The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

ia y - Sop Staal 2 . Gog PILE \ A = v a wr oe fl RA eg ns A Het TRAD i A) = Ps _-- bo si ENE - ie = =X re 5 CoP NRE DITORIAL PINION Treacherous waters Lakes, rivers, creeks and local ponds are treacherous and hungry at this time of year, warns the Ontario Safety league. . They want victims and they are preparing accordingly. In central and southern Ontario, waters that were safe enough to wade in last summer are now overflowing to unpredictable levels. They develop strong and fast currents, transforming their beds and banks into muddy death traps. Creeks and ponds are giving them- selves a tempting appearance of refreshing coolness, sparkling and glittering under the sun. Children are hypnotized by such enchantment and feel invited to come closer and to hear the waters' bubbly music. More swimmers and fishermen are killed during the cold water months than over the whole summer season. Children are easy prey. Warn them away! Don't let the sunny weather lure anyone. Spring water is cold, deadly cold. Within minutes, it numbs and paralyzes the best swim- mers". Further north, ice has become a major hazard. There is no safe ice thickness now, says the Ontario Safety League. It may be safe in one spot and ready to break a few feet away. The changes in temperature have weakened it dan- gerously. Even after recurrence of freezing weather, ice never recovers its mid-winter strength. It looks and feels the same, yet it is as fragile as glass. Undercurrents and the rise of water levels have been at work, affecting greatly the density of the ice surface. Don't feed your children to the hungry spring monsters. Use your authority without reserve or guilt: Spring water and ice must remain out of bounds for all children! Good Friday Whatever one's religious faith, or the lack of it, Good Friday, the most solemn day in the Christian calendar, has something to say to the thoughtful. At a time when the word 'love' turns up on buttons, on car bumper slogans, and slops out of pop songs as if it were the froth on a glass of beer, Good Friday impels us to turn from the ersatz variety and look however briefly, at the real thing. Genuine love for one's fellows, far from wrapping the person who tries to embody it in a cocoon of euphoria, means putting oneself out -- by inference, a disrupting process -- for someone else. When Lord Donald Soper of Hyde Park and London City Mission fame visited Canada he described his work with indigent men. "There's nothing glamorous about it," he said. "When you're washing old men's feet, you're aware that they're ugly and that they smell. You don't do it for a 'good feeling.' You do it because it has to be done and you're committed to making yourself available when you see a need." That's what love of the genuine variety is all about. 'Good Friday : the term is a corruption of God's Friday -- reminds us that every improve- ment in the human condition is bought with what the !ate German theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, called 'this costly grace." From Jesus himself, the long, thin, valiant line which includes such names as the Tolpuddle farm hands, who organized the first trade union and were banished to Australia for their pains, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Tom Dooley and the Kennedys, the price for this commitment was heavy indeed. But, some- how, we move forward on their shoulders. That, in part, is what Good Friday is all about. i DISTRICT TAXATION © Yow BE, 161vE my PAPERS 70 THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND 4 DECLARE A JAX DEDUCTION 2" FFICE INFORMATLC PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa. and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 BILL MILEY PART OF ME IS MID-ATLANTIC When you travel close to 10,000 miles and meet about 500 total strangers in five days, not only the body but also the mind begins to get a bit scrambled. I'm three days home from a crash trip to Germany. My body feels like an old rubber boot. My mind is like-an Irish stew with very little meat in it. I'm not sure what day of the week it is, what time of day it is. or what my first name is. Among us members of the jet set, this " condition is known as "jet lag." In plain terms, it is total exhaustion. Normally, I find it fairly traumatic just to change from Standard to Daylight Saving time, It invariably throws me out of gear for a couple of days. But when you go through a time change of six hours, and then do it backwards within a few days, the human system can barely cope. gt I feel as though my soul, or some other piece of essential equipment, is still back in Germany, or at least in mid-Atlantic, trving desperately to catch up with the bag of bones which is its usual babitat. Just to complete the weird feeling of alienation, the weather lent a hand. Left Canada in a howling blizzard. Tempera- fure in the Black