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THE ET a ee A Er Lor li i] Tn A NaS] DRT Fire Editorial Topics Prevention Week OCTOBER 5-11, 1969 * Fires in the home swiftly generate temperatures of 1,000 degrees, bringing disaster and personal tragedy in 'their wake. Home fires account for three-quarters of all fires. The proportion of deaths by fire is even greater in the home. To the householders, the fire fighters of the federal, provincial and muhicipal services diligently address public education. programs. They. are-supported-nationally by I Publicity Committee. "the non-profit efforts of the Joint Fire Prevention Within the past decade, the population has increased by over 3,000,000, with a corresponding gain in homes. These are the evident results of the fire fighters' work in fire prevention of the period. ® Fires in the home are coming down, as the accom- panying table shows. ® The current reduction (1967 vs. 1958) is of the order of 31 per cent. The reduction of all fires is about 25 per cent. Preliminary 1968 estimates show a continuation of . . the downward trend. ® Fire fatalities are always unpredictable but the ratio of deaths to the population indicates that the Canadian rate is about half that of the U.S. October marks the start of another productive camp- aign of fire safety education across the land, in the home, the school, on the job and in the community. The camp- aign 'will have public service support by newspapers, ) television, radio and outdoor posters. r A variety of printed warnings will be available, includ- ing emphasis on how to cope with flash fires caused by kitchen cooking grease. For the children, the coming generation, there will be an assortment of engaging material. For the cold weather-hot fire season, reminders of care in heating are proviced, with suggestions from operation EDITH -- Exit drills in thé Hom ~~ Fireisso final. Help to cool it. e. ty of ES 63,617 FIRES IN THE HOME (Related to population and total of all fires) Population All fires . (millions) i 1958 17.09 86,919 11959 17.49 84241 1960 17.87 79.61% 1961 18.24 83,706 1962 18.57 85,585 1963- 18.90: 83,027 1964 19.24. 75,306 1965 © 19.58 _ 68432 1966 19.99 68,463 1967 20.41 65,941 Total 781,231 1968 (est.) "» Source: annual reports by Dominion Fire Commissioner "Home Fires 66,464 163,294 59,079 , 62,096 62,353 50,040 53,396 47,619 47,554 45,245 ------ 557,140 N/A hd et 3 PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher _ WM. T. HARRISON, Editor Member of the Canadian Weekly Ne Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Btar Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. © Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department; Ottawa, and for payment of poatage in cash, Becond Class Mail Registration Number 0266 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr, | Office to hear what 50 YEARS AGO A representative of the Hydro-Electric Commission 'was in town last week to' discuss the possibility of securing Hydro Power in Port Perry. About twenty business men met at the Treasurer's Mr, Eisenhofer had to say and after the matter was thorough- were asked to submit a by-law to enter into an agreement with the Hydro-Electric Power Commission for the delivery of power in Port Perry. 25 years AGO Thursday, October 12, 1944 Week-end guests with Mr. and Mrs, Stanley Ploughman, were Misses Ellen, Norma and Luella Ploughman and Mr. Ellsworth Kennedy. Little Linda Stainton of Enniskillen is 'spending a couple of weeks with her aun Mrs. Roy Hope. EG Misses Thelma Crosier and Bernice Birkett, Flying Officer Bruce Beare and Mr. Beverley Kent enjoyed a pleasant week- end trip to Bloomfield where they visited Mr. George Chan- Sugar and Let's spread kindness Sometimes we shoot an arrow in the air, which comes to earth we know not where. At others, we drop a pebble in a pool and the ripples made are really cool. Something like this happened recently to my father-in-law. On our last visit to him, inspired by who knows:what hidden emotions, he flabbergasted us by quoting verbatim, hundreds of lines of poetry he had learned in public school, .some little while ago. (He is 78). This was an entirely unexpected facet of Grandad's personality. We gawked with admiration and he lit up like a neon sign with modest pride. Most of us can't remember an eight-line poem for two weeks after memorizing it. - How many can remember hundreds of lines after almost 70 years? But one thing bothered him. He couldn't remember all the'stanzas of an old favorite, "The Village Blacksmith". It had one verse in particular: which he wanted to get straight because it was a solace to him in his'lone-: liness, since the loss of his wife. The smith - had lost his wife, too, but was pressing on.' Most of you middle-aged and older folk, ~ will remember the poem or at least a few lines as I do: . "Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And something, something, something arms - Are FL iron bands." Grandad 15 a man of great persistence, and he determined that he'd. remedy the lack. He wrote to a farmer's magazine the Free Press Weekly and asked if anyonecould help supply the missing verse. He was overwhelmed, almost physically, by the response. Approximately 150 letters from ten year old to.those in their nineties wrote him. Some remembered studying the poem and chatted about the good old days of the one-room rural school. : that Spice Others sent the whole poem. Some wrote it laboriously with rheumatic fingers. Some had it 'typed. One lady had torn the poem from an old reader (a school reader, that is, not an old person who was reading it). One customer went to the trouble and expense of having photostatic copies made. What really delighted Grandad though, was the kindness of the notes and letters that accompanied the poem, One lady sent a long list of other poems from the Old Grade Three and Four readers. And the letters came from as far east as Nova Scotia and from B.C. in the west. us my father-inlaw learned of the power of the press, something I learned years ago. But also learned that the term is misleading. The people who plan and execute editorial policy and news coverage for the daily papers have the hilarious idea that they have tremendous power, that they influence people's thoughts and actions. It is to laugh. Elections are surest proof of this. The dailies could be unanimous in supporting one man for a certain position, and as likely as not the Canadian people, with their own sense of when they are being pushed around, would eléct- his opponent. . No, it is the little things that demonstrate the power of the press something which touches a chord or a nerve in the reader and rouses him from his habitual apathy 'to - heights of kindness or fury. I've recently had a good example. Not long ago, I mentioned here, in one paragraph, a woman who is struggling to raise a family of six, decently, on welfare. A good and kindly woman of Riondel, B.C., read it 'and responded. She wrote and offered to send a box of clothing for boys. It arrived today, and I've just had a call from the woman on welfare. She was terribly excited. The. whole family said it was "Just like Christmas", There is a lot of warmth in the world, still, Let's help spread it araund, in a generation needs to realize it, 2 vi ~Toronto Telegram, Syndicate ~-- nell, 15 YEARS AGO "Thursday, October 14, 1964 "At Manchester it was decided to build a wall around the north-east side corner of . the church and this space will be used for financed This Congratulations to Mr. Ross Nottingham on winningseveral high awards at the recent county. plowing matches -in Victoria and Ontario. Ross is spending this week at Breslau competing' in the 'International Match. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 15, 1969 Mr, Alex Johns, R.R. 4, jor S N hinge, October 2, 1919 | ly "threshed out, the council = i project will be fibanced by the Port Perry has been appoint- ed Clerk-Treasurer of Reach Township. Council decided at its regular meeting held in Township Hall, Manchester, on Monday, October 5th. The South Ontario Plow- men's Association match was on the Batty Farm at Brook- lin. The Hon. M.B. Dymond 'trophy for the best Junior Farmer of Ontario County in. the tractor'two furrow class went to: Bill McMillan of Seagrave. The cleaning of the reser- voir on October 18th is being undertaken in the hope of improving the odour and taste of the local water supply. The water supply has been declared safe from a health standpoint ~ but complaints have been received regarding the odour. OT * * ©