The Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-08-07, Page 9a+"
DEAR EDITOR
Names herself.'
Dear Eddrtor,
I read all of your papers each
week with a great deal of in-'
terest. I am especially ' in-
terested in the old pictures and,
the articles about the pioneers
of Huron County. My ancesto>v's
on both sides settled the county"
in the 1830's. .
The supplement July 17' was
particularly interesti g . e
as it contained a pi
class at Victoria S
VAR READERS
(continued from page 2),
the American, market share'by
two percent.
"Should this psychological
effect',heighten," said the
ministr,' `,`it is possible 'that'
many visitors will be less likely
to come by,car and those who
do 'might be less incl.ird to
travel about the province.'
The minister ,said Ontario
may not see any growth in total
expenditure in this most
challenging of recent years,
adding that, it would be an
achievement even to match last
year.
' 'lout how 'can we tell at this
early stage?" he asked. "We
are receiving mixed reports
from across the province and it
still is premature to make'a
proper'assessment. L,only know
that out travel inquiries are up
substantially over last year and
that our travel ' literature is
.rapidly being gobbled kip -one
good omen in a tough'year."
Because of hard times in the!.
the. .minister,-.Isaid ..�a.. .
.number of Americans may not
with Mr. Stonehouse. I was not
one of ' those named, • but am
standing in the back row, fifth
from the left.
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Several weeks ago there was
another class picture in the
paper called Third Book,
Victoria School. Later some of
th4 people were named by -'Mr.
Thompson of Ottawa. My name
Winnifred Shephard was given,
as one of those, but it was my
sister Lillian.
I can name a few more of
those pictured July the 17,th, but
as many of them still live in the
Goderich area, I will leave this
to them,
Sincerely,
Winnifred Shephard Killgore
(Mrs. Earl H. Killgore),
22000W i l th Avenue,
Gainesville Florida, 32605. „
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uoI)ER ICH SIGNAL -w ST ` t fTH 1RSDAY, AUGUST 7,19755--PAGE,.3'
ghee premiums assured�s�nce
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BY DAVE SYKES
Owners of mopeds may find themselves
facing a great price range .when they go
shopping for insurance for the motor
assisted vehicle. -
Persons who already b'bught policies to
cover theft mopeds will probably be hit
with higher premiutYas- when they renew
those policies when the bikes will `be
classed as itepced vehicles .later this
summer. Several') owners who had pur- `-
chased mopeds before the legislation
amendmentbought third party liability
coverage or arranged to have them
covered under their home liability policy,
However, the new moped"legislation,
classes them as motor vehicles and as a4',
result accident benefit coverage will be
mandatory on the vehicles: The rates of
coverage vary greatly -between areas and
companies .and also hetween accident
benefits and fire and theft. coverage.
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Because the moped is a relatively' new
machine, setting coverage rates , has
become ,a problem for most insurance
companis, Now that mopeds will be
classed as motor vehicles about the only
way, they can he insured is on an auto
policy.
Some of the rates are being set according
to the driver's age and experience and a
general "policy covering liability, aceident '
benefits and fire and theft Would begin at a
minimum of $80 and coverage in these
three areas could run as high as $175,
But the price range is greatly affected by
age and persons over 25 years Of age with a
clean driving record will find . a. con-
siderable reduction in the premiums,
The Independant „Insurance group will
New legislation will hit boozers hard
ili becomeo
BY DAVE SYKES
If you haven't already paid attention to
the slogan `Think 1efore, You Drink', its
relevance'will become much more evident
-in ' light of new legislation governing
drinking,alvers.
The new amendments to the drinking
legislation were part of a broad package of
law reforms which wet'e introduced to the
-legislature a couple of. weeks, ago by
Justice Mister Otto'Lang1 The reforms
introduced by 'Lang will make it tougher
• for criminals to get bail, easier for rape
victims to get through a trial and legal for
Canadians to play pinball machines.