Forest district in the sixties, flowers blooming everywhere. Ar- rived back home in -- guess what -- a howling blizzard. All in all, I'm slightly unhinged by the experience. so bear with me while I try to sort out some impressions of my jaunt. Was it really I who was belting along the autobahn a few days ago at 85 m.p.h., and shuddering as those crazy Siegfrieds went by us like a bat out of hell, doing at least 120? There is no speed limit on the autobahns. A "suggested" limit of 81 is the only guideline and nobody pays any atten- tion to it. Was it really I who climbed into bed mit a federbete at 4.30 in the afternoon and slept until five in the morning? Don't raise your eyebrows, gentle reader. A federbette is not what you think. It's a huge down comforter, about 10 inches thick. As light as an electric blanket and as warm as four ordinary blankets. * Was it really T who sat over lunch with a ) UGAR ano Srice gaggle of generals discussing how many tanks the Russians have and what "we" wold do if they started anything? Was it really I who sat in a 'space ship" with four little Canadian kids, all of us wearing"space helmets," and joined them in the count-down? Was it really I flying above cloud into the rosy-fingered dawn with two Dieppe velerans, one of them, Albert Brown of Sarnia. president of the Canadian Priso- ners-of-War Association? 3 Was it really I standing, at a formal officers' mess dinner, drinking toasts to the Queen, the President of the United States. and Willi Brandt, president of West Germany? Was it really I standing at a cocktail party talking to charming Sandy Morgan, a pretty Texan girl, and telling her I'd love to go along to Spain on a trip she was organizing for. officers' wives, but that I really had only two days left? I'm afraid all these questions must be answered in the affirmative, but perhaps they will give some idea of the mind- boggling five days I had. One thing I did not do was something my wife, in a fit of pique, suggested 1 would. We were being entertained by friends one evening, just before I left. She was annoyed because she wasn't going. 1 have to drive through a blizzard to see my Dad." she snapped, *'and this one's off to Germany with some Bitte Scho2n," Her German is limited. Our friends are both fluent in German, and I've never heard anyone laugh harder. I give my word 1 wasn't off with Bitte. CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY ¢ | gp A ? Cancer can be beaten. 30 YEARS AGO Thursday. April 17, 192g A 25 percent cute in the domestic hydro rate is ex- pected by Reeve Figary afler interviewing the Hydro Electric Power Commission. The minimum rale should now be $1.50 monthly due to the substan- tial surplus earned by the Commission. : " On Monday evening, i> the Port Perry Parish Hall a Horticultural Society was formed with about 70 members. Elected were: President, Mr. F.A. Kent; Ist Vice President, Mr. H.G. Hutcheson; 2nd Vice President, Mr. S. Jeffrey. Mr. George Smith, High Point. reported that one of his ewes gave birth to foun) lambs and they are all alive and doing well. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 11, 1919 Best wishes go to Prince Albert newlyweds, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Jeffrey and Mr. and Mrs. Russell Shaw. Congratutations to Mr, and Mrs. A. Manchester on the birth of a daughter on April 7, susan Ruth. Congratulations to Jack Green, Blackstock, who was named Grand Champion Showman at the annual student demonstration at Kempville Agricultural i School. Jack took a total of 8 firsts in 16 possible el tries. Three new houses are under construction in Port Perry by Mr. Art Cox, Mr. Fred DeNure and Mr. George Samells. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday. April 16, 1959 The Northumberland Durham Police Associatio donated $100 to the Port Perry Minor Hockey Association. A former Port Perry resi- dent, Mr. Eric Nasmith, Toronto, won the Seaway Week symbol contest, spon- sored by the Globe and Mail. Mr. Nasmith received his designing education IR Toronto and Chicago. ; Jopie Diuvesteyn was chosen as Queen of Cart- wright High School's Annual "At Home". Her princesses at the Oriental theme ball, were Edna Shemilt and Nicole Forest. Miss Pauline Beacock and girl friend. Epsom flew to Bermuda for holidays re- cently. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday. April 9. 1961 A baby boy, Paul Robert Storry. and a baby girl. Gloria Ruth Graham were both born in Port Perry Hospital on March 31, 1964. Their mothers, Mrs. Robert Storry and Mrs. Ro Graham discovered later that they also had the same birth date of Aug. 18. Frank and Albert Mill- man entertained a group of their friends at the school on Saturday evening in honour of their birthday April 1st. ' Friends and relatives gat- hered at the Oddfellows Lodge Hall to honour the 40th anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mark on March 28. Roach® Rk