor Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. PO PPO POON La 0 a a 4 0 00 a aa a a a a a a a ao a ala a a a. a aaa a Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second cla=s mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. Subscription Rates: In Canada $3.00 per yr., Elsewhere, $4.60 per yr. Single Copy 10¢ POV VI VU VV VV VV VV VY VV YY VV MA A a a a a a a ala a alae a a alga aaa al a a algal alata gg) . BB.B.8. 0.0 .5.8.8.8.6.8.8.8.6.6.80.0.6060600000C ERE EARREEE EAR PPVOPPIVIOVPIIOVVOVOTVSIYIYIVIIOTYITIOTIOITIVIIOOTOTOOE March Is Red Cross Month If you're a Red Cross supporter in any way, the Red Cross thanks you sincerely. Blood donors and those responsible for the clinics set up to receive the vital donations are being praised for their continuing support. March is Red Cross Month in Canada, and a recent state- ment from the Society gives as its purpose "to furnish volunteer aid to the sick and wounded of armies in time of war .. . In time of peace or war, to carry on and assist in work for the improvement of health, the prevention of disease and the miti- zation of suffering through the world." BILL AND CHARLIE A Speaker discussing alleged inequities in the suc- cession duty law in Ontario cannily introduced to her audience a cost.of characters. There was John, died, and his dependent sister Martha, who inherited, along with John's estate, difficulties caused by the higher rate of duty that brothers and sisters must pay. The plight of "Martha" was much more real to. the audience than would have been the plight of "decedent's sister". Questioners from the floor referred to John and Martha as though they were old friends. All of which prompts the discussion of Bill and Charlie. They were the same age, each had a wife and the same number of children, each earned the same amount of money. Charlie and his family lived well, even, as is sometimes said, "beyond their means". Each year Charlie paid X number of dollars in income tax. Bill and his family lived well too, but on a different scale. Bill saved systematically with the thought of start- ing a business of his own which he could pass on to his two sons. Each year he paid the same X number of rs in income tax that Charlie paid. . Then one day Bill and Charlie had the untimely mis- fortune to have a head-on collision and both were killed. Charlie left practically no estate so there were no suc- REMEMBER WHENS 50 YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO TEN YEARS AGO Wednesday, March 8, 1916 Thursday, March 6th, 1941 Mr. Morley Honey has en- Port Perry went over the Thrsiay, March 3, 1936 listed with the 70th Battalion top in War Certificates. The The Ontario County Junior stationed at Belleville. objective was $10,000 and Farmers held a surprise and The young people of the this was over-subscribed. The farewell party for John Gill, Nestleton League will put on scholars in the Port Perry Assistant Agricultural Rep- a play entitled "The Minis- schools invested some $1300. resentative who is leaving to ter's Bride" at Valentia. The Uxbridge Kinsmen take a new position on the At the Monthly meeting of Club, formation of which was staff of the Animal Husban- the Town Council $30.00 was sponsored by the Oshawa dry Department at the OAC, cession duties. Bill left a sizeable amount of money and voted toward the recruiting club, received its charter Guelph. the province took its share. expenses of the 182nd Batta- from the hands of the Dist- lL Bill and Charlie had earned exactly the same amount lion. rict Governor William Honey BE: oay Wilkins was taken of money during their working years; they had both paid Utica--Mr. and Mrs, Wal- of Toronto at a gathering 2 Oshawa Hospital with a exactly the same amount out in income tax. A grateful ter Ashton have moved into last week. roken leg and head Injuries government decided that Bill's family should pay out a the Sonley Farm. Prospect--Messrs. Burnsel received when sideswiped by littl more of Bill's money, which had already been taxed Mr. Russell Wilson who Webster, Leslie and Lloyd 2 transport. once. Twice is better. has been employed in Lind- Smith and Jack Stevens went Mrs. M. E. Burnett, Port « The moral seems to be to join the jet set and live it say