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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-03-28, Page 51 pod idea to deep two The W� Advance -Times. Marcb ?8, 1979—Pyo i . _ - meat. Eich and ooultry tareaara- — "' + w. ' u' line `ii"i'w" I tion another for other foods. To od say Eospecialists at the On- avoid mix-up, dw%n boards in ' taro ministry of Agriculture and "aiddiffere colors. • Food. Keep one just for raw p n n Fial submissions 10% INTEREST PLUS 3 Free Cheques each month PLUS A Passbook Record of all your transections ,i PLUS Free Chequing for senior citizens 60 yeora of age uevj aw: PLUS Cheque Forms provided by CTAUr%A Or% TON OCT OPEN A STANDARD TRUST CHEQUING-SAVINGS ACCOUNT ACCOUNT TODAY tvSTANDARD TRUST W�tgbam, 237 Josephine Street, phone 357-2022 71 concentrate on positive OH growth , The last three brieb submitted thriving areas, Wayne Peacb- Power outages &but down Mr. Lawson told the Porter to the Royal Commission on man, president of the Kincardine loading and unloading operations commission of his memory of Electric Power Planning in Chamber of Commerce, told the at the harbor, cut circulation fans electrical rationing shortly after Wingham concentrated on the commission in his brief. The Port and the 1,760 -foot lift to the World War II. Wary of beneficial aspects of growth of Elgin and Southampton Cham- surface in the salt mine, which arguments by people who would generating facilities, when the bers gave notice of their con- leaves 60 men a climb up a ladder cut -Ontario Hydro growth in commission headed by Dr. Ar- currence with the Kincardine of the same length in order to go generating and transmission thur Porters held its final session submission. out, stall multi-million dollar capacity, he urged the Com - in Wingham last Weanesait trig Y uo ►u ici of tical utas DML.. v td contracts for Champion Road mission to "forgive them for they night. the people who reap great Machinery and cause serious know not what they do". Submissions from the Kin- benefits from the use of elec- problems for other large in- Mr. van Douteragoed was � th aua'c erichuca ver w.a' Utilities the r-odesidt PtthUc Utfiities -...,.-. , ____.- groups, are calling for Ontario �+WKRaw. . tit:: t:r e_. e.c ,Z uyw�• . Commission and a group plan- Hydra Cutbacks Which y building Ring the use of waste heat at the would limit the growth of all i-- MRS GEORGE BROWN + Bruce Nuclear Power busingss sectors, including Development (BNPD) con- centrated on how the BNPD agriculture. Mr. Peachman Said Ontario Gorrie Personal Notes project can and does provide Hydro has served the province benefits to industry and agriculture. well and though there is a surplus of electrical power, he said his Mr. and Mrs. Ian Howes, season . The meeting took the The BNPD project has tran- chamber found it "almost un- Marcie, Mandy and Lana of form of a bowling party at the Wingham Bowling Lanes on sformed several communities believable that anyone would find Peterborough and Bruce Friday. from quiet towns to ,�n, ,,r :.. IS, Ontario Hydro's overcapacityas „ Grainger of Montreal spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Cecil Mr. and Mrs. Roy Simmons, EDU(MONFORENUMFE Conestoga College Certificate Programs Would you like to upgrade your job skills? Get back in the work force? Or move ahead in the work force? You CAN do it — in Clinton Conestoga College, Clinton Campus, offers the following Certificate Programs on a continuous entry basis throughout The year. SECRETARIAL/CLERICAL Clerk Typist Bookkeeping Clerk Stenographer General ACADEMIC UPGRADING English, Mathematics and Science to College entry level • Programs are offered on a continuous intake basis throughout the year • Contact the Clinton Campus for the date of the next openings. • Testing and counselling are available to help you select a program. cz 0"""'•1%ndin0 dssistgncd,,nipy be available:Check to see if you'are eligible. Call or write to arrange on interview, or drop in to the Clinton Campus on Vonostro Road, 482-3458, for more information. We've got a lotto share. anything other than a b essuhg . Medium term agreements with American power utilities to export the surplus capacity would be beneficial to the"area, the province and the country for several reasons. The export of electricity is desirable because it is a Canadian product, it is in surplus, it is a finished product and would create jobs for Canadians, he said. Dr. Howard Patterson, a consultant for the Food Land Steering Committee which represents seven farm organizations, questioned a claim by Mr. Peachman that the BNPD project didn't take out of production good farm land. Though the actual generating station site was built on poor land, housing subdivisions for BNPD workers