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The Herald Home Newspaper of Halton Htlls A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main St South Georgetown Ontario Mill Street Acton Ontario RICHARD CAMERON Publisher Page 4 Wednesday July ITS ON TOP The Body Has A Head What may be the world oldest fitness plan is attracting a bevy of new disciples People of all ages and walks of life are turning to chi something that is supposed to be first and most complete of the martial arts Born in the Orient possibly as long ago as 300 years tat chi is based on Taoist philosophy Less physical than karate more gentle than kung its declared purpose is to make the whole person fit A series of graceful rhythmic exercises forms the basis of the art designed to let natural energies flow without resistance It supposed to be the kind of exercise which gives energy rather than takes it away That sounds well and good but in our mind it stiU doesn replace sensible diet and moderate exercise If it is used to excess it becomes nothing more than a gimmick something we can grasp for in the hope that faithful will make us healthy converts Canadians the World Health Organization notes are notoriously unhealthy as are most residents of developed countries They eat too much of the wrong foods especially sugars and they scarcely move about more than they have to Our natural energies it has been shown can flow quite well if we try to live right In Step With Inflation In times of severe inflation it s hard to save money that will ap preciate in real value Tips for corporations are also practical for individuals A few of the specific recom are Review investment policies frequently Borrow money on a long term basis at a fixed rate of in Buy your own home mortgaged with long debt at a reasonable rate Invest a reasonable proportion of your portfolio in gold especially as long as billions of dollars are pouring into the Middle East 5 Buy objects of art an tiques stamps etc if you have some specialist knowledge in one of these fields Common shares as a hedge against inflation were adequate while inflation was less than five percent per annum but now in vestment habits must be changed General insurance companies utilities and giant companies should be reaarded with great care because of possible government interference or pressure and in vestments in corporations having long term fixed price contracts should be avoided Some in dustnes such as the construction industry and heavy equipment manufacturing industries un dertook lump sum or fixed price contracts without escalation clauses With increases in the price of steel cement and labor such companies can find themselves in a severe profit squeeze Mankinds People Puzzle The population problem still is referred to as the world biggest time bomb of all And there is some justification in presenting such an image although explosion of population will be gradual rather than sudden Nevertheless leading statesmen and demographers around the world as well as con cemed groups and individuals keep sounding various warnings The United Nations estimates that the world s population was 1 billion En 1830 and took 100 years to double By next year world population will have doubled again to billion and by the end of the century an additional billion persons will be added every years Mankind cannot afford an overcrowded planet In Bucharest Romania there will be a world population conference sponsored by the United Nations to discuss problems of overcrowding as well as possible remedies It will be held in August What kind of remedies can humanity seek The main weapons are world wide population control programs designed to educate many millions of people It simply is not enough to tell a mother she should not have any more children The education process has to be thorough and preferably gradual if there is to be success Better world population education programs will have to be devised Around the world and particularly in poorer nations that cannot afford widespread health care more maternity and post natal centres will have to be built With careful planning and cooperation the population control programs now under way can be speeded up And with imagination mankind ticklish population puzzle can be solved thus benefitting alt of us who live on this planet ECHOES FROM THE PAST YEARS AGO An oil strike was made at Hornby producing about 100 barrels a day Oil find was made on the farm of George Hall about seven miles south of Georgetown A district farm that was purchased from theCrownlOOyearsagowassoId and left the Moore name The farm owned by Mary Moore at the time of the sale had been in the Moore family for the entire century It was located on the 3rd Line of Esqueslng Roy West Toronto broker and businessman bought the property Coun Donald Powers chairman of the town water committee predicted an increase in water rate A deficit was recorded by the water department Rev Kelvin Johnston of St Andrews United Church newly installed