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srft bv 1 etown published by horn newspapers limited 22 main st south georgetown ontario w c mtrln publish pag4 thursday augusjt 28th 1969 -i- editorial comment mmiinfinm dmakimm a mounting problem reluctance pjlmost of todays doctors to make house- calls even in the most dire emergencies is not georgetown phenom enon wherever one goes there are similar stories child sick with a high fever a man with a heart attack a nasty cut peo plepleading with their family physician to come or being flatly turner down by doc tors who have hever tended them- before the days are gone wheri the country doctor and the general practitioner in the city dedicated their whole life jo their pro fession until the forties it was customary for doctor to have his office in his home to be on call 24 hours day seven days a week to put profession above his family different today one can no more expect todays doc tors to repeat the country doctor pattern of living than you can expect other lines of endeavour to remain static the doctors we speak about flourished in the days when a working mans week was sixty hours or more when store em ployees toiled five and a half days and two nights when a weeks vacation was the ulti mate people lived more quietly earlier to bed and earlier to rise in the evenings they tended huge gardens sat on their front porches or exchanged a bit of gossip over the back fence with a neighbour his practice operated like todays corner store if he had an hour between patients he retired to his kitchen for a bite to eat to his den or to nis bed he took an occasions vacation a day or two now and then he was jealous of his practice always ready to welcome a new patient possessed of almost unbelievable energy and patience he enjoyed a comfortable mcomfc though not a luxurious one for his heart was usually bigger than his head arid like most professional men in those days he was not the best bill collector a good share of his payment was something you dont buy with dollars prestige he enjoyed a unique status in a community everyone knew him everyone loved him and after his life had ended everyone remembered him doctors today like most other people have undergone radical changes health plans which guarantee pay ment more attention to mild ailments which people used to treat themselves have swel led a doctors business to the point where once he has acquired a certain number of continuing patients he signs off with stran gers today doctors have the highest per capita income in canada and they want to spend it they allow themselves plenty of vacation time they want to have week ends free enjoy an evening out with friends do all the things that their patients do in their spare time v prihce vauabt whats the solution today then we face the problem of whats to be done for while everything else mey have changed there are still sudden illnesses still places where a doctor should go to the patient one step which might be suggested is that health plans be like most other forms of insurance a 50 or 100 deductible clause health insurance should not be designed to save a man from the small bills but rather to insure against illnesses which can cripple him financially human nature being what ft is today many peo ple see a doctor with a very minor com plaint only because they know it is paid for and doctors being also human can be inclined to capitalize somewhat on preven tative treatment such clauses in health jpians could rel ieve doctprs of many minor things allow ing more time for the major another rs a working arrangement am ong all doctors in a community regarding office hours vacations and night duty a central agency could be established where emergency calls fan be funnelled and a doc tor located immediately perhaps tying in with this could be an organization like the victorian order of nur ses horpe helpers trained in first aid a nurses group which would visit homes such a group could rush to an emerg ency assess its seriousness and rf they could not deal with rt could contact a doctor and assure him that he was needed dont underestimate power of backbenchers whiting after his first lull session is the house of commons with marry other freshman mps like nimsels haltons rud whiting foresees a more active voice tor the new government back benchers when parliament re sumes this fall 1 i learned a great deal in the first year said whiting i think this was the largest group of new members the house has ever seen and we were all a little scared and un sure now were more relaxed and at home wilting said the main prob lem faced by new members in the last session was the fact touch of the legislation was already there to deal with left from the pearson administra tion we had ample opportunity to express an opinion on the legislation but without having been in on its preparation it wis sometimes quite difficult to make a recommendation sure there have been rum ours that many backbenchers are dissatisfied with their so- called lack of voice in govern ment policy but i think this dissatisfaction also applies to the opposition i dont have any doubt whatsoever well have more to say when the next ses sion begins whiting pointed out one area tn which he was able to play a part in affecting government policy despite his newmember statu when the estate tsi cams op for debate i received num erous letters from my constit uents considered about a ceiling of only 100009 for nontaxable statat of each letter i received i sent a copy to finance minister benson as well as answering them personally i was literally snowed under with mail from constituents after holding meetings