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•TIlesday+ Angtrlf.' 1979: in the
merning, the Weather was. Cool bat
pleasant By mid-afternoon, the temper-
ature was het and muggy; the air felt
heavy; gray clouds looked menacing. and
everyone sensed we were in for a storm.
Around six p.mthe rain started falling
in Clinton. A brisk wind swept Sheets. of
rain across the streets, and I was thankful
to be indoors. Thunder rumbled a few
times, and occasional stabs of lightning
flashed. By seven o'clock the rain had
stopped and the sun was almost shilling.
When I went outside, I felt the hot humid
air and suspected we'd receive another
storm before the night was over. We
didn't, because we were lucky,
Not until later in the evening dicl [learn
at the tornado that levelled whole
communities just a few dozen kilometres
away,
HMOs`, factories, businesses, farms,
. livestock, crops and vehicles were. devas-
• fated. First reports listed three people
dead, damage estimates in the millions and
rising, and several hamlets wiped out.
People's lives had been uprooted as easily
as the trees,
Three lives lost are three too many, but it
is a miracle the fatalities weren't higher.
Newspapers, tv and radio carried countless
stories of terror and scenes of destruction.
Within minutes Red Cross and other
velunteer helpers were at work. Ambu-
lance and police sirens screamed through
the darkness. With power and telephone
lines cut, many people couldn't call for
help; CB radios came into use, ambulance
drivers patrolled streets and roads looking
• for people in need, and need seemed to be
everywhere.
- A reporter at the scene was amazed how -
quickly people regal-fleatheir, composure.
Their first thought seemed to he they were
lucky to be alive. Their second move was to
take stock of the damage and salvage the
little they could.
The job, of cleaning up was an ominous
one, but no one put if off. With disaster
Staring theta in the face, they refused to.
give up. Instead they began almost
immediately to pick up the pieces of their
lives and ppt them back together again.
They received help froM. neighbeurs who
had been more fortunate. Because a the
fickle nature of the tornado, houses on one
side of a street would be demolished while
buildings on the other side would be
enteuched.
Curious onlookers came, of .course, to
gaPe., take pictures and add to the chaos.
Police -roadblocks tried to keep them out
but some slipped through. A reported
looting added another sad note.
But other people had another purpose.
They came from all directions, and some
drove sixty miles or more. They arrived in
carlOads, trucicleads; and busloads. Some
brought foocl and clothing for the home.
less; others came armed 1,N; ith heavy mitts
and work boots, picks and shovels. They
became part of the massive clean-up
brigade. They didn't know the people they
carne to help; they just knew they needed
it.
` When asked why they came, volunteers
gave various comments. One lady re.
marked, "lt could have happened to us as
easily a them."
A man agreed, "You never know when
we might need help, too."
A second man explained, "I was in the
same situation a few years ago, and I feel
like this is my chanee to repay all the help 1
got then,"
In the days following the tornado, radio
stations around Ontado set up a relief
network, in which thousands of dollars
were raised. Donations came from various
organizations, businesses and individuals,
and in the meantime, volunteer worker's
kept pouring into the disaster area.
Victims, neighbours and strangera worked
side by side,
If any good can, be. said to come from a
tragedy, such as the -tornado in the.
Woodstock area, it is the compassion that
compels people to help these in need.
.• •Kiiborchan Notes • ::••••
BY MABEL 'TURNBUII,
Wednesday evening after
our church service Dr.
• Rodger VVhitman came and
•showed us his pictures that
he took of his trip to Britain
about a year ago. Hisparty of
• four left by air Aug. 15 and
arrived home Sept. 156. The
pictures were identified by
• an "off the cuff" interesting
and informative commentary
• by Dr. Whitman. They trav.
died in the Southern part of
England through Kent, Sur -
re y and Devon and were in
touch with two teachers on
exchange. friends of Mrs.
Whitman, giving short
courses. They saw ancient
buildings dating back to the
17th century and the historic
spot where Sir Francis Drake •
was bowling when he heard
• ,of the coming of the Spanish
•Armada, He. said he would
lake care of them when he
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BY JACK OPPIEUrM.P.P.
