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. oh a Ts BL 2 EE RRA a. sd N - 4 4 4 te a a are 3 SCHERER aa oF LSRSRR SLAY th ea sc ¢)Y Ny LY TS AY TRO RAN ACE PRES ay \ SN a SESRTYL hI ARG Su SANS ee la EAR L 1B - FAG hah et 3 hy . » . LRA EASIER E SE, of rg € et) AREY SRL Raa TSF LA wei Shi Sie BRR 2 FER Sha Ce SER EA BR I IAAI RY, Ih RORY ADI Editorial Viewpoint This Is Fire Prevention Week! Canadians burned up an estimated $1656,000,000 in property in 1963. It was the greatest fire loss of any year in their history. The 1962 total was $140,144,648. Soaring industry losses mainly accounted for the increase. Figures exclude forest and federal government fires. Per capita, the 1963 estimate is $8.21, compared with $7.47 in 1962. The worst previous per capita loss, $8.05, was in 1967. Offsetting monetary considerations, two significant developments are reported: ® Fire deaths substantially declined. Only 561 (men, women, children) lost their lives. At 2.9 (deaths per 100,000) this is the lowest death rate ever. The 1962 rate was 3.3, for 626 victims. ® In relation to population, the annual incidence of fires is coming down. The simple fact is that fires are becoming more expensive. Ten years ago the average loss of a house- hold fire was $400. Now it is over $600. And a fire which a quarter of a century ago burned up a family corner grocery store at a loss in thousands today has its counterpart in a million dollar supermart conflaga- tion, perhaps wiping out an entire shopping plaza. These illustrations are as good as any. * & x "WE LEFT THEM ALONE ONLY A FEW MINUTES" This newspaper has said it before, and it says it again: for a compassionate community there is no sadder news than the death by fire of children in the home. And the shadow deepens when the headlines read: "We left them alone only a few minutes . . ." For the stricken family, the shadow of its wanton neglect will last a lifetime. Fire is no accident, unthinking carelessness. Fires are caused by stupid, Criminal Code of Canada To parents and guardians of the young let it be known that, besides various provincial laws, the Criminal Code of Canada (section 189) reads: "Everyone who unlawfully abandons or exposes a child who is under the age of 10 years, so that its life is or is likely to be endangered or its health is or is likely to be permanently injured, is guilty of an indictable of- fence and is liable to imprisonment for two years." People, have a duty to their children, to the com- munity and to themselves to see that the youngsters are properly looked after. * kx % A VOLUNTEER FIRE 'FIGHTER'S WIFE SPEAKS 'No sleep for me as I wait, and nightmares for him when he comes back. . . thinking of the horror of the fire. "He doesn't get out of a warm bed for personal glory - . + . God knows it's not for money! "Just a'little added proof as if I need it -- that my choice of long ago was right. "He'll bring back the sickening odour of smoke and char . .. his pillowcase will need washing, but that won't matter . . . if only it doesn't.'have to happen again to- morrow night . . or any night." HELP STOP FIRES -- SAVES LIVES THINK ABOUT FIRE -- WHEREVER YOU ARE Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Serving 'Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, WM. T. HARRISON . Publisher Editor Member of 'the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Mémber 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 podtage in cash, Subscription Rates: In Canada $2.60 per yr., Elsewhere, $8.00 per yr. Single Copy 7¢ LS 1 I i | Rememher When? 50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, October 7, 1914 Timber and other materials are being gathered for the wharf, and pile driving will start this week. The total length of the cement structure will be 210 feet. Mr. C. L. Vickery is in charge of the work. Stray partridges: No less than three pantridges have flown into town' during the past few days, and, becoming bewildered, have flown against "buildings and been killed. One of them broke the plate glass window in Prentice's barber shop and the broken glass smashed a showcase. * * * 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 5th, 1939 Manchester: Pte, Elwood Cro- sier of the Oshawa Tank Regi- ment spent Sunday at his home here. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Roach have moved into their home here. We welcome Mrs. Roach to our community. Marsh Hill: Heavy frost on Sunday morning, 'Mr. Sam Hood has erected a fine new hen house and the hens have start- "ed to lay already. * kx 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 7th, 1954 ~ Mrs. Reg. Boundey wins 19 Firsts, 12 seconds and seven third placings at the Lindsay Exhibition, for her entries ran- ging from tea biscuits to citrus marmalade. - Port 'Perry organizes Ladies' Curling Club. Active member- ship limited to 20 and fee is . $6.00. New Public School opens in Cartwright. On Friday, October 1st, 1964 the Village of Black- Stock played host to a large attendance at the dedication of the new Central Public Schoo. | Sugar and Spice By BILL SMILEY CANADA, ACT YOU AGE! There is one country in the world that I feel sorry for. It as all the outward attributes of a spoiled-rotten teenager. It is good-looking, if a little gangly. It is strong and well- made, if a little inclined to flabbiness. It has always had a big allowance because its mother and father came into a lob of property. But all the signs of the mixed-up adolescent are there: the sudden flaring resentment over nothing; the great desire to be loved and made a fuss over; the surliness when things don't go right; the sullen apathy towards anything worthwhile; the ab- sorption in material things; the flashes of decency; and the impulses towards vandalism. It must be dreadful to see a child you love, one who has brought sun and laughter as an infant, pride and joy through the growing years, turn into one of these creatures. It is 'equally sad to see a country one loves tum into a schizophrenic, whining with self-pity one moment, swaggering with threats the next, bragging with one breath, complaining with another. I'm talking about Canada. There is something sick in our country today, and I feel for it the same baffled sorrow that I feel for the teenager who has a good mind, with nothing more on it than bashing around in a big car and smashing things up, who has a fine body, with nothing more to do than let it go to pot. I don't know quite what has brought me to this state of gloom, but the flag debate 'certainly helped, An insignificant issue, ineptly introduced by an inadequate prime minister and immediately attacked by an incredible leader of Her Majesty'. loyal opposition. : : People complain, periodically, that Canada gets little or no attention in the world press. Thank goodness! If newspaper readers in other nations could peruse some of the Juvenilia that has passed as debate in our House of Commons on the flag issue, they would shake their heads in bewilderment, and write us off as a nation about one jump ahead of the Congo. (Personally, I don't care whether our national flag is three mangy maple leaves, or three beavers eating the left thigh of Sir John A. Macdonald, or three roosters crowing "0 Canada" from a dunghill. But I do care that my country shows mone of the signs of strength, maturity and wisdom that might be ex- pected from an adult democracy. Another thing that has produced my present mood is the threat to the life of the Queen, if she has enough gumption to visit Canada, on invitation. W shrivelled punks who threaten her had as mmch. Canadians are not made for bowing and scraping before royalty. But who, except a few fanatics of desperate paucity of 'soul would want to harm this rather plain, rather sweet, quite dignified and extemely courageous woman who does her earnest best in an extremely difficult role? The answer is, only those who have adopted the philosophy of the communist and the fascist -- that the end justifies the means, The Queen has nothing to do with imperialsim or co-. (Continued. rom; Page 18). a, Lia : § ik hich she has.: Would that the