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Clinton News-Record, 1985-5-29, Page 4Page 4—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY. MAY 29. 1985 The Clinton News.Rocord is published each Wednesday at P.O. Ram 39. Clinton. Ontario. Canada. NOMILO. lei.: 482-3.93. Subscription Rate: Canada -$19.73 Sr. Citisen - $10.79 par year U.S.A. foreign - 95.00 per year 1t is registered as second class mall by the post office ander the permit number 0017. The News -Record Incorporoted in 1924 the Huron Nawm.Rtxwd. founded In 1881, and The Clinton News Era, founded In 1845. Tata{ press runs 3.700. Y Incorporating THE BLYTH STANDARD J. HOWARD AITKCEN - Publlshor SHELLEY PAcPWEE - Editor GARY HAIST - Advortiking Mon ager MARY ANN HOLLENRECK -'Office Manager MEMBER Display advortlsln0 rotes avoilablo on request. Ask for Rate Card No. 15 effective October 1, 1984. A MEMBER Give MPs two cents worth By Tony Carlson If you're mad as you know what, you don't have to take it any more. • The price hike for postage has many of us boiling, but there is a chance of turning the tide. Unless the government steps in, the cost o€ a first-class letter will be jacked up to 34 cents on June 24 - a 100 per cent rise in just four years - and rates in all other categories will follow suit. How many other items on your shopping list have doubled in price in that time? To add insult to injury, the post office defends, the increases, gloating that there have been none for two years. Hey gang, they add, we also settled with our unions (most of them anyway) without subjecting you to a strike. Where's your beef? Awfully decent, we say, but wa". just a minute. How can you justify an incl ' ase when: • your productivity is still at 1972 lc /els, before you spent all those, millions on high tech gadgets to allegedly move the mail faster? •it costs us nearly 48 per cent more to mail a letter than it does our U.S. neighbors and our postal system is 40 per cent less produc- tive? ' labor costs account for 73 per cent *of Canada Post's spending compared to only 55 per cent in the dark ages of 1970 BHT ( Before High Tech)? But never mind, Michael Warren and Company. It's out of your hands now and in- to the government's corner, where lies the real power to veto the increase and bring some sense to this saga of soaring rates. That's where the public can come in, ad- vising its elected representatives to hang tough. For surely this is the first test of the resolve of the government which won such a huge mandate last summer. "The Mulroney government has talked a great deal about all Canadians having to im- prove productivity and be more com- petitive," says John Bulloch, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. "Now it is time for that, government to show leadership in both those areas by refusing to approve the postal increase. "The business community and the public are looking more and more at the federal government's deeds, not just at its words. If these damaging postal increases are rubber-stamped by this government, its redibility will be severely shaken." He's right. But Ottawa must still be con- vinced that rates are a problem. Sure, there's a Gallup poll which shows that 81.5 per cent of us say any hike is unwarranted. But wouldn't our political leaders be more impressed if bagsof protest mail piled up on Parliament Hill urging a rollback of the in- crease? You can bet that our individual members of Parliament. would feel the heat. if thousands of us wrote tO them care of House of Commons, Parliament Buildings, Ot- tawa, K1A 0A6. We could even exercise our, right to send letters to our MPs. without postage. Furthermore, because they are usually sensitive to the attitudes of the folks back home, we could contact their local riding offices. It's a' long -shot; but worth a try.. Campaign for Foodland-Hydro Dear Editor: The Goderich Township division of The Foodland-Hydro Committee is currently undertaking a collection campaign within the township. The,..Foodland-Hydro Committee intends to fight .dile construction of any hydro cor- ridors through prime agricultural land, and to this extent, needs a fund, to draw from in preparing a strong case. Most townships within the area from Bruce to London have joined the Foodland-Hydro Committee and have conducted door to door blitzes to col- lect monies.e drive in Goderich Township is c'''=ntly underway, with the main emphasis on the grey affected areas. A campaign of this nature is very time con- suming and time is of the essence both to the volunteers and the Committee. If you live within the grey area and do not see one of the volunteers in the next two weeks or you live in an area not directly af- fected by the proposed corridor and would like to donate to the cause please