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ve LAL a -- St A Tne cl ES Over Labour Day Weekend Drive de fensively Minister of Transportation and Communications John R. Rhodes urged motorists to drive defensiv- ely over the coming Labour Day weekend in an effort to avoid a repetition of the carnage on Ontario roads during the August Civic Holiday. "Through the August 3-4-5 Civic Holiday weekend this year, 33 people died in traffic accidents on provincial highways," said Mr. Rhodes. Defensive driving could have prevented many of these highway tragedies. Speed too fast for conditions, failure to yield, improper passing and loss of control were major contributing factors. "Surely it's worth a tremendous effort on the part of every citizen who drives, to see that we stop sacrificing dozens of lives each holiday weekend," added Mr. Rhodes. Preventability is the keyword to defensive driving. The only consideration when a possible emergency situation arises is to prevent an accident from happening, despite the actions of other drivers or adverse driving conditions. Critical defensive driving practice must include: - leaving a safe distance between you and the car ahead. At least one car length for every 10 miles of speed. - don't insist on the right-of-way at highway intersections, even if you are legally entitled to it. - look well ahead and be constantly aware of people or objects in your path which may affect the movement of your vehicle. - gear your speed to weather and road conditions so that in an emergency situation you have time to take defensive action or find some safe "out" of a collision situation. : "All drivers must learn to give a little," the Minister concluded. "They must learn to react responsibly to the unexpected. It doesn't matter whether a driver is right -- he can be right and dead -- and that is a real tragedy.". More drivers hauling trailers are involved in collision on summer weekends than at any other time and Saturday seems to be the worst day. Driving a car with a trailer attached demands an entirely different approach. For one thing, you need much more room to stop, turn and pass, and a greater distance than normally between you and the car ahead. If you're forced into a panic manoeuvre your trailer may jack-knife or fishtail. If the trailer sways back and forth when travelling at high speeds, the load weight may be improperly distributed or the tires may be unequally inflated, The hitch may not be strong enough or the axle assembly needs adjusting. NNT PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited ------ Sam, (+ CNA 3 (0m): \ Kray Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher ! : J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday by the Part Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario 3 Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mgt Registration Number 0245 Subscription Rate: In Canada $6.00 per year. Elsewhere $8.50 per year. Single Copy 15¢ How po THEY TELL THE EWES FROM THE RAMS, Mommy ?* BILL MILEY UGAR ano FOOTNOTES FOR A SUMMER BUMMER I don't know about you, but we've had a real whizzer of a summer. Just a mad, gay, The Great Gatsby sort of thing. You know what I mean. You've been through it. Loitering by the pool with an extra-dry martini and the golden girls undulating past with so little on that your eyeballs pop out and splinter your sun glasses. Enchanting evenings on the beach, waves lapping. the fire glowing embers, and just the twenty-four of you. Night, and mystery, and romance, (By the way, did you ever try to glow an ember?) It's quite a feat. And speaking of feat, the only lapping I've heard this summer is our abysmally stupid cat lapping the sweat off my feet. He seems to like it - probably has a salt deficiency problem - and I must admit it gives me a strange, perverse thrill. Perhaps by now you realize that in my own far from subtle way, I am suggesting that we've had a bummer of a summer. And you absolutely, without qualifica- tion, one hundred and twenty-four percent right. Oh, don't think it's been a complete waste of time. We've aged two years in two months, which is quite a feat. There's that word again. Feet? : == We haven't just been lying around, watching the grass grow. This would, in any case, be difficult, since it does not grown after about the 20th of June. But the dandelions are pretty, though short-lived, and the wild clover has a certain charm. No. we've been quite active socially. It all started after Commencement, last June. One of the teachers had a party. Teachers, after Commencement, are somewhate similar to Magellan's sailors, who, after battling six months to round Cape Horn, find themselves a Pacific Ocean and a tropical island. It was a good party, as parties go, and they go too long. However, as we say in the game