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Kendal News March continues to send us "wind and snow with, lots .of .cold. This is the month the settlers would leave for new homes' it* Saskatchewan. In ; 1900 John Cat heart his wife ■and three children had been living in the Stone house where Wilson Carson lives -.today'. They opened the doors . and loaded the furniture on ■ sleighs. The wind was terrific. terrific. The children all had the whooping cough. but the railway car was loaded with a team of horses, cows, hens, etc. implements and furniture at Newcastle. Mr; John Cath- cart rode with his stock and settler's effects in the railway car while Mrs. . Cathcart travelled with the sick child ren on a passenger train. .The world's day of prayer service was to have beén held in Kendal Church but because of bad weather and sickness the service was cancelled.. On Saturday evening the "Three in one, doubles club" held their annual March banquet in the church school. Several in the neighbourhood neighbourhood are tapping a few maple' trees hoping to make maple syrup. Sorry to report at the time of writing Mrs. Wm. Hoy is in Bowmanville Hospital having x-rays taken to see if they can find the cause of her suffering. suffering. Mrs. T. Stevens is spending ' a few days with her son Professor James Stevens and his family in Guelph 1 this wdek. WALLPAPER SALE 20% Discount on Stock Papers 10 % Discount on Non-Stock Papers Kem Paint Sale SAVE over 25 % ROLPH Hardware DOMINION Orono, Ontario Pumping Out Septic Tanks Bert Tompkins Phone 786,2553 Phone 983-5207 Charles Reid Orono's licensed Auctioneer Valuator Specialize in Farm Furniture Sales "* Consult mi for terms and dates Phone Orono 983-5914 ly jGckmcm \f 1 ■ B Since 1912 | Beautiful Flowers I . .... .for Beautiful People I 162 KING ST. EAST BOW MANVILLE 5 Ask Operator for ZENITH 3654C Local phone 623-3365 ! DX SERVICE STATION ® Highway 35 and 115, just north of Newcastle B Featuring: Premium Quality Products At the Most Reasonable Prices Stove Oil & Diesel Oil Available in any quantity 'Phone 987-4215 O.P.P. News During the past week the Ontario Provincial Police at Newcastle investigated 22 motor vehicle accidents and attended several general occurrences. occurrences. The motor vehicle collisions resulted in six persons being injured arid nine persons being charged with offences under the Highway Traffic Act. The general occurrences investigated included offences offences such as break and enter, false pretenses, wilful damage damage and trespass. Three persons have been charged with offences under the Liquor Control Act, three persons have been charged with impaired driving and five persons have been charged charged with offences under the I Criminal Code. DRIVING TIP: WATCH OUT FOR ELDERLY PEDESTRIANS Here's a reminder to all ! drivers. Elderly people on | foot in traffic won't always remember to watchout for I y ou... so it's up to you to make I sure you always watch out for them. CRIME PREVENTION TIP: FRAUD About 30,000 residents in Ontario will lose $$$ through Orono Weekly Times, March 10, 1976 - 5 fraud this year. Will you? Do you check the Consumer Protection Bureau of the police when you have doubts? G.W. Brun ton Community Services Officer Queen's Park Report Rosseau, Brad Heard, Jamie Cowan and David Frank, front row Michael Noone, Jay Olesen and Willie-Reid. The remainder of the scouts Were out toboganning at the time of the picture. beds in a sizable minority of de,iver > - However, we cannot instances. One in five hospital defend the P resent s y stem as patients, apparently, would such ' For man y y ears our These seven Orono scouts took a minute out of their play to pose for a picture; The boys were playing a game in the gym at Cold Springs Camp during a free period. The game was played on the basketball court using two goalie nets and a rugby ball. Seems the boys weren't too sure what the game was called. Back row (1 to r) Neil You have probably read a good deal about hospital closings in recent weeks and now that Durham is involved to some extent this seems a good time to go into the matter. Faced with soaring health care expenditures, the Minister Minister of Health, Frank Miller, has concluded that the only immediately effective action is to reduce the number of hospital beds in Ontario. Accordingly, for a saving of approximately $10 million, tèn hospitals have been closed. closed. An additional 1,218 beds are to be closed across the province for a saving of $14,511,506. Further savings are to be achieved through staff cutbacks to the amount of $15,419,090. After all budget revisions, the total saved in Ontario will be approximately approximately $40 million. In Durham, Bowmanivlle Memorial Hospital will lose no beds but must save $16,069 through staff cutbacks; neither neither Cbmmunity Memorial Hospital (Port Perry) nor The Cottage Hospital in Uxbridge will lose beds, but must save, respectively, $94,465 and $11,871 in staff cutbacks. J.O. Ruddy Hospital Hospital in Whitby, however, must close 25 out of 89 beds for a saving of $233,850; and Osb- awa General Hospital must close 25 out of 594 beds for a saving of $275,000. A number of points must be made. First, the system by which health care was funded federally in the early days of public ii.suracne tended to favour provision of all heâlth , care services through hospitals. hospitals. Hospitals said that they were the logical places to offer care because they had the experts on their staffs and the experience of providing medical care. Over the years, Ontario has given hospitals the money to run, say, family practice clinics and commun ity health clinics instead of establishing them as separate facilities. In a situation where many people rely on hospitals for their total health care and do not have family practitioners, practitioners, staff cutbacks are bound to affect th§ quality , of, attention given to the community community at ■large,, not only to bed patients. As far as hospital beds are concerned, it it true that there is an excess of active treatment treatment beds. However, there is also a severe shortage of other be'ds for patients with chronic conditions, so that the active treatment beds are being used as chronic care be better served either by a general practitioner or in a chrdnic care facility. I must emphasize that there are no alternatives in this situation, there simply are no other facilties. The New Democratic Party Caucus, myself included, oppose oppose thè staff cutbacks and the bed closures because they can only represent a decline in the accessibility of health care at a time when people have no choice in its mode of party has favoured investment investment in community health centrés, rather than hospitals. hospitals. At a community health centre an integrated team of health professionals would attend to the patient's needs then and there, keeping hospital beds 'for their true purpose. In general, we would also place greater emphasis on reventive medicine. Hospital Hospital care is the most expensive, expensive, and should not be the only kind of health care available. JAN'S FLOWER & GIFT SHOPPE . SERVING ORONO, NEWCASTLE BOWMANVILLE and OSHAWA WE DELIVER MAIN STREET, ORONO, PHONE 983-9500