The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

I Ie os Se A Ea Ii Ss ram ri ONT Ad ~ : Yi Nae n 355 [SDA Se Cea Ha LA NE EIA 3 ACG SIRE ARTCC WHR BETSEY EEA TD Sanat EN CUA Be Lae THE SPIRIT OF 7% DITORIAL PINION First Aid training for all The Canada Safety Council endorses in principle the idea of first aid training for everybody in industries, communities and families. The Council further supports in principle the belief that first aid training should be made part of the curriculum in the grade schools. Recommendations for the above were put forward by B.F. O'Connell, Director, National Training, Development and Exercises Branch, Canada Emergency Measures Organization. A recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the CSC Board of Directors has agreed to support these recommendations in principle. The idea for the recommendations and part of the reasoning behind the CSC endorsing the concept was the presentation, made at the annual conference by B. Gen C.J. Laurin, Director of the St. John Ambulance Association outlining the success of "Project Facts" in Orillia. | PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited RL , CU LA G CNA 2 (0lnn) z 10 & rary ? { ~~ Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher - Editor WM. T. HARRISON, Plant Manager J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Pori Perry Star Co. Lid., 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 0245 Subscription Rates: In Canada $6.00 per year. Elsewhere $7.50 per year. Single Copy 15¢ Saal BILL "MILEY UGAR ano Seice SENTIMENTAL ME I FORGOT AGAIN When 1 tottered downstairs last Sunday morning, and my wife greeted me cheerfully and told me to sit down, and brought me in a. big glass of orange juice with a stiff belt of something in it, I was as wary as a groundhog. I sniffed the air, wiggled my ears and peered about to see from what direction the danger was coming. It's not that I'm suspicious by nature. Basically, I am a naive and trusting person. But this was too much. Something was up. While she sat down across from me, smiling in an uncanny fashion, I took a quick slug and let my mind flicker over the possibilities. She was going to divorce me. No, I just got a raise. She was going to buy a third piano. No. No place to put it, except in the wood-bin down cellar. She was going to have a baby. No, she's had a hysterectomy Kim is going to have a baby and I'm going to be a grandfather and old. That seemed the most logical. "Do you know what day this is?"', gently but firmly. My mind raced over birthdays, graduations-and such, slipped a few cogs and finally ground to a halt. I knew. It was our anniversary. How could I have forgotten it, even though I'd forgotten it every year for twenty-five? Easy. The bride isn't any better. Every year, about two weeks after the date, one or other of us says, '"Hay, we forgot our anniversary again." And look at each other and laugh. Some people make a tremendous fuss over wedding anniversaries. it's as though they were trying to recapture something lost forever. Husbands who either snarl at or ignore their wives for 364 days of the year arrive home with an expensive present, or at least a bundle of flowers, on that sacred day. Reminded by their secretaries. Wives who spend the whole day in suspense, thinking '"The rotten louse. He hasn't even called. He's forgotten." smile, false-toothed, through their tears, and crack open a bottle of vintage 1971 Canadian champagne. Many of these couples, who haven't exchanged a civil word for weeks, actually go out to dinner, and even thrash around the dance floor in their inimitable 1930's, 40's or 50's style, a threat of life and limb to all near them. A few of them actually have the stamina to press on from the riduculous to the absurd, and make love. : Next day, the glow gone, slightly hung, they become acutely aware again of such mundane things as heartburn, constipation, pot bellies, wattles, bald heads and crow's feet. And real life begins again. I'm not knocking anniversary as such. They're quite beautiful if the love and tenderness are still there. But if those elements are missing, the anniversary waltz is an ugly charade. . Thank goodness we forget ours until it's too late to do anything but recall our wedding day and laugh hilariously as we reminisce. Nowadays it's not unusual to have two or three hundred people at a wedding reception, with a bar dinner and orchestra for dancing. The bride has had eight showers before the wedding and the couple has amassed about two thousand dollars worth of gadgets and cash. We had about twenty at our wedding. A scattering of my wife's aunts and things. Nobody from my side, except a few old buddies to whom I'd issued the invitation, "Hey, I'm getting married Saturday at Hart House chapel. Why don't you drop around?" No reception. No bar. No orchestra. Music supplied by an old friend who played organ in a downtown bar. Dinner we had after the wedding at a crumy hotel in a small town. Alone, We drove about two hundred miles in a borrowed car. We had eighty dollars. No presents. It was raining all the way. We talked about highway conditions. But I wouldn't trade it, even though my wife wore flanellete pyjamas on ° our wedding night. At lease we didn't have to smile and smile and smile at a host of people we scarcely knew. And here we were, some years later, Sunday morning. My wife had remembered our anniversary. She had bought each of us a present, and she handed me a piece of paper on which she has summed up the war. Her words: To Us "May we continue until death the battle which has raged for twenty-six years. "Always attacking, never retreating, shall we glorify in our victories, deny our losses. - "Let us be constant in making our (continued on page 19) RY 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 28, 1922 « The largest teacher salary ® paid to rural schools in South Ontario is $1,500. and the lowest is $700.00, Reeve Figary proclaimed Friday of this week a holiday to celebrate the turning on of the hydro in Port Perry. It'g must be ten years since the agitation for hydro began. Peaches this year reached the spectacular price of 40 cents for a 11 quart basket. At a recent Board of the Methodist Church, Rev. W.¢ D. Harrison was voted an increase of $150. making his salary $1,800 per annum. Mr. Morley: pbell has moved from Prince Albert, and is living in the house purchased by him from Mr.» A Carnegie. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 25, 1947 This issue of the Port Perry 'Star makes the com- pletion of 40 years of publication by Mr. Samuel® Farmer. He came to Port Perry from Toronto in Sept- ember, 1907, and took over the Star and Standard that was then being published by Rev. Mr. Cline. Mrs. Quinlevan who has ® been superintendent of the Community Memorial Hos- pital has resigned and Miss Hanna has taken over tem- porarily. Wesley Jackson and John Cawker have returned to e Toronto to start their third year of study at Universtiy of Toronto. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 26, 1972 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth? Samells of Nestleton cele- brated their 25th wedding anniversary and Mr. and Mrs. Russell Sutcliffe cele- brated their 50th anniver- sary. The Ontario County Junior Farmers Choir sponsored by the Department of Agri- culture have been steadily gaining popularity under the leadership of Mrs. Elsie Dobson. They have been invited to participate in the 4 National 4H Club week program at the "4-H" night at Eaton Auditorium which is a great honour. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cox won the Mackey Memorial Trophy at the lawn bowling tournament in Lindsay. They ® had four wins and a score of 63 plus 14. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 27, 1972 Marilyn Fralick scored a total of 23 points to become. the Junior Girls Champion at the Track and Field meet at Port Perry High School. Judy Dayenois won the Intermediate Girls Champ- ionship and Linda Andrew was Senior Girls Champion. Port Perry Fire Depart- ment joined in the Mututal Aid Drill when a two storey home was burned to the ground. The house was given for this purpose by Dr. J.A. Patterson, 60 firefighters were on hand to make observation to help cope with future fires. The. Chamber of Com- merce have commenced their survey to have house numbers placed on each home and business in Port Perry.