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Newcastle' Town Council Holds Inaugural Meeting 1 The auditorium at the Bowmanville High School was packed with interested citi- zens of the MlunicipaLity of the Town of Newcastle on Thurs- day evening, January 3rd. The event was the history -iking inaugaral meeting of new Council. Rev. Basil Long of Orona delivered a scriptural mess- age to the new Council stressing that positions of autbority are also positions requiring responsibility. lie urged that Council members approach their new duties with a deep sense of humiiity. Rev. Father Frank Mihelic of St. Joseph's parish, Bowman- ville, led in the prayer of Invocation. Judge J.C.N. Curreliy ad- ministered the oath of office to the Mayor and then his Council. The swearing in Town council sets procedural rules The council of the New baîf passing 19 bylaws - Town of Newcastle held their approving the basic staff first officiai working meeting appointments and a budget on Friday of iast week when which is needed to get the tbey passed numerous bylaws area of Newcastle off and as to procedure and as to staff running. appointments. Founteen of tbe aew bylaws The first item on the passed marked the formai -,,ýenawas to establisb thc appointments of the vanious basic rules of procedure by offices of the administration, which council wiii conduct its' while the remaining five were business, but since no explicit the formal establisbment of, byiaw of negulations was budgets funds. .piaced befone counicil, it Thbe chief building inspect- adopted the procedures of the or's report deaiing wîth the old Darlington Twp council building bylaw to be adopted The move was taken as an by coundil seemed -at first to. intenim action to -prevent Sèa straight forward matter c'onfusion until- coùncil adopts of accepting the proposais its own bylaw enforced proce- Charles Warren's report deait dure. with building and the demolît- Poliowing this, council ion of bouses and other spent a sedate boun and a (otne ae3 ~Wts-iln sttore% in I7 The year 1974 is now uapon us and most citizens bave had sometime to consider -is future and what they expect in the coming fifty montbs. A BOOMI PERIOD E.H. Samuel, president of Curvply Wood Products Orono sees a big boom for Canada in the next ten years. H1e bases bis opinion on the fact that Canada bâs a substantial suppiy of petro-chemicals with coatrols stabilizing price. Business, he said, will favour this stability and source of supply with the resuit that there will be a lot of Capital expenditure la Canada and especially la the west. In bis own business, that of manufacturing veneer plywood, he feels that people will now think twice before replacing wood component parts witb plastic materials. A GREATER Long of tbe Oi he is an optc comment for "'People are sE "w\ýith tbis sat taryily fulfi]l reacinig outf greater meari instances thisi patteras nor twenty-five yeý being diven b mneaaingil fe MWORE CORI Withenspoon,1 sees the begir curriculum in I Iappeni'îngsI InECEIVES COAT 0F ARMS PLAGUE - Mrs. Arthur Allen, Orono., who recently celebrated her 9th birthday received a Coat of Arms Plague from Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as ýl as telegrams and letters from the Governor Generai and ý_s. R. Michener, Ontario Premier and Mrs. Davis, Allan Lawrence MP for Northumberland and Durham, Alex Carruthers, MPP for Durham and Robert Stanfileld leader of the opposition. A NEW FACE AT THIE LIBRARY -Mrs. Jean Moffat, Orono, will share duties at the Clarke Library, having been hired following the recent resignation of Mrs. Olga Beauchamp. COMING UP- On January 2th a canvas will be conducted throughout Orono and district for the March of Dimes Ability Fund. Mrs. Donald Hamm is in charge of the drive in this area. "The March of Dimes Abiity Fund helps disabled adults to funntion as individulas, rather than wards of society, te become a part of the scene, rather than watching it from a Ionely room. Support the Ability Fund with your donation. Donald Irvine from Hon. John scarcitS' of population. The' White's ministry. Mn. Carru- New Durham Region and thers pointed out that the To~wn of Newcastle bas been District of Newcastle in our created as a resuit of over- early years was created as a popuIation. Mn. Carruthens large territory due to a presented Mayor Rickand witb a suitable plaque. ed by Bruce Tink -'to adopt After a somewbat sbaky Interim Rules of Procedure." start, tbe new Council enacted Following the business their first piece of legisiation. portion of tbe meeting Mayor It was By-Law No. 74-1 moved Rickard gave bis inauganal by Kirk Entwisle and second- (Continued page 3) IKi in1 ceremony madie special re- ference to the 1972 Legisiation governing Conflict of Interest clauses as tbey now pertain to ail elected representatives. The four amalgamating municipalities were repre- sented as follows: Newcastle vilage - former Reeve Alf Gray - who pre- sented tbe new Couincil with a minute book. Bo.wmanville Community - former Reeve Jim Bell pre- senting the Corporate Seai. Clarke Township - former Reeve E.R. Woodyard pre- senting tbe mayor with bis gavel. Darlington Township - form er Councillor Tom Baker presenting the Mayor wîth bis chain of office. Alex Carruthers, M.L.A. brought greetings from the Province in the absence of ing space would like tc expand. She expects that the decis- ion will be made this montb on whetber the ODC will expand its buildings at the old depot. The ODC hias neyer built an industrial park of its owa la the past. Three industrial parks owned by the ODC are ail existing buildings whîcb were taken over by the ODC. Ine Northamn Park was an armyv depot and the industnial parks in Picton and Centralia were airports. At present the ODC is expanding the Huron Park la centralia. Ia the industnial parks, the ODC Owns the actual plants and the companies rent from