The Huron Expositor, 1979-11-29, Page 29Mitchell
constable,
resigns
Con is a"''tom Per rtt
the Mitchell; pence ferce
submitted his: resig &tion et
a recent council Meeting
The: constable`s. One.
sentence letter of resignation.
was accepted by Mitchell'
maned without comugent
goes into effect Dec. 30.
Police Chief Stewart Stark
told council Mr. Rieper was.
"a good police • officer" and
that he would be missed by
the other men on the force,.
Constable Rieper has been,
on theforce since the sprung;
of 1976, He booked off on.
sick leave almost three weeks
ago and Mitchell Mayor
Harold Jordan told reporters,
it was the constable's,
°"health" which led to his,
resignation,.
Constable Rieger went on
extended medical, leave in
April, '1978, and was off duty
for .almost one month. Sus-
pecting the officer of feign-
ing illness, town council had
the constable charged with
two neglect of duty offences.
under the Ontario Police Act.-
The charges were later
dropped at a hearing in
Stratford by Provincial. Judge
G.H. McConnell. The judge.
accepted testimony from a
Mitchell doctor who said that
Constable Rieper was ad
vised by him to take off work
due to a health problem.
Credit Union
(Continuedfrom Page 4A)
the only bank in Blyth.,
Mr. Williams said the
Clinton; boardhad many
things to, consider before
Opening a Blyth branch,
including the 'economic
factors, and the possible
`Competition against the
Win.gham-Belg;raVe
branch;
The Blyth delegation
did succeed, however, in
getting one of their.'
members, Bob Henry.,
`elected tothe board of
directors, ousting Jack'•
Reid of Clinton, who had
. been.a 14 -year member of
the credit committee.
Secretary Tom Eadie
was re-elected tothe
other open seat, :while
Gerald Holmes and
Norman Counter were
acclaimed totheir seats
on the loan committee.
The annual report •
showed the Credit Union`"
.had grown by $3.5 million'
in assets this year to
$22,727,325, including $2
million at the Exeter
branch, while loans had .
climbed to $20 million;
nearly $5 million . more
than last year.
Total revenue was up
$600,000 to $2,419,562,
.while $10.8 million was
given out in new loans. " ,
Kids art
makes..
great.'
gift: wrap...
Children born near Christ-
mas often feel cheated so .:
why not celebrate their birth-
days on another day -a hole
day or on the birthday of a
favourite friend or relative.
Children's • artwork makes
great giftwrap for grand
parents.
For someone in the hos-
pital choose. a "forward-look-
ing" gift that .he or she will
be able to use once they're
well and at home again.
SHARON'S RECIPE.
CORNER
• GUMDROP CAKE
1 (Christmas Cake!,
''/a cup .butter
X1'/4 cups brown sugar
3 eggs,, beaten separately
'/i cup milk
2% cups pastry flour
2 tsp. baking powder
34 Ib. bleached raisins
% lb. shredded cocoanut (not
long)
' ib. red cherries
'/. Ib. ,green. cherries_
'/i lb. almonds '
1 Ib. gumdrops, cut ilp'
i/. lb. mixed peel
1 tsp. alntond extract
1 tsp. Vanilla: .
1 tsp. Salt
Bake at 275° for 31/2 to 4
hours. Small pan faster.
Store 2 weeks before serving.
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!.aura McKercher, 2, of R.RA, Dublin admires Gingerbread HGuse
gingerbrE.:a
ouse to
Baking and decorating a gingerbread
house hasbecome an annual tradition at
Steve and Fran Hook's home.
The recipe for the house is as follows:
1 cup margarine or shortening
1/2 cup brown sugar (packed)
1 cup molasses
3% cups flour
2 tsp. soda
2 tsp. ginger'
1 tsp. cinnamon
11/2 tsp. salt,
Method: Cream shortening: Add flour and
spices. Mix well. Refrigerate over night.
Roll out fairly thin and. bake. at 325
degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.
After rolling out thegingerbread bake it
on two flat, cookie. sheets. Fran Hook
recommends cutting the gingerbread when
it's stilr fairly warm so it won't crack.
Pattern pieces, for the house should be cut
'from cardboard. Thee plywood or a heavy
piece of .cardboard canbe covered with foil < .
to set the house on.
The glue used to paste the walls of the
house together is one: cup of white sugar.
Heat the sugar in a heavy pan, over low'.
heat, stirring constantly. • Keeping they
syrup over the heat. dip.ends of the house
stab
ma
sections. iinto the syrup and glue quickly
together..
Frosting recipe:
2 cups icing sugar.
11/2 egg whites (about 3 tbsp.)
1'/: tsp. white vinegar
Method: Put icing sugar in, mixingbowl,
add ; egg whites and beast 1• minute. Add
vinegar and beat at highspeed 2 minutes,
or until stiff and ;glossy; •
Fran Hook said :her family have made the
gingerbread houses for"several•years now.
After the family's had the fun of baking
and decorating the house, they usually give
it to someone as a Christmas gift. As well
as makingan attractive centre piece,' the:
house ' and candy decorations is quite
edible.
Mrs. Hook said any extra gingerbread.
that's left after the house is cut out can be
used to make people or other cutouts 'to put
around the house.,..
The candies ' 'which are used . for de-
corations include gumdrops, candy canes,
smarties and mints. • •
The Hook family's gingerbread master-
., piece is • on . display this week in the.
window of the Expositor office.
