The Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-03-30, Page 9bounty Is Undecided
During the Friday session of Huron
County Council a good deal of time was de-
voted to a discussion of the county's financial
responsibility to the hospitals within its
borders which serve Huron residentsas well
as those who happen to fall ill while visiting
in this area from other places, A request had
been placed before council that a flat one-
* third of the capital cost of hospital improve-
ment programs bessupplied by the county,
the other two-thirds to come from the pro-
vincial authority.
The councillors failed to reach a definite
conclusion on the subject and went home -to
think it over until the next meeting, presum-
ably a month hence.
If the one-third of cost formula should be
adopted it would be a departure from the
• present arrangement under which the
county provides a $2,000 per bed grant to ex-
panding hospitals which have the approval
of the Ontario Hospital Services Commission
for their building programs. The change in
financing has been suggested by hospital
planners because most of the proposed capi-
tal expenditures `for Huron hospitals, which
are under discussion at the present time,
would fail to receive any grants under the
$2,000 -per -bed formula:
A "rote" study conducted by a firm of
consultants during the past two years, which
delved into the futureneeds of the hospitals
in the Counties of Huron and Perth, indicated
that additional beds are not the prime re-
quirement. In Wingham, for example, fur-
ther capital expenditures would not be de-
votedto extra rooms and .beds, but instead to
the provision of a second operating room,
altered and more efficient obstetrical quar-
ters, and improvements to other service
areas. Some. building "'would be required to,
accommodate the improved services but the
hospital would continue to provide bed space
for the same number of patients it does at
present,
The County Hospital Planning Council
has taken a keen look at the needs of all the
hospitals in Huron and has worked out.a sys-
tem of priorities so that the hospitals with
the most urgent. needs will be looked after.
first. For. Pxample, the_ Goderich hospital
heads the list, Exeter is in second place and
Wingham third.
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Since any expenditures undertaken by
the county council become a direct charge
upon our- ow -n Iogal municipalities, every
citizen has a right to know why the county
has been asked to shoulder one-third of the
load. The reason, of course, lies in the.fact
that the patients treated in any one hospital
may come from any or every municipality
within the county. The Wingham & District
Hospital provides treatment for residents of
Ashfield from time to time and its am=
bulance service is frequently called upon to
transport ,patients to or from that township.
Ashfield is a 4aod deal closer to Goderich
Hospital than it is to Wingham, and logic
might dictate that patients from that area
should be -treated in the nearest hospital.
Itis not logic, however, which placespa-
tients in• any given hospital—it is the pa-
tient's doctor. If an Ashfield family happens
to be attended by a Lucknow doctor, then the
• Wingham hospital will be the place of treat-
ment, despite the discrepancy in distances.
Today's doctors are much too busy to look
after patients in hospitals as far apart as
Wingham, Goderich and Kincardine. The
physicians would spend half of every work-
packed day driving from one hospital to an-
other.
Thus it becomes obvious that the only
fair way of distributing hospital improve-
ment costs is at the county level, so that tax-
payers in all municipalities share the load
evenly.
County councillors may well be cogitat-
ing the parallel, problem of whether or not
the county governments should be involYed
at all. Since financing of the hospitals'
operating costs is supervised and partly paid
for by a province -wide insurance program,
the councillors may ask why the province
does not agree to pay 100 per cent of hospital
improvement costs and save a lot of argu-
ment.
Whatever their conclusion may be, the
problem cannot be shrugged aside. Hospital'
services have become vital to the residents
the councillors represent and when illness
strikes, as it does in almost every family
over the years, the taxpayer is much more
(.1, eply concerned ?bout the availability of a
good hospital than he is about the potholes in
the county roads.
New Source of Terror
William Cochrane, dean of a medical
school in Calgary recently commented on
the "medic" shows whichcurrently appear
on television. He said hederived a good deal
'Of ' aii ttement ` roih "Marcus Welby,"`i
and "Medical Centre" (if those are the cor-
rect names of the shows).
There can be no 'denying Dr. Cochrane's
right to comment, for he must be a man of
considerable standing in his profession—but
we strongly disagreethat the general public
• reacts with any degree of pleasure or
amusement to these same shows. As a doc-
tor, he is able to assess the situations pre-
sented and dismiss the implications of
tragedy which they so often imply—because
as an expert, he can maintain a sense of rea-
soned perspective.
