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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1967-07-06, Page 7YOU CAN BE "SURE" 1--F-- IT'S WESTINGHOUSE O THE MODERN, FAMOUS 00 WESTINGHOUSE LAUNDROMATS ON SALE AT WeHaveSome Later Models In Stock - • FROM s119 WILF REINHART'S The Oldest Appliance Dealer In Goderich 4 4 • ,IueTumb • .4 ' • It was,, their last day of classes, Thursday, June 29, for,this group of smIlirg youngsters' who had just received their graduation diplomas for suc- ceasfully completing their kindergarten year at $t. Peter's Catholic Church. Wearing their graduation aps, with a proud air, the group posed for this photo shortly, after the • school was dismissed. In the front row are: from left, G. StinniAon, C. Burns, J. Mero, B.,Melick, P. Lassaline and R.Conlon. In Second row, from left are: G.Kacprzex, D. Donnelly, D. Young, G. Gaynor, S. Abbott, P. Murphy, K. Melady, R. Leddy and M. Pitre. In 3rd row are: C. Sumner, D. MacInnis, T. Koster,• M. Grace, R. Corran, S. Masse, R. Lassaline, N. Walter, P. Wisser. Standing behind are Sister M. .Monica and their teacher, Mrs. C. McMillen. Separate School Pupils -Get Graduation Awards A. 9:00 a.m. Mass, followed by a breakfast at which Rev. R.- Moynahan presided, was held at St. Peter's Church hall, God. erich, psr.Wednesday, June 29, to -mart( the end at the school term and provide the occasion for presentation 0$ awards. 'Following the address to the graduates byl Rev. R. Moynahan and Tom Campion, St. Mary's' separate .school board member, was the valedictory address given by Richard Fisher, -a member of the grade eight grad. uating claes. Guest 1- speaker for the occasion was Dr. E. G...Evans, Huron' county' medical iealth officer. Presentation, of awards followed. They -included; a gen. eral proficiency award won bv Ricky Fisher and Present. ',..4eribit*. .$040 PUBLISHED BY GODERICH AND DISTRICT LABOUR COUNCIL 'As late in history ,as 200 years ago, a man considered himself a native of the town or village he was .born into. There were no roads as we know them, no railways, no elec. tric communications and nopost worthy of the name. The great • world across° the first hill, and---, all who lived in it, were a dangerous mystery. Every one you didn't know personally and know well, had to be treated with suspiciOn. And rightly so, because the man who struck the first blow had a great ad. Vantage. If you struck hard enough and fast enoughyouwo with no further argurnenik„ Everybody lived In orld close to home. They didn't now the PeOple 20 miles away, .so they believed they had nOth. ing in common with them. ° Then into. history came Nap. oleon Bonaparte; He was able to show all the people who, spoke French, that'll they acted together, they had no trouble getting possession of everything their neighbours owned; land, women and everything else. Fortunately, he wasn't able to cross the English Channel to put ' his ideas into practice in . England. And the English lead. „werg_,_ar_t_ enough to learn from Napoleon's tactii. It took years, a lot of blood •, 5 and an awful lot of money, but they united all the peoples of Europe against Napoleon. Nap. oleon was beaten. Before Napoleon's time; the Romans had conquered althe known world. Their forinula for . success, was "Divide and Conquer." Napoleon taught us to unite and win. He was beaten because -those opposed to him carried the idea of uniting to a larger number of people than he did Today, because of modern communications, we. have a fair idea of what is going on in the world, And it's still the sam640104tory, those who haye money "and 'power are still in. dined to use it, to' get more and more. A lot more than their fair share as a rule. But, they can only do so if they are able to keep Labour divided.. To, get our fair share we must take our lesson from Napoleon — Unite and win., And we know enough about the people ID . the next village;and even the next country', to know they aren't enemies, but potential , brothers, with the same aims in life as we have; and the same . interests trying to prev_ent them from having their fair share of .--the--things.