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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-09-26, Page 21M I've just finished a book and not enough in the till to it went into. the soup pot. G GODERICHSIGNAL-STAR, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 1974-44‘014-:---7 Winghum hospital board fears "hedith czars" are possibility called "Ten Lost Years". In my meet the mortgage. And I remember the odd Prophecies -of unwieldly• " local hospital boards, especially opinion, it should be required Stunned, in his late forties time when we had sornething bureaucracies, the establi'shl i'n bthe region that will incur -,reading for every Canadian un- with five kids,' he sank into r I've never tasted since, This ment of regional "health czars" porate Wingham and .Di.tric ,der twenty-five, and pleasantly, depression. There were no jobs was - when the butcher would and loss of local voice in health Hospital,° will dislippear if occasionally bitter reading, for ,anyone, " let alone middle- ; advance no more credit; .and • affairs abounded as• the Board . beneath a bog of 15 regional, for everyone over fifty. The rest aged, ;nen. My mother took _ there wasn't ' a cent °in the of G vernors of Wingham and area, and district committees house. Potato -skin hash. • Dia rict Hospital discussed which would be set up by the to save. "• She took in boarders, In the I wouldn't mind a good feed what Board- Chairman R.P. recommendation. With another depression summer, we rented rooms to of that tonight You rake some Ritter only half in jest labelled Robert Gibson reported that coming up, and remember, you tourists. A clean bed and a, baked potatoes and put then, the - "infamous Mustard he had been involved with the `.read it 'here; it might' serve as huge breakfast for $1.50. She through the meat grinder. With Report" ` at a recent board Huron County Health Unit's some sort of survival chart- for sold homemade baking.` She the colour of the potato skins, it meeting. Y brief against' the. proposed .the young people heading• into was an Avon lady. And we comes out looking like meat The -report being discussed health care plan. the next depression, and 'a went inexorably into debt: the and potatoes. Fry it up in a pan was pne recently. released by Executive Director Norman justification for the older butcher's, the grocer's, the coal with some onions, dirt , cheap,. the Ontario, government which Hayes complained that the people, who are so hymie about man. But there was no way WE and you had a pretty good din- calls for a 'restructttring of plan was ill conceived. He ad - such things ,,as electric lights were going to go on relief. It ner. Top it off with home-made ° health care in the province. "ded that he would be wary of that aren't turned off, food was shameful. bread and raspberry preserves, The ��chairman started the attacking the report because - discussion with the -comment•_ such an attack should be sup - scraps that are thrown out, and' "somehow, we staggered " 'alnd you'd had` a gourmet din; through. My older brother got a ner. that he had waded through the ported' by air 'alternative clothing that .is perfectly good, , g but ten year, out of style. job in• the bank at six dollars a It beat hell out of the modern proposal and found that.it has scheme which is.as good or bet - It's impossible to tell young week. My sister got a job in a,• frozen, TV dinner, both for some startling recommen- ter than the proposal. • people about your •own"" ex- - store at 'eight dollars a week.' nourishment and flavour and dations. He could nbt understand periences in the Great They kicked most of it back to was -probably better for•us than He explained to members of how the governr�nent could ex- Depres"sion. And it deserves the my mum. That was the deal in most of the garbage modern the Board of Governors who pect-the people of the province; capital letters. those days, everybody pulling kids eat. were not familiar with the to gain more direct °,contact ' When you try to tell the together. But it was mighty ' No, we never went hungry; report his view that the voice of with the government on health ricin generation about your hard on_ the young workers,.• and there.was always a�bowl of t,4 own ° Depression experiences, who,. today, would be going to ' pea soup and home -ma -de bread' • they merely groan, roll their . college on governmentgrants. are too old to care, and too late over. s YMI 1 h 11 t for the hoboes who arrived at Goderich eyes, and" think, "Yuk. Here We never went hungry. A lot the kitchen door, half -frozen - goes Dad, or Grandad, again, of hamburger, at three pounds and. half-starved., whining about what hard time's for a quarter. A lot of -baloney. , But I never realized ,what should read the look. They wasn't finished in the morning, wish I had, sooner. y,imply can't real e, as they ., S eho.01 bind scoff their two -bits worth of ' french fries, that grown men worked ten hours a dayfor that same two -bits, during the Depression. v . They can't realize, as they. shoot a quarter into the pop • machine for a Coke (capital C) to wash down their french.fries, that if you took out a girl' during the Depression, and had' ,� • John Nesbitt of Blyth was about ,200 residents and guests. a quarter in your pocket, you welcomedto the Horne at Mon- Mrs. Ray Rader was emcee for - � which included are really like. What a drag!" A •big, • perpetually simmering miracles my mother and father That's why the young people, • pot of soup. ' If the porridge performed in those 'days, and I matters, .which is one of the aims of the new scheme, when T the; government insists, on set- ting up an. ever-increasing jungle of 'bureaucracy. Mr. Hayes labelled that notion academic and said the actual outcome -of the Mustard • plan would be the creation of "regional health czars" comfor- - - tably ensconced in an 'un- wiel'1ly tangle 'of boards and ". The September meeting of committees which have little • the Goderich Township local input. ' • . • Women's Institute was Meld at • The director pointed out that Holrnesville School on Monday, hei 1�� eI W P SOVIE'S.FISH ERiE„.' just the matter- will not -stop a s with health are, noting