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PRPS A BBR Volunteer heros - One of the questions most often asked of local candidates, and one of the decisions the new Scugog council will have to make, is what will happen to our two volunteer fire brigades. Perhaps it is fitting that during this first week after the election we celebrate fire prevention week across Ontario. The week provides an extra opportun-: ity to reflect on the excellence of our volunteers. It is revealing that none of the ratepayers who asked about the fire brigade at all candidates meetings were critical of it. Rather the questions had to do with the future of the 18 men who serve voluntarily under Chief Jack Cook in Port Perry and their counterparts in Cartwright. The ratepayers could apparently see no need for an expensive, full NNN \ time salaried force when we have such an efficient group of volunteers. : The STAR thinks it would be wise to bring the two brigades under one head, but we see no need to replace them. When a fire is reported in Port Perry, Reach or Scugog a team of ladies is given the message and they each call a number of firemen. One of the ladies works for the Port Perry STAR, so we are among the first to know where a fire is. Your editor has raced out of the office after a fire many times since coming to Port Perry in January. | have never beaten the firemen to the scene. Our volunteers are fast, well trained and thoroughly equipped. On at least one occassion they have demonstrated rare courage. The only problem they have is a shortage of volunteers. It takes a real man (or woman) to be willing to risk his own safety for strangers. Let's keep our volunteers. We could not replace them at any price. Give them a chance No one knows the heartbreak of drought better than those who live on the land: the slow agonizing watch as seedlings wither and die, or hang on to yield two or three grains instead of the normal bounty. Today, in seven countries of Africa, six and half million children under the age of 15 are living with the fifth straight year of drought. The United Nations, governments and relief and development agencies have all responded. Help is reaching them. But much more is needed. Milk, proteins, medicine, nutritional and medical personnel, well-drillers, dam-builders, irrigation experts, new seed, new breeding stock: it is a fearsome shopping list. Eight Canadian relief and development agencies, each deeply involved in - assisting the people of the drought area, have linked their fund raising efforts during the month of August in the Combined Appeal for African Drought Relief (CAADR). By combining their efforts, the agencies hope to raise one million dollars at a cost of less than 1 cent on the dollar. You can help the people of the drought area. Give them a chance to stay alive -- to plant again. Send your dollars to the Combined Appeal for African Drought Relief (or to the participating agency of your choice, marking the cheque "'African Drought Relief'). Mail to P.O. Box 497, Station A, Ottawa, Receipts will be issued only for donations of $5.00 or more. unless requested. Participants in CAADR are: Canadian Hun- ger Foundation, Canadian Red Cross Society, Canadian UNICEF Committee, CANSAVE Chil- dren, CARE Canada, CUSO-SUCO, OXFAM-Can- - ada and World Vision of Canada. (RRR RRR RAR ? PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Sr i» CNA 3 (0m): Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher BRUCE ARNOLD, 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 P blish d 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. Single Copy 15¢ Elsewhere $8.50 per year. 727% NN MMMM BD) (7 S\\ \ = NN NN \ NN \ " ; bo 4 Us, ' . ILL MILEY ) UGAR ano Serice I promised there'd be no more columns about England. This one won't be, but it will be about people we met there. Half the fun of travelling is the people you meet. That's why I wouldn't be too keen on taking one of those tours, where you go everywhere with the same forty or so people, and are stuck with them for three or four weeks. and don't meet anyone fresh.. For example, while we were in London. I found it pleasant to stroll down to the bar for a pre-luncheon pint while my wife was muddling around in the room, worrying about 'washing her hair or something. For several days, we formed a congenial group there. A far-flung group. There was old Jack from South Africa, with- one aluminum arm and one ditto leg. He'd wack his artificial leg with his cane to emphasize a point. There was Ron, an Australian dealer in stamps. There was a Highland Scot. There was an Irish bartender. And there was your blue-eyed