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Besides the obvious reasons, giving blood can bring some other little rewards to the donor-like a Glen Campbell-Ann Murray record album-given to Mrs. Ada Panter for being the 25th donor at the Red Cross Blood Clinic, Tuesday afternoon. Clinic was sponsored by Port Perry Kinsmen Club. This was the third time Mrs. Panter had given blood. company for industrial site Construction is definitely toget under way this week on premises to be occupied by a new manufacturing concern to be located in a section of a 28-acre industrial . sub-div- ision in Reach Township, south of Port Perry. The newly formed com- pany, called the K.R. Coulter Company Ltd., will be run by » a group of men who have "worked for the CoulterComco Industry . in. Uxbridge. (Coulter-Comco in Uxbridge is owned by Noranda Mines, and has recently announced it will cease production this summer resulting in the loss of some 200 jobs.) Although the new company will be manufacturing some Students business team in 'Games' semi-final A team of business finance students from Port Perry High School is among teams from 75 high schools across Ontario that have advanced to the semi-final round of the Business Game; a contest sponsored by. the Institute of Chartered Accountants of - Ontario, whereby students try their hand at running an imaginary manufacturing company. The team from Port Perry will now be competing against high school teams from Pickering, Kingston and Ottawa, and if success- ful will go on to take part in a one-day final with 14 other teams to be held later in Toronto. The object of the Business Game is simple: to make money. Students make all the decisions involved with operating -a business. These include ordering stock, pric- ing advertising, transpor- tation and so on. The decisions are forwarded to a computer which keeps track * of whether or not a profit is being made, and returns a realistic report on how effective these = decisions have been. An advisor from - the Chartered Accountants In- stitute sits in with each team, although students make all the final decisions. The Business Game series was started in 1969 with a group from 11 Toronto high schools. This year more than 1800 students from 144 high schools have taken part, and there are plans for even more teams next year. Port Perry students are taught by Mr. W.G. Sharpe, 'and members of the team now in the semi-final are Betty Bray, Gena Brown, Carlotte Fiore and Donna Sutton. Mr, Bernie Chandler from the Chartered Accountants Institute is act- ing 'as advisor for the students. of the products now being produced by Coulter-Comco in Uxbridge, it will have no connection whatsoever with Noranda. Mr. Gordon Hawker, who along with four others will make up the management of the new company, described the operation as essentially "a feeder plant for the automotive and appliance industry." Mr. Hawker said machin- ery and equipment has been bought from Comco's Orangeville plant (which is also ceasing production) and when peak production is reached, up to 45 former Comco employees will be working for the new com- -pany. The majority of these will come from Comco's Uxbridge plant with 'the remainder from the plants in Oshawa and Orangeville. "Mr. Hawker said. the total investment by the new company including cost of machinery, construction of a -plant, leasing, and initial operating costs will amount to more than half a million dollars. The plant will be made up of 20,000 square feet man ufacturing area, and 1400 square feet office space, and the company will be oper- atingona 15-year lease at the industrial site. The industrial operation is described by Mr. Hawker ds non-polluting, and will be manufacturing automobile seat adjuster mechanism (continued on page 12) Administrator resigns Hospital board reports, financial report heard at Annual Mr. Ben Bohan, Port Perry Community Memorial Hospital Administrator an- nounced at the Annual Hospital Meeting March 29 ; - that he will resign from his _ position" effective May 15, 1972. Mr. Bohan's resignation, which was read in a letter by Hospital Board Vice Chaijr- man Lawrence Malcolm came as a complele surprise to the Board members and the public who were present at the meeting. : Mr. Bohan's letter 'in- dicated -no reason for the resignation, however, he --the- affairs of the hospital. "said later he will'be accept: ing a position at another hospital. Mr. Bohan has been hospital administrator since March, 1968. Regular business at the Annual Meeting held last Wednesday evening in the Municipal Chambers included a report from Medical Staff Board repres- entative Dr. William Cohoon. In his remarks, Dr. Cohoon called 1971 "a year of progress' for the hospital. However, he added that decisions were not always made with complete agree- ment. Dr. * Cohoon said the Medical Staff is privileged to --have-the present facilities + Former Comco workers head _mention of for the care of: patients. However, citing the fact that the present : hospital was built and staffed according to expectations of use and growth in the years 1965-67, and that the utilization of facilities has far exceeded these plans, he said there is now a need for a physical enlargement of the hospital, and an increase in the personnel and equipment necessary *'to render full and complete service' to the health. needs of the com- munity. --.He mentioned. the need of equipment for in-patient care and for both in and out-patient physiotherapy. The hospital presently employs a physiotherapist on a half-day basis. He also made critical the present system by which hospital board members are named Blood clinic 'bags' over 200 pints More than 200 donors had given blood at the Red Cross Blood Clinic at the announced clos- ing time, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. In addition another 50 persons were wait- ing in the Anglican Church parlors to don- ate their blood making this the most success- ful clinic in the history of Port Perry. A happy Larry Ken- dall, president of the Port Perry Kinsmen Club exclaimed; 'This is really great,-we had only expected about 100 donors." to the board. There has been disagreement among members as to how the hospital. board should .be. selected. -Dr. Cohoon men- tioned that he believes Board 'members 'should be elected at the Annual meeting, and not appointed as they are now by the local municipal councils. It is Dr. Cohoon's opinion that this method of choosing the. Board might encourage _ more interest from ther general public in At the meeting, Board Vice-Chairman Lawrence Malcolm. gave. his report, and he also mentioned the fact that decisions made are not always unanimous. Mr. Malcolm mentioned that the parking problem at the hospital now seems to be Meeting resolved with more spaces provided at the front of the hospital. 'He said that in the fine' months since Beaver Foods took. over the supply and preparation of meals, the quality has been gdbd, and the cost factor beneficial. Plans are also being made to build a garage for an ambulance, and this said Mr. Malcolm could be operational in the "not too distant future." The administrator's report - given by Mr. Bohan men- tioned that the metric system is now being used for the recording of measure- ments in all areas of patient care. For the past year. the services of a physiotherapist (continued on page 11) Deadline extended for writing contest entries In last week's edition of the Port Perry STAR, we ran an article urging our readers to enter a writing contest on the topic 'Our Hometown News- paper." The STAR is pleased tp report that at this time the response from our readers has been encouraging, and becauses-of - this:-the- final deadline for entires will be extended to entry post-marked not later than Saturday, April 15. The STAR is offering a cash prize of $25 for what we consider the best entry, and this will be published in our edition of Wednesday, April 19. We will then forward this winning entry to the finals of the Canadian Community Newspapers Association, and first prize in this contest is $300. include any This writing contest is open to all of our readers, and entries should be a frank or humourous. expression of what a community news- paper means to the. com- munity, and to you, the reader. The entries can vary length from 250 to 700 words. We are NOT looking for polished, highly - literary material, but rather a simple expression indicating the writer's feelings and as to _ what a community newspa per is, or, if you please, what it should be., If not type-written, we would ask that entries be double-spaced and legible. They can be mailed to "Contest" Box 90, Port Perry, or brought in person to the STAR office on Queen Street Doug Christie of Beare Motors Bantams accepts Jim Irvine Memorial Trophy presented to team champions in the OMHA Lakeshore Division. Mr. Gordon Hawes, OMHA Convenor for this district makes the presentation. The Bantams are currently fighting it out for the All-Ontario against Kincardine.