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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1964-06-04, Page 2PAGE TWO THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1964 eciiktual 8.410 AMY PAW Ambulance Service The threat of a strike by ambulance operators in Ontario seems to have faded, at least for the time being, but there is still an untidy situation in the anlbulanee business, which will need a major over- haul before it is well organized. Murray MacBeth, president of the Ontario Ambulance Operators' Association, recently opened his books to critical in- spection by reporters, to show what the providers of ambulance service are up against. Mr. MacBeth is the operator of Alexander Ambulance Service at Oakville. Ile has two ambulance vehicles, employs six men so that he can have them on duty around the 24-hour clock in eight-hour shifts. For the sample year 1961, his books show, the business showed a net prof- it of $721, after receiving a municipal sub- sidy of $10.000. Without subsidy, the busi- ness would have operated at a loss of $9,279, which is to say it would soon have been out of business. The subsidy to the 11.acBeth business gives it an income of $34 a day. His books show that he got paid for an aver- age of three trips a day, at $12 a trip. The ambulances made more than three trips a day, but like other ambulance services, they did not get paid every time. When there is an accident on the highway, and someone is injured and bleeding in a ditch, there is a great hurry to get an ambulance. Later on, there is not so much hurry to pay for the trip, and the helpful citizen who rushed off to call an ambulance does not necessarily feel helpful to the extent of $12 on some later and more re- laxed occasion. Subsidy of $34 a day, plus income from trips fo $36 a clay comes to $70, After paying wages to six men, and allowing a little for himself, the ambulance service operator obviously doesn't have much left to bop, equip, repair, garage, and operate a couple of expensive vehicles. The won- der is that anyone does stay in the business, This may be one area of business in which a dash of socialism would be the right answer. If we're going to be taxed, and have pay deductions at source for hos- pital insurance, to maintain expensive hos- pitals, there is not much sense in boggling at the next step. We may as well pay a little more in taxes so we can get to the expensive hospitals if we really need to. A man who is bleeding to death be- side a smashed car on •the highway prob- ably has a hospital insurance car in his wallet. It's not doing him much good un- less he gets to the hospital. There is not much fairness in expect- ing a private business man to rush off with his ambulance whenever a strange voice on the telephone summons him, unless there is a reasonable prospect that some- one will assume responsibility for paying for the ambulance trip. In the nature of the business, which is the answering of emergency calls, it is not desirable to have delay while the question of payment is be- ing investigated before the call is answered. The only workable long -run arrangement is to have ambulance operators on salary, and it's hard to see who would pay the salary other than the taxpaying public which already supports the hospitals. — (Stratford. Beacon -Herald) it Hath No Holiday Thirty days hath various months, in- cluding the one that is about to begin. Not one of the 30 in June is a holiday. The three months that come after it each include one legal excuse for not work- ing. July will bring Dominion Day, one of the holidays which continues to be firmly attached to the correct date, rather than being transferred to the nearest Mon- day. It come on a Wednesday this sum- mer, a fact which will lead to a great deal of contriving and negotiating by people who would like to tack it on as the 15th day of a two-week holiday. We may ex- pect to hear of many ingenious reasons why someone should be absent from work on June 29 and 30, and commence the two- week holiday on July 2. For those who do not succeed in such stratagems, it is at least one day off in the middle of a week, four weeks from next Wednesday. August bring Civic Holiday, one of the agreeably -designed holidays for which there is no particular reason. It's just a day when you don't work; its only real reason for being a holiday is that along about that time of year nobody really feels like work- ing. It comes on a Monday, and this year it is August 3, a date which is particularly convenient for people who plan August holidays. Anyone who can sell the boss the idea that a vacation could be scheduled to start August 4, and to continue for two weeks, might be able to stretch 14 days into 17. September brings another of the Mon- day holidays, and again it is the kind of holiday that is not particularly a reason for celebrating anything, except the fact that you don't have to work that day. It comes as late as possible this year, Sep- tember 7. To the satisfaction of school children, and probably to the dissatisfac- tion of their parents, the summer holidays stretch to the ultimate in 1964, and school starting date in September will be as late as it can be. The holiday is called Labor Day, in memory of the time when labor unions paraded and demonstrated. Now- adays members of labor unions tend to be- have, quite sensibly, like all other people, and go off to the lake for the day. June, as we started to say, is the sum- mer month with a flaw in it. The flaw is the lack of a holiday. Supposing that good summer weather really is about to begin, finally, it is depressing to think of toiling through the 30 days that June bath, with no legitimate excuse for a bit of extra loafing.