when we don't quite know what else to say, we accepted a ride home with our resident artist, who came in for some hot chocolate and burned a hole in one of the end-tables as big as your eye, when no one was looking, in the process of puttng out a cigarette. I think that started the summer on the wrong foot. I seem to have a fetish about \RURSIE FAR PENRO I ANCE RE 1 y Ne RNR EX EO RAS UTI NRA TAAL ANN IN TIPS ERT ES Serice BEC , foots and feet today but don't let it bothe: you. Well, to get back to our swinging summer social life, it's been something. We've been to a funeral and a wedding. I've never had so much kissing in my life. " While the funeral was sad, in a sense, it was also a family reunion, in another. Nephews and nieces I haven't seen in years. And four of the five Smileys all together at once, for the first time in a couple of decades. The wee Colonel was in Germany. And the wake had a good touch of Irish in it, if you follow me. And the wedding was a pretty good shot, too, even though we_discovered the happy couple had been married several hours before, due to some stupid, ridiculous statute. I got to kiss not only the bride, but her four older sisters, all of them former students of mine. And their mother. Also, as it was a Ba-hai wedding, quite a few of the guests, ranging from suckling babes to grandmothers, were former students. I like to see them and talk to them. John H. is an artist who gave me, I think, a lucid explanation of how he is trying to combine the purely visual, the abstract, and his own consciousness .. John M., on the other hand, was about to head for the west coast, but someone was trying to talk him into going to Germany instead. Margaret sang some songs that make the ripples go up and down your spine. She has granny glasses and a great grin. Len is a grave-digger. Gets twenty-five bucks a day whether he has to dig a grave or not. He offered me a special deal, on some wasteland behind the cemetery. In Septem- ber he's off to England to study how to teach in a special school whose theme is Awakeness. We should call our schools Assleepness. Ah! Great to be young. Nonetheless, din, A must carry the blasted torch. I've been swimming twice. I have driven past the golf club once. I've been fishing once and caught three crappies. My wife just broke three ribs. We've been waiting for the roofer for three weeks. And tomorrow, we have our third big social occasion of the summer. My daughter and her husband are arriving with twenty retarded adults whom they've been retrain- ing, for a picnic in the back yard. The Argyle Syndicate Ltd. { one day 50 Years Ago Thurs. Aug 28, 1924 Buy a home, with 8 rooms and large lot, plus a barn for only $2,500? Mr. R.M. Tipper, was ap- pointed the new Agricultural Representative. When Miss Alice Edgar was driving her horse and buggy along the road, a car collided with the horse and buggy, after which the horse had to be destroyed. 25 Years Ago Thurs, Aug. 25, 1919 At the lawn bowling tourn- ament, the three skips were Rev. Mr. Tuiss, Mr. Vesey, Mr. Ferguson. Mr. and Mrs. Art Cox and Tom McNeil, were high with 2 wins. William Beacock resigned as clerk of the Township of Cartwright, after 44 years of service. f Grant Christie and W.F. Crosier, attended a Swine Breeder's meeting in Toron- to. Remember when Jewel Shortening was only 30c a lb. and Aylmers Catsup (11 oz.) was only 19c. : 15 Years Ago Thurs. Aug. 27, 1959 Malcolm Bailey has been elected President of the Ont- ario Beef Cattle Improve- ment Assoc., for the year 1959-60. Mr. John Barringer, who has published the Millbrook Reporter for 21 years is retiring. Congratulations to Miss Jean Bright, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.- Bright, Sea- grave, as Jean has received her certificate after passing her examinations, which entitles her to teach Baton. 10 Years Ago Thurs. Aug. 20, 1964 Mr. William Armstrong, Mr. A.A. McNair, Mr. Geof- frey Neigh and Miss Ann Weber all joined the staff at Port Perry High School. Margaret Kerr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Kerr won a $400.00 Scholarship by obtaining 10 firsts and pass- ing her Grade 13 examina- tions. George Smith of R.R. 2 Port Perry will represent Ontario County 4H Club members on an award bus trip to Western Ontario. PARRRARRANRARNAD ADA Publish later next week In order that the management and staff may be able to enjoy the long weekend com- ing up, the Port Perry Star will be published later next week. Instead of being on sale Wednesday morn- ing the paper will be mailed and on sale Thursday morning. Deadlines will also be advanced 24 hours. Display advertising Tuesday 3 p.m. and classified, Tuesday 6 p.m. Any material, (art- icles or advertise- ment) we may receive prior to the long weekend would be greatly appreciated. Ri = wr - FD) \4