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Don Dykstra stands behind the heat pump Weathertron Executive Heat Pump Dykstra Bros Electric is Canadian distributor When the world prices of oil skyrocketed in 1973 homeowners were faced with steep rises in homeheating costs To offset spiralling homefuel costs General Electirc brought onto the market device called the Weathertron Heat Pump Barries Dykstra Brothers Electric Ltd ob tained exclusive distributorship of this heating system While the Weathertron Executive Heat Pump costs about 81000 more to install than home outfitted with central air condition ing and hearing the homeowner eventually saves between 25 to 40 per cent on his home heating costs with heat pump says Don Dykstra one of the partners in the Dykstra Electric company The heat pump works this way The unit collects heat and transfers it from one place to another In the winter it takes heat from the outside air teven at temperatures below zero and transfers it into the house In the summer climate the heat pump takes heat from inside the house and transfers it outdoors thereby acting as an air conditioner midgets By DOUGLAS GREENWOOD Whenever happen to glance at George Orwells novel 1984 there always seems to be something in it that shows how true his pro phecies were The souless regimented life In the world of his story seems to come closer with every increase in unemployment and fall of the dollar One thing Orwell forsaw with accuracy was the metric system there isnt enough space to debate its questionable value here but for bit of light entertainment thought you might like to see what typical London work ing man thought of it The scene is London pub An old man IS having trouble with young barman arst you civil enough didnt said the old man straightening his shoulders pugnaciously You telling me you aint got pint mugintheolebleedingboozer And what in the hells name is pint said the barman Ark at im Calls isself barman and dont know what pint is Why pints the alf of quart and theres four quarts to the gallon Ave to teach you the ABC next Never eard of em said the barman shortly Liter and half liter thats all we serve Theres the glasses on the shelf in front ofyou likes pint peristed the old man You could drawed me off int easy enough We didnt ave these blee ing liters when was young man the knot of men at the bar began talking about lottery tickets could drawed me off pint grumbled the old man as he settled down behind his glass alf liter aint enought It dont satisfy And 01 Iiters too much It The Weathertron Executive lleat Iump which weighs about 275 pounds works like an air conditioner in the summer and heater in the winter says George Horich sales specialist with Canadian ieneral Electric ITS ELECTRIC What makes the Weatheron Executive Heat Pump different from other yearround heating and cooling systems is that the system is completely electric It cools without water and heats without burning fuel Weve sold about 93 of these heat pumps over the past two years Dykstra says There is full oneyear warranty on the machine and an additional fouryear warranty on the units compressor It costs about $3500 to install complete heat pump system in home but the eventual fuel sav ings to the homeowner make the installa tion costs very worthwhile Dykstra also says the Weathcrtron Ex ecutive Heat Pump can and is used for com mercial buildings and can save up to 60 per cent in buildings heating costs Metric system and lotteries part of Orwells I984 world starts me bladder running In another scene Orwell comments on Lot tery gambling They were talking about the lottery Winston the hero of 1984 if you could say there were any heroes at all in the book look ed back when he had gone 30 metres They were still arguining The Lottery with its weekly payout of enormous prizes was the me public event to which the proles aid serious attention It was probably that ere were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not only reason for staying alive It was their delight their folly their anodyne their intellectual stimulant Only small prizes were actually paid out the winners of the big prizes being nonexistant persons In the absence of any real intercommunication between one part of Oceania and another This was not difficult toarrange Sometimes its scary how fast 1984 seems to be closing in And its spirit is so alive too On ly the other day it was reported that Califor nia legislator has proposed doing away with the year 1984 How Simple just skip the date on all calendars and other printed references to that ominous year and go straight to 1985 from 1983 Its ironic because that is exactly the way in which history was rewritten for the hapless citizens of Oceania Winston Smiths very job was to edit out wrong forecasts by Big Brother from previous newspaper Thus did the government prove their record was perfect Were getting there How soon will it be one wonders before they catch on to that cute idea of naming non existent winners for big lottery prizes The Canadian Hearing Societys Hearing aid program is intended to be selfsupporting and uses no government funds That was the assertion of the societys ex ecutive director Denis Morrice when con tacted recently at the CHS headquarters in Toronto Di mle By PAUL DELEAN Examiner Staff Reporter Four months ago hearing aid dealer Mur ray Iarr made public complaints he had against the prescription policy of local audiologist and the commercial credibility of the Canadian Hearing Society which has an office in Barrie He hasnt stopped lobbying for what he thinks is right If anything hes actually step ped up his campaign for changes In April Parr mailed letter to Barrie and area physicians outlining his arguments