took out of production three farms in the Port Elgin area and under questioning it came out that about three more farms were developed for houses in the Kincardine area. Elbert van Dopkersgoed another representive of the farmers' committee, argued that Hydro growth should be cur- tailled because the provincial utility already has a large sur- plus of generating capacity and its growth'is hen agricultuih}= Canada, he said, is ` nef I port; of 40 per cent of its food in dollar value. "Agriculture is at a situation of a 40 per cent import. Hydro is at a potential situation of a 40 per cent export." He said the priority should be in making the country self suf- ficient in agriculture before enlarging the hydro surplus. - POWER FACILITIES NEEDED FOR GODERICH A single 115 kV line leading to Goderich from Seaforth isn't providing reliable service to the town and some major industries in Goderich, Al Lawson, Goderich PUC manager told the Porter commission Grainger. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grainger and David, Waterloo, Mrs. David Fenton and Mrs. Edward Swales and Sandra of Orillia also visited at the same home on Sunday. Mrs. Earl Cudmore of Brussels visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Nay. Harold Robinson attended an insurance convention in Toronto. Mrs. Robinson visited with Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Campbell, Georgetown. Mrs. Roy Morrill of Banville, Quebec, visited her sister, Mrs. Vernon Barlow. Mr. and Mrs. Foster Morrill of Guelph, Homer Barlow and Miss Maureen Barlow of Listowel and Miss Kathy Gordon, Molesworth, visited at the same home on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Barlow and Joy of Markdale visited on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Williams of Gowanstown, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Grainger, Kitchener, Mr. and Mrs. Murray Grainger and Christopher of London spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Grainger. Mrs. Fraser Pollock and Todd of Bramalea, Mrs. Ed Stewart and Leah of Harriston en- tertained Mrs. Gordon Un- derwood on the occasion of her birthday on Thursday. Mrs. Bert Hubbard, Mrs. Oliver Jacques of Clifford and Mrs. Lloyd Jacques called on Wesley Underwood of Bluevale on Sunday - Miss Faye Edgar and Mrs. Charles Finlay of St. Thomas visited in the community. Mr. and Mrs. George Brown were at Niagara on Saturday and also visited Mr. and Mrs. Nor- man Mulloy of Paris. Miss Verna Lichty has returned from a two-week holiday at Daytona, Fort Lauderdale and Miami, Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Mundell attended the final meeting of the DoCumin Farm Forum for this wi r_11 T1I I — - � 1111111�� -quo Ldkt Ontario's good summer crops of vegetables and fruits are in the stores now. Many are fresh —cabbage, carrots, apples, potatoes, parsnips, rutabagas and more. Others are.canned or frozen. But alb, of them bring you the good taste for which Ontario produce is famous. If you compare the prices of these Ontario foods with prices of imports, it's easy. to see why Ontario fruits and vege- tables are one of the good food bargains in your store. And not only do" you get good value when you buy Ontario products, .you also help strengthen Ontario's economy. Goon thinft in -- 0 whenever you shop, look for the Foodland + Ontario symbol. It helps tell you you're buying CC genuine Ontario food. If you don't see the INYLO A Q symbol, speak to your store manager. , D m Bill Newman, Minister of Agriculture and Food William Davis, Premier Province of Ontario Joanne and Carol of Guelph visited Tuesday with Mrs. Joe Simmons. Wednesday visitors at the same home were Mrs. James Frieburger, Mary and Kevin of Walkerton and Barbara Tem- pleman of Wellesley. Mrs. Addie Hutchison of Molesworth spent a few days with Mrs. John Strong. Mrs. Tom MacDonald of Brussels, Mrs. Frank Earls and Mrs. Arnold Edgar of London, Mrs. Wilford King of Harriston and Mr. and Mrs. Ken Hastie spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Archie Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Haskins visited Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Ross King, Stratford. lakelet Mr. and Mrs. John Jacques spent the weekend with the latter's parents in Sault Ste. Marie. Letters re Continued from Page 4 you have thought up, such a hospital would be fined (;12,000 per hospital bed in excess of your formula) . Now let's look at that one. The people of this com- munity have spent millions of dollars and years of their lives in building up their local hospital; treated as criminals for tending to the sick? Are we to prosecute the Good Samaritan? This is not just a silly proposal based on stupidity, it is a proposal couched in the language of