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ftReFIERALPl Home Newspaper of Hills TllbKMUII April II A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main St South Georgetown Ontario F Publisher Fdltor Second Clin Mail Reentered Number Nursing home for North Halton deserves support It is to be hoped that with the blessing of town council and hopefully regional council the chronic home care program and the nursing home recommended for implementation in Halton Hills this week will get the nod from Queen Park A report prepared for the District Health Council on long term health care requirements for the towns senior citizens served to reaffirm what a lot of local people have known for some time north is sadly lacking in extended care and chronic care facilities The report sanctioned this week by the town com calls for the of a chronic tare programme by which patients in need of a long term professional attention would be visited in their homes Also recommended is the construction here of a to 100 bed nursing home Both suggestions seem well suited to resolve the worries of many elderly people who watch their friends and neighbors shunted off to chronic care facilities elsewhere in the region in or Brampton or Toronto That our senior citizens should have to leave their hometowns friends and relatives to simply receive the health care and at due them if only by virtue of their age is something of a modern Both Acton and Georgetown now have attractive senior citizens homes to complement their rest homes and serve the basic needs of our elderly Society is finally getting around to setting aside some money for its veterans if only thus for accommodations and health This great mnov in itself finally coaxes civilization up through the from a time when the elderly no longer able to hunt or defend themselves were abandoned by their tribe by the wayside This kind of atrocity may have been born of necessity back then but today there is no longer any justification for abandoning our senior citizens Let them age gracefully while commanding our deserved attention assistance and respect A sincere good luck to the civil servants somewhere in Canada who are considering the feasibility of a proposal that would allow younger workers to take extended leaves of absence from their jobs as a kind of early retirement Being young enough to enjoy those leaves is to one advantage but imagine the usefulness such a system would inspire in our elderly who would continue working beyond the current years old limit A feeling of selfdependence and usefulness would work psychological wonders for the senior citizens of the world creating a self propagating system of self esteem strength and good health Let hope Health Minister Dennis Timbrell says yes to the Hills recommendations thus extending his own pat on the back for our senior citizens Irony can be found in nuclear accident Hills residents have to regard the recent nuclear disaster Pennsylvania with little irony After all local residents have been battling Ontario Hydro s attempt to run a hydro corridor through the town for years The power Ontario Hydro is so deter mined to run through Halton Hills is generated radiated at the Bruce nuclear plant For years local residents have used every argument possible to oppose the corridor And it seems each week yet another argument comes to the surface or an old one is proven true Certainly the apparant steady stream of announcements that the province now has a surplus of electricity would discount the province utility arguments that the corridor must be strung or else Ontario will face power shortages But an argument we have yet to hear is that the plant itself is unsafe and should not be operating thus making the hydro corridor unnecessary The Hamsburg near disaster has raised doubts about the safety of the entire nuclear industry Ontario Hydro maintains that the Canadian reactors are safer than those used in the States but we venture that despite these reassurances the people of the Pickering and Bruce areas have not been sleeping as well since the Three Mile Island accident We would also venture that jintil the accident at the plant the owners of the Three Mile reactor assured area residents an accident was next to impossible Un it still happened The Hamsburg accident serves to remind us that where human error is a possibility sooner later it will become a reality The chances of an accident at a nuclear plant mav be one in a million but sooner or later that one will come up And considering the stakes involved a nuclear accident once is more than enough We are ironically told in the movie China Syndrome that an nuclear accident of the magnitude of which almost took place in could con laminate an area the size of Pennsylvania The mere possibility of such a castastrophy occurlng is enough for us to recommend the halt of nucleir alleged experts about the probability of nuclear power plant mishaps our concern is that once the inevitable accident finally takes place it will be of such magnitude that generation after generation might end paying the price On top of this nuclear scien tists themselves will admit they have yet to deal with the thorny problem of disposing of nuclear wastes It takes thousands of years for nuclear power plant wastes to breakdown Currently