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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-01-24, Page 5•,,,,,,74r,"•••nts7r5te.,rst..V.r..rt•rrt-0,,• • • . "f• The, President of Goderlch." Elevators Unlited has annoUnced- 4that the firm has begun i" $6000:00 expansion of its grain „handling facilities th4GOderieh harbour. George Parsons said' ' new ship loading system will • be installed to im- prOVe service • to • the *eSSela Wliteb take on grain at the, Lake fluron •port. • , • • A new ship loading tower will be constructed neXt to the- one the • company Currently has in •operation The additional tower -will allow lake freighters .to 'receive grain from two loading Colborne Township Recreation Committee held , its • meetihg in Colborne Township. Hall on Wednesday evening, January 16 with a fair attendance. President, Leonard Fisher, • opened the meeting and welcomed all present. Mrs. Reg Riehl, secretary, read the minutes of the last. meeting. Several items•of business were discussed and attended to. Plans were finalized for a, beginnersor refresher course in bridge to be held in Colborne Town- ship Hall Monday evenings. The first such class was this past Monday evening, January 21. The card parties will continue every second and fourth Thursday of the month in Colborne Township Hall with the next card party to be this Thursday; January 24 at 8 p.m, _ plans are being made to have' a skating rink at Beam iller on the Forester Hall grounds but this cannot be realized until there is sufficient snow to start a rink. Business being con- cluded, the meeting adjourned. the ,com- Dear Editor... • from page 4 the waterways". During 1979, the O.P.P. investigated 24 1 fatal snowvehicle accidents resulting in the deaths of 27, persons and if' the __present trenc1 continues., an increase in the 1980 figures may well occur. der. You take the -dif-,. Terence between 32 and 68 F. and you get 36 degrees. Divide that in one-half and yOu get 18. This you subtract from 32 and you find out they ar.e talking — They say- that- Canada about 10 degrees F ----:--should be -the same as spouts at the same time. The Elevator's ship loading eapabiliUes Will wiereas.e frorn 20,000 WSW& per heur to 50,00Q bushels per hour. - Currently it takes approxirhatoly three working clays to load a maximum Size lake mittee will meet again oil Wednesday, April 2 so mark you': calendar and plan to attend with suggestions for further* recreation. • 441 NEWS The next project for the 4.H girls -will' be "Your corner of the • world," • which has to do • with decorating your bedroom, different color schemes and making a macrame hanger and a •free choice article. Group 1 which will be led by Helen Brindley and Mrs. Ken Brindley, plan on starting this project next week. Now we get int& th really good stuff. Litres kilos, centimetres. How did we ever get to this point? Referendum order of council or communist vote? freighter. ?arsons said the Increased capability would permit that Seine freighter to be filled in 16 working hours. The more efficient loading.will mean less in - harbour time for ,the ships, he said. The new tower will also • allow the company ,to • If any • girls are • in- • terested in taking this 4-H • project, please contact -these leaders at 524-8092 or 524-6430 by the' end of the week. This will help the leaders plan their work and they can advise what day the project will • start. ELECTION Election Day on February 18 is fast ap- proaching. If you have . moved to Colborne Township since •the last election in the spring, be sure your name is on.the voters' list.This also applies if you' have moved Turn to page 12 • e and cut off 11/2 yards. We , think! This cpuld go ch forever...It was good to , hear that the three test cities where super- markets were converting --to. metr4C-were getting•oo to -u --ch clisto-rner op 'hat's, fairly cool but • most of . the rest of the nothing to worry about. world; Who in H is • The other day a THEY? If eery place • W.G. Hassel - Stranger asked, "How far •was the same there would •No. 3649, P.0, is it to London?" be no need to travel to see ' ThaVs easy. Everyone and appreCiate the rest of . Community Services in Godericli knows it's -the-world. I like Canada Officer. Metric be damned about 112 kilometers. - .