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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-10-31, Page 3(continued from page 2) vestigations. During this time we can learn by the experience of other nations as►well as in- vestigating our awn methods. 0. ° Yours truly, A. R. 43urge, Senior Public Relations Officer. Cut Mustard Dear Editor, At a recent I.O.D.E. meeting, I had the opportunity of hearing the Mustard Report ex- plained by Dr. Frank Mills, Huron County's Medical Of- ficer of Health. As the report was explained by , Dr, Mills, the new plan would be of benefit to no one in Huron County, and would result in considerable incon- venience and expense, • with a substantial' decline iii the calibre of medical care to which we have • become accustomed. Dr. Mills indicated that preliminary stages of this plan are to be introduced in January, 1975. Surely; "the leaders of our province will have the good sense to abandon 4this, plan before anyone is made to suffer the consequences. • Very truly yours, (Mrs.) Lynda Smith Likes are` interested in hearing the platforms of those rt>lnning in the upcoming Municipal Elec- tion and cordially invite you,to come and, answer questions from interested citizens. We have set aside Wed- nesday, November 2Qth frozn 9:30 to .11:00 a.m. We would welcome any of you who could possibly come. Our meetings are held in the recreation area of the Knox Presbyterian Church. Please let us know if you can come. Yours truly (Mrs. Nancy Pond Secretary of Women's Day Out Committee. Food for thought Dear Editor: The predicted growth rate of Huron County until 1985 is estimated to be less than 1/2 percent per' year, and for Goderich the figure is ap- proximately 1 percent per year. Yet, for the sake of "potential growth" councils can justify huge expenditures to induce development which may, or may not, •be beneficial to the area. •In the-name•of "potential growth" the taxpayer can be pressured into subsidizing development which will in turn • put ' great pressure - on the CO1. nc l seat existing (Municipal systems Dear Editor, `ts• (schools, sanitation and water When you. asked the present supplies, roads, etc.) Council members whether they- the be candidates in the'Studies onhe implications December election I stated that of growth have been, made in I am going to .seek re-election the' United States which in - as a councillor•,, Perhaps I dicate that the higher the rate should add a few words to of .growth in a •community, the clarify my stand, as I have been faster, the rise in the local asked by many people why I do property tax' rate -'has been. not run for higher office. There is a general 'concensus I am in the habit of standing that' while high income housing up when something needs to'be may generate more in taxes' said and done in the perfor- than it costs toservice, low in - mance of rmy present duties, but come housing almost certainly I have no political or social am- will not. And since the housing bitions a and no interest in required by an industrial labor "positions"; As long as each 'force will be towards the lower member has one vote at the end of the scale there is a good Council table, there is simply possibility that the net profit no higher or.lower for me; .the from an .industrial development .•, positions have only different will be counter -balanced by the aspects. high cost of servicing the To be a "truly concerned residential development council member (arid associated with it. automatically part, of a number of committees as well) requires a lot of tir'ne, if one wants to be properly informed in the many 'matters facing councils these days. I- would not consider run - •9 GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1974E 3 0 OMA not happy about Mustard Report The health care system recommended by t\he kFealth Planning Task Forve would im- pose rigid controls on the freedom of both patients and practitioners with no apparent improvement in health care, the Ontario •Medical Association has commented. In a brief to the Minister of Health the OMA said the ad- ded 1 -avers of bureaucracy en- • visaged by the task force would make the•-. health ministry more remote • from the citizens and make it more diffieuli for local communities to identify and get action from decision - makers in government. "The simple, pertinent question which is unanswered by the report is: 'What will this organization do for the patient needing health care which is not being done now?' '.' "We have in Ontario at present a system which is delivering to most people who .seek it health care of a high One study which examined the impact of a develipment of 800 units, single family, town houses and apartments, which - had a : considerable ,comrnercial ning for the Reeve's or Deputy component, found that the Reeve's positions because my costs, both operating,and knowledge' in County matters is capital, exceeded the revnues not sufficient to be really useful by over $100,000 a ,year. In and in the -present circumstan- other words,it would cost the ces I am 'not prepared to give municipality this much more even .more time e for additional' every year if the development meetings 'and -studies. were built thanif nothing hap - The •Mayor can certainly pened at all. Also there is • initiate .all kinds of. _good evidence that the per capita programs, 'butto make them cost of providing services in- effective he would have to sell .creases with the size of his ideas to the majority of • population. Council members. It is mainly • . a prestige job which • involves . -s; many ceremonial occasions and What do we want for our other time-consuming elements. community? Is it not time,that • Nonce of •this would appeal to: w had „a council st that oppmed tree• ersonall but it will make running madly after this aperfect and �,worthwhile mom- ellusive 'benefit without 'a. bination for someone else. thought,_ .to the implications? Please accept these lines as We: need a' council with a firm an attempt• to assess frankly sense of, direction. We need a where I could be most useful council which will put our com- and vet" most. in harmony with munity affairs irtto perspective ' my own personal preferences. ' I and stop "jumping on band- _run for nothing else .because 1 wagons." believe that I can do good and useful work exactly where I am. I will look for Your support Yours sincerely, on December 2 as a candidate Elsa Haydon• s for town council clualityi" the OMA brief stated. "We continue to believe in the desirability of experiments,_ in alternative new methods of providing health care but cans not support the concept,of the immediate 'necessity to change the present system or new legislation to force •as -yet - untested change in the providers and recip1ents of healthcare." Division of health care into primary and secondary sectors, as ' recommen,ded • by the task "force, would be difficult and ex- pensive and would rob the patient of his free choice of practitioner, the OMA claimed. "Some paediatricians, inter- nists, ophthalmologists and ob- stetricians frequently are the first contact a patient has with a . health professional," the • brief stated. "We readily admit that. some of this •care"could be given by a - non -specialist physician or perhaps some other health 'professional, but these specialists are sought out by the public. Is this choice to. be taken from the public?" With reference to the concen- tration of doctors in large ur- ban areas and the comparative shortage in some smaller cen- tres, the, OMA said this is a poilulation problem, not a ph,•sic•ian problem. Citizens have chosen to live in the cities, and so have doctors. If the task force proposal to apply economic pressures' on doctors to practise in small com- munities were accepted,, would similar sanctions be applied to lawyers and dentists? the brief asked: "Further, will an unei'n- ploved person continue to draw unemployment 'insurance 'in Toronto where he could get a job in Timmins?" The brief reiterated the O`MA policy that physicians should be frig to c-hoo'e their mr,thnrl 'nf payment and reported that un- det •OHIP doctors individually have opted'' for salary, capitation, global budget and fee-for-service Methods. Admit- • ting that fee-fo'r--service can tempt a physician to over - service his patients, the OMA, maintainted that salary, capitation and global budget m"ethods can tempt, him to un - .der -service patients. "We con- tinue. to beli+ve° that fee-for- service is the preferable method for paying most physicians in clinical practice." On the subject Of district. health councils the OMA con-' tinues to .support the concept outlined in a submission made jointly with the Ontario ,Hospital Association two years ago. The• OMA could not sup< port changes recommended by the task force, in the structure and function Of dia;trict 'health councils, and the 'addition o3 regional directors' offices, ,Many Of our members have yes dratnatically,,lowered costs for specific 'diseases. (e.g. commented to us about the in- poliomyelitis) but'lik6• all ads creased bureaucracy inherent vatjces in health care, it tends. in the organization suggested to shift the cost°to an older age by the task force„' the OMA group.” " brief maid. "We have come to expect from bureaucrats an With regard to availability of .� inevitable adherence to a prole health services, the OMA sup - rather than an attempt to un- ports task force proposals to derstanc a problem, and the mix physicians, nurses and spectre of new layers . of plan- other . health worked• in dif- Hers between • health ferent proportions for different professionals and the final commupities, and to'place some decision -makers has cast a primary health workers such shadow, over our profession." as nurses, in ' co'm'munities The OMA Challenged the `Which do not warrant full-time E, task force's contention, that physicians. education, prevention and a ''We believe hat most shift away from hospital; care patients want continuity of care will save money. •"It has not from a health worker they been proved that we can know," the OMA brief stated," e,ducate the public to avoid (but) the public must realize common,' harmful habits. that it is impossible td have 24- Smokirig is Jun. Driving fast is hours -a -day availability and, at ' fun and seat belts are a bother. the same time, continuity of Education in these fields has are by the sane health worker. had little effect. .Certainly' There