nya i fe po od be En NL = Ta, FA AN he al EN Kr DRA Se) Cant TURN ph "ing readers, and among the six of us, we 3 Moo fe - . A [SOL anh, whicd NT ada - . ain tly ADEE AN fede A Editorial Comments Leadership required There is a new consideration these days on the list that helps Ontario legislators decide the important issues that face the province. We must presume that the addition was pencilled in by the same guys who will call an election, probably this Fall. What consideration is that? Citizen support. In deciding to opt out of legislation demanding the 'compulsory wearing of seat belts, the Ontarjo government cited lack of "citizen support' as one of the reasons. Instead, they will launch an education program aimed at convincing motorists to wear seat belts. The program will include a film plus broadcast material for mass distribution, printed material'and folders, the strategic placing of symbolic signs intended to remind all motorists to buckle up, a community program organized by ministry personnel for local use, and, elementary school program package, and evaluation and surveys to measure results. We hope the evaluation report is completed a good length of time before the next provincial election. That way, we may get some effective action. Speaking of seat belts, there are still those who will tell you about the miraculous escape from head-on collisions as drivers were flung from a car. Wearing a seat belt, they will tell you, would have meant instant death. There are a number of recorded incidents of World War Il air crew falling thousands of feet from a shot-up airplane into snowbanks, with nary a scratch. : If they were wearing a parachute, they might have become snarled in the lines and hung themselves on the short trip down. Conclusion: When you. lead a horse to water, bring a plunger. ) Support minor hockey Now is the time for all of us armchair dads (and moms, too) to follow through with all those New Year resolutions and do something with junior. There's a lot of talk about the breakdown of the North American family, but you can bet your - skates that the fellow who provides the cheers for his fast-skating boy will have none of that guff. It's Minor Hockey Week again, so if you're not vsed to getting off that old easy chair and bundling up, you can take comfort in the fact that you will probably have company. "Who knows, it might just carry on after the week is over. "WsTIN wags Jo | KNOW IF IT'S OK PLASTIC ALLIGATOR FROM HIS BOX OF JUFFIES 7 yy EE SS - JO KEEP THE Remember When..? 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 22, 1925 Port Perry Hockey team played against the Lindsay team in Port Perry and again won, the score was 2-1 for Port Perry. The local High School boys hockey team played Whitby and won by a score of 9-4. On Saturday of this week there is to be an eclipse of the sun. The Agricultural Society of Port Perry are making many renovations to the Grandstand at the Fair grounds. R. M. Holtby was the President this year. Mr. R. M. Holtby of Port Perry was appointed Hol- stein Fieldman for the- Canadian Holstein Breeders Association. Port Perry Methodist Church held their 29th anniversary Rev. William A. Potter was the guest mini- ster. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 19, 1950 At Lindsay W. M. S. Pres- byterial meeting held in Lindsay the amount of money given for the year 'was $3523.04. Reports show- ed a marked increase in life memberships. Mr. and: Mrs. Reyner of Prince Albert have sold their home in Prince Albert to Mr. and Mrs. R. Reader, and have moved to Tweed. At the Cub meeting in Prince Albert there was a 100 per cent turnout of boys. Guest at the meeting were Ronald Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Fralick and Ross Sweetman. Mrs. O. Croxall was elect- ed president of the Man- chester U.C.W. this year. of Ontario County 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 21, 1960 At the regular meeting of Port Perry Council $5000.00 additional fire insurance was put on the contents of the Public Library. Mr. and Mrs. M. Boyd of Ottawa, Mr. Gary Boyd of Saskatoon were in Port Perry visiting their family over the Christmas holiday. Mr. Parkinson's basket- ball teams at the High School played against the Sutton High School teams and both the Juniors and seniors won their games. The nominating officers this year for the Scout Mothers Association are Mrs. Ptolemy, Mrs. Lane and Mrs. Kerry. 