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Soo Kelly or her | OVERSTAFFING AND OVERTAXED: Oshawa This Week has called for a full scale investigation into # overstaffing in Durham Region. Why does Durham require more staff in social services, finance, public 2 works and personnel than other regions? How much # feather bedding is going on? Why are there so many high paid administrators in the $20 to $40,000 bracket? The only way it will stop is for we, the taxpayers, to » complain. We are paying their salaries, we have every : right to call the tune. If anything is an incentive to sto this waste just wait until you see your next tax bill. Pass the smelling salts! i CBC's Marketplace on Sunday nights at 10 p.m. is by the far, the best Consumer protection program on TV, i It was Marketplace that exposed the bad meat problem & (highbacteria content in supermarkets) and now doing i an expose on Cosmetics, Millions are spent annually on cosmetics and the public have no protection as to what they may contain. Ottawa has promised action for over two years, but nothing is done unless there is a complaint AFTER the product is already on the market and done harm. A Quebec firm withdrew a cream from the market after it caused -a man to develop breasts and become impotent. It contained a hormone "DES", the same female hormone used by beef producers in the U.S. to fatten cattle. It was because of this an embargo was placed on beef from the U.S. some months ago. Memo to women who use feminine sprays -- Dr. Heather Morris says they can cause rashes, allergies and do no good, but can do harm. Soap and water is safer and better. Save your money girls. The word from Postmaster Bruce Hull is that there will be no allowance given for the 43 or so days lost in the use of postal boxes during the strike. One would think the Post Office would extend the due dates. The take locally for some 1,200 boxes figures close to $5,000, when fully rented. Multiply that by the thousands of - post: offices' across Canada and:yeu see the tens of 'thousands of dollars the post office is beating their box-holders out of. Boxholders actually cut down on: postal work by limiting mail sorting and handling to only once. In reply to letter writer Eleanor Todd: I agree that your letter was, as you said, "angry and unresearch- ed". There was no intention of "slamming' anyone. Facts are facts. The figures given, were by Trustee Gord Goode. The same figures appeared in the Toronto Star and two Oshawa papers. The figures were for the Durham Region of which R.H. Cornish School is part. I trust you wrote the Toronto Star, and the two other papers who also quoted Trustee Goode. R.H.C. no doubt has many good teachers who don't "swing the lead", but the $322,000.00 for absenteeism must be seriously questioned. R.H. Cornish school was never mentioned nor was there any question of legitimate illness. (Some of my best friends are teachers). The real "irresponsible" ones are those who defraud the school system and the taxpayers who pay the bills, not columnists who report the facts. Rural Ontario last year saw an increase by more than 30 percent in homicides. An O.P.P. commissioner describes the increases in violent crimes as "shock- ing." is that why "Port" was approached as a sight for a pen? SEX is good for arthritis...so says Dr. Robt. Butler, researcher of Washington, D.C. He also says that one of the first signs of failing sex life is diabetes, in some people. He explains it this way - sex stimulates the adrenal glands thus producing cortisone which aids the arthritis. As they say, just because there is snow on the roof doesn't mean the fire is out below. Your not getting older - just better. It is better to wear out--than rust_out. CONTEST Question: There is one man-made object on earth that can be seen from the moon. What is it? Send your "Let's Get Well". Correct answers will be placed in a drum and a winner will be picked and announced in the Star. Second and third winners will each be given a chance on the $100,000 Wintario Lottery. Clue: Richard Nixon. We will announce winners in future columns. three stations at least selling gas for 71.9 cents gallon. NEXT WEEK: Actual cases where the rks pe overcharged and made errors, in customer accoyfits, including charges for overdraft where there was none. answer to Kelly's Corner and win a 475-page copy of, GAS WAR on No. 2 highway at Thickson Road has PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Mar. 10, 1976 -- § Reader's Viewpoint Implement program urges social planning council To the Editor of the Port Perry Stay: In response to your editor- ial of March 3, 1976, I would lik¢ to inform your readers - of action taken by the Scugog Social Planning Council as part of a commit- tee of the Social Planning Advisory Group - Durham Region. In the early summer of 1975, S.P.A.G. began re- search into methods of pro- viding support services for the elderly and handicapped instead of being hospitalized or institutionalized. A sample survey throughout the region, including Scugog indicated that there was a need for - assistance in the area of transportation - to the doctor, specialist, thera- pist; with help with light housekeeping; assistance with home maintenance and repair at a reasonable price a visiting programme to assist them in maintaining good mental health. It was noted that an extension of the Meal-on-Wheels service was indicated, especially in the rural and northern areas of the Region. After considerable re- search and study of statis- ties, budgets, and philoso- phy, a-brief was presented to the Social Services Com- mittee of Durham Region in December, 1975, spoken to on behalf of S.P.A.G. by Elizabeth Fulford, a volun- teer worker, and member of the Scugog Social Planning Council. The original plan, to be implemented through- out the Region, had to be altered due to the Provincial cut-backs to the Region. This resulted in a second brief being presented, en- titled, "COMMUNITY CARE SERVICES-BROCK TOWNSHIP" This articulat- ed a demonstration project for one year. A local com- mittee from Brock Township including representatives _ from the Family Life Assoc- iation and Information FAST & EASY INTERIOR EXTERIOR PAINT 5,95... Fast & Easy Semi Gloss White Paint '8.99 Gal. LAKE SCUG RETA LY (80) PRE 1H EYRE . Simcoe is determined to activate the plans in«their brief even if the Region re- fuses to finance it fully. It will be interesting tb see if the Regional Council has the foresight to encourage and finance a well managed volunteer system - an alter- nativé system of delivery of service to the aged. The Councillors know how much it costs to maintain a person in an institution. With the imposed spending-cut-backs in the social welfare~{ield especially with regard to capital expenditures for new buildings, and the future anticipated increase in the elderly population, '"COM- MUNITY CARE" services will be a necessity. There will be a long waiting list for Homes for the Aged as well as for hospital beds in the future. Sincerley, Betty D. Deeth Secretary Scugog Social Planning Council P.S. A Scugog Township Com- munity Resources Handbook is to be printed soon. We are at present up-dating our files. Organizations - do we know about you? Call 985-7267. There is no charge for a listing. EDITOR'S NOTE Two editorials in last week's STAR were mis- takenly printed together as one, one dealing with hospital bed closings and the other, with the Social Plann- ing Council. The resulting editorial seemed to imply that it was the council's fault that there have been cuts in health care. We apologize for any em- barrassment this may have caused. 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