There has been consider-
able controversy oil the sub
;kct of X-rays since a team of.
tree physicists and an en.
• gineer • released a report
Stating that excessive rad.
iatien from X-ray machines
eauSei. sone 20 cases of
leukemia in Ontario each
year- This. is a statistical
estimate based on ;pre.
timiaary finding* in a survey
oC an(011)11o78s,PiwtalbSiciftlusrihnoBwl lt9h7a7t
some S% of hospital X-ray
machines emit exceptionally
high does of radiation be
cause they are not adjusted
properly.
During debate on this
disclosure,noeerificatiwo-en il5eanrneeeddedtl,tiant:
Ontario to permit a doctor,
dentist or chiropracor to
establish and in an X-ray
clinic, Such certification to
guarantee that a clinic is
being run safely, that staff is
properly trained and that
patients are properly cared
for, is issued by the Ontario
Medical Association on a
voluntary basis only, and
apparently of a total of 686
hospital and medical pre-
mises using Xray equipment
only 207 have volenteered for
certiWriecaalstio7n.
learned that fewer
than one-third of the Minis-
try of Health's Own X-ray
equipment operators work-
ing in chest clinics around
the province are reigstered
radiological technicians.
There was considerable con-
cern about a 1973 -Health.
-Ivfinistryreport, on which no
government action had been
taken, which warned that
chiropractors who owned
• their own equipment admin-
istered an excessive number
of X-rays and recommended
that they no longer be able to
-•
;Claim; from OHIP ter. X-rays.
but instead b.!. allowed 40
refer patient* to00400 OS*
A snokesman. for Ontario
ehiroPraeters, Said* apreAS
conference, that it io Quid be 4
big mistake to ban such
X-rays which are a necessary
diagnostic tool. He said that
chiropractors receive about
450 hours of elasStoOrn and.
co-the•jOb instruction in the
use of these machines during
the four year course offered
by the Canadian Memorial
Chiropractic College in Tor-
onto -
The controversy about X-
rays is not confined to:
Ontario. A professor of the
Harvard Medical School
sounded the alarm in the
June issue of the New
England Journal of Med-
icine. He stated that it's
sometimes easier for doctors
to; order X-rays than think;
that radiologists take too
many pictures during X-rays
of the kidney, spine, heart
and •Skull; that: 'follow-up
films for a healed duodenal
ulcer are often unjustified;
that it is ludicrous for some
hospitals to take daily X-rays
to follow the Nurse of
pneumonia; that 38% of
patients having routine chest.
films for admission to hos,-
pital had already had one
taken earlier that year.
There were other problern
areas, For instance, 50% of
U.S. technologists did not
meet the standards of their
professional society, and
some 27- million. repeat -X-
rays had to be taken because
films were either too dark or
WO light, or the patient had
been positioned the wrong
way.
He concluded that poorly
trained technicians were one
of the major problems in the
U.S. medical world.
esi ents see Britain on film
finished his bowling. History
• tells us the result of his
• skirmish, The Spanish ships
went into the North Sea and
many were lost. It left
• England "Mistress of the
Seas." Dr. Whitman told of
looking up a lady, a formerland lady of Rev. Roberts,
now minister inm
-Egondville
United,
The party visited the old
Roman Baths which were
much the same as they were
when the Romans built them.
,There isn't space here to
• describe all the places which
were visited but in general
the pictures impressed me
particularly, by the beautiful
gardens especially the size of
the roses which often grew as
high as the" people who
viewed them. The English
make use of the very tiny
spots of land to develop into
a• place of beauty with
•
• •
flowers. In some gardens
they cultivated ann. common
golden rod which to us is just
a weed. I couldn't believe my
• eyes When I saw for myself
these cultivated in English
• gardens. I had often picked
them myself. As with daisies.
and Wild'earrbt, they made a
lovely • bouquet. Another
impression which the speak-
er emphasized was how the
people cared for and pre-
served their old buildings
even when they were loaning
badly. I remember being in
• an old corner tea-room . in
Oxford which was.very popu-
lar. The building sagged and
inside the floor and ceiling
were warped but they made
the best of it Pictures were
shown Of old buildings where
an attempt was made to
preserve them and the stones
used were crooked to the
extent the side of the build.
