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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1972
Inequality of income from pension schemes
Inequality of income from pension schemes
for the elderly should be examined by the
Federal Government because some people re-
ceive income from as many as five separate
pensions, while countless others have to exist
on only the Government old age pension of
$82.88, plus supplement in some cases.
To illustrate: one woman receives the war
widow's pension of $227.92 from a deceased
husband who got the maximum war disability
pension. She also gets a Government pension
from the husband's previous occupation as a
civil servant. She herself works for a public
service organization which has its own pension
scheme, from which she will collect on retire-
ment. She will also collect from the Canada
pension plan and the old age pension, The
$227.92 war widow's pension, plus the $82.88
old age pension amounts to $310.80 before she
even starts to collect from the other three.
Total income from pensions here could run
as high as $500 monthly. How many more are
similarly placed? This is all legitimate, of
course, but is it fair when another widow,
just as worthy and deserving, is obliged to
exist on only $82.88 --which even with recent
increases and the supplement is still below
the poverty line.
What about fairness too when thrifty pens-
ioners who came through the depression and
sacrificed and denied themselves in order to
accumulate small savings, now find these
modest savings disqualifies them for the supple-
ment, yet Government provides pensions to
those with incomes of $25 to $50,000 and up.
of Antiques and New Hardware Store Items
for
MR. NORMAN GASCHO
and
MR. HAROLD STADE
at the residence of Norman Gascho
on the Goshen in Zurich north of
No. 84 highway next to Stade Hardware
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19
at 1:30 p.m.
ANTIQUES — 8 plate set of dishes, miscellaneous dishes,
Sealers, Pottery, Jugs, Crocks, Tinware, Teaboxes,
Spiceboxes, Tobacco Caddies, Picture Frames, Desk, Spool
bed, wash stands, Boston Rocker and other rockers, Cherry
Corner Cupboard, Tables, Iron Beds, Blanket Chest, Iron
Bound Sea Chest, Sad Irons, Trivet Stands, Clocks, Clock
case with shelves, railroad lanterns, Letter press, iron
kettles, cast iron cistern pumps, carbide bicycle lamp,
cream cans, lard tubs, pair large wooden hames (like new),
pair steel hames, bridle bits, hand sleighs, iron walking
plow, Schnitzle Pavnk, cast iron kitchen sink, Logging chain
Tightener, Wall Telephone, Gates, Trunks, Swing Mirror,
Buggy Wheels, Sap Yoke, stainless steel sink, 4 burner elec.
stove, 34 Chev. 2 door coach, and other items.
NEW HARDWARE ITEMS — Electric Mixer, Radio,
Electric Floor Polisher, Silverware, Cooking Utensils,
Washing Utensils, Electric Room Heater, Chill Chests,
Folding Stools, Electric Razor, Electric Irons, Lamps,
Mirrors, Tables, Sinks, Adding machine, Shotgun shells,
Jacks, Hand and Power Tools, Platform Scale, Pumps,
Roofing Materials, Barn Equipment and numerous other
items.
D & J Riddell
Auction Service
• Doug
237-3576
Jack
237-3431
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MY BIG TOE
AND WORLD HOCKEY
By Bill Smiley
Random notes this week.
Could there be anything more
silly than writing a column
about your silly old wife break-
ing her silly old ankle, and
four days later going out for a
swim and breaking your own
silly old big toe? Well, I did
both.
And boy, it hurts, boy.
Trouble is, there's not much the
doctor can do about it. Had it
X-rayed. He took a look at the
plate, didn't even look at the
toe, and cheerfully informed,
"Yes, Bill, you've broken a
chip of bone off it, but you
can't put a cast on one toe, so
just wear a comfortable shoe,
wiggle the toe so it won't get
still, and sweat it out. " I'm
sweating with every step. I
didn't realize how many things
you could bump your toe against
It hurts even when I kick the
cat, which I don't do, but will,
if she comes near my toe.
Enough about toes. Watch
out for those bees. While wait -
in g for the doc to talk about
(guess what) my toe, two
large and husky men came into
emergency ward swelling like
balloons from beee stings. One
was the local veterinarian ,
six feet six and about 280.
His right hand and arm were
almost completely numb and it
was spreading into his chest. He
was disgusted. How could a
silly thing half an inch long
do this to him?
And speaking of bees, how
about those two headliners,
Bobby Hull and Bobby Fischer,
hockey player and chess master,
in that order? Has ever so much
media space been devoted to a
couple of guys who are doing
well what they enjoy, and
getting rich at it?
And speaking of Bobby Hull,
what do you think of the World
Hockey Association? It has stol-
en Hull and another half-dozen
top hockey players from that
far -from -benevolent monopoly,
the NHL. Good luck to the
WHA. I love to see a big org-
anization kicked in the groin,or
the pocket -book, in this case,
Particularly by its own slaves.
Why shouldn't a hockey play-
er, a good one, make more
money than a movie star? He's
often a better actor.
And speaking about hockey,
which is rather silly in this
weather, have you ever read or
heard anything more silly than
the bleating of sports -writers,
and even editorial writers,
about the series with Russia 7
The whole thing is getting
rather sickening. It's just
another symptom of our infer-
iority hang-ip. We can't beat
the U, S. at money. We can't
the Chinese at ping-pong, We
can't beat anybody at the Olym-
pics, except maybe North Wales
or West Tanzania, (With the
notable exception of those horse
jumpers, who are pretty good).
Why don't we just relax and
enjoy it, as Confuscius did riot
say? Why don't we forget the
years when other countries were
wobbly-ankled on skates and
every red-blooded Canadian
boy had a Simpsons catalogue
on one leg and an Eaton's cat-
alogue on the other and could
shoot a frozen horse -ball
through a hairnet, and we won
the world championship twenty-
eight to one every year?
Except. Remember that
dreadful year (about 1936) when
the British, of all people, feat
our team in the Olympics?
Their team, of course, was
made up of Canadians living in
England. Or Englishmen who
had grown up in Canada. One
of them was an English kid I
went to school with. Another,
so he claimed, was an old
friend of mine, Squire Tanner,
attending Cambridge. Another
was George Hees, doing much
the same, before he got into
politics. But, oh, the shame
of it
All this, of course, is prel-
ude and masquerade to the sec-
ret hunch of mine that the
Russians are going to lick us in
the forthcoming series, if it
ever forthcomes.
My hunch is based on the
fact the games will be played
under international rules. Take
away the body -checking,
high -sticking, elbowing,
slashing, boarding and goug-
ing from the game, and your
average Canadian player is
lost. I can visualize clearly
five Russians descending on
some hapless Canadian goalie,
with all the other Canadians
in the penalty box.
Enough. This column is about
summer silliness. How's this?
An aunt of my wife, who was
bron and reared near Belfast,
but has lived for a number of
years in Canada, went back to
Northern Ireland for a visit
this summer. Wr're watching
the obituary columns.
My kid brother, who is a
colonel in the air force, is
being posted to Germany in a
few weeks. What, in the nape
of all that is silly, are Canad-
ians doing in Germany? Who
are they guarding? Against
what? And with what?
I know I've come a long way
from my broken toe, but
somewhere, in some secret littb
niche in my mind, there is a
connection linking all these
summer sillinesses,
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These models are free, so we
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