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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1971-09-23, Page 144A Clinton News-Record, Thursday, September 23, 1971 IZ ambling with Lucy 11111=111111101111ESMEMEN BY wcy R. WOODS Pictured above are two of the behind-the-scenes people responsible for the success of CBC-TV's flagship information series, Weekend, telecast from 10 to 11 p.m. Sundays. Execu- tive producer Richard Nielsen (left) and senior producer Peter Kappele contribute much of the journalistic expertise and editorial judgement that has made the series, in the words of Knowlton Nash, "the most provocative but responsible program of its type". Weekend is now in its third season on, CBC television. CLUBS SERVING CLINTON AND DISTRICT SINCE 1945 GordonGrigg Fuels PHONE 482-9411 Call Our Agent ROSS JEWITT FARM & HEATING PETROLEUM NEEDS No Waiting on Cleanouts CLINTON Pick Your Date Noir! For your safety our delivery trucks carry fuel oil only FOR FREE BURNER SERVICE NIGHT OR UAY CALL 482-9411 CLINTON DRY CLEANERS OPFER "YOU T118 CLARKE CARPET SHAMPOOER SERVICE COST IS REASONABLE: ONLY 10c PER SQUARE FOOT free Pick-Up d Delivery Service In Clinton For Wall-To-Wall Carpet Cleaning Call for a Convenient Appointment CLINTON DRY CLEANERS 482-7064 63 Albert St. — Or at the Plant, 158 Beech St. BY SUSAN TYNDALL The first meeting of th Clinton II 4—H Club was held a the home of the leader, Mrs. Jerry Krauter, on September 13. The assistant leader is Mrs. Robert Gibbings. The election of officers was heldw with 'the following slate chosen: Cathy Malcolm, president; Barb Elliott, vice-president; Susan Tyndall, press secretary and Laurie Tyndall, treasurer. The girls made honey nut flip, milk shakes, grilled cheese , sandwiches and cheese pizza. The third meeting of the Buttercups was held at Faye Cantelon's home. We learned milk is a big industry, there is a big quantity of dairy products made each day. Milk is the best value for your money. We also learned we should keep fresh' milk clean, cold, covered and dark and how to cook with milk and cheese. Diane Baird and Rhonda Richardson made butterscotch pie with Diane Anderson and Nancy Anderson served it. The pie was delicious. NEWPAPET6 GET MKS - '00Nr - 47.1. PEOPLEOCCOPAALNI‘TIES ADVERTISED' Your Chev/Olds dealer introduces the1972 Chevrolets and Oldsmobiles. GM 1,1AI/1101 (11C111111101 This is your year for a new car. Be glad. Because here's a wide choice of truly fine cars. From Chevrolet your choice ranges all the way from the zippy little Vega, the little car that does everything well, to the big Chevy Caprice. Remember, all Big Chevys give you room, plus power steering, power front disc brakes and if you get the V8 engine, automatic transmission. -All standard. Between the little Vega and the big Chevy you get Nova. This is the not- too-big, not-too-small Chevrolet. The famous-for-dependability Chevrolet. A shade bigger and a touch sportier than Nova is the Chevelle. A mid-size car with a lot of big ideas. Especially in its ride and passenger comfort. Or is this the year you step up to Oldsmobile? Cutlass makes it easy. This is the intermediate-size Oldsmobile, with the style, comfort and performance that says Oldsmobile all the way. Cutlass. Puts you in an Oldsmobile a couple of years sooner. If the ride's the thing with you, better go Olds Delta 88. Hard to believe it's the lowest-priced big Olds. And it's big all the way. Big in the comfort of its C;-Ride system. Big in standard features. Big in the feeling of leadership you get when you're behind the wheel. Whether you go for a little Vega, a dependable Nova, sporty Chevelle or Cutlass, or a big Impala or Delta 88, you get something extra. It's called value. General Motors value. OLDSMOBILE ALWAYS A STEPAHEAD Delta 88 Royal Hardtop Sedan. Chevy Nova Coupe. Chevy Vega Kammback Wagon. Chevette Malibu'Sport Coupe. Impala Sport Sedan. Cutlass S Hardtop Coupe. See your Chevrolet/Oldsmobile dealer today. 'Duckling seat and shoulder belts is an idea you can' live with. Some or the equipment illustrated is optional at extra cost., There has been a great hue and cry concerning animals being used as guinea pigs for humans in medical research. Now according to "Signs and Portents", a column published in the Financial Post on August 14, 1971, the situation is reversed to a degree in Quebec. "Now that medicare for humans has proved workable the provinces cows, pigs, sheep, poultry, fur yielding animals and estrogen yielding mares are going to get it," the article says. "The scheme was effective July 1 were Veterinarians will paid by the visit, by hour or by act with bonuses for working on holidays and for travel. So wple tariffs: caesarian section $35, plus visit costs, amputation of hooves, $15 plus visit costs, except for the costs of a Vets visit to the farm there is no charge for castration of the farmers first bull, aged 18 months or more but it is $2.00 per additional case. Generally the government will pay half the costs and the farmer the rest, In addition the government will set up a central drug store, Veterinarians will act as distributing agents for the drugs which are expected to be lower in cost than usual. Benefitting from the battles of their human colleges veterinarians retain the right to opt out of the scheme. What about the poor farmer? Is he able to opt out of it too? There are so