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PINION National Bh Arthritis Month The control and prevention of arthritis is one of the greatest challenges facing medical science today. It is a challenge that calls also for the most across our nation. The federal government, through my De- partment, has joined with provincial health departments in combating arthritis. We are supporting research and treatment programs in expert initiative of The Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society, as a voluntary national health agency, in its service, education and research campaigns to control the disease. Now is the time for us all, as individual citizens, to recognize our responsibility to participate directly with C.A.R.S. in this great effort. It means much to those afflicted. It means even more to the health of our nation in the years ahead. My congratulations and best wishes to all members of C.A.R.S. in your vital work. Honourable John Munro Stricter Gun Controls Canadians look at the tragic record of political assassinations in the United States over the past decade and say "'it can't happen here, we have gun controls." In Canada all hand guns are supposed to be registered. But purchase of rifles and shotguns is wide open. Anyone 16 or over can buy a rifle and convert it into a hand weapon by sawing off the barrel. Not even much cash is needed to buy death -- $15 or $20 second-hand. Police feel the situation is ridiculous. They refuse a hand gun permit to a man who walks down the street and buys a rifle. More than 2,000,000 rifles and shotguns are in the hands of Canadians and there are an estimated 100,000 unregistered hand guns in Toronto alone. Crimes involving firearms are increasing. In Toronto there were 336 in 1970, and 386 in 1971. Police want citizens to rid themselves of the idea that guns mean protection. More often they mean accidental death. They cite the tragedy of the bank manager who threw off a quick shot at a fleeing robber--blasting a teller through the head. : Easily available weapons promote violence in violent times. Japan, which has tough gun laws has a rate of only two gun murders per 100,000-- while Charlotte, North Carolina, where guns come easy has a rate of 25 per 100,000. Citizens must press provincial and federal governments for iron-clad gun laws on all firearms and more public education--and work through municipal representatives for increased police protection. Unchurched Editorial United Church of Canada SAA PORT PERRY STAR Ss nd > a Company Limited EAE AW, ve a te, Lis Sa, 8. % CNA (ow): g Ze) NJ 24 70, 74 ' rary el i eet Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and i Cartwright Townships 8 hs P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher - Editor Ey LL i ! JOHN B. McCLELLAND, Associate Editor q C0 no WM. T. HARRISON, J. PETER HVIDSTEN, So Plant Manager Advertising Manager i i 1 Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association fh vr Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Por! 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 $6.00 per year. Elsewhere $7.50 per year. Single Copy 15¢ Le effective organization of public health services various centres. We are greatly encouraged by the: -- " Cos7- OF - LIVING STA NMPEDE AANANANA AA AA BILL MILEY UGAR AND THEY ALREADY HAVE MY INVITATION One of those new African nations is kicking out of the country all the Indians. This is an emotional and political, rather than a rational decision. African blacks hate these Asian Indians because the latter are better educated and on the whole, much wealthier than the natives. The reason for this is that the Indians are smart, work hard, and in backward countries, usually wind up in control of much of the economy. Trouble is, with these Indians in Africa, that nobody wants them. Many of them have British passports, as their grandfathers went to Africa when the territory was under British rule, to build railroads. They're clinging to these passports like life-belts, but it isn't doing them much good. Britain doesn't want them. It has enough racial strife on its hands already, after admitting thousands of Pakistanis, Indians and West Indians after the war. There have been race riots, white against coloured. India, their homeland, doesn't want them. It already has more refugees than it can handle. Canada has been approached, and, as usual, dithers. We could do a lot worse than accept a sizable chunk of these people without a home. They are industrious, peaceable and capable. They wouldn't be coming here as penniless immigrants. Most of them are fairly well off. Many of them have skills and professions we