HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-04-13, Page 5FINAL WINNERS — A rink skipped by Karen Davison won the final ladies' curling draw at
the Exeter rink, Wednesday. Team members from the left include Mrs. Davison, Pat Down,
Frank Mickle and Hazel Miller. T-A photo
The readers write:Times-Advocate, April 13, 1978 Pago 5
Remember teacher, debate OHIP bill increases
The final draw in the men's curling division was a battle betweenBESTS BROTHER — ' ' w ____„
brothers Gord and Keith Strang, Thursday. Keith won the title with a one-point victory at the
Exeter rink. He's shown on the left with team members Bill Dougall, Don Pearson and Dick
Dougall. T-A photo
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By CINDY DOWN
For the past two and a half
months 16 girls called the
Helpful Healthy Happy
Hookers of Hurondale VI
have met to take part in the
4-H Club Focus on Living.
Mrs. P. Down and Mrs. P.
Baptist lead the club.
The officers are as
follows: president, Jackie
Baptist; vice president,
Cathy Keller; and press
reporter Cindy Down. We
had a rotating secretary.
Mrs. B. Passmore and
Mrs. H. Strang gave up some
of their time to come and
speak to us; Mrs. Strang on
the Tweedsmuir History
Book and Mrs. Passmore on
babysitting.
AU of our meetings were
not regular ones. We held
one on a Saturday back in
Bill Dougall’s bush. We also
took 16 residents of Braemor
Manor to the Exeter Figure
Skating Carnival.
Our achievement day will
be held at South Huron
District High School on April
29. Mothers are invited to the
afternoon program.
Dear Editor:
We have many happy
memories of boyhood days
spent in Exeter in the early
‘twenties, not the least being
our early initiation to lawn
bowling on the Exeter
greens at the tender age of
11 to 12 years I
However, it was in a
different vein we wanted to
write you — we have in our
possession a Bible that was
presented June 26, 1925, to
us for memorization of
scripture by Jean S. Murray,
then a teacher in the Exeter
Public School in Senior IV
grade.
We recall vividly the big
white chart she posted at the
back of her classroom with
all pupils’ names thereon,
and columns awaiting the
“stars” you would receive,
and which she would put on
once you were successfully
able to memorize and recite
by heart, the 12 or 14
passages of Holy Scripture
which headed the columns
on her white chart.
Needless to say at the
time it never occurred to us
the value and the satisfac
tion we would receive down
through the years of that
self-same Bible, and how the
words and passages that we
memorized have stood us in
such good stead down
through the years.
How often we have
thought how great it would
be to be able to say to Jean
Murray personally, what a
contribution she made to our
life! Yet, of course, we know
we can’t, for certainly Jean
must indeed have passed on
many, many years ago.
But, in case there are
relatives, or old-time
friends of Jean S. Murray or
her family, living in the Ex
eter area, we say — “Well
done, good and faithful ser
vant” — thank you for the
immense contribution you
have made to our life.
Richard A, Trumper
78 Warwood Road,
Islington, Ontario
enter the out-patient
department whether it be for
a hangnail or a hangover. A
doctor must be called and
the patient suitably cared for
or legal action could be taken
against the hospital. This is
what our government has
laid down in the Public
Hospital Act and because of
this the rest of us must pay
for the growing number of
malingers who flock to the
Emergency wards on any
whim.
The consequence of these
abuses is a return to the very
situation the federal scheme
of universal health care was
designed to end: a mounting
burden of seemingly endless
increases in OHIP
premiums.
For those guilty of over
utilization and for those
whose premiums must be
paid or subsidized by the
province, the load on the rest
of us becomes onerous and
inequitable.
Federal transport minister
Otto Lang brought in the
principle of “user pay” to
finance airport operations.
The same principle is now
being applied to ships and
shipping companies using
the Canadian Seaway.
