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bo nn anes nm EE, EDITORIAL TOPICS Recognition Appreciated It's not too often we get the opportunity ot "tooting our own horn", but this week, we believe we have a good enough reason to do so. Our readers, we expect vould not' help but notice the good news this paper received when the winners of the annual Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association's contest were announced. This newspaper has been awarded prizes before, but never a first, and for this we cannot help feeling a bit proud. The publisher of this newspaper can in no way take the complete credit for this honour, and is more than happy to share with the rest of the staff. Every single member shares in the production of the Port Perry Star, and it is only a team effort that brings the result and good news we received this week. Congratulations Well Deserved Congratulations to the students of Port Perry High School for their excellent arrangement of the first Winter Carnival. The programme was one of imagination and variety, and it was well executed. The committee, headed by Carol Anton, in particular, deserves a great deal of praise. No doubt many hours, possibly days of planning and hard work went into the staging of the Carnival. However, success is not hard to take, and this success was well earned by everyone who took part in the arrangement. Fill Your Gas Tank A recent study of a major Ontario highway indicated that almost a third of all breakdowns on this road - near Toronto are caused by running out of gas. If you run out of gas and your driving a avery transmission car the Garage Operators Association of Ontario remind you that it is always possible to move a car with standard transmission off the highway should it stall in the traffic lanes by use of the battery alone, put your car in low gear and holding the starter in On- position steer your car to a safe resting place. The Garage Operators Association also reminds motorists that it is as inexpensive to drive on the top half of a tank of gas as on the bottom half. Half Pay For Half Time by the prime minister and colleagues to attend the House of Commons half time. This would seem to mean a neglect of their parliamentary duties towards their constituents. Every member has local constituents. "The Printed Word" suggests that if ministers of the Crown are not going to be present in the House of Commons except for half time, their pay as an MP be cut in half. This would save a few dollars for the Treasury. SE i; [PORT PERRY STAR] COMPANY, LIMITED aa a on a SR SRR" Serving Port Perry, Brooa... and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher "3 WM. T. HARRISON, Editor Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Btar Co. Ltd, Port Perry, Ontario. SRR 2 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 year. Single rd 10e. 3 Ministers of the Crown (Ottawa) are only required BILL SMILEY Februa y! I find you very Hairy, Not to mention * Contrary, Weather-wise. " Driving is scarey In February. One must be wary" Even more than in. January. Milk in bottles From the dairy Freeze on the porch In February, - : And it's not A very merry Business Cleaning up the ruddy mess when the bottle cracks and the milk leaks all over the Refrigidairy. Sorry, chaps, but I've been conducting poetry-writing classes this week. And at * the same time wading through drifts, try- ing to get my car started in the good old sub-zero battling my way through 40-mile- hour blizzards, and helping bury an old mate. Not conductive to a lyric column about the longest-shortest month in the year? Right. As you can see from the above, the poe- try classes have been 'going very badly. Imagine having a teacher who writes such garbage trying to breathe Life, Imagina: tion, Experience into your creative poetic soul. It's enough to turn a kid off poetry for life. Normally, February is a month in which nobody in his right mind can be found north of the 49th parallel. Unless he has- n't the money to escape. That's why there are so many of us lurching through snow- banks, hoses -dripping, eyes watering, coughs racking. We're either out of our minds, or poor. And in many cases, both. And if we're not out of our skulls when the month begins, we're ready for the straitjacket and total sedation by the 28th. Thank the gods it's not Leap Year. All I needed this year, to garnish mv February complex, was to help bury an ARE Ase 4a i TEE fia |Sugar and Spice] old mate. - He wasn't old 1n years, and he wasn't a life-long friend, but I'll miss him. Our paths crossed and re-crossed since we both - made the ridiculous decision to become teachers, about nine years ago. During our teacher-training summer courses, surrounded by- hot-eyed, panting youth, just out of university and happy in the knowledge that the world was theirs for the asking, we sort of drifted together in a mutual-defence pact of gentle cyni- cism. I'd been through a war and a period of --carving-a living out of a pretty tough roast of a world. He'd been through a terrible accident, broken neck and the works, years of painfilled convalescence. We'd both emerged, battle-scarred but banners still flying, from a decade or so of marriage and children, We weren't exactly student militants, but we shared a hearty scorn for and a quiet amusement at the establishment, the 'keen types, the pushers, the scramblers, the sparrows trying to make like eagles. So. we gravitated, and the friendship, sporadic and casual, lasted. After some years we wound up in the same town, teaching in the same school. We golfed together quite a lot because we enjoyed the pace. It was leisurely, good-natured, and we both practised one- upmanship without scruple. the loud scratch of a match at the top of the other's backswing; the coughing fit when the other was making a delicate putt; the gazing into the sky when the other hit a grounder; the gently raised eyebrow when the other missed the ball completely and almost broke his back in the process. And we kept a fairly good eye on the yardarm. If the sun was over it, we mark- ed the occasion in the usual manner. And many a late summer after-noon, we sat under the oaks and discussed, without ran. cour, the foibles and follies of the world, while our wives and the squirrels chattered in the background. I'll miss the Old Boy. And so much for February. ~ ¥ / --Toronto Telegram Syndicate You know: ~ Hawkesbury, GONE BY | 650 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 20, 1919 The ice harvest has com- menced in Lake Scugog. Mr. Alan Goode started on Wed- nesday of this week. Join the Club --- Have your Grafonola Now --- or later if you like. Avoid likely disap- pointment - for Grafonolas will be scarce before Christ- mas. Grafonola and cabinet -- $44.00. » In 8.8. No. 2, Prospect School - Good Irish Concert and Box Social. Ladies with hoxes free. Gentlemen 174. Come and have a good time. March 14th, 7:45 p.m. The Crown Attorney for Ontario. County, Col, J.E. Farewell has raised an interest in the development of crime "in parts of Uxbridge township. He attributes this unfortunate state of affairs to the fact that the people had lived in one district for many years .and have continually intermarried. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 24, 1944 Yacht Club activities are rather out of season, but the Club has one job for all year round. That is the collection of books, magazines, and "games for the navy league. The Junior War Workers will hold a Ten Cent Social at 'the home of Mrs. Gordon MacKee on Tuesday evening, : February 28th, at 8 pn, 'What a.gay_ time the mem- bers of the Young People's Union and their friends had on 'Monday evening! The pres- ident George Channell was host at a party for the young people of Port Perry in the. Oddfellows Hall. About seventy-five guests accepted George's kind invitation. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 25,1964 At the recent mid-winter examinations of servatory of Music of Toronto, Alan Reesor was successful in passing Grade X examinations in:piano with honours. Alan is a pupil of Mrs. J.E. Jackson. Port Perry Lions won the Lakeshore title here Friday night when they downed the visiting Bowmanville Kinsmen 'by a 63-37 score to take the series 2 games to 1. On Monday evening a large crowd filled the United Church to hear the performance of Port Perry's 'Stars of To- morrow", and the - voice of Vaclovas Verikaitus, a star of to-day. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 26, 1969 Two gunmen were arrested early Tuesday after they held Constable A.J. Warriner of the Ontario Provincial Police, Ontario and another motorist prisoner for several "hours during a'. 60 mile trip in a stolen car. The proposed new addition to.the Church of the Ascension Parish Hall was the chief topic of discussion at the Sunday School Teachers' meeting held on Thursday. )