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MIRONO WEEKLY TIMES, JANUARY 8th, 11175 or o no weekly times Second Class Mail Registration Number 6368 Published Every Wednesday At the Office of Publication SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada $3.00 U.S.A. $4.50 WHEREIN LIES T11E DIFFERENCE Prior to Christmas MPs at Ottawa saw proposed salary and allowance increases of fifty percent fade away as an irate electorate and NDP opposition voiced their disapproval. It now appears that the offering could be a 33 percent increase in 1975 with annual increases then pegged to the cost of living. In the first instance the 50 percent increase was to be static into 1978 and comparing this total amount over the four year period against the 33 percent increase and a projected 9 percent annual increase one finds little difference. It could well be the wolf in sheep clothing. Last week Allan Lawrence, MP for Durham was seeking opinions of his constituents regarding the 33 percent increase. Surely the local MP is much more qualified to make that judgement than his constituents. He has lived under the conditions and has first hand knowledge of cost conditions for those in Ottawa. It would be most interesting to know his viewpoint along with back-up information to give the viewpoint support. There is no doubt that an increase is warranted and conditions of one MP coul well differ to a great degree with another. Mr. Lawrence has been reported to have stated that salary and allowances do not meet all his costs. If this is so what about an MP that is removed thousands of miles from his riding or represents a riding spread over a large area of any of the northern parts of Canada. There must also be a concern by the electorate that the job in Ottawa does not become one that can only be held by the financial elite. The proposed 50 percent increase would total MP salary and allowance to $39,000. How does the Mps job at $39,000 stack up against that of the Director of Education for Northumberland and Newcastle at a similar annual remuneration, or a municipal employee at $18,000.00? Or a 10 percent increase on $10,000 for regional council members for what has turned out to be a part-time job with some claiming four to five meetings a month. 197S <f 'oniimi('(l from page I) the building he can see the school going to a two semester year with the school term lining divided into two equal terms: Under this system the* classes iri general, would be from one hour to eighty minutes in length and four credits would be taken in each semester. He felt that in some subjects this had great advantage while in others the longer periods may be too much for continued concentration. In the latter, he said, there may have to be adjustements. TO FORCE ( ENTRE regards teachers salaries and terms of ASK .MANDAMUS employment. . Mr Moffatt, the NDP candidate for this area looks for a provincial election in October 1975 under the new boundaries. He said there arc a lot of people disenchanted with the present government and expects the conservatives to drop considerably. He feels the NDP will do real well across the province. Locally, he said, it will depend a lot in just who will be running for office for the liberals and conservatives. some NO NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS OR WAS THERE It was quite evident at the town council meeting on Monday eveing that things were roaring or steaming along as usual. Councillor Lyall had again rasied the issue of some council members shortly after the gang had rang and there was little let up for the course of the meeting. His attack was as usual and certainly if he had made any New Years resolution it had been forgotten. It could be however, that New Years resolutions had been made and these by councillors Don Wearn and Ivan Hobbs. Their attack against the jabs by Councillor Lyall were a little more stinging than usual. Yes and what about Mayor Rickard's New Years resolution. His gavel sounded more often and with a sharper crack and his quest for Councillor Lyall's reasoning was more direct than usual. Councillors Entwisle and Tink continue to take it all in their stride with little emotional display. . Resolutions or not.... the show at city hall is still the best bet in town. $100,000 Mosport fire An early morning fire at the raceway here Saturday destroyed destroyed six formula Ford racing cars; and about one-third one-third of an 800 foot garage and machine shop causing about $100,000 in damages. Newcastle Fire Chief Jim Hayman said track employees employees discovered the fire at about 7:15 a.m. when they came in to work, and every indication is that the fire was burning for at least two hours before they arrived. He says the blaze was probably caused by a faulty space heater. A four-wheel drive Jeep, snowmobiles, and curriculum papers used in the track iriving school were lost in the blaze that also saw the roof and walls of thé steel and wooden structure cave in. No one was in the ark at the time of the fire. Kendal news • We have just enjoyed the mildest December in fifty four years with much less snowfall here then the usual amount. The first seven days of January have been in the high thirties with a good covering of snow. Attendance at the ski hill over the weekend was a record high. We saw a large boat goind down Lake Ontario on January the second, we hear cold weather is coming DOUGLAS MOFFAT Douglas Moffatt, principal at the Orono Public School sees 1975 as becoming one of the most interesting, and intriquing years in the past twenty as far as education is concerned. He referred to new legislation to be passed by the province to legalize teacher salary agreements which places teacher federations into trade union organizations to the detriment of the profession. Also he said the province is coming out with new curriculum guide lines sometime in June affecting grades from Kindergarten to grade six. This will compel teachers back to :he learning and study process. Mr. Moffatt states he sees a shortage of teachers on the horizon with local schools such as at Orono finding it most difficult to get new teachers. He felt this was due to the fact that would-be teachers are now being charged a tuition fee to attend teacher's college and as thus the new crop of teachers are seeking employment with the high levels of education. Mr. Moffatt urged that parents become well informed about the happenings in education and pointed out that there was a lot of misunderstanding especially in REV. BASIL LONG SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT 1975 I think there will be an increasing reaction among people in general against being "taken in" by false standards, unjust business manipulations and questionable political practices. I believe that more and more people will demand an accounting in one form or another. I feel that there will be an increased sensitivity to the injustice of waste in one part of the world and starvation in another. I believe that the trend to seek deeper values and greater meaning in life will be intensified in various ways, and that among Christians there will be a growing dissatisfaction with superficial expressions of worship and service and denominational- ism; while at the same time the deeper hunger for the things that truly satisfy will be increasingly experienced as greater numbers seek the fellowship which leads to the Spirit filled life, and that it will be found in formal worship or informal meetings whether large or small. My reaction to tough times and the need to struggle is a positive one. It is out of struggle that character is made and the greater blessings of humanity gained. I believe that Christ is the only adequate answer to man's deepest needs. Up and down the book stacks THURS. JANUARY 9th ADULT Something More by Catherine Marshall (in search of a deeper faith) 35mm Photography Simplified Simplified Amphoto Behavior Mod by Philip J. Hilts (how humans can be controlled) Lester Pearson, Diplomat and .Politician by Bruce Richardson Richardson An Accident of Love by Mary Ellin Barrett (novel) Collision by Spencer Duns- more (Novel of an air disàster at Toronto International Airport) Airport) JUNIOR The Dell Encyclopedia of Tropical Fish by T.W. Julian Revolution in Perspective by Mary Charlesworth (people seeking change from 1775 to the present day) The World of the American Indian by Jules B. Billard Tales of Terror and Fantasy by Edgar Allan Poe EASY READING & PICTURE BOOKS Nobody Asked Me if I Wanted a Baby Sister by Martha Alexander The Runaway Tram by Peggy Blakely MADELEINE HADLEY our way. Our sympathy is extended to r. Edmund Couroux and to Mrs. Carl Langstaff who lost their father on December 26th. He had suffered a great deal since he broke his hip. He was in his 87 year and lived at Chach Bay. Mr. and Mrs. Argus Curtis attended the wedding of Aine Curtis and Mary Lou Evans in Pontypool church on January 4th. KIRK ENTWISLE 1974 has been a pleasant and constructive year in all respects respects for me - at home, in ' business and in my muncipal work, and I offer my sincere thanks to the Good Lord and to all my lesser friends and associates who have helped to make it so. The organization and administration administration of your new Town of Newcastle has come together remarkably well. Sure, we have those on Council who are far more concerned with getting their names printed, in head-lines if possible, than in the plodding process of government - but I believe that the accomplishments accomplishments in 1974 were great, and that all bodes well municipally municipally for 1975. I am still convinced that the Regional organization is more than we need and perhaps more than we can afford. The time to tell will be two or three years from now when generous generous provincial transitional grants dry up. 1975 will be a difficult business year. Few of us - whether we are businessmen, farmers, workers, housewives housewives or pensioners - are free from the fears and the effects of insidious inflation. I pray that the avarice which is within us all, and which is at the root of this socially destructive evil, will be tempered tempered by Christian concern for our fellow men. Recession and lay-offs, depression depression and mass-unemployment, mass-unemployment, may come to an extent which I am not competent to predict. Hardships can destroyer destroyer they can create social unity and determination that our bountious gifts will be available to all citizens of this great land. 1975 will be a year of i soul-searching for all of us. We Can come through it as better people, and kindlier people more contented with a little less perhaps, with governments governments more attuned to the needs and aspirations of modest people, if we .are careful and considerate and all take our obligations to our fellow men with a little more thoughtfulness. KIRK ENTWISLE The town ol Neweastlv_ .s been served with a writ of mandamus which says the municipality is legally obligated obligated to issue a building permit for a shopping centre on Simpson and King Sts. here. Lawyers for the town and DM Consultants of Thornhill will appear at Osgoode Hall weekly court Thursday, January January 9th to argue the merits of the case. Peter Weston of DM Consult ants Ltd. said the building permit his company has asked for would allow them to proceed with the first phase of the development, a $1 million department store. He said the muncipality has already included the development development as part of its official plan, and had passed a bylaw- zoning the land as commercial. commercial. Now Newcastle has come to him to say its bylaw is "messed-up" according to Mr, Eston, and the land is really residential. He said that while they by-law "might not be a gem of draftsmanship" it clearly states, the land is zoned commercial. He's now in the position of proving that the town by-law is correct, while the town must prove that its own by-law is wrong. Bowman ville chamber of commerce president John Pogue said downtown X essmen are against a " ping centre of that size in that Councillor, January 1975 -location. He said businessmen Lookinq for more funds n to feel that a centre would hurt their business, not at- The Vincent Massey Mem- trading enough outsiders, orial Centre in Bewdley is now ar| d force them to share their underway With the Commun- business, ity Centre portion hearing Besides the centre would completion. It is hoped by the»add more traffic t an already board that work can start by congested area, he added, the first of February for the The Chamber has done a arena that will be part of the survey in the area, and wants complex. It is estimated that a shopping area there, but a the arena shell will cost some small $150,000 and the board is now centre, seeking donations to the fund. All bills to date have been ' 'convenience-type' A large should be shopping c located on -me paid and an amount of periphery of the town to $150,000 does remain intact attract jout-of-town business, from the government of he said. Ontario as a forgiveable loan.