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--a - ign -- fad : SE ou at, PI SEN SR - a a 24) 58%) - =. ny EA" A er . AAR LR AR nd ba UA TE Ey at ve A AY a ro te des J id SE (FEEDER SN FREER Re CERT ey 1 Fig Lie Declining Dollar MOST OF US, noting the latest rise in the cost of living index to 135.3 (1949 = 100) well understand that it means we need $1.35 now to buy what could be bought with $1.00 in 1949. Fortunately, many Canadians (among them manu- facturing employees whose hourly earnings have actually doubled in the fifteen year period since 1949) have done much better than this and as a result they have so far escaped the consequences of what we call inflation. But there is some merit in looking back over the past 25 years and taking stock of just how steeply insidious the decline in the value of the $ has been. A married Canadian with two children, for example, who earned an income of $1,500 in 1938 paid no tax at all on it. Today, merely to be holding his own, he would have to have a gross income of $3,278. Of this, and taking family allowance into account, he would pay fed- eral tax of $94. If he made $3,000 in 1938, such a Canadian paid just six dollars of it in taxes. Today, to be as well off, he needs a gross income of $7,169, of which $825 is income and old age security tax. The $5,000 a year man with a wife and two children paid just $80 in income tax in 1938. The same man to- day must earn $12,731 to be doing as well now as he was then, and of this sum he will be paying $2,306 to Ottawa. Where this whole business will end none of us can know. And many, in their innocence, will not worry just so long as the gradual, year-by-year depredations of in- flation are masked by a rising standard of living. ~ Penalties Tough In Europe A report issued by the Traffic Institute of North- western University, Illinois, indicates that Europeans are no better at holding their drink than we are. CZECHOSLOVAKIA reports a 259% drop in acci- dents since it made blood or breath tests compulsory. The Red state allows courts to fine and revoke licences of drivers who refuse tests. BELGIUM and WEST GERMANY set the impaired level at 0.159% (five bottles of beer). . SWEDEN used the 0.15% mark also to determine a driver's ability, but has lowered the limit to 0.05%. NORWAY and ICELAND use the same yardstick. NORWAY also provides for tough penalties. Any driver caught with more than two glasses of beer under his belt gets 21 to 30 days in jail and a 1 year licence suspension. The Norwegian driver can lose his licence for two years by refusing to take a police blood test. DENMARK, FINLAND and SWITZERLAND can jail drivers with 0.10% alcohol-- (under four beers). AUSTRALIA sets the limit at 0.05% and AUSTRIA at 0.08%. County; Co-op. (Continued from page 1) between 250,000 and 300,000 Mrs. P. J. Francis, President of Ontario (County) Co-op Me- dical Services reported a more than fifty percent increase in the earnings during the year. hes SE Le Pe persons. The Stabilization Fund and a Pool of over $100,000 as- sure every Co-op member that their contracts will be honour- ed even in case of epidemic. Each Medical Co-operative also has a reserve as required by the Department of Insurance at Queen's Park. He stressed that the Medical Co-ops are member-owned and member- controlled. The new office of Ontario (County) Co-operative Medical Services, at Greenwood, was visited by the Federation Pre- gident prior to the annual meeting. The new office pro- vides bright, spacious accommo- dation for the five staff mem- bers to handle the increased business. ~The Officers for the coming year are: Mrs. P. J. Francis of Cannington, President; Mrs. R. J. Stiver of R.R. 2, Uxbridge, Vice-President; Mrs. M. E, Mec- Lean of R.R. 1, Locust Hill, Secretary-Manager; with Miss B. McLean as Assistant. Mrs. R. Gray of Uxbridge retired from the Board after serving two consecutive three- year terms. The Directors elected for a three-year term were: Mr. Wallace MacLean of Udney, Mr. John A. Ball of Ux- bridge, Mrs. George Squire of R.R. 1, Pickering, and Mrs. R. J. Stiver. : Miss Olive Bell, Manager of Kawartha Co-op Medical Ser- vices, was a guest at the meet- ing at Brooklin. P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas "WM. T. HARRISON Editor Member of the Ontario 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. Subscription Rates: In Canada $2.50 per yr., 'Elsewhere, $3.00 per yr. Single Copy 7¢ "Is THAT the red end sign they're