chaplain to Georgetown cubs and scouts presented a life and religion emblem to cub Wayne Farrow Robert Gaskln joined Dr Vickl In operating the Georgetown Animal Clinic Peter of the Animal Clinic took over Dr Gaskln practice in York ton Sask Two drowning alarms at Terra Cotta Conservation Area were caused by careless parents who t know where their children were No drownings occurred YEARS AGO Completion of a new plastics division of Smith and Stone in Georgetown was announced by company president Col WE Phillips Simultaneously facilities of an associated company Duplate Canada Ltd of were transferred to Georgetown Sllverwood Women Institute held a picnic lunch at the home of Institute president Mrs Stone School pupils held a picnic at the borne of Mr and Mrs R E Souther Swim iningjnd boating were enjoyed In a creek and a treasure hunt was staged Mlfs Joan Bundle presented teacher Miss with a group gift READERS FORUM OUR ALLSTAR HOUSING TEAM BILL SMILEY About persons gathered at the Stewart town public school for a presentation for Mr and Mrs John Dlckerson to welcome the couple to the community Mrs Bob Preston assisted during the ceremony i Group held a Mrs W O Thompson was guest of honor at a garden tea tendered by the Daughters of St George a Church Party was held at the home of Mrs J L Lambert on Normandy Boulevard Annual Mystery Trip for members of Georgetown Women Institute took members on a tour of historical places in Brar Special guests of the trip were two sisters of Mrs Sam Harrison who were visiting from Scotland Annual garden party of Union Presbyterian Church was held at the home of Mr and Mrs Wilfrid Leslie Rev G I Royal opened the festivities YEARS AGO Stewart G Bennett of Toronto and Georgetown was elected to the board of directors of Canadian Bronze Co Ltd Esqueslng council turned down a township school after 10 of IB schools refused to Join Reeve GH May presided at the meeting where opposition was recorded George hockey star of the 103839 championship Acton team was reported wounded In action during the in vaslon in Normandy About members of the Women Missionary Society of the Georgetown United Church met at the home of Miss Anne Staunton Mrs A M Nielsen president took charge of the meeting War Services Committee met at the home of Mm Hewson to plan programs of comforts for local soldiers serving overseas Mrs Herbert Robinson of Glen Williams received news that her husband Tpr Robinson arrived safely in England Fond Old Memories Bring Tears to Eyes This column is going to be a little to write No there been a death in the family Not quite But I wasn t too sure I t going to bleed to death through the eyes when I tottered out of bed at seven this morning just two hours after tottering into bed It was all that reading My brother in law Jack brought along on a visit some old high school football pictures and we spent most of the night barely stopping for food and drink deciphering the names under the photos There were in the late looking so young and sweet and Innocent it would make your eyes water One picture was headed Un defeated Champions of Lanark County GREAT YEAR That was a great year I reckon Come on now How many of you have ever been on a team of Undefeated Champions of anything We talked and laughed a lot as we identified long forgotten faces and our wives muttered away con temptuously in the background They thought were behaving like a couple of schoolboys We Right in the middle of the front row holding the ball was Les Douglas quar terback and team captain He a big guy but he was solid bone muscle and grit He could always claw his way that extra five inches for a touchdown through six hundred pounds of enemy flesh He was a great hockey player too Make it to tonal But he was twenty years too soon There were Just too many great hockey players in those days and he didn t quite make he NHL though he lead the American Hockey League in scoring for several seasons Today he d be knocking off about MO 000 a year Planking him In the photo were Bob White and Tarn Harper Tom could run with the ball like a rabbit with six guys shooting at him friend through high school He huge cither but when we needed a few yards there was no question of who would get the bail Bob would take a plunge at anything the size of a doughnut hole and always come up with the necessary yards We all hated school but Bob White was bright Today be going to college and becoming an engineer or something equally useless But in those days there was no way No students loans no grants and dang few affluent rents If you got a job in a you were lucky Last time I sow Bob was in London England during the war It was In the lobby of the famous or infamous Strand Palace He was checking out I was checking in Hello and goodbye He had completed one lour of operations on bombers and was about to begin his second On wh he was killed Bob in the picture was Johnny Hogg A nice guy who was forced by his a rents to maintain a much igher standard of In and cultural