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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1976-05-12, Page 11Wingham Memorial Shop QUALITY SERVICE CRAFTMANSHIP Open Every Weekday Your Guarantee for Over 35 Years of CEMETERY LETTERING Box 158, WINGHAM JOHN MALLICK BAR B-QUE TIME *Rotisserie Habatchi 4( Charcoal Briquettes * Accessories OLDFIELD'S PRO HARDWARE BRUSSELS 887-6851 WHITE BEAN GROWERS --- Time to think of your PLANTING NEEDS Seafarer Sanilac and Kentwood SEED BEANS are available EPTAM And PATORAN are in plentiful supply at COMPETITIVE PRICES All other weed control chemicals available on short notice Ontario Bean Growers Co-Operative plant at Seaforth ORDER NOW Phone 345-2007 ONTARIO BEAN GROWERS vr CO-OPERATIVE y Two locations LONDON SEAFORTH THE BRUSSELS POSTi, MAY 12'i 1976' 6.41 ng Assoc, hears Cutting research is wrong Canada is "sponging off the ternational community" by cnefitting from medical. research done in other countries while pending less than one per cent of ur health care dollars on esearch, lung disease researcher r. Michael New house charged. t the annual meeting of .the uron Perth Lung Association in eaforth Wednesday night, Dr. Newhouse, who is director f the respiratory disease unit at t. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton old m:re than 100 members of ic Association • that medical esearch isn't a high priority with ie federal gaovernment. The doctor apologized for aking a "political" speech but rgcd his audience to protest utbacks and freezes in research oney with letters to the Prime Mister, to Health Minister Marc Lalonde and local MPs, It costs Canada ab. out $250,000 o train a good medical scientist, and once trained researchers flen leave for jobs in the United tales where they have Job security, he said. Cigarettes are 30 or 40 times as. dangerous as industrial pollution Newhouse said as he urged he lung organization to keep up heir fight against smoking. A. noker who breathes Seaforth's lean air is worse off than a lion-smoker who works every day in Hamilton's coke ovens, he tid. His group is looking for ways to cep asbestos particles out of the ungs and to fight other industrial' iscases, Dr. Newhouse said. ther research allovVs doctors to elect lung damage before the atient feels at all impaired. "We can detect abnormalties early and yarn people to stop smoking," r. Newhouse said. "But usually hey don't stop,. they say 'no I feel me." Researchers have discovered Attend Arthritis Soc. meeting Mrs. Cal Krauter, Mrs.Jim ohnston, Mrs Ross McCall, ttended the Annual Region Meeting of The Arthritis Society old at the Walkerton Golf and ountry Club this past weekend, here over 75 volunteers athered from Western Ontario. r. Manfred Harth, Director of he rheumatic Diseases Unit of he University Hospital, London, as guest medical speaker. Dr. irth told of the advancements sing made in the medical esearch of arthritis, with the ociety awarding a record 1,000,000 in research and ducation grants in 1975 in the rovince of Ontario. Miss atherine McKeen, Owen Sound President, outlined the 'C.A.R.S. Special" which will be ld on May 29th, telecast by KNX, Wingham, where a goal of $18,000 has been set for a pecific research project: Ross Morrison, Executive Director of the Ontario Division, itli ncd the changes recently ade in Region boundaries, and a etc. was taken on names ubmitted by the volunteers for he new Region, which covers the Counties of Grey, Bruce Perth, Dufferin, and North ellington, resulting in a new egion now to be known as the 4111 tiewater" Region: It was announced that Mrs. argent of Owen Sound was Ppointed as Regional Chairman, ho will be a representative leathe r of the Ontario Division eard of directors. The Meeting concluded'with an isPiring challenge to the olutitcers by Mr.CraWford °t'glas, Grey-Bruce M.P. to Poke oh "Being a • Good that aerosols that asthmatics use are 50 times more effective if they are breathed in slowly and quietly for two minutes rather than. breathed in quickly, Dr, Newhouse said. Research has saved millions by finding that expensive positive pressure machines once used to deliver aerosols. don't make them much more effective, he told the Association. Pointing to highland daticer Janet LemMon of Stratord who entertained at the dinner meeting and had a spell of coughing after her dance Dr. Newhouse said highland dancing could perhaps be introduced as another Association project. People who get a lot of exercise can clear their lungs better.than others, he said, Seaforth dancer Angela Andreassi also entertained at the meeting which was chaired by HPLA president Eileen O'Brien of Stratford. The group's executive council was returned for• a second one year term. • Perth County Warden Ed Doerr told. the group that his county council had banned smoking at council meetings. Huron's Warden, Jack McCutcheon brought greetings from his county Honorary treasurer H. W. Bartman of Stratford said the group's bank balance of $17,721.11 should be closer to $38,000 to start the 1976 financial year. Christmas seal contri- butions were down 2.8 per cent in 1975 to $38,351.55. The mail strike interupted the campaign. The Association spent just over $14,000 on education; $4,557.02 on rehabilitation and social services; $2,388.13 on adminis- tration and gave more than $4000 each to the Canadian and Ontario TB associations.. Lung Association vice president David Schenck of Seaforth presented a gift to retiring. executive council member Art Goodwin of Stratford. Ralph Goren of Stratford who also retired was unable to be present.