That is hardly the case with the ordinary
layman who watches, as week -by -week, new
and frightening physical disorders are used
as .the focal point for emotional climax.
a People who -never gave a serious thought to
their minor aches and pains are starting. to
diagnose all manner of complicated ail-
ments after a visual diet of medical crises.
It is not ,difficult to imagine the wrench-
ing fear that grips a family when they find
out that mother's blood count is. a little off-
after they have witnessed the sufferings of a
leukemia patient on the
TV screen.
If these programs served to emphasize
the danger signals of cancer and heart
troubles—the• ailments which are unfor-
tunately all too common, they might serve a
useful purpose. As they.are produced in their
present form, week after week, they serve no
purpose but a build-up of a dozen new and
nerve=wracking kinds of fear.
Sounds Sensible
A member of the Listowel council re-
cently suggested that the town should estab-
lish a small -sized tree farm on land which
the municipality owns at present and which
is not likely to. be needed for building pur-
poses in the near future. His suggestion
came after a discussionabout the costs of a
• tree -replacement program along the town's
streets. Listowel, like many other Western
Ontario towns, finds that hundreds of the
stately maples have passed their proper age
limit and should come down for safety sake,
not to mention the elms which have fallen
prey to the Dutch disease., No self-respecting
M
community wants to see its streets denuded,
so the cost of buying replacement trees for
replanting is a sizeable item.
The removal of old trees will continue
formany years, so it seems patently sound to
.start a tree nursery from which, within a few
years, the town could transplant. the young
trees needed to enhance the appearance of
its streets and parks. Seedling trees do' re-
quire. attention, but most towns have a few
retired men who would be happy to give the
young trees the attention they need in their.'
first few years of growth.
Listowel council failed to act on the sug-
gestion, but we can't tell you why.
Better Stop It Now
If you visit Toronto from time to time
you may not think of it asz quiet place, but
that is what it,has been, compared with some
of the other large cities of”the world. On a
comparative basis it has seen little of the
violence which has rocked places like Mont-
real and Los Angeles and Belfast.
Last week, however, the peace and quiet
* was shattered. A bomb of tremendous power
exploded in a shopping plaza in the sector,
generally known as "Little Italy". Two
people died in the resultant fire, orie of them
an elderly cleaning woman who must, sure-
* ly, have been innocent of whatever hatreds
led to the lawlessness and terror.
'Police have apprehended several sus-
pects who now await arraignment and trial.
They are, of course, innocent until legal pro-
cedure has proven their guilt. When the time
does come that the courts have proved, be-
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yond any doubt that guilt has been estab
l ihed, it is to be hoped'that the full, measure
of deterent punishment will be handed out.
Certainly no one wants to see Ontario be-
come subject to the terror which has gripped
so many other places in the world.
A bomber is a scab on the face of human-
ity because his act of violence totally disre-
gards the innocent men, women and children
who may happen to be within the lethal
range of his weapon. The murderer who uses
a rifle for his act l,f death at least singles out
his intended victim and the danger to the by-
stander is minimized to some degree. Not so
with the coward who places his bomb and
gets well out. of the dan6er zone before the
blast shatters buildings and bodies.
Toronto may be no bed of roses, but let's
hope that it never becomesa living agony for
those who walk its streets.
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Let's see. The first New,'',
lander I ever met was a l'0
teacher called Jeannie Carnes
I kissed her up in an apple tree
one day. She was twenty-sx*,a1I0
lonely. I was nineteen ---and ni'i>
teen.
She wasn't a New Zealander
then. ' She was a high •sell
teacher: And I was a student.
fact, when the word got aro nit'
that I was kissing my Freugh'
teacher up in an apple tree,• It'
very nearly ruined me with MY
fifteen -year-old gird, friend, who°
thought' teachers• should be .sem'
and heard, but not touched.
However, that's another stol y,.
Jeannie fell in love with a New
Zealand airman, during the wap.
His name was Andy. Said he l
owned a sheep ranch. But.I reck-
on he was a shoe clerk.
