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. 2Sk charge for unnecessary directory assistance As of last Sunday, a charge of 25 cents will be made for each 1tnneces- sary call to directory as- sistance, Jim Reid, Bell Canada public relations manager, reminded all customers in this area. The _,announcement was made jointly Thursday by officials of the Sports Coun- oil and the CHYM Com- munity Foundation. sponsors of the Regional Athlete of the Year and Sports Exe- cutive of the Year. First sports awards presented next month The first Regional sports awards will be presented next month at the annual meeting of the Waterloo Regional Sports Council. Mr. Reid noted that in addition to Kitchener-Water- loo the charge is being introduced in all parts of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Guelph and surrounding territory. _ lleglimml news and views The dinner will be held. April 29, at the Concordia Club. The business session of the Sports Council will "However", said Mr. Reid, "there is no need for any customer to ever P2 20 _ W-rioo Chloniclc. WWI, Match 19, 1275 LEiCEiiicliEEE3l Gottdthingsha-tdnaHonda. 884-1210 authentic recipes Excellent CANADIAN cuisine Large selection of Coo Coo clocks 9 miles south of Cambridge Junction Hwy 5 & 24 Ask for Max " I-448-1533 380 King St. North, Waterloo, Ont. N2J 223 Ausfr‘an Vitlage Inn VIENNA RES'I’A RANT CY 0 J0 CYCLE PALACE LTD. A Taste of Old Europe GERMAN 8 AUSTRIAN Honda Sales and Service Nominations are now be- ing accepted for both awards and official nomination forms are ayailable from the Y's, Community Ser- vice Departments in Kit- chener, Waterloo or Cam- bridge City Halls. the Wa- terloo Regional Sports Coun- cil. or from CHYM Radio. be conducted in the late afternoon. culminating with the _ election of officers for 1975. Delegates will then be able to view booths sponsored by various sport- ing organizations in the Region. prior to the dinner. incur Directory Assistance charges. Charges will be made only when a customer " provided with a num- ber that is already listed in the telephone book. In addition, there will be no charge for the first three chargeable calls a month from residence services. "All calls from business telephones will be subject- ed to thereltarge, when the requested number is listed in the customer's directory." Special care has been taken to ensure that, upon application, persons whose The Honourable Andre Ouellet recently announced a forthcoming series of amendments to regulations under the consumer pack- aging and labelling act. disability prevents use of a directory and those 65 years of age and over, will be exempt from charges. In many meeting with government agencies and with organizations dealing with the disabled, prior to preparing the appli- cation to charge for unneces- ary calls, Bell explored the best methods of pro- viding assistance at .no charge to those customers who require it. Most or- ganizations which assist the disabled and the eld- erly have a supply of exemption application forms for their members. This Act was passed by Parliament in 1971 with all- party support. Following passage the department of consumer and corporate affairs undertook an ex- tensive series of compre- hensive discussions with the industries affected by the act with a view to develop- ing detailed regulations under which the act would operate. Other calls to Directory Assistance to be exempt from charges include those placed from pay phones, from hospital, hotel or mo.tel rooms and emergency calls. There is also no charge for long dis- tance directory assistance service. Introduction of the charge was requested by Bell Canada in light of the in- creasing volume of utr. necessary calls to Directory Assistance. Of the close to 700,000 calls placed each day, throughout Ontario and Quebec. more than 70 per cent are for numbers already listed in the tele- phone book. Studies also show that 10 per cent of all customers place more than 50 percent of the unneces- ary calls. "Any customer, who can't use a directory because of a disability, and those 65 and over, need only give us a, call and we will mail the éxemption form to them. Or, if a customer prefers to drop into our business office we can complete the form then and there.." Mr. Reid said. The act and regulations were proclaimed in March 1974 with regulations relat- ing to non-food items to take TH E Hockey Sticks LION ’6." 89940349 Factoer a?" 1.M Outlet .' WALL PAPER LEO CLEAR OUT SPECIALS 132 Water St. S GALT (Hwy. 24 th 97 621 -3300 New changes in labelling act Double Roll 2.79 Limited Ouanmies Ontario ‘tax credit _ centre extends hours effect September 1975 and those relating to food items to take effect March 1976. The current amendments will deal with certain forms of visible packaging for non- food items where the identi- ty and number of articles in the package are clearly visible to the purchaser and therefore should not require identity and quantity label- ling. Amendments will also be made to the bilingual re- quirements on some spe- cial items and to the re- quirement for declaration of net quantity in both Cana- dian and metric units on certain small items. As now devised, those who make unnecessary use of