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Griffin Daily News Thursday, February 17,1977 Page 16 RHEBLa uJUM jttfSbr i M * w .13 . SECRETARY OF STATE Cyrus Vance is the third top ad ministration figure to undertake a foreign tour, beginning a visit to the Soviet Union on March 28 to discuss limitation of strategic arms. He follows Vice President Walter Mon dale, who visited European allies immediately following the inauguration, and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, touring black African nations. CB Convac Canada gets hit by the CB boom By Ink Dipper (EDITOR S NOTE: Ink Dipper (KYZ-3916) is the han dle of the editor of The CB Times-Journal.) Canada is experiencing a CB explosion It’s not as large as the one that hit the U.S. within the last 18 months, but it’s still significant. The country's Department of Communications (counter part to the U.S. Federal Com munications Commission) es timates that there will soon be 1.2 million Canadians licensed to operate CB transceivers. Right now there are just over 200,000 legal CB sets in Canada and an unknown quan tity of people operating without licenses. The latest FCC report shows that more than eight million persons of businesses hold U.S licenses, and it’s probably safe to assume that several million more operate on the citizens band without a license Keep in mind, though, that Canada's population is about one-tenth that of the U.S., so the per capita use of CBs in Canada might one day surpass the U.S mark What’s causing the in creasing popularity? A lot of the same things that have sparked the growth here Canadians want to keep up with radar and speed traps, they like the instant con venience of CBing for ob taining highway information, and the CBs have proven themselves time and again during emergencies. But Canada is also, for the most part, a rural country. People in far-flung areas use their radios as away to keep in touch with neighbors The CB becomes a party line for Canadians in isolated areas who, even though they might have telephones, still enjoy the companionship of a dozen or more other CBers who ratchet-jaw into the night. The growth in Canada has given the Doc some of the same growing pains en- 1 Silicon snow NOT ANOTHER WEATHER picture, snowy mounds in this case are silicon crystals on a microprocessor chip — used in home video games, medical electronics and in dustrial control — magnified 5,000 times with a scanning electron microscope at Somerville, N.J., plant of RCA Solid State Division. Third countered by the FCC. In some urban areas, the original 23 channels have become congested. And the flood of license applications has been almost overwhelm ing To cope with congestion, the DOC has allocated 17 new channels — the same new frequencies allotted for U.S. CBing — and set April 1 as the day the new channels can be opened The lag, DOC officials explain, is because the DOC fiscal year runs from April 1 to March 31, and the channel expansion will coincide with the new year. Just as in the U.S., the channel expansion in Canada has prompted CB retailers to offer price cuts on 23-channel units to clear their inventories for the 40-channel stock. The glut of license applications has put a strain on the DOC, officials say, but they've been able so far to cope with it and not fall far behind like the FCC, which at times took up to 90 days to process an application An example of the DOC ser vice is temporary licensing of American CBers traveling in Canada with their radio gear. Most applications from U.S. CBers for the temporary per mits are answered by return mail. Canadians going into the U.S., though, have sometimes had to wait up to three months for the FCC to send them tem porary permits. Os course, DOC personnel are hoping that they can keep up with the increasing numbers of people applying for permanent licensing. They want to go through the Cana dian boom in better shape than the FCC managed when CBing exploded in the U.S. agency’s face. Do you swap CB QSL cards? The CB Times-Journal staff does. Send vour card to The CBTJ Card Swap, 2727 Mossdale Dr.. Nashville, TN 37217. (C) — The CB Times-Journal (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN « Airlines Civil Aeronautics Board swamped with complaints By HOWARD BENEDICT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Air line passengers are com plaining in record numbers to the Civil Aeronautics Board about delayed flights, baggage handling, overbookings and oth er shortcomings in service. The board received a record 16,124 consumer complaints in 1976, a 35 per cent increase over 1975. The previous record was 15,720 in 1974. Reservations-related prob- MAXWELL’S PRE-WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY SALE €O 1/3 C)OoFF I 7 Z<\ & 7 \s° '7 '"A' ) 7/''~'\ I \7 <ZZ\ZZ< \<W> 7 / —\\ 'X r-v< </> 7 Y JKV~Z>\x 7 tWzZZZz frvSz >Wz \Z/ y s >2\. 7 I l) X ' l 7 Z <\Z> XZta /Z)/ <\ vy J I <<47 / Jz' lems led the list of complaints with 2,504. Some 1,192 came from ticket-holding passengers upset when they were denied seats because the airline had overbooked their flights. Baggage complaints to CAB totaled 2/114 last year, with 1,- 322 for lost or damaged luggage and 441 for delays. Some 1,519 complaints concerned confusion over different price plans and 1,229 letter-writers were upset about late flights. But the agency said the vol- ume of complaints it handles is not necessarily a valid gauge of any change in the quality of airline service or airline re sponsiveness to passenger problems. For one thing, the board pointed out in a statement, it has not determined whether all the complaints were valid. A CAB spokesman noted most passenger grievances are made to airlines, not to the board. He attributed the increase in 1976 complaints to CAB primarily to “heightened public awareness of the existence of the board’s consumer activities.” A spokesman for the Air Transport Association, which represents the airlines, con tended that the CAB complaints do not mean service has de teriorated. “The CAB’s office of con sumer advocate has been most active in the last year,” he said. “It has been more publicized and has encouraged those who thought they were wronged to write letters.” The ATA spokesman said an other factor in the over-all rise in complaints was that 10 mil lion more passengers flew out of U.S. airports in 1976 than 1974. The complaints to the CAB represent fewer than three passengers per 100,000 board ings, he said. He noted that in one category, service in general, complaints actually decreased 26 per cent from 1975 to 1976.