the. Mrs. Edwards said that these parks make moaey for the ODC and those profits are poured back into other pro- jects. ORONO WEEKLY TIMES, JANUARY 9tb, 1974. De ve lopment f reeze in effect-Cobourg A freeze of at ieast six montbs has been placed on al new deveiopments by Cobou- rg town council, hecause of wbat it cails an alarming increase in the sale to developers of unserviced land within the town ana in nieighboring Hamilton Twp. Mayor J.A. Heenan said that within the last few months, since the province's decîsion to establisb the regional municipality of Dur- ham directly west of Cobourg, more than 3,000 acres of' farmland have been purchas- ed by developers in the Cobourg area. Most of the land is being bougbt by Toronto develop- ment companies and Europ- ean based land, syndicates, according to neal estate agents in tbe Cobourg area. One Toronto based comn- pany, Scbîckendanz Deveiop- ments Ltd., has assembled almost 1,500 acres on Hwy 2., (Continued page 3 ) Volume 37, Numiber 41 Oshaw Short supply ushawa may affect G.E. j. A plastics cisîs in Canada ex pe CIS wll affect tbe Canadian General Electric plant at g, Cobourg. I ayoTTs Ken Fowler, manager of Molded Plastics, said mater- Up to 600 îow-seniority iais in Canada could be Oshawa employees of General reduced as mucb as 20 per Motors of Canada will be laid cent. H1e said tbe Cobourg off for an indefinite period in plant could be restricted to its two to tbree weeks' time, the average 1973 level or 10 per company aanounced Fniday. cent under. Dennis McDermott, Canad- 4'Our business increased ian director of the United Auto substantially in 1973 fromn Workers calied the layoffs, 1972," Mr. Fowler said. "We just the tip of the ice-berg." cxpect some layoffs of oper- "We're in for a rough ators if material is delayed or year." be said. if we are reduced to 10 per General Motors said the cent iess tban Our 1973 supply. lay-offs were caused by a But tbere should be no major softening of demand for large long term reduction in per- cars in the United States, As sonnel." fllny f 115 Caadin M left jobless by production workers in Oshawa, St. Cath- cutbacks, anes, and Windsor could be (Continued page 3) ye t to d e celde mqe;eting day The new Council of the beld, The decision became Town of Newcastle meeting embroiled between Mondays on Friday of last wek pospon- or Fridays. ed a decision when their Mayor Rickard in referring regular meetings were to be to tbe next meeting of Council to bc held on Monday, A January 7tb, asked council to 4è offer tbeir views regarding tbe day of the week for their DEPTHI TO LIFE-Rev. Basîl regular meetings. rono United Churcb states tbat Councillor Ken Lyall said loistic person and that his altbougb meetings were scbe- '74 was in no way pretentious. duled for both January 7 and' eeking satisfaction", be said, 14, botb being Mondays, be tisfaction only being momen- would like to bave the regular led. -I see more people meeting days changed to for sometbing in deptb givîng Fidays in order to give tbe ing to life." H1e feit in mnany weekly newspaper in the area would not come in identifiable tbe time margin necessary to ,r as they existed some keep abreast of council news. ears ago. He stated that we are H1e said that since tbe by circumstances to a greater meetings were beyound tbe e. attendance of the average IE SBJETS-M. E G.citizens, wbose interest coun- principal Clarke Higb School cl after th eo lîn kitbth nning of core subjects in thé feteollikwhte 1 '4 wth xtesios t ths lstpublic is tbe news media. '74 ite xtpaensos5 otis)s "W hy schedule council Contnue paeS)meetings for the newspapers,' ______ _____ -questioned Coun. Don Allia. MIAY EXPAýND COBOURG Councillor Ivan Hoobs ask- INDUSTIRAL PARK ed that as there was a great The Ontario Deveiopment deal of business to be handied Corporation is considering tbat the meeting on January expanding the Nortbam In- l4tb be for the entire day dustniai Park. starting at 10 a.m. H1e Muriel Edwards of Cobourg suggested tbat council at that a member of the ODC board, time deal with the fire said that the industnial park departmetit, recreation de- bas only a few square feet ol partment and the depart- space available and maay of ments which had asked to the companies preseatly rent- meet with the new Coundil. On Thunsday, Dec. 27tb William John "Bill" Slater 61, left bis office in tbe federal building ia Bowmanviile and voluntary retired from bis post as Field Officer admia- istering the Veterans Land Act in this anea, a position be bas held since 1961. His duties wili be taken over by Howard Wark who bas been bere working witb Mn. Slater for the past aine years. Bora in Englaad, Bill Slater came to Canada whea be was only il years old and since thea bas held a vaniety of jobs tbroughout bis career, most of the early ones la the Madoc area wbere he gnew up. H1e worked la the blacksmitb shop there, was a nigbt orderly at Nichols Hospital la Peterboro for two yeans, took a course la Farm Manage- ment at OAC la Guelph. In 1941, be joiaed the RCAF and was stationed at Trenton until June of 1942 when be tired of the inaction and joiaed the navy, shipping out to Halifax, where he was assigned to the deep sea minesweeper Winni- peg on convoy escort. At the end of thé war, he joined the Veterans Land Act administration la Feb. 1946 and worked la the Belleville area for 15 years before comning to this area. H1e plans to operate the 80 acre farm be owes near Orono and do land appraisals. Mr. Slater said he bas r'eceived considered satisfac- tion la bis Land Act job, providiag help for war veter- M'ns la getting settled on their own properties. During bis 5pare time be bas aiso made rommendabie contributions to tbe operation of the Durhamr Central Agriculture Fair at Orono. His many friends will wisb r im welIl and good bealtb la the years that lie abead. STATESMIAN WILLIAM J. "Bill" SLATER