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2- ORO0NO WEEKX'LY TIMES, DECEMBER 12th, 1973 orono weekly ti1mese ctl T et, Second Class Mail Registr-ation Number 6368 Putblishecd every Wedniesdaýy at the office of publication SUBSCRIPTION RATES Caniada $3.0....U.S.A. $4.50 editoe4ial NEW REGIONAL FORM 0F GOVERNMENT NOW TAKING FORMI The new form of Regional government is beginning to take form both at the regional level and at the local municipal level. Announcements this week and last week of appointments to the staff of the area municipal goverament put the show dloser to a reality. The region has made most of its appointýients of staff and reports are beginning to flow into the council in the matter of organization. Clark Mason, Mayor of Ajax and Planning Committee chairman bas reported that be envisions the creation of the Rýegional Officiai plan within the period of three year.s. If this i s accomplished it will be the first time that a regional government bas been able to met this * time limit. The chairman does point out some interesting points and appears to fear duplication with some of tbe planning objects lef t with tbe area munîcipalîties. The idea of regional government was brought to the public in that a wide area of planning was needed today and tbus only tbrough regional governments could this be accomplisbed. At this point there appears to be considerable power lef t witb the area municipalities and it is likely tbat tbe Planning Chaîrman cani see some conflict between tbe areas and tbe région. This could well arise and the chairman is rîgbt to work towards the early implemnentation of a regional plan. Tbe Town of Newcastle are apparentiy expecting to work beavily in planning for tbey bave advertised for a planning consultant to work with coun.cil and the planning board. There must be an interm period in wbicb tbe region can work on the officiai plan and tbis time must be available an-d flot taken up just trying to keep up to date witb current and plans whicb may corne before the region. Inthis it may be well to leave planning to a greater degree with the miunicipalities but the tîme elapse sbould not be too long. Mayor Garnet Rickard recently at a maeeting gave warning of loading the administration witb too many chiefs. This can bappen so easily and once it is a fact it is difficuit to correct. In tbis respect the region does need a personnel officer and one that knows bis job and wbat sbould be accomplished. The die is cast and the next few years wîll tell the story. If there is in fact a story to tell. WELCOME TO ORONO Over the past few months there has been a move to organize Scouts and Cubs in Orono. The village over the past few years bas been devoid of tbese organizations which bas been a shame. Two weeks ago the scouts becamne a reality and this week the cubs are to follow suit with their first meeting. Ail in alI some forty boys are already involved in the membership of the two groups and tbis speaks well for the interest in the organizations. Those who have over the past few months have organized the reforming of this movemnent in Orono and those who are leaders of the groups are to be commended for their work in the interest of the youth in the community. It is the boys of the community who will reap the benefit of this organization. Congratulations and thank you. LOCAL. NEWS Sunday dinner guests with Mr. and Mrs. Len Pears and Alan were: Mr. and Mrs. R.J Pears, and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pears and Vaierie, Michael, and Bradley ail of Orillia, plus Mr. and Mrs. Brian Ishii and Nancy Lee of Oshawa. INSTALL AN BOIEER HUMIDIFIER ~ or HOT WATEE HEATER No payma.nts for 0&r montIL9 Call HARVEY PARMNE, Vour ESSO Service Dealer FREE ESTIMATES 983-5206 Qr0no 1Office In Orono The new council of the Town -)f Newcastle whicb will take over office on January lst bas made further appointements during the past week along with some others decision as to maintaining offices. Under the present set-up offices will remain open in Hampton, Orono and Bow- manville with various depart- ments being housed in the three locations. The Orono office in the present Township Hall will be used by the By-law Control officer and bis staff of one girl. Mr. Horace Best bas been appointed as By-law Control Officer and will also act as liason Officer for al department for the people in this area. Mr. Best will enforce tbe by-laws througb- out the entire municipalîty. It was felt by keeping tbe Orono office open it wouid enable people in tie area to have a tangible contact witb the area municipality. The Hampton office will bouse the Public Works de- partment as well as that of Planning and the Building Inspector. Mr. Charlie Warren bas been appointed chief building inspector. Mr. Warren is now employed by the Township of Darlington. Mr. Howard White of the Bowmanville staff bas been appointed deputy Building Inspector. The Bowmanville office will contain the offices of the clerk's department, the trea- sury, the fire chief and thE Mayors office. Other recent appointmentq inciuded MIrs. Gray of - castle as deputy clerk. Mr. Joe Descent of Bowmaniville heads the treasurer's depart- ment with Bob Bridden office mnanager and tLax collector. Mr. Henry DeWitbi, now with the Township of Clarke, bias been appointed accountant for the area municipality. -Mayor elect Garnet Rickard states that the new area municipal- ity has set the treasury up with some prestige and im- portance. Tbe mayor elect is also to contact ail caretakers and~ custodians of Municipal Building asking that they carry on with their operations as in the past. Durham Agri-News 'SOIL TESTS INDICATE, PHOSPHATE FERTILIZ-4 ERS NOT REQUIRED: Most Ontario souls do flot lose their phosphorus easily, once the phosphorus level is built up, it remnains high for a number of years, says Pro- fessor T.E. Bates, of the Department of Land Resour- ce Science at the Ontario Agricultural College. If phos- phate fertilizers were used only when needed, there would be no shortage, as it appears there will be next spring. In somne parts of Ontario, phosphate fertilizers are already in short supply. There is strong evidence that phosphorus levels in many fields in Ontario are now high enougb to grow crops for many years without adding phosphate fertilizer. However Mr. Bates points out that farmers sbould base 'their fertilizer requiremnent on soul tests and flot on a guess or projection based on wbat you used the previous year. . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . m u............-.. The Editor, Orono Weekly Times Dear Sir:- Re: Letter to the Editor fromr Keith Barr I would like, if I may Mr. Editor t refresh Mr. Barr's memory and take bim back to a conversation that was held in the Reporter office in the Last year, the soul testing service of the Ontario Minist- ry of Agriculture and Food analyzed about 50,000 soul samples from Ontario farms. The average phosphorus test was 27. Phosphate fertilîzers are recommended for corn and barley when soul tests 20 or less. Grain yield response to phosphate fertilizers nor- mally stops at soul tests below 20. Evidence based on these 50,000 soul samples indicates ,bat mnany Ontario farmn fields contain sufficient phosphorus for corn and barley crops in the years to corne. However, We do want to point out, again, that in order to determine the amount of fertilizer you do need, you should soul samrple and get these samples into Guelph as soon as you can, so that you can make plans for your fertilizer programn in 1974. early days of the election. This conversation was bet- ween M1r. Barr and mnyself- miy husband Kel, was on a reporting job at the timne and was flot present. Mr. Barr asked mie what salary my husband thought would bie paid to the Council- lors of the Regional Council and I answered, quite truth- fully, that as hie had n&t discussed the subject with me I did not know. We then went on to discuss the ramifications of the Reg- ional Govern ment - Mr. Barr stated- that it would most certai nly be a full time job, because, as he pointed out - the many, many hours hie spent on the job of being a member of the small New- castle Councîl, that a Region- al Councillor with such a large area and so many more responsibilities it would be impossible to complete the work involved by part timne Regional Councillors. Mr. Barr furtber stated that lie did flot see bow tbe job could pay less tban $10,000.00 to $12,000.00 a year, as it would be impossible to expect a full time Councillor to live on less -- lie suggested for the Mayors $17,000.00 would be an appropriate amount. I quite.agree with Mr. Ba, ' r that we should ail be very mucb alive to the way in which our tax dollars 'are spent, and to see that we get full value for the money1 involved,. .along these, lines of reasoning, it is a great pity that the citizens of Newcastle did flot keep a sterner eye on the councils that have field sway in the village for thesc CaU yomw licensd Plumbing Metchankal Contracte, who sells, instails > nd guarante& CARMAN Plumhing and Heating Phone 983-5207 Orono Orono Building Brick - Block -Concrete Stone Work Carpentry -Cabinet Work Floors - Tle 983-5441 Orono ýïeý, from Ottawa OIL CONTROL BILL Energy Minister Donald Macdonald introduced in the House of Commons, legisia- tion to provide for the ra- tioning of oul products, na- tural gas, coal, electricity and petroleum products such as plastics.« The bill would also esta- blîsh a newv Allocation Board wuth broad powers to set pri- ces for energy resources, to control their import and ex- port and to order the relaxa- tion of anti-pollution stan- dards. WIRETAPPING BILL The House of Commons gave final readimg 10 a bill aimed at controlling %vire- tapping or other forms of electronic surveillance. The Commons approved one amendment which would permit police to introduce evidence i court from illegal wiretaps. Another amend- ment approved wull require provincial attorneys-general to notify people that have been subjected to electronic surveillance or wiretapping by police, if no criminal charges are laid after 90 days of sur- veillance. 1973 IMMIGRATION UP Immigration to Canada rose by 2 7.6 % în t he first nine months of tis year over the saine period in 1972. By the end of Septemnber, 1l19,800 immigrants had been admit- ted mbt Canada as-compared with 86,787 admitted in the first nine, months 'of, 1972. INDIAN LAND REIÈURNED 1,500 acres, of land aîongFYO W, T1 HV the Richibu cto River in New A SHORT WINTER,HAVE Brunswick will bc returned to yOUR NOTE COME DUE Indi ans on the Big Cove In-INT dian Reserve. The 1,500-acres IN HE SpIINB. were part of 3,000 acres the'1 e federal government took over Orono iowin from the Indians in i-879. The decision to return the land was taken last week by Indian Affairs Minister Jean Chrétien. OLD AGE PENSIONS UP Heaith and Welfare Minis- ter Marc Lalonde announced that the basic Old Age Secu- rity pension will increase to $108.14 from $105.30 in January to keep it in line with increases in the cost of living. The Guaranteed Income Suppiemnent for a single per- son wili go up to $ 75.85 fromn $73.86 - with basic OAS pension, a total of $183.99; for a married couple, it will increase to $67.37 from pre- sent $65.60 - for a total of $351.02 with the basic OAS -pension. GNP ON THE INCREASE The Gross National Pro- duct, seasonaily adjusted at today's prices, rose in the third quarter by $2.8 billioni to a level of $119.1 billion. The increase was 2.4% over the pr evious quarter. GENERAL REPAIRS Phone 983-5249 Orono) Building a Housel or remodefllug jour present mie? Thmn Contact Floyd Niklsn Phone 983.5049 01»00 VENEZIA RESTAURANT % mile solm ofet Ou rHONE c8S3-5l OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Spedialil n Pizza - Meals Aise Week-End Specials many years. To keep bis nane before the public eye is probably necess- ary for Mr. Barr as he bas said lie wtll run for Regional Government . in the next election. . .but 1 feel tis is very remiss in saying one tbing during the election and anotb- er after the election is over. Vours sincerel y, Joan Lyall