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Home Newspaper of Hills Wednesday March A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 103 Main SI Georgetown Ontario Publisher Second CI Mall Rigiitartd Number 41 Local doctors should not abandon OHIP With close to per cent of the local doctors and most of the medical staff at Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital no registered with the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan its safe to say that universal to medical care in Halton Hills Is in Jrouble When the concept of medicare Was introduced in provinces across Canada the stated goal was to ensure that Canadian citizens Would not be deprived of adequate medical care because of finances But as more and more doctors drop of the government medical insurance plans across the conn this goal becomes little more a pipe dream While the OHIP system may Still exist on paper it is of little use of taxpayers if they are unable to find doctors still involved in the plan This problem is especially serious in small communities like Hills Unlike residents in large metropolitan centers like Toronto Hills residents do not have a targe pool of doctors to choose from to- find a family doctor still the government medical insurance If your doctor drops out of HIP the choice may soon be whether you are ready to drive to Oakville or Brampton for health care or stay here and pay your doctor increased fees At the same time as doctors are opting out of OHIP their practices are filling up and some doctors ore not accepting new patients This too eats away at the pretense of choice when it comes to finding doctors in the OHIP plan There is even less chance of getting an OHIP doctor if you require surgical care at the Georgetown hospital None of the doctors performing surgery at the local hospital are in according to a list of doc tors supplied by the hospital At the same time one of the two doctors giving anesthetics is out of OHIP The work on alternate days so there is a SO chance of getting ones anesthetic covered by but a patient will definitely have to come Dp with some cash to supplement OHIP payments for the operation The entire situation makes a joke of the plan In this supposedly civilized society On residents should have the tight to adequate medical care The plan was designed to ensure we nave this right The right is being eroded with every doctor who drops out of the plan For citizens whose doctor has dropped out of our once model health insurance plan the cost of health care is headed directly back jo the days when the birth of a child or unplanned surgery could saddle a young couple with a significant debt If a doctor Is out of his her patients pay regular payments plus an additional 30 per cent which the doctor tacks on for services rendered as recom mended by the Ontario Association Doctors have tossed around many reasons for opting out of the medical plan but the only reason that rings true is the one given by Dr J Bowyer an associate of the Georgetown hospital It s purely a question of money he said Considering the fact that Revenue Canada statistics put the average income of Canadian doctors before taxes but after expenses at a whopping for 1976 it s hard to shed many tears for their plight Doctor incomes have not increased substantially the last few years but whose have A thing called the has been hanging around limiting wages hikes to close to six per cent for almost everyone cent wage hike on 600 is a little easier to take than six per cent of a position many Canadians have been in during these years When one considers the huge public investment in a doctor career from all of us in the form of federal and provincial support of post secondary education it t seem out of line to ask doctors to accept low incomes for the public good Yet many of these same doctors are now threatening to leave the country for the US if they are not permitted to jack up their fees by the per cent recommended by the Certainly the OHIP program has problems with it but the way to deal with the problem is to find ways to remedy not scrap it Public corporations and programs do not by definition have to be flawed or mismanaged it is up to the voters to ensure they have a government that can properly administer the public programs under their charge It is the government responsibility to find ways to make the OHIP program work One of these ways would be to simply remove the alternative of opting out of the health care plan If works that way in Quebec and there doesnt seem to be any major exodus of doctors out of that province Locally the District Health Council does not consider the dropout rate a serious problem In fact they have had no discussions on the problem We believe it is imperative for the local health council to take its lead from the Peel Health Council which is currently studying the impact of doctors opting out m that region They will be presenting their findings to the regional council The health council should prepare a similar study and the region should be ready to take a firm stand based on its findings Church comment Thankless work Sir William Osier the Canadian phys who wis one of Ihe makers of medicine