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depends upon it. In many ways you are probâ€" ably very much like these familâ€" ies. But if you are not yet like them in some of these last few ways, remember, it is never too late for you and your family to begin. Many families like yours know about, and generously support, the Canadian Mental Health Asâ€" sociation. They give regularly as much as they can afford. This support is very much appreciated, and the work of the association depends upon it. This is a sad and serious probâ€" lem for them, and one does efâ€" fect the whole family and means that many of the Ways in which you enjoy life and gain satisfacâ€" tion are impossible for them. You and ‘your family may also be aware that there are many thousands of families here in Canada, families much like your own, who will have someone who is mentally or emotionally disâ€" erdered, it may be father, mothâ€" er, son or daughter. Like them, you have some good friends whom you trust and with whom you share both the good and bad things that come along and have other friends, neighâ€" bors with whom you spend your leisure time. If so, you are a reasonably hapâ€" py__and healthy family. Like them, you work hard, try to pay your bills regularly, hopeâ€" fully save a little, and plan for your children‘s future. Like them, you have your probâ€" lems, take them in your stride solve most of them, and know that some take longer to solve than others. By ROLAND HERSEN Your family is probably very much like other families. If it is, yours is a fairly closeâ€"knit faâ€" mily. You enjoy each others comâ€" pany. You like being together. They took it to a Waterloo Square pet shop in hopes of selâ€" ling it off, but it seems turtles weren‘t in demand that day. Already in charge of a menaâ€" gerie of two kittens and a cat, they couldn‘t see a turtle, and a snapping one at that, fitting hapâ€" pily into the scheme of things. Mental health Nineâ€"yearâ€"old Joanne Coles, a Grade 3 pupil at St. Louis school, and her fiveâ€"yearâ€"old brother, Vernon, of 38 Regina St., found themselves a Jlittle overstocked with pets when given a present of the reptile. A snapping turtle presented two pint sized youngsters with a cigl_:_t sized problem this week. The association can make you Kids seek home for turtle How your dollars work youngsters prove their turtle is the snapping variety, Above all send your donation. It will signify your awareness, and concern. Support the Canaâ€" dian Mental Health Association, doorâ€"toâ€"door ca m p aign, this Thursday and Friday. ‘ Call or write to your local branch of the association, at 54 King St. S., Waterioo. It gives friendly, sympathetic advice and help. It provides many services that give support, and assistance to patients during their illness. It also supports research into causes and prevention. It is continuously pressing for complete mental health services to be established within easy reach in every community. The association is able to adâ€" vise them what to do, and where The Canadian Mental Health Association exists to help the mentally ill and their families, and has been doing so for many years. aware and will thankfully put your dollars to work, for the menâ€" tally ill, and their families. Your vJollars areâ€"desperately needed. _â€" Finally, in desperation, Vernon offered it free and then we had to admit that we just couldn‘t look after a turtle properlyâ€"not to mention the fact that the feâ€" male staff members were scared off when the youngsters proudly displayed the turtle‘s snapping prowessâ€"his best selling point in their eyes. So we left them with their turtle and their dilemmaâ€"and we haven‘t had enough gumption since to find out if they found a good home for their pet! The Chronicle office struck them as a good place to make a sale but the staff drove too hard a bargain. Lower Mail WEDDING SPECIAL Full Photo Coverage in Living Color You Get â€" One 8x10 Album Plus â€" Two 4x5 Albums Passport, Citizenship, Portraits, Fashion, Children Animal Pictures taken in Our Studio ONLY $145.00 PHOTOâ€" ART 578â€"7860 As we have the world‘s finest hockey players in the National Let‘s snap this thread of hypoâ€" cracy which has kept our interâ€" national wrists tied in hockey. There would be little trouble in forming the greatest hockey team to ever skate as one unit. As the saying goes: "It‘s sock it to them time." What he will not allow (and he has the power of veto) is for a professional hockey player bound by contract to a Canadian or American hockey team to particiâ€" pate in international hockey. He would allow any player not bound by such a contract to play for his country in international tourâ€" naments. Aherne obviously feels the dolâ€" lar sign is not important. Recently, Bunny Aherne, the czar of the International Ice Hocâ€" key Federation said publicly: "A professional is one who is bound by a contract. I don‘t care if an amateur is paid money, but he cannot sign a contract.‘" To our foreign athletes sport is a job. And it is a job which pays money. In North America an athlete received money only when he becomes a professional. And in world athletic competiâ€" tion, only amateur athletes are allowed to compete. This code of ethics in interâ€" national sport is mockery! Yet this hypocracy is allowed, with few dissenters, although Caâ€" nada has recently begun to obâ€" ject strenuously in the area of hockey. In North America we have two forms of athletes: amateur and professional. There is no grey area. However, in the rest of the world‘s arenas, athletes are classâ€" ed as amateurs although they may realize fiveâ€"figure salaries: ie. Soviet hockey stars. © Many Olympic athletes continâ€" ue their eareers in the realm of professional sport. Ninetyâ€"eight percent of the "graduating" athâ€" letes are from North America. ‘The reason is the strange code of professionalism w h ic h dictates the sphere in which foreign athâ€" letes may perform. ‘The word amateur is defined in the dictionary as: ‘"‘a person who undertakes some a c tivity for pleasure, not for money or as a profession." The meaning is clearâ€"cut. Amaâ€" teurs do not receive money when participating in sport. The height of amateurism is supposed to be the Olympics where the world‘s athletes meet in competition every four years. Waterloo Square Glen May They wouldn‘t have to have any more than three or four practices together before being ready. \_ The 18 players selected would not be bound by a contract. They and their owners would mutually agree that there would be no signâ€" ing of contracts until after the world tournament. This could be Once the NHL players play the international game of shamateurâ€" ism the IIHF will have no alterâ€" native but to throw open the gate and play our game. But, nevertheless, let‘s allow the humiliation. It would take no more than one year before the IIHF would be forced to allow the NHL team to move into the select A groupâ€" you remember, a touring Japanâ€" ese team had trouble defeating some of our country‘s senior clubs this winter. Aherne suggested he would al low NHL players to form a team and compete in the B or C pool. This woulid put the NHL team against such competitors as Roâ€" mania, Japan and England. If This procedure would point out to the world the momentous stuâ€" pidity of the IIHF‘s code of hocâ€" key ethics. done. Then Aherne would choked by his own words. Hockey League, is it not time to give our foreign foe a taste of hockey the way it was meant to be played? We should select the 18 top players from the NHL and send them overseas: © 108 Weber W., Kitchener @ ©@ 671 King W., Kitchener e © 292 King 5.. Kitchener o _ DRY CLEAN WINTER GARMENTS FOR STORAGE Wubisates thoaahiy Yhtcoley, Sime / Wos : _ w For Free Pickup and Delivery OR TAKE ADVANTAGE Swal CLEANERS 7143â€"4321 BOX STORAGE The local provincial palice deâ€" tachment laid 111 traffic charges last week, compared with six for liquor offences and one umder the criminal code. The detachment investigated 41 eccurrences and 11 accidents. Daâ€" mage in the latter amounted to $4,807. Eight persons were inâ€" jured in three separate arcidents. A comparative report shows that while 63 accidents occurred in May 1969 as opposed to 51 at the same time last year, property damage was less this year. It amounted to $38,797 compared with $41,399 in 1968. s 220 King §t. N., Wateriee 268 lencaster W., Kitchener 188 Highland W., Kitchener JOE A. STRUB C.L.UV. 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