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PAGE .2A--GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1974
Are., Road
Superinlenilents
hold annual
`4 The Annual meeting of the
Road Superintendents was held
at• the Belgrave- CCommunity
rooms last week. -
V Reeve Roy Pattison
welcome•�d fh thembers and in-'
vited =hem to tour the new
sta.
Warden Bill Elston spoke on
behalf' of rhe county and con-
ducted the election of officers
for 1974-75,
Past president, Karl Hab-
berer, Hay Township,
president Allan Nicholson,
Tuckersmith; vice-president,
C.W. Hanna, East._Wawaan'osh;
"recording sec. treasurer, Bill
'Taylor, Stanley; O.G.R.A. rep.,
Harvey Culvert, .of West
Wawanosh; auditors, J. W. Brit-
nell,, County Engjpeer, Ross
Jackson of M.T.C. Stratford.
Joe Kerr of Wingham hosted
the meeting to a smorgasbord.
supplied by the Belgrave W.I.
• and Koffer , Culvert Co. of
Waterloo also entertained.
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Ont. Hydro
wants info
from customers
Ontario Hydro has appealed
to developers an.d industrial
customers to provide the utility
with earlier notification of
planned •new developments
requiring transformers *and
other electricalequipment. •
'.Clinton Area ,Manager
Walter Palmer explained that 0,
world shortage of critical
materials, 'particularly steel, is
causing severe delays , in
'deliveries of electrical equip-
ment.'
"One area of particular local
concern is the matter of,
upgraded farin services," " Mr.
Palmer said: "There wild be
delays in our ability to react to
those service changes as pronip-,
�,4 tly as we have in the past."
,Farrners planning service
changes are asked to have their
electrical contractor advise the
local Hydro. ,office. of their.
plans, as early as ,possible.
Where once . manufacturers
were able- to, supply transfor-
mers within a few days of
receiving an • order, deliyeries
today may take as long as 40
weeks, said.the Hydro official.
"Unless customers can give
us substantially more lead
time," he said, "we can't
provide them with the. elec
trical equipment they need, on
time."
Manufacture of transformers
is being held up both by a steel
shortage and a scarcity of th,e
special oil they use. In ad-
dition, , the oil shortage' has
reduced the supply of plastics
used for electrical insulation
with the result that cable and
wire can take up to six months
to deliver.
Wood —.poles are also in
critically short supply.
"Some 10,000 feet of
damaged cable resulting from
the recent tornado-like storm in
Hibbert Township is being
reclaimed for local use as
guying material, rather than
being rc'rapped.," said M -r.
Palmer.' '
To meet the shortage in trari-'
sformer oils, Ontario Hydro is
investigating ways of recon-
ditioning oils from old transfor-
mers so tha,t,,they can be reused
in new transformers. '
'Hydro is also making a con-
, centrated effort to reclaim or
rehabilitate worn-out equip-
ment instead of simply selling
br scrapping it. For example,
when a transmission like is'
upgraded, the old Conductor
may have 20 years' of remaining
life, and may be useable.
Various reasons are given for
the material shortages among
them environmental demands
that diverted some production
to cleanup devices, inflation
which created additional
stimulus.to demand and the ex-
. cess capacity of '1970 and 1971
that discouraged the expansion
that might have met today's
shortfall.
No accurate predictions can
be made on when the steel
shortage will ease, but is expec-
ted it will continue ' through
1974.
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