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The Huron Expositor, 1981-10-14, Page 1.122nd Year Whole Number 5827 $17 a year In advance, A single copy 50 cents SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, wEDNEBOAy, OCTOBER 14, issi 20 PAGES e this wee 111 i Veteran volunteers A couple of Seaforth people were honouredfor years and years of volunteer service by the Huron County division of the Canadian Cancer Society at Holmesville last week. See pg. 3, New councils Two area schools have just elected new student coun- cils. See them on pg. 15. No UNICEF The Huron-Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board has decided nit to have its schools support the annual United Nations International Childrens' Emergency Fund drive this fall. Story on pg. S OFA meets Former Ontario Federation of Agriculture president Peter Hanna= spoke at the Huron F. of A annual meeting at Hensall last Wednesday. The story's on pg. 12. the Canadian Cancer Society r ' Dr. Ragula said a survival Tuesday evening; October 6. • rate of five' years fOr all kinds of cancer of the colon and The Russian-born Dr. Rag- rectum is about:40 per cent ula. received his medical and it does not improve in tratnitigifiBeigiiifti. Vaduat: 2 'Spite of extensive 'and mod- ing in 1951, He tame to Canada in 1954 and now practises,family medicine in London. He is medical advis- or to the Canadian Cancer "It appears that the only Society, London Branch and way to fight cancer at the assistant clinical ,professor present time is, early detect- with the Department of Earn- ion of this disease," he ily Practice at the University reported. of Western Ontario. Dr. Rairila said that the Through his , speech, Dr. occurrence of bowel cancer is Ragula familiarized the aud- frequent enough to justify ience with his experience in routine screening for early the early detection of bowel diagnosis. If the doctor does; cancer by use of a simple test not offer such screening, the ern treatment including sur- gery, radiotherapy, and chef motherapy. lR NEW LEADER — Bill Campbell will be at the helm of the Seaforth Optimists for the next year, after being inducted into the job Thursday by Lieutenant-Governor of Zone 10, Bill McGrath. (Photo. by Ellis) B. GREGOR CAMPBELL A spokestnart4 for the Ontario Provincial Police at Godertch says everything has gone smoothly, andtherehave been no problems, since the detachment took over where the one-man Seaforth detachment left off Oct. 1. The local detachment was phased out and shut down. OPP headquarters at 'Toronto says economics was the reason. Cpl. Leeking of Goderich OPP says, as of the first of this, month, that detachment has been patrolling three zones instead of two. The new zone is Seaforth and area. Each mne is regitlarly covered by one officer per shift, meaning the Seaforth zone has at least, one officer patrolling it 24 hours per day, Constable JifrilkiiiKebel was the Seaforth detachment before Oct. 1, though Goderich backed him up and helped patrol this area, but not on a zone basis. BY GREGOR CAMPBELL If you take traffic laws lightly you're playing with your. life. Lose it and you- won't get it back. We can educate the public but "can only hope that it sinks in," says Sgt. Jim van der Voort, the • commander of the Sebringville detachment of the Ontario Provincial Mice.- "We can't have a policethart in every car out there." Despite tougher enforcement of traffic laws the number of fatalities in the area' patrolled by the detachment is alarming. So far this year 14 people have'been killed in eight accidents in Sebringville OPP's area Which extends __to St. Columban -east -of Seaforth. This figure is.the second highest for any detachment' in the proiincial force's District 6. The District includes some large der Vooit. But the 'Sebringville detachment has been cracking down on drinking drivers and people who don't wear seatbeltsfqr sometime now. And the number of fatalities isn't any, less alarming. Five people died in the area patrolled by "1 think the Seaforth area now get better coverage in terms of nianhours," says. Cpl. Leeking. He adds administrative duplication was cut down by the changeover. Should a citizen wish to reachGoderich OPP in Seaforth and surrounding area (ie. Walton, Blyth, Londesborough, Dublin) now he or she can phone 524-8314 or Zenith 50,000. Forget Constable MacLeod's old number. He has been transferred to the OPP's 13 member detachment at Chapleau, about 160 kilometers northeast of Sault Ste. Marie. He had served Seaforth the past seven yars, and before that he was with Goderich OPP. The closure of Seaforth's one-man de- tachment leaves only two such detachments in the province, at Nestor Falls and Dubreuiville. the,-Sebringville detachment in 197$. Since then the figures have not been so relatively rosy. Seventeen people were killed in traffic accidents in Sebringville's area in •1979. 16 people in 1980, and 14 so far this year with a good two months to go. There were 420 liquor seizures from motor vehicles by 'Sebringville OPP in. 1979, 720 such seizures last year and there have been 745 so far this year. Impeded driving charges laid by the detachment this year (150) are more than_double the number for the same time-peiodip 1979 (66). Seatbelt charges laid 'show the same trend; 196 laid by the detachment hi 1979. 269 in. 1980 and 252 so far this year. Sebringville's commander Says contrary to the popular stereotype no police officer becoineatobardened a fatality doesn't effect him or her. Sometimes the job can be frustrating. • Sgt. van" der Voort used cigarettes and Sgt. van der Voort says he wonder as a citizen where this type of logic leads. He also wonders about the rights of the innocent victims in all this, and the rights of taxpayers who end up paying for other people's right to kill themselvec The detachment commander says 10 of the 14 fatalities so far this year in the SebritigVille detachment's area happened in Jane, July and. August. He• says nice weather in these; months undaubtably_has something to do •with more drinking and driving, and hence more fatalities. But he isn't an expert Believe it or not. Christmas is only 11 weeks away. And that Means the time is fast approahing for the Brussels Post. Blyth -Standard and Huron Expositor's annual Christmas Cookbook. ' Thanks to the contri- butions of recipes from the many fine cooks among our readership, the cookbook has