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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1962-01-24, Page 21'nO Two The Wing:ban Advance-irh les, We.,dnesciay, i.Tani 24, 1902 STATE 1 EDI.0NE JI GOOD OR BAD? Periodically the subject of state medicine arises. It has, of course, been established in Saskatchewan and the New Democratic Party would like to extend it to the entire Dominion of Canada. We can see very few sound rea- sons for having our doctors paid by the state rather than by their own patients. The strongest reason of all to retain the present free enter- prise system of medical care is that history has proven it more efficient than state control. Look for your- self at any of our present services which are operated by government if you doubt the validity of our claim that open competition produces bet- ter goods and more efficient services. Though state medicine is work- ing with reasonable success in Sas- katchewan at present, the tale is far from told. We wonder what the sit- uation will be 20 years hence. when the present practitioners, who have their homes and families in the West- ern province, have died or retired. Given an opportunity to practice under a free enterprise sl•stem else- where, will younger, doctors choose the compulsions of state employ- ment? The NDP says yes. Some of the doctors say yes. The public simply doesn't know. The great fear on the part of the average citizen is that under state medicine the important personal re- lationship between the doctor and his patient would be forever lost. The vision arises of a situation in which sick people are merely assigned to the first medical man available .. . that medical treatment might be par - ME FIRST --AND LAST Last week we read newspaper re- ports of the indignant protests from those cities and towns close to the route of Highway 401, across the southwestern section of the province, from London to Windsor. Their beefs arose from the announcement that a series of service centres would he constructed along the thruway. It is hard to believe that such short-sightedness could exist in com- munities so apparently progressive. T..ast summer it was our personal pleasure to drive the New York thru- way from Buffalo to Albany. That highway is similar in all respects to our own 401—with one exception. Every 25 or 30 miles there is a ser- vice centre, including gas' and repair facilities for the car, rest rooms for the wife and family, restaurant for those who are hungry. Two or three miles in advance of the centres are signs stating how many miles you will have to drive to find the next one --so the motorist has ample time to judge his fuel supply and his fa- mily's resistance to the wear and tear of the trip. The N.Y. Thruway, with its well planned facilities, adds so much to the comfort and convenience of a long drive that many Canadian mot- orists are using it --to the detriment of Canadian businesses on the paral- lel route in this country. Surely the businessmen of Chat- }lain, St. Thomas and the other plac- es in the same area should be able to see that more travellers on 401 svill eventually benefit them, wheth- er or not they are forced to turn oft the turnpike and search for their gasoline in off -the -highway towns and cities. The Wingham Advance=Times Published at Wingham, Ontario Wenger Bros. Limited W. Barry Wenger, President Robert O. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer Ntenil'ler Audit Bureau of Circulation Authorized by the Post Office Department as Second class Mail and for payment of postage in cash Subscription Rates )Pe %rear, $4 00;. Six: Months, $2'25, in adirance C.S.A. ,$5.00 per year; Foreign rate $5.190 per year Advertising Rates on application celled out like groceries in a super- market. We cannot speak with sound knowledge of the city areas, but in our own locality Wt." (1() know that the doctors provide not only satis :Factory service for their patients— but in hundreds of instances their work is of a plot dedicated and un- selfish nature. They never refuse to see or at least listen to a patient, day or night. They will travel in the worst of wea- ther when the need arises. Though they never talk about it, there is no doubt that their services and skill are as freely available to the poor patient as to the well-to-do family. Doctors' fees are high --but no higher in proportion than the price of cars, or shoes or groceries. If you .fear the spectre of crippling medical bills you can provide yourself with medical insurance—and by doing so accomplish just as much