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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1971-05-06, Page 2Holidaying at , Bayfield July 1907 All Kinds qf EVERGREENS AND SHADE TREES for Spring Planting LANDSCAPING - PLANTING Trimming and Spraying Services Available — We Guarantee Every Tree We Sell _ SEAFORTH NURSERY i Gordon Noble — Phone 527-0840 4' 4 • . , ,,, .. From My Window — By Shirley J. Keller ownsuistammAinvwfmteumusumaionnowatm *FOOD MARKET* Saturday 1.65 ThurSday - Friday - Maxwell House Instant COFFEE, 10-oz. jai Premium Pack Pre-Priced 1.89 AJAX-, king size Kraft PEANUT BUTTER, 18-oz. jai 43,0 590 1.09 Kam LUNCHEON MEAT, 12-oz. tin Glad Heavy Duty Large ARBAGE BAGS, pkg.,of_10 Bonus Canned Whole CHICKEN, 3%-lb. tin PRODUCE Hot House PROARN FOOD FEATURE Strawberry•Rhubarb PIES %lb. Poly Bag PEAS pkg. 490 \SUPERIOR SPECIALS FOR • St. William's — Raspberry, Strawberry JAMS, 24-oi. jar SCHNEIDER'S SPECIALS Cello For This-,Week STEAKETTES, 1-lb. pkg. Regular BOLOGNA RINGS • lb. 590 Ham STEAKS • each 590 750 only 139 550 480 CUCUMBERS , Cinada No. I CARROTS, 3-lb. bag Navel Crop Valencia ORANGES, size 113 each 25 450 doz. 7 • 2 for 890 FOR ADDITIONAL SPECIALS SEE LONDON FREE PRESS THURSDAY • In -1965 there 'were— the ex10,5Q" out--patient visits; by servi c 1970 this number had grownman em five fold to 51,40 . mechan So it was with X-RaYs. flects Examinations six years ago Seafor total led 1851 and' last year 1 ike•h 4112 X-Ray procedures were is sta carried out. to ser With 'many more area eople making use of the dspita;1, coupled with 'increasing Costs of wages and materials,it is in- evitable th.at operating costs have continued to rise. Al though- costly in terTris ,of money , modern hospi tal care represents a tremendous saving to society in terms of life. .Emergency treatment, out-pati•ent care, therapeu- tic rehabi tatiOn , which were' to a degree unheard o-f. d e c a-de s a g-o--; ar e Commonplace in hospitals today. In the past,_ the responsibility for this type of care rested solely with the -family in the Approximately, two-, thirds of,a hospital's total costs are in a while business nd industry only on budget t hoWever, tent to e must ployeeS ical one , too, t th Commu ospitals ffed and ve the p days a week and. 24'hours every day. It is oqly a little . more than a decade ago that most community hospitals were charitable institutions relying on phild'hthroPic gifts :rand dOnations from. citizens and businesses and the members of the. commUnity. With, the adop- tion of the hospital in- surance scheme,- the burden of financing daily operat-, ing and construction costs has moved toward the OubljC purse. However, hospitals still must rely on •prvate gifts and muni.clpal grants for 'much of their -Working. capital and for 'as'sistance in the financing of new .equipment and Construction. e-third of o salaries. reflects — which hospital epend On 111.1 --. rather than s.-It re- . he fact that nity Hospital everywhere, available ublic seven ,The recent annual meet- home. In today's highly ing of Seaforth• Communi ty developed society this role Hospital draws attention is played by community to the increasing extent hospitals. Even the to which the community' . familiar, family doctor who looks to. the hospital for Cared for patients in the service', home is almost 4 thing, of While the accepted the past. Today the doctor service :o-f providing beds relies ,on the community for patients requiring hospital's facilities to attention xesul ts in the help him diagnose and treat hospital being filled al- „• his patients. most to capacity on most days , it is in the .area of communl ty medital care where most changes are occurring. devote Typi Cal th'e use being thei r made of out-patient' faci 1- This, i ties . ]n the - Years Agone ,i'ArMtninfaiM,V,%.,:!,MO.K.141010Miltat0430fteneiii F x APRIL ,24, 1896. The flax millers of Dashwood, shipped a car load of tow this week. D. C. McLean, of Kippen, while in the act of pruning an apple tree, inflicted rather a painful wound in his wrist with his knife. Geo. Munroe of, Brucefield has pur- chased from Mr,. Scott, the property ad- joining the old'Glasgoiv House. ' Flames were seen recently issuing - from the east end of the Craubrook saw mill and very soon the whole mill was ' a mass of flames. J. S. Roberts of town is having his new drug store fitted up very neatly. The Interior is being finished in oak, with large mirrors on either side and at the end. The work is being done by Messrs. Broadfoot and sox. Messrs. S. Barton & S'on of town have just turned out a very handsome delivery wagon lot B. B, Gunn. Thos. Daley, grocer', has sold his handsome bay driving-horse to Wm. Scott of McKillop. A large and enthusiastic meeting of the Cricketers of the town was held in the Commercial Hotel and the club, was organized for the season. Wm. Clark, who has had the contract for carrying the mail' between Bayfield and Seaforth, for the past four years, has again been awarded the contract for an- other four years. Miss Flossie Weir, who is attending t Helmuth Ladies C liege, London, has received great pre se for 'her profic- ientyin music. APRIL 2.9, 1926. James Rivers, Hibbert, will not • be engaged in the, Kippen beef ring this Season, as ,he has resumed his jet of butchering at the old stand in Bibb rt. An iMpressive ceremony took place at the Bank of Commerce, of which