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It is rather difficult to justify these vast expendi- tures on behalf of the Canadian National Railways since World War II. The very costly new yards (at least in the big centres) that are being built may make for economy in switching of cars. But it is disquieting to be told by people who should know that these yards are, in most instances, much too big, and that the rail service may never grow up to the facilities now being created. The difficulty of dealing with such things in parlia- mentary communities is that the projects are so vast and interesting that an incipient critic is apt to be rebuffed as an ignoramus, a reactionary and a hold-over from the days of steam, if not of woodburners. Incidentally, if the unions had been as' powerful in the days when coal superseded wood as fuel as unions are now, the wood-passers might have been contesting their fate as rigorously as the diesel firemen did. The wood-passers today would be as useful as an organ pumper. There is extravagance in railway construction or re- construction that should be evident even to a member of the parliamentary committee. An example that would seem difficult to explain away is the bridge, new, over Ontario Highway 103 in the Muskoka area. This bridge, which is really only an elongated culvert, has a foot-path with guard-rail on each side of it. The railway itself is a single track. There are no guard-rails on either end of this culvert so the pedestrian, if any, can slide down the embankment if he wishes. There used to be tramps along the railway lines but they have all taken to the highways and are known by the politer term of hitchhikers. It may be only a small waste to put sidewalks on a culvert, but a great part of the CNR's steadily increasing debt and current deficits are an aggregation of small wastes. Now They Call Him 'Fireplug' Editors can get into trouble faster and easier than almost any other person alive . . . They also are good prospects to lay the blame on this and that . . . here is a case which proved most embarrassing to Landon Wills, editor of McLean County News in Calhoun, Kentucky: "Hurrying home for lunch on Saturday, I stopped to get the mail. I parked my car beside the Spicer home across from the Western Auto store. To save time and wear and tear on the car--I thought--I left the engine running but carefully put it in parking gear--I thought. I jumped out and ran into the post office. While getting the mail, Jessie Abney came in and said: '"Isn't that your car across the street by Muster's?" "I looked, and there it was. The car had apparently slipped from parking gear into reverse, backed up 30 or 40 feet, across busy Main Street, and stopped only when it backed into a fire plug in front of Muster Funeral Home. "Fhe impact against the fire plug not only bent the bumper: and fender of.the car, but broke the fire plug loose from the water pipe. This gave water works man Ivo Pryor 'an unpleasant Saturday afternoon trying to get the leak stopped. It was one of the old pre-1940-type fire plugs, and the valve in the line leading to it wouldn't work. So Ivo had to turn off the entire water line to get the leak stopped. "Possibly the worst consequences was to the beauty shops. They were filled with ladies getting their Satur- day afternoon beautifying--and no water. "So if some of the ladies do not look as beautiful this week as they should, it's another thing you can blame on the editor. Ag -émbarrassing, inconvenient and troublesome as it was, I was thankful that it was no worse. The run- away car could easily have run over someone and it is a miracle it did not back in front of some vehicle on Main street". To end the day the words of a 17-yr.-old boy still ring in the editor's ears... "Ha, Ha... Adult Driver! Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and 'Surronnding Areas WM. T. HARRISON Editor P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash, Subseription Rates: In Canada $2.50 per yr., - Elsewhere, $3.00 per yr. Single Copy 7¢ ~YOU STILL USIN' THAT STRINGY KIDS STUFF?" | Rememher When? 50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, April 8, 1914 An advertisement by C.P.R. offers 'Homeseekers' Excursions to Manitoba, Alberta and Sas- katchewan. Fare to Winnipeg and return--$35.00. To Edmon- ton and return -- $43.00. Re- duced Settler's Fares (one-way, second class) each Tuesday dur- ing March and April. 25 YEARS AGO April 13, 1964 Port Perry Lions Club meets at Sebert House Fridays at 6:30 p.m. . Farmers Night. Guest Speaker, Mr. A. Toole. 10 YEARS AGO April 8, 1954 Port Perry Dairy was dain- aged by fire and water on Sun- day. A flash fire occurred while the co-partners of the Dairy were making alterations to refrigeration storage space. Heating hydrolene with a blow- torch to seal the cork lining-on -- the wall it took fire and im- mediate efforts by George and Don Parry could not extinguish the blaze. Daily milk supplies will be obtained from Hillcrest Dairy, Whitby, until the' Port Perry Dairy can resume operations. Moon Phases In response to readers' re- quests, we are pleased to give the following moon changes for those who find this of interest: Last Quarter April 5 New Moon April 12 1st Quarter April 18 Full Moon ; April 26 of mild cheese. Sugar and Spice | By BILL SMILEY HOLIDAY IN THE KITCHEN I'm going. to punch right on the nose the next person, be it man, woman, child or mice old lady whose bones are as brittle as soda crackers, who asks me, "Did you have a nice Easter holiday 7" Some school teachers have a nice Easter holiday, and good luck -to them. But English teachers are not among them. English teachers have the same sort of holiday a bus driver would have if he were given a week off and told he was to drive a bus from Halifax to Vancouver in the next seven days. When the holidays began, I had examination papers to mark which represented a total of about 480 student writing hours. (They could have produced the works of Shakespeare in the same time). This, in turn, means that I have about 100 hours of marking time. No complaints, It's part of the job. But things were a little more complicated this year. The women of the house came down with flu, just as the "holidays" began. The result was that, instead of sitting quietly in my study, and having countless cups of tea and coffee, innumerable beers and sandwiches brought me, to keep me going, I found myself "trotting up and down stairs about six hours of each day, bear- ing up tempting little things on trays, bearing down dirty dishes. While my .pillars of papers sat and gathered dust. Results of turning the old man loose with the grub for a few days was interesting. My wife has almost decided 'to be- come a permanent invalid. 'My kids realize that their father has another brilliant, unsuspected dimension. : The Old Lady was feeling horrible with the flu, but there didn't seem much wrong with her appetite. She gained about eight pounds. Of course, she's not used to my lunches, Instead of the soup-and-sandwich routine she's accustomed to, they con- sisted of something like this: glass of sherry; grilled sausage with butter-fried mushrooms and cheese omelette; tossed salad; blueberry pie and ice cream; coffee; brandy; ii ak chocolates, The kids were a bit shaken by some of my diukeroler. Per- haps the most successful was the lasagna. Basis, a can of lasagna-- egg noodles in tomato and meat sauce. ' Simmer in oven for ten minutes. Add layer of mushrooms, layer of strong cheese, layer of thin-sliced salami, layer of onion rings, layer Bake in oven, Sprinkle with paprika, parsley, chives, cinnamon, nutmeg, wild oats, or anything else that will sprinkle. Serve with hot, crusty rolls, and stand back. - The reason there are no great women chefs? They've no imagination. My wife hacks up some lettuce, tomato and celery, and calls it a salad. If she's feeling particularly exotic, she , might throw in some sliced green pepper. My salads, besides these basics, contained great chunks of cheese, all colors; whole green onions, peeled grapes, shredded lemon, raw carrots, quart- ered dill pickle, jelly beans left behind by the Esster bunny. The whole doused in a dressing made of four raw eggs mixed with tartar sauce, ketchup, mayonnaise, mnstard and vinegar. I have only two things to say about the grand culinary - adventure: (a) the food budget is shot for the next six weeks; (b) where can I buy a good, second-hand automatic dishwasher ? ~Toronto Telegram News Service,