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Fire Prevention Week It's Fire Prevention Week again, and we're not going to mouth that old chestnut about fire prevention __being a year-round job. "Alfhough itis: 4 : The sad thing about fire prevention is that it is simply a matter of being careful. 'No great cost involved...not even a great deal of effort. . Just a bit of common sense and a little care. Couple that with the fact that the consequences of not doing so can be so tragic, one wonders how there can still be fatal fires involving careless smoking or faulty wiring and a host of other things that take little or no effort to avoid. Si , Perhaps at one time one could claim ignorance, but with television and modern communication, it: would. probably be impossible to find anyorie' who hasn't heard that smoking in bed is dangerous...or that too many appliances plugged into one wall socket" can start fires. . So the sad fact is, that carelessness is the culprit that kills thousands of people every year and destroys ~ billions of dollars of property. Fire departments across the country are doing their best to minimize the problem. Most have taken on a much broader task than ever before. The work today isn't so much "firefighting" as fire prevention. Firemen can be seen talking to citizen groups, school _children, or on television and radio. Or they can be found in private homes, factories, businesses, check- ing for fire hazards. . : g ] But inthe end, it is up to the individual to prevent the fire that could spell disaster for his family. "This writer has seen enough fires, fire victims (and that includes the survivors) to have a healthy awareness of what a moment's carelessness can do. There must be a better way to learn that lesson' Violent entertainment Concerned about the acres of skin and the profusion of four-letter words that you get with all but the tamest of movies these days? ; ; Well, there's no need to worry. Seems. nudity and pornography has become almost blase for today's audiences. : Moms and dads who worried that junior may catch a glimpse of a female breast can relax with the knowledge that films are back to tha! 'good old American crowd pleaser. : I violence. } Movie-makers, in an effort. to cash in on the growing Sickie market, arent even attempting to camouflage what they hope to attract their audiences "with. The nude, for example, has been replaced by an advertisement showing a gloved hand grasping a crosscut saw. "Torso" is the name of that one, and what the film promises to show you is made perfectly clear. Then, there's "The Chaindaw Massacre", the attraction being equally clear. ey Not that the writer. has seen neitheflone. The very idea gives me the creeps. Not the film, mind you. The audience. - 4 AX SELES . ~ 4 | II 4 FIA J SOE 2d : 2 FINANCE 1 FON MACDONALD's | 4 "WITH A M00 M00 HERE .... A 100 MoO THERE... Remember When..? 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 8, 1925 Here are a couple of items from the Prince Albert area: According to reports, the potato crop is only about 60 per cent 'compared to last year. ; "A red nose is no longer a sign of toomuchdrinking. He may: have a girl friend who uses too much rouge'. The estimated loss was $6,000. when a barn and house owned by J. Wright Crozier was totally destroyed by. fire recently. Five horses, four calves and most of the house- hold contents were saved. "Rev. W. P. Brown, Port Perry advertises fall- and winter apples for 15¢ per 11-quart basket. ~~ Cartwright Fair celebrat- .ed Diamond Jubilee this year with the most successful inits 60 year history. Harris and Christy, real- tors, advertising three nice homes for sale, prices rang- ing from $1,500. to $2,500. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 5, 1950 Ontario County farmers placed well in the Inter- - ill Smiley 'national Plowing Match Tuesday. In Class 2, Sod - Horses, H, Bewell, Green- - bank, placed second. James ..-Lee, also from Greenbank, - placed second in Class 4, Horses - Stubble. In order to complete the Community Memorial -Re- creation Centre, $9,000. is stillneeded. Thefirstof three Gala Nights in aid of the Centre was held Friday even- ing and through the co-oper- ation of many interested citi- zens and organizations al- most $500.00 was raised towards the completion and the opening of the Centre. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 6, 1960 Port Perry Juniors showed good form in their first game -- of thé All Ontario Finals Junior C championship series in Port Perry last - week. 'Archie Menzies on the mound for Port pitched a no-hit game until the 1ith inning. The game ended with the visitors from Capreol - getting one run to Pori Perry's 13. 5 Mr. Lloyd Wright of Car negie Ave: brought in a fine Perhaps, with Thanksgiving in the air, it's What could be more soul-destroying than 'henchmen are content with separating me 'marked sample of second crop rasp- berries on Wednesday, Oct. 5. - Cartwright High School students competed in. the annual Field Day recently and the following champions were named. Junior girls - June Akehurst, 26 pts. ; Inter- mediate girls - Sylvia Law- rence and Laurie Mackie, tied with 27 pts. ; Senior girls - Franéis. Staniland, 22 pts.; Junior boys - Bruce Gibson, 34 pts.; Intermediate boys - Ian Frayer, 40 pts.; Senior boys - Ardis McArthur, 31 pts. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 7, 1965 The Anglican Church of the Ascension of Port Perry on Sunday, October 3, 1965, two important events inits life. The Rev. R. C. Rose was present for the first service as new Rector of the Parish, and a new Chan- cel window was dedicated by the Rt. Rev. H. R. Hunt, Suffragan Bishop of Toronto. At the last regular meeting -- of the Port Perry Council, the town fathers proved they know how to appreciate and recognize the younger citi- g <4 « Zin < < ® zens of the town. Council unanimously agreed to pur- chase and donate individual trophies to the young players on the Port Perry Legion Squirt Team who recently won the Ontario Champion- ship. The Centreal Ontario ' County District High School has now confirmed that ap- proval has been received for a Vocational Addition to the Port Perry High School due to the necessary overcrowd- ed conditions at Port Perry' and Uxbridge. : Lloyd G. Lee, a native of Greenbank and manager of Land, Farm, and Suburban Department and vice-presid- @-. ent of H. Keith Limited, recently received his F.R.L. at a presentation made at the Canadian Real Estate Con> verition held in Edmonton. On Saturday, September 25, the South Ontario Junior Plowing Match was held at the farm of Joe Tran, R.R. 2, Claremont." This Junior Farmer Match was sponsor- ed by the -Brooklin' Junior Farmers and South Ontario Plowmens Association. - Thanks and no thanks My wife (careful now, Buster, watch it)ls as good a time as any to make a personal inventory of what we have to be thankful for, if anything. Maybe you'd like to join me, substituting your minuses for mine, your pluses for mine. Onsecond thought, I haven't really a single minus. Oh, there are a lot of little nuisances: arthritis in-my foot; rambling bursitis in shoulders, knees and neck; dewlaps; a few less teeth than I'd like. But everybody has these things. If we didn't, we wouldn't appreciate how great itis - when the pains clear up for a few days, or the fact that there's always plenty of good grub to mumble with those ancient molars. I do haye some negative thankfuls. I'm glad Iam, by choice, not living ina city, with everything that entails in the line of-'human harassment: dirt, traffic, crowds, coldness. Especially when I can, as right now, look out my window and see the yellow October sun - blazing into the gaudy flamboyance of the maples, and a little further off, the blue of clean, unpolluted water, and know that if I \ stepped outside, the air would be cham- pagne, not cheap, scented wine. I'm glad I don't have six children. Two of them dlmost brought the Old Lady and me to our knees, economically -and emotionally. I'm grateful that I haven't got stuck into some job that I'loathe, as so many men have. hating to go to work every morning? I'm glad I'm not sick, or feeble, or pot-bellied, or ham-handed, or tight-fisted, even though I am bow-légged, forgetful and sometimes, after a sharp exchange with my wife, have a ringing in my ears. Those are just a few of the negative thankfuls. They are vastly outweighed, to the point where it is .no contest, by the. positive thankfuls. I couldn't begin to list them in this space, but will touch on a few of the highlights. I'm extremely grateful, even though it should last only a few more years, that, despite the machimations of the oil com- panies and the stupidity and shortsighted- ness of our "leaders", I can still turn up the thermostat on a cold morning and know that I and mine will not shiver through the day. - I am extremely thankful that I am not a young man, recently married, mortgaged to the ears for life, in an effort to provide a roo dnd food for a family. ' It's taken 30 years of slaving on the old plantation, toting many a barge and lifting many a bale, but I own my own house and don't owe anybody a nickel, and I'm grateful, Another thing to be thankful for is the fatherly benevolence of Pierre Trudeau and his gang (I use the word gang advisedly), They and their provincial and municipal from only about half of every dollar I make, and there is no indication yet that they will shortly want an armand a leg each year as additional tribute. fingers. I'm very thankful that live in Canada. It's amagnificent country; a people who could be magnificent, but refuse; and they don't throw you in jail for speaking disparagingly of the gang in power. (They haven't got enough jails, and who would pay the rent?) I'm happy with my immediate family, though thousands wouldn't be. My son is a failure, in the ordinary middle-class sense. He has never made more than $2,000 a year, has no home, except ours, and couldn't produce the proverbial pot. But he is working with ultra-poor peasants in a South Only a few toes and American country, trying to make a better: life for them, eating their food, catching their diseases, and I'm proud of him, My daughter, after adventures in the sub-culture that make me shudder still, knocked them dead with her writing in a university course, got her degree, is in fourth year of a second degree in music, has had a, baby, and is about to produce a sister for Pokey, my grandbaby, who is a whipper-dip- per, likeall grandbabies. Not bad for a rotten kid. still a smashing looking woman, though a granny, an excellent cook, great company, and is becoming virtually serene. She hasn'te thrown anything at me for nearly two years, except a wet dishcloth or something like that. It used to be plates of food, telephones, Eaton's catalogue, you name it. She did, actuall, throw my typewritér downstairs last e - year, when I made some mild remark about the bad temper she used to have, but she didn't throw it at me. That's progress. I like my job, working with kids. who are at least alive, not just going through the & motions, like 'so many of their elders. Ihave a few friends, whuin I cherish, a few enemies, chiefly the town engineer, who does not cherish me, and a host of likeable contemporaries and acquaintances. My blook pressure is great, I don't wear glasses, ny heart hasn't given me a bad knock, I'm chipper as the average eighty-¢* year-old woman and I'm already at work on the 'book I didn't get around to writing last summer, or the one before, or.... It's just great to be alive, and I offer my sincere thanks to God or Whoever is responsible for it. How abéut you? The Argyle Syndicate Ltd. 0 NRA RS PL 32 a TS Eel ----