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PAGE 60 OTTAWA JOURNAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1980" BIRDS rmrwKR Birding in 80s: Adapt UTJ mi-en Compste for fun- By Bryan Elliott As mentioned in a previous column, the 1980 edition of Mini-ex will be held Jan. on a Wednesday evening a date that will not conflict with the regular meeting times of the invited clubs. Paul Woolner is the co-ordlnator, working on behalf of the host RCM Police H. Q. and Area Stamp Club.

The invited clubs include the Ottawa Philatelic Society, the Armed Forces Philatelic Society, the R. A. Stamp Club, the Bells Corners Stamp Club, and the -Amicale des Philatelistes de l'Outaouais. If all participate, it will mark a significant increase in the exhibits presented, and, as I will describe below, the mini-exhibition will certainly fill the purpose of encouraging new participants. Four categories There are four categories of entries, for which each club must try to provide one exhibit: Canada; any other country; topical subjects; and covers (first day, first flight and air letters or examples of postmarks).

Non-commercial pages, in other words none of the pre-printed specialty pages or albums, are to be used to mount each entry, antt the limits are, four (minimum) to eight pages for each category entry. There is no requirement that a club entry in any category be from a single club member. The basis for judging: general eye appeal, originality, continuity, minimal art work and minimal' word usage. Three judges will be working on the. makings, and they will be, respectively, a philatelist, a stamp collector and a person who is neither philatelist nor collector.

Each judge will work to assess entries indivi-dually, without consultation, with total scores to be calculated for determining the club that wins the Inter-Club trophy. Questionanswer period While guests are awaiting the announcement of winners, expected about 10 p.m., Ron McGuire of the Postal Museum will be making an illustrated presentation and entertaining questions concerning his talk. Refreshments will be offered. The emphasis is on participation and fun, as the composition of the entries and the nature of the judging both indicate. Location of the Mini-ex will be the Featherston Drive Public School, at Featherston Drive and Jefferson Avenue).

If you are a member of one of the clubs mentioned at the start of the column, you should call your club president if you are Interested In submitting an entry. And by the way, all entries aTe supposed to have never been entered in competition previously. So this is your annual chance to start into the competition aspect of stamp collecting. Big choice in weekend matches By Norm Hall Publicity for the sectional competition here next weekend has been disappointing. To date, no other schedule has appeared other than the one printed in this column last week.

One Important change in the schedule should be emphasized. Recently, the two-session open pairs event has been drawing poorly. At the fall sectional in November, the attendance in this event was "the lowest for probably the past 10 years. Here's the schedule To improve attendance on Saturday, two one-session events have been scheduled. In the afternoon, there will be an open pairs and in the evening, there's the flighted open pairs.

This scheduling has several advantages. Those wflo cannot play all day have a choice of events, The full schedule, again, is as follows: Thursday, 8 p.m. (at the R.A. Centre), masters and non-masters pairs; Friday, 2 p.m., mixed pairs (at the Skyline Hotel, as are all the following); Friday, 8 STAMPS If you are not yet a club member, but are interested in joining for increasing your knowledge or collection scope, why not start the new year by getting out to some meetings? Museum for 180 Wellington Some time ago, mentioned that the Postal Museum would be mov ing to a new location in 1980, probably about April 1. The latest copy of the Canada Post Philatelic Bulletin specifies the address, 180 Wellington St.

This is a government building just to the south of (i.e. opposite) the West Block. In the column some three weeks ago, I made a reference to the apparent lack control that the post office maintains over contract printings of stamp issues. This was prompted by the unavailability of figures concerning both the actual quantity of stamps produced for each issue, by each plate, and also, the impossibility of getting information as to the numbers of plate block sets available. These types of information would be of use to the average collector in assessing the advertising claims of dealers when attempts are made to "push" sales of a particular issue.

