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HomeMy WebLinkAboutGrandBendTimes, 1968-08-16, Page 4Times Forest Fires Each summer, forest fires caused by—neglected campfires, carelessly discarded cigaret butts or rubbish fires left unattended have marred many enjoyable vacations. This fire season, an above normal fire hazard condition is predicted. All persons using forest areas should take extra care with the use of fire this summer and remember the following precautions: Forest Fire Consciousness—only constant awareness of the threat of fire can keep an individual from causing one. Campfires—never start one unless it is needed. Never light one during a high wind. Choose a spot near water on flat rock or gravel. Never leave the fire unattended. To put the fire out, drench with water, stir with a stick, drench again with water, then check for any live coals with your fingers. Smoking Materials- while travelling in an automobile use the ash tray. While walking in the forest always stop to smoke. Use a lighter instead of matches. Use roll -your -own cigarettes. To extinguish, crush on a rock or in mineral soil. Rubbish Fires-- in the fire district obtain a fire permit from a fire warden or department of lands and forests office. Read and obey all instructions on the permit. Burn during the evening when the humidity is high. Do not leave the fire unattended until it is thoroughly out. Forest Fires- -report forest fires immediately to the nearest fire warden or department of lands and forests office. Snails Every year at this time the long hot trek begins. The snails come out from under the leaves and begin their yearly migration to the water. It's a long arduous journey and only the hardiest and fastest of the little animals make the month long trip through the hundred yards of sand to the beF ch. All over the beach, if you lie close to the sand and listen carefully you can hear the .whimpering of tiny snails as they plod along through the, drifts of sand, which burn their tiny feet. They are whimpering to you asking each one of you to help them in their plight. Do a good deed this week. Put a tiny snail in the pocket of your bathing suit when you go for a swim. Take it to its destination. RESCUE BREATHING (MOUTH-TO-MOUTH) THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY 1 40-- •.), 41, t 2v, - \t 3 • 5--, 4 4. TURN VICTIM FACE UP OPEN victim's mouth PLACE mouth tightly REMOVE your mouth RAISE neck with one hand PULL lower taw 10 Jut around vichn-s mouth and RELEASE victim's nostrils and TILT heacf fully back position PINCH nostrils BLOW IN The victim's LISTEN for air to come out with the other hand shut to prevent air leakage MAINTAIN downward pressure on forehead i r hest should rise of victim's lungs LOOK for the fall of the victim's chest PINCH NOSTRILS AND 1310W IN AGAIN REPEAT steps 3 and 4 continuously. IF AIR PASSAGES ARE NOT OPEN: CHECK neck and head positions, CLEAR mouth and throat of foreign substances. Start immediately. Don't give up. Send someone for a doctor. For infants and children, cover entire mouth and nose with your mouth. Use small puffs of air about 20 times per minute. Apply rescue breathing in case of DROWNING, CHOKING. ELECTRIC SHOCK, HEART ATTACK, SUFFOCATION and GAS POISONING. Publisher 238-8181 David S. Fenn Executive Editor Harry Jennings Editor - - - David Pyette Advertising Manager David Cox Member Grand Bend Chamber of Commerce Well, we could always try the Arctic Circle The White Collar Worker By PATRICK DONOHUE of St. Peter's Seminary Some people think I have bungled my Mission to the Heathen. It happened on a Friday afternoon when I decided to drop around to The Times office. The staff was just leaving when I arrived. They asked me if I wanted to join them for a beer. I said that I did and turned down the invitation. I told thein that it was a case of rules. They told me that the Times doesn't have any rules against beer. The seminary has. We have to take on enough beer during the summer to preserve us through the hibernation. According to the fellow seminarians, I should have waived the rules and gone for a beer for the sake of religion. l 1 I couldn't see myself holding a revival meeting when the booze began to flow. My psalm singing is lousy when I've been drinking. They thought it would have been a good way to show that we can have fun. Better send someone who can really hold his beer. The seminary drinking team would go down to sad defeat if I were the only member. They thought it would have been a good way to show that we are human. They thought it would have been a good way to explain about priests who leave the Church and get married. It is obvious that I boobed. But I didn't think of these enormous consequences at the time. So I didn't go to the beer party. So The Times staff goes to hell. Guest column of the week Mother or Bride ? by Dr. Judith Brigham The ecumenical Thanksgiving Day service at the Mary Ellen Chapel, Eisenbach Museum has been an occasion of special significance for a growing number of summer and winter residents. This is my reason for giving the time, effort and money it has taken to participate when there are so many Thanksgiving Day services between Louisville, Kentucky and Grand Bend, Ontario which one could attend. When anyone uses the word "ecumenical" at least four different meanings may be implied. First of all there is the meaning identified with Christian unity or ecumenical goals centered in brotherly love which was predominant in the early decades of the twentieth century. " The next development was a movement toward a unified administration. Interdenominational or ecumenical co-operation was viewed as necessitating amalgamation of local churches for the sake of cutting the expense of duplicate buildings and budgets. As in any big business enterprise the aim was efficiency and lowest possible costs. The third development came with the Second Vatican Council and the granting of permission for inter -communication between Roman Catholics and Protestants in matters not involving the heart of the liturgy, the ultimate aim being one Church in which all churches would recognize the primacy of the Pope as one bishop among equals. The fourth view, which is still submerged, should receive increasing attention in the years ahead. It is the view which does not regard the Church as the province of male perogative but rather as the Bride and Body of Christ in the world. It implies a foundation of conscious respect for all that is meant by each Jewish woman being a physical descendant and each Christian woman being a spiritual descendant of the freewoman Sarah. It implies a clear recognition of the difference between the freewoman Sarah and the bondwoman Hagar, the difference between a woman who has the right of responsible consent before God and the woman who must do as another person commands or forces. It implies that the remaining vestiges of chattel property, the view that a woman's body and mind is the possession of another person or family will vanish. It implies the right of the freewoman in every generation to claim her heritage. It means in brief that the era ahead will be the Era of Mary Magdalen or the Era of the Bride of Christ, that two-party order -freedom thinking and structure in which the married woman participates will be assumed, and that a monolithic one-party Church will be as outmoded as any other tyrannical dictatorship. To an unusual degree this has already happened at the Mary Ellen Chapel, and it points the way to a new Christian era which will be, not mother -centered, but bride -centered, as God intended in the creation. o) co m no -o to }sn6ny 'sawn pua8 pue.i mi