boy from Canada. English, Yanks and Candians were exclu- ded. Other Canadians, that is. We got along first-rate, and there was an easy tolerance that I noticed during the war when there might be bodies of ten different nations on one squadron. I didn't go after Jack about apartheid or Ron about Australian treatment of abori- gines and nobody went after me about our Eskimos. The Irishman and the Scot were a bit hostile, but only about the English. Rather, we talked about the important things-in life: heating bills (about $50 a year in S.A. and less in Sydney); housing costs (about the same everywhere) ; wives? (about the same everywhere); rotten kidss (ditto) ; income tax (ditto). Not very enlightening, you'll say, but comfortable, easy conversation, with no strain or stridency. Then our wives would arrive and the commonwealth conference would break up until next day at noon. We met dozens of interesting people like this, easily and amiably. The pub is the great leveller. Vos In Canada, people in a bar sit in their own casual. First thing you know, you're chatting. Next thing you know, you're bosom chums. Example. One night after a show, we went into a pub for a drink and a steak-an-kidney pie. Three people sat down at our table, chattering in what sounded like German. It was Dutch. A girl, newly married and living in London, and her parents, first time in England. Father spoke a little English, mother had a big smile. In five minutes we were chatting away like 'old friends. Father fetched his wife a gin. Come back looking ruefully into his_ three-quarters of an ounce. Said, 'Here dey just vet de bottom of de glass. In Holland . . ." and he held up thumb and' forefinger about four inches apart. We parted in half an hour, but only after the girl 'insisted we come" and see her .in London, and gave us address and phon number. It couldn't happen here. Our watering establishments are built for mosochists or people who have good night vision and can see in the dark. They're not for companion- ship and friendliness. Example. We were having lunch in a pub in North Wales, at the bar. Four brawny, dirty Welshmen came in and started hooting and hollering at a tremendous volume, teasing the barmaid, downing pints and drowning out any attempt at conversa- tion. My old lady, who is not noted for her prudence, modesty or reserve, turned around and snapped, "Shut up!"' Their jaws fell. The barmaid silently appaluded. I thought one of them was going to wipe her off the stool with a backhander. He was only a little guy, about six-two and 220 pounds That cost me four fast pints while I babbled that she was only kidding and was really a delighful, charming girl at heart. Twenty minutes later, they were com- plaining that we'd missed the great Eis- teddfod in Llangollen, an annual competi- tion of choirs from all over the world, held right there. Because the bus service was slow, one of them packed us into his van, and drove us twentv miles to Wrexham. a a forty-mile round trip for him. It may sound like a glorified pub-crawi. It wasn't. There are 800 pubs in Greater London, and we missed most of them. But if you warit to meet people ole, no bette; way. 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, Oct. 4, 1923 The Shamrock and Thistle Revue Company of Toronto, under the capable leader- ship of Captain Larry O'Brien, M.M., of Toronto, supplied the program for the annual concert held in the Blackstock Armouries fol- lowing the Blackstock Fair. The Public School teachers of Southern Ontario including Port Perry are visiting travelling by boat and rail to Rochester to visit Public Schools there. A feature of the High School sports day held this week was the automobile parade in which 24 cars filled with high school students participated. In the basketball match following the Port Perry High School won a close 10 - 9 against Whitby and the Port Perry girls won 10 - 7 in a baseball game against Uxbridge. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 7, 1948 W.F. Crosier, Manchester, brought home six ribbons on Yorkshires from Markham' Fair. Epsom United Church celebrated its sixtieth anniversary over the week- end. It was constructed in 1868 but not bricked until 1898. Celia Marie Hopes, formerly of Prince Albert was honoured at a bridal shower given by friends, in the event of her marriage to William Dickinson of Toronto. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 2, 1958 Five honour Port Perry High School gradudtes of 1958 have enrolled in Provincial Universities, two 'have enrolled in Teacher's College and one has entered a school of Nursing. (continued on page 5)