He was no different from the*.
sands of Canadian servicemen,
who married lovely little English
ducks on the strength of their bi'g
cattle ranch, or gold mine, hack
home. The girls came out expel
ing The Ponderosa, and found
they were the sole menial on 120
acres of cedar and rock. Or John;
ny didn't happen to own that gold
mine. He just worked in it.
The chaps" were not being dis-
honest. After all, if you said to an
English girl, "The old man has
120 acres," it sounded as though
there must be at least ten sery-
ants. If he said, "I'm a gold
miner," it sounded as though he
had a gold mine.
Well, Jeannie went to New Zea-
land with Andy, and I. hope she
slept well, counting those non-ex-
istent sheep as they leaped over
the shoe counter.
The. next New Zealanders I met
were in training, in England.
They spoke English, but it was a
little different. Once I asked two
.of them what they were doing
that evening. One replied, "We
thett we'd week ecress a cepple 0'
peddocks anev a bayah." Much
research divulged that this
meant they thought they would
walk across a couple of paddocks
(fields) and have a beer at the
pub.
Then I got to a squadron. Three
of us in a tent. Two Canadians
and a New Zealander, By this
time I could talk New Zealand.
Nick was an old guy, about twen-
ty-fi-ve. Good type. Earthy, prac-
tical, realistic. The other Cana-
dian, Freddy, was nineteen, • vir-
ginal, idealistic, and credulous. I
was sort of in between.
Nickused to tell that boy
sto-
ries • that curdled his blood and
even curled my hair slightly. He
told us the biggest lies about the
fish and the deer and the sheep
and the women of New Zealand
that I blush, even now, to think of
how I half .believed him:
Freddy was sold and we for-
med a syndicate, then and there.
to go to N.A. after the war and get
rich in two years. The' syndicate
was rather shattered when Nick
and Freddy were killed in one
week, and' I was shot down the
next.
Newzie. He was a squadron lead -
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Gravenhurst, Ont
The Editor,
Advance -Times,
Wingham, Ont.
Dear Sir:
Once again a midget hockey
club from our town has partici-
pated in the Lockridge tourna-
ment. and the boys and adults
accompanying them enjoyed
every minute of it.
We are deeply appreciative of
the trouble those in charge of the
event took to ensure all visiting
teams would be looked after. The
people of the arena are to be con
gratulated on the manner:. in
whichthe ice•was kept in top con-
dition and the general cleanliness
of the building.
We cannot express properly
our thanks to those who opened
up their homes to billet our
players, they did a tremendous
job, and, Wingham should be
proud to have so many sports -
minded people to support the
tournament by offering billets.
Mr. Dick Jamieson at the
Wingham Motel also played a
part in welcoming the visitors.
and for our part, we think his in
terest in our people was tops:
To Mr. and Mrs. Roger West
and those closely concerned with
them, too much cannot be said
Their friendly help to visiting
hockey managers and coaches
and the fine way in which all
parts of the tournament were
arranged gave complete assur
ance to all the stay in Wingham
would be very pleasant.
To everyone who helped our
boys in any way, a very sincere
"Thank you,"
Ron Zeats, Coach,
Gravenhurst Bears
er Everybody else thought he
was around the bend, but I knew
he was just another Newzie. He'd.
come to my room in barracks
every so often and bellow, "Smi-
ley, do you know where I can buy
a truck in Canader?" 'I -J s plan,
after release, was not to back
to N .Z. by ship, with th •' others,
but to bead for Canada, and drive
across the country by truck. It's
quire po Visible that he planned to
drive it right across the Pacific,
too. but I couldn't remember a
single truck dealer, so I don't
know what happened.
'This seems like a long pre-
amble to something,, and it is.
Writing a column is one of the
loneliest jobs in the world. Once
in a while, shouting into the void,
you hear an echo. It warms the
heart. Such is this, from Auck-
land, New Zealand.
"Thank you, dear Bill Smiley,
for your delightful column. Here I
am, 7,000 miles from home and I
felt that my little world was
crumbling around me. We are
gradually losing everything and
at present may lose our house as
we try to make a go of it in New
Zealand.
