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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1975-05-08, Page 4PAGE 4 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS We are not magicians That may not be an earth -shaking statement. You probably didn't think we were anyway. But we get that feeling sometimes when something happens, such as an important anniversary for.somegpe or some organiz- ation; or an interesting or humorous little incident occurs in a section of the community; or when someone catches a big fish or grows a big tomato.. and weeks later, we learn about it. Trouble is when we do learn about it we are greeted with the phrase: "Oh...I thought you'd know all about it." That's where we think people sometimes think we are mag- icians. It is no help to us, and little comfort to you, if you stop one of us on the street and say "I thought you might have had some- thing in the paper about our installation last month, " or "how come you didn't have a picture of that big fish Joe Doakes got a couple of weeks ago?" or "Pretty nice about Bill Jones' kid... guess you don't like him or you'd have had a story about his promotion in the paper." We probably would have had it... had we been told at the time. It is our job to report these things; whether we like some- body or not as a human frailty we like to keep as deeply sub- merged as possible. While this newspaper is made up of individ- uals, it strives to operate in a non -individual manner. We may disagree with you or anyone on one subject, but if we find common ground to co-operate on another, believe us, we are ready to do so. We do have regular news sources; council meetings, police reports, civic organization meetings, fire and accident reports, and so on. Harassed by the fact there are only 24 hours in a day our job is made much easier by a regular liaison with such news sources which keep things coming ona,routine basis. But as for the untoward incidents, the out-of-the-way happ- enings whether they be humorous, serious or just plain interest- ing, we are crippled. Even with a hundred reporters on the staff, we wouldn't know where to look. Over the past few years we have noticed ---and appreciated --- an increasing awareness of this fact among our readers. More and more people drop in to tell us of something newsworthy, or to ask us to help, or phone when it's a "hot" and timely item. This growing interest in your paper is encouraging. For it IS your paper. This perhaps could be classed as a trite saying, a cliche. Nevertheless it sums up the situation. No newspaper staff, no matter how large or how eager or how ded- icated it was, could possibly cover ALL the happenings in a community such as this. That's where you come in. This is a community newspaper. It only reflects what is happening in the area. Not everything you tell us can earn its way into print, the cost of white space being what it is these days. But we would appreciate the opportunity of adjudication. Every reader is a part of this paper. What you know may be of interest to others; what other know may be of interest to you. We have a large number of faithful watchdogs around town, ad we are eternally grateful to them for recognizing that we are only human, and we need a lot of help. And also for rec- ognizing that, in helping us do our job completely and fully, they are helping themselves by helping their own community. We are not magicians. Because of that we need all the assistance we can get. We'll be happy to hear from you at any time. We may not always be able to agree that what you have is real news, but let's give it a whirl anyway!! I Officials attend seminar At a recent seminar on Resp- iratory diseases held in Geneva Park, Mrs. Charlotte Neigh, 111 Water St., and Mrs. Beryl Davidson, 119 Wellington Street, addressed the group re the "Better Breathing Classes, " spon sored by the Huron Perth Lung Association. The seminar was a joint project of the Registered Nurses of Ontario and the Ont- ario TB and Respiratory Disease Association, soon to become the Ontario Lung Association. Mrs. Davidson was also part of the faculty of a recent Inter- national Conference on Asthma held in Minneapolis. Minnesota recently. She described "Day . Camp" facilities for children with Asthma in Ontario. ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 sH Member: CA Canadian Weekly Newspapors Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association A• Subscription Rates: $6.00 per year in advance in Canada; $8.00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 20¢ • Iwfernatianal Scene (by Raymond' Cannon‘ not promised as much as it seemed. He had actually gone out on a limb in an effort to come to some agreement with Israel but whether he would do so again, at least to such an extent, is problematical. Right now it is difficult to say what the Israelis would do that they didn't do the last -time if Mr. Kissinger were to reap- pear on the scene. Yet, as I have indicated, the onus is on them to come up with some- thing that would match the moves made by Mr. Sadat when he announced the opening of the Suez Canal. The trouble with the whole thing is that both the Egyptians and the Israelis would like to make concessions and enough of them so that some definite MEANWHILE IN THE MIDDLE EAST There has•been so much news coming out of Vietnam recently that the Israelis and the Arabs can hardly make the front page of the newspapers, short of going to war again. That they may yet do but in the meantime both sides are still interested in see- ing if they can salvage some- thing out of the peace talks carried any ntil recently by American ecretary of State Henry Kissinger. In the aftermath of Mr. Kiss- inger's failure to bring the two sides together for the second stage in the ultimate withdrawal of the Israelis from the Sinai Desert, most of the talk was whether there would be yet another war in the Middle East, or whether something could be hammered out at the propos- ed renewal of the Geneva Conv- ention, As a matter of fact, nobody was really too anxious to go back to Geneva and I honestly believe that both sides were sorry that Mr. Kissinger was not able to pull some more of his magic out of a hat. It took President Sadat to break thelogja;n. In a surprise move when everybody was wand. ering what was going to happen next, he announced that the. Suez Canal was going to open according to schedule regardless of whether or not the two sides were talking to each other. He also said out loud what various other people were saying to themselves --that he preferred that Mr. Kissinger make another attempt to bring the Israelis and Egyptians together. By making this statement he neatly put the onus on the Israelis to come up with something posit- ive in the way of a contribution to the cause of peave. Since Mr. Kissinger has earl- ier implied that a fair portion of the blame for the failure to achieve a second stage withdraw al lay with the Israelis, it wasn' long before their foreign minist- er, Yigal Allon was requesting a visit to Washington for the expressed purpose of talking things over with the American Secretary of State. Mr. Kissing- er could hardly say now but when Mr. Alton arrived in the American capital, Kissinger's mind was far mor occupied with what was happening in Vietnam than it was with the Middle East As a matter of fact, things were rather quiet in the Middle East, although it can be argued that, unless something is done quite soon, they won't stay that way. What I have not been able to figure out so far is what either Egypt or Israel is likely to offer now than they weren't prepared to do a month ago. Most of the Arabs thought at the time that Egypt, in its bilateral discuss- ions with the Israelis, had gone too far and when the talks broke down, President Sadat had to hustle off and reassure his Arab brethern that he had VACUUM CLEANERS SALES .:k, SERVICE FOR ALL MAKES BOB PECK ZURICH ONT, Phone Mental! Mi2470 THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1975 peace treaty could be signed. They can't for the simple reason that there are still too many people who will not allow it. As far as the Egyptians are concerned, it is the other Arab nations, with the possible exc- eption of Jordan, who are ag- ainst any such concessions. With Israel it is too big a perc- entage of the government. So both sides go on sparring trying to find a crack here and a crack there. 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