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4 ~-- PORT PERRY STAR, Thursday, Nov. 18th, 1965 [aaa aaa ag ag 22 2222222 Port Perry Star Co. Limited Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas WM. T. HARRISON Editor Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. POV VV OV YYN P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher Member of the Cgnadign 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 $3.00 per yr., POPOL E FOV VV VOY IN [BA A A A a a a a a a a gC pal aC aC CCC Elsewhere, $4.50 per yr. Single Copy 10¢ SSP @< PPP PPL CPP OOOODPOO® Aaa OOF OR a OR OZOTO Women Safer Drivers Before the years of the 2nd World War, the pilot- ~ ing of an automobile was almost exclusively the pre- rogative of the male of the species in this continent of ours. True, there have always been the convention- flouters in the ranks of the fair sex who earned a re- putation as local characters by competing with the men as automobile drivers, but, by and large, the left front seat was, as a general rule, the uncontested throne of the man of the family. Not so any more, says Dominion Automobile As- sociation, whose W. S. Chalmers, quotes from records maintained by his Statistical Research Department. Registered female drivers have multiplied three fold in the last 20 years and nearly as many present day vehicles are piloted by females as by their husbands, fathers and brothers. One significant fact emerges from such evolution and that is that by and large, women drivers are better drivers than men! Dominion's records show that even with the huge increases in women drivers, fatal accidents remain in the old ratio of 10 to 1 for 1963, the last year avail- able. During 1963, in populous congested Ontario, wo- men drivers have been involved in only 159 fatal ac- cidents while their male counterparts scored a catas- trophic 1600. With all the time-worn cliches, dispar- aging the driving ability of women, it comes as a re- freshing change to learn from the record that our ladies can be counted on to observe the 8 C's of safe motoring to a much greater degree than the patroniz- ing male who certainly has nothing to feel superior about. Frightening List Things every employer is required to maintain for government inspection are listed by the Palmerston, Ont., Ob- server. There are payroll records, income tax deductions, un- employment insurance deductions, hospitalization deductions, 'Workmen's Compensation, records of all sales taxable and non-taxable. He is required to compute and collect the federal 11 per cent tax and the provincial 3 per cent tax, to prepare a comprehensive breakdown of essential materials used for the bureau of statistics. At specified dates, all revenues and in- formation must be submitted, or a penalty is levied. To comply with the "letter of the Law" would require the services of a full-time bookkeeper, which small business cannot readily af- ford. Come January there will be a further deduction to be sent to Ottawa, the Canada Pension tax. POP @ a> o> SO DDRDEEE YN VV VV VV VOY o® BARGE OLR ODOR DDD La aaa a2 & REMEMB FIFTY YEARS AGO Thurs., Nov. 10, 1915 Thos. Oburn, a farmer liv- ing about five miles from Uxbridge, met his death while going home from town on Monday evening. He in some way fell from his wag- on, which was loaded with chop, and it passed over him. Private Percy Hart of the A.S.C. visited friends in town over the week-end and upon returning to the exhibi tion camp received a promo- tion to the rank of Sergeant. Mr. John Roach has made arrangements to run an open air skating rink on the Beas- ley property, now owned by Mr. Harry Willard. A large shipment of Jar- dinere Stands just received at Disney Bros. New Furni- ture Store. 25 YEARS AGO Thurs., Nov. 14th, 1940 Members of the I.0.D.E., Veterans, and the Volunteer Civil Guards, turned out in full strength to attend the Community Remembrance Services in the United Church last Sunday. Rev. W. J. H. Smyth conducted the services. Mrs. G. A. Woods read the Honour Roll. Mr. R. Cornish and Mr. A. Napier attended the annual Public Speaking contest sponsored by the Durham School Trustees and Rate- payers Association in Mil- brook. Mr. Cornish was one of the judges. Scugog--MTr. Bill Hope and Mr. Alan Carter have return- ed home after spending a few months near Kindersley, Sask. Aaa aa a 4 FR WHEN? 10 YEARS AGO / Thurs., Nov. 17th, 1955 On Sunday, November 13, the Boy Scouts, Cubs, Brown- ies and Guides marcher to a very impressive Church Ser- vice in the United Church where an interesting and educational service was con- ducted by Rev. Wylie. Commencement Exercises will be held in Port Perry United Church on Friday, November 25th. Guest speak- er will be Rev. W. J. John. son, D.D. The Valedictorian Miss Nancy Kight, The Port Perry United Church Choir present "The World Brotherhood in Song" in the Port Perry Public School on Friday, November 18th, ' OO ON INN VV VV VV VO VV SUGAR YP VIVO OOOO0e® COOP and SP OOO Ow | CE 8 POVIOVIPOIIIOOOVO0O00090000009 By BILL SMILEY OF SEWAGE AND ME I was telling you in last week's column how I was shanghaied into the teaching profession, and how teaching has been good to me. But I don't want anyone to go away with the mistaken idea that it has been roses all the way. When I was in the newspaper business, I used to get home, have a couple of drinks before dinner, just to unwind a bit. Strictly medicinal. When I came into teaching, I got home from work at 4 o'clock and was so unwound by dinner time 1 was practically paralyzed. This year, our school is working a double shift. Our shift begins at a quarter to eight in the a.m. I get home from work at 1.11 in the afternoon. 1 have little doubt that my liver is the texture of marble and the color of a baboon's behind. I have great doubt that I'll last until Christmas. People on the early shift should get hardship pay. Another misconseption I'd hate to leave with any- one is that I came into teaching as a refugee, be- cause I couldn't make it in the newspaper business. Not so. ----n Not only was I making sporadic payments on the mortgage, but I was dragging home anywhere up to $36 a week, clear. And, if I do say it myself, 1 was a pretty important figure in the community. For example, I look back with unconcealed and justifiable pride to my four years as President of the Bruce County Publishers' Association. That's a mighty important post, with about 10 weeklies in the county. Well, sir, before my term of office, the annual meetings were regular donnybrooks. The publishers, last of a fierce and independent hredd, quarreled fiercely about printing prices, stealing linotype operators from each other, and enroaching on each other's sacred hunting grounds. But during my entire sojourn in the President's office, peace prevailed. There wasn't a bicker or a squabble. The secret? In four years, the Presi- dent didn't call a single meeting. The Association has never run so smoothly, before or since. So, if you're having internal warfare in one of the organizations you belong to, there's your solu- tion. Stop holding meetings. Another position in which I made my mark was the Resort Association. I was President of it, too, and also for four years. When I took over, the outfit was struggling. Revenue was only about $2,000 a year. Most of this was spent on printing folders. In our plant. Well, I got keen, and started drumming up more money and urging a bigger and flossier folder. In the end, my twin activities bore fruit, Right in the end. We raised so much money, and the folder de- signed was so fancy, that we could no longer print it in our plant, so they took it to an.out-of-town printer. This is known as How Not To Get Along In Business By Really Trying. But perhaps my finest hour was my career in municipal politics. The Bay bordering the home town was polluted, and unfit for swimming, As editor of the paper, I had harassed the town couneil for years, trying to get action. Finally, I ran for council, carefully choosing a year in which it was obvious that election would be by acclamation, not votes. I won. Within two years, I had spark-plugged the council into instal. ling a new sewage disposal system that would end the pollution. It put the tax rate up about six mills for 60 years. But it was worth it, There was only one thing wrong. The darn thing didn't work. Some silly little engineering detail about water not running uphill, or something. The Bay was once again polluted. T left town shortly after And the words sewage and Smiley are still associated in the minds of the grateful ratepayers. Not many men have a living monument like that, during their own lifetime. --Toronto Telegram News Service