life than the rest of us poolroom bums He played the violin He passed his subjects He was a clean living good looking lad just the type you d want for yourself though he had a distressing habit of dropping crucial punts As I heard it later Ihcy found Johnny lylnp In a rubber dinghy the Mediterannean Dead Hed been shot down wounded parachuted got Into the dinghy and died Then there was Morris a boy with a terrible home life a terrible Jim ark and a personality to go with both But he was also a terrible terrifying tackier who could hit a halfback so hard that the guy know he d been am at the knees until he tried to stand up And Norm Davis He had the speed of a gazelle and the grace of a gnu He didn come back from the war either LAUGHTER There were quite a few more but Old Jack my brother in law and myself didn belabor the tragic theme laughed until we were purple in the face at all the things had got away with not all the things that had got away w so many of us It was also to see our coaches Earl Fleming teacher such a handsome young man I can believe we called him Old JC Cosgrove 248 pounds of science teacher who could wipe two recalcitrant students off their stools with one hand as easily as could the dust off the window sill if such a silly thing ever occurred to me As you con see this has been a hard column to write And probably a mighty difficult one to read Isolation On The Job Coaxing workers to remote parts of Canada Is a big problem them to stay seems even tougher The Financial post reports that potential employees are beginning to except a standard of comfort on the job which may be difficult to reconcile with some resource development projects planned in Canada Last year Aluminum Co of Canada smelter at has a per cent staff tur This year may be per cent As the turnover rate has escalated after 1971 seems to have ac Its troubles by a recruitment scramble says The Post The necessity to keep the smelter manned had the company hiring less selectively is a town of 13 with one cabaret and a scarcity of eligible young women hired a recreation specialist last winter in the hope of proving the situation somehow The study pointed to housing as a further problem though Hot one mentioned as particularly significant Ontario Nurses United To Press Wage Demands Sir The interpretation of the meaning of nursing has become an essential com ponent and a matter of bitter disagreement In current salary negotiations for nurses in the province While he employer maintains that salary ferential is a result of social compaction if you will based on recent reflection related to base rates and the general quality of life the Big Hazard From Fumes Of Exhaust Ontario Safety League has Issued a warning to all motorists regarding the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning and summer driving Recently in California one child was killed and a second blinded by exhaust fumes sucked into a station wagon through an open tailgate window The same type of hazard is present when packing the car trunk so full that the lid cannot be properly closed and locked In both cases the open rear window and the partly closed trunk lid exhaust fumes can be sucked into the passenger section Unless adequate ventilation is provided the League says the colorless odorless tasteless Irritating gas can do its deadly work Vehicles that have been examined after a carbon monoxide fatality have also shown that a point of entry for exhaust fumes had been found holes in the floor of the passenger compartment fender panels or holes In the trunk or spare tire well Rust is a major factor states the League causing a com of exhaust system defects plus holes in the body In a few cases gas had been drawn into the passenger compartment by a conditioning units In older vehicles and poorly maintained vehicles the tall p of the exhaust system may have rusted off or fallen off and not been replaced In some cases the original tall pipe may be loo short or positioned so that the gases exiting the pipe strike ad Jacent vehicular components making exhaust fumes cumulate under the vehicle How can you tell if carbon monoxide is present The Ontario Safety League lists the following symptoms tightness across the forehead followed by throbbing temples headache weariness weakness dizziness nausea loss of muscular control and ncreased pulse and respiration If the con of carbon monoxide in the air Is great enough it is possible to fall unconscious without any warning at all Carbon monoxide has a special effect at night If you re driving at night and the darkness seems slacker than usual if the glare of oncoming lights seems brighter than usual there a good chance carbon monoxide can be the cause You are not completely defenseless against this killer Herearesomcwayslo prevent a carbon monoxide accident Exhaust systems should be checked regularly especially for blown out loose manifolds exhaust pipe con nee lions holes in the fler If it necessary for you to be in a garage or enclosed space with