contact, the Goderich Township Director Evert Ridder at 482-5033 or myself at 482-9327. We ap- preciate your assistance and cooperation. Sincerely, George Thompson Red Cross says thanks Dear Editor: On behalf of the Red Cross and the Kinette Club of Clinton I would like to convey our thanks to everyone who helped to make our Blood Donor Clinic a success. We had 240 people attend and collected 222 pints of blood. Thank you to Central Huron Secondary School for the facilities, the custodians for setting up and cleaning up, and to the students who assisted in unloading the truck. Thank ou to the Beta Sigma Phi for telephoning, ' Huron & Erie Beverages for donating the Coke, and Clinton Public Hospital for donating the ice. • A special thank -you tO Katirnavik, the volunteers who helped and especially all those who donated the "Gift of Life". Thanks also to Dean Reid and Dixie Lee for the use of their. signs. With :.incere thanks, Service Chairperson, Kinette Club of Clinton, • Cheryl Hohner Behind The Scenes By Keith Roulston Fashion liberation It was a conversation that I felt as if 1 was eavesdropping on, even if it was on the radio. When men are talking about fashions in clothes,,{ feel like I'm in the wrong room. When the subject of fashion comes up, I feel almost as out of my depth as when com- puter people start talking about integrated circuits and bits and bytes, or accountants start talking about capital cost allowances. So when the panelists on the radio show were talking about this and that fashion my mind kind of went numb until I heard the phrase "Men aren't liberated enough to wear that". Liberated? What has liberated to do with fashion? I must say if 'there's one thing I'm liberated about it's clothes. I wear a tie about twice a year which is two too many times. Burning of all ties would be akin to the freeing of the slaves as a social move- ment. Can anybody give me one good reason men should tie four feet of cloth of the latest fashion -sanctioned color, pattern and width tightly around their nee' :s? Can anybody ex- plain what sense this custom made in the first place? - Fashion is something that doesn't have to make sense, unless of course it's someone else's fashion. There used to be a fashion in China to bind the feet of female babies to give them fashionably tiny feet. When word of this reached the west people were repuls- ed at the barbarity of it all. • One has just to leaf through the pages of a magazine like National Geographic to see fashions we would think were silly, even cruel. There are tribes where women put larger and larger plates in their lower lips until they extend like a shovel. There are tribes where beads are sewn into the skin as decoration. We all - writhe in agony at the thought. Then women and more than a few men, go out and get bilres punched in their ears to put • decorations in. Liberated? if i were a woman one of the first things I'd want to liberate inyself from was some of the silly fashions women have got stuck with by tradition. When the "burn the bra" movement started it seemed like women might be going to throw off the shackles of the fashion industry but today's upwardly mobile generation of women are more fashion conscious than ever. Why would any "liberated" woman wear high heels. They are the most nonsensical invention in history 1 right up there with the tie). As a man, I must admit that high heels • do give an attractive shape to a woman's legs but today's liperated women don't want to be sex objects so why do they suffer through tired feet, turned ankles and bu- nions? Why do women wear dresses which necessitate nylon stockings, surely one of the most expensive fashion items.around at the rate they wear out? One thing younger women have freed themselves from so far is the girdle but in about five years time, when today's exercise-concsious wtfinen find it harder to keep the pounds off, the girdle business will likely boom again. (bice again they'll show that people want to he liberated from everything but fashion. ateidosco....R What drives people from their beds at seven o'clock on Saturday mornings in search of garage sales? What makes people impulsively spent their hard earned money on items of unknown origin and use? What fills our closests and drawers, is stuffed under the beds and in the basements? Junk. I've just spent the last week assessing my junk. The close scrutiny of my collection of worthless possessions resulted in a good donation to a local garage sale for charity. I was pleased to make the contribution - my good deed for a worthy cause. But I was disappointed to find that my book shelves, my drawers and. my closests are no less empty. I expected to find seads of additional room, but the simple fact of the matter is, everything's