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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1983-03-02, Page 3PROPELS PENNY — Paul Nowak propels a penny in the recent SHDHS physics Pen- ny Pitcher competition. Several SH students look on. SHDHS physics experiment . Penny pitcb�rs tested Brave students or teachers who dare tread South Huron's halls' after 4:00 p.m. must beware of hurtling missiles which fly by at speeds clock- ed at above 60 miles per hour. Design YourOwn Add -A -Gold Bead. Necklace 14K SOLID GOLD BEADS on 14K SOLID GOLD CHAINS Start with one'single bead and simply add a bead at a time.. and soon you'll own a wonderful precious 14 Karat Gold necklace The flying objects are official 1982 Canadian pennies pro- pelled by student -built machines, fondly called Pen- ny Pitchers. The Penny -Pitcher is the practical project which grade 11 physics students have been working on for the past month. Bruce • Perry substituted this intriguing competition for the bridge - building project he has used in past years. - Perry states the objective of the exercise as "to design a device to exchange the potential energy from an elastic band to propelling a penny." The machine which can be of any material, is judged or two bases. The test for furthest displacement must often he done in the school's corridors. Rick Kipfer's machine propelled a penny 106 metres, the greatest distance measured. The second test measures the displacement from a horizontal target. A penny is laid on the floor and the students attempt to land their penny as close as possible. Many students have had ac- curacy of less than three cm. but no one has hit the target which is placed five metres from the machine. The young physicists have invented many and varied machines. Most are of Wood but some welders have had success witiht metal devices. No body part is -allowed to directly release the penny so a trigger mechanisin must be devised. This project is worth 20 per- cent of the student's term mark. The marks are based on their standing compared to their classmates. Doug Cooper has the best ratio of furthest displacement over smallest displacement in the accuracy test. It's inexpensive with a Butterfly chain You can add bead br bead. even switch beads to suit the mood and moment Here's how • Click Your Clasp Start your own necklace to- day. Choose from all sizes and shapes In 1 4K. genuine gemstone and Butterfly neckchams r 1 See our '•�t� L wonderful Add -A -Gold Bead' Display! NSTETT ll WEli fry; 284 Moir Street 1 •rte' P&IC water ine•me enusesAdvoc1983 PUC manager Hugh Davis reported on the 1982 water- works and hydro operations at the Commission's regular March meeting. By last October, a water rate revision was recom- mended when it became ap- parent that the costs were ex- ceeding estimates and revenue would not be as great as predicted. The PUC foresaw a drop from 1961's commercial receipts of 8106,515, and budgeted for a decrease of 86,515. However, last year set a record for water main breaks (10, compared to the usual one or two). Necessary maintenance to two pumps, one at the filtration plant and the other at the main pum- phouse, was costlier than ex- pected, and a hard -to -find leak at the reservoir put another dent in the estimates. Canadian Canners, formerly one of the biggest customers, used much less water than predicted and consumption was furtherreduced with elimination of the carrot pack. The decrease in the past year's commercial revenue amounted to $13,662, resulting in a net bottom line loss of $4,725.32 in the waterworks department. • Even with the 10 percent rate increase effective as of December 31, 1983, total pro- jected reverfue for 198.1 of $291,437 will be less than 1981's actual revenue of $308,346.25. Proposed items in the 1983 waterworks budget include $42,451 to install 12 inch duc- tile iron main and a hydrant on William Street be ween Nelson and Church st$eets, hydrant modification to eet fire marshal requirements, more then $7,000 for ten new water services, and an allowance for unforeseen ex- penditures, for a net of $62,416. On the hydro side, the'con- trollable expenses of $168,368 were considerably lower than the budgeted amount of $183,889 fo: 1982. Exeter com- pares very favourably with other utilities on these costs, which include'mhintenance of overhead and underground lines, substations, transformers and meters, public relations, billing and collecting, meter reading, commission fees and ex- penses and office expenses. Nuclear Continued from front page responded as an individual and a Christian. She admitted wrestling with the issue of war, but believes Jesus was telling us peace can not be at- tained through power, and those who live by the sword will die by the sword. She remarked on -the seeming irony of a Hindu named Mahatma Gandhi defeating the British Empire by employing the Christian prin- ciple of passive resistance. Ms. Laing conceded it is a great struggle to apply the great ideas of the Christian faith to daily life, but as she doesn't think anything else works, she continues to- struggle. ostruggle. The final panelist was Dr. Tom Mayberry, Ingersoll, spokesman for Physic"ans for Social . Responsibility, an organization formed approx- imatelyRELEASES PITCHER Dave Re ler releases his Pennyducat20' years ago to 9 educate the public on nuclear Pitcher in a physics project competition at SHDHS. matters. After listening to Be safe stay well away from fallen wires Ice storms, high winds, failing tree limbs can bring hydjo lines dowin. Don't go near a fallen wire ... even a seemingly deadline can be dangerous. Warn others to keep clear and call (your hydro) to report the fallen wire. If the line falls across your vehicle, stay inside until the line is removed by a hydro crew. If you must leave because of fire, jump clear without touching the car and the ground at the same time. If there's a live power line touching your car, putting even one foot on the ground can be a fatal move to make. Exeter Public Utilities Chairman Murray Greene Manager Hugh Davis Commissioner Harry DeVries Commissioner Bruce Shaw what the others had said, he remarked that obviously there was very little educating left to do; most of the ground had been covered. Before asking for questions from the audience, Mayberry provided more frightening statistics on the immediate and long-range effects of nuclear damage. In reply to a question on the aftermath of a nuclear bomb and what was done