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10 years we have enjoyed Today September 19 marks the 10th year since we came to Port Perry and began publishing the Star. 10 years is a relatively short period, but looking back,improvements and progress have been considerable during that period. Without sounding to boastful we like to 'blow our own horn' and tell our readers briefly what has transpired during the 10 years. At the time of take over in 1963, the circulation of the Star was 1,100 compared to today's circulation of 3,400. From the 'old-fashioned' letterpress method of printing, the Star is now produced and printed by computer type equipment and the more sophisticated offset printing method. We also like to believe we have contributed something worthwhile to Port Perry and surround- ing communities during these 10 years. If the growth of the paper is an indication, we must at least to some extent have accomplished what we intended to do -- create a better paper. We have certainly enjoyed publishing the Star and hope to do so for many years to come. With the continued assistance from a loyal and efficient staff and dedicated country correspondents, we shall endeavor to keep on improving your weekly newspaper in the future. During a 10-year period there is always the possibility of staff changes. This has also happened at the Star, but we are indeed grateful that we can still count on the faithful support of four stalwarts who has been with us since September 19, 1963, namely Bill and Annabel Harrison, Bruce Beare and Mrs. Ruby Roach. P. Hvidsten, publisher THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING The majority of Americans are nonsmokers. Many nonsmokers are now organizing to protect their rights to clean indoor environment. But nonsmoking hospital patients -- of all people -- too often get little protection. Efforts have been made to eliminate smoking in some hospitals. But in others, even patients with severe resni-atory problems are sometimes con- fined in rons where other patients and their visitors are allowed to smoke. Second-hand cigarette smoke affects non- smokers in much the same way as it affects smokers. It increases the heart beat and blood pressure and raises the level of carbon monoxide in the blood. All people; but especially those who are ill, should be protected from these hazards to their health. . People troubled by this situation -- including agencies such as the American Lung Association and its affiliates -- are encouraging measures to protect patients. For example, the New York Lung Association, working with other organizations concerned about the hazards of smoking and its effects on others in enclosed spaces, recently issued guidelines to hospitals in New York City to: allow patients to smoke only in private rooms or in rooms shared with other smoking patients; give patients the choice of sharing a room with smokers or nonsmokers; and restrict smoking by visitors and staff to specific areas. Further, the guidelines prohibit the sale of all cigarettes in hospitals and designate smoking and non-smoking areas. in hospital dining rooms and cafeterias. To find out what's happening in hospitals in your community, contact your lung association. | It's a matter of life and breath. Ontario County TB-RD Association PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Gc < (uma) : AUR) 1, <& ers as Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher BRUCE ARNOLD, Editor WM. T. HARRISON, J. PETER HVIDSTEN, 3 Plant Manager Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as secorid class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number: 0265 Subscription Rate: In Canada $6.00 per year. Elsewhere $8.50 per year. Single Copy 15¢ ~~ ~~ (1 STREET, LET THE Your FEET. , SEFOPE You START feKosc 7HE GUARD HELP QUINE 8 NANA BILL MILEY ) UGAR ano "Well, how did you find England after all those years?" This the favourite question for people asking about our jaunt. I have a stock of stock answers. "No trouble at all. We just went where the pilot took us." That sometimes shuts them up. Another retort. "Just kept going until we heard a lot of Limeys chirping." I save that one for the Britons out here who haven't lost their accent. Well, 1 found it greatly changed and much the same. Despite the levelling off economically, the old class system is still there, and causes even more animosity than it used to. That is, the poor are beter off, and the rich are taxed iniquitiously, so there's less of a gap financially. But you are still labeled by your accent, your occupation, and your background. There is still woeful inefficiency in a multitude of things and amazing pro- ficiency in others. The standard of living has risen a good deal, but so have costs. The papers are headlined with rising food costs and their real estate took an upward surge a few years ago. A house there costs about the same as a similar one here. Food is. a little cheaper than ours. Drinks a little cheaper and a little weaker. Transport is a bit cheaper and twice as good as ours. That's because of the short distances, the heavy population, and the high cost, for the working man, of owning a car. Through trains rocket about at speed up to a hundred m.p.h. Employment? Almost complete, if you want a job. There are supposed to