The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-10-24, Page 19
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FIRST SF)CTION
ONLY ONE LEFT -•Beaver Brett Gillespie, 7, began selling
apples on Saturday at 9 a.m. By 11:30 a.m. he said he had
filled his basket three times and had only one apple left.
Before apple day was over for him, "1 am going to sell two
more baskets," he declared.
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Blyth youths
Ii cured
in single car
accident
Two Blyth teenagers were
Police report the Jensen
injured in a single car accident
vehicle was ' travelling north
along East Wawanosh Con. 2-3,
along the highway when it
just west of Sideroad 89-40,
crossed the road and struck a
Saturday evening.
pole in the west ditch. The ac -
Sixteen -year-old Wesley
cident caused 1800 damage to the
Burkholder of RR 1, Blyth, was
car and minor injuries to the
driver. Two passengers escaped.
taken to a London hospital with
without injury.
head injuries following the ac-
cident. He was a passenger in a
The Wingham Fire Depart -
car being driven by Darrell
ment was called to the scene of
Govier, also 16, of Blyth.
the accident when the car caught
Provincial police report the car
fire. However Fire Chief Dave
ran off the road through the north
Crothers reports it was more as a
ditch and struck a tree, causing
precautionary measure than
12,000 damage to the vehicle and
anything and the fire, which had
injuring both occupants. Mr.
spread to the surrounding grass,
Govier was treated at Wingham
was quickly extinguished.
and District Hospital for minor
injuries.with
Mr. Jensen has been charged
careless driving as a result
The investigation into the
of the accident.
accident is continuing.
In an accident earlier Saturday
u
afternoon Christopher Jensen of
RR 3, Granton, was the driver of
First ref goo
a car which left the road and
struck a pole along Highway 4
family eeeted
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north of Blyth.
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Aux. reports
successful sale
The.Auxiliary to the Wingham
and District Hospital held its fall
rummage sale in the, Wingham
Armouries last Friday. The
auxiliary made a total of 11,632.70
at the sale, with proceeds broken
down as follows: Green Thumb,
19.75; children's clothing,
1164.70; dishes, 050.30; books
and toys, 168.66; furniture, 189;
drapes and bedspreads, 1244,32;
hats and purses, $11.81; shoes,
$149.85; adult clothing, 1268. 71;
ladies' miscellaneous, 1102.90
and men's miscellaneous,
1242.70.
The auxiliary thanks all who
helped in any way to make the
sale such a success.
this w6ok
The first family of Southeast
Asian refugees sponsored by a
local group is expected to arrive
here sometime this week.
Jim Steffler, chairman of a
committee set up to prepare for
their arrival, said the group got
word last week that one fa' ily of
seven members was due to arrive
in Montreal, and should be in
Toronto early this week.
He said the group will get a call
the day before the family is due
in Toronto and will make
arrangements to meet them. A
home has been prepared for them
between Molesworth and Ethel.
This family is one of two being
sponsored by the parish of Sacred
Heart Church, Wingham. The
Wingham Bible Chapel has also
made arrangements to sponsor a
refugee family.
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The Wingham and District conditional `yes'. 'fires otiwfs,' ` Mr. Mann also reported the anymore and how can we expect
Hospital Board has decided to Howick, Turabwry and Mere hsspital had received a cheque the public to support us?"
give ` far $100 from W and Dis- Dr. R. 1). Wilkins supported
gi up the idea of taking the Townships, turned down tlW ' mB the board had been
Onglea health ministry to court request, while the twnaind� Voice for Life. advised her, saying
ding cutbacks. either asked for more . _ Board member Dr. Doug Warren by Toronto lawyer,
its its to keep the beds
Citing a negative response to formation or tabled the request to'- Mowbray said he felt the board oyes as long as possible, since
its attempts to raise money for wait and see how other . had no alternative but to abandon otherwise the health minister
legal costs, the board voted Oct. municipalities responded. i the case in light of the response.•4
17 not to proceed further with The amounts of money asked The municipalities have cast the will be laughing all the way to
court action. Two members for. were based on use of ti's .` die, he declared, and they are court". Hospital Director Nor -
opposed the decision. hospital by citimis of the various responsible. man Hayes disagreed, saying
municipalities Mr. Seyffert had not felt keeping
Actually, although an an- polities durlthg the Past Chairman Bora Milosevic the beds open was vital to the
nouncemeant following a closed year and varied from gbaA agreed, claiming the board has case.
