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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-09-20, Page 2^ `, • . N., .•, S.Inee 1869. Servingthe Community first. .Pu1,1shed SEAFOR11.1,, ONTARIO every Thursday rnorrlin8 McI.EAN BROS.PORLIISKR$ ANDREW Y. Mel.EAN. 'Publisher $1.1SAN WHITE. Editor ALICE GIB% News Editor Member Canadian Comunteity Newspaper ASSeelaten Ontario Weekly Newspaper Associaton and, Audit Bureau f Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada tin advance/SO.00 a Year OutSide Canada (in edvanee) $25:004 Year 51NOI,E CORES —30 CENT8.FACH $ecnnst Class Mail Registration Number (1694, Telephone 527-0240 Act,A—Ar-101,ArASAAAWAA, SEAFORTti, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 20, 1979 . Reforming medicare • A review of .Canada's medicare system has been announced by the federal government. And after nearly 20 years of OHIF and its • variations operating, in all our provinces, that's probably a good idea. But with all the talk of refOrrning medicare, deterrent feeS"rnaking users pay arid doctors' dissatisfaction it's important tO keep in mind that We have a very good: system of universal medicare and a lot of innocent low income people would be hurt if it were lost, For evidence of what -life is like for people without some sort of • government sponsored medicare, we only have to look to our big neighbour tothe south. . People whO can afford to make their ovvn health insurance payments to private plans, or people in heavily unionlied states like Michigan who have health Plans as employment benefits aren't realty too much' worse off than we who have OHIP. And a US federal type of medicare provides very basic health care for people who have nd money. But the self-employed, small business people, farmers and fishermen are forced topayhorrendous costs for medical care or to 00 Without. , , This was graphically brought home recently .when we talked to a friend Who had worked as'a nurse in. Maine USA, following many years . of experience in Toronto hospitals. She reported an obsession with costs in her US hospital that much exceeds the cutbacks, Ontario hospitals are now experiencing'. Head nurses, she said, are forced to Spend most of their time not supervising. patient care but acting like bookkeepers or cost accountants. . Every item B; patient uses has a numbered sticker on it. When kleenex or a disposable glass or any type Of instrument is used for a , patient that Sticker' goes on his or her chart. And the patient pays' for each and every item, Used, no matter how serial]. Hours that in Ontario can be spent With patients, are spent on these bookkeeping 'chores. Then too our nursefriend had tragic stories: Shemetpeople Who delayed -doctor's Care that could have been preventative because they • couldn't afford it only to arrive in hospital many Months later needing immediate emergency surgery. One such patient had to have his feet amputated by the time he finally sought medical attention. With. earlier intervention, they aimost certainly could have been saved. ' Procedures like ultra sound' which are important diagnostic 'tools in .problem pregnancies in Canada cost 'patients directly in American hospitals. And if the patient can't afford them., tough, .they aren't The effect of a system where the user pays directly for his or her own health care is: that those who don't have the cash suffer. We don't realize Pow lucky we are with our .0I -11P, our nurse, friend. concludes after seeing hospitals in both rcouptries and we agree. There's a case to be made too that a deterrent fee for seeing a doctor Just keeps those who can't afford it from seeking help. The suffering :that will result is not a fair trade off for What the :present occasional abuse ,of Canada's medicare system costs.. - • ..irnimgrfition myths The myth that immigrants somehow 'steer jobs is widespread. And not surprising. - • We see someone Who is obviously new to Canada at work on the job, then we hear the latest unemployment statistics and--click'—we put - One and one together and come up with...the wrong answer. The Montreal Gazette cites a new study by the Quebec Minister. of Immigration that analyzes the performance of 720,000 landed imrnigrants between 1951 and 1974, more than half of whom were workers, The study showed that while these new immigrant workers filled 22 per cent of the new robs Which were generated in Quebec economy during this period, they were also responsible for generating 25 per cent 'of these new jobs. - ' . • Another of the study's findings were that the province's gross national product for this period would have been 11 per cent lets .were . it not for this influx, • • Why? As the study observes, irrimigranta often have a Marked desire,' will and need for work and an entrepreneurial spirit. Such statistics do much to show the common sense of maintaining an open door