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Henry Hess, Editor001
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Food for all
October 16 is 'World Food Day.
The Food and Agriculture Organiza-
tion of the United Nations (founded 'in
Quebec City on that day 36 years ago)
has asked people around the world to
observe World Food Day by becoming
more aware of the problem of hunger
and the need to increase efforts to solve
it.
It is appropriate that the day should
fail close to Thanksgiving, a time of
pleniy here in Canada when most of us
are appreciating the blessings of our
own share of Earth.
Few are as fortunate as we. Nearly
500 million people living in the world
today are seriously malnourished --
one out Of every eight. Many millions
die, notfromstarvation alone, but from
the illnesses that prey on the underfed.
In poor Countries, one child in four does
not live to celebrate a fifth birthday.
But what can 1 do? you might ask.
Aren't there national and international
organizationswhose job it Is to help
Improve this situation?
Yes, there are. But with increasing
domestic problems in Canada and the
other ' industriallied countries, these
organizations are not getting the sup-
port — financially or morally — that
they need. That is why,' In the days
leading up to October 16 Canadian
volunteer groups, consumer and pro-
ducer organizations,. provincial and
federal governments and development
agencies have been organizing lec-
tures, exhibitions, "hunger suppers'
and other events to put the world food
situation before the public.
Food for All" is Canada's na-
tional theme for World Food Day.
Wouldn't it be gratifying to do some-
thing, even a little, to make this ideal
become a reality?
Belts for babies
A -private. •member's bill will be
intr000.5ed to the Legislature within a
few weeks, the:Intent. of which Is to •
guarantee greater*.ar safety for small
childre0V4At• presbnt -children: under
flie, • whose . body.. Weight 'does •riotex-
ceed a Certain limit, are not covered
under. the legislation which.makee the
Use. Of .seat belts mandatory for older
and heavier ,people.
Let:tii-hope that this private mem-
ber's bilt shelved, as are SO many
others of the same Status. Any parent
whe!han'driyen a car can recall those
chin* seconds when applica-
tion of, •the, brakes 'threatened to Send
the baby flying into the dashboard or •
-through the windshield. An adult In-.
Stinctively: raisetarms, to ;fend ,off in-
lutiti*jKlalaCeept.#;**.tnalli4)110:'has.
not the ,same Ordte4.hie reflex.,
There is no reason for •leavIng small
youngsters ,':Orittritr.:.ected. • while, .in 3 :a
Mir*: n Car,.,Excellantly-designed baby,
seats are With:the necessary
attachments by-IN:hid! they can be se-
cured 10 the seatbelts. When the
-ihal*.gradioakeefroM theapkillary seat
lheatarideirdeeafheiteln the car can be
Rsecurea..
• Gee aSpeCt Of traveteafety whIth is
not included,in the proposed bill, how-
ever, is anY reterenceto the total ab-
sence•of seat belt legislation to cover
passengers in school buses. For some
unknown reason the vehicles which
carry hundreds of thousands of young-
sters to aod from schools five days a
week are riot equipped with seat belts.
Can you imagine any other sort of
transportation in which the use of seat
belts makes more ,sense?. However, a
dozen end one excuses have been made
for leaving 30 or 40 kids unprotected on
each trip. How valid would those ex-
cuses be if even one school bus was in-
• svolved in a highway accident and those
children sniashed forward into • the
• immovable oblects Within the bus::The
rate of death .and injury. Would be liar-
' rendous,, SO far wehaveLheen lucky
MithhigihOrelhairlaffilitti lucky.
'• How ManrOarente of ••tchool-age
childrenhae pressed boar& of educe-
- tion for en honest answer to questions
,about safety. 'Hew many have • ever
ascertained hoW frequently a school
bue driver mist Pose a medical ex-
amination or:an eye test?
If the One, two or, three ,small pas-
sengers in priVate cars deserve prOtec-
tion, surely the Igor 40 in a school bus
should be included. . .
0101the.bliteltcOMpanies have
been atexpenslve pales In recent
:;.weeks to .C*orwInce. us that their only
ainfin lite lathe welfare Of the genera!
