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EDITORIAL TOPICS Planning Is Essential Scarborough mayor, Ab Campbell, a speaker at the Uxbridge Optimist Club last week, issued a strong warn- ing to that municipality in regard to planning, etc. What Mr. Campbell told the Uxbridge audience applies equally well to Port Perry, its residents and the future Planning and development of this Village. "Planning is the key to development," said the mayor. "You must be ahead of the other guy, plan parking, modernize stores, brighten up main street, or you'll be left behind with a dead town and a shopping plaza at the edge of town. Look what happened to Markham! The downtown area disappeared," Mr. Campbell warned. He suggested, strength lies in regional government. This type of government can encourage or discourage certain types of developments. Further to the topic of regional government, the mayor said, "You can't leave planning until someone comes out with a report. It is too hard to change a report once it is made. You must get in there and argue while the report is being drawn up. We certainly agree with mayor Campbell. Planning is becoming more important every year. Port Perry is not exploding as, far as population is concerned as yet, but it is bound to come. In October last year, representation from Central Ontario Regional Development Council at a meeting held in the Court Room of the Municipal Building, said Port Perry could well reach a population of 50,000 by year 2,000, if this area residents so desire. With regional government on our doorstep, and a possible amalgamation of Port Perry, Reach and Scugog- Townships thorough planning becomes even more import-' ant than at any time before. Need Much Loving Care Mentally retarded children may be very sensitive to their backwardness and unable to understand their inability to keep up with others. If, added to this bewilderment about their failures is the taunting. shame of their companions and the blame and shame of. misunderstanding parents and teachers, it would be little wonder if they gave up trying. : For retarded children, as for all children, it is the nurturing, tender care, affection and patience which provides the support and incentive for the child to strike out, make mistakes and try again. This love and support is very necessary if they are to risk repeated failure and 'learn as much 'as they can. Be Sure Before Passing =~ __The-Garage Operators Association of ( Ontario 'reminds drivers never to try and pass another car if there is the slightest doubt in your mind that you have room enough to succeed. If you are attempting to overtake and pass a car travelling 45 miles per hour and you are travelling 60 miles per hour it is like passing 40 standing cars parked bumper to bumper. The Garage Operators of Ontario also remind you that unless you are certain that your car is in A-1 shape, bear in mind the possibility of an engine malfunction ata critical point in passjng that could strand you immed- iately -in the path of an oncoming car with insufficient --power-to get out of the way in time. PORT PERRY vari | COMPANY, LIMITED L~ AS Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas San SRR P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor Member of the Canadi Weekly Newspaper Assoclatior Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd, Port Perry, Ontario. ne RN Authorized as second 'class mail by the Post Office 'Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash, Subscription Rates: In Canada $3.00 per yr, : * Elsewhere, $4.50 per year. Singhs © coy 10e. HP manana EE------ ..--get_home from-work before dark? BILL SMILEY Sugar and PRELUDE TO SPRING Isn't it a delirious feeling, about this time of year to wake up in daylight, and It begins to restore one's faith in the scientists' claim that the earth is round, and moves in orbit about the sun. Or is it the other way round? For about three months, any winter, I'd join the Flat-Earth Society, and agree with practically anybody that the sun is a legend, a figment of last summer's imagination. Don't know why I'm in such a jolly mood today. Perhaps it is that we've had three straight days of sunshine. Freeze the brains of a brass monkey, but sunny. Spring is on its way. I can tell. The ~nowbank pu-hed up beside my garage has dwindled. from 22 feet to 16. And two teachers smiled at each other in the staff room this week. t's not such a bad old world after all.. Nobody has axed-a computer or 'lynched a university president this week -- yet. My daughter passed two tests in school. ' I got the garbage out without cursing once, My wife and daughter have stopped fight- ing (they gang up on me, instead). My bursitis is practically neutral. The income tax deadline is nearly a whole, month away. I found the toe rubber that's been missing for a week. What more could a man want? The muffler hasn't fallen off my car. I haven't had a toothache for six months. I almost made a crucial curling shot the other night. What more could life offer? My son js making his mark in the world -- of dining-rooms. Some nights he makes as much as $35. And some nights $5. And he's making something else; noises, vague but audible, about going back to school. My daughter came home from school to- day smiling, instead of scowling. Her mo- ther 'asked her what she was smiling at, as "vate. 