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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-08-29, Page 1ri Cti Containing Elatinga and skirl's of your, favourite TV programs This weekand every week, the TV Signal 41 be included free of charge in the Goderich Signal -Star; the Clinton News- 'Record and The Kincardine News. It will contain program listings for television broadcasting in these three areas, as well as items of interest about your favorite TV shows and stars. Programs will be listed from Saturday through Friday giving area viewers an opportunity to plan their television watching for several days in advance. Of handy coffee table size, The TV Signal will, be a welcome addition in the hones of most Signal -Star Publishing customers. Goderich advertising manager Ed Byrski claims that if' readers are pleased with this week's TV Signal, they will be even more happy with upcoming editions. The initial TV, Signal will likely have some errors and/or omissions, hut these minor problems should disappear as the weeks ga by. Any comments from the readers concerning Signal -Star "Publishing's newest weekly publication'' will be greatly ap- preciated. N� work? Aftct.stu.dOnts..got.. jobs without problem At the beginning of the sum- mer the Signal -Star ran -a story:. .that asked what Gary Walden, Student placement officer, was going to do with the 950 . • students that had applied at his office for one of the 100 jobs available in. Goderich in June. He couldn't answer the question at that time-but:now as summer draws to a close he Can- reply with $' great deal of .satisfaction. • Mr. Walden has made ,possible for all but about 60 of• the students to make some, spending money during the summer school break.. ,.. Advertising was the key to the student placement program, Mr. Walden commented.. . "Hire a Student Week got the ball rolling, for the.sumiiner," he said. "We got an excellent response from ,the employers and were, able to place, nearly half the kids we .had - on file." The job situation in Goderich was pretty good, according to Mr. Walden. The employers in town. are adjusting to the'man- power summer service .and are beginning to rely on students for more and more of their ' needs. - • .. . Last year 'was the first year for the student manpower office but the record' set bye Gary Walden then was dwarfed by '74 results. "We placed,,about 5.0 percent more' students this year than last," .he said. "I think that the success enjoyed will' make this office a permanent service that employers will rely on each and every summer for extra help • during the holiday season.'-' - Of the 950 students on the. files 450 got°.permanent sum- • mer jobs and another '400 or so got work for a few days offend' on. The type•:of jobs changed, throughout the summer. In August, painting was the bigjob request. 'People constantly Three ,mishaps . bring property damage only phoned :the employment offfice and asked for a . student to • paint their house or buildings. Invariably they got the laborers they needed. "I would assume that the employers are satisfied with our services," said Mr. Walden. "They woold call inand ask for. someone for a few days and if their needs `aros.e "again they, would Borne back to us for either the same . student or anyone available. At the first of m the year' 1. sometimes Y had to send two or three people to one job beforethey would get hired but, now employers are generally taking the first one I send out." Police responded to an ac, cident on West 'Street on August 22 at 11:50, a.m. in which a car 'driven by Deborah M. , Argyle, 137 Palmerston Street, was in collision with a car . operated by Evelyn Mae , Wilkinson of 1,25 South' Si. Damages to the Argyle car were $25b and $100. to the Wilkinson car. On August 21 at 7:50 a.m. a collision between a car operated by Sanggay Lhami Barthwal, 56 East Street and a parked car belonging to Pran- ces Prouse of 52 East Street brought- police, to the scene. Damage to the Prouse vehicle t7was $50 and the Barthwal car $200. Police answered a .call on August 26 at 1;40 p.m. at Vic- toria and Nelson after a, truck. operated by Hans Kohler of Sarnia and owned by the JE'atco • Packing Company of Watford was involved in a collision with'• ° "a car operated by James Mit- chell M Corunna, Ontiirio: Damage to the truck was $.15Q and $50 to the car: In other duties `this Week police 'laid one charge under the Criminal code, 17 under the Highway Traffic Act, 13 liquor ChargeS and five charges under by-laws, , Not all the students who ap- plied for summer •work were ,. eager• to, take a job but of the 95U who were looking forwork, only about five percent were in-; sincere 'in their requests. "I weeded the bad ones out in a hurry," said Mr.- Walden. "If I phoned them with a good .lob and they gave me some flunky excuse, I cancelled their card right away." Some of the students that were placed have found -jobs. in the career 'of their choice and decided not to return to school. Somehave. made the decision during the • summer buts, their cards are transferred to the regular Manpower office for full time work. • "Any students who are eager • for a' part time job :this • winter •should `come in now and register," he said. "If they want about 15 hours of work a week and a bit of,spending„•money, I could 'probably 'place them before Christmas." Mr. Walden's assistant - for the summer, Jane Clancy; is returning to school this fall at Fanshawe in"her second -year in, a• legal secretarial course. . Now that Mr. Walden' has finished for the surifim.er and his office is: closing, he also . is • looking for work. • "The office