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» Where Lightning Strikes Nine out of ten victims of lightning are sportsmen, vacationers.and farmers says the Ontario Safety League. Of these, the die-hard golfer, who insists on playing through during @ storm, probably suffers the most casual ties. : Here are some facts you should know. Ligtning usually seeks out the tallest object in the area, trying to find the route of least resistance between cloud and earth. "The human body is a better conductor than a tree, though Not as attractive as any metal object. Picture yourself on the green during an electrical "storm. You're huddied under a tree, clutching your favorite putter. Lighting strikes. You don't stand a chance! Golfers, if you can't get to a protected building at the first signs of a storm, please do the next best thing: Get rid of those clubs; Stay away from that tree, and flatten yourself in the closest ravine for the duration. Stop The Bomb Tests! The French Government is going ahead with its series of nuclear tests at Muroroa Lagoon in the South Pacific despite the strenuous protests of Peru, Japan and New Zealand. Peru has threatened to break diplomatic relations and New Zealand has sent 11 protest notes over the tests. But nothing seems to budge the French. Recently, they exploded a high-powered device, evidently a hydro- gen bomb. It was the fifth this year, and the 44th French nuclear test since the country detonated its first atomic bomb in 1960. ° in the same way as a resolution by South. Pacific leaders opposing these tests have not deterred France, so Canada's protest about the coming U.S. underground test on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians has merely been noted in Washington. The Americans are planning to go ahead in October with their five megaton bomb explosion -- which will be equal to the force of five million tons of TNT, 250 times more powerful than the bomb that wrecked Hiroshima in 1945. There are fears the U.S. bomb might cause earthquakes, a tidal wave and radiation. The South Pacific lagoon of Muroroa is a long way from Canada, the Aleutians are only about 1,400 miles from Anchorage, Alaska. In both cases, however, Canad- jans ought to be equally concerned and should make their protests heard more loudly so that they reach the ears of both Prime Minister Trudeau and President Nixon. The fallout from the French tests and the dangers of the U.S. five megaton bomb are the problem of every human being interested in preserving our already shaky environment. The Board of Evangelism and Social Services, United Church of Canada we yi "PORT PERRY STAR~ A COMPANY, LIMITED Serving Port Perry, Reach. Seugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher - Editor WM. T HARRISON, P. HVIDSTEN, Jr. Plant Manager Advertwing Manager Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assiciation Published every Wednesday by The Port Perry Star Co. Lid, Port Perry, Ontario Aithortzad as second class maill by the Post Office Department, Ottawa. and for payment of postage in cash Sevond Clase Mall Reglotration ember ones Subseription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr.. Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy 10¢ 4. O.PP TRAFFIC BUG AND Spice BILL MILEY UGAR GLAD TO GO BACK Well, it's that time again, when the nation's biggest body of baby-sitters goes back to work, and the mothers of the monsters who drive their mothers to the screaming point. It's to swim. It's too wet to e 3 F é 2 : i 3 3 ? : 5 3 f i i lite | [ Hi i i j Z i HE that parents don't love their children. It's just that they can't stand them after eight weeks of a cold, wet summer. Mother can pack them off on that blessed opening day, sit down with a cigarette and coffee and start turning into a kindly; loving person again. Father can come home from work and not have to settle quarrels, fight about who gets the car, and spend two hours getting smoke in his eyes over the barbecue. Even the kids are happy to get back to school. For a few days, at any rate. They meet old class-mates, lie wildly about their summer adventures, renew last year's ro- mances, commence new ones, fill out innumerable forms, and check out the new teaches for pretty or handsome ones. Their exuberance lasts about a week, until they have to start doing some work. Then the pendulum swings and they revert to their groans of boredom, though this is actually just a pose with a great many of them. For college students, off for their first year, it's a time of rare excitement and ant- icipation, They're finally going to get away from nagging mothers and grouchy fathers and butterfly into the wild, free life of the university, the joys of learning. About 20 per cent of them will be thoroughly disillu- sioned by Christmas and probably 30 per cent will flunk their first year, because they get more interested in the than the philosophy. Kegs So everybody is happy about school re- them are. The small minority that really like kids or teaching, but is only in it for the security, will be their usual surly selves with- in a couple of weeks. However, let's all try to be joyful, as the