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jgc8 SECTION Wednesday Dont attack cats Departments to ease chief warns columnist medical officer duties Fails to yield Feb at a 1975 green Plymouth driven by a 34- yearold Georgetown woman was travelling southbound on Chapel Street A 1S6S white Chevrolet driven by a Kitchener woman exited from a private drive and pulled directly into the path of the Plymouth causing a collision A charge of falling to yield at a private drive was laid Hits bumper Feb at a 30year old Georgetown woman was sit ting in her adjacent to a commercial plaza at 10 Mountalnvlew Road South when Court or truck driven by a 29yearold Cheltenham man attempted to so around the car The truck the right rear bumper of the Ford Fails to stop A 1966 grey Chevrolet driven by a year old Balllnafad woman was in the centre lane of Guelph Street Feb at when it attempted to stop for 1S67 blue Ford Ltd The Ford slowing down for traffic ahead when It was struck from behind by the Chevrolet A charge of following too close was laid View By Ian Weir Thomson Newsservice As any observer of civic politics knows city councils as a breed are occasionally prone to making decisions which seem slightly less than sensible There was a fairly widespread rals of eyebrows a couple of years back for instance when city councils across Canada decided to pass bylaws themselves nuclear free rones Granted there wrong with a city s declaring itself a nuclear free lone It just seems well it just seems a little pointless somehow Let the Soviets be warned across this nation are firmly re solved to Issue tickets to any and ail clear warheads which are dropped upon them But there are times you read about some innocent municipality s ell Ion to embark upon a course so ribly naive so foolish that you Just have to wring your hands and Implore the city fathers to admit the error of their ways before it too late This I m sure was the response of ail right thinking Canadians when we cos covered that the City of Edmonton wants to pass a catcontrol bylaw which will enable it to Impound loose and noisy felines To begin with there are just two words of advice you can offer to any city which decides to impound loose cats These words are good and luck Catching stray does is a comparati straightforward business This Is because dogs by nature are very much like Canadians they are trusting re spectful of authority and mindful of men in uniforms Cats by contrast are the anarchist guerrillas of the animal kingdom Ex pecting a cat to surrender itself to a cat catcher Is about as realistic as that the government could end all Its problems by sending a regiment into the mountains crooning Contra Contra Contra I ve known a number of cats over the years but I ve never met one that showed the slightest interest In the wishes of any other inhabitant of the planet Civilized society as we know It is But the extent of Edmonton folly goes far deeper than mere Impractical Every newspaper columnist learns early in his there is one subject he can never attack fie is perfectly free lo attack chit motherhood fair play and mental human decency But woe betide the miserable wretch who dares to at tack cats If you re ever faced with a choice be offending cat lovers and offend ing a pubfull of loggers for heaven sake make rude noises at the loggers and be thankful you be getting off comparatively lightly And here we have a municipality passing an anticat bylaw Worse yet the mayor has actually gone on record as saying he isn particularly fond or cats Pray for him Quite frankly I ve never understood why cat lovers are so passionately lout- to felines considering that cats as a group are about as loyal as a back room full of Liberal strategists whose leader is behind in the polls But boy are cat lovers loyal They have cat clubs They have cat mag azlnes And they have an abiding dis for those of us who much prefer dogs and who harbor he secret lion that the only good cat Is a tennis racquet Bite my tongue I didn mean that Please Honest Actually I bear no particular an imosity toward cats I have coexisted more or less peaceably with ral over the years I even developed a grudging admira Hon for one of them a linj feline named EUie who had the disposition of the Sheriff of Nottingham a studied refusal to rest until every small rodent on earth had been slaughtered and deposited behind the piano deserted us after it became clear we intended to keep two other kit tens whom she disliked even more than she disliked us In any case my heart goes out to those brave if foolhardy Edmonton councillors as they attempt address their fair municipality s cat problem women stick ing to their guns and riding stoically forward despite the odds and the peril It reminds you of Well it kind of reminds you of the Light Brigade But it s probably kin not to tell them that Medical staff at the Georgetown District Memorial Hospital may soon have more input into hospital policies and procedures At the request of the Medical Ad vlsory Committee the hospital beard studied the operation of the hospital and came up with a to form five depart merits The departments include clinical services emergency room operating room Including gynecology and anesthesia medicine including intensive care and obstetrics Dr Craig Browning Chief of Staff at the hospital said one out come of the departments will be to ease the workload on the Chief of Staff Who is also the chairman of the MAC The Chief or Staff at the hospital is appointed to the board and responsible to the board said Mr Dr Browning Ottawa budget ignores Ontarians Finance Minister Michael Wilsons recently introduced federal budget doea not please On tarloTreuuref Robert Nixon Mr Nixon argued hat Ottawa budget ignores provincial concerns He stated that the federal budget will bring about a steady reduction In the rate of federal transfer payments for health care and education This will result In a shift of the financial burden to the pro vinces Ontario medicare costs alone are expected to Increase by million Mr Nixon predicted On Monday MPPa returned to the Legislature to pass three im bills On Tuesday new conflict of interest legislation was passed The SAME DAY TAX RETURNS 101 SI 8772217 new law requires all members and their immediate families to disclose their assets debts and financial holdings to a Co mm is sinner While the conflict of interest legislation cannot guarantee that members will always act with in tegrity it will permit much greater public scrutiny of members The legislation was design to increase public rust and con On Thursday the Legislature passed a bill establishing a review board to monitor auto insurance In order to ensure the legislation eliminates such factors as age sex and marital status In the setting of in rates Available at The Herald Office In either 8x10 or Sizes theHER However the extra work that comes with the position makes it difficult for the Chief of Staff he said There a fair amount of respon sibility on the shoulders of one per son Browning said Once the departments are form the heads will be responsible for the operation of each of them heaaid The idea Is not only to reduce workload on the Chief of Staff but delegate responsibilities as well he said Once the department heads are in place any problems or which arise in each department can be investigated by the department head and not Just the Chief of Staff said Brown Ing He expects to have the depart heads appointed by the next Hospital Board meeting in March Lome Scots tested on infantry skills The Lome Scots Peel and Helton Regiment held their an section Canadian Forces Base BordenFeb 1921 The competition tested each of the four sections Each section con slats of eight men with assorted infantry knowledge MCPL Schmidt led the Georgetown section to win the trophy making it years theC company has won the championship The Feb to competition was really the 1967 championship which was postponed last November due to an unexpected heavy snow fall The tests included an inspection to check to see if each section had he proper equipment qualification and insignia the march and shout to time the section which can get from point A to point B and shoot curalely afterwards the advance contact in which the section ad vances on a route uphill until they get attacked by the enemy and then successfully engage them the occupation of a hide which Is securing an area Other areas tested were support weapons which tests the knowledge of each person on a machine gun and tank launchers a written map test night Invasion a round robin which consisted of a relay rest for the section on basic weapon drills and finally lighting a Coleman stove boiling water maJdngacupofcoffeeandprsctislngfirstald The was fairly close all the way through except auy port weapons stand in which Georgetown walked away with a score which almost doubled the A company which came second on that stand The competition is also used to see how much the troups have learn ed 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