is officially closed at the end of 'August bull have reports to make that will keep . the going until the end of Sep- ' tember and then. I ,guess I will register . at Manpower `fob "a' job;" he said. T' Keep as fruckii' Trucks, sometimes thirty of a time, are lining up daily to unload Ontario wheat at the Goderich Elevator Company'and' in some, cases load' western wheat in storage -to take back to feeders. Local health spokesrnen. critical of, Mustard Report • • • • The company has. had to accept the truck and rail increase due to the shipping strike that has halted Great Lakes tran- sport, (staff photo) choi i If : the Ontario Government irn•plements their plan for restructured health councils 'outlined in the Mustard report it will be against the ,v.ishes_of A M & G hospital ad- 'ministrator, Tim Elliott, suer -- visor of public health Frank 1 Mills and the .*Huron County Council • The'plan devised -by Doctor Mustard will transfer the rrried'cal services available to residents of Huron County ,to London n don along with those of the • ,. • . _. • . to the doctor. they are told to Reportscrutinized five counties between "Huron and the city. The Mustard' Report .prac- tically denies 'personal freedom to go to the doctor of. the patient's choice. If the project is allowed to' fie put.into prac- tice the government will.con- trol the medical profession to .the. extent that patients will go , Dr..' J. F. Mustard and his-contraversfal report,on health care planning will be scrutinized •September,10 as part of a • conference in Kitchenerforrepresentatives from. small On- tario hospitaIs,' including t oderich'sAlexandra Marine and General Hospitel. Dr. Mustard,'chairman of the Health•Planning Task Force which recently recommehded radical changes in Ontario's health care 'system will speak about how the report'could af- fect the province,,hospital administrator Tim Elliott told the Signal -Star: • • Although Mr. Elliott may. not be able to 'attend the Meeting himself, he .said. that persons from the hospital here will be. present to hear, the.speech. They will be able to question and discuss the report with Dr. Mustard, he said. One of the report's propocls is creation dist~ict health councils which the representatives, _who •will include ad- ministrators and seniorAhospital staff, will'discuss.With W • Allan' Beckley, assistant deputy minister; health services, and ,area health co-ordinators, Mr. Elliott said. , • Other�''topics for: discussion during the two-day conference will include labor relations from the nurses' point of view., and labor relations for •small .hospitals. • see, doctors: .will not have freedom to practice in the city or..town they choose. and someone may even decide if a Patient, even needs. a doctor;:s help. • The frightening thing about this plan, according to• some,' is that the people whci are. ad- ministrating the health coun- , ealth rountil seems certainty in .six months Huron County'Aule over the Huron joining Grey and Bruce public- health of its residents . Counties, said that it made will end within six •months . more sense that Huron being in when a district health council a district with Oxford County, composed of several counties which includes London. will be formed by the provincial "We'd have something in government; it was learned last common," he said: week from Gordon Walker, • He suggested that such . a • parliamentary assistant -to district' would include coitntie provincial health minister the of about the same size, giving Hon. Frank Miller. them ,.all an equal voice. The district health .council, Moreover, all three counties which would replace the , are largely rural. - County .health unit, proposed The five -county , district ° for this area in the contraver- would 'be "unwieldy", he said. sial Mustard Report on health He felt that the county has' a care planning would include good health° care system now. `Huron, Perth, Elgin, Middlesex The provincial move to cen- and Oxford Counties. tralize health services is not The district which will in- progress, he" said. elude Huron °County however, "It just doesn't make sense,'' .la may not necessarily cover that he said. whole area, Mr. Walker, MRP In reply to Gordon Walker, for London North, said during ' the healthminister's assistant, an interview. 'Mr. Riddell will echo the sen - Although this area is one of timents of county council in about 10 where health councils rejecting the *five- county. will be created, the boundries district: ° may be, changed . because the He'said he wants- to keep district would be too big,, he Huron County from 'becoming said., • "a -voice in the wilderness.'; "I think local opinion has a great deal to do with it," Mr. 'BUREAUCRATIC -NIGHTMARE Walker said, • " He felt that. the ministry of Murray Gaunt, MPP for.,, health will have to remain Huron -Bruce, termed the five- flexible about boundries until county district health council• a, people from the five counties in "`bureaucratic nightmare.';' the proposed' district express Like Mr. Riddell, , he their opinions. •deplored the site of the district Responsible for ,,creating sa»irg that thecounty would be health councils from Kitchener "smothered".' west. to Windosr,•:Mr: Walker Huron Coupty should not will be one ;of the persons con dose its say about health care sidering those opinions. needs of its people, he said.