immigration policy, It made this country what it is today, and it Makes as much sense now. (from the Progress Enterprise, Lunenburg, N.B.) • ...:••••••To•the.e.ifiteet• .00inipy•reloMes, • Another Season at Point Fatms Provin- • dal Park is drawing to a close. The park will offitially close September 16th for the 1970 camping Season, This year the park opened to the public , for camping May lith, 1979 and main- tained 'a65% oecupaney rate the rentainder of the tumbler, despite several rainy holiday Weekends. Critriper nights Were ari approximately 13% over the same period last year. The total number of camper nights were 40,512 as of August 31, 1979. ' Eriforeement vvite Point Farina had a busy year, This year a total of 68 eharges were laid cotripared to 12 charges over the • same period in I918, Coated with' park Visitors by enforcement personnel in- creased considerably. There v,,tre 780 verbal wareings given, 14 campsites and 108 persons evicted. In 1918, 31 verbal warnings- were given and 4 persons evicted, Most rowdyism oecUrrences Were Vehicle related with approximately 70% of all tharges laid under the Liquor Licence It is ititereSting tO Mite that even though the enfotceinetit staff Were twiee as busy this summer, rowdyism eintiplaints de- creased eonsiderably. Neitni It, Richards, bittriet Manager, Ministry of NatUral Resources, lilt. 5, Wingharn Ont. Ailiitilllng 'SEPTEMBER 19* 1079 . The job of rernov me the manse budding on the Presbvt-roe h 'tell property •bo been awarded to Mr. Tyertnan. MOst -of t t LiAn .6S In• fittrOn County beve sold 1;:eit August arid September makes of che .se to Mr. Ballantyne, receiving 6 cents per pound for tIle farmer aritt 7 cents. for the latter. Quite a number went front this station of Seaforth tet attend the central fair at Guelph. James LandsbOrough Jr 4S accidently cut severely on the lip. 4, The new bridge at Waterville iS. rtOW ,completed. Mr, Purdy of tlensall wee The contractor, Thos. NeilanS of Hullett shipped 185 lambs from Blyth for Eastern market on •frioq, last, The MeSsrs. Cook of Dashwood, have, commenced the erectioe of a new flouring mill in Zuirch. SEPTEMBER 23r4, 1904 Wm. Grainger and sen of Hullett have purchased' the famous short horn bull, A,' berdeen hero, 7 years old winner of 21 prizes and imported from Scotland. 1-1. McGregor of Kippen has sold his hindseme pair of two year old general purpose fillies to S. Laidlaw of Tuckerstnith for which he received tiq Snug sum of $350.00.. John Galbraith of McKillop has sold his, farm on the 1 lth coneession to Thes. Beattie of 'Hullett. Sugarand spice JC• . Rotten has entered upon his, duties in the Soveriegn Bank. in Hensel!. Thursday. November the .17th hes been. agreed Open. as ThanksgiVing Pay, by the, Dominon OoVertiment,-, Wm. •Crieh SbeWect us a monster Inusilreem which be gathered together . with several smaller ones at the side of W. - Pickard's Mote. The big, One. weighed one pound. Miss Minnie- Beattie and WS ,leolutSen loft for Guelph, where they will take a cours o in, domestic science at the. McDonald Institute Joseph, Foster, bookkeeper at the furniture 'factory in Seaforth, hes been appointed manager of the Dominitin Furniture Company of. Berlin. The Collegiate Institute board have shown their appreciation of the good work done by the school at therecent ex- antieations by granting an increase of $25.00 to every member of the staff. Wm. Harrison has rented his 200 acre farm on the third concession of Holler to Mr. Ferkvvell f Lendesborough. The apple pickers are, ;gain ori their rounds giving 75c for fall and 60c for winter fruit. SEPTEMBER 2001, 1929 On Monday morning Chas, R. Jewitt vatted on a patron to help him load a heavy plot which was on the station pletform. And it was noticed that one of the windows had been pried open and it occurred to him that there had been a robbery. Chief • By Bill Smiley Every September, after a. • long summer vacation, several of rriV colleagues ask me, jeeringly; l'ni afraid, "Well, did you write that novel?" or, "Did .you polish off your play?" And every September, I have to come up with an excuse, "No I broke in pelvis sky diving," or, "1 had it well in hand until the day I was out sailing we crashed into a'200 - pound sturgeon, and I suffered a bad concussion." One gets pretty good at the instant retort , the swift riposte, after twenty odd yearsof :To tell the truth, "Well, uh, no,11 spent the summer drinking beer and 'going to ' auction sales and swimming and cutting-. my toe -nails, and trimming the corn on the ball Of my fgot, and reading feta :hundred novels, and 'cooking up a storm of frozen dinners," would be out character. i• t' Because every -June I swear to all and sundry that I'm going to turn, out aPiece of prose that will make Dylan Thomas, Ernest Hemingway, Mordechai Richter and Margaret Laurence wish they'd been born thirty years later. Some years it's going to be an autobiographical novel, with absolutely nothing held back. I warn my wife: 'Can you take it, sweetie? There will be tee holds hatred. Everything exposed. The whole business down in black and white." She - neds as she finished the dishes. Other 'years it's going to be a play that exposes the whole retten, corrupt, perversemiddle-class life of this country. The, wet tea-bags.,in the sink, the un made 'beds, the after breakfast 'martinis. the secret racism ,as We watch the Indians being decimated on the late late show. ti iiiiiiiniid on itio audition tat In ins evtni: Of is typoOriinh' kiii Wee the stiostiiona soca . 