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the tribune stouffville orl thursday jamwry 8 1933 preparations underway for generating station changeover to 60 cycle estimate- plant- supplying iv cycle power to southern ontario will have been changed over to operate at go cycles by lixu sow in the fourth year of the 23 to gocycle changeover of equipment in wj733 southern ontario homes farms stores offices and factories the ontario hydro announced recently that initial steps are being taken on another important phase of its giant operation standardization the changeover to x cycles of generating stations supplying 25- cycle power to the southern sec tion of the province making the announcement hydro chairman robert h saun ders said the first hydro station ailected would be the newest of the commissions two plants at de cew falls near st catharines engineering specifications are be ing prepared to change over one of the two units at this plant in 1954 so that this generating station can begin supplying approximately 01000 kilowatts of 60cycie power to the hydros southern ontario system by the fall of that year the hydro chairman said 1951 would mark the start of a gener ating plant standardization pro gram that would keep pace from that time with general change over in the southern ontario 25- cycle island it is expected that approximately 9s2000 kilowatts of 25cycle generation will have been switched over to 60 cycle by about 1961 the decew falls plant one unit of which was installed dur ing world war ii and the other in 1917 was the last of the ontario hydros major water- power generating stations built to produce 25cycle current recent hydraulic development such as the chenaux des joachims and otto holden stations on the ott awa river and the giant sir adam reck gs xo 2 at niagara are- all designed to generate pow er at co cycles mr saunders said that as well as adding power to the southern ontario gocyele system generally j the changeover of the one unit at decew would provide even great er service security to growing g0- cycle loads in the niagara and hamilton areas the remaining unit at decew now supplying approximately 61- 000 kilowatts of 25cycle electrical energy to southern ontario will not be changed over until near the end of the generation conversion program it will be needed to pro vide 25cycle power for the last areas to be affected by the general switch from 25 to 00 cycles standardization of the one unit at decew falls will necessitate the erection of approximately one mile of steeltower transmission line linking the converted unit with gocycle lines going to the hydros burlington transformer station mr saunders said the expense of changing over 25cycle generat ing stations was included in original estimates covering the total cost of standardization in southern ontario he added that the latter figure was now being revised in the face of growing material and lalxir costs steadily increasing demands for power and a heavier saturation of frequency sensitive equipment requiring changeover than was originally anticipated the old dicciv decew falls is the site of another ontario hydro plant a station built in 1s9s and famous as the cradle of hydroelectric power in ontario this plant is i already delivering gocycle power to southern ontario customers for many years it provided power to residents in the burling ton and oakvllle areas at the un usual frequency of co 2ij cycles generators at the plant were adjusted to gocycle operation early in 1951 when the hydros itandardization program reached these areas gives vivid story of englands big fog by george abell of stouffville every part of the world has its own cross to bear as a result of old mothen nature japan has typhoons india has baboons and the united states has tycoons but once in a while london has a fog that takes the prize for nastiness and discomfort to think that only a few weeks ago i told you that there was fog here for the past three days this part of the country has been enduring a period of fog that makes what we had a month ago look very weak indeed last week the weather was cold damp and quiet and when the two million chimneys of the big smoke kept tilling the air with moke and soot a chemical change took place instead of one part of water and two parts of air the atmosphere became a yellowish black mixture made up of equal parts of soot smoke and what seemed to be well used dish water it was passible to breathe this mixture but not to see through i more than three feet as it thickened up on the first day friday nobody paid much attention but when at three in the afternoon you had to be under neath a street light to see any glow the fog warnings went om and everyone that could leave their work got home as fast as tbey could the suburban train service was good that first afternoon but very- noisy because when fog service is on there are torpedoes placed on the track at each signal point and station approach that go otx like young bombs when the first wheel hits them the bus service was soon about vkjt disorganized timetables were forgotten and by six pm a lot of them were pulled out of service or just run into the nearest open place to wail for better times the garages and parking lots were full of cars left by their owners and there was hardly a hotel in london that wasnt full and had stranded travellers put up in the lobby and billiard rooms the next day i saturday the only change was that the fog had become blacker and the frost thicker the queerest sensation vvas he quiet and absence of all usual sounds imagine a place of fifty thousand people a few sat- urdavs before christmas and hardly a soul in the shopping dis trict all day long no private cars were running a few buses were on their routes but as most of them had their conductor walking ahead with a flashlight they made very little noise and no speed not one plane droned in the sky and the only regular sound for three days was the rattle of trains in the ditance punctuated by the bangs of torpedoes as they went along in the evening i made for the public library and before reaching the main street a hundred yards away had wandered twice into private driveways on the left i you always seeni to bear left in a bad fog for some reason a short way along the deserted main street i bumped and 1 do mean bumped into a man carry ing a bulky object he turned out to be a fellow immigrant pal of mine late of the royal canadian regiment and he started telling me the usual tale of woe about the long and cold trip hed just had to get home from lyndon lucky for us there vvas a door at the side walks edge with a feeble light coming through the glass panel on the glass it said coach and horses saloon bar so we went in to finish our talk in the warmth and to see what the coach looked like so much for saturday sunday was just the same only the frost was thicker and the yellow fog had seeped in everywhere during the night a news bulletin at noon said that the cattle which had arrived in 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