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Orono VOLUME 31, NIJMBER 9 VWeekly Times ORONO WEEKLY TIMES, THURSDAY, MARCH 7th, 1968 Qver 50 Attend Organization Bargailnp Off Meeting Of Home & School The Orono Public School Home and School Club came into exist- ance on Tuesday evening when tentative by-laws were adopted and a slate of officers elected. Over fifty attended the meeting which was held in the Orono Pub- lie School. Two members of the 'Oshawa and District Home and School Council were present at the meeting to assist with the or- ganization of the Association. Mr. Douglas Moffatt, principal of the Oroho Public School, in opening the meeting stated liow pleased he was to see so many out to the meeting. He introduced Mrs. Donald and Mrs. Rowe of the Oshawa and District Home and School Council and these two ladies outlined the purpose of the Association and also the proce- dure in organizing the Associa- tion. Mrs. Donald traced the purpose of the Association to promote better relations between the teachers and parents and be- tween the school and the home. It is dedicated to a better edu- cational system for the children. She stated that the Association was not meant to be a place to grind axes with teachers. If you want to grind an axe she said that you should contact the prin- cipal of the school and if then not satisfied contact the Publie School Inspector. It was pointed out that local Associations are affiliated with both the Provincial and Canadian Associations and as such carry a much greater influence. Mrs. Donald outlined a number of ac- complishments by the parent or- ganizations including credit for music at the grade 13 level, flash- ing lights on school buses and many others. A Home and Sehool Club Asso- ciation, it was stated, must meet a minimum of four times during the year. with the annual meeting in the mohth of April. The major- ity do meet six times a year. There is a fee of $1.00 per member or family unit to be paid to the parent Association which in turn provide services to the local Association in the form of a magazine, film strips etc. There is also assistance with programs and speakers. In being asked if it would not be more advantageous to set up a Home and School for a larger area Mrs. Donald stated that from experience it had been noted that this did not always work out and that an Association has a greater chance of success being formed for a particular school rather than for a group of school. It was pointed out that Home and School was not a fund rais- ing Association. "The Board are supposed to provide all-needed services and equipment in a school," said Mrs. Donald. In organizing the Orono Pub- lic Sehool Home and School on Tuesday evening it was decided to set a membership fee of $2.00 and that they would hold six meetings a year on the third Tuesday of the months of Octob- er, November, January, February March and April. In the election of officers the following were elected: Mrs. Wm. Bunting, President Mr. Wm. Gr:ady, lst Vice Mrs. H. E. Millson, 2nd Vice Mrs. B. Gustar, Rec. Sec. Mrs. L. West, Corres. Sec. Mr. F. Quantrill, Treas. Mr. John Moffat, Program Mrs. E. Gilbank, Publications Mrs. M. Lunn, Classroom Rep. Mr. R. Gilbart, Membership The organizational meeting of the local Home and School will be held at the Orono Public Schdol on Tuesday, April 16th. Negotiators Leave Negotiations between General Mlotors of Canada Ltd., and the United Auto Workers' Union bog- ged down and broke off Sunday night. Some top company negotiators returned to the United States. And, in conflicting statements the company accused the union of 'wanting to continue the strike', while the union said the coin- pany had 'Bamboozled the public with its claim that wage parity should mean parity of workitig practices.' The talks broke off around 6 p.m., Sunday and there was no immediate prospect of the re- sumption of head table talks, though there was a possibility dis- 'cussions might resume on local issues later in the week. 90 Acres Purchased For Reforestration During the past year 90 acres of land were purchased by the Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority fôr reforestation pur- poses, L. J. Haas said, when he gave the report of forest progress at the annual meeting of the Authority in Port Hope recently. The total area of Authority land now under agreement with the Minister of Lands and For- ests was 8,630 acres. "The purchase of land for re- forestation purposes has decreas- e4d considerably over the past several years," he said, "due to a sharp increase in land prices." Mr. Haas said that during 1967, 35,000 red pines and 2,000 'wild- life shrubs' were planted in the Ganaraska Forest. The decrease in the number was a direct result Continued page 5 Pierre Trudeau Speaks On Constitution At Port Hope Meeting If the Canadian Constitution is to be changed it should be settled on principles of efficiency and not on ethnic or even religious origins, Pierre Elliott Trudeau told more than 600 persons in Port Hope Saturday night. Mr. Trudeau, one of the front- runners in the leadership race, said the question of governing all Canadians must be based on the fact that Canadians shared in the basic values and were prepared to respect the values of other people. The Justice Minister's speech to the founding convention ban- quet of the Northumberland and Durham Liberal Association, was short and as he said himself 'not a prepared speech.' The days were over when people enjoyed sitting. through long-winded ora- tions, he said. The government was satisfied with the way 'the constitutional conference went, and were ready to experiment, ready to be prag- matic, to look at new constitution- al developments but wanted it donc in an orderly fashion. . "We are prepared to embark upon. a controlled development of the constitution and we have shown the ways in which it can be done," he said. In the next weeks or months .anyone who talked about the constitution and who came out with 'wild ideas' or 'fads', the government would not be oppos- ed te 'bringing them to the dis- cusion table te negotiate and see together what kind of Canada we want te build.' 'Starting with the individual, all government in Canada and all levels of administration are there for the welfare and happi- ness of the Canadian people and it is not important that they be governed well by this or that level of government, but that they be governed well by all levels of government, he said. The basic rights and freedoms common te all Canadians had first to be agreed on in any con- stitution. Agreement should be sought on these things which in- cludes linguistie rights. 