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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1959-02-18, Page 4PAGE FOUR March is Month iof Hope forOntario's Crippled Children -Buy Easter Seals and supported by the entertain- ment profession, where trades are taught boys unable to work at manual tasks. Down through the years Easter Seals have paved a way for a program which now provides 22 specially trained nurses. who serve as liaison with the service clubs across the province, seeking out crippled children and direct- ing them to treatment centres, providing them with home nursing skills, and teaching parents what to do to help their handicapped little ones take advantage of med- ically prescribed plans for rehabil- itation. In five camps, unlike any other camps in the country, hundreds of youngsters will have a chance at summer vacations barred to them otherwise because they cannot play exactly as other children do. In these camps counsellors with knowledge of what to do teach the kids to enjoy life, to learn how to care for themselves and give many of them hope which their condit- ions, or even their over -protect - To more than 13,500 children and teen-agers in Ontario, afflict- ed by accident, disease, or from birth by crippling conditions that usually mean despair and depend ence on others, March is the month of hope Easter Seals go on sale on Feb- ruary 26, through the members of 22n service clubs, as the means by which the people of Ontario join in the vast task of making life better for youngsters who would otherwise find it harder, if not impossible, to become self - .reliant self - dependent citizens. This year the service clubs have set a provincial objective of $800, 000 from the sale of Easter Seals. The purchases of Easter Seals niean treatment and training, vac- ations in specially equipped sum- mer camps and all the other ben- efits that the thirty -six-year-old Ontario Society for Crippled Ch- ildren has developed over its his- tory to children. They mean a chance for lads to take a course at the internationally known Var- iety Village, the school sponsored ZURICH Citizens NEWS SPECIALIZING IN GOOD FOOD WELL PREPARED IS WHAT WE LIKE TO SERVE YOU! SUNDAY DINNERS 4.00 to 7.30 p.m. DINING ROOM CLOSED EVERY TUESDAY EVENING Dominion Hotel PHONE 70 — ZURICH "Where You Are A Stranger But Once" It IsObvious "It is obvious that the increas- ing number of alcoholics is related to the increasing sale and con- sumption of alcoholic beverages," so declared the Windsor Star re- cently. It IS obvious—to all who give thoughtful consideration to this serious problem. The number of alcoholics is increasing alarmingly. Surely it is just as obvious that the country, the city, the county with the fewest alcoholics, con- sumes the smallest quantity of al- coholic beverages. Thanks to the scientific study made of this prob- lem by the Ontario Alcoholism Re- search Foundation, we have satis- tics show that of several counties studied there is one which has a remarkably low rate of alcoholics per 100,000 of population. That county is Huron, "admittedly the driest county" in Ontario. We in Huron have no legal liquor outlets because we are under the Canada Temperance Act. One other obvious conclusion, the CTA should not be repealed, but amended. This is the aim of an active group of Huron and Perth citizens. They are approach- ing Ottawa about the matter. Huron County Temperance Federation 7-b ive parents, have not aroused. Easter Seals, too, enrol the services of leading physicians and surgeons who give their time and skills at the clinics, which the Soc- iety and the service clubs organize at strategic centres in Ontario where local doctors may bring their young patients for examina- tion and recommend a treatment. From the clinics the children go to hospital, if necessary, or back to their homes for a program of planned therapy or training super- vised by the Society's nurses. In the field of cerebral palsy, the Society's Easter Seals have made possible advances that are dramatic even though the task is painfully slow and expensive. At the Woodeden residential training centre near London, teams of nurses and doctors are teaching children to talk, to walk, to feed themselves and dress themselves ... even to become helpful family members instead of helpless vic- tims of a condition that once spell- ed hopelessness. Purchases of Easter Seals mean membership for the buyers in a crusade of mercy and service to children, who through no fault of their own, bear enormous bur- dens of affliction, but who need only a little help to carry those burdens much more lightly. Inlaid Linoleum Congoleums Carpet and Rugs SPECIAL! Clearance on Linoleum Tile ODDS valid ENDS Only 6c Each Just What You Need!! 1 Only— KELVINATOR REFRIGERATOR Like New — A Real Buy! DROP IN AND SEE IT NOW! WESTLAKE FURNITURE Phone 89J — ZURICH "FURNITURE FOR EVERY ROOM IN THE HOME" 0 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1959 Quick. Canadian Quiz 1. Canada produces what pro- portion of the world's news- print? 2. The B.C.-made dugout canoe Tilikum is famed for what voyage? 3. Which is the greater amount, customs duties on imported goods, or sales tax on Canad- ian -manufactured goods? 4. Who designed Canada's first postage stamp? 5. On consumer goods and ser- vices Canadians spent $1.9 bil- lion in 1949. What was the 1957 total of such spending? ANSWERS: 5. $19.5 billion; 1958 spending will exceed $20 billion. 3. In 1957-58, customs duties on im- ports were $498 million, sales tax- es on Canadian - manufactured goods were $703 million. 1. About 50 percent. 4. Sir Sandford Flem- ing, who also helped build CPR, invented Standard Time system and was chancellor of Queen's Un- iversity. 2. The Tilikum, a 38 -foot Counter Cheek Books on Sale at Citizens News There Will Be DANCING Every Friday Night At The rid Forge - Bayfield 10.00 -- 1.30 Music By Grant Edighoffer And His Melody Masters With Vocals by Jo Ann ADMISSION: 75 Cents DINE and DANCE dugout canoe, went under sail from Victoria, B.C., to Australia and then on around to Margate, England. Material prepared by the editors of Quick Canadian Facts, the pock- et annual of facts about Canada. 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