board meeting Sept. 12 said the 112,000 for Wingham to less that done everything humanly The board voted to close the
board had retained a lawyer and $1,000 from
some of the outlyi" po"ible but the situation has beds and lay off staff in order to
was proceeding immediately psi Howick was asked for charged. If the board decision prevent a deficit forecast at
with legal action, the action was berr$4,74y
,Morris for $4and Tad 'isn't satisfactory the public can $250,000. The hospital had an
never started. At the time the berry for r $2,7 and Easx call a meeting and throw us
Wawanosh for $1,755. .rout", he added. estimated deficit of 146,000 at the
idea was dropped the ministry end of August and, with the cuts,
still had not been served with a � However, Raye Elmslie the year-end shortfall is now
tet•isuggested it wasn't fair to lay all estimated at about $56,000.
The board, through the New. inspector she responsibility on the Following the meeting Mr.
Citizens' Action Committee, had municipalities. The whole basis Hayes said the hospital has
ht)ped to raise up to 150,000 from for No • 6 O P of the fight to retain beds and already started to reduce its
local municipalities to fight the jobs went down the drain when deficit since the layoffs, but
case before the Supreme Court of . the board voted Sept. 19 to close added there is still a long way to
Ontario. John Mann, chairman of headquarters, 14 beds and lay off 12 staff go. He also said he doesn't expect
the action committee, told the members, she said. there will be any, additional
board last week the results of the "We have nothing to stand on layoffs.
campaign were "most
disheartening" _X
Of the 15 local governments ;r xis E
contacted for donations late last
month only one, East Wawanoah "Loaded loggingtruck
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Township, replied with an un ` `
Scouting day
was successful
Last Saturday was Scouting
Day inPingham, with all groups
involved in the activities. The
Beavers, with the help of some
Cubs, held their annual Apple
Day. About 1160 was raised
throutti-We sale of ,11 bobeL of
apples.
The remaining Cubs, Scouts
and Venturers held a paper
drive. Although the volume of
paper was down considerably
from previous drives they expect
to make about 1300.
The Group Committee than
Marks Bros., John Cullen
Motors, Burke Electric,
Davidson Well Drilling,
Canadian Tire, Marty Cretier,
Mr. 0. Crawford and Mr. R.
Hallahan for use of their trucks
for the paper pickup and Stanley
Door_ Systems and Walden
Transport for delivery of the
paper to Toronto.
A special thanks is extended to
all Scouting parents who helped
make both of these activities a
success.
Inspector H. R. (Pat) Corm"
has assumed his duties as the
new Inspector for No. 6 District
of the Ontario Provincial Police,
of which Wingham and area are a
part.
Inspector Cornell was born in
Belleville and joined the OPP on
March 10, 1953. He was promoted
to Corporal on October 1, 1967; to
Sergeant on November 2, 1976; to
Traffic Sergeant on June 15,1978;
and to Inspector on October 15 of
this year. Before coming to
Mount Forest, he had been posted
to Bowmanville, Downsview,
Whitby and Kenora.
Inspector Cornell is married
with four children. He and his
wife Carol will reside in Mount
Forest.
knocks out phones
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An improperly loaded logging north along Josephine Street
truck is reponsible for ripping out when the top of the load snagged GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY -Dr. and Mrs. Georg Howson
phone lines which left the north an overhead line at Albert Street. celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Oct. 19 with an
end of Wingham and same of the The truck was owned by RKM open house at the Wingham United Church. Dr. Howson
countryside beyond without Wood Products Ltd. of RR 2, recalls they had beautiful weather for their wedding back in
phone service latst week. Tiverton, and driven by George 1929. They took a trip to Quebec and drove in shirt -sleeves
Bell Canada servicemen spent Parke of RR 5, Kincardine. most of the way, he said, only running into some bad
several days repairin�e The load on the trailer was weather when they got back to Toronto.
e to the p(ione , measured at a height of 4.9
t� at 11.0,000. 1lLG,a W, whorea6 4.1& n v "','.�`,_ '`"r
"+ ,Felice report a tractor -trailer the maximum allowed under the
M4.0 with logs was proceeding Highway Traffic Act. As a result Ho-wsons cele res/ e
the driver has been charged with
having too high a load. •
Set clocksAmongtheproblems caused by goldendanniversary
the service interruption were
some minor flooding problems at Last Friday, Oct. 19, Dr. and Grain, all sisters; Mrs. Alvin
back on the Wingham water tower when Mrs. George Howson celebrated Procter, sister4n4aw, and nieces
the signal lines between the their golden wedding an- Mrs. Irene Cooling, Mrs. Fred
Sunday water tower and the pumphouse niversary. Howson, Mrs. Ross Howson and
were broken. Mrs. Howson was the former long-time friend Mrs. Helen
There will be an extra -hour of Ken Saxton, manager of the Addie Procter and they were Lanning. -
sleep for everyone` Sunday Wingham Public Utilities married in the Wingham United
morning and more light to dress Commission, explained the PUC Church by the Rev. Sydney Many friends and relations
by. On the other hand evenings rents lines from Bell Canada Davison. attended to extend greetings.
