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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1981-07-22, Page 8• i• . ' • • • • • I " I . . SHARON J. 1111Bt$ - Editor ' . ANTHONY N, ;JOHNSTONE Advertising sod General Manager PAT LIVINGSTON.. Office "fluor ' t.40.Ate etnorr - itiOetter emu .Comp0000n • 4,1 Business and Editorial Office Telephone 528-2021 Miihng Address PR: Box 400, Lucknow. NOG 2110 • Second Class Mail Registration Numb9r0847 SidoscrIption Otte, $13.30 par pear advs. Sado claim ade, $110 par rat hi advase, ' . U.S.A. aad F.n*, MA per yaar Is advance Sr. it, 1144. and $1.0oldipOp121.00 par year la adv A • • • • • •• • • With inflation running at an all-time high; with justabout everyone in the country jumping mad at government's in- • ability to end the post office strike, with the price of housing right'through the roof and interest rates at •a staggering 21 • percent for most borrowers (— that's the time our membersof parliainent selected to vote themselves a 23 percent raiSe. • Why they bothered to spend a day debating thematter is a mystery — only two or three members voted against the in- crease. • • Of course members of parliament must lite reasonably well paid, otherwise we would be represented only by those who • cannot really make it in the world of business or in the highly -- pais', professions. But 23 percent at a time when government is urging restraint on the general public? Somehow it does seem just a might hypocritical. The prime minister's allowance goes to more than $100 • thousand ayear. The leader of the Opposition will get about $80 thousand. The ordinary nm -of -the mill Member of the House will be in the $50,000bracket, And for each of these, ex • pense .allowances of $14,000 or more, which is not a taxable • portion of their income. Granted, they do have unusual ei- • penses. They must, in most cases, pay for two residences; they must travel frequently between Ottawa and their home constituencies, but $14,000 is pretty 'generous spending •• money. •• Personally, we don't begrudge the increase to those • members who really work at their 'jobs, but we also suspect that there are quite a few who do little more than vete for their own party's motions when the need arises. If tho raise was needed they might have had the good sense to wait until • the people who pay the salaries are a bit less harried than they are in this aggravating summer of 1981.—The Wingharn Advance -Times • A PLACE Vo4 410 , /n • 41 ••• FOR KIDS <et .Jug Band Music . Are yon bored? Are the long summer days stretching. Into eternity? Well, perk up,.bere's an idea that will keep . :you and your friends toughing for hours. Make some jug band' mimic!. Jug band Musk started years ago When people cOuldn't afford to buy real pianos; gUftars, or drumS: Every person in a jug band creates an trinnentfrom things found around the lunise.\ Get a greuP of people together and Make a band. )•• - Many materials formalizing jug band instruments tome from the kitchen -- take a look around and create some. Music makers. An elastic' band around a take tin tan be snapped In rhythm'. Egg beaters sound like the twang of electric guitars. Experiment. • • To make a kazoo, wrap some wax paper around a comb, put it te'your lips„and-huto. Another type 4 kazoo can be made by tutting the bottom out of a, paper cap., covering' the. top with wax paper,(held in place with an elastic band) and *humming On the paper. • Drums areleasy to make. All you .need is a pot, tin, metal bucket, cardboard box anything hollow will do — and something to hit it wfth. Try all kinds of containers 'and see how many different drum sounds you • can mike.' • • You could always put conte dried beans in a pie plate, glue or tape another plate on top Old voila!, you have a tambourine. A. stongs inside ' jar or tin makes another type of tambontine, Cymbals can be, made by banging two pot lids together or hitting a metal pie plate with a spoon. For different notes, fill some. glasses With various levels of water and tap gently with a spoon. • Once you make your instruments, find a few friends, and pick a good song, you can rehearse Ito your. heart's, content Atter a little practise you can put on a show! •.(c) Canada Wide Feature Service's Limited by MacKay Fahlield Tate • • . re art fr•om een's park \ • • • •• •BY: MURRAY EL$110N M.P.P. (IIURON-BRUCE) Sorne important changes have been •projected for the Workmen's Com-• pensation programs, and I felt that the following capsuled analysis of these proposals should be brought to the attention of everyone in the Riding. As a result, I have again •p pa ed ' P k Rep . In the last week of the legislative session, the Minister of Labour ttibled • in the House a White Paper which • proposed major changes to Ontario's system of workmen's compensation These changes -are intended ,to compensate injured workers ,more accurately and fairly for actual in- come loss. • The ldinister's proposals would also • make provision for a more elaborate appeal and review structure to handle • dedsions of the 'Workmen's Com- • pensation Board. These proposed amendments arise from a wideranging review of the existing system which was conducted last year by Harvard University Professor Paul Weiler. In January 1980, PmfeSsor Weiler was asked by. ' the Minister of Labour to undertake a comprehensive review of the current system, of the schedule. of benefits, and the operation of the Workmen's Compensation Board. His report was delivered in November 1980,•and was entitied 'Re -shaping Workers' Compensation for Ontario". It recommended major revisions to the benefit structure and adjudicative system. • The second phase of the enquiry is soon to commence, and Professor Weiler 'wIll be taking a longer -range '0 • • view of the cathpensation problems associated with industrial disease, the advantages and disadvantages of moving to a. universal plan for guaranteeing against loss of Mee g' from personal injuries, whether tork related er net> existing ackniais ative and functional relations between the Workmen's Compensation Board and the Ministry 61 Labour, and other related matter's Included in the White Pap is a proposal for the abolition of automatic • compensation for permanent injury, regardless of actual loss of earnings It is proposed, instead, that an injured worker should be paid a lump sumas compensation for the injury sustained, followed by periodic payments based on any actual wage losses. The maximum lump -sum payment would be equivalent to the .com- pensable •earnings ceiling .0 to • calculate wage4oss benefits. •• • At the present time, there is a fixed, ceiling of 918,500. Under the new proposals, this would be replaced by a ceiling calculated at 250 per cent of the average •industrial wage in Ontario. Last year, such a formula would have. yielded ? $40,000 ceiling. 