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After Confidential Figures Appear in Newspaper Mayor Plans Salary Report Newcastle Mayor Garnet Rickard says he will try to give the public the complete story on salary discussions involving the municipality non-union personnel. In an interview last night, the mayor explained that he will first seek Council's permission to give a full account of developments that have occurred thus far in confiden- tial salary talks with staff. The talks involve two dozen non- union personnel holding positions ranging from clerk secretaries to department heads. Mayor Rickard said that if council agrees, a report on "the whole truth o the matter" will be made publiç--- possibly within a week. Mayor Rickard said that reports already published on the salary discussion were "taken out of con- text." "Disgrace" He said that because reports have leaked to the press, the municipality has been discredited and the morale of staff could suffer "It's an ab- solute disgrace tothe system," he said. Referring to a confidential report on proposed salary hikes for non- union staff in 1979, the mayor said that "it wasn't ready for release Turn to Page Two Car Overturns, Oshawa Men Injured This write-off used to be a 1968 Oldsmobile before tangling with guard rails on the 401 near the Waverley cut-off. -Photo by Rick James. ' Three Oshawa men were injured Saturday night following a two- vehicle accident on Highway 401 between Liberty St. and Waverley Rd. Police said a car driven by Stephen Warburton, 29, of 1510 Sim- coe St. North, was westbound when its hood flew up and blocked the driver's vision. The car bounced off the guard rails on the north side of the highway and rolled over. Dave Marcott, 28, of 394 Centre St., Oshawa, was admitted to Bowmanville Memorial Hospital with back injuries and lacerations. He was a passenger in the Warbur- ton car. Stephen Warburton and another passenger, Wayne Wilkins, 31 of 367 Centre St., Oshawa were treated for lacerations and released. The Warburton car was described as a write-off. Another westbound vehicle driven by Kun-woo Lee, 50, of 21 Port Union Rd., West Hill, was unable to dodge the overturned Warburton car. The Lee car sustained only minor damages and the passengers were not injured. The accident was investigated by OPP Constable George Ostrander. Wintai to' Ease Town 's Arena Debt At a rate of 12 per cent interest, the Orono and Newcastle Village Arenas are costing the municipality $12,060.95 per month But a grant from Wintario is ex- pected shortly and should ease the Town's arena financing costs. In a written report to the finance and administration committee Mon- day, Town Treasurer Klaas DeGroot said that payment of $480,000 from Wintario is expected within ap- proximately six weeks. This will reduce the present arena cost to $726,095. The length of time this amount must be carried is unknown and depends on additional contributions from the community plus payment of Community Centres grants. The Town of Newcastle is curren- tly financing $1.2 million for the two arenas in Newcastle and Orono. Councillor Ann Cowman suggested that the one way for the town to avoid getting into a similar 1Atuation again is to make sure it has the money from Wintario, local fund raisers and other agencies in its hand before these projects are star- ted. Mayor Garnet Rickard pointed out that if these projects had been Eagles Win Last night at Bowmanville Arena, the Port Darlington Marina and Hotel Junior C Eagles walloped Lit- tle Britain 14-3 to take the first of their best of five playoffs against the new team. .Second game will be in Little Britain on Saturday and the third at the regular time 7:30 here Sunday. debentured, "the interest paid on debentures every year would be more than what you're paying in in- terest all together. " Teachers Approve' Contract Elementary school teachers em- ployed by the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education voted 220 to 79 in favor of accepting a con- tract agreement with the school board. The vote took place last Thursday. The contract, which now must go to the board for ratification, provides the teachers with a $990 across the grid increase. Elemen- tary teachers starting their first year at the lowest level of cer- tification will now be paid $10,702 and those with the highest level of certification and 12 years experien- ce will receive a maximum of $27,440. Increases are to be applied from September, 1978 and continue through the 1979-80 school year. Salary allowances of principals are to be adjusted according to the number of teachers in their school and are in addition to the $990 in- crease. With four teachers the allowance will be $2,500, from four up to 13 teachers $4,000 and over 13 teachers $5,700. Vice-principals will be given an allowance of $2,500 plus the $990 and will be posted to schools with 14, teachers or more. In addition, teachers will receive improved fringe benefits such as a reduction in the Blue Cross pay- ments. A new educational leave plan has also been included. The board of education meets tomorrow to discuss ratification and another meeting must be called when both negotiation teams will meet with the mediator to sign the final agreement. Bits Anc FREE BEER - Durham Board of Education members may raise eyebrows when they see an unusual advertisement in this week's Port Perry Star. It reads "Free Beer at Port Perry High School, Wed., Feb. 21st." Before going any further, it should be pointed out that Free Beer' is a musical group, according to Publisher Peter Hvid- sten. APOLOGIES - The writer of last week's Minis- terial Sermon of the Week, the Rev. Arthur Amacher's name was inadvertently left off his thoughtful message. Our humblest apologies. He didn't complain, but we did. QUITE AN IDEA - Weight Watchers are helping the Heart Fund this month. The organization will be donating 10 cents for every pound its members lose throughout Southern Ontario, the Maritime 1 Provinces and Newfoundland, during the entire month of February. The donations support car- diovascular research. So, lose a few pounds and help the cause and yourself, all you chubby ones. CHAIN LETTER - A man in the Maple Grove area received a chain letter this week that bas something to do with praying for good luck. It re- lates what nice things have happened to those who have passed it on and the terrible things that happened to others who threw it in the waste- paper basket. Some people just haven't enough to do. PAPER DRIVE - Bowmanville Boy Scouts will be holding a Paper Drive on Saturday, March 3rd, so start piling them up now and look for more details in subsequent editions. It's "all systems go" for these rockets which were self