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2, Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, -September 30,1981 (Brono Meefelp ' Second Glass Mail RegtetrationMumt>er v 000366 Published Every Wednesday at the office of Publication Main Street, Ofono Roy C. Font ester. Editor ' THE 30 CENT LETTER A recent announcement by the Postmaster General in that the postal rates for letters will increase from 17 cents to 30 cents have given cause for another round and area for objection objection to rising costs. The decision by the postmaster General surely came as no surprise for the increase has been battered around for the past couple of months. The move by the postal department to increase postal rates is mainly to offset the deficit of the post office which reaches in the million of dollar annually. Really it is a move to bring the cost of the Canada mail service directly to the user and is something we have been hearing in thé Newcastle area for the past five or six months. It is a user-pay policy. There has been a cry from businesses that use the post office extensively for now the cost of their service will be directed to them rather than have the service subsidized. It does make sense to put the service on a user-pay basis and more such services should come out on this basis. In the end the 30 cent letter is not entirely an increase in cost of mailing. • Within a few days mail service in Canada will be provided through a Crown Corporation and many look for improvements improvements to the mail service through the Corporation. Whether or not this will happen will only be determined through time, f Although many do condemn our present service as inadequate inadequate and unrealiable it does seem at this corner that in the past the service has been reasonable and more than adequate when staff is not out on strike. Certainly there are holdups when mail passes through Toronto and the suburbs but otherwise otherwise one of two day deliveries can be expected. And it can be weel said and through our experience that courier service is not the ultimate in service when you base it with cost of the service. The ultimate in a system can be devised but it takes the men and women on the floor to make it work and this does not come about by setting up a Crown Corporation or increasing rates for this service. Ottawa announces pension increases Health and Welfare- Minister Monique Begin today announced increases in the Old Age Security pension, Guaranteed Income Supplement and Spouse's Allowance which will take effect in October of this year. Under the new rate, the basic Old Age Security pension will rise to $221.74 a month from the existing $214.86. The maximum Guaranteed Guaranteed Income Supplement for an individual 'or, a married person whose spouse is receiving neither a pension nor a Spoüse's Allowance, will increase to $222.62 from the current $215.72. Added to the basic pension, this will give, a person receiving both the OAS and the maximum GIS a monthly total of $444,36. ■ The maximum Guaranteed Guaranteed Income Supplement for a married couple, both of whom are pensioners, will increase to $171.64 each from $166.32. Added to the basic pension this will give each married pensioner receiving the maximum GIS a total of $393.38, or $786.76 for the Mainstream Canada When small is not so small By W. Roger Worth How big, you may ask, is small business. The answer, of course, is that, in a national context, the impact of the country's small and mediumsized mediumsized enterprises is very largé indeed. The numbers are staggering. staggering. In 1979, for example, Canada Canada boasted 443,000 business proprietorships (entrepreneurs operating as independents), with another 307,000 incorporated incorporated small businesses handling less than $2 million in sales. There were another 89,000 self-employed professionals such as doctors, lawyers and accountants, 246,000 farmers, 27,000 fishermen, 32,000 salesmen and 13,000 self- employed entertainers. The total in the small business business category: 1.2 million firms. It's true, 225,000 of these are tiny operations, chalking up annual sales of less than $10,000, but even excluding these, the number of smaller businesses still tops 932,000. It's also interesting to note that firms- with fewer than 26 employees (93 per cent of the total number of businesses in the country), were responsible for a whopping 30 per cent of Canadian employment. And firms employing between between 26 and 250 people were responsible for another 30 per cent of total employment. In addition to providing more than 60 per cent of the country's jobs," these smaller companies are adding employees, employees, while many of the large multinationals are in fact shedding employees. Ottawa and the provinces should note what's happening in the sector. While governments governments have been supporting large, high-profile companies such as Chrysler and Massey- Ferguson, smaller operators . have been living by free- enterprise rules and, in some cases, falling by the wayside. Perhaps it is time our crucial small and mediumsized mediumsized businesses received the kind of government attention they deserve. CFIB Feature Service Community Up & Down Care the couple. The Guaranteed Income Supplement is paid to pensioners whose income, apart from the Old Age Security pension, is limited and the amount varies in relation to income. The maximum Spouse's Allowance will increase to* $393.38 from $381.18. It is made up of an amount equivalent to "the basic Old Age Security pension and the maximum GIS at the married rate. It is paid to persons between 60 and 65 years of age who are married to OAS pensioners and- meet residence