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OPENS PLAYGROUND Specially adapted for handi capped It was a special Ion for at Howard Public School when their new playground facility was officially opened Friday after noon Over a three year period students at the school raised IT to wards the total cost of Selling pens Halloween candy and holding hot dog days and spring fairs helped to pay for one of the few creative playgrounds available to the capped The money was given to the Recreation and Parka Department which constructed the playground Friday director Tom Shepard and members of the works department were on hand to witness the opening Helping to make the project a success were donations from the Georgetown Little Theatre Daughters of Scotland and the Bene volent and Protective Order of It a creative playground equipped enough to please any especially Principal Tom Gibson students at Howard Public School on The school Mid the fund raising officially opened the playground which able to accommodate was a total school effort handicapped Undent Here Chris Hyde Adam Scot Brown and with help by all the Angle Telford spend their lunch bow as twin gen Students teachers and photo many parents SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday January IS ltM Page JUST ARRIVED VOLUME PURCHASE has enabled Milllere TV to make a special buy of RCA Color Trak and XL 00 Color TV s and Select A Vision VCR Buy now and Save Up to 395 off Factory Suggested list Prices on some items Now a the time to buy because prices may never be this low again 3 MLUERE V SPECIALS al with RCA Automatic color control keep from program to channel to contrast and fracUng the to adjust controls to gat a picture XlsnM PRICES ON THESE 3 RCA REMOTE- CONTROL MODELS ALL WITH BULTM TV CONVERTERS Here are all features you probably sver want In a color TV Including digital scan remote control and cablertady tuning CoforTrak automatic systems Include color con trol contrastcolor tracking correction Channalock digital quarts crystal tuning locks In a drifttree signal while X tended Life chassis provides cool economical oparatlon GUARANTEED SERVICE WITH ALL SAUSl irjjgtao Senator Hastings defends bill to wary hospital staff Canadian Senator Earl Hastings might have expected a miiet meeting with the University Women Club last Tuesday but what he got was an earful of complaints from local medical staff on health care In Ontario The former leader of the Saskatchewan Libe ral Party was speaking for federal Health Minister Monlque Begin about the proposed Canada Health Act In a question period after the senators 20 minute talk Dr Elliot Hal pari and a from Georgetown District Memorial Hospital offered their own opinions on health care In Canada Extra billing is Just not the issue said Alter 10 years of erosion to health care because of a lack or money hospitals don have enough beds and the equipment is second rate he said By disallowing the option to extra bill under the proposed Health Act the best doctors will leave for green pastures In the United States The new health Is a poll Tractor trailer fire The cab of a 1973 tractor trailer caught fire Hat am at Lot IS Concession The driver had started the propane preheat and It caught the Insulation Inside the cab on re the fire department reported The driver was unhurt and the fire took about an hour to put out The truck Is owned by Blair Oldham of Nerval Minor assault A 30year old male was charged with minor assault Saturday at l a during a domestic altercation at the Cedar Springs Motel on High way The wife of the man received injuries to her right arm and the side of her neck The man Is to appear in Milton court Feb 13 SENATOR HASTINGS tlcal smokescreen he said COMMITMENT Senator Hastings replied by saying the government has made a commitment to increase spending by per cent on health services He told the audience that extra billing is a deter rent to poor big Into position first Senator Hastings said before tackling extra government spending Questions were direc ted to Senator Hastings about the abuse of care under the present syatem He replied that only about per cent of the total users abuse the system about the same percentage of people who abuse the credit card system Senator Hastings explained that In his home province of per cent of doc tors are Its the overbilling capital of Canada He said a heart by pass operation In Calgary costs up to above what medicare pays to the doctor He said that ir Alberta Is allowed to continue with the other provinces will follow Extra billing affects access and universal the senator said Some people are buying health programs to cover extra costs and It not fair to the poor be said more money One lady said she was more people will have the proper equipment available and that medicare Is a nonIssue compared to the need for money She said that babies at were denied accessibility until a private citixen came forward to pay for a nee- natal monit or the government didnt buy the equip ment she said In a conversation with provincial Health Mini Dennis Timbrel said he was told our system was still better than that of Swaziland Origins to the philo sophy that Canadians are entitled to universal health care depends on what party you belong to Senator Hastings said Former prime mini Mackenzie King and John Diefenboker along with Tommy Dou glas of Saskatchewan are all credited with helping the system along although the principle is derived from the biblical teach ings you are your brothers keeper he said I swat SAVINGS I OR MORE OFF OUR REGULAR LOW PRICES ON ALL OUR FOOTWEAR AND PURSES CHILDRENS SHOES luster I Savage ALL REDUCED SOME AS LOW AS FLORSHEIM MENS SHOES ALL AT THIS LOW PRICE LADIES KAUFMAN VINYL NATURALIZERS RUNNING SHOES WINTER BOOTS FASHION CLOGS SPECIAL ATHLETIC SHOES WITH TAX MENS SHOES FLETCHERS FAMILY FOOTWEAR ORTHOPEDIC PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED 8771664 41 MAIN ST S DOWNTOWN GEORGETOWN