many angles to this brief article. The first Lucy thought of was the cost to the farmer especially in the outlying parts of Quebec. There has been much crying on the part of some Quebecois that the Federal Government has not treated them fairly. And yet to the mounting cost of insurance the Province adds medicare for animals. Does Quebec draw on the Federal Government for a share of this scheme? If so, those in the other Provinces are helping to pay for it and they should be entitled to the same benefits, if it can be called a benefit. At the most it is going to set up another bureau in the Provincial Legislature and think of all the added book keeping and Veterinarians reports. Lucy views with dismay the growing mountain of Insurance which it seems necessary for the average person to hold and if the Province of Quebec uses humans as guinea pigs in the matter the livestock fur bearing animals poultry etc. will all have to have it too, for what is the use of the farmer paying his share of medicare for say a Caesarian section if the animal dies and its off spring as well. Or if a hawk or vulture swoops down out of the sky and takes a prize rooster valued at not less than $25 or a well bred lamb or a mare gets out on the road and has her legs broken in an encouter with a car. Just think of all the Insurance various humans carry, birth, life, medicare, hospitalization, accident, car insurance, tractor and other forms of implement insurance, crops, travellers insurance against loss of eyesight, against loss of hearing against crippling disease resulting in total disability, against theft, tire, destruction of property by flooding and doubtless there are many others. While some people prepare their burials most persons never give it a thought. If there isn't enough in their estates to pay costs the Undertaker may be payed to a certain degree by the municipality. If the province of Quebec is going in the insurance business on a large scale it will have to charge premiums thus taking away from established insurance firms. The province could become one great Insurance complex and fill its coffers or else drags the people down making the low income group absolutely dependent on the Province for all the necessities of life. Private enterprise manage business much more effectively than Government. Private enterprise must be run effeciently to make ends meet plus a profit. But on t whole Government corporations are not managed as meticulously as the private company for if there isn't a profit the government will pay out of our taxes. Lucy is thinking particularly of the difference between the C.P.R. and the Government backed C.N.R. But of course back to the idea of humans as guinea pigs—is anyone going to volunteer as such in research to find a cure for Newcastles disease which has been killing large flocks of hens in Kent and Essex? What would her father have said could he have read it? Although Huron County tariff of Medical fees hung in her father's office until November 1922, when the Post Office was housed there, she does not recall the rates for Caesarean section. All she knows is that her father charged the minimum fee for he felt that patients here, generally, could not afford more. Even at that, there were patients who never paid and others who plotted to beat him by sending a minor for him in the first place. In those days the country doctor dispensed the medicines, too, and sometimes had long distance telephone calls to pay. .Professioaal etiquette in the Victorian Days frowned on Physicians and Surgeons sending out bills. Not until he hadn't a red cent in his pocket did Lucy's father bill a patient. Then he quietly asked for a little on account. When his wife remonstrated he said. "They know they owe me. If they are honest they'll pay even a dollar at a time. Once he asked a woman if she could let him have a little on account as he needed money. She looked at him in astonishment and said. "You don't need money you are rich." What makes you think I'm rich?" he asked. "Because you always pay your bills"' was her reply. Dr. Woods often related one of his early maternity cases here. In the 1890's when he was a bachelor living at "The Hut" on a very stormy night the door bell rang, A man had walked five miles through deep snow for the doctor to attend his wife, (very seldom was there pre-medical care or even an inkling that the doctors services would be required in those days). The man carried a staff and a lantern. Dr. Woods carried his medical case and also a case of drugs. They walked the five miles in snow up to their waists. The storm was so bad that at times the Doctor could not see the lantern, but they finally got there and in due time the baby was delivered safely. The fee was five dollars. One of his last trips in the storm in the night was prior to his being appointed Postmaster in 1917, He was so crippled with arthritis that he really shouldn't have taken such a trip but the family had to eat. A call came in the night to attend a case down the Goshen Line. Dr. Woods never liked the telephone although, it was convienient. He said patients tended to leave calling a doctor until the last minute. At any rate his good wife got up and helped him dress. Then she hitched the "Doctors black" (Jack) to the little light cutter, put her husband's cases in, helped him in ana tucked the robes around him. He knew of