constructed by budding scientists at Ontario Street School. From left to right are: Ron Found, Pierre St. Amand, Ricky Green, Yvonne Bons and Cathy Connelly. Rockets Make Learning a "Blast" By Donna Fairey A rocket launch staged by Bowmanville students in the Ganaraska Forest last week had all the excitement and anticipation of a lift-off from the Kennedy Space Cen- tre. Grade six students from the On- tario Street Public School launched their rockets at the end of a three- day school trip to the Ganaraska Forest Centre north of Kendal. The missiles were constructed by 28 grade six pupils who purchased rocket kits from a hobby shop. Guided by teacher Russ Westwood, the students assembled 12 one-stage rockets during about two weeks of classroom time. Nose cones and stabilizers were fashioned from Balsa wood and the finished products were handsomely painted and christened with ap- propriate space names. Rockets were approximately 18 inches long and 2 inches in diameter. Rocket trajectory was achieved by the burning of solid fuel engines. The fuel substance used in these rockets is unlike gunpowder or other explosives in that it must be detonated with an electrical charge in order to function. Wallace Heinbuch, school prin-. cipal, explained that a match could be put to the fuel used in the rockets and it would not ignite. The original launch time was delayed considerably until .a problem with the ignition wires were corrected. In typical Cape Kennedy fashion, a cheer went up from students and teachers when an im- pressive lift-off was achieved. Each rocket was equipped with its own plastic parachute to reduce momentum during missile descent. The pupils were divided into designated launch and recovery teams. Launch teams fired the missiles and recovery teams were organized to retrieve the spent rockets. Mr. Westwood stated, "one of the things they have been taught is that everyone has a particular job to do and there is no individual free spirit style." No special permission is required to launch the rockets, which project from 300 to 400 feet in the air, other than a supervising adult on the ground. In addition to the obvious satisfac- tion of building and launching their own rockets, the students learned the basic physics of rocketry and the importance of discipline and team- work in such a project. This was the second annual launch for the Ontario Street students. Last year's rockets were fired from Camp Tawingo, Huntsville. The students spent~the two days prior to the rocket launch par- ticipating in a variety of organized Turn to Page Twio* Take No Action on Village Parking Newcastle Councillor Keith Barr on Monday lost the first round in his fight for construction of a parking lot on Town-owned land in Newcastle Village. The Town's finance and ad- ministration decided to take no ac- tion on recommendations from Director of Public Works, Jack Dunham, or on Councillor Barr's demand that more off-street parking be provided in the village. The works department had recommended meters for on-street parking stalls and advised against building a parking lot behind the old fire hall property at this time. Councillor Barr warned he will bring the issue up again at this Mon- day's town council meeting. Two-Year Issue The Newcastle parking lot issue has been a continuing one now for two years. As Town Manager Albert Guiler pointed out in a rep)ort to the I Piecesi HAIL TO MIKE - It's a rare occasion when poli- ticians are honored these days, but it happened on Saturday in Port Hope when former Mayor Mike Wladyka and his wife Mary were toasted and roasted by 420 friends. Mike retired last year after 18 years in municipal office, 13 as mayor. They were given a standing ovation and a two week trip to Hawaii at the conclusion of the dinner -- a well deserved tribute. We like Cobourg Mayor Jack Heenan's crack that behind every successful man, there's a surprised mother-in- law. JOY AND SADNESS - Young hockey players in the area who are involved in playoff games, some winning, others being defeated, are going through traumatic experiences these days. Anybody who says it isn't more fun to win a hard-fought game than lose hasn't been around arenas very much. And it isn't much comfort to say how character building a defeat is. It's downright deflating after you've worked your butt off to win. SUCCESS STORY - Real Estate agent Walter Frank's life history reads like an Horatio Alger story. He was stricken with polio when in his teens, effectively destroying any possibility of him being a farmer or an athlete. So, he started in the real estate business and bas never looked back. Now, he has 22 offices from Toronto to Kingston, including one in Whitby that began in 1977 with three salesmen and former barber Tony Klompmaker as manager. Recently, they moved into the Bank of Nova Scotia building where they now have 15 salespeople. A real suc- cess story that was born of adversity and a lot of sheer determination. committee, "Over the past two years your staff have spent ap- proximately 80 to 100 hours on this particular subject and have submit- ted several reports and recommen- dations which were tabled by council because they were unacceptable." A limited parking study for the commercial core area of the village was undertaken by the publie works department last year. An inventory of the present parking facilities showed there are 82 on-street Turn to Page Two Figure Skaters Get Ready for Tournament Down at the Bowmanville Arena you will find members of the Bowmanville Figure Skating Club getting ready for the annual Pine Ridge Tournament to be held in Orono, February 17. Some of the Club members are shown here. From right to left are: Michelle Yeo (kneeling), Karen Gibson, Diane Paton, Tracey Dolan and Jayne Stutt. The skaters in the photo are working with an ice scribe which is used for marking patterns on the ice during practice sessions. Strike at E Union employees at Bowman- ville's R.M. Hollingshead Company Ltd., have been on strike since mid- night Sunday. The 30 members of Local 380 of the International Chemical Workers are employed as production personnel at Hollingshead. The company manufactures automotive chem- icals and employs approximately 60 persons. A spokesman for Hollingshead said yesterday that wages are the ollingshead main issue in negotiations over a new contract. Joseph Kennedy, vice- president of industrial relations, ex- plained that a meeting has been scheduled with a federal mediator this week in an attempt at reaching a settlement. The contract for members of Local 380 of the International Chemical Workers expired Decem- ber 2 and negotiations had been taking place during December and January. Talks broke off in the mid- die of last month. mal