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EDITORIAL TOPICS Congratulations! Anna and Richard have done it! } * They have gone as far as can possibly be done in National competition by capturing the Canadian Pair Figure Skating Championship. This has been accomp- lished by a great deal of sacrifice and hard training on the part of the two young skaters. Since 1963 when they won their first championship, the Central Ontario Novice Pair Championship, Anna and Richard have progressed steadily, and have now reached the international status where competition will be keener, training even more demanding. } Anna and Richard know better than anyone what they are up against, and realize fully well, that the future will demand even greater sacrifice and additional hard training if they are to stay in contention with the best in the World. When the next two important events come up, Port Perry and area fans will be anxiously following their 'progress in reports from south of the border. The first event, the North American Figure Skating Championships takes place in Oakland, California, Feb- ruary 5 and 6, and the World Championships in Colorado Springs, the week of February 24. Both events will have the best skaters competing for honours, and with Anna and Richard go warm and * sincere wishes with the hope they will add laurels to those already won. "Must Be Operated With Caution From the reports on snowmobile accidents and fatalities that are arriving almost daily at the Ontario Safety League, one fact is obvious; a high percentage of these accidents occur while snowmobiles are being operated on public thoroughfares, and frequently involve collision with automobiles both parked and moving. The League claims there are two main reasons for this type of accident. Snowmobiles are designed for travel on snow which the skis and track of the machine can- bite into making control comparatively easy and definite. On ice-covered or hard-packed snow surfaces found on most roadways where it is possible to operate a snowmobile, these machines are very difficult to control in all aspects of their operation; stopping, turning, or even accelerating, and at higher speeds they become practically uncontrollable. This accounts_for the number of snowmobiles which have run into parked cars. The second aspect of a snow- mobile which makes it dangerous to operate on road- _ ways where automobiles are travelling is its size. It is i -- difficult for-a-car-driver--to-even-see-a-snowmobile-in.. many instances and therefore extremely dangerous for "the snowmobiler. . After consideration research on motorized snow vehicles and test driving them over the past five years, it is the considered opinion of the Ontario Safety League that snowmobiles should not be operated on public thoroughfares where a dangerous conflict could occur with automotive traffic. fan * * * 4 Whether YOUR. heart beats fast-or-slow is nothing ST to worry about as long as it's healthy And one way to help keep it that way is to support your Heart Fund and its all-out program of research, education an SER 2 "PORT PERRY § : COMPANY, LIMITED # VOR III, SERRE = SR SR Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor a Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association 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. 4 Subscription Rates: In Canada $8.00 per yr, ~~ Elsewhere, $4.60 per year. Single Copy '10¢. CE | ES ------winter carnival. : ; ; "" Don'f falk to me about the October beer and Predictions of disaster, we let him_go,. 'beautiful. 50 YEARS 'AGO Thursday, January 30, 1919 ¥ "Overland cars always have been designed and built to meet the taste and needs of substantial people. The good thing owners say cause the steadily increasing demand for Model 90 cars. There 4 probably will not be enough to meet the demand of this season. A.F. Carnegie -- Local Dealer Sale of Washgoods includ- ing Ginghams, Cotton Challie, Cashmerette and White Middy Cloth. Regular values 25¢ and 36¢. Clearing price 15¢ yard. --F. W. McIntyre < The young people of the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches are arranging to present a series of twelve talent entertainments. It is expected that a fee of 10¢ will be charged for adults and 5¢ for .children at each entertainment. Proceeds to go to start a fund for building a skating rink or for some "similar object. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 28, 1954 SOOTHING CREAMS, TURMOIL CLEANSERS, 155 UE T/$5UE, FACIAL SAVERS i _ BILL SMILEY Sugar and Spice] THOSE WINTER CARNIVALS Canadians, unlike Scandinavians, don't commit suicide during the long, cold, dark winter months. At least not more than the usual number. Instead, they. just half-kill themselves by attending a winter carnival. This makes them feel so rotten for the following week that they're so glad to be alive again that they wouldn't even contemplate suicide. I've seen people age 50 years during a month after that, we didn't hate each other. I went in the snow-shoe race and finished 21st. Went in a tug-o-war and was dragged 40 yards through the snow by exuberant, yelping students. Three years ago, son Hugh, laden with school work and music, and not doing too well in either, begged to be allowed to go to the Quebec winter carnival. He was only 17. - : After the usual soul-searching, hedging, He was entranced. 