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/ LIKE THAT NETWORK I ure SHow -- Lo7sA SNOW ! "~~ . SEF! ~FJERRE TRUDEAU'S THE Guy IV OFJAWA PIERRE BERJON HAS NO FIXED ADDRESS | (£ (| WANNA ; W Toraay HWIER | FALE You solp us THREE EXTENSION PHONES ALREADY -.. RED, BLUE AND PINK / JHE ADVENTURES oF LASSIE 1s A REAL GAS / Snowmobile accidents decline During last winter fatal snowmobile accidents declined by 8.9 percent and the number of deaths dropped by 1.7 percent. The Canada Safety Council's national report on snowmobile accidents just released warns that these small decreases are no reason for any complacency. Bruce J. Legge, Q.C., President of the Canada Safety Council points out that in real numbers, fatal accidents are down from 112 the previous year to 102 last winter while deaths are down only by 2 from 118 to 116 -- hardly reason to believe that the problem is being solved. Over half of the fatal snowmobile accidents involved collisions with other motor vehicles (cars, trucks, buses and other snowmobiles) while almost « 15 percent were the result of breaking through the ice on lakes and rivers or running into open stretches of water. Sixty-seven (65.7 percent) of the fatal Spcidents occurred on public roads. Another 20 accidents occurred on lakes and rivers (15 of these accidents resulted in 24 drownings), and 13 accidents happened on private property, including eight on railway tracks. Sixty-nine fatal accidents took place at night while 24 occurred during daylight hours (the time of occurrence of nine accidents was unknown). Ninety-six out of the 116 fatalities were drivers, . 17 were passengers and three were pedestrians. There were 102 males and 14 females killed in snowmobile accidents during the winter of 1971 - 72. The 25 - 44 age group suffered the most fatalities with 52 followed by the 16 - 24 age group with 38 (continued on page 20) PORT PERRY STAR | Company Limited Gon (um): | Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher 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 Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario \ : Authorized as second class mail by he Post Office™ Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 5 'BILL MILEY UGAR ano THE GODS «» SINGLED ME OUT Occasionally, I succumb to a great disenchantment with life. At those times 1 feel that some days are bad, and all the others are badder. Yesterday was one of the badder ones. It began at 2 a.m., which [ think afiyone will agree is a bad time to start a day. I had the Gallipoli disease. It's called this for two reasons. First, it was rampant among the poor sods trying to capture Gallipoli in World War I, when the Australians lost more men to dysentery than they did to turks. Second, it keeps you galloping, back and forth, forth and back until there's something like a tunnel bétween your bedroom and your bathroom. Eventually, you are so weak it's an effort to pick up a Kleenex and have a honk. Enough to make a bad day, you'd say. Oh' no. It had to be badder. That's the way the gods work. When they single you out for a going-over, they're not'going to be happy with a mere case of dire rear. After waiting for months for me to organize some storm window work, my wife had finally got cracking, which she should have done in the first place, and hired two young men to take off and wash and put back the storm windows. Four of them had been removed last spring and sat in the patio all summer, gathering twigs and dead flies. The others had never come off. The windows, that is. Looking through them was like having a bad case of myopia. You could tell there was light coming through, but everything else was just a sort of blur. Anyway, she had hired two of the most unlikely window-washers in town, a couple of forer students of mine. Personally, though I like the pair, I wouldn't hire them to dig a grave. For a cat. However, as they weren't on welfare or unemployment insurance at the time, they leaped at the opportunity. After they'd checked on the going rate and agreed it was adequate. Barely. Not that they were immature or anything. Oh, no. They'd done their Grand Tour of Europe. One had spent six weeks in jail in the Netherlands. They'd had four or five jobs since, in such productive industries as leatherwork and making health food. Well, they arrive to do the windows the day I am almost on hands and knees with the Gallipoli. Bright and early. Eleven a.m. All T want to do is crawl into bed and feel forsaken. No chance. A brisk ringing of the doorbell. "Well, here we are", cheerily. A groan from me. They had a long ladder borrowed from a long-suffering father. Nothing else. I guess Srice they were going to pry the windows off and wash