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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1962-11-08, Page 2Published at vit to Since 1860, Serving the Community First SEAFORTH. ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS„ Publishers ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association '4i Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscription Rates: z Canada (in advance)• $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa �a• SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 8, 1962 Information Aids Study Of Hospital Project In any undertaking involving all the people of a community, there can arise misconceptions and doubts based on misinformation or lack of information. Today the Seaforth community, in the hospital campaign, is faced with a major project. The degree of medical service the people of this community will receive for at least a generation depends on the success of the cam- paign. Thus it is most essential that there be a general understanding of all aspects of the matter. For this rea- son we are publishing hereunder a ser- ies ofq uestions and answers, prepared by the hospital, so that the public may be informed as fully as •possible. 1. When was Scott Memorial Hos- pital- established? A bequest by the Scott brothers led to the establishment of the hospital in 1928.. The hospital was opened. official- ly October 22, 1929. 2. What was the location? The Hospital was located in a large residence built about 1880, which was converted to hospital purposes. , 3. Was the original Hospital enlarg- ed? In 1948 a portion of a frame hospi- tal bnik tng at RCAF Station Port Al- bert was purchased and added as a wing. However, about the' same time, continued use of the second floor of the main building was prohibited by the Ontario Department of Health, be- cause it was considered a fire hazard, and did not come up to recognized standards. 4. Why was the second floor not re- constructed so it could be used? As need for added beds became in- Icreasingly important, the Board in 1957 began a review of the entire hos- pital in an effort to create alterations or additions that would increase ac- commodation. Plans were prepared of suggested changes in the second floor and submitted to the Department for approval. After several further repres- entations and a series of meetings with Ontario Hospital Service Commission representatives, the Board was ad- vised in a fetter of February 10, 1960, as follows : "With regard to- the utiliz- ation of the second floor for patient accommodation, the Commission was concerned for the reason that the space is obviously not good- hospital • accom- modation and constitutes a very real fire hazard, and, in addition, would be difficult to staff and expensive to oper- ate, being a small unit detached from the rest of the hospital." The letter then referred to the cost of alterations and continued in these words: "Reviewing all these aspects, the Commission felt that the most suit- able answer to the problem was to de- velop aft entirely new hospital on a different site." 5. What would make alterations to the building so costly? The existing building was erected 80 years ago and converted to serve as a hospital. To make it fireproof and to provide for an economical interior ar- rangement, it would be necessary to completely rebuild the interior. This involves heating, wiring, plumbing, in addition to structural alterations which in an existing building are more costly than in new construction. .It would be necessary also to renew the existing elevator. 6. Why was the Goderich Street East site chosen? When it became evident there was 'no alternative to a new hospital on a new site, the Board asked its architects to tarry out a survey of five possible sites in Sea Orth and immediate area. Following a study that included loca- tion, terrain, accessibility, drainage, etc., the architects recommended 'con - Sideration of the site that later was aeciaPect lig being tie best available for hbsoitat pprposes, 7. Why was more land purchased than was necessary for the Hospital? -The land acquired was only available if the entire farm was purchased. Land not required ultimately will be offered for sale, and since value of land is in- creasing it can be expected the net cost - of the hospital will be minimum. In the meantime, the property is rented and revenue is such that the purchase re- presents a good investment. 8. The new site faces No. 8 High- way. Will it be noisy? The new hospital will be located well back from the highway and on the highest land in the area. The location' will, be about the safne distance from the highway as the existing hospital. 9. The new site seems a long way from town. How can we walk. to it? Studies carried out reveal very few visitors walk to the present hospital. The distance of the new site is about the same distance fro, n the centre of town as is the present hospital. 10. Howmany additional beds will the new Hospital provide? The present Hospital has 33 author- ized beds, and in addition' six other beds are set up in corridors or crowd- ed into rooms designed for one bed. The new hospital will have 4S beds, in- cluding one bed in the delivery suite and two post-surgery recovery'beds. In addition, there will be six or seven nursery bassinettes. This is the maxi- mum for which the OHSC will give approval and for which capital grants may be obtained. 