as state medicine promises, for under that plan you simply pay some additional taxes every year as installments on your doctor's bill. It is true that some services in Canada must be government con- trolled, but we don't believe our doc- tors belong on that list. WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES Regina, Sask., Jan. 19—No need to tell you this is a big country. It stretches a long way from east to west and north to south. We learn- ed all that in school. Sometimes, however, it takes more than a mileage map to impress the facts of Canada's dimensions. We are getting ours the hard way. Last night (Thursday) we board- ed an aircraft at Malton—quite jaun- ty in the typical Ontario -style felt hat, which was quite all right he - cause the temperature was a respect- able 22 above. Two hours and 15 minutes later we stepped out at Win- nipeg to experience a slight change. The temperature was 22 below. The felt hat wasn't very effective. Tonight (friday) there was a re- peat performance. With overcoat collar around tender ears we clashed for another plane and one hour and 15 minutes later tried a shallow breath of air at Regina. It was now 29 below. . With a 25 or 30 mile -an - hour le an - hour wind, the overcoat seemed about as comforting as a nylon bath- ing suit. They admit they're having a cold snap out here—hut they are reassur- ing about the situation. It seems we are so lucky we didn't have to travel in the West last week. They say it got really crisp. The low for the week was a nippy 42 --below, that is. The warm reception we received from newspaper friends in both Win- nipeg and Regina dicthelp to warm us when we finally got inside, but at best Was meagre compensation for the left ear we dropped on Portage Avenue. Incidentally, we're heading back for tropical Southern Ontario Sun- day morning. P.S.----Arrived Toronto on sched- ule. Fought rain, sleet, some snow and 125 miles of slippery roads all the wav honie. Let's go to Moricla. k Mr. Roharts has made a few sug- gestions that he may have some an- nouncements in regard to picking some of the thorns out of the sales tax problem. 1 -Te can rest assured there will be an attentive audience for his remarks on the subiect when the time comes. etat- il,!(iliil;u �1ri.ill��i''' c •"•',"!�!M�T�flItPI111115!Illi!C3hf(�Ilifll3llfllllllh1111.3iflflllllfliili6Cf Ii I'11Gt9hIICl'li(tlD SUGAR and SPICE By Bill Smiley mom There:- 'rn,t,•lLit::; c:ruesonle in the inte•rr•r.1 everyone }las these days in tiling ar,nihitated. Some people ate so sie.',riii 1 1Zi "he wit.ae bitshtc•sa tll:tt I .-'0,1.:11' tiny 11 M. disappoint,+1 :t no ,,,a,ti, t,l.11. r%L. jut 1inine'd it aiii.se, a tide of grade 12 e;, ;:o„ . ,alere titan a third of theist di alt ::ttu s trio ea poet of 11ue1e;tr iNarfore. 11 then kids know hall :t:. r,ni,•t, about Re, subjects on their ,•our:.• ..1, they do about taaiatiiie Lahore, ther,'tl be no stopping them. They are morbidly 1nteie:t:•d in the monster;; to he ort:t' -t by mu. talons among lhe post atone generations. They talk casually about the dosage of s, medium 91) and iodine to he relta:.e,i by the bombs. 0-0-0 They are fascinated by fallout shelters, and writt long and fright. ening lists of the equipme•at they should contain, One lad, as Mee a teenager as you'd come across, warned, in all seriousness, that shelter supplies should include a gun, for the purpose (if mowing down any outsider who tried to join the inmates. You can't blame the youngsters. Listen to the eonve-rsation next time you're out playing bridge, or drinking beer, or whatever you do at your parties. That plump, gentle wife and mother at tin next tabu will be reeling off the number of millions who \gill he killed in the first attack. That portly, jovial church warden across from you will be saying that we ought to drop it before they do. I'ni not frightened by all this. I'rn bored. I'm sick to death of un- informed prattle about world pole tics from the people who. think Marx is a TV comedian. I've ltaci quite enough half-baked lectures on nuclear fallout fro. i people who couldn't even combine hydro- gen. and sulphur and teem. up with a stink bomb. What I can't understand is why everybody's so concerned. 