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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1970-06-04, Page 2RESCUE BREATHING (MOUTH-TO-MOUTH) THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY Start immediately: rim sooner you start, t e ggratet;the chance of success. f ..•71::. "W. ....., Open airway by lifting neck with one hand and tilting the head back with the other . hand. we.... SO 0.1 Pinch nostrils to prevent +sir leakage. Maintain open aiyvvay • by keeping the neck elevated. )4: Seal your mouth tightly around the victim's mouth and blow in. The victim's . chest should rise. II , 141111... ‘14, 4 Remove mouth. Release nostrils. listen for air escaping from lungs. Watch for chest to fall. REPEAT LAST THREE STEPS TWELVE 'TO FIFTEEN TIMES PER MINUTE. IF AIR PASSAGES ARE NOT OPEN Check neck and head positions, CLEAR mouth and throat of foreign substances . For infants and children, cover entire mouth and nose with your mouth Use small puffs of air about 20 times per minute USE RESCUE BREATHING when persons have stopped breathing as a result of. DROWNING, CHOKING, ELECTRIC SHOCK. HEART ATTACK. SUFFOCATION and GAS POISONING. Don't give up. Send someone for a doctor. Continue until medical help arrives or breathing is restored. SPONSORED IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST BY SEAFORTH SPORTS & MARINE YOUR LOCAL MERCURY DEALER SEAFORTH PHONE 52.7.0775 E47:4107#81214 COMPLETE STOCK CLEARANCE STARTS THURS., JUNE 4th • ALL LINES OF SHOES — HANDBAGS AND SLIPPERS AT GREAT SAVINGS . SAVAGE SHOES 20% OFF FOR CHILDREN SPECIAL DISCOUNT on RUNNING SHOES (While They Last) SLIPPERS Men's—Women's—Children's 1/2 PRICE LADIES' WHITE L,ROSS rtem and 'LLP70 O F F SAVAGE SHOES SANDALS 20% OFF • WINTER FOOTWEAR Snow Boots — Over Boots Curling Boots — Seal Skins 30% TENDINGS — LACES POLISHES CREMES — CLEANERS TWO FOR PRICE OF ONE BROKEN LINES AT EXTRA "BIG" DISCOUNTS GARRETT'S. SHOE STORE), 1).J11., 19 ALBERT ST. CLINTON From My Window — By Shirley J. Keller Life can get dull, I suppose, for some . people but when you work as a writer for a local newspaper and a reporter for the affairs of the county school board and the county council; mother two teenaged child- ren and one pre-School stick of dynamite; are wife to a man who loves to putter around the house and cap never find time in one evening to finish the project he has' started; serve as recording secre- tary for a province-wide church organ- ization; plus trying to fulfill duties in a dozen or so other minor capacities, there is do time for boredom to set in. Usually, I'm right at the heart of about eight or ten crises all at the same time. Let's take last week as an example. WO had an all-week' guest at our house. She was an exchange student from MIChigan' and a darling child. During that week we wanted to show our house guest as much of our town and our province as possible ... so we planned a week of special outings. The only pro- blem was to fit the new schedule Into an already crowded agenda. During the week. I had a school board meeting to attend. As it turned out, a kind of major story developed from the meeting which .meant a few more tele- phone calls and a bit of extra digging to tie -up all the loose ends. Believe me, it cats be quite a, perplexing puzzlement to get the facts. out to the people without antagoniting the public body about whom you are Writing. •To say the very least, there are times when I am thoroughly lupset about the whole matter until the story appears in print and I can make an assessment of the amount pf furor I have unleashed. Also during the week, council in the town where. I live pulled an unreasonable boner ... something newspaper people dearly love to find but really dislike to 'incover. It is something similar to the dog chasing the car and net knowing what to do with it if he caught it. After a little chat with my editor, I was appointed as the staff member to pour a, little coal on the fire - and naturally, to get burned if the flames got too high. That can be disconcerting too.. In the midst of all this professional pussyfooting, the children were playing an important role in my life. They pur- suaded me that I should drive them to the city for an evening of shopping. So with my daughter and her USA pal and my eldest, son and his school chum,we want off early one evening for the big country. Just about five miles from home; the- car blew Up - I mean literally. 'Before I knew what had happened, 1 had hot water all over the 'windshield. and an automobile that was puffing and steam- ing like Casey's engine. Just reward for someone who skipped a meeting to satisfy the wants of her family, I thought. At the same time, my blessed husband was carrying out a few renovations at home just simple things like papering the livingroom and dining room, refinish- ing an antique cupboard, painting the kitchen, building a sundeck Rind putting the finishing 'touches to the family room. Everything - and I mean everything - in the lower part of the house was torn up beyond recognition. Even this week, a whole ten days later, our home looks like a disaster area. Simulthneously,, I received instruct- ions in the mail to get the minutes of the most recent meeting of the church board into the mail before the mail strike became a reality. That means a minimum of one day's hard labor.Where can I possibly find time this week? Then our four-year old took sick. you know, mothers. The kind of ailment where he ran a low-grade temperature, whined and coughed continuously and need- ed a bit of medication to pull' him back to normal. Naturally he chose to be ill on a Wednesday, when it is most difficult to find a, physician in his office. I was lucky this time. A gentle reminder came from a friend ... was I keeping in mind my responsibility to organize the class rer union scheduled for this year. Why now, I asked myself? When I took on the job it seemed as though the date would never come., Now here ft is and right at a time when I am so busy .... • The other night my husband and I just dropped everything and went to a movie. It was the first time in ages that we had done that. The movie wasn't bad" but it really wasn't that terrific either. My husband echoed my sentiments exactly. "At least it is quiethere. Nobody is bothering us -and' we can't hear the telephone. Let's do this often." haw Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAV BROS., Publishers A NDREW Y. McLE204,, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Newspapers Subscription Rates; Canada (in advance) $6.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $8.