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---- on A -- \ ~~ oe es NS TAT RY . TES = =~ pn Ts SEN STAESR pa ~~ voyage was dubbed "routine" by the captain Editorial Topics APPEAL FROM THE PRIME MINISTER Sate Driving Week Christmas . . . a time for giving. But let's start giving earlier this year. A special appeal has come from' the Prime Ministér that everyone should give something extra, starting on December 1st. : This, though, is giving with a difference. _It costs nothing! Quite the reverse, in fact: We are asked for contributions that will involve no expense, and may actually result in tremendous savings. We are asked to give a little extra care. Some extra patience. Perhaps, a little extra time. More courtesy, more good humour. In other words, we are all asked to support SAFE DRIVING WEEK, December 1 to 7. Cars don't cause traffic accidents. Nor do icy roads, fogs, or bottles of beer. It is people who cause accidents. People who don't handle these things the way they should, and can, be handled. Traffic accidents are caused by you, and me, and the man in the next lane. By individuals. And just as the individual gauses the accident, so can he prevent it. The Ontario Safety League emphasizes that the best way to avoidaccidents, is to avoid the possibility of acci- dents. One of the aims of SAFE DRIVING WEEK is to persuade the individual to give extra thought and skill in avoiding the accident that never gets started. The book of averages says that over 100 Canadians die every 7 days on the roads at this time of year, while thousands are injured. Yet avoidance of this impending national disaster lieswithin the control of individuals . . . individual drivers and pedestrians. It needs no magic to reduce the total of continuing tragedies that stain our streets and highways. It just needs a little extra effort from all who drive and walk on our roads. SAFE DRIVING WEEK is a good time for us to pledge that extra effort, that our country needs so desperately. For, although the immediate aim of this safety campaign is the first seven days in December, the long-range objective covers all the days of every year. Getting Crowded Up There . While the Manhattan was making its much publicized, if assisted, passage through northern Canadian waters, a much smaller ship, the Chesley A. Crosbie, was quietly completing a 45 day, 6,800 mile return trip from Montreal to within 600 miles of the North Pole. No power driven commercial cargo vessel had ever gone ° so far north, 300 miles further than the most northerly point reached by the big US ship. In tonnage, the Crosbie's 2,300 compares to the Manhattan's 115,000. Purpose of the voyage was the transporting of oil-drilling equipment to Eureka. ° The captain, Fred Lush, was born in Newtown, Bonavista Bay, and ss in- St. John's. Maybe the fact that he has been dt sea for 40 years explains his modesty. Although the publisher of Arctic Development Digest called it a "phenomenal achievement," the A i Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor : Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Thursday by The Port Peiry Star Co. Ltd.,, Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized 'as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., Single Copy 10¢ Elsewhere $6.00 per year. headaches and dizziness. After from the symptoms of this illness. SPECIAL AID FOR LINDA .. Seven-year-old Linda Taylor of Port Credit, Ontario, was admitted £ to THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, Toronto, with persistent a series of tests were performed, Linda's problem was diagnosed as encephalitis, a virus infection of the brain. Treatment, such as physiotherapy, is speeding her recovery The many services of The Hospital for Sick Children helped more than 27,000 patients last year. You can help the Hospital continue its work by sending your donation to the annual Christmas appeal: THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, BOX 440, STATION "Q", JORONTO 290, ONTARIO. ; Bill Smiley Sugar and A REWARDING PROFESSION Most teachers become very fond of cer- tain students. And, believe it or not, some students become very fond of certain tea-. chers. This was made painfully clear to me over the weekend. I became involved with @ veritable spate of my former students. They're all at university now and each was going through some part of the particular hell that that involves. ~--It-began-on-Friday afternoon. Gerry-ap-- peared at my classroom door, looking like a rabbit that has just had a run-in with a wolf. While the class | was about to teach chattered about what they were going to do tonight, chewed their gum, waved their - mini<ckirted legs, or dropped into a deep