all talking about?" i MULLIGAN, Harola Henry (Pat)--Suddenly at his home, Port Perry, on Tuesday, Aug. 11th, 1964, Harold H. Mulligan, dearly loved husband of Annie Cross, dear father of Doris (Mrs. C. R. O'Connor) of Mon- treal, Irene (Mrs. J. Stephens) of Islington, and the late F/O George H. Mulligan, Also sur- vived by 5 brothers and 3 sis- ters. In his 69th year. Rest- ing at the Chapel of McDer- mott-Panabaker, Port Perry for service on Thursday at 2 p.m. Interment Pine Grove Cemet- ery, Prince Albert. Bantams Lose Ist In Norwood Port Perry Lions Club Ban- tams dropped the first game of the O.A.S.A. playoffs in Nor- wood on Saturday night by the score of 13 to 6. The local boys came up with a poor display as they made no less than 12 errors and left men on base in every inning as they failed to hit as they have in other games this year. Reg. Manns started on the mound for the Lions but after being in trouble on occasions was relieved by Bill Wanna- maker who seemed to settle both teams down. Next game of this series is in Port: Perry on Wed. night with a third game if necessary on Saturday at Norwood or Port Perry. Juveniles Drop First In Zephyr Port Perry Scugog Cleaners drop the first game of the 0.A.S.A. playoffs in Zephyr on Saturday by the score of 1 to 0. This wag as fine a ball game as one could see with both pit- chers giving up few hits. The Zephyr pitcher gave up but one hit; while Bob Peterman gave up four hits for Port. Next game of this series will be played in Port Perry on Thursday night at 8.80 with a third game if necssary on Sat. "at Zephyr or Port Perry. eo) EE ---- p ) EEE Sugar By BILL SMILEY . A SUMMER RHAPSODY Summertime in this country is a mixture of so many won- derful things that I would happily leave for the next world, at once, if someone said to me, "Sorry, old boy, but you'll never be able to spend another summer in Canada." | A Perhaps the fascination of a Canadian summer might be compared to falling in love, once a year, with a passionate, unpredictable woman. Just as you are never quite sure where you're at with such a dame, you are never sure of what a Canadian summer has in store for you. _ ' She might greet you with the warm, seductive scents of June and, just as you are about to seize her, retreat into a: frame of mind so chilly that you're diving for your recently discarded woollies. In July, she turns on the charm full blast, clutching you in a sizzling embrace that makes your head reel and your feet falter. - But when you thrown caution to the winds and submit. yourself entirely to the affair--in short, when you go on your holidays--she has a change of mood and weeps for two weeks without pause. When August comes, her murmurous langor, the sheer, delectable sight and smell of her, sends you running once more into her round, golden arms--and her perfume gives you hay fever. : On Labor Day, leaving you frustrated, exasperated, ex- hausted and broke, she smiles once, enigmatically, and heads south to look for fresher lovers and bigger bankrolls. Ah, she's a bad one, old Mesmeranda Summer. She de- lights in making kids whiny or sick, giving them sunburn, and directing them into patches of poison ivy. This for the sake of tormenting their mothers. She doesn't like women, you see. That is, young women. And her malice towards them is easily grasped by looking at the costumes she persuades them to wear at the beaches and in town. I wouldn't be surprised to hear her chortling merrily about the topless swim suit silliness, which she doubtless started. Teenagers she likes to tease. She fills them with mysteri- ous urges and yearnings which make them drive like retarded orangoutangs, dance in their bare feet amid broken bottles and 'rattlesnakes, and fall in love with people who should be put ' away in institutions. She's not pure evil, though. She has a rather soft spot for the older folk. She warms their arthritic joints with her hot, tender hands.. She fills their lonely hearts with pleasure in her loveliness. And she reminds them, in subtle fashion, of the days when they knew her long ago, when they were young and passionate themselves. : } Every time I feel the cool smooth hands of children after swimming, every time I waulk a lonely beach and see lights across the bay, every time I hear the silken rustling of her garments in the evening trees, I know I ame once again in fal 9 that wonderful witch--the Canadian summer. And I'm glad. ay : ~Toronto Telegram News Service