still full. My desk drawers at work are filled, my bookshelves are piled high, my closets are jammed packed. There's no space for tools in the basement cupboards, not room for one more fork in the kitchen drawer. My collection of junk never diminishes, but it never grows. As I haul a box out, I'm just as likely spend a couple of bucks and br- ing a new supply of junk in. Good junk is irresistible to buy and dif- ficult to part with. It takes a stronger willed person than myself to pass up a good bargain at an auc- tion sale, or to avoid stopping in at the garage sale down the street. One good buy can make a person an avid junk collector. That $2 chair, the box of curtains for a buck, that great bargain on a lawn mower is all it takes. ' By Shelley McPhee Buying is the fun part, but parting with one's junk is no easy matter. I still can't give up my old Viewmaster or my first wat- ch. Neither work anymore, but they bring back lots of great memories from my childhood. I hate throwing out good magazines, so I simply keep them all. But I insist that my husband must dump his piles of Sports Il- lustrated magazines.. Makes more room for. mine. I'm always cautious about giving away good clothes. Someday they may come back in style. Someday I may be skinny enough again and they'll fit. And what about broken toasters and irons? They may not work, but they still look like new and too good to throw away. Match books, grocery bags, mismatched socks and earrings, old winter coats and snow tires, souvenirs from Upper Canada Village, half empty bottles of.shampoo, fad- ed towels and sheets, old bowling trophies, umpteen Mason jars and odd coffee mugs - they quietly collect and multiply over the years until one day the kitchen drawer no longer opens and there's no room left in the garage for the car. Yard sale season is a good time to niake the commitment to houseclean. You can hold your own sale and turn those unwanted items into cash. Those articles that you considered to be junk may be so- meone else's treasure. If you're like me, not ambitious enough to stage your own sale, you can donate your junk to charity. Boxes of clothes, books and assorted paraphernalia regularly leave my house. So far no one's ever turned nie away. If you can't bear to part with your junk Sugar and- Spice you can recycle it. That usually works for about six months. Then you realize why you junked it in the first place, and out it goes again. . The ruthless housecleaner sends everything to the dump. It used to be that you could find all sorts of good old antiques at the dump. That was before old furniture was really popular. Today people are more selective about what they send to the dump. A good general rule of thumb to follow is that if it's beyond repair - dump it. It takes stamina and determination to avoid collecting junk. Today I'm making a new commitment to throw out everything that hasn't been .worn or used in the past year. Everything, that is, except my paper- back novels, my favorite old sweat suit, those extra knives and forks, my treasured box of letters from childhood penpals, my stack of Chatelaine magazines, the bag of scrap material, the cans of paint they might come in handy someday. + + + Mr. and Mrs.. Albert Leibold and family of Clinton report that. they were in Chatham recently, attending the wedding of their granddaughter, Kimberely Malcolm. Donald Leibold was also home from Chilliwack B.C., attending his sister's wed- ding. - + + + Lorraine Scott of Brucefield thanks everyone who donated to the recent canvass for the Canadian Cancer Society. A total of $313 was raised in the village. Thanks goes out to canvassers Eunice Taylor, Cathy Boon, Joan Caldwell, Anita Scroggs and Cliff Henderson. 141131 Right in the eye! IF ever you decide to 'do some research on the lower forms of wit, I can tell you how to go about it. Just get yourself a black eye. I had a doozer one time. My wife gave it to me. All right. Not that way. She was sitting in the car, waiting for me to carry the groceries into the house' through the rain. Just as I bent and reached for the car door to open it and ask her'if that was all, she open- ed it smartly from the inside to ask me why I hadn't brought out an umbrella. When the .door nailed me in the eye, ..I thought I was a goner. My wife shrieked an ran straight into the house to see whet my "loss of limb or eye" accident policy was paid up. Within a few minutes, the eye was the size and color of a bartender's beezer. But by the time we'd finished arguing about whose fault it had been, it was obvious that I'd live. We didn't have a piece of steak, and if we'd had, I doubt that it would have been sacrificed. But the Old Girl, bless her, dug out some hamburgthat was going a bit blue, By Bill Smiley and made