The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-01-31, Page 1r
FIRST SECTION
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W!rgham. Wednegdoy• January '31, 1979
Now building
fops $1 million
Hospi'Ptalrocky'r.oCid
IP
Nllw building in the town of
Wingham topped the $1 million
mark last year, according to
figures compiled by Mike
under now unding fo emu Chappell, town works com-
missiotier .
funding, not because it is at- The figures, calculated from
H
Wi ham and District os ital t to 51 allocation $12 000 is cut from its but building permits issued during
116 P
is facing a deficit in the neigh-
the total would be cu
Up until this time the hospital
I 'tempting
budget. Wingham hospital's 14
to save money
because its formula completely
the year, show construction
borhood of $200,000 this year
has, managed to keep all its beds
surplus beds cost it $168,000 this
ignores hospital efficiency.
valued at $1,012,900 during 1978.
under the funding announced
open by increasing efficiency to
year, and an additional $48,000
"What really burns is that the
This includes both new building
earlier this month by Dennis
cope with cutbacks. That is no
would be cut next year unless
really efficient hospital gets hurt,
and renovations to existing
Timbrell, provincial health
longer possible because the
four more beds are closed.
very badly but the inefficient
structures.
minister. The shortfall
ministry has now given its for
Norman Hayes, executive
hospital, the one that is already
p
Mr. Chappell said roughly 60
cent the total
represents the difference bet-
ween the provincial allocation,
P
mula teeth in the form of a
penalty clause.
director of Wingham and District
'tall.
fat in the system, stays fat," he
declared last week.
per of was
residential development, with the
P
identical to last year, and the
For every bed a hospital has
Hos is angry at the direction
has taken in its
.� formula is based solely on
b� accounted for by the new
increased operating costs.
surplus to the ministry's adjusted
the imstry
a hospitals previous budgets and
Maitland Estates subdivision.
Althoughthe health minister
each ear to show they hn-en't
pays no attention to the average
About 20 Per cent was industrial,
announced average budget in-
per patient cost of the treatment
mostly at Western Foundry, and
creases of 4.5 per cent for Ontario
it provides. This means a hospital
the remaining 20 per cent was
hospitals, this one and several•
that has been operating inef-
commercial development.
others received no net increase
because they have more active
•
Mouth s killed in
ficiently will be able to cope
better with the cuts and also that
treatment beds than are allowed
a hospital's size bears no direct
according to the ministry's latestrelationship
funding formula.
m i s a p
to its budget.
"There are hospitals in the
go d open
snowmobile
n s
Because Wingham and District
province our size right now with
Hospital is considered to have a
surplus of 14 beds $168,000 was
An Auburn area you was
Brucefield, a passenger on the
P
snowmobile, was admitted to
three quarters of a million
q
dollars more in budget,"
new shop
cut out of its allocation. This
fatally injured in a collision
his
Wingham and District Hospital
Mr. Hayes claimed.
would have left the hospital more
between a car and
along an East
with leg injuries.
, He added it is curious that
The Fruit Market and Candy
than $33,000 under its 1978
snowmobile
Wawanosh Township sideroad
Paul McClinchey was the son of
Alexandra Marine and . General
3hoppe, a new store specializing
allocation, but the figure was
last Saturday. A passenger on the
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd McClinchey.
Hospital in Goderich, which had
in fruit, candy and donuts,
adjusted upward because the
escaped with a
He is also survived by three
to be rescued after going badly
opened Saturday on Wingham's
minister had earlier promised no
snowmobile
sisters, Karen, Joy and Lorraine,
over budget last year, started out
main street.
hospital would have its budget
have
fractured leg.
all at home. Grandparents are
with nearly $500,000 more in its
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bondi of
cut below the level.
Paul L. McClinchey, 16, of RR
Mr. and Mrs. Sid McClinchey of
budget than Wingham and was
Diagonal Road opened the door of
only
Virtually the only way the
1, Auburn died after his
RR 1, Auburn and Mrs. Margaret
given an additional $103,000 this
the new business Saturday just to
hospital can avoid operating
of
snowmobile collided head-on
Cunningham of Goderich.
year, although under the
see how it would be received and
is to close down a
deficit this year
with a car driven by Reginald
Funeral services were held at 2
ministry formula it is supposed to
got a tremendous reception,
k n
number beds and cut back on
Schultz of RR 3, Blyth. Const.
p.m. Tuesday at the Westfield
be a smaller hospital than
according to Mr. Bondi.,
personnel, and this will
Harold McKittrick of the
Church, East Wawanosh.
