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Prd Ar, gr me "wis -- Pi 2 i! - Keeping it clean SEBS IRR RRR ER AN EAA a Give the gift of life Someone 'receives the gift .of life because someone else has taken time to give it. The picture of someone receiving blood is familiar to more than 300,000 Canadians who receive blood or blood components each year, and to all those who recognize the vital importance of the Canadian Re Cross Blood Transfusion Service. . A The Blood Transfusion Service, founded twenty-five years ago (1947), hospital in Canada with all the blood ahd blood products they need. Last year alone it collected nearly a million units of whole blood nationwide. The Blood Transfusion Service maintains the highest standards of testing, research, storage and production of blood components and fractions like Cryoprecipitate, rich in clotting factors which enable haemophiliacs to lead more normal lives free from the worries of life-threatening haemorr- hages; or like Serum Albumin used to treat patients suffering from extensive burns or depletion of tissue liquids. It provides free Rh factor testing services for pregnant women, and operates rare blood banks so that persons with rare blood can make donations of their blood, have it frozen and stored, and receive it at the time of surgery. In order to continue serving those in need the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service always needs more blood; in fact, the need for blood becomes greater each year, If it weren't for each donor's willingness to give blood the complex workings of blood procurement and processing would be to no 'avail. The task of supplying quantities of whole blood and ' blood products accomplished. But thanks to blood donors nationwide the Blood Transfusion Service makes sure all the blood could never be 'needed will be there whenever it is needed. During March, Red Cross Month, remember those in need. Remember your gift of blood may help save someone's life, so why not give. This March help Red Cross help your community. Give generously to your local Red. * Cross branch. provides every" LR CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY ~~ SAARSSSAAAANIIAAAAAARA with Bill Dodds Alan Stacey's Geography students were tired of talking about the environment. They told the Ancaster High and Vocationhl School teacher last year they wanted to do some ing and conservation was their bag. When - the teacher suggested fund-raising, they thought immediately of the Dundas Valley -- 2,000 acres of hills, forests, ravines, streams and waterfalls nestled along the Niagara Escarpment. The valley was in the news. The then Department of Highways had shelved plans for a four-lane valley parkway in the face of public opposition. A report on the Niagara Escarpment gave the valley top priority for future Government action and it was marked as greenbelt in the just-released Toronto Region concept. Even more important, John Robarts, then Prime Minister of Ontario, had announced 75 per cent grants for the purchase of Niagara Escarpment conservation land, So every dollar they could raise would be matched with three from the Province. The Ancaster youngsters cut Parkside High School teacher Don Buntaine and some of his Dundas Students in on the action and about 80 students hit the streets, knocking on doors. Joined: by naturalists and anti-pollution groups, they left conservation brochures and a flyer that asked: "Is there any reason why this land should not be saved for all people, and for all time?" : Apparently not, because. when they finished collecting dollar donations and leaving certificates for donors, they had $6,600 -- enough with the .Government grant for the Hamilton Region Conser- vation Authority to acquire 30 acres of the Dundas Valley. - This year, they are trying to widen the campaign by bringing in all the high schools in Hamilton and Wentworth County -- It's a big valley and there's still a lot of land to save. . And the students in Ancaster want to get involved in more than fund raising. They are preparing a brief on open space for Ancaster to consider in its official lan. i 5 Pp One student's father suggested something they are eager to tackle -- laying out a nature trail for the blind with student volunteer labor. When this vear's fund raising is over, they .plan to talk it over with the Canadian National Institute*for the Blind. It should be interesting, because they don't like talking about things. They like to do them. «4 "PICKET LINES AT THE FRONT DOOR It's only a matter of time. In the past generation, Joe Nobody, you and I, have suffered from every conceivable type of strike that the warped little human mind _can conceive. You name it: from dock-wallopers to: doctors, from technicians to teachers, everybody, seems to have had a whack at trying to strangle a few more bucks or privileges out of the innocent by-stander. That's you and I. ~ I'm getting pretty sour about the whole nonsense. Somehow, I can't fathom either the'economics of the ethics of a man who is worth $1.25 an hour, and is getting $2.75, demanding that he be paid $4.00 and another $2.00. in fringe benefits. Strikes are annoying, frustrating and usually, pojntless, in these days. The worker gets araise and it takes him two years to get back to where he was, financially. The employer merely raises his prices, or taxes. The rest of us get it in two painful places; the neck and the pocket-book. ; But that's all common knowledge, and " beside the point. One of these fine days, the most potent work force in the country is going to realize what powerful weapon is the strike, and hit the picket line. When it does, we'll look back with nostalgia and longing to the good old days when a strike merely meant you couldn't take that trip, or there.was a shortage of sanitary napkins, or some similar._calamity was thrust upon us. : That will be the day the housewives of the country, inflamed by Women's Lib dull husbands, and rotten kids, walk out the doors demanding more money, better working conditions, and vast fringe benefits. That will be a day that will make the present vast tie-ups due to strikes look like tiddleywinks. That will be a day that might signal the end of civilization as we know it. 