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Clinton News-Record, 1976-12-02, Page 9element members eof diary en Tuesday VeM i Scott.. reported she had' receved, unofficial cpnfirmation 'that the Wingluun arena Will be ac- cessible to Wheelchair 00otators. A ramp wilt lead to a heated viewing area. protected �by ole glas, and a washroom will be made large enough to accomodate wheelchair. She promised to continue her efforts to obtain an official statetnent. Elaine Townshend in-_ formed. the group of donations _received from the Exeter and Centralia U.C.W.s. Phyllis Cox was named Secretary - Treasurer. The minutes of the executive and general meetings of the United Handicapped Groups of Ontario. held in Oshawa, were studied. A motion- was passed to acquire :a copy of the "Declaration on the Rights of the Disabled" passed by the U.N, in Februl 1976. nary Howell submitted a newspaper clipping citing the success of the "traffic bell! in Hamilton. The bell is syp chronized¢ with the walk signal of the traffic light near the headquarters.CN_ Bert Sootheran, announced { ibetavailibilityof filtns-loaned by the CNIB, and also mentioned the possibility of having Mr. W. Kennedy, District Administrator of CNIB, as a guest speaker at a future meeting. It was decided to plan a special meeting for the spring in which Mr. Kennedy's at- tendance ttendance might coincide with a film. A guest at the°meeting was CKNX Radio and TV per- sonality, Jim Swan, who advised "setting goals is essential for,any group." He al` + r' ruches. rsw ' Jt yw ► ak fun ons into tae old day and. tault study apple Viler, Ulu a lot ul ut kth+s On bell copper .holler. livei . Imo. urged ALP t► to continue kursuing its goats. On behalf of Alt the members, Elaine Townshend thanked. him for his interest and support. Lunch was seated` by Shirley 41101, s, assisted by Bessie Townshend and Lloyd Scott. Mary,and Lloyd were thanked foe opening their home to the gmup. Because of the busy season, the December meeting was cancelled, The next meeting was scheduled for Tuesday, Tex January 25 at p.tn., in e Hulinesville Schon. An in- vitation to the public will again be extended through the media. Anyone wanting in- formation about ALPHA Huron may contact the following: in Clinton, Elaine Townshend at 482-3073; in Goderich, Mary. Howell at 5246642; in Brussels, Pat and_ Ralph Watson at $87.6236; and in Exeter, Margaret Small at 235-2418. heni. ffhe new pact gfementary school teachers, employed by the Huron County .pard of Education, voted on- Monday to accept the terms of a new agreement hammered out. last week. The Board voted to approve the agreement at 'a special meeting on November 2. Meeting at the Clinton Public School the teachers voted by a 201 to eight margin in favor of the proposal which. was drawn up after lengthy negotiations with the Board of Education. Contract details are not to be released until the teachers' representatives have met with the board. It is expected that a joint statement will be made at that time. According to a Govemmert Fact Finder's report released , in early November the teachers had earlier turned down an offer of an average eight per cent increase plus a 1.7 per cent cost of living bonus. The teachers were also unhappy over allowances for principals of schools for the trainable retarded and other vice principtails as- well as some fringe ber #fits. The teachers and Board representatives had been negotiating since spring but adjourned negotiations over the summer. , • Hydro ctliisuniptiort so rs P. Below normal tem- peratures together with an improved industrial picture resulted in a large increase in the province's electrical consumption during October. Ontario Hydro reports primary energy totalled 7,594,079,000 kilowatt-hours during the month, up abaut42 per cent from October, 1975. Totals for the first 10 months of the year are 6.5 per cent ahead of those for the corresponding period in '75. Peak demand during October '76 -was 13.082,000 Young Bluevale swine breeder \again has top indexed boar Young Donald Henry, RR 1, Bluevale, again had the 'highest indexing boar in the group of 104 boars which completed test at the -Ontario Swine Test Station, New. Hamburg. This high indexing Yorkshire boar had a . per- formance