006beifid by no dirronsous Win, tatilither with reatieraibteilkiVincia for ithititre,*Ilt Ot0 be chifoett for but • ' the bell** of the adifertieerriiiht WM be nefo ler at the apnlicabhi rate. , White tWitry tittert win be Meek * *ties they ere handled with cent, the Oublishenliairitiot be reeolitialtile tor „ , itit.nthert Sr unealk4ted niValittipt$ or photos. . . • . . • A Behind the scenes • by Keith Rou)ston Random thoughts Some random thoughts on a September morning. , Saddened as they were by the death of former prime Minister John Diefenbaker, bigwigs in the current Progressive Conser- vative government must have been a just a bit relieved as well, ' Having Diefenbeker looking over your shoulder was not an easy task: just ask Robert Stanfield. But after chuckling at Diefenbaker's accusations in the last decade against Pierre Trudeau that he was flouting Parliament; the present Tories Must been burned a bit by Dia' s criticism of the fact that Joe Clark has taker) longer to call Parliament into .session than any prime minister in history. How many more darts would he have thrown in the coming session against his own party,Clark's boys must have been wondering, One hates to complain because it's been such a quiet restful summer but this government does seem to be committing all the faults they and Mr, Diefenbaker accused the Liberals of. We're Still a month away from the calling of Parliament yet this government has been rolling along making decisions for four months now'. Yet people like Mr. Clark And Sinclair" Stevens were always crying .foul before heeadSe the Trudeau governmeet was doing too much through cabinet decision and not enough through Parliament. 2 Not that that much has been going on so far of course. Only a fool' would..tave expected the whole country to turn around beeause of a change in government but still some Of the priorities of the new government seem strange. The first fuss of course tame froin the government's insistenee that it would. go ahead with moving the Canadian Embassy in Israel :from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. That's died down a bit but the government has caused a stir here at home by insisting it will sell Petroearethe government oil corinianbeven though nearly all advice is that it should be kept. Then there's the turning, over of the federal lottery to the provinces, Other profitable crown corpdtatiOns arc also up foii sale, Frankly Who careS„ These are things that perhaps Might be done a year or so down the line but at the top priority of a new government? Surely there must be Sottething More impertent, It'S also interesting to listen to the new finance minister,John Crosby, Aftct years uf listening t� the ConSerVatives mphin that the Liberals were &frig nothing abOut The economy, Mr. Crosby now says tiOn't expect hitn to work Miratles, that We'll have to Sit tight and let the economy •,i-ork its Way OUtOf ihet0rrent prObleths. Did I hear an echo of lean No, afraid you'll have to stick to TV, Cretien? ****** the movies, and Harlequin Romances, if Whiteside was 4uickly nofified,.. Flax pulling is getting welt threelgb Ul .the fiensall section. Robert McLaren of Hen.sall had a mishap. while driving his horse front Exeter Fair. car ran into the ,wheel of his buggy smashing it and breaking the drafts, No, one wa$ hurt, Dr. and Mrs? Treyner and 'Victor ot Dublin, left for their new home *11 TC.itcherier where the Doctor had secured a good practice. Wm, Duggan brought into the Expositor a •fine sample of Burley tobacco. Mr. OugSan has grown his. ewit tobacco foe Several years. WI, 40d Mrs, Harry Stewart left for Fort Williams where Mr. Stewart vvill attend the Anneal Convention of the Canadian Ticket Sellers Assoc. ' Robert Porterfield and Frank Lamont are in Clifford)Mr. Porterfield has a building contract. Egmondville vvill be glad to know that Jahn McCaa has decided to remain in the, village and, is bUilding a new home. SEPZEMBER 24, 1954 Huron County at a special session awarded the contract for the construction of the new Huron County court house to Bilis Don •Limited of London. The contract price was 5564,630 making the the total cost 5640,261. Arinouncement was made last week of the sale of the