I must accept his word It is certainly curious that for years the figures for printings became available, albeit not at regular intervals, while for the last decade and more it has been impossible to obtain this information. Whatever the reason, it is not due to poor security and monitoring by the financial section of the post office. A representative phoned to take issue with that implication and I must accept his word that this is the case. However, we were unable to resolve the question of the quality control for these contracts. And, really, that still leaves a very open question as to the degree of control that the department has in its dealings with the security printers.

How do the various papers of printings occur? Why are so many issues poorly perforated (I.e. badly off-centre), and why is the applied color so variable (witness the icebreakers issue and the 1979 high value definitives). Do you as collectors think that Canadian postage stamps are of consistent and high quality (compared to, say, Australia, Austria and France, to name only a few)? In other words, who is supervising these standards contractors or the post office? Why should there not be concern that the quality of a basic product, the postage stamp, is being produced with minimal controls? BRIDGE p.m., men's and women's pairs; Saturday, 1:30, open pairs; Satur-day 7:30, flighted open pairs; Sunday, noon and TBA, Swiss T4. CarttaRwoad, Jan. i rente pint.

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Jaaal Co, Ted Terrade. sM.r&kJj Gyrfalcons, this one in dark phase, are visiting our region, Pet food: Good? Bad? Answer questionnaire to guide pet-food makers By Joan Colbourn In our enlightened society, we do not feed our pets just scraps. We know that they need more than the -surplus and wastes from our. kitchens to be healthy pets. So, we have turned to commercially-prepared pet foods.

Right now the pet food manufactures, as a group, are trying to find ways to serve the needs of your pets better. They are trying to find ways to assure you that when you buy pet foods you will get what you think you have bought. For example, when your selection is "meat chunks" you should be able to assume that what you are getting is hunks of domestic animal and not a composite of non-animal substances pressed into hunk-like, shapes and canned. I Or, when the label says "complete Look to By Jonathan Berry Since this is the first column of 1980, it's a good time to look forward to what will be happening in chess this year. Ottawa's three chess clubs remain active and anxious to welcome more new members.

The RA Chess Club meets in the Riverside Room at the RA Centre, Riverside Drive at Bronson Avenue, Thursdays from 7 p.m. and Sundays from 1 p.m. The Patro Chess Club meets at the Patro Community Centre, 40 Co-bourg St. in Lower Town, Mondays from 7 p.m. The Ottawa Chess Club meets at Ottawa Technical School, Albert and Bay streets, Tuesdays from 7 p.m.

in room C-214. Tournaments planned 1980 will be a good year for Chess Federation of Canada-rated tournaments. The Ottawa Valley Open will be held Feb. 8-10 at the Chess Club. Alt contestants will play six games (two per day) in the Swiss system event.

Complete details will be given in two weeks' time. CROSSWORD it a- icyr -if n- sr "pru -f rir-Et jt rf ij rf -n jt JU I rTM- I mr st HUi jq 1 irjt yf -j -p -i- ffw ir" if-tr df "ir LtTioj u' udbo1 Irarh" -rw it -til- --Wr--iff- InTT- a' nr i' pry- a' -m VfA a' it 3 IH 'ni till I 144 If fT 47 14' nr- Solution In Monday paper PETS dinner," the can should contain food that needs nothing added to make it adequate nourishment for your pet. Send In questionnaire The following questionnaire will help the manufacturers to know your pet food needs. Please fill it in and send to Pets, The Journal, Laurier St. Ottawa or telephone 836-1783.

How many animals do you have? Number Cats Dogs What breed of cat do you have? What breed of dog do you have? What makes you choose the type of feed you do? Cost Presentation Contents Results busy chess year CHESS Hn mm IB mlm mtw. Today's position is White to play and win. See solution at the end of column. In March, the Outaouais Regional Championship will be held In Hull. Then, in summer, the Canadian Open will return to Ottawa.

