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Port Perry Star (1907-), 18 Mar 1965, p. 4

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Fo - aed A oh om PLP I SAT Pr Fn CH ok RRC SE SPA -- Aor WL HL RRS SRV LN ARORA RIOR Sh EN Port Party 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¢ The Hospita Is Your Concern A meeting, which should be of great interest and considerable concern to residents of Port Perry and area will take place on Tuesday, March 23rd. It is the annual meeting of the Community Mem- orial Hospital, held in the Hospital beginning at 8.30 pm. At one time or another almost everyone, either as a patient or as a visitor has to some extent had con- nection with the local hospital. If as a patient, one can be assured of the best of care from doctors and nurses, both day and night.. Food and other essential facilities is prepared by skil- ~ ful hands and service is the best that can be expected. If as a visitor, one is always met with friendliness and courtesy, making one feel welcome. However, when we don't need the services of the hospital directly, we have a tendency to forget the ex- cellent service it is performing, Few persons outside the staff, the board members and women's auxiliary take a real interest in this important institution. In an advertisement in this issue of the Star the public is cordially invited to attend the annual meet- ing, and learn at first hand aspects concerning the management and general operation of the hospital. This is a very important meeting, and it concerns everyone. Do show some interest in your Hospital now, and not only when you are in personal need of its services. We're A Soft Lot A Toronto physical education authority expressed his opinion of the average North American male the other day and it wasn't exactly complimentary. , He classed us as being over-tired, over-fed, over- stuffed and over-stimulated, What's more, we're sup- posed to be under-active, under-exercised, under pres- sure and bound for an early date under the sod. "Only 50 per cent," this authority on the North American male said, "could stand up to the rigors their grandfathers went through in building up this country." Reasons given for our gradual deterioration are heavy smoking, diet, pschological tensions of modern life, sedentary ways and status value of the easy life. This fellow's appraisal of his fellow man won't win him many friends, but how many can deny that there's a good deal of 'truth in his remarks? What's more our children are apt to be no better, according to a professor of pediatrics at Queen's University. He advocates making children and teenagers walk to school as a means of helping to cure the growing prob- lem of obesity. Sait A he SEROMAS 7 ETSY NA CERARVELR - FIFTY YEARS AGO Wednesday, March 17, 1915 Sunday School Conference --About one hundred and fifty delegates from the Sunday Schools of Port Perry, Reach and Scugog at- tended conference at Green- bank on Wednesday of last week. The following offi- cers were elected for the en- suing year. President-- 8S. Farmer, Port Perry, 1st Vice Pres, -- John Johnson, Man- chester, 2nd Vice Pres.-- Rev. J. Ford, Port Perry. The Beverley Wood spe-- cialty Co. of Toronto, who recently had the Uxbridge plano factory leased and dngaged in making saddle trees for the allied nations, re-leased the property last week. DRAG RACE 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 14th, 1940 What do you think about a YACHT CLUB in Port Perry? If you are inter- ested there will be a meet- ing to elect officers for the Port Perry Yacht Club for 1940, at the Public Library at 8 p.m., Friday, March 15. Blackstock News -- We would like to congratulate Misses Florence McLaughlin and Ruth Marlowe on being among the 30 teachers cho- sen out of Toronto schools to parade as mannequins in Ea- ton's Auditorium on Wed- nesday evening, Feb. 21st, on the occasion of a fashion show and bridge sponsored by the Toronto Women's Teachers Association. REMEMBER WHEN TEN YEARS AGO Thursday, March 17th, 1955 Port Perry Master Feeds Pee Wee's retain eastern and central Championship which they won last year. During the four games the Port Perry Champs scored twen- ty-three goals and only had five scored against them. Reg. Moorehead. of Port Perry, was re-elected Depu- ty Zone Commander at a meeting held in Legion Hall, Bowmanville. Congratulations to Donna Samells who placed second in class of 156 of the Kiwan- is Music Festival held in Peterborough on Friday ev- ening of last week, Miss Samell's selection was a Beethoven Sonata. SUGAR and SPICE HUMOR ISN'T FUNNY color. There's always, in fact, the menace of mis- By BILL SMILEY of our place, zip went her foot on a piece of ice. For the past few week, I've been confronted by an enigma. This world does not mean, as one of my students told me, "Something a nurse gives you in the hospital, before you have an operation." The enigma is this: what is humor? And the reason it confronts me is that some misguided people' asked me to be one of the judges in a com- petition involving humor, Equally misguided.by an inflated ego, I accepted. : I should have known better, Not that being a judge is all that difficult. I've judged public speak- "ing contests with great success. Everyone agreed completely with my decisions. Except those who didn't win, and their relatives and friends. I've judged races at the Sunday School pienie. And had to fork over a dime to every runmer be- cause, "I wooda beat him if he haddena tripped mo (or shoved me, or beat the gun)." And there'd be no trick to judging a beauty contest, I'm sure, Although there's always the danger of getting a bust in the eye from some dis- gruntled contestant. Or even from some gruntled one. But judging humor is a horse of a different judging the dark horse, which turns the whole thing into somewhat of a nightmare. The character of humor is as perverse and varied in its qualities as the character of women. Picking the winner in a humor contest is as tricky as picking a wife. Everybody else thinks you made a bum choice. Do you want Mabel, who bowls you over on first acquaintance? Or do you want Gert, who will wear well over the years? Do you want an hilarious conipanion for an evening or a quiet chuckle once a week for generations? Humor is in the eye of the beholder. It's no use, Let's get back to the enigma. What is humor? Ask the first person you meet, and he'll say, "It's anything that makes you laugh." Well, it' not, necessarily. People will howl with laughter from sheer merves, giggle interminably from drink, or titter uncéntrollably from a story whose point they have missed completely. 'People will laugh at practically anything. Only yesterday, I was looking out the window. A young ° matron, known for her high opinfon of herself, minced along, serene in her mink. Right in front FATA AAS ERA Hs ERR A Mere words cannot describe the half-gainer she performed, the way she looked, flat on her tummy, fur hat over her nose, Only a camera could capture the wild, desperate look she threw around to see if anyone had spotted the spill, Only the great Charlie Chaplin could have imitated the frantic scramble to her feet, the desperate effort to stroll off as though nothing had happened. Did I laugh? Thought I'd bust a gut. I was glad she wasn't hurt, but like ntost people, got a tremend- ous belt out of seeing the deflation of a stuffed shirt. Or girdle, in this case. What is humor? I've no idea. For some, it is the bitter, even vicious, parody of a political cartoon. For others, it is the dry, pawky humor of the realist the man who sees life without rose-colored glasses. For some, it is the stuff scrawled on the walls of a washroom. For others, it is the mechanical, canned wit of the professional comedian, the pun, the gag, the topical reference, All T can say is, "Never again." Even judging a baby contest would be child's play, to this, At least. the entries would all be made of the same material. --Toronto Telegram News Service

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