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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-03-01, Page 31 • VAN EGMOND EXECUTIVE — The 1979 exectitive of the Van ,Egmond Foundation includes (back row) Gladys Van Egrhond of Clinton, secretarY; -.Bob Newnham, Of SeafOrth, treasurer and (Front) Dorothy Williams, F1.8. 4, Clinton, the Vice-chairiTien and Paul Carroll of Seaforth, chairman. (Expositor PhOto) Hospital repairs cost $35,000 Eled (Continued frOM POOP 1) • , know how to eveitl the MiniSn'Y Order tet 'Pet beds in locel hespitala. Osten, waS eritield of the ministrY bed cuts were "ene of the last things that should be happening to us" He said the hoepital beds were needed adding the move wap one of the most dreadful things this prevince eould do". 'HY:WiRALA ONE • • tobe heft! on: April' 7 and. .• t°11siderahlY as have. such The Seaforth Community spoke ef. the Penny • Salefixed expenses as. hydro and Hospital beard at a meeting.. Starting APrif 25. She in_ heat, . L Teesdayapproved-the--pite*--- forme&theboard-thaflefe-Orst-tron't.-.1-nrertiladr Giardian chase of a new gas dryer for the auxiliary members (Zimmer pointed out his the laundry roomat a cost of Wilma „Oke had recently convern was not so Much . 31,286.• electedPublic Rel'atiens ,with the Ministry' of Health Also approved was the Director for the Ontario reducing beds bOt with the order for new solid wood Hospital A ux it aries •4ttendant inipact that this doors as required by the Fire ,Association and p:fssedth•e willthe hhaa:peitoani. the financing of Marshall's Office. There' are around copies about 200 doers that roust be Volunteer which is the "As a ' patient I. always replaced throughout the newsletter pet out by the -7-received a statement from hospital. As well the pur- • director. the hospital on discharge • chase of new storm windows, ,Hospital a d nai n istra tor showing the number a days •• and insulaton were approved, Gordon McKenzie in his twat in hospital, the rater per. y ", - „ The total cost will be about report spoke of the loss of the daand the total costMr .535,000 for the doers, storm- 16 beds at the Seaforth Rim -mer said and continued windows and insulatiOn. ' hospital as the result of. the ' The statement also The Ministry of Health, Ministry of Health directive indicated how Much was Paid which has approved these cutting down beds by ()HIP and the balance. due capital costs, will pay throughont the province, Mr. Which was generally the 522,000 with the hospital McKenzie said it Means semt-Private or Private ward' board ' responsible for dismantling the beds and tost. From this lassumed, as 513,000. • closing the doors en the I think manY others do. that • In his report to the board, rooms. He said pievate, the hospital was paid by OHIP Dr. Rodger Whitman recon- rPoacmdsiawtrnicaidahnedarmthaetebrnraintYt rieortthh: hmcismphiteari oafnddaythsalt was mended that Dr. Brendan .O'Connor, Stratford, be of the cuts. He spoke of the hospital should have been granted consulting privileges user fee of 59.50 that glad to have .me as 1 was , . in radiology, . 'Patients using .chronic. beds creating revenue for them Audrey McLhvein, Public . would have to PaY. He said Following the meeting Mr, Relatioos chairman, said that when cme reads the long Rimmer eularged. on his plans were being made to list of exemptions that came' ccmunents. • mark Hospital Day at the out from, the D‘ Ministry Since being appoint ed to hospital- and proposed ' a regulating the change it was the Seaforth Community booth at the Fall fair.• diffibult to find if the change -}losPital Board and Ruth Pickard reporting on evet would be made except becoming involved in - , e the work done by ' the la the odd special casehospital financI find that .. . Hospital Auxiliary, said the .. Mr. Mckenzie said the this assumption on my part is hospital had been given hospital would be trying to far from the truth. Hospital 51,881 by' the auxiliary which continue to provide the same financing is rather complex, was to be used to purchase a quality of care as provided hut to Put it simPlY the mist tent for children with five years ago but with less hospital receives a fixed • resPiratorY 'Problems. She money. He said drugs, theanloNtviohtofireoynetat faMr iittni-sptarytiefoart .said plans had been com- medical ' and • . surgical the . pleted for the auxiliary dance supplies have increased careThe Ministry of Health .provides the hospital with an ` amount to operate for a year. • rtr. Lynch said there didn't seem te tc any sitigular thing that could be done to tight the bed