grocery store owned and eperated for a. number of years by Orville Cooper, to Levi 'EeltenSiviller of Teeswater. Atneng the winners of a contest con- ducted by a Toronto newspaper were the following Seaforth residents: KJ. McLean $25,00, Mrs. J. L. Slattery SULK Mrs.i Wm. M. Hart $15.00, Mrs. Lester teoh, bar& $5.00, and WS- Joseph Matthew $5.00. Gaining entry by smashing a window on the west side of the Costello service station in Dublin, thieves removed a quantity of cigarettes. Despite the handicap of cold weather, the McKillop School Fair attracted a large crowd to see the varied entertainment which featured the afternoon. The veteran seeretary1FOster T. Fowleryis the teacher, . Mrs. Robert Strong of Egeaondville was honeyed by neighbors and friends prior to removal from the village. Mrs. Adin Forbes read an .address and the pre- sentation of a house coat was Made by Mrs. W.J. Finnegan, Mrs. H. Coonths„ and H. Huisser served a dainty lunch, and Mt4', WM. Brown poured tea. An interesting feature took place on Monday, at the home of T.L. Scott of Cromarty. when two loads of grain were threshed with a Stretford made device and horse power. Five team of horses supplied the power for the threshing. But, sornehow, after tWenty years of this charade; I might as well, face the fact that am neither a Margaret Trudeau nor a Tennessee W.illiams.. A new piece of fiction that is going to sell, must have certain Ingredients: sex, drugs, violence. perversion. How can a •guy write a red hot article when he has lived a practically pure life for a number Of decades? How can a guy Write explicit sex scenes about' nipples hardening and the scream of an orgasm, when all he's seen for the last twenty years is a couple of robins having on affair in the backyard? How can a guy write about drugs when his nose is so many times fractured that he can't even smell onion breath, let alone the sweet Scent of marijuana on the air? 'Hew can a guy write about violence when the worst incident he has seen in years is one grandboy 'giving the other a cheap shot in the back when the other Wasn't looking, knocked. -the -other's head against the coiner" of the picnic, table, and drawn bleed and tears. It's not exactly Attila the Run. How ,can a guy writeabout perversions when the only thing he'S seen for years is a baby:gitl blueiay.trying, b, pretend she', s a baby boy bluetay? Or a hen pecked husband trying to pretend, when his wife has gone to the john, that he's not Henry •, It's getting to the time of year when. even people who aren't baseball fans get • interested in the game, This year of course there's more interest in this part of the country than ever before becauseMontreal Expos are in the thick of a battle for first place in their division of the National League. • . After all these years of Cheering for • 's TorontoJtnice to have a winner to cheer t the edt or. league baseball to Canade,and the Toronto Blue Jays later gave losing a new home in � for for a change. At the same time it'ea. bit nerve wracking. The Expos themselves claim that the pressure of pennant race isn't getting to them but I think it's getting to a lot of their fans, me included, The stress of getting up every morning to hear whether little much. Having a winner in hockey in a tight race isn't so bad because they don't you Wept your favorite ingredients. I just don't seem to have any background upon which to draw. . When my wife says to me, after a particularly brutal party of weekend, 'How come you never have bags under your eyes, like rne?" I merely answer the truth: "A Clean heart and a pure mind, my dear." 10SerS since Montreal first brought major • I must admit that" after the thirtieth repetition of this little slogan, she emitted an unladylike remark. But it's the truth. It's not that I haven't had lots of experience. I went through a world rending depression and ate potato skin hash and porridge soup, 1 went to work at 16, for thirty dollars a month, twelves hours a day, seven days a week, 1 survived a war in which both sides were shooting at me, especially the British Navy. I was almost kicked to death by a German Feld webel, just because I'd stolen his pipe and tobacco. I ate mangels, and drank rainwater in a prison camp. I spent a year in a T.B. sanatorium. I've survived thirty years of marriage, two rotten kids, and am still coping with two ,grandboys who are the most ingenious • methods of torture since the Inquisition. I even graduated from a University , with honours, when they still had standards. I spent eleven years in the editorial chair of a newspaper, which has buried many a man. I have lived through, and thrived on, teaching teenagers, which has sent more people to an early grave than did the ' editorial chair. But still whenever I think of Writing a - searing play or a violent autobiography, I can't seem to put fingers to typewriter., I think I