'The White Paper propoped that the Workmen's Compensation Board should be given the power to discontinue the periodic paynients for wage losses sustained due to per- ntrient injury in the event that an individual refuses to accept work deemed suitable by the Board. As the Minister ci Labour has ex- plained, the Board would need to have this authority in order to ensure that those people who are able to work do redtrees so, even if the worlt involved is not related to their previous occupation. Eliminates rite Meat Clutrt , provised system of a lump sum payment, plus periodic payments based upon aetnal wage los.ses, would eliminate the so-called "meat chart" approach,under which everyone is ,assessed at the sante degree of iln- paininent, ased on the injury itself • rather than on the impact of the injury • upon the individuals' earning • capacity. • Married workers with dependents would . receive hlgher temporary compensation benefits, than single • workers under the new :scheme, since such 'benefits would be based upon 90 • per cent 01 net earnitigs, rather than, the current 75 per. cent of gross ear- nings. • Combined with the $18,500 -ceilhig, the current 75 per cent of gross ear- in'tigs formula yields maximum • benefits of $7,500 a year. •• Employers would be obliged to - maintain fringe benefits for 12 months for injured .• workers receivingtotal disability benefits and would have to • offer • available re-employment to increased ' injured workers or face assessment costs. VVage-loss benefits for permanent• injuries would no longer, be paid until the. worker's 'death, but would be replaced at age 75 with retirement income loss benefits, in an effort to keep compensation more , closely • aligned with actual . incomeloss. • •• '*** • Coverage would also be extended to • domestit employees. •• The $335 million cost of the in - Tum to page 7• By Don. Campbell On their journey back to Richmond Hill, Chippy Chisholm was engrossed in the countryside. •It was his first glimpse of the land north of Lake Ontario. The trees on either side of Yonge Street were already shedding their summer dress. , They drove through a profusion of colour, the horses feet treading soft upon ,a carpet of leaves. , "Tis a bonnie land," Hatnish said, as if to draw Chippy away from his silent thoughts. "The rivers are full of fish, the forest abounds with game and the soil is rich. 'Tit a bonnie land; where a man can start a new life!" "Aye," Chippy agreed. "Tis a right bonnie land." Chippy had no reason to think otherwise. This Canada was a para- dise 'for the exiled people. It offered • freedom from oppression, the right for a man to receive a just reward for his labour and, to the ambitious, the chance of prosperity beyond their wildest dreams. It would, of tourse, take a little time before all the dreams came true - just a little time. But as Chippy saw the signs of the approaching winter upon the land- scape, he realized that he, like the trees, was drawing to the end of life's season. 'Twas a braw land indeed, for those who had the time to start again and his old eyes appreciated all that he •saw. Chippy knew this country offered everything to him except time. No- body can expect to regain that which is already spent. So for Chippy, if the hours of tomorrow were short, he must live agaittin memory of whit had been and sometimes foolishly perhapi, ponder on what might have been. In looking at • yesterday, he would forget the erne)* ties and indignities suffered by the Highland people and see only the •beauty, the pride and the glory which was Scotlind. For "auld ling syne" he would live with the memory Of the purple mountains and the music of the pipes in a Highland jglen. It was already dark when the team toiled into the laneway of Blake's Folly. A yellow light in the barn and the bleating of sheep told Hamish that Neil MacCrimmon was feeding the flock. They drove towards the big house and 'William Blake came out onto the verandah at the sound of their approach. At first he ignored the • "stranger" sitting beside Hamish. "Did you bring my supplies?" he called to Hamish. "Yes Sir, Six gallons like you asked." • Satisfied that his continued comfort was assured, Blake came down the steps 'and peered at Chippy Chisholm in the dine light. " • "I guess you are the man who is taking Bechard's place. You are not a 'Catholic 1 hope?" • Having been assured that Chippy was not a "papist", Blake came nearer to take a closer look at the roan who was going to help !tarnish with the building of Bechard's cabin., He was not impressed with Chippy. "You look mighty old for hard ,4` • work," he said tersely. "But 'it ain't none o' my business. I don't need Catholic neighbours anyhow. It would 4 please me if Bechard never 'got his cabin built!" He laughed. It was .a high pitched laugh, nn doubt induced by inebriation. "By the look o' you mister, he Will never get it build this side o' Judgement ayl" He turned without any further greeting and called out over his Shoulder.. 'Bring those jugs into the house before you put the horses away!" Chippy's introduction to Blake's Folly might have been offensive to weaker hearts, but Chippy had spent a lifetime suffering the abuse of his "bettera". He had felt the lash of men's wrath upon his flesh. The lash of their tongues no longer caused hint PaiPI There was a happy reunion in the MacCrimmon cabin that night and Chippy produced the wherewith -all to toast the health and happiness of all the Friends of Skye. "Your. Mr. Blake may have six gallons of whisky but he no hai the real whisky. This" he said, holding up a familiar shaped bottle 'is the only whiskey fit for a Highlan r. 'Tis the nectar o' the glens. So let's all hae a wee dram and drink tae !tarnish Murdoch." • !famish looked surprised at Chip- py's proposed toast but the old carpenter was far too canny not to have guessed the secret which Hanish had' intended to keep to himself. "Tae Hamish Murdoch, may his fortune forever travel the same road as a lass called Katie MacQueenl"