cuts. He said it appeared the MiniStrY was nOt listening to municipal , .doupcils or to hospital beards bet he felt certain, it would listen to a peblic outery, said a "Gress roots" pretest supported by people vvhe elect the gevernmeet weuld probabty get the attention people wanted it to. He told et:tuned he, had visited -the hospital board e of the fiveconoty hospitals ad had feund that each lospitel is dealing with the guts, in, different ways. He said Ministry penalties imposed on hospitalt not abiding with the Order tO eat Inds left the boards "With little choke but to develop a plan te fit the bed cuts into the operation of the hospitals." But Dr,. Lynch Oid say that two hospital hoards, Goeletigh and Wiogham.seemed to •betaking a more neTiVe stand than Clinton, Exeter and Seaforth. He said the two larger hospitalswereattemeting to demonstrate 10 the public that the beds left as a result of the ministry cuts were not enough to provide • edequate medicel treatment". He said each Dispatchers hired Pive dispatchers have been hired to man the new Huron County • police entergeticy dispatch system, expected to be Operational by April 15. , •• Seaforth police chief John • Cairns said the.police chiefs from the five towns taking part in the county police radio system and the mayor of Exeter and Reeve of Clinton intereiewed ap- • plicants for the diepatching • The hospital then prepares to budget within the amount work in mid-April.provided. ' • Chief Cairns said General "The daily rate that is on Electric. Whoroanufaetered the_ state Mem' (retie the the radio eqdirItitent, used in • hospital is the base rate per the dispatch. service, Said patient day derived from this installation of die equipment budget., but as stated is is net is right on schedule. applied to the actu al patient • Seaforth residents Will still • days to provide the revenue call 52771$00 to report cmte the hospital. That revenue s after the neW is fixed by the annual amount • orovidecl by the Ministry. "Ota patient care is a little different in that a certain amount is provided in the way of.a fixed budget amount for the year: and soul e amounts are paid to the hospital on Alio number of eases and -the type of Care A recent story on historical provided." photos which have appeared • Mr. Emitter confirmed, in The Expositor wren& ”Whete I foresee a problem is that if a hospital is , erge c county system goes into ef- fect. 'he dispatchers will "answet*he ealls and rela,, information to the Seaforth (Continued from Page. 1-) ,iow although it's hard to pin down just what year Cooney Weiland proved the nemisis of another Huron County native, ' known as "the Mitchell Meteor", the story is a well -know; tele hi hockey annals, • HoWie. Morcriz, the Mitchell native who • - had played against Cooney Weiland in "Junior "A" level hockey, went on to - become tli'd star, . . for the Montreal • Canadiens, He was a man who didn't take , the gaine lightly 7 hockey was a sertette___ intsineSs and winning wae everything. 'One night in:a playoff game in Boston. the Canadiens lost in overtime 'Wleen • Egmondville's native sort, playing center against Morena; banged in a long drive let the winning point. Howie Morenz was shattered and he paced- the Streets all • night, replaying the, final seconds of the game.. heard bee its ewu apprtntelt to the PrOblere ibat "Scatertb, Fxeter and Clintori do net appear stressed whereas Goderieh aiur Winehern feel their hospitelswon't be able to give adequate service% 440 Dr. Lynch. The MOH did not Say it was impossible to save moriey in hospit Ws but did say that the way the minister of health chose tO administer the bed cuts was wrong. He said he felt hospitals'wereralready operating, on "no fat :budgets" but added that; WW1 an opportunity to sit down and Plan hew to better use hospital facilites the bed cuts coold be harldied. H Sald_therewa 9' opportnnify "for hospital 'boards to do that vleitriing the ministry order was. net a "Very Sensible way" to deal With the matter. ,l)r. Lynch, told eooncil that when the present government was seeking election it prottlised Universal health are. lie said it appeared as thoegh that was only a promiSe ,ainted at getting vote. I* added that the government "Should not be reluctent to. listen to physicians, who are looked on with suspicion by thegoveroment or people Who work for hospitals.", He added that it appeared the government had no intentien of heeding arguernents put forth by doetors claiming the only people the governMept woule listen to were "the people .that eleet gevernments". Reeve Elston