has returned to Port to Toronto on a sight seeing Perry, was the lucky winner up. Perry, and is with S. Jeffrey trip through the packing of $236.84 at the Apprecia- tion Day draw. --The Printed Word and son, houses. SMILEY THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE In last week's column, I mentioned that son Hugh had failed to keep a Saturday rendezvous with Kim sare, DECLARES, carl wich Village. Having a ball. Next stop, Baltimore. This threw the whole family (Kim was in on it too, busting with excitement), into one of the finest frenzies of rage and relief we've ever enjoyed. He'd caught the urge to travel late Friday night. Struck off at 3 a.m, in ski jacket and jeans. Hitch- hiked. Caught rides with university students, Negro ladies, hillbillies, iM and me. He was supposed to meet us and come . . i 4 home for a weekend of skiing. When he didn't show Suddenly, I had one of those rare flashes of in- Artived New York With 20 cents. Went to coffee- 4 ' up. we didn't worry, thinking he'd become involved sight which make people who don't know me think louse lsep warm. Orgered coffee. Waiter said, dsewhere. He wag I'm a genius. "Baltimore!" I cried. - "Ah-ha! Sixty-five cents." Hugh said, "I've only got 20." on . i. Baltmore!" Waiter took it. Read French novel and talked to uesday night following, the Senior Tutor of his junkies, students and assorted characters all night college phoned, long-distance. Was Hugh at home, I reminded the Old Girl that she has a cousin Sold pint of blood in Times Square for $5 Ate. ill? Nobody in his residence had seen him since studying at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Later phoned entlem i» . 3 fe. Friday night. He'd missed a test in Psychology. She said I was crazy, he wouldn't dare go there, and simmer Job on erie micah he'd met in his How would you go about telling your wife that if he had, Cousin Pat would have phoned. *Aug time you've In New ying ad foolishly said, og her first-born is missing? It would have been easier I 'insisted. She called, got Cousin Pat and his chap and Tis wife met the He dachetal o un' This to inform her that I had cinder and three months wife in jig-time. My wife didn't want to sound with warmth, fed him, enjoyed un in jeans to live. ; like a complete moron and ask if Hugh were there. together, gave him sleeping uarters. i» Syme There's nothing more fun, on a night in mid- So she asked, gaily, "How is the boy?" (They'd had on his way with $15 cash. and sent him winter, than sitting around with your wife wonder- a baby boy a few months previously.) Hiteh-hiked to Baltimore. Had pleasant evening / ing whether your son has eloped, has been kid- napped, has become a junkie, is on a drunk, or is lying dead in a ditch. Thus speculating, we took turns. She'd be white with apprehension. I'd be red with rage, Then 30% we'd turn red and white, simultaneously, she with anger, I with fear, And while we were thus engaged, do you know where he was? Wining and dining, playing a Stein- way grand piano, in a swank apartment on Park Avenue, New York City. Next night, T phoned his room-mate. Yep, Mr, Smiley, he'd had 'a card from Hugh, From Green- Cousin Pat retorted, "Yours or mine? And the Baltimore Oriole, as he is now known in the family, was in the net, Almost. He came on the line, "Hi, Mom. How are you?" Gay as an oriole. Innocent as a novice nun. When his mother was able to talk, she told him, for 20 minutes, how she was, and what he was. Finally, Kim and I wrested the telephone from her, and I spent 45 seconds telling him to be home by the weekend. He was. Large as life, cheerful as a cherub. During the weekend, when he wasn't sleeping, eat- ing or skiing, he regaled us with his tale, with Cousin Pat and wife Stephanie. Immediate "plans to head for Florida and visit with friends of ours, then meander to New Orleans, where he knows a couple of girls he met at music camp, but foiled by parents' phone call, Returned home with $7.88, cash, Disgusted with parents' attitude. After all, he'd sent us a card from New York. (We got if the day before he ar- rived home.) He's back at school, but theres still one thing bothering us. Kim can hardly wait to get started on her first trip. --Toronto Telegram News Service