--that--makelife-worth while. ed by Mrs. Richard Buchanan of the C.W.L.; runner—up was David Selinger who received his award, from Mrs. J. C. Thompson, Goderich member. A literature award was presented by Mrs. McKee on behalf of the Ahmeek chap. ter of the Goderich I.O.D.E. to Brock Stimson, David Selinger won a social studies award which was pre. sented to him by another I.O.D.E member, Mrs. R. Hughes, on behalf of her group. A girl's citizenship award was pre. sented to Jane Dean by Mrs. James Donnelly of tbeGoderich, separate school board. Boy's citizenship award went toDanny Burns, also presented by Mrs. Donnelly. , Graduation diplomas were given to the following grade eight pupils: Corinne -Poulin, David Selinger, ChristineSudyk Clara Bedard, Eugene DeJong, Jennie Gloin,, Brock Stimpson, Kathleen Wedlock, Paul Don. nelly, Patrick O'Brien, Rich- ard Fisher; David Graf, Danny Burns, Andrew Stinnison, k Leroy Siemon. After presentation of gradua- tion ,pins by R.' E.Alahes, mem- ber of the Goderich a grace 'was announced which ended the ceremonies. KINSMEN SPONSORED OCTOGENARIAN 4110f41.'"..' O -PICNIC Haibourlite Inn WEDNESDAY,. JULY l!th Anyone over 70 years of age can attend FOR TRANSPORTATION 524-981 27-28 AREAS OF' BLAME. 1. VIETNAM By 0. MacLeod ROSS Just what is wrong with the war in Vietnam? Of late a num. bet' of shrewd A.rnerican obser.; vers have put their flndfflgs on paper, The.following is a precis, of what they say. NORTH VIET STRATEGY If you like to express it so, the\ first' strike agairist the Unite . a ed States came when the -ter., rain on which to fight was not of their choosing, for in Viet,. nam there is densevegetiti: on; What the North Vietnamese call 'muddy marshes' 'and a m titude of waterways. Such . ditions provide covar from ew and as such, they favour guer.; rilla warfare, or what might be Palled the ,poorman,s warfare,. As a -result the North Viet can select when and where to fight. Tot the Eastern mind time is timeless, The North Viet Gen. - eral, Tran Do's strategy is to face the 'Americans with an in- terminable war. He admitehe is not thinking of anything like a conventional military victory. The U.S., he says, "want a fast war". For himself he is confident that all things come to hirii who waits and he reads western psychology corrector, for waiting is something the East can do a great deal bet.. ter than the West, AMERICAN STRATEGY Against some half million North Viet' • guerillas, of which only 115,000 have been corn. mated to date, the U.S. has op. • posed a force coniientionally • trained and armed with all the latest developments in fire- power. Its war machine is pitted for attrition, which Personal • Alex Hume of Ottawa. is in town this week and is staying with his sister Miss Esther Hume. A friend of Mr. Hume, Mr. David R. Ross, of,Mellen, Wisconsin,is also visiting. HEARING AID. SERVICE CENTRE Thursday, July 13th 1 to p.m. O CAMPBELL'S Phone for FREE Home Appointment &MC* to all makes of Hearir.g AId E. R. THEDt OARING AID SERVICE \0 Mr. and Mrs. James Videan ' from. Detroit were visiting rel- atives and friends in town this Week. Irori means killing men (the'corpSe count); it is not geared to (*.pun, ter • insurgency. American troops have :ought well in the Jungles. Jet -aircraft have been effective against guerillas, The B 52 Strikes are not incOn. sequentail. (Mone million dol. lars per strike.) These are three things Which experienced soldiers said would not, be, so, Nevertheless the niability of American firepower to contain the .enemy is trula0ating, even bewildering. Why? The answer was demonstrated in 400 years of guerilla vrartare ontheNorth West Frontier of India, Fire. power is valueless unless!tcan find a. target, •and -in war this is the hardest thing* to find in quantitY to achieve victory by attrition. The effort to force Hanoi to t.her bargain. ing table by destroying her means of production has failed. , In the result heavy weaponry., makes the headlines, but it is the long slow slog of the gtieD, Ula which makes the war. The North . Vietnamese have been hammered, but they donot show despair. MANPOWER In the absence of official information, the following cal- culation is an obvious guess, Before we can decide how many U.S. 