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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1975-05-29, Page 4PAGE 4 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1975 To the summer driver! Summer is here, vacation time has come. By this time everyone has their old tin lizzies shined and polished and ready for the weekend drives and holiday jaunts. Before you take to places unknown, first check to see if you are prepared for all emergencies. Have you got the following in your trunk? Spare tire, flare, medical kit, jack, and of course the nec- essary gadgets to beat "Johnny Law." Don't be offended, but there are thousands of people stocking up on such gadgets every time they get into their car. What are they, and what would they be used for, you are probably asking yourself? Well, as everyone knows, the law enforcement agencies throughout North America have been mechanized. No longer does the motorcycle officer sit behind sign boards, awaiting a speeding motorist arid then take pursuit. Now -a -days they sit back in their station wagons, set up a small box -looking arrangement behind and await you and I to pass at a speed in excess of the posted law. You guessed it. It's radar. Every motorist, at one time or other, has seen this electronic device. Actually, the radar speed checking device is a low power radion transmitter and receiver. The transmitter sends out continuous unmodulated radio waves at a frequency of 10, 525 megacycles; these waves travel at the speed of light. When these waves meet the surface of the vehicle they are reflected back to the receiver, The moving vehicle changes the length of the wave reflected back and thus changes the frequen- cy, The frequency change is 31.4 times the speed that the vehicle is travelling. Thus, at 10 miles per hour the change would be 314 cycles per second, and at 100 miles per hour would be 3, 140 cycles per second. These changes in frequency are converted by the machine into miles per hour and shown as such on a direct reading meter scale. A simple device, what? These facts have been known about this machine since its inauguration during World War II, and of course there are those who think they have the solution to beat the so-called trap. "Putting loose bearing balls in the hubcaps has no effect on the radar --actually, they helped the police to hear them coming. "Coating the fan blades with aluminum pain has no effect on radar. "Having ground straps or chains dangling down onto the road surface attached to the body of a car, similar to the kind used by gasoline tank trucks, has absolutely no effect on radar. "Putting luminous paint over the chrome on a car has no effect on radar. The most popular belief is in the use of tinfoil. Miles and miles of it have been draped over and around bumpers, or wadded inside hubcaps. It doesn't make any difference how it is used or where, because it just doesn't work. "- (Burlington Gazette) A man of ri ciple! Three cheers for Solicitor -General Warren Allmand. At last, a politician who believes in something with sufficient force that he is prepared to sacrifice his job for the sake of his principles. Mr. Ailrnand, who holds a lucrative cabinet post, no doubt .the culmination of many years of political ambition, has ann- ounced nnounced in unequivocal terms that he will resign if the death sentence is carried out on Rene Vaillancourt or any of the other criminals who are presently confined to death row in Canada. All of this has nothing to do with whether any of us believe in capital punishment. We, personally, have our own views on this subject, and they may or may not coincide with Mr. All- mand's opinion. The premediated death of a human being, whether by abortion, murder or hanging is a subject which has brought forth more heated debate and sincere conviction in this country than any other major question since the war years. All we refer to at this juncture is the solicitor -general's honesty of principle. He does not believe in the right of the state to take a human life and he will forego a promising career rather than be officially associated with an act which he obv- iously feels to be totally repugnant,. We admire his courage and wish that our government benches were occupied by a great many more legislators of his stamp. (Mt. Forest Confederate) ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM,. Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 at® e, Member: • CN Canaaliarr Weekly lyewspapers, Association;e�� Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association "k pt;e'` Subscription Rates: $6.00 per year in advance in Canada; $8.00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 20¢ International Scene (by Raymond Cannot) SWEET GEORGIA BROWN! Some readers who pay attent- ion to popular music may rec- ognize the title of this article as belonging to a song which graced the hit parade quite a few years back and which made a bit of comeback not too long ago. If you wonder how 1 latch- ed on to that title, it is simply beca ise I have been on one of my business trips to that state, .Atlanta to be exact and Georgia was very sweet to me. In addit- ion, those girl watchers who have maintained active membership in the club will be pleased to learn that there are a great many sweet looking girls in that part of the country. Those southern belies are very much for real! However, I didn't go there only to look at the girls. There was work to be done and it did, indeed, get done to everybody's satisfaction. There was even enough time left over for me to get a bit of a feel about the way some Americans are feeling these days about things in general I arrived there just in time to read about the rescue of the American freighter and its crew from those horrible Cambodians who thought they would like to engage in a bit of the game call- ed "Twisting the Lion's Tail" something which used to be prac- tised on the British when they were having their problems. This time the Americans twisted back, much to the delight of just about everybody in the country. I didn't find a single newspaper that didn't give President Ford a pat on the back for the decisive way in which he handled the whole affair. There were afew sour grapes, to be sure, but they were quite muted and I am not sure what Mr. Ford could have done otherwise that would have given the Americans the shot in the arm that their national ego needed. That was the main topic of conversation while I was there buy my mind dwelled on other things as well. There are still people down south who are fight- ing the civil war and one of the sights of Atlanta that my wife and I visited was a large painting which depicts the Battle of At- lanta which was, as a matter of fact, one of the turning points in the Civil War. We were treated to a very vivid descript- ion of the battle and I must ad- mit that it is seldom that I have heard a nation, or at least parts of it, dwell so long on a civil war instead of a national one. The South lost but there is something about the whole thing which appears to appeal to them Not far from Atlanta is a huge stone mountain which we also visited. In it has been carved enormous models of General Lee and Stonewall Jackson. No Eisen- hauer, no Marshall, no Mc - Independent Shipper to United Co-operative of Ontario Livestock Dept Toronto Ship Your Livestock with Roy Scotc'hmer Monday Is Shipping !Day From Varna Stockyard CALL BAYFIELD 565.2636 By 7:30 a.m. Monday For Prompt Service No Charges on Pick-up Arthur, just Civil War Generals! Atlanta prides itself on being a rather enlightened city and I must admit that blacks and white appear to mix rather easily there, Of course there are still racial problems and there will be for some time to come. However, the city has its first black mayor who is doing a relatively good job in spite of a host of probl- ems, not the least of which is a high rate of unemployment. If you stop to think of it for a mom• eat, it is really a step forward for a large southern city such as Atlanta to have a black mayor. It means that he iotas put into office by a considerable numb- er of white votes and that is something that would not have happened a few years ago. Atlanta is on Interstate High- way 75 which Ms the route follow- ed by most Canadians on their way to and from Florida. It might pay some of our happy wanderers to stop awhile in this city instead of hurrying on down to Florida. It has a great deal to offer in the way of attractions; the countryside is quite attract- ive and my wife and I both agree that you will have to go a long way to rival the politeness shown by the clerks, waiters, etc. in the -business establish- ments. You may wonder what my wife was doing along on a business trip. Well, it is nice to take your wife along now and again, especially if you think there is a good chance she might enjoy it. In this case there was and so she came along. 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