10 YEARS AGO Port Perry Reeve J. J. Gibson was elected Warden Arnold Roach and Al Pacey were two new mem- bers who joined Lions Club. Their sponsors were Bill Beare and Bob Howsam. Four teams representing Port Perry Curling Club were in Haliburton for a bonspiel. Ivan Parkinson's team emerged victorious. The team was made up of Ron Firth, Sam Fisher, and Wes Jones. Brooklin Hockey team, the "Redmen" have won 16 games in a row. They defeated the Port Perry Flyers 8-4. An earth tremour was felt in Blackstock this week. This was reported by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jenkins. Marilyn Hillier was elect- ed president of the United Church Choir. Rev. A. G. Rice installed the new exe- cutive. : Bill Smiley Hair-raising question There are a lot of questions floating around in the murky depths of my mind, and occasionally one floats to the surface. It is usually slapped down by someone (my wife?), or just given a good shot of Raid, and lies over on its side and expires. But recently, the questions have been boiling up like bubbles in a thundermug. I felt I should share them with my long-suffer- might be able to come up with some answers. (By the way, if you don't know what a thundermug is, ask your Mum. Your Dad would be too shy to explain.) They are not exactly burning questions, but they do create a small smoulder, from" time to time. Why are so may men addicted to hairy appendages to their craniums these days? I can understand any chap growing a beard to hide a weak chin. I can understand any young man trying to grow a beard. It's part of growing up. nobody. and silly. When I got back to England from prison camp, I had a beautiful handlebar job which had taken me nine months of constant upsweeping to achieve. minutes after I'd looked up my first old girl friend. She said it was like kissing a cow's ear. Blunt but honest, she was. And why do all those older guys, who are skin-bald for the first two-thirds of their skulls, insist on growing those long, greasy, forlorn ringlets at the backs of their heads, falling down over their collars? They fool It doesn't make them look more virile. It merely makes them look scruffy, It came off 20 They remind me of the guys who used to comb carefully across a completely naked pate eight strands of long hair from their ~ side burns. Why not face it, chaps? If you have a big belly, stick it out and pat it. If you're a baldy, you're a baldy, and you wash your hair with a face-cloth. It doesn't seem to bother the ladies. Yul Brynner has been a sex symbol for years. But why all these Fu Manchu mous- taches? They add nothing whatever to a face that has no character, and they detract from one that does. I'm glad I'm not a girl. It must be revolting to kiss a young man and wind up with a mouthful of hair. ; at RH 2 hl AZ ee wy! 5 WIE 5 SACRE R31 A And that Telly Savalas, or whatever his name is, that mean-looking guy on TV (Rojack? Hojak? Wojak?) seems to be on every second program, bald as an egg, and about the same shape. I remember an elderish lady whose chief delight was putting a needle into people. She SY OR) FE Re oN was as bald as a billiard ball on top, but, by a clever contrivance of buns and piling-up, she managed to cover it. Or so she thought. In her joky way, one day, while I had my head bent over a book, in my usual scholarly fashion, she scratched my crown and chortled, "My, you're getting a little thin on top." It didn't bother me. I was. If it had, I could have said something cruel. "0.K., Rapunzel, let down your hair and we'll climb up and have a look at what you've been hiding all these years." I'couldn't. But I didn't like the old bat, and it was time someone blunted her needle. So, I stood up, walked around her twice, my eyes glued to her bum, which looked like the east end of a cow going west, smiled, and said gently, "Yes, my dear, but perhaps it's better to be getting a little thin on top then gargantuously thick on the bottom." She scuttled to the coffee urn, eyes atwitter to see if anyone had heard, and shut her mouth for three whole days. I think it was the word 'gargantuously' that flang her. This started out as a question period, and is turning out to be a piege about hair. Sorry. I've nothing against hair, as such. I'm not one of those back-to-the-brushcut people. Lordy, if someone made all my students (male) cut their hair, I'd have to 3 2% Sd Hh learn their names all over again, and it's already taken me three months to identify the shaggy dogs. In fact, I rather enjoy the modern novels, which state that, "She ran her hands through his long, silken hair," just as much as I enjoyed the old novels which stated that, "He ran his hands through her long silken Like, - through it. LC Wy hair." Men's Lib. silken hair, which is a lot scarcer than you think, grab onto it and run your hands BIROMII on If you can find some One group I do feel sorry for during this fad is the old-fashioned barber. There's no such thing as a young barber. The young ones are all hair stylists. For the oldtimers, business is pretty sketchy. Some of them are cutting so little hair these days - the odd gray lock here, another there - that they don't even need a broom to sweep the floor. They just use a garden rake. I'm sorry. This started out as a column of questions about the energy mess, policitians who need a 33 per cent raise in pay and other such, and it wound up as nothing but another of my hairy columns. $ No wonder my life is such a mess. I can't keep to the trail. I'm like a finely trained deerhound who goes haring off after a hare when he should be pursuing a buck. The Argyle Syndicate Ltd. ao <