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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1966-10-13, Page 2PAGE TWO 1 eastineoli NW NW - Unicef Deserves Success How old must one be to share in the honors of the Nobel Pelee Prize? Just old enough •and tall enough, it would seem, to be able to reach for a doorbell and ring it on Hallowe'en. Provided, of course, it is under the auspices of the United Nations Children's Fund. which was granted the lofty award just a year ago for saving children's lives ever since its foundation, on December 11, 1946. Ralf a million Canadian boys and girls, from coast to coast, are getting ready to celebrate UNICEF'S 20th anniversary by showing greater enthusiasm than ever be- fore in collecting Hallowe'en pennies, nickels and dimes, In months to come these will be transformed into vital sup- plies equipment, medicines and vaccines for more than 100 under -developed coun- tries around the world. The "Hallowe'en for UNICEF" pro- gram has features to please people of all minds. In keeping with the traditional Hallowe'en spirit of goodwill and generos- ity, each Canadian can help UNICEF to continue its vital work in participating in the "Hallowe'en for UNICEF" program. For the youngsters themselves, it is a fine opportunity to combine their tradi- tional fun with a constructive, rewarding activity all their own . . "the world's greatest effort by children to help chil- dren". For the parents. the venture has re- assuring aspects of safety and planning since the participants can remain in small groups, and be escorted and supervised. Educators appreciate the program's pre -Hallowe'en period most of all, when their student are stimulated into showing gret,ter interest for. and better understand- ing of, other children's living conditions overseas. Policemen, firemen and other civic authorities appreciate the fact that wher- ever a well organized UNICEF program prevails, they can worry less about vanda- lism and senseless pranks. Last but not least, for ministers, priests and rabbis, the motto "Share rather than scare" takes Hallowe'en away from some of its least desirable connotations . . . when young people devote their energy and leisure time to helping others, it can well be said that they are taking part in a constructive, beneficent endeavor. Some idea of what our boys and girls will accomplish, with our community's gen- erous co-operation, may be found in the fact that every day UNICEF's jeeps, trucks and other vehicles travel roughly the dis- tance of 30 times around the world, or four times the distaice from the earth to the moon. If they held hands at the Equator, the children and mothers helped by UNICEF each year would circle the world. The dried milk shipped by UNICEF would fill the United Nations building more than 25 times. The organizers of the local "Hallowe'en for UNICEF" program most certainly de- serve that their selfless and efficient ef- forts should meet with unqualified success. Canada Manpower Centre In 1940, the Unemployment Insurance Act created a commission to administer a national unemployment insurance plan and to operate a national employment service. During the next year, a country -wide net- work of local offices was established by the commission to conduct its operations. However in 1942. when the National Selec- tive Service regulations were passed, the department of lobar became responsible for administration of both staff and prem- ises of the commission for the duration of World War II. Local offices became known as National Selective Services offices. In 1945 the local offices were returned to the administration of the Unemployment Insurance Commission and they took on the dual name of Unemployment Insurance Commission/National Employment Service. For the next 20 years this identity was retained and during this time the employ- ment service function of the local office gained in importance as technological change and the increasing complexity of the lobar market resulted in greater and greater demands on it. In recognition of the changes being wrought, a committee of inquiry into the Unemployment Insurance Act was appoint- ed on July 17, 1961, under the chairman- ship of Ernest C. Gill. In November, 1962, the G -ill committee made its report and one of its recommendations was that the National Employment Service should be transferred to the department of labor as a necessary move to co-ordinate efforts relating to manpower policy and employ- ment programs. On April 1, 1965, the National Em- ployment Service again became the respon- sibility of the department of labor and immediate efforts were made to separate the employment function from the insur- ance funteion in the local office, However, further changes were in store and in De- cember, 1965, extensive re -alignment was to come a new department of manpower and immigration. On January 1, 1966, the local employment offices became a part of the department of citizenship and immi- gration until such time as the new depart. ment could be created. A new manpower administration was quickly evolved and the appointment of local employment service managers, as dis- tinct from unemployment insurance office managers, was pursued vigorously. In ad- dition, higher salary scales for qualified local office staff were put into effect and arrangements made for additional staff in order to successfully implement plans for increased emphasis on such important . labor market activities as counselling, training, labor force mobility, up -grading, research, and labor market information. A very decentralized administration is be- ing evolved in order that local offices can most effectively pursue their objectives, To accommodate the new image of an expanded and improved employment serv- ice, a decision was made to drop the name National Employment Service. The new name, Canada Manpower Centre, more ac- curately reflects involvement with man- power programs that go far beyond the basic labor market activity of matching jobs and workers. Let Jack Do It In Clinton and Bayfield, Brownie or- ganizations may have to disband because no adult leadership can be found. Mothers and other qualified women in these com- munities use all the standard excuses — they are too busy or not well enough acquainted with Brownie procedures or out of town a great deal or involved in club work or nursing a nervous allergy— the list is endless. Finding someone to assume responsi- bility is always a problem. Most people are perfectly content to let Jack do it— and thank goodness every town has