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A EDITORIAL TOPICS Watch Out For 'Bank Inspector" Frauds Staff Superintendent James L, Erskine of the O.P.P. Anti-Rackets Branch, reports a recurren®g of 'Bank Inspector Frauds' this year. In past years, thousands of dollars have beentaken from trusting and unsuspecting elderly persons through: out Ontario by a scheme we commonly call. "Bank Inspector Frauds". Investigations have indicated that a great number of criminals practice several variations of this scheme. While there have been some arrests, prosecut- ion is very difficult because the "voice on the telephone" cannot be identified, and the "Pick-up man' appears only for a few moments at the elderly person's door. Any time during banking hours of a weekday, the telephone may ring in an average middle-class home - usually that of an elderly widow. The male caller, in a very business-like and authoritative manner, . will identify himself as either a "bank official" or a member of the Police Department, presently investigating a dis- honest bank employee suspected of tampering with the customer's account. The caller will then, in a very persuasive tone, obtain from the victim information con- cerning the amount of money on deposit in her account. He will then request that she go to the bank and.with- draw a substantial sum of money from her account. As part of the scheme, the victim is advised that in making this withdrawal, she will assist in trapping the dishonest employee; she will also be advised not to tell anyone. The caller may offer to pick her up, send a taxi, meet her at a pre-determined rendezvous, or imply that she may have received counterfeit money in a recent withdrawal and he will take and examine it for her. If she expresses doubt that the caller is a" police officer or a bank official, he will tell her to hang up and call back, he will keep her line open by not hanging up and when she dials, he will answer accordingly. } Bank Inspectors or Police Officers do not 'under any + circumstances ask persons to 'withdraw money from the bank. Any person approached under these or similar condit- ions, should" call their local police department on a neighbour's telephone. This scheme has been used with increasing regularity in cities and rural communities across Canada and the United States. Thousands of dollars have been taken from trusting and unsuspecting elderly people, which they can ill afford to lose; in some cases their life savings, and perhaps money they have put aside for their own funeral . expenses. Relatives and friends of elderly people should impress upon them that they should never - under any circum: stances - withdraw money from their bank accounts, when approached in the manner outlined in this "article. They should "always 'consult the Police, or their Bank Manager personally. * * * THIN PLASTIC BAGS UNSAFE \ The federal health department cautions you to be sure to keep plastic bags, such as those used on dry cleaning, away from babies and children. The best plan is to throw them away immediately. It is not safe to use thin plastic to cover a mattress. It clings to the baby's nose and mouth and can cause smothering. [fers PERRY STAR] COMPANY, LIMITED a RRR z 7 Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher LEY, WM. T. HARRISON, Editor > Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoclati # Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Thursday by The. Port Perry Star Co. Ltd, Port Perry, Ontario. Second .Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., 'Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy 10¢ ; 2 2 --- Ole spall EP... =~ OWE GIANT LEAP 2s TN 50 YEARS AGO. Thursday, September 4, 1919 Some discussion has arisen as to whether liquor would be available for medical purposes under the Canada Temper-- ance 'Act. } After the Act comes into force all sales of liquor that can. be lawfully made under the Canada Temperance Act will be made - direct by the Government. £1 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 14,1944 The engagement is announc- ed of Florence Ellen White to Harvey Wesley Mahaffy and ~ the marriage will take place on Saturday, September 30th. Mrs. Orr Graham, "Misses Mercedes Waridel and Annie Nott of Port Perry spent an enjoyable week-end trip by boat to Port Dalhousie and St. Catharines. The building committee for the new church on the island -met at - the: home of Mr. George Sweetman's on Mon- day evening. There was a great turn-out BILL SMILEY Sugar and at Public School Opening -- one hundred and ninety two. SE Bi 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 16, 1954 a a m-- The installation of the new S | HEAT officers for the Port Perry I APRONS OR DIPLOMAS? Why don't girls just get married, the way they used to? What is this desperate thing in modern society that insists a girl must