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Port Perry Star (1907-2001), 14 Apr 1971, p. 9

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CLASSIFIED ADS . & Office Space Available - IN NEW BUILDING - CENTRALLY LOCATED - AIR CONDITIONED - HEATED F : f iF fy i Please reply Box 10, . == What About That Airport? | FACTS and FIGURES 7% Did You Know That: = 1. The Federal Government hes named the Port Perry Area as one of the four possible sites of a i : i H | i begun negotiations with the im @ Ontario County Board of| -- |§ new International Airport. Education to replace the old) ~-- 2. Ontario County Council have voted 29 to 15 in : favour of an Airport east of Yonge Street. "K 'maeeting was held with 3. Hon. Wm. Davis, Premier of Ontario, favours a the board last week and that} «sss Port Perry Area Site. further meetings have been! 4 Dr. M.B. Dymond M.-P.P. said Scugog Island is his Sane. choice as the most suitable site in the Port The union is seeking a wage Perry Area. imerease of 70 cents an hour = 5. Mr. Ab. Campbell, Metro Chairman, said recently im ome year for full-time cus- ae that the airport will be located near Orangeville or Port Perry. 6. Hon. Donald Jamieson, Federal Minister of Transport, stated that the final decision must be taken in consultation with the Ontario Govern- ment because of the necessity of the Province todians and roughly the same e ployees. The average wage rate | sent is $3.42 an hour and wna ae ae supplying ing access roads and other services to the hour, would be somewhat i airport. » higher and consistent with| 7. In @ lecture recently a top planner of the Fed- ' trade rates. _ eral Air Transport Administration said the Gov- outineiaenien ernment would be buying up 50,000 to 60,000 | including full payment acres of land to prevent community encroach- health insurance ment on the 6,000 to 7,000 acres of operational At present the area. @ 'wothirds of the cost a | INV FST - Did You Know: _ 1. This would mean a freeze of all real estate, the s IN U.C.0. y first step of expropriation, in an area of nearly ,\~ 400 SQ@-MuE United Co-cp of Ontario} |§«--«s»««- 100 square miles, One Hundred square miles \ naar MARSH 2 equals the total acreage of Reach Township. Debentures y 2. the Lake Scugog region as an example, the approximately 4 miles east of Fingerboard, then %, area involved could extend from a line drawn west eight miles to, and along the B-ock-Reach _ __ from Prospect through Purple Hill to the Black- Township line and then south from this point __-- stock =road on the south, then north through through Manchester to Prospect, taking in Port _ _--s-- Blackstock, Caesarea, Washburn Island, to a point Perry, Prince Albert and Seagrave Areas. 10 Years yy This would involve a rectangular Area approximately twelve and one-half miles long and eight miles wide, taking Z it's shape from the Scugog basin. interest Payable 4 | The area shown on the map could vary in direction, as a study of projected population growth and runway ° Vimeo per Year or & direction would tend to cause a larger expropriation of land in that area, and less where the need is not so great. pedir: > eg __ People say it CAN'T HAPPEN HERE, but, What do YOU think? R. J. Fralick! Sponsored by a Group of Concerned Citizens

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