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PAGE 12A—GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1977
orrespondents attend seminar in Clinton
Over 50 district
correspondents and
newspaper representatives
from the community
newspapers in Huron -Perth
attended a day long seminar
at Wesley Willis United
Church in Clinton on Friday,
October 14. The seminar,
sponsored by the Bluewater
Regional Newspapers Net-
work; was conducted in order
to educate the correspondents
in newspaper style and
procedures and to let them
know that their contributions
preciation to the
correspondents. He said that
the correspondents. were not
simply self-serving but were
providing a' service for
others. Correspondents said
Wenger, have a sense of
loyalty to`their communities
and often keep these com-
munities alive with their
news contributions.
Susan White, editor of the
Huron Expositor in Seaforth
spoke next giving ideas to
correspondents about how to
encourage participation
are valued. among the readers in their
Barry Wenger, editor and areas. She stressed the im-
publisher of the Wingham portance of approaching new
Advance -Times, opened the people in the community and
seminar with a word of ap- asking for their co-operation.
Jim Hagarty. Mitchell
Advocate reporter, gave ti
to the correspondents to heli]
them recognize a special
feature on news story. He
spoke of the human element
in certain stories as well as
the prominence and
eminence of the people in the
stories. He urged the -
correspondents to call their
newspapers with any feature
story ideas or news tips. The
newspaper staff could then
follow up these ideas in
greater detail including
photographs.
Jim Fitzgerald, editor of
the Clinton News -Record,
spoke to the correspondents
about the style of writing. He
stressed the importance of
proper spelling and gram-
mar. When writing up
meetings, he said, irrelevant
details like the number of the
hymns sung should be left
out. However., he told the
correspondents to include as
_many names as possible in
their copy.
Joanne Walters, Goderich
Signal -Star reporter ex-
plained to the correspondents
what happens to their news
copy once it reaches the
newspaper office. She said
that first the editing marks
such as paragraph in-
dentations are put on the
copy, The news is grouped
under headings .such as
R.G. (Bob) Shrier, president of the Ontario Weekly held in Clinton last Friday. Mr. Shrier told the correspon-
Newsjapers Association and president of Signal -Star dents they were a valuable part of the paper. (News -Record
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editors and publishers at a special correspondents' erifiltiar
Meter reading..:..
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your meter weekly or daily
you can determine how much
power your household con-
sumes and possibly figure mit
how to cut down and save
money. The important thing
when doing daily or weekly
checks is to do them at the
same time every day. if veru
read it at six o'clock one day
and 10 o'clock the next_ you
won't he able to figure out
your daily consumption.
The PUC quite often has
*,disputes with customers over.
the accuracy of the meters..,
Customers with high hills
suggest the meter is inac-
curate and demand a check
or a now meter. The meters
are 'checked and installed by
the PIT and according to
federal law they must be-
changed
echanged every- eight years.
rho meter is taken out of
service. cleaned. and checked
by the federal ministry of
consumer and corporate
affairs,
Greg Wilson, one of the men
that checks the meter ac-
curacy. said Monday at the
Goderich PUC that in his 23
years of checking meters he
has Si‘i n only thretenot ac-
curate. One he recalls was
dirty and running slow.
anofher had been struck „.by
lightning and the magnetic
field in the meter was
weakened causing it to run
fast. He recalls the third
running fast 'hut can't
re member why, -
He said the meters are 99.9
percent accurate and are
getting hotter every year. He
conceded that there are ways
of manipulating meters to
slow them down or speed
them up but added that they
are illegal. He estimated
there are 137 ways of stealing
hydro but refused, to divulge
any claiming anyone who
would steal power will he tale
to figure out how.
PIC manager Davc
Rolston said the PUC has no
objections to people reading
their own meters but adds
that the commission could not
stop reading them itself. He
said that the PUC works on
computer billing and the
readings have to he done by a
certain time each month. 1 -le
.;lid that if customers were
slow getting. their readings in
the PIC would have absolute
chaos in its killing depart-
ment.
Opening oors
to small
business
Bill Lichti
one of our representatives
will be at
The Bedford Hotel, GODERICH
on the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of each month
(Tuesday, October 25)
If you require financing to start, modernize or
expand your business and are unable to
obtain it elsewhere on reasonable terms and
conditions or if you are interested in the
FBDB management services of counselling
and training or wish information on
government programs available for your
business, talk to our representative.
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For prior information call 471-5650
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A tour of the composing roo„nd t e giant printing press
at Goderich was one ofteatures (News -Record photo)
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church news and social news.
Corrections are made, per-
sonal pronouns are taken out
and headlines are written.
The copy, she said, then goes
to the type setters who type it
into long column strips. These
columns are checked by the
proof readers for mistakes
and are then ready for
pasting up on pages which are
photographed and made
ready for the press.
Bill Batten, editor of the•
Exeter Times -Advocate, told
the correspondents how to
handle public reaction when
news has been printed. He
first explained how mistakes
were made in copy. He spoke
of spacing problems and
explained that due to lack of
space sometimes news copy
must be cut out to make it fit.
He showed a page pasted up
with news copy so that the
correspondents could ap-
prectate how easy it is for
lines of copy to fall off a page
and so they could also see how
small the lines of copy are to
work with.
If a correspondent receives
negative reaction to a news
item, said Batten, he should
pass the complaint or the
complainer on to the editor of
the newspaper who is trained
to handle such things:
OWNA PRESIDENT
HEARD
Following lunch, the
correspondents were ad-
dressed by R.G. Shrier,
president _of the Ontario
Weekly Newspapers
Association. Having come up
through the newspaper
business at the advertising
end, he said, he greatly ad-
mired people with an ability
to write, He said that good
news copy helps to sell ad-
vertising space, He expressed
his appreciation to the
correspondents for their work
and said their contributions
were of great importance to
their newspapers.
After Mr. Shrier's address,
the correspondents broke into
smaller groups, each with a
discussion leader drawn from
the staff of the Huron -Perth
newspapers., At that time
they were given a fictitious
set of circumstances for a
story. They discussed how to
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niet at the home of Mrs. Wes
Jefferson with a good at-
tendance. on Wednesday
afternoon for their October
meeting.
Mrs.: Ray Hanna opened the
meeting with the theme. Mrs.
R. Hanna read three poems,
1.'ind Words: To Cheer
Another and A Thanksgiving
to a House.
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The `scripture was taken
from Proverbs 31 verses 10-31
followed h -y a poem, ' A'
Solitary Woodsman.
Mrs. E. Snowden took over
the business, The ladies are -
in vited
rcinvited to Auburn on Sunday,
O tuber 23 for their
ihankofferingmeeting. ,
Mrs. S. Chumney and..Mrs,
F. Rubinson reported on the
fall meeting in Blyth.
Mrs, Ann St. Jean then
spoke to the ladies on her
work with the Day Care
Centre for the homebound at
Huronview. It is not a part of
Huron view hut a place where
the people that are
homebound by a stroke or
some disability can go for the
clay and take part in crafts or
gapes or can have their hair
`done or have foot care, etc:
Mrs. Hanna gave a poem
"Praver Mrs. G. Mason
gave a prayer followed by
hymn. Mrs. Hanna closed the
meeting with prayer: A social
time followed the meeting.
organize the facts they had,
wrote a brief news item using
those facts and then ex-
changed their work and
shared ideas.
A tour of the Goderich
Signal -Star plant in Goderich
completed the seminar. Staff
was on hand to provide a
thorough look at newspaper
production. Those present at
the seminar came to ap-
preciate the complexity of
putting' a newspaper
together.
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