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atizens News May 7, 1961
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Help office help students
This time of year college and university
students are on the prowl for summer jobs. And in a
few short months the number of job seekers will
swell when the high school year ends.
That will put a lot of young people on the
summer job market and some of them will be
looking for their first full-time employment.
Many employees in the Goderich area have an
active summer employment program and they are
fully aware of the benefits of student labor. Young
people have a lot to offer business and industry.
But the task of finding a summer job is not an
easy one. The economic climate has dictated cut-
backs in several areas and jobs are simply not as
plentiful as they once were.
Students now may have to knock on several
doors before any opportunity presents itself. The
Student Manpower office does a lot of the door
knocking for students in advance and is successful
in making needed placements.
Many businessess and industries co-operate
with the student placement centre annually which
indicatesthey were more than satisfied with student
labor. But the jobs are tougher to find each year.
Students and young people have something to
offer the labor force but they have to be given the
chance to display that initiative and talent.
If you have any openings during the summer or
could use some extra help, contact the student
placement office and give a student a chance.
Goderich Signal -Star
Support local businesses
I'd like to ask the people a few questions. It's a
matter of economic survival to me as well as to
millions of other little people who have small
stores.
Whom do you ask to cash your checks when
things are tight. Whom do you ask to take ads for
your organization's yearbooks and programs.
Whom do you ask for contributions to banquets,
raffles, etc.
Who do you call after hours when you need a
special item. Who do you ask to put up your posters
for special events. Who helps sponsor and coach
minor hockey, soccer teams, etc. Who donates prizes
and awards to 4-H clubs, bowling and curling
leagues, local school activities, horse shows and
fair days.
It's your local home town small businessman.
After all, he's your friend and neighbour.
But when you want to make a purchase, how
often do you drive past his place of business and go
to a giant store thinking you might save a few cents,
without giving your local merchant a chance or
even comparing his prices.
We are competitive with the biggest stores
price -wise and our services are often better. But we
can't survive much longer. When we go you'll miss
us
The Okanagan Falls Herald
By
ROB .CHESTER
Nobody likes the bomb.
But when your number is up, you usually aren't
given the choice of method. In any case, no matter how
it gets you — and one way or another it's gonna get you
-- you're just as dead one way as the other.
The only way of winning, if only temporarily, in
the cosmic lottery of life, is to minimize the obvious
dangers to these all too fragile bodies of ours. ,
That's why I wear my seatbelt, why i don't
smoke, and why I have safe indoor hobbies like model
building, rather than skydivi,og, or alligator wrestling.
I don't think reading the newspaper has any affect of
your health. True, you are often alerted to dangers you
should avoid, but the wear and tear on the old'bod from
stomach ulcers and high blood pressure, caused by
reading headlines., pretty much cancels out any danger
you might avoid.
"U.S. readies forces for protracted war."
I could feel a strange. burning in the pit of my
stomach, and my heart pounding as I read this in the
Globe.
It seems American strategists are shifting from
nuclear deterrent to a more conventional stance. In
other words, they are planning to fight the Russians
with tanks and men rather than bombs.
,Which brings us back to the original statement:
Nobody likes the bomb.
Which is true, but some people, especially the
residents of Western Europe, dislike it more than
others. You'd probably\dislike it more too, if it was
your front yard they were going to drop it on.
- A few columns back I mentioned I was into
wargaming. I've dabbled a bit in.inodern wargaming.
If the wargame simulates anything near the actual
effects of modern warfare (and I believe it does) it
will be one of themost vicious and frightening of wars.
One of the things that cause a wargame to be ex-
tremely tedious is the rate of play..Since, in a modern
simulation, there are a tremendous number of shots,
from artillery, tanks, infantry and aircraft, games are
slow. A whole evening can be spent just calculating
fire for a single turn — which simulates about one
minute of real life.
Back in real life, the Russians are currently
building a tank called the T-72.
Reportedly it has no mufflers or fire wall in the
engine compartment. The front armour slopes at
about 70 degrees from verticle, so shot and explosive
shells will ricochet off, doing little damage.
It is a tank designed to attack: And it designed to
attack conventionally. In the event of a nuclear war it
is as useless as any other tank. •
It is estimated the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) has about 3,500 tanks poised to
protect Western Europe. Along the same front the
Warsaw Pact (WarPac) nations, the Soviets, have
about 10,000 tanks.
In effect the Russians have us outnumbered three
to one along the front. , Modern strategists, and this
seems to be borne out on the games table, believe at
least 10 to 1 odds (at the point of attack) are required
to attack successfully.
What this all means is, that the Russians have an
overwhelming force poised to crush the west in a con-
ventional war.
Nobody likes the bomb. But it is a deterrent.
An infantryman can carry a modern nuclear
weapon. A company of tanks, anywhere from nine to
16, is an economical and viable target for a tactical
nuclear weapon.
In our wargame we didn't allow nuclear weapons.
We also didn't allow napalm, a conventional (non -
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