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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1972-08-24, Page 9Perhopi the birds in the trees don't realize it but everybody else does COSTS CONTINUE TO RISE We at the P.U.C. have a great responsibility. As your custodians we must be at your service 24 hours a day seven days a week. When you flick a switch it's our job to see that the lights come on. This, of course, means that we must keep your equipment in Al condition and thoroughly up to date to make sure we can meet the demands you may make on us. That's why we face the ever present problem of updating equipment and building new lines. That is the problem we face. We find each year that added amounts we pay for labor, for transportation, for equipment and supplies are a little bit bigger. So far by the strictest economy and careful management •we have found it possible to operate within our existing revenue despite increasing costs. Now Ontario Hydro has raised the cost of the power we buy from them by 8 per cent. There no longer is any alternative. We must go to you, the consumer, to offset this increase in hydro cost. The P.U.C. has absorbed the cost of power increase in 1971 and most part of 1972. Rates, in terms of the service electricity provides you, will still be low. However, commencing September 1, next billings will show an average increase of 7.9 per cent to reflect the increase in the cost of the power we buy. New Retail Rates are effective with all bills issued on and after September 1, 1972. DOMESTIC RATE SCHEDULE FOR TWO MONTHS First 100 K.W.H. next 400 Balance Present rates in effect at 4.0c per K.W.H. at 1.7c per K.W.H. at 1.1c per K.W.H. Effective September 1972 Billing 4.2c per K.W,H. 2,0c per K.W.H. 1.2c per K.W.H. Consumers with metered water heaters having elements 1000-3000 watts or over the fol lowing rates will apply on and after September 1, 1972 billing. First 100 K.W.H, next 400 K.W.H. next 1000 K.W.H. Balance Present rates in effect at 4.0c per K.W.H. at 1.7c per K.W.H. at 0.9c per K.W.H. at 1.1c per K.W.H. Effective September 1972 Billing 4,2c per K.W.H. 2.00 per K.W.H. 1.0c per K.W.H. 1.2c per K.W.H. House Heating Energy supplied through regular service meter at applicable rates. Minimum monthly bill $2.50 Rate subject to 5 per cent late payment charge. General Service rate schedule for one month First 50 K.W.H. next 200 K.W.H. next 9,750 K.W.H. Balante Present rates in effect at 4,5c per K.W.H. at 2,0c per K.W.H. at 1.6c per K.W.H. at ,6c per K.W.H. Effective September 1972 Billing 4.7c per K.W.H. 2.3c per K.W.H. 1.65c per K.W.H. 0.65c per K,W.H. Demand charge First 50 Kilowatts of bitting demand per month-nil- Balance at $2.20 per Kilowatt of billing demand per month Minimum monthly bill-$2.50 rates subject to 5 per tent late payment charge. Delayed payment A late payment charge of 5 per cent shall apply to all bills hot paid on or before the due date. CLINTON PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION Chairman, ILEMAIMLY Commissioners, C. BROWN, S. A. GARON Mayor, O.E. SYMONS Manager, RI ROUSSEY Secretary, .I. WISE Clinton liews,Record, 'Thursday, M+ tat 24, 1072 0 .1. She's '1,000 Richer! Mrs. Muriel A. Nigh, of Seaforth, mother of 10 children, is another of the prize winners in the Pepsi-Cola Casino Caps contest. She won $1,000 and is shown here receiving her cheque in that amount from Rick Brintnell of Tuckey Beverages Limited, Exeter, authorized bottler of Pepsi-Cola. Could You Use 9,000? There Are Still Plenty of Cash Prizes To Be Won. START COLLECTING THOSE BOTTLE TOP LINERS FROM PEPSICOLA TODAY ElectrOhome "Brunswick" 26" color TV, VALUE More of everything you expect in a color TV console-- especially value, Plus totally automatic Color that is set to your preference. Including autoinatitfine tuning, Automatic tint control. Al1new automatic color strength that lets you decide how much Calor saturation you want in the picture , . and then keeps it that way. beilcraft Walnut cabinet, Matrix picture tube. Only a limited number available at this Look 'n Listen 010, When they're gone, they're gone. $569 95 C RADIO and IV SALES &SERVICE *". ELnotmomoms QUEEN STREET•BLYIN•ONT.•PAome,s23 ,9640 ondesbaro ort sHosonook At the United Church on Sunday morning, greeters were Rev, McDonald and Reg Lawson; ushers were. Darrell Shobbrook, Edward Riley, Danny and David Lear. Soloist was Helen Anderson who sang two solos. Rev. McDonald's message was "who is in first place?" Following the Londesboro service, Rev, McDonald had the service at Pine Lake. Mrs, Ena Howatt and Mrs. Jessie Jones went to St. Thomas Sunday night with Mrs. George Underwood of Wingham. They are representing Lpndesboro U.C.W. at Alma College school for women. The Hope Chapel cemetery memorial service will be held Sunday, August 27 at 3 p.m. Rev, McDonald will be the speaker. Please bring lawn chairs. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Shobbrook visited her mother Wednesday. Mrs. Ethel Pierce is a patient in Victoria hospital, London. Mr. and Mrs. Murray Lyon, Bradley and Deana spent the weekend with the former's cousin, Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Donald Holmes at Wasaga beach. Mr. Arie Duizer is a patient in Clinton hospital. Miss Marita Paarutt of Switzerland is spending a month's holiday in Canada at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Shaddick and Jeffrey. Miss Lloy Shaddick left Monday morning for a week's holiday at Cape Cod with some friends. Visitors the past weekend with Darrell and Diana Shobbrook were their cousins, Bradley Shobbrook of Wingham and Charlene Knox of Goderich. Mr. and Mrs. Allan Shaddick, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shaddick, Lloyd, Jeff Shaddick and Miss Marita Paarutt attended the wedding of Mrs. Shaddick's nephew, Paul Ferguson and Sue McCabe in London on Saturday, Mr, and Mrs. Neil Langille of Kingston called on friends in the village on Thursday and Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Mac Sewers and family spent the weekend in the Niagara Peninsula racing ponies at Welland and Wellandport. Super Socks came second in the two-year old, Stake race and also won the open class in her time division. Royal Darky won the three-year old stake race. Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Saundercock, Mary Lynn and Mrs. Laura Saundercock were in Woodstock on Sunday night. The ladies attended a shower for Barbara Wachowiak, bride elect for September second to Constable John A. Saundercock. Mr. and Mrs. Len Caldwell spent a few days last week visiting with their daughter, Mr. and Mrs.'Joe Marzano, Candice and Glen in Toronto, They enjoyed a visit to Ontario Place and the C.N.E. It's self stocking time at the new grocery store at Vanastra (formerly CFB Clinton) as employees strive to have the store ready for opening next week. The store, to be called the "Country Market", is to feature food at prices that are competitive with prices in Clinton. According to store manager Andy Thompson the stare will be as large as any store around Clinton. (News-Record photo) Judy LaMarsh is back in the news, According to a story I read in a daily newspaper recently, Judy has a radio show of her own cut in British Columbia somewhere and is being her own bubbling, bungling self. Without a doubt she is one of the most colorful women in Canada today. As everyone knows, Judy LaMarsh is a spinster. I have no knowledge whether it is. of her own choosing - or not. It doesn't matter. But like another spinster (that's a horrible sounding word, isn't it) lady I know, Judy obviously feels she can carry out her own garbage and therefore has no need for a husband. Well, spinster Judy has made the statement recently that she has been urged to do something creative with her leisure time, And Judy, always a woman after my own heart has snapped back with this priceless gem, "People want leisure to do nothing." I'm with LaMarsh all the way on that score. I absolutely abhore those people who insist that I must be busy during my leisure hours, I hate the folks who tell me I'm merely vegetating by sitting down to watch TV in an evening and not fulfilling the national image that Canadians are productive people, even during their leisure moments. What's wrong with doing absolutely nothing for an hour or so per day? Why must everybody have a hobby? My dear husband is one of those all-the-time-busy people, Needless to say, there is a certain amount of friction in the Keller household because I'm a naturally sit-around-and-do- nothing type. Our leisure time, therefore, is a nightmare. My husband just simply cannot sit still for an hour or so to watch television .,..unless it is a sports program, preferably hockey. He must be catching up on his reading, or polishing his shoes or clipping his fingernails whilst keeping one eye posted to the television set. And he wonders why he's an insomniac. When I decide to take an hour or so out from my regular schedule, I do it with a flourish. I make myself a cup of coffee, I sit down right in the middle of a messy house if necessary, I put my feet up and I do my thing. I browse through the mail order catalogues for a while. Or I watch TV. Or I listen to records. Or I just sit there and stare into space, thinking, Mostly it is the latter. Judy LaMarsh says that some people have urged her to take up sculpture. And LaMarsh - so like yours truly - claims that if she began sculpting, she would 111111111111111MEM"Mani BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER only be adding to the world's pollution. Heaven knows, we don't need anything else to dispose of! Some people sew for relaxation. For me, sewing is the hardest work I can think of. All that precision drains me of every ounce of energy I possess. After two hours of sewing, I need another two hours to pull myself together. I feel terrible and to add insult to injury, my sewing project usually looks like a rummage sale reject. And Judy - jovial Judy - told the world that if she really had a mind to be creative during her leisure hours, she would feel that having a baby would be about the most creative thing she could do. I'll bet that caused a stir at the annual conference of the Canadian Parks and Recreation Association. But I understand Judy's plight. Some people just aren't creative by nature, and I'm one of them. About the only thing some people can really create which is distinctively different from anything else on this globe is a child - a living, breathing individual. And such leisure time pursuits are frowned upon by the world's population control forces. Besides that, such activity can become costly and bothersome; for babies grow to toddlers, and toddlers become children, and children become teenagers and teenagers become university students and university students get married and have babies which they bring home to mother —.and then nobody has any leisure time, There may not be anyone left but Judy LaMarsh and me who like leisure time to do nothing at all. But I'm in good company if LaMarsh is on my side and I challenge anyone to discourage us from our choice. rom mY window 4.• BACK TO SCHOOL It's time again to go back to school. Teacher: Ray's Shoe Repair Student; John O. Public Lesson: Arithmetic Repairing your shoes adds dollars to your pockets. Most shoes today cost from $21.95 and up. Shoe repair ,cost: Half soles and heels: $7.50 A saving of: $15.45 Enough left over to enjoy a large steak dinner. RAY'S SHOE REPAIR 35 Huron Rd. 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