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OmTrrO XTDV A UM1 2Kt 171t OONOWFLEKLY TIMES no &ot G -R Nbâm&ft e m- Computer-Age Miracles There appears to bce no limit to the miracles of the computer age.. Two medicai brothers from Brmingham, Aia,; are the latest to prove the point. They have come up wit ha commendable idea to ease the restlessxness and apprehiension of patients in their waiting room. Their idea is for the latter to spend that haîf-hour or so givîng their madical history to a computer. This would later give the doctor a quiclk printout on your case. Such a eomputer has been devised by Drs. Warner aild Chanies Siack and is now being tested at the University. of Alabama in Birmingham. Before the patient secs a doctor the computer lists questions about his medical history on a smal television screen and the patient responds by press- ing answer keys on a typewriter keyboand. The computer neyer forgets to ask or record a question and it pinte a record that can be read easiiy. One point has been determined. Patients often are more comfortable giving intimate information Io a computer than to a physician - the computer routinely asks the samne things of evenyone. The computer asks questions in iay language but trans- lates the answer for the doctor la medîcal terms. The computer -bas 150 questions,, but the average patient would only answer 70. One day soon, if the present tnend continues, niany patients won't have to go' to the doctor at ail - they wi.l be serviced by a special ciosed- circuit television set-up. What Others-Say The suggestion by a top union, officiai that within the niext decade garbagemen will be high sehool graduates and taxi drivers an dshoe sales- men wiil have/one or two years university educa- tion may not be as fan fetched,.as it sounds at first. Already we are experiencing the unexpected in that several highiy qualified university graduates are in the ranks of the unemployed. It is not so many years ago that this situation wouid have been considered impossible. Educatio'o we were led to believe was the an- swer to ail our employment and economic head- aches. Poli ticians la pursuit of this belief developed the -educatio n system at such a rapid rate that tax- payens moaned under the even-increasin'g burden. To pacify the pnotest the politicians caiied for patience saying that this programn of learning wouid provide an ecoaomic insurance for our prov- ince ilalhe future. Our young people responded. Many of them were ledinto the belief that the longer they could nemain la school and uniVersity the more secure wouid be ýtheir future. Now disillusioned many of them find that ail their iearnîng carnies lîttie weight la the commercial world. We do need qualified people for many posi- tions, but the problem now is the rate at which sucli people are emerging from our universities Emiployers have aiso 'found that despîte the high standard of education university graduates require aàs much training in any company's system as the high, schooi graduate did before. Theresult is that we flow find ourselves with one ýof the most highly quaiified unempioyed pen- sons la the worid. That our educdtion system is good at producing qualified people there can be no doubt. The probiem arises when these saine people try to find an outiet for the talents which' the education system has developed. Therefone is seems less incredibie than ever before that more and more of the menial tasks which ]teep our society going from day to day will be taken over byhigh school graduates. University graduates too may find that they must lower their sights once they emerge from the halls of learnnng. It is unlikely,, however, that the gradujates wil settie for this waste of thein talents and it is un- fotunate that we are Probably going to sec a further accelenation of the "Brain Drain" to the United States unless the already shrinking employ- ment market la Ontario is revitalised la a way which will ensi,-e positions for greater numbers of our most talented young people. Carpeting Questioned. The Northumberland and Dur- hamn County Board of Educat ion through a resolution stated they had no objections to certain re- izoning of lands within the Town- ship of Clarke. The parceis of land involved concerned about twenty building lots owned, by Mr.. Jan 0'ýChonski, lot 29, concession 5, Orono as well as three rural lots at lot 32, con- cession 7 owned by Mr. Marvin. Other parcel.-s included fourteen 1iilding lots, lot 29, concession 4 owned by Mr. and Mni. W. P. Ir- wJý. and 'a parcel of land to be ne- zoned for a Dairy and Coffee Bar owned by Mr. Wilkin in Kendai. QUESTION'S CARPET IN HAMPTON SCHOOL Mr Sheppard questioned why carpeting had been rtrndto be piaced in the new Hampton school addition when hie under-, stood that it had been taken out. He said hie had asked'that grades 1 and 2 in the Wankworth school be carpeted but that this nequest was turned down fiat.1 Mr. Patterson of the administra- tion stated that it was now Board policy.. to include carpeting and that it was necessany in most cas- es to facilîtate the 'Open Concept' programn. Mn. Patterson when speaking on the plans for the new Ennis- kilien addition was asked if the Board was setting a policy of 'OP- en Concept' for ,ail new schools or additions,.lie'said it was not a policy of the Board' to estabiish any schooi as 'Open Concept'. Ba- sically, hie said, the decision was Local News Mr. and Mrs. J. Vander Spruit are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. K,. Schoenmaker and Mr. and Mrs.' A. Vander Spruît. They, arrived at the New York Airport from, Roi- land in April and traveiied by bus to Caifornia and Oregon to visit relatives there and then via Vancouver and the Western Pro- vinces came to Ontario. They will depart for New York by the end of July. Mrs. Ada Younghusband, aunt of Mrs. Basil Long, Orono, pas- sed' away in Memorial Hospital,, Bowmanviile on Tuesday, June 29th. The funeral wiii be held at the Barlow Funeral Home on Thursday at 2 p.m. Interment in Fenelon Falls Cemetery. POWER FAILURE Hydro power was off in Orono and district for 'over tvff hours on Monday caused by a car hitting a> high tension pois on the Taun- ton Road. made by the principal and staff of the school. Mr. Patterson said it was these people who wouid have to carry out the program *id th at they must be in accord with the decision. NEW SCHOOL SITE STILL A MVSTERY No indication has been given yet on the site for the new senior public schooi to service the Co- bourg and Ham-ton Township ar- ea. The Board has received approv- ai from the Department to con- struct the schooi. The estimated cost of the school is $1,284,000;- the building; itself wili cost a projected $1,1't5,000 with $64,000 for furniture and e- quipment; $79,O00 for fees plus $35,000 sales tax. Agents for BOWMANVILLE CLEANERS Dry Clemniuig Enjoy one of. our MILK SHAKES ICE CREAM By the Cone or Brick BILLI ARDS Three Modern Tables MATTS BILLIARDS und Barbershop' Oron Building Contracteor brick a Block -Coacre Stone Work c.rveutry - Cabinet Work Flooru - Tii. 113.5441 ORONO W. FRANK REAL ESTATE LIMITED Realtor 21 King St. W. 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