Directory Assistance willtbear the cost of supply- ing this personalized ser- These amendments re- sulted from further discus- Ontario revenue minister Arthur Meen announced that his ministry's tax credit information centre will remain open evenings and \on weekends during the months of March and April, in response to the growing number of inquiries handled by the centre. From Monday to Friday, the information .centre will be open from 8:30.a.m. to 8:00 pm, on Saturdays and Sundays, the hours will be noon to 5:00 pan. The centre can be reached, free-of-charge, from any- where in Ontario by dial- ing "O" and asking the operator for zenith 8-2000. In the metropolitan Toron- to local-calling area, the number is 965-8470. Mr. Meen explained that an Ontario resident must file an Ontario Tax Credit Form, together with a com- pleted federal income tax return. in order to claim Ontario Tax Credits. "Many people complete their tax returns in the evening and on weekends," the minister noted. "and if they run into a problem with the tax credit portion of the return, we want them to call usrit's much better for people to take a minute or two to phone and get the right information than make a mistake which could delay not only Sherwin Williams BROADLOOM Rog. 13.95 Gal 3.99 gal. 1.49 yd. PAINTS as low as the processing of their re- turn, but also the payment of any Ontario Tax Credits or income tax refunds that might be due." The Ontario Tax Credit system is designed to con- tribute greater fairness to provincial and municipal taxation. through the pay- ment of credits which are related to the individual's ability to pay taxes. This year, it is expected that The Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federa- tion is directing a major study of what secondary schools are doing and what they should be doing in the future. The Federation is spending about $75,000 to survey actual conditions and suggestions for educa- tional improvement, with the results m be published in book form in the sum- The project began a year ago with the idea that some group independent of the Ministry of Education should attempt to develop. recommendations for the development of secondary vice. in addition, Bell Can- ada will be able to provide better Directory Assistance service for callers request- ing numbers not in the Federation to " survey conditions “I felt their arguments had merit and have had amendments prepared which go some distance to meet- ing their views", said Mr. Ouellet. . The common name will not be required to be de- clared on the label of pre- packaged non-food products which are usually sold by count if,the contents are visible and identifiable. Under the same circum- stances the net quantity need not be declared. when the prepackaged product contains less than seven items: or when the product contains less than thirteen items and the actual num- ber of articles can be readily seen,by examining the pro- duct without opening the package sions with representatives of many of the industries and industrial associations concerned.' - In essence the amend- ments will mean that: re- placement parts for vehicles. appliances or other durable consumer goods sold through parts departments in re- tail stores will be exempt from the labelling require- ments of the act. The real question is wheth- er we are doing the.best things for the generation who will be Ontario's and Canada's leaders and pro- ducers before the year 2.000. To answer that question. OSSTF has surveyed its entire membership. has in- vited briefs from industry, labour. from groups of all sorts, and has sponsored a series of public forums throughout the province approximately $375 million in property, sales and pen- sioner tax credit claims will be made by Ontario residents. The tax credit information centre can only provide assistance with Ontario Tax Credit claims. Ques- tions on other aspects of the income tax return should be directed to the nearest federal district taxation office. education. Teachers know what's happening in schools better than any other group. but .they rarely have the time to draw back. to gain perspective on the long term effects of change. telephone book as well as for those customers who prefer to use the service instead of looking in the The common name and net quantity will not be required to be shoWn on the label of a prepackaged non- food item which is sold by count and consists of a single article that has a rictorial representation wh ch por- trays the article in an ac- curate manner on the principal display panel. The Minister also sug- gested that Canadian com- parties supply their com- pany name. city and postal code when complying with the regulations This would provide an address accurate in both languages for easier communications with cus- tomers The bilingual labelling requirement will not apply to prepackaged greeting cards: books: talking dolls: and games where a know- ledge of the language of the game is essential to playing the game. An exemption is provided from the usual requirement of showing the quantity in both Canadian and metric units on prepackaged goods having a net quantity of less than 60 grams of millilitres. providing the quantity de- claration appears