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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-05-18, Page 1• • • agle PY: $ Qvc Wig, ursday, May 18, On �!1 c REV. C. F. JOHNSON and Rev. H. L. Parker, two former rectors of St. Paul's Anglican Church, Wingham, seen with Rev. T. K. Hawthorn, present rector. Mr. Parker was guest speaker at the 105th anniversary service of St. Paul's on Sunday morning. —Staff Photo. formes rector guest speaker Rev. H. L. Parker, rector of Trinity Church, Simcoe, was the guest preacher at the morning service in St. Paul's Anglican Church, Wingham, . on Sunday. Mr. Parker_ was rector of St. Paul's from 1952 -to 1957. The local congregation was marking the 105th anniversary of the founding of the parish. The speaker traced the early history of the Anglican Church -here,, from the year 1867, when • Rev. Murphy of Teeswater began or to come to Wingham once a week . T.; on foot to conduct services in the - old King William Hotel which stood on the site of the present Manor • Hotel... The, first church was erected at the west end of John Street. in 1869 and the 1 H.spital admits oc,cideit dais Four persons were admitted to' Wingham and District Hospital between Wednesday and Satur- day, one with' burns and the others with varied injuries. Derek Raymond of Brussels re- ceived second degree burns to 4 both feet when boiling water spilled on him last Wednesday. Dale Edgar, 20, of Teeswater was the driver of a car which was in collision with a truck driven by Barry Whytock, -Teeswater. Dale was admitted with head injuries. This accident wasinvestigated by Prov. Const. Kennedy of Walkerton. Leonard Schneider, 21, of Waterloo received injuries to his head, multi -abrasions to the body and contusions to his chest and left thigh when he lost control of car Saturday, while attempt- ing to pass another vechile on Highway 87 near Gorrie. His car rolled over, in_the ditch. The acci- dent ccident was investigated by Prov. Const. C. F. Ricker of the Wing - ham detachment. Rodney Cameron,' 23, of Toron- to was admitted Saturday with a fractured collarbone; dislocated wrist and fractured bones in his right hand, received while riding. a motorcycle in a field at the north end of town. It was reported he lost control of the machine when it struck a ground hog hole. The accident was investigated by Constable Ed Daer of Wingham. A hospital spokesman reported% a' Monday night that all victims were in a_ satisfactory condition. ALONG -THE MAIN BRAG By The Pedestrian By The Pedestrian Sr EVERYONE WELCOME— Open House will be held at the Golden Circle School this Friday. from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. in com- memoration of Retarded Chil- l►' dren's Week and to direct atten- tion to the Flowers of Hope Cam- paign. 0-0-0 NEED YOUR HELP -- Residents are asked to bundle old newspapers and save them for the Cub -Scout Paper Drive Saturday, May 27. 0-0-0 HAVE EYE ON SERVICE— There has, been a steady run of residents taking advantage of the free service offered this week by the Eye Care Van situated at the Armouries. The supervising nurse reports that by Friday th number visiting the unit will be' beyond expectations. present building at the corner of John and Centre Streets was built in 1896. Mr. Parker's theme was the truth that Christ is the trunk of the Christian tree. and His fol- lowers cannot produce effective ,fruits in life without His susten- ance and support. The rector of St. Paul's, Rev. T. K. Hawthorn, conducted the service and Mrs,:Harry Brydges Car hits tree was at the organ. The junior choir sang "Praise God for What We , See" and the senior choir sang the anthem, "Meditation" ,by Benton Price. Following the service members -of the congregation gathered in the parish room for a cup of coffee and an opportunity to re- new acquaintances -with Rev. and Mrs. Parker. Youth fes g early m�rning crash s Brian Lawson Ward, 16, RR 1; School and the . Listowel. District • Ethel, died early Sunday from in- High School and at tbertime'uf his juries received when his carhit.a,..:..deatkfwas;:an; n oyee .oL `'tietfeli a.m. the sante day. • bell -Soup c1,. 