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Editorial Topics Farm Safety Week Fewer farmers work faster to produce more food than ever before. Many of them are hurrying themselves to death because they sacrifice safety in the name of speed. Farm accidents have risen on a per-capita basis 1951, a Canadian farm population of 2,892,000 operated 399,600 tractors. Dominion Bureau of Statistics project- ions show that the farm population had decreased to 1,852,000 in 1969 but tractors had increased to 627,000. The tractor is the heart of the farm production operation. The operator is the brain. A Royal Com- mission on Agriculture study showed 78 per cent of farm machinery fatalities involved tractors. The failure of the operator, often fatigued and under stress because of weather, accounts for some 90 per cent of farm machinery accidents. Studies show two: thirds of tractor accidents take place in mid-afternoon or late afternoon. a But the victims are often children. Youngsters under the age of five, most of them .run over, account for 12 per cent of farm machinery deaths. Those under 10 account for 20 per cent of these fatalities." The protection of Canada's future farmers is a worthy goal for Farm Safety Week 1970 running from July 25-31. In its campaign, the Canada Safety Council in co-operation with the Canadian Farm and Industrial Equipment Institute urges farmers to help reduce these tragedies by refusing to take children along for rides on tractors, This a safety must on rural highways. Firstly, tractors are not designed for highway travel. In the second place, tural highways are extremely dangerous. One-third of tractor deaths take place on public roads. In 1969, 29 per cent of total accidents took place in rural areas inhabited by some 10 per cent of the population. But they accounted for 74.6% of traffic deaths and 42.4% of injurles. A third of the people involved in these accidents are rural residents, giving them a much higher per-capita death and accident rate" than urban residents. WE IN Another major cause of farm deaths is fires. Of the more than 200 annual farm fire fatalities, more than half of the victims are children. Ways to reduce these deaths are identifying the main hazards and fixing faulty equip- ment. The main cause of farm fire deaths are defective chimneys, chimney sparks on inflammable roofs, unsafe stoves, furnace installations, inadequate lightening protection, improper use of electricity and misuse of gasoline and kerosine. ~~ ~~. Children should be protected from exposure to chem- icals by keeping them away from mixing, dusting or pesticide spraying areas. Farm children live in a dangerous environment. The death rate of farm residents is 20 per cent higher than for will die accidentally this year, too many of them children. It's up to Canada's farmers to plan safety the way they plan crops in order to reduce the heavy toll taken by farm accidents, especially accidental child deaths and injuries. PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Area P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor N, Ne Member of the Canadian Weekly 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, Second Class Mail Registration Number 0268 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., Elsewhere $6,00 per year. Single Copy 10¢ «i daana'y parallel with the intensification of mechanization. In the nation as a whole. More than 1,300 farm residents SL PETE Sy Be It's high summer, with a hot sun, a blue sky, and perfect conditions for sitting "at the picnic table typing this column. But there'd "something Wrong, sométhing off key. It took me a while, but I've got it. Instead of the lush green jungle that used to encompass our back yard, there are splotches of color everywhere, destroying the solid green effect I'm so used to. My wife has been off on another of her wild, off-season bursts, like doing the spring house cleaning the week before Christmas. IEE It all'began with one rose. She received a large rose-bush, ready for planting, as a gift. Our rose bed, like the rest of our flower beds, was suffering severely from mal- -nutrition--and--neglect.--They-- were like children who undergo the same treatment -- stunted and retarded. Our roses had shrunk to three, one dead, one dying and one which produced about two tiny blooms a year. In a fit of ill-considered fury after some barbed remark from my wife, | went out and dug up the lot and planted the new one. I should have put it quietly in the tool- shed and let it die a natural death. It only took the one log to break the jam. The rose was a beauty. It looked so lovely and so lonely that the old lady, no gardner, sent me out to buy another. | got a dandy for fifty cents, age, sex, color and kind unknown but dubious. The boss was disgusted, but we planted the thing anyway. Then she bought two more and stuck them in, with peat moss, fertilizer and invocations to the gods. | thought that might bring a little peace, but she'd caught fire. In a flurry of self-disgust, she went at her window-box like a wolf coming down on the fold. It was a dilapidated object that runs along the side of. the garage. I rather liked it as it had been for several -- years with the fresh, green weeds spilling down over the side. But there was no sus Sl bara ke 4 aa/dnitl ih Leg | reasoning with her. Out came the weeds as if they were scorpions. Off | went for a carload of _zinnias, begonias and other bewildering things. Working as carefully as a surgeon so the window box wouldn't fall off the wall, she planted it and gave it a coat of paint, But we had some flowers left over. That meant | had to dig up a corner of another crumbling flowerbed, and we plant- ed the leftovers. | was confident this was . the end. She hasn't even pulled a weed for years. TT No such luck. Blazing with enthusiasm, or simple insanity, she shot me off for another carload, zinnias and marigolds. By the time | returned, she had weeded 'the front half of our moribund tulip bed. She had dug little holes and set in them a handsome row of orange and yellow mari- golds in half an hour. An instant garden. Now she had her eye on the old peony bed. Once a mass of green and bloom, it has - shrivelled to a few sickly plants producing . eight blooms. It seems it is to be dug up "and completely replanted with arother exotic species. With all this new beauty, of course, we had to buy a new water-sprinkler. The old one was perfectly all right. It cost $2.95 ten years ago and water would still come out of it, though it didn't really sprinkle any more, just shot out two jets in opposite directions. New one, $11.00. She's fascinat- ed, and keeps me moving it about all day, from one flower bed to another. "No, no. Move it another two inches to the right." It's all ridiculous, of course. Even | know that you don't plant flower beds in . the middle of July. They'll all be dead in a week, either from the haste with which they've been ripped from the womb and thrown into life, or from simple drowning. | liked the old jungle, with the odd tiger lily struggling up through the milk: weed, or a few hardy daisies reaching for the sun. Why can't women leave things alone? 5 Ay bird 5 LA A J Ted rod RCE Sgr ty "ing a community centre hall 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 165th, 1920 Mr, George Stone is taking a trip through to the coast. The Catholic congregation of . Uxbridge and Port Perry dre holding a Garden Party at the Church grounds, Uxbridge. The Reverend Mr. Ireland, his wife and family, moveg into the parsonage at Prince Albert, he will be the pastor © there. Miss May Fisher of Bridge- port USA. is visiting her parents in Ashburn, i? 1] 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 26th, 1945 Flying Officer L.G. Kerry, who has been home on fur- lough, received a telegram notifying him of being award- ed the D.F.C. Sgmn. Frank Densham, son of Mr. P.J. Densham, Oshawa arrived home aboard the British Hospital Ship "El Nil". oo r Mr. and Mrs. Bert Wilson and Bonnie, Toronto in Port Perry spending a few days with Mr. James Rudy. Lake Scugog has raised seven inches with all the recent rains, and the fishing is improving. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 21st, 1955 Reach Council meeting, Mr, Ralph Wilbur interviewed the council in regards to form- at Utica. Port Perry Hockey Club is proud to present a night of laughs "and entertainment in ® the form of Donkey Baseball. Mr. Ray Hobbs and family Manchester, are enjoying a holiday at Tobermoray.- Miss Mabel VanCamp, Blackstock leaves by plane Tuesday to attend the Inter- national Bar' Convention in London, England. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 21st, 1960 Eight year old, Sandra Healy won a Sono Lite in the third Elmer Limerick contest, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Raines celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary on their farm on the 7th concession. [=3 Mr. Bruce Pascoe, Port Perry received back injuries when he lost control of his car on Highway 7--12, north of Myrtle.