Here is portion of that letter Over the past couple of months we have been challenging Gordon Whitehead audiologist at the Barrie Medical Arts Building concerning his method of prescrib ing hearing aids While Mr Whitehead would appear to be highly qualified as an audioligist his practice of prescribing brand names cannot in my opi nion be justified also reject his persistence in verbally suggwting or designating on his prescription where people should go to have their prescrip tions filled Since he began his practice in Barrie he has bounced from one dispensary to another Currently it appears that he is referring patients to the Canadian Ilearing Society am business man and have invested my own money in competitive field pay taxes and employ people have committed myself to the principles of thefree enterprise system in an attempt to be an asset to my family customers and government ITS LIABILITY The Canadian Hearing Society in my opi nion is liability It is tax exempt and pro to be nonprofit organization which organization solicits government grants and corporate donations feel the above organization must be criticized for interfering with and restricting my right to conduct legitimate business in Orton receives medal NEW YORK CP John Orton of Steel of Canada Ltd Hamilton was one of three metallurgists to receive the American Iron and Steel Institute Medal recently Orton Peter Koros of the United States based Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp and John Besley of United States Steel Corp re ceived the medal for paper they presented on developments in lowsulphur steel Pursues US project TORONTO CP Cadillac Fairview Corp Ltd says it is being considered as joint partici ant in downtown Phila delphia re evelopment project The company said it will negotiate with Philadelphia civic officials to complete master plan for the project TorStar plans purchase TORONTO CP TorStar Corp an nounced it will give notice exercising its rights to purchase 375261 common shares of Harlequin Enterprises Ltd for $959 share The purchase would represent 24 per cent of Harle uin common shares bringing Torstars tota ownership to 556 per cent Meeting adjourned TORONTO CP Creditors of insolvent Rengold Mines Ltd have again delayed decision on the future of the company meeting to consider proposal under the tion services onethird of our information services Morrice said the hearing aid program in troduced in February of 1977 is separate from the other services provided by the socie The federal money we get is for informa it probably doesnt cover Murray Parr is lobbying for change CHS says no government fu the free enterprise system refuse to passively tolerate this form of conduct Admittedly the Canadian Ilearing Society can sell hearing devices somewhat more in eansively than can hearing aid dealer The discrepancy in the price however is feel more than compensated for by vicarious benefits provided by the hearing aid dealer feel the above organizaton must be criticized for interfering with and restricting my right to conduct legitimate business in the free enterprise system refuse to passively tolerate this form od ductuct Admittedly the Canadian Hearing Society can sell hearing devices somewhat more in expensiver than can hearing aid dealer The discrepancy in the price however is feel more than compensated for by vicarious benefits provided by the hearing aid dealer Those benefits according to Iarr include an ability and willingness to travel if need be to clients homes for service calls It is quite impossible due to manpower and financial limitatons for the Canadian Hearing Society to match this service he writes Iarr concludes his letter by asking the doc tors to support hearing aid specialists In the best interest of the patient believe an assessment of his or her hearing is essen tially all that is required from the audiologist would ask that you support the hearing aid specialist such as myself We are quite qualified in selecting the amplification needs for the customer and quite availablefor ser vicing same WRITTEN MANY Doctors havent been the only ones on Parrs mailing list He has written to the Ombudsman the Ontario Ministry of Con sumer and Commercial Relations and Grey Simcoe MP Gus Mitges among others In his reply Mitges said he agreed that no organization whether it received govern ment subsidies or not should interfere with Bankruptcy Act by the company to its creditors had earlier been adjourned for two years This time the adjournment is until next month Continues its offer TORONTO CI Investors Group of Winnipeg says it will proceed with its planned $100ashare offer for GreatWest Life Assurance 70 despite rejections of its bid notice by the Toronto and Montreal stock exchanges Investors said it will make its bid directly to shareholders rather than through the exchanges Appointed to post TORONTO CP Libby Joyce with experience as teacher writer and researcher has been appointed executive director of the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education She was formerly on the staff of the Economic Council of Canada andStatistics Canada New vicepresident OTTAWA CP David Vice has been named vicepresident of Northern Telecom Canada Ltd responsible for trans mission operations with plants in Montreal and Ayimer Que Winnipeg and Penang West Malaysia business notes The provincial money we get is from the ministry of community and social services and thats to help with job replacement The balance of our funds come from private contributors and membership Mor rice said No government or United Way money is be ing funnelled into the hearing aid program he noted personally feel we should get government subsidization but were not The society