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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-03-15, Page 5f ear editor... • from page 4 representatives might feel justified in placing industrial growth on a back burner. We urge you to discuss the upcoming workshop in your newspaper before it takes place to en- courage _ all interested parties to attend and make their opinions known. If they care about Huron's future industrial growth we would like them to stand up and be counted. Does Huron need in- dustrial growth? That's the question. We hope it will be decided on March 28, 1979, at the Royal Canadian Legion Hall. in Goderich from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The cost is only $3.00 for lunch and workshop. To register call R. S. Cummings at 54-2188 in Goderich. Sincerely, W. C. Hawke Industrial Development Consultant Sour grapes Dear Editor, I see in last week's paper where M -W Motors is going to relocate their business. I couldn't help ,myself from grinning when I read the part and I quote: "If we had a fire we could not build on the same site.'! In business one day; otu the next. I guess nobody knows anay better than me as I have been through that road of sour grapes: I think their move is a _very wise decision in case anything did happen - heaven forbid. Harold Lamb Goderich Program works Dear Editor, The Canada Employment Centre for Students -has -once again been established' in the area with offices in Goderich and Exeter. As Student Placement-. Counsellor, it . •is my responsibility to aid the many students in our area in their attempts to • find part-time or full-time summer employment. Of equal importance, I hope to be of service to local employers in their search for reliable seasonal help. An overwhelming number of students have already registered at the Employment Centre for Students. Some of the older students especially, are seeking career - oriented jobs which will allow them to use their training and skills; the majority of the young people, however, are eager towork at any kind of job. Typists, car washers, gardeners, babysitters, house cleaners? lawn mowers, painters, pet - sitters and farm laborers are available im- mediately to help em- ployers. They can work for an hour or two, for a week, or for the entire slimmer. I hope that you will call me and discover how the Canada Employment Centre for Students can .work for you this sum- mer! Sincerely, Susan H. Freeman, Student Placement Counsellor Well done Dear Editor, Glancing through the February edit4on of the Bulletin, I noticed that the Goderich Signal -Star was one of the OWNA's better newspaper award winners. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the staff of the. Goderich Signal -Star for this outstanding achievement and I wish you all the best for continuing success. Yours truly Jack Riddell, M.P.P. Huron -Middlesex Information Dear Editor, Will anyone knowing of the whereabouts of the desmcendents ofithe ., William Gerrond -and Isobel Riekie from Edinburgh, Scotland please inform me? GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1979—PAGE 5 Ambulance attendant, Allan Chrysler, demonstrates the use of a new basket stretcher to members of the Xi Delta Epsilon chapter of the Beta Sigma Ph1 sorority, who purchased the new stretcher for the hospital. Members of the sorority include Pat Spence, Helene Alcock and Sandy Romph. The sorority raised the money for the stretcher at their Christmas auction sale. ( photo by Dave Sykes) He was a school teacher and they resided in Goderich possibly in the 1850's before leaving for Saskatchewan. Write to: Mrs. G. Clarke, 685 Alfred Street, Kingston, Ontario, K7K 4K1. ' Thank you very much. Yours very truly Mrs. G. Clarke Heart month Dear Editor, "Heart Morith" in Canada is now over and on behalf of the Canadian Heart Fund, Ontario Division, please accept our heartfelt thanks for your support during our financial campaign. Our objective this year was $5,500,000 and although all returns are not in, we are quite late. hopeful that our objective -will be a ained. Without your willing co- operation in com- municating our needs to the public, the Canadian Heart Fund would not be able to express such an outlook. April 1979. has been designated as "High Blood Pressure Month". The theme for this month is "Down 'With High Blood Pressure". Thank you again, for your past support -- as always, it is truly ap- preciated. With best wishes Yours very truly Canadian Heart Foundation Ontario Division Esther. M. Richards Director of Public Relations Assessment ... • from page 3 superintendent. Council passed a motion that the main- tenance of the fire tanker be included in the annual maintenance cost and that any replacement of the fire tanker truck be Laundry contract The contract for the new laundry and storage facility at Alexandra Marine and General Hospital has been awarded to Genan Construction, Waterloo. Elmer Taylor, ad- ministrator at AM&G, said Friday the total, budget for the project has been approved -by the Ontario Ministry of Health at $150,000. Construction is ex- pected to begin during the Last week of March on the north side' of the hospital west of the emergency department. included in the budget as provided for capital cost replacement. Prest and Egener reported to council that J. Hindmarsh was willing to bring a section of road to township standards in order to obtain a land severance for S. Youngblut. Council then passed a motion stating that the access road to the Youngblut property must be 66 feet wide and built to township specifications but before the_ to_yytiship would assume the road .there should be better clarification as to the total length of such road, provision for a turning circle, etc. Council passed a motion to accept a road expenditure of $243,100 for 