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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1968-12-12, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZONS NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1965 Sporting Idea For Tractors Within recent years the news col- umns of this newspaper have carried the stories of a number of fatal acci- dents in which the cause of death was that a farm tractor had tipped over. In one ease, a few years ago, a farmer was working along in a back field, out of sight of the house, when the tractor tipped over a ditch bank. He was pinned under the tractor, with his head below water, and the immediate cause of death from drowning. In another case, gasoline spilled from the tank of the overturned trac- tor, to a hot motor block, and the im- mediate cause of death was burning. It is certainly not true that the coming of the motor age has pro- duced accidents where there were none before. The old files of this newspaper are full of stories of men being seriously injured when kicked by a horse in its stall; people being killed when they were thrown from the wagon seats behind runaway horses ; children being injured when they wandered on the roadway in front of horse-drawn vehicles. We would guess that there were at least as many traffic accidents per million miles of travel 50 years ago, as there are now. There has been a serious increase, however, in accidents of the kind that happen in farm fields. A horse- drawn cultivator could work along the side of a fairly steep slope with- out much risk to the driver; in an earlier period, teams of oxen could work across a slope too steep even for horses. The modern tractor has a high centre of gravity, and it lacks the eight sharp hooves of a team, which could dig and scratch for a footing. The tractor has other built-in char- acteristics which make it more dan- gerous for the farm operator than horses used to be. A front -enol loader picking up a heavy weight, or a deep - tillage implement hooked behind, can make a radical change in a tractor's centre of balance. Anyone who has seen the front wheels come up off the ground and wave in the air when a sub -soil panbreaker hits a stone, can understand how suddenly a trac- tor can become lethal. One safety idea which we see sug- gested is so simple that we wonder why it was not in common use long ago. Sports -car drivers sometimes use the protection of a roll -bar for competition driving. It is nothing more than a strong, curved bar which goes over the driver's head, and is firmly anchored to each side of the car body. What's wrong with a roll- bar on a tractor to prevent the driver being pinned or crushed if the trac- tor tips. We have seen statistics to indicate that when a tractor tips over, the chance that the driver will be killed is one in four. Against those odds, the cost of a roll -bar should be a good bet.— (Stratford Beacon -Herald) Why Penalize Property Improvement We suppose it would be beyond our wildest dreams to have a policy such as we have suggested here adopted, but we have heard from a number of newcomers to Canada about the pol- icy that is used back in their own country with regards to property taxes, and the improvements made to property. Here we often hear citizens coin - plain regarding the fact that if sub- stantial improvements are made to their house or other property, it will only cause them to have to pay more taxes. Does it not make better sense then to let things stay as they are as far as possible? Our European friends laugh at this system of taxation. In Germany, they say, for instance, there is no penalty paid by those whom improve their property in this fashion. As a matter of fact, they say, those who neglect their property or allow it to run down are usually penalized. Have we perhaps gotten things twisted around the wrong way a bit here in Canada? We feel that many good ideas have come out of Britain and Europe in the past and still do today, but we think, too, that Cana- dians particularly are very slow to adopt new ideas. The governments seem to want to wait until every last Tom, Dick and Harry is in favor of the move before they will take any action on it. Surely democracy does not work as slowly as we make it work all of the time,—(The Hanover Post) I My Window I don't know quite how to take the newest of all embalm- ing tricks — the one which de- mands a recently expired corpse and freezes it and stores it away in a vault freezer while the loved ones hold a memor- ial service it a warm chapel. Apparently some rife -loving scientists in the world have dis- covered that deterioration of a dead body does not begin until several hours after death. They 'propose to sharp -freeze the mortal remains and file the body until a later day when a cure has been found for the disease which killed it. In fact, the boast is that they will find a cure for old age and even for death. That's quite an order to fill, teen for the best of medical men. The process is expensive, too. It Costs about $13,000 to be molded into ice shortly after death. To offset the price, fans By Shirley Keller for the frigid burial plot ad- vise a life insurance policy suf- ficient to meet it. Even if I didn't doubt the success of the venture, I'm cer- tain I would never be a candi- date for the freeze plan. In the first place,' once my trek through life has ended I'm not likely to want more. Where's the fun in coming back in two hundred years or two thousand years to take up where I left off. Surely there must be some- thing better in that other world Christians believe in. I'd have to be crazy to risk a bad dose of flu and some severe chilblains just to be around in 2,000 years when hu- manity could be nothing more than a race of robots tuned and operated by computers. There may be no more cooking to do and only push-button house- keeping but who wants to come back to the miseries of dieting and paying bills and filling out government forms and answer- ing the telephone and curling hair and getting along with the neighbors, I have worries now when I think about the kids taking the car out on the highway where the speed limit is 60 miles an hour. Think of the sleepless night I'd have if they were out with the missile in the galaxy where it was a crime to travel less than a couple of hundred times faster than sound. And it would be just my luck if I couldn't find a jet suit in just my size and color! So, thanks just the same but I choose to be buried by the conventional methods. Maybe I won't ever know what it is like to spend a holiday along the Milky Way but at Ieast I'll have no pains or unhappiness where I hope to spend eternity. 