In relation to. the anew legislation on
drinking drivers, those who have been
inclined to dip their beaks into comforting'
beverages on occasion may just as well°
get to visit their ,favorite turn' in -their radials for a good pair of
Ontario, holiday resorts' this 'walking. shoes. Beginning next year, police
"'� Will be able to set up breathalyzer
"There are •oth tis who ap- machines near bars and require patrons
pear to
• be , redtrcing their who 'are driving, away to take the breath
normal vacation 'time by half
with •the intention of: resu-mi•ng..
their regular length of stay
when -the economy improves,"
said Mr. Bennett. "In the
efc rnean'ti me. Canadians are
taking up much of the slack."
At the same time, •he noted,'
Ontarians are doing more in -
province travelling and finding
new vacation areas close to
home, ' ,-'.-
The minister said it is ex-
pected that the number of
overseas` visitors' a to . this
province will again increase as
will their expenditures. ' •
"The skyrocketing cost of
travel overseas is causing more-
and inQre Europeans to look for
more affordable holiday
destinations in other parts of
the world," the minister added,
"and Ontario today is certainly
oneof them."
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ence to re
tests even if they do not show signs of being,
impaired and do not appear to be driving in
an erratic manner.
Under present law a police officer must
establish reasonable grounds to -believe a
driver is~ impaired before he is able to stop
the driver and require breathalyzer test,
But the new amendments to those laws
require that a policeman who had
reasonable •cause to believe that a driver
had been drinking would lie able to require
a• breath test on the spot. It would also be
an offence for the driver to refuse,the test.
The penalties now for exceeding the .08
acceptable alcohol level are being brought
into line with th Tse, for impaired' driving •
and would mean a jail term of at least two "
weeks for second offenders and ,at least
three months for third offenders. The main
changes and 'impact of the amendments
now allow the police to conduct roadside
screening tests which simply, 'means 'the"
police . will be able to stop drivers -and
require them to, take a breath test if they
And now a reward for you
wonderful readers' who have
'made it ' to the end of this
colutnn of bits and pieces•,
After a s ries of :columns.
''about s- ia`rses ant money,
somebody 'felt blige to place
this .little joke on my desk.
• Although the donor of this little
gem is unkhown, the story
should bring a" smile to your
lips. •
Worker: "I must Kaye �a
raise, sit, I'm so hard up that I
can't even buy a pair of shoes."
1rt;niployer: "Well, I;m afraid
we'll just have to let you go. -I' m
sorry, but hare feet cannot be.
tolerated at the office."
BY RAE HOPKINS; ., a
HYDRO NEWS
Preservation of • the environment has
become a new ethic°that's leading Ontario
Hydro in §urprising directions. •
For 'example, trees have become so
precious to Hydro that the people building
the huge Bruce nuclear•power complex are
trying their best to save all they can. • •
On future sites, like Wesleyville and
Datlington, Hydro's forestry department
has initiated reforestation projects, using
species native to the area, so that plenty,
are Around for future use.
Hydro's planners are going all out to
reduce the utility's impact. on the en=
vi ronrrrent. •
Around the Bruce site, 'stretching for
about two miles along the Lake Huron
'shoreline at Douglas Point ancj a mile,
;nland', an"'entire fringe of trees •has been
'left'around the'drea'of'tii secof`3,200-MW
station, and where this is -impossible - for
example, along . the shoreline
reforestation- will take place, says R.R.
. Booth senior -design architect.
In fact, he adds, while the Douglas Point
area' 'has. never been considered- bush
country, the construction camp has taken
on all the appearance of a bush camp.
Enough vegetation has been displaced to -
make way for the mobile home village, but
vast islands of trees have been left stan-
ding. '
And they're stockpiling all the roots, .
faller trees, woody vegetation and the like
put pre,[niums'at SU annuallyfor liability,
$50 dollar's for accident benefits and $69
dollars for fire" and that on a bike worth
around $300: The figures quoted are for
parsons 18 years of age and under and for
those over 25 &be liability premium drops to
around $30.