Public.•;:Higkpricrid advertising hae
been ernploigett tO fell us that these
• glania: Or' the +business world really
aren't makin9 Vast; prefits; that unless .
we are willing 10 accept their, high
'prices they.won't be able to goiout dig-
' ging" for new oil source, etc.
Well; theYheive all our sympathy. We
'realize that hones are tough for these
downtrodden victims of Inflation. Thus
it is pOsSible that we are a bit slow -wit-
ted When we fail to see why they should
be allowed to operate In the retail. field
with a variety of;items for sale, ranging
all the way from pots and pans to cut-,
lery.
Holders of oil company credit cards
. receive regular mailings of colorful
promotion pieces which offer "special"
buys to those who can be persuaded to
Canada is tops
The magazine Industrial Manage-
ment says many of us have suspected.
It, but the international Labor Office
has confirmed it — Canada is the world
leader when it comes to working days
lost through strikes.
The ILO figures show That for every
1,000 employees, between 1970 and 1979,
Canada lett an average 1,840 working
days due to strikes.
Canada won the dubious distinction
by beating out Italy in the second half
of the 7.01.,,Up. until_19/4.1talyrwas lead,
Ing with an average 1,746 days lost due
to strikes. In the first half of the decade
Canada lost 1,724 days, but lost an
average 1,956 days in the second half.
Italy's second half average was 1,810.
Not surprisingly, Japan had the
lowest total of days lost with 215 for
every 1,000 empleiyees. However, per-
haps surprisingly, Britain finished in
the middle in the 19 -nation field- The
U.S. experienced 1,211 man -days lost
due to strikes.
A major reason for Canada's disap-
pointing first -place finith is because
the figures' are taken from key Indus-
trial sectors including mining, manu-
facturing, canstruction,
.Y• comrnunlca-
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. spend. their money with the oil moguls
rather than. in their Roca., Stores:
• .One recent mailing from the Texaco
company offereda ten -piece set of
kitchen knives, a 16 -piece set of stain-
less steel cookware,a..motoriled air
filter, a breakfast cooking grilL a com-
binationbarometer, hygrometer, and
thermometer, . table .hanging
-swag lamp,' wail clock, Sett Ot. centen-
nial stamps andcoins, a camera -bin-
ocular combination, siesta .. air bed,
portable radio,• foot -power air pump
anda combination TV -radio.
• Each of these items could -be pur-
chased with one easy down;payment or
by using the credit card, on an install-
ment plan (with appropriate interest
charges-Acided). • , •
Anyorie with a reading eye has a fair
knowledge of the millions. In profits
these companies make each year. Why
in -the world should they also be in the
Mall order business as well?
tions -and transport. It is in these sec-
tors where Canada Is most strike -sus-
ceptible.
His job's
on the line
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OCTOBER 1934
Dr. Mary Cosens has
• accepted a position hi the
Hospital for Sick Children at
Toronto and took over her
duties last week.
All Europe is agog over the
murder of King Alexander
of Jugoslavia and Louis Bar -
thou, foreign minister of
France, who were slain by
political assassins at Mar-
seilles, France; • as they
drove through a crowd.
Miss J. E. Peard, who has
been i?a charge of the City
Mission here for the past two
• years,leaves this week for',
Stratford to take charge of
• the City Missiorkin that city.
Mist, ;At, , 'Hoetettler of.
•,StratfOrd.has been placedln
charge of the Mission here.
Huron County School Fairs
went over with a bang this
year. Entries numbered
4,679 as compared with -3,434
in 1933..Belgrave Fair, with
' 1,343 entries, wag the largest
ever held in the county.
George McQuoid moved
the Whitechurch. Post Office
from Malcolm Ross' store to
his own home.
• New officers were elected
when the. Belmore Presby-
terian Young People's So-
- 064, met.. Carl • Nickel is.
Although we have never been able to
work up any great warmth of feeling
fortirgene-Wheleiti,
ter of agriculture, the words he uttered
last Thursday night in POO Elgin have
aroused a spark of Interest.
