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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-07-23, Page 21 IMP SPECIAL PURCHASE of "Construction Grade" 2" x 4' per lineal feel 19c SECONDS & BLEMS BARN SIDING AND ROOHING $25.00 per sq. (Galvanized) PAINTED: $40.00 per sq. a a 4 40 HOUSE TYPE STEEL DOORS Prehung with threshhold As low os $90.00/ea. 3' 4'5'8' & 8' Thermal Picture WINDOWS 3 x4 4 Tube Cauntersuek Flourescent Fixtures ow tubes it shades $40.00 each 40 PATIO DOORS, Aluminum, wood clad, double thermal As low as $325.00 a a a Also 20 Double Steel Doors at IOW as 70.06/13*. 4 a a WAREHOUSE DISPOSAL (Formerly Builder's Salvage) ALL NEW BUILDING MATERIAL "SUMMER" "SPECIALS" 600 AXLES All sizes and weights a a a T.T. RUBBER RIDE 3500 lbs. Electric brake $150.00 a 4 4 UTILITY (with springs & hubs) NO WHEELS From 1700 lbs. to 3000 lbs. As low as $45.00,4*. 4 a a HYDRAULIC 4000 LB. AXLE $150.00 /ea. a a Tandem 4 Tti sets available Wheels- *lc. Couplers ant Jacks Acoustit Massmite CEILING TILE CEILING TILE 12' x 12" 24* —x 48'. 4' it 4' THE REAR 820 CABELL ST.; LONDON, ONTARIO ONE BLOCK SOUTH OF CNR TRACKS OFF RECTORY ST. BUILDING MATERIALS AT BARGAIN PRICES BAYS BOWS SLIDERS PICTURES TRIM 94x8 ft. utility grade 7S; Each 2x4x6 ff. construction grade 60c Each MON.-FRI. B - 5:30 SAT. PHONE: 432-4112 15.000 Sheets 4 x a sh" tongue and groove ASPENITE: Mooring, roofing, siding No. 1 $9.00 per sheet Seconds as low as 040 per sheet Dealers Welcome SPECIAL HOUSE TYPE SIDING X90 Masonite RETAIL: .58c per sq. DISCOUNT: 35s per sq. ft. s Nu Sweet Pickled. COTTAGE ROLLS lb. '138 BLADE STEAKS or ROASTS lb. $1.38 a so . op Boneless TIN END HAMS lb. $ 1 thi in the piece Granton group to see play Tinne$-Advocate, July 23, 1980 Poialo CIA Crediton church tower is debated leric urges. mood .mastering ROTTEN. PAYS OFF — At the rotten sneaker contest held under the auspices of RSD Sports Den, the worst pair of sneakers in your possession could have paid dividends. At the con- test's conclusion Ron Bogart presented Doug Cooper of Exeter, Jim Cable of RR 2, Centralia and Roger Rose of Exeter with their first, second and third place prizes. T-A photo MOMEMOM IMMTAV Computer pricing By MRS.. PETER MARTIN. RFDITON4 Recent special music at Zion United Church was provided by Tim, and. Heather Westlake of Zurich, They played lovely violin duets and Tim favoured the congregation with a violin solo, Mrs. Haberer accom- panied the children. Last Sunday Mr. Harry Schroeder sang a self com- posed solo. Rev. Brian and Mary Elder and Robert have returned from a week at ' 'Camp, Menesatung, Goderich. Mr. and Mrs. Elder were the camp direc- tors. They spent a very eX- haus ting week instructing over 80 children between the ages of 11 and 14 in nature study and scouting. Ruth Anne 'Martin has returned from a week at Camp Menesetung. Jeff and Joanne Slaght have successfully completed the senior swimming program at the Exeter pool. ConstruCtion of playground equipment is un- derway at the Crediton park, The younger children are eagerly awaiting the com- pletfon of the project. A meeting was held Mon- day night to discuss restora- By MISS. JEAN COPELAND Mrs. Keith Spackman of Stratford spent several days with Mr. and Mrs. George `Wheeler. Mrs. George Morphy and Miss Jean Copeland attend- ed the Stratford Festival Theatre on Sunday and en- joyed the play "Much Ado About Nothing". Mr, and Mrs: Fred Parkin- son spent several days visiting relatives in Capreol and Sudbury. Mrs. K. Cac- ciotti returned with them for a, visit. A number irorn the com- munity attended the annual. Kirkton Garden Party on Wednesday night. • 4•1•••••••••....i tion of the tower at Crediton United Church. A second congregational Meeting when a. final deci- sion will be made has been Set for Wednesday, August 13 at 8 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Owen.Hirtzel and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Rose of Calvin North Dakota visited recently with Harry and Maurice Hirtzel and Mr, and Mrs, Emerson Wein, Summer • is slack. Help beat the blues. Phone up your correspon, dent And tell her the news, By MRS. FRED BOWDEN You are reminded of the wiener roast and soft ball game sponsored by the Centralia Zion West Young People at the Centralia Community Centre on Sunday afternoon 3 p.m. this coming