J. G. Millen IS Manager, when the hand- some bronze memorial, bearing the names of the local staff who enlisted from Sea- forth for military duty, was unveiled. The tablet was unveiled by Mrs. F. Holmated, president of the Red Cross Society. The names on the tablet, are Gunner J. M. Mc- Milian, ind.Lleut. L. B. Sifton, Gunner J. Stevenson, ail; M. and Sgt. Leslie Watson. The . oil for e' streets has arrived and will be put on hortly. Messrs. Kilpat ick :Bros, of Hensall, are making impro ments to their pro- perty by moving their ut buildings nearer to their fine residence on the Loddop Road., APRIL 26; 1946. The housing shortage has resulted in the biggest building boom Seaforth has experienced in many years with a total of seventeen units being built. The largest unit is an eight apartment block being erected by Dr. E. A. McMaster, corner of Goderich and W. William St. Conversion of the and. floor of the former McTavish store, • on Mtn Street, re- cently purchased 'by F. Kling will pro- vide three apartments. Thrown from a load of skives when the wagon he was driving struck a rut, Wrn. Montgomery, suffered a broken heel. He fell between the team and wagon, but fortunately the wagon did not strike him. Mr. and Mrs. James Henderson, who have been living in Goderich where Mr. Hendersbn was engaged with the Imperial Oil Co, will again occupy their home on North Main' Street, recently vacated by Mr. and Mrs. J. g. Thrown from the tractor he wag-oper- ating when his _foot slipped on the clutch, Gordon Richardson, Tuckersuilth, coun- cillor and well known' Mill Road farmer suffered serious injuries, which included a broken arm and severe lacerations of the face. Plans for the renovation and remodel- , ling of the buildings and grounds owned by the Seaforth Agricultural Society were decided on at a meeting of the directors, held at the lame of a, M. Scott. the Duran run Since 1860, Serving the Community First rubli*ed ,at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS.. ViiblishArad. ANDREW Y. WU,All, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly NeliapaPer Associbtion and Audit Bure u of Circulation Newspapers Subscription Rates: Canada (in ,advance) $6.90 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $8.00 'a Year r SINGLE COPIES — 15 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 • Telephone 527.0240 ' •Seaforth, Ontario, May 6, 1971 Hospital Service Increased 0 I am a fan of those columns in news- papers where tne readers write in with .theit'personal problems and the columnist attempts to answer with the solutions. Don't get me wrong. I don't want any readers I may have to sit down and pour out their troubles .tb me in the hope that I will be 'able to set them straight. That's InstAnet my cup. of tea. But I• do enjoy reading those literary pieces if for no other reason than to discover how many er problems others have that I don't. Every—enee- ngr.w. bile _ sem eone will write in with a problem which could very easily involve me . . . and this week I read one somewhere from a gal who said she'd visited at. a friend's home for 'an evening of cards 'and had been serenaded all evening long with drum solos one after the other, kids arguing, a guitar and amplifier turned up to the topmost. and a stereo belching acid rock. The reader went on to complain- that her hostess seemed to be deaf to the raCketNand made no move to tone downthe din in the background. The entire scene seemed so much like the atmosphere at our house that I began to reread the article, time and time again to distinguish some clue which would tell me which one of my friends had written it abut our house. was even more perturbed by the columnist's answer. She advised that her reader should have left and told the hostess to invite her back again another time': . . after the• children were -all married! I suppose It is difficult for mostpeople to understand the reasoning behind allow- ing your children to live as they please (within limits, of course) even at home.And I would agree that it extremely bad taste for a host or hostess to submit guests to all the turmoil and strife which normally ,, prevails In the household. Last week I mentioned making a speech to the Vimy Branch, Canadian Legion, and what a treat' it was to be able to get up and talk about the stupidity of senior officers. Normally; I loathe making speeches almost as much as I detest listening to them. As ,a former weekly reporter-editor, a cold, wet, grey blanket comes down over my spirit at the fateful words, "And now, I give you our guest speaker.," That's the signal. Some guest speakers: you couldn't "give" to a starving group of cannibals. I have been ';given" dunderhead's and dolts, politicians and poltroons, pip- squeaks, pedagogues and presidents, farmers and philosophers. Not once have I been Inspired, up- lifted dr convinced. On a very few crcca-: sions I have been mildly amused, although almost never by professional hurnOrists, who always seem so intent on keeping their tongues in their cheek that you begin to feel that somewhere in the process they have bitten them off. That'sThe receiving end. The deliver- ing end is just as bad. It follows a fairly .pat format. You are called up, or written to, by the secretary of scree organization which you've never heard of, and told they'd like to have you as guest speaker at some function you have no interest in, at Some