State Farm Insurance offers special
accommOdation to policy holders while
those without an auto policy would 'be
subject to higher premiums, A person
under 25 ,without a policywould pay, $109
for six months for liability and accident
benefit coverage as well as $22 for fire and
theft: Persons over 25 would only, pay $27
for the six month period as..wWoud youths...
whoare added to a father's policy..
The CIAG company offers 40, per cent off
moped 'polic'ies if the owner carries auto ,
insurance with the•company. A spokesman
said the rates are more or less based on,the
use breaihalyzer test
eg is latto n
rates applicable "to smaller motorcyc' ^s
but are slightly below•that.Y„
General insurance represEintative Pe .e
MacEwan offers.. annual liability, and ac-
cident benefit premiums of $f•41•;to persons„
under 19 years of age with fire. and theft
premiums . varying 'from $25 'to $45
depending upon the value of the ,moped.
For persons over 19 years of age the value
of the liability ancraccident premium drops
to a low of $76 annually for those over.25.
Mr. MacEwan stated'the premiums were
,also geared to the lowest class of rriotor-
,hikes' and the premiums would likely be
subject' to change after they have been on
the road a year.
The components " of coverage , vary
.greatly at..ti•mes••with the. companies but the
general premiums usually reach an
average. Some insurance.' companies
believe that the insurance rates for mopeds
'will likely change again as they become
better known and ha ve.sometype of record'
to work, with.
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show any signs ' whatsoever of having
consumed -alcohol.
Another amendment would enable
judges to give drivers a conditional
discharge meaning no fine, jail term' or
criminal record,: -However, this discharge
would only apply when the driver agreed to
take treatment for drinking.
The Honorable Mr. Lang said this
change will be'made law from province to
province depending upon the rehabilitative
facilities of the individual provinces. ,
-However the power of the law to suspend
a driver's libence is being- removed from
the -breath test section because of a con-
fusing conflict of•jurisdi bion with the '
- provinces, which automatically suspend
the licences of those'convicted of drinking
offences. -
But the conditional discharge will,rhean
• that a province could not suspend a'l'icence
under the present law. Mr. Lang ,said the
clause will not go into .effect until the
provinces are able to suspend their laws to
make suspensions in cases on conditional
discharge
Mr. Lang -said that he would attempt to
persuade the provinces not to impose'
mandatory suspensions of licences where a
conditional discharge has been granted. He
claimed the arnendfnents were not aimed
at the, convictions of drivers but rather
were aimed at makings "the ,danger of
conviction much more clear." tit
Since •the inception of, the breath test in
1969 more •than 10,000 drivers have been
convicted under the law but Mr: Lang is of
the impression that the impact of the
breath test has since disappeared,..
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'A ministry of Transportation and
Communication survey completed in eight
provinces last year found that one driver in
12 questioned at night was legally impaired
and a far greater pilirriber of the drivers
had been drinking. •,Another, survey,
Completed in Alberta and New Brunswick
almost three- years ago, found that one
driver in four the road between 9
on
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ro-wl preserve envir
to' let it slowly decompose tohave an ample
supply of organic matter for future lan-
dscaping purposes.
If Mr., Booth's plans for the Bruce
complex evolve according to his wishes,
Canada's nuclear power capital will be
returned wherever possible to its original
natural setting,
Mr. Booth's hopes for the. eventual ap- -
pearance of the Bruce —development
typifies .Hydro's changing philosophy on
the design of , facilities which provide
electric energy for Ontario.
The name` of the'game is tcgetthe ugly,
out,
?rid the rules 'are quite simple - reduce-
Hydro's
educeHydro's impact on the environment.
