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O.P.P. "Open House" World War, is today considered one of the most important departments of any large corporation or organization on the North American continent. A . O° When Eric Silk, a number of years ago was appointed; Commissioner of .Ontario: Provincial Police, he decided' good public relation was perhaps more important between the police and public than in many other organizations where public relation had been introduced. For several years, Port Perry has been serviced by the considering it has only been a patrol service, the protect- ion given to the residents seems quite adequate. Perhaps with a local police unit, the streets may be patrolled more frequently, but there is no doubt the well trained officers of the O.P.P. carry a great deal more authority than its counterpart. : An aspect of importance to the ratepayers of this community, and frequently overlooked, is the difference in cost. The operation of an adequate local police unit in a municipality the size of Port Perry could quite conceivably cost the ratepayers $40,000. annually or about 12 mills added to the already high tax rate. With 'Additional evidence that public relation is a vital part of the police, is the announcement released by the Commissioner, Eric Silk of the establishment of a Canadian Police Week, May 10 - 16. The week will be public to visit the facilities of the various departments of the Ontario Provincial Police during that 'week. «In the announcement, Mr. Silk states: "Our members [ "will be pleased to welcome visitors in the more than =~ 190 Ontario Provincial Police offices throughout the * Province to discuss the functions of this force, our role in today's society and the services we are equipped to provide. ) Look After Equipment The warmer spring weekends are beginning to create a stir- of activity at the marinas. Boat owners are ready for the coming season, have cleaned and painted hulls and checked out motors, The Ontario Safety League claims that safety equip- ment often gets the short end of the stick on the spring overhaul. Itis important that the engine is in good condit- ion and the hull dry, but how about these frayed mooring and anchor lines, the broken paddle that's never been replaced, or the old style lifejackets that haven't been used or even tested for years. They may have an approved label- on them but will they work? The safety of your family and your boat could depend on any one of these important items. Although all boats are not required to carry an approv- ed fire extinguisher, the Ontario Safety League claims that any boat powered by a gasoline engine, even if it is an outboard, should be equipped with an adequate fire extinguisher. ri , PORT PERRY STAR | COMPANY, LIMITED Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas : Hes P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher : : CWM. T. HARRISON, Editor © 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 partment, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash, 8econd Class Mail Registration Number 0265 : Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Public relation, almost non-existant before the Second Whitby Detachment of Ontario Provincial Police and . the -present arrangement the cost is 'practically nil. observed from coast to coast, and Mr. Silk invites the. PRO MLA SRL PETS Ld LIFE IN THE SAN Went for a chest Xray to-day and had quite a reminisce with the doctor who exa- mined me. It turned out that he was the 'second-in-command at a sanatorium where I spent one of the most dreary years of my' life. He's retired now and does this work as a part-time thing. He told me 1 wouldn't believe what has happened to the San. . When | was there, it held about 1,500 pa. tients. It now has 300. Average length of stay then was 18 months. _Today it is three months. - T.B. wasn't a comparatively simple thing when I was there. Three people died in three months in one ward I was in, because their lungs were so rotten they couldn't breathe. Two of them were in their 20s. The tensions, frustrations and monotony © played chess-for hours a day. with the guy "of life in a sanatorium have been described often enough. It was like being in jail, except you couldn't walk around. And al- ways, hovering in the air, like a couple of vultures, were two things: Surgery and your "culture." F 2 Surgery meant hacking out most of you: ribs on one side, to collapse a lung that was too far gone, or removal of the lung. - If your "culture", a sputum test, broke down within 12 weeks, you had another' three or six months added to your sentence. I was lucky. All I had was a shadow on