'troops are actually engaged in combat, we must deduct the 'tail' (see below) or the number required by a modern army to maintain one combat soldier. This can be of the order of six. Tile 440,000 U.S. troops might therefore provide only 73,000 combat troops. Adding • the 320,000 South Viet regulars who, presumably, being U.S. trained, have a 'similar 'tail', they provide a further 53,000 combat troops. Total U.S. plus S . V. combat troops, sayl26,000. They oppose 115,000 regular tith 4:ar Borth Viet trPnPs, hkii,bOnt guerillas do.nofrectuir,e alarge 'tall'. Let us .4tiggeat, thattlleir 'combat strengthmight he as high as 00,200. But it is an - accepted taOt that te, win agt.ter. ilia war the preponderance of conventionally trained troops • Over the 'guerillas may have'.to be as. high as Nur to one, This.' would mean that the U.S. needs to deploy 219,000 combat troops, or an increment of six • times that number to Covey their 'tail'. As against these the North is reported to baye some 405,000 trbopS uncommit- ted to date. These figures are guesses, • except for the several numbers . known, to be engaged, but they serve to illustrate an aspect of the •manpower problem the U.S. has to face. • CONVENTIONAL VS GUERILLA Conventional troops are hand. icapped by an immense 'tail' a supply and maintenance tail: The bigger the total force, the more combat trained troops are expended ill the tail. Is this • strategy of clinging to conven- tional troops approaching the uneconomic condition of the camel as a means of transport- ation? The camel consumes such a large proportion of his- load,,thatlis radius of effective. neseis severely limited. Has the .U.S. reached a situation wherein the more troops they land, the less will the effic- iency of the • combat portion become? -General Tran Do be. .lieVeS that this w113 b�tliecase,, . fie is banking on it in fnect, T01.1141)0 thQ ‘PrinciplesofWar) should have added to them this admOnition; guerilla enemy must be oPposed by guerilla trained troops.' Three Goderich Nurses Attended Reunion With Former Classmates On June 7th a wonderful day was spent by the 1942 graduat. ing class of Memorial Hospital, it. Thomas. Of the 24 grade uating )19 were able to attend along with their former Super- intendent, Jessie M. WilsonR.N. of Brantford and assis 1 Sup. ertendent FlorenceKu of Kitchener. . They. gathered in the morn. ing at the ',home. of Mrs. Doris Astbury, Lambethokhere a buf• fet luncheon was enjoyed at 11:30 a.m. In the afternoon they attended the graduation of the 1967 class where they were ' ',recognized and given front row reserved seats. After spending some time in touring the old Memorial 'hos: t.pital where their memories both sad and happy lay , they mot- ored to London for dinner at the Latin Quarter. A social time was spent with each tel. ling some of the highlights of their past 25' years and escap- ades of their training days. • Miss 'Wilson spoke to her former class ,saying she hadhot married but hack, a lot to do with bringing up other peoples children. • The nurses came front Van. couver, Montreal, Ottawa, Med- ,. ina N.Y., Goderich,'- Guelph, Stoney Creek, Woodstock, Ing. ersoll, Chatham, London, Lam. beth, andS t. ',Thomas. Plans were made to have another reunion in five years. Those attending who had‘been in Goderich hospital were Mrs. Marian McClintoch • (Newman) -formerly of Dungannon; Mrs. Helen Brown (Lavis) formerly of Clinton land Mrs. Phyllis Fisher (Jewell) of Benmiller. What about the South yiet, namese army? It. appeai's that, it to .has been•Americamised, and not , trained for gueiii1a. tactics, so that tedaY one of the big questions to be decid. ed is: Shall /tin rets$1105r, imMense task. The essentials are fogged: Fist the erroneous idea that: the war in the South can be won in the North and second' that machinery is a strbetitute for hard slogging. Still another .form Of oppos. ition lies, not in the North - Vietarmy, but in the South Viet government. The level of leadership in Saigon and in the provinces is low. Corruption and a lack of _dedication. Top provincial jobs are often for sale. Some 'observers believe corruption will not disappear until all the money is gone. Burirtlie rate the Americans are pouring it in, the milieu- ium is far in the future. Under the South Vietnamese military regime is a layer of French trained civil servants who record births and" deaths, process traffic tickets and col4 lect a few taxes. They are re- , mote from either the war or the Americans — living ID a world pf their own. Knowing button to Press action Is lmpoulble. 'Finaily the South Vietham are bedeviled bY a iegton Ot U.S, advisers who reflect the 1.43.1. 001141/Pt Of *40 4G1144 HOCIetY,I, Advisers on tel col. lection,, 'experts in Pin* busk banir an lourdrYna, l'fs'hzner41,,tN, ;9$.