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Zurich Citizens News, 1977-01-26, Page 4Page 4 Citizens News, January 26, 1977 NEWS ITEM: Royal Nave gets fuel cut Heart Fund It is important for everyone to realize that the Heart Fund, conducted here and throughout Canada during February is something more than 'just another health drive'. The Heart Fund is uniquely important. Essentially, it is a combined appeal suppor- ting the nationwide fight against a great complex of diseases and disorders—heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries, rheumatic fever and inborn heart defects, to mention only a few. Diseases of the heart and circulation, which your Heart Fund dollars help to fight, are responsible for more than 78,000 deaths in Canada each year. That is more than the combined total, resulting from all other diseases and causes of death. In fact these cardiovascular diseases account for over 51.4 percent of all deaths. The heart problem is no distant abstraction. Although national and international in scope, it ex- • ists as a painful and costly reality right here in this area.' If you have doubts, ex- amine the obituaries which appear in our daily newspapers. You will find that our local mortality experience closely parallels national figures; that, on the average, about half our death notice will mention `heart attack', `stroke' or `heart disease'. All too often these terms are applied to family breadwinners in the prime of life—men in the 45 to 65 year age bracket. One practical way to fight heart disease, is by supporting your Ontario Heart Foun- dation's balanced programs of research, education and information. You can do this by contributing Heart Fund dollars. The Heart Fund deserves a place at the very top of your `giving for health' list. Send your contribution to the Canadian Heart Fund, 310 Davenport Road, Toronto, M5R 3K2, or your local Chapter. Helping people In Uttar Pradesh, which is India's largest state, there live more than 90 million people — as well as an estimated 600 million rats. The Agriculture Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Virendra Verma, believes the rats eat or contaminate enough food to support 100 million people. Such statistics spell out the tragedy and dilemma of development as clearly as any account of hunger in one of India's drought-striken villages. Clearly, a solution must be found by the people of Uttar Pradesh State. Only they can put up the kind of fight that could destroy, in time, the hungry rodents that are depriving equally hungry humans of their food. Yet anyone who has worked in develop- ing countries will ask quite simply: "How can they do it without a good deal of assistance?" How indeed? Rat poison and rat traps cost money. What is more, there are religious barriers to killing. Large silos, granaries and even smaller barns where grain and other food can be stored safely and under hygienic conditions are luxuries that so many towns and villages in the developing world simply cannot afford. An important aspect of the develop- ment process — and c,ne that is too often belittled in rich and poor lands alike — is the need to teach people how they can help themselves. They usually know that they must help themselves, but they don't know how. This process need not come from a foreign land. In many cases, assistance could be offered by the neighboring state, and indeed sometimes by a nearby village just a few miles away. The answer to the development dilemma is not always money. Frequently it becomes a question of communications. It is evident that the 90 million people of Uttar Pradesh must work together to find a more effective method of storing their foodstuffs. They must discover ways to keep rats out of the fields. And they may have to overcome taboos that forbid the killing of vermin — vermin that indirectly contribute to the deaths of countless infants and old people due to malnutrition. The rich nations also can help with worthwhile projects and technical assistance. Clearly, a joint effort is needed to tackle a problem of such immense proportions. Hello Hello Hello—anybody home? What you are reading is, believe it or not, the Zurich Citizens News. That means it is a paper for the people of the Zurich area and about the people in the Zurich area. I have heard some complaints about the lack of Zurich news in the Zurich paper and more specifically its similari- ty to the Exeter paper. Now, I have not personally been told that in so many words, but I have had to learn it the hard way, through people who heard someone else say so and thought I should be told. There is just one point I would like to make. This is a citizens paper as the name implies and it is impossible for me to know everything that goes on. In fact, I find out very little of what is going on in many cases. I refuse to take all the blame for this. I am available. I have a telephone and believe it or not I do use it. If you know of anything that is going on that you might think is of in- terest to the community, please please call me. At least then if it does not appear in the paper, your complaints will be justified. This request goes to the organizations active in the Zurich area as well. Without your co-operation, no news concer- ning what you are doing can possibly appear in the paper. I am getting discouraged. If you want a Zurich paper to continue, then do yourself a favor and make an effort. It is not Lorne Eedy's paper, it is not Cathy McKinley's paper, it is the Zurich Citizens News. Lets remember that. I was very glad to hear from Hay Township reeve Jack Tinney that the Hay council intends to make roads its priority this year, I just wish they would start this priority immediately. In particular the two and a quarter mile stretch north of Zurich on the Goshen is in the worst shape I have seen a road in this area for, some time. I am writing this on Friday, and you may recall that the last stormy blowing weather we had was on Monday last. Yet in that two mile stretch of highway, there is still one place where the road is one narrow lane only and at least two others where passing a car going in the opposite direc- tion is very tricky. The road is a hazard. What I can't understand is why the Hay crew is so slow at keeping that road clear and why the Hay township ratepayers do not complain more than they seem to. Hurray for the London Board of Education! They have banned smoking in their boardroom and that is a step in the right direction. 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