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ra da Tk (= PUN SA r- = SHA al MNT TT 3 1 TRY YAS AYNS Wig LSB SPH ARRIVE VEA0W, 4. i 77 . 657 Perish In 1971 Fires Fire destroyed in 1971 a record property loss of $240,000,000. Fire deaths increased to 657, from 636 the previous year. These are estimates by the . Dominion Fire Commissioner, based on prelimin- ary reports by the Provinces. Appraisals exclude forest conflagrations and government establish- ment fires. } Property waste rose sharply from the 1970 figure of $204,194,431. The 1969 total was $197,102,448. Fire deaths of 657 for the year comprise 256 men, 181 women, and 220 children. The 1970 comparisons were 247 men, 166 women, 223 children. However, the toll last year was below the top figure of 681 in 1967. In the 10-year period (1962 - 1971) at least 6,297 have suffered a horrible death by fire, with thousands of others scarred and disfigured for life. The total cost of fire in a year represents a burden of more than one billion dollars to the economy, according to the Dominion Fire Commissioner. The calculation takes into account the indirect losses--the stoppage of industrial production and consequent unemployment--which is said to be five times the direct loss. One encolraging change over the decade is the downward trend in annual fires. In the early 1960's the number had reached 85,000. Today the figure is of the order of 70,000--a tribute to the persisting fire (continued on page 5) NNN PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited 0 Sa, ¢ CNA 3 (om): Zc) <> Kray Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher JOHN W. SIMS, Editor WM. T. HARRISON, J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Plant Manager Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Port Perry 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 Rafes: In Canada $6.50 per year. {8 Elsewhere $7.50 per year. Single Copy 15¢ ' word BILL MILEY I THINK I'LL BE A CHAUVINIST PIG There are teachers and there are teachers. Most of us in the rank and file face from 150 to 200 students every school day. We groan about the size of our classes, sigh over the impossibility of giving personal attention to each student, and grumble continually about the amount of marking of papers that we have to do at home. And then, of course, there are the aristocrats among teachers. These are the people with small classes, and not many of them, who teach in an easy atmosphere of freedom. We have one of each type in our family this fall. Your humble servant belongs to the great mass of slaves in the profession reacting like Pavlovian mice to bells, subject to the whims of administration, and bent almost double under a continual deluge of paper work, ninety per cent of which has nothing to do with the learning situation. My wife has joined the tiny aristocracy. Yep, she's a teach. She has not "got a job", as we ordinary teachers put it. She has '"'accepted a position." . It fair makes my heart bleed. I come home about four, head straight for the refrigerator, hurl myself into a chair and muter incantastions such as "Oh, boy! Oh, boy! There must be some other way of making a living." She is sitting there, cool, unsullied, ready to regale me with a detailed account of her "day." Some day! She starts at 11.20 a.m., and goes non-stop for thirty-five minutes. She has one class. There are five students in it. Private school. No bells. No hall super- vision. No cafteria supervision. No bus duty. No teams to coach.' If she wants to take her class out and sit under a tree, or bring them to our house to listen to records, no problem. If I wanted to take a class out and sit under a tree, I'd have to notify. the Governor-General or somebody a month: ahead, in triplicate, and then the principal would veto the whole thing, because it might start a trend. Other classes would be distracted and jealous. Other teachers UGAR AND Srice might want to do the same thing, and the whole system would crumble overnight. If she wants a cigarette or a cup of coffee during her 'teaching day", no problem. She has it. If I want a cigarette somewhere about the middle of teaching four straight periods and 120 students, I have two alternatives. I can just go on wanting, or I can spring the half-block to the men's can, making like a dysentery victim, swallow two drags, choke on them, and make the return dash to confront the next class, red-faced and coughing. Hardly worth it. a ) That's all rather hard to take. But what really rubs salt in the wound is the omework. She comes home with five little sheets of paper, and fusses over marking them as though she had just discovered something on a par with the Dead Sea Scrolls. I come home with an armful of essays, look at her skinny sheaf and in frustration hurl my eight pounds of paper into a corner. They have to be picked up again, but it's worth it. Another thing that gets me: you'd think her miserable little band of five was the only group of students in the country. She can spend twenty minutes a day on eac h of them, telling me what Gordon didn't say and what Rick said, and so on, and how she gently led them from the murky valleys into the sun-kissed mountains of beauty and truth, She thinks she's so dam' smart that it's infuriating. For years, I've been the savant in the family. Poem or play, short story or novel my opinion was the final one, accepted with proper humility, Now, she thinks my interpretation is wrong, and hers is right. How's that for sheer ingratitude? It's bad enough when a stranger disputes a chap, but when it's his own flesh and blood -- well, she's not quite, but practically -- . .-. I tell you, I'm not going to take much more of that. At the same time, along with ' this effrontery, there's another irritant. She hasn't the slightest scruple about picking my brain whenever she can find anything there to pick. And next day tossing an idea out as though she hadn't stolen it twenty-four hours before. (continued on page 5) 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 5, 1922 Mrs. G. Jones will teach at the Raglan school, replacing the late Miss Mildred Sum- merville, £0 Mr. Cookman of Sonya has purchased a Maxwell car, - Attending - the W.C.T.U. Convention in Oshawa' were, Mrs. Wm. Davey, Mrs. Robert Murray, Mrs. E.A. Walker, and Mrs. S. Far- mer. Mr. Norman Stuart has been appointed tax collector % for 1922. Mr. Harold Platten, Rag- lan, has returned home after spending some time harves- ting in the west. Mr. HW. Emmerson has . moved into the house recen- tly purchased by him from Miss M. Parrish. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 2, 1947 John McLaren, Port Perry has grown a pumpkin™ weighing 75 pounds. - The Port Pery High School Cadet Corps won the Lord Strathcona' Trophy. A bad storm recently lifted Mr. Russell Carters large shed on Scugog Island and threw it against the barn wrecking the shed. Mr. and Mrs. Rowe and family, late of Whitechurch have moved into part of Mrs. Margaret Williams house in Manchester. Mr. and Mrs. Ewart Dia- mond of Prospect celebrated their 26th wedding anniver- sary. ; é 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 3, 1957® Port Perry Teen Town became the first winners of the Ontario County Softball trophy. Officers elected for the Port Perry Hockey Club were President Barry Ho- wey, 1st Vice, Don Carnegie, Sec-Treas., Bill Harrison. The South Ontario Ploughing Match will be held this year on the farm of H. Malcolm and son's farm, Pickering. : Epsom Public School won the highest number of points for their exhibits at Port Perry Fair. Harold and Jean Kyte were elected presidents of the Blackstock = Couples Club. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 4, 1962 Mrs. Louise Patterson won six first, two seconds and one third prize at the Port Perry Fair, four first, and one second at Black- stock Fair, and 2nd prize on a hooked rug at Canadian National Exhibition. At the Port Perry High School Inter-School Track and Field day, they had three medal winners. They were Dennis Cochrane, Bob Fawns and Arianne den Boer. A group of Scugog Island' people attended the Open 'House at Camp Adelaide, Girl Guide Camp in Hali- burton, Leaders this year for the Scugog 4-H Club of Port Perry are Mrs. J. Carnoc- han and Mrs. G. Robertson. The president is Catherine Nelson.