‘611r: thirePas • is. • beyond:the capacity of the Vietnamese • to 'absorb It par. ' ,disastrOUS :failures; , of many other Wastam'ideas (e.g, the ballot 'box) 'which are; , state of tooociaiiire:dYteyoU015049eVntyoef the peoples to. which they are introduced. A ' THE HQAP. 10!E what do these. observers ter as a solution for all these areas of blame?. • I. Retrain the Sointb sViet, • -Army for guerivarfare;Spod them out, to their 'Pt* Prbvino ces to 'secure : them and gie confidence tO the villagers. 2. Reform the bureaucrea. 3. Force the Vietnamese gen- erals toprosecute their _cor, rupt colleagues. • This war 'can be wed, only by the Vietnamese. The Amer. scans can lose it by misapplied . power, impatience and sheer unwillingness to do what needs to be done. Thirty billions of dollars and thousands of 'dqad - men have not bought a better illusion — one around which the Vietnamese can wholeheartedly rally. , ' 04 ONTARIQ fa. or Consumer Credit effective July 31st 1967 The new OnieriO Consumer Pro- tection Act, which comes In to force on July 31st, helps everyOne who buys on credit by obliging the lender, or seller, to make • written statement of the true cost of credit.Triii proviSroii; In the Act, will not relieve the consumer of his., normal reapon- itiv of shopping carefully and choosing wisely; but it will make it easier for him to make the right decisions. ' Disclosure of the cost of borrowing In all time payment transactions the borrower must be given a written note of the cost of borrowing, both in dollars and cents, and as an annual percentage late, before credit is grantell. The lender must also set down any charges. he in- - tends to make if the borrower should :default on .payments. Cooling -off Period This new ruling applies to *tales.made. 'by itinerant sellers, whiCh rs'the Act's name for sellers who o'perate.away from -their permanent place of business, and who make a charge to the buyer for the privilege of buying on time. A contract made with an itinerant seller can now be cancelled by the buyer, pro- vided he does so in writing and delivers the cancellation to,the idler personally, or by registered mail, within two work- ing days of the contract being signed. If he cancels in this way, the buyer must return any goods already supplied, and the seller must return any money or trade-in which'he may have received. The trade- in does not become the seller's property until the two-day cooling -off period has elapsed without the buyer cancelling the contract. Registration of itinerant sellers As from July 31st, 1967, all itinerant tellers as defined by the Act must reg- ister with the Consumer Protection Bu- reau. If the seller is a company or , partnership, only the company or nership must register, nottheindMdul employees. Information to be contained 'rya -contract -Under the now. Act Certaln imports* details must be written into all contracts for the sale of gocids or services to a consumer, when the purchase price. 11 $50 or over. To be binding, the contract mustcomply with the Act and must be signed by, all parties, who must each receive a duplicate original copy. Repossession If the buyer should default after two thirds of the purchase price hes been. paid, the seller cannot repossess with - mit permission of a judge. Penalties Substantial perralties ani_movidediar contravention of.the Act and its Reg- ulations. Lenders and sellers who are likely to be affected are urged to make themselves familiar with the Act. • WHAT YOU SHOULD DO Borrowersand buyers should bear In mind that nothing in the new Act relieves them of the responsibility of making carefuf'decisions when considering a loan, or a purchase on credit. Keep this noti e as a re minder of your rights. In orma fon onborrowing,andon reditbu ing, is contained in a leaflet can be obtained from the .nsumer Protection Bureau, 123 Edw,rd Street.Toronto 2. . Lenders and sellers should make themselves familiar with the Act and its.Regulations. The Consumer Protection Act 1966 and Ontario Regulation 207/67 (250 each) can be obtained from the Queen's Printer, 26 Breadalbane Street, Toronto 5. For advice on thework- ing of the Act and its Regulations, see your qualified business adviser. Hon. H..L.Rowntre Minister of Financial and Commercial Affairs DEPARTMENT OP FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS hattelaii-D • r A t.