Tho Press Wednesday Storm lashes Acton area cuts hydro phone tv Club executive for 1B81 ore back row left to right director John Arnold Vicepresident BUI Beaton Directors Doug Fread Ray and Smith Front row president and past president Ken Grubbe Ted Hansen secretary treasurer Chief sa Get tough with drunks lenders which he says justify sentences can only be done through Mr Treleaven said costly time consuming The crown attorney court appeals he working on that I know I had r now compiling problems securing statistics with the help of services to Acton were cut off early Sunday morning when one the vicious thunder storms in several years lashed the area Hydro was off throughout the entire town Tor twoami a half hours says Doug Mason Main high tension wires leading Into Acton were put out of commission and customers are now receiving Juice from auxiliary lines A hydro crew of Ken Hodgson and Wayne worked through the height of the storm in the middle of the night transferring power from the damaged line to the alternates The storm started with a bang about a m Sunday with the earth wssirf i i Every year more drivers are charged and convicted for impaired driving But ore the penalties deterring drunks from crawling behind the wheel of a car Police Chief James Harding t think so and soys the penalties are being en forced but they simply stiff enough The in relation to the offense should be tremendously increas ed he said be firmly drivers registers more than BO milligrams of It should be brought upon the public that no fme one is stupid enough to licence give them o licence to drink and drive In my opinion it a deadly sin and 1 ve taken enough people to the morgue to convince me of that People have to un Chief Harding soys it that ir they not proving the impaired jeopardize the lives or drivers guilt that a people by being drunk problem He feels Halton officers are proficient in bringing to court enough evidence to convict offenders especially through proved techniques people Crown attorney Jim breath analysis Chief agrees that Harding blames the Ontario courts deficiency on the courts tough enough He admits which he says must his own frustration in wake to the fact trying to secure that impaired drivers penalties for first of must disciplined A motor vehicle is a weapon two tons of steel that kills Its continually in the of drunks who use that tougher penalties in Addiction Research lethal weapon to inflict cases of blatantly Foundation and the slaughter on our roads horrendous driving centre of Criminology in he said l Toronto provincial judges in He hopes that by Chief Harding says var impose the focussing the attention on there snot enough fear in mm lne v of drunk the minds of impaired circumstances dictate a drivers not only will heavier sentence he penalties be im said posed but more alcohol Mr Treleaven confies related programs may be that he of no other offered jurisdiction where the For years we vc penalties for impaired sympathized with the driving are less than in good citizens being Ontario prosecuted for impaired He adds that in many driving other world centres the We think there but for the grace of God go I more severe But That taking too light Treleaven that the v It their poor courts alone t to be victims who we should be Warned afraid for he said We a3 prosecutors But differ penalties are also guilty a partial solution We should be con- flnr Treleaven pressing the recognizes the need to they re driving courts for increased help the convicted im that the re gonna get penalties by supplying paired driver with an hell said Chief Har them with ammunition to obvious social disease ding We pussy footed enough for these We continually fira penalties a J P more severe drivers but the fact that we prosecute doesn seem to be a deterrent urges PM Order strikers back to work Sunday a lightning split tree at the farm on Highway west of Acton shattering thunder and OldoHidt House resulted Don lasting several in damage to several Some trees were e according to destroyed by lightning subsided at Some senior citizens say It was the worst thunder storm they had ever witnessed Hydro crews had to replace a transformer at the home of Harold P Otto on Monday Jelinek Progressive after It had been hit by Conservative critic for llghtnli Corporate About Bell Canada urged the Prime Minister customers were without lo Immediately introduce telephones all day back lo work Sunday according to legislation requiring Guelph Manager Bill striking Post Office Salmon He explained employees to return to that lightning struck two work or three cables which in He also wants right Itself Is not that big a to strike suspended In the problem However essential service enough or large the government has enough ones form on the thoroughly reviewed the cables water seeps In collective bargaining and causes problems process with an eye lo Service was back to effecting an clement of normal by Monday at predictability and dependability into the Cable essential service sector Hills Hydro workmen were walking the line west of town Monday trying to find the bad Insulator knocked out daring he storm on Sunday A hydro worker checks Insulator Tor west of Acton Systems Limited reported damage to several of their electrical switches through north after being struck by lightning Service was affected Sunday but clean up crews had service back to normal by Monday In the middle of the storm the fire alarm system at Homo Hard ware Mill Street was affected by the lightning and went off Firefighters rushed to the scene to find a false alarm A leaking roof at the In speaking of the majority of his constituents Jelinek stated that the public and in particular the already seriously small business sector should not be expected to tolerate the perennial disruption of such vital services and further condemned the govern ment present approach to these very cosily wo k stoppages as being band aid and hit and miss In a letter sent to the Prime Minister Jelinek made number of recommendations that In of the govern behalf ment s inability to defend the rights of the private sector save giving In to such Inflationary and precedent setting essential service demands merit careful consideration and should perhaps be Ihe subject of a special committee investigation He argued that turning the Post Office into a Crown Corporation will the introduction of Sector Bargaining This would require union groups In a single public service sector to bargain simultaneously thus eliminating the situation that exists today whereby only four per cent of all federal public employees have con tributed to strikes in the past five years secret ballot disputes and stated thot provisions simllir the right to strike In the essential services should be immediately suspended until the following or similar provisions become a part of our collective bargaining process a those of the Toft Hartley Act in the USA that would suspend pending further 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