0 --- Minister Moves Rev. John C. Boyne. rector of Caven Presbyterian Church, Ex- eter; Carmel Church, Hensall, and Cromarty Presbyterian Church, has accepted a call to Alexandra Church, Brantford. He and his family will move at the end of the year. A successor has not yet been named. ur.o PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMir.ED, ZURICH 11Ell B TURICHEIM, 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: $3.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents Report From Parliament Hill (By R. E. McKinley, MP for Huron) In the House of Commons much of the time the last while has been spent on the consid- eration of the estimate spend. ings for this past year. Time has been spent on the budget debate and the department of finance. Also public works spendings has been considered as well as the department of labor, auditor general a n d treasury board departments. This past week the department of industry estimates for 67-68 fiscal year were passed. Since the beginning of this session, all parliament's time has been spent on legislation which has not been excessive considering the number of mem- bers there is in the House who wish to make contributions to the many pieces of legislation. Bilingual Statues were passed one day, the Judges Act took two days, Prairie Grain Ad- vances took three days, the Farm Credit Act took seven days, the Farin Improvement Loans Act took five days, the Post Office Act took seven clays, Interim Supply took two clays, the budget debate took six days and the Throne Speech took eight days. It is not yet known when the House might recess for Christ. mas. In the hope that the mem- bers will want to be at home for Christmas with their fam- ilies, it is the government's in- tention to push legislationlegis through, which disallows many members from expressing their opinions on many of the esti- mates, as well as on legislation, that is to say, that time limits will be put on these consider- ations. This would not allow backbenchers to have any say whatsoever, unless the members in the front row gave up their opportunity of speaking which is not very likely to happen. In my opinion, it is not a very proper way for the House of Commons to function and would contribute to the erod- ing the democracy we cherish. If the government refuses to postpone these rule changes until after the recess, it might well be that we will be sitting continuously because I for one, will oppose anything that will curtail my right to speak to bring constituency problems be- fore the House if necessary. This is the only means that a member has to get satisfaction and public opinion when nec- essary. I might mention that the federal agriculture minister and provincial ministers of agricul- ture achieved near unanimous the establishment of a National agreement on the principle of Egg Marketing Agency. They have agreed that the objectives of the 'agency would be three- fold (1) to foster a strong, effi- cient and economic poultry in- dustry; (2) to provide stable and reasonable returns to producers and, (3) to provide a depend. able supply of quality eggs to consumers at stable prices. They agreed that, should an agency be established and should it im- plement provincial, regional or national marketing quotas, it would be instructed to limit allocation of marketing quotas to production facilities estab- lished before the end of Novem- ber, 1968. This limitation would remain in effect until further expansion of the industry is necessary. All provinces were represented Another thing that has caused much concern to Canadians is the tremendous increase in the cost of the Art Centre being constructed in Ottawa. In 1963 the original estimate of the cost of $9 million was made. Once the planning began and a site on Confederation Square select- ed this was revised upwards to $18 million. The cost at the moment, with the project still uncompleted, is some $46 mil- lion. The soaring cost has be- come a subject for public con- cern. Following continuing questions in the House of Com- mons, the matter was referred to the standing committee en broadcasting, films and assist• ante to the arts. Invitations were extended to the former minister of public works, the Non. George Mcilraith, to ap- pear before the committee and also representatives of the treasury board. Mr. Mellraith and treasury board officials chose not to appear. The department of public works, which was charged with the responsibility for carrying out the project„ was given the unusual directive that quality and excellence were to take pre- cedence over economy. Backed by this directive, which in prac- tise amounted almost to a blank cheque, treasury board gave re- peated approval to increasing expenditures until the amazing total of $46 million was reached. As a result of this improvi- dent and irregular fiscal pro- cedure resulting in a misuse of public funds amounting to al- most to "squandermania" the Art Centre has come under pub- lic criticism even before it is officially opened. 0 Letters To The Edit r Hensall, Ontario, December 5, 1968 Dear Sir: There are 153 persons in this village to whom I owe a debt of gratitude and your paper is the best medium I can use to clarify a few things for them. In the first place, 1 have never let you down since you first elected me to the munici- pal council in 1958 and have no intention of doing so in the future. It seems there were at least two reptiles in the guise of men, who systematically dragged my name through the mud and apparently made a thorough job of it. Many were so gullible that they believed the filthy lies. I truly pity these people were so easily swayed. The accusations that were made are without foundation and they skulked around where - ever and when ever they could find an audience, spreading their stories as the gospel truth. I am not biter or cynical be- cause I lost the election for reeve but I am bitter about the way it was carried out by peo- ple who were not even in the council and I suggest have not the brains to be in the council. Let me assure you, these peo- ple, especially two of them, one about 76 years old and the other about 43 years old, will answer for their sins some day. They may have won the battle but they have not won the war. I happen to care enough about Hensall and the people in it to go on fighting for both and I will not give up so easily. If they think they have broken my spirit, they are mistaken. I have never, and will never be in municipal politics for any person or financial gain's. Thank you again 153, and thank you, Mr. Editor, for your kindness. I remain, Yours sincerely, Minnie Noakes. 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