Sunday, July 27. . Mr. and Mrs, Matthevi Konrad of Dundas were Wednesday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Molnar. Mr. and Mrs. James Warrack and daughter, Barbara of Winnipeg, Manitoba and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Alderson, London were recent visitors at the home of 'their niece and nephew, Mr. and Mrs. Borden Smyth. Weekend guests with Mr. and Mrs, Smyth were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Fitzgerald and son Cory; Mr. Rick McKinnon and Miss Tammy Papp of Scarborough. Mrs. Fitzgerald is a niece and Rick a nephew of Mrs. .Smyth. Mr, and Mrs. Larry Cronyn were accompanied by Mr, and Mrs. Lloyd Roeszler of Credihin on a vacation trip for a few days' to Sault Ste. Marie, the Agawa Canyon, Elliott Lake and North Bay. Mrs. Cecelia Walsh of St. Paul, Minnesota, is a guest at the home of Mrs. Lorne Hicks. Miss Dorcas Williams of Sarnia is a visitor at the home of her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and. Mrs. Lloyd Morgan. Mr, and Mrs. Kenneth Hodgins and Mr. and Mrs, Fred Borden attended the Canada Packers Retired Employees Picnic at Barrie and Springwa ter Park, Thursday of last week. IP:118.0 oNiNtiak,. By MRS. STAN PRESZCATOR , Mrs. Dora Ringland, New York and Mrs. Don Fink- beiner, RR 2 Crediton visited Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Harold Glanville, Mrs. Stan Preszcator and Mrs. Mary Thornton.. By JACK RIDDELL MPP Huron-Middlesex The controversial question of computer pricing in supermarkets has been very much in the news recently. Just last week two major Toronto newspapers spotlighted the issue, one in a special column, the other in an editorial. Computer pricing is already in the supermarkets. Some stores are ex- perimenting with the system by showing the prices on the shelves only. At the cash-out desk, the computer scanner reads the prices which are shown in computer code only on the goods being bought. My colleague, Bernard Newman (Liberal MPP for Windsor-Walkerville) has proposed aq' simple amend- ment to Ontario's Consumer Protection Act which states: "No retail seller shall offer for sale a product that is marked with a computer code unless the individual purchase price of such product is clearly expressed on the product, its wrapper or container." This brief, but clearly understood amendment, is, all that is required by way of legislation to put a stop to the kind of difficulties which might arise in the wake of computer pricing. Similar measures have been taken in some U.S. states and in in- dividual U.S. municipalities. In fact, this clear-cut amendment has been in- troduced in the Ontario Legislature on five different occasions, ,between April 1977 and March 1980. On one occasion in June 1978, it was debated and received sup- port from all those who spoke. At that time, Mr. Newman recorded support from such large groups as United Church Women and labour unions, He went as far back as 1977, when the then Minister of Consumer and Com- mercial' Relations (Sidney Handleman) was quoted as saying: "Over the last year anda half my colleagues and I have received literally thousands of com- munications ranging from expressions of mild concern to outright alarm over any suggestion to remove in- dividual pricing." When introducing his Private Member's Bill, Mr. Newman said he had proposed such legislation "in response to the concerns of many consumers, especially senior citizens and others on fixed, incomes, and union members, who have formed a caoalition with the express purpose of doing whatever is possible to ensure that in- dividual prices remain on products in stores using the U .P .0 ." He stated at the outset that he was not opposed to the principle of computerizing "check out" in the super- Market. ,His entire interest was in the fact that the consumer might not have the opportunity for comparison shopping. As he pointed out at that time, for some years the increasing concentration of the retail food business into fewer and fewer bands, the ,increasing size of food stores, the increasing number of check-out counters and the longer and longer check-out lines had led naturally to the retail industry seeking a way for automation to speed up the check-out time of the in- dividual shopper. In this new electronic age, with the advent of the laser beam and scanning devices, and