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« Work week cut no loss in pay ~ ÔRONO WEEKLY TIMES, WEDNESDAY,, MARCH 24th. REPLACED LIQUOR VOTE BY-LAW Last Monday council rescinded rescinded their former by-law regarding the holding of a liquor vote in the Village of Newcastle and replaced it with another. The Ontario Liquor Control Board had informed council that the three questions to be voted on did not conform with their regulations. The vote is still to be held on May 18th. . Reduced work schedules without pay cuts will be .the , United Auto Worker's principal principal demand when it negotiates negotiates new contracts this summer. summer. union leaders say. UAW President Leonard Woodcock Woodcock said Thursday the strategy is designed to get the union's 60,000 laid-off members members back to work in the U.S. "The central thefoe of 1976 bargaining has to be job security," Woodcock told the opening session of a UAW collective-bargaining con vention in Detroit. "This has to be achieved by reduced work time". . Woodcock did not outline any specific plan for reducing work time. He said union negotiators need flexibility at the bargaining table. At a news conference after his speech, Woodcock would not rule out a drive for a 32 hour week at 40 hours' pay, a proposal sought by several UAW locals in the 1.4 million member union. However, top (Continued page 3) School Board tax rate up $50.00 on average home Mr. Mike Sawyer above (left) demonstrates to Mr. W, H. Carman how easy it is to cut the budget when.he draws the well-honed meat knife, the property of William Reid, Sr., across a proposed budget sheet, Mr. S. B. Rutherford, a former teacher and member of the Kirby Senate, watches the proceedings. Kirby group would increase teacher-pupil ratio to cut costs In a letter to the Board of agricultural base. The letter education a Kirby group referred to the anticipated known as the "Kirby Senate" drop in farm income this year point out problems facing by some twenty-five per cent, rural taxpayers with an Due to the drop in income happenings... I AGREE TO HELP FUND STUDY The Orono Chamber of Commerce at their recent meeting agreed to assist with the funding of a feasibility study for the proposed new Orono arena. The Chamber agreed to a sum of $125.00. Other organizations in the Village including the Hockey Mothers, the Skating Club, the Kinsmen and Athletic have likewise agreed to support the study providing the Town of Newcastle does not put up the required amount of $750.0<j|or the study. OFFICIAL DENIED ENTRY INTO MARSH Doug Moffatt,. MPP for Durham East, learned last week that a Ministry of the Environment official was denied pntry into the Second Marsh in Oshawa last year by the* Osljawa Harbour Commission. The official was entering the marsh area to investigate the blocking of a water course. It has been stated that there is now a clear understanding that such officials may now enter upon the property to carry out their work and studies. - ■ • SCHOOLS A STORAGE SPACE Mike Breaugh, M.P.P. for Oshawa, in speaking to the -first meeting of the Durham Région, Catholic Ratepayer's Association stated, "Too many modern parents see schools as merely a daily storage system for their children and only take an active.interest in education when they have a beef." He went on to sày that in general we are too negative. GM LINE SHUT DOWN ■ Work was suspended on B line at the GM in Oshawa on Monday due to 80 workers being absent attending the rally in' Oshawa where labour was confronting the government of Canada over wage and price controls. Some 30Q attended from the Oshawa area. The Ste. Therese plant in Quebec Was closed for the day duè to absenteeism. AWAITING PRICE FOR LIGHTING The Orono Chamber of Commerce isd awaiting a firm and final price for the lighting of ball field and tennis courts at the Orono park, Mr. Simpson, president, said they hoped to have both plans and the price available for the next meeting of the Chamber. * MOFFATT SPEAKING AT DURHAM COLLEGE The Durham East NDP Riding association will hold an accountability night Tuesday, March 30 at Durham Collège. Doug Moffatt v/ill speak on the current session of the legislature and will field questions from the public. The meeting is being held atV.30 p.rn. in the Lecture Theatre. they urged the necessity for the Board to control increased increased costs in the field of education. The letter noted that the Kirby Senate was aware that instructional costs were set along with other costs that made it difficult to trim the budget. It was also noted that debenture costs were also established and could