throughout the riding with cit izens and tax experts cutting his vacation short and return ing to ottawa whiting told the minister he couldnt sup port the legislation lengthy debate in the house went against the bilf and it was amended to raise the ceiling to 60000 this just emphasizes the amount of power john q cith- en holds and i believe he is becoming more aware of this power letters the halton mp receives at least a dozen letters a day at his parliament hnl office and gives each a personal reply i also get quite a number of people coming to me to ar range appointments with a gov ernment minister or other of ficial and im usually successful in getting them to the person they want to see its encouraging the fast action you can usually get by a simple phone call to a mini ster or a civil servant whiting puts in a full week at the ottawa office arriving every morning from an ottawa hotel st 830 and usually jaot leaving until midnight even then the long day isnt over before i turn in i make it 1 point to call home every night not only to talk to my wife hut to keep in touch with constitu ents who may have left messag es business as usual although whiting spends the weekends st his riverside drive borne in oakviue with his wife anne and their two children jamie and tracey its often business as usual for him the first call usuauy comes about 10 am saturday but an biip just has to get used to calls at any time of the day or night its all part of the job despite the hectic working hours and all the travelling back and forth from ottawa i still wouldnt give it up for the world any tin the family and i do get to spend together is ap preciated even more plight of elderly one major concern for the hilton mp is the plight of the elderly with no other source of income but old age pensions these people are really caught up in the squeeze of the high cost of living back in the days of the de pression or before when these people were at the height of their working career no one ev er thought of company pension plans or things of this nature consequently they have only their old age pension to live on and they are totally un prepared he said even with the new pension supplement pension ers receive only a little oyer 9100 a month i got a letter today from a pensioner who is receiving only 109 a month even with the supplement this person has to pay 120 a month just for an apartment to live in i dont know how he can manage others i know have to item ize every penny just to come up with 5 left at the end of the month 1 theres something very wrong about expecting people to live on these pensions when its their only source od income pm imprtssee generally he seemed plead ed with his first year in parlia ment and r impressed by prime minister trudeau hes a strong leader said whiting the type weve nee j ded for a long time hell listen to valid criticism but hell also take a stand when the going gets tough its not yes to one member then yes to another on the op posite side of a controversial issue those days are paut he said with relief on the other hand the prime minister has impressed whit ing as just a regular guy the free wheeling open type of personality the people see is just the kind of guy he ij whiting had harsh words however for members of the opposition and public alike who feel it necessary to resort to heckling and name calling to get their point across the prime minister is very easy to talk to and im a little disgusted by people who resort to these tactics hecklers and unruly dem onstrators accomplish nothing and only spoil it for those who genuinely want the pmi ear the kids are pathetic seek extra grants for options in techcomm a brief asking minister of education william davis to con- tider providing vocational grants recognizing additional costs for students choosing sin gle technical or commercial op tions will be sent by the rfal- ton county board of education under present grant regula tions only additional costs for students taking two or more technical or commercial op tions are recognized placing a greater financial burden on loc al boards the brief states davis march 1960 announce ment that in september 1070 all secondary schools in the province would be expected to organize on a credit system with students choosing sub jects from four areas of study communications social scien ces pure and applied scien ces and art rather than be ing organized under the three branches arts and science business and commerce and cience technology and trades has significant implications for the use of vocational facilities its hoen a rough summer for a lot of people including yours truly theres nothing like get ting home exhausted after a trip and finding a that your wife has lost the house key and you have to break in thro a cellar window and b that an oak limb 40 feet long and ten inches thick has fallen ac ross your hydro lines during a storm however these are minor things i got into the house with no more than a scraped knee and a bad temper and a good neighbour had climbed up and sawed the limb in two allowing half of it to crash down on my fence but this is a mare bagatelu compared to what others hav gone through tsachers art supposed to recharge their bat teries during the lumnwr vaca tion and hit school in septem ber tanned fit and bursting with idealism well be lucky to open this fall the way our staff is fold ing up a hernia and a heart attack a total collapse from ex haustion various slipped divs and other ailments have decim ated the ranks all i have is a touch of heartburn and i attri bute that to a couple of days of bloody marys for breakfast served by friends we were vis iting its been a