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4 -- PORT PERRY STAR, Thursday, March 3rd., 1966 Port Perry Star Co. Limited Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Offiée Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. Subscription Rates: In Canada $3.00 per yr., Elsewhere, $4.50 per yr. Gold Cord Presentation (Continued from Front Page) marking her progress to the Gold Cord. Reaching the cov- eted goal, the gold cord winner was greeted and congratulated by Mrs. Rae Webster, District Commissioner of the Scugog Division and as Sandra's former Brown Owl spoke briefly refer- ring to the days spent together in the Brownie Pack. Miss Jane Carnegie, Lieutenant of the 1st Girl Guide Company, presented Sandra to her mother, who is Captain of the 2nd Company. Mrs. Hall proudly placed the Gold Cord on. her daughter's shoulder. The presentation of the Gold Tenderfoot Pin was made by Mrs. Donald Wylie, President of the Guide and Brownie Mothers' Auxiliary. Adjournment was made to the main hall for the Cantpfire meeting, immediately following the retirement of the Colour Party. Cadet Guide Dianne Hall conducted the sing-song around the campfire and the meeting was closed with Taps, Refreshments were served by the Guides, assisted by Guide Mothers Mrs. Donald Wylie, Mrs. Rae Webster and Mrs, George Lee. Gracing the centre of the tea POV OV YU STOO OE WM. T. HARRISON Editor Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Single Copy 10¢ mm, EA A A a a a a ga ga a og a ggg 2 Calg SON ONO table was a beautiful Trefoil designed cake in the traditional colours of yellow and blue, bearing a replica of each badge earned by the Gold Cord Winner and was made for Sandra by Captain Evelyn Bishop and Lieutenant Selina Fulton, of Courtice. Sandra expressed her appreciation to her parents, guide leaders, testers and fel- low guides who had given her encouragement and assistance during the years to enable her to win the highest coveted award in guiding, Among the honoured guests were Sandra's grandfather, Mr. H. R. Johns of Whitby and her uncle, Mr. Harry Johns, of Downsview; Mrs. Patricia Bon- ham, of Weston; Mr. Rick Cob- bett, of Toronto; Mr, and Mrs. Allan Martyn and family of Prince Albert; Mrs, Etcher and daughter, Susan, of Bowman. ville; Sea Ranger Gail 'Walter; Captain Evelyn Bishop; Lieu- tenant Selma Fulton; of Cour- tice; Mrs. Norman Heayn and daughters, Mrs. Barry Howey and Linda; Mrs. James Baird; Mrs. Donald Murray; Mrs. Bruce Beare; Mr. and Mrs. John Jefford and family and Cub- master Charles Reesor and Mrs. Reesor, all of Port Perry. Women's Hospital Auxiliary Spring Fair Sat., May 28th The regular monthly meeting was held at Port Perry Com- munity Hospital on Monday, February 21st at 2.30 p.m. with fourteen members in attendance. Mrs. Roy Cornish took the 'Chair in the absence of Presi- dent, Mrs. Dymond. The meeting opened with the recitation of the Lord's Prayer after which Mrs, B, Wanamaker | vead the minutes of the last meeting. The treasurer's re- port was not given owing to the absence of Mrs. D. Crozier. Mrs. J. Manns reported six pairs of baby bootees™ distributed sinee the last meeting and seven more pairs were turned in, Mrs. Cornish announced that the date for the SPRING FAIR has definitely been set for Sat., May 28th. All organizations will be contacted in the near future and a list of booths sug- gested to them so that they can | decide which interests them most. Several ladies are still involv. ed with DIMINISHING TEAS but it is hoped that these will soon be completed. Grateful thanks are extended to those participating, Two new members from Nes- tleton, Mrs, Emerson and Mrs. Sadler, made their debut at this meeting and were warmly wel- 'comed by the auxiliary. Mrs. Stewart McFarlane kindly or- ! Municipal Hall. ganised two interesting contests to amuse the members, The next meeting will be held on Monday, March 21st. A hos- pital board meeting will take place on Wednesday, March 23 at 8 p.m. in the office of the Plans for the new hospital will be discussed and it is hoped that several members of the auxiliary will attend. CLASSIFIED FOR SALE WILSON'S TREMENDOUS MATTRESS CLEARANCE SALE ring Filled Mattresses - from 3 piece Bedroom Suite.. $109.00 Bunk Bed complete, from $57.00 Crib Mattresses ................ $8.99 Smooth Top and Quilted Mattresses, values to $69.50 Continental Beds in Mis-Matched Coyers, Slashed from WILSON'S FURNITURE 20 Church Street Oshawa, Ont. OX a SLOG AL Hy Js i324 he +4 School Boards, Councils Discuss (Continued from Front Page) Section 43: "Where a Town- ship school area consists of more than one municipality or parts thereof, Section 556 ap- plies, except that the meeting of the Treasurers shall be call- ed by the Treasurer of the municipality having the great- est assessment for public school purposes within the Township School Area, according to the last revised Assessment Rolls. Where the Treasurers dis- agree, the Inspector of the Township School Area and the Treasurers shall be arbitrators to determine the matter." The Chairman stated that un- der this recent amendment to the Public Schools Act, he would suggest that the Treasurers of both the Village of Port Perry and the Township of Scugog ar- range a meeting without delay to iron out the proportion of costs involved for each partici- pant. As the enrolment in the three schools on the Island of Scugog now stands at 87.4 aver- age daily attendance, a figure | of 90 pupils would be used in calculating the costs beginning in September, Members of the Scugog Coun- cil and School Board, led by 'Reeve Aldred, and School Bd, Chairman Otto Kreig wanted to know what proportion of the costs would be levied against Scugog. Mr. Carter of Scugog, suggested that the per pupil cost would double, based on the fact that they would be sending one-sixth of the school enrol- ment but would pay for one- third of the levy. Mr. Wiseman did not agree that the costs should increase that much, A figure of $1..40 per pupil, per day, based on perfect at- tendance of 90 pupils was men- tioned as the 1965 outlay, and this would mean $126.00 per day for 76 school days between September and December, a total of $9,676. To this would be added the cost of extra trans- portation. . To offset this, the Chairman reminded the meeting that a large part of this expenditure could be recovered in School Grants--if not in the current year, then in the one immedi- ately following the amalgama- tion of the two school Boards. Mr. Bob Archer, Port Perry School Board, stated that. at present, the Kindergarten pu- pils were in school for two hours only, and some arrangé< ment would have to be made for these young pupils to be return- ed to their homes. The Chair- man pointed out that the Grant for this purpose has been in- creased, along with the per pupil allowance. Discussion followed regarding the planned addition to Port Perry Public School. It had already been established that two rooms would be added this summer to accommodate the in- creased kindergarten enrolment, but when Scugog elected to send its pupils to Port Perry, a decision was reached to add an- other four rooms. Reeve Aldred, of Scugog wanted to know- approximately how much of a mill increase his ratepayers would be liable for, but as this was a question very difficult to determine at this time, nothing could be stated as a definite figure. Chairman Peter. Wiseman made use of the auditorium blackboard .to show the meeting the probable a- mounts of Tax Relief Grant, The grant per pupil has' been increased by $5. and other le- gislative amounts were deter- mined oh Assessment, Equaliza- 'tion Factors, ete. Concensus of opinion was that regardless of Departmental Grants, the cost of educating students from Scugog Island would be more than in years. However, the benefits to be derived from the improve. ment in facilities and education- al aids would be for the ultim- ate benefit of the children. The question of where pupils could eat their lunches was discussed, gnd the Port Perry School Board told the Scugog Members that lunch could be eaten in the Auditorium, with rotating teachers in charge of supervision. About 80% of the Port Perry pupils go home for lunch, but as this would be im- possible for Scugog residents, no problems were apparent in the plan of using the Auditori- um, Mrs, June Dadi, Scugog Councillor asked Mr. Wiseman if there was anything in the Public Schools Act which would prohibit a school being built on Scugog Island if the population past | { were 250 pupils between 6 & 11 should suddenly increase in the future, To this, Mr. Wiseman replied that the Department uses a figure of 36 for a class- room. If, for example, there ever came to pass, a new school could be built on the Island, but would be administered by the combined School Boards which are now being finalized. This happening would make it un- necessary for more rooms to be added to the school