Wingham and its average
The official opening of the shop
matter for th e board of governors
a
Wingham OPP detachment
In another weekend snow-
operating cost per bed is 50 per
will be this Thursday.
to consider its next meeting.
reported the collision occurred at
mobile mishap Calvin C. Met-
cent higher than any other
The new store is located bet -
The board is scheduled to meet
the top of a hill along Sideroad 33-
calfe and his son Robert were
hospital in the county.
ween Shirai's and McIntee real
Feb. 14.
34. The snowmobile was on the
treated for injuries at Wingham
"I'm afraid from this point on
estate where the used book store
Even if the hospital manages to
wrong side of the road. No
hospital after the machine they
its up to the public (to get things
was located. Sharon Cloakey will
balance its budget this year,
charges are being laid in con-
were riding struck a snowbank on
changed)." Efforts by hospital
manage the store and Mr. and
however, it is still not out of the
nection with the accident and
the Metcalfe farm in Turnberry
administrators to get equitability
Mrs. Bondi will be there part
The provincial formula,
woods. T h
there will be no inquest.
Township. Both were discharged
in the funding system have been
time.
aimed at active bed to referral
Donald G. McIntosh, 15, of
following treatment.
completely stymied, he said.
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RESUSCIANNE PRESENTED—Wingham Kinsmen Club representatives presented the
Wingham Fire Department with a ResusciAnne doll last week. Don Carter, Kinsmen
president, and Kinsman Brian Elmslie turned the lifesaving doll over to Fire Chief Dave
Crothers while firemen David Soanes, Bob Chambers, Ron Beecroft and Ernie Merkley
study the doll.
Id/Vuanuu
present ratio of four per
thousand, would require further ° `k
cuts over the next two years.
The hospital currently has 82 ` 5 ne
active treatment beds while the Firem'en receive ResusciAn
ministry thinks it should have
k
only 58, a surplus of 24. Since this x
» Til% Wingham Fire Depart-
ResusciAnne and other groups
to help a heart attack victim
one of the most useful features of
is a small hospital there is a 10
ment has the RescusiAnne doll it
may get a chance later-
might break some ribs.
the ResusciAnne doll is the
bed allowance, for an adjusted �=
S a
has been trying to get for two
Firemen and ambulance
A pulse simulator can readily
readout on graph paper of a
surplus of 14. The ministry in �'l
y�
drivers have trained before on a
show if someone can't find a
trainee's lifesaving efforts. The
tends to reduce the bed allocation "k : y,
W' ham Kinsmen
` ing presented
ResusciAnne but certified in
pulse at the throat and a pupil
degree and frequency of heart
to 64 b the end of the year and 61
Y Y
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the lifesaving doll to the firemen
structors and those who have
regulator is designed to show the
compression is shown as is the
by the end of 1980, and if the 10
Jan24, just weeks after it had
passed the ResusciAnne training
wide pupil dilation whish is a
volume of air the doll is getting
bed allowance were withdrawn <
been ordered
program must take the course
symptom of a heart attack.
from artificial resuscitation.
each ear to show they hn-en't
Someone operating the doll can
Fire Chief Dave Crothers said
Toboggan spill
injures former
Wingham girl
Mrs. Bob Corrigan of Goderich,
the i6ormer Jane Bateson of
Wingham, is a patient in
Alexandra Marine and C,Pripral
Hospital, Goderich, with frac-
tures of her back and pelvis
suffered when the toboggan on
which she was riding struck a
tree. The accident occurred on
the weekend.
Her mother, Mrs. .lack
Bateson, reports the doctors are
optimistic about an un-
complicated recovery.
MURRAY GAUNT took part in the Timmy Snowarama Sunday though he didn't go the
whole 100 -mile distance. Wingham and District Snowmobile Association President Bill
Crump, right, guided.Mr. Gaunt. Snowmobilers starting in Wingham had $7,319 in pledges
for crippled children, half of which will be donated to the Wingham Lions Club for local
crippled children.
