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ES - f PORT PERRY STAR, Thursday, Jan. 27th, 1966 OO ODOTDIGODIOOODPDITOOD DODIP OE ¢ Port Perry Star Co. Limited Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN WM. T. HARRISON POOP POPOV Publisher Editor Member of the Member of the Canadian Weekly Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. \ 22 rized as second class mail by the Post Office Ueparfment, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Subscription Rates: In Canada $3.00 per yr., Elsewhere, $4.60 per yr. Single Copy 10¢ MAA AA AN A A 4 a a a a a a a a a a a a a aa oa a oa a a a OP OPPO POPOV POPP ~ March Of Dimes Month This is March of Dimes month and more than 450 volunteer committees throughout the province are busily organizing their 40,000 Marching Mothers. The Mothers, on the evening of January 31, will be calling on more than 500,000 homes to canvass for the March of Dimes. Through 10 branch offices, the Foundation gives aid to the disabled in every community by case or field wor- kers. Although they are not professionally trained, these young women and men provide the first real links to re- habilitation for most of the thousands of handicapped persons aided yearly in the province. Their role is a combination of detective, real estate agent, public relations consultant, transportation expert and scrounger-at-large. Their job consists of finding the disabled, getting them to clinics and rehabilitation cent- res, finding--in some cases--more suitable accommoda- tion, housekeepers and furnishing for the disabled ready to head out on their own. ) In a few cases, the handicapped or disabled person may need nothing more than a friendly word or an ex- change of neighborhood news. In another, it may involve thousands of dollars to cover needs--an artificial limb can cost more than $700. Some of those they interview and test are sent to two work assessment shops in Toronto and Hamilton where a special staff of social workers and occupational thera- pists, and the psychologists judge their potential. Those not competitively employable are sent to "sheltered" workshops in Port Arthur, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Timmins, Ottawa, Kitchener and Toronto. Although not competitively employable, they can earn, through carefully chosen types of work, from $25 to $45 a week and all are off total subsidized welfare. Even those who are so severely disabled they cannot go out to work can earn money and more importantly, re- gain self-respect and confidence. Acting as godmothers, volunteer women teach these persons how to make luxury gift items and they are sold under the trade name of Marina Creations--after the Dowager Duchess of Kent. The Foundation's pride and joy, of course, is Opera- tion Reliance Inc., an industrial plant it founded in sub- urban Toronto. It is staffed by disabled persons and used for training of other potentially employable persons. It operates at a profit and is continually diversifying and expanding. The Foundation is a member of the Canadian Reha- bilitation Council for the Disabled and contributes to its support. That agency serves as a coordinator for the various provincial programs and as a sounding hoard for new ideas. Cees ees DR RRO OS NC INA VV VY VOU [WAN = yr pr = Le -- 3 1 pg] EZ cr -- pb] _-- =e ordre baa a FIFTY YEARS AGO Wed., Jan. 26, 1916 At the Annual Meeting of Port Perry, Reach & Scugog Agricultural Society held in the Town Hall, the following officers were elected: Pres. James McKee; 1st Vice-Pres. C. C. Kellett; 2nd Vice-Pres, A. W. Williams; Secretary T. J. Widden; Treasurer J. L. Forman. County Council equaliza- tion assessment of various municipalities was: -- Port Perry--$533,309; Uxbridge-- $489,792; Twp. of Reach-- $2,648,457; Twp. of Scugog-- $384,470. The Glee Club entertained about forty young people with a sleigh ride, driving to Brookdale Club House, of which Mr. A. J. Davis is a member. WAT PUA REMEMBER WHEN? 25 YEARS AGO Thurs., January 23rd, 1941 Hockey -- Port Perry beat Westmount 4-1. Some of the players on Port team were: H. Crawford, Hood, McMas- ter, Clark, DeShane, Lee, Beare, Spencely, Wicket, Cliff & Hook. Results of Target Practice, of Civil Guard, A Class, Prone & Kneeling: W. Aldred 94; P. Densham 94; D. Shep- hard 93; M. Dowson 92; Jas. Keer 92; H. Mahaffy 90; W, Rogers 90; L. Till 90, ete. , Prize donated by A, M. Law- rence. B Class prize donated by Carnegie Hardware, Reach Council hold inau- gural meeting. Members present: Reeve