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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-11-28, Page 11 (2)wok GODERICH SIONAL-BTAR, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 197 Shirley Weary named Huron NDP president Shirley Weary, a Clinton Secondary School teacher, was re-elected to the position of President of the Huron New Democratic Party .Rit 'Association al the Annual Meeting held in Goderich last week. . She holds the position,for her fourth term. In accepting the position, she predicted that 1975 "will bring the ehd of 'the Sorting ak es time Parttime post offiCe employee Margaret Young sorts the mail going out of town according to the postal code. The pigeon holes are marked with the code of each office to which the mail will be sent first. Margaret is only concerned wi.th the first three characters in the code. (staff photo) -, Dav4 government in Ontario" and calledon NDP members to prepare for the coming Provin- cial election. Later in the norninations, she defeated Philip Walker of Gtand Bend, for the po,sition of Provincial Council Delegate. Although the.position does dot take effect until January 1975; she will attend the December 14 meeting in Toronto to oderich nurse killed in head-on crash BY WILMA OKE nurse, Nancy Spence of 97a Napier Street, died from in- juries received in a -two-car collision Saturday morning on Highway 8, 4 miles east of Chin - ton: 'lacerations to lower lip and jaw. and to the right knee. The -a-utomobiles were Constable Ray Primeau of ProvinciaL Police investigated the accident. Miss gpence, alone in the - eastbound car, was pronounced dead at University Hospital, Dr. Stanley Alkemade of Seagorth, the only -occupant of the other car . yas admitted to Clinton Public Hospital with multiple bruising and On Detember 21 replace Paul Cal:toll, a Goderich •• member, who resigned recently when he was elected to the Ontario NDP Other ExecUtive members for 1975 will be: Philiif Welker, Grand Bend, Vice -President; Mary, Carroll, Goderich, secretary; Marilyn Penfold, Goderich, treasurer; David Weary, Goderich, organizer; Phil Walker, Grand Bend, council alternate. In other husiness, the meeting ,,moved..to endorse a testimonial dinner proposed for the retiring Federal party Leader David Lewis which is proposed for Centennial Hall in London in early 1975. Further action regarding.,the, Mustard Report, the topic for the October general meeting was deferred pending further reports from Jan Dukstra, MPP, the 'NDP health critic, concerns of members ..as ex- pressed at the previous GARNET WRIGHT for Goderich Township Council • lf elected, will' continue to. work for the best In- terests of Goderich Townshjp and surrounding community. Having been on council for the,past 4 years, I would aPpreciate yoar vote for the next term. Post office wants mail coded ' If someone came up to y'on on the street and offered you $25 if you could tell them your postal code could you collect the money? - ir HURON .The Code, simple and ef- . ficient as. it is, is used by only 40 percent of the people mailing letters in Godcrich. The Goderich Post Office has BUS -MESS MACHINES Ai conducted a random sampling of the mail going out of town daily and discovered that the usage of, the code iS about 40 pereent, half Zif what will be needed in 1975. The sampling has been done every day for the past two years. The postal code was in- troduced to the Canadian 0 mailer about four years ago in an effort to speed -up mail processing in 'large volume cen- tres. It may seem like a con- fuSing addition to an address - but to the mailman, it is very simple to decipher and sort. The first, three characters in the code are 'called . area designators. --LThey define an area of about 120 city blocks in • 1 See all the "most, gifted" $ typewriters here today! • 113 ONTARIO ST., • CLINTON. ONTARIO CHRISTMAS ID,EAS‘) Clinton's Christmas Shop now open Sunday 'til With fruit, foliages, fancy strings and table rings Wreaths, swags, cards and candles, ribbon and wrap new arrivals weekly and special orders proMptly. filled. Only at the original CORRECTION Last week. several words were omitted from the ad for W. J. Mills We apologize for any misunderstandings. The correct ad should have read: , As a Public Utilities Commlisioner I stand against regiodalization ot our Public • Utilities due to trriy observance of other utilities who have been regionalized, for in- stance it is a published fact that one municipality's costs of operation have doubled under regional control, and other areas have coine close. to the saMe ex- perience.'1 am asking your support due to my 21 years of. experience as a Com- missioner on your behalf. I also spent 10 -years on the executive of the Ontario Municipal Electric Association,c-District 5, which I rellnoulshed,in order to spend more time locally on your behalf. This coming year will be a very Important one due to the above mentioned fa6ts ffind would like to see this important issue settled satisfac-' torily for the ratepayerii and „utility customers for the corporation of the Town of Godedch. VOTE W.J. MILLS W.J. Mills FOR PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION an urban area or about 200 small post offices in a -rural area. Each character from left to right narrows the destination of the letter down, to a confined area until the -4° only. thing not known is "the house number and this should be in the address as well. The first letter of the code in- dicates,. the vovince. For On- tario the letters R,L,M,N,P'will be included in the code. The second and third characters in- dicate rural or urban . destination. A zero is for a rural area afid one to 'Mile „ ban. The last three characters are called the' local designators..In urban areas they specify a very small section of the city, one side of a city block, an apart- ment building, an office -- building or a very. large building firm. In a rural area the last three charae-ters in-. carrier post office. The Goderich Post Office has recently,. taken steps towards encouraging greater use of the postal code, They ,are gathering up the mailing lists from various busineases in town and coding them for no charge., A post office employee is.going to the firm's office and requesting the lists; taking them back to the office, coding them properly and returning them at no cbst to the business. The project is designed to make it easier for large volume • mailers. to use the postal co.& and- to prepare them for ,the 1935 push for a complete con - Version to the code system of , mailing. • Postmaster, Mel FarnsWorth, :of the groderich office, predicts a delay of delivery for mail not . coded in the future. He said . that letters, not coded would be a set aside by the office to be taken care of after all coded mail is done'. 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