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ing was anything but plumb.
They visited York Cath.
edral where Dinah Sills.'
sister, Daphne, Was secre-
tary to the Archbishop of
• York. They saw Buckingham
,Palace which looked very
sombre and grey. , with no
• garden in the front. I can
vouch for a lovely garden at
the rear where the royal
• garden parties were held. I.
attended two in 1938 and
. 1953. Tea, iced coffee and
open-faced finger -rolls, and
layered cakes were served
under a marquee. This was
self -serve to be carried to
• small tables in the garden
Where one could relax.
The party of four moved
across the border into Scot-
land and got in touch with
R.J. Spittal's sister Dorothy2
Bridge of Allan' Stirlingshire
where the Spittals lived. 1
had the pleasure of. visiting
in that pretty town for two.
weeks with the Jeffrey's,
friends whom I had met
• crossing the Atlantic back to
Canada. While in Bridge of
Allan I was also in touch with
• the Spittals and spent an
in their home: At
that time my .friends drove
me through the Highlands, to
Inverness on the north coast,
past L. Lomond and the
CaledOttia Canal, Lock Ness
Th .
e speaker emphasized the
fact that they were: in the
• British Isles for thirty days,
., and every one of them sunny,
phenoinenal-for the U.K. In
• the pictures we saw the
heather covered hills and
flocks of sheep on • the
hillside. He explained how
thesheep-dogs are trained to
care for, the sheep by. .the
shepherd; how different
whistles meant orders to the
sheep and dogs which they
• recognized and obeyed. The
mads Were paved but
some were • narrow. Mrs.
Robt. • McFarlane thanked'
Dr. Whitman on behalf of the
residents for taking us on
such an interesting and real
trip to Gt. Britain.
VISITORS
Mrs. Paul Brand Seagra4'
nee Ida Hogg, formerly of
• McKillop called to visit Mi.
Turnbull: and Pearl McFar-
lane. She recalled interesting
stories about my grandfather .
Robert Turnbull, how he
planted an acre of carrots to
feed his horses.
• Peter .Sillery ;spent the
weekend whh his mother
Sally Sillery.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Longman, Londesboro, nee
Mary Dolmage, an ex -pupil,
visited M. Turnbull and Jack
Timmy, Blyth. Mr. and Mrs.
Les Scott, Oakland III. who
have been in the area for a
few weeks called at Kit.' ,.
barchan to visit old friends.
Jack Tiernay had as visitors
his brother Cliff Tientay and
his two sons of Marti]. Bay.
Mrs. John 'Bruls, nee
Sharon Edward, Huron Park,
a former member of the staff
called on friends here.
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In the midst of the present
gontrOverS? in Ontario, the
two radiation experts who
originally sounded the alarm,
here iSsued a statentent
Urging the pnblic ,npt le
refuse any X-ray prescribed;
by a doctor, because by
aefitSing; such a diagnogic
examination the patient runs
a greater risk from failure to
find serious disease. Accord-
ing to them, the risk of
getting cancer from an ab.,
dominal X-ray is equal to that
of smoking 32 cigarettes,
They also said that work is
well under way to correcting
the situation through educ.
ational programs for staff
operating the X-ray mac.
hines and inspections in
hospitals throughout Ontario;
with equipment being re-
adjusted where necessary. In
future, they maintain that
groups of radiation experts
Will have to be stationed in
hospitals and clinics across
the province to ensure qual-
ity control
Exeter
plans new
A physician writing a
column in a Toronto Paper
suggests that patients should
follow the same approach AS
doctors, who never submit to
questionable film. The key
question to ask, he says, is
"Would yeti, get X-rays,
doctor, if you had this
prObleM?.*
•
Qbviously, any major
change in body function is
•cause for concern although
Kippen •
W.J.F. Bell underwent
surgery in Victoria HospiMI,
London, last week+
Mrs, D.E. Kyle, Mrs.
