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Vol. 8, No.37 a Sadia the district. | September 16, 1965 COMPANY TO SPEND $700,000 ON NEW CENTRI- CLEANING EQUIPMENT Kimberly-Clark Pulp and Paper Company Limite has announced that approximately $700,000. will be spent to install centri-cleaning equipment in the Terrace Bay Mill. This system will improve the quality of the Com- pany's finished product by removing sand and foreign particles that occasionally end up in the pulp sheet. Engineering work is scheduled to start immediate- ly. BLUE CROSS PLAN PASSES 250,000 MILESTONE The Ontario Hospital Association announced recently that total membership in its Blue Cross Plan for Prescription Drugs has now passed a quarter of a million. This represents an increase of some 200,000 compared with a year ago. The sudden rise in membership of the Blue Cross Drug Plan since the beginning of 1965 is accounted for mainly by enrolment of a number of large indus- OUR COUNTRY IGNORED {© Some communities in Canada are finding it difficult _to settle on what the citizens would call a suitable project for celebrating the centennial. For lack of something more tangible on the positive side, the mayor of one Canadian municipality is suggesting that the local project be a planning for the reduction in municipal taxes in 1967. This would attract more attention than the construction of a Greek palace for, say, the accommodation of the coffee drinkers and paraders in parks. It would also be highly original, for a look over the field in the ten provinces and the national capital district, which used to be Ottawa-Hull, reveals no one in the political arena with the slightest in- tention of stopping or even slowing up on spending. When the tax rate is finally arrived at, every local politician ex- presses surprise and hope that the individuals who have to pay the taxes will not blame them. Another project, and this one could be thought of seri- ously, would be to try to get Canada admitted on an equality to the association of nations. At present Canada is not regarded in the United States as anything but a place to visit or a place where goods can be sold. Knowledge of Canada is not in the minds or in the books or publica- tions of the United States or Britain and probably not of France. Canada often is not even in Canadian books. For instance, a person who recently wanted to find out about trial groups. Members and their families are covered|b Canada's adoption of the decimal system of currency dis- by Blue Cross for prescription drugs and injectibles (including insulin) purchased at any licensed phar- macy or from a physician; as well as for vaccines, allergy shots, serum and similar injectibles adminis- tered directly by a physician. At the time of its introduction as a pilot plan.in 1961, membership was _ restricted to company groups with more than 100 employees. This limitation has since been eased to 25. The Prescription Drug Plan is one of three non-profit plans designed by Ontario Blue Cross to provide protection against health costs not covered by basic hospital and medical insurance. O/C Paul J. Heenan of Terrace Bay, has successfull completed the Basic Training Course at RCAF Station Cent- ratia, Ont. More advanced training as a pilot will be | undertaken at #2 Flying Training School, RCAF Sta- tion, Moose Jaw. O/C Heenan is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Heenan. covered that none of the ready-at-hand reference books told. One little handbook, Quick Canadian Facts, did say that it occurred in 1858. (It isn't important 'when it was done, but what is important is for Canada's decimal system to be a good system and for the currency it represents not to be fading away.) In no review of North American affairs does Canada get much space. This is also true about reference books and publications in Britain. Canada is a big country now; a country of twenty million people. There are more people. here than there were in Britain when that country, under Pitt, was the leader in the demolition of the Napoleonic tyranny. Canada, at present, has a far greater population than had the thirteen colonies when they banded together to tell George III to go drown himself in his tea. The Canadian taxpayer is providing a great deal of money to maintain an external affairs department with ambassadors and consulates all over the world. These am- bassadors and consulates, however, do not come in con- tact in any degree with the people of the countries to which they are accredited. What could be beneficial is propaganda to try to impress on people all over the world and especially those of the United States, Britain, France and Western Europe gen- erally that Canada has come to be a country to be reckoned with, to be acknowledged, to be known, to be respected, and is not one to be pushed about, put upon, ignored or disciplined by outsiders. (REPRINTED FROM "THE PRINTED WORD") HISTORY A good knowledge of history will do a great deal for the preservation of Canada.