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doctors hig pod factor 1 in medicare state snow says ontario lias the highest paid doctors in canada a factor which had to be taken into ac count when the province des igned its medicare plan jim snow halton east mpp said this week snow was answering critic ism levelled at the provincial governments ontario health services insurance plan since it came into effect october 1 tj take the place of private med ical insurance plans the payment formula of the ohsip program has been rejec ted by both the public and doc tors ohsip legislation states the plan will only pay 90 per cent of the fee schedule of the on tario medical association the halton county medical association has rejected the 90 per cent payment formula and said it will bill patients for the full 100 per cent doctors blame the provincial government for forcing them into squabble over money which they dont want the ohsip plan and the fee wrangle which it caused is destroying the dignity and respect of the traditional doctorpatient rcla tlonship halton doctors feet meanwhile the public is com plaining about the higher medi care premiums full fa we recognize that some doc tors will expect patients to pay the final 10 per cent creating hardship for certain people show said because of this he added the government will study billing practices to asis the actual situation throughout the prov ince ajd will review our policy in the lbt of our findings r snow explained the prohibit ion against supplementary in surance for that covered 10 per is a major condition of federal participation in medi- the province has been order ed by the federal government to forbid the sale of any sup plementary private insurance if it wants to continue to receive federal funds for the medicare program 10 years the province will spend s8s million annually for the next 10 years to improve health ser vices snow noted the total cost of the ohsip program for the first full year of operation will be 508 mill ion which is 199 million over the estimate revehue from premiums the halton east mpp said pected to contribute about 168 1 million which still leaves 31 silverwood million to be made up by du ect payment- from the provin cial treabury i snow noted it would be pos sible for the province to reduce the premiums but this would mean an increase in taxation nlc ed associa tion has blasted a statement made by finance minister ed- gar benson that doctors have had higher increases in income than any other group in can ada county doctors call the statement a shocking distortion of the facts that halton doctors denied ncreased cost of health serv ices are the result of higher doctors fees and said the main reason is the rising costs of building and operating hospit the federal government is ex als 21 now on koster for new concert orchestra the very recently formed concert orchestra has attract ed many more musicians than expected at the moment 21 members from acton bramp ton milton cheltenham and georgetown assemble each sunday evening at cedartye to play their chosen instruments the orchestra conducted by erhardt liedke assistant dir ector of music for peel county board of education consists of austin ledwith on violin hugh hunter clarinet marty wheel er trombone charles lands- borouyh trumpet john dueyk trumpet david sales oboe george elliott oboe and french horn allan heatley clarinet philip levy violin ed peters percussion jean tufts violin dorothy claxton violin don merritt violin charlie crimes bass keifh barter cello ar- ohie kerr violin ralph ursel piano carol rutledge violin janlsmayes volin and anne burton violin the orchestra was the brain child df keith barber president and ralph ursel secretary jamaica visitor sees first snow mr stanley walker who has been visiting with mr lien wal ker and family has returned to kingston jamaica he arrived in september andexprassed a desire to stay and see snow he was obliged by the weather man in october and thinks snow is nice this was his fijtst experience with the whte stuff wonder how a lane l00 feet long to be shovelled would look to him the pro teens met novemberagriculture 1st at the home of wendy han nah for another lesson in meat cookery this was a delicious meat loaf beef veal and pork mixed and flavured with pars ley and the girls pronounced it excellent they learned to look for certain points in buy ing as well as cooking meats from ah economic point of view silverwood received 1 90 in ches of rain november 1st six members of silverwood w l along with members of other institutes were fbvited to a health and public relations meeting in the hall at balhna fad by balhnafad w i slides on accident prevention were shown along with excellent par ticlpation by members of visit ing groups the evening closed with coffee and sandwiches mrs n bomholt is home ag atln from guelph general hos pital and we hope to stay alicia f c scott rug hookers learn coat hanger dyeing the georgetown rug hook ing guild held a workshop on thursday oct 30 at st and rews united church on moun tainvicw road mrs jean fields of port credit came to instruct 23 members in the method of coathanger dying keith barber foreground on oello was one of the organizers of concert orchestra which is practicing every sunday concrete gravel building sand road gravel fill and top soil garnet bud haines gun wllliami 8773302 hornby womens group enjoy chinese pinner the evening starlight group of hillcrest united church met at the- church on monday even ing nov 3 and journeyed from there to hoys restaurant in streetsville where they enjoy ed a chinese dinner with nine members present following dinner they returned to the church where they held a very successful penny sale with mrs jim tyner in charge the art icles for the penny sale are all donated by the members final arrangements were discussed for the annual bazaar and each one was assigned to a job the nominating committee was el ected to look after the election of officers at the next meeting which will be held in the church on saturday dec 1 the ladies will cater to a wedding reception in the church on saturday dec w a banquet for the federation of will be held at the church on tuesday dec 2 the general meeting will be rheld on wednesday dec 3 and the georgetown fair board banquet will be held on friday dec 5 it looks like the la dies of hillcrest will be living at the church the first week of december iunch was served by mrs leslie kmg and mrs earl mcdowell and a social hour enjoyed v thursday nov 13th 1969 the gioroitovw hlltala xfags 10 cooperators insurance associations of cite the 7th meeting of the horn by meat balls was held at the home f mrs roy wilson on monday evening dec 3 they sampled the meat loaf which was made by cindy cordingley and cathy ohearn and a sav ory salad made by laurie cur ne and janet copeland mrs cordingley gave notes on the various ways to cure meats friends of john alderson will be pleased to hear he was able to retrun home last week from the milton district hospi tal mrs jim hamilton call 7871834 lor home service op cge major appliances carryitto servicenter i 5230 dundas street wet or 1 350 castlef ield avenuf for portable appliance service irons toasters small radio tv sets canadian general electric for prompt and expert service on sheet metal work roofing eavestroughing heating s call russ dickson v phone 8777455 holmes 5 store 11 main street north 10 off everything in the store mens permanent press sport shirts 299 christmas trees 6 ft scotch pine 1196 billy blastoff robot 677 best ever assortment of ladies sweaters slims big selection of records abbey roacl tom jones led zeppelin ii etc try us were friendly 13 day sale thurs friday sat only november 131415 no 1ayaways please