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DITORIAL PINION Protection Required We don't believe parents residing in the vicinity of Highway 7A are going to sit back and accept the reply council received from the Department of Higways in regard to a crosswalk at Arrow Street. Neither is the council going to be satisfied with the reply "that present regulations do not permit the signing and instatiation of a pedestrian crosswalk at Arrow Street and Highway 7A." TH® 70 to 80 children in that area crossing 7A either at Arrow or Ottawa Streets are in constant danger of being hit by oncoming cars. Traffic is always heavy and particularly so in the summertime. Members of Council and the area residents as well, do not necessarily insist on a crosswaik, if this is not poss ible, However, they certainly expect some type of warn- ing signal will be installed to help avert tragedies on this busy thoroughfare. In fact, we believe it's necessary to provide warning signals at Arrow as well as Ottawa Street for the safety of children crossing 7A. We Must Have Name Monday afternoon we received in the mail a well written article or letter "concerning conditions on the Townline road, dividing Reach and East Whitby Town- ship during the winter." Unf. rtunately, it cannot be printed in the Star at this time. !t is strictly against our and we are sure the majority of newspapers policy to print any outside contributions to the paper without at least having the name and address of the writer on file. This information has been announced on many occa- ssons still receive letters unsigned. We appreciate recening from our readers and we want you to continue expressing your opinion on important local matters. However, we must have your name and address. It does not have to be printed, although a signed letter does have a greater impact and makes a greater impression on the reader. . . . Sweden has very strict laws, and enforcement, to pre- vent drunk driving. The result, according to the Hon. John A. Volpe, U.S. Secretary of Transportation is that only 10 per cent of traffic fatalities in Sweden are attri- butable to impared driving; in the U.S. the figure is over 50 per cent. The Ontario Safety League says that the risk of arrest for anyone who drives after drinking in Sweden is 1 im 200; in the US. it is 1 in 2,000. LL: PERRY STA COMPANY, LIMITED SG IAM POR Serving Port Perry, Reach, Seugeg and Cartwright Townships P HVIDSTEN, Publisher - Editor WM. T HARRISON, P. HVIDSTEN, Jr. Plant Manager Advertwing Manager Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspeper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assiriation SS WS S SN Published every Wednesday by The Port Perry Star Co. Led, Port Perry, Ontario ss Authorined as second class maill by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Clase Mail Registration Number 066 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr, Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy 10¢ GY iby BILL MILEY UGAR ano Spice ONLY HALF THE LIST OF SMILEY'S TROUBLES March is a time for madness in this coun- try. I have lain on the grass with a girl in March, studying for exams. And I have waded button, in the same month. This is enough to make Canadians a bit more psychotic than other nations. March is as unpredictable as a pregnant female, as precocious as an eccentric old man. "Mad as a March hare" is no flight of the imagination. You don't have to be a hare to be mad in March. All you have to do is look at the body of your car at what the salt and sand have done to it, and you get mad. All you have to be is a mother with soaking, muddy small children tromping in and out, and you get mad. All you have to do is total your fuel bill, and you know you are out of your mind to live in such a climate. All it takes is a note from a friend in the south, who asks how high the snowbanks still are, and says he expects to come home about the first of May. All you need to do is think of next month, and realize that the average Cana- dian gives up a third of his income in taxes, and you can go right around the bend. Our nerves are stretched to the snapping point by the rigours of the last four months, and it doesn't take much to break us. Even a little thing like forgetting to get your snow up to the belly- a new workroom for my department, and I couldn't design the interior of an out- house. I'm in charge of two public speaking contests and two essay contests, both with looming deadlines. The cat did it again on the floor last night and is going to the glue factory if it happens once more. The C.N.R. has phoned five times to tell me I owe them $1.09, which was their mistake in the first place. The guy whoshovels my drive with his - plow has put his rates up fifty per cent. I have sixty essays, seventy-five tests, and hundred and thirty exam papers to mark. I have stubbed the second-littlest toe on my right. foot and the nail is dangling by a painful bit of gristle or something. I missed two crucial shots and lost out on the big prize in the last curling bonspiel. The lock on the bathroom door has been gone since Christmas and people keep get- ting locked in, instead of locked out. So, all in all, if you hear a small "POP" one of these days, it won't be the wax in your ears cracking. It'll be little insigni- ficant me. There. I know there's nothing more boring than other people's troubles. But I've got about half of them off my chest. And you must feel better to know that someone in the world has as many troubles as you. And of course there are some things on the black ink side of the ledger, too. There's the "winter break" as they now call what used to be the Easter holidays. A whole week in which to do nothing but mark exam papers. There's the prospect, in about six weeks, of getting the leeches off my back (and into the unemployment lines). An there's the sheer pleasure of not getting up in the dark every workday, The sun shines, waterily and occasionally. There's « glimmer of hope that that pecu- liarly Canadian m onster -- winter --, having Mr. were coffee po gre departure from the old Holtby homestead where they had pare lsat time to some travelling and will likely take rigs il + 1 HE (ie! Tie alll nies E. Lick, Oshawa. = > Y * 25 YEARS AGO Camp at Monteith, he will begin work at the United 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 15, 1955¢