11. Why is the cost per bed so high? hospital construction costs reflect the high standards necessary today in op- erating rooms, delivery rooms, emerg- ency areas and X-ray . facilities if pa- tients are to receive the care to which they are entitled. There must be pro- vision for many services commonplace today in every modern hospital, but which 25 years ago were unheard of, and for which there is no room in the present hospital. The estimated per bed cost for the new hospital is in keep- ing with the per bed costs in other recently erected and comparable hos- pitals. 12. The rooms in the old hospital are crowded., How many beds will be in each room in the new hospital? Patient rooms will include, private, semi -private and four -bed. No room willhave more than four beds. Plans provide for complete facilitiesin each room. 13. The Hospital serves a wide area. .Just where do the patients originate? In 1961, 1,103 patients were admit- ted. Of this number, 16% or 181 came from Tuckergmith, 13% or 145 from McKillop, 136 or 13% from Dublin and Hibbert, 5% or 53 were from Logan, 2% came from each of Hullett, Mit- chell and Morris, and 3% from Grey. Seaforth contributed 32%, or' 353, and the remainder, or 12%, came from Mit- chell, Clinton, Stanley, and other cen- tres. 14. 1 pall hospital insurance. Why should 1 also pay to help build a new hospital? The Ontario Hospital Insurance Com- mission pays only the costs of operat- ing a hospital from the insurance prem- iums it receives from you. Your prem- ium payment 'does not cover construc- tion or capital improvements. 15. Are grants available? Yes, Government does make grants toward construction, but those grants are an aid only and are made when the balance of required funds has been pledged by other sources. This means that much of the balance must be found at the community level. 16. Why am 1 asked to pledge over several years? Because this. ,permits each of us to (Cdntitatta tli i Pa.e•' 11) THE WORLD REMEMBERS—Canada's Commonwealth Air Forces' Memorial forms a symbolic background as an RCAF trumpeter sounds the "Last Post" for the dead of two world wars, honored in Canada. and the Free World on November 11. This y .ar, the Air Force also marks the tenth anniversary of its contribution of an Air- Division to the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a constant reminder of the need to maintain strength to preserve the peace. The Commonwealth Memorial, on Ottawa's Green Island at the junction of Ottawa and Rideau Rivers, commemorates the 798 men and-- women who died in Canada and neighboring lands and waters while serving with the Air Forces of the Commonwealth from 1939- to 1945, and who have no known graves, A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT OTTAWA — Canada is fast approaching the most critical crossroads in its history since turning its back on tariff -re- ciprocity with the United States in 1911; Even before it became weld- ed into a nation, Canada in its early years sought reciprocal tariff arrangements with the United States 'that would pro- vide access -for its goods in the vast market south of the bor- der. It was almost as consist- ently rebuffed by the protec- tionist forces south of the bor- der. Left with little other alterna- tive, the Nation turned in 1878 to adopt the National Policy put forward by ..Sir John A. Mac- donald, a policy that called for the building of a self-sufficient Canadian economy behind a high tariff wall. As an outlet in the world beyond, the Coun- try looked to a preferential trading 'system with the Com- monwealth. The only serious challenge to that policy in the past came in 1911, when the U.S. proposal for a measure of tariff reciprocity was decisively rejected by the Canadian elec- torate. While the protective, tariff walls • are lowered today as a result of a series of world wide reductions in customs du- ties following the last war, Can- ada under a Conservative Gov- ernment. is still pursuing the same National Policy in prin- ciple as that laid down long ago by Sir John A. national policy of 'seeking„ eco- nomic salvation behind a high tariff wall, which eventually could lead only to economic stagnation? Or should it join in the move toward freer world trade, which at the very least would mean that the economy must undergo some far-reach- ing and harsh adjustments if it is to survive?. The response of the United States to these dramatic chang- es going on about it has been bold and dynamic. The usually highly protectionist Congress has overwhelmingly approved trade expansion legislation put before it by the Kennedy ad- ministration. The U.S. 'Government now has authority to negotiate the complete abolition of tariffs on classes of commodities in which trade between the U.S. and the Common Market' makes up 80 per cent of world trade. It also gives the power to negotiate reductions of up to 50 per cent in tariffs with -other nations on most other commodities. Today that policy faces a new and even greater chal- lenge as a result of the revolu- tionary changes underway in the trading patterns of the world, In Europe, a new indus- trial giant is taking shape in the form of the Common Mar- ket. The Commonwealth pre- ferential trading system faces disintegration with the likeli- hood that Britain will withdraw to join the continental trade alliance. In the industrial giant Us the South, President John Kennedy is pressing for a mas- sive reduction in world-wide trade barriers. As if that was not enough, new nations are emerging which are presenting a serious challenge to Canada as a sup- plier of natural resources, from the very beginning the main- stay of the Canadian economy. Today Canada faces the is- sue of tariff reciprocity not just with the United States, but with virtually the whole world. Should it continue to follow a `ilk HARDY FAMILY WHAT ARE WU GOiN& TO DO WITH'ft4AT OLD FIVE GALLON pAQf , COME ON TO THE SHOP, JUNIOR, ANO I'LL SHOW VOU H0W 1'M 601N6 