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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1981-11-04, Page 9NT. Eafatifitthed *VS SHARON J.',DIETZ Editor • , ANTHONY N. JOHNSTONE - Advertising,stid General Manager PAT LIVINGSTON •"0ffig! Manager • MERLE:ELLIOTT - Typesetter •- JOAN HELM - compositioo. Lucknow Senthml, Wednesday, NoVIIII‘Or 4, 1981--1iage 6 Business and 'Editorial Office Telephone 528,2822 .1 Mailing Address P.Q. Box 400. Lucknow. NOG 2H0 Second Class Mail Registration Number -0847 -Solbscr!poom1114eill4.50 per year Im advoinci sailer 01111111810, MOO Per year hi Oval= U.S.A. apdFarifips,I23.00per year la advisee Sr. Cf, U.S.A. and Faselim#1.00 per year In advance . Sunday nights in Lucknow aren't going to be the same this 'winter without the Lancers playing their home games at the Lucknow Arena. The team and management decided to fold the club last week, due ..to several circumstances beyond their control. The club couldn't guarantee they would have six Lucknow resident '''players on their bench for every game this season an4 that's a'guarantee the Ontario Hockey Association wants before. you begin the sas°11- _The club also found it .difficidt to make its commitments to 011A when they Couldn't really get their team organized before the kb goes in in ILudinow. Most other towns have ice by October and know what their team will be weeks before the Lancers have ice. This situation alsobampers the team in getting Off to a good start. They must practice out of town to have a ' chance at being competitive and ice is difficult to get in Other arenas. It also costs money, Lancer Coach Tom Hill says it costs the Lancers $500 to, practice out of town before the ice goes in Lucknow and multiply that by three teams; because the juveniles and midgets are also practicing out of town, and it starts to add up. The Lucknow 'Arena Board should seriously weigh the reasons for delaying I.ucknow's arena season until November. The usual reason is that it costs too much- to put the ice in sooner, yet this year the weather was warmer die week the ice went in than it had been the first week of All Lucknow Minor Hockey Association teams begin their seasons without sufficient practices -before their game schedules begin, and they face teams who have been practicing for a month because their arenas have ice the beginning of October. - The Arena Board should look again at the money spent by Lucknow teams to rent ice out of town and see how it compares to the costs of putting ice intotucknow a r°nth • • earlier. , Ice wasn't the Lancers' only problem. They have lost several players this season.for various reasons. Some have chosen to retire, others are seeking employment in the western provinces and the club did not pick up any new players from the Lucknow Juvenile team last year. Caleb Hill and manager, Kevin Austin worked hard to build the Lancers into a competitive hockey club and they • moved from bottom place in their league to the position of . ,layoff contenders within the last two years. The quality of hockey and the calibre of players has improved along the way and the style of hockey has changed from the "knock 'em down, drag 'em out brawls" some games became. The Lancers have given the Lucknow fans some great hockey excitement and it has been rewarding to see the team become championship contenders. Their fans supported them all theway and t.hey will miss the action on Sunday nights. EsPecially the contest between. Goderich and Lucknow which Coach Hill referred to as a "good risairY The Lancers will be missed and it doesn't look bright for the future possibility of ever having an OHA Intermediate ' team in the town again. Sunday nights just aren't going to ' be the ssune. 1.1 Ban teenagers' night driving? A community concerned about a rash of car accidents, involving teenagers as this community is, might be interested in a suggestion from California. Out there an insurance research group has suggested that teenagers be allowed to drive only in daylight hours. That, the researchers say, will save lives. it °points to the fact that nearly 50 per cent of deaths of Americans aged 16 to 19 are caused by traffic accidents. And more than half the accidents occur at night, with drinking, especially among males. , a major cause. • While we realize the idea is controversial, especially with teenagers who'll have visions of their social lives being seriously curtailed, if it'll save lives we say it's worth considering. And so is another point the researchers suggest raising the legal drinking age to 21 and driving age to 18. We're not so sure about a third recommendation, a suggestion that driver education programs in high schools be abolished. Come on now, you say? Well the California researchers reason that driver ed promotes the licencing of more 16- andll-year-olds and as a result increase the chances of a teen being involved in a traffic accident. We'd say driver ed also puts better teenager drivers on the road, but perhaps even that criticism is worth considering. What do you think? - •The Seaforth Huron Expositor ;4.4,4 w -T , • 4. '1,P1 1.1.11111111t it VP%g4C1 1444140A one foot In the furrow . by.1,01:o *orb:otter' : • • boards with supply management powow are coming from all dime- • A few months ago, it ivas a specud committee of the Economic Council of Canada. Before that, it was the Fraser Institute. Before that, it was the consumers association. Now, cOmes the Grocery Products Manufacturers of Canada, the GPMC. An investigative task force, sponsored of course, by the manufacturers, is saying that supply management farm marketing boards are adding "at least $1 billion a year to the Canadian food hill." • ' These boards are said to have had "._.