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Health Minister Frank S. Miller called for a clear ordering of priorities with a strict "no frills" approach to constraints, Monday, at the Kitchener Holiday Inn, before a crowd of 350 of the medical field. Teresa McDonnell, one of 12 Canadian gymnasts who will compete against the Romanian national gym team Feb. 20 and 21 in Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo, demonstrated her skill Tuesday at a press conference in Cambridge (Hespelâ€" er}. Mr. Miller discussed the impact of health restraints for Waterloo, Wellington, and Brant counties. _â€" waterioo chronicle ‘"Our health care exâ€" penditure for the next fiscal year is expected, in fact, to be at least 300 milâ€" lion dollars more than ever before. _ Health will conâ€" tinue to spend more than 27 cents out of every dollar in the provincial budget... In short, we shall be able to meet all the needs, but not necessarily all the wants, of the people of this province."" he said. The cutbacks are a reâ€" sult of the increase in spendâ€" ing over revenue in Onâ€" tario in the past few years. Gary J. Chatfield, Assistâ€" ant Reputy Minister.> said that over the past five years. revenues have been growing at the rate of 12.6°, annually. _ while expendiâ€" tures have been growing at an average of 14.5% each year. _ This "fiscal gap" cannot get wider he Curtail frills warns health minister 12 1st warned In the past five years, expenditures â€" have _ risen from $214 for every man,. woman and child in Onâ€" tario in 1970â€"71 to $364 per capita in the 197576 fiscal year. At this rate, the figures for 1976â€"77 would run into an increase of 500 million dollars over the province. The budgetary constraint will allow only a 300 milâ€" lion dollar increase. Hospitals â€" and _ related facilities are responsible for more than half of the expenditures. Ontario Health Insurance Plan is responsible for â€" another quarter and the rest is made up of mental health 17%}, extended care (6%), and the Ministry support services and related proâ€" tection (5%). Reductions in hospitals will be affected by a 3.12% constraint or : 50 million dollars. _ Other constraints in â€" hospitals will include realignment of beds availâ€" able, reassessment _ of staffing standards and the closure of hospitals. Up to 3,.000 beds wili come out of service in the province‘s hospitals. Acâ€" cording to Mr. Chatfield. Wednesday, January 14, 1976 _ â€"Lsas~â€" Canada gymnasts named _ this leaves a surplus of approximately 3,000 beds in service. _ Staff will be reduced accordingly with individual â€" hospitals getâ€" ting dollar targets for reâ€" duction. Over the province this could be up to 5.000 staff released. "It is up to the physicians to limit the use of hospitals, home care and outpatient services, as well as other levels of care, to only what is essential" said Mr. Chatfield. ‘‘Doctors by and large, should be more directly involved in the economic costs generated by their activities in the health sysâ€" tem."" he said. Mr. Chatfield commented on the price of an extra Xâ€"ray or another day in hospital as ""frills" that have to be _ curtailed. Mention of a deterrant fee for those who wish care over the minimum,. was suggested by a doctor in the audience and agreed with by the ministers. Both Health Minister Miller and Deputy Minister Chatfield maintained that the cutbacks would have no effect on life and death cases. _ They added that the government will cut Canadian gymnastic team that will compete against the +Roumanian . national gym team in an internationâ€" al meet Feb. 2021 in Kitâ€" chenerâ€"Wateriloo was anâ€" Canadian â€" Gymnastic Feâ€" The Cambridge Kips gymâ€" nastic club, the host for the international meet, had hoped that 16â€"yearâ€"old Patti Rope of Cambridge would be one of the members of the Canadian women‘s team. But Miss Rope failed to finish in the top six at a qualifying meet in Ottawa last month so she did not The members of the Canaâ€" dian women‘s team that will compete in the Canada â€" Roumanian meet are Lise Aresenault, a native of Montreal ; Teresa and Nancy McDonnell, two _ sisters from Toronto, Kelly Munâ€" cey, a Canadian living in California; Sylvie St. Lawâ€" make the Canadian team that will compete against the Roumanians. rent, an 18â€"yearâ€"old Monâ€" treal native; and Gayle Wendeborn .of Montreal, Karen Kelsall, a 13â€"yearâ€"old from Vancouver, will be. participating in the meet for experience but her perâ€" formance will not count for Canada. . Phillip Delasalle of Vicâ€" toria, Maasaki Naosaki of Toronto, Pierre Le Clerc of Montreal, Keith Carter of Winnipeg and Bruce Medd of Ottawa are members of the men‘s team that will compete against the Rouâ€" manian team, ranked sixth in the world. The sixth memâ€" ber of the men‘s team will its staff by a thousand and over five million dollars in the coming year as well. Subsidies for nursing home beds will make a freeze necessary in the increase in number of beds available for this year. Research and model proâ€" jects will have no increases in budget and there will hikes of those in the sysâ€" tem already receiving in excess of $30,000 annually. A second budget letter, with detailed interpretaâ€" tions of federal guidelines will be available by midâ€" February. The final budâ€" get covering the exact staff reductions, bed and hospital closures will be available by March. The minister said that before any hospitals are closed, direct input from the staff of the centre will be reâ€" viewed. "I am genuinely hopeful that what we are going to do this year will provide the groundwork for a stronger. more efficient and integrated health serâ€" vice in the future~ said Health Minister Milier . no provision for salary __atith_d be chosen after a M United States qualification meet Feb. 7â€"8 in Toronto. It will provide an opporâ€" Unreserved seats at Wilâ€" tunity for the Canadian frid Laurier University gym team to qualify for the are priced at $3.50. Reservâ€" 1976 Montreal Olympics. ed seats at Kitchener Auâ€" Gymnastics is the only sport ditorium are selling for where Canada does not have . $4.50, $5 and $5.50. © Snowmobiles could be ~ _ e banned in Waterloo The â€" Canadaâ€"Roumanian meet will be the first interâ€" national â€" gymnastic comâ€" petition ~to be held in the Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo _ area. It will provide an opporâ€" tunity for the Canadian gym team to qualify for the Motorized snow vehicles are to be prohibited on all streets in the City of Waterâ€" loo, council‘s committee of the whole decided Monday night. Prompted by an adminisâ€" trative committee report, council‘s committee agreed such a byâ€"law would eliminâ€" ate the confusion which presently . exists between regional and municipal regulations. ‘"‘The City Solicitor has pointed out that area muniâ€" cipalities cannot regulate snowmebiles on regional roads,‘‘ said city clerk Ronâ€" ald Keeling. Regional byâ€"law prohibits motorized snow vehicles on A Winston Churchill student takes time out while trying a new method of travel Monday. For addiâ€" tional picture see page 16. regional roads in "builtâ€"up"‘ ‘areas between the hours of automatic entry. will be held Feb. 20 in the gymnasium of Wilfrid Lauâ€" Feb. 21 at Kitchener Auditorâ€" _ Monday to Saturday and between the hours of midâ€" night and noon on Sundays, except when the operator is uheaminghurmen. The City of Waterloo‘s byâ€" law prohibits such vehicles in "rural"‘ areas between 11 p.m. and 8 p.m. ‘"It would appear that a travelling on a regional road in the City of Waterioo in a rural area is faced with certain regulations but when it reaches a "builtâ€"up" area, another and different regulaâ€" tion applies,‘* the administraâ€" 10 Cents (Continued on page 2) snow â€" vehicle