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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-09-01, Page 5r}� dta 4x d • tep.mona? tip'f + „ 'e&o es bseen?getting yaM.,':,: Batt fiver the tong sp,rnmer ♦ 7":17 ' 3ust ,,t. e`. as theleaves beg11 to,:turn coiour'and}e . boys` of fan dominate daddy's television ` viewing. halli.t's, anxious mothers ;cart almost hear the whirr of the yellow school bus wheels rotting down the road. P! Returning to school after the summer vacation was: always depressing and traumatic, And it always seemed. that when I fell by the wayside with some �yvouldiook at,me'with that`coy smiT' ani' salt, ":1'.II-.be glad- when yeti -go -bark to school. Its only three.weeks you know." Only three weeks. Oh my God. It was like life was coming to an end and parents took delight in baiting us with that good bit of news. It Was as cruel a that'w!as ever infltoted upon work a4, find ;your' wife tied :tn the . -garrteaegr.. r ironing beard,• while the children, in:full , ... you c telt ,, re s ��'' a ` head dress dance around 'ln a friendly back to: scl�d t.Tx aiys pf the summer vacat(prt . game�of.cowboys acid indians.' takeatilta td an eaping tot+vards the Labour Day . ' asleep ,rn' front ur: ,there are. some telltale signs You can tell it is time.for'the kids to get before 1,40,t pildien apart tnplhers of sehgol age back to school when the lifeguards at the going to bed. • chlId ezand for parents there are signs swimming pool. send a note home with „fr to wl tcll torthat indicate its time for the your child saying they:'wauld like to have • 'You can tell it is tinic for clods tto get chitdree to get back.teschool. a chat, with the parents. back, to school'when you spe>Xd hal#'xout Yotfycan tell it is time for the kids to get 1 clay wandering' around the neigh- bank to school when the neighbourhood You can tell it is time for the kids to get bourhood retrieving;bikes, ' baseball back to school when gang s� ides to hold a frog.. jumping you have attended gloves, bats, frisbees and' the oddpiecep•w ;room only to,65 little . league baseball - games and of clothing that they claim_ Was 'toss or " co,�te til the recreation hi** iii**44 .-"i4°' trioti :r ur ici4"cc5gii'lP42°1 til wa �u�.a�v:+s ':��,: avtsr,"is�ss;vaoci'a xa : only to Pealize that hockey start in Ynu:can.tell.i.t:is.timefnr.the;kids,io.get "just. al ew'short months. You cast tela it istimneforthekids to y g �n get back to school when every possible You can tell it is time for the kids to get outdoor game you can. think of is boring - back to school when you have replaced to the children who would much rather the kitchen window three times as a help you in the kitchen. result of backyard baseball games while the children deny any knowledge of such Have a goodholiday mom. 'aT e.sls �; ve sty .t�r$ofts o back: to school when they take delight ' gathering, up smaller children from the area and tying them upto the pillars around the veranda. You can tell it is time for the kids to get cack to school when tau return from • Allmillekimmommellommamosos t INFORMATION, BACKGROUND AND OPINION • nt to get a job done right, you o do it yourself. Well.at least Huron Hospital Board in rates under that philosophy.. HERE. IN .HURON Hospital board directors said they were not willing to wait for the gover- nment to come across with the money and claimed there was urgency needed to update the medical facilities and tlie deteriorated condition of the converted. home. The home was built in 1856 and housed the administration portion of the hospital when the facility 'was built in 1953. The house will now be demolished to accommodate the addition valued at $500,000. An engineers study completed in 1972 recommended that the home section of the hospital be 'replaced. Now the - verandah is, secured with two jacks on either kide 4 the entrance and mortar is crumbling between the bricks. Since the study Me board has submitted eight differentplans for the addition. The provincial government approved addition plans estimated at $1 million but gave no indication of availability of funds and the board decided to proceed with an addition they could afford and seek approval on that basis. The board finally received approVal last week but the Ministry of Health added a stipulation that the operating costs of the hospital should not increase when the project is complete. Th,e $500,000 planned addilion Is only half of the size of the plans originally submitted to the ministry. The board hopes that funding of the project will come from Huron County Council and a reserve fund that the board has built up aver the years. Cann said he hoped there would be no need fer commuaity fund raising campaign . unless there would be beneifts from extending services beyond those planned for the addition. The hospital board is in stable financial shape because of the reserve fund built up thro-ugh bequests, in- lerests, and other funds set .