The Canadian Open was last held here in 1973 and was a success with 235 entries, still the largest tournament ever held in the area. Les Bunning and Terry Fleming, organizers of What do you expect to read on the labels of pet foods? Does a complete chemical breakdown of contents need to be listed? YesONoO Would you understand the use of the ingredients listed? Yes No Most of them Do you think you should have to add' anything, to a food labelled "nutritionally-balanced" to make a good normal diet. Yes No Would a "standards mark" on labels (something like the CSA approved mark on electrical appliances) help you in deciding what to feed your pet? Yes No What kinds of test do you think the pet food manufacturers should undertake on animals to assure that a "standards mark" would mean something to your pet's food? this year's event, hope to break that record. Watch this column for details of those and other tournaments to be held in the Ottawa area. Elsewhere In Ontario, the main events will be the Ontario Open in Hamilton on the Victoria Day weekend and the Ontario Closed this summer.

The only big national event will be the Canadian Open here in Ottawa. Internationally, two events will dominate the year. First, the Candidates' Matches will take place over the next two months to de-temine a challenger to world champion Anatoly Karopov in 1981. Then, the Chess Olympics will be played in Malta during the early part of November. The Soviet Union will be licking its wounds from the surprise defeat it received at the hands of Hungary In 1978.

SOLUTION: l.ng6! Threatens 2.1h8. if 1 fxg8 2.bxe6 wins Black's Queen. 1. Nb.7 2.Rxe6l fxe6 If fxg6 3. Rxd6 just wins a piece.

But now comes the crusher: 3.Qxd8! Qxd8 4.Bxe6 A most unusual mate. By Brian Morin Lately It's been fashionable to make forecasts for the new decade. Unfortunately, the gloomy picture painted for the economy will have an effect on birding as well. High gasoline costs and fuel shortages will quickly put a damper on daylong outings. But it's not a hopeless situation.

Residents of the national capital area are blessed with an abundance of natural areas, including some prime birding spots, close to home. You can even take a bus to some of them, like Britannia, the Champlain Bridge and Vincent Massey Park. Soalled "backyard birding" will mean even better coverage of the old favorite locales. And getting together with friends will reduce consumption of gas as well as your costs. It's also more fun.

No. the 1980s won't hring an wirl tn the sport of birding, only a shift in the game plan. Few winter birds Birding lately has been more like a fall than mid-winter sport. It's been that miltt Mark and Simon Gawn and Bob Bracken sighted four harriers, seven rough-legged hawks and five red-tailed hawks behind the airport. Richard Poulin had two more harriers on Dec.

26 in North Gower. Ruby Brown, who lives on Woo-droffe Avenue near Highway It, had 18 mourning doves in her yard, while Earl Godfrey had an incredibly late clay-colored sparrow at his feeder until Christmas. Winter birds are still almost nonexistent, but Arnet Sheppard reported that red crossbills are increasing in the Gatineau Hills. At least one northerner is paying us a visit. Bruce Dilabio spotted a grey-phased gyrfalcon on Merivale Road Dec.

27. Surprisingly, on the same day, Mike Ruhtz, Tom Hince et al, found a dark-phased bird near Hawkesbury. More bird counts Christmas count news continues to roll in. Mike Runtz reports that the Arnprior count, held Dec. 26, tallied 36 species.

There were 12 all-time high count records established, including five goshawks, 70 ruffed rouse, 28 mourning doves and 17 rown creepers. Two ravens were new for the count. The Carleton Place bird count tallied around 38 species. Like the Ottawa census, few finches were reported. Southern Ontario has turned up some rather attractive goodies lately.

A western band-tailed pigeon appeared for a day at Presqu'lle Provincial Park shortly before Christmas. A dickcissel was reported at Port Hope, and Mark Gawn reports seeing the mountain bluebird that is currently in Point Pelee National Park near Windsor. In Cornwall, crows are a prominent winter species. Between 700 to 1,000 birOs nightly come to roost in the trees near my home, I pity the people whose yard has been chosen as prime roosting territory. Call me in Cornwall at 938-3147.

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