•the way it is or should I • "That's great,- they say was. say. - "Thank. By the Gas goes up tw cents a way, how long will it take gallon. ?oil --s •the ... te get th, , Dear Editor: • I'm even terriVed to say fuddle duddle. We are getting so Much pushed down our throats that for one am starting to,. choke. It all started with Celsius some years ago: Great deal,Nothing to it. Zero is freezing and 100 is boiling. That's easy. What about in between? All I can remember for sure is that 20 Celsius equals 68 degrees F., therefore, it makes sense that higher than -20 is warmer and lower is cooler, but how mush? The other night it was - 10C. That's a little her- , ere? ' PuruPs have gone from 42 _ You tell them about one to 43 cents a litre. Not too and a -quarter hours. You bad you think, 'til get • a- smile of un- someone reminds you derstanding as they come there are 41,4 litres per up with about 60-65 miles. gallon. That's 41,4 cents Where it g s you is in per gal. , - unf a m il iar . colintry. Next comes milk in Junior asks, "How long " cartons changing from before we get there?" quarts Co litres. You will . • That's not too tough a _pay the sarriebilt get less. question if you have a The extra money goes to newer car. The next sign help pay for converting says 130 KM. Youlook at from Canadian to metric. your speed dial and see My wife wants to buy . that's about 80 miles, so ' 11/2 yards of material for you feel fairly smart as . a pattern she has. The you say one and a half clerk wanted to know how hours give or take five. many centimetres that What happens • if you -was. All she could say don't happen to .be in a was she needed 41/2 feet. car or have a new one After a look that in - where the dial is in KM dicated my wife was a bit Only? You change - the of a dummy, the clerk got - subject. . her conversion table out 'position, the Metric Bureaucracy has post- poned the license to steal. It has to cost millions to convert, to metric • packaging, and guess •Who will pay? I felt I was of erage intelligence but when. they cofne out with metric made easy propaganda, I ' m beginning to have second thoughts. I am going to say it...FUDDLE-DUDDLE. The way I see it, the, first party to say they are going to back off on metric conversion...gets • my vote February 18.. la create load salt water shiRs now. The oceangoing vessels, which sit higher out of the water than lake freighters, can not be accommodated by the tower currently in use. • "We'll be in a better Coition, to ship c -rt corn", said,Parsons. ThkcOrnpeny has yet to fill a salt water ship, .however ifs expected that ocean going° vessels will take on grain hereonce the new. system is in- stalled. Once the larger vessels can be loaded at Goderich grain will not have to be trans -shipped. • Grain from Western Canada and Ontario is currently taken by lake fr-eightr--tor Montreal and reloaded onto ocean going ships for delivery to export markets. •, • The grain will retain its quality and the costs of, rehandling will , be reduced.. . The , •=love will he benefieial to farmers as it will improve the ability to serve oversep markets. Ch-apman' Grain System of Chatharn -will begin work on the project immediately, "We're hoping it will be com- pleted 'by April or early May to take advantage of the spring movement of corn", said Parsons. The construction will involve the erection of the shipping tower, in- stallation' of silo and bridge conveyors -and an electronic weighing scale. Grain passing through the system will be automatically weighed which is an advance over the old loading system, which ' involved the Ladies' Gladstone Watch ONLY $4 Ci PLUS '2°80 TAX OR $39:45%01.L15 TAX U.S. COINS 1964 OR BEFORE CANADIAN 1967 OR BEFORE MALL STORES -ONLY • LIMITED QUANTITY - JEWELLERY GODERICH Suncoast Mafl KINCARDINE' Sutton Park Mall 524-2924; 396-4189 • • ' .• • " •••••• , GOO ..ffiSPAY • • ,Nrg"4,1P80,- manual weighing ef the - grain. A new grain dust ,cotlection system will be installed also. A yacourn mechanism will "reduee the, dust which escapes into the air when trucks are, unloading ' at . the elevatOrs. ' . The construction proj ct is seen as another - step forward for the corartanY,which has .spent more thsn one rnilliOn dollars In the past ti,V0 $ears. to_iippreve, its 4ciaigc.s. Most of the • grain passing through the new system will be corn, ageounts for More than 75 • percent pf the annual Ontario grain transfer at •-the eievitterat balagee,la On*arc - what and barley. . Iletiveen 3 and 5 milt* ' blishels of corn Are-- • handled by the A:leV:gtor ,Company each year and Parsons expects the new ship leading systemwill generate a nininium .of one, million bushels more corn 5 • Robert Burns on Saturday, January 26, 1980 at 7 p.m. Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain 6' the puddin'-race! TI I f: ;lam wrioNAL CELEBRATION WILL 1•NC1U1YE • . .SC07E:IS Li FARE ALL PREPARED INDUR OAN KITCHEN .1-W.011R . M'TISH.CHEF. JIMMIE 0110.NNE1,1,. . • Bannocks and Kippers- . - Butteries and Cock a. 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