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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-01-31, Page 2Se,Weshwellskyl. 3.44wir4/. 31, 1971 '.Ce10.4rates. 90th sbiith 4 . ' COUNTY • • PORK.PRODUCER$. • •.- ASSOCIATION Take notice that the 1979 ANNUAL MEETING will be held: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 at the LEGIONHALL, CLINTON , 11:45 A.M. (Banquet Tickets:1LN) Meeting 100 p.m. Sharp For the purpose of the proper business of the annual meeting; the election of the County Board of Directors and the -erection of one (1) councilman* for a olio year term to the North Area Pork ProducersCouncil. This election will -be held between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. Tom Ripple , Lloyd Stewart President Secretary * Election of one councilman as a replacement to com- plete the term of once of 1910. Banquet ticleets available from any townshlidkactor. ****** Board Direttars Vos, Waterton, Keller, and Wooden will be in attendance. Effie (Johnstulbert celebrated her 90th birthday at Pinecrest Nursing Hoine in Lucknow on Christmas Day, 1978. • Born in Ashfield Township on December 25, 1888, she is a daughter of the late John Johnstone, and the late Sarah , MacDonald, of ,side - road 3, Ashfield. She married Andrew Cul- bert and lived on the 12th concession of Ashfield until New$paper Ciasi,hed frldverhsill • larings Great Results! his death' in 1945. She farmed with her SQA, Allan, at R. 1 Ripley, Huron Town- ship, until his death in 1971. She then lived in Fairhaven Nursing Home in Kincardine and came to Pinecrest in 1974. Shp has a family of ten children, four girls and six. boys. They are Velma Ash- ton, Plymouth; Michigan; Margaret McIntosh, .New Hudson, Michigan; Andrew, Point Clark; Borden,H Red, - ford, Michigan; Elmer, Ash- field, and Serb,. Southfield, Michigan. Two sons, H'ector and Allan and two daught- ess, Barbara and Ila have predeceased her. She 'has 16 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren. Her sisfers, Mabel Camp- bell and Jean Scott, are residents of Lucknow. She was predeceased by two brothers and four sisters. El, fen, [JOHNSTONE] CULBERT .........,..e.i.f.,y .:-.., ,.••• . ••••,,,......y.-•.......,•• 9, ".• ,, f' " ."/"A' • .; 1.•••• ..wm --0, .... ,•,,./ , . 1.:CO;OP . . , , -. - BULK SPREADING - .. • .. - • • • , . , , ,• . ,• . - - - - - • . . . , _ 1 — --zizi.• • . , . • . ., . For'practically the gam cost as bagged fertilizer delivered to your •tLiquid farm, your Cb -operative will deliver any analysis of fertilizer to your fields and spread it evenly •• ••. • in the exactartounts needed. All • the work is done for you ... and all for the one price, , . — • .- 2. CO-OP SUPPLEMENTAL . NITROGEN - . . ....- . _ 0- ,, .• • i r t if i e . . .. , t an, , v • - . ' . --- • : - ''''4 • ' ^"r - • :12 ..ets . ...I. . ..... . . - CO-OP now offers a choice of: and Dry forms for top• , dressing fall wheat, hay, pasture and corn stover; and liquid Aqua • Ammonia for side dress of •. preplant for Corn. Application . services available at tnany 10 operatives ..., , , . , . . , • 3. CO-OP .BAG AND .. . . BULK PICKUP • . ,t, ---..z, 4-140101 •,. - ' Fait . 4. CO-OP CO-ORDINATED • • . GROWING PROGRAMMES - . . . . - . ... . 41 -!•‘.,,- • .• •-. f • , I r C1/47, I . —do - This completely -flew concept in "farm programming was developed by Co•operstive research. FerUlizers, seeds, insecticides, and wad WWI o are carefully coordinated and tailored to the needs of both crop and firm. The C0•OP BIG BONUS Corn Programme is atypical example ... ask yOuflocal Cc -operative about it, . . • • _411-- .... W...1.4..... Noma, IS fee.---osimirix - If begged fertilizer boat fib your farm programme, you twill find a corn pbte saltdlorf of - recommended analyses et your Ccooperstive. Available in.i granular, fimflowing form. Bulk pickup at your convenient Co•Uperative WirehoUss will cut your costs Considerably. ucknow 1,Di-strict Co-op New location: '1/2 mile south ofLucknow on Huron County Road #1. • 3 BY JEFF SEDDON , • Warnings ..that bed cuts in Huron.County's five hospitals will cost county ratepayers more- ,money • in -the 'next few .years did not seem to bother Huron • county council Friday. Dr. Brian Lynch, the county medical officer of • health, told council on several occasions: that dollars saved by the province through" proposed bed cuts will not necessarily •be dollars ' saved by taxpayers. Dr. Lynch Said the bed cuts will mean extra work for the county health unit •adding that the extra work will require more. Money....money. praVided by Huron, County ratepayers. The MOH told council that proposed bed cuts may mean that many • Services now provided for patients in. hospital• beds will. have to be provided for them in their.. homes. He said the home care services for -those people will be provided through the countyhealth unit,and that the extra work will •; be -at the expense ofthe -county. ,Dr. Lynch said he. had - attended several hospital ‘board - meetings ' •in . the • county to try to learn how 4 hospitaleplanned to cope Giver.. go, so more • Will live with provincial'.cutbacks pointing out that, ,he felt the could. probably awnser ' a few questions council members may have. He said the hospitals -ap-. peared to be trying to make , the best of a bad, thing an were in the process of budgeting. within ministry of health He said the future of some hospitals • was cloddy .because of • the' cutbacks adding that some 'may- even end up closed in the next few years: He saki there was no • way of telling • now what the next -two . or -three years had in store for the hospitals but sad 'there, was , concern amongst some hOspital board members that the smaller facilties In- the county could end up closed. ' "If they each (the five county hosptials) make straight bedauts they can keep their budgets down but some' hospitals will end up withhess than 50 active beds,' . said Dr. Lynch. "Those - smaller hospitals may be deemed • financially inefficient ina few years and be closed." Dr. Lynch said many of the hospitals . had no choice but to cut beds. He said there was very little room to cut labratory or maintenance staff from the hosptials which left', their' no alternative but Odd cuts. • I' demands on all other health services the county but with Planning • the added demands' may be handled efficiently. „ "We • 'can , helpi the •hospitals get through the , • bed cuts," he told coimcil. ' ' The, Concerns of Dr.. • Lynch appeared to fall on • deaf ears. His comments that hosptials could • • .become inefficient and end up closed, that ,‘IT'iiPtients may not be able to get proper care. frOin • county hospitals -and that the provincial savings will end up costing the • county more money' did. • not even stir council, No one askedany• questions • or appeared, upset at the • 'prospect of losing half of the hospital beds••in the county. • Dr. Lynch said later he • could not understand the • apathy over the 'hospital . bed cuts. He said he hoped the public as Well as the politicians had -simply not had 'time to have the ipact of the • bed cuts sink ift. He said on the surface the bed cuts appeared sensible and' would save money but said there' was- More - t0 be Considered than just dollars saved. He said he felt there was not enough • information or time allowed for the issue to "sink in". "I don't think the general public knows the impact of the decision by the province," he said. He added that if no public reaction creates a stir Politically j and the bed "cuts come about all that the hospitals, health unit andmedical professionals will be left to do is "give the services wewe hcaanvp,th the resources CO-OPERATION The MOH told council that a Co-operative effort amongst all health care delivery services in the county may get the hospitals thr.ough-the bed cuts. He said the bed cuts were going to make