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PAGE 6A^-rODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1975
Great Cakes
has winter
ice operofion
An ice operations centre to
aid winter navigation in the
great . Lakes ,-h.•as been
established -in Toronto',"
Transport• Ministed
Jean
A
Marchand announced today.' I decided, as my year-end
project, to ,clean up my writing
Services provided by the
- This is t e tinie of the year
for "but with the old, in with
the new." I honestly did try tog
dg this. But it was hopeless. I
got bogged . down, right up, to
the navel, in my first attempt to
'get rid of the old.
centre, Ice Toronto, includg��
the assembly and
distribution, of deports onice
condition s and forecasts.
Advice on routes through
light ice conditions also are
provided on request of
shipping interests and the
general public. The Toronto
centre may be reached by
telephone at 369-3917; by
telex at U6-23317..
icebreaker activities in
support of shipping are co-
ordinat•ed and directed
through the . centre, which
has a, . mutual agreerrient
with the U.S. Coast Guard to
co-operate in• providing
services whyenever
necessary.
Ship masters _and agents
are urged to keep the centre
informed of 'ship movements
to facilitate efficient use of
limited icebreaker resotir-
ces. •
Responsibility for winter
shiiuing in the Great -Lakes
was formerly held
ministry. headquarters
Ottawa:
by
desk. This may sound' siniple,a
,mere 15 minutes of sorting and
tidying. But you are not
acquainted with rrny writing
desk.
Perhaps you., remember the
myth about Hercules cleaning
out the Augean stables. They
were filled- with cattle, hadn't
been cleaned in decades and
there was a veritable motintairl
of you -know -what. A for-
midable task. He did it without
even using a 'pitch -,fork. He,
diverted' the flow of two rivers
throe h the stables, and" lo!
they were cleansed.
That was child's play com-
pared to cleaning off my desk,
and also ,I am .no Hercules.
do each side of• my
typewriter sits a teetering stack
of papers that t°eaches ap-
proximately to my head, when I
am,sitting at my machine. Hud-
dled between them, like a
sparrow between two huge tam -
cats, squats 'the typewriter.
Occasionally, ane of the piles,
like a glacier', slides
majestically to the floor. .My
there, or even to dust:at, That's had at least ten letters from all ,main reason 'the piles are over the country, and the•
two feet high. I do allow her to States, 'asking,Where a copY
dust the front of the'. desk, —might be obt•hined'• No, I
where the dr`wfirs are,couldn't •find these letters
Trouble is, she's so 'annoyed either, y
she piles the stuff., back in any But the mem iir�S�f,M t him
old order?. .This causes a 'reminded me of -what Barry
problem *hen I. decide"'a calcar Br<tadfoot wrote in his letter.
'the desk at year's end. He's writing another hook
I pick up the first letter. It is called The -Pi& neer Years, and
'from a farmer's wife, corn- . he wondered if I would ask in
plimenting me on my stand for nay column for the names 4 ,
the beef farmer. It is dated oldtimers ` who were sp -ry and
1962. That suggests that the interesting; so that he could in -
intime I cleaned my desk was terview them.
in 1861• %, So there you are, everybody.
• It also poses questions, What Send. the names 'of spry, in -
was my stand on the beef far -
toward
oldtimers,• of either
mer in 1962? I'll 'bet •it was a sex, to Barry oadfoo, re of
little sweeter than my attitude , poubleday BrPublisherst,ra105
toward sirloin. steak prices Bond St., Toronto• O'nt. M,5B.
today. Was. the letter ever, 'an- 1Y3. And the same people will
swered? Who knows? So I puf ,' be happy to provide you with a
it in ..the . stack labelled Who copy .of Ten Lost Years.
Knows. This,turns Out to be the ' ° There. 'My first good deed of
biggest of the many piles I lay 19,75. And that's going to cost
out on the floor. you, Brother Broadfoot, Crows)
The other ',piles bear such Royal will do.
esoteric labels °as: To Be Dealt '
With— Sometime;' Needs Fur- New licence
•
Vow is the time
i
t0. • ...
ther • Study;.. Look Into• This; ", --
.
