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The director said the.-Ministry's- answer to get people off welfare and into a job "demonstrates a lack of sensitivity toward the realities of the present economic environment".' "The fact of the matter is that at a time such as this, a period of Huron county people who are trying to save Clinton Hospital are meeting today with Premier Bill Davis and ifealiP Minister Frank Miller. They haven't reart:' aged to come up with a plan to save the total $800,000 in the county as a whole, instead of by closing Clinton, but they have some plans to show the province. Huron warden. Jack McCut- 'cheon said Saturday that details of how costs can be'cut will be released after the meeting. However, people involved in •the Clinton Hospital fight con- firmed that Seaforth and Exeter Hospitals between them have a greed to cut $150,000 from their budgets. Seaforth hospital ad- rdinistrator pardon MacKenzie • was out of town' yesterday and couldn't be reached for comment. Clinton itself' MOS— to cut $400,000 by cutting .back ,to- and usually there isn't too much damage done. People can stand to wait an extra day or.two for goods coming by Mail. Out it's pretty -serious when a newspaper 1 over a day late. Readers want the,ads so that they can do their shopping on Friday and Saturday. The news seems old hat if you don't get it 'till Monday instead of Thursday or. Friday. You don't 4 know about dances or meetings that you'd like to attend. The people who work here understand that and that's why they come in in all kinds of weather and work hard to meet our deadlines. We sure couldn't do it without them. Maybe we should suggest a rotating column, written each week by the person who has had the toughest time making it to work. PAYING ATTENTION — Cathy Lynn Hak was very, very interested in the Hol- land Day performance in her brother's class on Monday. (Staff) Oliver Anderson passes OLIVER. ANDERSON Oliver Charles Anderson, life- long, reki„dent of Hullett Township passed away suddenly at his home on Wednesday, March 3, 1976 in his 85th year. He was born on March 1, 1892 the son of the late Richard Anderson and Isabella Reed, and lived all his', life at lot 5, concession 8, Hullett. On November 22, 1922 he married Stella Clarke of Constance, who predeceased him in 1965. He was also predeceased "by one son, two brothers and two sisters. He 15 survived by a son Eric at home, six grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Active in community life, he was a member of Seaforth District High School Board from 1947 1968. He also served a number of years as director of Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement Association, Huron County Ploughman's Association and the Seaforth Agricultural Society, He was a' membef'd Hullett Lodge #568 A.F. & A.M. for 45 years and was master in 1937. He was also a member of Court (Continued on Page 13) HOLLAND DAY AT ST. JAMES -- Miss Dorothy Dillon's class at. St. James' Separate School in Seaforth have been studying Holland, a country that some of them originally come from., Monday was Holland Day and they put on a program', showing parents what they learned. GrirMing from ear to ear behind some of the projects they did are, front, left Kenny Hak, Sharon Wilson, Colleen Mero, Lynn. Nigh, Janice Murray, Jerry Wright, Debbie Barry, Billy bale, Danny Van Loon, Margaret Ann Devereaux, Michelle Huard, Timmy Coombs, Allan Menheere, ,Paul Janmaat, Allan Wocks, Michael Schwarz, Gerard Ryan. Back left are Jimmy P ias, Ricky Hicks, Michael Segeren, Mark Murray, Danny Reidy. (Staff Photo) CAS Director criticizes 1,4 government restraints Director of Huron County Children's Aid Society Bruce Heath took some healthy swings at provincial government officials last week at the annual meeting of the CAS, in the 65th year since its establishment in the county. Speaking about . .the government's "travelling road shows" which preach the doctrine of restraint, Mr. Heath commented, "The central reason 'for, the restraing program as we underst and it is that the province cannot go on spending at the .present rate. The daily presen- tation of the extent of government debt is of concern to all the people of Ontario. It is obvioiiS, however, that this problem did not develOp overnight and it will not be overcome in one fell swoop.", "Without falling into the trap of making absolute comparisons, made on the basis of limited statistical data," Mr. Heath continuod, "I must seriously, question the multitude echoing the call of 'restraint when we find this 'opal Society operating at per capita costs one third under the provincial average, and half as large as our far gest colleague in the field of, child welfare in Ontario." The director challenged the government on over-simplifying the economic problem. "History should make us somewhat wary of those who in times of crisis or difficulty present simple and clear answers," Mr. Heath pointed out. "Such approaches might be appealing and enticing to a