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Times-Advocate, 1979-02-28, Page 21WAITRESSES — Taking part in Saturday's Exeter figure skating carnival as waitresses were Lorri Faber, Charlotte Miller, Bridgette Newton, Tracey Robbetts and Kimberley Vanderweit. T-A photo Times-Advocate, February 28, 1979 Page 21 Hospital budget plans SPEAKING WINNERS — Winners of the junior public speaking contest at East Williams School on Thursday evening were Lianne Latta first place, right, Philip Jameson, centre, who won second place and Tina Martelle, who took third place. Photo by Scheifele Senior bakes own bread By JOY SCHEIFELE When her neighbour, Margaret Wilson invited her over for afternoon tea and a piece of cake recently, Ella Tweddle accepted the in vitation without giving it another thought. She was greatly surprised, however, to discover on arrival that her friends and neighbours had gathered together to honour her on her 89th bir thday. Born in London, Ontario, Mrs. Tweddle moved to Ailsa Craig from her farm, on the 7th concession shortly after her husband William died, approximately 26 years ago, to her present home on John Street. Here she remains ex tremely active, both in her home and within the com munity. “I just baked bread yesterday,” she casually WIN $10 AT OUR This Thursday, Friday, Saturday March 1,2,3 MEN'S WEAR Pants, Shirts, Sweaters Boys' & Mens Winter Coats flannelette pyjamas Work Clothes LADIES' WEAR Ladies' Blouses, Slacks Sweaters Brushed nylon sleepwear Van ■ Raalte, Wyndham not all sizes available 2, & 3, Childrens T-SHIRTS ’/z PRICE Everyday Prices LEVIS - men's prewashed flares $22.25 PENMANS - turtleneck pullovers $9.95 STANFIELDS- Polo Shirts $11.95 DON'T MISS OUT ON THESE BIG SAVINGS AND YOUR CHANCE T TO WIN A GIFT CERTIFICATE WORTH $10.00 BLUEBONNET 236-4012ZURICH mentioned as she invited me to share a cup of tea with her. She bakes her own bread regularly each week in addition to her regular household duties. “I have wonderful neigh bours”, she warmly reported. “Margaret Wilson especially. She comes over regularly or I go over there for a cup of tea.” At the moment she is looking forward to going to see the Ice Capades.“I really enjoy that,” she exclaims. Reminiscing back over the' years she recalled when she. would skate to school in the winter as a child. “That was fun,” she recalled. When electricity was introduced one of the first things she bought for their home was an electric washing machine. That was a big thing she remembers. Far more ex citing than getting t.v. proved to be. Although a granddaughter does her heavy laundry for her, she still likes to do some of the lighter things herself. She has two daughters, Mary (Mrs. C.) Sutherland of Lambeth and Mabel (Mrs. George) McEwen of London, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Many hours are spent doing crochet work and her home contains many pieces of her handiwork. In addition she enjoys quilting and has passed many happy hours with the ladies of the Ailsa Craig United Church at quilting bees. Whenever able, she takes part in local senior citizens events and regularly plays cards at the euchre parties. “Everyone is very good to me,” she explains. “They come and pick me up with their cars and take me out to these things.” Public speaker was very cool By JOYSCHEIFELE “Older people smoke because they think it’s cool. Younger people smoke because they think it’s cool. But it definitely is not cool”, emphatically stated grade three student Lianne Latta. Wearing an anti smoking button on her dress to em phasize her stand, she took first place in the junior division of the public speaking contest held at East Williams Public School last Thursday evening. “You can control your smoking”, she advised “don’t let it control you”. Phillip Jamieson, a grade five student, captured second place speaking on horses. “Horses have been used for sport from medievel times right upto thepresent”, he informed his audience.’ Speaking on Hawaii, Tina Martelle, also in grade five, took third place. Other contestants included Charlene Bannister, Maureen Currie, Tammy Frisa, Holly Martelle, Donna Lynn McLachlan, Annette Ross, Andrew Scheifele, Monica Scheifele, Celene Sotkowy, Tracey Steeper, Vicki VanWeert, and Steven Worgan. All gave excellent speaches on a number of subjects. Home and School Association president, Wm. Rowley, presented each of the participants with a silver dollar on behalf of the association, with the winners receiving five, three and two respectively. Judges for the contest included Mrs. Hill Stewart, East Williams township, Hugh Baird, chairman of the Middlesex Board of Education and Peter Snell, minister of the Ailsa Craig United Church. Half back coming back Beginning May 1, Win- tario ticket buyers will be able to take advantage of a new Half Back Program. Non-winning