Ronald 1.4 CG regor, Mrs.
Harold Jones and ars. John
Cooper attended. the Alma
One Day School for women
which was held in Central
United Church, St, Thomas,
last Tuesday,
Miss Ruth Webber, Red
Deer, Alberta, visited Mrs,.
Maudie Mpusseatt during
the past week.
Jack Cooper and son Jim
mie left for their home in
Alberta on Saturday.
Rochus Faber returned
from Florida last week.
police THE AN
station •ENUMERATION
sometimes the ;symetema,
have a comparatively XUrittle
explanation, manyStaneeS, Mtn* are Only' nee-
esSary if time ;and Metier-
ation fail to relieve. the
situation.
Doctors tend to protect
their families from defensive
X.rays. It's been estimated
that in the United States
ablaut .30 per cent of all
X-rays are done for fear of
future malpractice stlitS•
Physicians want to use every
precaution to guarantee that
nothing has been overlooked,
A member of a doettrea
family is likely to have a
sprained ankle strapped up
and forget about an X-ray.
Similarly a doctor's child
won't be subjected to X-rays
of the skull unless there's
been a serious injury, They
know that only one in every.
thousand skull films done on
children ever • shows a
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fracture.
What about dental X-rays?
Most...
Physicians agree te;
fall -Meath films every few
years. Then selective ones at.
Yearly visits. However, they,
Weald doubtless ;Object to a
Complete series . of X-rays
every six months or even
once a year,
The physician advises
"Never urge your doctor to
take X-rays, or think he's
behind the time S for not
ret.:trniending them."
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Exeter will have a new
police stationIARTSNEXT WEEK
, but the loca
tion and time schedule for
• •
re -building hasn't been deci-
. de& The station was exten-
sively damaged by fire on
July 13, with $50,000-00
placed on the loss.
Exeter council, meeting in
an in -camera session with
the town's finance committee
and . representative of B.M.
Ross and Associates, and a
representativeof the town's
insurance company, made
the decision to rebuild.
Council did accept a verbal
offer from Lyle Wells of the
Frank Cowan •Insurance
• Company for a cash settle-
ment of at least $25,000.00
for the gutted police station.
Council had hoped for ani
offer of around •S30,000.00 .
and will negotiate for a better
offer. The building, exclud
ing the contents, was insured .
for S37,800.00.
The engineer recommen.L.
ded the present police station
not be rebuilt.
• Bruce Potter of B.M. Ross
and the town's building
inspector, Doug Treibner,
said it would cost between
510,000 to 515,000 above the
insurance settlement to bring
the building up to standards
while a new structure could
be constructed for roughly
the same amount of money.
It still hasn't been decided
whether the police will
rebuild on the present
lo at' n's main
street or if thr.: statcould
•
The annual municipal enumeration will begin onTuesclay, September
4, 1979..DIJ ring. this month; an enumerator, carryirig 4 proper identifica-
tion card, will call at your residence for a few minutes to check basic
information required in determinirig:
• the allocation of education property taxes between the public and •
separate school systems. •
.
• the distribution of provincial grants to local governments to help
re uce oca ax s;
• the preparation of jurors' lists; and
• population informatidn needed for other municipal programs.
• • •
The enumerator must record:. such information as. ,the name, age,
property status'(e.g. owner or tenant), school support and residency of
all members of the household. .• • •
When the enumerator visits, .please check that the information on
the Enurneration Notice is correct. If it is not, revise it and verify the
• changes.
, If you are not home, a Notice wiil be left for you. If changes are
necessary, please make them and mail the Enumeration Notice, asi
soon as possible, in the self addressed. postage prepaid envelope
accompanying the Notice. For any additional information, please
• contact the local assessment office.
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