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Preventior Is The Aim A formula for preventing cancer is now available to alt and needs onty public interest to put it to work. The formula is called "public education." We already know enough about preventing cancer and about the benefits for early treatment to cut the death rate from cancer at least in half. That is why the efforts of the Canadian Cancer Society to educate the public is so important. That is why the Society have developed the Seven Safeguards Against Cancer, and it s the reason tg keep stressing the importance of any un- usual symptoms to a doctor. The Seven Safeguards are as follows: For everyone - have a regular medica! check-up, don't smoke cigarettes, have your dentist check for unusual condition, arrange with your doctor for a bowel examination, and avoid excessive exposure to sunlight, for women -- practice regular breast self-examination and have a regular Pap test. Almost 17 percent of ail the money raised by the Society during it's April campaign this year will be spent on education. Education can take care of at least haif of ail cancer. For the rest, we have to depend on treatment and re- search. The Society is allocating the bulk of the proceeds from the campaign to research which will not only deve- lop better methods of treatment but which doctors are convinced will bring about the final defeat of this disease. Control Grass Fires As summer begins, so does the grass fire season with its destruction of organic agricultural matter. Mr. KE. Best, Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food Agricultural Representative for Haldimand County, says foresters have several guidelines to help farmers prevent grass fires. All farmers should check with local township offices to learn the by-laws for controlling the setting of fires, and should always notify the local fire depart- ment before starting a burning operation. Fires should be started when the wind is calm, when there is plenty of manpower available, in case the fire should get out of hand, and when tools such as shovels, brooms, and weter pails are close by for quick use. Tractors and plows should be kept in readiness. These are the best tools for controlling a grass fire on arable land, as they can plow around an affected area and pre- vent the fire spreading. All fires should be burnt in smail sections, one at @ time, and it is important to know where immediate help can be obtained if they should spread too quickly. LH PORT. PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED _* GG © P. MVIDSTEM, Publisher - Editor WM. T HARRISON. P. HVIDSTEN, Jr. Pimet Manager Advertsing Manager Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Bs Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assiciation Published every Wednesday by The Port Perry Star Co. Led, Port Perry, Ontarie Authoriae' as second class maill by the Post Office Department. Ottawa. and for payment of postage in cash Serond Clase Mail Registration Number 9286 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr. Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy 10¢ BILL MILEY UGAR ano THE HONEST THIEF STILL MUST PAY Towards the end of a long, dreary winter like this years, even the most jubilant of spirits begin to flag. The world takes on a gray monotony, about the colour and taste of English gravy. We seem to be suspended in a vague nightmare in which we are swimming in porridge, with no land in sight. We have forgotten the glory of the individual spirit and our fellow-beings seem to merge into the murk. Right there is the point at which we need a good spring tonic. In the old days our mothers gave us a one, in the of @ good ph ge oe ype tw But in these days of instant laxatives, we need something for the spirit, not the body. I got my tonic this year, just in time. It was in the form of two stories, both true. My faith in the colour and vitality of the human spirit was restored, and I feel like living again. The first one contained enough irony R895 rete 8 2 ' : H TF Mf Ab z : chap was picked up about a week . A sordid little story? Not at all. This if character. He didn't go careening off in a mad chase with police bullets and tires screaming. He drove a few blocks to a hotel, went in and had a few drinks. Sensible chap. What did the hold-up man do with the money? He went to his own bank and paid off a $500 loan. Then he went to a finance company and paid them $1,000 he owed them . What a pity he was caught! An honest man who paid his debts, pushed by them into an armed-obbery charge. A man of character. The second story is also true. I just missed seeing it, but an eye-witness filled me in. It's a cowboy story. The hero lives in a small town. He owns and rides a beautiful horse. On a recent Saturday, he rode uptown, feeling no pain. He wanted his horse to enjoy life, too, so he took him to a hotel and tried to take him 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 12, 1956 At the Town Hall in Whit- by Mr. Claude Vipond, well known surgeon was nominatedg to represent the Liberal Party in Ontario Riding in the Fed- eral Election. Blackstock will build four rooms to Central school it was moved and seconded at a meeting of Council. e Mrs. Ruby Adderley was high bowler on the Wednes- day night league with a score of 618. Miss Donna Samells was elected President of the Scu-g gog Junior Homemakers. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 13, 1961 Miss Dianne Hall placed® first at the Music Festival in Sunderland in a class of forty- seven, Miss Christina Rice placed second im the same class. They are pupils of Port Perry Public School. The Women's Hospital auxiliary have raised to date $4,170.00 for new x-ray equipment for the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Lioyd Passant celebrated their silver anniver- sary when one hundred and fifty friends and relatives gat- hered at the Blackstock Rec- reation Hall. Mrs. W. A. Brown, Pres- ident of South Ontario Dis- triet of the Women's Institute ° a