'If people can be made to feel they are protected in their basic rights by a constitution, then we can go on te say the federal gov- ernment and the provincial gov- ernment should have this right,' he said. The world of tomorrow would be a pluralistic world, a world seeking agreement over national boundaries, a world which would realize that no little group of men could be 'alone unto them- selves', because if they chose te be they would remove themselves from the mainstream of progress and would cease to participate in the very rich, cultural and in- tellectual currents which were growing all over the world to- day. 'In a decade,' Mr. Trudeau said 'we would be able to tune into the television and listen to any country in the world.' It would be distinct folly to try toe cut off any part of the world. 1 We must learn to accept the challenges of a changing society, in the intellectual, cultural and economic sphere. The future, he said, must be to accept partici- pation and those challenges of the changing times. 'Not, once again, to protect ourselves behind artificial frontiers, but to become better in, not all things, because that is not possible but to be bet- ter in some things whether in- tellectually or economically. 'A country like Canada can't give its exce.lience or ' evolve things to all men but we can be the best producers of some things he said. Universities in Canada couldn't be great in all areas of human knowledge but what was needed was universities which would be- (Continued on page 4) Two Killed In Accident On Highway 115, Saturday Two Peterborough nurses were killed Saturday night wheh their auto was involved in a head-on crash on Highway 35 near Bow- manville. Mrs. Muriel Jean Innes, 49, of 777 Lock, Peterborough and Mrs. Jean Saunders, 1028 Glebemount Cres., Peterborough, had been northbound on Highway 35, one mile north of the Macdonald-Car- tier Freeway, when the 1965 car driven by Mrs. Innes collided with a 1966 station wagon driven by Peter Mandrow, 2599 Chalk- well Place, Clarkson. Mr. Man- drow and his wife, Estelle, es- caped with minor injuries. Investigating officers Corporal J. A. Wood and Constable F. L. Dryden of the Bowmanville de- tachment of the Ontario Provin- cial Police described the Innes' vehicle as a total wreck and est- imated the damage to Mandrow's station wagon at $2,500. The dead women had been re- turning from a nursing meeting in Toronto when they were in- volved in the collision at 9:15 p.m. Mrs. Saunders was a mother of five children and a sister-in- law of Mrs. G. Robinson of Orono. Cobourg Lawyer Heads New Liberal Association James H, Clarke, Cobourg lawyer and long-time Liberal, elected first president of the new Northumberland- Durham Liberal Association at CDCI East, Cob- ourg, Wednesday of last week. Vice-presidents are: fir-st, Rog- er Kirkpatrick, Port Hope; sec- ond, William J. Bragg, Durham County; third Mrs. D. C. Johnston Grafton; fourth, Mrs. Neil Mal- colm, Durham. Dr. Thomas W. Hawke of Co- bourg is secre)ary-treasurer. The following were elected to join Russell Honey M.P. (L.- Durham) as delegates to the national Liberal Convention at Ottawa: Mr. Clarke, Mrs. Mal- colm, E. R. Lovekin, Robin Rus- sell, Harry Wade, and Dr. Ian Wilson. There are three delegates from each county. In making the report of the nominating committee for dele- gates, Chairman Dr. Fred Robert- son predicted a. cabinet post for Mr. Honey after the next élection Dan Casey, executive director of the Ontario Liberal Association conducted the elections. In accepting the position of president, Mr. Clarke attacked 'ghetto mentality and smug com- ,placency that is developing in Canada.' 'The old formulas will nô long- er do. We haven't moved with the times,' he said, citing the example of Cape Bretchers who he said earn about one third as much as Ontario residents. (Continued page 4) The annual hassle over the pro- portions of municipal levies con- tributed to the budget of the Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority threatens the future ex- istence and development of the authority, according to the new vice-chairman, Reeve Roy Foster of Clarke Township. "How long is it reasonable for this authority to exist on this levy?" said Reeve Foster who is also the township's appointee to the authority. He spoke with con- cern about the compiled total levy of only $7,500 which is con- tributed by the seven municipal- ities in the authority watershed. in 1967 the authority members also forced a proposed budget of $12,703 to be cut to $7,472 after several membe-rs spokei ou$ a- gainst increased levies for their municipalities. Both operational costs and an- nual capital expenditures not covered by provincial grants must come out of this budget. The proposed budget was thrown up in the air temporarily Wednesday when Newcastle's rep- resentative Douglas Cunningham squawked about his municipality's basic levy of $300 last year being increased to $737 in 1968. Mr. Cunningham contended New- castle's levy should not be more than the basic $300 unless some work was done in his area. "I would like to sec this work in Clarke Township go ahead," he said. In the morning session, the authority learned the proposed Graham Creek reservoir pre- engineering report which was prepared and presented by the conservation authorities branch to the Ontario department of en- ergy and resources manag.nent had been turned down on the 90 per cent grant subsidy because of the high costs involved. The authority then attempted to get grant assistance for this project through ARDA. Efforts are still continuing in this area. The Gra- ham Creek reservoir was to be located in Clarke Township north of Newcastle. A preliminary engineering re- port conducted last year placed the total estimated cost of the project at $256,000. Of this a- mount, about $80,000 could be applied towards this project as the cost of an equivalent bridge structure, leaving approximately $176,000 for the dam costs. William Austin (a provincial representative from Port Hope) commefted: "As a ratepayer of Port Hope I don't think Port (Continued on page 4) Tears Up Liberal Card Northumberland Liberal Associ- ation president Wilf Huskilson, tore up his party membership card and stalked out on 200 Lib- erals Wednesday of last week at the first meeting of the North- umberland-Durham Liberal Asso- ciation. Mr. Huskilson, a fiery Cobourg town councillor, waited until he had lost out on the election of the executive for the new riding association and the election of six delegates to the national leader- ship convention in April. Rising on what he said was a point of persoial privilege he (Continued pag 0) Ga naraska Payments Again In Turmoil