Why not adopt a principle
of “abuser pay” in the field
of health services? The
Davis’government refusal to
impose deterrents is ob
viously a political decision.
Instead, it bludgeons too
many of the populace with a
health care bill inflated by
those who beat a path to
doctor* offices, out-patient
departments, and those who
have a strange craving for
all-expense-paid vacations in
hospital beds. Deterrents are
the only effective method of
discouraging excessive
utilization. Those who abuse
the service should pay
highest for the privilege.
Rising health care costs is
probably the most serious
problem facing North
Americans. Whatever the
proper remedy, the answer
does not lie in simply
legislating automatic in
creases in OHIP premiums,
We ve had simply too much
of that, Mr. Davis. All
Ontarians should convey
that message, loud and
clear, to Queen’s Park.
Jocelyn J. Hogg,
RR2,
Zurich, Ontario,
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Local cadets
attend rally
Saturday, April 1, was a day of fun and games for the
Cadets of the Exeter
Christian Reformed Church.
They along with about 200
other Cadets of the Maitland
Valley Council, took part in
the annual Cadet-O-Rama at
the Norwell High School in
Palmerston.
The program consisted of
baton relay, knot-tying
relay, compass relay,
pyramid building and public
speaking. Even though the
Exeter boys did not carry off
any trophies, they gave a
good account of themselves
in all events. Allan
Rooseboom and Derek De
Haan were runners-up in the
public speaking contest.
Another interesting
feature of the Cadet-O-Rama
was the display of crafts and
projects made during the
winter months by the various
clubs and individual cadets.
Caven ladies
hear of success
The thank offering meeting
of the Caven Presbyterian
Church Women was held in
the church school room with
president Mrs. H. Strang
presiding.
Mrs. A. Whilsmith gave
the devotional and musical
numbers by Sandra McLeod
and Heather Meikle were
enjoyed.
Mrs. N. Stanlake in
troduced Mrs. Esther Wright
who chose “Joy” as her
topic. Mrs. Snelgrove gave
the financial report on the
very successful "Take Out
Dinner.”
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To whom it may concern:
The unveiling of the
Ontario Government’s 1978
budget was not’ an event
conducive to loud hosannas.
For most Ontarians, the
most unpalatable feature of
the budget is a further
painful 37 percent increase
in OHIP premiums.
Despite the additional
revenue of $275 million this
latest increase will generate,
the budget statement con
cedes that “the financing of
health costs continues to be
unbalanced.” With the hike
in premiums single persons
will now pay $22 per month
and families $44. For a
family, this means a levy of
$528 annually.
The budget statement says
that deterrent fees were
considered as an alternative
to a general premium in
crease, but ruled out because
“such a policy would deny
access to our high quality
health care system for those
least able to pay.”
The budget statement
ignores completely the root
cause of the problem -- ex
cessive and indiscriminate
use of health services.
Deterrent fees have been
imposed by health
authorities in other parts of
North America to curb these
abuses of the system. British
Columbia has introduced
deterrents. There are in
dications that Manitoba
(where medical and hospital
services are paid out of
general taxation) is moving
closer to some form of
deterrent fees. This type of
restraint works no hardship
on those who do not abuse the
service.
This heavier cost burden
placed upon too many
citizens of the province has
become untenable and
prohibitive. Ontario now has
the highest medical-hospital
premiums in Canada.
Universal health insurance
was instituted by the federal
government in co-operation
with the provinces to rid
Canadians of the fear of
crushing hospital and
medical bills and make
available to all the same
standards of health care.
Unfortunately, the in
troduction of the plan was
also an invitation to abuse it.
Many Canadians who once
simply swallowed an aspirin
to relieve a headache now
reach for the telephone to
dial for an appointment with
the doctor. Access to hospital
beds has become all too easy
for the multiplying number
of neurotics
hyprochondriacs in
midst. And probably
most flagrant abuse of
health system is in
emergency wards of
hospitals. None can legally
be refused care when they
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