What is Hydra doing to reduce this im-
pact?' ,
Just about everything has been. t•akenr•r.k
into consideration: the introduction of
approved appearance transmissipn ,lines,,
using • single steel' poles . or new tower
designs, lowering the profile of both
transformer and distributing 'stations,
imaginative landscaping of plants and
highly selective, cutting of'' trees along
rights-of-way.
Urderathe new scheme of things much ,
more than just engineering considerations
go into Wilding a generating station, a
transformer station or a transmission line.
One of the most important 'ort °�
siderations nowadays is»fhe potential fo
multiple use of thelands on which Hydros'
facilities are located, This could range:,'
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anywhere- from park - development to
garden •plots., utility corridors, or fish
hatcheries•
At the original Pickering nuclear station,
for !example, what was once a storage
Compound during the -construction stage
has been transformed',irito 28 acres Of hilly
parkland. Material 'excavated for' the
cooling water intakes, outflows 'and power
house was deposited in the storage ,com-
pound to help shape the park.
• Now that the construction forces are
hack at -the, Pickering site, to build the "8"
and 43 a,m, had been drinking 'and one in 20
was impaire,
Conservative House Leader Gerald
Baldwin said that his party' would support
the; amendments and didn't anticipate
much opposition to the bill which would not
come before parliament for debate' until
Oct. 14 after it reassembles' from the
summer recess.
The amendments- to the laws dealing
with 'drinking drivers "are not that hard
hitting or revolutionary. Hopeft3Ily their
aims of making •the •danger of conviction
more clear •will hit some drivers quite
hard. The country is siniply experiencing
'•,..tot many alcohol related accidents' and
deaths andperhaps more people will take
.it seriously now that the police and their
machines have received a Carte Blanche
from Mr, Lang.
Who knows, people may even•getout and
walk if they know they. are going to be
drinking, As far as anyone -knows, im-
paired walking hasn't put anybody, in the
a slammer•yet.
But one of the most significant im
provetnents being considered for the A
Wesleyville ,plant is the use of underground
caverns for 'Storage of oil instead of above-
ground tanks. The ter,•airiCet this site is'
thought to'be suitable and engineers are
keeping a' close watch • on recent
developments, in Europe in"' the 'field of
underground storage for- liquid. fuels.
R.G. Wykes, Hydro's transmission and
design engineer, believes ,that .to the
laytoan,, the most significant change in the
tation, yet another recreational outlet will changing scene of transmission line design
emerge at this nucleart"age edifice in a ,, is the move to use double -circuit single
semi -wilderness setting. This time ' ex-, poles in the place of convey 'ttional lattice-
cavated material is again being stockpiled . type towers.
into a"large hill'that•Mr. Booth hopes will At present there are four steel pole type
he used.forskiing. " '' line' either- completed or under con-
struction in. southern ()Maim. *One is in,
shoreline near .Bowmanville, •Mr. Booth t (>ndon and the others in .the Toronto area,
says designers are considering lowering between Lorne .lark and Burlington the site of the proposedbarlingtonouclear trans.fori1ier stations,
station to reduce its visibility from High Some steel" pole structures• may heY'used
way 4al . carr'the proposed 500 kV network linking tho
A two mile beach, using the warm water • Nanticokc.and Bruce stations on the west
effluent front the 'plant' and 'stretching to. and Pickering and. •-Lennox gen:crating
Darlington provincial, park, is also being . stat ions on t -he east.
considered. v w Mr. Wykes says the 500 -kV structures
A little farther east, at .'the site of the '" " will'lac the largest of theirtype ever built.
oilfired Wesleyville generating,.station, R,F; , Westwood. transmission and
near Port Hope, planners found a number '°, distribution project engineer, spivs better
•of features they wanted to preserve. c` appearance is the reason for using the
For example, a central wet marsh a . 'poles,. which cost three to four .times as
--htwen for waterfowl - will be left untouched niuch as conventional lattice towers.