compared hespital bed cuts to similar clecisiens made by the province in education matters.' Elston said the government planned to centralize education to improve it and ."kept taking and taking and taking until we had nothing left but big schools that now they -can't operate." Some $msk:in White SLIsairs Lruistn. Fundraising a priority 1Kontineed from Page The foundation members also approved' a- Motien made by Paul Carroll authorizing the tteering committee to meet with atchictect Chris Borgal and to preeeed With phase tsve of the resteration when they fit. Phase two includes updating the heating , plumbing and eleetrical systems of the house. In her remarks as. outgoing chairman, Mrs, Newnham recalled some of the highlights of the past year from the point when the group considered giving up their campaign to restore the house tp the day the first Wintario cheque for $11,000 arrived. ' She said, "The hope is that this muteent Will eventually be Able to display the early history a this area, and its development; and that residents around here will realize that thereis a local place to display their history and will trust their old and valuable pictures and documents from their families' early days tO the Van Egmopd House." Mrs, Nevvnham added, '"Tuckersmith Township should realize how unique it ie in Huron. County for them: to have a museum right within their own boendaries." • positions on Feb. 6. police by radio, •)(fiftieth Douglas •. . Anderson' of Goderich, pre- sently workirig as a • dis, • patches: with the Godetich Ar.arrection O.P.P. was hired as the head • dispatcher for the nevv tyeterit He was one of three • applicants for the job. The four others hired as identified Mrs. (Ned) flitieh. diepatchers are Barbara ley. Mrs, Hinchley was the receiving a fixed amount for Tilley of Seaforth, Lorna Dale -aunt of Harry Hinehley of 30 beds and due to an of Exeter, LOri Biggdn of Renfrew, frequent eiltitrib. • urnisitel eircitinstatice they Clinton and Phyllis Hogarth utor to the Expositor. • have to have 36 people in the of Wingham. There were II A story in last 'weeks heSpital at on time, sixlit applieatiOns 9cir the four dig- Expositor in tonnection with hall beds,. the NAOMI will. patchetS 'Otis. The dis- the rejection by Seaforth oirly receive monies to.care 'ratchets will all move to Council. of an rafter for the for 30 patients. It is to be Ooderich befOte Starting purchate of a Main Street hoped that the Minietry property the town owns,. wag would not Aeation of incorrect in that it referred to this natun to ,eeur for long 011 r•e the offet as having beta without mak, rig an 'allOWarlee made by Herman •Lattsink. •* but as far as I, knoW, no invited • waS in error, the offer' prOvisiott has been 'triode he 'Junior tiorticulter a 1' Holdings Ltd, of Oranton and "PerluipS this has tO be Society meeting will be held not by Mr. Lansink. Wo 'exPerieticed first, but t Sint ori Match 7th at 3:45 In regret any concern arid ton. hope that tlie serviee Seaforth Public School, reOht fusion that may NINO tek provided doesn't suffer while 7. Everyone weleonte. • stilted frorrethe erten', ' theeXPetietite gained." having been 'Made by Tina Yet." ' • Early the neXt morning he banged on the door of Eltrier Ferguson, a noted Montreal sportswriter. "I've been walking the streets all night, trying to forget that goal. We lost and it • was my fault," Morenz blurted nut. And, -recorded Elmer Ferguson, "the Id was -sobNiloi%nvgw..h.ile, Weiland's hockey career was what attracted the public's attentioe, the • Egmondville native, also excelled •anoher 'at sport -golf_ GOLF Frank Sills recalls that when Cooney carne home to Visit his parents itt • Egtoondville, he always brought his golf • Clubs with him, and played on the old Seaforth course that was situated just east of the present site of the Seaforth Community Hospital. "Ceoney was quite adept at golf and ' • Inea-ShtaL, chairman of the interior committee, reported a -number. of artif., Uri been-dinWed to the-hirrs'ElifiTe past year, by Gladys Van, Egmont, from Monte gorneryt' Tavern in -Toronto, and froth Pr. 1).17. Pretty, The committee also made one purchase during the year --,-4 $350 shielb°10 new displayed in the dining rctom of tho heuse. Dr, Rodger Whitman, chairman of the grounds committee reported the cost of caring for the grcands has been covered by theYan Eerne ad family for the coming year. Mrs. Newnharn, chairman of the wait and means committee, reported the art and flower show which was organized by Paul • and Mary Cerrott proved to be a popelar drawing card at the Ciderfest