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Issue Public Warnings The Food and Drug Directorate of the Department of National Health and Welfare today advised consumers Not to eat soups sold in Canada under the Hickory Farms of Ohio, Ancora and Reese Finer Foods labels. These Products are produced in the Newark, New Jersey piant of Bon Vivant Soups, Inc. Small amounts of these soups have been available for sale on the Canadian market, primarily in gourmet food sections of supermarkets and in food specialty shops. in a previous announcement, the Directorate noted that 2 fatal case of botulism food poisoning in the U.S. had been associated with Bon Vivant brand vichyssoise soup and advised Canadians not to eat Bon Vivant brand sQups and sauces until further notice. The Food and Drug Directorate emphsized that no cases of botulism associated with soup products produced by Bon Vivant have been reported in Canada. Asan additional precautionary measure, however, con- sumers should not eat soups with Hickory Farms of Ohio, Ancora or Reese Finer Foods labels, until further notice. Stocks of these products are being removed from the market. As a public health measure, food wholesalers and retailers are asked to cooperate in this action by making certain these products are not available for sale. Recent years have seen a substantial increase in the number of people walking and hitchhiking on multi-lane controtied access highways in Ontario. Their presence has been found to contribute to, and in some cases cause, motor vehicle collisions resulting in deaths, injuries and property damage. Legisiation prohibiting pedestrians on certain sections of controlied access highways, including the ramps, has been in effect since 1967. Enforcement of this law has had positive results. Today however, a summer spent hitchhiking has be- come a way of life for many young Canadians. Many of these people, often unknowingly, contravene the law by soliciting rides on highways where pedestrians are prohibited. In an attempt to further inform the public of the prohibited areas, the Ontario Provincial Police have published a pamphiet graphically illustrating the high- ways on which pedestrians are not allowed. These pam- phiets are available free of charge at ali O.P.P. Detach- ment offices and at most Provincial Tourist information Centres. Sipe Ea LBS Ms ee PORT PERRY SSTAR COMPANY, LIMITED WM. T HARRISON, P. HVIDSTEN, Jr., Plant Manager Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assiciation Published every Wednesday by The Port Perry Star Co. Lad, Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class maill by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 9265 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy 10¢ PROVINCIAL BILL MILEY UGAR ano KISSIN' COUSINS By doing a little mathematics, I've come to the conclusion that I must be related to half the population of Canada. I've just received a small booklet compiled by my uncle, Ivan C. Thomson of Ottawa. It sets.forth the genealogy of my maternal ancestors in Canada. Some people find their ancestors a huge bore. Others are afraid of skeletons in the closet. I find ancestors fascinating, as I try to picture them, think of the incred- ibly difficult lives they led, and wonder what characteristics I and my children have received from them. My uncle's booklet is no high-coloured romance. It deals in facts: births, deaths, names, property titles. But among the pages is the occasional laconic comment which makes me wish I could leap back into the 19th century and explore further. My maternal great-grandparents were certainly not of the aristocracy. He was a ship's carpenter, and that's one reason he, Walter Thomson and she, Margaret Farrell, his new bride, set out from Donegal, Ireland, for St. John, New Brunswick, where there was a ship-building industry. He was 20, she 19. It was 1834. Within a few years, with three children, the building of slides on the Upper Ottawa River. These slides were built for the lumbering business which was skimming the cream : sf 2 : i : Fi 1 Th i 4 2 i Fifi see 2Ff Fey i 15 fi hil TT iis : Spice That's the background. My mother's family attended a one-room school, boarded the teacher for $45 a year. My uncle Ivan had a good job. He went to the school early in fall and winter, and lit the fire. He got $3.00 a year. My grandfather got $1.00 a day for his government position as Slide Master. Pay ceased when the navigation _ Season ended, so the Master had to farm as well. There were ten in the family, and from what I've heard, they had a happly life on the island. As a child, I saw the old homestead high on a hill overlooking the mighty Ottawa, and was thrilled. But as I said, while the facts in the book are interesting, it's the little asides that inflame the curiosity. The original family of Walter Thomson was eight children. They produced, among them, exactly 60 more Thomsons. Today, eight might produce 16. Anna married James Paul. They had four children, "She also raised Johnnie Robert- son." Now there's a story in itself, Who was Johnnie? Why did she raise him? What be- came of him? John (Mountain Jack) was a timber cruiser and a real bruiser in the lumberjack Ht he 3 Fir 34 [ 2& i 4 ! i iit really like to go back and talk of the old-timers. They were virile in more ways than one. je | | i i z : F? 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 18, 1946 Billy McLaughlin, young son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Mc- Laughlin was hit by a car in front of his home. He was taken to Oshawa Hospital for X-rays. Congratulations to Norma Fines, Kay Prentice, Phyllis Tetlow of Scugog in passing their entrance examinations. dack Goode, Jack Griffen, Fred DeNure, Grant Mitchel have returned after spending two weeks at Danforth Y.M. C.A. Camp, Lake Simcoe. Mr. and Mrs, E. G. Mitchell gave a garden party to the entrance class of Port Perry on the ocdssion of the birthday of their son Grant. Mr. Archibald MacMaster started this week in the employ of Beare Metors. . . 15 YEARS AGO Thursday,' July 19, 1956 Hazel Wallace, Port Perry is celebrating her thirtieth year of continuous service with Bell Telephone Co. in Institute celebrated fifty years o! achievement in Nestleton