Jottings
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B. ,T JACK MAP'
It is now beyond arRnMent.
that Ontario Hydro has been
allowed by the Ontario Gorr,-
ernment to grossly over.,
expand. To be precise in
January of this year, the
peak demand for electricity
by Ontario consumers
reachedjest over 16,000
megawatts. Even if we ac-
cept a reserve of .25%to
meet unforeseen; Contin-
gencies, such as power stat-
ions temporarily out of com-
mission, we arrive at a
required generating eapacity
for the Province of 213,000;
megawatts. Yet in January of
this year Hydro already had
an installed capacity of over
24,000 megawatts. In other
words, it is presently over-
built
ver-•
built to the extent of 4,000
megawatts. To many of us
these may simply seem to be
another set of meaningless.
figures 'but it is important to
consider whatthese figures
and the resultant overbuild-
ing has meant in terms of
dollars. '
If we take the .costs. of
building generating capacity
between, 1971 and 1978,.the
over -building has cost ' us
over 2 billion dollars - for
power we don't need at this
time! When one includes the
present building plans of
Hydro, even after all their
cancellations and, deferrals
(each one of Which by the
way, costs us millions of
dollars in penalties) the fig-
ure rises to several billions of
dollars, - which we will, be
unnecessarily paying for with
future massive rate increases
To confirm, that fear, we have
already been warned earlier
this year by a senior Hydro
official of possible compar-
able increases for 1981,
The costsof past over-
building. present over
building, foreign exchange
losses and various other
errors are included in your
current Hydro bins, largely
in the form of interest char-
ges on the money': which
Hydro has had;' to borrow. It.
is difficult to be precise as to
how • much of this can be
allocated to genuinely need-
ed expansion,.:but the best:
'estimate we can make is that
at least 15% .of your 1979
'Hydro bill is required to pay
for the Government's failure
FRIEND
CHANTS
Would Iiike. you •
to have a
icrowave Oven
r. Christmas
Get one free chance with each .:purchase
atthe stores displaying the. red card
in their window
Piets Place, Sills Hardware, Jack and Jill`,; Larones,. Crown'
Hardware, Huron ExpositOr, Hetherington . Shoes, Keating's.
Pharmacy, Seaforth Jewellers, BHI O'Shea Men's Wear, :Robt.1.
Plumsteel interiors, David Longstaff Optician, Stedmans,.
Canadian Tire Frank Kling ;• Ltd.
Draw to be made December .24
SANTA CLAUS PARADE Dec .1 commencing
from the arena at 10:30 a.m. .
Visit Santa at the Town Hall from 1.1:00 a.rf.
to 12 noon and 1 p.m. to 2:30' p.m.
Chrls mos s1 i're; hours
• open all day Wednesday In,
December
* Open 'til 9":00 part..me week
'before Chrlstmas
• "" close Saturday Dei;'. 22 ihcj'
.Monday Dec. ,24 at '6
has
.to lesep Hydro efficient. and,
Beeerating capacity Qnt-.
ado does not need.
,'think it is important at
this Oat, to make it .cleat
that our .crilpcasms of .these
14sjudgentents and ulnnee-
essare costs, UP, consumers
are not a result of being wise
•by hindsight. The Liberal.
Party has, for many years,
been sceptical of Hydra'e.
future load forecasts and
critical of the Government's.
apparent inability to review
and control Hydro's empire
building.
However, we do not simply
restrict ourselves to criti-
cisms of the system. Indeed
the Liberal Caucus has con-
crete recommendations as to
how these excessive costs to
consumers can be reduced
and we are committed to
implementing. those recom-
mendations if the opportun-
ity avails, itself, Specifically,.
we propose that the bask
electricity necessary for sur,
vival should, b e provided to
residential users at the
cheapest rate, rather than
the present situation where
the "'little guy" has to pay,
relatively speaking, more for
his, energy 'while the person•
heating a swimming pool;
pays relatively less. This.
position is detailed in a
private . member's bill pre-
sented to the Legislature last
year by Eddie Sargent, Lib-
eral Member for Grey
Bruce. This, "Lifeline" bill
recommended: that Hydro
rates should be structured so
that the cheapest rate applies.
to the basic amount which
domestic users require. At
present, the rate structure
encourages' consumption, so
that the average cost per
kilowatt hour is less for the
person with the swimming
pool than the pensioner with.
the space heater. Rates have.
to be turned around to re-
move this inequity and to
promote conservation.
In addition, our Liberal
energy critic, Julian: Reed,
the Member for Halton Bur
Immommommok
THE HURON EXPoSPTOR, ,NOVEMB
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liegton', presented a private
member's bill earlier this
Year which would have grVen.
the Government pow Powee•toy
IMpoee Polic' directleee
Ontario Hydro, With the
immense control that '.Hydro
now exerts, we believe that
sitpublic accountsccountahOr M
crucial to avoiding t$
takesof the psst,
Classifte4 Ada pay' :&Wow*
20°l0-50% off
• all weather coats
• Kaiser underpants
•' Sweaters'
• ' Skirts
• Slacks
• Blouses °
Elan niix & match:
• Velvet Suits -
• All Mark Raymond!
Jewellery.
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Christmas &
New Year dresses
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Each customer will receive
a Christmas
gift from
Annus Dress Shoppe
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Go ahead. Take your car to the
city and fill `er up with packages..'
But remember: you'll also be
filling it upwith gasoline w * .
maybe . even.twce for one trip. Add THAT to the cost of
the presents you buy! Pius cottisider this: they may cost'
more to begin with. Shop of home and: bank at home ....
saves time. Saves ✓✓near and ,teas. Saves money And you'll(
find lust as large a selection of merchandise right here in
Seaforth Go ahead. Fil'l� er up. At HOME!
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