said in one his essays Happiness lies in absorption Incomes which satisfies the soul Yes or course But kinds of which many people today must face in their work are enervating and terribly frustrating For many there is satisfaction little fulfilment in their daily work For them work is primarily an ordeal that must be in order to make money for the necessities of life and for leisure time activities In which some personal fulfilment may be round We who find fulfilment in our work resist the temptation to be over is dull or distasteful hose whose work consists mainly of routines which can put callouses on the heart as well on hands those who merely for existence and for the leisure in which find main h A feu years ago a team of social scientists predicted that in the year Hit general of work in the eloped parts or the world will be one of a and a half hour work day instead of with four working a week instead of and only 39 working weeks per compared to the present In the face of all that is now happening in our that seems fairly reasonable forecast Our society is already becoming in many ways Dr one of the more influential psychiatrists of our lime points out that Boredom is now causing certainly brings to psychiatrists more problems to solve than is distress Bertram Russell once said Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused ear of it In an age of increasing leisure for more people art and music and drama and literature and sports become increasingly significant in our society Ontario Hydros power export reverses one of oldest policies By Derek Nelson spark TOHHNTO if llltic lieslunil Hit Ontario jovcrnmtnl is nursing one of the oldest and pi He posilirns in On 1976 energy Dennis Timbrel repealed in iht longstanding Tory position that importing powir is nor an Ontario isn r been it be pow in basis onlv I h mtans power which is in tempo surplus loioil tan be sold outside ihe province If demand picks up here Sew however in I brill s the I fit i bung Hit dichnt 1 demand we re now it TWO PI is building lo mill dun than wen urn in It lit mi far in ixetss of is ruU rid for I hi Out solution be lo riucli plants it and rt illi but In Iwt sirs il rnsons whs h A sudden slufi in r i few sears down road would leave us In id id some whale ins and brownouts current i surplus there is an irgnmeni which going id Willi f mimes in a i i shell when he noted thin is minis impiti ircmi Hydro iiis mi the in which in I i mil on industries ihsiippK for lit si prnjuis I In iht n is production Ik It ii fledgling not fill if is not to ii with building mi in mini power surplus What it Retiring Hydro chairman Robert Tay lor said bluntly let look at power exports not just is profitable way to use our present reserves but for the long term as i continuing industrial policy And Inlirgosernmcntil Affairs Minis Hi- T Wells it out in even irc iter dit ill last week Mm Hydro should capitalize more fulls market Why not earn somt dollars and use them pay off I debts And referring to Canada tendency to export In asked why not the finished product electricity benefil of Onlnrm power irs Canada as whole the and the nuclnr technology are all Canadian In origin Two lurk on an export horizon though tint whichexiststodny Hydro in I find utility willing to bus energy on long term contracts The second is happens If energy here and Ontario has ins while export to Th it would be politics I and is lusitiriial reason we never exported in the past Election makes it difficult to ignore personal publicity r is it and Idler with nit I it Ik mil pnbhils il lit his ilwass null In hid ssmpathtlti inctnsislcnl i wp mils iui I Hunk ii s fur tt sis the h isn returned In 1 ittst si in s lint lefi hi i lust give mi itxln in iitd mi like r Of The Herald would be lo Iht problems of politicians with in ilcttion looming is exceedingly difficult in overlook lidilwave of pirsnil publicity now wishing I rinu Minister nun is tumme pnlnbl in Ihe tniiM I i imp is thi hit Margin unleashes painfull publmzed book Beyond on From what we hear and we are hearing great Heal Ihese days Trudi is King reminded of as he slumps iht i luniry diking units eicrwiosls prime minister has iver had lo tope with such problem then no Cimdnn primt minister was a parent divorced or And while d would be nice if we slopped Hiking about it poor prime ministtr alone we ire looking i problem in it inuld Trudeiu s to to least the impression that we an interested in his personal problems think we all be keeping a close i eon the way prime minister topes with copious copy now flowing from his estranged wife And so far would ippear is coping scrs well indeed In from iht hi mimed in Hind t this s ih ii jus ml a dumb ni be Inn i dttorilion at hus lablt tin spjtc of recent A talks in re in milters like not sharing a r hush Shi I dm I i funk w II pursue line of tic has said in rep 10 ans dealing with his stent M irt want to speak for is doing And I stnthouKlishi ma give her hush ind in unmerciful ilobbering during hi iiiipdiin Ihii he will to his tool furthermore with his highly disciplined though process I dt personal problems will with his work diy But while lit ingrtliielint we II all w ikhing him just the fit I ut