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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1974
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"Sugar and Spice
By Bill Smiley
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Huron County Council members are alarmed
enough about recommendations from a recent
provincial task force on health that they held a
special session on Monday.
What is County Council so excited about?
Basically they object to the Provincial Department of
Health's dropping copies of the far reaching
controversial report into their laps at the beginning
of July and asking for responses to it by September
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Now Huron County Council does not normally
meet at all during the summer. Therefore the
Minister of Health's . request for "close
examination': and "wide discussion" of the report
seems a bit of pie in the sky.
Perhaps Health Minist er Frank Miller does not
know that most rural County Councils have a habit of
taking summer recesses. The more suspicious of
those among us might even dare to suggest that the
minister does indeed know of this habit and that the
report was released after the recess had begun and
comments requested before ,it had ended just to
minimize critical public discussion and wrangling
over the suggested health care changes.
At their special session on Monday Huron County
Council joined many other area municipalities,
health units and hospitals in objecting to many of the
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Vandalism
The amount of vandalism in the area in recent
weeks has hit an alarming rate and indicates that
some idiotic characters are loose in the community.
Obviously, editorials decrying such acts of
vandalism do little to correct the situation if they are
aimed at the source, because most of the
perpetrators are not the type usually interested in
gleaning through editorial pages to consider
comment on topics of interest.
They're dull people who have little interest in their
communities and an apparent lack of comprehension
of the problems they create for their victims.
However, some of their antics can be curtailed if
those who are interested in their communities
become more diligent and determined to aid law
enforcement officers in nabbing vandals.
Private citizens need not fear repercussions from
tipping off the police if they see or hear of any
vandalism. Police do not divulge the names of these
interested and concerned citizens to anyone.
While many people have the unfortunate attitude
of not wanting to "get involved", it is rather obvious
that their own interests are being served when they
do become involved.
In the long run, they are the ones who are being
victimized by vandals as much as those directly
involved. Public property that is damaged is a loss of
tax monies and when private individuals are the -
victims, their losses have to be turned over to
consumers in higher prices. Even when insurance
companies have to foot the bills for damage, that cost
is shared by others in the form of higher insurance
rates.
In short, acts of vandalism affect us all and it
therefore behooves all of us to take whatever steps
we can to alleviate the problems and the associated
costs involved.
Be a good citizen and let's work together to rid our
community of these pests.
(Exeter Times Advocate)
Summer reflections: some good, some
bad. First we'll give the good news, then
the bad, as the current crud goes. if you
don't know what crud means, ask your
family doctor. Or somebody else's family
doctor, if you don't trust your own.
A family doctor is someone in the family.
That means you try to get everything for
free. So if he tells you that you have little
headache once in a while, take an aspirin,
relax, you know you have a monumental
brain tumour.
On the other hand, if you take somebody
else's family doctor, beware. He'll
probably tell you that you have a possible
brain tumour, that you should relax, and
take plenty of aspirin.
Well, 1 hope that takes care of that. 1
didn't really mean to get onto doctors.
Grand chaps, actually.
But I have a lingering resentment
against a R.A.F. doctor who insisted on
giving me my annual anti-tetanus shot (a
dirty great injection in your shoulder) the
night of our passing-out party, from a
training course on Spitfires.
I told him I had a bad back, a wrenched
knee, a toothache, phlebitis, and
pneumonia.
He said, "Jolly good", and sank an
elephant needle into my shoulder.
1 had the satisfaction of seeing him
stunned by a coffee cup hurled from behind
the piano. It was thrown by our C.O., who,
despite the fact that he'd had his pants
pulled off and beer poured liberally over
his lower torso, was still Very much alive.
And a moment later, 1 had the
satisfaction of seeing the C.O. caught right
between the eyes by a dinner-plate flung
by a New Zealander who said, "Whizzo"
when he saw the Commanding, officer fall
to his knees, trouserless.
This was in the good old days, when it
was More or less expected that you'd
smash tip the mess befote you graduated.
It wasn't vandalism, in the modern
sense. You had to pay for everything you
broke,, and you took full responsibility for
what you'd done.
It was a wild, free, careening sense of
destruction, perhaps based on the sense
that you were destructible and were going
to be destructed. Perhaps that is what
makes young people tick today. if they tick.
Some of them don't even seem to be wound
up, let alone tick.
As usual, I've gone far from my theme.
The good news and then the bad news. It's
like a Newfie or Polish joke, both of which I
despise.
Good news? lt's not raining; the town
engineer is not going to cut down 31 maple
trees until he tries again next year. My
grandbaby is a little devil. One of my
students wants to come around and talk,
My wife called me "Dear" today. MY
bursitis is not hurting too much. There's a
rose bed in the backyard which hasn't
produced a rose in three years, but this
summer has a fine touch of green (three
baby elms). I don't have a heart condition,
though I'm not sure about my liver. The
electric storm last night didn't hit my oaks.
Thepluounitboefr his garden.
bag of fresh
beans
Bad news? My grandbaby is a devil. He
and his mother are living in a dome (no
lights, no water, no electricity, no toilet). I
left an $8.95 library book out on one of the
lawn chairs yesterday and it rained all
night. There's a nest of yellowjackets up in
the roof and the roofer will quit, after he's
taken half the shingles off. Two stings will
do it. The boys who are going to do the
painting will all haVe fallen off a ladder and
ready
brok to enthegio. armsright by the time they're
has
M ayn tne sdt tree .s ms has fteheh amsuamtopns.gaMy e. mdoycetort
is heterosexual. My daughter is cheerful.'
mMaykesoan toisticchhoeerful. (Thisis bad news
so far.
it teams they are both going to
All in all, it's a pretty average summer;