—(Stratford Beacon -Herald) Various Groups Meet At Goshen Goshen United Church Wom- en met at the church on Wed- nesday night, May 20, with Eg- m o n d v i 11 e, Brucefield and Varna as guests. Mrs. Ken Parke opened the meeting, fol- lowed by hymn 388, with Mrs. Bruce Keys at the organ. Psalm 729 was read in unison. The group were favored with a trumpet solo by Mrs. Clare McBride. Mrs. Alien Armstrong read the Scripture from Luke TICE i New Dial Telephone Numbers for use after Conversion to Dial at Zurich Exchange have been allotted._ If you re- quire your new number for any purpose please contact the business office. wnicip I Telephone System R. G. Black, Sec'y-Treas. 15, and comments by Mrs. Ken Parke. Prayer was offered by Mrs. Richard Robinson. Words of welcome were given to the visitors from the presi- dent Mrs. Melvin Elliot. Offer- ing was received by Mrs. How- ard Armstrong and Mrs. James Keys. A trio was sung by Mrs. Elmore Hayter, Mrs, Bob Peck and Mrs. Anson McKinley. Mrs. Elgin McKinley intro- duced the speaker for the eve- ning, Miss McLachlan, a mis- sionary from Japan. She chose for her topic, "Christian Faith in the Japanese Church". A film was also shown on Japan, Mrs. Elliot thanked the speak- er and all who helped. Hymn 402 was sung and prayer by Mrs. Ken Parke. ZURICH Citizens NEWS HERE TURKHEIM — Editor and Publisher P'DBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ,MORNING at ZURICH, ONTARIO Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for the payment of postage in cash. Member: s% Member: CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION ONTARIO WFVRT,'S NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Subscription Rates: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4,00 in United States and and Foreign; single copies 7 cents MEET PIERRE BERTON — Representatives of vari- ous newspapers in Western Ontario had the privilege last Thursday afternoon to be guests of CFPL-TV in London, and spend some time with the noted Pierre Berton. Mr. Berton was in the city to serve on the panel of Act Fast, and as well to kick off his nightly show, which will be seen on the London station. Shown here chatting with Mr. Berton at the Press Club reception are left, Herb Turkheim. of Zurich, and right, A, Laurie Colquhoun, of Clinton. ImIIpUI@IIIIIII11111811111IIIN111111i111111111111llllll111lIWl1112IIIIItlIlU111lI 011M pUglgm7(Bg111IMINH1111111 fi11 In SVGA and S i', ICE By Bill Smiley I don't know how you feel about it, but that "distinctive" Canadian flag with the three spindly maple leaves on it makes me want to throw up. I'd like to see somebody ask you to go out and fight and die for it. No, I'm not a Red Ensign boy. The Red Ensign was a make- shift, at best. It is to confused with colonialism and the mer- chant marine and the Union Jack ever to be accepted. If we MUST have a Canadian flag, which I deny violently. By the way, I think the Ca- nadian Legion has had some pretty shoddy treatment from the daily press because of its espousal of the Ensign( and it's less -than -enthusiastic reception of the Prime Minister, at the Winnipeg convention. What's wrong with an organ- ization standing up for some- thing it believes in? Every body else does it, from hog pro- ducers to folk singers. But the Legion was suddenly made the butt of a vicious and slanted attack in certain dailies. <'7 * The sten who did the dirty work in two wars were sudden- ly catalogued as a group of re- actionaries, or as one daily put it, a "bunch of old soldiers," trying to tell the rest of Can- ada what flag it should have. This canard was climaxed by a brutal cartoon by Duncan MacPherson in the Toronto Star, portraying the Legionnaire as a bleary-eyed, beery -nosed old blimp, clinging to the past. Even the Star was embarrassed by the cartoonist's lack of taste. But this isn't a defense of the Legion. It can Iook after itself, It has a minority of old boozers. So does the yacht club and the curling club and the service club and the press club. Before I finish this digres- sion, let me ask a question. What's wrong with booing the Prime Minister. It may be im- polite, hut it's a heck of a lot better than assassinating him, and I know he'd rather be booed than defeated in office. At the same time, let me ex- press my admiration for Mr. Pearson's courage in attacking this flag fiasco, and doing it in front of a body opposed to his views. None of his three pre- decessors had the guts to do it. But to get back to what I originally started to say, let's get everybody sore at me and get it over with. The whole business of flags is a medieaval hangover, with juvenile over- tones. Men used to rally around flags, in the days of hand-to- hand combat, because they were trying to find somebody else who was on their side. 7:;i• s+r War evolved (or degenerated, if you like) until the stretcher- bearer became a lot more heroic than the standard-bearer. If you want a bit of gay bunting, by all means go to it. Cro ACROSS 1. Sesame 4. Neck piece 9. Night peforc 12, High card 13. Communion table 14. Light beam 15. Stinging plant 17, Part of mouth 19. Whole 21. Affirmative word 22. Cook slowly 24. Rodent 26. Relate 29. Tossed 31, Incline the head 38. River in Scotland '84. 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This is the first time spectacular. that a WODL and a DDF have not been dragged out. There was "live" radio coverage by CFCY in Charlottetown. Top prize of $1,000 and the Canadian Association of Broad- casters' Trophy went to the To- ronto Runner-up ionto Barn Players.p was the St. Thomas More Play- ers, of Hamilton, of the West- ern Ontario region. This pres- entation was cut out by the CBC and so were most of the CAB credits, We felt they could have left out the first part which dealt with the new P.E.I. theatre and left in the retiring speech by Vida Peene and the remarks by the festival chair- man. New president of DDF is John Brook, of Simcoe—an honour for that city. 'fir i•3" Complete coverage of the Lions Convention in Kitchener - Waterloo last Sunday was pro- vided by Channel 13. With over 200 units, the parade last- ed just over the two-hour mark. Grace Lawson, Stu Kenny and Larry McIntyre described this Business and Professional Directory ACCOUNTANTS ROY N. 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