your motor running be sure the doors ore open and you have cross ventilation If you re parking for more than a few minutes and you re going to be silting in the car during this time shut off the engine or at least open the windows nursing profession still weighs salary in relation to responsibilities assumed Tne nurses represented here do not wish to intend any less social concern for base wages than the em group It is ironic however that in view of a more sophisticated demand for service responsibility for patient and staff teaching over all co ordination reporting and observation of an ever increasing proliferation of para medical service the salary dif ferential between registered nurses and auxiliary per sonnet should decrease from a percent differential to 14 per cent Nurses ask What have we done to become worth less Auxiliary personnel received a per cent salary Increase Nurses are worth only 36 per cent Ottawa Civic Hospital has received Its arbitration award which gives nurses a starting salary of of a month as of January with four increases to a month in April of Nurses across Ontario cannot accept lest Management offered nurses a month as a starting salary In June 1974 with four Increases to a month in September 1975 Ontario Ministry of Health earlier in 1974 recommended that starting salary be per cent of an RN Hospital management Is decreasing the gap to 80 per cent advancing to per cent of an RN salary The following Is a statement by Jean Lowery Reg president of the newly formed Ontario Nurses Association We know we have the support of the nurses across the province in hospitals health units visiting nurses organizations industry nursing homes and doctors offices and also the support of other unions Involving auxiliary hospital staff If no settlement Is reached by July nurses across Ontario will have no alternative but to withdraw their services July Mrs Yvonne Held Reg Support For System By Parent Volunteer Sir Upon reading a letter submitted to The Herald this Bast week from a resident of lorval concerned by the dosing of the public school I cannot help but take issue with a few of her comments Pertaining to her reference regarding Parent Volun leers and the open concept system I am proud to state that I nave been and will continue to be a Parent Volunteer for a public school in Georgetown employing just such a system I realize to most parents It is a vast departure from the method In which we as children were taught but until you become involved with the school and sec the over ail benefits to a great majority of the students it could possibly be difficult to accept the value of this system of With regard to the com m en t concerning the terrible state of our country by the adults of tomorrow ana not being able to fight the system I can only offer this QUEENS PARK suggestion in that the at of our children are formulated In the most part by the examples and at expressed by us their parents I would therefore suggest that concerned people become involved If possible with their com munity at all levels thereby contributing in a con way to the benefit of all can sympathize with the residents at the fear of losing their community Identity but with the ever increasing cost of living and rising taxes which we all bear today it is imperative that we cut corners In follow the campaign of some of our politicians itis obvious that the answer to our inflationary problems is still beyond their solving so in the meantime it seems we must accept certain situations which may not be personally pleasing to us Mrs V A Georgetown Ontario Ends Session Usual Shambles BYDONOIIEARN Queen Park Bureau Of The Herald TORONTO The session ended in the usual shambles Out of the last hours the members were at their desk3 for some following bitter opposition complaints that the government was putting on a pressure play and forcing legislation through at the last possible moment This of course is a situation which has now been J ring on so long that Its to get very excited about it Experience and not only here but in most parliaments seems to in dicate that there usually is a last minute crush perhaps through the fact that houses of assembly tend to be disorderly In scheduling their business and also that members can be verbose in their debating particularly In the early stages when there seems to be lots time for everything HOWDY REBELLIOUS However whatever the reason or whether right or wrong it was almost cer tainly fitting that this spring silting ended in a shambles For the Bitting had very much of a shambles character In the first place It was the rowdiest sitting we have seen n a long time The hardest working member was probably Mr Speaker Hon Alan Reuter who was in a continuous battle to keep order And then the legislation which took up by far the most time of the house was the land speculation tax And not much needs to be said about it If you have been reading about the legislation at all that the government looked very poorly on the tax It