them with the ladder:-My wife mustered cloths and cleaning fluid. I dug up a hammer and screw-driver, which took me many minutes and many oaths. They set to work, and I nearly had a nervous breakdown. I cowered in the living-room. They're right there at the windows, grinning cheerfully, smearing the "dirt around on the panes. They need a step-ladder. Haul it up from the-basement with the last possible ounce of strength. Retreat to the bedroom. There's one of them up there, perched on the ladder, shouting at me to whack the storm windows "from the inside. I whack and shudder, waiting, cringing, for the sound of a sixfoot storm window shattering into tiny bits., Or the sound of the ladder crashing through the - inside window. Or the thud of a body hitting the turf. Wonder whether I have insurance to cover, first, the glass, second, the body. No idea. This went on for a couple of hours. Shouts, imprecations, poundings. I was in a state of collapse and the old lady wasn't much better. I was wishing I'd gone to school, even on a stretcher. But I guess the gods, besides tormenting people like me, look after those who need looking after. Neither of them fell, even as much as eight feet. They finished the job. And they were there, very business-like, for the cheque. They also had some terse remarks about the inadequacy of our cleaning materials and we felt properly guilty. Try it some day when you have the Gallipoli and a couple of nitwits doing your storm windows. A badder day. But it wasn't over. I finally got to bed, whimpering with relief. My wife came in and said she's been talking to our daughter, who has a great rip-off idea. She's going to Cuba, and has a plan. She'll write a couple of columns for me, free. All I have to do is pay her for them. Baddest. However, silver lining department. By staying a t home, I had missed a three-and-a-quarter hour staff meeting, which is. an abomination on the face of the earth. So, all in all, maybe not such a bad day, after all. Remember ELECTIONS Monday, Dec. 4 I 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 23, 1922 . Two Port Perry High . School students, Miriam Harris and Elizabeth Allin, were each awarded Carter Scholarships for high stand- ings achieved in the June examinations. Dr. Allan, a medical Mis- w sionary of the Methodist Church in China, was just home from the Foreign Field and gave a speech relating his travels to the congregat- ion of the Port Perry Methodist Church. . Mr. Clarence McKinnon was very successful in shooting a very larg e buck deer north of Minden, weigh- ing 200 Ibs. The spread of the horns measured 30 inches. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday Nov. 20, 1947 The Port Perry Yacht Club held a delightful dance at the High School. The music was provided by Art Asher and his orchestra. There were just enough couples (75) to* make the dancing really pleasant. The ladies of the Evening Auxiliary of the United ~ Church held a meeting at the home of Mrs. F. DeNure, "- with- about 30 present. mem- bers in attendance included Mrs. Love, Mrs. Griffen and _ Mrs. R. Cornish. Mrs. Hooey conducted the worship ser- vice and Mrs. Day and Mrs. J.E. Jackson gave a chapter from the study book. v 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 21, 1957 ~ Mr. and Mrs. Jim Smith of Port Perry chapereoned a Saturday night teen dance held in the Public School: During the evening, they president of Port Perry Teen Town; Wayne Venning, pre- sented Bill Harrison with $100 in cash as the club's donation to the Minor Hoc- key Association which Bill was representing. The Building Fund for an® extension to the Scout Hall was substantially increased by the direct efforts of Beare Motors who turned over one-. day's gross receipts of their car wash service to the Scout fund. » The Ontario County public speaking contest and debate was held at the regular meeting of the Port Perry Junior Farmes. Debate. cen- tred on the controversial topic; 'Resolved that farmg * people are losing their inde- pendence." 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 22, 1962 Mrs. Marie Taylor, a Port Perry Organist, was guests recitalist 'at the October meeting of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers' Association. Mrs. Florence Harper of Port Perry was hostess and Mrs. Edward Jackson presided. : A Canada-wide study of income groupings, prepared and copy-righted by Sales Management, showed that Ontario County had more families with incomes over $4,000 than most commun- ities in Canada. Also, it found® + the proportion with low incomes was' below average locally. Cartwright High School Teachers and students gat- hered in the Recreation Centre for Commencement» exercises. -