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A AALS BOART BEE NY 5 a LN Port Perry Star Co. Limited Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding 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. Subscription Rates: In Canada $2. 60 per yr. Elsewhere, $4.00 per yr. Single Copy T¢ Red ¢ Cross ls Is Worthy of Support GIVING ASSISTANCE in time of disaster or emer- gency is a traditional obligation of the Red Cross. We expect the Red Cross to be on the job no matter where or when disaster strikes, and no matter how large or how small the disaster. The Red Cross is geared for emer- and its help normally consists of providing er, clothing, medical treatment and care for ms. In addition, it's the task of the Red Cross to ster all disaster victims so that relatives enquiring after their health and welfare may receive information. Major "disasters are relatively rare in Canada. We are fortunate that we live in a zone comparatively free of 'hurricanes, floods, monsoons, earthquakes and the like. But every year in Canada, over 2,000 families are burned out of their homes. This means that the Red Cross must be in a position to provide emergency assistance for some 18,000 men, women and children who are left without a roof over their heads and with no more than the clothes they've got on. The Red Cross spends more than $200,000 to provide this kind of assistance for Canadian disaster victims every year. March is Red Cross Month in Canada. When you support your Red Cross, you help to provide the emer- gency assistance that is given to victims of all kinds of disaster at home and abroad. Save With 1-Horsepowered Vehicles Businessmen who want to reduce their distribution . \ L TERRA AA SOAS SS SAR. tr LHR YASS hg SEEN wien Whe or, 800 0d ES ELT ATL AT A RT Sh hdvata ms A) ASN LEAD Y Ab LNA RELA N aren ' d Gy H N RHA RN TION WY FASSURFOR IIIS LSE AS. TON . IRATE RRP REA SOLEUR I FS Ns RCT REL IAL costs should reconsider the use of true one-horsepower vehicles with their built-in economy. Capital cost of one horsepower--it comes in Percheron Powermite, Clydes- dale Clipper, and Belgian Bruiser models--is only $200- $300. You'll have to pay $14 a month for four new shoes, but that's cheaper than a new set of piston rings, new plugs and maybe a carburetor tune up for a multihorse- power mechanical delivery truck. You've guessed it-- Dobbin is coming back to help spaceage man, Basil Jack- son says in The Financial Post. The city of Saint John is so sure it can save money by using horses that it is now experimenting with horse- drawn snowplows. Stanley R. Price, city manager, esti- mates a horse-drawn plow can clear 10-15 miles of side- walks in an eight-hour shift. Seven dray horses are now hitched to seven plows. The cost of their upkeep and operation will be compared with the $56,000 investment in 14 jeeps that the city has used until now. Newcastle, N.B., has used horses for snow-clearing for years,-and continues to use this method. Peterborough which has used horses for the past five years "is saving an estim- ated $20,000 a year with horses," Jack McKibbon, works superintendent told The Post. A word of warning from the experts: if you decide to buy the Percheron Power- mite, get a lightweight model. "They can be heavy on shoes. Some use more than one set of four every month," one expert says. § ETAT Dear Mr. Rivard -- Jn answer to please forward RE. clearing the overnirient Co. FIFTY YEARS-AGO- + -25-YEARS- AGO TEN YEARS AGO. Wednesday March 10, 1915 Mr. W. F. Bradley of Sea- grave, took a first - class Shorthorn bull to the annual stock sale held at Guelph, where the animal was sold for $195. being the second highest price paid at the sale. His lordship the Bishop of Toronto will celebrate the rite of Confirmation in the Church of the Ascension, Port Perry on Tuesday, March 7th, NEW WEARING APPAREL FOR MEN Stylish Spring Overcoats ........... $12.00 Navy Blue Serge Bulls ...comnine $15.00 Hose ..cccvvvvcrennrne 25e¢. pr. Shirts for Big Men-- $1.25 & $1.50 Thurs.,, March 7th, 1940 At the National Conserva- tive meeting held in the Town Hall last Friday even- ing Denton Massey & Harry Newman K.C. were the guest speakers. Congratulations are ex- tended to Mrs. A. M. Law- rence on winning 2nd prize at the Oshawa Ice Carnival. Jack rabbits, some weigh- ing 8 much as 22 pounds and able to leap more than 12 feet, were worth $1 .a head alive in Meaford district the middle of February. These animals have done serious damage to