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SR then cachet Sees SLES REE CE a py x al SX Sh = er SUE & « . S$ SERS LN Welcome to Port Perry When Tris C6ffin, First Vice President of Lions International ! arrives in Port Perry to partic- ipate "in the celebration of the , 35th anniversary of the Port Perry Lions Club, he is not only honouring the club, but the Village and area as well. With an extremely busy schedule at all times and particularly this year, when he is making plans and preparations to take over the highest office in the largest service club organization in the World. At the 56th annual Lions International Convention in Miami Beach Florida, June 27 - 30, Mr. Coffin will be elevated to the office of President of Lions International with a World membership of almost 1,000,000. He is a Canadian, and to reach this pinnacle in his life has meant a great deal of hard work and dedicated service to Lionism. On behalf of the members of the Port Perry Lions Club and the residents of the Village and area, the Star takes the liberty of extending a warm welcome to Mr. and Mrs. Tris Coffin and sincerely hope your brief visit with us will be a pleasant and memorable one. HEART RESEARCH ANYWHERE HELPS HEARTS EVERYWHERE The Ontario Heart Foundation is a unique Canadian institution that has gained nationwide acceptance and support. It exists to sustain and to permit expansion of research, education and community service activities, and to carry forward a relentless war against diseases of the heart and circulation. With these diseases being responsible for 51.4 percent of all deaths in Canada yearly, and with their living victims numbered 22 million, the challenge is one that almost staggers the imagination. Both from the standpoint of the magnitude of its problem, and from the standpoint of the opportunity it affords to help all of humanity, the Heart Foundation stands alone. The Heart Foundation is the only practical channel through which millions of Canadians can have a part in this vital undertaking -- the only way in which we can help to safeguard our own hearts and the hearts of those we love. Unlike the trained medical scientist, we ourselves cannot venture into the laboratory to conduct the highly complex investigations needed to bring forth new know- ledge. Nevertheless we play a vital role in the drama of heart research. ' We all know that heart disease is a scientific problem, and that treatment of heart disease is something entirely within the province of the physician. We'also know that heart research can be pursued effectively only by scientists of great skill, daring, ability and patience. Against this background, you may very well ask why heart disease is our responsibility. Physicians have not the time, much less the obligation, to carry the fight alone. They cannot be expected to tackle single-handedly the innumerable social, economic and personal complications which heart disease brings in its wake. What is even more obvious, they cannot be expected to undertake the costs involved in reinforcing programmes of education and community service. February has been Heart Month in Port Perry. Is your donation paid yet? Have a heart. PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited { Sa, A) 4 ~ 3 G CNA 2 (0m): a> Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher-Editor J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Advertising Manager WM. T. HARRISON, Plant 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 Rate: In Canada $6.00 per year. Elsewhere $8.50 per year. Single Copy 15¢ - ~~ oS ~ \t thoy Hunk li {lpg dhether 10m fag for a lot » mie The re ClUzy { lousy BILL MILEY UGAR There are still a few of the old breed left, thank goodness. And one of them is my friend Ab Cordingley. Received a letter from him this week, and, as with everything he says and writes, it was right to the point. He doesn't waste any words. The letter ends thus, "Hope U R OK." He told me bluntly that he still reads this column and "Sometimes think U R OK, sometimes off base." He never had any hesitation in telling me what was wrong with my line of thought. To my face. I remember the last time we went trout fishing together. I was to pick him up at 5.30 a.m. or some such hour, and have breakfast with him. I arrived at a quarter to six and he gave me hell. Then he forced me, a coffee-and-toast man, to shovel down a huge breakfast of bacon and eggs, enough for a logger, which he had ready. We had a good day. I got thirteen speckles and a brown and he filled his creel. The only untoward incident in the morning's fishing was when he stepped into a log-hole, fell flat on his face and hit his head on a rotten stump. 'Dam' good thing I had my hat on," he quipped, looking ruefully at his cigar, which had been mashed in the fall. Of course, he was just a spring chicken then, at the height of his faculties. He was only 80 years-old.' We knocked off for lunch. I was glad. I was pooped. I pulled out my two meagre sandwiches, and Ab hauled out a lunch that would stagger a truck driver. He forced apples and bananas and great hunks of cheese on me until it was coming out my ears. I thought, "I'll fix the old devil." I'd brought two beers along. I knew he was teetotal. It was a hot day, and the beer was the colour and temperature of of you-know- what. Offered him one. He was not only a teetotaller but a gentleman. He took it,drank down the gaseous horror, and said calmly, '"Haven't had a beer in 20 - 30 years." } A couple of years later, we became across-the-street