the development of product identity codes, a Way to speed up check-out was finally devised. The new method of the UPC - the Universal Product Code - finally reached the market. But as this occurred, the retailer assumed that the universal product code was Code is, of course, the symbol on boxes, cans or jars represented by 10 numbers afid a series of lines and spaces. The first five numbers represent the company selling the product and these numbers are assigned to each company in the United States and Canada by a data bank. The last five numbers are selected by the manufac- turer to represent a certain product. Each of the numbers in the universal price code is represented by two black lines and two white spaces. The scanner reads the width of the lines and the width of the spaces. It does not read the numbers. There are no prices on the UPC, universal product code. This code only identifies the manufadturer and the item. The . Consumers Association of Canada has pointed out that an error in pricing cannot easily be caught when computerized pricing is used exclusively. It is possible for prices to be transposed - for cents to be translated into dollars. ' Our provincial govern- ment has =ducted a survey of shopperC and has discovered that something like 90 percent of those surveyed prefer that goods be individually marked. In the Province of Quebec, there are laws to ensure that this is the case. Bernard Newman's proposed amendment seeks to provide similar protection to Ontario consumers. tuommuuna The Light =Touch . I By JACK ._=LAVENDER if scientists are so smart, ? why can't they keep bugs out of wet paint? * * * By M.S. E, summERs GRANTQt'4 "Mastering our Moods" was the theMe of the Rev. Elwood Morden's sermon on Sunday, morning at the United Church. It was based on. Job's experiences as recorded in the third chapter of that book. Our moods can vary frem bad, angry, fearful, anxious, depressing, melancholy, to good, They are not always the same, and we must recognize this. We must learn to master our moods, or they will master us, and ruin our living. Certainly several great figures of the Bible, including Jesus, Moses, Elijah and Paul were subject to various moodS, A second important step incolved in mastering our moods is closely related to the first, We must learn to believe in, and be guid6d by our better moods and in- sights. Finally we must become interested in something other than our- selves, and this can be done by our religious faith, through our work, through serving and helping others, courage and our God given intelligence, said Rev. Morden. ' • Flowers were placed in the church in loving memory of the late Newton Gunning by his family. At the Granton Com- munity Bible Church, Ian Service of London spoke on "A 'Matter of Life and Faith" The purpose of Jesus' encounter with Martha, was to strengthen her faith and to glorify Jesus Christ. Forester news Court Valentine lady Foresters are sponsoring a bus trip to Grand Bend to see the comedy "Free at Last" at the Country playhouse on Thursday, August 7. Included in the cast is 'Rosemary Ratcliffe. The bus leaves Granton at 7 p.m. All members of Court Valentine have tickets for sale. Personals Sincere. sympathy is ex- tended to the family of the late Newton Gunning, who passed away in a nursing a a a a a R home in Oakville, .on Sunday, July i3. Mr. Gunning *ea a former resident of Grafton: Mr, and Mrs. Norman Hodgins of St. Marys, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Hudgins, and. Mr. and Mrs. Eimer Harlton all of Grantors, .spent a few days at .a cottage on lake 1Viadoral (near Bala) last week, and enjoyed a cruise on Lake Muskoka from Gravenhurat to Port Carling and back to Gravenhurst, While waiting for the Lady Muskoka to depart they saw Mr. and Mrs. Bob Garrett rt- and Diane who were With Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morris of Dorchester, who were also taking the boat trip, It was a beautiful summer day and many oTher boats were out on the water, enjoying the sights, and many fine cot- tages and summer homes were to be seen along the shores of the lake, Mr. and Mrs. Allan MacKenzie and John of Scarborough, spent the weekend with Mrs. Elmer Summers, they were joined by Mrs, Shelagh MacKenzie C- COMPLETE INSTALLATION! 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