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TORIAL PINION * Fire Prevention Week, Oct. 3-9 1970 Fire Losses Highest Ever Fire destruction in 1970 cost Canodions the greotest property loss ever. The estimated dollar waste was $203,000 000. This figure exceeds -the $197_000,000 loss in 1969. and is far ahead of the $166,000,000 fire burden of 1968. Not included are tosses.rom forest fires and government establishment fwes_ Direct losses are only a part of the appalling story of fire The Dominion Fire Commissioner estimates that the indirect losses of tire -- stoppage of production and consequent unemployment ore five times the direct loss. 'The overall loss to the economy is $}.000,000,000," he reports. The cost of fire to Canade is staggering. Moreover. provincial estimates to the Dominion Fire Commissioner show that in 1970 the total of fire fatalities will be 636. A total figure of 224 deaths of children is an increase of 45 over the preceding year. Any in- crease is always a disappointment to the nations 50,000 fire fighters who work continuously to impress on the public the dangers of leaving youngsters alone in the house while they visit or shop. Over a 10-year period, more than one third of fire deaths has been children. in fact. from 1959 to 1968 there were 5,966 victims, comprising 2,385 men, 1.252 women and 2.329 children Multiple death fires, in which three or more died, made national headlines in 1970. Of the 115 such victims so reported, 42 were children. The worst tire of this kind occurred last year in a two-storey wood-frame Quebec house. The fire broke out in the early morning hours while the fomily gothered for a re-union -- was asleep. Twelve died. There were no survivors. Also in Quebec last yeor, there wos a fire in a home for the aged which killed 19 patients. Of the 34 patients in the building. the victims all died of asphyxiation. For the owner of a family home the cost of fire is rising sharply. In 1960 the average cost of a residential fire was $500. By 1969 the average exceeded $1,100. : PORT PERRY STAR' | COMPANY, LIMITED a. og Port Perry. Reach. Scugog and Cartwright Townships P HVIDSTEN. Publisher - Editor WM. T HARRISON Plant Manager P. HVIDSTEN, Jr Advertuing Manager Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontarte Weekly Newspaper Aasiciation Publiched every Wednesday by The Port Perry ra Star Co Led. Port Perry. Ontario. Authorized ss stcond class maill by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Namber 0266 Subseription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr.. 1 Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy 10+ iA aaa i, Soe y BILL MILEY UGAR ano PICE AN ANNIVERSARY, TO REMEMBER September is bass weather, and last Saturday I had one of the most interesting bass-fishing jaunts I've ever enjoyed. My old Russian billiards partner, Captain Dalt Hudson, called about noon and asked me if I'd like to go out for a little fish. The situation was a little tricky, as it was my wedding anniversary and I thought maybe I should stick around. But the Old Battleaxe and I had a big fight the night before, and she had told me not to come sucking around with a bunch of roses or anything else to mark the occasion, or she'd throw them in my, face. Even so, I had the decency to tell her that Cap wanted me to go fishing. "Go ahead!" Many a man would have been unwrung. 'but I steeled my heart, tip-toed around gathering my gear, and prepared to make a dash for the back door. She was weeping silently now, trying to make me feel like a heel. She failed. I hadn't been fishing all summer. "And don't bother comping back!" she fired at me as I snug out. Picked up te skipper who had a basket full of worms, and down to the dock. He has a fine boat. Cabin, inboard motor that runs like a Cadillac and seaworthy as the most frightened old maid could wish. It was a beautiful, sunny September day, and I was in good hands, those of a retired captain who had sailed fresh water and salt for about fifty years. We had a pleasant run up the bay aboot ten miles, and arrived. 'See that little reef,"' he said. "We'll anchor about 150 yards sou- sou-west."' I slung in the anchor, doubting, as | always do when I go out with someone who knows the "spots," that there would be a bass within five miles. We had a quarter bet on who'd catch the first fish. Dalit was telling me how to tie my line and fiddling around filling and lighting his pipe. I tossed my bait overside and whacko, before he'd got the pipe lit, I had a dandy, about 2% pounds. It was one of those days you remember. We sat in the sun and bartered lies about the days when we sailed the lakes. His lies were much more picturesque than mine. He told of strikes and storms and colourful charact- ers. I told about scrubbing out lavatories. Finally, we had our limit and it was time to go. The Captain turned the key to start the engine. Total silence. Dead battery. I wish I had a movie of the various ex- pressions of the Captain's face. There, couldn't be a sound track with it, though, because he was blistering the paint right off the deck. We were only about 500 yards offshore, so we started to paddle. It was like paddling the Queen Mary. Two feet ahead and the wind would push us three feet back. We were lucky. We could have sat there all night, anchored, because the place was rife with reefs. But there was one boat in sight, fishing just offshore. The only sign of human life in that vast bay. The skipper made a megaphone out of a The rest of the story is anti-climatic. They finally realized we were in trouble. The chap in the other boat went to his cottage for a booster battery. It didn't boost. He towed us ignominiously, to his dock, a 14-foot skiff towing a 30-foot queen. Cap muttered all the way in. The shame was almost unbearable. We got home about 10 p.m., and I thought my wife would be out of her mind with She was just out visiting the largest enrollment in years, opening day saw 143 students. Miss Kate Aikens of radio fame will be in Port Perry at the United Church to give one of her interesting lectures. Mr. John F Raines duly appointed clerk of. the Village of Port Perry has received a permit marriage licenses. Miss Connie St John en- tertained guests in honour of reer ere rae & leaving to continue studies at Albert College, Belleville. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Farley, Scugog have sold their home to Mrs. H. Causley of Minden. Mr. and Mrs. Farley moving to Peterborough. Thursday, Sept. 27, 1956 An old land mark at Manchester, for many years general store arid Post Of- to issue* and Miss Donna Samells » representing the 4H Homemaking Club of Port Perry at the Canadian National Exhibition. Thursday, Sept. 28, 1961 J.C.Read of Port Perry will be one 77 High School students attending a science seminar at Ontario Agricultural College. More than 1000 high school students throughout Ontario competed in the examinations to qualify for * this Seminar. Ontario county Warden Mr. A Gerrow was honoured at the county annual picnic held at Fern Cottage, Lake Couchiching. A flag raising ceremony «© will be observed at Palmer Memorial Park to mark the birthday of the founder of Chiropractic, D.D. Palmer. Mr. Ray Ormiston won the Grand Champion at the Port Perry fair.