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SEAFORTH,, ONTARIO, FEBRUARY 29, 1968
A Look
at Hospital Costs
-Faced with steadily increasing costs
'Which Premier Roberts has. warned
will al.mo'st certainly be reflected in
higher hospital insurance premiums,
hospital across Ontario quite properly
are drawing attention to the reasons
contributing to increases.
While improved administrative prac-
tises have aided in holding costs in
certain areas,_ changes and new devel-
opments continue to force up costs in
other areas.
While hospital care is costly, few
people realize what a dollar brings in
terms of service.
For example the cost of hospital care
works out to a little more than two
dollars an hour per patient. This sum,
besides providing the patient with a
bed and meals, pays for the salaries of
nutses, orderlies, x-ray staff, pharma-
cists, physiotherapists, technologists,
dietitians, medical librarians, engineers,
laundry workers, kitchen staff, house-
keepers, electricians, and many other
specialized personnel rarely seen on the
ward. •
In • fact, nearly two thirds of each
dollar is returned to the community in
the ,form of hospital staff Pay -cheques.
Hospital salaries, once admittedly de-
pressed, have been improving steadily
in the past few years and as this trend
continues, so will the rise in overall
costs. The other 39 cents on each dol-
lar pays for food, accommodations, vit-
al medicines, medical supplies and
drugs and maintenance. Two other ma-
jor factors contibuting to the rising
cost of hospital care of course, are an
increased demand for more hospital
beds and constantly improving meth-
ods of treatment.
Despite increasing costs, the public
is reminded that hospitals still need
the financial support of communities'
to build new facilities. and introduce
new and improved services since On-
tario Hospital Insurance premiums on-
ly pay for operating costs.
The Red Cross Serves ali the P,eople
A, hundred years ago Canadian rural
life was allencompassing, uncomplica-
t.d. When'someone bee.ame ill, neigh-
bours banded together bringing food;
• sorneone'Sbern burned to the ground
there was a community barnraising.
Unknowingly, each individual was
• dependent on the other. More than
that, it was the generous spirit that
prompted kindness for,, any neighbour
or stranger in distress.
Today it is different Sometimes we
don't even know wir our neighbours
are, so frequently do We move about.
Yet underneath there is still a rern-
nant of that pioneer spirit. For every
Crime of violence reported, there are
thousands of acts of honesty, kindness
and generosity to -compensate. But they
rarely make headlines. These are the
stories of Canadians' helping other.
Canadians.
Threugh a voluntary organization
like the Red Cross people like you are
giving their blood and their time to
save lives and serve the different needs
of people. In this area, the Red Cross
has many services and programmes
aimed at serving People at all levels of
the population on both the local and
national level as well as international
humanitarian obligations.
March is Red Cross Month in Cana-
da, a time to pay tribute to this organ-
ization which still provides this gener-
ous spirit of service. •
When you welcome the canvasser that
will call on you in the near future and
support the work of the Red Cross
through your donations you prove that
individual ,generosity and the desire to
help others is still a great part of our
way of life.
In the Years Agone
From The Huron Expositor
March 5, 1943
Miss Helen, McKercher of
Seaforth has entered the ser-
vice of the Wrens and. *ill re -
"port to the Galt training khool.
Past Masters' night was ob-
served • in, Britannia Lodge
which •brought out a laige at-
tendance of :members. The fol -
Jawing past masters conferred •
the second degree upon a can-
didate: Robert Scarlett, who
was master in 1897; Wm. •
Ament in 1898; K. M. McLean
in 1913; C. A. Barber in 1920;
,J. A. Petrie in 1923; M. McKel-
lar in 1926; E. C. Chamberlain
In 1927; J. E. Keating in 1931;
L Reid in 1937; W. A.
Wright in 1940; Dr. R. P. D.
Burford and G.'D. Ferguson the
immediate past master.
During the evening the Grand
Lodge Long Service Jewel,
commemorating fifty years in
masonry* was presented to Wm.
Ament The presentation was'
• made by O. A. Barber.
The little twoyear-old dough -
ter of Mrs. Joseph Eckert, met
with a painful and serious ,ac-
cident. While playing in her
home she fell into a pail of
boiling water.
Mrs. Isaac Jarrott of Kippen
spent a few days,last week at
Stratford with Dr. jarrott, who
has had the misfortune of
breaking a bone in a fall on 'an
From The Huron Expositor ' From The Huron Expositor
March 8, 1918 March 10, 1893
A meeting of the trustees of . Mr. S. McCool, 9th concession
the schools of McKillop was of liullett, marketed 640 bush -
held in No. 4 School to consider els of wheat during the past
holding a children's •fair. Of- few days which tested 63 lbs.
ricers appointed Were: •presi- to the bushel..•
dent, W. J. Beattie; directors, A"successful aucion sale was
John Lane, George Bennewies,- —geld • on the farm 'of John Tay -
John Shannon, John Scott, Rob- lor, Lot 5, con. 10, Tuckersmith.
ert Gibson; sec.-treas., Foster Robert , icholson of Stanley,
T. Fowler. • • has a lamb i'brt days old which
weighs' just forty pounds; one
pound for every day of its ex-
istence.