She else told the foundation members that psychic Vera McNichol Of Millbank, has (offered to work one day for the Van Egmond Foundation and • donate all the proceeds to the restoration lend. Mrs. Newnham also reported that the erovince of Ontario Savings Bank in Seaforth recently donated an oid ledger desk to the foondation. • inQ:..record loved to play there," Mr. Sills recalls, "One hot summer when I was about 16, the fairways were hard and fast and the greens keen so you got the most out of a good hit. I spent most of my time there that summer so often saw Cooney play, He played the course in par andl also played it in par and from what the regulars said, we were the only two who ever did play that course in par. It was a fluke for me as far as, I'm concerned but from what I saw of Cooney 1 believe he deserved it." • • In 1938, Cooney Weiland's hockey career took another change in direction when he became a playing coach with the Bruins. Among the players under his • guidance was the infamous,Eddie Shore, his former linemate Claaier, Dublin's own Johnny Crawford and Milt Schmidt, the manwho would also someday coach the Boston Bruins. Sugar and spice By Bill Smitey • When I leaped, from the . swamp of • editing a weekly newspaper int0.. the quagmire of 'teaching in a Secondary school, I didn't realize it was frying -pan to fire. • Like most people. 1 had a stereetyped idea of a sehool teacher. Someone ho had • quit work whilet still had two hoursplus' overtime or night wOrkto go. Someone who %vat fairly,bright, rather shabby. not well paid but 'never really poor, looking forward to a steady pension after a Mere 35 years of work, 'SoMeone who had ahvays had a modest home and t secondhand car, the received two or three Children, a dowdy and modest wife, and. a 'Simple, ,rather sedentary 'profession .that would enable hint to live *and' collect his pension Until he was 00. , But most of all, Someone who had a week's holiday at Clitittmat* another in tvlerch and twe whole Months off in the SUMMer, • I am forced to admit, as well, that rather looked forward to having a touch of • authority. 1 had none ,Over heCaUse I loved them too Much. I had none over my wife, because — Well any of you married men know. True, t had been an officer in the RCA*. which' stiggeSted „authority.: But fighter pilots had no authority. An army lietitenant eriuld ettettni and etithe At his Meo and degrade' them, And himself., If we tried DOMINION CHAMPIONS—The 1923-24 team of the Owen Sound Greys won tfie Dominion • .Championship. Among the stars of the eight man team were Egmondville's Ralph "Cooney" Weiland, the first man on .the left in the front row and Clinton's Fred Elliott, the fourth man from the left in the back row. The photo Was • brought into the Expositor by Mr. ElliOtt. Cooney's coaching career proved as successful as his playing career and the team won the National Hockey League title and the Stanley Cup -in the 1938-39 season. • Cooney Weiland had now been a member of two championship teams, in his first -and last seasons as a player in the N.H.L. In 1939, Cooney" Weiland -became a fulltime coach, working under the. long time Boston manager Art • Ross. But Weiland hadn't hung up his skates entirely ape inlievernbei, 1939, he faced -one of -the., -.— stiffest gimes Of his eareer. • SEAFORTH BEAVERS Now as .some, Seaforth residents may . 'reeall, the Seaforth Beavers intermediate -..cxey team were considered the top team in their league in the late 30's, So,. with Cooney Weiland's help, the Beavers challenged the Boston Bruins to an . • exhibition game, played in the Stratford arena. Over 2,009 fans; ahnost half Of them front Seaforth, crowded intO the Stratford arenato watch the game: Weiland, loyal to -his roots, played with the Seaforth Beeeets against his Boston team mates. • Frank Sills,playing for the ; Settforth Beavert at the time, remembers, "Cooney as usual played a good game and as always. -was a :great opportunist with the puck • around the net. The slap shot was not used at that time but instead the quick snap' with the wrists was the one that took the goalies by surprise. Cooney was very adept at this and that is why he Won the N.H.Li scoring championship • one year and was • chime to the top several other times." .