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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-03-21, Page 32Page 4,--Lucknow Seuthtel, Wednesday, March 28, 1979 • The LUCKNOVV SENT-INEL LUCKNOW, ONTARIO "The Sepoy Town" Established 1873 .0n the Huron -Bruce Boundary Published Wednesday ei. Published by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd. Sharon J. Dietz - Editor Anthony N. Johnstone - ,Advertising and General Manager 4 Subscription rate, $11 per year in advance Senior Citizens rate, $9 per year in advance U.S,A. and Foreign, $21.50 per year in advance Sr. Cit., U.S.A. and Foreign 1?.50 per year in advance Business and Editorial Office Telephone 528-2822 Mailing Address P.O. Box 400, Lucknow, NOG 2H0 Second class mail registration number - 0847 Letters to the editor Reply to editorial To the editor: Re the editorial of last week on page 6, we interpret the statements made, to infer that a day care centre is wanted for Lucknow. This program is beyond our juris- diction. Anyone wishing to discuss any recreation matters, are more than welcome to attend the recreation meetings, held once a month. The Lucknow Recreation Comm. Editor's .Note: The intention of the editorial was to promote a summer recrea- tion program for children, •not A day care centre. , . Questiim • Joynt's remarks r� the Editor, We the, undersigned wish to comment on the attitude and views of Reeve Joynt concerning the possible elos- ing of 14 beds at the Wingham and District Hos- pital. According to the minutes of the council at the March meeting, Mr. Joynt stated he •was not choosing sides in the dispute. He said. he thinks there are too many people in • hospital who should be in nursing homes. Mr. Joynt where are you going to find nursing homes for these patients? Why do you think you have the• ledge - ledge to say whether or not a patient's condition warrants hospitalization? Most of usthaye: had the experience of having family members in hospital as long term patients. There are rea- sons for this. (1) Lengthy treatment in hospital that cannot be given in nursing homes; (2) nursing homes do not take every type of patient; (3) hope of recovery after long term care; (4) waiting for a. nursing home bed; (5) terminal. At present nursing home beds only become. available when a p*tient in the nursing home expires. Mr. Timbre!l stated on tel- evision last week that he was going to introduce home care in to other areas. This is fine in some cases but some patients require 24 hour supervision. There has been • no move to increase the number of. nursing homes or beds. Write Our Minister of Health, Mr. Joynt and alert as-- to the necessity of more nursing 'homes. With regard to the reduc- tion of medication to senior citizenS and we quote from the .March minutes of the council meeting as reported also in the Lucknow Sentinel, March 21, 1979, "When people get .to a certain age they think they need that pill this pill and another pill". Mr. Joynt surely must be aware by this time that patients in the nursing hom- es also receive "This pill, that pill and another pill" because it is a life sustaining Turn to page 5 • • You betyour life Cancer can be beaten Cancer is a fact of life. It still exists in spite of all the knowledge we have gained and all the progress made so far. Its secrets are slowly being unravelled through long hard hours of expensive research, funded by the National Cancer Institute of Canada through public donations to the Canadian Cancer Society. New fields •df discovery are operOng and new dimensions are being added to research programs throughout the world, particularly to the National Cancer Institute of Canada and its broad research program. The Canadian Cancer Society supplies most of the necessary funds to carry out the work of the Institute. On the present basis, almost 100 per cent of the Insti- tute's income for cancer control iS derived from the Cancer Society. In 1978 the Institute approved 157 applications for research grants and fellowships with a total ex- penditure of $11,063,332. As the research forges ahead, some cancers considered incur- able only a few years ago are becoming manageable, even cur- able. Among the new approaches to the control of cancer today is the increase in the use of drugs as the principal- treatment of leukemia. Eversince 1947 when a drug was first used to treat leukemia, new developments in chemotherapy - the use of drugs - in the treatment have made rapid strides. In other areas investigators supported by the National Cancer Institute of Canada are seeking answers to -how viruses may be involved in human tumours. There is -evidence that cancer in birds, animals and fish may be caused by one of many tumour viruses, usually touched off by secondary causes �h as chemic- als, radiation, secondary infec- tions, or a breakdown of the immune system. Some scientists believe this is true in human cancer as well. . There has been some success in preventing a certain type of cancer in laboratory mice by the use of an experimental vaccine but scientists do. not, see the day one vaccine will e