The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

ar r---- ms re s | © vag ¥ 7 7 (i " government Assist. Eng. W. A. Twelvetrees To Head County Engineering Dept. Volume 99 COUNCIL APPROVES THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12th, 1963 SWITCH EMO TO PORT PERRY The news item carried in the Star last week about the possi- bility of changing EMO Central County Area Site from Ux-| bridge to Port Perry was ap- proved in Port Perry Council at the last regular meeting. The letter printed below was received from Col. F .S. Wotton on behalf of EMO, requesting a change of site and read in council : "As a further result of the exercise, and of recent surveys, Port Perry has the following apparent advantages as a cent- ral County Area Government site: 1. Direct radio communica- tion to County H.Q. now as- | sured with present equipment. 2. Operational requirement for Port Perry is limited to ad- ditional hospital staffs from Metro, some billetting of fa- milies of emergency service of Army and Metro E.M.O. who may be brought out of Tor-! onto in family cars. Therefore accommodation is available for: our H.Q. 3. A reasonable supply of water to meet anticipated de-' mands in Port Perry, and stor- age and cover for same exists. A good supply of bulk lake water is available, 4. Port Perry can be easily, isolated . from normal evacuee traffic on 7A and is not direct- ly involved with Metro or Army support with its resources. This provides unrestricted non-com- petitive 'use of resources to support an emergency council in its operation. 5. A survey of Port Perry has revealed it has less crowded peacetime accommodation than Uxbridge. It therefore can pro- vide a better welfare capability. - The proximity of the central : headquarters = to this capability would be an as- get. Man : Port Perry would be in a better position to serve all councils in "Central Area of County as ad-- visor to E.M.O. County Gov: ernment, the writer intends to submit this paper to the County | Committee for authorization to adopt a policy change to locate | the. headquarters in Port Perry. 64 Car Plates Now On Sale [8 The new black and white, 1964 plates for cars and station wagons are now on sale at the local Department of Transport office, Reesor Fuel and Lumber. According to the office, sale is not too brisk at the moment, but this will largely be due to people now are preparing for their Christmas shopping, so the plates will have to wait, 'The office would * however, appreciate car owners purchasé their plates early in order to avoid line-ups the last few days before the deadline, February Your council is make any comments you deem necessary in writing to the un- | dersigned before Dec. 10th for ' consideration at the E.M.O. | monthly meeting Dec. 11th." --The Clerk was instructed tq "advise Mr. Wotton, E.M.O., ' that Council have no objection { 'Will Not Publish On December 26 The last issue of the Star before Christmas will be pub- | 'lished on Thursday, Dec. 19. . Included with the regular is- sue will be the Star's special Christmas greeting edition. No publication of the Star will appear on Thursday, Dec. 26th, since this is Box- ing Day. The next issue, the first in 1964 will be published on Thursday, Jan. 2nd. CORRECTION In the last issue of the Star | an error occured in the heading 'of an article from the Ontario ; County TB Association. The heading read: "Local Re- sidents Help Easter Seal Cam- { paign." This should naturally i have read: "Local Residents Help CHRISTMAS Seal Cam- | paign." Our Apologies. invited to - 'Last Saturday about 10 friends Number 12 Celebrates 80th Birthday and relatives of Mrs. Annie Sandison gathered at the home of her granddaughter Mrs. Gor- don MacMillan, Port Perry, to honour her at a birthday party. Mrs. Sandison was celebrating her 80th birthday. The party was given in her honour by her daughter, Mrs. Cleve Kight and Mrs. Roy Carnochan. 500° Port Perr T The five happy girls in the above picture are only a few Ontario County will have a | new engineer in 1964. The post occupied by R. E. "Ted" Sims for 11 years will be assumed by W. A. Twelvetrees. Mr, Twelve- | trees has been Assistant County Engineer since 1959. His first assignment after Joining the County in 1957 was the Base Line road project. | | He became the County's first | Assistant Engineer when the post was created in 1959. After graduating from the University of London in 1954, | ax a Civil engineer, he came to Ontario Department of High-.| ways before joining the County | staff. As Assistant Engineer, he helped supervise construction of roads and bridges. An impor- tant project was the construc- tion of the Manchester-Good- wood road, costing $750,000. Referring to plans of the de- partment, Mr, Twelvetrees ob- served that "One project natur- ally follows another. 1963 was a heavy year in road construc- tion; the following year will be devoted to paving projects." Mason 50 Years Honor G. Davey An honour which does not occur too frequently was ex- tended Mr. George Davey on Tuesday night at the regular meeting of the Fidelity Lodge. On behalf of the Grand Lodge, Mr. Davey was presented with the Veteran Jubilee Medal, commemorating his 50 years as a Mason. At the same time Rev, C. C.. Gilbert was presented with an honorary membership of the Lodge. # of about 500 children visiting Santa at his Toyland on Saturday afternoon. Sponsored by the Port Perry Chamber of Commerce he was heré to entertain and treat the children visiting with him. * The 28th, 1964. Foo 4 . ¥ s o £3513 5 Fo 2 : BASIE ot rts at I ER ios let Bo BERS S580 Die little girl on Santa's lap who showed complete confidence in y Children Visit Santa At Toyland him is Joy Panabaker, daughter tHe cited Brock road and Thickson road between High- way 401 and 2 as examples of recently-completed roads which are to be paved. Mr. Twelvetrees has also ac- cepted a position on the Oshawa Suburban Roads Commission. "The two jobs, that of County Engineer and my function of the Suburban - Roads Commis- sion are closely related," he said. "Definite projects of the de- partment cannot be stated until the budget is presented," he concluded. Mr. Twelvetrees resides with his wife at 302 James street, Wtitby. --X-- Lay Cornerstone Of Courthouse Mayor Lyman A. Gifford and County Warde J. Scott laid the the new county courthouse and Sherman ornerstone of administrative Whitby recently. ure when completed in the cummdr of 1964 will replace the present old County Building in Whitby. building at The struct- Construction of the building is a co-operative effort be- tween the City of Oshawa and "County of Ontario. Both Mayor Gifford and Warden Scott made brief state- ments noting the co-operative effort and the good feeling that exists between the elected bod- ies. Rev. R. D. Sinclair of St. Luke's Presbyterian Church of- fered the dedication Prayer at of Mr. and Mrs, Art Panabaker. The others from left to right are Peggy DeNure, Patsy DeNure, Heather Stephens and Anna Forder. The following won the free draw prizes: Transistor radio--Emerson Fralick; Electric Blanket--Mrs. Beecroft; Toaster--Mrs. Bert Dowson, Seagrave.