1979 with a total subsidy of $132,500 and further to request ap- proval of a sup- plementary bylaw for the purchase of a road grader with a subsidy of $36500. Council then adjourned until March 19 at 1 p.m. Serious OPEN LETTER TO THE HON. DENNIS TIMBRELL Dear Mr. Timbrell : I would beg you to read this letter .and my en- closed Chief of Staff's report which has been - appropriately un- derlined. The bed situation at Alexandra Marine and General Hospital' is serious and if the bed cuts go through, as proposed by the. Entries are now bing accepted for The 1979 DOROTHY SHOEMAKER LITERARY AWARD CONTEST IN PROSE AND POETRY The contest is open to people of all age groups. Judged by noted Canadian authors, Prises donated by participating public libraries in the Midwestern Library System. Deadline for entries - Monday, October 1, 1979 RULES AND ENTRY FORMS ARE AVAIL.ABLE NOW AT YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARY Ministry of Health, we will be confronting a dangerous and poten- tially lethal situation. The current patient mix has already claused a dangerous trendli,n our infection statistics. Our chronic and long stay-patients'are already. blocking active treat- ment beds. The 19 dischargable patients have nowhere to go. As of this date there has not been established a chronic home care program in Huron County. Maitland Manor has applied for additional chronic --beds -aver the past years and has been refused by your Ministry. The referral base upon which your Ministry allocates ' beds has changed markedly within the past year. Doctors who previously referred _th•eir--p.atien`t o-Monden have left Goderich and those who remain and are coming to help out the acute doctor shortage are oriented to local referrals and looking after more serious problems. Furthermore Goderich is in the "snow belt" and has a large influx of summer visitors which is not felt by the other towns in the county. Mr. Davis has stated that government programs are subsidized on a formula basis. This, of course, is only par- tially true as far as health care is concerned and in all my years of practice I have never found any one formula that fits' all patients. The same is true of hospitals. The Exeter hospital, for example, is' not concerned about the bed cuts. Seaforth is able to cope. Clinton will be pressed to the wall but have been so intimidated by your Ministry in the past they will probably not make a fuss until the situation deteriorates to a ridiculous level. Wingham has already let you know their critical situation. Mr. Timbrell, I am writing to you on a fac- tual basis. I have prac- ticed medicine in mission hospitals in South Africa and I know only too well what financial restric- tions,mean as far as patint care, early diagnosis and infection, rates are concerned. We coped as best we could in South Africa but that sort of standard is not acceptable in the North American context. Nor; sir, is the disastrous standard of service of- fered --by- the -Natio-nal .. Health Service in Britain acceptable, to my com- munityor to the people of Ontario. I must however congratulate you and the cabinet in your shift of Mr. Allan Backley' to —doputy ministership. Let us hope that he will not :create another expensive bureaucratic empire in his new portfolio. The change was long overdue and in my view, shared by many other health professionals, Mr. Backley and his statistical assistants have effectively destroyed our Once ex- cellent health care system. I must commend you also for your political expediency in raising the credit card issue. This, of course, is a "tempest in a teapot" issue and can be read only as a smokescreen to cover the bed cut pxoblem which is too serious a matter to ,cover up. Credit card payment for . services rendered involves so few people and so few doctors as to be insignificant. Fur- thermore, I would question the civil rights legality of`interfering in a personal relationship between patient and doctor. As one of my political representatives in the health care field I would think you could occupy your time more profitably. There is also no question in the medical profes-sion's mind that this whole issue constitutes a form of professional harassment which, r might remind you, was one of the things that you promised to avoid. As an opted -out, direct billing physician, I have found almost uniform patient support for this move'. Patients have generally been appalled ty-the fact that the"OHIP schedule of benefits have increased my surgical fees by .only 25 percent since 1962. The public has been. totally misled by the politicians and the press regar„ding doctor r e -fi a r -a d o n- T h -e -- average citizen overestimates the cost of surgery by at least 100. ;percent. They are sur: prised thatmy actual take-home pay ($8.40 per hour last year), is so low. Last year my work week was 80 hours and I was on call virtually 168 hours per week. Lack of fringe benefits (e.g. paid holidays, pension plan, sick benefits, time off for education) plus the liability incurred during 16 years of training (high school to my first patient) makes those of us in the medical profession skeptical when we hear politicians and the press talking about the high incomes of doctors. The innuendo, lack of research and the false statistics bandied about, particularly .by the NDP party, make all of us very sad. Gross income figures, without regard to our high overhead expenses and tax liabilities, seems to be the stock in trade in legislative circles. This, of course, is a political game. I have not even CYLINDER HEAD REC-ONDITIONING One of Many Services at: IDEAL SUPPLY Bring your cylinder heads to Ideal Supply. We offer fast service and, complete recon- • ditioning on any make or model of car, truck or tractor. 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