my lung. I felt fine. 1 never had a "posi- Sugar and Spice tive" result from tests, and I couldn't even ° muster enough sputum for a culture. But it still wasn't much fun. Perhaps I acclimatized better than most; .I'd had a year in prison camp, not too long before -- good training for life in the San I had learned that time does pass, How- "ever snail-like, in such circumstances. But I was dreadfully lonely at first, and pretty resentful toward the gods. I had been married six weeks when the shadow on the lung was discovered. About a week later, something else was discovered. My wjfe was pregnant. We were about 200 miles apart, with no money for train trips "to visit. This was'the worst period. How times change. Nowadays my wife thinks nothing of spending $10 on a long distance call to one of the kids, for no par- ticular reason. In those days, I was on full pension. I think it was $55 a month, and the government kept back $15 of it to help pay for my keep. . So it was letters, one a day. There's still a bushel basket of them in the attic, full of purple prose; what we'd call the baby, and stuff. I feel like an old fool when I read them now, and my wife weeps and won- Eh ders why I don't write poems and gooey | stuff to her nowadays. But I shook down into life at the San, and as always in retrospect, remember mostly the good things, and the funny things. : } I began a writing course, and won a prize. I wrote scripts for the San radio station, I in 'the next bed and became a tolerable, though erratic, player. 5 Most of us were young veterans, and we had a certain esprit de corps, which meant beating the establishment. For example, the food was nourishing, but lousy, like all institution food. One chap had a wife who "smuggled in bacon and eggs and onions, Every night, about an hour after the nurses had snuggled us down, and while the night nurse smoked and drank coffee, the action would begin, ri: 473 ed Out would come the illicit hot plate, and the forbidden frying pan. The spryest, usually I, would whack up a great, reek. ing feed. 'And with one lamp, carefully screened, we,d play poker until 4 a.m. No worder they had trouble rousing us at five for our morning wash. x If it was a special occasion, maybe a birthday, we'd chip in and buy a mickey. Oh, yes. We had a bootlegger -- who was also a bookmaker -- among the patients, He was tubercular and also diabetic, dying on his feet, but he staggered around the wards each day, taking bets and orders. You'd be surprised how far a mickey goes among four T.B. cases, when they haven't had anything stronger than milk for a month, Like most of life, it wasn't all bad, : ' a . * =--Tofonto Telegram Syndicate - Thursday, 650° YEARS AGO Thursday, April 29, 1920 Rev. John Ford will preach next Sunday morning at the Baptist Church when he will terminate his ministry here. Mr. John Nasmith has' accepted the position of book- keeper with the Farmers' Union Milling Co. Last Saturday the boys and girls of Seagrave organized the Sunshine Junior 'League with the following, officers; President -- Gladys Joblin "Secretary -- Alma Frise Treasurer -- Elgie Joblin Ex.-Com. -- Grace Reynolds, Vera Tanner, Olive Mark, Ross Midgley. : -25 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 8, 1945 Lion Sam Griffen of the Port Perry Lions Club was elected Deputy District Gov- ernor of District A3 Zone 10 for 1945-46 at the zone meeting held in Port Hope, Friday, April 27th. Mr. J.J. Gibson bought the home belonging to the late Mr. and Mrs. W. Crosier and moved there recently with his family. All were sorry to hear that Driver ence Butson had | been wounded and is in hosp- ital in England. We hope to' hear news of his improvement. I We are happy to hear that 'Mr. V. P. Stouffer is gradually improving from his recent attack of pneumonia. = 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 6, 1965 A very pleasing Piano Recital was held at the Port Perry Public School by the Pupus ot Mrs, McClintock, ATCM, RMT, assisted by Miss dean Samells and her pupil Ronnie Kennedy. ' Some 19 years ago a group of community spirited men got together and organized a Lions Club in Port Perry. On Monday night this Club held its annfial charter night to commemorate that occasion. 10 YEARS AGO May 5, 1960 On Friday, Mrs. Wm. Heayn , and Mrs. H. Jeffrey accompan- ied Mrs. A. Brown to Guelph where they visited Rev. and Mrs. C. Clark. i Four weeks ago the water roseenough to flood the cause- way but we didn't know then : that the water would rise and rise until it reached a depth of more than two feet and remain for some weeks. All sorts of complications, incon- "venience and expense have resulted.