'I'm not kidding, and I'm definitely not exaggerating. If the housewives of this nation withdrew such elementary items as cooking and cleaning, sex and sewing from our lives, the whole foundation of our society would collapse. s Not immediately, of course. For perhaps two days, husbands would chortle, *"She'll soon came around. She knows whén she has a good thing." And kids would roar with laughter, "Is your old lady on this strike kick too?-It's a riot. But she won't last. She needs us." After a week, the comments would change. tone. Husbands: "What the hell is wrong + with that crazy woman? I've given her the best years of my life." And kids: "Look, if she doesn't come back, she's in for trouble, I haven't had a decent meal or a clean pair of socks for days. And Dad is getting nasty. Wants me to do the dishes and garbage like that." Ini two weeks the '"'innocent bystanders' would be on their knees. And the garbage would be up to their knees. Husbands: "Listen, kid. You go out and tell your mother that I'll give her eight, no, ten dollars a month to blow on herself. Sky's the limit." Kids: "Listen Dad, this is all . your fault. We need that woman, even if she is only our mother. All our buttons are off, -and the sink's full of dishes, and the dishes are full of crud." In a month, the' hospitals and the mental institutions would be overflowing. The take-home chicken joints and the delicates- sens would be booming, but the super- markets would be heading for bankruptcy. Family axe-murders would be so common they wouldn't even rate two inches on Page 38. There's only one thing that will prevent this catastrophe. As we all know, house- wives are extreme individualists. They can't even agree on the texture of toilet paper. How could they agree on such delicate matters as fringe benefits. Some would want forty cents to sew on a button: others would settle for a quarter. And if they did form a union, it would take them twelve years to draw up the constitution, and everyone .would want to be president. : So relax, you neglectful husbands and demanding kids. We're probably safe. But give the whole idea a long. deep thought. 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 9, 1922 "John Ralph, Port Perry's 'oldest resident' celebrated his 93rd birthday. He still operates his harness shop. Sunday, February 26 he and. his wife celebrated their sixty-sixth wedding anniver- sary. 'Mr. Harold Archer will move the contents of : his hardware store to the St. Charles Hotel, which is' undergoing remodelling for this special line of business. In the carnival for this year held at the Arena, Mrs. Pargeter as the Union Jack was 1st prize winner, and Miss Stone as. Strawberry girl was 2nd prize ner. Best couple skating was Reta Rodman and Leighton McGregor. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 13, 1947 Seventy students of Port Perry High School travelled -by bus to Toronto to compete in the Kiwanis Music Festi- val Four choirs competed, Port Perry attained second place and Mr. Crane, princi- pal and Mrs. Elsie Dobson were well pleased with the performance. Miss Marion Healey, Saint- * field is taking a Secretarial Course at Canada Business College, Toronto, Scugog has been isolated from the outside world for . nearly two weeks. Food for stock commenced to run low. {The people at the Foot made a road to the lake and were » able to get to Port Perry with teams. It took four days for twenty men to break thru about a mile and a quarter. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 14, 1957 At the first annual dinner of Port Perry Chamber of Commerce the guest speaker was Mr, Harold Kenneth Hillier, of the Hydro Electric Commission of Ontario. Miss Donna Johnson, Pine Grove, obtained honours on "her Grade III Harmoney examaniation. She is a pupil of Mrs. Ted Jackson. Bruce Heaslip, Blackstock resigned from the hospital board and was replaced by Art Hyland. . Epsom Bush League Hoc- key team won the series. Port Perry Junior Girls Basketball team, coached by Miss G. Brock, eliminated the teams from Stouffville and Burks Falls to win the COSSA championship. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 8, Reeve J.J. Gibson and Mrs. Gibson and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hope were among 127 passengers who were taken off the plane at Malton in the recent *'Bomb scare'. Bruce Ballinger of Port Perry High School was awarded the best 1962 "in his role of Caesar. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Weeden, Manchester have moved to Port Perry. Both boys Batams and Senior basketball teams go to Camp Borden to play in the GBSSA finals. The senior boys won their game against Orilla Park St. High School and Bayview High School and won the Georgian Bay senior championship. Coaches were Mr. Parkin- son, Mr. Johnston and Mr. Cole. ® * } i 3 FJ » h 2 actors - prize in the Drama Festival 3