PAGE 8, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1974, WHITBY FR EE PRESS KALNINS ON.. Job Opportunities The consistantly high unemployment rate in Canada is of great concern to many people, particularly to those who are out of work and are unable to find a job suited to their physical or mental abilities. There are many reasons,,of course, why people are out of work - either receiving the Unemployment Insurance benefits or living on welfare. I'm convinced that most Canadians who find themselves un- employed, even for a short period of time, are not jumping for joy, despite some of the Çovernment handouts. Basic- ally, the UIC system is very sound and much needed in times of economic instability. Unfortunately, some people will always try to abuse the system. The real problem, however, is the employers themselve on look-out. for cheap labour. Simply, they ask qualfdimen and wojnen to work at minimum rates. I would like to know how a family man, say with a wife and two children, can support his family on a salary of two dollars and twenty-five cents an hour. The truth of the matter is: he can hardly support himself. It is beyond any comprehension that both local and federal governments go along with these atrociously low income rates. In fact, they tell the big companies:. just keep up the profit margin. I am still hopping mad about a series of articles in a Toronto newspaper, stating that it's easy to find a job, if one is only looking for it. The writer implîed that most people don't want to work because they are lazy. Well, here is one man who's willing to work for a decent salary. I would give up freelancing, if anyone would offer me a full-time job. The only hitch is that I want to remain a newspaperman and do the work I know best. Am I asking too much? The unfortunate part, of course, is that I'm not ready yet for hard labour in Moose Jaw or Labrador. I'm not willing to exchange my typewriter for a constr- uction drill. Nor am I willing to get rid of my cameras and start digging ditches in Etobicoke. What l'm saying is this: everyone must be given the opportunity to find a job that he's most familiar with and understands best. Apparently, big companies don't use this criteria as a yardstick to job applicants. To the best of my know- ledge, the hirering is done on highly "personalized" basis. Often it has nothing to do with one's qualifi- cations. All in all, the message is loud and clear-be a "nice-guy" and we'll give you a job. Sorry, folks, I'd rather starve to death, or get my job purely on the basis of my past experience. The sweetest sound of spring, in many parts of eastern Canada, is the trickling of sap from thousands of maple trees. Whether it lands in the traditional bucket or the more modern storage tank, its destiny is the same - to become that ambrosial food known as maple syrup. It's a good time to shake off those late-winter blues and take part in what sounds like something out of HANSEL AND GRETAL; a traditional sugaring-off party. From mid-March to late April cach year, farmers from western Ontario (near Sault Ste. Marie) to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, reap their special harvest - more than 1,500,000 gallons of maple syrup. Many of them hold informal parties to which the public is invited. It's an excellent opportunity to view the modern and traditional methods of "milking" the trees and boiling the sap, to sample some of the delicious maple syrup and sugar products and, perhaps, to buy more for use at home. Some sugar-bush owners serve visitors hearty dishes like fried ham, omelettes, baked beans, mashed potatoes and pancakes all, of course, dripping in syrup. Essential to most parties is "la tire". To make it, some of the sap is boiled past the syrup stage, then poured hot onto a clean white bank of snow. The cooled taffy-treat is then wound around a stick or fork and eaten as a delicious gooey lollipop. Dozens of Canadian centres will stage maple syrup festi- vals or sugaring-off parties this spring. One of the largest is held every year at Elmira, Ontario, a small farm commun- ity 12 miles north of Kitchener. It usually attracts close to 20,000 visitors from Canada and. the United States. This year's date is April 6. On Maple. Syrup Day, the main street is blocked off while rich, creramy'flapjacks smothered in amber-coloured maple syrup are served throughout the day. Nearby are wagons laden with more farm produce, including such de- lights as cooked cheese, sauerkraut, beefwurst, schmeercase, summer sausage and shoofly pie. Handmade, quilts, hooked or braided rugs, cookbooks, place mats, aprons and home baking are also sold. Local artists display theirwork and an old fashioned soap-making kettle is kept bgoling. Tours through the sugar bush are TV TIMES - The one-hour CBC-TV version of Ten Lost Years, the currently-running Toronto Workshop Theatre stage produc- tion based on Barry Broadfoot's best-selling book of the Depression years in Canada, will be taped at CBC Toronto Studio 7, April 1 - 3. On stage, it was directed by George Luscombe; for TV, director is John McGreevy (noted for his dramatizations on CBC-TV's Man Alive series). Drama- tists Jack Winter and Cedric Smith are involved, along with Luscombe, in the TV. version as well. Jackie Burroughs, this year's ACTRA Awards winner (for her work in CBC- TV's Vicky, seen last fall), is one of the headliners in the cast, stage and TV. Robert Allen is the producer for CBC television. Ten Lost Years will be telecast on the network next season, as one of the Sunday night drama specials. - Vicky, the CBC Drama '73 play by Grahame Woods which won two ACTRA Awards recently (for Jackie Burroughs, as Best Actor/Actress of 1973, and for play- ,Wright Woods), will be repeated on CBC-TV Sunday, May 12, 9 p.m. **************** ****** **** *** ******** - CBC-TV's first "themed evening" - an evening of several programs all related to the same topic - will take place on Wednesday, May 1. Under the umbrella title Arctic Anthology, it will consist of five half-hour films by the National Film Board, all about some aspect of Canada's Far North; telecast time is to be from 8 - 10:30 p.m. There will be more "themed evenings" on CBC-TV in the coming season. - Phone reaction to the final Musicamera program of the season, The World of Victor Herbert, telecast Feb. 27, was very positive - 200 favorable calls, no unfavorable. Some of the comments: "Delighted with it ........ it brings back wonderful memories ........ absolutely stupendous ..... best production the CBC's ever had ........ a special thanks to the producer (Neil Sutherland) ........ more, please ........ bravo, please repeat it ........In addition there were 100 letters in similar vein. Yes, The World of Victor Herbert Herbert will be repeated next season, says John Barnes, head of CBC-TV music and variety. - Larry Gosnell, the producer-director responsible for such shockers as Air Of Death and One Way To Quit, is currently working on a documentary about world-wide re- search into the nation's second biggest killer, cancer. Gos- nell recently filmed interviews at a Canadian Cancer Society sponsored seminar at the Ontario Science Centre, and will be filming in and around Toronto on April 5 (Daffodil Day). Script will be by George Salverson, whose writing talents were used on Gosnell's Children Of Our Time documentary, telecast earlier this month. *************************************** - Kiahanie makes it seasonal debut on CBC-TV April 6 available. Visitors will also be welcomed at such places as CrysIer Farm Battlefield Park, seven miles east of Morrisburg, Ontario; Bruce's Mill Conservation Area, just north of Metropolitan Toronto;and Plessisville, in the Eastern Town- ships region of Quebec. Dates depend on the weather and, in many cases, cannot be set long in advance. Some festivals like that at Elmira last just one day. Others, such as that at Plessisville, last a month (March 15 to April 15). The production of syrup and candy from the boiled sap of the maple tree is exclusively a North American activity. Only two of the 10 kinds of maples in Canada and 13 in the United States give sap sweet enough to make syrup - the sugar maple and the black maple. The former is most common in Canada. North American Indians first discovered the sweet secret of the maples. Not only did they find its taste pleasing, they found it helped to ward off scurvy (the sap is rich in Vitamin C). Early explorers and settlers copied the gather- ing methods of the Indians and harvested the maple sap, using the boiled product as a cheap sugar substitute. Today the production of maple products is a multi-million dollar industry in Canada, a profitable activity for many farmers in an otherwise slow season. Weather conditions have a strong effect on the sap run. The best weather is when there is a hard frost at night followed by a sunny day with the temperatures rising to 40 or 50 degrees F. This usually happens towards the end of March in Ontario and Quebec, a few weeks later in the Atlantic provinces. A good run may last six weeks. Although "sugar bushes" (groves of the trees tapped for sap) can be found from near Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario to eastern Nova Scotia, about 85 percent of production is concentrated in the province of Quebec. The Eastern Townships, between the St. Lawrence River and the Am- ericân border is a particularly productive region. Large commercial bushes, of as many as 20,000 trees, have been modernized in recent years, to cut labor costs. A network of plastic tubing carries the sap directly to the sugar cabin where it is boiled to syrup by oil or gas heat. at 1:30 p.m. The euphonious word menas "the great out- doors" in the trading language of the Pacific Coast Chinook Indians, an apt term for the Saturday afternoon series of half-hour wilderness film adventures produced by CBC's Vancouver-based Andy Snider. Klahanie leads off with a six-part adventure far from its production centre, roaming remote coastal areas of Australia with four young scuba divers who, as it happens, are all graduates of the University of British Columbia. - The Man Alive program for Monday, April 8, 10:30 p.m. is an interview with the late CBC broadcaster Bruce Marsh, done several months before his*death in Los Angel- es, March 18. The interview was done by Thames Tele- vision -of London, England. He was awaiting the heart transplant operation that was not to happen. In the TV interview, Bruce spoke his thoughts as a committed Christ- ian, weighing life and death and its meaning. Whitby Jaycees present MILLIONAIRES' NIGHT AND DANCE April 19, 8 p.m. Heydensore Pavilion advance tickets only Cali 668-3392,9 a.m. -5 p.m. 668-6355 after 5, 668-9912 after 5 p.m. p.m $3.50 per person April 13 JAYCEE CAR WASH 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. At Bower's Texaco 414 Brock St. N., Whitby Price - $1.50 INTRODUCTION NIGHT For young men aged 18 to 39 Find out what Jaycees are all about. April11, 7:30 p.m. Consumer Gas Building, Blue Flame Room, 101 Consumers Dr., Whitby. Come Out And Join The Jaycees. Ontario HospitalInquiry Commission on Employee Wages, Salaries and Benefits The Minister of Labour has established a Hospital lnquiry Commission to investigate ways of providing the current process of hospital negotiations with an improved basis for the determination Qf employee wages. salaries and benefits. It is composed of R. E. Alden. A. S. Tirrel and J. S. Dupré (Chairman). The Commission is seeking the views of the public as they relate to its terms of reference. The Commission has as ils terms of reference the duty to inquire into and report on: " The standards of compensation applicable-to employees of hospitals under The Public Hospitals Act and the relationshîp of these standards to comparable work in other categories of employment in Ontario. " The appropriate criteria which should be applied to the determination of such compensation. " The feasibility and desirability of collective bargaining being conducted on a level other than an individual hospital. " The desirability of establishing a resource centre for developing and publishing statistical data relevant to such bargaining. Submissions Invited Persons or groups wishing to make a written submission are asked to: e Notify the Commission by April 9. 1974 of their intention to make a written submission. * Make written submissions as soon as possible to be in the hands of the Commission by May 6, 1974. The Commission may request a subsequent oral review of any submission. S~ubmissions and inquiries should be addressed to: The Secretary, Hospital Inquiry Commission. 400 University Avenue, 11th Floor. Toronto. Ontario M7A 1T8 1. B. McKenna Secretary I I I I - I I Maple Syrup Timein Canada '4 tee 4g 'J'e À -e»e,