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So-- SEPTEMBER 17, 1970 TERRACE BAY NEWS PAGE 5 '| HYDRO ANNOUNCES REVISION OF ELECTRICAL RATES The Township Hydro Department advised today that formal approval has been received from Ontario Hydro for a revision of electrical rates, effective October | 1, 1970. The last rate adjustment was in April 1962. Beginning with all bills issued on and after October Ist, the "discount" method of billing will be replaced by a net rate system, with a 5 per cent charge for late payment. All commercial and industrial custom- ers will be combined into one general rate and minim=- um bills for all customers will be $2.00 monthly. Separate rates for commercial cooking, home heat- ing and all-electric homes are eliminated in this streamlining of the schedule, along with flat rate water heaters. All water heaters will now be metered. Electricians have been at work making this conversion over the past few weeks. Customers with approved water heat- ers will receive a special rate of .7¢ for 500 kilowat- thours after the first 250 hours have been used. After 750 kilowatthours' monthly residential use, electricity _ | will be provided at .9¢ per kilowatthours, the same as since 1962. For 750 kilowatthours' consumption, which cost $7.56 previously, the new amount, in=- SECOND ANNUAL FALL FAIR - scHREIBER ARENA SPONSORED BY THE Schreiber United Church SEPTEMBER 17 to 19 SEPT. 17: = 7 = 9 P.M. - Display of auction items. SEPT: 18: - 7:30 - 10:00 p.m. = Auction Sale SEPT. 19: - 1:30 P.M. - OPENING FALL FAIR - Displays, Sales Tables 5:00 - 6:00 P.M. ~- Supper Served 7:00 - 9:00 P.M. = Penny Auction 9:00 - 10:30 P.M. - Folk Festival 10:30 - 12:00 A.M. - Dance DISPLAY AREA: "WATCH OUT!", Church in Community. SEPT. 20: - 10:00 A.M. - SPECIAL SERVICE "| cluding approved metered water heating, will be $7.90 The Township Hydro System has been subject to the same inflationary pressures of higher costs for labour and materials as any other enterprise. We have been continued next column ....... Canadian Radio-Television Commission The Canadian Radio-Television Commission announces the following decision: Decision CRTC 70-217 The Commission grants a licence for the period from the expiration of the current licence to March 31, 1974, for the following CBC broadcasting station, subject to the conditions which will be specified in each licence: CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION LOW POWER RELAY TRANSMITTER .| CBEH Terrace Bay, Ontario. RTC-26-70 F.K. Foster, Secretary able to hold the line for an eight-year period which saw increases in the cost of virtually all other goods and services. These new rates are at the lowest . possible level = just enough to eliminate our deficit position. About 500 customers are served by the system. Mrs. H. Kodila was hostess at a Lawn Barbecue held at her home, Tuesday evening, September 1, honoring bride-elects Cathy Jo Cotton and Lynda Lawrence, also bidding Bon Voyage to Sharon MacDonald, who is moving to Toronto. Many humorous games were played before settling down to a steak-supper; steaks well turned out by "Chef" Betty Bouchard. Delicious salads and the trimmings were dished up by the Kimberly- Clark office girls. Kay Weppler presented Lynda and Cathy Jo with Fondue Sets and Sharon a Wedgewood Pendant on behalf of the girls present. An estimated 25 million cubic feet of standing timber is killed annually by the parasitic mistletoe in Western Canada.