Wintario tickets will be worth 50<j each for a maximum dis count of $2.00 off Canadian record albums and at least 50% off the price of admis sion to see Canadian feature films. In announcing details of the new program, Minister of Culture and Recreation, Reuben Baetz stated, “The new Half Back will be the largest public promotion ever undertaken in Canada on behalf of Canadian film and recording talent. We believe that the discount in centive will encourage greater awareness and ap preciation of Canadian achievements in these im portant cultural industries.” Half Back is a exciting new concept in arts support introduced by the Ministry last year for books and magazines. During the 12 weeks of that promotion, the public purchases hundreds of thousands of books and magazines using the Half Back discount. The new Half Back for films and records will run for five months from May 1 to September 30. Both film and recording industries have endorsed the program. Don't brag, it isn’t the whistle that pulls the train. I3 £By JACK RIDDELL MPP Huron-Middlesex The Minister of Health recently announced budget plans for Ontario Hospitals for the fiscal year 1979/80. A 5.3% increase is planned for each chronic care and rehabilitation hospital, for chronic care and rehabilita tion units within active treatment hospitals, and for out-patient operations. A 4.5% increase is planned for public hospitals, after ad justments for bed population guidelines. There is to be a three-year program to phase in bed population guidelines of 3.5 beds over 1,000 referral pop ulation in Southern Ontario and 4 beds per 1,000 in Northern Ontario. The Minister stated that no hospital will receive less money in this fiscal year than last, and that district health councils and other organized local health plan ning bodies will have in creasing responsibilities in co-ordinating health care services for both hospitals and alternate forms of care, such as long-term care. He mentioned copayment ad justments for long-term chronic care and capital financing incentives for hospital cost-saving pro jects. 'There is to be continued funding for life support and one-of-a-kind programs, and long-term care services may be expanded as a result of studies of long-term care requirements now being conducted by district health councils and other health planning bodies. Two kinds of adjustments will affect hospitals as of April 1st. The first is with respect to budgets, and the second is in connection with measures designed to en courage “better use of the health system” -specifically copayment or user fees. As the Minister pointed out, the principle of user Bowling SP OB EL OP FL CB C4 ss DD RO Men's A Ray Smith 714 Wayne Pearce 741 Clay Murray 691 Rod Hippern 637 Dan Brintnell 738 Thin Wall 661 Gary Black 775 Gerry Webb 716 Lome Miller 607 Barry Tieman 654 HD CG PP BB RO WR MM JS PK AH SP TB TS HG MN IB TL DS OM HH GG Ladies Tuesday P. Hunter Duvar 607 M. Dietz 677 P. Haugh 632 B. Sangster 694 V. Flynn 561 M. Glover 527 L. Latulippe 693 D. Seyler 495 J. Frayne 624 M. Holtzmann 651 I. Browning 564 Ladies Thursday R. Negrijn676 L. Smith 656 K. Triebner 539 K. Bierling658 M. Parsons 619 L Stire 558 D. Datars 583 G. Tripp 595 J. Haggitt606 M. Mol 588 BB CO FA CR CH TC CF GT HR BL MP DN Mixed (Friday & Sunday) S. Glanville 586 P. McFalls 627 L. Stire 637 R. Luther 607 C. MacDonald 647 M. Koricina 481 SUNDAY L. Webber 646 B. Hogg 613 J. Gage 635 S. Wilson 581 C. McGrath 642 C. Smith 574 Monday Afternoon Men Tom Yellow 518 Chas. Hendy 479 Chas. Smith 464 Tom Walker 461 Bill Etherington 459 WilfShapton 443 Huron Hope Eloise Klungel 122 Claudette Proulx 121 Cipdy Weston 103 Susan Hemingway Danny Deruelle 82 Wednesday Morning Ladies Betty Smith 507 Mabel Skinner-434 Marg Lovell 630 Roseline Berdan 552 Senior Citizens Georgina Webster 320 Chas. Hendy 329 Liz Lamport 278 Mabel McKnight 356 Edith Love 261 Men's Wednesday Ind. League FL Brett Lavier 678 YW Fred Wells 636 EF Al Quinn 594 BS Harry Maas 648 8TH Bill Jones 726 PE Doug Heywood 692 TR Don Murray 712 HI G. Moir 552 fees is not new. Those who use ambulances and those in nursing homes have paid user fees ever since these services became insured benefits. Insured persons who use the ambulance ser vice are charged a fee for each trip and extended care residents of nursing homes are charged a per diem rate. Certain user fees have also been recommended by a number of committees and groups studying health costs in recent months, such as the Taylor Committee and the Legislature’s Select Committee on Health Care Financing and Costs. The Minister pointed out that at this time some 35,000 extended care patients in nursing homes and homes for the aged pay a per diem charge, while patients in chronic hospitals, which cost far more, now pay no per di°m fee at all. There is currently