insanity. You are proposing furthermore that the people who are sick in hospital for too long, including people in psychiatric hospital beds, should be penalized (to the tune of $10 per day). This is equally insane. So we are to financially penalize both the Samaritan and the Pharisee? You are or should be aware of a recent death in Toronto which occurred after the patient was shipped from hospital to hospital because all their beds were full. Are you expecting more such deaths Mr. Timbrell? (Of course not, Toronto's acute hospital beds are apparently to be reduced by over 1,000.) But if not, why does a recent circular to all coroners in Ontario (Memo A-416, January 2, 1979) request that "the Ministry of Health be informed in advance of inquests where the Coroner suspects that Health services may not have been appropriately provided"? The legality of your proposal has not yet, I think, been ques- tioned. We live, unfortunately, in a society where political ig- norance and apathy are wide- spread; indeed many people (especially those serving on hospital boards) seem to think that ministerial pronouncements somehow have the force of law and must therefore be obeyed. Yet it is only 2 or 3 years since the Supreme Court of Ontario, ruling illegal your predecessor's direc- tives to close local hospitals, made clear what surely must be obvious to any thinking person. That is, that. the public hospitals of this province are the property of the people of this province; they are not the property of the provincial government. When the provincial govern- ment monopolized Health Care Insurance some years ago, care- fully legislating out of existence any competition from the more efficient private sector, they con- tracted with local hsopitals to provide health care in return for adequate funding The hospitals have more than kept their end of illc bargain Your veiled at- tempts to now indirectly close down these hospitals, perhaps partly because of the financial in- competence of your own ministry (an overhead of 10 per cent') is not simple immoral; it is, I should suspect, probably also illegal . have backup power alternates to supply electricity for emergencies. He said it was interesting that farmers provide backup alternators to provide electricity to protect chickens and pigs, but industry doesn't provide protection for its em- pin m- pl res . Ae couldn't pin the PUC manager down on whether Mr. electrical rationing if given the choice. Mr. van Donkeregoed reminded him that man had lived thousands of years without electricity but has always needed food. Mr. Lawson said he has lived to see both food and elec- trical rationing and didn't like either. Unlike Mr. van Donkersgoed, be said he doesn't see that people have to make a deice between having plentiful food and an abundant supply of electricity. He said he appeared before the Porter commission not to say that electric transmission lines be built at the expense of agriculture, but that the lines are needed and that "Goderich needs these real bad". GREAT POTENTIAL IN WASTE HEAT After three years of research, a Kincardine area group has concluded that the potential of using waste heat from nuclear generating stations is tremen- dous. Don Haycock, engineering cothsultant for a group headed by developer Sam MacGregor, said when fully used, waste heat from existing nuclear generating stations in Ontario could save 130,000 barrels of oil a day in the province. There is a potential, at the BNPD for enough heat for 100 acres of i., : -.. -: , which is about ace -third of the preset acreage of greenlwuses in On- tario, Ian MacNaughton, a planning consultant for the group said. Other advantages of the waste beat proposal are that the beat could be used for induct y or in urban area could be used for central home heating. The waste heat could be provided more said, and the priceweW be nosre stable than the espliiting fossil fuel costs. Greenhouse operators would see great financial benefits in the program because energy costs now account for more than half the operating costs of greenhouses. In 1971 energy costs amounted to only 17 per cant of greenhouse operating costs, Mr. MacNaughton said. The waste heat submission was probably the only one presented at the Wingham hearings which didn't meet with disapproval by some group. The Food Land Steering Committee didn't object to the plan for cheaper and more reliable greenhouse heat, but its representatives were careful that they didn't appear to condone the size of nuclear generating capacity just because a good use for the byproduct heat is economically viable. The Kincardine group did extensive research into the planned project in Scandinavian countries where central heating is common. Mr. Haycock said there are a lot of ... imported into Canada which are.. , - . 