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4 -- PORT PERRY STAR, THURS. NOVEMBER 26th, 1964 Editorial Viewpoint Safe-Driving Week Dec. 1 to 7 The stroke of midnight, November 80, signals the opening of Canada's 9th nation-wide campaign to reduce road carnage. Safe-Driving Week, 1964, will end at midnight, December 7. The sponsors, the Canadian Highway Safety Council, will promote its belief that the average motorist is fully aware of the right way to drive, just as the pedestrian knows the safe way to walk in traffic. CHSC's problem, shared by all safety organizations in Canada, is to con- vince them they should put that knowledge to work. John Atkinson, of Toronto, the Council's general chairman, said "If every motorist and pedestrian drove and walked as he knows he should, Canada's death toll in traffic would be drastically reduced." Mr. Atkinson issued an urgent plea to all motorists and pedestrians to observe every safe tactic and ethic of the road during Safe-Driving Week 1964. "If they do it for a week, and our accidents, injuries and fatalities are reduced, they can do it for every other week of the year. We who work for road safety challenge motorists and pedestrians to prove it can be done." With the time of snow and ice almost here, the Canadian Highway Safety Council has some ideas that could save a lot of people a lot of pain and cost--if they heed them. CHSC's tips are issued in connection with its nation-wide campaign, Safe-Driving Week, December 1 to 7. In snow, clear the entire windgdad, side and back windows. Vision is vital in winter driving. Never smear lemon, glycerin or beeswax on the glass; they only make a mess. Replace dead wiper blades with live ones. Fill windshield-washer tanks with the recommended solution, not plain water. Drive with headlights, never parking lights, in reduced visibility. Parking lights distort dis- tance to the oncoming motorist, if he sees them at all. Use snow tires or chains where traction is poor. Letting some air out of today's low-pressure tires is no help and increases wear. Carry some sand or chicken wire to help the car off glare ice. Heavy loads of sand or stone in the trunk makes steering tricky and makes big skids out of little ones. In snow or on ice, start gently, give tires a chance to bite. Spinning melts the snow or ice, makes things slicker and digs the wheels deeper. Even with chains or snow tires it takes a lot longer to stop a car on ice. Avoid a sliding crash by increasing following distance in winter. Don't worry about the nut who races ahead and takes up that space. Let him have it, and stay well back of such a poor driver. Abrupt turns, lane changing and sudden changes in speed can produce bad skids. Anticipate all turns, make them slowly and gently. A driver who finds himself in a skid should turn the steering wheel in the direction the rear- end is sliding, then straighten the front wheels as the car straightens. On a hill, get enough momentum to reach the top, then watch for stalled cars or obstacles on the way down. Be extra careful in temperature traps in shady areas and on bridges. Posted speed limits are for ideal conditions. Good judgment is the real speed limit. Pump the brakes to slow or stop. Slamming them on produces loss of control. Ice or snow can be as slip- pery at 80-above as at zero. Heavy traffic at corners packs snow, spinning wheels polish ice and stopping be- comes treacherous. intersection. Inattention to or neglect of common-sense driving habits in winter produce serious accidents. CHSC urges, "Don't leave it to the other driver to drive right--YOU are the other driver to everybody else." Start to slow down ahead of the Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Berving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, WM. T. HARRISON Publisher Editor Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Member of the Ontario 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 $2.50 per yr., Elsewhere, $4.00 per yr. Single Copy 7¢ Don Rr RCT "ae S Fo AAP ALER AOE EBA EAC, hie a GREETINGS, SIRE , I'M) YOUR VERY OWN GEE, (1M JST THRILLED 70 PIECES / | Remember When? FIFTY YEARS AGO Wed., Nov. 25th, 1914 Port Perry--Mr. J oseph Hood had an endowment policy in the Canada Life Assurance Co. which fell due on November 21 and the cheque was forwarded by the ocmpany promptly on that day. Mr. Hood is pleased with such business-like methods. Seagrave -- Wedding bells rang in the Village of Seagrave last week at the parsonage--by the Rev. Dr. Marvin, when Cor- nelius Mole and Mrs. Dusty (nee Mrs, S. Griffen) were united in marriage. The com- bined age oft the contracting parties is 169 years. ® % '% TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Thurs., November 23, 1939 Port Perry Business Men's Association held a complimen- tary banquet in honour of Hon. - G. D. (Conant, Attorney-General Province of Ontario at the Se- bert House on Friday, Novem- ber 17, 1939. 