'Lied„ `I:iatbvi►e . Re Provincial police reported the , was a member of the Ethel Uni- youth was alone and travelling ted Church. east . on County Road 16, four miles east. of Brussels when the car left the road, entered the north- ditch then struck 'a tree. The car was totally demolished. Emergency treatment was given at Wingham and District Hospital before the youth was transferred by ambulance to Hamilton. The young man .died enroute. • " Brian Lawson Ward was a son of Lawson Ward of the fifth con cession of Grey, and his wife, the former Muriel Heibein. He at- tended Grey Central Public Surviving besides his parents, are two sisters, Katherine and Connie, both at home; ' three brothers, Keith of Listowel, Larry of Grey Township and Ger- ald of St. Marys; and his mater- nalrandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert�Heibein. of Brussels., The body rested at theM.M. L. Watts Funeral Home in Brussels until Tuesday at 2 pan. when service was conducted by Rev. Eric Ledrew. Interment followed in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Ethel. Committee stresses the need for .lenders The urgent need for leaders for the Scouts and 'Cubs was em- phasized by chairman Crawford Douglas at the meeting of the Scout and Cub Group Committee last • Thursday night, held at CKNX. It was pointed out ,,that more leaders are required if the boys are to have sufficient leadership for the various facets of activity. Dave Heim was given permis- sion to attend a leaders' training course at Blue Springs. Each member of the Group•Committee had certain duties allocated and given. literature .to serve as a guide. Secretary Scott Reid read the minutes of last month's meeting and the treasurer, Jim Lee, pre-_ sented the financial report. A letter relating to collecting glass was read. It was decided meet- ings would be held the second Thursday of each month. . , Tentative plans for the paper collection were made and resi- dents are asked to have old news- papers and magazines ready for May 27. The committee also de- cided a church parade to St: Paul's Anglican Church would be held June 18. Rev. R. H. Armstrong closed the meeting with prayer. —Mr. and Mrs. Gershom Johnston, Catherine Street, hosted visits from their family on Mother's Day weekend. Friday .visitors were Jim Johnston and Paul of Listowel and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Woods, Sylvia and the latter's friend of Egmond- ville. Sunday evening Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ritchie and family of Kinloss visited with ' her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Johnston. The directors of 'the W a and District Hospitalgave proval last Wednesday,ey!" a recommendation of the ,tive committee which, if, by a special meeting of the tal Association, will radically ter the basis of representatign the board. Board chairman J. T. Gill outlined the background :.pf decision for the directors and series of studies which have carried out by the board's +e8r tive committee. After spy , - attempts attempts had been made year to arrive at a board se tion structure which would nn with the approval of the supp ing municipalities, the Octg ital board repres�nti ,meeting of the hospital board finally agreed with a report which recommended that all rep- resentatives on the hospital ward be appointed by their municipal councils without any *',course to nomination or elec- 4n at the annual meeting of the hospital association. Groupings of municipalities, '.cording to the committee re - art, will follow the same pattern vasa has been followed for the omination of elected rep- resentatives: Town of Wingham, ve members; County of Huron, bane; Turnberry Township, one; orris, one ; Howick, one ; Brus- s, one; Teeswater. and Cul- pss one; East Wawanosh, one; Lucknow, West Wawanosh and Kinloss, one; Medical Associa- tion, three and Hospital Auxi- liary, one. The altered by-laws will be pre- sented to a -special meeting of the Hospital Association which is ex- pected to be held early next month. If approved, the by-laws will be sent on -to the Lieutenant Governor -in -Council for final ratification. Administrator's Report Mrs. I. E. Morrey, hospital ad- ministrator, presented her statis- tical report for the month of April which showed 262 admissions; 327 discharges, 9 deaths, 796 out- lipatients, 571 X-rays, 9 blood transfusions, 5,583 laboratory tests consisting of .55,184 units of work, 113 electrocardiograms, 76 at cancer clinic, 650 patients - treated in the physiotherapy de- partment. Average hospital occupancy for the month was 81 per cent. Mrs. Morrey noted ` that the average length of stay for patients in the local hospital .is 12.2 in the Medical department. The provincial average is 10.2 and an effort is being made in the local hospital to bring the figure down to 9. Finance Report Barry Wenger, •chairman of the finance committee, summarized the report for April, which indi- 04 rt VIP kr g 41 A VP tr14 '11$ cal t'K,IClc "c' l r3. r 9P,.! PAST PR ESI DENTSorthe Wing am Kinette Club attended the 22nd anniversary dinner of t e club Monday night. All former presidents still residing re