Swanick, Dep. on AVA 4 VAN YO TEN YEARS AGO Thurs., January 26th, 1956 The Ontario County Council has authorized the County property committee to secure a site for a new county jail. The Province to share half the cost of construction, ac- commodating 50 persons, providing the total cost did not exceed $200,000, The Blackstock Curling Club entertained a team from Sunderland and one from Port Perry to a friend- ly game on Thursday night, along with other Blackstock teams, Blackstock -- Several from here attended the Silver Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Larmer in Devitt's Hall Friday night. SUG A TRY THIS ON SADISTS A good many people, decent, kindly, warm-hearted in most respects, have a morbid streak. They get a big vicarious hang out of the gruesome or the gory. Eyes glinting. voices lowered, they discuss with relish Aunt Sadie's cancer of the liver, the week- end accident in which a pillar of the community smashed his pelvis while heading for the city with his mistre-s, or Uncle George's advanced dropsy. It's a shame, then, to disappoint these people when there's a chance to add a little color to their lives. This week I had that chance. TI cut my foot rather badly. Nothing serious, but enough to give me a good heavy limp. It happened on the weekend, and Monday morn- ing I was ready for them. The first eager enquirer caught me just inside the door, as I arried for work. What was it? Bad fall and a broken ankle? Hope- fully. Arthritis getting unbearable? Coyly, No. no, nothing as simple as that, I assured her, I explained that my wife and I had been practising group. under't, hee." OCs & DRS Te S20 al al AA 0 4 a a4 aa aa aaa ov and I don't know whether the lady who'd asked be- I just walked off and left her standing there, mouth open, eyes slightly crossed. The next enquiry came from one of those loud- mouths who like to embarass one in front of a Loudly, "Whada do? and fall down the cellar stairs, ho-ho?" Not at all, T told him calmly, locked out, slept in a snowbank all night, wakened with a frozen foot, and had had to have three toes I asked him if he'd like one as a sou- venir, but he didn't seem too keen. The next customer was a malicious old bat who looks like the flower, but in reality is the serpent Been fighting with your wife again? It's about time she put her foot down. lieved me. He tried. amputated. "Well, we weren't exactly fighting," I told her. "I had the shotgun out and was just trying to scare her a little, just in fun, when the darn thing went off and blew a hole in my foot the size of an orange. Wanta see?" She turned green and started to sway, - AI our karate on Saturday night, as usual. Growing Hod bored with smashing those big dents in the refri- so I left her, _ gerator with the gides of our hands, we'd decided to try some footw oodery d launched a jump-kick at my wife's teeth, Sht Na' real kargte expert had stuck out her tongue. and it was so sharp she'd opened a Four inches deep, that tendons. four-inch gash in my foot. ing serious. A fourth interrogator, a young lady who loves trouble--other people's, that is--came up to me, eyes glistening, and solicitously hoped it was noth- I said not really, just a few severed Never be able to wiggle my toes again, Get drunk I'd got drunk, been SPICE By B Lh a SMILEY but lucky to get off so easily, "After all, it was a 30-foot drop." pened?" her up. accident. "No, no. limped off, kids with the axe, Gaping, she pursued, "What in the world hap- "Nothing much, I fell off the roof and landed on one of the iron spikes in the front porch railing." "But what in the world were you' doing up on the roof, in the middle of winter? out of your mind!" 'Oh, no, not really. I was just trying to get my wife to come down out of the tree." And that shut You must have been As the day went on, I told other vultures that: A Greyhound bus had stopped on top of my foot and didn't move until the lights changed; the foot had been burned beyond recognition by a faulty electric On yours, hee- blanket; that my daughter had bee : kindling for the fire but my littlest toe, Getting my coat in the cloak-room at the end of a pretty interesting day, T he gues, unaware of my n helping to chop place, missed, and lopped off all ard two female collea- presence, reconstructing the "Drunk as a billy-goat, they say, and climbing a tree after black squirrels, with a shotgun," I heard he'd gone nfter his wife and and dropped it on his foot." 1 Quietly, Triumphantly, --Toronto Telegram News Service SOR FOP TTPO TAIT PEI