'Some 80 business men and citizens of Port Perry attended, together with many municipal officials from Reach, 'Scugog and Cartwright. Editorial on "Apprenticeship" . If the pepole of Port Perry were to wake up some morning and find no one to shoe horses, it would bring vividly to our attention a fact that is going to make a difference in many lines of life . . . The Apprentice. ship system is a good one produces good workmen. A wrong idea has become preval- ent about Sausation, We should Find ry our boys and girls not to dodge hard work but to do that work . more intelligently ne TEN YEARS AGO Thurs., November 25th, 1954 Port Perry--Leslie Bell sing- ers to visit Port Perry on Dec- ember 2nd. Taylor's be. to $1.00 Store opening Saturday, December 4, 1964 Women's Hospital Auxiliary to start Doll Festival and Christmas Fair, Port Perry Flyers drop series opener to Lindsay hockey team. AND SPICE ! by Bill Smiley B WHERE THOSE WEEKENDS GO : Like most teachers, I don't know what I'd do without my weekends. All right, I know. The hours are great, there are lots of holidays, and you're sure of your pay at the end of the month. But believe it or not, it's an exhausting game, Baby-sitters have their moments of frenzy. Policemen sometimes get ul- _ cers. To those two jobs, add the task of stuffing information daily into about 150 kids, most of whom can take it or leave it, and you can understand why teachers totter towards 4 p.m. Friday like camels lurching to that first oasis on the far side of the Gobi desert. Every Friday, I came home, collapse, and 1 wave feebly to- wards the decanter of Teachers' Highland Cream, a medicinal restorative made in Scotland for the sole purpose of salvaging sagging teachers. As I lie there, gradually recovering, I allow 'myself to luxuriate in the idea of 48 hours without classes. "This week- end," I muse, "I'm going to get caught up. I'm going to mark all those essays, prepare those five tests, get my lessons ready for .a whole week ahead. I'm also, by golly, going to get a good sleep tonight, go hunting Saturday afternoon, sleep in Sunday, and spend the rest of the day reading a good book." Perhaps a verbatim report of the last lost weekend will give you an idea of the difference between dream and reality. Friday evening, I'd just begun to regain my joie de'vivre, with aid of the Highland Cream-and a good dinner, when a colleague called. He wanted to discuss an academic problem: some kids had tried to set fire to his car on Halloween. It turned out that he was sagging a bit, too, and that he had a predilection for the Cream. A bad combination. I got to Bed at 2.80 in the am. Oh, well, I could sleep Saturday morning, Essays would not be marked, bub after all, a fella has to live a little. . At 7.80 am, in the dark already, iy wite was shaking me. She had the stomach flu. I had to drive the kids to the city, 200 miles round trip, for their music lesson, Home at 4 pm. Broth for the eick lady. Rake the last - 'of the leaves. Prepare one of Old Dad's famous mixed grills: anything that will fry in a frying pan. This one had mush- rooms, eggs, green peppers, a redolent remnant of steak, two wieners, a tomato and a chunk of bologna. Tasty. Two hours of dishwashing. Wandered wearily up to watch TV, Fell asleep. Woke at 11 pm. Looked at wife, apparently dying. Dowstairs to turn off lights. Find lights blazing, hi-fi Blaring, 1 kids in the act of lighting fire in fireplace. "Get to bed!" Two hours later, have taught Kim to waltz (waltzing is any form of dancing that doesn't have a frantic best); Hugh arid Kim have demonstrated, and I have been dragged into, the (Continued on Page 18) FERPA T PI TE ASL LE