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PA(II 2--G0D*RICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1973
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This is the VD generation
Youth must be educated now
BY RON SHAW
On October 15 the Huron -Perth
Roman Catholic SiEhool Board has
called a special meeting to discuss the
pros and cons of introducing a "VD Kit",
prepared by the Ministry of Health, into
schools under its jurisdiction.
When • that meeting convenes at St.
James Separate School in Seaforth
there will be representatives on hand
from the Board, the Huron -Perth
Deanery' and the Huron County Health
Unit,
The proposal, which wilt no doubt be
thoroughly thrashed out, is to introduce
the use of a VD 'Kit -in teaching health to
Grades '7 and 8. The Ministry of Health
has been concerned with the increase in
VD cases in adolescents and as a result
has formulated the kit which includes
slides, tapes, transparencies and pam-
phlets.
That Ministry has, however, left the
decision. to individual school boards as__
,to whether they introduce it into schools
under their jurisdiction. The Huron
County Board of Education has 'ap-
proved use of the kits in Huron public
schools...but not without some
argument.
Shortly after that meeting was called,
a Canadian Press story reported in-
creased concern by federal authorities
about the prevalence of veneral disease
in the "kid" generation, ages.10 to 14,
prompting those authorities to consider 1�
more preventative education material in-
cluding films.
That same story reported that during
1971 273 youngsters under the age of 15
were treated for either syphilis or
gonorrhea, in Canada.
At first glance that number appears
very small in comparison' to the number
'of youngsters of that age in all of
Canada.....but think again.
How many doctors, carrying out a
routine physical check up, or treating a
youngster for some other problem,
would think to run a- test for VD on
anyone that young? Remember a
specific test must be carried out to
reveal VD in its early, treatable stages. It
will not normally show up through other
tests.
Secondly, how many youngsters bet-
ween the ages of 10 and 14 have been
taught enough about VD to recognize its
signs early enough to seek treatment,
before serious damage is done?
For that matter how many adults know
enough about VD to suspect they might
have it? Education on the matter has
progressed little since the films
produced for soldiers and sailors during
the Second World War, and they are not
regarded as having been particularly in-
formative. Scary yes, but not informative.
Combine this lack of knowledge
among young people about the
diseases, with a less than ideal reporting
system (all confirmed cases of VD are to
be reported by the doctor to health
authorities but many are not) and it is
conceivable that the number of cases in
this young age group is many, times
greater than the reported figure.
Since the majority of youngsters in the
10 to 14 age group are not sexually ac-
tive (and that's the only way one gets
VD, not from toilet seats) there are, of
course many who need not worry about
recognizing the early signs of VD....at
least not yet.
In time, however, those same young
people may •become sexually active, ad-
mittedly some more than others, and the
importance of good VD education earlier
in life will multiply.
For the most part they do not obtain
this education at home because, either
their parents are too embarrassed to -
bring it up, or so uninformed themselves
that their only instruction could be
"don't mess around and you won't get a
dose"....so that leaves the school to do
the job:
We do not moralize on this issue. The
question of sexual freedom, in or out of
marriage, is not at stake here. What is at
a
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Chances are those oven mitts you
wear, that curling broom you use, or that
bean bag your child plays with,,,,w re
made by a blind person.
Every day over 550 blind people
working in 20 CNIB industrial shops
across Canada are producing such
marketable items as brooms, mops,
brushes,. doll carriages, bassinets,
wicker trunks, jardinieres, dresses,
aprons and placemats.
Sub contract work is another phase of
the. industrial shops. In one shop
packaging 75,000 flashcubes and
1.000,000 Il'tht bulbs for an electronics
company, assembling toiletry products •
for a leading drug store chain and
packaging bones of greeting cards were
recent projects.
Outside companies find it easier and
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collating; packaging, sorting and
weighing than doing it . in their own
plants. The basic products are delivered
to ' the shops and picked up when
finished, 13,
There was a time when the only
source of income for some blind people
was begging. Many of them returned af-
ter World War I to find that vocational
training facilities and employment op-
portunities were non existent. Then, in
1918, the CNIB opened the first in-
dustrial shop for men, a broom factory. A
shop for women established two months
later enabled them to learn a variety of
trades - making reed baskets, machine
sewing, machine knitting and loom
weaving.
By March 1920 there were 138 men
working in shops in Halifax, Ottawa,
Toronto, Winnipeg and ,Vancouver and
45 women in Toronto.
This humble but significant start
evolved into a network of industrial
shops which are providing meaningful
employment and work experience for
blind Canadians in the seventies.
Keep this in mind when the canvasser
calls on you. Your donation to the 1973
campaign for funds makes it possible for
CNIB to run its shops and to provide
sheltered employment for. the blind
people -who need it.