slumber, Gerry told me his troubles. He is one of the micest boys, and one of the weakest English students, it has ever been my fate to encounter. He's the kid who rushed about last June and bought me a bottle of burgunly and six golf balls after receiving the incredible news that ' he'd passed in English. His only problem Friday was that he had three essays to write in six days. He was looking for a life belt. I was fresh out of them, but gave him some reference books, some sympathy and some ideas on how to tackle his essays. I don't think he has a hope in heaven of passing his semester, under those condi: tions. but he's learned something: you don't wait until an essay is breathing down your nerk before you write it. That very night. another former student called her mum, who lives across the street from us. She wanted to know if the Smileys were going to be home 'for the weekend. If <n. she was coming home. because she Spi had to see Mr. Smiley. She has graduated and is attending a college of education, purportedly learning _to be a high school teacher. Her problem was a little different. She had to teach some poetry this week, as part of that 20th «century form of the Spanish Inquisition known as "practice teaching". This invol- "ves facing a class of strange students. with an eagle-eyed professional teacher watching from the back of the room. 'Harrowing is the world. the poems with her and getting her all muddled up. But she left with a pile of notes and the feeling that she could" sur- vive the ordeal. Sunday afternoon I met two more former students, under different circumstances. I couldn't help them with their work. It was in a funeral home and their mother was dead, tragically, after a brief illness. I kissed the girls and hugged them. There wasn't anything else to do or say. Sunday' night, one of them, Liz, closest friend of our daughter since Grade 7, came around and spent two hours talking with my wife and me. Not weeping, just talk ing in her sensible, sweet, 19-year-old way. And last of all, there -was another for- mer student, my own kid, Kim, staggering around in that horrible chaos of. first-year university. Bell Telephone stock took an- other good shot in the arm when her mo- ther called her Sunday night. She "had just discovered that she'd been missing two biology lectures a week. all fall, because they weren't on her timetable. And maybe this was the reason she wasn't doing so well in biology. And she has an exam in it this week and she knows she'll (Continued on Page 16) 1 Samells. So I spent Saturday afternoon going over EVENTS] Ot Days Gone By 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 27, 1919 Doctors Sangster and Lundy visited our school and made an examination of the pupil's teeth, Hanging in the Star Office window is one of the Prince of Wales' Flags which indicates that Port Perry, Reach and Scugog subscribed over $25,000 Victoria Loans for there is a crest on the flag. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 30, 1944 Miss Ellen MacGregor, chief ° telephone operator at Port Perry was presented with a framed citiation for the part she played in saving the life of Douglas Webster. Pte. Clifford Wakeford, who was formerly in the Victoria Rifles of Canada is now in the Rgt. de la Chau- tier and is somewhere in Belgium. The W.M.S. of the Port Perry United Church held their annual missionary ban- quet on Thursday evening of last week. The banquet was largely attended. - Mrs. Lloyd Hunter is assist- ing on the staff of the Port Perry Public School during the illness of Mr. Sam Cawker. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 21, 1954 The school valedictorian at the 19564 Commencement exercises was Miss Jean Dr. Donald Christie, Mrs. Christie, Mr. and Mrs. Albert - Cawker, spent a week in Chicago. - The meeting of St. John's Young People's Society was held on Nov. 28th with Muriel MacMaster presiding. The Fall Marathon, Bridge, sponsored by Scugog Chapter IODE and convened by Mrs. John Murray and Mrs. Merle _ Letcher was successful, High Marathon score - Nasmith. Santer. Mrs. H. 2nd Mrs. Hugh ~ 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 3, 1959 Mr. and Mrs. Charles, H. Reesor of Port Perry, cele- brated their 25th Wedding Anniversary recently. They were married in Port Perry United Church, November 3rd, 1934, At Manchester nominat- ions passed quickly. All mem. bers of the Council and School Board remain in office as of 1959. On November 17-a deleg- ation of four poultry spec- ialists from the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic visited Port Perry. The object of their visit was to examine at first hand the breeding farm of Peel's Poultry, Farin Ltd. ef] h