Silly Old Cranks; To Be An-
swered Definitely In' The New sl,
Year;Complimentary; Over -
The Hill; . and so on. The, d'1 'sale
second largest stack ,is called " ' - •
• . Miscellaneous because I don't Only 9 per cent 'of
know .where else•.^to- put these Ontario's ;motorists have
items. P • purchased their:licence plate
wife picks up the , mess, and' Under the last' item go such renewal 'stickers since they
muttering under . her' breath, • things as: ,a passport •b ap "T -went on sale December 2,
janis it back on the desk. She's-•---' plication' farm;" a -Gill"frorn'the according to the Ministd'y of
forbidden to, disturb anything. ' Strand Palace, London,' Transportation and Com=
England, a -Christmas card munications:
from. my insurance agent; a test. I•f you are one of those who
for Grade 11; an offer .to-do the, have not ;yet purchascd, their
Smiley family Atree for only renewal stickers, there is
$390' (must have been a small every, prospect ,of finding.
, • family); and a reminder that I yourself standing in 'one of
am due at veteran's hospital - the last minute 'line-ups that
, for a chest X-ray (which I . occur during the last week 'of
forgot all' about. • February.
I have a very.definite way of Applicants must present a
handling these,' piles;. completed insurance
Miscetlaneotrs-" I put - back on declaration form': along 'with
the .desk. Over The"I11.1, which their ownership permit and
contains anything more than fee, to the issuing agent.
six yearA 'old, ' goes into the.
This year, ° the insurance
wastebasket,' as does Silly Old
'Cranks,'a very slim' stack of let - forms an be ohtatned in
advance at L.C.O.,ters from ridic' i"lous people who retail
don't agree with me.. outlets. w They are a'l'so
Needs \Further Study goes available at all licence
backf;01•4ekik,.,right:" n.iop issuing offices: If you have,
of Miscellaneous,, Look Into ' this -form completed in
This goes back on the desk on advance, 'your renewal will
-�-. top of Needs Further Study. tak.e less time.
!IV ' Next on the growing pile on the - The validation stickers —
Cm. desk goes Ta Be Dealt With = green ',for cars, black for
Sometime.•trailers are... issued -with
Then I lift the whole pile a,nd . compl'ete instructions on how
slide•. underneath, it, right.Efethe to apply them., -
bott'om, if you'll. pardon •the ex-' Tees for 1975•remain-at,$23
pression, To- Be. Answered' for a 4 -cylinder car; $32_, for
Definitely In The New Year, 6 -cylinders; $40 fox an 8 -
And ',then,• carefully and; ' cylinder''vehicle; and $5 for
delicately, I p1 e' on top of the trailers:
.pile the stack labelled Com- The deadline for having
plimentary. This contains the 1975 stickers on automobile
letters I have received from
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yourhouse for
what i's_insur,ed
for?
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platen is February 28; on
those I -splendid, intelligent trailer plates, March 31.
people who admire my wife .or=
kids or column.
Yes, I ,know they should be
thrown out.' But surely you
wouldn't deny a chap a little'
dint•ment for his ego;, any more
'than, you would begrudge an
old 'lady a 'seat in the chimney
earner, where the fire can warm,;
h'er".
The - piles beside thee
pewritef are now only a 'foot
and,, a half high, and it has
taken a day' and.. a half td sort
them. This may not ,seem like
progress to you, but ,Rome
wasn't built in &.,day, as some
idiot once remarked*
One good thing came out of
this year's sorting. I remem-
bered that T had received a let- '
ter from Barry Broadfoot,
-:author ;:of Ten Lost Years, a
compelling' hook about the
depression, I'd written a
column' about it. * '
_ No, T couldn't find his letter. •
It "rr`Ilirrhav-e-wan'dered-intn..the
CeALanectiLs_sa......nlewher'e,
Btle the memory of his ,,letter
made' me remember than I'd
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Think `Metric
l�Y D. R. 1UNDY
Iti the first article, we talked about ri easur•ement
of LENGTH, using the METRE; and its„decimal fac-
tors.
In, this article; we shall extend our knowledge of the
meji'suren nt; ofm length to the calculation of R'EA and •,.
VOLUI�1,ES, -.