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stake is the ever increasing importance
of stopping the epidemic of VD....and it
is an epidemic.
The only .way to stop it isearly treat-
ment of all cases, and all contacts of
those cases. The result of no treatment,
or treatment too late, is not pretty and
certainly not one any parent would wish
on their son or daughter no matter how
outraged that parent might be at the
moral question involved.
We urge the Huron Perth Roman
Catholic Separate School Board to take
this, view of the question before them on
October 15.
By all means teach the morals in ad-
dition to the VD Kit instruction if this is
what must be done, but don't stand in
the way of getting the facts about VD to
the generation of young people in your
schools.
.Proper education now could save their
lives.
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Dear Editor,
We are enjoying so much
your new column written by
Gwyn Whilsrnith. Thank you
for this welcome addition to
your paper.
In these days when so many
cireadful things are reported in
the news, , it is refreshing to
read something that gives one's'
morale a boost or "shot -in the
arm". Things like these
columns of hers, turn our
thoughts to helpful ideas.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Clare McGowan
Dear Editor,
The recent television special
prepared by CKNX-TV Chan-
nel 8 (6.30-7) Thursday, Sept.
27, and (6 - 7) Sunday, Sept. 30
conveyed the idea (,he In-
verhuron Park takeover by On-
tario Hydro can be justified by
drawing) "a fine distinction"
between the Atomic Enery
control Board's not having
issued a directive requiring the
park takeover, but having
stated that licensing of new
facilities. (nuclear or heavy
water? ---conveniently un-
ipecified) might not be fort
coming if the park was s note
acquired.
This is a misconception of
the facts, a misconception
arising from several misunder-
standings on the part of CKNX.
First, there is the misconcep-
tion that there is greater
regulatory conceal for safety on
the part of the Control Board
for multiple -unit heavy water
plants, than for single plants.
We quote from a letter from
Dr. D. G. Hurst, President of
the Control Board, dated
August 11, 1973, to this commit-
tee. "As regards multiple -unit
plants, I see no reason. for in-
creased, concern beyond that
which is appropriate to the
plant considered as made up of
separate units". (Some ad-
ditional piping is required bet-
ween units).
Further, we quote from a
recent letter to ,a member of
this committee from Darcy
McKeough, Minister' of Energy
for the ' Province of Ontario,
dated September 13, 1973.
"...Secondly, there is no greater
concern for Safety from multi-
unit heavy water plants than
from single plants. This too is
quite correct..."
A second misconception con-
veyed by the programme was
that there is no distinction bet-
ween considerations relating to
safety, and those relating to
pollution. These -were lumped
together and treated as "the en-
vironmental question".
In, fact, these are , quite
separate issues, Stated simply,
the first relates to major leaks
of gases, and the other to minor
ones. The regulatory respon-
sibility in each case is quite dif-
ferent, however. Major leaks
(safety questions) are the
responsibility of the Atomic
Energy Control Board -
(Federal). Minor discharges
(pollution questions) are the
responsibility of the Ontario
Ministry of the Environment.
This distinction is important,
because pollution con-
siderations have absolutely
nothing to do with the issue of
the park takeover, (the only
issue here is whether Ontario
Hydro is breaking the Ontario
pollution laws) whereas safety
considerations have been the
core of the Hydro argument
that they are required to
acquire the park.
The only area of in-
fringement upon the park by
the . present construction
proposals has nothing to do
with safety considerations
relating to new heavy water
facilities, but revolves solely
around the question of the
southerly location of the.,
proposed generating facilities
on the southern border of the
Hydro property.
Under directives of the
AECB, Hydro is required to
maintain a 1 kilometre (3000
4t.) exclusion zone around a
nuclear reactor. If the southern
reactor location is chosen, this
exclusion zone will infringe on
the northern portion of the
park, even though the plant it-
self may be entirely on Hydro
property. This is an absurd
situation. It is analogous to
allowing a high-rise developer
to fulfill a city zoning
requirement for population
density by infringing upon a
park, or upon the city street.
However, if this station is
located at the northern end of
Hydro property (Hydro has ad-
mitted that it can) there will be
no infringement whatever on
the park.'
Hydro is to'be congratulated
on coming up with a singularly
complicated package of con-
struction proposals with which
to bamboozle the media, the
public, and indeed the Ontario
Cabinet. CKNX can hardly be
blamed for having been Misled.`'
Nevertheless, the past sum-
mer's effort by our committee
has successfully unravelled the
many complications in this
issue, and we have every con-'
fidence that" the matter will be
successfully resolved on Oc-
tober 9, when we meet with
Darcy McKeough and Leo Ber-
nier, the Ontario Ministers of
Energy and Natural Resources,
in the presence of represen-
tatives of Ontario Hydro and
the Atomic Energy Control
Board.