the problem of dealing with these potential contaminants is being dealt with by burying the wastes in the ground or submerging them in water Unfortunately these methods are only stop gap approaches and the nuclear wastes maintain their toxic qualities for generations Our scientists are simply banking on the fact these wastes will remain undisturbed during the Considering the uncertain nature of this world this is a rather major assumption to make and one that could have devastating effect on generations to come It strikes us as incredibly irresposible on the part of the people of the s to gamble with the futures of generations to come pursuing a nuclear energy path which we are more than little unsure There is so much surrounding the nuclear energy issue that now American scientists involved in the early stages of its development have gone on to join protests groups against the dreaded power supply The air of almost fatal cerainty surrounding nuclear energy is enough for us to advocate a suspension of its development And who knows the energy mishap that frightened the world may bear positive fruit for local residents ft may be enough for Ontario Hydro to reconsider its commitment to the deadly energy- thus reconsider the hydro corridor through Halton Hills Of course were not banking on the power utility to suddenly see the light alter so many years in the dark optimism wellfounded should increase federal seats IfThcllcrjIii politician is t dibble in overs dement b predicting Hi it his on win up 0 sills in 111 2 election ill I ird Hit Credit MPs predict they form i Hut fl cm be forgiven for optimistic at this si in the Not since the is rmtd in IJGl lias ere such lust lor F in lit NDP has some mom ough l charter a impaign jet jus like thi Toms mil I lis finally an lo finds himself in the ging position of imp two It iders whose ptrsoml popularities in And most imp riant ill Hit is fin ill gating support from I Whether ill this leads an minis bt seen But the bents to rrorc than the IG MINT in to back III VIM UK if lilt could its heights whin MPs elected lo lit met of power in it would consult red a cause for r in But Hit his stt much this time tlu must import ml in this is the outpouring of support Dei ms the relatively the Labour There is tvtrj mdicition that will more involved in this t imp til in an other election since its The New hive tnj jtd of support from irtiiiztd labor but this lime we hive our necks en the lint in blitz to the It s biggest and extensive campaign iver dtvised in this country says the presidtnt We hope reach a n intv of our million members in This parallel tht LI will also be augmented by ptrsona with Fd at union ills gales downtown rilhes Tin blitz homes will be tie n ost aspect of the impugn because pirt hive il ivs felt have been smgularlj i in winnint the support of spouses I- no statistics support tins semnr MP But it s mv that the wives of union nitmbtrs often Tory or Liberal as p ir of social stilus want to the trade union association their hush I will go its millun mtmbers and their spouses liking Hit message of shrinking pay cheque to most of tht country 10 million w t irners Meanwhile will trying to present himself is most iteept iblt to Prime Minister Trude and Jot Clark Trudctu cannot be trusted as a m in lie declares He broke his promise in wagt controls land there is no rtas trust turn now God protect us from Joe Clark he on Jot Clark hah not only one foot either side of the fence but with his policy on PctroCanidi ht has plunked himself right down the middle as well It nothing new for leaders to itt ick the Tories and Grits t id Lewis and Tommy Doughs were masters Ibis art but were ilways up re popular This lime both and Trudeau may bt mort thing can happen during a election campaign but in these it understandable that Ed should feel a bit buoyant Ontario talks treason in blasting unity plea By Derek Nelson TORONTO leader summed it up rather neatly Ontario doctors ore taking industrial action ind getting paid while doing it is an accurate trade union description of what doctors are doing when they opt out of OH IP And let face it doctors through the Ontario medical association and of Physicians and Surgeons are is unionized as lawyers or ire through their organizations On Jan I this year doctors came off three years of Ant i Inflation Board controls on their incomes which suppressed fee increases or thai time Last spnng the doctors received six per cent from the government and this year the received another per cent in January which gives a figure equivalent to the current OHIP fee However the OMA sets its own fee schedule although in past years it has been with the rate This though Us per cent higher Doctors who opt out of will normally charge the OMA rate which will partly reimburse This gives doctors the best of both worlds in that they re bound to recover a proportion of their charges even if Ihe reoulof OHIP Not that doctors don I have a case The do A review of Ontario doctors income a Kingston physician in Ihe journal concludes the average doctor makes per cent more than his Ontario counterpart But the American opposite numbers of university professors lawyers dentists manufacturing and other all earn less than Doctors arc odd man out Incidentally Cassidy seem to think this is reasonable The