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More Local Direction who is billed for the staggering and mounting welfare pra ises where the grant is substantial Queens Park demands an everincreasing mandate in the distribution of its funds and by the time a few directors directors mid deputyassistants get little amendments fused into the Welfare Act the red tape bars all entry into the department In theory the Welfare Act and its aid to those in genuine need is a great contribution to modern society in practice it is gradually Therc are people in every community who through no circumstance of their own need temporary assistance but there are also many to whom is lance some form of government agency has become an insidious method of workfree responsibilityfree living Just commission or will not solve the problem Much of the trouble appears on the local level when the welfare officer for the area finds his hands are tied by a clause in the Act which precludes any personal knowledge or decision on the case The job of Welfare Officer in any community is a thankless one He has to eliminate the wheat from the chaff and there are far too many today who think they arc entiled to social security rather than earn it The economic wheel has turned full circle in the past decade and it seems whether its Newmarket or North Bay too many people are a good standard of living without too much work or too much worry Lets help those who really need help but keep in mind our present welfare system is a magnet for the moodier and a reflection on the tax payer who has to foot the bill Church Needs Vital The news that thought is being given to closing Calvary United Church in Height subdivision probably indicative of a growing trend to look upon a church as something a community has hut not show any specific interest in it Churches in many pints have faced or uc fating a lack of interest which has led to smaller attendance at services Some have tried to con solidate their congregation attendance by dispensing with one of the two Sunday services no doubt with the hope that their people might come out in greater numbers if onlv one service is held In the case of East Heights Calvary and the United Chinch of Canada face a situation which can be attributed for the moat part to the fact that many residents of the work away from the area and consequently do not develop thr spirit which might apply elsewhere as it would pertain to part ion in church life The Raw Thomas who has occupied the pulpit at Calvary United Church has done a great deal In instil a greater interest in the church and a itcd Ins no also contributed in many With lite his allotted term this month Hie con gregation faces a greater challenge than to flan sagging spirits A meeting has been planned to discus what might he done to have the Considering the combined population of The Heights and Newmarket it seems reasonable to think that two churches of this particular lion would flourish It certainly would be a to many should the tics of the church and the services it be removed Top Heavy Development has been said many time- in the ear that there houses in i mice to suit most people and with a on the doorstep difficulty is being in 1 res for key personnel moving here Under present conditions it is a builders anil sellers snapped up without loss of time AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Those Terrible Teens Those Terrible Teens arc nl it again in Montreal Riot in Torontos Teenage boy charged with gluesniffing nailed with bundle of marijuana Students picketing everything the public lavatories Searching articles by point out the obvious that teen agers arc rebellious resentful of adults eager to experiment anx ietyridden reckless sensitive moody Any parent knows all that programs no I he I lie i Im no sociologist but I have been a e e 1 have two of them under my roof ami leach swarms of them every day so I some dific itions mi to speak a piece let look at the- ling coolly They did inherit a city world Their fresh- as and idealism is soured at cry turn by the massive Weve been expropriated Mrs Blintz needs extra parking for her bridge school Students would like to lake over he universities And remembering of Hie deplorable ridiculous courses I was sub- like to have the vole at this might he a good thing mean nobody over Id dare In run for public office hls way we might get rid of numbers of the incompetent we now have at every laughter on the highways might hut at least it would help control Hie hear Theyd like to be able to conform though they do cling lather frantically to the ultracon formity of the teen cult Well theres nothing wrong with being a i Id love to grow illdni grizzled stubble thai look like a bi Id like to have two a pet tiger but I the illy Did you ever Irj to get to be lav RIGHT NOW Theyd like to be beautiful like to and trusted Theyd Irke to be given responsibility All these long ings prove is that they are human Beings You know tilings havent chang ed thai much When 1 was 18 I thought my parents wellmeaning hut terribly narrowminded When 1 was used call chaps of in the Air Force Pop When I was people in their late were complete incomprehensible All they could talk about was furni ture and fuel bills children anil i i HI I til Hiein They want to them to gel on the trea the rest of us squirrels Remember you too once wanted lo fly Yes ih Mom bo necked in the back THIS WEEK AND NEXT By Ray Anniversary Of Peace An Ilb stone passed unnoticed last wee but for those who I weijh chronology of war and peace Hie should be reassurance in the da of June 106l The date was not he of any great event But it d mark a goal of sorts The date and the Tact lb we were around to observe it was significant in ilia it me world had remained at peace Ion ci World than after World War I When World War I ended en the existence of lions as a far more forum than ic UN and the League Nations can be found in the fact hat the United States has been active member mid chief fitian- lal supporter of the US Having fry 111 tntf were again locked in The war which Blurted Sept ended on Aug 1013 i I Taking that date it by years and W days Hanv Truman the Last week the foreign mini is of the NATO countries nil Brussels to ponder the war has thus been off longer than the globe was forestall the second world I he world of lwliv can be i- lo the world of that earlier generation of the and 1930- Of all the factors lhat have dis couraged a third world war the greatest must be the de-liucmc- of modern weapon ihieflv iIk- iiiicleii bomb lor at least lure 111 i d attention to the of the nuclear cien The second chief far lor Iron Curtain in the This phrase the post years may lie just the hey is needed In understand what ing on in Europe today The Russian military Western Europe has vanished France no longer rcc Soviet Russia as a threat Readers ERA AN OlEX lKOM DOCTOR The Ontario Medical Services In surance Plan is a tavern- nich ed coss for those in Mir Hal law Normally doctors expert he full for llicir poods and salarv from their- employer Mind yon wo have never collect- full fees from our patients Localise one people of low income cannot afford pay for their medical care We have always pleased to provide our services lo such people a no charge or for whatever medical insurance licne- fits they have Wo lull continue do so under have no way of whether have their piemiunis paid try whelhcr hey can afford lo pay own docloi will hill sul culler at 100 cover the hem nice 11 is YOU the doctor THE ERA Serving Northern York Counly Since