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--- 4 -- PORT PERRY STAR, Thursday™ July 7th, 1966 DO PPOPLOSHE® Perry Star Co. Limited Ser¥ing. Past Pr oppedrooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc, Editor 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 $3.00 per yr., Elsewhere, $4.60 per yr. Single Copy 10¢ A C The person who leaves small children or an animal locked in a car on a sunny day is both thoughtless and cruel. The temperature in a closed car can climb to over 100 degrees in a short time. y It is not uncommon to see a dog barking hysterically in a closed car. 4d It is not uncommin to see a child with its face pressed up against a crack left by a partially opened window. Adults can be very thoughtless in matters of this A Bp SN gh, vl fm oh dle nd r. ~~ callous. A man or woman who would lock up children or animals in an oven-like car should and can be punished by law for negligence. Police officers patrolling shopping plazas should " keep an eye open for cars that imprison the helpless in a boiling sun. : Public outcry against such thoughtless persons-gen- erally follows a case, where a child is reported tortured by heat in a closed automobile. To : But all too soon the whole matter is forgotten, until the next time it happens, when the outery is heard again. In the meantime what action is being taken to ensure that children and animals are not treated in such a way? A tired mother can be excused if she tells the child- ren to wait in the car while she runs into a store for the groceries. . She cannot be excused if she leaves them to suffer discomfort, or something more serious, from being con- fined in a car that in just a few minutes can be turned into an oven. : This should not happen to any child or to any animal. (The News-Advertiser) JUST THE FACTS NEEDED The Canada Pension Plan must win any awards. of- fered for total incomprehensibility. Mr. Stanley Knowles has now said in the Commons. that the plan's basic prin- veiple is to provide wage-earners additional pension income beyond what they get in private plans. How Mr. Knowles "has come to believe this is a mystery to anyone who lis- 'tened to or-read statements by government at the time the measure was introduced. : : It is a welfare scheme designed to give a basic mini- mum protection to all eligible citizens, and integration with other plans is only common sense. The federal government was wrong when it failed to make this man- datory. 'The plan was not intended to be whipped cream on the sundae. see TE --n LVAE SS tN Di --The Printed Word WM. T. HARRISON $ kind. It is hard to believe an adult can purposely be this RE ~ 50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, July 5, 1916 Rev, J. J. Mellor, pastor of Blackstock United has en- listed with the 235th Battal- ion as Quartermaster Ser- geant, Mr, John Knott celebrated his 91st birthday on Domin- ion day. Mr. H. C. Nasmith has joined the staff of hig form- er employers, Messrs. Clark- son, Gordon & Dilworth Chartered Accountants. Rev. and Mrs. Joblin and family are getting settled in the parsonage at Seagrave, A lengthy piece of side- walk has been put down north of the church in Prince Albert, EM a 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 3rd, 1941 On Dominion Day a 24% Ib, Muskellunge was captur- ed by two lucky fishermen, R. H. Bemis and H. Hobbs, Oshawa, in Lake Scugog. BER" __._Charivaries are the order of the day. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Burnett, Scugog wel- comed many of their friends "and neighbours when they came to honour. the mewly- weds, - A dozen or more Port Perry ladies made a late call on Mr. and Mrs. H, Fit- chett newly married residents of Borelia Hill, reported a noisy good time, Miss Jean MacDonald, Ep- som is home for the summer holidays, @ DOPDPDODODOPDPDPOOODPOE a Cal a 2 OTOYOYOOTO, Everyone 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 5th, 1956 Mr, and Mrs. Wm. Martyn celebrated their Golden Wed- ding Anniversary at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Martyn. " The Cub and Scout mothers held a very successful Floral Tea and Bake Sale at the Scout" Hall. The presid Mrs. Ellsworth Kennedy wel- comed the guests, and Mrs, Wes Stata, officially opened the event. Yea Mr. and Mrs, G. Prosser, Blackstock celebrated their Silver Wedding Anniversary. Congratulations to Miss Doreen Van Camp on pass- ing her firsfFear at Victoria College with honours. SMALEY In about the last three decades, the face of a Canadian summer has changed almost beyond re- cognition, ' The Think back to your suis as a child, sights and the sounds and fhe 'smells have all. changed. You'd scarcely know you were in the FET samie country, on ATC Wo ie a - "Summer itself has not cHanged. As a nation ved half-frozen after a long, weary Avinter and a cold, Hx wet spring, we still greet it with rapture and in- oe credulity. It is the celebration of the season that oy has been transformed, 48 . £4 Thirty years ago, summer was a quiet time. The i pace was leisurely. The mood was one of peace, {2h Today, it's just the opposite. It is the noisiest time of .the year, the pace is frantic, and the mood is jazzy, ¥ In those days, summer pleasures; for the working i : staff, were simple. And for a couple of good rea- aA sons, He worked nine or 10 hours a day; and he is didn't have any money. A 8 When he got home, he was whacked. After sup- 4 per, he might water the lawn, or do a little weeding, or just sit on the front porch until dark, Occasion- ally, he'd take in a ball game, or maybe drive the : family around for a while, and buy everybody an 5 ice-cream cone. y When his holidays rolled around, he: didn't do much, Puttered around, painting the trim on the house, or worked in the warden. Maybe took the family to. visit relatives for a few days. In those days, summer cottages, and power boats, and resort hotels and golf were for the wealthy, What-a difference today! The working stiff gets home, and his day has just begun. He has a golf date. Or the family wants to go out in the boat. Or the kids demand he drive them for a swim. Or his wife has asked somebody over for drinks and a barbecue and he must don the apron and get to work, : When his holidays come around, the pace triples. No puttering about the house for him. No sitting in the back yard, under a shade thee, and restoring himself. : It doesn't matter what has been planned for his holidays. Whether it's a mad motor trip of: 3,000 miles, or a cottage at Crud Lake, or a tenting ex- cursiof, he's going to have to be a human dynamo for about 18 hours a day. What's happened in three decades? Cars, afflu- - ence, desire for status, and women, Cars, and the subsequent highways to accommio- date them, have opened up the hinterland. Beach areas that used to be quiet, little summer settle ments at the end of a rugged gravel road are now - roaring,.raucous neon jungles by night, flesh strips and screaming motors by day. Virgin lakes, not long ago accessible only by . canoe and portage, are now laid bare by developers, and the bulldozers are at work, and everybody . "the porch, wants to own his own plot, though prices have sky- rocketed, : Affluence, combined with the never-never-land of "the finance company, has made its inroads. Today the working man owns his own cottage, or cruiser, and belongs to the golf club. The big resorts have been taken over by the moderately well-to-do. The rich, in disgust, fly to Europe. The eternal pursuit of status in our society has played its part, If that crumb next door can af- ford a cottage for two weeks, Joe can afford a flight to the West Coast. If he has a 50-horse motor, Joe needs a.75-horse, If his kids are go- ing to camp for two weeks, Joe's are going for the whole of August, And women? - Ah, how they have helped change the face of Canada's summer! They used to be content to stay home, look after their gardens and put up preserves in the summer. They used to be happy with 4 family picnic on Sundays, They used to enjoy making a pitcher of cold lemonade on a hot summer evening, and'ibringing it out to Now they want a cottage for two months, or a new and bigger boat, or a second car, plus a mem- bership at the golf club, plus a new patio, plus a couple of weeks at a swank resort, It's no wonder poor Joe is a whimpering shell at the end of the summer, exhausted, broke and frazz- led. eo --Toronto Telegram News Service » F | 5 ¢ A hy ¢ ; Y LJ © Te ! J A a A { i \