'Why do we sit around Iiia. so r.u.ny ghouls at a garden party, licking our lips over the horrors to come? Are we scared or something? You'd think. nobody had Beer been killed he. fore, violently and painfully. You'd think no other eivilizet.ion had ever perish. -d hero: e. Surely you're not Werrieal about leaving this worldsuddenly, jack?k? Why, till I've• ever heard you do is complain. Rosiness is terrible. Your wife rias;:;. Your luenorrhoeli are acting up. You t tn't. do a thing; with your kid:;, Thr• governmct,i's taxing ,you to death, The soli it ruining- the body (if your el.. Yon ret are working too bred You h::ven't thrown a decent rook in the last. two honspieIs. I'd think you'd he glad to be out of tt.:Lll. n-0-il What's that? You don't want to die? Life is stvuet and warm and beautiful and you love your wife and kids and business is picking up and your bottom's better met the government could be worr'e and the old car's batt it. anyway eel( you like work and you just c tort for the Inn of it ? Well, why didn't you say so? And what about you, Ethel? l? You haven't stripped moaning sines you were married. You've nothing. to wear. Nobody apprecialesi you. The furniture is shabby, Those kids are driving you crazy, .Tat•k's never home at nights. You're a nervous wreck, The house isn't nearly as nice as Mabel and George's. You're losing your looks. And the church is always after you to hake pies. I'd think you'd be happy to abdicate, ilow's that again? You wouldn't ti'a.d.e the whole sordid Ines for tt mink coat, a model's limits and fi gure, a mansion with servants, as long as you ('alt stick around for a few years? Stop wh.inning, then, Enjoy, while you're still with us. ite•ally. I don't see what we're all so alarmed about. For the Dar 1litihl118 among to, nrlalear war will be an interesting application .,r the theory :of survival of the titltst. Jt"or the 11nregen)'ate sin. ter, there's still time to do some- thing about it. And for the rest of ,Is good Christians, it will merely nee.411 that we all get to heaven that much sootier. Ttspeetaily its Anglicans, 0-0-0 Personally, if thisi s any conso- lation t so- tattut t( you,haven't the slight- est intention of digging 0. hole in the ground and crouching there with my family, like four terrified moles, 10 the first place, it's not a dignified way to meet death, should it come. In the second place, I have Netter things; to do. And in the third place, I fully intend to live to the age of 'Q0 and expire peacefully in my own bed, my last conscious act being ` to pinch my special nurse, IT this in- terferes with the plans of either l' hrushclwv or Kennedy, they're just going to have to change their plans. 1 l Sr JACK EEINSON >S U.C.ik PRESIDENT (Late for last week) LAICELIt1r-- The first meeting of the new organization of the Mc- [ntosh United Church Women was held on Thursday afternoon in the ehurch basement. '1'he meeting was opened by Mrs. Bert Wylie, past president of the W.A. and the singing of a hymn. The pall to worship was given Mrs. Bert Wylie by reading Scripture. Scripture reading was also given by Mrs, John White, fol. lowed by the devotional reading. :vtrs, Gordon, Wright presented a reading, "A Statement of Faith" A hymn was followed by the roll call, which was "Ideas for .1962 Programs" and payment of fees. Mrs. Eldon Renwick gave a read- ing, "Missions of the. Future". The election of officers for the new organization provided the following slate: Pres., Mrs. .Tack Ferguson; vice -pros., Mrs. Eldon Renwick; see., Mrs, Alan Darling; treas., Mrs. Bruce Harkness; cor- responding sec„ Mrs. Ivan Has- kins. Conveners of committees are: Stewardship, Christian education and missionary education, Mrs. L. Harper; community friendship and flowers, Mrs, .Tack Inglis; fin- ance, Mrs, Bruce Harkness; liter- ature and communiea.tions, Mrs. Clark; Renwick; membership and Wright;visitation, M'rs. Gordon\lig , manse, Mrs. John White; program, Mrs. Harvey Wright; social func- tions, Mrs. Bert Wylie; press and publicity,Mrs Gordon Wright. t Tlie meeting was closed • and lunch was served by the commit- tee in charge, A. congregational inaugural service of the United Church Women will be hold the last Sunday in January when the officers of the new organization will he received. LAKELET (Late for last week) Mr. and Mrs. Paul Knudsen of Toronto spent the week -end with Mr, and Mrs, William Smith. Mr, Laverne Wehner of Wilton Grove spent the weekrcnd with Mr. and Mrs. Don Webber. The young folks of the communi- ty are enjoying skating on the good leo these days. Mr, Carl Dennis is presently em- ployed with Mr. Cee.il Ellis, of Cliffotli. FRANK THOMPSON, chairman of the Wingham District High School Board, f ; shown handing a school football crest to Don McDowell during the banquet for the championship.team banquet last week---A7r photo. BRUSSELS REEVE IS ELECTED WARDEN Highlight of the inaugural