at Hiroshima, the subject of civil defence was raised. Dr. Mayberry asserted that "civil defence rests on an awful lot of assumptions," and stated his organization's position that "any physician who takes part in civil defence is acting irresponsibly and immorally." Father Nelligan voiced his concern about an accident in a nuclear power plant, and mentioned one he had seen in the US which is built directly on the San Andreas fault. He told of another foreign plant On location or Studio Bart DeVries PHOTOGRAPHY • CONNOR(IA1 POR TRAITS • NI DOINGS • GROUPS • PUsucrTY Mounting and laminalln5 •„- s.. y•br��►, ,..._ .. M Y M....a. Stdp Telephone 235.1295 137 Thames Rd. East Exeter, Ont. Out of a random sampling of 14 Ontario utilities, Exeter ranks third lowest with con- trollable costs per customer computed at 884.46; the lowest figure was 872.74, and the highest 8114.12.. Revenue of 81,511,448 had been anticipated, but the ac- tual figure was 81,406,021. Profit totalled $74,399(5.3 per- cent of revenue.) The utility spent less than allowed for In tWir capital budget, due to postponement of the stage two extension at the mobile home park. Obtaining a letter of ctjedit rather than a security deposit from a new high use customer who will be a tenant rather than owner of an Ex- eter business was discussed. The PUC wants to attract in- dustry to the town, but does not want good customers to Mothers may settle GB beach in tent on Grand Bend Planning Board, at their meeting Tues- day night, recommended to council a proposal to house a Mothers restaurant in a tent on the north beach next sum- mer with the possibility of a permanent building and a mall in the future, depending on a marketing study which would be conducted by the company during the summer. The proposal was presented by Tim Fraleigh, owner of the property which became a beach, parking lot last sum- mer. The recommendation will go before village council at the March 7 meeting. According to the proposal, the tent structure would be 20 by 80 feet and the business could employ up to 100 per- sons during the summer. It would open for business weekends from May 24 and on a full-time basis from June until September. It would not be licenced for alcoholic beverages. Fraleigh asked for hydro and water 'connections and proposed paying the village $2,500 for rental of washrooms. -There was some hesitancy about allowing the use of village washrooms. His letter also stated that. as well as contributing a market study, the group was prepared to donate 10 percent of all profits for use in com- munity projects of impor- tance. l3oth Mothers Restaurants and the Fraleigh group have a connection with a charitable foundation, The Foundation for the Preserva- tion and Protection of Wildlife. The 10 percent would come from the foundation. Planning Board chairman, Bruce Woodley, suggested that there should be more public awareness of such pro-, session whose construction was so compromised by graft and corruption that "it is no longer even capable of being a shed for your lawn mower.” (Chemistry teacher Ron Wareham, former worker at the Bruce Nuclear Develop- ment Station, had a prior commitment at a church meeting, and arrived at the school too late to be part of the panel. He said later that to his knowledge no nuclear plant in Ontario is built on a com- parably dangerous site to the one cited by Father Nelligan. ► The concensus among panelists was the necessity of dialogue and cultural ex- changes with other countries, as "the more we get to know AO piker the easier it will be tolivs-m peae." The evening had been ar- ranged after teacher Joanne Young, a vociferous opponent of nuclear energy in all its forms, asked Bill Johnson to consider giving the film a wider audience than his modern history class, where the students had seen similar films and discussed nuclear war. The organizers' goal of heightening public awareness of the consequences of the splitting of the atom was realized. Ilowever, those in attendance, a very represen- tative cross section of this community, were left with more questions than answers. The biggest one remains: what specific measures can the ordinary citizen take to prevent a nuclear holocaust'? HELIUM BALLOONS • ...Just For The Fun Of It Gootry EXETER 235-2350 posals before they are agreed upon by council. Another recommendation for council was made to the effect that Peter Becker be allowed to build a structure on the old Village Inn property which would house several small stores. He was asked to prepare a site plan for agreement. In new business, Reeve Bob Sharen asked that the board establish a firm policy regar- ding the five percent parkland dedication with a clearer set of guidelines. PlannerJanet Smolders was asked to pro- vide an explanation from the Planning Act. Sharen also suggested that the board, in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce, prepare a by-law for approval of council which would deal with the Chamber's theme concept of sandcastles and recn:ation. Hughes Continued from front page for over$400,000 in back pay, severance • pay and holiday pay. Hughes Boat was among the first industries to settle at Huron Park when the former air base was transformed in- to an industrial park in the '60 The firm was subsequently' sold to the giant U.S. Steel Corp. and then resold to a London-based group who operated as North Star Yachts. The latter firm went into receivership in 1977 and Howard Hughes, one of the founders, purchased some of the assets at that time and got the business sailing again. The fact that the firm pro- duced products for the "lux- ury" market made it suscep- tible to the economic "slowdown across the country:, It started feeling the pinch in 1981 after hitting a high of 210 employees. Several lay- offs occurred as the economy sagged. absorb the coats of someone else's debt in case of default. A resolution by Bruce Shaw that Davis be empowered to negotiate the best terms possible in favour of the PUC was unanimously approved. By this method, the customer does not have to tie up a large sum of money; andthe utility is protected. The ministry of the environ- ment hsa recommended that the PUC receive a grant of 91,583 as partial reimburs- ment for converting the office from oil to electric heat. This move alters the terms of ren- tal for the upstairs apart- ment, as tenant and utility had each paid half the heating costs of the building. 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