1 in and one of the ideas behind the waste heat project is to compete against the imports rather than interfere with the domestic market. active bed cutbacks 1 further question whether you or your fellow civil servants can provide meaningful answer's (as opposed to political platitudes) to the questions I have raised. The main purpose. of these rhetorical points is, then, to bring them to the attention of the public. For any person who intends to be sick or injured in this society will have to answer these questions themselves. J. M. Watts Goderich o—o—o Mrs. Brian Elmslie, Steering Committee on Hospital Bed Cuts, Dear Mrs. Elmslie: The Municipal Council of the Township of West Wawanosh has discussed the province's demand to have 14 beds cut from the Wingham and District Hospital. The members of this council are against this decision of the minister of health to attempt to reduce provincial spending by this method. The Wingham and District Hospital, with ALL beds, is felt to be an absolutely neces- sary institution in our com- munity, because of the distance we are here from city hospitals. It does not seem logical that cutting beds from Wingham hospital, and then finding it necessary to take patients to city hospitals at twice the price of our own hospital, is SAVING money. On behalf of the residents and ratepayers of the Township of West Wawanosh the Municipal Council of the Township of West Wawanosh hereby wishes to in- form you that it approves of the action of the Steering Committee in attempting to stop the closing of beds in Wingham and District Hospital. Signed on behalf of the Town- ship of West Wawanosh Leo Foran, Joan C. Armstrong Statement on hospital cutbacks Dear Editor, Enclosed is a letter I received from Stuart Smith, Leader of the Opposition, in response to my letter regarding hospital bed cut- backs. Rev. K. B. Passmore Dear Rev. Passmore: Thank you very much for your letter of March 8, IM, and a copy of your letter to Dennis Timbrell. I am enclosing a copy of our re- sponse to Mr. Timbrell's hospital bed cutbacks. You will see that we agree entirely with your point that special consideration muni be given due to the nature of the population, the availability of alternatives, and the efficiency of the hospitals involved. The minister claims all this to be im- possible but I believe that he is seriously misinformed by the people within his ministry. Stuart�Sa�t�t STATEMENT BY OPPOSITION LEADER STUART SMITH It is well known tha the Liberal Party supports thshift away from expensive insti- tutional care to cheaper com- munity alternatives. We can understand the reasoning of the government in attempting to re- strain the budgets of general hospitals and to charge certain patients a copayment fee. We are somewhat . , w. , 6, j :1, however, that the alternatives to these acute care' facilities have not been provided. Consequently, the proposals of the government will require further assessment. There are two matters that should be commented on im- mediately, in our view. Firstly, the proposal to levy a charge against those in psy- chiatric hospitals for more than sixty days is crude, cruel and dis- criminatory. Patients who find themselves in psychiatric hospitals are likely, even after sixty days, to be in the acute phase of their illness. Most of them still must maintain their homes and families since they are very likely to recover sufficiently to return to their regular life pattern. Further- more-, they are, with modern treatment, likely to be visiting home regularly during their hospital stay. They are not in a position to be paying "rent" to the psychiatric hospital while maintaining their own home and family. Both the Taylor Committee and the Select committee on Health Care Costs and Financing recom- mended user charges for certain chronic care patients lin order to treat them on the same basis as those in nursing homes who cur- rently lay per diem charges. Neither committee recom- mended such charges for psychiatric patients. As the minister has proposed it to date, we see little alternative but to oppose this suggestion. Secondly, within a so-called ,,overbedded" area (over four beds pr thousand) all hospitals are being treated the same. In- stead of dealing with each hospi- tal individually, efficient hospi- tals and inefficient ones alike are to be restrained on the basis of their geographic location. Be- cause efficiency receives no re- ward, morale will be undermined in those hospitals that have been making a genuine effort to utilise their facilities in an economical and efficient manner. This is un- wise, in our view. We would like to we the restraints related to some extent to a hospital's rem of economy and efdcieney.