place .you have no idea of how' to get to. This Is the !fitment to say, loud and clear, "Thank you; I am deeply honored, but I can't possibly make it." Any waver- ing, and you're in trouble, The professional guest speaker, and there arts a few about, chooses that moment to lay down his cards. He says, "Well, I might be able to fit that in on that date, but I'll have to consult my calendar." He Consults his calendar, which is blahk for weeks. He calla back. "Yes, I could make it. My fee is $75. Plus expenses,' This produces an agonized pause, if moment that I do. How many times have I invited guests for dinner- only to dis- cover that my children have also made tentative plans to ask their friends to eat dinner with us? (Maybe it is because the kids know we'll have something rather special on the menu that evening, I don't know.) . , After appraising the situation from a non-hsterical vantage point, I've found that I y,,,,,s6 elciam advise my children' in advance f myylans, so how in the world, • could I expect th_em_to know whatigoing - ---- - on in any certain day. Furthermore,,. I've' discovered that it needn't be such a calim-' ity.' I simply entertain our guests in the diningroom while my' kids have their friends in the' kitchen or in the family- room or on the patio. Who really pares how . many dining areas there are as long as everyone gets fed? That's the reason we have found a large house the only answer to our dilem- ma - raising three _children of varied ages and teaching them our approval of using their home as much of the time as posSible for whatever activity they may seledt. ' It gets bothersome at times. . . but we've learned that if you shut the doors between the livingroom and the dining- room and between the diningroom and the e kitchen and between the kitchen and the 'familyroom, you can watch television quite easily in the livingroom, have a 4-H conflab in the diningroom, a coloring bee in the kitchen and a rock session in the familyroom. Naturally there is. some. din seeping through the' 'walls, but if you, set your minds to it the whole affair can work quite satisfactorily. I, have no patierfce with guests who come, to our house and expect everything to„ be the same as they left it at , their hoUse. Each home IS different and I fully expect my friends to adapt to our customs when they visit with Os just as I would understand the differences in their way orlife while visiting them. And I would strongly, urge my guests to either accept things as they are .. . or leave perman- ently. It won't do any good to return in 20 years because who knows? By that time I may have taken up the banjo and who wants to,..listen to that all evening long? you're on the phone. Then comes a plain- the', "Oh. IYes. Well, uh, as you know, uh, we're a non-profit organization; and, we don't have much money, and we thought you'd just come along and give us a little talk. You know, just anything. Uh, how. • would $10 expenses be?" And in a burst .. of enthusiasm, "And bring your wife along. Her dinner would be free of course.", This is always what clinches it with me. A lagt minute„ invitation for my wife. And a free dinner for her. Big deal. Some people love to speak. To any- body. They haveone speech, which they've - , memorized. They have two jokes, invar--- TablY inserted with the prefix, € That reminds me of a little story ..." I didn't, and the story has nothing to do with any, thing. But for half an hour, and sometimes, Lord help us, for 45 minutes, these speak- ers are the cynosure of a 1 eyeg,,except those which are closed in lumber. And - every ear is attuhed to t em. Except those with the hearing aids turned off. They bask. It is nectar and ambrosia to them, even though-it may be lukewarm coffee and cold porridge to their listeners. Good luck to them. For me, Ws torment. It's like a Saturday nigh, bath, whether you need it or not. About every two years, I make a speech, whether I 'need it or, not. I'm proving something to myself. This time it was different. Vimy Branch is the way I like it. They meet only twice a year, for a real smash. They have no club rooms, no flags, no,lugubrious mut- terings about "At the setting of the sun, we shall remember them." Instead, they - 'have their own band, which Smashes out the 0 tunes of glory" at a volume that is exceeded only by their enthusiasm and skill. The chaps took the ipsultS well. Their hospitality was gracious, unobtruSive and generous; a hotel roqpi, a cheque for ' expenses, and a crock of my choice'. My wife was not thrown in as an afterthought. Maybe I'll make another speech in a couple of years. Choose something that wi last all, year. A fiCial' Flower Arrangements suitable for any room Also artificial Red Geraniums Metery- Arrangtinehts — ROSEBUD BOUTONNIERES all colors and white $ac each HILDEBRAND PAINT and PAPER Kem and Martin-Senour Paints Sunworthy and, Waldec Wallpaper •Armsrong '& Celanese Carpets,: Interior &' Exterior Decorating But I'm a firm believer in encourag- ineyour children to come home and to bring their friends home with them. And I know that if you are going to make a success of this kind of thing, you have to be pre- pared to accept tijeir company anytime • ., even at the m'ost inopportune .moments. That's just the way it is, pal.. It ,has often seemed to me that my kids choose to entertain at the precise Sugar and Spice- by Bill Smiley S a 4 • • • 4