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‘1g The Guariian, Charlottetown, Mon., Dec. 20, 1965.

Probe Of Blackout Told sloppy Practice In Ont.

By ARCH MacKENZIE |indicate Ontario Hydre wag sot WASHINGTON (CP)—A con- |prepared for what happened and

aressional inquiry into the’

* newer eckeur last monta be- “2% Vulnerable to a lightning gan with a suggestion hit, sabotage or a plane crash, of “very sloppy practice” on | Harvey said. ope tario Hydro Electric Swidler said the Canada-U.8.

er Commission. The criticism, from Repubii- [eae Set, sesetod to Monember ean James Harvey of Michigan ae haw tha oat uae 9 was answered by members of pane . sy> den itmited Bintee Madera | tems was lack of sufficient re Bower Commission. serve power in New York State. Commissioner Charles Ross | Ontario Hydro’s latést infor- granted that initial failure oc- | ™ation to him, said Swidler, is curred in Ontario Hydro's Sir that the Adam Beck relays now Adam Beck No. 2 plant in the Protect a shorter span of trans Niagara generating complex mission line against short cir- But the primary cause for the |cuits and can meet a higher wn failure extending through the |burden of electrical current be- US. northeast, eventually af-|fore snapping off the connec- lecting 30,000,000 Canadians and | tion. Americans for up to 14 hours,

was a lack of electrical re- s serves in New “York State to off Quints Home set the..Canadian break, Ross

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mission chairman, called’ ‘for | nore North American and na NORTH BAY, Ont.;; (CP)— tional co-ordination and integra. The former home of the Dionne » tion of power systems. He also quintuplets at Corbeil may be talled for congressional - action , developed as a district museum, te give the FPC greater super- |Deane Harris, a Callander, Ont., visory—authority—over-3,600-large--business_man_said here. and small US. er utilities| Mr. Harris said an interested which get 90 per’ cent of ther group has taken an option on power from privately -..owned the property, recently offered generating firms. for sale at $38,000.

The congressional inquiry !s| He said the group is investt- being conducted by a subcom- |gating the qualifications needed mittee of the House of Repre- jto obtain federal and provincial sentatives interstate and for. |grants available for historic eign commerce committee. | Purposes. Se

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