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4 -- PORT PERRY STAR, THURSDAY, JULY 16th, 1964 Editorial Viewpoint Lake Scugog Is Your Friend Residents of Port Perry and cottage owners sur- rounding Lake Scugog are indeed fortunate in having the advantages and enjoyment the lake offers. Now that summer is here again, the lake is there for you to enjoy, whether by diving in for a cool and refresh- ing swim, by skimming across the water in a motor or sail boat or just watching the little ones paddle. The lake is friendly and inviting and as long as it is treated with respect it will provide only enjoyment to everyone. Accidents do happen, however, but in most cases these could be avoided if the necessary precautions were taken and the several common, possible dangers had been re- cognized. Too often one reads of overloaded crafts, the wrong type of life jackets or that none at all were the causes of unnecessary drownings. Common sense and obeying instructions on proper behaviour (available from many sources) would prevent many a drowning. The Canadian Red Cross offers these suggestions for "Better Boating". Know how to operate your craft well Know the rules of the road Use only government-approved safety equipment One life jacket for each person on board A bailer or manual water pump on board Carry the correct lights at night Carry a few red flares for use as distress signals at night Follow the regulations governing fire precautions Carry an anchor on at least 50 feet of rope or cable | _ 11. Slow down when making sharp turns 12. Slow down in bad weather and choppy waters 18. Slow down when passing canoes and rowboats 14. Keep clear of swimmers, water skiers and underwater divers 15. Assist any boat or person in distress 16. If upset, hang on to the boat and call for help. Get a free copy of the booklet, "Safety Afloat" by writing to the Marine Regulations Branch of the Depart- ment of Transport, Ottawa. This summer, think . ... A A "Hi-yah, King George," a man at Washago called out to the Royal visitor on a spring morning in 1939 when the train carrying the tour party stopped there on its way back from Western Canada. The King's reply, "I am very well thank you, and how are you," was quoted far and wide at the time. The expression, "hi-yah", which had become popular then probably due to radio programs, was generally used as a greeting without realizing it was a short form of "How are you?' As the years have rolled along we notice that this expression has been shortened still further, until-today most children and young people say simply, "Hi". Few of them use an older form of greeting, "hello", which may be too long for our fast- PAS RE BS jai eP 1 don't sink! Be water wise. "moving times, although we admit that in our up-bringing "hello" was not thought to be polite -when speaking to older persons, since the word perhaps derives from the old hunting cry, "halloa". Nowadays, of course, "hello" is the word most people use in answering the telephone. Some still say, "good morning" (or "afternoon" or "even- ing'), and these words, combining both a greeting and a kindly wish, always please us most, perhaps since this way of speaking is getting to be more rare. --Bracebridge Gazette ° WHAT DO GENERALS DO? General Eisenhower, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of D Day, remarked that the soldiers won the war. This seems to say that the generals did not. There is some evidence from the First World War that Field Marshal Haig never was personally aware of the appalling conditions under which the front-line troops had to live in the trenches. ' . ARAL AAI AE AEA) XA NOMINATION CONVENTION ~ Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas WM. T. HARRISON P. HVIDSTEN, ca ET A + Editor Publisher Member of the - Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. ~ Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. - Subscription Rates: In Canada $2.60 per yr., Elsewhere, $8.00 per yr. Single Copy 7¢ Rememher When? 50 YEARS AGO July 15th, 1914 Below is a schedule of 1912 population figures from town and townships in this area. A considerable increase in town populations have occurred since that time. Port Perry .....eeeene. 1209 Uxbridge ...cccovevrneerrenne 1441 Stouffville ..ueieeerinneens 1014 Markham .......ceveeeeeeene 1036 Newmarket .................. 