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a. ' '. A I » Ce or PS Ne ", You, your community and heart disease Someone once said, "Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman, and you educate a whole family." Probably, like most women, you make the old boy feel that he's the boss around the house, and that's good. It's good for our male egos. We like it. But we all know who runs the house and whom the kids go crying to when they stub their toes. It's ten to one, too, that when Hubby stubs his toe, he does just what the kids do! Certainly, it's true that most women feel that they are responsible for the good health of their families. Because diseases of the heart present to all of us the biggest health problem in this country today. And, as you will see, there is much that you can do to protect your own family. Cardiovascular diseases -- that is the diseases. of the heart and blood vessels -- is the Number One health enemy in the country today. The deaths from heart disease alone total more than the deaths from all the other causes put together. Out of every two deaths in this country, one is caused by cardio- vascular disease. ; Cardiovascular disease is an individual matter. It's your heart. It's your husband's heart. It's your child's heart. The way to combat the cardiovascular diseases is through research and through making the findings of research available to- the medical profession, to the general public, and to the patient. You must know to what extent heart disease can be prevented -- so that you can protect yourself and - your own family. You must know what are the earliest symptoms of heart trouble -- because early diagnosis may lead to cure, in some cases. In many cases, it means adding years to life. You must be able to separate the truth from the old wives' tales, if it should be your heart that is damaged. You must be able to co-operate intelligently with your physician. Many people, informed that they have heart trouble, endure untold anguish simply because they do not know the facts of heart disease. This is needless. Great strides have been made in treating heart diseases. Greater strides will be possible when we know what causes them. That is the major job the research scientists are working on now. We know that there are many different kinds of heart and blood vessel diseases. There are three, however, that might concern you. Nine out of ten cases of heart disease fall into these three categories --and we do not know their causes. One is coronary heart disease resulting from hardening of the arteries. The second is hypu- "tensive heart disease resulting from high blood pressure. The third is rheumatic heart disease which is most dangerous to children. We must have 'your name We can not print anonymous letters to the editor. . Last week we received an interesting letter from someone signed, 'A Concerned Citizen", which dealt with the controversial subject of Marijuana. Had the writer identified himself the letter would have been published. PORT PERRY STAR { Company Limited ~~) CURL? { Sam, # CNA : (own) = EA $ \' Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher ( BRUCE ARNOLD, Editor WM. T. HARRISON, J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Plant Manager x Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Part Perry Star Co. Ltd.. Port Perry, Ontario Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Oftawa, and for 'payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0245 Subscription Rate: In Canada $6.00 per year. Single Copy 15¢ Elsewhere $8.50 per year rrr rrr ER ee a a CS | RRR BATTLE OF BRITAIN 74 BILL MILEY UGAR ano WE SHOULD HAVE FILMED IT FOR TV You'd think the Smileys could have one tiny granchild with no more than the usual anxiety and expectancy. By Not a chance. They had to turn it into a three-ring circus. Just about the time the wee lad was due to arrive, I provided the first ring. I racked up my car. Not seriously. Just enough so it couldn't be driven. It was during the holi- days, and between these and relentless storms, day after day, the repairs took twice as long as they would have normally. No transport. But we had to be there when his nibs arrived. It's a hundred miles away. Result was a nightmare of taxis and buses. There's nothing more dismal than riding a bus in mid-winter. It's either a super- modern one, with the heat turned up so that you are gasping for breath and sweating like a wrestler, or it's an old-timer, with no heat and a draft that would freeze the brains of a brass monkey coming in around the window. There's nothing more frustrating than waiting for a cab. It's no problem downtown in the city. You can flag one down on the street. But when you are in a remote suburb, you'd be better off with a dog team. We waited 55 minutes for a cab one night, after five phone calls, on each of which I was assured "He's on the way," a pure and downright lie. My daughter, true to family form, provided ring two of the circus. I'm only glad I wasn't there, or you'd be reading my obituary instead of a column this week. She began getting signs that the little stranger was developing claustrophobia and wanted to see the light of day. Nothing violent, but enough to send my wife into action, with all guns. "Hang on. We'll be right up." Up meant up to the university apartment where she and her husband are living. It's right out in the country and a brute to get at, unless you have a car. My wife commandeered my brother-in- law, and he drove her there. Naturally, the young couple doesn't have a car. Potential Granny dashed into the building, and was just starting up on the elevator, when she heard a disembodied voice asking, "Is there anyone there?" : She was more than a little startled. It was the voice of her son-in-law, and it seemed to be coming out of the walls. It was. He and my daughter, the pregnant kid. were stuck in the adjoining elevator, between floors. They weren't stuck because she was pregnant, but because the elevator had ceased to descend. They'd been on their way down. "Well, how does that grab you, as melodrama? It's like something you'd see on one of those medical series on TV. If I'd been there, I'd have fainted dead away and been carted off. My wife is made of sterner stuff. She can get hysterical about a cat crapping on a carpet. But when it comes down to real trouble, she's right on. And my brother-in-laws is a great man in a crisis. He posted my wife where she could talk'to the two kids trapped in the elevator. Then he rounded up the troops: security (continued on page 8) 50 YEARS AGO ¥ Thursday, January 31, 1921 Port Perry is to have many road improvements this year with the help of a $25,000.00 grant from County Council. A 20 foot roadway is to be constructed from Widden's corner northerly along Perry St. to the railway tracks; from the railway crossing at g the station below Water Street to the Town Hall; then southerly from Queen Street along Water Street to the railway tracks. Mr. Arthur L. Bailey, 1 mile east of Blackstock, Lots 13 & 14, Concession 4, Cart- wright Township, will sell his farm stock and implements 4 by auction on Feb. 16. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, Feb. 3, 1949 Mr. Maurice Fralick, Scugog is busy putting in a supply of ice for next summer. it is 15 inches thick. Joan Marie Bentley, Port Perry, left on Monday for 'training at the Canadian. Mothercraft Toronto. Centre, Bruce Heaslip was re- elected as President of the Cartwright Agricultural Society for 1949. 1st Vice President is Howard Forder and 2nd Vice-President is Neil Malcolm. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, Jan. 29, 1959 Port Perry Public School was the scene of the Ontario Liberal rally on Monday night. Mr. Allan H. Hollings- worth, who held the federal seat of York Centre from 1952 to 1957, was- guest® speaker. 'Port Perry's council for 1959 includes; Reeve J.J. Gibson and Councillors Art Cox. T.J. Harris, I.A. Boyd and Frank Godley. : P.O. Harvey Pare with his wife and children returned home to Cornwallis, N.S. last#@ week after spending a month in Port Perry with her parents, Mr. and 'Mrs. L.R. Bently. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Jan. 30, 1961 Amidst the decorations of "An Evening in Paris," Miss Barbara Holtby was chosen § Queen and Miss Margaret Craighead was chosen Princess at Port Perry High School's annual 'At Home." After operating an ambu- lance service in Port Perry for the past 10 years, owner Charles Brignall has decided he can no longer continue the service because of the finan-g cial loss involved. The annual Mother and Daughter banquet for the Blackstock: Brownies and Guides was highlighted by the presence of "Horace," Miss Edith Milne who is the Camp Commandant at Doe Lake. Garth Brooks chester, played host to a number of friends Saturday afternoon, on the occasion of his ninth birthday. of Mang