The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-05-09, Page 25c
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What looks like a slightly
modified electric'typewriter in
the corner of the com-
munications office of the
ry Goderich Ontario Provincial
Police station is a potent
weapon for use against
iminals.
cr
f
he has stopped.
In the case 'of a car with an
American license plate, the
operation takes slightly. longer.
CPIC' is hooked into a crime
computor in Washington that
relays' information back to
Canada. )>,+
The ,machine was installed Police. officers have to wait
June 25, 1973. There are about' about 90 seconds fee the infor-
L60 like it in police stations, oration.
both provincial and municipal, Once a ca' is reported stolen,
across Ontario. The machine is a police department im-
a Sending and receiving unit mediately sends a description
connected with a giant crime to the Ottawa compu•t-et. Only
computer system in Ottawa. • that department can have the
The system is the Canadian ,car removed from the stolen car
Police Information Centre file.
(CPIC).
It is removed' from the file
Civilian Brian McDonald is upon confirmation of the, car§
recovery. This routine prevents
one of five operators who man
the CPIC,jnachine continually.,
He say's the machine can
trace a car, license number'in
less than 20 seconds,. To
demonstrate, he asks . for the
number' of a car parked outside.
He quickly types the request for
information. Scant seconds
later the answer comes back.
No file on record. The speed of
the machine is nothing short of
• ,incredible,
The information travelled to
Ottawa and 'back in less than
10 seconds.•
Ari officer can use his radio
to contact the station for infor-
oration in •minutes about a car
Benmiiler
UCW pla n
tha'nkofferifl g
the owner from being stopped
by police after he claims his
car.
Although the local OPP use
CPIC for tracing cars about 66
per cent of the time during an
average day, the machine Is
used to trace, persons too.
The central ctomputer has
°files about persons ern
probation and parole. It also
keeps track of Warrants still
outstanding.
Sgt, Tom Redpath, from the
local OPP detachment, cites an
example.•
• A warrant of committal for a
person who failed to appear in
court is, listed with CPIC. .
''The person may owe only ,a
$50 fine. Althc ugh the OPP
would probably not extradite a
person for this offence, they
. could find the address where
the warrantshould be sent.
•Any police department in
na could find out about
this warrant if the person's -
name
name was sent to the central
file. -
The•May meeting of the Ben- The ' CP,IC central file also
miller, UCW ' was held in the lists missing persons.
Church with 12•° members ,This file, along with other in -
present. formation, is available to
several area.potice departments
President Mrs. Hazel through the CPIC terminal at
McMichael opened the meeting. the Goderich OPP detachment.
Unit 2 was in charge of the.• The. Goderich, Clinton, Kin -
Devotional period. '.cardine, Wingham, Exeter and
Treasurer Mrs. H. Straughan Winghani police have access to
'reported a fair •balance.' The it. The CPIC terminal. is also
Units reported their activities. used by the Exeter and Kincar-
The Thank -Offering is to be dine , IDEP detachments. °
at Menes"e't`i ng Camp on June 5 • ' The municipal and provin-
at 2:3Q--p.rn '- r.
clal forces use itm•about 75 to
Mrs. Leonard Warr in-' 1.00 times per day,
troduced the guest, speaker, The computer .. system is
Rev. W. Robinson of Goderich. closely watched at' all times by
He gave •a splendid talk on police to prevent unauthorized
""World -Citi enship" which the persons from feeding a name
Members enjoyed. Mrs. Mar- into the central file.
jorie Treble thanked Mr. These precautions help keep
-Robinson. CPIC efficient and reliable.
Lunch was served by , Mrs. However, like all computers, it
Bessie 'Moore and, Mrs. Edna • is ."only as good as the infor-
Moore: There will be "no mation it• recei'ves," says Sgt.
meeting until September. • ' Redpath,
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Civilian CPiC operatorBrian MCDonald types a request for
'; information on the machine's keyboard as Sgt. Tom Red
Oath, with the Ontario Provincial Police, Goderich detach-
ment, watches for the answer to appear. (staff photo)
Says news reports
give false picture
of vegetable profits
"News .reports- from the - an-
nual • meeting of the Canadian
Food Processors Association
are misleading consumers when
they falsely infer that. most of
the 30 per cent increase in the
retail prices of processed'
vegetables will go to farmers"
says Gtwdon Hill, president,
Onntario Federation._ ,of
' Agriculture:.
"It is true that growers will
'get more for their raw
vegetables this crop year.'