We are all familiar with the method of multiplying
the length and width of an object to get the area• in
square inches or ,square feet. Similarly, in the SI or
Metric system, we might meaSUre the dimensions of
this. newspaper page and get the following:' Length —
57 errs, Width — 44 cm. Tl'r'u•s the area of the page would
he nearly 2500 square cm. The notation used, however,
is cm2, rather than sq. cm. ” ,
A house lot might be 10 m by 35 m, and thus have an
area of 350 m2. In the British, system the unit for
measuring- a large area, like a field,"is the acre. In SI,
10,000 m2 is called a• hectare, abbreviated ha.. So a
hectare would -he an area that is 100 m by 100 m •(about
two football fields).
To calculate—solid Volumes, or the capacity of a
room, for example, the length, width and -height are all
multiplied.. This would give the volume ,in m3, or
perhaps cm3, if it .was a small volume: A `sugar cube
has a volume of slightly.,more than 1 ern3...
When talking about liquid volumes, such as the
amount of gasoline in a tank, or the capacity of a jug of
milk, the, SI system' uses .the• unit LITRE, which is .
roughly equivalent to 35 liquid ounces (British)..
An Im,perialgallon is roughly 4.5.litres, so at current
prices., .gas •gill cost you .about. 14 cents per litre, and
when you ask for a fill up; you can expect them to put
in 30 or 40 litres!
-To measure `small volumes, the litre is subdivided
just as' the metre was for length. The most common,
one being the millilitre, which is one -thousandth' of a
litre. Your morning cup•of coffee, for example would.
he about 200 ,ml. A bottle of beer is ,320 ml and a large
(26 ounce) pop bottle is. nearly 750,m1. Many consumer
goods now. have metric volume -labels on them.. Tooth-
paste, for example can .he bought in 75, 100 or 150 ml
sizes: ...
You will have to learn to he watchful to prevent
being `;taken" by changing~ volumes on goods you
purchase in the stores. For example,, I recently at-
tc'mpte•d• to purchase a large bottle of wine at` thfelocal •
• LCBO store, and cho•s:e one which was listed as an, 80.,
ounce bottle for some 20 or 3Q cents, .lo`wet`'than the
other similar brands: I paid! for it, but when At was
• handed to me, I'noticed it was not 80 ounces, but, rather
2 litres! I knew this. to he close to 70 ounces, and.
complained that they wire advertising falsely. They
seemed 'incredulous an'a even went Th -far as to suggest
that there was really no difference!' They ;were very
put out when I' requested my money back, -but I notice
that they -have 'since changed the' listing opposite this
brand t� read 2 .litres irlsteati'of 80 dunces! ,,,
Next week we will look- at WEIGHTin the SI s•y 'tem,
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The Sill
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Saturday
Goderich
The Leafs
blades in ..1
support of
• Last ,,W'
coach, Ed
some stral
lie had fail
seal his fir
of the ,Lea
has told, it
interview
reporter.,
,The lit
coach st
paper's 91
the Star's
•had "bee
resorting t
in seoutin€
13yrski t
action but
of the • Li
calmed do
half of 1
public he
like it
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blabbing
most reve
very spec
and the
'bring hint.
the blabs
Heist, ,thE
benefit to
team big
,-that-Gary 1
all the Li
chalk to
pretending
to skate h;c
and took
'strategy.
Every p
roster ha,
personally
contents
heart to
,revealled 1
The first
his confit
Dave" Will
ro�
netminder
to keep hi:
• he had to"
shots wit
sequently
walking or
past t -hr
writing,
- hockey Pt!
When . Dav
feet on. S
May not
,pucks bt
tertaining
periods b;
withA'his fe
• Tom I
reported 1.
issued a
stick by
-tempt to
shots dowi
seems the
and Flynn
over pc
however,
another pE
hands, ant
him how
shoot hold
mouth: •
Brian_.1
standout
having 'p
the peel
�yrski, tl
blu.eline
,puck too •
time, he v
the "puck
net. 'Byrs
how to cot
handle- the
and then
may hear
night. ska
•'ones 'two
two, three
Pay' St
"left wins
'difficulty
due to
countered
was simpl
pubk to
having t
stickhandl
a truss at
fans to Vkea
Dennis
Leaf sex s
forget tin;
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at; the bo
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