The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-05-30, Page 24PAGE tlik_--GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1974
UGAU' SPICE
This week I'll deal with position, have not exactly set
several topics, none of them the House .on fire, which might
related, but each of them an be the best and only way they
aspect of the peculiar world we could get the attention or the
inhabit in 1974. ' ^ electorate.
° Why do `4-6 many young The NDP has had the best of
.•people want to go into the deal in the last parliament,
teaching?, There's no real letting the Liberals pull their
future in it financially, very lit- chestnuts out of the fire and
tle hope of finding a job after squelching any possibility of a
teacher training, and only an Tory blaze by -noting with the
infinitesimal hope of becoming government. The party has
important, famous, or even shown more politics than
notorious. statesmanship, and an almost
Yet the teachers' colleges repulsive enjoyment of power.
keep pouring out thousands of This time around we need
eager and, talented young —snore than a shrug, a mumble,
people with a,flaining desire to or a smarmy v+ ,ashing of hands..
be teachers. We need a government with the
We had two openings for guts to govern. And the chances
English teachers on our staff of getting it from the talent on
this year, and received a pile of display. seems minimal.
applications up to your knees. Personally? I'd vote for Joe
And these 'aren't duds, who Stalin if he could do something
have been weeded out of the about inflation, and I'm sure
profession because of incom enough other people would to
potence. They are the cream of put him in the P,M.'s chair.
the crop, highly qualified,` many Last week I cha, c-gdx 'o• look
with' some years of experience, at the price 'Of a small can of
some with extra degrees. u .y e •
There's a certain amount of cents. This means, roughly,.
security in a teaching job, and that a pound of that smashed-
the holidays are pretty good. up mess of meat, gristle, fat,
But if you want security, go and the odd bit of bone from
t
tt a cos
are your chief concern, go on $1.85. There is something rot -
welfare. ten in the state of Argentina.
Teaching has its rewards and I am utterly appalled by our
satisfactions, but it's a wearing, grocery bills, and can't help
grinding'" life, physically and thinking that there is a grand
°ndtionally. I feel sorry for all rip-off in there somewhere. The
those excellent . young people farmers; aren't getting it, and
trying so desperately ,to get a the chain stores claim they.'
toe -hold in the pr- aren't. But someone is.
ofession. I wouldn't suggest to My heart bleeds for the large
my worst enemy that he (or family on a low income., The
she) go into teaching. ` - working man demands higher
It would be' the equivalent of wages and is not even holding
a,
:Ridd�I wan#s access to beaches assured
P'
b8 Bill SMIIE1
However, she wants to bring
him up the way the Indians
and Eskimaitedo. Pick him up
when he cries; feed him when
he's hungry; play with him
when he's bored. Never speak
crossly or punish.
He's a "good" baby. Sleeps a
lot, chuckles a lot, kicks a lot;
plays with his hands. When his
mother is around.
Twice in the last three days,
I've offered ,to babysit, while
his Mum went to a show. No,
problem. Baby sound asleep af-
ter a good solid dinner from the
twin founts of life. And if he
does wake up, old Grandad can
always amuse him with songs
and witty sayings.
Thirty minutes' after his
Mum is "out of the house, he
wakes up. With bated breath I
hear' the first bleat. With
despair I hear it build to a full-
throated bellow that would
suggest the imp is being mar-
tyred at the stake by the
Iroquois..
Pick him up, dandle him, jig
him, sing to him, talk my ver-
sion of Chinese to him, always
a great hit when M'um's
around. No dice.
into the bank, and if holidays third-rate ca l , t bou
He wants grub, and I ain't
plumbed right for it. An hour
and a half of torture, changing
diapers, blowing on his belly,
kitching and cooing. Nothing
works. His Mum comes home,
whips out the equipment and
the little devil is asleep in ten
minutes, and sleeps all night.
So. 'Here are my predictions.