TO USE IT IN A PROJECT the products produced south of the border, but at much higher cost. If the• tariff wall was sharply reduced or eliminated tomorrow, most of .these small companies would be in danger of being wiped out by mass- producing, low-cost giants in the United States and Europe. Their Hope for survival lies in a • massive re -organization of Canadian industry, with Cana= dian companies merging into larger units and specializingin production of those goods for which they can find a substan- tial world market. In the pro- cess some companies will inev- itably be forced to the wall, whole industries could be sit tually destroyed. While embracing the Ken- nedy proposals, the Canadian Government has done nothing, to encourage the necessary re- organization of industry to deal• with the consequences of those proposals. In fact, it has been £ollowing`the very opposite pol- icy, encouraging Canadian com- panies to plunge into the small- scale production of those manu- factured goods which are now imported from abroad. Under the principles laid down by the General Agree- ment on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), tariff concessions made by one nation in this round of negotiations must be. extended to all other member nations. The result is that Canada .can look forward to the tariff bar- riers erected by other nations being sharply reduced. The catch is that Canada will be expected to make substantial reductions in its own tariff bar- riers. How Canada will respond to this challenge remains f a r from clear. The Government was at first perplexed by the development of the Common Market, has been hurt and dis- mayed by ,the possibility of British entry into the contin- entral trade bloc, was at first baffled by the Kennedy propos- als but has since embraced them as if they were its own. Despite the approval for the Kennedy program that has been sounded by all political parties in this Country, - it is more than evident that none of them hav,e yet faced up to the far-reaching consequences that, it presents for Canada. Behind its tariff wall, Canada has built up a small-scale mo- del of the U.S. economy, with as many or more companies in the major secondary industries seeking to duplicate for the small Canadian market most of BY LLOYD BIRMINGHAM DROM A 5 GALLOH C0HTAIAINEET R. &MAEQp OUT OFF TOP WITH OPENER o41114 SHEARS PAINT IOWA ANP Now that the • big shooting match of the century appears to be postponed, perhaps we can turn our attention to a more personal type of shooting that is no less lethal, but a lot more fun for all concerned. I refer to hunting. Each fall, I like to print some of the tips on hunting safety, especially for the reassurance of the wives. But I haven't had the nerve to do it for the last three years, Why? Because the last time I produced a safe - hunting column there were some rather peculiar results. One fellow shot another fellow out of a tree, taking him for a partridge. Don't ask me what this bird was doing up a tree, Probably taking a bead on an- other hunter who, that same year, shot two more hunters out of a canoe, claiming they were moose. Hunters may Iaek a few of the finer things, but there's nothing wrong with their imagination, * * * However, I think a decent interval has passed, and human- itarian instincts drive me to make one more attempt to per- serve the human species while it is attempting to extinguish a few other species. Here goes, and every man for himself. The first and foremost rule of the bush is: Never mix alcohol e and gunpowder. Tastes like the devil. Just use ginger ale, coke, or whatever your normal mixer=, is. * * * Before you start off on a hunting trip, look down the barrel of your gun to make sure nothing has built a nest in it since last year. If- you can't see through the barrel, put in a shell and fire the gun. This usually removes any ob- staFles. Ii sometimes removes life head of the hunter as well, but that's neither here nor there. It's probably a little of both. Always have your gun load- ed .when .driving to the hunt- ing grounds. If there's a colli- sion, and they can't cut you out of the wreckage, you can always shoot your way out. Be- sides, you'll get a real belly - laugh out of the look on the driver's face when he hits a bump, the gun goes off, and he has suddenly acquired 'a no -top convertible, The Liberal Party, which has been harshly critical of the Gov- ernment for failing to take the lead in pressing for freer world trade, has demonstrated a simi<. lar -lack of insight when the chips were down. Will the Canadian people, who must in the last analysis make the decision, face up to the hard choice confronting_ them? The danger is that they and their political leaders may be influenced more by the im- mediate consequences of lower- ing tariff barriers than by the more distant economic reper- cussions of committing Canada to remain sheltered behind a high tariff wall, perhaps for- ever. SUGAR and SPICE By Bill smiley * * You may find you have to climb a fence, when you get there. A lot of •hunters are killed trying to get through or over a fence while carrying their guns. Don't take chances. Grasp your gun firmly by the barrel, take a short run, and sail neatly over, using the mus- ket as a vaulting pole. Now, how do we carry the gun? It should be held in the right hand, the barrel pointing toward the ground.. And, of course, you always carry it with the safety catch off, in case you have to get a quick shot away. If the tun is held in this way, and you stumble over a root, you'll merely shoot off a toe. If you held it with the barrel pointing up, you might shoot your head off. And losing a toe especially that one that's had 