"As usually happens at times
like these, minor problems seem
major also and it seems impossi-,
bl.e to hold your head up in a posi-
tive manner. So this is where I
was last night when the States-
man arrived from Bowmanville
and I flipped it open to your col-
umn ... and read about 'men and
weather Make mistakes.' Well, I
nearly died laughing. And it felt
so good to laugh .. .
"Well, to make a long story
short, it was with a much lighter
heart that I swumg out into. the
balmy night to put the milk bot-
tles out. Things didn't seem to be
so bad after all. And I• was still
chuckling so much that I sudden-
ly realized that my 'head was
high, my stride confident and the
night sky down here is really
beautiful and God is up there .. .
how had I forgotten? Just to be
able to laugh again at something.
It really does do good like medi-
cine." Thank you, dear lady:,
Secretary: "Sir, did I hear. cor-
%et~tly? Mbke 26 copies of each
letter?" Boss: "Yes, that's
right,.," Secretary: "May I ask
why?" 'Boss : "Sure. We file one
under each letter of the alpnabet.
Then we're sure of finding
them."
,COACHES OF BRUSSELS hockey club Frank Stratton and Jim Prior talk strategy with
team captain Keith Raymond. —Staff Photo.
ingblun tit) noeffeime
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Windham, Ontario, Thursday, March 30, 1972
SECOND SECTION
News Items from Old Files
APRIL 1937
Mr. and Mrs. W. Leggatt of
Whitechurch have moved to town
and taken up residence on the
corner of Frances and Victoria
Streets which was formerly occu-
pied by C. VanNorman and fam-
ily.
The Signal and the Star,
Godel ich's two weekly papers,
have amalgamated and will be
issued as one paper twice a week,
beginning this week. Proprietor
of the -merged publications will be
W. Wilkes who was owner of the
Star.
Friends and neighbors met at
the home of Boyd Marshall last
week to bid farewell to Mr. and
Mrs. W. 1-1. Marshall and son
Aleck before leaving for their
new home in Gorrie.
On Thursday afternoon a
lighted match or cigarette butt
caused the paper *in the waste
basket at C. Bushfield's imple-
ment shop to take fire. A few
pails of water quickly extin-
guished the blaie. •
In a three -cornered election for
Councillor of Brussels on Mon.
day,. -Ha Bowler was elected
.cry
by a small margin. He defeated
Finlay Samis and Joseph Kelly.
Overheated stovepipes caused
a fire at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Cook, 6th concession of
East Wawanosh, which com-
TODAY'S CHILD
BY HELEN ALLEN
BUSY; FRIENDLY BOY
You can tell just by looking at his picture that Martin has no
inhibitions. He is a self-assured young fellow of nearly three, quite at
ease in any !situation.
Martin is a tall, handsome boy with light brown curly hair, fair skin
and dark eyes dancing with mischief. His ancestry is mainly white
with one black great-grandparent..
This youngster Was a late starter4o•much so that a year or so ago he
was listed as slow learner. Now, however, recent psychological, tests
indicate he is at least average in ability, perhaps better.
Martin's foster mother credits much of his advancement to Sesame
Street. He never misses the program and she says he has learned a
great deal from it. This is especially helpful for Martin because there
are no other young children around, and the people on television are
very real to him.
This youngster has a good memory and loves to look a& books or
listen to stories. He likes music and carries a tune welt. A sociable boy,
he dlelights in going shopping or visiting. lie is very active but lonely,
since be has nobody to play with.
Martin will be a joy to young, energetic parents Who will appreciate
a healthy, lively little son.
To inquire about adopting Martin please write to Today's Child, Box
888 Station K, Toronto. 'For general adoption information, ask your
Children's ;'lid Society.
pletely destroyed the two-storey
frame building on Thursday.
The Belgrave School Fair an-
nual meeting was held last week
and officers were elected for the
following year. J. S. Procter is
president; Robert Coultes is vice
president and secretary -treas-
urer is Mrs. C. W. Scott.
William Edwards of the 17th
concession of Howick has started
up his saw -mill for his season's
work.