get a degree or become a nurse or learn a skill, such as punching an adding machine? : Frightened, frantic parents, with the shadow of The Depression peeking over their shoulders, are ramming their daugh- ters, willy-nilly, into something they can "fall back on." - The irony. Of course we want them to ~~ get married. .Eventually. To a nice boy. with a nice job and prospeets; a nice home, - nice children, a nice neighbourhood and at the end, a nice pension. But first we want them to have Sitar from 13 to 18 years of -"education" so they'll have something to fall back on. We are tactily admitting that if they do get married, they're going to be abandoned, di- vorced, or their husbands are going to die at 28. So, they have to have something to fall back on. Why don't we just let them get married . and fall back on their husbands for a liv- ing? My wife has been falling back on me for almost 23 years and I'm still in reason- able condition. Even though my back has fallen a bit into my front. I suppose you think this is just a dia- tribe. Well, you're. right. But there's a reason for it. My wife and I have nursed and cursed and wheeled and needled our daughter through high school. She hated it in Grade 11, loathed it in Grade 12, and abhorred it in Grade 18. But by a combination of blackmail, bri- bery and piteous whining, we made her stagger through the process. I promised, "If you just get your Grade 13, you can do whatever you want. Go to college. Get a job, Drop Jead, But vou'll never regret -it." Already she's regretting it. Now he has to go to university, which she's about as much interested in as she is in catch- ing leprosy. This whole column is inspired (or un- inspired) by the harrowing effort of getting 'anyone has used them. screaming, "Out! 'We met a nice lady in the registrar's office She thought she might be able to hack initial meeting of the new @ university if she had a pad of her own; a 1944-45 term. Past President i grill to burn beans on and burn toast on, Sam Griffen; President - Cecil ~~ | and maybe a sleeping bag on the floor, and Ptolemy; 1st Vice President - a few psychedelic posters and a few cock- Charlie Howsam; 2nd Vice roaches and her cat for company. President - Clifford Smith; This was all right by me. I've slept in Secretary - Reg Boundy; Kim organized at university Lions Club took place at the barns and box cars. This was freedom Treasurer - Ernie Hayes; Dir- ul from home and parents and all the awful ectors G.M. Rennie, - Roy things thy represent, such as cleanliness Cornish, Bill Chapman, Don and' god ess 'and so on. Crozier. But -her mum had different ideas. And : » hee ; mum, as 1 have ond to know, is 8° port Perry will be one of | 'domineering, forcefu overpowering and re aor illogical woman, like most other a She -nisny-Pliste' iit Dana a | to have the honour of review- | ing an art exhibit of many of Europe's great masters. So Kim is going to stay in a nice home, with a very nice middle-aged couple. .As far as she's concerned, it's. getting out of purgatory 'and into hell. ~~ I've never heard of anybody being kicked out of hell, but I imagine she'll manage it within about three weeks. If you have a teenage daughter, you'll know what 1 mean. They're absolute slobs until they're married, when, by some strange process, they go around emptying ash trays before Canadian records were established in ten classes as the Port Perry Yacht Club staged the first official speed trials in the Dominion's history. 10 YEARS AGO But three weeks of dirty bare feet and Thursday September16, 1959 ' a bedroom that looks like a Salvation Army old-clothes depot and a bathroom that looks as if it went down with the Titanic and even that charming, calm landlady will be Out!" x However, I guess the trip was worth it. Ross Bailey, Uxbridge R.R. 4 and Bob Brown, Brechin, were two of ten boys to win "a $100 award for catching a calf at the Calf Scramble sponsored by the Ontario Aberdeen Angus Association at the C.N.E. who reads my column (hello, nice lady, keep an eye on my beloved), We had a couple of roaring fights with subsequent tears, which is good for everybody. And we got home, after a fairly disas- ° trous stopover with friends, to be greeted by our other rotten kids, the vacuum cleaner salesman, who has decided to go back' to university after two years of drop-out, who has made $3,500 in the last eight months, who has "Maybe enough money to pay my fees," who was just dropping in at the old - oil well to see if it was still pumping. . Somebody said, "Life is short and life is sweet." © Thank goodness it's short, --Toronto Telegram Syndicate The Fire Brigade at Port Perry answered a call to extinguish a fire in a car owned by Mr. T. Anderson of Epsom. The number of students registered at the Port Perry High School this term is 339, the greatest number ever to enrol. Of these 181 are boys.