must be a compromise prevention has in some instan- between the two." Recreation : planning attracts many representatives m egin thought'process �towardnew corr�pl A meeting to• discuss recreation planning for .the town of `G-oderich and the surrounding area ,was held last Monday night with represen- tation•from Goderich, Colborne and Goderich townships, Huron County and the Ontario government. • The purpose of the informal discussion between the various municipalities was to start a' thought process concerning •recreation needs and 'facilities for the next five 'to ,ten years, ' Tom Rankin of the Spurts and Recreation Bureau of the Open Letter Dear Mr. Mayor and, Coon: cillors; " We of the Women's Day Out provincial government made a presentation to • the gathering and stressed the growing trend towards leisure activities. He said that a change in thinking from a work oriented society to one geared` to recreation is oc- curring and it was the respon- :sibility of recreation boards to keep abreast of the situation. "A recreation committee • must-. know more about the people they. have involved in their activities,"'he said. "They must' know if the -people are • there from.boredom-or for what Finals' start Friday they can benefit from the program.,, Chairman for the •evening, Pete *McCauley, said that' recreation is a needed service and stressed the advisability of planning facilities for the future. He said that the meeting was called to gather information on what wag "needed in the area so that ef- forts could he made towards . --4c'hieving the -goals requ•i-red.. Goderich Township Reeve, Everett MacIliwain told the group of the most recent efforts Reeve Mo..Tlwain pointed $ MarIlwain poinout of that township towards a are constructed. that vandalism is discouragingrecreation program. He said The law requires that a areas of that the township had sent out developer set aside five percent the developmentnofire; remoteHe cards of a circular to determine *hat of the land in the subdivision the municipalities; u townships are not wilting at their residents wanted in a for a park area. construct builTdings , on these recreation prograrrl ' and that No time limit is set on when waterfront areas because ohese. 'the wide variety of requests this ,park area has to be•.com- a watern of vgndabe u added revealed a' tremendous amount pleted and Goderich Councillor development of 'activity. that people classed Bill Clifford suggested that it was . large enohgh at 'if the nteel merit fulitime t s as recreation• may he a good move to. set a staff such as Point Farms then The remarks touched off a time limit on the projects. He it was a differentsmatter but a series of comments on what felt . that in most cases the f washroom is as p , neighborhood is well pavilionas tet for vandals and can dev�e-lc� rinent c�f_recreation ac- and _.. -children— ..._,.......y g.. . . , _ _ this tually meant. One point made' established.' the children a, expensive to maintain id this was the development- of 'park that would use the area are e exen situation. • areas in new subdivisions that grown up before the park isRecreation Complex Com- comple.ted. He added that a• priority should he placed on the mittee member John Sully -en- ,. construction of park areas. ded the meeting' by stressing Development • of , the the need for co-operation of the lakeshore was also a con -municipalities. He said that the sideration of the group: Countyneighbors should guard against planning' director Gary David- duplication of facilities or responding to fads. He ,cited mon pointed out that his depart tennis as. an example. If the ment depart - 'has discovered t"hat,•only .sport was `very- popular •ni�w two` deeds for lakeshore be played in Stratford on and the rec departments built property in Huron- County ,• Saturday, November 9. cover the., laud right to the sseyeral courts they may be unused in several years if the Due to an unusual finish in waterline. He said that them is e .novlty wears tiff. the Huron -Perth junior foot- a tremendous amount of lurid veli o recommendatin he did ball conference stancounty that is dings a in the available with to make to recommendation ich.towa(r series of quarter finals have for public use that is not, known been scheduled. The series is about. . as a result of a three' way tie This sparked fur''ther for fourth place in the league discussion on what it meant to standings. The teams tied.are develop parkland. Some of the. Stratford,. Clinton and group felt that more access to Listowel. The Junior Vikings the lake was needed in the will. play the Clirf•ton Redmen -county:. Most • of the roads tomorrow at 2:00, the winner leading to the lake are pubic(' . of which will. move into the but are narrow and no parking - regular. playoff schedule' area or access to the heady is described above. available. GDCI Senior Vikings finish on top BY T.D. yard pass ;from John Van Ger- , wen to Tim 'Ross. Coach . Ray. Donnelly described the game •as a tough, hard-hitting one. His .biggest - problem going intothe playoffs will be the mounting injury toll suffered by the Vikings. The story over Exeter cost the Vikings the services of at least two key.ball players through in- juries. This