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OCTOBER I7, 1973 TERRACE BAY NEWS PAGE 13 FIRE SEASON I973 ( New Terrace Bay District) No. of Discovery Area Burned Total Fires Causes Agency Private-Crown Costs I2 Railway 3 Recreation I Resident I Lightning I Miscellaneous I8 Public II I6 I8 I8 27 $893.79 L.J. Haas, District Manager. A General Meeting of the Schreiber Curling Club will be held on Thursday, October IS8 at 8:00 P.M. in the Schreiber Curling Rink. The public is invited to attend. ATTENTION MEN CURLERS: Work Party - 6-8 P.M., October IS8th. GET ACQUAINTED SPIEL: The Schreiber Curling Club will hold a Get Acquainted Bonspiel on November 2nd anc 3rd. This is an open spiel. Everyone welcome. SEPARATE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING The regular meeting of the Schreiber-Terr- ace Bay District Roman Catholic Separate School Board was held at St. Martin School, Terrace Bay on Wednesday, October 3rd. In attendance were G. Ramsay, Y. Beaupar- lant, M. Bouchard, A. McGrath, R. McBride, M. Nicol, G. Matys and G. Mullins. Mrs. Irene Moorey was appointed as trustee to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Trustee W. Malcolm. Mr. Ramsay stated that he would be attend- ing the Thunder Bay Diocesan Separate School Trustees Conference. on Saturday, October 20th. Mr. Matys read a copy of a letter which he had written to Mr. Borthwick, Program Consult- ant Special Education. In this letter Mr. Matys explained the needs of special education in our small communities. The next regular meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 7th at 6:30 p.m. at Holy Angels School, Schreiber. HOSPITAL BUDGET TIME IS HERE How does your Hospital Board arrive at 3 their Annual Budget? The Administrator calcu- lates the actual cost of the first nine months of the current year and then projects as estim -ate for the final three months of the year. Probable price increases for I974 are then es- timated and a salary survey is done before arriving at I974 salary levels. The complete 1974 Operating Budget is drawn up ahd review- "ed by the Budget Committee, then by the fuil Board at a special Budget Meeting. Once approved by the Board it is sent to the Minis- try of Health for final approval. The total amount being divided into semi-monthly cash payments to the hospital. In I973 the total Operating Budget is 222,561.00. The daily ward rate per patient is $55.80, ; To date, the hospital is operating slightly over the budget but also has an increase in patient days over the amount budgeted. This situation brings up some interesting questions: Q. What happens if the hospital sees more continued page I4 ........ DID YOU KNOW? ANGAROOS CAN. HOP KANGAROOS AT SPEEDS OF 25 DO NOT MILES AN HOUR. SOME eS LIVE OF THEM REACH 7 FEET IN ANY IN HEIGHT AND ONE PLACE. WEIGH ABOUT THEY TRAVEL IN GROUPS 200 POUNDS N CALLED MOBS. Vania IS PRODUCED IN : Pi : MADAGASCAR, 3 AND REUNION ENRICO FERMI | 2esis, WAS THE PHYSICIST WHO DESIGNED THE FIRST ATOMIC PILES LE RM AND PRODUCED THE WORK ON FIRST NUCLEAR THE FIRST CHAIN REACTION ATOMIC IN 1942. HE SPLIT CHAIN RE- THE ATOM IN 1934 ACTION IN AFTER EXPERIMENT- THE U. OF ING WITH SLOW NEUTRONS.