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jw In The Water Last year over 1,200 Canadians lost their lives by drowning. A large number of these deaths 'were caused, by "sheer carelessness. Unfortunately, many of us pay scant attention to the dangers "that water may hold 'for us. It is therefore most important to learn, preferably at an early age, how to look after ourselves in, or on or near water. 4 The Water Safety Service of the Canadian Red Cross tries to promote this safety consciousness. It follows the simple logic that if you educate people in water safety, while they are young, you'll eventually reduce fatalities. age of 18, participated in Water Safety courses. At the same time drowning statistics were the same as their 1963 level despite the greatly increased use of water for pastime activities. This shows real progress in the drive for water safety. The Red Cross Water Safety Service offers a com- prehensive program in the instruction of water safety. There are several courses ranging from beginner to instructor "training. The emphasis is nearly always on 7 personal safety. Learning to swim is only a part of the program.Of great importance too is the human body's adaptability to water. Pupils of all ages are taught how to appreciate the body's natural buoyancy i in water. They are encouraged to relax in the different conditions that water provides. They learn a new rhythm of breathing. They are taught basic survival techniques and water safety accident prevention. : Emergency assistance to others, including artificial respiration and simple rescue methods, is also part of the program. At the age of 15 pupils can take the Leader course which enables them to teach under the guidance and supervision of fully qualified instructors, or lifeguards. At 17 one can qualify as an instructor. in 1969 more than 15,000 people Participated in this leadership program, ~The Red Cross Water Safety Service covers many other fields. too. In promoting swimming as a healthy form of exercise it encourages the use of safe and adequate swimming facilities, For example, rivers, lakes and coastal swimming areas are surveyed in order. to ascertain which parts, if any, are safe for swimming. Remote communities completely lacking in facilities are encouraged to use portable pools for teaching young children to swim. There are programs in teaching the handicapped to swim. The Red Cross actively promotes safety in the operation of small crafts and in skin and scuba diving. © But of course it is not only the pleasure seekers who find themselves in close contact with water. There are many people who work on or near water, and for them water can be an occupational hazard. Such people would include fishermen and construction workers. Apart from encouraging water safety awareness at an industrial level the Canadian Red|Cross has con- ducted valuable - research, with government backing, into the e deigiopion. 97 uly comfortable lite Jopicges. £7: He Xi : a OC AY Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas LL SR P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher _ WM. T. HARRISON, Editor a BE = HE Member 'of the Canadian - Weekly 'Newspaper Assoclation | Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoclation' Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Btar Co, Ltd.,, Port Perry, Ontario. Sa SR Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash, i8econd Class Mail Registration Number 0268 ~ Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., | Blsewhere $6.00 per your. Single Copy 10¢ Last year 750,000 Canadians, most of them under the BILL SMILEY Sugar and LET'S HAVE SOME SERVICE I have no sympathy for anyone except the public, Mail service in this country has gone backwards about 50 years in-the past two or three years. Costs have steadily increased, and service has steadily decreased, until we have reached the point where many people would welcome the return of the pony express riders who used to carry the mail through dust and storm and hostile Indians. Beacuse it is a government monopoly, it is huge, sprawling and utterly inefficient in a modern society. No enterprising priv- ate business would put up with the incred- ible sloppiness of the present postal system. If it did, the public would soon put it out of business. It's rather a paradox to note that the liquor stores, which used to operate on a five-day week,are now open six days, plus Friday evenings, while postal service has been cut to five days and post offices close earlier. Apparently there's more profit in booze than public utilities for government. And that's what the postal service is, or should be -- a public utility. Wouldn't we be in a fine state if hydro power, and -the telephone service, and police and fire protection were lopped off on Friday, to recommence Monday -- or Tuesday, if there were a Federal holiday? The only people who have benefited from Mr. Kieran's new, "efficient" postal service are the telephone and telegraph companies. They're reaping a harvest because big busi- ness has practically stopped using the mails. What's the point of posting an import- ant letter on Wednesday if you know it probably won't be delivered Friday, and therefore will he delivered the following Monday, or Tuesday .if Monday's a holiday. It's bad enough to drive a businessman to apoplexy, but it's just as frustrating, on 'a more personal basis, to the ordinary citizen, Spice Our daughter lives in the city, 90 miles away. She doesn't have a phone. If we write her on Monday, she gets the letter Thursday or Friday. If there's something urgent, and we write Wednesday, there's no guarantee she'll get it that week. So send her a wire! Suppose she's not at home. She doesn't get the telegram until next day, or the next. If I were to drop 'dead, she might find out about it a week' after the funeral. It wouldn't bother me, in that condition, but it might upset her a hit. Today I checked at the local post office. Three mails. a day go out. If I send a letter to my father-in-law, 120 miles due west, here's the _ procedure. It goes due east for 35 miles, then southwest for 200 miles, southeast then northwest for 120 miles. The shortest distance between two points is a triangle, in post-office math. There is a good-sized town three miles away. - A letter sent from thete can, and usually does take two days to get here. You could walk it in 45 minutes. Paradoxically, a colleague of mine writes his mother in England, and she gets the letter within 36 hours. If this is efficiency, I'm all turned around somehow. Granted, the postal workers were under- paid for years, though I'll witness that they were not overworked. I was employed in a post office during the Christmas rush and nobody was rushing that much. Pay them a decent wage, give them decent working conditions, but let's have some blasted service.' If the P.O. runs at a loss, pay it. 'The CBC and the CNR are heavily sub- sidized, and there aren't too many squawks. Millions and millions are thrown down the drain on such flourishes as the aircraft carrier Bonaventure, and shrugged off. How about delivering the mail on time! --Toronto Telegram Syndicate 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 20th, 1920 Port Perry Board of Trade. will give two prizes for best slogan to be used in develop. ing Port Perry. A few auto owners are still using last year's license number, They are liable to be. [J fined for neglecting to secure ¢ anew license. Mr. A.E. Rogerson, pro- prietor of the St. Charles Hotel has bought the Sebert ¢ : House. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 24th, 1945 Watch your clothesline as a there have been things taken ° off lines lately which are very hard to get. - Mr. and Mrs. N.P. Aldred have received word from their son Joel who is overseas telling of his promotion from rank of Flight Lieutenant to Squad ron Leader. _ The Fifty-ninth Anniversary of Port Perry United Church - was a successful and enjoyable event. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 26th, 1955 Five year old Timothy Brunton of Port Perry was the winner of a 10 horse power Mercury outboard motor at the Trenton Lions Club Jam- boree May 23rd. Week-end visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Doupe included Miss J. Doupe, Toronto; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mann, of Trent River. Mrs. H.N. Pare (Joan Marie - Bentley) who has been visit- ing her parents for the past month sailed from Quebec on the ship "Samaria" for England, May 18th. Joan is joining her husband who has been drafted to the Royal Navy for two years. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, May: 26th, 1960 Two public school girls Judy Manns and Janice Dow- son were attacked by a black squirrel while they were on the way to school. They were taken to the doctor who Advised rabies shots and this treatment has been started. Mr. and Mrs. A. Roach, Eunice and Susan, Mr. and Mrs. Don Carnegie, Beverley and Karen were at the former's cottage, Haliburton for the week-end. 3 v (