that ;it probably is Mess. than coinciden- tal that boundaries used in the scheme, correspond directly to those used by the Ministry of Family and Social Services :which administrates welfare programs. However, he held out little hope that government could be blocked in the scheme sine% the Ministry of Health has been're- organized recently to accom- modate such a scheme. Doctors oB the board were angry because the new • plan would call for hospitals - to become specialized in a limited - facet of health care as well as the fact that the government will certify which doctors"are to practise 'in' which areas. Mr. Ritter suggested that the only way to kill the scheme would be to produce briefs by every conceivable committee ., and board involved ' in .health care and to - cru-sh�it by leer-- volume of paper. In- his director's+ report, Mr. Hayes told the Board of Gover- nors that he had• a "feeler" from a psychiatrist in Goderich about establishing a psychiatric in `�, rich.• day afternoons get-together. the program. w is According to the book, the • Marie ; Flynn, • Norman Speir • `piano and violin duets by Mr. hardest hit . areas were, the and Jerry Collins provided.the, and Mrs. Ross Love, . readings Prairie Provin:ees, the old time music with Morgan by Mrs, Ivan Rader; vocal duet Maritimes and Quebec. Ontario Dalton. • "My Kitchen Apron".by Mrs. and B.C. were the only provin- ,Thirty residents -having Sep, Bill Berends• and Mrs. Martha ces in those days which weren't tember birthdays were honored Miller - and vocal duets Mrs. in really desperate condition, at a party in the Auditorium on. Mervyn Teiman and'Mrs. Lave. • • , and they were -bad enough. Wednesday afternoon- Spon- Dave EUiott, who was This is a very credible book',_ sored by, ' the Dashwood ..celebrating bis birthday on to anyone who lived _through:' Women's., Institute. The Wednesday, thanked the ladies those . .Ten Lost Years: The celebrants were presented with on behalf of the,' residents. ._ author wept .out with a tape •` gifts following the program.. F4ntertainers : from_ the recorder and interviewed- hun Decorated cup cakes and tea Bayfieldarea arranged a dreds of people who went ` were, served by the ladies to 'program for "'Family Night". Albert Craig sang several coun through them."The: results are fry and western favourites and' funny,' tragic; ; +and extremely Irish `.este numbers providing to his Canadian. It could never be ��� �e thOwwith misunderstood as'a British or own accompaniment V .guitar and mouth organ. Step. American book; though these 1 dancing' students of Miss countries suffered equally. this weekend Norma Garrett; Gerard, Mary' Canadians then, in their Margaret and Charlie Bedard pawkish, stubborn and often. A host of 1975. ,automobiles, danced as a group and solo • stupid 'pride,. would " go to, •trucks, snowmobiles;•boats and.. were accompanied by mot.orcycl•es will be on display 'Mrs‘ Margaret Garrett at "the at the Harvest Car and Trade Piano..: ' Show; September` 26 and 27 By the way, we are having a • . resort Arid "-relief" could be from 7:30 p:m to'10:0.0 p.m: •at ` fall roll : for volunteers ten or.twelve' dollars a month, the Goderich'Memorial Arena. following the "Family Night" for a'family. A nickel had to do Admission is free and per- program on October 10. If you the work of a :dollar. sons attending will be .eligable would have some spare time for After three years of drought for door prizes both nights:.: • volunteer work, we, would be ,, ..and, grasshopp°ers,•°ma---ny, prairie Friday, September 27 will be happy. to have you attend. • farmers just walked away, and Pspecial night as a free dance left everything: house . and featuring .Wi'lbee's orchestra • machinery- The average cash will be held 'after the show, income 'from 'farmers : in the Maritimes, . including the • wealthy ones, was 'something like forty dollars a year; What a modern ,kid from` a middle- ' .'class fa'mily'woul'd spend in a moritch on clothes and—treats. People. died, not of starvation, ' but of malnutrition. • • Oh, I remember! I was only a kid at .the time, but I remer. i- .ber. '- It • all happened sort of gradually. My father was .a • fairly prosperous merchant, but he was too 'kindly a ,man, bless '• him, to crunch people who were hard up. He gave them,. credit, ••He lost his business, He . had too much money on the books, almost any lengths to avoid "••going ora•_relief." This was,.. .almost a -sin, and always a last See the 7 51 s HARVEST CAR AND September 9. The roll call "A Health Rule ;.'would .emphasize to my Child or 'Grandchiid!' - was answered by 26 members" and one guest. Correspondence and minutes of the last meeting . were read by the - secre:ry--treasurer, Alice Porter. An invitation from Tiger Dunlop Women's•Institute was received to meet with them at their next meeting, Wednesday, September 25. • It was decided to' assist Holmesville School Band in purchasing music stands and a drum, • Final preparations were made for the bus trip to Men- nonite Country on Monday, September 16. - a' The group plan to --hold a bake sale on October 1.2 at The Holmsead. - + Effie .Yeo introduced Marie Betties, a 4-H- member who at- tended. a four-day conference at4 Guelph ;July 9, 10, 11. and 12. This young,'lady gave a very in- teresting` talk on this cori-" ference: - Myrtle Banter and'. her group presented ad interesting article entitled "The Nine . Command- ments for §hopping."•• ' Lunch was served .by Myrtle Banter and her committee. The nett meeting will be ..held on Tuesday, October °15. TRADE SHOW Goderich Arena Thurs. - Fri. Sept. 26,27 7:30 to 10 P.M. DANCE Fri., after the show Free Admission Remember when Craftsmen building ahose really care about the job they id for you? , You can have ° ., your'take ' ' 7102 W. E. "Ted" Williams ' 4 ° Bus: 524 Iles: • and eat -it too. : • ' 524.665. „With ManuLite 25, the "specithe "tpeci0 advaniag e . - policy for people witifanv. ,appy going �petite forlaces.. n call us'toda fora Zook at the+f�rture�mdniALifeh • y ttt •w Q .THERE GODERICH WHO STILL DO! lumummoommemsev day care program in the clinic building one -or two days 'a week. 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