requirements. requirements. Entitlement to a Spouse's Allowance, and the amount paid, is based on yearly income. Where the pensioner spouse dies, the surviving spouse may be eligible for the continuation of the allowance to age 65 or until remarriage if the person has no 'income or a limited t income. * Increases in Old Age Security pension and Guaranteed Guaranteed Income Supplement payments are calculated quarterly based on the cost of living. fourth birthday (Continued from page 1) not available. One of the popularities of Newcastle Community Care is its drop-in centre at 19 Temperance St. in Bowman- ville which states Barnes is used used by seniors both within Bowmanville and those from the surrounding areas. Newcastle Community Care is the only such organization in the Region of Durham that operates a drop-in centre. Community Care will be glad to interview any client or volunteer in their own home, states Mrs. Barnes, Assisting Roxy Barnes as co-ordinator is Lynda Cor- , neal who! heads up the Community Community involvement Volunteer Program which program assists those in need of counselling on a confidential confidential one to one basis. This program according to Mrs. Barnes could also use volunteers to assist in the many areas of its work with people in the community. Funding for the Community Community Care- comes through a grant from the province along with public dentations, some money from the Town of Newcastle and as well financial assistance from the United Way of Whitby, Oshawa, Newcastle. JOB PRINTING " ORONO WEEKLY TIMES Bookstacks ADULT Mother, Mother By James Stingley (true Story about a dark secret in the author's past) Your Six Year Old - By Louise Ames The Widows Guide of Life By Ida Fisher (how to adjust, adjust, how to grow) Glass Tells ' • By Alfred Hunter (social inequality in Canada) Pruning By Bernard Moore Bodily Harm By Margaret Atwood The Marriage Bed By Constance Beresford Howe (new novel by the author of "The Book of Eve". Triad By Richard Rohmer Falling Uphill By Nan Salerno (author of "Shaman's daughter) JUNIOR Dinosaurs of North America By Helen Saltier Eric Heiden winner of Gold By Nathan Aaseng (biography of this super speed skater) The All-Around Pumpkin book By Margery Cuyler (everything from receipes to decorations) EASY READING & PICTURE PICTURE BOOKS Crinkles a Keen Halloween story , * ,6y Trish. Collins That's Mine! By Elizabeth Winthrop The Muffletump's Halloween. Scare . , By Jan Wahl ' Never Hit a Porcupine By Barbara Williams , Madeline Hadley Kendal News Along the line of smokey hills The crimson forest stands And all the day the blue- jay calls Throughout the autumn lands Now by great marshes wrapped in mist Or past some river's mouth Throughout the long still autumn days Wild birds are flying south. These verses refer to the beautiful "Indian Summer" weather we usually have the first week in October. This is the potato picking and apple picking time that is so delightful to spend i 14 the apple apple trees. They tell us the autumn colours are more beautiful here than anywhere else in the world. ■ On Sunday morning some of us took in the Kirby Anniversary Anniversary to hear Rev. Cecil Roberts from Fenelon Falls. He said he had been a Gideon For forty years, and their secretary for fifteen. He had a fine message and we en- , joyed the special music. ■ On Sunday morning Rev. A. Tizzard chose as his scrip- 'ture St. Luke 6:17-31. His serinon was entitled "Poor, yet Rich" "Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven." Unfortunately he had a sad announqement to make. Mrs. Mark Wagar's mother had been killed in an auto accident on Friday night Sept. '25. She was Mrs. Howse and lived near Tweed. ' She was a very active lady of severtty-nine' and frequently worshipped with us at Kendal. Kendal. Sympathy is extended to the Wagar family. The mdmbers of the scarlet * order of the Orange Lodge held a sociàl evening on Wed. evening Sept. 23 for to entertain entertain their wives and families, pictures were shown, and a good time was enjoyed. Mrs. M. Stevens was coming coming south from her home on Wednesday morning. Now east of the ski hill there is a very steep dpwnhill grade before you reach the big creek. At the bottom of this hill two farmers had met. One with a truck going south, the otijaer in a brown car go ing north. They were talking and their cars completely 7 blocked the road. Mrs. Stevens was forced to pull tti' the ditch to avoid hitting them. She went through the fence and hit a tree. Later x-rays showed a cracked breast plate where she hit the steering wheel. We wish her a speedy recovery. This seems to be a week of accidents. Mr. Arthur Thompson received word that his brother Fred had fallen on the basement floor of hi$ daughter's home in Oshawa and broken his leg. ■Sewing Hint: Did you ever try taping a paper dress pattern pattern to your material instead of pinning it? You can cut right through the tape and don't have to be bothered removing pins. How to help your children in school. See that they do not miss class unnecessarily. It they are absent during 4he presentation of new information information or the explanation of à difficult 1 concept they will usually find it hard to catch up. St. Saviours ANGLICAN CHURCH Orono, Ontario Regular Sunday Worship Service- 9:45a.m. Rev. Allan Haldenby B.A. L.Th. UNITED CHURCH Orono Pastoral Charge Minister Rev. Wayne Wright, B.A,; M.Div. Organist ànd* Choir Director David Gray SUNDAY OCTOBER 4,1981 ORONO UNITED CHURCH Sunday School 11:15 a.m. Morning Worship 11:15 a.m. World Wide Communion Sunday BIBLE STUDY Thursday 7:00 p.m. Friendship Room KIRBY UNITED CHURCH Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 9:45 a.m.