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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1976-07-22, Page 1L rt T�n Abb,,a n FIRST SECTION POLICE CHIEF ROBERT WITTIG demonstrates how to use an electric marker in Operation Identification. It engraves on most surfaces, glass, wood, plastic, metal, etc. Police say that writing in your social insurance number is ideal. After the engraving is completed, make out a list of articles, both marked and unmarked. Operation Identification Wingham, Thursday, 4Wy 22, 1976 Trust the people sayv. PC leader The federal Prf,t v- COn- Product consumed in the public was federal MP in the Borden servative leader, spca�iag at sector and move more into the government. "Meet Joe Clark Night 4 the private sector." Mr. Clark interspersed his talk Vanastra Recreational ',-ntre Constant references were with various .jokes. One of them Monday night, stated, "•l ue re- made to the shadow cabinet, a ~'aLs at the expense of his ances- ality is that the battleground for group of Conservative men show- tor. Apparently, Colonel Hugh the next election will be here in ing cabinet possibilities. The ref- was a great storyteller. When he Ontario." He felt that marginal erences were made as if to rein- asked where he got his stories, he gains would be made in western force Mr. Clark's statement that replied, "I learned them all at MY Canada, and a good number of his party must build up an alter- mother's knees and other joints." seats would be won in Quebec, as native government. The group is More than once the new PC in the rest of Canada on economic looking into different problems, leader said, "Maureen and I", issues. In order for the Conserva- for instance the validity of the referring to his wife, Maureen tives to emerge victorious they principle of universality forMcTeer, who has been accomp- have to retain all their present social issues for everything ex- anying him on the tour. seats and gain 47 other new seats. sept pensions. The opposition Mr. Clark also referred to PC The mathematical equation leader stressed travelling, "All of associations across the country, would seem to be strengthened by us (members of,the shadow cab- especially the one for this area.. the new and politically knowl- inet ) are going to go around Can- "We will need all your help to win edgeable Mr. Clark. Other things -ada to talk to people." the extra seats." he had to say were, "There is a At the beginning of his South- At the close of his speech he very central importance of agri- western Ontario tour, Mr. Clark was presented with a detailed culture in our -country. We have was in Kincardine. He recalled atlas of the counties of Huron and to recognize that decisions we that his grandfather was born Middlesex with the provision he make we have to live with now. there and then moved to High give it back in two years with an We just can't play around with River, Alberta. Mr. Clark comes extra leaf inscribed "Joe Clark, government.. from a long line of sturdy Con- Prime Minister of Canada". The He declared the motto of the servatives. His great uncle Col- Progressive Conservative party Conservative party would be onel laugh Clark, a Conservative, is setting its sights high. "Trust the People". As an ex- ample of this he said, "There's no way we can form agricultural policy for Canada without the Craft d help of the people." safely He mentioned that Otto Jel- inek, MP for the Number Valley, is working n ways in which prix- o n Mars surface vote entrepeneurship can,be sup- ported. "We hope to give atten- an's curiosty about the pas Mars. The landing craft carried tion to encouragement an enterprising spirit. We can,, with sibUity of life on the planet Mars instruments and cameras to strong leadership, move down the may well be satisfied within the beam messages about the nature the Gross National next few days or weeks. Despite of the planet back to earth. It was percentage of the fact that every reference to the seventh anniversa of man's Why not use it and help put'a thief out `of business? It's very simple, really. You since the invisible mark would it is a good program." agency has received five claims use an electric mar to k� l� wipe off on tools, etc. Mr. Keil He is so convinced that he men - for stolen items, which is actually an identifiable mark on said that he would get the new tions it whenever he writes a new up from most years. your property, preferably your markers if enough people in Mr. Keil thinks the program social insurance number. A list is dicated that they would be inter- insurance policy. However, he would work if it was used in a then made of all items marked, ested in buying them. hardly ever has anybody ask blanket manner. Police Chief and for that matter, all unmark- about it later. Mr. Keil emphasiz- Wittig referred to one reason why ed pieces in your house. If any- Asked why Operation Iden- ed, "Everybody has to get behind so few people use Operation Iden - thing is stolen or misplaced, it is tification hadn't taken hold in it, including all the insurance tification, "Everybody thinks it much easier to recover. And Wingham, Mr. Keil stated, "It agents. Most agents believe in it, happens to someone else." there you have it, Operation doesn't apply that much here, but but I don't think it would take off Posters for the program de - Identification. it would help. You never know in this area since there is no big clare, "Put a Thief Out of Busi- when we could have a rash of rate of theft." ness." Why don't you do just The program originated in Ot- thefts. I'm completely convinced To date this year, the insurance that9 tawa where it had a marked rate of success but although it's been around Wingham and area for a year, few people have used the .system. Police*Chief Robert Wittig es- timates that less than ten per cent of the town population is us- ing the program. An electric marker is available at both police headquarters and Keil Insurance v Agency, free of charge. In fact, the program was started through the insurance agency who put the police in touchmith the necessary contacts and knew where to get the equipment. If the number is filed or scrat- ched off, the onus is on the thief to disprove responsibility. Under some circumstances the number can still be picked up with the use of forensic sciences. But, is the program effective? Mr. Wittig says, "It is a deterrent but to what extent, it's difficult to relate." He went on to say, "In a small town you can keep track of everybody anyway. Wingham doesn't lose that much through theft. " The police chief explained, "The theft ratio is at an accept- able