i ACE... A How many people can honestly say they 9 Vilas ach : . Ad recognizethename Gustave Gingras, ar further still, EBL Los iy GR know who he is, and what he has done? . : ri) Nottoomany wewouldassume. Anditisalsosafe Al: examinations. at the a0 toassume the number would be considerably less had Toronto. Conservatory. "of i i the name Gustave Gingras not made national news Music recently, Miss. Flo- a Ea EE ae a LS NESW ANTAL ARES WS Ae LR hd WEF a DITORIAL PINION headlines about two weeks ago. The fact that Dr. Gustave Gingras, executive director of the Rehabilitation Institute of Montreal, .and recent winner of the $50,000 Royal Bank Award, was and is virtually unknown to the vast majority of Canadiansis arather sad indication of where certain priorities seem to lie in this country. The Royal Bank Award honours Canadians who have made outstanding contributions to human welfare and the common good. Dr. Gingras' achievements make him a most noble recipient. Dr. Roger Gaudy of the University of Montreal DU PERCHED FOR BATTLE ... 'Heres Har FEARLESS WORLD WAR ZI rence Hill, of Reach Town- ship passed her primary harmony. At a council meeting of Township of Reach, April 10, it was decided that the rate of pay for work on township roads from the first day of April until further notice a would be as follows: 50 cents per hour for man and'team and 25 cents for man. described his work as "providing hope for many 25 YEARS AGO nl thousands of people whose broken and malformed READY : JToursgay Abel 10.41, oy BN ~eov- bodies threatened to condemn them to hopeless lives" ~~ itis aby 72 : AP : 2) LEAP / Scugog and son Joe have ol of dependence and pitying stares. Due to his BY Wyo pen 0, expertise, many of these persons now lead which was vacated by Mr. M. A * H "o 0 comparatively normal lives. Collins. Dr. Gingras also persuaded the federal SF a af 8 "In 1959, he led a Red Cross team in Morocco elected, Pres. Harry Peel, LK directing a four-month recovery program of 10,000 Past Pres, M.A. Gerrow, Ist aH bi ; Vice, Wm. Carnegie, 2nd Juli people paralyzed by food poisoning. 1 Beere. ord Vic 5 His work fitting artificial limbs to thalidomide rg A ies AH babies has resulted in many of these unfortunate Stouffer Treasurer, Bry. don > AY individuals now leading comparatively normal lives. . Reesor. Li ; Tl And his counselling has helped parents of these Mr. George Crawford, Ji children get over the psychological shock. Blackstock has been ap- Ls < His membership and affiliations with worldwide - pointed superintendent of a 23 -, A AA oad the work of a great Canadian. : . £3 And the so-called nationalistic, flag-waving BILL MILEY 15 YEARS AGO 13 media (press, radioand TV) in this country can take 1 Thursday, April 11, 1957 ou ve, there's always some little ray of spiritual or blissfully, dreaming of the grand old days Irving Boyd, councillors. a 5 SSA emotional sunlight to penetrate the late- When she was a cuddly infant. She's still 7 ¥%* CNA 2 (ou): winter blues. pretty cuddly, by the way, but not for the old 10: YEARS AGO 7 QQ IEA My little ray of sunshine (at four o'clock i - man. : Thursday, April 12, 1962 Cas \sY theafternoon) issleeping the sleep of the pure And that's the sort of thing she and her Ma Miss Barbara Jean Coates PHT al roadie ! government to build a rehabilitation centre in South Viet Nam to aid children mutilated by the war there. He has bargained in Moscow for patent rights on... an artificial arm for thalidomaide babies. health and medical organizations seem endless, and "include consultant to the World Health Organization, and president-elect of the Canadian Medical Association. Dr.Gustave Gingrasis simply agreatmananda great Canadian; one whose work this country should be proud of. Yet with all the hue and cry about the Canadian __indentity, what it is, and whether or not it exists, the average man on the street is alarmingly ignorant of their share of the blame. Instead of constantly bewaiting the fact that 'Canada is losing (or has lost) her identity, all media might consider some positive promoting of what this country does have (such as the work of Dr. Gingras). How many other Canadian men and women are doing impressive work in the fields of medicine, science, industry, commerce, business, internatio- nal affairs, or thehumanities? And how much of their work isunknowntomost Canadians, and the people of other countries? Maybe that elusive Canadian identity is right in frontof our noses. Maybe we just haven't been able to seethe forest forthe trees. Maybe we should open our eyes. Canada had a Nobel prize winner recently. Does anybody recall his name? JBM PORT PERRY STAR | t Company Limited N Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher - Editor JOHN B. McCLELLAND, Associate Editor WM. T. HARRISON, J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Plant Manager Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member pf the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by thé Port Perry Star Co. Ltd.. Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per year. 3 Elsewhere $6.00 per year: Single Copy 10¢ A ------~ od ~~ __tion in the Sebert House; the ® 'Saywell UGAR ano w Spice MANY PLACES HE'D RATHER BE As I write, the so-called first day of spring - has.long gone, but the only indication-that winter is nearly over in these parts is that the curling season is drawing to a close. Outside the window thesnowbanks look like - the iceberg that sank the Titanic. Inside; the furnace thumps away like a bull moose that has just outrun a pack of wolves. And every four days, it seems, the oil delivery man wades through the drifts, inserts that solid gold nozzle in the side of the house, and whistling cherrfully, pumps, another $30 worth of oil into the great guzzler. Itisatimeto try men's souls. It is a time of year when I curse my Irish forebears for not emigrating to New Zealand or South Africa or Jamaica. However, it happens every year, and at heart. She's been in the sack since 7:30 this morning, after sitting up all night talking to her crazy mother, who suffers from insomnia. It's not that Kim disturbs the quiet, gentle routine of our daily life. She doesn't disturb it at all. She destroys it. As mentioned, she's a night-owl. Does her best work, writing essays and stuff, after midnight. And just like the owl, she can sleep --all day." Samewitheating. She' snever hungry when anyone else is. If dinner is carefully planned for_six-thirty, she is suddenly famished at five-thirty and smashes herself up a big mess of bacon and eggs or spaghetti and sardines, leaving her mother and I looking ruefully at the roast. Or else she is not hungry at dinner-hour and will eat nothing but some celery, and then about eight-thirty is fainting and slaps up a vast 'concoction of fried bananas and mushrooms. Theseareminor things, of course, and she's adelighttohavearoundthehouse. Whenshe's here, at least I know:why my socks are disappearing and I haven't a clean shirt to wear. ! The problem, you see, is that we ask her home for a weekend. She throws a clean blouse ina shoulder bag and heads home, But she hates the city so much that her weekends turn into a six-day sojourn, and she has to wear somebody's clothes, and she and her mother can't abide each other's taste in garments, so she wears mine, which are so drab and nondescript that nobody could fight over them. As I said, these are trifles. But she's always in some kind of a hassle, and these are the things that produce the hours-long, all-night sessions with her old lady, while I lie can talk about for six hours at a stretch, without either one drawing a full breath. They can talk about Don and The Wedding. Thisisnotthetitleof a Russiannovel about the Don River. Don is the other man in her life, and The Wedding is causing more confusion around here than anything since the day we discovered our tomcat was pregnant. The great event is scheduled for May. Typically, Kim announced that they had chosen May 7th as the day. And typically, her mother, who never misses anything important like this, though I doubt if-she knows the name of the prime minister, checked thecalendarand discovered May 7th isa Sunday. Not many people get married on Sunday, though I don't know why not. There isn't much-else to do.- I've had a lot of free advice about the (continued on page 5) "raised by Mr. Jack Forster at Seventy-five members at- tended the annual meeting of the Business Men's Associa- following new officers were extensive building project at the Guild of All Arts, Toronto. Mr, and Mrs. John Ballin- » gal have moved into the apartments in Blackstock. Wallace Marlowe, Black- stock was elected chairman to the Cartwright Board of Education, to succeed Harry Philip. - Karakul sheep from where the skins for Persian lamb coats are obtained, are being his farm near Saintfield, just north of Greenbank. The pelts when graded brings $35. to $40. on the market. High winds last Thursday fanned a fire which destroyed - the repair shop of Tripp Construction Limited on # f Shirley Road. Two bulldozers tires and other equipment were also destroyed and the building was razed to the ground. At a special meeting of Port Perry Council the mili® rates were set as follows: Residentail rate 66.5 mills; Commercial rate 72 mills. Members of council were: J.J.Gibson,reeve; A. T. Cox, W.T. Harris, F. Godley and graduated from the Toronto Certified Nursing Assistant Centre. Ann Dryden, Brooklin was® crowned Queen of Ontario Junior Farmers! Master Feeds, Port Perry purchased the Champion 10 bushel entry of oats at the Seed Fair, The price paid was $6.25 a bushel. At this Fair, ws forty-nine exhibitors showed a total of 114 entries. At the ' Georgian Bay Badmnton competition held in Orillia, Bill McLeod and Bill Chapmen won the doubles championship. D. Jefford also did quite well in® his single games,