a small supply of willing energetic Jacks who step into the breach for the squatters. While Jack races about in a valiant though sometimes futile effort to do all the civic minded things he knows must be done for the betterment of the town and its people the idle masses sit and quite often complain. They find fault with the lack of organized sport and enthusiasm for it; they squawk about the poor conditions at the playground or the pool or the arena; they deplore the fact their children are left without some form of planned, useful activity after school and on Saturday. Those same folk are absent at home and school meetings but ridicule the school system; they fail to vote but discredit elected officials; they won't stand for office though they know best how affairs should be handled. Despite this unto -operative bellyach- ing, Jack quietly and efficiently builds not only a house, but a whole town—for it is long-suffering, hard-working Jack who gets the job clone in the final analysis. Surely some sympathetic Jack will come to the aid of Brownies in Bayfieli3 and Clinton, just as Jack must always fill the need whenthe chips are down. — Clinton News -Record. Crich .Newer PRINVED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH IIERI§ TURKHEIM, Publisher J E. HUNT, Plant Superintendent Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for payment of postage in cash. Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Subscription Rates: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.00 in United States and and Foreign; single copies 7 cents.. ZURICH CITIZENS NEWo THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1966 MR. AND MRS. ALBERT KEITH ANDERSON were married recently in St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, St. Joseph, by Rt. Rev. Monsignor W. Bourdeau. The bride is Elizabeth Ann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Remi Denomme, RR 2, Zurich, and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson, RR 2, Hensall, (Photo by Beta Studio, London) IT'S TIME TO BE OUTDOORS This is a time of year when there should be 24 hours of daylight, when a man should be able to keep going 24 hours a day, and every man should be on a month's vacation. Think of that fishing. Bass, muskies, pike and rainbow trout, just lying around there drooling, w i s h i n g somebody would toss them a lure. With the water so cold, their flesh makes chicken taste like dessi- cated rubber. In the bogs the ducks chuckle and in the bush the partridge chortle. Whether it's a bitter morning crouched in a blind, or a stealthy stroll down a sun - filtered wooded road, every- thing beckons the hunter. And there's the golf course. A crisp day, the turf like velvet, and all the tourists and women out of the way at last. Nothing to distract. Fat bottoms in Ber- muda shorts are replaced by plump black squirrels intent on filling the larder with acorns. And everywhere there's sky as blue as a virgin's veins, blue - black water welcoming, butter - golden sun and blazing bush to delight the eye and uplift the soul. Every orange -blooded Cana- dian, from the most venerable of bird -watchers to the grade four tyke who must make a leaf collection, yearns to be out in the most wonderful country in the world in the most wonder - *tie de lam* art Amer ful time of the year, in the most wonderful life that any of us will ever have. And what are we all doing? We're behaving like typical Canadians. We recognize the beauty, the allure of autumn, but we do nothing about it. If we're youngsters, we go to stupid school. If we're oldsters, we rake the ruddy leaves. Or we worry about the silly storm windows. Or we go to the idiotic meetings to exchange inanities. Or we trudge off to some ridiculous job in order to put food in our mouths and oil in the tank. Just because it's fall and all these asinine activi- ties are back with us. It's not only unintelligent. It's unfair, unpatriotic, unscru- pulous, unreligious and unbe- Iievable, For years I have longed for a holiday in the fall. And for years I have been denied it be- cause ecause of the incredibly insane social structure in this country, which decrees that you have holidays in the summer or, if you oan afford it, an equivalent hot -holiday in winter, down south. Who wants holidays in the summer? With long evenings, and week -ends, we can fish, swim, boat to our heart's con- tent. And with the up -coming four-day work week, there'll be even more time. But we're stuck with an ar- chaic system that seems to be It's a treat they'll all love. Our tempting foods are carefully prepared and beautifully served. The atmosphere is gracious and congenial, perfect for family dining. Our dining room is air conditioned for your comfort. 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Now, after Labor Day, we don sober garb and pious mien, erawld back into our huts and begin again the pretence that life is real and earnest. It's just as well they're not planning to make me minister of education. If they did, there -d be a month's holiday in June, school through July and August (until one p.m. every day) and six week's holidays beginning Labor Day. Don't worry. It will never happen in this country. It's much to sensible. timing". If North Americans were not aware of this before his death, they have been made aware of it with the many documentaries thus far pres.*ut• ed on television, Films, stills and recordings recalled famous and less weli- known lines from JFK's cam- paign speeches and calamities; news conferences (such as his• celebrated exchanges with newswoman May Craig); ad- dresses to statesmen and Nobel prize winners; informal mo- ments with his wife and family, and occasional problems with foreign languages.. While watching this 60•min- ute production which had Jack. Pear as narrator, I got the im- pression that ABC was using anything and everything that had never or seldom been used before simply to make another Kennedy documentary. He was a great man -- a great President. And, when will the next Kennedy "special" be scheduled? Probably next month, Are all these really necessary? HMI 111 PAAAd/A,ll' Petroleums Limited Gasoline • Diesel HEATING OILS Valvoline and Veedol Motor Oil and Greases "Go With Arrow" AGENT: ROBERT N. McHINLEY DIAL 236-4830 — ZURICH HURON CO-OPERATIVE MEDICAL SERVICES Offers to Residents of Huron County Comprehensive Medica[ Coverage At Cost! —Individual and Group hates Available -- Inquire today from: KENNETH JOHNS, 67 John Street East, Exeter MRS. 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