However, the farm price has a
minimal effect .cin the retail
shelves, Increased prices to far-
mers will amount to about :,3
per cent at the retail level," he
said. •
Hill points out that farmers
got 3.5c for the peas in the 14 -
ounce .can retailing 'in mid-
April for 26c, ,Under the new
contract, farmers will get 6c.
Growers now get lc for the
carrots in a 14 -ounce 'can
selling for .17c. From the new
crop, grower's will get Loc.
For the 'green beans in a 14 -
ounce can retailing for 27c,'far-
mers now get 2.7c. The new
crop will give them 3.8c.
"The 'increased price to far-
mers averages out to lc per 14 -
ounce can over the full range of
canned vegetables. When
processors accuse • farmers of
forcing up the retail price by 30
per cent -- they are hiding
behind the good image of far-
mers. Processors .are now
growing a large• amount of
vegetables on their own land.
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Ontari� Hydro files.
new rate application
Ontario Hydro has submitted
its application to the Ontario
minister of energy for an in, -
crease in wholesale power rates
for 1975. The application Will
be reviewed by the Ontario
Energy Board in-p-O'l"i.c
hearings beginning June 10.
The new rates would mean.
increases of about leper cent
for 1975 to municipal utilities,
who buy in bulk from Ontario
Hydro and in turn supply the
majority of Ontario's 2.5
million users. Annual, in-.
creases of 10 to 15 per cent are
anticipated to be necessary
through the -1975-79 five year
period. • . - .
For large industrial_ users
served directly by., Ontario
Hydro, an -increase of about 16
.,Per c.ent is proposed for 1975•
This rate also provides for
recovery, over a five year
period, of deficits outstanding
w against . the direct industrial
customers at the end of 1973.
The rates for some 680,000
rural .customers, -who receive
power directly from Ontario
Hydro, will be announced later.
In its February 28th written
submission related to -the
Energy Board's review of
Hydro's' financial policies and
objectives, Hydro- presented
three alternative financial
programs, but later indicated
its preference for continuation
of the 1974 financial program.
The three plans presented'to
the Board illustrated Hydro's
concernwith the balance het --
ween . what is, being paid by
customers and what is being
borrowed. '
Hydro is recommending t.he.,
'continuation of the system ex-
pansion charge in the cost of
power at the 1974 rate. It
recognized in its :submission
that with heavy capit`;hi coin-
-1.
On these vegetables, the
~
processorwill pocket the en-
tire increase. Canning Food
Prices Review Board chairman
Beryl Plumptre into supporting
their statement undermines
producers' confidence i'n' t -he in-
leprity it1f the review hoard.
"When it costs 4c to 6c for
the can, and 1.4c for the carrots
in a. 14=ounce can, who is rip -
.ping' who off?" Hill asked. '
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mitments for the future such a
charge might" reasonably have
been increased. However, it
was felt by- Hydro that the
adoption of a higher level of
charges would result in an
unacceptably high rate in-
crease.
Escalation of salaries and
wages, interest rates and prices
for fuel, materials, equipment
and prpperty, along with the
need to expand the system to
serve Ontario are the main fac-
tors underlying the proposed
increases.
With 40 per cent of Hydro's
generating capacirty, dependent
on coal, oil or natural gas, the
utility has been hit hard by in-
creasing prices of theae fuels. -
Coal, which is used to fuel the
majority of Hydro's thermal
stations', will increase an
estin1'ated 34 per cent this
and 'a further 17 per cent in
1975, while natural gas and oil
prices are expected to increase.
by even greater percentages
over the same two years.
The effect of these 'increases
will be magnified during the
balance of the 1975-79 five year
period, since over 60 per cent'of
the new generating units
required in the period are coal
or oil fired.
The growth in demand for
electricity is expected to con-
tinue at about seven per cent,a
year, To meet this need On-
tario Hydrois committed to
bringing into service by 1979 an
additional eight million
kilowatts of capacity. In' in-
flated 'dollars this will mean
the spending of $9 billion. In
real terms the allocation of
resources to electric power ex-
pansion swill be much more
moderate.
Ontario—, -Hydro anticipates
that the Canadian -economy
during the five year period will
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experience a high level of
growth, but owidglip part to the
unprecedented rate of inflation
will call; fora heavy demand T
for capital funds. To preserve-
Ontario 1Hydro'sostrong finan-
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it effect rate' adjustments that
will;- maintain a sensible
-
balance in financing its expan-
sion program oi}t of current
revenues and debt borrowing.
,The Ontario • Energy Board
has already reviewed Hydro's
future construction program
and its financial policies and
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By the end of ' August -the
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