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not to try the trip. Dawn, along
with her father, and Lynn Arm-
strong (Mary's husband) got into
'Steve Bell's car. They got as far as
the former Morgan Johnston farm
out the 8th when motor trouble
stopped them and the plow was
gone. A call to Ripley brought
Oraen Rock with his high van,
accompanied by sons Richard and
Robert and Carmon Courtney. All
in the first car transferred into the
van and they made it into Lucknow.
Just three blocks from the Lucknow
Medical Centre, Oraen's motor
developed trouble from bucking the
snow drifts. John carried Dawn to
the Centre where Dr. Mel Corrin
inserted four stitches and treated
the cut. All were back to Ripley at
midnight.
Right at this time (Monday
afternoon, January 31), they are
waiting for Joe Hodgins who is out
in Huron Township somewhere
attempting to haul back the second
Huron Township plow operated. by
George Dickieson. It has broken
down and will be taken to the
Huron Township garage at the east
end of Malcolm Street. Then Joe
will be called on once again to try to
clear a roadway to Kincardine to
get Ardill Mason of Ripley to the
hospital for treatment.
TODAY'S HEALTH
Secret of treating asthma
is to find out the cause
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THIS WEEK
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Point Clark, John Roulston, Mr.
and Mrs. Bob McIntosh and Lloyd
and Jean Wylds, all in Florida; also
reported away are Jim and Donna
Elliott of the 10th and Ewan and
Marjorie MacLean of Lochalsh.
Mrs. Florence MacKenzie, recently
retired from the nursing staff after
many years in Wingham Hospital,
has been to Hawaii. Jim and Marie
MacDonald of Clarks, concession
12 west, and Wally anstrElaine
Pollock, north of Ripley, on the
15th, are expected back from
Puerto Rico. Then someone said
Mike and Judy Snobelen are in
Cuba. Errors in this listing are
quite probable and the writer will
correct any reported.
* * * * * *
On Monday evening, January
24th, the Ripley Agricultural Soc-
iety was finally permitted by the
weather to hold its annual meeting.
It was first scheduled for Monday,
January 10, then postponed to
Monday, January 17. Blizzards
again forced its cancellation. On
Monday evening, with the Ripley
Agricultural Society, under presid-
ent Morley Scott, holding its
annual meeting at the high school,
the Kincardine Agricultural Society
was holding its annual meeting at
the new home of Cecil and Doris
Hollands at their farm three blocks
west of Ripley on the 8th
concession. The fact that they were
both on the same concession in
Huron Township, and so close
together, might not happen again
for years. Both groups had good
meetings and good attendances.
Twenty nine people made it to the
Meeting in Ripley where president
Morley Scott, who was finishing his
two year term, was in charge. At
the end of the meeting the lady
directors served lunch. With this
being the year of change of the
executive, the new president is
Jack Farrell, concession 12, Huron
Township. Dan A. MacDonald of
the 8th concession, west of Ripley
and John Gamble of the 6th
concession east in Huron Township
were first and second vice presid-
ents, respectively. Also, Mrs.
Marjorie Thompson of the Purple
Grove area has retired as president
of the lady directors and taking this
office is Mrs. Sheila MacDonald.
Duncan. D. MacLeod and Reg
Moore have retired as directors.
The Ripley Huron Fall Fair will
again be held on the last Saturday
in September, namely September
23 and 24. The president and vice
presidents and their wives, Jack
and Janet Farrell, Dan A. and
Sheila MacDonald, John and
Barbara gamble. were appointed
Ripley's delegates to this year's
annual convention of Ontario
Agricultural Societies Association.
It will be held on Wednesday and
Thursday, February 16 and 17, in
the Royal York Hotel in the centre
of downtown Toronto on Front
Street. Once again Mrs. Margaret
-Reid of Tiverton has made arrange-
ments for a Bruce Coach Lines bus
to start at Tiverton early on
Wednesday morning. Then it will
stop at Kincardine. At six o'clock
in the morning it will pick up Ripley
delegates at the Ripley Post Office,
from here it will proceed to
Teeswater and thence north to
Highway 9 to pick up delegates
from the Paisley area, on to
Walkerton and its last stop will be
in' Mildmay. It will be a busy week
here as the next meeting of the
Ripley Society will be Monday
evening, February 14.'