not be reduced at this time. (Continued page 3) The Northumberland and Newcastle board of Education on Thursday evening finalized a budget which showed an increase of almost $4 million over that of last year. The greater portion of the increase, $3,523,537. was attributed to teacher salaries, and instructional supplies supplies for teaching. The total increase is 14.24 per cent over that of 1975. Of. the almost $4 million increase, $2,151,746. must be collected from the area taxpayers. A total of'$10,215,564. will be collected from area taxpayers of the'total $31,618,976 budget to operate the s.chool system during the year 1976. , The Town of Newcastle's share 'amounts to $3,720,500 which amount is $770,840 greater than that of 1975. From figures provided by the Board of Education taxpayers in the former Township of Clarke will be faced with a mill rate increase of 19.07 mills, or $49.07 for every $1,000.00 of assessment. As the average residence in Clarke is abound $2,600, the increase would then amount to» $49.58 with the total education tax for the average home of '$2,QOO being $346.74-. The increase in Newcastle Village is estimated at $14.96'for every $1,000.00.01' assessment, in Bowmanville $10.98 and in Darlington $18.46 for every thousand dollars of assessment. It was pointed -out at the meeting on Thursday that the rates of grants had been, reduced considerably this year by the province but that on the other hand the total sum had increased by $1,529,926. In trimming the budget the board cut $20,00 per pupil . from Secondary School budgets as well" as reducing capital expenditures from both levels of education in the area by 75 per-cent. Funds were also reduced for professional and curriculum development with a further $100,000. taken from the maintenance budget. There are no provisions in the current budget for capital financing of school sights and portables. It is also understood in the budget that changes in salary agreements must not exceed the limits set by the anti-inflation board. Also in the area of restraint all new programs and projects are to be deferred and no monies will be taken from the budget for reserve funds. The budget keeps within the ceilings for elementary schools but has pierced the ceiling by some one-quarter of a million for secondary schools. New happenings at Orono Tree Nursery Tiny, minuet seedlings now being planted in the greenhouse greenhouse at the Orono Tree Nursery may be held in your hand as newsprint in a five to eight year period. New developments developments in the forest industry industry have not been new to the . local nursery but this year for the first time aspen seeds are being germinated in the greenhouse with the small seedlings being transplanted into small phials for further growth before they are field planted. The hybrid Aspen trees are being grown mainly for the pulp and newsprint industry. The development started in Maple Ontario where the seeds were collected as a result of cross-pollination. The seeds arrived in Orono in small phials to be germinated, germinated, and transplanted in the greenhouse and later to be planted in the fields at the nursery. The germination period takes about five days in petri dishes using sterilized silica sand. Within a few days these small plants are then transplanted transplanted into small plastic tubes with the use of twizzers. The plastic tubes also contain sterilized material of a peat nature topped with silica sand. The germination of seed in the greenhouse is at this time a necessity to control growth conditions for. the young plants which are susceptible to disease and damp-off. Stricter controls are possible in the greenhouse rather than in the field. It is hoped t|iat the young seedlings may be moved into the fields sometime sometime in mid-summer but it may be the case that they will not reach the field until early in the spring of 1977. ■ The small plastic tubes' are assembled into wooden frames frames holding some 250 tubes. (Continued page 3) MrU Shirlfy Perdue and Donna Forth in the greenhouse greenhouse at the Orono 'Free PJursery are busy transplanting Aspen seedlings wi}h twizzers from the petri dishes to the plastic tubes. Each seedling is grant ed individual attention, and eafch plant is individually watered. Much cate is 'taken in removing the* minuet seedlings so not, to damage the plant in the •transplanting. Half of the greenhouse ftas been taken over for this new project at the Nursery. How : ever; flower seedlings are well on their way in prepara- tioii for the fine flower show that -always exists at , the nursery during the summer •months.