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LF Hr he Sa AG A) Lon io Bets rs 4 4 ai A, rr 3 - - 8 f . Nd fil Sa 2 A - "a 2 -- PORT PERRY STAR, THURSDAY, JULY 30th, 1964 Editorial Viewpoint Important Business Tourist business is one of this country's most important industries. It should grow even more important with shorter work weeks, and higher incomes, as well as the granting of holidays enabling more people to wander far afield in search of recreation and relaxation. The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce points out in its Commercial Letter that an estimated $1,300,000,000 was spent last year by Canadians on business and commercial travel at home. In addition, foreign tourists spent nearly $5000,000,000 in Canada, The bureau of Satistics states that 81 cents of every tour- ist dollar went on food and beverages; 20 cents on retail pur- chases; 24 cents for accommodation; 16 cents on retail purch- ases; 24 cents for accommodation; 16 cents for transportation and nine cents for entertainment and miscellaneous other ex- pénses. These holiday appetites particularly good for our farm- ers. In an average year tourist visitors consume about 4,000,- 000 lbs. of butter, 4,000,000 dozen eggs and 18,000,00 lbs of beef and other farm products. The tourist business on examination is shown to be a real important factor in national, regional and community prosper- ity. It's everybody's business. Even the use of our Palmer Mem- orial Park and Lake Scugog enters into the picture. Whatever each one of us does for a living, whether we are in industry, farming, retail trade or some other business or profession, we can be sure that part of our income is derived from visitors. It therefore follows that each of us has a personal role to play in the furtherance of the tourist business. Determining Fitness The question of whether or not an elderly person is phys- ically fit and able to operate a motor vehicle is an important one. It would be unfair to deprive drivers of their operating rights by age alone as standards of fitness vary but it is most desirable that unfit persons be kept from the public roads. The Province of Ontario does not require routine medical examinations of applicants for driver's licences, but as physical standards of fitness to drive do exist, and doctor's are indirect- ly involved in the issuing of licences to their patients when they receive a request from the Medical Advisory Board of the De- partment of Transport, the new booklet issued by the Ontario Medical Association to guide doctors can be a most valuable one. The Ontario Medical Association is helping to make Ont- ario's highways safer. The booklét, "A Guide for Physicians" is determining fit- ness to drive a motor vehicle" contains a section of classificat- jon of drivers with abnormalities and indicates possible courses of action to be taken: Fit to drive, Unfit to drive, Driving test, required or a further medical examination by a specialist. A final decision as to whether an elderly citizen can drive is made by the Medical Advisory Committee of the Department of Transport which sits in Toronto, and after considering all available information passes final judgement on cases referred to it. NEE % CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS will not automatically solve the question of the rights of negroes to accommodation on the same basis as white people, etc. A hotel in Jackson, Miss- issippi, has closed its doors because of the new statutory situation and a motel in Atlanta, Georgia, is suing the Fed- eral Government in an effort to enjoin the US attorney general from enforcing the public accommodation section of the new law. The motel owner also is asking for $11 mill- ion in damages. USE The CLASSIFIED SECTION of The PORT PERRY STAR Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas WM. T. HARRISON Editor P. HVIDSTEN, 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¢ ' GEE, WE THOUGH IT WAS TRILINGUAL ir CANADIAN ARMY TO STRESS BILINGUALISM -- News Je mM sil IN AND OUT OF TOWN 50 YEARS AGO July 29, 1914 A: meeting of business men and others interested in Hydro- Radial matters, will be held in the Town Hall on Thursday evening of this week. The campaign to inform the public as to Hydro-Radial mat- ters cannot be started too soon, as it is hard to stop a false im- pression once it gets started. Firemen's Excursion to Tor- onto and Niagara Falls to be held on Port Perry Civic Holi- day, : Wednesday, August 5th. These excursions are both cheap and popular--always be- ing well patronized. x x % 25 YEARS AGO July 27th, 1939 Mr. S. Arnold, Prince Albert reports picking 410 boxes of raspberries from his three-quar- ter of an acre patch. This is a tremendous picking. One of the best pickers managed 51 boxes. * Mr. C. A. Smith, 3 Red Deer - Avenue, Birchcliffe, Toronto, caught a twenty-one pound 'lung Sunday morning. At Lindsay on the 19th, Port - Perry Bowlers won all games and first prize. Messrs. Grant Gerrow, R. J. Harper, A. P. Ingram and John Murray were the fortunate four. 'a * *® 10 YEARS AGO July 29th, 1954 Mr, Creighton Denitt, Black- stock, a member for 50 years of L.O.L. 133 was highly hon- oured by his fellow members recently. qo Farmers in Ontario County are looking forward to good yields this year, Hay fis good and grain better than average. The potato crop is also very good. thought you were out of your mind, for $50. Sugar and Spice 8y BILL SMILEY Occasionally, I think how pleasant it would be to have a summer cottage. Just a cosy little place, on a lake, where a fellow could get away from it all, do a little quiet fishing and thinking. A spot to go on those long, lovely fall weekends, as well. Fortunately, this manifestation of madness is brief, My well-developed sense of reality revives, and I breathe a little silent thanks that I have not been hooked. A summer cottage, thirty years ago, was a joy to the heart, a balm to the nerves, a refuge from relatives, a source of spiritual rejuvenation. Today it is almost guaranteed as an ulcer-maker, a nerve- wrecker, a spirit-smasher. It is an albatross around the neck of its owner, who winds up each season looking and feeling about as spry as the Ancient Mariner. First, and perhaps worst, there is the sheer, shockink ex- pense of the thing. A man could keep three mistressess swath- ed in mink for what a cottage costs him. Thirty years ago, you bought a lot from a farmer, who You had a local carpenter whack up a cottage for about $400. For another $35, you picked up a stove, some beds and a few other odds and sods of furniture, at auction sales. And you were in business. Today you fork over about $1500 for a lot, erect a modest cottage for another $3500, And you're just beginning. It costs a year's salary to outfit the place. Then there's a well to dig plumbing and hydro to install, and a boat to buy that is bigger than that of the guy next door. In the old days, a man could keep his family in dignifi comfort at the cottage for about ten he a of Do avid reader, is eighty dollars for the whole summer. They got their fuel in the bush. They bought vegetables and milk, chickens and eggs, from the local farmer at prices that make one weep with rage today. Once a week, the family went into town and loaded up with grub, coal-oil for the lamps, and a round of ice-cream cones, for about eight dollars. In these enlightened 1960's, keeping the family at the cott- age is like watching blood pour out of an open wd er} Theres wood to buy for the fireplace, and gasoline for the boats, and hydro bills and taxes and repairs to the plumbing system. And there's the trice-weekly swoop on the supermarket and booze outlets, to the tune of about thirty dollars a swoop. But it's not only the financial aspect that appalls me, It's the communications and transportation progress that makes a cottage owner go around all summer with a severe facial twitch. _. In the good old days, a man drove his family a hundred miles to the cottage and left them there until Labour Day. He didn't see or hear one of them for eight weeks. Those were, in- deed, the golden days. Nowadays, the poor guy has had a couple of long-dist calls telling him that the toilet is leaking i the kids all ee pink eye and his wife has run out of money because she had "quite a repair bill on the Volks after backing into the boat trailer. Then he's expected to drive a hundred miles Fri i in traffic that would make a bishop Plastphane J fey night just before dark to find that the pump has broken down, the kids have wracked up the boat, the baby has drowned but has been revived by artificial desperation, and the next-door neigh- hours, who never know enogh to go home, have been invited in or a drink, Toronto Telegram News Service He arrives n------