public genuinely concerned. Unfortunately, as we know too well from history, more often than not such statements reflect political opportunism more than genuine eoncern, under- standing and thoughtful effective solutions." Mr. Heath said that the Ministfy of Social and Community• Services under which the CAS operates, has called for agencies to re-evaluate priorities to separate essential programs from those which although desirable, are not essential. The director argued that the social service field. with its- "multiplicity of funding sources and . delivery 'systems" requires much' more communication and participation in decision making than, the. Ministry has to' date allowed. "The guideli nes and the manner in which they are being introdtked certainly dri not...give us the confidence that ,the complexity of the problem and the necessary' processes for rational intervention and decision making are recognized 'by the Ministry," stated Mr. Heath. , He said that statements • the budgets are not being cut or frozen, but are being increased at a lesser rate thai . itt,..previous years are misleading "The dollar figure is being increased but the• actual services that the larger dollar figure can purchase are decreased," Mr. slow growth, the job market is tight and those least able to compete cannot obtain work," said Mr. Heath. "The jobs just aren't there." Present budget requirements for CAS,in 1976 hover at about an 8 per cent increase over 1975, Mr. Heath said. That is making no allowance for those Rntingeneies brought about by tire closing of Goderich Psychiatric Hospital, a service well utilized by CAS in the past. "All in all, we are -clearly talking of doing more with le'ss," Mr. I-1 eath. said. "The challenge to do s,o we accept_ with some trepidation." "The responsibility for achieving this.broad general goal, however, clearly is a shared responsibility between ' this Society's Board and staff, and the people of the, county," he concluded. One of the good, things about I writing is that' you can alAys, with any luck, turn a bad day into a story. Those of you who don't write for a paper don't have that chance. The best you can do when disaster strikes is moan about it. 1 can moan about it and call it a column. Disaster, family feuds and minor accidents on the way .to work • are all grist for the columnist's mill and can sometimes be recylced into readable stuff. "I'm going to write about my driving problems this time", muttered one of the people who work here as she struggled in to the office on deadline day last week after fighting drifts, ice, slush and generally rotten weather to get here because we had a paper tb get out. Since not everybody who works here gets to write a column (it's an idea though) this column' is dedicated to all my fellow workers who OW '.;:hai,.e:..1ooked• out the winToW°, foiled over 'in bed and 'skid the heck with it ... I won't be in today, but didn't because they feel an obligation to the readers of this paper. A week like last week when wind and ice storms had power off in half the country and made driving tricky at times in the other • half makes you appreciate staff who struggle to get in to work and put the push on to get last minute storm stories and photos into the paper. Many of them live in the country and those who live in town talk about slipping and sliding along icy sidewalks in their daily trek to the Expositor office: The people .who mail the Expositor come in for some extra credit this week too. Because of press troubles at the printing plantin Goderich, it was 12:30 'Thursday mprningbefore they could ,leave the addressing machine and head for home. At that hour a couple of them had the job of driving Expositors to the closest post offices in the area. The other papers didn't get into the mail until Thursday so if your paper wAs4ater than usual last week, this time it wasn't the post office's fault. Our correspondents should come in for some thanks too. It must have been awfully difficult for some of them, living in candlelight and without heat, to collect the news, never mind get it into the mail. But they did and our coverage didn't.suffer much at all from the weather that left the area south of here looking like a tornado hag struck. Bills can go out a day or so late Seaforth to help Clinton Hospitai perhaps 2, active treatment beds and Clintoi Hospital would like Qoderich nd Wingharn the county's big est hospitals, to cut $-}00,000 'ea •11, Apparently the. two big hose tals have refused to make these Clinton people hope that if they can keep 25 beds open, their hospital could always expand again if government policy changes. Once the hospital is closed and the building abandon- ed, they feel it will never re-open. At a Federation of Agriculture •meeting Saturday Huron t3rec MPP Murray Gaunt, in a' Com- ment on the hospital closings said "We have to work together. all of us...it's a Huron County problem' Warden McCutcheon said. there was no sense in each town considering itself' "its own little. 1