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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-03-28, Page 5A HELPER— Toby Killby gives magician Lome Overholt eager assistance as the entertainer skillfully produces a bird from his apparent empty hat at the annual Ailsa Craig scout Father & Son banquet held last Wednesday evening. Photo by tcheifle. Magician entertains at banquet By JOY SCHEIFELE AILSA CRAIG It was obvious that nobody can resist the fun and suspense of magic as the cubs, scouts and their fathers eagerly watched magician Lome Overholt at the annual Ailsa Craig Father and Son banquet last Wednesday evening. Pulling rabbits out of hats, making coins appear in unsuspected places, and having a bird fly out from a balloon he just blew up, the magician held his audience captivated throughout the performance. Many of the boys were noticeably holding their breath when he thrust swords into the wooden box placed over his son David’s head. Approximately sixty fathers and sons attended the banquet held at the Ailsa Craig United Church, March 21. Thirteen scouts received their Religion and Life awards which were presented by the Rev. Alex Simpson of Ailsa Craig. Included were Barry Craven, Jim Fletcher, Jeff Harmer, David Marshall, Wayne MacGregor, Brian McLachlan, Dan McPhee, Steven Leyton, Harold Rowley, Robert Scar borough, Murray Sutherland, Joel Turner, and Blair Tweddle. A long service award was presented to Scouter Gary Tweddle who for the past twenty years has acted as leader in Ailsa Craig by Group Committee Chair man, Ken McLachlan on behalf of the committee and the boys. Thanks was ex pressed to Mr. Tweddle for his faithful and continued service throughout. Appreciation awards were also presented to Robert McCallum and Greg Mac Donald who have recently retired as cub leaders. Mr. McCallum worked with the boys in Ailsa Craig for ap proximately 12 years, and Mr. MacDonald served five years as cub master. Both were given a pen holder set bearing an inscription. The banquet was catered by the mothers of the cubs and scouts. Page 5Times-Advocate, March 28, 1979 ^“Bolens put it all together in W this HIIxl.” Owners of smaller businesses Opting out The Federal Business Development Bank can provide you with: See our Representatives RANDY BROWN AND OR BILL SCHUTZ The Devon Building 476 Main Street, Exeter on: EVERY TUESDAY Dale Robertson By JACK RIDDELL MPP Huron-Middlesex There has been heated debate in the Ontario Legislature about the number of doctors who have opted out of the medicare program. The federal Minister of Health has in dicated that Ottawa would reassess its contribution to provincial health plans if the principle of universality was being destroyed. Figures released by the Provincial Minister of Health in the Legislature show that in some eleven counties or municipalities more than 20 percent of the doctors had opted out of OHIP by the end of last month: Peterborough — 47.2 percent; York — 40.7 per cent; Perth — 29.3 percent; Halton — 28.9 percent; Wellington — 28.6 percent; Waterloo — 25.5 percent; Simcoe — 25.2 percent; Metro Toronto — 23.6 per cent; Lambton — 21.9 per cent; Peel — 21.4 percent; Middlesex — 20.2 percent. He also indicated that some 71 more doctors plan to opt out on the 1st April. When federal Health Minister Monique Begin said Ottawa would reconsider its support of provincial health plans if accessibility and univerality were eroded, she specifically expressed concern about the number of doctors opting out in Ontario. In the Legislature, the Provincial Minister hinted strongly that improvement in government dealings with them would soothe doctors and discourage them from opting out of the medicare system. He said that doctors have complained that OHIP’s adminisrative procedures are unduly bureaucratic and that some of them feel the schedule of benefits is unfair. Both problems are, he said, being studied. Subsequently, a Provincial Health Ministry official stated that, according to statistics, departure of doctors from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan has been a slow and steady trend. It began months before doctors were freed from federal wage and profit controls. The controls ended January 1 for most of the Province’s physicians, but the acceleration in the number of doctors leaving OHIP began as long ago as last May. Virtually all the anaesthetists at the Toronto Western Hospital have apparently opted out of OHIP. Asking if the Minister of Health were aware of this fact, Liberal Leader Stuart Smith questioned the Minister as to the Govern ment’s plans to ensure that people are able to have needed surgery in a public hospital without being forced to pay a surcharge. He also asked if the Minister were prepared to encourage the immediate establishment of capitation medical groups in com munities where patients are unable to obtain medical service at the OHIP rate. Capitation system — Is a payment scheme whereby doctors are paid a fixed annual amount per patient enrolled in their practice. This week, Stuart Smith replied to the Speech from the Throne. He condemned what he referred to as the Government’s attempts to avoid responsibility for the over-building that Ontario Hydro has acknowledged has taken place, and charged that the Corporation’s over expansion in the past few years is the most serious and costly example of mismanagement in the history of this Province. Each year, because of Hydro’s mistaken estimates of future energy demands, commercial and industrial consumers will pay another $74 million. The cost to the average residential con sumer will be at least 3 cents a day. The Government is “trying to work both sides of the street on this issue . . . On the one hand, they say it was a Hydro mistake; on the other hand, they say there was no mistake at all because we need the excess generating capacity for security of supply.” He said the Government cannot .blame Hydro alone, because the Cabinet has approved each phase of Hydro’s building plans. Dr. Smith also stated that foreign-owned companies in this Province should be requiredtohave a majority of Canadians on their boards of directors and to plough profits back into their Canadian operations. He called in the Legislature for a code of behaviour which would force multi-national firms to “act as Canadian companies should act.” He recommended that foreign-controlled subsid iaries: undertake research and development activities in Ontario in cases where the Canadian market is large enough to justify such operations; be permitted by parent companies to buy component parts and service under the most competitive market conditions rather than being locked into purchasing agreements with parent corporations. Both foreign owned and Canadian corporations “should acknowledge their responsibility to the com munities in which they are located and recognize that those communities have a vested interest in ... factories and plants, which cannot be moved or shut down with impunity.” Compliance with the code “would be sought first through the use of moral suasion. 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