doctors union is the only union that suffered wage restrain under that the has no sympathy for The restrain program is Iho against which the doctors wage bounced Tin government is committed to bringing health care under control and jus about only way do that is to squeeze the incomes of health care workers including doctors CHAM Which is not unreasonable If health care at past rates wed bankrupt by the end of the But one by product of rcslramt is the epidemic of of by almost one fifth of them a last count Our present system of medic mt with its private and government isn good at handling the strain comes with loo hands chasing loo Few dollars OMa agreement to charge only rales at solves part of the problem The rcsl would dissolve if Ontario doctors like those in Quebec werecither totally in or out of If in they could negotiate like any other civil service union for their income If out could charge what market would bear and taxpayer I hive pick up par of the cost WILLIAM EVOOKIMOFF Central MICHAELKOLLETT no Ed tor LARRY N MARTIN Sales Phone Halton s History From our files I 1 MIS The first tow irds the million of Credit V were taken it i tin in r netting hosted liinsflubsfr flrampton ind aid of 16 in tin wert tl icf engineer Itiehirdson Branch of the Dtpirlnitnl if I I inning Develop- I dinct r wert tin Mr said thai two municipalities must first petition ft r i ting from all minis in tht villtj In order to be thirds of lit councils must be lid i til would I ikt two thirds of hi tit It j its it lit up When ill tin r quirt mi id ecu it department iki I tin uniid tht it J in ipiiung nil Hit itt It funis in The dnw JHJf ins sit Beavers lit ft it lit mi uili of time irLuuid ion p so ip box during 1- ieorgctown Hurt tin hid plenty lull up keep town 1 eluded speed a pint ping tiurnimtnt ind horses bus wtn lif in location town klip locil ounUtrs until in tht irks Tin Her il in c rt to turn in the CB Tht liusintss present by pirtv luder VISITS MI It IS nun it Hon me m issey would visit George town briefly in Mr and Mrs freestone of Temple Ho id celebrated Ihtir Oath on April fl rur f innlj Itfl homeless on Good rid of Acton and I mi dtp irlmii Is to d lust blaze Mr Mrs Sim and three children wire it supper table when the out An pond which fin fighters wtrt usug to supply their pumps ran dry and parked cars and drifting snow hampered efforts to reach a nearby streim Firemen managed to save the turn and other farm buildings Inwtvir to the Ontario Public School Men Teachers s I held in North Bay wtrt among those who discussed ways of dealing with inefficient teachers It was recommended that these should lose then certificates To ensure that no unjust judgements were mide were into the system whereby cancel of tt ichmg would be Georgetown council received letter from British Canadian Sales lawyer threatening to sue the town to recover expenses for a sale in arena which had to be cancelled Tht Canadian National Railway told council it isn prepared to replace bridges Street North and Ho id but suggested th it the town the Boird of Transport Commissioners to decide on cost inng if it wishes to take n on the matter Public school board representative St in ml iv asked council to proceed quickly is possible with the issuing of worth of debentures since the had iwirded contract for of Drive school to Construction Nl- TH Vt AT BOAT RACE The JayceeCrazy Boat race almost witnessed fatalities w hen three man if got caught in undertow ind sink it of the piper mill dim 1 and Monty Hyde and Underbill wound up in the water ind tl would be John Jones and Jim joined them when their ift sank under weight of those they rescued When council set its budget Monday a seemingly large drop in the assessment was largely offset by reassessment and most Georgetown homeowners faced a to MO tax hike The Department of Lands and blocked the Credit with Cohoe Salmon fingerhngs the first of the month in hopes of re introducing the fish to river The were planted at the of tl lower paper mill dam and at two spots near Norvil Since a French language school was at that time a special committee was investigating the possibility of sending s French speaking students out of the county for education There were students travelling to Toronto to attend a French high school The board polity covered the cost of tuition not transportation for students being educat outside the country at that time However a question arose over board policy since these students could receive the same courses in English in bul had chosen to go elsewhere in order to study in French Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital Hoard chairman Denny Charles discussed a proposed addition lo the I with members of addition will ind beds and facilities The hospital was running at per capacity then he said LFTS NOD Progress Conservatives chose Otto their candidate for the next federal election Mr Jelinek held the constituency of High Park number Valley which would disappear through redistribution at the time of the next election and thus chose to make i bid or nominator since he lives in An high school was jammed as more than 300 voting delegates turned out to make their choice between Mr and his opponents Art Ross a former physician and Tristan Lett an economics advisors lo provincial treasur Darcy McKeough