means coach Don- " nelly will, have to have more 'players going two ways and this • decreases his already thin r' ench strength. , , - In' the junior game, the •Vikings led by an 8-0 score by virtue of a second quarter touchdown .by- Tom .,'O'Keefe , and' a\convert and single kicked by Iain Lampert. However on the lasplay of the first •half Jeff O' Br'en scored a touch- down whicki was converted 'by The GDCI campus will be the site of two Hurim-Perth conference football semi-final games Tuesday.. • - The senior Vikings, first place finishers with a perfect six win -no loss record following their 22-13 victory over South Huron Panthers, Tuesday, will meet Stratford Northwestern Huskies, the fourth place finishers. • The junior Vikings who finished second in league stan- dings, losing only. their final regular season game to; un- beaten South Huron, 141'8, will play the third place -finishers, Central Huron Redmen. The junior game will be played first, beginning at 1:15. The final games of the schedule,„- played Tuesday in Exeter,' '''saw four unbeaten teams take to the field with the regular season championship on the line in both the senior. New Paul Brooks and the Panthers were right back in the game. In the second half, the Pan- thers took the lead on a touch- down resulting from a play - action pass to Perry Pooley. Brooks converted .to complete. -the scoring and give Exeter first •place in the standings. The Panthers are defending junior champions. . Until the South Huron game the junior Viking defence had given up only one: point in five games. The junior -.Vi-kings were moving the ball well up the middle in • the fourth quarter when time. ran out. , The winners of the semi-final games here Tuesday •will move on to the Huron -Perth finals to occer champions ed during and• junior contests.. s• In the senior game, South et er m i Huron jumped off to a 7-0 lead P r in the.first.q,uartena•15ad y _ .__._ (t _. ., � utour e con- \• �j a ra to co0 The Vikings took over the lead in the second quarter op a A double overtime and `st” fumble recovery in the end zone undecided - charrcpionshi • by Gerry O'Brien good • for six highlighted 'play at the grade points, a 60 yard .run for a school soccer tournament held touchdown by quarterback olverocationsthe, weekend- at three. Larry Donnelly and two con- verts kicked by Casey Wildgen., Kingsbridge captured the ,Donnelly scored another junior girls title at Victoria touchdown in the third quarter School blanking Brookside in ,on a four yard run, and the championship game 2-0. • Wildgen added a convert and a Kingsbridge won 'four straight single to complete the Viking games to reach the. figal while scoring. Brookside carried ii 3 and 1 The Panther scored the final won -lost record into the final touchdown of t'he game on a 15 game of the double knockout , competition, Double overtime dominated the .junior boys division in which Brookside emerged as the champion after the second round • cif shots on goal. The teams were deadlocked at zero after regulation play and en- tered a sudden death shots on pgoal round. Each team wag awarded five shots' on goal and salter the teams tied the first round with t'.Wo goals' apiece, Six area grade schools, Etxon,•St. •Marys, Victoria, ngsbridge, Colborne and ookside, took part, in the one day tournament. Penants, em- blematic of grade school soccer supremacy will be handed out to the various` division wi ,•tiers at a later date. -,Yours truly, Joan Vanden. Broeck' 175 'Wellington St.,. •Goderich, Ont. 1E. Ainslie Market limited 106, THE SQUARE 524-8551 CENTRE SLICES ONLY BACON $1.59 LB. BACK - - - -.- -- -- BUTT -SHOULDER LEAN PORK CHOPS 88c Ib. .•+�►r►�►•...•►...•r�.•i�.•►r.••-W ►rr:•►•v►•�.•r��•�.••+.•r+►.., rte.. •.0te r�u.....• •-�..•�•,.y 'WHOLE, OR HALF= FRESH• HAMp ROAS•TS'POR•K 78c lb. FRESH',. STEAKETTE STYLE a MINUTE STEAK'S FREEZER SPECIALS 10 lb. FRESH SAUSAGES -69C ib. WITH EVERY PURCHASE x'24 bZ. F WHITE BREAD a ' 1• 99i Brookside outscored Victoria 3- 2 in the second set of shots. Ln the senior, hoys division Robertson completely out- classed Kingsbridge winning the championship 1-0 at h �'tAgriculture Park. In -senior girls action Kingsbridge dawned Robertson 1.0 to force an extra game: Each team had lost one game which forced an extra c•han'Ipionship,conte„st' to he played at a later date. • Tournament officials would like to extend their, ap- prec•iation to the members of OOP ,,,,�,' the United Soccer Club for all their help. Vanastra developers buy another -base council. w ts1,that1they look into relocating the harness racing track'at Agriculture Park. Rec Board member Mary Donnelly A strengthened the suggestion by pointing ouf that if the town were considering a second ice surface it would he far cheaper to build onto the present arena rather than hrild• a separate building. JACK'S jOTTIN�S FROM QUEEN'S PARK The company that Nought the former CFB Clinton two years" - ago and subsequently turned it into Vanastra, has purchased, another Base, Foymount, a for- mer' Pinetree defence in- stallation in Renfrew 'County, near Ottawa. The company, 260303 Holdings Limited of Kitchener, paid $351,00(1 for, the '510 acrd Fovmount site. 260303 is owned 'bey .John Van Gastel