know what's wrong. I didn't hate my father. That seems to be what you . need to get you going. Or, if you're Jewiall, your mother, My father was a mild decent man. He didn't beat me. Indeed, he didn't pay much attention to me. My mother was loving, but not overprotective. Darn it, why didn't I have rotten parents like everybody else, so I could write a vicious, sexy, perverse novel? the Expos won or lost the, night before is a play quite so often but this is hell, Ah well, for relaxation can always go back tO watching the Blue Jaya who never give you such tensiont, or the TorOnto Argonauts'% who may not be as bad as they once were but aren't exattly champions either. **** * Canada's political scene seems blissfully quiet these days compared to south of the . border Where even Jimmy Carter's having to drop out of a cross-country footrace is , . seen as some kind of symbolism. Sena.tor Edward Kennedy, darling of the A eastern liberal establishment and a good portion of the press,has stopped saying he won't run for the presidency and many have already tenteded him the Democratie noniinatiOn over Carter, Through all this I feel most sorry for Mr,• ' • Kennedy's family. They have already lost two men, one who was president and 4 4. second whe was running for the pres. idericy. Do they realty need another on the hot seat? Then there's Joan, Mr. Kennedy's wife$ who little needs the stress of being in the Spotlight. She his enough troubles al- • teady. We don't knOW hOlitt ninth trouble . there has been iti her marriage over the years but its sure that sined the infamous Clappaquiddick things have tint been good ' for Mrs, Kennedy, She moved back to BOSten.alOrie at one pint to study *mimic and admitted that She 'had been drift* tti drink by reports of her husbands extra. marital love it The rieW pressure seems to be -the Iasi thing she needs, Nuclear power is safe I wat very disappointed in the contents of Keith, Roulston s last column on Ontario Hydro and Nuclear Power. For four years 1 . was chairman of. the Huron Power Plant Cointnittee, and have fought Ontario Hydro and their policies Many timeS. 1 have learned that often their' right hand doesn't know what 'their left is doing._ 11. don't think thatanyonecan accuse me of pandering to Ontario Hydro, But simply to state that Hydro deliberately misleadsthe people of °Maria is simply unthinkingly aping the stateMeitts of the anit.nucleat lobby: This lobby is very.vetal' and inclined to forget to mention anything that could jeopardize their fixed ideas that nuclear tpower antiisbad, r propagandaidrdhIh a, VC Toed also d muchte read h intiebof the Atomic Energy CommiSsieti of Canada's sober statements and those of Ontario Hydro scientists, To brand them all as liars is grossly unfair. The Schultz affair' came about because the opponents hadn't 'taken the trouble' to read Hydro's reports on their difficultiesThese reports were available. When "Schulte' testified before, ' the parliamentary conunissitin at Queens Park he had nothing new to tell, Every time some One stubbs his toe at Bruce or Pickering the PR Man in charge duly reports this. There is no other Industry who clods this; and W they did, there Wtieldn't be a rioWspaper that would print it. but betel:Ise it is at a nuclear plant it be:thni.eiib at utileaw Tt tilMost 35 years, of nuclear poWer there hasn't been Otte Casualty. Even the celebrated 3 mile plant • accident With its many human mistake; that aused the anxiety, had enough safety .built in that no lives' Were lost. Compare that record with that of the Coal generating industry : The Sulphur ernisaions and resulting acid rains cause 150,000 deaths through respiratory ail- ments every year, in the USA alone. Our lakes are dying, many being dead already. Monitoring. 24 hours a day of radiation em issions at Pickering have never shown increated radiation in the milk of the cows that graze beneath its walls. But the anti-nuclear people keep on insisting that there is readiation. They can't prove it. But the number of cdal miners that suffer and, die prerhaturely of black lung disease " &fused by coal dust is horrendoUs. fees not be carried away`'by the.rbetoric of a number of people Who won't listen to reason and oppose everything that May have some risk. Thi$ country has become great because the first immigrants Wok great risks, much greater than what soine modern activists don't Want Us to take today, . Letta insist that scientists keep adding to the Safety featittes of our proud nuclear plants. Dr. Porter Was right when be said that eVen the remote pOstibility of a tuelear liecident with 25,000 dead is better than the 150,000 dead every year of today. tees insist thatwe are told these risks, is Potter .did, to we can decide if We art willing to cut back 00 eleetrie andr standard of living,but let's hot tell briniest •Men that they ire liars: Adrian tos • •