neighbours. One evening a few months later, about 10 p.m., there was a banging on our kitchen door. It was Ab 'Call the fire brigade, Smiley. The dam house is on fire." He had his pants pulled on over his flannel pyjamas, and was in his bare feet. Had been going to bed. "That gravel is hell on the feet," he observed, while I reached for the phone. The road between us was paved in gravel. Try running across it in your bare feet, at 82.. I got the fire brigade, and told them it'was Ab Cordingley's house, and hung up. In a AND Srice small town, you don't give addresses, you just say whose house it is. Unfortunately, the fire brigade went to Ab's old house and dithered about for ten minuters before someone remembered he'd moved. - Unaware of this, we two hustled across the street and started carrying out of the house such valuables as potted plants, old pictures worth about seventy-five cents on the open market. We'd been doing this for about five minutes when Ab stopped at the bottom of the stairs and yelled up, "Dammit, Annie, I told you to get down here." The flames were roaring in the roof by now. I realized with horror that his wife, who had bad legs and trouble walking was still up there. Then the fire brigade arrived, and soon confusion became chaos. We got his wife over to our house and into a hot cup of tea. Ab nipped around like a twelve-year-old, telling people what to carry out and driving kids back from the flames. I got our kids out of bed, so that they could watch something they'd remember all their lies -- a fine old house going up in a glorious pyre of blaze and smoke. There's something heart- wrenching and at the same time thrilling in such a sight. Many people of 82 would have been utterly daunted by such a set-back. Not Ab. He'd have been more disturbed if the Tories had lost a by-election. Quite a guy. He's 93 or 94 now, and still has a mind that would make many fifteen-year- olds look senile. He's a walking encyclope- dia. He doesn't pretend to be an intellectual, but has read thousands of books and can still recite poetry he learned in public school. He's everything you're not supposed to be these days. He's prejudiced. He's 100 per cent opposed to Grits, b ooze and laziness. He believes in hard work, making money, and leaving something worthwhile behind, like a first-rate hospital. But there's something endearing about his prejudices. They are right out in the open. I'll bet he believes in capital punishment, God, and heaven. I'll take him away ahead of your smarmy liberals anv dav. And he has a sense of humour. He use to winter in Texas and took great delight in telling the proud Texans that their mighty state could be dropped into one of our Canadian lakes and not even cause a ripple. It sems to me that one winter he took some empty bottles'to Texas, told the natives the bottles were full of Bruce Peninsula air, and suggested it was worth at least one dollar a bottle for its purity. Good health, Ab, and long live. 50 YEARS AGO Thrusday, March 1, 1923 Church services at Raglan were cancelled due to the pastor having the flu, and the flu epidemic was so preva- lent in Blackstock that services were cancelled there even though the min- ister was okay. The con- gregation was sick. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Larmer of Blackstock had a baby boy. Mr. and Mrs. John Carter of Blackstock became parents of a new baby girl. Mr. and Mrs. H. Mahaffy of Blackstock had a boy. Flu was not the only thing keeping people home from church. 25 YEARS AGO Thurrsday, Feb. 26, 1948 Port Perry businessmen's Association President Harry Peel kicked off a campaign for a local skating rink by telling his association "We need a new rink in Port Perry and we need the support of every organi- zation and every citizen to start the project and keep it going "until the building is actually erected and paid for." Red Stallion in glorious technicolour and staring Robert Paige, Ted Donald- son and Noreen Nash was playing in Port Perry. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, Feb; 27, 1958 Hon. Michael Starr, of Oshawa, was unanimously nominated the Ontario Rid- ing Progressive Conserva- tive Candidate at a conven- tion held in Whitby Town Hall. Neil Raines, Blackwater was one of the three contest- ants who tied for top position in the All Star Junior Judging Competition held in connection with the selection of All-Canadian Holsteins. 534 boys and girls from all over Canada participated. At a Scout Father and Son Banquet held at the Scout Hall, Mr/ Stanley Plough- man was presented with the Scout Medal of Merit by Scout Commissioner Jack Atkinson. Vince Otto was elected commodore of the Port Perry Yacht Club. The Group Committee, Scout and Guide Leaders plan a financial campaign to aid in putting an addition on the Scout Hall. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 28,1963 At a recent meeting Mr. J.E. (Ted) Jackson was elected President of the Port Perry, Reach, and Scugog Liberal Association and Mr. Robert Archer, as Secre- tary-Treasurer. Three well experienced men on local village council matters were elected to the Municipal Hydro Com- mission. They are Arthur T. Cox, J.E. 'Ted' Jackson and J.J. 'Jay' Gibson. Council at a recent meting passed a resolution to rent the old Legion Building for $1.00 a year to the Senior Citizens Club of Port Perry. The Port Perry Public. School held a successful Ice Carnival, under the direct- ion of principal Mr. Roy Cornish and his staff of teachers. Some 480 studerits and 260 parents. made the event a success.'