need. I don't know much about Indians. I have some Canadian Indian friends, but the only Asian Indians I have well were four chaps with whom I learned to fly Spitfires in England, longer ago than I care to remember, Perhaps they weren't representative, because they were all from well-to-do families, and all spoke good English. But they were certainly a cross-section of that class, and gave me a good idea of why there is so much strife in India. . You'd think that four youths who had come all the way from India for advanced training would have been pretty close, thrown into the. midst of all those Poles, British, Australians, Canadians, and a dozen other species of whites. On the contrary, they could barely stand one another. There was Krishna. Smallish, very handsome, flashing black eyes that could almost literally flame when he was angry. He spoke such precise and fluent English that he made the rest of us feel like hicks. He was a Christian. There was Ahmed. A lanky kid of about nineteen, sleepy-eyed, slow-moving, a big grin, and not much to say. He was a Pakistani Moslem. And little Koori. He was pigion-chested, weighed about 115, had huge, mournful black eyes, and was in a perpetual state of terror when flying. He should never have been there. One day he and I were sent up to practice dog-fighting in our Spits. I knew he didn't like flying, but not until that day just how deep was his fear. Every time I'd take a pass at him and go, '"Tut-tut-tut-tut"' like a machine gun, he'd veer wildly off about a mile and call wildly, "Smilee, Smilee, don't come so close." He was a. Hindu. And then there was the inimitable Singh Thandi. Flashing white teeth, chucking eyes, magnificent silk turbans, under which he bundled his hair, which came down to his fail hone Curly h black beard. Fastidious as a model» Kept beard by a handkerchief around ie gh Ys and knotting it on top of his head. Singh was a Sikh, another religion heard from. But he was a pretty lousy Sikh, They're not to drink, smoke, cut their hair, and a lot of other things. He didn't smoke or cut his hair but he could put away about twelve pints of beer in an evening and, (continued on page 5) 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 7, 1922 At the'town town council meeting, a grant of $75.00 was made to Port Perry Fair, Mr, Fred A. Kent took first prize on collection of dahlias at the Canadian National Exhibition. Miss Kathleeen McCaw has gone to Detroit to take a position in the office of the Ford Hospital. Miss Hazel Everson of Prince Albert is attending @ Albert College, Belleville, ® Port Perry High School opened with sixty-eight stu- dents in attendance. Mr. George Morris was re-elected, to the office of Grand Chaplin at a meeting of the Loyal True Blues at Windsor by acclamation. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 4, 1947 School this year with 185 pupils at the public school and 150 at the high school. Garnet Cochrane of Pros- pect won six first, seconds and one third on his showing of eight horses and Miss Wilma Cochrane re- ceived second as Lady driver at Port Perry Fair. In Cartwrighttownship a By-Law was passed fixing* the tax rate at 29 mills. Miss Helen Hayes en- tertained at a bridal shower for Miss Audrey Kerry a Mona Ferguson attended a school for. leaders of the W.M.S. at Whitby Ladies College. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 5, 1957 ® Two grade 13 students have been granted Dominion Provincial Bursaries to Glo- ria Fralick and Eleanor Hutchinson. Charles Trinka of the Grade 12 General Course was awarded one of the Countys Dominion Provincial Bursaries. Total registration of the public school this year is 425 of which 73 are beginners. Over 300 are at the high school. A testimonial dinner will be held in Oshawa to honour Ontario Riding two cabinet ministers, Hon. Michael Starr, Federal Minister of Labour, and Hon. Matt Dymond, Provincial Min- ister of Reform Institutions. Bruce Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Len Taylor won the George and Elizabeth Ruth- erford Scholarship in Math- ematics apd Science on his completion of Grade 13. 10 YEARS AGO "Thursday, September 6, 1962 The Red Cross Swi Instructors at Poplar Park are Nola Hunter and John Pickard. The Ball Park has re- ceived a grant of $1,460 from the Province of Ontario. Bruce McMillan, R.R.1, Blackwater, a member of Port Perry Junior Farmers will represent Ontario County at the annual Junior Farmer's Soil and Land Use Tour. Over 7,000 people attended Port Perry Fair, Port Perry Squirts win the first series against Cobourg, and now meet Oshawa. The contest is for the Ontario Squirt Championship. & *