me' lie down with a big hamburg poultice on the injured optic. Right off the ice, it felt pretty good at that, and I dropped off to sleep, moaning but brave. During the night, the bandage work- ed loose, and when I woke in the dark, I thought the eye hadfallen out. But it was on- ly hamburg, allover the pillow. • Next morning, the orb looked like a purple golf ball. We patched it up as best we could, and I set off to face the wits. The comments were hilarious. They rang- ed from the simple, dry brilliance of "Hoo hitcha?" and "Forget to duck, eh?" to the coy, insinuating, "I knew, she'd catch up with ya some day." They ran the scin-. tillating gamut from the' inevitable, "I sup- pose ya ran into a door" to the ineffably humorous sally, 'Meet the former welterweight champ of ` the Smiley household." I came back with some real funnies myself. "My wife," I replied. "Footwork isn't what it used to be." I admitted. "Yotta see the other guy," I quipped. I can go along with a joke as well as the next bird. But after 'a while, in fact if I remember rightly, it was just after the 14th "Hoo hit- cha?", I began getting a little sore, I mean, fun's fun, you know, but, after all. So, when the next joker made his move, L, told him, dolefully, that a maiden lady who didn't like my column had thrown acid in my face, and that I'd never have the sight of it again. He turned green. My next customer was a woman, who tit- tered, "That'll teach you to write. things about your wife in that column of yours." I gave her a gentle, sad look from my good eye, and suggested that she not let the divorce alienate her from my wife. I left her with her mouth open. I quickly disposed of an elderly lady, strong in the temperance movement, by in- forming her the injury had been received from my young daughter, when she -clubbed me on the eye with a half -empty, whiskey bottle. It's goof] sport. Next time the old trouble -and -strife hangs one on you, Jack, you'll know what to do. Say MP Jack Riddell Counties well organized in Hydro issue Ontario Hydro has been 'studying alter- native transmission systems within the Southwestern Ontario region for the power which is coming on stream at the Bruce Nuclear Plant. Ontario Hydro's stated pur- poses for .studying these systems are threefold. 1. Connect the Bruce .Power Plant into the existing system. 2. Supply a reliable electrical supply to meet the demand in Southwestern Ontario. 3. Maintain an adequate interchange capacity with Michigan. It has been stated that it is indefensible to have surplus power "bottled up" in the Bruce Nuclear Plant. There appear to 'be five .parameters which Elydro deemed "requirements for a good system" 1. Two entirely separate 500 ESV lines are re- quired to bring power to the 1 ondon region. Should one line be lost the second line would be available as a back-up as the odds of both lines being lost are remote. 2. Reliability and security of the systems is important as stated previously. 3. improvement on the "transient stability" of the northeastern American transmission system. Essentially transient ability allows for the adequate distribution of power surges through'.ot the entire northeastern American system. If these surges are not distribute I and absorbed, black -outs will result •.s lines will "burn -out" and cease to function. The hest. example of such happen- ings was in 1965 when the entire Nor- theastern United States were without power as a result of the significant power surge in the Ontario system. 'Transient stability is a very important. consideration of system planning. 4. Although it is not part of this undertaking, a future 500 KV line must be constructed linking the 1.00don arca transformer station with the Michigan system. According to On- tario Hydro the faster a system is able to get the "bottled up" energy from the Bruce Nuclear Plant int() the existing system the more economically and in effect the better it proves to be. All systems are technically evaluated on their ability' to handle stress or unusual cir- cumstances. The better a system can handle this stress the more preferred it is technical- ly. Hydro officials stated that their ability to evaluate individual systems has improved significantly since their initial studies in 1981. This is especially the case with com- puter modelling of transient instability of power system., Two major components of this evaluation are a direct result of the previous delay in the study. It has now become very impor- tant to have the "locked up" energy out of the generation source as quickly as possible for two reasons; cost and the need to reduce the consurnption of coal from coal thermal generating plants that cause acid rain emis- sions. The Bruce to Esse transmission line is easier to constrt.ct, shorter