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 15 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Opportunity to Aid Lions Park 4 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, June 4, 1970 Junin fxpositor I . Sugar and Spice • I For more than thirty years the Sea- forth Lions Park has ,been an oasis in the community that each summer at- tracts hundreds upon hundreds of lo- cal people as well as other hundreds of visitors from a wide area. They come for. a picnic or to watch the kids swimming or just to sit and enjoy the cool breezes. Much of the at- traction, of course, is the pleasant sett- ing, the neat tidy green lawns: All this means maintenance and it is -co here that the Lions ark committee runs' ,into trouble. Maintenance costs continue to 'rise and while use of the. park also rises, revenue doesn't keep pace. There is no cost to the people that use the park apart from an ice cream cone or a bottle of pop or in the case of a large picnic, two or three dollars to rent special tables. Thia• is the way the Lions Club likes it —' it is part of its service to the community. At the same time there is the prob- lem of maintenance costs and to assist , A review of the procedures whereby groups of students may be taken on tours was a wise aftermath of the tra- gic accident, near Parkhill in which two Exeter school girls recently lost their lives, .1 Certainly if any action of an admin- istrative nature could prevent, the re- occurance of such an event, it should be taken. •.• Fortunately the review resisted de- r-hands that arose in some areas that all such trips should be banned and result- ed instead in some praCtical and com- mon sense guide lines. Visits by organized groups of stu- dents to see new sights and enjoy new experiences can contribute equally as much or more even to the learning •ex- perience as equal time spent in the classroom. Much of the troubles ,we experience today flow from a lack of knowledge of the other viewpoint and ignorance of .hbw others live. Visits by rural stu- dents to the city and of city students to, the country, by Canadians to the States and of American students to Canada in meeting these the club is introdUcing 1,ions Park Car Stickers. On sale at $1 each, a sticker, attached to the wind- shield of a car, indicates the owner has had a part in the Lions Park program. The stickers.are good for the entire sea- son — for one trip or a thousand 'trips into the park. Since the average area car visits the park many dozens of times during the season the cost is but a penny .or so a trip. But added together these .pennieS can count up to an amount that will be of 'major assistance in meeting day to day costs. • The Lions point out. that at no time has there been an admission charge the park and, this continues to be the Case. All , the same.we would hope the palic would .regard the purchase and display of .a Lions Park Car, Sticker as a privilege and an opportunity to help. The Lions Park means too much to a' wide community to have its ; continued maintenance placed in jeopardy by the lack of revenue. such as the Negro class which visited recently'in Colborne ToWnship, can do much to break down predudice and ig- norance in a way that no amount of, reading or' classroom instruction can do. Here in' Seaforth students through the years have been fortunate as their travels took them across Ontario and into Quebec and neighboring States. They are better citizens because of these experiences. The fact that the SDHS girls: band has been in demand over a wide area perhaps 'has encour- agefl,travel on the part of local students. Any accident that results' in the loss of life is a tragedy. But to prevent trips such 'as that in which the Exeter pupils were taking part will not prevent simi- lar accidents occuring in other ways and under, other circumstances. Reasonable regulations interpreted in the light of circumstances existing at each school and properly enforced, can- not of course, be absolute assurance that loss of life may not again result. Neith- er can traffic laws ensure there will be no more ,traffic fatalities yet we con- tinue to drive our cars. by Bill Smiley I have no sympathy for anyone ex- cept the public. ' Mail service in this country has gone baCkwards about 50 years in the past two or three years. Oosts 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 In- dians. Because it is a government monop- oly, it is huge, sprawling and utterly inefficient in a modern society. No en- terprising private business would put up with the increciible sloppiness -of the present postal ystem. 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 tele- graph companies. They're reaping a, har- vest because big business has practically ,3topped using the mails. What's the point of posting an im- portant letter on Wednesday if you know it probably won't be delivered Friday, and therefore will be delivered the fol- lowing Monday or Tuesday if Monday's a holiday. -It's bad enough to drive a business- man to apoplexy, but it's just as frust- rating, on ,a more personal basis,, to the ordinary citizen; 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 Wednes- day, 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 bit. 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 proce- dure. It goes due east for 35 miles, then southwest for 200 miles, south- west 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 there can, and usually does, take two days to get here. You could walk it in 45 min- :, v., aiteer,Para.deit,iCalry, 3,,colleague pifeep,r, Mites' 'lei' tdoliidr itr':(Ernglatidi and She" get the letter within 36 hours. If this is efficiency,. I'm all turned around some- how. Granted, the, postal workers were underpaid for years, though 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 letts have some blasted service.; If the P.O. runs at a loss, pay it. • The CI3C and the CNR are 'heavily subsidized, 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. . Bow about delivering the mail on time! Ltd. Tours for Students are Helpful YOUR BADGE OF ASSISTANCE LIONS PARK SEAFORTH ONTARIO Car Contribution of $1 paid for 1970 Note: Display' the 1970 Lions Park Car Sticker on the lower left corner of your windshield A LIONS PARK CAR STICKER IS A RECOGNIIION OF YOUR HELP AND CO-OP'ERATION'IN MEETING THE COSTS OF MAINTAINING THE PARK. - •m ONLY $1. EACH GOOD DURING 1970 for as many visits as you wish or Available at Seaforth Banks, many stores and at the Lions Park While there continues to be no charge for cars entering Seaforth Lions Park, it is hoped that drivers of each vehicle will display a Lions Park Car Sticker, In this way many of those hundreds of erea citizens who each summer enjoy the park facilities can have a small part in assisting in the continued operation of the park. ENJOY AND USE THE FACILITIES OF The Seaforth Lions Park