Meaford district orchards, Trappers in the district used wood traps to catch their vietims and the animals were unharmed. your letter, Thurs., March 10th, 1955 Miss Barbara 'Love was crowned Queen of Carnival by Miss Grace Davis at the High School last week. She will reign in her glory at the Memorial Gardens Ice Review and Carnival Three Port Perry High School teams win Lake Ont- ario COSSA Championships and the right to play in Tor- onto ofi Saturday, February 12th. The three teams to win titles were the Jr. Boys, Sr. Boys and Sr. Girls. At Lakefield on Friday of fast week, the Lions Club Public Speaking contest was held with eleven contestants coming from Oshawa, Lake- field, Bancroft, Campbellford, Fenelon Falls and Port Perry. Miss Nor- ma Levinson, Port Perry won 2nd place. Norwood, - SUGAR and SPICE SOME SPRING FANCIES We all know what a young man's fancy is sup- posed to lightly turn to in spring. But when you get right down to it, young men are vastly unin- teresting, except to themselves, recruiting officers, and, of course, young women. So we will ignore the fancy of young men this spring, especially since it's lightly turned to the same sort of thoughts in the other three seasons too. Let's examine the fancies of some of the more interesting age groups. Sole aim of very small males, in the spring, seems to be mud. They love mud. It has the same fas- cination for them that it has for smgll pigs. They like to walk in it, kneel in it, roll in \t, nush small girls down in it, and bring as much ossible of it home with them, Slightly older boys have a fancy in the spring for anything that is dangerous, foolish or irritating. On the first day the temperature is above 40 they want to go hatless and barefoot. They build rafts that sink. They dig caves in the sides of crumbly sand- pits, They cross swollen streams on the slippery trunks of fallen trees, They walk on railway tracks. The mature, or married, man fs stunned by spring. A few weeks ago, his home was quite at. tractive, with that nice white snow covering every- thing, Now it's nothing but a big, fat eye-sore. Paint peeling, eavestroughs dangling, cellar window broken and a potato sack stuffed in it. Storm win. dow for the southeast side of the kitchen still lean- ing against the house, where he left it last fall. Front lawn littered with kiddy car, grapefruit rinds dropped while hustling out wine bottles contributed bypasserby, the rake, a pile of dead leaves; and the whole torn into trenches worthy of Flanders' fields by the visits of the coal truck. He does the only sensible thing, in the clrcum- stances, He sits down with pencil and paper and "lays out a plan of cleaning up, painting, and gen- eral improvements, He reads it triumphantly to his wife. He's so sincere she's really impressed. She's proud of him, A new leaf. First job he'll tackle is the front lawn, Then the cellar. >. Half an hour later, she discovers the new leaf is just the other side of the same one he turned over last year. She catches him cleaning up the front lawn by chipping grapefruit sking into the coal- truck craters with! a golf 'club, They have words. She dons her boots and rakes the lawn, sending him to the cellar. BULA TTYL NR (ASST PFS Whe TN THE By BILL SMILEY When he doesn't show up for supper, she figures he's really bucking down to it, and goes down cellar to call him. And there he is, crouched on the rem- nants of the coal-pile, with his fishing rod, practis- ing his fly-casting into the large pool between the vegetable-bin and the furnace. What about the oldster, the codger? What kind of a fancy does he have, come spring? After dic- ing with death through a long, cruel winter, when his old side-kicks were appearing with monotonous regularity on the obituary page, I Imagine he's pretty pleased wth himself. In fact, I know he is. I was talking to one the other day. As he sunned himself in front of the post office, he told me: "Didn't think I'd make it, back there in January. Flat on my back and gettin' worse every day. The old lady practically had the insurance collected and off to Florida for the rest of the winter. "But," with an evil chuckle, "she got fooled. She caught the cold and I buried 'er the end of February. Have snort now whenever I feel like it. Say, som, when do them tourists start!to arrive? I'm goin' to spend the whole summer watchin' them girls in their shorts, T figure it won't'do them any harm and should do me a lot of good." --Tordnto Telegram News Service RASS SNE SH