Whelan said that if he failed to talk
his cabinet colleagues into some re-
alistic prograrns for the relief of hard-
pressed farmers, he would resign.
Just how the agricultural -economic
ball will bounce should soon be evident.
s If farm assistance programs are
indeed to be announced, the news will
come In the budget speech. Presum-
ably the budget must be brought down
soonbut of course it will have to wait
until Mr. Trudeau has enforced his will
In regard to the constitution.
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president -'0. S. Keast vice
president and secretary is
JeankLane.,,John Stokes is
treasurer:
OCTOBEk1l4:46 „
itOr:142N. B. Norton has
resignd 3 pastor of
Wingham-Baptist
and: a ted a .call to
CommunityAjax Church: He
hasbeen in , Wingham two
Major Sr"lietherington,
igeeived the ap-
pointmentlastIveek is dom.
of the 1st .
Atigtment,•Iy • the rank f
Lieut. ColoneL. Ile' replaces
Lt. tit ite' W. ra040fi
who tendered his resignation
after holding the appoint-
ment foriover five years.
R. Hall was installed as
Noble Grand of Maitland
Lodge IOOF, No. 119. Other
officers include J. Preston,'
W. 11,•ffaney, E.S. Letiistant1
A. Brown.
• Teesiivater's Ankle fair
drew an attendance ,4t 4004.
14,000 and wbi '4not breaking
the record.of a previous year
of 17,000, they had f the
beat /shows from the stand-
point of entries and quality of
exhibits.
• A day long to be
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membered in the annals of His horses Were.also -'shown'
,:ther Wingham-.General 'Hos- at the Ripley Fair, ,
: wPi`et'il'e .klj'vaWSheThli Thursday
about 'f1,10a0sAn
award
01. .:'ifirst comh
inedorfathmoerattnid the
TV
- people attended the official ..• ;.award of ita kind, was
opening of the new wing, The '.'presented to CKNX during
wing was erected at neost Of ' the program, "Focus".
about #.10#0. ' ' ' ,..5... -,f,, In a report given by Town
....-Mr. ,..,;-,' .'and Mrs. RellSOn !-Assessor Howard Sherbondy '
:kaletiner are moving their .:: at the • regular: meeting . of
Ikons -60d' ' effeets. freiti-i:Wiiighati Town.:-COUticil; it
'Teronte•lii Lucknow where --was learned)-•that:the town's.,
.-Rellion has taken a Position - population is now 2;780, an
with the Purdon,Bakery. increase of 25 over last year
• '.'10.910*.e of Mr. *MPS. . More than ten . per cent of
: HOBO Jehani; B4111104, was : these areold age pensioners.
attraCtiVelf,, decorated " for . Business associates in this
the marriage of their 400- .community learned with
ter, ,Edna, to J. Ross regret that the firm of Cros-
tIcKague of Teeawater. 3, • sett Motors Limited will be
removed from Wingham to
• Mayor R. E. McKinney clit,,„ ol.eti:nwerattni in
--holTriticenfbilifkg: J.
OCTOBER 1957 1( ,iiii:,k, J.4fifirsta7 friewortl,
the ribbon officially Openink... :thoston:and, sok Which has
the new four -room addition' ....upw,,,±_aticra coal and lumber
to the Wingham Public business in, that community.
Judy Reid, daughter d Mr- -sheds-.at the C.N. yard and
4 0.001' .t the-; school,.*: little ..chased the former Rae coal
virs, Scott Reid; will open a fuel supply Office
billiard `'parliir
mhimakiseingfw/tuihtheisasa.nab471(e•!,;ter.. I :sow) Fair were
*tliooL He „was assisted by a
George Cameron, .local. in wingham,
1411W, is The T. Eaton books for the'
for monk years, has pur-
nrst'points in the Belgrave
presented
horses. His nalontitiO:. colt' to. Lorna Bolt:fOr girls and.
tFoo,i,
krflaristd%rizhis
esatliTir siiiirwatt Ted, Lutz for boys.