The doll, which is designed to
teach proper cardio -pulmonary
resuscitation, (CPR), to people
like firemen, ambulance at-
tendants and others, is the first in
the area. Until now local people
who trained with the dolls had to
go to Kitchener or London or, the
doll had to be booked for local use
and classes given on its use.
Don Carter, Kinsmen president
and Kinsman Brian Elmshe
presented the doll and were
pleased that the cost was less
than they had anticipated.
Kinsmen allocated $1,800 for the
purchase of the ResusciAnne but
when it arrived last week it cost
only $1,578.50.
Local firemen and ambulance
drivers will be the first to train on
Y
forgotten the lifesaving tech-
niques.
ResusciAnne comes equipped
with inflatable lungs which
register the volume of air a
person is forcing into the lungs by
artificial resuscitation. A green
light blinks on a small control
panel attached to ResusciAnne if
the artificial resuscitation is
being performed properly and a
yellow light comes on when heart
compresssions are being made in
an exercise which simulates a
heart attack.
There is even a red light which
shows if a person practising on
ResusciAnne is doing the heart
compressions in the wrong place
and signals that the person trying
simulate a hear�l attack while a
trainee is busy with some other
task and if the trainee doesn't
discover the `attack' soon he has
some explaining to do.
There are presently three
Wingham people certified to
teach the lifesaving techniques
with ResusciAnne. Reg O'Hagan,
Martin Cretier and Keith Carson
attendants.
are all ambulance gaga,.....-____.
Plans are to make the doll
available to any organization
interested in learning lifesaving
techniques and ambulance at-
tendants will be responsible for
scheduling the training.
Mr. O'Hagan, director of
ambulance services at Wingham
and District Hospital, noted that
local firemen had been trying to
get a ResusciAnne for two years
and when one was ordered at the
start of this year, he guessed it
wouldn't be available for several
months. Instead it took only a few
weeks.
He predicted that other groups
in the area will want to get a
ResusciAnne when they see how
many people can get basic CPR
training with one. Individuals
may eventually be allowed to
train on the ResusciAnne but
until there are more certified
instructors, groups like the
ambulance drivers, firemen,
town police and Ontario
Provincial Police will have the
use of ResusciAnne.
�]uring •
th'planforma•n street � centsnnwis summer
0-. 1.,,..•en track when onnsidering their
y buttons , ; e este-d i-nerciianis or homeowners �� Merchants can help. contribute to the
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be a place where people meet and people that Listowel closes its two main streets, tht will be issued to each r istraW that can purchase it from that group. centennial plans and decorations. ✓ r-- -
� � "Main street has town longer and the tennial mugs or other souvenirs from the
speak during centennial week this both of which are connecting links, each week, and Mr. Rintoul lefU the meeting Mr. Layton suggested trees in planters g g committee and reselling them. He
summer if a local merchants' group has summer for its Sidewalk Sale. with 2,600 of the 4,000 buttons already would do more for the main street than other end is called Diagonal Road," he g
Mike Chappell, town works com- sold. In return for paying the production bunting. Bunting's only for the one week reported. There' are four businesses promised the committee will buy back
its way• while the trees could be out all summer including his along Diagonal Road, "and any that are unsold.
Most of the more than 30 businessmen missioner, said last week he didn't costs -50 cents per button—each spon
foresee an problems with closing the sort business will et its name on the and be stored through the winter hp the IGA does more business through the He also reported that work on a `trade
and women gathered for a meeting of the Y P ng - ., g back door than the tront , Yet LACY do'llar' is going ahead, with more in
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back
business Association last week street so iong as ule alc-ceaanl y ,.....,.ao " ....ya• noted. He was asked to look into the cost get the benefits of Christmas lights and formation avaitaoie at use oexa aaacca■.a6
threw their support behind a proposal by
arrangements with the highways A suggestion from Bill Keil on another of such trees and report back. gsnow removal the merchants on main of the association. If any businesses want
Joan Crawford that the turn a titan of department were made well in advance. possible use for the ID badges caught the A proposal from Mr. Crump that there to use the centennial logo on their own
Y The majority of the merchants resent imagination of those resent and Mr. should be a tree planting ceremonyin one street do.
