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Pagg $ The;Tipes. Xhurday, Angast, 9,.4003 «r Mrs. Gorle telephoned the other day to inform of plans for an auction sale at Mount Dennis United Church in October. The reason for the early telephone call was an appeal for everyone in the area to hang on to old items they might otherwise throw away. . If you have anything you care to donate, a telephone call to Mrs, Gorle at 762â€"3862 would be hppreciated. She will arrange to have all items picked up. +++ One of my favorite exâ€" pressions when my daughter and son are fighting with one another is ‘"if anyone ever heard you two fighting they‘d never believe you were brother and sister." Cns And every time I say it â€" I keep expecting them to come up with some kind of answer back since they are adopted and not blood related. Well, it happened the other day. They were going at it tooth and nail when I managed to walk in on the part were the argument had hit, "you‘re not really my sister â€" so shut up." Susan cornered me with, ~he isn‘t my real brother is he mom*?‘" When I asked her why she thought that, her answer was because difâ€" into the same family and now had the same mother and father â€" there was only one conclusion â€" they were brother and sister. I doubt my explanation left them any happier. Now they have to find something else to fight about. +++ Alex and Ruby Thomson are vacationing with their son and daughterâ€"inâ€"law, Richard _ and _ Audrey Thomson, Beechwood Avenue. ferent women had had them and that made them no relation at all. I explained to them both that since they were adopted Mr. and Mrs. Thomson arrived a month ago from Aberdeen, Scotland. This is their second visit to Canada and during this visit they spent a few days in northern Ontario and at Niagara Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Thomson have enjoyed their visit and both would love to live here, according to Audrey. +++ A special message to my mother who recently arrived back home following surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital. Get well just as fast as you can, mom. I miss your babysitting services. +++ The first day he came home soaking wet. I asked him what happened and he said that a kid had knocked him into the creek. When I asked him if he told his leader about it â€" he said he couldn‘t because the leader had been the one to knock him in. Three days later he came home with the biggest purple (not black) eye I‘ve ever seen. It turns out that he fell at the swimming pool. My son spent the two weeks prior to camp in forming me that there was no way he was going. He just plain didn‘t want to go to any old camp â€" he‘d rather stay home, I sent him anyway, figuring if he really complained after a couple of days I‘d let him stay home. Now, he can‘t wait to get there and if you could see him you would wonder what the appeal is. My congratulations to those in charge of the borough‘s day camp. The kids are having a grand time and each day come home with tons of news on all the things they have been doing. If you didn‘t get your children into the camp this summer, I would suggest early registration for next year. It‘s a marvellous experience for them. dawne moss/241â€"5211 FIVE BASIC SYMBOLS The five basic care symbols are appearing on a greater number of textile products today. . Each represents one method of textile care. But how many shoppers know what they mean, asks Consumers‘ Association of Canada. A circle means dry cleaning; a triangle, bleaching and a square, drying. The silhouette of a basin means washing and an iron, pressing or ironing. Don‘t let these stories discourage you from sending your kids to camp. Stephen is accident prone. The camp is well organized and really does run smoothly. I can‘t say enough about the fun and experience the kids are getting from it. +++ . This week the column is filled with news from the home front. If you people would get on the telephone and give mea call this wouldn‘t happen. I know there must be lots going on in our area â€" let‘s hear about it. Maybe Stephen is having a wonderful time at camp but I wonder how these in charge are managing to survive his being there. â€" representatives from government, industry and education and private groups, all prepared to explain issues. Free Warriors‘ Day adâ€" mission tickets to the CNE for veterans that are not attached to any veterans‘ group, may pick up the tickets at the ticket booth immediately south of the Colis eu B‘}‘mdlng, .Etmhm!“:u..m.m. by Bill Dodds Straight Goods III, the third annual youth conâ€" ference sponsored by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, will give 300 students from across Ontario a chance to get the lowdown on environmental issues. University of Western Ontario plays host to this year‘s sessions August 26â€"29. At the university, the secondary school delegates will have unlimited access to more than 50 resource people This is the year of the energy crisis â€" real or imagined â€" and representatives of the producers and consumers of energy will be under fire on a special energy day at the conference. Straight Goods is not set up to present information in a takeâ€"itâ€"orâ€"leaveâ€"it package. While there are scheduled sessions, the theme of the conference is dialogue with Keeping Orgy in the rain Seventyâ€"four cars! It‘s hard to believe, but that was the number involved recently in what the Globe and Mail called "a vast orgy of rending, ripping, crushing and bending each other‘‘ on Highway 401. The Toronto newspaper stated in an editorial that‘ "there was no heavy fog, no driving blizzard, no treacherous ice; just a light fall of rain and one minor accident around which a policeman was directing traffic.‘" Just a light fall of rain, That‘s the clue, and a quick call to the O.P.P. told the Ontario Safety League that most drivers were travelling faster than road conâ€" ditions allowed. The fact is that most drivers do not realize the danger of even a light rain. â€" Vehicles drop oil and grease on the roads. In the course of a year, on heavily travelled roads, this can amount to as much as 1,000 gallons per mile ( or about 1 gallon for every five feet of road). Add to this the acâ€" cumulation of dust and direct and you have a hazard building up comparable to any winter ice condition. When a shower comes up after a period of dry weather, the first raindrops make a fine, slippery mud of the dust and oil film on the road. In a heavy downâ€" pour it may take only about 30 minutes to flush this film off the highway. A slow, gentle rain may take as long as two hours or more. Wet pavement and fast driving will cause your car to aquaplane and skid. You may not realize it, but wet pavement means your tires are floating on water. It builds up beneath a wheel like a ship‘s bow wave reducing contact area. Before the tread can grip the surface of even a moderately wet road, it has to disperse between 8 or 9 pints of water a second. At high Speeds, the area of tread on the road has about 1â€"150th of a second in which to do this. Eventually, it spreads to the rear and none of the tread touches the road. Your car starts skimming like a surfboard. If treads are wellâ€"worn, aquaplaning will start at speeds as low as 50 miles per hour. Experienced fullâ€"time drivers will tell you that the first few moments of a slow, gentle rain are the most treacherous. Your tires cannot perform a squeegee action as they roll over the residue of accumulated dust and oil and sparse drops of rain and they develop a sliding action over the greasy surface, reports the Ontario Safety League. Worn tires decrease traction still further. That summer rain may be a gentle thing, but it‘s murder on the highways. When it rains, slow down or risk getting killed. Straight goods iformation in a Young or old, you are part veâ€"it package. of the problem. Straight are scheduled Goods III is a step towards » theme of the becoming part of the s dialogue with â€" solution. e Free tickets it clean o ts ce o o on t o e w h hn t h in uh i in aoi m dialogue, discussion and outâ€" andâ€"out argument wherever a group of students find one or more resource people. This year‘s conference has been expanded to a full threeâ€"day program .on the recommendation of students involved in last year‘s Straight Goods II at Queen‘s University in Kingston. Laurentian University played host to the first conference in 1971. John Robarts, former Premier of Ontario, will welcome delegates to his home town of London and officially open the conâ€" ference. It‘s an exciting opâ€" portunity for the student who cares â€" the person who wants to explore the en vironmental issues that will determine so much of his future. It‘s a step towards inâ€" volvement in the issues and the problems they pose. nesday, August 8., Thursday, August 9., and Friday August 10., between the hours of 7:30 and 9 p.m. The tickets are for veterans and their families only. Please bring â€" your _ exâ€"service |dentificat|o& CX t â€"cHog