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*® EE -- EE GAYLE BLAKELY (centre) Queen of the Port Perry High School 25th annual At Home with Carol Wilton At Home Princess (left) and Shelley Olsen who was runner up in the Queen contest. Official from the provin- cial ministry of health will visit Port Perry today to explain why they want our maternity wing to close. A team of officials will be at Uxbridge Hospital this morning before coming here" to meet with .top staff members of Memorial Hos- pital. } This afternoon they will meet the executive of the Ontario-Durham Health Planing. Council in Bow- manville. Port Perry hospital ad- ministrator James Van Camp has been reported as saying that the Queens Park officials will have some explaining to do, because so far they have given no reason, other than econo- mics, for wanting to close down the eight bed obstet- rical wing. Queens Park hopes to save about $60. per baby by having women in labour ride twenty miles to Uxbridge to give birth. Administrator Van Camp sees the visit by the ministry of health as a positive move. He is hopeful that they will recommend that the wing stay open. Local authorities do not believe the government will save the expected $66. per baby anyway. They specu- Expense paid trip to United Nations through 1.0.0.F. A committee of members of Port Perry's Warriner Lodge, Independant Order of Oddfellows and the Sister Organization, Maybelle Re- bekah Lodge, are sifting through a half a dozen applications to see who the lodges will send on an ali expense paid trip to the United Nations in New York City next June. The 250 members of the two lodges are sponsoring the trip for the fourth year. It costs about $1 per member for the lodges to send a local high school student on the Week Ending February 22 Admissions .............. 36 Births .................... 1 Deaths .................. Nil Emergencies ............ 85 Operations .............. 13 Discharges .............. 4 Remaining .............. 30 informative, two week long journey. The name of the lucky student will be announced sometime in March. Last year Debbie McGee of Greenbank won the trip. "I would suppose from what Debbie told us last year" 1.0.0.F. Noble Grand Ray Webster told the STAR," just seeing the U.N. and becoming acquainted with all the different kinds of people connected with it is a valuable educational exper- ience." Mr. Webster said the United Nations and the Odd- fellows share a common interest -- the furtherence of brotherhood. The aim of both organizations, he said, is to help different people become better acquianted with each other. Mr. Webster made the announcement during Bro- therhood Week which ran February 18 through 24. . Government officials =~ visit hospital today late that women will go into Oshawa instead of Uxbridge to give birth, and that the cost of city delivery will be more than having the baby in Port Perry would have been. Region meeting Residents of Port Perry will be able to suggest things that should be included in village councils brief to the provincial government on regionalization at a public meeting next, Wednesday. Village Clerk Neil Brodie is almost finished preparing a first draft for the brief, which must be submitted before. March 31. It is expected that the brief will urge that Port Hope and (continued on page 16) P2RT § PERRY TAR 15c per copy 28 Pages Volume 107 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO. Wednesday, Feb.28,1973 -- No. 19 Scout Hall too much burden council will assist upkeep "Scout Hall is just becom- ing too much of a burden for scouts and guides to man- age," James Baird told Port Perry council February 20. Mr. Baird, who is a spokes- man for the hall's property and management committee said that it takes all the money scouts and guides can raise just to maintain the hall. The money should be used for hiking or other activities that are more important to scouting and guiding he said. Mr. Baird was appearing to ask council to consider helping keep grass mowed and snow plowed at the hall. Five tenders received for Reach gravel At a special meeting of Reach Township Council February 19 five tenders for the township's gravel supply were received. Council accepted the ten- der of Fred Nelson and Sons to deliver 30,000 cubic yards of crushed 3; gravel at a cost of 50 cents per cubic yard or $15,000 total. Nelson and Sons submitted the lowest tender. Council also authorized roads superintendent R.C. MacDonald to call for ten- ders on a new power sander for the township. Finally the special roads meeting agreed to snowplow part of the 12th concession east of County Road No. 2 for the township of Mariposa in return for a total payment of $225 to cover the balance of the present winter season. The next regular meeting of Reach Township Council will be March 2, 1 p.m. at Manchester. LAST DAY TODAY. The line up keeps getting longer as last minute shoppers try to get their 1973 He pointed out that this basic maintenance alone costs about $100 a year. He said that if council would agree to blacktop the land in front of the hall it would help considerably. He explained that the hall is used up to 4 and 5 times a week. Council agreed to consider having the snow plowed and the lawn cut. "That's $100 that can be used for camp- ing" commented councillor Grant McDermott. 44 rules to govern local councillors behaviour Port Perry council now has 44 rules to govern its behaviour. Council passed a by-law enacting the rules at its February 20 meeting. The rules are, as Council- lor Robert Brinkman put it, "Just 95 percent common sense." However a few of them are, if not curious, at least interesting. Rule 10, clause h, gives the Reeve power to ask a councillor to leave the meet- ing if the Reeve thinks he has broken any rule. In such a case the people who voted for the expelled councillor could be temporarily without representation. Rule 11, clause b, No member of council is allowed to wear anything on his head at a meeting unless it is for medical purposes. Rule 14, clause d, there is no such thing as abstaining. Unless a member has a conflict of interest he must vote. If he does not vote council will record him as being in favour of the motion. Rule 37 effects members of the public who wish to speak to council. For that reason we quote its exact wording. "Persons desiring to verba- lly present information on matters of fact or make a request of Council shall make an appointment through the clerk, stating the matters to be presented, at least three (3) days prior to the meeting at which they desire to attend. A deputa- tion appearing without no- tice may be heard if agreed to by three fifths of all the members of council but shall be limited in speaking to not more than 10 minutes except that a deputation consisting of more than five persons shall be limited to 2 speakers each limited to speaking not. more than 10 minutes." In other words if you want to spgak to council on Tuesday make an appoin- tment Friday, and be brief. Withhold winter works information Ontario Riding's Liberal M.P. Norman Cafik accused the Provincial Government of not making application forms for winter works grants available to munici- palities. During the question period in the House of Commons February 15, Mr. Cafik asked if the minister respon- sible for the $350 million program would consider taking steps to let municipal councils know of the pro- gram because, "The pro- vincial government has not made even application forms available to munciplaities to take advantage of this pro- gram to reduce unemploy- ment." The program was first announced December 6. car licence plates before the deadline. Anyone driving with old licence plates after midnight tonight (Wed. Feb. 28) is liable to a fine.