given to everyone to prevent the occurr- ence of cancer. Yet, it's entirely possible there is some single underlying process that could be attacked in all cancers. There are at. least 10 different - kinds of tumour viruses. Within each of, these 10 classes are thousands of individual viruses different enough to be told apart. On the surface a cancer virus resembles other viruses but for ° some reason it acts differently. Scientists understand how it acts but they still don't know why it acts that way. A virus is an extremely good manager of the multiplying mach- ine of its host cell. A virus cannot grow by itself, it requires a cell in which to thrive. And a tumour virus is the supreme parasite. It does not kill the cell in which it grows as do the non -tumour viruses. Scientists believe a cancer- causing virus can lie dormant in a person for years or all his life until, or unless, it is "triggered" by some outside factor. These factors are principally chemical pollutants in what we wear, -what we eat, and in the air we breathe. Some scientists are of the opinion governments are lax in combat- ting such pollution'. „ Many men and women are involved in basic research, the study of what happens when a normal cell is transformed into a cancer cell. Some are working with known animal viruses, horm- ones, and the bod9's immune system. Genetics • and chemical carcinogenesis claim the scientific attention of other researchers. Clinical research is an- increasing- ly active area, covering such activities as epidemiology and clinical trials of new approaches to therapy. • All are (looking for answers. Some will find them. \ The Lucknow branch of the • Canadian Cancer Society will be holding their -door to door cam- • paign during Cancer month, April,. and will be seeking your support. ' 4 TIAs Picture of the author's mother, Isabelle Ann [Mac- Donald] Nicholson was taken in Guelph where she worked at the time. She was born September 18, 1861, the third child of Sandy MacDonald and. Mary \Stewart, pioneer settlers of itinloso. impact of my BY SANDY NICHOLSON What is your earliest recollection? How old were you at that? It is surprising how few recall anything that happened before they were three. My: memory goes back to 1903, when I was about two and a half. We were moving from the 1861 log house in which my two"sisters and I had been born to the seven bedroom brick house across the road where the Donald Maclntyre family now reside. I was to be permitted to ride on the wagon with my father and the white cat instead of going in the buggy with the women. All was well till the horses started and frightened the white cat. cried of course as I did not want to go without the cat. The cat was caught, put in a liox beside me and everyone was happy. The next event was on May 17, 1903, the day my mother, Isabelle Ann MacDonald died. I was taken to see her after she had died, in the room off the kitchen, which wis a bedroorn at that time. I also remember the funeral. Allan MacLeod in connection with his livery business had two special carriages, each drawn by a team - one for the family and the other for the pall bearers. Everyone waited till the neighbours filled in the grave at that tine: I must have been restless and wanted to be able to see the hole which was being filled. I remembered Mrs. Ross putting her hand on my head and saying with tears: in her eyes, "Poor little fellow". She was such a kind person! She was the mother of Mrs. Annie Maclntyre. The loss \was such a shattering experience that now nearly seventy- three years later as I write this piece, 1 shed a few tears. I regret I never secured information about our mother from our father or anyone till too late. She was the third child of "Big" Sandy MacDonald and Mary Stewart, pioneer settlers on lot 3, concession 4, Kinloii7This is Orie-of the many farms in Ontario Archives Without any mateilal in the Township papers. Donald Stewart, the eldest son married Mary Jane Mclvor. They and their six sons and six daughters lived on the Clan Donald property just north of the station. re's death There is Intreh mere . to be written about this unusual family. Uncle John must have broken all records for leading the singing in South Kinloss Church for so many years. Aunt Kate became a teacher and married John MacPhee and spent most of her life in Edmonton. Their sons Alexander and Angus have now retired. Aunt Phemie taught at the Grey Ox School 1897-98 and married Jim MacLeod to spend her married life in Fort Wiliam. Our mother did like so many of her day, she worked to give younger members a better chance than she had. • She was working in Guelph when this picture was taken. She was working in Ottawa when she married our father on November 15, 1895. What a short May 17, 0 married had when she died on Through the years, as I have tried to raid out more about my mother, so many said "your mother was so like .your sister, Norma". My sister, Dr. Anna Wright, who was only thirteen months old when our mother died, and I have always felt that if Mother was like person.Norma, she must44ve been a wonderful •