appeared slovenly ill prepared and a lot of the time arrogant though Revenue Minister Arthur Meen who piloted the bill was not guilty of this last falling Again there were in portant bills such as the Guaranteed Annual Income measure improvements in the Workmen Com pensatlon payments and various regional government measures which were brought down at the last moment and which it seemed could have been presented earlier Then of course the house is only about half through There is a big volume of business lying over for he VIEWPOINT Greed Discrimination And Intolerance Summer days brings out the gypsy In me Now I m not sure as to the ticlty of mv gypsy blood but I sure know that gypsy urge to leave it all behind and become a summer vagabond Routine becomes a ball and chain from which I struggle in vain to become When the air fresh and sweet with the scent of summer blossoms the sky overhead a bright summer blue and the warm summer breeze a gentle caress Iflnd it almost impossible to at tend to the routine of modernday living BECOMES AN AFFRONT Even the newspaper becomes an ffront I tire of reading of murders and wars and starvation and all the other horrors that make front page headlines I would love to see a summertime good news only paper to keep In spirit with those carefree summer days But unfortunately the realities of life are always with us and though I try lo tucked away In the back of my mind every now and again Ihcy pop up and they re never in keeping with balmy summer afternoons Almost all the ills we read about in the papers stem from greed discrimination and intolerance for another views be they racial religious or political COMPETITIVE GREFD Dr Peter Banks in bis address to the Canadian Medical Association spoke of competitive greed He said the real ripoff in our society Is that we are all encouraged to take more from it than we put back How very true that want the best of what life has to offer but we don want to have to give anything in order to Ret It BUY NOW PAY LATER Our present inflationary economic situation owes a great deal to our buy now and pay later philosophy don t stop to realize that later always comes sooner than we think I keep a few interesting pictures taken from the newspaper and magazines to help me keep my priorities straight A look every now and again Sets me Back on the right when I become too engrossed In my own little world It is very easy to get lostlnyourownlltUe grain of sand and to fervently believe Its the whole beach There are two pictures that stand out from the rest One is a picture of an Indian woman up north doing the family wash in a wash tub with a scrub board If she wants to use the laundromat she must drive 400 miles to Thunder Bay and back When you re popping clothes In and out of an automatic machine and then into the dryer it is easy to lose your perspective The modern home is equipped with many time saving devices yet how often do put those saved hours to good use OTHER PICTURE The other picture that stands apart Is that of a child covered In smallpox The child lives In Bihar state In India where 100 cases of the dreaded disease have broken out On top of this I have attached a cartoon by Doug Sneyd showing a child of skin and bone sitting on his mothers knee The caption reads Mommy Is It easier to die from smallpox or starvation We have been so fortunate In so many wavs that we only half listen when told that two thirds of the world face possible starvation wis year A front page story In the Toronto Star states that one third of the pet food Bold In the slums In the States is eaten by humans Yet we continue to overspend In unnecessary areas in he mistaken belief that serious food shortages will never come here WHAT CAN YOU DO Words that have always stayed In my mind and I believe they are attributed to the late John Kennedy are Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country We can all do something and its surprising how the little things add up Trying to live within our mean Is the best way to combat inflation Buy only what you can afford and If you can t pay for It don buy It Keep your from dripping and wasting water s the water we are so free with today may become a very precious commodity In the very near future Watch your use of electrical energy these resource are not endless end keeping check on lights burning needlessly In broad daylight is a saving to you and to your countrys future in the long run TIGHT MONEY When money is tight everyone feels the pressure but try to keep a good sense of balance One thing we can all afford Is to remember to smile every now and again that still doesn t coat a thing Though the realities of life in todays world are always with us we can all remember that no matter how hard things are someone somewhere has It harder Now put off the trip to Europe If your flying now and paying later Check the taps and shut the lights and get out and Join me In the beautiful summer sunshine and don t forget to smile at least a little one anyway