Messrs, W.
Alex Winters
a •.fire alarm
town.
We deeply regret to learn of
the death of another of Huron's
worthy pioneers in the Person
of Mrs. Alexander Itroadfoot,
who was 74 years og age. She
was the former Marian McMil-
lan and was a native of Scot-
land.
George Turnbull of McItillop
shipped a lot of splendid horses
from here for the old country.
Mrs. J. C. Smith of Goderich
St. had a very unpleasant inis.
hap when she stepped into an
open trap door leading to the
cellar and fell to the bottom.
A gentleman whd drove ever
the north road took the trouble
to count the pitch -holes hetvveen
the village of Winthrop and the
limits of the town of Seaforth.
S. J. Bell of Leadbury, bought
a quantity of timber from the
Canada Co. and David Boyd and
Francis Dempsey bought some
from J. J. Irvine. They intend
having it for next winter's fuel.
• Miss Maude Porter of Hen -
salt had the misfortune to slip
on the cement steps and frac-
ture one of the bones in her
kne.
William Stanley Hays was
killed while flying at Camp
Taliaferro, Fort Worth, Texas,
with the second A. M. Aerial
Gunnery Squadron, R.F.C. He
was .17 years old.
• Mrs. A. S. McLean has dis-
posed' of her house on James
St. to S. J. Spencer to whom it
Oas been leased for ,some time.
IVIiss Minnie Meridden left
last week to resume her former
'position as snilliner in Toronto.
Mr. James Kerr of McKillop
has purchased the house on
Centre Street at present occu-
.pied by C. L. Williams.
Somerville ,and
are working on
system for the
icy street. The members of the Blake He said there were 375 and
Wilson Carlisle had the mis- Women's Institute held a quilt- some of them three feet deep.
fortune in October to fall from ing bee at the home of Mrs. II. Mr. Andrew Calder has sold
a scaffold, while working atr.....Zapfe of Blake and finished his photograph 'business to Mr.
Rennie's Onion elevator, frac- three quilts. Mrs. Zapfe then S. Trott, son of Samuel Trott of
• turing his right foot. After re. read an address to Mrs. Wm. Seaforth.
ceivittg treatment at Scott Mem- Douglas andr-Mrs. Iley present- Simon Campbell, who resides
oriel Hospital and Toronto Gm ed her with a lovely fruit spoon, near Farquhar sold a pair of
eral, (Hospital he has Yeeeived Prior to her leaving for Bruce- horses for the snug sum of
,c-irery encouraging reports and field. •$325.
lie tan go home very mien; Mr. and MTS. B. R. Higgins Henry Honey, son of James
iruckersinith con. Thvo and of BrocefieId have moved to Hotiney of Winthrop, met with
three VaistiArOtiMrlitiet At the their new hosne in Clinton. Ile a painful aecident He was eliop-
r Mkt Ult.. W. II, will however, continue his in ping in Mr. Johnson's bush
* surante and debenture business. when he let the axe fall upon
TO THE INTOR
• District Feld Secretary
Says "Thanks" for (OMB
Feb. 22, 1968 to provide the services So vital
Sfr: to the ,blind people in your
The blind people in your area. The seryfre program of
area and the CNIB wish to ex- CNIB is ever expanding and
press their appreciation for improving,
your participation in the 196/ CNIB is celebrating its 50th
Annual Appeal. for funds. Anniversary this year and (lur-
-to the contributors who gave ing this time has achieved a
so generously • Program second to none. Thi
—to the volunteers who gave remarkable growth can be dir-
so freely of their time and ef- ectly attributed to' the support
fort In making the campaign and intereg of everyone in
possible ' your community and in every
—to all the news media who other community throughout
did such an excellent Job in this great nation of ours.
publicizing the work of CNIB
You can all be assured that Jaek Clements,
the monies raised will be used District Field Secretary.
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- The fur trade formed the advancing
frontier of European civilization as it
swept across the northern half of the
continent to the Pacific. Ultimately, the
fur trade also represented. a retreating
frontier for the civilization of the In-
dians, who had more furs than they
could use; they eagerly exchanged
them for European goods such as guns
and metal tools.
•• The fur trade led to cultural and
racial interchange as well as conitnedi-
ty exchange. French traders and cour-
eurs de bois married Indian women
along -the St. Lawrence River, around
the Great Lakes and across the north-
-west, wherever they were trading. Eng-
lish and Scottish traders were not per-
manently posted to Canada and did
not -live away from their posts to the
same extent " as the French traders.
Even so, many of them intermarried.
with the Indians of the Hudson Bay
area, the prairies and the far west. But
many of them left their children be-
hind to be raised as Indians. Trading
alliances formed and broke among In-
dian tribes, and between Indians- and
whites. Wars were fought over the luc-
rative fur trade as the rivalry grew be-
tween English and French, between
white and Indian, between the Hud-
son's Bay Co. and the North-west Co..
