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Terrace Bay News, 22 Sep 1966, p. 15

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TERRACE BAY NEWS Page 15 by Ray Argyle September 22, 1966 SCHREIBER COUNCIL (Continued .....) WHEREAS, it has been estimated that the total edu- cation expenditures in Ontario will double in the next decade, and WHEREAS, as a matter of principle, real estate should primarily pay taxes for services to property and not for social services which benefit the province/nation as a whole and, WHEREAS, real estate is no longer an accurate cri- terion of ability to pay - THEREFORE, be it resolved that we again, with increasing urgency, respectfully request the provincial government to establish grant schedules which will assume that the major portion of at least 80% of the funds for elementary and secondary education comes from higher levels of government. Council met in the new town office and for th e first time a table was provided for the press, for which appreciation was expressed by Inez McCuaig. esas ¢ Every session of the United million and total -expenditures Nations produces its share of this year will top $600 million. suspense and crisis. Next week's Still, U Thant castigated the opening of the General Assem- wealthier of the 117 member na- bly in New York, originally ex- tions for failing to make "deci- pected to be a tame affair, has sive progress' in economic de- taken on a new importance be- velopment of poorer countries. cause of the impending resigna- On Vietnam, he has been even tion of U-N Secretary General U} more blunt. Without naming Thant. either the United States or U Thant, the soft-spoken Bur- China, he has said Washington mese diplomat who restored a S Making "the tragic error. . . sense of hope to the world body Of relying on force and mili- five years ago when a plane tary means in a deceptive pur- crash killed Dag Hammarskjold, SUit of peace." And interna- gave all the appearances of a tional problems will become bitter and disillusioned man ™O0re _ intractable" without when he announced he would China at the U-N, according to not take another five year term. U Thant. The Secretary-General's let- Without China in the U-N, the ter of resignation was loaded world body cannot move effec- with outspoken criticism of the tively in the Vietnam crisis, nor big powers. He was especially ¢4M it sponsor meaningful dis- critical of American reliance on 2%mament talks because nc military power to solve the such talks can be meaningfu! Vietnam dilemma, but lambast- without Peking's participation ed all the affluent nations for For all that, the China mem- not doing more to assist the un- bership will not be an issue at developed world. this session, due largely to the In the devious world of inter. China-Russia split and the fact national diplomacy, U Thant's that Peking will not accept letter to the Security Council -- ™embership while the Chinese of which Canada will this year Nationalists on Formosa contin- be a member -- must stand as_ Ue _to sit in the U-N. . some kind of record for frank- The U-N could get a morale neces: boost, however, with the return There remained hope, how- of Indonesia to membership. ever, that the Secretary-General President Sukarno, who pulled could be drafted for another his country out last year in a fit term, even if for a shorter peri f Pique, has lost effective con- od than the usual five years. trol at Djakarta and the new American ambassador Arthur 'Strongman, General Suharto, Goldberg has already moved to had indicated a readiness to re- offset U Thant's criticism of tUn. : ; Washington by enthusiastically Rhodesia will loom as_ the supporting him for another ™ain African problem at this ee session, and the crisis there Lowae at the United Nations makes it doubtful that an Afri- the day U Thant announced his 42 will be chosen to succeed U resignation. Everyone seemed to Thant. The 36 African nations know it was coming, but no one are divided on what to do about edariadih ta: knee whether OU the white rebel government in Thant could be talked into stay- Salisbury and it is doubtful they ing on, or if not, who could be will be able to get together on a found to replace him. candidate. The terrible dilemma the U-N There was a time when Can- still faces is that every time the 24a's Lester Pearson could have interests of a big power con- been Secretary-General, but this flicts with the interests of world ay has passed. It is now vir- peace, the big power ignores the tually essential that a nominee U-N. This was true cf Britain at ™ust come from a neutralist Suez, Russia in the Congo and _ State, and there are not many of now, the United States in Viet- them left. nam. If U Thant cannot be con- But due largely to U Thant's vinced to stay, the U-N will perseverance, the U-N has clung Probably turn again to one of together the past five years, ad- the Scandinavian states for a vancing in the economic and man able to balance East-West social field if not in the peace- rivalries against the urgencies keeping field. The U-N Secretar. Of peace. iat's budget has doubled to $128 DISTRICT PRESIDENT VISITS WOMEN'S INSTITUTE turning red and outside turnips 1 £. Schreiber Women's Institute sr eh yalier dennis was host at the September pomarkable garden is 200 miles meeting to District President north of the Arctic circle, dug Mrs. Mary Tomonen of Dorion. into the permafrost in a Com Mrs, Harvey McCanna presided munity on the McKenzie River for the meeting, welcoming the joj. Visitor. Mrs, Tomonen gave a report Schreiber town council gave on the recent district meeting permission for the institute to in Port Arthur, when nine plant a tree to be placed beside pranches were represented: the auditorium entrance. Notice yoney, she said, is the bug- was received of a home eco- p¢ar in all organizations, and to nomics senior training course in add to the funds a cook book window treatment Oct. 17-18 in is being planned with each Fort William, to which two dele- branch asked to send 10 recipes gates may be sent. to Mrs. Fred Watty of Fort Wil- Mrs, Pat Bolan gave an inter- liam with Oct. 5 as the dead- esting paper on agriculture line. based on Arctic gardens and in The institute rally will be held particular, a. three-quarter acre Oct, 20 in the Moose Hall in. hillside plot on the edge of Inu- Fort William. The Institute vik, from which F. H. Willis, a Scholarship for 4-H Homemak- technician from the Dept. of ing club members is $100 and Agriculture experimental sta- two girls were considered. The tion at Beaverlodge, Alta. ex- area WI convention will be held pects to harvest a bushel of in Dryden Sept. 22-23. potatoes from a six foot row. The committee in charge of Three crops of broccoli have the annual group exhibit at the already been cut. Tomatoes in Lakehead fair are seeking sug- a polyethlene greenhouse are gestions for the coming year. Surprise visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Austin Cosgrove last week: were Mr. and Mrs. T. Todd of Brockville, cousins of Austins, en route to the Lakehead. John Cosgrove, who is enter- ing the Roman Catholic priest- hood, has gone to St. Petér's Seminary in London, Ont.

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