`by far the greatest impa4 " on the Canadian food system of any federal or provincial government policy. -- They are costing Canadian families $10 a year more for' • iler chickens, a total of $76,500,000, an additional $7 a family for eggs or a total of 855,800,000 annually. Not only do the boards gouge con- sumers, but they are by far the greatest threat to Canada's food future because they cause a rising tide of imported food and an inability by Canadian farmers and processors to expand their markets. • The clincher conies deep . on the third page of the release castigating marketing boards. The spokesman for the group, George Fleischman, says the manufacturers are concerned that the food and beverage industry "may reditrees be unable to continue to provide food at present favorable price levels." Get ready for some drastic in- creases in the price of food. You are being softened up for the big blow and the manufacturers need a convenient patsy, a fall guy, a scapegoat so they are blaming marketing boards. This column has consistently sup- ported farm ,marketing boards, even supply management boards. I have also castigated those same boards for mistakes but I am convinced those boards are still the farmers' best friend. Without them, organizations such I, as the Grocery Products Mambo- • turas of Canada and the huge multi- national corporations would have con- trol of the_ food chain from the ground t,o the table. They do control it now after it leaves the farm gate. Farmers have no clout at all without these boards. Do Canadians want to put all but a handful of cotporate farms off the land? Do we want to rain rural Canada as we know it today? think the grocery manufacturers kill their arguinent against farm marketing boards when they mention, also deep down in the news release, • that Canadians spend only 17.5 per cent it their disposable income on food. It is the lowest per cent of any nation in the world. . Can there be that much wrong with inarketing boards, even supply management boards, when we are that fortunate? Profits in the food industry, says the GPMC, have dropped from 2.59 cents per dollar of sales in 1978 to 2.36 cents last year. But the release, says nothing about the tremendous increase in. farm bankruptcies. It is worthwhile to note that the products which have supply management marketing boards are in much better condition than those which have not. The beef sector has shunned any kind of board for 25 years and they are the people who, are hurting so much now. More than 50 per cent of thefarm bankruptcies are beef farmers or within the beef chain. Hog farmers, too, are suffering and they have, up until now, shunned the idea of supply management. • No, Mr. Fleischmaiu4 I'm not con- vinced that these boards are the devils in the food chain. I do not believe they are gouging the public to the tune of $1 billion. I think they are a group of honest men simply trying to supply the Canadian public with good food when the people want it at a price that gives them a reasonable return on their labor and briestment. Unfortunately, too many of them „ are riot getting those returns -and't -A some of the reason for those poor prices rests squarely on the shoulders of lobby groups such as the Grocery Products Manufacturers of Canada. by don osampbell In the pioneer cemeteries across Canada, a large percentage of the gravestones bear testimony to the fact that so many young women and babies died during, or shortly after child- birth. There were many factors which were • attributed to • such deaths. Primitive conditions, the lack of pro- fessional Medial attention, but per- haps • the most tragic • cause, the absence of cleanliness and sterile procedures. • In the early years of Canada, the idea of infecfion being connected with unscrubbed hands was almost un- thinkable. Doctor Cameron was one of the very few medical practitioners who • believed that absolute cleanliness was essential in all of his operations and yet: it was from a premonition rather than from any proof of certainty,. that he practiced sterilization of hands and instruments. When the Reverend Duncan Mac- Leod rode into Blake's Folly shortly 'before Flora MacCrimmon was to give birth to her first child, he brought some written instructions which were • to be relayed to the, person who would attend Flora in hei hour of need. The • minister made these known to Neil MacCrimmon. "Don't ask me why, MacCrimmon. I'm not a medical man. Take heed of the instructions Doctor c ameron has asked me to deliver. The midwife who attends Flora must trim her nails and • scrub her hands until there is not a • single trace,. of any dirt remaining. She is to pour whiskey over her hands and arms before she touches Flora. All water that is to be used must first be $04414/114101. 40; AAV • I 13 0 0.1. V P. 0* 4. • • * Ottlf • a .1 .6,1 • VOA 44444. •• •• OV •4•444. V • v•V,•I ,rX4 4 "4 boiled, and the linen freshly washed clean." . He gave Neil a small bottle and added: "hiside this container, also immersed in whiskey, is the means by which the umbilical cords is to be tied, on either side of the placd where it is to be severed. • It was about this time that William Blake decided to pay 'a short visit to his native Georgia. He gave Neil some final instructions before he departed. One of the tasks was to take some old ewes to the market at Lansing. The market was held in the morning and Neil set off with six old sheep held within a temporary enclosure upan the wagon. • It was scarcely light when he left the cabin, and being concerned about his wife, he told her to make sure and have Hamish Murdoch fetch Maria in the event that she felt any pains • during his °absence. He told her he would return before dark. It was a warm day. Flora. sat in the shade of a tree by the cabin, sewing one of the many small garments she had prepared for her child. When she looked up from her task, she saw little Annie MacQueen skipping happily towards her. "We're all awa' the noo, Auntie Flora," Annie said excitedly. "Mr. Murdoch - my father I should be meaning to say - he has received money front Mr. Bechard in Quebec, and we are awa' to buy a new dress for the and shoes for Teddy. My mother wants to know if you will be needing • anything from the general store?" "Thank you," Flora said, and then realizing' she would be all alone with no other neighbour she could call upon in case of emergency, she asked: 'will you be gone long?" "Och aye," the girl said. "We are going to make the day of it. There is some sort of a fair, 1 understand. 1 have never been to a fair before." She • smiled happily. "It's all so very exciting!" Aline MacQueen ran off just as quickly as she came, and called back over her should as she disappeared in the trees. It will be a beautiful day, • and 1 shall have a new dress, and maybe ribbons too! 1 shall put them on • and let you see them tomorrow!" It was shortly before noon when Flora began to feel the pains of child- birth. At first she told.herself she must be mistaken. There were* many' rea- sons for pains in the abdomen and not necessarily connected with the coming of her child. Perhaps it was the heat of the day, but she began to feel faint and slowly made her way into the cabin. • She took a scoop of water from the drinking, bucket and sipped it slowly while she considered her course of action. There was nothing she could do but wait consoling herself with the fact that the first child is often a long time in making its appearance, but the pains i,eared and disappeared with consistent regularity. Flora had no doubt she was nearing her time. When she could no longer sit, she • lay upon the rough bed. Filled with fear and apprehension, Flora Mac- Crimmon prayed.