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Zurich Citizens News, 1976-11-10, Page 4Page 4 -Citizens News, November 10, 1976 Pa,Iiasnenf In the House of Commons last Monday, Mr. Trudeau informed the house it is the intention of the government to proceed with reintroducing a motion to approve the broadcasting by television of the proceed- ings of the House of Commons. Mr. Trudeau added he hopes to be suc- cessful in completing all the necessary steps to enable proceedings to be televised before the end of the present parliament. We believe the televising of the actions in the House of Commons would be a disaster, both from the point of "view of making money for the station and on the effect it may have on viewers. Anyone who has attended a session of the House of Commons will know what we mean. There seems to be no such thing as good manners. In fact we have often seen the honourable members acting more like spoiled children than mature adults. There is table pounding, shouting, name-calling and many times the person who has the floor is interrupted by comments thrown at him from the other side of the house. Other members continue conversations of their own regardless of who is trying to say what, others spend the time opening mail which still others seem ingrossed in what- ever it is they are reading. This is perhaps not all bad, nor com- pletely, unavoidable, but it does give the impression that few members really care what is happening around them and fewer still have the manners mothers usually try to instill in their children. Attending a session of the parliament is indeed an education and although it may shock the casual observer it is well worth attending on an occasional basis. What we would not like to see is the bad manners and criticisms of each other being aired over the television. It wouldn't take long in our mind before the entire country would soon lose faith in their elected leaders. Better to leave it the way it is, and let any- one who wants to watch the proceedings of the House make the trip in person. Arena Two interesting projects are under dis- cussion in Grand Bend these days: an arena and an indoor swimming pool. They would' naturally constitute a major undertaking for the resort and initial reports indicate that the type of thinking required for pro- jects of such magnitude have been missing. Lions treasurer Dave Nelder indicated to council his club felt that the acquisition of property was the first step, and this was to be followed by establishing priorities and the costs involved. This would appear to be reversing the procedure. The first step should be in assessing the priorities for recreation in the community. The answer could obvious- ly negate any decision on location of those facilities. It is of interest to note there already appears to he a conflict on the best site for a swimming pool. Once the priorities have been establish- ed, the next step is to determine the costs involved, not only of the capital outlay but certainly the operating costs. In smaller communities such as Grand Bend, the latter are often more burdensome than the former. While groups such as the Lions and Chamber of Commerce are prepared to spearhead the raising of capital costs, the matter of operating costs should also be clearly established to avoid the problems being experienced in many communities in this area at the present time. Many municipalities find that their neighbors are not very willing to pay their share for use of facilities when they are built. The ratepayers should demand a com- plete study of the need and priority for arenas, indoor swimming pools and curling rinks before such projects are undertaken and turned over to the residents for the an- nual upkeep. These comments are not intended to dampen enthusiasm in any way, butrare solely intended to show the necess' y for es- tablishing priorities and needs -and to what extent the community can support those priorities and needs. by Cathy McKinley Surprise, surprise, the world is full of surprises. The people of the United States of America have managed to elect themselves a new president, everybody is going to get swine flu vaccinations if they want them and its snowing again. I must say I was very surprised that Jimmy Carter was the choice of the American people for their president. From what 1 have seen and heard of the man, it's hard to believe any- body would vote for him. He told one crowd one thing, an- other crowd another thing, in fact to my mind, he just seem- ed to go around telling everybody everything they wanted to hear, and they felI for it. He comes across as being just a little too slick, a. little too believable. In particular, I did not like his continued harping throughout his campaign of what a truly religious man he was. If it is true, then his actions will clearly show it, if it is not true, then all the words in the world will not make it so. I had said during the .presidential cam- paign that if Jimmy Carter was elected, I would want to move somewhere far far way from the United States border. Well I'm not going to move but its tempting. Better I stay here and give the man a chance to prove me wrong. I've been wrong many times before, for all our sakes I hope I'm wrong now. First they say the chronically ill, the elderly, those over 60 and those between 20 and 50 are all going to be innoculated by the swine flu. vaccine. Those between 50 and 60 years of age to be excluded because they supposedly would be likely to have immunization from the last time the flu struck. Those under 20 had the highest resistance to the disease and would suffer very adverse affects from the serum so they too were to be excluded. So we were told. Then we were told that those between the ages of 50 and 60 should be included just in case. So the immunization started in the United States and it wasn't long until it stopped in several states. The problem? Several elderly people receiving the vaccine died shortly after. But, they said, not to worry, of course they did not die from the vaccine. Then we were told we would not be able to get the vaccination from our local doctor, we would have, to get if from a public health clinic. In fact, we are unable to get even a regular flu shot from our local doctors, something many people do every year. Now they tell us the immuniza- tion program will be going on, this time for everyone includ- ing those under the ages of 20. Why? I guess they decided those under 20 were not so tough after all and with a slight modification of the serum they too can be protected. The pro- gram was to start first in September, then October, and now it's November and still nothing is happening. The only good thing is there is also no sign of the swine flu showing up any- where. And now the government is complaining that people are being skeptical over the whole immunization program, that many people are saying they don't intend to get the innoculation. All I can say is it's no #&*% wonder, I've never seen any program as completely botched up as this one. There is so much confusion reigning over the pros and cons of the swine flu vaccinations (any relation .to a pork shot?) that I don't think anybody really knows what's going on any- more. I sure don't. 44444* Well, it looks like winter might be getting a head start this year. It's snowing so hard this morning, I won't be sur- prised if I have trouble driving my car out of town. Being the efficiently organized person that I ant, I haven't even bought snow tires let alone have them on my car. Oh well, at least my car and I will be a matching set, I haven't bought any winter boots either. 7-41J TI©h [ikqG4o Published Each Wednesday By J.W. Eedy Publications Ltd. Member: eNA Canadians Weekly. Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Associations Manager - Betty O'Brien News Editor - Cathy McKinley Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 Subscription Rates: $6.00 per year in advance in Canada; ,,�,® in nited State and Forel n• sine le co iep 200