no incentive to move patients from chronic beds to nursing home beds when nursing home care By MRS. HAMILTON HODGINS A euchre was held Friday night at the Community Centre with Margery Morley as the host. The winners were: mens high, Earl French; ladies high, Audrey Hodgins; lone hands, Olive Hodgins; low score, Mar jorie Mills. Mr. & Mrs. Mac Barrow, St. Marys were Sunday supper guests with Mr. & Mrs. Grafton Squire. Florence McRobert has returned home from a two week’s holiday in Hawaii. She reports a wonderful holiday. Saturday evening Mr. & Mrs. Clare McRobert held a birthday party for their son Jeff who is three years old. Mr. & Mrs. Randy Hicks and family, Hillsdale spent the weekend with Mr. & Mrs. John Scott. Clayton Ferguson, West Lome spent three days this week with his parents Mr. & Mr s Ernes t Ferguson. Mr. & Mrs. Ray Mills and boys, Centralia visited Sunday with Mr, & Mrs. MacLeod Mills. Mr. & Mrs. Dave Hord and Larry, Strathroy visited Sunday with Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Ferguson. Mr. &Mrs.Ray Ruston, St. Marys, Mr. & Mrs. Thos. Hern Sr., Zion, and Mr. & Mrs. John Tookey and Cheryl, London were Sunday supper guests withMr.&Mrs. Earl French and girls to celebrate Elizabeth’s third birthday. Mr. & Mrs. Hamilton Hodgins and Berton visited with Mr. & Mrs. Fred Mardlin and girls Sunday evening to celebrate Lisa’s seventh birthday. 5 7 0 58 57 40 .. ...........lOT.-N—JTT- - ■- ~l --I.I ..... . - — FIVE PLUS ONE-- One of the feature numbers presented by the senior skaters at Saturday's Exeter figure skating carnival was Five Plus One. Back, left, Eleanor Salmon, Carrie Blackburn, Bill Scriber, Patti Down and Debbie Josephson. In front is Karen Hart. * T-A photo could more properly meet their needs. A Government is therefore introducing a per diem charge for those oc cupying a chronic bed in a public or chronic hospital longer than 60 days. The 60- day qualifying period begins February 1st. As of April 1, 1979, the fee is to be $9.80 a day, equal to the per diem nursing home fee. The same fee would also apply to those occupying a bed in a provincial psy chiatric hospital longer that 60 days. Exemptions from the chronic care copayment will include those on Family Benefit Allowance and on General Welfare Assistance, as well as those veterans in Sunnybrook and West minster for whose care we have agreements with the federal governments. As of April 1st, the am bulance copayment will in crease, for the first time since its inception 11 years ago. For insured persons, it will increase from $5 to $20. The mileage charge for longer trips will be abolish ed. For those not insured or for uninsured services, such as medically unnecessary trips, the user charge will increase from $25 to $40. The actual cost of an average ambulance trip is about $90. We can understand the reasoning of the government in attempting to restrain the budgets of general hospitals and to charge certain patients a copayment fee. We are somewhat concern ed, however, that the alter natives to these acute care facilities have not been provided, and the proposals of the government will re quire further assessment. As Stuart Smith has stated, the proposal to levy a charge against those in psy chiatric hospitals for more of Sorority plans for banquet Beta Theta Chapter Beta Sigma Phi met at the home of June Essery February 13. Rosemary Schaefer announced that the Founder’s Day banquet would be held April 24 at the Exeter Town Hall. The three chapers of Beta Sigma Phi are donating a Pediatric Aerosol Tent to South Huron Hospital. June Essery introduced the guest speaker, Mrs. Lome Hicks, who showed her slides and gave a very interesting commentary on her trip to the jungles of Brazil. Donna Webster thanked her. A dessert auction was held by the Ways and Means committee following the program. Monday, February 19, Beta Theta Chapter attended the Huron County Unit Canadian Cancer Society meeting at the Exeter United Church. than sixty days is crude, cruel ana discriminatory. Patients are likely, even after sixty days, to be in the acute phase of their illness. Most of them still must maintain their homes and families since they are very likely to recover sufficiently to return to their regular life pattern. Furthermore, they are. with modern treatment, likely to be visiting home regularly during their hospital stay. They are not in a position to be paying “rent” to the psychiatric hospital while maintaining their own home and family. HELPING DONALD — Janice Brock ties her son Jeremy's skates shortly before he took to the ice as a Donald Duck at Saturday's Exeter figure skating carnival.T-A photo POSING WITH FLOWERS — Dale Armstrong and Elaine Pym pose with flowers shortly before they took to the ice in Hockey Night in Exeter at Saturday's figure skating carnival. T-A photo