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Z, (PATS EID OR SCAT Co na AAR nie ron Make It A Happy Holiday The Victoria Day week-énd, which opens up the happy sum- mer season, has proved Kor many years to be an unhappy week-end for too many Cana- dians. Actually in this late 20th century, it offers a prime op- portunity for Canadians to take to the roads in six million motor cars and kill and maim them themselves and others at a rate of three to four times normal. On this first fine-weather week-end of the year there is 'an urge, irresistible to some to travel a distance and return which would and should norm- ally acount for a week's leisure- ly driving: Dominion's Statistical Re- search Department has comput- ed the overage risk on Victoria Day week-end to mount three- fold, and two out of three of these mishaps generally can be accounted for by the urge to travel too far, too fast, in the ~ A Few Tips ~The only safe cigarette is the one you don't light . . . but if you have difficulty. stopping, you can reduce the amount of smoke you tale into your lungs. the Department of National Health and Welfare:- 1. Cut down your cigarette consumption drastically. Post- pone the next one as long as you possibly can. 2. Take fewer puts on each- cigarette. The longer the in- terval between puffs the better. Leave the cigarette in an ash- tray or hold it in your hands, never in your lips, between puffs. Otherwise, you are li- able to inhale smoke when you breathe. Here are four tips from short time available. Long stretches of high speed driving on congested thoroughfares create a state of mind which cause the drivers to attempt passing in potentially danger- ous situations. Here are a few hints to holi- daying motorists which, if fol- lowed should reduce the haz- ards to normal. 1. Don't try to squeeze a week's travel into three days. If you must go that far, do it the safe way, by train or plane. 2. Start for home early! Shun + the roads on those last few dark hours of the final day. Give yourself enough lead time to arrive home in good time at reasonable speed. 3. Try to realize that an ac- cident can happen to you, too, not only to the "other fellow". Remember who's the other fellow's "other fellow"! 3" On Smoking 3. Throw away a very long butt. The last half of the cig- arette contains a greater con- centration of harmful tar and nicotine. Throw away an extra long butt if you smoke a- long - cigarette. ; 4. Don't 'inhale the smoke. Remember, when you inhale, you are taking damaging tar and gases into your bronchial tubes and lungs. Blow a mouth- ful of smoke through a clean white handerchief to see what the tar is like. Compare the stains before and after inhala- tion. : These tips will help you to unlearn your smoking habit. After you have tried them for a few days, you might find it easier to stop smoking alto- gether. STOP THE WORLD Sometimes you feel like Atlas, trying to carry the world on your shoulders. With a slipped disk and an arthritic knee. Well, what can you do? You can't drop it. - It would break into pieces. And you can't set it down for a rest. You know you could never pick it up again. This is the predicament in which the average middle-aged husband and father finds himself most of the time. That's the fellow you find wandering dazedly in a supermarket; or blundering through a swamp trying to catch a seven- inch speckled trout; or playing golf 'with intenise ineptitude. : If you ask him, he'll swear that he's not quite over the hill yet, that he can carry his world for another few steps. But if you corner him and quiz him, you'll find that he's not only over the hill, but sliding down the other side so fast there'll be no- thing but a greaseball left wen he hits the bottom. "Exactly my point. Her dens run toward a new bedroom suite, fresh decorating, and a lot of other things that aren't going to 'make me sleep, or do anything else any | better than I do in the present shabby; lovable, little joint. 1 can't, for 'example, see me tying my tie with any more flair with a new bed- room suite in the background. I can't see that a new eggshell-blue interior is going to make me look or feel any better when I sit on the edge of the bed, groaning gently and scratching, at 7.30 am. =. I fail to realize that broadloom is going to give me anything but a big bank loan. 'It certainly isn't going to make me spring out of that new sack every morning, carol- ling: "Here hath been dawning another new day. ' Think, wilt thou let it slip useless away?" It's not really that I'm an old curmulgeon. It's just that I've been through-it before. Do You Remember? I He'll also be broke, if he has a wife. My old lady, after a couple of quiescent weeks (Continued on Page 5). pe fp » "i Se Ee Re Fo he a a 2 ER TR var 50 YEARS AGO "Thurs.,, May 16th, 1918 The house of Mr. Gray of Scugog Island was burnt to the ground last week. The Town Hall and Church were also damag- ed slightly. Mr. Fred Brock launch- ed his boat, built by Capt. Bowerman and his son George, on Tuesday. It is 27 ft. 6 in. long and has 5 ft. 2 in. beam, and driv- "en by a 25 h.p. engine. 25 YEARS AGO : Thurs, May 20th, 1943 Port Perry & Districts total amount raised on the Victory Loan Drive was $216,000. Council has decided that the rate of taxation for 1943 will be 45 mills, 2 mills less than in 1942, Mr. H. O. Dobson, Man- chester reports that one of his cows gave birth to 3 calves on May 13th. 15 YEARS AGO Thurs.,, May 21st, 1953 Mrs. Allan Walsh of Scugog Road, found a tu- lip in her garden with four blooms on a single - stem. 'Lion. President, Art Brunton and Lion Cec. King were at Lindsay on Tuesday making final ar- rangements for Lindsay's Lions Club Charter Nigh; May 28th. Peter Ak a P.PH.S. student took first in the high jump and pole vault at the COSSA Track Meet. Peter jumped 4 feet 11 'inches in the high jump, and vaulted over 9 feet. 10 YEARS AGO Thurs, May 22nd, 1958 Mrs. Betty McArthur was killed on Tuesday when the tractor she was driving - overturned "on their farm near here. --in all honesty. following an operation, is in full cry again. "What do you really think about that crumby old bedroom suite?" We bought it on sale 15 years ago. As far as I'm con- cerned, it's fine. There's a raised platform, called 'a bed, on which to sleep, and a numbers of drawers without handles, which I can open with a screwdriver. fectly adequate. "What do you do in a bedroom anyway, - except to go to sleep and get up and I ask stumble around in the morning?" She gives me a withering look. Ap- parently there are all sorts of other things - a bedroom is handy for. Like- putting ladies' coats in when you have a party. Or cutting your toenails in. To me, the bedroom suite we have seems quite suitable for these and other minor activities. But my wife feels it doesn't have tone; class. elegance or practically anything worthwhile -- it's just a place to sleep. It's per- PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas ~P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T: HARRISON, Editor Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association J Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper - Association 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 Canadas $8.00 per yr. Elsewhere, $4.50 per year. Single Copy 10e. >