Josephine Street into a pedestrian mail J Y P g P P rga co ton a He asked that they. as well as out -of- merchandise there is a $25 flat fee, he
for two days during the main centennial agreed the pedestrian mall is a good idea Keil was commissioned to look into it of the parks to mark en., , was
said.
and an problems such as parking can be furLiier. He reported that at one con- referred to the horticultural societ town businesses such as Lynn Hoy En -
.weekend. Y P P � � y ter rises, the Wingham Motel and Bridge Apart from the centennial discussion,
Mrs. Crawford, who operates the yvorked out. However Mr. Layton and vention he attended the delegates Association members turned thumbs p g association members set their fees for
bakery in her husband's Wingham TGA g
John McInnes ur ed them not to treat badges were numbered, with half a dozen down on a suggestion for a contest to Motors, be recognized in the centennial
duplicate numbers, and a tans. 1979 at $50 per business. The high fee, the
store, reported the same idea was tried this as another sidewalk sale. It's not P person could rename Josephine Street. Cal B ke, who P same as last year, reflects the fact the
necessary to ear ever function toward win a color TV if he found the delegate chaired the meeting,re rtehe had in response to a question what the town
very successfully in Bowmanvillo, east of Y g Y with a number matching his own. B received a few suggestions the street is doing for the centenary, Mr. Rintoul group still owes the town 11Chr of its
Toronto. The merchants had goods out making money, Mr. McInnes declared. said it will be erecting lighted signs Portion of the cost for the Christmas
le could browse, eat and visit. Centennial Committee Chairman Bill It's a way of promoting mixing since it should be renamed, with a contest run in g g lights. Actual operating expenses of the
and It provides a place for people to relax, Rintoul attended the meeting to give a encourages people to go around peering The Advance -Times to choose the new each end of town, is providing 5,000 pens g ern -
P at each other's ba to give away at registration and is Navin association are very little, Treasurer
visit and enjoy each other's company, rundown of areas in which the merchants badges, he said. The name. g Y g g Murrayerrie said.
apart from the beer gardens and dances, can participate and invite suggestions. anaddi association gr cost to
up the tab for Nobody really knows why it wasnameda plaque made for unveiling in an official Y
Various ideas were kicked around on how Y get the buttons -Josephine, he said, remarkingthat ceremony, in addition to providing Election of a new executive to replace
she pointed out,
and forma she ether with to beautify the town for the centenary as numbered and it will decide later on the rumor has it the two surveyors who financial backing for the centennial thecr five wacurrent
npvt off co-chairmen
t 1 the and
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Doug Lay well as how to raise mons to cover costs prizes to be offered. originally laid out the town were both committee. -
to work out the details of the mall. Y Recently the committee was $5,600 in meeting, set for Feb. 15.
of the preparations and some events. Other suggestions included decorating drunk and possibly one had an affair with Y
The street would be closed from V c- P P the stores with red, white and blue debt to the town, but it was able to The association also agreed to donate
toric to Patrick streets for Friday a d Mr. Rintoul said his committee "got someone named Josephine. However the PeY
flak" for proposing a y bunts dressing u t group back $1.000 from roceeds of the mayor's $ to the Junior Citizens in appreciation
Saturday, Aug. 3 and 4, opening again for P Pose $2 per family ng, ng p he main street with g uP voted down the proposal, saying P for lookingafter the Santa Claus rade
the centennial parade Saturday af- registration fee for centennial week, but ornamental trees in planter boxes and the name has served well for many years levee and the sale of plaques, he and to accept the Federal Business
ternoon. a straw vote by the merchants showed planting a centennial tree in one of the and there's no reason to change it reported. He said the committee hopes to P
the didn't feel the fee was unreasonable. parka. In other discussion at the meeting Mr continue paying its way as it goes and not Development Bank as a member of the
One merchant questioned whether the Y accumulate a $12,000 debt b the end of group. A letter from the bank requested
town would be allowed to close the street. The centennial committee will be McInnes urged the downtown merchants Y
Man businesses also offered to buy buying about 1,000 yards of bunting and not to forget their counterparts off the the summer. membership in the association.
which is a connecting link for a provin- Y y ng �
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