nonprofit organization in corporated in 1940 got into the hearing aid business last year by default Morrice said We were asking the ministry to introduce program they said no way The CHS executive director said the high cost of hearing aids and unscupulousness of some operators had created the need for the service The societys prices are wholesale cost plus $115 plus the cost of mold for the aids its sells And we will not dispense an aid to so meone who has not been tested by profes siona qualified audiologist Morrice added ONE IN HARRIE CHS offices selling hearing aids have open ed in Windsor London Toronto Thunder Bay and at 99 Bavfield St in Barrie Morrice said the decision to move into Bar rie was prompted by the fact that there was practicing audiologist in the city and that the need appeared to exist for the service We dont go unless the consumers ask for it The program is being run as business Morrice emphasized The deficit incurred on the program last year was due to startup cost he said and were recovering them month by month Our hearing aid program is self supporting at this time Profits if realized will allow the society to set up shop in more remote areas he explain Each office hs the goal of being self any form of private enterprise He urged Parr and his fellow hearing aid dealers to form strong organization that would have one united voice speaking on behalf of all mothers as well as establishing stringent guidelines The letter from the provincial ministry of consumer and commercial relations inform ed Parr that its business practice division would prepare report on the questions he raised replay from the minister Larry Grossman was promised upon completion and evaluation of the report spoke to the deputy minister few weeks ago He informed me his department was preparing proposal for hearing aid dealers which hopefully will clean up the act and create better consumer confidence Parr said in an interview Hes all for guidelines and regulations that will weed out the hearing aid hucksters who have given the profession bad name over the years WANTS LICENCING What we would like to see is government action hopefully in the form of licencing If there are unscrupulous hearing aid dealers and there are then licences can be taken away That will solve that problem and take away from the Canadian Hearing Society thelever to use bad publicity to sell its pro gram Parrs fundamental objection to the Cana dian Hearing Societys entrance into the hearing aid business is that it interferes with free enterprise Their services were similar to what the CNIB would be for the blind year and half ago they went into the hearing aid business Theyre tax exempt they get government corporate and private dona trons Isnt the objective of nonprofit organization to provide service where ser vice is lacking Theyve put us in situation where its hard ns used Steadmans buy businesses Jim and Laurel Steadman this week purchased the Uncommon Touch gift studio and Lighting Unlimited located on the corner of Dunlap and Maple Streets in Barrie Here they stand in front of the store with their sales staff From left to right are Kay French the Steadmans Joan Garratty and Ruth Slessor Examiner Photo Murray Parr steps up his fight to protect hearing aid dealers supporting Morrice said but those which cannot be because of lesser volume of sales can expect head office assistance Wed like to see the big centres carrying it The smaller ones probably wont have the volume Morrice admitted that the society does not pay business tax but in Barrie were pay ing full rent As for home service we try to stay away frm it as were getting established Well be developing it as we can he said SOME DONE Cecile Bryant manager of the Barrie branch says that some servicing can be done at the local office If the aid needs to be opened though it is sent to the manufacturer We lend the customer another in the interval at no charge Mrs Byrant whose salary is also covered by the program says she hopes the Barrie of ficewill be selfsupporting dont know when it will happen though Its like any other business guess it takes while Morrice said the hearing aid program is not intended to put responsible private dealers out of business In his view both can be comfortably ac commodated within the community dont feel that Im in competition with dealers at all says Mrs Bryant dont feel thats what Im here for Im here to provide patient with good health service at minimum cost We do it our way and they do it theirs The aim of the socity is to provide help for those that need it Mrs Byant says that the local audiologist sees only very small percentage of the hearing impaired in this community and since the society requires an audiologist test before selling anyone an aid we only get small part of the hearing aid business in the community The rest obviously must to to dealers CECILE BRYANT no competition tocompete If dealers are going to compete they might start importing cheapiecheap type hearing aids and people may end up buying three aids in the same life expectancy period of one good hearing aid cannot see how it Will benefit the con sumer if have to buy cheap hearing aids to compete with the Canadian Hearing Socie ty he said Also they are not equipped to service out oftown people Those without transportation are out of luck Parre has been fighting for four months mw fighting what he sees as threat to his capacity to earn an honest living providing professional and responsible service If he goes down it wont be without having offered strong resistance Lat month Parr opened branch of his Collingwoodbased Huronia Hearing Aid Centre on Dunlop Street in Barrie scant few blocks from the Barrie office of the Canadian Hearing Society