The organization of the fur trade re -
fleets this bitter political and corporate
competition. It also reflects the harsh
living conditions' and the high' cost of .
transporting heavy trade goods and
supplies up the rivers of the eastern
Canadian drainage basins. These prob-
lems were conquered with an organiza-
tion based on tough central- authority
and fortified outposts. The trading
posts aimed to dominate their territor-
ies completely. They discouraged the
encroachment of settlers on the wild-
erness, except in areas where the trad-
ing posts wanted agricultural support
for themselves. •
These autocratic outposts strength-
ened their rule over the wilderness
when the two rival fur -trading com-
panies merged, -but eventually, slowly
and grudgingly- they yielded their grip
as the fur supply dwindled and the
frontiers of heavy settlement moved
• westward. Industrialization followed,
quickened by gold rushes, the advent
of 'steam powered transportation, and
the formation of strong central govern-
nient provided by the Act of Union and
. Confederation.
Sugar and Spice
— By Bill Smiley —
AN OLD FRIEND WRITES
So • you think you have trou-
bles, with your _Iwo or three
Rotten Kids? We all have them.
'Troubles and Rotten Kids, that
in They're inseparable.
I could, tell you gories that
would make your heart ache,
your hair' curl. But so could
yOt1;' doubtless. According to
some inane schools of thought,
the trouble is that we haven't
enough kid*. We spoil our one
or two rotten arid then are
astounded at the result*.
All we? have -to „do is have a•
whole raft' of 1d0; an& pre'?
lemS would vanish. They'd help-
witit the dishes, snake their
beds, and all turn out to be
Great Kid:
This is Tot. I assure you. And
to prove, I'm going to quote
some excerpts from a letter re-
ceived recently from an old
and dear friend. She's more
dear than old, but I think her
,• remarks will explode that pop-
pycock about large families.
his foot, cutting and mangling
four of his toes so severely that
three of them had to be ampu-
tated."'
She has six boys and a girl and
knows whereof.
The letter arrived at the "end
of January, When she got
around th sending out the an-
nual 'Christmas cards. it was
written in starts and fits, over
three weeks, whenever she h41
the strength.
"It •ii all defeating because
there's too much of it. So
you're the way out — which is
where,I wmild like to be. •
"I seefir to be in, a jatied
(greertISh?) state whet& nothl
ingr6aUSh$'*1y' Mote:
I belietre-it �iiit
real skePtie' cfnie; 1644
f�4 an) old; 'nether of a lai9go,
faittily? • not WC 1Olt
cartt: (abdur' alt. thV big and
little crises); WS itiabbit kiridU
nuatbness that 1 think lutist
settle in as a preservative. Or
who stay at home — especially
"Nine p.m. CBC programme
reporting comments of English
people about Canada. What a
" bloody superior Infneh. I would
like to smash them. Exeuv
writing. Am writing as t quiet- •
ly recover from a general an-
aesthetic. Nothing serious.
Also my 'hand is less than
agile due to arthritia It seems
to me a poor system where
surviving the rigors of exist-
ence is penalized; by the ills of
age.
"Bob decided to take his
summer working money (tul.
tion.fees)- arid go off on a self-
discovery jotrney to Europe.
Night before sailing he phoned
(collect, of ceurse) to say good-
bye and told me his girl was
going too,- 1 stilt dent know
what her mother thinks or
In the great storm on Sun-
day, Mr. John Eckert and his
son Fred while returning from
It. Downey's, suddenly, entered
a snow drift and his horse be-
gan to plunge- and at last suc-
ceeded in getting away. The
two men returned, to Mr.
Downey's.
feels. Of course I don't know
what I think or feel either.
' So then Bill had mononucle-
osiS, This was enough to change
his plans about college and he
finally decided to go to Europe,
too. They are only on a great
larking holiday. Was' it better
when war got rid of this.resV
lessness?
"Tom didn't get his first
year at college: Don is in Grade
11 after a spell at summer
school. Jenny is an outpatient
having urintry • tratt Zray as
f011ottotip to surgerin` em-
ber.
know P.Wis in Istaetnow,
working on a Kibbute for shel-
ter, food and exPerienee but
no money. fle's working' in a
banana grove.
"I can tell he is suffering .
from traveller's ego and thinks
himself vastly superior to all
who stay at home J espeeially
Tom. Whose reaction was,
Itippidy-poop. I've seen a ba-
nana.' I guess that says it for
me too as I take note of his
father's aging look.
"My main feeling is irritation
with such nonsense, that leaves
father still with them on his
back. For of course they plan
to 'keep on being college boys
too!, For another 'four or five
years.
"See you someday. rit the
tat, vaguely • familiar-lobiting
one limping along way back
there."
Cheer up, dear heart You
wouldn't limp if you had a
broken leg. And it you are
'WV back there', the. band
, might be playing "The Saints
Come Marching Th." •
'Thursday, Friday and Saturday
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