were present. Seated are Catherine MacDonald, Edith Walker, Marlene Leed- ♦- . . .R .:�•14'tY.4i�yyFa� ham, Jane Burke and Hilda Stainton. Standing are Lorna Bray, Ruth Currie, Velma Scott, Peg Bateson, Mary Wil- liams, Audrex Currie and Shirley Hanula. —Staff Photo. irector tells Lions of CAS wor What is being done for children without homes or living i what might be termed . undesirable conditions was graphically de- scribed by Bruce Heath, director for the Children's. Aid Society, Huron County Branch, last Tues- day night. Speaker at the Lions Club meeting, Mr. Heath .commented on the work done by service clubs on behalf of crippled children . and APPRECIATION TO Bruce Heath, CAS director, Huron County, who spoke to the Lions .Club last Tuesday Tright, is expressed by Lion Lorne Carmichael, right. —Staff Photo. added, "We have children also crippled, but in a different way." • Mr. Heath spoke optimistically of the results of the CAS work, pointing out that in. 1970 Huron had 125 ,children "in care" and this was now reduced to 80. He re lated to this the fact that Huron County has the lowest ratio of un- married mothers. • "Not too long ago, the agency served 14 or 15 girls regarding the placement of children and today there are only two, but work with families is zooming as our aim is to try and 'keep families to- gether." ,. Mr. Heath spoke of adoptions and said there was a waiting list Of prospective parents in this re- gion. He described how the prob- lems which arose because of mixed racial background were diminishing, but admitted that city areas were not as fortunate as Huron. Commenting upon ,the use of foster homes as opposed to outz right adoptions, ,the speaker' said there were sufficient foster homes ,on the list but few wanted teen-agers. Adoptions in most cases concerned the very young but there were some instances where a child hadentered a-bome as a foster child and eventually been legally adopted. In as many cases as. was pos- sible, he said, the CAS tried to eliminate°short-term placements and at the moment half of the total number in care are 15 and Budgets squeezed to hold rate Wingham taxpayers who bad braced themselves for a hike in the taxes for 1972 dan now relax and breathe a sigh of relief for there will be no increase. In fact, the residential mill rate is down minutely from that set about this •time last year. Public School supporters will be required to pay a tax bill on the basis of 130,03 mills for resi- dential and 143.62 mills on the commercial rate. Separate school supporters' residential rate will be 132.00 and the com- mercial 145.81. At a special meeting of council last. Wednesday night, all,aspects of "the budget were carefully checked to determine where any savings might be effected. It was established early in the meetibg that all members were agreed that if at all possible the status quo should be maintained. Total amount to be raised through the collection of taxes is $,466,466.11.One,mill equals $3,456 on the basis of the present assess- ment roll. Built into the complete tax levy as noted above is 22 mills levy by the County of Huron, represent- ing $76,046. The Huron County Board of Education levy for sec- ondary school purposes is 19.69 commercial and industrial and 17.73 mills • at the residential lei el . Similarly, the board sets a levy of 27.50 mills and 24.75 mills for public school purposes and Huron -Perth Separate School Board also comes into the picture with 29.69 commercial and indus- trial and 28.72 mills on residential assessment. A breakdown of the complete total of $466,466.11 shows the gen- eral rate should produce $237,- 513.51, the levy for secondary schools will total $63,697.46, pub- lic sch ©10- $85;373.45 and separ- ate schools totalls $3,845.07 to make the educational total $152,- 915.98 or approximately one-third of total tax receipts. Add td the educational levy total the county levy of $76,036.62 and just about half of the tax money collected in Wingham is automatically removed from the town's coffers, thereby leaving the operation of the town's various services dependent upon a budget of $237,513. 