will grow even shorter and which are used to signal the To celebrate the special oc- couple was ha 8r rings. The
when to start and stop pe Pl PPY that Frank
darker as clocks roll back an Pumps P to casion they held an open house Howson of Huronview was able to
hour to Eastern Standard Time keep the water level up in the Friday afternoon and evening at be present. Murray Gaunt
this weekend. The changeover tower. Since the pumps happened the United church, which was presen .. 1 the 50 -year plaque
traditionally takes place at 2 a.m. to be running when the lines were tastefully decorated for the oc- from the province of Ontario.
Sunday morning, at which time broken they continued to run, casion. The only former at- O the Sunday prior to the
clocks go back to 1 o'clock. causing the tower to overflow tendant present was the anniversary the immediate rela-
before they could be shut off bridesmaid, Mrs. Walter Kerr of tives had a surprise dinner party
manually. Brussels. at the Bedford Hotel, Goderich,
A PUC workman spent Wed- A sister, Mrs, Charles Lloyd, for the honored couple and
nesday night at the shop keeping
.
was rn charge of the guest book.
track of the water level and Those who assisted at the tea
presented them with a grit. Af-
terward there was a social
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driving out to switch the pumps table were Mrs. Kerr, Mrs. Edna
on or off as ::.. , . , . Stephens and Mrs. Margaret
gathering at the home of Mrs.
Edna Stephens, Goderich.
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Most employees of Wingham and District dependent committee to investigate the
Hospital can expect pay raises ranging from hospital's use of its existing facilities. The
six per cent upwards for both this year and study has been demanded by the health
next under terms of a salary settlement ministry before it will consider funding the
announ -, i last week. expansion of any facilities at the hospital.
Following discussion in closed spssio..1, w;� . R. D. W iiidns reported the proposal was
hospital board of governors ann ... _I the discussed in detail by the medical staff, which
following settlements for the various em- basically regards it as "a superfluous
aoyee groups- exercise in futility". He also noted the health
Service employees, which include nursing ministry will not guarantee financing even if
assistants and housekeeping and dietary the report is favorable.
staff, will receive a six per cent general raise This is an accredited hospital which has
retroactive to April 1, 1979. Another 6% per been through numerous investigations and
cwt raise will take effect next April 1. come out with flying colors, he commented.
Supervisors and registered nurses get a With the addition of the report prepared for
seven per cent raise 'retroactive to Oct. 1, the board several years ago by a team of
1978, and another sever per cent for the management consultants, another in -
current year ending Sept. 30, 1960. vestigation is pointless and unlikely to turn up
The raises giver to employees in the any new information.
management and paramedical groups were However he said the doctors recommend
not disclosed. Hospital Director Norman going along with the study since the ministry
Hayes said they varied from category to insists on it. It was also noted the coat of the
category and would only add they are in an study will not be charged to the hospital.
"historical relationship„ with the nursing "Whoever pays for the study will only
salaries. obtain information already thee," Dr. Doug
Mr. Hayes also said the size of the set_ Mowbray commented, but he added the
tlements, which, as in the past, are tied to the doctors don't want to stand in the way of any
raises won by the Canadian Union of Public further negotiations with the ministry. He
Employees and the Ontario Nurses' said the study will focus on the utilintion of
Association, caught the hospital by surprise. beds and the . anagement of the hospital to
see whether any changes are needed.
The board didn't anticipate increases on The board learned in a letter that its nur-
this scale and will be asking the health sing assistant training school has moved to
ministry for additional funds to help balance first place in the province on the basis of
the budget. In 1974 the unions won a large scores recorded by graduates on their
increase and as a result the ministry got more registration exams last year. it agreed to
money to help hospitals cope with the ad- send a letter of commendation to Mrs. Jean
ditional wages, he noted. Ellacott, director of the school. The previous
In other business at the meeting the board year the training centre had been ranked
agreed to go along with a study by an in- seventh in Ontario.
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the damage to telephone lines caused when a logging truck og-d an overhead cabl'.
The mishap knocked out lens In the north end of Wingham and the country beyond.
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