* * * * * *
Rev. Hugh Nugent of Knox
Church held a service at Huron
Villa last Stinday afternoon.
* * * * * *
. Those attending the meeting of
the Ripley Agricultural Society
were .Cecil Sutton, John C.
MacDonald, Wes and Margaret
Smith, Mrs. Grace Peet, Dorothy
and -Russ Brooks, Mrs. Reg
Godfrey, Morley and Deana Scott,
Mrs. Marjorie Thompson, Mrs.
Gladys Arnold, Bob Rutledge, Jack
and Janet Farrell, Hugh Mason,
Ray Fuller, Mrs. Mel Coiling,
Muriel and Bob Osborne, Dan A.
and Sheila MacDonald, Mrs. Allan
Coiling,' Jim Needham, Gordon
Patterson,. John and Barbara
Gamble, Fran and Ab Wylds,
Since returning, from the south,
Norman Barnard reports that the
first week of their month in Florida
was very nice and a great relief
from the winter they had left
behind in Ontario. This was
around New Years. But during the'
second week the big freeze hit the
sunshine state. It snowed where it
had never snowed before. Norman
and Mabel talked to a lady who got
up at 3 a.m. that morning to see the
first snow which she had ever seen
falling. Then, a week ago, Norman
and Mabel came back home to
Ripley to such severe winter
conditions.'
On Sunday evening of last week
Dawn Fludder, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Rudder, William
Street, suffered a gash in the back
of her head in a fall at the bottom of
the bed. It was bleeding badly and
nurse Mrs. Mary (McCreath)
Armstrong was called. She said
that it would need stitches to close
the wound. So a call was made to
Kincardine where Dr. Gary Gurbin
said that he would try to get down
by the shore road. Joe Hodgins
was working on the 12th concession
with the Huron Township grader
plow. In the meantime the Bruce
County plow passed the end of
William Street and the decision
was made to follow it out to
Holyrood. Dr. Gurbin was called
by David Woods
About one in 10 Canadians has,
or could have, a respiratory condi-
tion in which the airways go into
spasm.
Asthma has many causes. In peo-
ple whose airways are irritable it
can be brought on by inhaling
pollens, dusts or other allergens; by
marked changes in air temperature;
by exercise; by irritants like soot
and' tobacco smoke. and. by emo-
tional factors.
Whatever the cause, says Dr.
Geoffrey Davies. head of the divi-
sion of respiratory diseases at
Toronto's Sunnybrook Medical
Centre, it zeroes in on the airways
to cause wheezing, panting and
constriction that can last anywhere
from a few minutes to several days.
First, find your precipitating fac-
tor, says D. Davies. That's the
secret of curing asthma, or, at least,
of bringing it under control. Ideally,
that means some detective work on
the part of the physician and the
patient to find the culprit in the
case. If the irritant is. say, a house
pet or a domestic chemical, then it's
a simple enough matter to separate
the offender from the person it's
harming.
Rut not all allergens are that easy
to deal with: pollens, for example,
or house dust. are difficult, if not
impossible. to get rid of. And. even
though asthmatics can be given
shots to de-sensitize them against
such substances, there's far from
universal agreement, says Dr.
Davies, that such shots are truly
effective. For those persons selected
for treatment, .it is impossible to
predict their effectiveness.
There are other forms of treat-
ment that attack the effects of asth-
ma, rather than simply fighting a
rearguard, defensive action against
them. One of these, says Davies, is
exercise to promote better breath-
ing. Swimming, he believes, is
"superb" for this purpose.
Then there's talking things out
with the physician — an excellent
opportunity for patient/doctor co-
operation in which both learn more
about cause and cure. The asthmatic
gains reassurance from knowledge
of what's happening — and what
can be done about it.
Finally, there are drugs both to
prevent the onset of some forms of
asthma and to relax the airways
once an attack has begun. For many
patients newer . drugs are providing
better prevention /of attacks and
with fewer side effects.
While many people consider
asthma to be an exclusively allergic
problem, this is not always the case
— particularly in elderly people. in
fact, says Dr. Davies, asthma with
only a single precipitating factor, is
the exception 'rather than the rule.
In most cases, there's more than one
factor that triggers it.
The Greeks were only able to
giv e asthma its name. Modern medi-
cine, with the patient's help, can try
to keep it at bay/
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