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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, July 4th, 1979 QhiHonfc rpr»pivp Tmnr m/pmpnt Trorjhv During a special assembly held last Wednesday morning at the Orono Public School Nancy'Cowan, Allan Hall and Andrea Burnham received the award going to students who showed the most improvement improvement over the previous year. Pictured above receiving receiving the trophy the three students stand with Jim Extended telephone call area would increase rate 123 p.c. The Orono Telephone Ratepayer's Ratepayer's Association were told on Thursday evening that the extending of the calling area to Bowmanville and Oshawa would increase telephone ser- # vice charges for customers of Community Telephone insj Orono and area some 123 percent. It wàs also pointed out that the proposed rates / only took into account expenditures expenditures associated with Community Telephone Company Company and did not reflect any charges that may arise from Bell Canada through extending extending the calling area. Bob Foote representing the Ontario T elephone Commission Commission staged that Bell Canada had a backlog of 240 areas for extended service calling and that to complete this backlog "it would take until 1985. He also said that Bell wanted to see a sixty percent use by their customers before giving extended calling service. "In your case you are not even close to this priority". He said a Bell survey showed that fjappenitigs... ORONO MAN KILLED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Timothy Toye of Main Street, Orono, was killed in a single car accident late Monday afternoon on his way to visit with his father. The accident occurred on Highway 35 about 3 kilometres riorth of Twelve Mile Bridge in Minden Township. Three other occupants of the car were also thrown out of the vehicle when it went into a ditch after failing to negotiate a turn. Nelson Johnston, Toronto is reported in serious condition, Jonathan Freeman, Mississauga, in fair condition with the other occupant being Raymond Johnston of Oshawa. Mr. and Mrs. Toye of Orono were visiting Mr. Toye's brother in Minden over the holiday week-end. MORE GRADUATION PICTURES NEXT WEEK Graduation pictures from the Pines Senior Public School and the Orono Public School will be published in the Times this coming week. A NEED FOR PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN 4 A Play Camp for the Orono area is in need of children from the age of two and a half to five years. The play camp is sponsored jointly by the Durham YMCA and the Newcastle Community Services. The Orono'Camp was to be ehld July 3 to 13 and July 16 to 27. Enrolment fee $20.00 for two weeks, $40.00 for jour weeks. Programs are planned for the younger set along with special trips and -vents. Those interested tdcontact Community Services at 987-5039, extension 53. , Internal investigation to be undertaken at Memorial Hospital Dupuis the Vice Principal and to the right John Reid the Principal of the school. only six percent of those in the Oshawa system call the Orono exchange and only 26 percent of those on the Bowmanville exchange called Orono. To give extended area calling to the Orono exchange customers it requires that participation of Bell Canada and even though Community Telephone may agree to give the added service it would still mean that Bell Canada must also agree. Foote said he wished he could be more optimistic but said that Bell didn't have ttie money either for such expansions. expansions. "They have .however left the door open," he said. He said ■ Bell could give approval if Community ac- ( Continued page 2) Mr. Elston, hospital administrator administrator for Memorial Hospital, Bowmanville on Thursday at a news conference, conference, stated that a special committee was to be appointed appointed to undertake a review of the recommendations of a coroner's jury relating to the circumstances surrounding the death of 67 year old Harold Hibben in November of 1978. The committee will Harold Hibben in November of 1978. The committee will also conduct an- internal investigation of hospital procedures. procedures. Elston said the mandate to the committee will be a total package and the committee will have the power to call Upon outside, and internal resources for their investigation. investigation. The committee is to bring in their findings and recommendations within two weeks although this time limit may be extended if required. The committee will consist primarily physicians as well as the hospital administrator, stated Elston. The appointments appointments of physicians will be made through the Medical .Advisory Committee. In discussing the recommendations recommendations from the coroners coroners jtiry Elston' said there would have to be some clarification as to the recommendations. recommendations. He said he was 'not sure what was meant that hospital and doctor's records be kept up to date at all times. He contended that hospital records ,were always up to date. tie also said he would want clarification of the recom mendation that hospitals should be, staffed consistent with thé equipment available. He also said it would be unusual to have a doctor at the hospital every hour of the day. It was pointed out by Elston that a doctor was on call for the hospital on a twenty-four hour basis and that a further doctor was available as a back-up. Elston said a review of the hospital records indicated that there was no shortage of beds on November 3rd, 1978. tie said no one is ever turned away in the case of an •emergency and that such patients would be accepted even though a bed may have to be placed in a hallway for a short period of time. Elston also said that hospital hospital staff had performed their .duti.es as required. He pointed out that Memorial Hospital had been accredited in 1968 and in 1978 had received a three-year accreditation. He said this points out that the standards of the hospital have been met or surpassed for all essential functions. The Ac- creditaion team is made up of an independent body of physicians physicians and a nurse. At the press conference Elston said that it was not the purpose of the coroner's jury to lay blame. He said the purpose of an inquest was to determine the 'who', 'what', 'wheje' and by 'what' means the patient came to death. "I don't think the hospital has been darned as any blaming agency", hé said. Valedictorian at Pines congratulated Defends Telephone Company at Meeting Mr. Carlos Tamblyn who , attended, last Thursdays meeting between the Orono Ratepayer's Association, the Telephone Company and the Ontario Telephone Commission Commission said that the meeting was all one sided and that no one had said anything good about Community Téléphoné Company. Company. He said Community, in his opinion, was one of the best arid that if a complete survey was taken seventy-five percent percent of the subscribers would agree. Tamblyn- asked before any action was taken to extend the calling area that a complete poll be taken of all subscrib-" ers to get their reaction. This company has done a lot in the area with burying lines and other improvements. improvements. "You can do a lot of knitpicking knitpicking if you want but the service has been good", he . said. ' 1 Ken Gilmer, (left) is«pre-' sejitecJ with the Valedictory trophy following his valedictory valedictory .address as one of the graduating class from the Pines Senior Public School. The presentation to Ken Gilmer is made by Mr. W.H. Carmpri, trùstee for-Ward's, on tfje Northumberland and. Newcastle Board of Education. Education. The graduation exercises , were held in the Clarke High _ School auditorium which was packed to capacity for the occasion. Graduation dip- lomas Opening the doors to tiig'h School were presented to six different classes. Grade , eight proficiency awards were also presented as well as Pine's Crests.