16 -year olds. The speaker hinted that the establishment of group homes might become necessary within a year or two" to house' teen-agers. - Following* his address Mr. Heath answered questions con- cerning the effect of parents' di- vorce, education and work habits of those in care and to what ex- tent the marriage of those from broken homes were successful. Mr. Heath was introduced by Lloyd Casemore .and the appre- ciation of the,glub members was expressed by Lorne Carmichael. Archie Hill gave a detailed de- scription of the float the club will present in the convention. parade in June. A list of volunteers to help during the four-day stay in Wingham of the Mobile. Eye Care Van was prepared and further plans for Ladies'_ Night, May 23, were outlined. In the absence of secretary Colin Campbell, the secretarial duties were handled by Jim Gregg. Day Care Centre hires supervisor A qualified supervisor for the Day Care Centre was hired last week by the administrative com- mittee following an interview last Tuesday and further discussion later in the week. • Mrs. Lane of Goderich was one of two applicants, having had ex- perience in nursery school activi- ties plus one year as a supervisor. Her husband is a school teacher and 'hey'» a e' "presently making plans to move to Wingham. The other applicant is younger with no practical experience and, if she had been selected, Would have come straight from college. Jack Alexander, chairman of the administrative committee, said Mrs. Lane satisfied the com- mittee and Mrs. Hillhorst Of the Department of Social and Family Services. She .had the required experience and will assist the committee shortly in the choos- ing of other staff. J sated that total eve itu ,, were $188,488.02 ate reeeiptz $128,27,7.76 for .a net .depot, o ` $10,210.26, Expenditures .by partments• were moded Phert Htte r, ehalmugt 01 the anagement corm ttee, - :re ported On the earring structUre of the nursling staff, which, totals 86, full-time ,peri ifeL TWO the resignation and adthti+o to staff- The employee health seri- ice report indicated that .57 days were lost because of illi *Of- fered by staff members. The hospitahope'atud ambu- lance delPsat had anOwered 41 calls during the Wit Month.. Commenting on baspitaI man- agement concerns, D. ,I, K. Mc- Gregor said that he.had. attended, the annual ;meeting of the Wade Medical Association early :;last week and said there is grave con, cern ' abott the rapidly .rising costs of health -care inthe prov- ince. vince. One of the contributing fac- tors, he said, is the increasing:. use • of hospital outpatient; ,4'KiceS which represent 10 to .15 per:cent of total hospital conte in the p r- ' ince. He noted that the actual average hospital coat for each • outpatient is from 11 to $15 and expressed the general concern that Unless* these costs can 'bp contained there ie gave: danger that local hospitals will•lose their autonomy in a government cam- paign, to forcibly reduce health care costs. Dr. McGregor said that . one solution would be for doctors -to keep their offices open for longer periods each day in order to en- ' courage patients to refer.directly to their own physicians, rather than going to the hospital as out,- patients. utspatients. •. ' There was some discussion .about the merits of returning to n nom ;ase ter 'outnatie ntt tt patient services. This considera- tion will be dealt , with =by the board's executive committee.4 Barry Wenger noted,,that lengthy, waiting periods in doctors' offices J contribute to use of hospital out- patient services. c , - -Property „chairman Wallace Conn of the property committee reported that the roof over the operating, room area had been replaced at a cost of 81,900.00, approval for payment being passed by the board. Other approved accounts included $1,882.69 for the replace- ment of switching equipment on the stand-by generator and $11,532.00 for the installation of a new incinerator to meet require- ments of the air pollution authorities. A question from one of the board members, elicited the in- formation that hospital usage of the new equipment will total approximately four hours in a 24- hour period. Mr. Conn also reported that the roof over a portion of the hospital Please turn to Page 8 Holiday weekend service limited The local post office announces holiday hours for •the'Victoria Day weekend, On Sunday, May 21, there will be no street letter box collection and no dispatch of mail. On Monday, May 22, there will be no counter or rural service. Street letter box collection&will begin at L:45 p.m. Mail received at the post office up.to 3 Vim. will be dispatched. Police find stolen tar Wingham police recovered a stolen car Saturday before any report of it .having been stolen was turned in. The car had been left at Cana- dian Tire to have work done and during the early evening Friday, with work completed, the car had been parked on the lot with the key in it ready to be picked up by the owner, Jose Homan, RR 3, Blyth. 'Before his • arrival the car was taken and while patrolling the north end of town at 2 a.m. Satur- day, the car was found aban- doned near the rear of Western Foundry property. R!