index of 147 which combined low backfat thickness of .53 inches, fast average daily gain on test of 2.24 pounds per day and excellent feed conversion of only 2.34 pounds feed per pound gain. Following the Henry boar were three other Yorkshires from the herds of Royfledley, Canfield, 1Vlurray Bancroft, Newton arid -Arnold Cook, Belgrave with indices of 140, 139 and 136. Top Landrace with an index 0f 145 was from the herd of John Boehm, - St. Jacobs; while the• top indexing Hampshire was from the herd of Andy Schertzer, Tecum- seh. Top Duroc with an index of 125 was from the herd of Warren & Richard Stein, Woodstock. Thirty-six of the top boars in the 'November group in- cluding the top indexing ones mentioned above will be sold at the Test Station on November 25th at 1:30 p.m. As all boars at the Test Station -are "fed and handled under uniform conditions, buyers can be sure that superior performance is due to true genetic superiority for low backfat, fast gains and good feed conversion which will bepassed on to. the pigs they sire. - r ,.�:� s. r.i..i,u;. a,w. ti�va4,!.�.)�. gtr ,y.,,,.^•7�- •'11.. _p 111/,0 v.msw,vz.y�, uL,;vtFatai.- LA12uLLsall kilowatts. Marc- than 32 per cent of energy made avail Mb le during the month came from water power; 26.1 per cent, coal; 17.1 per Cent, nuclear; 6.8. per cent, gas; 2.4 per cent, on; and the remainder, purchases. M... The third --of Lennox oil- fired generating station's four 573,750 kilowatt units was declared in-service October 14 Bluewater Cable TV, which serves Clinton, Goderich, ffolmessviile and Vanastra, is providing .the best Service possible, given the kind of`TV- signals they ,.have to work with. That is the assessment of the .Canadian Department of Transport who . carry out periodic checks on the system to see it ` it is providing adequate service. David Ronaldson of the - Landon district office of the federal department told the News -Record last week that the Cable companies can only pass on a signal as good as what is received at the an- tenna. They cannot improve it if it is bad, whatever the reasons.. Mr. Ronaldson says the Department, which is a watchdog over 23,000 radio stations in the London district, including 14,000 CB radios classifies TV signals into three categories, ac- cording to the distance they are from the emitting source, or TV statin. In the ,best category, called the "A" contour, Bluewater has only one station, Channel 8 'in ,. • "Acon stations are 30 miles or 1e4 ; from the Cable TV antenna, In the second best category. or "b" contour, are other stations from 30 to 60 miles away, and include Channel \F04 THE OLA$SUEi'1 OF ONTARIO For vinyl tops • convartibla lops • car upnolitif-'y • tronde iatd• • body orotoctivs mouldings 36 5 BAYF%EED RD. Gf3DERICH apm e 1v du g the ht are - Buuk. (i h -to h r Cathy. alright says govt 10, London; Kitchener, 13; Global, 6; and London education, 18. The rest of the ,stations on Bluewater's- dial, namely Windsor, 9; - .Hamilton, 11; Detroit, 2; Detroit, 4; Detroit 7; and Bayity 5; are in what the Transport department calls the "marginal" receiving area. Mr. Ronaldson said the reception,. from the marginal stations can vary from good to almost nil, depending on a number of factors, including weather conditions. Even the reception from the "B" contour stations can vary because ofipoorweather conditions. The department of tran- sport does a periodic random check of Bluewater's signal by going into different homes and monitoring the cable. "We found that the picture distribution on cable is a faithful reproduction of that received at the head end (or antenna site)," Mr. Ronaldson said. He also said if people have a complaint to make about the cable system, then they should phone Bluewater first, as the company stand to lose the most if their cultorriers aren't happy. Mr. Ronaldson said th,a sometimes an amplifier along the system will malfunction, and that Bluewater would want to know about it right away. Mr. Ronaldson also added that it takes three tim , .a much signal strength - to produce color as black and white, so that is why color may vary in the more distant stations. . Te t6� Electors 11u.iIe11 To.wnsji.j, I° SOLICIT YOUR VOTE ON DEC. 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