Clifford Purdon of White-
church, who has been taking the
correspondence course in deisel
and other engines, went to De-
troit over the weekend to make
arrangements for the practical
work of his course. '
Hugh 'Mundell of Bluevale has
- completed a course in butter -
making at the 'iAC at Guelph.
APRIL 1947
William Brownlie last week re-
ceived a portable machine of the
latest type developed especially
for cemetery work. With ,it a -
monument does not have to be
taken down; lettering can alstxbe
done the sa� e.as; in thshu]] ,l is..
the only one of itsV n in this part
of Ontario.
Wingliam Firemen were busy
last week. Wednesday. morning
they were called to Yemen's Grill
where a fire was caused by thaw-
ing pipes and Wednesday evening
a chimneyfire eat the Dave Finley
residence on .McIntosh Street.
Little damage resulted from
these. Thursday they were called
to the residence of Mrs. Ward
Gray, Victoria Street, and Thurs-
day evening the kitchen at the
rear of the residence of Mrs.
Dorothy McTavish, corner of
Patrick and Edward Streets, took
fire. Considerable damage was
caused in that fire.
The Wingham Town Hall was
filled to capacity for the Public
School concert last week. J. P.
McKibbon, president of the Wing -
ham Lions Club, presented the
Lions proficiency scholarship to
Stan Hiseler, a successful En-
trance pupil of 1946.
Mr. and Mrs. 'John Bowman,
RR 5, Brussels, wish to announce
the engagement of their. daugh-
ter, Isabel Jenette to William
John Elston, of -RR 4, Wingham.
The marriage will take place in
April.
The Laidlaw Fur Farm is once
again buried in snow, thanks to
our latest blizzard. More than
half the fox pens are buried for
the second time and in others the
snow comes up within one foot of
the wire top. To feed the foxes
Mr. Laidlaw walks on a beaten
path about one foot lower than the
top of the pens.
Capt. B. Agar of the Salvation
Army suffered painful burns on
the arm last week while tending
come
the furnace at the officer's resi-
dence
esidence on Edward Street. Slipping
on the floor, the Captain's arm
came in contact with the hot "fur-
nace.
For the second time in March
the CPR line has been completely
blocked for a week at a time. One
of the worst drifts is between
Wingham and the Y at Glenan-
nan. It was estimated at 30 ft.
high and a half mile long.
APRIL 1958
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wallace
who reside about two miles
directly ,north of Fordwich, lost
everything they owned in a disas-
trous fire which destroyed their -
barn, home, livestock and imple-
ments at noon on Tuesday.
Rev. Don Sinclair of the Slate -
River Baptist Church in the Fort
William district 'has accepted a
call to the Wingham . Baptist
Church with duties to commence
on May 4th.
Prime Minister John Diefen-
baker's conservative party was • •
swept„back into office in na land . ,
o
slide vi4a17 pin o y.,: ,
`� w e"tliai� r?uTs`�lik,
tof`t
ington-Huron ' constituency and
Elston Cardiff:piled up a record
majority in the' Huron riding.
This Thursday will see the of-
ficial opening of the Hafermehl
Jewellery in the Lockridge build-
ing on Win ham'smain
street.
Allan Hafermehl comes to Wing
ham from Walkerton where he
has been located for a number of
years. He is a native of Mildmay.
At a meeting Friday evening, a
committee was, formed to ap-
proach the town council and out-
line a plan for .a properly or-
ganized civil defence set-up in the
town. Committee members are
L. Carter, DeWitt Miller, Jack •
Walker, Rev. C. F. Johnson and
Envoy Newman.
Miss Mae Kaster, daughter. of
Mr. and Mrs. David Kaster of
Fordwich, left this week for St.
Jean, Quebec, where she will
commence training with' the
RCAF unit for six weeks and will
,then go to either Clinton or Ayl-
mer.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Toner of
Gorrie were honored by friends
and neighbors prior to moving to
Palmerston, where Mr. Toner is
employed.
Local figure skaters passed
tests held in the local arena on.
Saturday. Marian Farrier,• has
completed her junior bronze
dances and Jean Gurney has
completed her senior dances.
Irene Saint, Nancy Elliott and
Jean Gurney journeyed to
Stratford and passed their tests -
tried there.
Today's car inspection is to- -
morrow's protection.
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