in Port Perry, and it could possibly be that at some future date a Junior grade school might be built on Scugog Island, A move for adjournment was made, and the two School Boards then got together to vote on the question of represen- tation on the new Board. This resulted in a vote of 6 members from Port Perry and 2 from the Scugog Island Board. A meeting of the two Treas. urers will be arranged in the near future. The meeting ad- journed at 10 p.m. The Editor, Port Perry Star, Dear Sir: ) Re: Ambulance Service With regard to much publi- city over providing Ambulance Service, I feel it is fair that the public understand how the situation was handled from our point of view. Since it is evident that the general feeling among the Reeves of the Municipalities is to drop the matter, and let other areas absorb our problems I must state at this time that we received only one reply about our request for increased subsidy. This letter dated Jan. 3, 1966 was from the Village of Port Perry stating that they would be glad to be present at a meeting to see if some mutual agreement could be worked out, At this time, I also stated this feet: the meeting presumably arranged by Reach Twp. was unknown to me except by hear- ing about it on the street. I was not asked to attend this meeting, but did express @ill- ingness to attend if required. With regard to Subsidy for Ambulance Service, the Munici- pal Board, realizing the need in smaller areas, and, that a private operator with the ne- essary funds could provide a cheaper service than one owned: and operated by the area them- selves amended the Municipal Act. The result of the above amend- ments is that a local municipal- ity has the power to enact a by-law: 88c--for entering into agree- ment with any person for a period not exceeding Five Years to maintain and operate Am- bulances for the purpose of con. veying of persons suffering from disease or accident to a hospital or other place at such rates or charges and on such othr terms and conditions in- cluding the payment of an an- nual' subsidy to such person as may be agreed upon, On Jan. 20, 1964 a committee under the direction of the At- torney General's: Department, with representatives from the Ontario Medical Association and the Ontario Ambulance Opera- tors Association: Inc. met to discuss the Ambulance Services across Ontario. Our services along with other areas as members of the Ontario Ambulance Operators Associa tion in good standing were part LETTER ww EDITOR | of a survey conducted by the Bxecutive Council for providing service to a given area. Th general feeling is the fact that local municipalities are not taking full advantagls of this provision in. the Municipal Act. I am under pressure to im~-- prove as are all properly oper- ated services across Ontario this year. The need for increased subsidies js province wide per- taining to Ambulances not only in our area. Provincial Legislation of Am- bulance Services is in the fu- ture, when; we cannot gay. It could be next year or it could be never, however we do know that help on a provincial level will never be available if we destroy area services over sub- sidy negotiations. , At this time I must say that we are not discouraged about a recent decision regarding area ambulance service, however I do feel that since we operate a proper ambulance vehicle, which would pass inspection, and do not use a station wagon, panel truck, or sedan delivery con- verted for Ambulance use that our request for more help than $1200.00 should be reconsidered. We have tried our best to pro- vide a good service, and, do not wish to be forced to close and sell our equipment. With in- creased costs we do need more assistance. Two years ago we asked the area for $2500.00 subsidy, we received $1200.00. For the two year period I have carried on to th best of my ability, however as previously stated we feel the need for improvement. This is a vital service to the hospital and the community at large, and I am still interested in trying to settle this problem, if they would let me be present at a meeting to discuss the matter. Yours very truly, Charles H, Brignall LADIES CURLING Tuesday G. Hunter 6, R. Mitchell 6 M. MacMaster 6, I. Mitchell 8 M. Snooks 16, E,. Doyle 2 Wednesday M. Panabaker won by default over J. Gray I. Carter 7, A. Cox 4 Rr R. Bruton 8, M, Holdershaw /4 D. Beare 9, H. Carnwith Thursday N. Kenny 6, H. MacMaster § H. Thompson 7, B. Beare 7 C. Martyn 19, A. Dawson 7.