in length and therefore, may be completed approximately 10 months earlier. Hydro claims that $4 to $5 million of locked up energy is wasted a mon- th. Therefore, this line could result in sav- ingsof $40 to $50 million. • One may then conclude that any system with a Bruce to'Essa component will have a significant cost saving advantage over one that does not. • In the 1980 system study, six transmission systems were identified as alternatives and were called MI to M6. Alternatives have now been narrowed down to three of the original systems and the one newly in- troduced potential alternative. I will describe each alternative individually. Plan MI - consists of one two circuit transmission line from Bruck to 1 ondon and one single circuit line frnin Nanticoke to London. This was the preferred system in the 1980 system study. Hydro evaluation is medium cost and technically good. Plan M3 - consists of one double circuit transmission line from Bruce to Essa and two single circuit lines froin Nanticoke to i,ondon. This was the system that was ap- proved by the Joint Board after the system plan hearings on the matter in 1981. Elydro evaluation is most costly and least technically acceptable. Plan M5 - consists of two single circuit lines from Bruce to London and one single circuit line from Bruce to Essa. Hydro evaluation is least costly and technically good. Plan M7 - has just been introduced and consists of one single circuit transmission line from Bruce to l' ssa. One double circuit line from Bruce to i xindon and One single circuit line from Nanticoke to i,ondon. Hydro evaluation ..is medium cost and technically the best. To determine the total cost of each in- dividual system plan, three components are identified. 1. Capital cost of construction. 2. Cost of electrical losses as a result of system transmission capabilities. Major losses through resistance are a function of line length, and power loss is also affected by the number of circuits leaving the generating source. 3. Getting "bottled up" energy out of the Bruce Plant as quickly as possible. - Using these components Hydro officials have costed out the four alternative systems. . The total cost of Plan M1 is $467 million; Plan M3 $513 million; M5 - $372 million; M7 - $437 million. These costs include the capital costs, the extra power, losses for the first twenty years and the cost of locked up energy. These costs are approximate in 1985 dollars and relative in nature. Therefore, they should only be used for comparison purposes. As you can see Plan M5 is $65 million less ex- pensive than the nearest alternative. Hydro officials have not yet given any in- dication of their preferred system. The only conclusions one can draw at this time are that Plan M3 will not be the recornmended system plan of Hydro and Plan M5 which in- eludes two single circuit lines either on the same or different right of ways from Bruce to London is a very good candidate for being Hydro's preferred system. The following is a schedule for the re:,' ing portions of the preconstruction proje"t. ,June 3rd - Final input. into the proposed system plans. • 1Vfid-June - Preferred alternative sys' 'ms and routes within the systems wi1, be established. July 8th - Hydro Board will make"the under- taking public. August 4 - Environmental Assessment .will be presented to the Ministry of the Environ- ment for their evaluation. November Ilth - Earliest start of the Joint Board hearing with respect to the undertak- ing. Despite the efforts of Huron and Mid- dlesex Counties Ontario Hydro has not changed a previous position that the system evaluation will not be public and the deci- sion on a preferred system will be made ad- ministratively. This is the only information that will be provided by Hydro prior to the preferred system being chosen and as you can see from the information that I have provided, arising from a third study report which was completed for the Middlesex Planning Committee, system consideration seems to indicate that Hydro's preferred system will not be M3 as previously chosen by the Joint Board. The location of the power corridor is a very real concern to people living in Huron and Middlesex Counties and knowing their interest in this matter 1 thought it prudent to forward this information on the systems considerations. If the Ontario Government is sincere about its preservation of farmland policy, it will surely have some input into the decision makingprocess of Ontario Hydro. The Municipalities in Huron and Mid- dlesex Counties objecting to the con- struction of a power corridor from Douglas Point south to London are well organized to express their objections through the reten- tion of Earl Cherniak of Lerner and Associates of London and his assistant Peter Kryworuk. •