thit dtirini hut mi I iht rm irks art irnical mil si i mint bow furious her tin I mil tut inn whin m irij in iht tiffin nsiricnte She 1 Hid tn i Mi unlit who she kin iiimsi the smell of I don know why this particular lime her minding the kids living in himself for in election t imp thai sould suddnel I Hi press into her i indtltnit I issuini she Ins fori hi in mind Then must somen she is willinf I down with these ripuricrs and desinbt how she contemn suicide during the mar or how she likes her bock rubbed or how she doesn t collect any alimony husband She must have realticd that her husband like her discussing the Royal Family as she did Charles is so amusing and sexy and ho flirts so beautifully After the batch of Maggies hit newsstands the prime minister wis il a news conference EVOOKIMOFF General Manager MICHAEL HOLLETT tor LARRY MARTIN Sales Phone Haltons History From our files Tlllim I- Council set ritt at mills of Theestimated gross nsinutisSi32 Thin will be an increase from to in wages paid to town employees lo i hi hiring of an extra man s spy in a Union suit with is I start in of a nation A Southern Yankee cars art sprouting all over town tike ihi innus ire spring It is more and more apparent the car buying habit is back tor las tin the car bought whi hi could jit slorv I John Doe who would not buy n Tin sjmt ois fnr Bill Smith who Ins Motors cars or irs Brown who always strung wilh old ford Scott br tight he a 110 now thile is in Ms wis into the showroom ind ire invading Bowers will introduce the new and Tom has a maroon Hudson Motors are headtjuarters for the new Fords and Monirchs Intlicitions art this influx of mi ins tint Mr can now to his old wir Wow Tim drop of tin wecktnd or si degrees zero is a reminder what we should in had during the winlcr It was no a it or proper celebration just first of minimum of for week has way below the monlhl for March which is 19 VI- MIS form mincers technicians are hard at work locally producing working drawings tor a gyroplane which if successful could the future mass riation medium for world their firm Industries they hast encouraged group of local who hope to secure the fin to bring plane into production lo kttp the plant loealed It is that such a would men is to serve as presidtnl of the George town Chambers of Commerce at the annual meeting held Inst Wednesday at the North Hilton Golf and Club Serving with Mr Crichton on Ihe 1959 txtcutist ireltts AltxCalder pres itltnt secretary Lee King and direelors William Hunter liter Charles Dick Id and Fred Kelson from police news What causes juvenile dthnquincy Lack of parental control is big contributing factor The parent who allows his child to wander on streets at night or weekends is as much to blame is his children for the acts the commit How many know where Ihcir teenage sons and daughters ire on weekends How many of your children turn over weekly pay pickets and in return receive their weekly allowance For sixteen long hard ind lonely years more in some cases have you fed clothes and nursed them in lime of sickness What do you get now Your son or daughter comes home on pa da tosses you ten maybe fifteen dollirs for washing ironing feeding and inmg up them Do you think It lOItSdtTRAISrS TIN VI- concern about council in voting thtmsclves a pay Increase in salary for council meetings Ron Snow Drive asked council on Monday what justification they could give for this Miyor told him that al one time Ihe Municipal Act defined a pay scale that now it Is up to councils discretion to set a rate Council work loid today he said is even greater than when he politics a few years ago ind he said there enough evenings in Ihe week to accomplish all that council must do A report released week by director or education J Slnglelon that in next three another 500leachers will be needed to man classes in this region The report also revealed immediate plans to step up education services in North educalion trustees were told last week that the county school bill has Increased by almost million over last year but the preliminary budget did not include provincial grants Total education spending this year will be almost million as opposed lo million last year The board has schools under its control with about students I- Alt AGO A trans mission line from Bruce generating ion to Milton will not be rcrouled despite complaints from alliens Energy Minist Reuben said Tuesday In a letter to William Mann chairman of the ted Citizens Group ICG said cabinet week reaffirmed Its decision to allow the line lo run from the Bruce through the Niagara Escarpment and connect with the to Pickering line Milton Georgetown real estate broker Johnson has been elected president of the Ontario Real Estate Association for 197B Mr Johnson Is president of Johnson Carney Limited a real estate and gage brokerage firm its head office in Georgetown and branch in Ontario The firm employs almost people including licenced salespeople School children in wan be praying for Canadian unity ton board fu Tfy by trustee Lbjt the board contact the Hastings Prince Edward Ro man Catholic separata school board to obtain copy of a prayer approximately students say once a week to increase Canadian unity