bad summer for a lot of parents first two kids i met on a visit to the old home town told me nonchalantly that they had flunked their first year at college their parents were nt quite so nonchalant apop lectic is the word same day i met an old friend who was at his cottage theyd left one son at home working the night before my friend had received a call from the police m his hometown thoy raided a big teenage party at his place a friend of my daughter a pretty blonde 17 year old had a stroke and her right aide is paralyzed no need to ask how her family feels a distraught mother told me three weeks ago that her 14 yearold daughter had disap peared run off with another kid she phoned coucct this week from vancouver alive but who knows what shes been doing the lady is a good mo ther in every way has two daughters one a fine steady girl the other a young rip why and everywhere you see them on the highways dirty bear ded longhaired hitchhiknng from nowhere to nowhere some of them cluster in communes in the big cities a commune is usually a falling down house in a slum area it two handicapped georgetown swim class pupils terry kennedy 2 water st and jack wild 18 byron 5t were cited for their progress at the pool last wednesday eys ening when they wer awarded special gus ryder tro phies during the annual water show here the presen tations were made by mayor jack armstrong pesrcs porter chaired the affair with jbri jones handling thi commentary j i georgetown arena will be weacjng a new look whervry 35000 remodelling project now underway is comple s ted in october hamilton construction has already amputated the useless west wing of the john street structure svhich atone time housed a two sheet curling rink j under discussion for several years a decision has been j made to move georgetowns war memorial to a nevf location with sanction of branch 120 canadian legion 8 coupcil decided last night to move the cenotaph to a- small park being created at the corner of charles and james si 1949 1 i announcing his retirement as maypr after a term of thir teen years mayor joseph gibbons has accepteid an ap- pointment as assessor he will vacate his office octo- bber 17th appointment of a new assessor was necessi tated when arnott early resigned in order to take a po icon as vendor of the new liquorstore which is expec ted to open here the end of the year i winning top honours in their class at the canadian nat ional exhibition last thursday the lome scots band brought further honours to themselves and the town the lorne scots scored 274 of a possible 300 points adding to their laurels two band members won gold me- dais joe wilcox for cornet solo and fred leece for eupjv onium solo 1939 five pretty georgetown girls finished well up in the starv- dings in a beauty contest which attracted a large num ber of entries in oakville last week entered from geor getown were evelyn sanderson mary cummins jennla farmer shirley dillon and jean mcdonald with war clouds threatening europe and the peace of ttia whole world during the past week militia units in on tario fiave been on guard at various strategic points their duty is to guard against sabotage guards were placed at all government buildings airports canals power plants and armouries the georgetown armoury is being guarded 24 hours a day by members of tha local company of lorne scots the cbc radio tower at hornby is being guarded by returned men on three- hour duty pfop1 f rfad thf hfrai d to buy and buy the herald to read has a lcitchen of sorts a toilet 1 that works occasionally and the j rest of the floor space is cov ered by mattresses and sleep ing bags theoretically everyone con tributes for food rent and the chores in reality there are usually two or three working and the rest just drift in and out like alley cats this prod uces personality clashes has sles and a very unhealthy psy chological atmosphere add drugs to this boars nest and you have some pretty sick young people they claim theyre opting out of a sick society work is a dir ty word they are meditating seeking a higher spiritual life theres a lot of talk about vi brations and buddah and pure love tor everyone all this in a pig pen the young people aru rather pathetic but i grieve more for thair parents who simply dont know how to cope with a way of thinking and living so allan to their own they are loving frustrated and helpless and i save 1 little pity for myself got a letter from my daughter from montreal tell tag me cheerfully that sha had one cent wired her some mon ey yesterday got a collect call this morning saying she could not cash it because she had no proof of identity phoned the montreal telegraph office told them it was ok to cash it no can do confirmation had to come from our local wire of fice called them got off a wire and presumably she cashed in aa she hasnt called back yet so the original bite plus two wires plus two longdiav tance calls to montreal should all adds at birth be placed out on a lonely hillside for the shepherds to adopt we might be flooded wiht shepherds pie but it would certainly make life a lot simpler in the secondary schools the brief states in halton county where six secondary schools will be oper ating within the terms of dav is announcement the number of students choosing single shop and commercial options was increased very significan tly says the brief business directory repair ervice accutron service cantre john b0ught0n jewellers ctrtifitd watehmakars 5 main st n 8774313 corbett chiropractic clinic spinal xray service available by appointment 8776631 49 mill st old pott office the georgetown telephone 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