level, compared to other centres." But Mr. Wittig felt that the public should be educated since Operation Identification is a safeguard. He put it another way, "The program may prevent somebody from becoming a thief and being caught." Some ideas for items that should be marked are typewrit- ers, radios, appliances, cameras and television sets. The marker, which is adjustable for fine or heavy marks, is available for in- dustry and household use. It can be used on most surfaces — metal, wood, plastic, glass and so on. The marker is held as a pencil in a normal writing attitude. It cuts right into the surface, leav- ing a mark which cannot be wip- ed off, or worn off with ordinary ase. Bill Keil talked about new in- visible markers which use black light. It is recommended that they be used on fine materials, mythical visitors from space was to "Martians", no one has ever known whether any sort of life existed on what was, popularly known as "the red planet". About three decades ago a young radio producer, Orson Welles, scared the wits out of tens of thousands of eastern seaboard Americans when he aired a pro- gram warning that men from Mars had landed in the U.S. Though he broke into the pro- gram at frequent intervals to tell his audience all they were listening to was a radio drama, thousands took to the roads in terror. On Tuesday morning an un- manned Viking landing craft touched down on the red planet after disengaging from its mother ship which was orbiting HOW TO KEEP CHILDREN busy is the concern of these Ward, recreational director, back, Connie Stevenson, people. They are running a four week playground and a one week day camp for 25 area youngsters. Sitting, Jim Tamara Hayes and Marilyn Grainger. r ry first step on the surface of the moon. The craft's first move was to photograph details of the planet's surface and relay the pictures back to the observers in the Unit- ed States. Eight days after land- ing a mechanized claw will reach out for a handful of Martian soil which will then be passed into a miniature chemical laboratory. If there are any indications of the components of basic cell life the instruments will relay the infor- mation. The epic journey to earth's nearest sister planet began in August last year when the space- craft was launched. It has been orbiting the red planet for the past month while technicians waited for the best moment to command the touch -down. The Soviet Union has sent instrument missions to Mars previously but they failed to return signals to earth after landing. Hope remains for team from Taiwan Despite the fact that athletes from Taiwan did not accept a compromise offer to compete in the Olympics, they may yet find their place in the Canadian sun. Jim Powers of Chepstow, chairman of the publicity com- mittee for the 1976 International Plowing Match, makes Taiwan a new offer. Powers has informed The Advance -Times that if Tai- wan has any expert plowmen they will be welcome to compete at the match to be held near Walkerton in September. The spokesman did not say whether or not the offer has been cleared with Mr. Trudeau. Wingham gets first payment There will be space for 40 chil- dren. including 10 mentally re- tarded, at the new Wingham Developmental Centre, James Taylor, minister of Community and Social Services, announced last week. The Town of Wingham has re- ceived Ministry funding to cover property acquisition, construc- tion costs, furnishings and equip- ment for the day care centre for the developmentally handi- capped. The Ministry will provide $241.440, which is too per cent of the total cost. A cheque for $4,%8 was recently forwarded to J. E Reavie, mayor of Wingham. This amount represents the first pay- ment of the Ministry grant. The estimated opening date for the centre is October, 1976. The funding of Wingham is in keeping with the Ministry's commitment to intelarated com- munity living for %e mentally retarded. 0 NOW BOOKING — Chartist flights and tours to Britoin and Euro". T/!wVEL R f Ustowol, Ontario Z`291-211111 Single Copy Not Over 25c Provincial court judge A. Peter Nasmith, who grew up in Wingham and received his early education at the local elementary and secondary schools, has been named a judge in the provincial court. He will be working with the Family Division out of Kingston, covering courts in that city as well as in Belleville and Napanee. Peter is a son of Donald C. Nasmith and the late Mrs. Nasmith, his father being.a member of the administrative staff of the Lloyd -Truax firm for several years before removal to Toronto. He is a nephew of Mr. tlnd Mrs. Gordon Buchanan of-Wingham. Judge Nasmith, 34, was called to the bar in 1967 and practised for two years with Carrick, O'Connor, Coutts and Crane in Toronto before moving to Napanee, where he has since practised with the firm of Madden, Young, Nasmith & Sirman. His wife, Dagmar and son Tyler, 4, reside near Napanee on the Bay of Quinte and the family plans to remain there. Fund raising - continues for arena repairs Fund raising plans for renova- tions to the, Wingham Arena con- tinue to be made. Plans are underway for a Phonothon for Saturday, Sept- ember 11th. A tentative schedule of events includes a pancake breakfast,. talent show, street auction and puppet show. Com- plete details will be available at a later date. Tickets are still available for the draw to be held on July 30th at the Wingham ball park for the full set of Olympic coins, includ- ing the 22 karat $100.00 gold coin. These can be obtained from se- lected stores in Wingham. Councillor Angus Mowbray, chairman of the committee, ex- pects that engineering drawings will be available later this week. Vehicle damages totol`over $5,000 During the week of July 12 to July 18 there were three motor vehicle collisions which caused an estimated $5,080.00 in property damages. No injuries were re- ceived in any of the accidents. Officers at the Wingham Detachment, OPP, investigated 33 occurrences. Fifty-seven charges were laid under the Highway Traffic Act and 40 warnings were issued. Six charges were laid under the Liquor Licence Act and three charges were laid under the Criminal Code. " Anyone missing a bicycle should see the OPP Detachment. One which had been abandoned in the Wroxeter area for the past three weeks was brought into the Wingham station. The owner may claim the bicycle by describing it. t TWO POLITICIANS greet each other. Leader of the opposition Joe Clark shakes hands with MP Robert McKinley. Mr. Clark had just arrived by bus at Wingham's television station where he was interviewed:-The..${Qp was part of a week long tour of southwestern (Mario t -,�11111L