The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

5 Page 4â€"â€"Theé Times, Thursday, December , 1974 Harry Saunders is presented with a birthday cake by daughter Doreen at a family gathering recently to honor him on his 71st blrflndg:nnlvemary Harry was a member of the Borough of York fire department, is a brother of the late Walter Saunders, former reeve and father of Borough of York Controller Douglas Saunders. McGuinness has hired the whole TTC again, Everybody rides free NewYear‘s Eve, _ [’3-' 6 7 {/ To ® * THB;DGE v ’ y -..-ll g. rl o\\:\.â€""?‘?/ Including McGuinness. \es. Give your car a rest New Year‘s Eve. Ride free anywhere you want to go, on any TTC bus, street car or subway. Y254k oo & +o4 m P T #* s < orenibantcaiones ““":"""J- With best wishes from McGuinness Distillers Ltd. This was pretty hard because very few parents were millionaires and children in all countries, Adanac included, have a tendency to ask for much more than they expect. But the parents did their best and, like Santa Claus, they did it with love and cheerâ€" Parents spent a lot of time selecting the right toy for the right child. They were television messages adâ€" vertising all sorts of beautiful toys and fun gmes. But because there was no Santa Claus, all the children asked their own parents for the gifts they wanted. The parents were responsible for buying the gifts and making their children happy. Orice upon a time, in a far away land called Adanac, in a province called Riononta, there was no Santa Claus. Apart from that, life was pretty much the same as in Canada and the province of Ontario. There were even more stores with more Magical enchanted toys even more joyful. No child was ever hurt because of a bad toy. And the toys Things like keeping your hallways and stairs free of tripping hazards; not overloading electrical cirâ€" cuits; not using unsafe tools and ladders; getting prompt treatment for minor cuts and scratches; clearly labelling poisonous â€" chemicals; storing flammable materials safely; respecting moving machinery â€" and that inâ€" cludes your automobile â€" make good sense. Teach the kids safe living by setting a good example. Safety at home is like safety on the job â€" it‘s a habit, a frame ‘of mind, a way of looking at things. As they do With all this care and consideration, one would think that there was not much choice left. Well, maybe. But â€" Riononta children were a lot happier Apply the safety rules you follow at work to your home and family. If you stop to think of it, the regulations you follow at the plant in regard to fire and accident prevention are just good common sense â€" and they‘ll work in your home too. always careful never to buy toys with sharp edges or small removable parts which could be put in the mouth. They made sure before they bought a painted toy that there was no poison in the paint. They bought easy to clean toys. They never gave their younger ones stuffed animals with glass or button eyes that fall off as babies have a tendency to swallow them. Children were told never to expect toys that caught fire easily, shooting sets that could blind them, illâ€" balanced wagons and tricycles that could topple, electrical toys that were not approved by the Adanac Standards Association, and above all, each gift was chosen with consideration for the child‘s age. â€" { NICE PEOPLE PLAY Common sense 0 TÂ¥ kâ€"33s 93 with other habits and atâ€" titudes, your kids learn their safety habits and attitudes from you. A father who practices â€" safe _ living provides the best guarantee that the kids will live safely Accidents in the home are the greatest single threat to the health and welfare of your family. Remember that at quitting time tonight â€" and every night. Start your own offâ€"theâ€"job safety program. Take a St. John Ambulance First Aid. course. Get the family in a safe living plan and make it a contest for the kids. Give awards for the best ideas and plans for making the home a safer place to live. Kead all the material you can on accident records and acâ€" cident prévention. Be alert for hazards around the house. enchanted toys. They all had the magic of safety built into them. â€" They were simple toys, not very complicated, and everyone understood that one safe toy was better than children soon learned to discover the magic in them, A hobby horse, for example, would last for years and had marvelous properties. It became a friend, a rocket, a. car, a motorcycle, an air%" plane, a snowmobile or anything the child wished. It was simple and unâ€" complicated. It allowed the child to use the infinite magic _ of his _ own imagination. children were receiving for Christmas had a ‘special magic due to the love and When Santa Claus heard about Adanac he was very pleased to see that safety minded parents had such consideration for their children. ‘"Now why couldn‘t Ontario be like that?"‘ he asked. Why not, indeed!