2400 WHItDY ovisiivimiisivnn 2211 Increase in the Townships have been very slight: Reach Township 2788 and Uxbridge Township 2330 in 1912. Birth: In Port Perry on Sun- day, July 5th to Mr. and Mrs. ~S. Farmer a son. kk ok 25 YEARS AGO July 13th, 1939 At. the christening of the "Northern Star" on July 1st, Mr. Ted Jackson was master of ceremonies. A large crowd at- tended the event. Mr. Jackson in his speech said Port Perry had been settled one hundred years and Charles and Peter Williams were the first resi- dents. The dedication of the "Nor- thern Star" was made by Rev. Robt. Simpson, and Miss Grace Davis performed the christening, At Little Britain Ball Park on Monday, Seagrave Cubs came from behind in the fifth inning to beat Beaverton by a score of 8-5. : Cok x ok 10 YEARS AGO July 15th, 1954 The work of pouring the con- crete floor in the Memorial Gar- dens is now completed. It took 12 hours of hard work to do the job. Principal of Cartwright High School, Mr. R. P. Allin, was honoured Friday by School Board, past and present staff members and past and present pupils. He is rétiring after 20 years of service at the school. A large crowd of spectators thronged the Scugog lakeshore on Sunday when the Port Perry Yacht Club held their annual powerboat races. i Sugar and Spice By BILL SMILEY THERE JUST ISN'T TIME There's nothing quite as relaxed and indolent as the life of a school teacher in those two long, golden months of sum- mer. Eight glorious weeks: - A little golf, a little swimming, a little fishing; a lot of picnics and cookouts and long, cold drinks; unlimited time to read and girls in shorts to ogle. It's a picture I paint for myself in clear outlines, in cool pastel shades, every June. But somehow the finished canvas isn't quite what I had in mind. The outline blurs, the colors change into violent reds, yellows and purples, and we come up with something resembling a drunken rainbow that has been struck by lightning. : This summer has been no exception. It started off in typical fashion with a racking dose of food poisoning that left me about as hearty as a lady of 80 who has just given birth to quadruplets. I was so weak that the cat, who has been watch- ing her chance for years, stuck out a foot as I was tottering toward my lawn chair, and tripped me flat on my face. Barely over this, I had to drive the family 700 miles into 'the U.S. on the July 4th week end, to dump young Hugh at a summer music school. But it wasn't the mileage that got me down. It was the list of instructions issued to the kid by his mother, If they'd been written out, they'd have covered a sheet of paper for every mile we travelled, amd they could have been - remembered only by a herd of elephants. * x * I didn't blame her, though. It isn't that the kid is stupid. It's just that he's a teen-ager and lives in that peculiar world inhabited by that peculiar species. In the week before we left, he had lost: his wallet, his running shoes, and a dollar bill (which turned up in the washing machine). That was an average week. Imagine going away and leaving that gormless en of a boy on his, own, for three weeks, with 10 different places to be at. definite times every day; with money to handle all by himself; with nobody to find all the things he'll lose; and with his way to find all the way home by bus. We weren't much comforted as we left him. He climbed out of the car, saying, "Yes, O.K. I won't forget. Uh-huh. Right. Yup.", as a last-minute torrent of verbal directions poured at him. He took his bag, waved, and started up the steps of the boarding-house next door to the one we had just registered him in. I doubt if we'll ever see the boy again. He'll start for home and wind up in Tibet. Got home from that jaunt just long enough to do the wash- ing, repack the suit cases and head for summer school, Arrived a bit shaky after giving myself a small farewell party and was immediately asked to read a poem to .a group of intense Eng- lish teachers. After summer school, we rush Kim to camp, then hike for the old home town to put out the paper for two weeks while the editor goes on his honeymoon, Then scramble for home, collect Kim from camp, entertain friends in relays for a week before hurtling off to newspaper convention, which is about as easy on a fellow, physically, as breaking wild mustangs with a slipped disc. End of summer. End of "holidays." ' Anyone know of a job where they give you four months vacation? If I could find one; T might manage to squeeze in a couple of games of golf, or a day's fishing. Toronto Telegram News Service &