of Cambridge and Fred .J. Ginn of Waterloo and they bought the former CFB Clinton in .January 1972 for $458;000. Both bases were sold by Crown Assets Disposal Cor- poration which handles such transactions for the Federal government. . Mr. Ginn said in an inter- view last week that Foymount' has accomfb dation ror nine or 10 industries, has 59 apartfflVnt units and 6(1 houses plus a lot of room for expansion. He said the area is located in the Middle of a ski resort. Jack Riddell, Huroo MPP ' The•4th'session of the•29th by Murray Gaunt,- Liberal Parliament resumed on Member for. Huron -Bruce, if Tuesday, tctober 22nd."A.s this there were any plans being 'was merely, the resumption of a • made for the pullet `growers of session and not a new one, the Province in view -Of the fact there was not much formality.,athat the con version privileges, e s. Indications are, however, that no longer applies. The problem it is going to be a very busy " of egg producers, pullet session 'as the House is expec- growers ,hatcheries, egg ted to have regu,lar..evening sit? processors, etc. are being con- tings. sidered by a newly formed ad- • visory committee. The Minister With the resumption Of the replied that be hoped they will session a new Speaker was ap- be able to find a solution them - pointed. Mr. Allan Reuter, for- selves. These matters will be mer Speaker, retired due to ill discussed again during the non health. 59 -year-old Mr.Russell confidence debate and D' Rowe, was appointed •hopefully the GOvernment will Speaker for ,the Legislature. He bring forward some program's has been Member for Northam to assist farmers with the dif- berland 'for' 11 years, Mr. Robert Nixon, Leader of the Opposition, tabled a motion of non -confidence in the Gover- nment, for failing to bring for- ward effective programs to moderate the inflationary pressures on. the cost of living, in particular in the areas of food, rent and fuel. This will provide an opportunity for full . debate on this stNjec't in the Ontario Legislature. Liberal Member for 'Owen Sound, Eddie Sargent, questioned . the Minister of Agriculttare regarding the selling -off of feeder and breeder cattle, because, the cost of feeding livestock is increasing at such an alarming rate..Hog farmers and cow -calf operators are being forced out of business by 'rapidly increasing expenses, and if this situation is allowed to continue, ottr food resources are going to he drastically reduced, with consequent in- creases in consumer prices. Mr. Nixon asked if the Minister planssubsidies' to help main- tain herds under these par- ticularly oppressive and unusual conditions. The Minister was also asked ficulties they are experiencing . presently. An inquiry into allegations of police brutality was ordered, as si`kesult of reports published in the Toronto Star, and • the Globe nand Mail. Ontario Supreme Court .Justice, Donald Morand, 56, is to head the inquiry. The terms .of reference ' of the inquiry specify. that Metro Force is the object of the investigation but Solicitor General George Kerr, said any recommendations "as to the use of force in arrest and deten- tion could • apply across the Province:" The Minister,of the Environ- ment outlined a broad program for the treatment and recycling of garbage and announced' plans for an Ontario Waste Management Board. He in- tends to continue experiments such as the garbage burning "Watts for Waste" using. gar- bage • for fuel at Ontario Hydro's°' Lakeview generating 'station, and also plans many recycling programs. - This program to build primary waste treatment plants in sax areas is a 15 year program at a capital cost of $17 -, million. The Province in -tends to recover half -of the $17 million capital cost from the municipalities. over 40 years. During the debates on the Estimates of the Ministry -of Consumer and ® Commercial Relations, Mr. •Jack Spence, Liberal Member for Kent, raised the matter of the Gover- nment' taking over perpetual `care fundso of cemetery hoards throughout the Province. He strongly urged the Minister to reconsider this plan of action because cemetery hoard mem- bers• have worked hard, with great dedication, over the years to huild up these funds, at the. same time improving and beautifying the cemeteries. A Now the Government plans to step in, take over the fund's and administer .them. Ob- viously many cemetery board members are going • to resent what they considergovernment interference", now that the plan- ning-,,' organization and 'herd work have been done. Mr. Spence pointed out that there is a strong' possibility that if the Government insists -von taking over these funds, it m_i_ :lilt_ well find itself responsible F-- the day ` to day upkeep of the cemeteries as well. The Minister uridertook to look into this question once again. during the debates ow the estimates of "the Ministry of Consumer °•and Commercial Relations, Minister John Clement_ indicated that a new approach to the liquor legislation in Ontario will be, unveiled shortly. He said that the new legislation would not he amendments but that it is a completely new approach. The new act will reptace existing legislation and will deal with „ both the Liquor Control Board IMO the.iquor License Board.