Dr. Boris Ragula, spoke on early detection of cancer of the bowel at the annual meeting of the Huron County Unit of BY GREGOR CAMPBELL Seaforth firefighters responded • to an alarm from Kilbarchan Nursing Home at 46 Church' St. shortly before 10 o'clock this morning (Wednesday). They returned to the station quickly. Though Fire Chief Harry Hak become a popular item Marva homes. A total of $40 in prize money will be awarded to those who submit recipes. See the ad elsewhere in this issue for details, and categories of recipes. , Mail or bring in your recipes to the Post, the Standard or the Expositor by Friday. Oct 23. patient should a.slrfor It, he said. The screening used by Dr. Ragula, known as hemoccylt, blood testing, takes only' .a. Ji few minutes and is simple and inexpensive for the early diagnosis of cancer of the gastrointestinal tract. "Most of my patients diagnosed with this system were asymptomatic and a maliganancy wouldn't have been detected for another year or two without the hemocCult test." he explain- ed. Also, because of his simple screening method, many pat- ients are spared other painful tests. Only those showing certain signs from the first screening are subjected to further tests, he explained. was unavailable for comment at press time, it appears the false alarm may have been triggered by an accidental break in the ;, circuit. More than 1000 protest letters presented HENSALL=A presentation of 1.03- letters stating the feelings on the economy of the Huron County -people was presented to MP Murray Cardiff (PC-Huron• Bruce) at the Huron County Federation of Agriculture's annual meeting here Oct. 8. Gerry Fortune. president of the Huron County federation made the presentation to Mr. Cardiff. Prior to the presentation. Mrs. Fortune said she had read the letters as they came in said the fetters made her feel "sad. frustrated, desperate, and angry". These feelings were vented, not at the letter writers, but at the situation the economy is in. She said in one of the letters, a person who had been farming for 25 years didn't know what they were going to do. because next year they would have no equitity left. Mr. Cardiff said "agriculture has been given another blow", with the announcement that day that Farm Credit Corporation loans to farmers increased to 16.1'5 per cent from 14 per cent. Russell Bolton of McKillop Township was presented with the Huron County Award for hiS invoIment with fig,..:,, ...)rman Alexander made the presentation and read out a long list of Mr. Bolton's accolenplish- It was the sixth year for the award. FOR SERVICE TO AGRICULTURE -- Russell Bolton of McKillop, right, Was this year's recipient of the Huron County award, from the Huron Federation of Agriculture,' at the group's annual meeting in Hensel, Thursday. Mr. Bolton, World haychamplurrannuallysince1972, has been- - McKillop and Huron F•of A president, longtime secretary of the 'Huron Plowmen's Association, a registered seed grower and- active n local school boards and the. Agricultural Society. His wife. Edna is at left arid_ centre is last-yew-1s winner Norm_ an Alexander of' Londesbciro 'who Made the presentation. (Photo by .White) my : five ...attend hall. every business inside Seaforth's Business , five people attended the Meeting to get the BIA organized last Wednesday at the town IMprovement Area (BIA) boundaries, only Despite the fact that !emit went out to Oct. 20 in the town hall at 7:30... arranged another meeting for Tuesday-night, meeting' is trying -one' more tithe an d has to the editor for more details.) Jerry Hetherington who organized the (See his letter, LOTS OF LETTERS — Huron F of A president GerryFOrttine'gave Huron-Bruce MP Murray Cardiff more than 1000 letters from Huron farmers at the F of A annual' meeting.' The letters, protesting' high interest rates Arid the government's lack of attention 'to eton0Mic problems, will be delivered by the MP to Prime Minister Trudeau. (Phpto by White) in statistics. can kill you, seatbelts save, lives, and police He says therea , are three facts the public officers, can do very little to save lives without shouldn't forget though alcohol and driving co-operation from the public. Bowel cancer -con be etectd.speoker tells .Huron .'group Band to sell Expositor This fall the annual SDHS Huron Expositor subscription campaign is being carried out by members of the SDHS Girls Trumpet Band. rand members will use their revenue from selling new and renewal subscriptions to help - meetlhe costs of their trip to next year's Calgary Stampede. Look for a band member to be calling on you soon:- • Despite tougher enforcement cancer as an analogy. FigUres show cigarette smoking and cancer are closely linked yet many members of the public argue they have a tight to smoke ifIliek want to, in other words they defend their right to kill themselves. The same logic applies to the use of seatbelts for some people. The Command- ing sergeant says this puts police officers in the position of haviog- to protect people against themselves. ----Motoreyele helmet regulations, which have ,shown they save- lives, have recently been thrown out in court in British Columbia and . the United States because judges ruled the regulations infringed on an individual's civil Centres of population with heavy traffic flow rights. including the. counties • of Huron, - Perth, Grey, Bruce, Wellington and highways in the " Waterloo region. "Alcohol was the contributing factor in the majority of our fatalities," says Sgt. van It's cookbook time again Drivers paying with lives of scieening qt the time of Yearly or general examinations ()wall patients-- 40 years of age and over. Firemen called to. Kilbarchan BY GREGOR CAMPBELL High interest rates apparently haven't hurt construction in Tuckersmith Township as much as might by expected. The number and value of building permits issued by the township to' date this year exceeds 1980 figures for the entire year. There _have been 69 building permits issued in Tuckersmith this year, with a value of $933';550. Last year 63 permits were issued with a value of $1,112;600 a figure that is' distorted because it includes one Huron County permit with a, value of $312,800. Tuckersmith's situation is exactly the_ reverse of Seaforth's, where the number and value of building permits issued are down in comparison to last year's figures. meqting. 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