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' OCTOBER 1667
•
August Keil, 89 and a.
member of the. Howick Fall
• Fair Board for 50 years,
• officially opened the 1967
Howick Fair at Gerrie. Miss
•
Patricia Bridge won the R.
W. N. Wade Trophy for the
• best essay on The. Story of
Confederation. •
Drivers ,who. are • ac-
customed to the curving ap-
proach to town on Highway
• 86 from the east have had to
change their habits during
the past week. The main
highway route has been
altered to swing slightly to
the south and west across the
prairie on the way to
Lucknow, The entry to
Diagonal Road is now a
fairlysharp turnoff from the
main road:
9344 :
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IVAN AND ERIN SKINN of Wingham
126th Teeswater Fall Fair. They are
Wingham.
di'di�d the 'poultry at last Saturday's
en Of Bob and Beth Skinn of
Dr. R. D. Wilkins was
guest speaker at the regular
meeting of the Lions Club
and in his talk stressed the
need for a Victorian Order of
Nurses service established
for the Wingham area, to be
sponsored by the several
service clubs of Wingham.
Jim Henderson, 17, was
presented with the Lloyd
Trophy after winning the
Wingbam Golf Club cham-
pionship. It is the first time
the no -handicap event has
been won by a junior player.
Golf champions at the
Wingham District High
School are Jim Henderson,
Barry Conron, Garry Bauer
and Donny Rae. They won
the Huron -Perth Boys'
Championship.
Mary Ellen Taylor was
elected president of the
Beigrave CGIT. Other of-
ficers are Brenda Johnston,
tionnie Cook, Cathy Chand-
ler and Sherry Williams.
C. Wilford Caslick of
Wingham was presented
with a ninth -year National
Quality Award at a meeting
of the Saugeen Life Under-
writers' meeting in Clifford.
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idealists and soldiers of
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Letter to Iheditt)P
October 1981.
note withinterest that the
Ontario Unice! Coininittee
has declared:the; week of
October 0* 31 tO be
1.1.NIGEr, Week for Safe.
biniWater During this'
weer -ITN 10EF' will proinote
, .
awareness Of • the
rifted- Nations • "Inter-
litinal Drinking Water
•
Supply and Sanitittio'n
Decade, 1981-1990", and I am
more than pleased to wish
the. -Committee every , suc-
cess 'Ofl. behalf of the
OntrioU.N..
this
declared' Decade is to
eliminate by 1990 the thr t
of deathpresentiy and
ei;didaseangersie w
lives of 500 million chil
in the developing world. Ate
provision of basic necessit
• suelr, as wells, pumps ad
• pipes will gbarantee s e
water, -a vital contributiono
the health and well-being
these children in need.
I urge my fellow Ontari.t...
to join with me in offering
\couragement and supporto
UNICEF durng UNIC
Week for.
tan
ensure a healthy future for
children less fortunate than
our own.
G: Davis
BY HELEN ALLEN
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At 9 years old, Barbara has had a few years of
confusion in her young life that most child*n her age
don't have to undergo. As a result, this attractive little
girl has some emotional problems which Continue to
make life difficult for her. Her grade 3 performance last
year was average academically, and sle has good
learning potential, but her behavior both in school and out
can be a problem.
Barbara does not get on well with children her own age,
and is sometimes moody and aggressive. on the other
hand she loves younger children, and when she is with one
interested adult she trusts and admires, She can be
affectionate and co-operative.
Barbara is of Cree descent with registered Indian
status. She is in good health except for epilepsy which is
not yet completely controlled by medication She enjoys
Brownies and is fond of swimmng, skating, crafts and
playing word games. Her social worker has no doubt that
with warm, understanding parents Barbara Will develop
a better opinion of herself, which will help to improVe her
relations with other people.
To inquire about adopting Barbara, please write to
Today's Child, Ministry of Community and Social Ser-
vices, Box 888, Station K, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2112. In
your letter tell something of your present family and your
way of life.
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