PAGE 4, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1976, WHITBY FREE PRESS whitby w1 Voice of the County Town SERVING OVER 28,000 READERS r ilublisihcd eve'ry Wedincsday à aby Plîotography înc. 1t Frei Pru-,s Building 21 Bocix Street North, Mike Burgess, Publisher-Managing Editor. Wîî,tîy, Oritario, /%ssistant 1- ditor -lBlake f>urdy- Community Ectitor --Bian Wintcr Contributing Editor - Jim Quail Production Manager - Marje Burgess Display Advertising Manager - Robin Lyon Ciassif ied Ad Manager -, Marlene Byrom Circulation Manager -- Sharon Lyon' Box 206, Whutby. Maîlinq Permit No. 7941 PfIoie 668-6111: Toronto Line 282-1004 Whitby subdivision of Oshawa? Did you know thiat Whitby is a subdivision of Oshawa? Neither did we.' Howcvcr, Canada Post seenms t() think it is., ln a recent letter fto Whitby Couniej, C. A. Goulet, Director of the Eastern District Onitario Postal Reggion, ranibled on about liow Whitby is simply "ýa postal station of Oshava" and that it is "iimniaterial"' to the post office how letters sent to Whitby are addressed so long as they hz,-,,e the proper postal code. That's great news C. A., especially wvhen Whitby is trying so hard to keep its identity as a cornrunity separate frorn Oshawva. Let's hope that, if and when our MIP meets with the Postinaster - General, the matter is cleared ut). rApril is cancer month "Patient is suffering 'in his purs e as weII as in his feet"i Fol wing is a copy of a l-:tter sent to Dr. Pette Stephenson, Acting liii- l)ear lDr. Stephenson: ister o>f Heailthi. 1n jantar-y 16 (Il :n- sa rd page i130) 1 add ress- ed a question outhie P1enîicr 'n the absence of'thie Minister of' Health wi t -egard t0thie fact that nmany people have to pay several hundred dollars a vear f'or the ca re oft thir feet 10 pod lairists ini addition to wVlîat is pa id to the podliatrist by OHl1P. This Sitiiatiui anises trom 11th ltac t thai podliatrists are allowed to overbill p)atiîent s. I arn given 10 uLnder- sta nd t 'ut pay-ou Is to pioc jatrists uinder OHIP in 1974 were in the vicinity of' $2.4 million. Qule pay-out 10 a single inidividtu-.. was ini excess of' S90,000. Others were in excess of S66,000. This is not a new Situation. WhMen D r. Pot ter was Ileailh Minister 1we reported t0thie legis- lature that Uip to S300.00 an hour --vas being charged 10 clip) toenails and eut callouses of patients ini homes for the aged. At that time hie assured the House that any case of fraud or overuse and abuse wvould be deait vi tlh. It seîns to ni e in these days of cost saving ilii health -are th it podiatrists should b e broughit coinpletely u nier OHJP and îlot gYiven the opportLlnity to overbili patients or thecir services shIould be termi;iated as inIsured benefits. As it is at present the patient is suffering in his purse as wvell as in his feet. Yours truly, Charles Godfrey, MPP New Democratic Party Western trip Marje Burgess drew the winning entry for the Free Press Fly West coqtest Monday while Free Press Publisher Mike Burgess, right, and Free Press Sales Manager Robin Lyon assist. The Iucky winner drawn winner of a trip for-two via Coast is Steve Galpin, 1 207 Air Canada to the West Byronl St. S., Whitby. Free Press Photo 't Sendiletters to1' Box 206, Whitby m 1 Mffl / TIýIWI( J;ry ýý1WE FZ Z) ./ 111