Zurich Citizens News, 1966-02-24, Page 740
THURSDAY 0 FEBRUARY 24, 1960
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
Application Forms For New Medicare
Available at All Chartered Banks
Informational pamphlets ex-
plaining details of the scope
and benefits of the Ontario
Medical Serviees Insurance
Plan, together with application
form, are now available at the
local branches of the chartered
bank and throughout Ontario.
Under the Plan, approved by
the Ontario Legislature a few
days ago, a standard medical
insurance contract will be avail-
able to residents of the prov-
ince regardless of their age,
present state of health ,c)r fi-
nancial means.
The Ontario Medical Services
Insurance Plan — known as
OMSIP for short—is a volun-
tary, government -administered
scheme that will pay for prac-
tically all doctors' services
wherever they are provided, in
the office, the home or the
hospital.
The Medical Services Ulm.-
ance Division of the Ontario
Department of Health is geared
and ready for the initial rush
expected when OMSIP enrol-
ment opens to the public on
Mareh 1.
Applications covering upwards
of 2,000,000 Ontario residents
could be processed during the
two-month enrolment period
which ends May 1.
OMSIP premiums for unas-
sisted persons will be $60 a
year for a single person, $120
a year for a family of two, and
$150 a year for the family of
three or more.
The introduction of .the Plan
will be in two stages. Auto-
matic coverage will commence
on April 1 for those persons in
receipt of assistance under cer-
tain social assistance acts and
for Old Age Security pension-
ers who are declared eligible
for benefits by the Ontario De-
partment of Public Welfare.
The full cost of OMSIP prem-
iums for these people will be
borne by the Ontario Govern-
ment.
Coverage for other residents
will begin on July 1. In order
to be insured against doctors'
bills from this date, subscribers
must fill in an application form
and enrol by May 1.
The government will pay the
full premiums for these citizens
who have been resident for the
past 12 months in Ontario and
who paid no income tax in
1965.
And assistance amounting to
ball or more of the cost of
premiums will be provided by
the government to those per-
sons on low incomes who have
been resident in the province
for the past 12 months.
Full details are included in
the information pamphlets now
available •at the local banks.
Junior Farmers
Hold Annual At
Belgrave Hall
The annual meeting of the
Huron County Junior Farmers
was held on February 4, in the
Belgrave Arena and Forresters
Hall, with over 120 junior
farmer members and interested
parties lin attendance. This
was the largest attendance in
many years.
Broomball and skating in the
arena preceeded the annual
meeting.
The annual meeting was held
in Forresters Hall, with Tom
Cunningham, p r e s id e n t for
1965, in the chair. Barry Mul-
vey was appointed secretary
for the evening.
Don Pullen presented a most
favorable treasurer's report in
a number of years.
The presidents of each club
gave a brief outline of thefr
club's activities during the
year.
Miss Dianne Liddiard, home
economist, presented the past
provincial directors' pin to
Maurice Love and Marilyn Mar-
shall presented the past presi-
dent's pin to Tom Cunningham.
The Junior Farmers' Associ-
ation of Ontario are preparing
a new booklet on planning ef-
fective meetings and also new
song books. Mr. Love stated
that it was an honor to repre-
sent Huron County and thanked
the members for offering him
the opportunity of serving alid
working with juniors in the
county and Ontario.
Don Pullen gave the report
from the department of agri-
culture. He stated that the
slow moving vehicle signs were
selling well but he hoped more
would be sold before August.
SUGAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
IT BRINGS OUT THE BEST
There's nothing like an old-
fashioned blizzard to put that
cocky creature, man, in his
place. We're right in the mid-
dle of a four-star dandy at the
moment. It's been snowing and
blowing for 48 hours, with salu-
tory results. The world has
become a wild, white wilder-
ness. And the people in it have
become human beings.
The ereature man in his wis-
dom believes he has tamed na-
ture, He will admit, under
quizzing, that he still doesn't
know much about himself. But
he is confident that he has
brought the natural world to
heel.
Normally, he thinks of nature
as something subdued, some-
thing to be used for recreation,
or looking at and saying, "Nice,
ain't it?"
It takes a rousing belch from
that old trollop, Mother Nature,
whether it be in a form of a
blizzard, a hurricane, an earth-
quake or a fire, to set him
right back on his primitive
heels.
And strangely enough, it is
only when nature comes -up
with some kind of a spectacular
that man seems to shed his
scale of materialism, .get down
to his basic virtues, and find
out once again what makes the
human race go round in ever -
diminishing circles.
Ordinarily, the Christian vir-
tues are as easily spotted as
the teeth in a hen who is draw-
ing the old age pension. But
when nature gives a vast rtun-
ble of laughter at the little
fellows, and collapses the fa-
cade of 'creature comforts which
are the modern-day fetishes,
the old virtues brighten the
darkest corner.
Generosity, unselfishness, de-
cency, do -unto -others — all the
things to which we pay lip
service—suddenly flower when
people are getting a good kick
in the teeth from old Mother.
When a blizzard is raging,
ordinary, miserable, grouchy
people regain some of those
qualities the pioneers are sup-
posed to have had. People who
wouldn't pick up the Queen of
England, even if she displayed
a sign reading, "Buckingham
Palace or bust", suddenly start
picking up hitehhikers.
People who ordinarily
wouldn't give you' the time of
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day will stop and shov/. you
out of a snowbank. PeoPla who
wouldn't buy an apple from
Boy Scout will shovel out old
ladies' driveways.
And strangest of all, they
smile and gring and chortle
while they're doing it.
Not only do they revert to
humanity. They return to a
certain primitive pride in do-
ing battle with the elements.
he wasn't practising one-up-
manship. He was being a good
neighbor.
Got to work, end found that
one chap had driven through
the storm for four and a half
hours to make it on time. He
was slit -eyed, unshaven, and
something of a hero, for per.
People who will grumble for
hours about a sprinkle of rain
that spoils a picnic, turn into
giants when the big snow
comes. They hump through
the drifts. They snort and
stamp into work, half an hour
late, as proud as though they'd
just crossed the Sahara, single-
handed, without water. They
die in their hundreds, frozen
grins on their faces, clutching
their snow shovels.
I speak from experience.
This morning, my neighbor,
with whom I exchange a care-
fully amiable greeting about
every six months, had managed
to smash his truck through the
three-foot drift in his drive.
And there he was when he
mushed ant, grinning like a
gargoyle, motor running, to
give us a drive to work. And
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haps Out first time in his Oft
I hate to suggest it, in case
old Mother N. is listening, but
perhaps we need a few more
blizzards, earthquakes, holo-
causts and hurricanes. They
work a lot better than nation-
ally advertised Brotherhood
Weeks.
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Annual Meeting
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ON
Thursday, February 24, 1966
At 8 p.m.
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Every Member Should Make a Special Effort to Attendl
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