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i 74. »y prin SRE BR a -~ REE SARs 4 PSRT{Q PERRY TAR Editorial Page Farm Safety Week July 23 - 29 Farm Safety is a good time for Canada's farm people to check and correct the numerous accident hazards that area con- stant threat to their physical & economical well-being, said the National Safety League of Can- ada. Sponsored annually by the League in co-operation with the Canadian Highway Safety Council, Farm Safety Week will be observed nationally July 23 to 29. Falls rank second to motor vehicle accidents as a cause of death. On the farm, their pos- sibility is as great as elsewhere. It may even be greater. According to the League, a farmer's working conditions are conducive to falls. He is repeat- "edly called-upon-to-climb-on-and----- off machines and do heavy lift- ing in silos or on mows where the footing is poor. He must work in all kinds of weather, on "slippery or icy ground, fre- quently with heavy machinery. Being his own maintenance man, he is apt to overlook ne- cessary repairs or clean-ups. A little oil or grease on a tractor step, a loose or cracked rung on a ladder, and so many other so- called little things, if ignored, can lead to serious and expen- _over-reaching. . ~~ - Fasten rugs securely. Polish ~ gloss. sive falls. Neither is the farm home ex- empt. It is no different from and negligence cause many falls. People are in too much of a hurry to pay proper attention to their surroundings or to bo- ther to pick things off the floor or stairs. Plain good house- keeping, says the League, will eliminate major causes of falls. The following positive steps wili go a long way toward re- ducing the possibility of death or injury-producing falls: Repair broken steps and stair rails promptly. Weather-proof outdoor steps and porches. See that they are placed on a firm footing and at a safe angle. Move the ladder instead of waxed floors evenly to a high Wipe up spills immediately. ~~ Provide adequate lighting in halls and on stairs. Keep a night light burning in or near the bathroom. Install grab-bars and rubber mats in the bathtub & shower. Survey Finds Newspapers Best It i is only natural that people like to be re-assured and even applauded for the soundness of their thinking and judgement. And it means much more when 'such praise is sincere and can be backed up. -- In this respect we would like to toss out bouquets to the suc- cessful business men who make full use of the advertising col- umns of Port Perry Star in the promotion of their products and services. And in so doing we point with pride to the fact that a recent authorative survey found newsapers best for learn- ing about products. The summary reads as fol- lows: "The newspaper is the most popular choice as the best medium for finding out about advertised items. According to a survey. disclosed at the recent = pe = bz "= - 7 SNL ---- ~ EN 50 YEARS AGO July 26th, 1917 Mr. Fred Turner's barn in Prince Albert was struck with lightning and totally destroyed by fire. Pte Wm. Belknap of Prince Albert, who was previously reported sick, is now officially reported missing. Mr. Archie Sinclair had the misfortune to break his leg in two places while jumping. 'ems, and radio in 1%, _ international Marketing Con- gress in Toronto, and reported in Marketing. The local newspaper was chosen for six out of the 10 of the 120 items (568%) named in the survey. Television came next, leading in 32% of the it- or about the same as word of mouth. Frank Orenstein, of the Bur- eau of Advertising, American Newspaper Publishers Associa- tion, who revealed the survey results, said the people most in- terested in a product turned consistently to printed adver- tising for information about it because of "the more detailed information in print ads and the fact that print can be exa- mined at the convenience of the consumer." Do You Remember? 25 YEARS AGO Thurs., July 30th, 1942 Messrs. George Emmer- son and Gordon Carnegie reported on Monday morn- ing for training in the Dental Corps. : 'Miss Dorothy Tristram, who is doing Land Army work at Niagara was home for the week-end. 15 YEARS AGO Thurs., July 31st, 1952 Miss Marion Clarke, of Port Perry lost her life, when a car in which she was riding met in a head on collision with a.car dri- ven by Mr. John T. Mac- Donald. Mrs. MacDonald also lost her life, in the crash. 10 YEARS AGO " Thursday, July 25th, 1957 Peter Lawrence, pave Mosienko and Allan Bail- ey a Port Perry High School Trio took part in the Amateur Musical Con- test at Peterboro Fair and won first prize of $25.00. -Keep-ladders-in-good repair... --its-counterpart-in town. Haste is BILL SMILEY : Sugar and BUFFALOWED BILL I think I can say, without fear of contra- diction, that I am the stupidest English teacher in Canada if not the whole of North America. I may add that I am the most dunder-headed columnist between Vancouver and Marysville, Newfoundland. Why? Aside from the things that natur- ally spring to mind, it's this crazy column * contest, that's why. English teachers: spend their winters muttering and cursing into the small hours as they read and mark what are jocosely called essays. At the end of June the intelligent ones begin their holidays, or run off with some- body's mistress, or get roaring drunk. The stupid one starts a guest-column contest and spends his whole summer muttering and cursing into the small hours, reading col- umns that make him extremely insecure about his future as a columnist. ; Well, I guess you know what all this 'is leading up to. That's right, chaps. I still haven't picked the winner of that fantastic prize of 50 fish. Like a jerk, I didn't put a deadline on entries, and the damn things are .still coming in. But that's not the problem. They' re all so rotten GOOD. Readers of Sugar and Spice, or at least a couple of hundred of them, are among the most literate, articu- late and witty in the land. How would you like to be asked to judge a beauty contest in which every entrant was a knockout and also the daughter of one of your best friends? That's how I feel. A person with some method in his mad-- ness would probably sort: the entries into - groups: Excellent. Very Good, Pretty Good, A Definite Potential, Lousy, Stinks, and so on. Then he would put an 1 elastic band around each group. He would then put aside all except the 'Excellent. He would peruse them for the eighth time, narrowing down to two. And he would make a decision. And everybody would be unhappy ever afterwards, except the winner. - I don't operate that way. I am racked, harrowed, tortured. Ome day I think I have Spice the winner. My wife agrees. The kids don't like it, or I suddenly 'remember a - better one that I read last week, and spend two hours searching for it, only to fin that it should have been in the Stinks' file. Another day I have everything narrowed down to the TOP TEN. I place them care- fully on the floor beside my desk. And my wife, tidying up while not around, puts them back in with the others, shuffles them, and I have to read the whole ruddy lo again, in the process discovering several which were much better than the TOP TEN. My ears are already burning because I can hear the shouts of indignation from right across the nation, when the winner is announced. It. will definitély be, for alk - other entrants, the worst column they! ve ever read. Ah, the hell with it. Here I am, an old fighter pilot who 'dived into the blazing flak at Caen, scared stiff because 199 people . are going to think I'm a clod for not pick- ing their column. (Continued on Page 12) PORT PERRY STAR CO., LIMITED | Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrow nding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher » WM. T. HARRISON, 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 Pest | ~ Office Department, Ottawa, and for - payment of postage in cash. Subscription Rates, ,In. Canada $8.00 Wlaowhers, uw per yr. Single Pond 10. FS 4 1 Ete Sy SA A gl