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AUGUST 7, 1975 TERRACE BAY NEWS PAGE I5 In a statement to the Ontario Energy Board, Robert Taylor, Chairman of Ontario Hydro said the utility has reduced I976 wholesale rate proposals to 25.1 per cent for municipal util- ities and 24.9 per cent for large industrial customers. To the average residential customer served by a municipal utility, the revised increase means an additional $2.50 on a monthly bill, in contrast to the originally proposed $3. Hydro had said in April that increases of 29.7 and 29.9 per cent for the municipal and indus- trial customers would be needed in I976. The change in the Hydro proposals comes as a result of several new factors - deferring -the collection of deficits accumulated by municipal and industrial customers; reducing the system expansion component in the cost of power; lower cost escalation estimates and a provincial government policy directive to "prune its operating and capital budgets". Mr. Raylor said that $30 million will be cut from Hydro's I976 work program budgets. Also affected is the construction of gen- erating stations to meet future power needs. The program of in-service dates is deferred six months starting with the second nuclear station at the Bruce Nuclear Power Complex, resulting in a reduction in capital require- ments 'to 1985 'of about $1.2 billion. "This represents a substantial reduction in our rate proposals," said Mr. Taylor. "It means that Ontario Hydro is foregoing half its system expansion charge and is -def- erring the collection of deficits to future years. "It pushes those key ratios, toward which lenders look for financial credibility, dan- gerously close to the limits beyond which the Hydro Board considers it imprudent to go. The financial strength of the organization is being eroded at the very time that increas- ed demands will have to be made on capital markets," he said. WOMEN Women are unpredictable. You never know how they are going to manage to get their own way. A 'woman doesn't make a fool of a man--she merely gives him the opportunity to develop his natural capacities. There are only two ways to handle women. Does anyone know what they are? ADELAIDE DANIELS SAYS OUR MOST ALARMING NATIONAL ISSUES -- "OVERWEIGHT AND MALNUTRITION Recently many Mayors across Ontario and the Maritimes proclaimed "Weight Watcher's Week' in their various communities. Think about that for a minute. You can realize the full importance of this issue when Municipal dignitaries are concerned enough to set aside one week speci- fically to create a greater awareness in the community of the dangers of malnutrition and obesity. One. of our respected national newspapers, the Toronto Star, recently published a hard hitting editorial on the alarming increase of malnutrition in Canada. How can that be, malnutrition in our land of plenty, this rich productive land? The sad truth is that through poverty and ignorance, many Canadians do suffer from malnutrition. : We can do something about the ignorance. It is time that doctors and edu- cators across Canada woke up to the fact that good nutrition is to be taught to the young, in the same way that maths and history are taught, in our schools. 3 A young woman shopping by herself, whether it is as a new bride or a single career girl, cannot be expected to walk in to the grocery store with an instinctive knowledge of sensible eating and good nutrition at her finger- tips. The problems of her lack of nutritional knowledge are compounded by the fact that she herself may have learned bad eating habits from her own mother, and any food store is a trap for all but the most aware shop- pers. The wrong foods are temptingly displayed. the sweets and snacks, foods full of calories but lacking the essential protein, minerals and vitamins, too many soft drinks. Without any preconceived ideas on what she should buy for a properly balgnced diet, these tempters usually end up in the food cupboard. In defense of our nation's shoppers, how much knowledge of proteins, minerals and vitamins do they have? And that question brings me right back to my original statement that this knowledge has to come from our schools. It is a known fact that bad eating habits, for the most part, lead to obesity and its related health problems. Nutrition must be taught to our expectant mothers so that they may bear strong healthy babies. It should be taught in the early years at school so that these same children can carry on this knowledge throughout a healthy adult life, passing on the same good eating habits to their own children. and finally rounding out their lives with a well nourished old age. Old age is yet another stage in our lives when good eating habits are so important. This full cycle of knowledge must start somewhere. 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