'Al those Quebecois fest in Munich th i est in Munich, or the carnival of the bulls dancing in the streets, being merry, loving in Pamplona, or the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Those things go on for a week;- or a month, and there's a lot of indisrimin- ating kissing, and dancing in the streets, and drinking. Ta We Canadians, hardy lot that we are, - compress the whole Bacchanalian orgy into a weekend: the winter carnival, Every self-respecting Canadian town has a winter carnival of some sort, and if the government had any brains, it would de- clare a national festival for about:the first - week in February. : It would be a great pressure-reliever. No work, all play. We'd get rid of our winter frustrations, our hatred of cold and snow. We might look and feel like skeletons when it was over, but we'd be purged of our hang-ups. Personally, I'd be willing to kiss prac- tically anybody, and dance in the streets should it be 12 below, and drink almost anything except antifreeze, if I had a week's carnival to look forward to, and back on. It would break the bony, rigid back of winter. We'd just be climbing back into our ruts about Valentine's Day, and there would be spring, right around the corner. Two years ago, as a centennial project, our school had a Frosty Frolic. It 'was There -was no organization at all, which is the secret of a good time. One bright, white February day, we mar- ched down to the park, teachers and stu- dents in step for once, behind an impromp- tu band, and had a hell of a time, Ski-doo races, tug-o-wars, and teachers being over- powered by mobs of kids and having their faces well washed in snow. For at least a pulled up his marks by 12 percent and passed his performer's music exam. Therapy. = ; Now Kim has been invited to a winter carnival, at a university, by the jailbird I mentioned recently. Should she go? She's '18, or near enough. In another kid. In Canada, she's just a baby, with years of education ahead of her before she could even think of marriage, let alone babies. 1t will all sort out, but I think the winter carnival is a great institution. When it's all over, there are husbands looking for wives and vice versa. There are people who have gone through the ice in a Ski- doo and saved their lives only by a hasty application of toddy to the tummy. The winter carnival has somthing for everybody. For the kids, there is the ex- citement and the colour and the chance of being run over by a snowmobile. For the swinging set, there are wild rides through the woods, and the parties, and the break- ing of bones on the ski hill. For the middle-aged ,there is curling and compan- ionship and remembering the good old days before those noisy damned snowmobiles were invented. Long live the winter carnival. But let's spread it out a little. Forty-eight hours of kissing and dancing and drinking brings even a sturdy Canadian to his knees. See you at the carnival, ~--Toronto Telegram Syndicate one another. He came home, went to work, country, she'd be married, with at least one Ontario County Council has passed a by-law making three grants to district hosp- itals. This marks the second occasion in recent meetings wherein... grants for - capital 'construction costs of hospitals have been made by the council. In December the council made a grant of $10,000 to the Port Perry Hospital. The annual meeting of the Port Perry, Reach and Scugog Agricultural Society was held in the - Public Library, Jan. 256th. The big job done on the fair grounds during the year was repairing the grandstand and putting a new roof on it. This had cost a little over $1,500.00. - The meeting of the Man- "chester, Prospect and Myrtle Young People was held in the Myrtle Church, January 18 with President Wesley Johnson in charge. It was decided that the Young People go to Toronto to hear Billy Graham on Sunday, Jan. 23. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 29, 1969 The first from Port Perry to be chosen; as Page Boy was Doug Edenborough. Doug is an honour student at Port Perry Public School. Two old pictures which once hung in the fire hall have come to light again. Mr. Guy Raines, Fire Chief of the Port Perry Brigade brought the old pictures into the Star office to show. The pictures show the Darktown Fire Brigade in action, They are bright colourd cartoon styled and were sent out by the Gutta Publishing and Rubber Manufacturing Co. in 1884. The pictures were sent out in much the same manner as calendars are to-day. Port Perry's Council for 1969 were Reeve J.J. Gibson, Art Cox, T.J. Harris, 1A. Boyd and Frank Godley. wy. | 2