Another minority government,
a major depression, and a'
spoiled kid,
"Get ' Get thee to „a nun- his own when he gets them.
nery." Strangely enough, I like .We're. headed for a depression;,
it. But"then, I got -into the game chaps. Your dollar of a couple,
back in the days when there of decades ago is worth fifty
was a' frantic shortage of cents today,and may be worth
teachers, and they were taking forty cents next week.
any old scruff who could stand Now I'll turn my attention to
up in front of a class. something closer to home. And
Now, the election. If those closer is the word. I can hear
idiots in Ottawia think anyone my grandbaby from all,the way
is happy about/ft, they're .as far ' downstairs, 'bellowing with
out of touch with public brazen lungs for his dinner,
opinion as usual He's a bonny baby. In fact, I
The Liberals have had two say without prejudice that he's
shots at it, and have proved lit- the handsomest boy baby I've
tle except that they can't do ever laid eyes on. Huge dark
much about anything. Their eyes, and .a grin that w'oulpd
policy seems. to be to cover the melt, a Mother Superior.
wounds with talcum powder ' But his mother has some odd
when the patient is bleeding to ideas. She has some good ones,
death. too, like feeding him mother's
The Conservatives, in the milt, on which he is waatin
last. eighteen months in op- into a butter -ball, ,
Avto New
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MICAL RESEARCH
Consumers' Association , of
Canada reports that federal
govermnerit expenditures for
health science research totalled
$63.1 million in 1971-72, an in,
crease of. $8.3 million over the
p'revious—year. .The Medical
Research Council received
$35,6 million, the Department
of Health and Welfare, $27.2
million and the Department of
Veterans Affairs, $0.3 million.
' esea'rch is also funded direc-
tly by provincial governments
and through councils and foun-
dations. CAC National Office is
located at 100 ' Gloucester
Street, Ottawa.
Jack Ridden, MPP for
Huron, addressed the Ontario
Legislature , recently on the
public's rights on access of On-
tario's lake and river fronts, He
contended that the government
must take steps to protect the
water frontage for the public
use.
He expressed mixed feelings
,concerning the Supreme Court
of Canada granting four ,Buf-
falo residents sole right to their
beaches on Lake Erie and in
Thunder -Bay: The court gran-
, ted the .rights to the cottagers
on the l?asis of a Colonial War
grant. It seems the forefathers
of the American families` had
participated' in .Canada's.
colonial struggle and a grateful
British government had rewar-
ded the veterans with the
pieces of land.
"It would appear to me that
the flimsiest of excuses can be
used to retain the ownership of
beaches to the waterline", com-
plained the Huron member,
"What is at issue is the fact
that the Ontario public is being
denied access along much of
Ontario's coastline."
Mr. Riddell pointed out that
the early pioneers always main.
tained the right of public access
to the beach and that even then,
the high water mark delineated
the public domain,. He
suggested that the government
establish tate high-water mark
at its furthest point up the ----41'
beach in any given. cycle. He
added that now would be an
ideal time to establish the mark
since the water has risen so
much this spring.
He also suggested that the
Ontario government use the
Danish govt'ernment's definition
Me7rir�Erhy
E
of beach. According to the
Danes the beach is 'an area
where there is no continuous
turf or any other continuous
land vegetation'.
He finalized his comrpents by
saying that "where the govern-
ment is willing to act, ' then
public access to the beaches can
be secured.
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STUDENT WEEK
JUNE 2 TO '. 8
"Hire a Student Week"—this is the campaignQbeing
promoted in this area by the student placement WNice ,
at the Canada Manpower Centre in Goderich for the
week of Jltne 2-8. 'Me officials of the towns, townships,
and county, the ministers and news media have all
been contacted to gain their support of the program
and Mr. Walden says that the response from this group
to the project has been excellent. Because of this'en-
thusiasm, he is anticipating a busy week from the em-
ployers who will be placing orders with him to hire
students.
If this is the case, Mr. Walden feels there should be
plenty of jobs on hand for the high school students
when school is over for the year. 'A big advantage
gained by the employer in using the student placement
office is that there is a wide,selectionrof students, from
their community on file, ready for work, to choose from.
At present, there are around 200 males.and 200 females
registered. But, Mr. Walden doesnt't want the
registrations to.Stop here. He would like to see even
more -students on file, because the employment picture
looks very ,good this "year. To date, 72 university
students have been placed -in jobs which has left very
few university students on file to, refer to the job vacan-
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students will have no trouble getting summer work. S,o,
far there has been an excellent balance between orders
received and students available. Mr. Walden hopes this
will continue.
On May 1, the, student,,placement.office hired an
assistant, 'Miss Jane Clancy, who has been working
with Mr. Walden. She has contributed greatly thus far
to ' the success, of the 'office in placing sural"'mer
students.
• In conclusion, Mr. Walden, stated that - if there , is
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