be half a million unemployed, but a businessman told me this represents only the unemploy- ables, and those who don't want to work. ' Everywhere, newspapers, store windows, there are "Help Wanted" ads. Admittedly, a lot of the jobs are menial, but not all, by any means. The Brits don't want the more lowly occupations. And that's why the blacks have moved in, mostly from the West Indies. They are the bus conductors, subway workers, waiters and unskilled labourers. And whenever things tighten up a bit, there is resentment, and racial violence. But there is a great shortage, right now, of both skilled and unskilled workers. The Post Office is desperately understaffed. Postal workers are working overtime, and some of them, bleats a newspaper, are falling asleep at their jobs. That has a familiar ring, somehow. In London, the bus service is away below par, because it is short 4,500 bus drivers. A chartered accountant told me that it's almost impossible: to hire girls who can operate business machines. In desperation, he cajoled a former employee, a good operator, into coming back for a month. She was seven months pregnant. Slight catch. She lasted one hour. Couldn't get close enough to the machine to punch the keys. . A publisher in London advertised exten- sively for a secretary. He offered about $85. a week, a month's vacation and a bottle of champagne upon engagement. He got zero answers. 'In frustration, he printed 1,000 handbills and had his staff pass them out on the streets. to likely-looking candidates. Result, four phone calls. Two of them were not interested. The other two made appoint- ments for interviews. Neither turned up. Another aspect of England that has changed, sadly, is the increase in violence. I met two young fellows in a pub. They were both employed and making about $100 a week. Yet they boasted of being Borstal boys . (reform school). The elder, who seemed seething with rage at the world in general, and ready to start a row with anybody, had also been in prison. They were working class, but hated everybody above them in the system. There have been racial riots involving whites, blacks and indians. London bus stop signs warn that "Owing to hooliganism and attacks on our staff" such and such buses will not run after a certain hour. This summer there was an outbreak of sheer viciousness and vandalism among 'some groups of football fans. Drunker fights at the games. Ripping up railway cars and kicking in compartment doors anc abusing passengers on the way home from the match.. Motorcyle gangs terrorizing villages. It sickens to hear of this sort of things ir dear old England, for years one of thé safest and most peaceful countries in the world. . 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 20, 192 The outstanding feature of Port Pery Fair was the presence of Hon. Geo. S Henry and the parade of school children arranged ir his honour. Scugog School Centre, taught by Mrs. Stainton, won the shield pre: sented by Moffat Motor Sales Co., Oshawa. | Miss Alberta Richie. Toronto, and formerly of Blackstock became 'the bride of Mr. Charles Plum] Prince Albert last week. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 23, 1948 Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bowles, Port Perry, cele- brated their 60th Wedding Anniversary on Sept. 12, 1948. They received some 100 guests who offered con- gratulations. A telegram was sent to them from the King and Queen with best wishes. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Murray Holtby, Scugog, on the birth of their little daughter. Donald Johnson, Myrtle is driving a new G.M. car. Mrs. Myrtle Palmer and Mrs. Helen Colbear, Port Perry, are attending Grand Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, in Toronto, this week. - . 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 18, 1958 Construction on Port Perry's Community Curling Club's new rink is proceed- ing rapidly under building chairman, Oscar Beare and Job Superintendent Bob Kenny. The barn on the farm of Mr. W.F. Batty, Brook- lin was destroyed by fire last week, causing $50,000 worth of damage. Although the barn and the whole year's crops which were in the barn were destroyed, a team of prize winning Clysdales, two Jersey hulls and 14 calves were led to safety. ) Charles Trenka and Patricia Asling, graduates of Port Perry High School were each granted a Uni- versity-Dominion-Pro- vincial Bursary of $500. Both are registered in the Uni- versity of Toronto. Four teachers and twenty students from Cartwright High School attended the Shakespearean Festival at Stratford, Wednesday, to see the Students Matinee, Henry IV. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 19, 1963 Mr. and Mrs. Carl Graham, Scugog, left last Thursday by train for the Winnipeg district to visit their son Vernon and his family. Mrs. Jim Mitchell and Mrs. Bert Mitchell, Utica, attended a baby shower for Mrs. H. Spell at the home of Mrs. Mowbray, Kinsale. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Blatter of DeBarry, Florida, were recent guess of Mr. and Mrs. G. Sweetman, Seagrave. . Together they visited Fort Henry in Kingston and Lake-on-the-Mountains. Skating Club members Anna Forder, Richard Stephens and David Porter, spent part of their summer vacation skating at the g _ Tam'0 Shanter Club.