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countries lOThe Barrie Examiner hursday October l976 Conducts fundraising drive for Unitarian committee By JULIET ONEILL OTTAWA CP The scars of long cruel war on the pie and land of Vietnam are fish on Lotta Hitschmanovas mind this fall as she conducts another moneyraising cam paign across the country For the 32nd year in row since the Second World War Dr Lotta as she is affectionately known by many people in poor will spend three months asking Canadians for donations of money or gifts in kind to the Unitarian Service Committee USC She wants $25 million to pay gt or low health and education meg ims in countries on three ontinents where war drought and other disasters have left thousands of people without the tools for survwal You must not forget that it is only recently that Vietnam has emerged from one of the most brutal wars in history Dr Lotta said of the latest country in which her agency has ledgedaproject ter meeting with team of government and medical offi cials in Vietnam for 10 days last May Dr Lotta promised $300000 to reconstruct and equip the Nam Minh District Hospital 130 kilometres south of Hanoi the capital of the country officially unified on July Although she was the first Ca iris nadian to be invited to Viet nam she was not allowed to visit what used to be South Viet nam it was out of bounds to all foreigners she was told becausepla eand diseasehad reached epi emic proportions In 1969 the government of North Vietnam refused USC offer of money and supplies for food and health projects saying it was impossi le under the present circumstances of war But the South Vietnamese government allowed the agency that year to start 10 ilot proj ects to rehabilitate ind han dicapped or haned children and homeless amilies Although Dr Lotta recently PRIME MINISTER SHOWS STRAIN Thailands Prime Minister Seni Pranin shows strain as he holds his head in hand during news conference in Bangkok Wednesday at the CHEVROLET OLDSMOBILE CADILLAC Government House Pramoj was held prisoner inside by 6000 rightists who besieged the building demanding resignations of three of NOW fllflllllllll Pramojs leftist ministers The turmoil began with the return of former military leader Thanom Kittikachorn AP Photo No Price Increase Lan Weight Avoids Weight Tax New corrosion Resistant treatment gives Your Chov or Old oiitra long Mo 18 Milo For Gallon on our fol sin Chov gins MI passenger roomln on with even more trunk space in 76 27 mllos por gdlon on our VI OHS For demonstration call one of our sales team Earl Marshall Claire Park Andy Ross Bill Wave Tom Finnis Ken Bell AI Crawford Don Koopmans Jim Gateman PAUl SADlONBARRIE 233 BRADFORD ST 726181 spokelto social worker who confirmed that at least two of the projects are continuing USC involvement in them en ded with the war There was no way to estab lish bank account there after April 1975 she explained ROLE NONPOLITICAL Stressing that the USC role is nonpolitical and non denominational Dr Lotta is cautious in her comment about any of the countries where 172 USC prefiects have been establish She will say that the Viet namese people have not forgot ten how to smile They know that better times for everyone are ahead she says in her personal notes about Vietnam And already they have the four basic things which men need to survive with dignityfood work hope and peace USC projects in former South Vietnam included farm for 1300 children run by Catholic priest car try and mo torcycle reps shop for or phaned street children she calls the fshoeshine boys and train in family planning for medi ca personnel They told me that health is one of the most pressing rob lems Dr Lotta said Thus the USC is skipping its usual first step of settin up food pro eaim although oood too is The cost of shi ping foood from Canada is gh and the Vietnamese battle against plague leprosy venereal dis ease drug addiction malaria and tuberculosis is just as im portant was stranger there she said But was given chance to see great dealmedical in stitutions and daycare cen tres In North Vietnam there is one health ost with doctor trained or three years for ev ery 5000 people Doctors are paid through agricultural co peratives and medical ser ces are free Staterun daycare centres costin parents about 25 per cent their salaries have been established for factory workers who slpend six days week on them consider myself very privi leged to be able to be people and see the results an often it is so easy Dr Lotta said One day she received lar brown paper bag full of nicker dimes and mostly pennies from Canadian she eventually tracked down He was se verelyill amputee am very hopeful dis covering in Canada new gen eration of young peo le who have been exposed to World through radio and television she said At age 15 16 17 they are concerned and read to share what they have and youn er children are so sensitive cause they can imagine the lit Wont seek job as minister VANCOUVER CP Ray Williston who was involved with the British Columbia forest industry for 18 years as Social Credit resources minister says he does not in tend to seek the job of Tom Waterland the present forestry minister Mr Williston who spent 312 years in political exile in New Brunswick has returned to head the forest companies ac quired by the former New Democratic Party adminis tration He is resident of 80 Cellu lose holding company which manages the provincial govemments forest industry investment His salary has been estimated at $39000 Social Credit now in power was critical of the NDP for buy ing into the forest industry from 1973 to 1975 because of what it saw as conflict of in terest the government owns 95 per cent of the trees The government can then theoretically make or break forest firms by the allocation or denial of rights to cut timber 40 STATES EUGENE McCARTHY could be on presidential ballots in up to 40 states for the Nov ection The independent candidate is already cer tified or is fighting challenges to his nominating petitions in that many states tle children el awhere They areall friends year THE ANTI INFLATION PROGRAM Where we are and where were gomg After one year the antiinflation program is doing what it set out to do The most important achievement has been the drop in the inflation rote year ago consumer prices were rising of CI rate of 106 By August 1976 that role of increase had dropped to 62 This loll some unavoidable increases in energy costs and municipal taxes will affect the rate of inflation In spite of this the first yecrr target of on inflation rate of no more than will be met Increases in all forms of incomewages salaries fees profits dividendsore also being successfully restrained On the average prices have gone up less than wages this year This means that most Canadians can cope bit better we have more buying power than we had before the program began The goal of the second year of the anti inflation program is to bring inflation down even further to no more than This can be achieved only if increases in everything slow down together In our kind of market economy prices have to be able to move up and down to some extent But the antiinflation program does put on effective restraint on prices by controlling profit margins In the second year the price and profit controls are being changed to make the rules simpler and to apply restraint more foirly among different companies They also include important incentives to encourage the investments the country needs to make the economy grow and create new jobs for Canadians New investment credits will make allowances for company profits reinvested to boost production and productivity In the area of wages and salaries the second year Guidelines limit increases to as protection against price increaseswith more added as share of national productivity Gouvernement du Canada Government of Canada This Guideline is designed to protect and improve the real income of working Conddions While bringing down the rate of inflation All govemments ore restraining their expenditures The federal government is limiting growth in its own spending to keep it in line with the overall growth of the Canadian economy This means that every day hard choices must be made to limit new programs and trim old ones These choices are porinful But they have to be made if the government is to restrain its costs and ovoid contributing to inflation Nobody likes controls Not the people whose private decisions are affected by them And not the governments that have to enforce them But controls were and are needed to bring inflation down and to assure or growing economy The proger will be terminated by the end of 1978 Until it is ended the government is committed to making sure the controls work hard to bring about continuing reduction in the rote of inflation Inflation has to be cut down to protect our personal buying power our savings and pensions and jobs for Canadians If last years spiral of rising prices and incomes had continued Canadianmode products would soon be unable to compete in world markets Imports could easily undercut goods produced and sold here of home Its especially important for us to keep our prices and costs competitive with the United States and on both counts the US is still doing better thorn we are Finally inflation also hurts investment And when investment goes down unemployment goes up After c1 year of controls inflation has come down Progress has been made in protecting Conodion jobs and improving Canadas well being The success of the antiinflation program so for has depended great decrl on the co operation of many Canadians With continued cooperdtion we can all look forward to sharing more prosperous and growing economy