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Job Well Dos) Preparations for the annual Santa Claus Parade have been-the main item on the Port Perry Chamber of Com- merce agenda for the last couple of months. Every detail dn connection with the arrangement has been discussed at meetings and although the group working with a successful day in mind was small, it was indeed effective. The result of all the planning and hard work was the biggest and most colourful parade ever staged in Port Perry. This certainly could not have been accomplished by the C of C dlone. The co-operation from other. organizations, schools and individuals certainly went beyond all expectations. ~ Normally we would not single out one person when a community effort of the kind we witnessed Saturday came to such a successful conclusion. However, we have been informed the Santa parade chairman, appointed by C of C, Mrs. Eleanor Wood deserves an extra little pat on the shoulder. The fact that she operates a successful flower shop without any help, is more the reason to marvel at her energy and willingness to help in community efforts and that she can possibly find the extra time to pitch in, when asked. C of C will whole heartedly agree with and endorse this small gesture on our part. Holiday Season Hazards Canadians preparing for Christmas should pay part- icular attention to the tree and lighting, the Canada Safety Council says in a holiday message. To keep the tree from becoming dangerously dry, it should be stood in a pail of water. The tree should be located away from fireplaces and heaters and be so situated that. it toss not block exits needed in. an emergency. Last year's lights should be checked carefully for cracks and breaks because they tend to deteriorate during storage, P.G. McLaren, General Manager of the Canada Safety Council's public section, warns. » Highly conductive tinsel should not be hung on the tree near electrical outlets. Householders planning extra fancy outside holiday lighting should have the wiring checked by a qualified expert, Mr. McLaren says. Wrapping strewn around the living room constitutes another fire hazard and should be removed soon after the gifts are opened. : At the risk of sounding negative on such a festive occasion, the Council says parents should cut down the traffic in the kitchen when the bird and other delicacies are being prepared. A painful scald is much more negative. : Make sure the only casualty during the holiday season is the turkey, Mr. McLaren said, wishing everyone o oS 3 | J PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED - a PERE Serving Port Perry, Brooklis and Surrownding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association os Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second clan mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage fn cash, Beeond Class Mall Registration Number 02685 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., Elsewhere $6.00 per, year, Single Copy 10¢ We know the other hardworking members of the local a Merry Christmas and a Hshey New Year on behalf ; Z| VAZKOMANGAT NONZ 1 JN] lands, 'Ontario. : » | unfortunate accident of Mr. 50 YEARS AGO.' Thursday, December 18, 1919 A man named Couch came to Port Perry from Toronto suffering from small pox. He was rounded up and shipped Ad back to Toronto. Proper precautions have been taken to prevent any spread of the disease. In the Methodist Church it is expected that the new + furnace will be in place and that the service will be held in the auditorium. 25 YEARS AGO 'Thursday, December 21,1944 * Flying Officer Bruce Beare, R.C.AF. paid a brief call at his home here over Monday night. Bruce is in route from Claresholm, Alberta to Up- We regret to hear of the Bill Carnegie who broke a leg on Monday while work- ing at the bush. - All roads blocked, schools closed, mails delayed, plenty of milk in town, cannot deliver. One storm like this Sar and A SPECIAL CHRISTMAS GIFT Don't know how things are around your way, but there's little doubt we're going to have a white Christmas around here. Winter came in like a polar bear with a toothache, and I went off to work on December 1st as though it was mid-January. Prayerfully. That is, wade through six inches of fresh snow, pray fervently as I {ry to start the car, breathe another little one of thanks when it goes, close my eyes and bomb backward down the 'driveway, muttering another supplication that I'll make the road, and then send up another few words of gratitude because I'd got my snow tires on the day before. One creature who the whole business as much as | is our cat. It was bad