'Spice [@ she came in. "The door, Things are Seni on the Vpswing around here, 7. .-. Now, don't get me wrong I'm no Polly- anna. I know that though God's in His heaven, even on weekends, all's wrong with the world. I know that there are little black "clouds, no bigger .than the Rocky Mountains, on the horizon. There ere Black Panthers, and the Yel- low Menace, and brown . guerrillas, and white gorillas, and pink elephants, and blue singers, and reds under a great many beds. There are broken homes and broken marriages and broken garterbelts. Prac- tically everybody you meet over the age of eight months is either emotionally disturb- ed. or senile. We have evplosions in the population, the stock markets and the furnaces of the nation. Taxes and insurance and even the important things, like bread and milk, keep going up. (It won't be long before most of us are living on bread-and-milk, consider- ing the price of meat.) Cars are not being as well made as tin cans. The non-returnable bottle is our biggest threat since the bubonic plague. The Man-in-the-Moon has lost his image and Mr, Trudeau is following, fast. Tomorrow there will be a blizzard. And. the day after, the muffler and tailpipe will fall off my car. My piles will reacti: I'll lose both toe-rubbers. But today I don't care. The yellow sun is kissing the white snow, and the latter, oercome by passion, is melting, That is all I know and all I need to know. To hell with all the rest of it. I'm in such a state of eupheria, I think I could even go out and have a whale of a time with a girl called Gloria. If I knew: one. --Toronto Telegram Syndieste Gloria Fralick, OF DAYS | | GONE BY 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 6, 1919 Mr. J. Miller of Myrtle had the misfortune to lose a val- uable team on Monday. While drawing ice from Mud Lake, the team were drowned before assistance could reach them. Wanted -- A girl or woman with °~ good experience in general housework. Wages; $ 25.00. Phone 84. Dr. F.E. Luke, 167 Yonge Street Toronto's - leading optician, can be consulted about your eyes for glasses at A.J. Davis drugstore, Port Perry, on March 13. Don't miss seeing him. Satisfaction ; guaranteed. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, . March 2, 1944 Pte. Robt. Carnegie, C.).C. of Toronto and A.C. Gordon Carnegie, R.C.A.F. of Manning Depot, spent the week-end at their respective homes here. Mr. Jack MacGregor left this week to begin his training with R.C.N.V.R. Late Saturday afternoon the Port Perry Fire Brigade were called to extinguish a fire at Jemison's Bakery. After two and a half years in England with the Royal Canadian Engineers, Sapper Bill McCartney arrived home last week. ; Dr. Donald Christie of Toronto spent last week-end at the home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. G. Christie. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, Maton 4, 1080 The result of the Drama i Festival held at Uxbridge were 2 quite pleasing. Port Perry High School was chosen as the best play. The members were Jack Dowson, Naples, Barbara Diamond and June Painter. The director was Miss Blostein. March 1st the Port Perry Lions entertained their Grain Club boys and their fathers. The winner Dan James obtain- ed 930 points out of a possible 1000. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 5, 1959 Last Friday night both the Tripp Service Station and the "Texaco Service Centre suffered malicious damage at the hands - of would-be thieves. Ted Lamb, John Somer ville, Bruce Leask and Alex Leask were four Port Perry Junior Farmers to fly to Florida. The roof on-the coal sheds at the Port Perry Fuel's Coal Yard suddenly collapsed under the weight of the snow. Fortunately no one was work- ing in the shed at the time. David Milne, Arthur Jef- ford and Ian Beare received their Queen Scouts badge from Field Commissioner Wally Harper at the Father and Son Banquet. The Imp- erial Order Daughters of the Empire 'represented by Mrs, Storey Beare presented a flag to the new scout troop. ~ Caroline ~~