Zurich Citizens News, 1958-10-29, Page 9WEDNESDAY, A;Y, O+CTOBEYt29, 1956
Latest Figures On
Unemployment
Show a Decrease
The number of persons with jobs
was estimated to be 5,888,000 at
September 20, 1958, 137,000 fewer
than a month earlier. This decline
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was largely seasonal. The end of
the vacation period and the com-
pletion of harvesting and some
good -processing operations result-
ed in the lay-off of students and
other short-term workers, many of
whom dropped out of the labour
market.
Withdrawals from the labour
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force between August and Septem-
ber exceeded the decline in the
number of persons with jobs, so
that the number of persons with-
out jobs and seeking work drop-
ped by 10,000 to 271,000. In addi-
tion, ithe number of persons an
temporary gay -off :dropped from
37,000 to 14,000. The labour force
tota0tled 6,159,000 in the week end-
ed ,Setember 20, 1958 as compared
with 6,306,000 one month earlier.
Applications for employment at
National Employment Service of-
fices across Canada totalled 327,-.
112 on September 18, a decline of
30,575 from the August 21 figure
of 357,687.
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Hensall C of C To
"Get Out the Vote"
'Village Election
(By our Hensel) correspondent)
The dinner meeting of the Hen -
sal]. Chamber of Commerce was
held in the Legion Hall:last Wed-
nesday evening. President Charles
Fiford took the chair for the
meeting and welcomed the mem-
bers and guests, pointing out the
several uses of the Chamber of
Commerce.
William Brown reported on the
Civil Defence with more particu-
lars to be given at a later date.
A film, compliments of Shell OP
Company was shown.
The coming local elections were
discussed and it was decided to
set up a committee to see that ev-
eryone in the village will be phon-
ed with the slogan " Get Out and
Vote." It was decided that some-
time before Spring the Chamber
will set up a Labor Bank when
certain people will be called upon
to donate several hours of their
time to help beautify the town.
Those who put in the most hours
by the end of the year would be
entitled to some sort of recognition.
A motion was passed that Jack
Drysdale be given some recognition
for the donation of the building
on the bowling green which he
donated some years ago to the
Chamber of Commerce, and which
was recently sold.
Legion Ladies Auxiliary catered
for the banquet.
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$50 Shares in CIA
Life Insurance Co.
Now Available
(By J. Carl Hemingway)
At the regular monthly meet-
ing of Huron County Federation
of Agriculture, October 23, Bill
Duncan of the Co -Operator's In-
surance Association, outlined the
selling of shares • in the new C.Y.A.
Life Insurance Co. now being or-
ganized. Huron County has been
allotted 105 shares of $50 each
with a limit of five shares to any
one person. Mr. Duncan stated
that the addition of Life to the
Co -Operators Insurance family
will provide greater stability to the
organization.
After some discussion it was
agreed that the County Federation
would supply the Rural Co-Oper.
ator to all farmers in the county.
This farm paper carries reports of
the activities of your organization
and the current : developments in
the farming industry which is of
vital concern to the present day
farmer.
In addition to Warren Zurbrigg,
county member to the O..F.A, Win-
ston Shapton, president; Gordon
Greig, second vice-president, and
Mrs. Alex McGregor, lady director
were elected voting delegates to
the O.F.A. annual in Toronto.
The Junior Farmers of the
county will be asked to appoint a
delegate to the O.F.A. Annual at
the expense of the County Feder-
ation. Any farmer is welcome to
attend and take part in the discus-
sions. The dates are November
10, 11, and 12, at the Royal York.
A resolution introduced by God-
erich Township was approved for
presentation to County Council
Resolved that the members of the
County Council come to agree-
ment throughout the county on the
beginning and ending date for
daylight saving time. It was also
agreed that this resolution be pres-
ented to the O.F.A. for Provincial
action.
A second resolution was pre-
sented from the floor to the af-
fect that farm producers should be
represented on Government Com-
missions where agriculture was in-
volved namely: in land acquisition
through the Ontario Hydro Com-
mission, the Ontario Fuel Board,
and the Department of Highways.
The meeting urged all Federa-
tion Directors to take a very active
part in organizing all possible TV
Farm Forums for the coming seas-
on.