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BourAssA 22 Do . B aD by Dean J. Kelly orner KELLY'S NEWS DIGEST 1. Oil firms tell Ottawa...Canada faces oil shortage in early 1980's. 2. Consumer Association calls for rollback in egg prices by 10 to 11 cents a dozen. 3. Ottawa lending cash to Soviet Union to help drill for oil. 4. Canadian Federation of Independent Business representing 35,000 small business says small business can compete. President John Bullock says in Japan forty-nine percent of exports come from small and medium sized industries. 5. Oshawa gets $206,000 to loan homeowners to bring their homes up to standards. Interest to be from NOTHING with a portion being forgivable up to only 8 percent. Loans restricted to those with less than $12,500 income. Oshawa got more than any other municipality in the province. 6. Consumer credit totaled $20,26 BILLION as of June 30th -- up 17.3 percent. The banks personal loans accounted for $14.84 billion, up 23.7 percent. Canadians owed $20,260,000,000 for consumer loans says Statistics Canada. The Statistics Dept. just bought a new computer from the U.S. for a cool $4,640,000. 7. There were 751,000 Canadians unemployed in July. Ottawa plans to allow another 140,000 immigrants into the country despite this alarming figure. 8. More than 40 percent of the 172 Quebec professionals who took French-language competency tests failed. Doctors, nurses, engineers, architects, lawyers, chem- ists, all must pass Quebec's Official Language Act (French) before being admitted to Quebecs 38 professional corporations. 9. Septic tanks are better than Sewers -- U. of T. Professor, Dr. Alfred Berhart says that although the York-Durham servicing scheme (sewers) was one of the biggest projects in the province, it is based on an OUTDATED ENGINEERING PRINCIPLE! He said it was wrong to dispose of human waste in a lake when it could be disposed to benefit to plant life. 800 million Chinese can't be wrong? 10. Ottawa is spending $900 million to modernize the postal service...$140 million in Toronto. Only the letter-processing plant is operating: now, taking a SRR going up by 50 percent..to 12 cents by March 1st. Letters to U.S. will increase to 12 cents also. 11. Scientists now say that all human life starts out as female. Some of us turn into males. The report says that women are better made '"'animals"--Nature finds it easier to make a female. Men suffer twice as many genetic abnormalties while females with a firmer genetic base are less frail and vulnerable. Another: report says that sex makes women live longer. Lovemaking according to British psychiatrist 'Joan Gomas stimulate the glands that keep women youthful. but male glands don't respond in the same way. Woman always seem to outlive their men. 13. Despite new treatment techniques and research advances, cancer kills more people today than it did 35 years ago. In a feature full-page story, the Toronto Star story titled "It's our own fault as Cancer gains on Us" says man is unwittingly inflicting cancer on himself faster than medical research can find weapons against it. He is doing so according to many scientists, by the thousands of chemicals he adds to the environment and to food and by his bad habits. Cancer cases registered in Ontario are increasing at a faster rate than the population growth. Doctors believe most cancers are self-inflicted. Dr. Anthony Miller, director of the Epidemiology Unit of the National Cancer Institute of Canda says that '"The key of cancer control lies almost certainly with PREVENTION rather than therapy". Dr. Robt. Taylor, executive director of the Cancer Institute warns that 90 percent of lung cancer results from cigarette smoking. The death rate for men according to the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation is the highest ever recorded. Dr. Taylor concluded "the light will fail unless people accept responsibility for active participation'. The rising drug abuse is with Alcohol, not marijuana and other drugs. WHAT'S GOING ON? On August 25th the beer store in Port Perry was charging U.S. tourists DOUBLE the amount of exchange the Liquor store was charging. While the Liquor store exchange was 2 cents on the dollar bill, the beer store was charging 4 cents. Is it any wonder a number of American tourists have been complaining about being ripped-off on the exchange rate. Even the Minister of Tourism has appealed to hotels and resort owners to stop gouging tourists. Tourists spend millions a year with us and it is one of our major revenue sources. Speaking of U.S. money, the banks will not sell you U.S, travellers cheques for U.S. dollars, They demand you change the U.S. dollars to Canadian for which you pay a charge plus the charge for the cheques. They get you coming and going. Travellers now often save left-over cheques and cash til the following season rather than lose both ways. Banks only pay 3 cents on the dollar on U.S. accounts, single piece of mail one hour to be processed. Much of the sorting equipment is made in...you guessed it "Made in Japan". Letters to Canadian addresses are aoe I ana SSR Time To Tell It's hard to believe that three years could pass so quickly, but as of December 31, 1976, the council that. Scugog residents voted into office will either begin: another term, or will be replaced by new represent' atives. To date, only one councillor, Don Frew, has made his intentions clear to the electorate. Don has decided not to run In the upcoming election. What about our other representatives? Will Mayor Lawrence Malcolm give up his office, or will he run for another term?' Will anyone challenge the Mayor if he does decide to run again? . What about councillors Jerry Taylor, Neil Hunter, Reg Rose, Vern Asselstine, and Bob Brinkman? Will they, or will they not run again? We feel that the residents of Scugog township have the right to know NOW. : } . Undoubtedly, there are many other residents in the township who are thinking about running for a seat in the upcoming election. Now is the time to let your fellow ratepayers know your intentions. In only ten short weeks, November 11th, nomin- ations will open for the positions of mayor and councillors and nomination day will be held on Monday, November 15th. Election day is scheduled for Monday, December 6th, 1976. Running the township is a big job, and far from an easy one. No matter what the elected representative does, he will be wrong in the eyes of many, while a great guy in the eyes of others: The job requires a lot of time and dedication, and only those willing to give this, for the good of Scugog Township, should consider running. Let's hear from our present representatives, and any others that might be interested in a position on council. Give us at the STAR a call...and we will relay your message to the voters. Back To School For the child facing school for the first time it can be a great adventure, albeit a little frightening] It's a whole new environment peopled by strangers.. Most children look forward fo that first day with excite- ment. It's a great step. No longer will he or she be just a "kid. They'll be going to SCHOOL! Of course, once they get there it's another question. There are new disciplines to be learned, new people to meet, a whole new and strange society to face. What your child learns during the first few weeks of school will in many ways affect the rest of his life. His world Is expanding and requires a new set of rules to cope with it. Perhaps you've already walked by the school with him several times. That's a good idea! You are sharing this experience. You may even have planned to take him to school the first few days and még! him afterward. But remember, you will not always be able to do that. He'll have to find his own way one of these days. During the next several days think about traffic safety, says the Ontario Safety League. Work out the safest route to the school and accompany your child along that route to make sure he knows it. It's a simple thing to bring up pedestrian safety practices during these walks--obey the traffic lights, cross at cross-walks or corners, look all ways before crossing, stay away from parked cars, and don't run or play on the street. . And by all means, remember that children learn from example. If you disregard the rules of the road...so will they. So watch your step...and theirs. | [== )