* The first periOd, the Beavers faced off against the Bruins, but the list two periods of the games, the teams were mixed to • make a rnore„eved rnatch. The referee 'for the game 'wai 'another will known hockey player, Hap Day, a star • with the TorontoMaple Leafs. • The Beavers players who brayed the Bruins included Harold, Stade in goal, Tom . Sills and Archie Hubert:, On defence, Cooney Weiland at center, Ralph and Alvin • McFadden on the wings and team mates Frank SillS, George Kruse, Al Hildebrand, • Bob MeCallum, Gordon Muir, and Cyril .Flannery. As the article in The Expositor said. "While the score was itriMaterial, it might be wise to point Out that Harold Slade, • Beaver goalie, allowed only two shote in •each' of the lastperiods." Among the Bridniplayers on the ice Were Dit Clapper„ captain of the team, Roy Cottadhet, Johnny Crawford and Milt Schmidt Next Week: COoney's coaching Career, and . his switch from professional back to the amateur ranks. Teaching and editing that with sotrie ground -crew chap, he'd Merely give us the finger. We were Merely the curious young chaps Who flew the things, They were the people who made the things fly. • Only once did t have t chattee, to be a • leader Of men, and thus throw my Weight around. It was after I'd been shotdown and captured. • I wound up with about 40 • Canadian soldiers, Shortly 'afterwards. their only two officers, who eursed and • sereamed and treated them like peasants, escaped, 1 wa's the ooly officer left I was pretty keen fo show that I was officer material and: leadership calibre. 1 ,qalked about morale, and trying to escape. The only comment was made by a grizzled sergeant. who said, flatly, "Screw that1!4., The others merely laughed. So I found out that ery authority consisted of cutting loaVeS Ot ()leek German bread into equal portions of six, whit a dull knife, undet the guillotine eyes Of 38 et the rude and licentious soldiety. And the only reason I had the job was that they didn't • trnst each other, much for authority. Bet I knew it Would he odTerent as a SChdbl 'MOW-. I would be Pi go -just, a wise and 14enevolent 'father . tAtt one Who et °hid brook he eh:MOW! 10. his; decisions. Yes, a regular Mr," alis, adeepting Ora:fences, doling out gentle but pro. found advice, having ten with my students*. My wife' hovering in the background,, enjoying the way 1 twitted the youtigsters. What a pipe dreamt I "went into" 'education, as it is 'nefariously knowe. 'Peet about the time of the big baby boom it the end of the 'S0s. New schools were being built, and looked like, a chain of newshoe factories. • Any body of Any sex. and 1 mean any,. that was Warm and breathing and had. anything approaching a - University degree, was tieing dragged off the streets and • stood up in front of 30 at 35 kids who were just getting into dtugs and perniissiveriess. Every third student was a barrackroom lawyer. •• " Nair beeatne the thing for male. jeans 7 So tight a touch would have blown them uP, and T-shirts with Messages so explicit a ' Marine would have 'bluShed, became the thing for females, tangtiage that would • curl a sailor's hair betatrie the thing for both. Md not only among the students. Teachers ranged from fitness freaks to alcoholics aticelytimus, from • pedants- to pederasts. They started appearing In long • hair elid deSett beets, in gasp -revealing eltay, agesand Mini skirts and sadistic high booth and Afro wigs, Any day.now I eicpeet to see. a lady feather, if that has tied beeome a Mere etifiherniSfl i. carrying a leather quirt. (this it not a type of purs0 ' But 1 tried. 1 did try. I walked through • the halls exuding 'false confidence. 'conger- vatism, and daring, in my Modest 'suit, my white shirt, my dark tie, my hlatk shoes,. and my dedicated „expressiOn. It didn't work. Oh; a few shidents • respected trie, especially when they could get me Off the track of the lessen ,and • talking abut real life. A few girls felt iti love with me for periods as long as six weeks. But One tee orgy hold his thunth in the dyke for se king. No pun intended. They overcome you by sheer numbers. •Today, when a teacher Walks down the hall, he he longer feels like Mi. Chips. He teas niore like a referee at a boxing match, as he darts in, trying to break up a clinch in' which one of the perticiparitt is. ha datigei ofbeiactoonsnt ohgfeitistrangled.oytisntoudi tesntly i students, :tongue.Gbdeeheiest �f het • T-shirt the legend, "No Browsing." And perhaps that's why a dozen teachers' have died young, in thew 30s and 40swhile I've been at it, and three colleagues at time "Of Writing, are in the Intensive foreword of the hospital. With heart attieks- Ntit an -old person among the lat. Perhaps join them one of these diva, and we could pity bridge, flat en Mar bads. Or does anyone 'have a job, kr An oid. editor Who would thode 160 kids it day tor 60 -hour Week, with owe week's holiday, •