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Published Every Wednesday Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, February 18th, 1981 Following his nomination as Progressive Conservative candidate by the PC Association Association of Durham East Sam Cureatz, incumbent member of the Ontario Legislature, presented his wife Cathy with a bouquet of red roses. In his acceptance speech Sam thanked Cathy for keeping keeping the home fires burning over the past four years acting both as mother and father to their two children. Sam said he was pleased with his nomination and let it be known that he had his eye on the front bench in the legislature. "My foot is tin the ladder", he said. Sam will contest the Durham Durham East riding for the PCs while Jim Potticary represents represents the liberals and Bruce McArthur the New Democratic Democratic Party. Bell Canada asking $1.80 monthly increase Bell Canada is asking for a $1.80 monthly service charge increase for residential customers customers of the Orono telephone exchange. Bell applied last week for a thirty percent residential service charge increase and a forty percent business service charge increase increase to the CRTC. If the increase is granted monthly charges for phones , in the Orono exchange, will increase from the present $6.00 a month to $7.80 per month plus sales taxes. Business Business phones on the Orono exchange will increase from $12.25 to $17.15 plus the seven percent sales tax. Residential service charges in Orono increased from $5.30 to $6.00 a month in August of 1980. Oshawa subscribers on the Oshawa system would have an increase of , $2.50 if the increase is granted , to a monthly rate of $10.55. Phone bills in Bowmanville and Whitby will increase by $2.25 a month to $9.75. Business rates in Oshawa will increase almost $10.00 to, $33.30 a month while in Bowmanville the rates will increase from the present $21.00 to $29.40 a month. Long distance calls will increase by .11 cerifs for the first minute and up a further nine cents for each additional minute. Bell is also asking for • a five cent hike at pay phones at 25 cents. Clarke Valedictorian Nélda Knapp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rosel Knapp, Orono, was the valedictorian at the Clarke High Commencement Commencement on Saturday evening. 1 Miss Knapp now attends Sir Sanford Fleming College in Peterborough and taking engineering, engineering, and thanked the school for their part, in her educatfbn and pointed to the great importance of encouragement encouragement from her parents. Council grapples with finance bulge battle Initial budget projections presented to the Town of Newcastle by staff would have local municipal taxes. increase by some 30 percent High §chool. •1 recall walking through the (Continued page 7) O'Neil denounces Tory government Jim Potticary liberal candidate Hugh P. O'Neil, a liberal M.P.P. since 1975 from Quinte was the guest speaker at the Durham East Liberal Association Association nomination meeting held at the Courtice High School last Wednesday "evening. "evening. O'Neil said the liberals would form the next Ontario government because Davis was incapable of deviking a strong team at Queen's Park. Davis, he said, does not like what he hears and this is certainly the case when Ontario has dropped to 10th in all the provinces as to new development and first of all ci as to capital debt. People, '"stated O'Neil, are worried about their jobs and Ontario is losing out in the business world. O'Neil said the whole Ontario Ontario manufacturing industry is declining mainly due to the Conservative government in Ontari8. The speaker refer- • red to plant closings and Ontario's unemployment increase increase as a clear indicator as to what is happening. O'Neil took a swipe at Ontario's educational system 1 and said as a result of this system we are importing skilled labpur from outside -the country. He also said that Ontario was falling behind in research and technology simply simply through neglect by the government. ' • "He said the Tory government government was wasteful in many avenues including spending $1,9 million on opinion polls, $4.4 million on Ontario debt, spending millions on land banking and then never using the land and again in sinking $10 million in a lodge in northern Ontario which does not have bedrooms as yet and still requiring another • $12 million to be placed in a condition that it could be opened. O'Neil said the citizens of Ontario have not been aware of the waste in Ontario and we as liberals have to put this across in our campaign. In speaking of the Davis government's pledge of $1.5 to the BILD program-he said it had been promised before over, the past five years without anything ever happening. happening. "It's empty, Davis is (Continued page 3) Jim Potticary and Doug Marlow shake hands following following the Durham East Liberal Association nomination meeting meeting held last Wednesday in the Courtjce High School where 150' battled stormy weather to attend. Potticary won out over .Marlow in seeking' the nomination. Marlow said during his address that no matter who was chosen as the liberal candidate for the March 19th eledtion they would be a winner. He jumped to ' the podium upon hearing the results of the contest to make the choice of Jim Potticary unanimous as the liberal standard Bearer for Durham East., .' Potticary faces Sam Cureatz, Cureatz, PC and Bruce Mc- ,Arthur, NDP: