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4 -- PORT PERRY STAR, gi 2 2 2 A a a a a ROSY A a a a a a a a P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Elsewhere, $4.60 per yr. POPPI OOITCIOIOIIOOPS Nl >>> Cola Well Deserved Success Friday evening, the Port Perry Figure Skating Club completed another successful Ice Revue, the eighth annual. To organize and operate a figure skating club is no small undertaking, and the persons who year after year plan and work to keep a club, such as the Port Perry Figure Skating Club going are doing a tremendous service to the community. Without any discredit to fathers, it is quite obvious that mothers show greater devotion and keener interest in the sport, and work very hard Sr of -the younger generation of this community! Through the eight years, the Port reaching top honours. this fete. } Congratulations to all whether active in skating or administration: Perry Figure Skating Club. Remove Snow Tires" Port Perry Star Co. Limited Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas w mT HARRISON Editor Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Published every Thursday by Th Port, erry Star ntario. ~~ Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of (postage in cash. Subscription Rates: In Canada $38.00 per yr., Single Copy_ 0¢ ~~ erry Skating Club has been in existence, not everyone has succeeded in But Anna Forder and Richard Stephens, who this year captured the Canadian Junior Pair Championship, will be"a shining example to the many young skaters who possess the desire and talent to equal hard working members The 1965- 66 season was the finest in the short history of the Port "Snow tires can be dangerous", reported Mr. H. E. Grainger, President of the Garage Operators Association 50 YEARS AGO of Ontario. "All to often Ontario motorists feel that they Wednesday, April 26, 1916 can safely and economically leave snow tires on their REMEMBER 25 YEARS AGO DaCaOR ORCL Of CaOZ0 W 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 26, 1956 automobiles 12 months of the vear ....} ret nothing could be further from the truth!" Mr. Grainger, speaking at a G.0.A. meeting in Tor- onto, told garage operators from across the province that they should warn motorists that the use of snow tires on bare roads was inviting loss of control or even a serious skid which could end up in death or destruction of per- sonal property. The G.O.A. President indicated that the life of the motorist rests on four pads of rubber about the size of the palm of a man's hand. This of course is the only portion of the tire touching the road while the car is in motion. A garage operator himself, Mr. Grainger from Perth, Ontario, indicated that part of a tire's road holding abili- ties springs from its suction-like contact with the asphalt surface of the road. In snow tires, suction is eliminated by the very design of the tread itself, which features sharp lugs with wide spaces betweémthem for biting into snow, very effective in snow and slush, but hardly the thing for bare roads. Mr. Grainger recommends removal and storage of snow tires immediately after the last snow likely each year and replacement of sound safe top quality automo- The Ontario Dpartment of Agriculture Authorities have estimated from investigation that fully $5,000,000 worth of damage was done to grain crops in the Province of Ont- ario last year by Smut. Mr. Thos. Duff and sons, Myrtle had their annual wood-bee last week. After which the ladies arrived on the scene and a good old time "hop" was indulged in until the wee hours of the morn- ing. Mr. Fred Lyle, Seagrave has moved to Greenbank, and Mr. "Norman Midgley has moved onto the farm recently occcupied by Mr, Lyle. On Sunday evening in the Methodist Church, Seagrave, about a dozen young people- were received into Church Thursday, April 29, 1941 Dr. Messrs. Master, Bill Cawker and Don Christie, Guelph, were at home with their families for the holidays, Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Shunk who have been living at Maple, Ont. have moved to Port Perry. Messrs, Harry Carnegie & Archie MacMaster leave this week for four months train- ing in military camp. Mr. and Mrs, Malcolm El- ford, Cartwright have moved to Port Perry. Former