'an ingrown nail for years, is much preferable to losing one's head. Ask anyone who's done both. of the hunters who have been shot in the past ten years were clad in red garments. So why not wear something that blends with the, bush? You can sneak up on the quarry that much easier, and there's a fair chance you can sneak past the other hunters, without being spotted. If they do see you, get away your shot first, then drop to the ground and let them bang away. They'll go home happy, telling everyone about the big buck they missed. * * * If you happen to become lest in the bush, don't panic. Just run 4n circles as hard as you can, screaming at the top of your lungs• and firing your gun as fast as you can. When you have run out of breath and am- munition, sit down quietly and take stock of the situation. If the stock -taking shows the shelves to be pretty bare, there's one solution, It works best if there's a good, stiff breeze. Just gather some birch bark, pile it in a clump of dry brush and start a roaring bush fire. When the firefighter ar- rives you are no longer Lost. One last word of caution. When you bag your first hunt- er, don't brag about it. It just isn't done, in hunting circles. Don't even allow yourself a small smirk of satisfaction as you carve that first notch in your gun. After all, there's nothing so unusual about your feat. Any dam -fool can shoot a hunter. And quite a few do. By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER REMEMBRANCE DAY November llth is the annl< versary of the day that ended the fighting in the First World War. I recall quite well when the whistles of the, mills of the town, were souided and the thrilling news went from person to person that an armis- tice had been signed and blood- shed would cease. Leading c 'zens quickly got together an decided to havena celebration. A wagon or truck was parked at the intersection . of the main street and a heavy box was set in the bed for a speaker's stand. I was asked to be speaker •of the occasion and necessarily did not deliver a "prepared speech." The only thing I remember saying was that the Kaiser had set out to be a Cxsar but he did not know how to spell the name of the man whose deeds he would emulate and spelled it with a K. Now 'what a speech that must have been! But it does not matter now. Since that time the armistice has . ended, another world war and lesser wars throughout the world have brought untold de- struction and death to men and nations, and the day has been expanded into Remembrance Day. We may be glad that ,the anniversary falls on the Holy Sabbath, It is a good day to join in a prayer for peace. Just a Thought: The man who lives a good life may never change the world but he certainly does his part to make it a better place in which to live. *. * * Don't wait till you see the whites of their eyes. If some- thing moves in the bush, blaze away. It might be another hunter, but there's an even chance it's a partridge or a' deer. Or a farmer. It's old-fashioned to wear bright red clothing in the bush. Statistics show that 98 per ,cent IN THE YEARS .,ALONE Interesting items ,gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor November 5, 1937 After being in business in the same store on Main Street for 27 years, Mr. T. G. Scott will remove his stock to his residence on John Street at the end of the week. Sale of the Palace Rink, Sea - forth, to Dr. E. A. McMaster and C. M. Smith was announc- ed this week' by Chas. Holmes, who has owned and operated the rink since 1929. The committee in charge of securing foodstuffs for relief this week shipped a car to Hepburn—not Ontario's Prem- ier, however, but a town in Saskatchewan. This is the sec- ond car that has left Seaforth for the drought areas of the West. A meeting was held at Hen - sail on Friday evening at the Town Hall to reorganize the Band. A working committee was appointed and a canvass will be made for new mem- bers. Mr. J. M. Scott has returned from St, Louis,. TVto., .where he %ac attending a convention of poultry men. Mr. W. J. Duncan, Basil and Eugene Duncan and Fred Wigg have returned from the shoe convention at Toronto, where the Duncan Shoe Factory had an exhibit of their .omplete range of shoes, including the new Skipalong. From The Huron Expositor November 8, 1912 The snowstorm on Saturday gave the country quite a win- try appearance, but the sun- shine en Monday took most of the snow away. One of the largest flocks of geese ever seen in this district passed over the town early Monday evening heading south. It is considered a sign of a very severe and long winter. Mr. John B. Dinsdale, of Kip - pen, has been appointed agent for the Hamilton Fire Insur- ance Co, Slaters from London have placed a fine slate roof on the new • Presl?yterian Church at Walton. Tho bean crop is turning out • well. An average of about 20 bushels to the acre is the gen.• eral report. Standard fall wheat is sell. ing from 90c to 92c at the Sea - forth market this week. Potatoes are still diminishing in number owing to the rot. Several who had large crops when raised will scarcely have enough for their own use. The apple crop is a large one this year, but there is not much) of a demand for them. From The Huron Expositor November 11, 1887 The beautiful weather of the past two weeks seems to have come to an end, and we are now having moisture which, will help to fill up the wells, many of which in this vicinity babe been dry for some time, ' The pennant for the cham- pionship of the Western District of the Canadian Lacrosse Asso- ciation, which was won this season by Seaforth, has been received by the club from To, ronto, and is now on exhibi. tion 1n Mr. J. W. Millar's win. dow,