-aside from operating budgets. The addition w011id inClude new emergency and ad M istration facilities,.and there is the possibility that the physiotherapy department may he expanded. Cann claimed that the hospital's present emergt.mcy are outdated and inadeqUate and new emergency facilities wsas, the board's first priority. . said the plans should be ready to •c••, -all tourists are ignoring our a possible vacation spot due prices of both goods and the fact 'that American finding Canada increasingly tive, Canadians are still th of the border in record tatistics Canada said them is our travel account which is a between the money pend outside the country and spent here by foreigners. e first six months of 1977 the th $1.24 billion, an increase of Asammimoimmomir tenders in late winter or early spring and 'construction is expected to begin im- mediately following the acceptance of a tender.. With "the addition the emergency section of the hospital will be tripled in size and will in'clude a separate am- bulance entrance. . Taylor claimed there would be no difficulty in meeting the ministry stipulation of holding operating costs until the addition is completed and estimated that the county share of the project would be 25 percent. Cann clainted that many council members were in sympathy with the board and the need for iMprovemenfs at the hospital. AiSLEEFARDZSOr !PROVINCIAL POINTS $55 million over the record deficit for all of last • year. Statistics Canada preliminary figures indicate that the trend is continuing during the summer months a traditionally high season for foreign traffic. Tourist officials say that the high price for Canadian gas and expensive hotel. rates in Montreal and Toronto ar two prime reasons that Americans shunning our country as a vacation spot But since the decline of the Canadian dollar there should be a positive impact on tourists who will get more money for their dollar. But that dollar has not been stretching too far this summer as many stores and hotels refuse to give vacationers the full ,premium On American cash. Statistics Canada also claimed that the deficit is linked to the growing number of Canadians who are travelling south to spend all or part of the winter in Florida or the southwest. In the first six months of this year 17.3 million Canadians crossed the border to the U.S. which represented an eight per cent increase over last year. - During the same period of this year the number of Americans entering Canada dropped almost three per cent to 12.4 rdillion. Canadian travel overseas has also' increased and 922,000 Canadians left the country which„ is an increase of more than 12 per cent. By the same token the number of foreigners corning to Canada has also decreased. • Perhaps a major deterent to tourist travel is the price of gas in Canada. The Anti -Inflation Board has allowed six oil companies to increase their gasoline fuel oil and heavy fuel, oil prices by between cents and 1.5 cents u gallon earlier this week. This price hike is in addition to u previously annobnced 3.2 cont-a-gaIlon increase that also wen't 4nto effect this week. the latest AIR approved price in- crea,se, which varies amoog the six companies, is designed to cover ad- ditional costs'of refining. marketing ,ind distribution. The previou:ly approved 3.2 -cent increase covers the rise in Canadian crude oi.1 prices that.ca me into effect on July 1 and was pa,ssed on to the consumer 60 days later. Many of the oil companies should face stiff consumer resistance and com- rietition with other oil companies in attempting to impose price increases beyond the 3.2 cents a gallon increase related to the crude oil price increase. Pacific Petroleum has heen given p.ermission for the largest non-crrude increase of 1.5 cents a gallon for ea,adine, heating oil and heavy fuel oil. Irvine. Oil will raise its prodOets by .9 cents per gallon. Texaco Canada has pxoposed"an increase of .8 cents a gallon fur gasoline, .9 cents for heaOne oil,and .7 cents for heavy fuel oil. remier Rene Levesque -has full with the- new French 11 as opposition mounts from es over the controversial arter for Quebec, ch in the Quebec National evesque asked Quebeckers anguage bill an honest tryout one or two years to see if it n properly:- His defensive e just a few hours before it third and final reading by a ral and Union Nationale arties and the assembly's iste member voted against CANADA 1N SEVEINV the bill. Cultural Development Minister Camille Laurin, author of the bill, told decisisive gesture for the liberation and .promotion of.Quebec workers. Levesque said that he felt distressed that restrictinns on English school ad. mission were necessary but said there was no more dangerous or explosi've issue in Quebec other than language. However he said there was no other choice in order to protect Quebec's identity against the dangers that exist from English Canada. Levesque said the charter wnuld be applied will all the flexibility