„ It was his opinion that the Public involvement in health, where they want;" commented proposed 'five -county district care. canictbe achieved with so Frank Mills. "It's a political would be too big to administer "large a district, he .said. move and the administrators health needs ' of its people Mr. Gaunt and Mr. Riddell dpn't know anything . Properly• are bath opposed to , the, .obviouslydon't know He said the five counties organization of district health about people..They in° should be split into two, district councils, because —members what we are -doing up herd ' w au.ld• be appointed, not ,elec- Huron Counts and they dont •. health councils: pP ca " One should comprise Mid- ,ted. re's diesex and Elgin and the other if thepublic felt those mem- The boundaries .get down in - the Mustard Report Combine Oxford, Perth and Huron, he, • bers were not doing a good job, Huron with --Elgin, Perth, Mid said. nothing could be done to dlesex and Oxford'Counties. - In answer to a question, Mr. remove them from office, the and throw 550,000 people. into Walker dismissed the for MPPs said. • one system with the rural areas illation of a health council com Mr: 'Gaunt suggested that at losing recognition nition due to sheer posed of Huron Bruce and Grey least nine of the 15 members on lack of numbers Counties.' ' - the council be elected. t`ThoSe ..boundaries will"' he Studies have shown that the , Some .persons ..,directly in - altered as a resultas of Public flaw of medical services• from volved in health care such opinion," said Dr. Mills. "I Huron tend to go east • and doctors and nurses, could ' be.. can't imagine the government . south 'rather than 'north, he appirinted, but average con - ignoring County Council, A' said. - 'sumer% of the services they cils are not professionally • complete rejection ',of the dispense should have voices on ,, ' `a c�5a 1 has to be re eo nixed " FLEX)BiE MINISTRY• the council, he said: rc g trained- health d P p rarne, ..in ea - services -and _ .. , ; ° are not necessarily qualified to pr. Mills' confidence in the ' • ). Mr. •Gautit 'felt that elected. regulate its affairs. 4 , provincial government has been A 'spokesman close ' to, the continued on page 14 The main objections the shaken somewhat:as a -result of minister of health , who asked : • µ county health officials have the recent health chfanges• not to' be identified and in a doriesgeographically and- the It would appear •al, though Toronto office.that�the ministry,. says and d d as flexible. against the Report are its:boun: µ telephone interview. from his g P what the governmenty is on rec r being 'apparent lack of interest •the province has shown to its ' what'thev do are two different District bound population. , 'The Report' shows'` the true thinking of the province in that • Jack Riddell opposing this , have been indications frorf the thing and I absolutely -support five' county area in favor of they regard Huron County as a health- '1 a` ret, complex- _ t proposed in. the .Mustard .. „ Report. " He could not be sure of the sources of those, indjcat ions however, as he 'has. not `been '' working as closely on creating the councils as°Dr. Robert Walker, co-ordinator' of districts Hi this area. ' Dr. Walker is on vacation un- til after September''3 and could not,•be reached for comment. He was present at special '' meeting of Huron, County Council August 12 when coun- cil overwhelmingly voted tib reject "theme Mustard Report and the five -county' district councils. Council has gone `on record, however, as being 4n favor of health ,councils in ;,prinicple v Council applied tai the health ' 'ministry about two years ago for permission to create a coun- cil. oun-ci1. .,4•7 The ministry.,denied . the ap- plication because 'dire county's population was too small. The smallest population an area can have with,'a. health council is 1,0,0,000. County c. populatioli is about 55,000. .RURAL NEEDS CONSIDERED rend still ries are not • aid. f avor.f n� things. I arn however certainly' ` definity vet, he s glad to see Murray Gaunt and ' The spokesman said there nothingness .that .can a !Jut, continued on 4 creating a ea ' counci s page 1 ,r Property loss t'4 P � ti • r rl ma This log cabin on Black's,Point Road belonging to John Hind mer'ah was, -•destroyed 'early Sunday morning after fire swept throughthroughthe structure, Goderich Volunteer Firemen responded -to the alarm turned in around, 1:30 Sunday morning. and brought the flames under Control to prevent the blaze tiom s p readin into the surrounding bush, `The Cause of the POO p J has not been determined a the Ontario Fire i1Aa rsha I is In- vestigating. staff- hoto ,It has been estimrt,ted that about, 70 pet cent of the county's population is rural.. ,. Huron MP? Jack�, Riddell, 'when asked what he thought of N Eighteen • percent' of .. the people cif Goderich ,whb 'were surveyed on their opinion towards the proposed recreation complex have replied to the Recreation office' and the trend is still in favor of the project.- - ,Two hundred and twenty, one of 'the survey forms were retur- ' ned to Mike Dymond this week bringing the total 'number of replies to 636.° The percen, ages for and against the complex have changed very little as' a result • of the .recent„ response by a„ Goderic.h.,.:voters; The total number. of people, in favor stands now At 72 percent with 28 percent opposed. ti The one change in recent forms returned is the thanks thatpeople have . given the -Complex Committee for giving` - them the opportunity to have a , say :in the matter and the assistance ()keyed bye,sbtne • residents in making the project" a reality.' Eight -people have inclUded their - names and •addresses • on• , the fonts offering assistance in any,,way they can. A meeting between the Com- ...plex Committee and all,, ar- chitect is 'planned for the early partSepterhber of t ; o discuss plans., for the, new structure.