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pA Se - te b ¥ [ ASRS Nr 0 Si 8 i X L PORT PERRY bE Tw bi on N us a i a P rove If you are a student reading this, you may be facing the one big decision of your life. Of your entire life to date the decision you make to continue or drop out of school must rate as the most important. Why drop out of school? Be- cause you are bored? Because you are just sick of it? You failed last year? The work is too hard? You want to grow up, throw off the chains, make money, buy a car, get married -- work ffor a living? Reasons past, present and future could fill more than just the pages of 9 this newspaper. Not all deci- Rl -sions to drop out were bad, Bh) some were necessity. But, the Rd 15 greatest majority must fall in the category of needless or "if I had only known". all must realize upon making the decision to quit. The world you step into is one of survival or starvation. And that world - is run with responsibility a key to making a living. No one doubts that they will have to work but, do they realize how much better another year or two in school would have made them to face it and advance in it? Assuming you do have a choice and can continue to school if the will to quit can be overcome; look at these facts. A majority of employers, when asked why they prefer to hire graduates of universities, col- leges, collegiats, vocational, trade--or commercial schools, stressed the following points: PERSEVERANCE, AMBITI- ON, ABILITY TO LEARN, a TAS Tp TN SZ oh William Tell was a bum sho Sata (lavs 1s ahuppie living #1 a downtown pad. i : Sleeping Beauty took an A averdose of sle png pills ! DTAR Editorial Page! It To Yourself Theére is one basic thing that - SELF DISCIPLINE, DEPEN- DABILITY, JUDGEMENT, POTENTIAL & INITIATIVE. Name one of those vital points that is not accomplished by and attributed to the graduate. When you graduate you illus- trate each. Better jobs are offered to graduates, not just because of the education and training that will be of immediate benefit but because the better-educated is more easily trained, develop- Thursday, Avg. 20, 1942 £€on has joined the bus preserver. Mr. Ott Ham. ed and promoted. In personnel Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Son. Griving staff of DeNure ilton made the presenta: : i ' : ; Bus Lines. tion. selection the most accurate in FE dication of future performance i And a i BILL SMILEY r and is past performance. school drop-out stands a better . than average chance of being an industry drop-out. Too, there is the law of sup- i _ply-and demand. The greater # availability of educated job ap- plicants and the decreasing number of non-specialized jobs, means employers can be more selective in their hiring. Despite your age, your grade, your marks, much could be aec- complished with a new attitude. Prove to yourself that you have what it takes. Stay in school. --W.inchester Press \ ONLY CANADIAN A veteran Canadian racing driver has entered the Player's Grand Prix of Canada, August 27 at Mossport. Al Pease of Toronto will be the only Canadian in the line- up, driving his Castrol Oil-- mile race for $100,000 in prizes and the Player's Award. a flour mill, -- thats how he Do You Remember? | 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 22, 1917 Mrs. James McBrien, Prince Albert is spending some time with her daugh- ter Julia, at the Atlantic Coast near Boston. Mr. and Mrs. C. Crosier, Port Perry are moving to Oshawa. Private Walter Rogers, - Prospect, who was wound- ed and spent considerable time in a hospital in Lon- don, England has arrived home. Miss Elsie Bradley leav- es this week for Harris- ton, where she will be- come a member of the teaching staff. 25 YEARS AGO ley have moved to their new home formerly owned by the late James Lakey. Dr. N. L. and Mrs. Phoe- nix of Imperial Sask., are visiting relatives in Green- bank. A young American pilot was killed instantly when his plane crashed while flying over Lake Scugog. Mr. Lorne Fielding's house south of town was completely destroyed by fire. 15 YEARS AGO Thurs., August 21st, 1952 Reach Council requested that a speed limit be set on 7A Highway at Man- chester. Bernel Herbert, Bobcay- W. F. Crosier, Manches- ter won three fourth place ribbons at the No. 5 Zone Regional Swine Show at Oshawa Fair. The Opening of the new community hospital in Port Perry is planned for around October 1st, the drive for funds is within $8,000 of the $25.000 ob- 4 jective. 10 YEARS AGO Thurs., Aug. 22nd, 1957 Mrs. Louise Patterson, Port Perry, won 3rd prize on a crocheted dinner cloth in the C.N.E. Handi- ¢ g craft competition. The Rod and Gun Club made a presentation to the town in the form of a life The whan nthe Shoe was orn. Sug ME A HIPPY? Every so often I experience an over- whelming urge to throw everything to the winds, run away, and become a middle- aged hippy. Those kids have the world by the tail. With the rest of us, it's the world that has us by the tail, and does the twisting. Think of those lucky bums. No taxes, no insurance premiums, no shaving every morning, no handing over a buck and a half for a haircut. The hippies have abdicated from a society that has no reality -for them, a society in which they see precious little love and honesty and a great deal of hate and hy- pocrisy. They have said, "Include me out," and in many ways | don't blame them. So let them grow their hair and beards. Let them have love-ins and smoke grass and give each other flowers and refuse to work. They're harmless compared to many people and things that are highly respected in our society. But. after the first. fine, careless rapture of seeing myself among the hippies, the - sponsored Hagle in the 220 'cold wind of reason blows and I know 1 couldn't make the scene. Oh, I could let the hair and beard sprout, "Zo ON): + 5 the pill \Y Spice get some purple pants and hide behind a pair of shades. I could look the part. But I'd never fit in. I don't have the hippy attitude or mentality or whatever it is. And it's all the fault of my parents. - They brain-washed me with a lot of Vic- torian cliches and puritan maxims that made me the warped, inhibited individual I am today. You know the sort of thing. Cleanliness is next to Godliness. A rolling stone gathers no moss. A stitch in time saves nine. a Pure popp-cock, most of it. Fortunately, our own children have not allowed them- selves to become indoctrinated. Try that rolling stone thing on Kim and she just hoots and points out how many million re- § cords the Rolling Stones made this year. The only "Stitch in Time" she knows is ® rock-n-roll group by that name, and she thinks they're great. My parents injected a lot of other hair- 'brained ideas into my innocent little skull. They convinced me that you should do an honest day's work for a day's pay. That gives you some idea of how old-fashioned I am. They said you should face your respon- sibilities, not run from them. That's an- other reason I'd never make it as a hippy. I'd be completely out of tune. They believed in helping people who needed it. My mother must have fed 2,000 hoboes during the depression. My father lost his business because he kept on giving ye bills. They believed that you bore your troub- les as best you could and did not infect = them on others. They told us, many times, that if you couldn't say something nice about a person. you shouldn't say anything about him. They detested the idea of charity and fought toot hand nail, and successfully, to (Continued on page 11) > PORT PERRY STAR CO., LIMITED Serving Port Perry, Brooklin end Surrounding Areas. : P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher v WM. T. HARRISON, Editor Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. 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