that will appear necessary and an attitude that will be open to the maximum, He added that the English speaking minority, in Quebec had no reason to fear. • The English speaking populace of Quebec will maintain their education rights, hospitals and social ser. radio and television -stations, cultural centres, the right to testify in English before the courts, communicate with the government in English, draw up con- tracts in the private sector of English, receive English translations of laws and public documents and to occupy any job including top management positions. Laurin said the charter has been awaited a long time by the people of Quebec and assures their identity and freedom and pushes aside any dangers that threatened them. He said that Quebec children will remember the charter that recovered possession of a language and country. Now the federal cabinet is planning a meeting to take action on the Quebec langdage legislation and to test, through the courts, the constitutionality of the legislation. • Amid the controversy of the bill, whihc was pushed through the Quebec National Assembly rat he; . the will separate from -the province from leader Charlie Watt. said hi: pi op], k‘. ill halt all dealings w ith the nuncio of 'Last week the 900 people in rh, 1 fool corn munity of Ung.o..:1 told proVincial government employees and Despite' 'an emergency ine-i ne government officials w ere undhl, convince the Inuit that :hould c.ill off their order. The 'Milt VOted and decided 0` riaN i he language hill which no-./ - favored Inuit the ge in the north. the natives wOrking their own I raditionally the Inuit used Engli:h as their :econd language and yloing ddditional non -Inuit staff.., Young Inuits art' TIM•V talking of forming a separate northern country, If Quelwc leaves Canada the Inuits ‘vould likely try to from of the world is dying. In IT continent, rainfall, soil vegetation necessary to of life are rapidly disap- is that the world's deserts, and in fact new deserts henomenon is taking Pigfee 4.'n recent yeaTs creating a ill pose a major challenge to bility lb cope with a dire e food and space. ' ate,d that fertile productive destroyed at the rate of 14 s per year and alteady 43 RLDWEEK percent of the earth's land surface is desert or semi -desert. Scientists claim that unless this process can be slowed we will lose one- third,of our arable land within the next 25 years and itc that period the world's need for food will -double. Countries are COnference oh desertification began 'in Nairobi this week. , More than 100 countriei and 150 governmental and private organizations, representecr by 1,500 delegates, are discussing thd problem and formulating plans of action to reverse the desertification. The con, ference was actually scheduled for 1974, 'when, a severe drought in Southern Africa threatened southern populated region? 'of the country and showed no signs of letting-uP. _The drought ended but since then deserts have beerti growing and forming in other -regions of the world,' However climate studies show that deserts are integral parts Of the weather system in that other regions receive an abundance of rain because other regions get little or none. • But while the hgriculthral productivity of arid and semi -arid lands is low it is essential to supporting the 1....iman race since 14 percent of world's people, about 628 million, live in dry lands almost totally dependent on land that is withering away. Desertification is, not new. Many places where-civili'zation -began, and agriculture and ur&anization flourished, were lkiter. destirroyel by it. The, phenomenon Was 'mdst common in Middle East !anti's. Scientists claim that it was more mismanagement of land rather than climate change that doomed ancient civilizations of the Middle East. Reports prepared for the Nairobi conference indicate that those same forms of mismanagemetiftill again be a - threat to the survival of peoples in arid and semi -arid lands. 1he main causes of livestock, overcalling of forests. im- proper tillage for crops and over:: coneentration of human and livestock activities areund scarce -water sources and settlements. Scientists say that even irrigation, if it waterlogs poorly drained soil, will eventually kill the -land. The causes have been in operation for years hut it is only in recent Alecade-s that the increasing 'number of humans and livestock have taxed theland ability to recover. . People living in arid lands have tried to cope with the nroblem bv moving people and livestock from one area to another when vegetation and water destruction of the land. But nomadism is quickly disappearing becaus'e of the influence of Western technology. The major factor now is human population growth and improvements in Health and veterinary services that prolbngs bbthb human and animal life and in some cases causes overcrowding. But as the human and animal populations grow the land is taxed and is eventually stripped.