ses- sion of county council on Tucs- day of 1(181 week was the election of 39 year old (,corgc Me(lliteheon, of Brussels, 08 warden, He Was chosen through ballots of the 36 reeves and deputy -reeves of "Huron, who make up ('onlay council, ft Is the first. time in 26 years that the village of Brussels has been tore sente,:i 111 the wardensitlp. Roy Adair, of Wingham., Valen- tine Becker, of Dashwood, Harvey Coleman, of Varna, Cler('nce Tran na, of East Wawanosh and Mr. Me- ('nIebeoll were the contenders for the wardcnship. Flit'st %Iranian Councillor Me y, D. D. Mooney, deputy -reeve of (i•oderieh, is ncW to the coun- eil and is the first woman to sit on county council In the history of Huron. She has been on the (aoderieh town council for foul' years. The various committees were formed on Wednesday, Roy Adair of Wingham teas appointed.to fin. ance, warden's ane a rie. 1 ore committees and Joe Kerr. of Wing. barn will sit on the roads commit- tee. Other committee members from this area are: Robert Gibson, of Howick; executive and library; Ivan Haskins, Howicic, legislative, property and Children's Aid; Thos, Howard, ' Ashfield, legislative and equalization; Harvey Culbert, West Wawanosh, reforestation, airport and Emergency Measures; A. D. Smith, Turnberry,- property, his- toric, warden's and consultative; Stewart Procter, Morris, Children's Aid and agriculture; Donald Mc- Keniie, Ashfield, agriculture and warden's committees and Clarence Hanna, East Wawanosh, property and consultative. Voted Down The proposed construction of a second county building, recom- mended by a council building committee to relieve overcrowding at the court house, was voted down 29.7. Most members of the coun- cil felt the. county .finances did not warrant the $256,000 expenditure at this time. Reeve Melvin Crich pointed out that Clinton Public Hospital will have to he expanded next year and costs for horrpital. buildings are high. He and other county reeves were opposed to increases in taxes which squelched the proposal of the committee to raise money for the new county building by an addi- tional one mill on the tax ra.t.e. I'•olio-free Year The County. Health Univ report- ed 1961 a polio -free year. The. last case occurred in 1957 and the last death recorded from this cause Was in 1953 when there, were two fatalities, •Since the introduction of Salk -type vaccine in Huron- in 1955 the Health Unit has a.dnlinist- ered 9,1,000 doses, but a recent de. cline in the demand for it8 use by adults is cause for some alarm. Animal rabies rose again hi 1961 with 31 animals found positive. Twenty-seven humans took the 14 -dose treatment following ex.. posuredThere to the disease. are increasing requests for nurses to visit cancer patients and the met- er adults. Tile Unit lacks a re- gular bedside nursing program, but is encouraged by its growth in neighboring areas. Miss Mary Lou Stirling reported that ten new school rooms re- ceived seri sof the Huron 'Can- ty t e ton Cot ty Library last year. Membership now stands at 33 libraries, 4 de- posit stations, 3 high schools and 260 elementary school. rooms. On Friday appointments to the various hospital hoards in the county were ratified, with John V. Fischer named to the Wingham General Hospital Board. A brief from the Huron District of the On- tario Farmers Union with respect to bringing nursing homes which meet government regulations in the county under the hospital in- surance plan was deferred until March. Increased Budget One mill increase for highway purposes was approved on Friday, bringing the rate to eight mills. One mill is equal to $60,000. The road committee had recommended on Thursday that council endorse a two -mill increase due to a hack_ log of paving that should be car- ried out this year, and to increas- ed costs arising from improved road standard S, County Engineer J. W. Britnell reported that the development road project from. Dunlop to Blyth is completed. Total cost was approxi- mately $745,000, funds being pro- vided from the following sources: Dept. of Highways, $687,000; Huron •County, $49,000; CPR, $18,000 and :Board of Transport, $41,000. This amount was subsidized by the munipial roads branch at the rate of 50 per cent with the county paying $24,5011 C+7 DEDICATE GIDE®N BIBLES AS A CONTINUING MEMORIAL May be donated throiigli yetis Ioen,l funeral director PLALLU IN HURLS, SLHVV HOSPITALS, PRISONS e`I�IIIM,IlIrIIIMIIINII1�111Alllrlll�III�IIIrIII�I11Mlllrlll�liIIILIiI�IIIrIIIrIIIMlllrlllMllt�11� I.D. A. 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