Yours very truly,
William C. Mackenzie,
Chairman.
Hospital cots
will go higher
Coninued constraints in the
hospita sector will be in effect
through nit fiscal' 1974/75, On-
tario Health Ministry officials
revealed today.
However, the tough five per
cent increase allowed for the
current year has been modified.
Hospitals may start preparing
1974 operating budgets on the
basis •of an increase not ex-
ceeding 7.9 per cent of the 1973
-approved maximum allowable
• net operating costs.
In a,.letter to alkchairmen of
boards and administrators' of -
hospitals, Deputy Minister S.W.
Martin commended hospitals
for their co-rrperaaion in
assisting the -Ministry. in its at-
tempts to reverse `the sharp
escalation in the cost of
providing health services. -
Mr. Martin pointed out that
the percentage increase
allowable in net operating costs
is announced at this time so
that the mechanism of budget
planning may be started.
However, he also made it clear
to hospital officials that
Ministry discussions are con-
tinuing insofar as final adjust-
ments to the Health Ministry's
budget base are•concerned and
that "certain adjustments. to
the base ;are anticipated.
Such adjustments, reflected
in the individual hospital
budget, could serve to reduce
the hospital's 1973 operating
base — the basis i>n which 1974
budgets are calculated.
Mr. Martin said he is "aware
that there are many forces at
work in the economy at the
present time which have a
direct effect upon hospital
operations. Resources available
to us continue to be limited."
The Deputy Minister in-
dicated that the definitive
budget position of the"Ministry
as it affects hospital budgets
would be evident "within the
next four or five weeks" and
said boards would be notified
at that time "of the extent of
such adjustments" as they
might affect individual
hospitals.
811 IN A MU RRY MACK,
YOU CAN KEEP THE
CHANCi E !
LOOKING NN
70 Yams Ai
Oct, too
This is the find
Dungannon fall show
continuance of fine M
promisee to be a Rest
The fair will condo,
grand concert to
evening.
The G.C.I. truce
protracted rneetin`
sday to discuss im
in the heating arra
the school and decided
a Kelsey heater i,
take the, place cf , tv
three furnaces at p
a Gurney and a HoN,
are played out. The
will be a Kelsey No. 30
be installed by C. c. t
cost of $305, including,
in the ventilating. It is
the work will be.compl
couple of weeks,
Last week Sturdy
had everal boxes
looking second
strawberries in their et
doer,bearing the legep"
in Goderich". They w
by the Chisholms
the river.
25 YEAR$ As,
1911
An auctionOct. 7, sale
produce -donated by
mers of the Goderich d
aid the Goderich Lions
itsppled children
workcri- is to be held in t
the latter Art of this
The bright days, ,
with voluntary savings
so far, have postponed
on which the prover•
will fall and forced h •
offs will come to God.
there isn't even more
electricity by housewi.
storekeepers in Goderi.
darker days come, wi
Sequent tendency to u
power cuts in Qc erish
as "inevitable" by Mr
Weaver, manager of
Public Utilities Comm'
A night class in En.
been opened at the Co
Institute for new Cay
with Miss Margaret M
teacher. Twenty were
on Monday night, bo
and women, repre.
various nations .,and
different languages.
employed in Goderir
district, some coming f
far away as north of A
5° YEARS AGO
Oct. 10,1968
Fifteen area women
classes in a nurses' aid
course Monday mornin:
first Occupational Trait
Adults Program course •
fered in Goderich.
The course, a joint
taking of the Canada
power Centre, Goderi.
the Adult Education -C•
'Stratford, was "pure
from the Departm
Education and is mean"
a shortage of nurses'
hospitals and nursing.h'
the Huron County area
Forty-four players
•
skates and equipment
night as the Goderi
Junior "B" hockey tea
its first practice session
season.
At least half of the pla
the Sifto camp will pro•
cut before league play',-
October 18. Junior l3
are allowed to dress
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players for games, in'
two goaltenders..
The Goderich D
Ladies' Fastball ;
W.O.A.A. championship
nesday when they d
Hanover by a score of
• game played at Agri"
Park.
Canada Manpower
Goderich, received
manager recently.
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Ben Hey, former ma
the Canada Manpower
at Kirkland Lake, has
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Clem Jutras, who ha
transferred to the C
Manpower Centre at S
Mr. Hey has been e
by Canada Manpower
years. Before being 8"
manager at Kirkland
worked in the MenP0"
tre at Port Arthur'
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