old the bad drifting on the Goshen Line and the storm had been raging for some hours. "What will I do if I upset" (If he got down, he couldn't get on his feet again without being lifted) "Shout" replied my mother. "Shout at the top of your voice" "No one would hear me 1.1 this storm," he said, as he gathered up the reins and the faithful jack, knowing' his master was seated, sped away. When he got down the Goshen Line about a mile just opposite a gateway (Kere Boyce's Lane now) Jack slowed up and started picking his steps. The driver gave him the reins but urged him forward gently. A man by the name of "Sleepy" George Johnston lived there, and with the wind howling , father told us afterwards, he thought: "I could be stuck in a snow drift here and call for ever." However, his fears were groundless for George McClinchey, foe father of the child to be born, met him with a team of farm horses and sleigh and broke the road for him. He had expected to meet the Doctor at the Goshen corner, but old jack put the miles under his feet quickly, especially if he wanted to get in out of a storm. The fee for a maternity case was still five dollars, The only time Lucy ever -ecollects hearincs that her father charged $25, was including postnatal care) a patient upon whom he had had to use instruments for the birth—after having waited at the home for over a day for "nature to take its course". Dr. N.H. Woods and Dr. A. Newton—Brady who followed him strangely enough, had done graduate studies the under the same professor at the Rotunda, lying-in-hospital, Dublin, Ireland, obtaining the degree of "L.M." The adage concerning nature was stressed there with a codecil "If nature cannot manage give her a little help." , At the end of his career D. Woods could say that he never lost a mother in child birth, even though he assisted in a Penny Practice in London England, where he brought as many as 240 babies into the world in a year. Dr. A. Newton—Brady solved the problem of bad winter roads by having Walter Westlake build him the first snowmobile in Bayfield, Mrs. Robert Williamson of London called on Lucy recently and she told of Dr, A. Newton—Brady saving her sons life when she was a widow living with fer father Wm Lobb on the Clinton Road. He was the only Doctor who could get there and the child was on the point of death from pneumonia. When Dr. A, Newton—Brady moved to Hamilton, Abe C. Bradon acquired the vehicle to carry mail from Brucefield Station to Varna and Bayfield Post Offices and visa versa also to deliver on Rural Route 2. Another fee in the Quebec tariff for livestock medicare was: Amputation of hooves $15 plus visit costs. Its a long creep from the days where Lucy took old Jack down to James Jowler's blacksmith shop to have his feet trimmed and shod for $1.50 and the pharmacists aren't going to appreciate the Quebec, government setting up drug centers in which the Veternarinaries will despense the drugs. In many instances it will probably take a good chunk of "their loaf of bread" and the cost in the long run be about the same. BY MARY McILWAIN Intended for last week Misses Betty Thompson and Irene Van der Wilt of Toronto spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson, Jim, Sharon and Bob. Mr, and Mrs. Wayne Hoegy and Scott of London were weekend visitors with Mr. and Mrs. W,J, Dale and Cheryl. Paul Reid and Don Parker of London spent the weekend with Mrs, Luther Sanders. Mrs. Bob Johnston of Grand Valley spent the weekend with Mr, and Mrs. Jack Medd and Kerri. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Thompson and Joan spent the weekend in Tobermory, Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Hunter of Colborne Township, Mrs. Elmer Bennett of Detroit and Mrs. John Thompson spent Saturday in Toronto were they attended the funeral of a relation. Mrs. Hunter remained till Monday with the John Thompson family. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Butler of Cortland spent the • weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Hoggart and Harvey. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Thompson attended the Forest-Scott wedding in Seaforth. Rick i visited over the weekend with his grand parents Mr. and Mrs, Carter Kerslake and Craig of Staffa. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Prezcator, Linda, Dianne and Nancy spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs, David Preszcator, Christine, Lisa and Christopher. Mr, W.J. Dale is spending this week at the Western Fair in London with his show herd. Mr. Bill Whyte left on Sunday to Guelph to start his second year of school. Congratulations are extended to Mr. and Mrs, Ralph Glew of Dorchester on the birth of a son on Sunday, Mrs. Archer Baldwin of Coboconk is visiting this week with Mrs. W. L. Whyte, Tom ,and Mr. Harold Wbyte. Mr, and Mrs. Fred Buchanan and Family moved the past week to the village where they are living in the former Addley residence. The anger of mixing alcohol with driving has been recognized for a long time. The .Ontario Safety League says that back in 1929 when the U.S. was "dry" Henry Ford said: "If prohibition were repealed we would have to shut down our plants. Everything in the United States is keyed up to a new pace — the speed at which we run our motor cars, operate our intricate machines, and generally live, would be impossible with liquor." Constance 'Watt buy