enough for her before the snow came. Huge tomcats, black, white and pilebald, littered the yard, and shed sit on the picnic table, spitting and snarling at them with an air of chastity and virtue that is sido seen these days. She was in command of that situation. But when. I chucked her: out into half a foot of snow, her first experience of it, she almost went out of her head. Skiers are delighted, of course, and that other insidious new breed, the snow-mobi- :lers, are beaming all over their big, fat, red faces. It's not enough that we should have our summers ruined 'by half-wits in motor boats and on motor cycles, tearing around pollut- ing the-water and the air, destroying the peace and endangering not only their own lives (who cares?), but those of- -everybody else within ramming distance. Now we have their winter counter-parts. I can tolerafe the snow-mobile as a handy tool for work, or for getting from one place to another under difficult conditions. But I haven't much time for those idiots who merely revel in the noise, the sense of rower, and the stink (half-trained and often half-stoned, a menace to everything in. or oul of sight. I'll bet poet Robert Frost is pad he's ded, Imagine trying to write a beutiful, 'hole In them. Spice haunting thing like Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening, today. Some moron would come charging out of the woods on ..a_snow-mobile, frighten the horse, and the poet would wind up in a snow-drift. I suppose I mustn't get churlish, with Christmas approaching. But if any snow- mobile manufacturer thinks he can bribe me into reversing my stand by sending me one of these infernal machines for Christ- mas, he's mistaken. I'd se it right back. In April. Hope you're in better Shape with your Christmas preparations than we are. Every year, at our place, the last week or So is about as organized as an Irish cattle sale. But I'll bet you despise, as much as I do, those aseptic souls who buy their presents in September, have their colored lights out in November, and mail their cards on the first of December. . There's something about people like that that irks me. They're of the same species as those who work with a clean desk, never lose their rubbers, and smirk, "No thanks, I don't smoke," when you offer them a fag. Perhaps the reason I can't stand them is that I hate myself: My. desk looks like a bargain counter after a sale. I lose gloves, rubbers, hats, and important papers, I for- get important things and remember trivi- alities. One of these is Cin clothes. I'd rather go into the jungle than a clothing shop. | have one suit, for all occasions, one two- vear-old jacket, one pair of flannels with a | have an old trench-coat about as warm as a silk nightie, somebedy else's rubber boots, a pair of gloves with holes in both thumbs, and a golf cap for winter headgear. So I shall leave this column lving about o-tentatioucly until Christmas. Maybe mv family will 'rehabilitate me, at least out. wardly. : However, I'll have about the nicest Christ. mas present ¥ ean think of, and it won't he wrapped. PIL have nv dearly loved dane ter home for the holidays, Toronto Telegram Syndicate "causing extensive .| is enough. It is many, many moons gince there has been such a snow storm in South Ontario as we have expérienc- a ed the last few days. 15 YEARS AGO 'Thursday, December16,1954 A Port Perry | lawyer Thomas Harris was 'named Liberal . banner carrier for the new he riding of Ontario. The sixth annual banquet of the Central Ontario County High School Board and the Teaching - Staff of. the High Schools at Port Perry and Uxbridge was held in the High School where a Turkey supper was enjoyed. While working alone .in'his bush clearing partly fallen trees left by the hurricane a Py large tree rolled and struck Mr. Goode on the head damage. The Ladies Night Christmas party of the Lions Club was a jolly evening this year, held 3 at the Del's Little Norway restaurant. © Lion Whithey Martin of Bancroft, Deputy District Governor of District A3 was guest speaker. 10 YEARS AGO I Thursday, December 24, 1959 The winners of the Women's Hospital Auxiliary doll draw were: First prize Mrs. Michael Hlozan, Jr., Port Perry -- $50. Second Prize Mr, Lee Stur- # man, Seagrave, Ont., --$26. Third prize Mr. J.L. Sweet: man, Scugog Island- $10. doll. Everyorie (except 2 the weather man) glid their best » to make Santa welcome when he paid a visit to Port Perry last Saturday afternoon. Merchants and private citizens alike made a gala showing in spite of the miserible icy drizzle which the weather man saw fit to dump on the area on that particular day. \