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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1975-12-10, Page 120 N „,,,,• NW. • ,,,, :,,, , , \ •N\ 1. -.. \ • •,. Ws,: \ _ \ - • \.\ ',' ,, \,:,, .• \ . \ '\ '' , •\ . '\\ 'V, tip.\ ', '' .,.\ ,... A\ ‘ s . s,..,,. ‘,41111 r 4 t...s,..4,,,,,s,„ ..,..,- •-••••::.'' -- -\ ,,,,\.:' '''\' • .194trip.. THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL LUCKNOW, ONTARIO . WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 111, 197$ PASS TWELve `E'ER TO THE EDITOR Hit Them Where It Hurts Most * * * * The Working of minds centred at Queen's Park seem quite strange, in fact, completely incomprehen- sive to residents: of small AOWis. Countless thousands of dollars are spent on projects that seem borderline ridiculous. We read of the vast sums spent to preserve the Niagara Escarpment., Yet we are also seeing small hospitals being clOsed because costs of operations are allegedly too high, and the small hospital inefficient. To reiidents of small towns this is absolute and utter nonsense. few of us, (ar let us be kind) very few of us, will ever use the "nature trail" and walk from Owen Sound to St. Catharines. Yet every, one of us, and every one near and dear to us, will some day use a hospital, If that hospital is 40 to 90 miles away, what opportunity will we have to spend a few hours each day with a friend or loved one? How happy will that loved one be, miles and miles from home, totally surround- ed by unknown, and seemingly uncaring strangers? What added expense will families already tragedy smitten have with o car mileage, and work hours loit? What additional hazards, will there be on our highways when minds, preoccupied by worry, start to guide a speeding auto a half. a ' hundred miles or more? There are so many points in favour of the small hospital that to me their closing is absolutely unthinkable, It has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt that big cities are bad places to live. In these large cities, violence, air and water and every type of pollution, including mot*, seems to flourish. The very milk of human kindness INGLIS FARM DRAINAGE QUALITY INSTALLATIONS CLAY OR PLASTIC Free Estill*** PHONE 39247N R.R. 3 WALKERTON curdles. Conversely the small town, with its , intimately co-ordinated town council, with the butcher, the baker, and ,he small town loans maker sharing the responsibility of maintaining and improving the life style, has become the ideal home-site, The perfect place to raise your family. The very best place for,the young to pattern their sets of values after those they see displayed around them. Why an elected government centralized in Toronto is seeking to destroy the smalLtown is absolutely beyond 'the comprehension of any thinking person. Why are they trying to enlarge something that has been proven bad, and destroy something that has been proven priceless? The only possible explanation can • be that our elected representa- tives have through utter lethargy abandoned their duty of decision making, Preferring to set up' commissions, and listen to career civil servants and other such dreamers, allowing them to make the rules and enforce them. • All of this must stop, and we must stop it right now. Not tomorrow, or 'next week, not next election„ but today. We must devise some' system other than the overthrow of the government by force. Some system we all can work at to convince those Toronto based administrators that we want, and must have, our small hospitals, all of them presently existing, and more built and enlarged. All that have been closed re-opened, re- furbished, and 're-staffed. - One way would be to hit the Government in' its most sensitive spot. We have in mind, not the (Editor's Note: - - The writer of the following letter, Arthur Carr, has been associated with, or PubliShet of The Palmerston. Ob- serxer for the past forty years. He ha Served eight years as a municipal councillor in his home toWw - and held various offices, being rat one time-on the Board of • Directors of the Police Governing Association of Ontario. In 1967 the Palmerston Lions Club honoured him with a bronze plaque inscribed to testify to his devotion and service to his community. ba the fiscal year spanning July 1974 - 1975, the Canadian Community Newspaper Association selected him for, the distinctive honour of "Citizen of the Year". He has lived in close contact with Ontario Government created fiascos includ- ing the desire of the city of Toronto and the C.P.R. to bury millions of tons of garbage in Minto Township, adjacent to Palmerston and Hollis- ton. He has experienced the frustrations of having a home town equipped with a sewage treatment plant of the aerated sludge variety, seeing it unconditionally condem- ned by Queen's Park, and insist: ence that his small town spend a quarter of a million dollars on a lagoon system that would not operate, and would destroy hund- reds of acres of prime farm land.) CALCULATOR. FOR THE iTUDkNT With Square Root and P. $29.95 AT THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL seat of the Member's trousers, but very dose to that spot. The/wallet in his hip. pocket. Let us all 'let our Government know that we want our taxes spent where they will do the most good for the most people. Here is a suggestion, In every small town there are at least several dozen merchants who are collecting hundreds of dollars in sales taxes.. In most small towns there are manufacturers who are collecting, and paying, the 12", tax to the Receiver General of Canada. Let these folks file' their returns as demanded, on the date specified. Instead of attaching a cheque, they append a note stating that the cheque has been made pavabile the hospital of their choice. The administrator of the hospital] • cashes these cheques and deposits them in a special account, so that the merchant has a caticeR cheque, proof positive that he has CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 This is the program to start cattle onto full .feed silage, hay, or grain finishing' ration. Feeding Beef C •?‘ Feed at 5 lb. per head per day for 28 days. ' Contains good balance of essential minerals,vitamins and energy levels. All natural protein sources for easy digestibility. Available in bulk or bags. Extra high molasses level -assures excellent palatability. Economical to use. This pelleted starter will move cattle onto full feed without the expensive set-backs of "shipping fever" and stress-induced health problems. 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