minister at Port Perry Rev. Wm. Higgs died suddenly at Lindsay. Campbell Mac- Claude Vipond, well known surgeon, was nomin- ated to represent the Liberal Party in Ontario Riding in the forth coming Federal election. The local fire brigade were called to two chimney fires, one at the home of Mr. Max Heidt, Manchester and one at the home of Mr, Hocken on Simcoe Street. Damage in both cases was slight. Florence E. Nasmith and Gordon R, Annison were mar- ried in Reigat Surrey, Eng- land. p Rev. Mr. Wylie, Port Perry was the minister at Manches-' ter Church on Sunday. Th following officers were appointed to office for 1956 for tHe Brooklin Lacrosse Club: Pres. Earl Ormiston,. Sec'y Allan Rudkin, Treas. bile tires. DED O GEG EEE LBL, BGG Fellowship, HDB DBD PCC CCG) GGG) EO ERIE CE) Or ABN ON En A John Vipond, OO SUGAR SIGN OF SPRING ~~ You glorious thing, Of marriages Ah, Spring, You make me want to sing And baby carriages; And make me want to laugh And make me yearn for a bout And make me joy in squirrels; Their poise With boys When the blood runs And the sun suns, And the fairways beckon And the flowers reckon It's time they put their dopey heads Out of the mangey flower beds. At a new calf; With a trout And envy girls Well, that's about enough of that. Hope none of my students read it. In my day, I've written some pretty nasty pieces' about spring, but she's boanced back every year. That bit of doggerel may inish her off for good. And what a pity that would be, wits puts the iron in our souls, But the slanting yellow rays of heat, the joyous chuckle of freed water, the tuous sterch of rotten earth emerging from the shrouds of death turn that iron, by some magic, into pure gold. ' A aa a 4 aa a 4 a aa alas Tow an SPI I can be as grouchy as a hat-check girl about spring. ..But today I wandered about the estate and felt the tiny, glimmering coal of my spirit fanned into something approaching a blaze. There was the picnic table, bloody but unbowed, after six months under the snow, There was the barbecue outfit, in three scattered pieces, succulent beckoner to the charred red steaks of July. There was the lawnmowers, reminder of days when you wear nothing but shorts, sweat gloriously, and stop for a beer every 16 minutes. Perhaps I should put them away in the fall. But when the ice age has left, and I go out and see them there, it's like meeting old friends. Rusty and ra- vaged, but familiar and dear. Signs of spring everywhere. Sixty black squirrels, moved out of my attic, seeking acorns they missed last fall. Lady next door, who has four little ones, hanging out washing with a fifth imminent, Egdless chant of kids skipping. Moose bellow of impatient steamers in the bay, waiting for break- up. Rire sirens saluting the annual epidemic of lup-__ gags Tires. Bitter 'lines around mouths turning to smiles, Overcoats and boots hurled into closets. Paint pots broken out. Teen-agers standing on corners, bunt- VVVVVVVY VIO OOIO0O0OOOPIOP DPPC CORDED A DEA Bn VVVVVTVIOYOOOYOO CE SMILEY ing like young calves. Women's hats -- goofy, exotic, irrevereat, awful. Old ladies tippy-toeing about, first time out since November. Kids up to their ears in mud. ' Anglers and golfers bragging, speculating about the great new season. Housewives, coatless, shout- ing nothings to neighbors. Teachers cursing as they mark Easter exams. Perhaps you can, but I can't imagine living in a country where the cycle of the seasons is almost unnoticeable. I like to be where the action is. I like spring to come like a shot of adrenalin, not a luke- warm cup of tea, It is little wonder that myth and legend, poetry and painting and music, not to mention religion, celebrate the theme of regeneration in the spring. If there is such a thing as the indomitable spirit of man, which I firmly believe, it would be impossible without spring. Think of,it. A year in which the days did not lengthen, the sun did not warm, the green did not appear, the soul did not expand. We would be lin- ing up at the ends of docks, clambering for six- shooters, and packing the subway stations for hur- ling-under-trains-purposes, by the first of June. --Toronto Telegram News Service » 3 i; 3 h 1 y * (i ic: iti il 1 is : » vy | - i ai Es + it i Be & 3 ] ae. 4 « #4] ~