-There was General feeling, ' he says,
"that lattice towers were industrial -
looking and not in keeping with modern
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Mr. Westwood says titeel'p'ole'Structures'
are hest suited to an urban setting.
Ilowever, he believes that in a i'ural setting
a- lattice" tower' is more- appropriato''
because 'you 'can see through its tracery.
The tower tends to fade into the landscape,
.In 197p,- a three-year developrnent
project .'vas completed on a low -profile
distrihitt ing station to replace costly en-
closed or bungalow -type staaticin"4 which
were used in urban settings.
The Uniform 70 distributing station not
only perf'tiitted Hydro to lower the profile.
of the facilities, but at the same time cut
construction costs because of the amo .int
of prefabrication that goes' into them.
Says Lawrence McCall, supervisi=ng
design engineer of'sub-stations, "the basic
iriipact of a sub -station is visual put at,the
time that we were.,srarching for a way to
improve their appeartanee, y e fKlt we could
Cut costs: Maxi ilium prefahricntion did the
trick for us.
He explains that ''to lower the profile
Hydt'y's designers eliminated much'of the
Structural steel 'element by using part of
tjie .electrical conductors as equipment
supports.
Now the highest point of a distributing
station is°lea feet, eight foot lower than oh
convent iona l model.
..Combined with proper landscaping, th ,
streamlined station looks as good as an
and i. Duple of streams hat,cut across the
property W- rerou c • to maintain the
drainage system for rids no'rth of the site.
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convent'i,Qnal high-rise open Facility.
The lbw ld'ok has carried over from
• distribution voltage stations to high -
"voltage transmission facilities and will be --
used in The extra -high voltage 'stations on
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the proposed 500 -kV network.
Another .major innovation will he.the u'se
of coin act switchgear insulated with
sulphur 'hexafluoiride SE6 will he used
initially on the three•° Parkway' stations,
and, housed in attractive' huildiOgs, this
switchgear will reduce the amount of land
needed feirasuch stations to approximately
60 acres •- oni.-quarter of the amount
needed for traditional open-air facilities,
;To enhance their appearance even
more, stations will get away from the
traditional dark green transformers and
the cocoa ,colored insulators, 'Pastels' of->'.,�.
pale yellow will be used in their,place and
colored screens will hide the 'switches and
bus -,work.
No longer will straight roads. lead into
'transformer stations Driv y ays_ are
"' curvCd . and the ground around them
contoured, so 'that you won't notice the
eiectrical circuitry 'at first glance.
Hydro's. concern with the environment
.,.isn't naw,
!Bock in 1970. then general manager, Dr.
1,,.M, Hamh.ley, called together a group of
seliior management,,personnel to organize
an in -^house committee gilled the
Environmental, Co-ordination Committee -
Amenities
Headed 4„Mhy P.G6.•-„Campbell, general
.manager - design .and co'nstruetii7in;"the'
-cotnmittee's-membership was drawn -from
the generation projects, property, public
relations, research:- stations projects,
system maintenance, system planning and
tr'ansmi S'iorl and ° distribution -pro;"ects
- divisions. '
That committee is the third Hydro task
"`forte dealing'with environmental matters.
'Fhe other two -groups look into ways of ^
protecting air and water quality. •
The 'amentities "group is responsible for
making recommendations in such areas as .•
the appearance of old and new Hydro
f�acilit.ics, noise factors at facilities, ex-
ternal uses Of facilities including rights-of-
way and, properties, and keeping gover-
nment -and the general _public informed
regarding future plans.
Arthlur Hill, recently -appointed director
of Hydro's new route aricl
division, ' perhaps best expresses the
changing phipsophy of -"design when he
says, "it's a different type of thinking now ,.
th'anr what 'it used to be. We now have to
think of new plants and the lands on which
they're hi.tuated in a different way than just
the engineering features,
"It doesn't. always cost great sums of
money to add the amenkties the public
wants - 'fact, it sotOtimes costs, very
little."
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