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{RAMI WY : SETA 1) edie SE WADOR& TEST § ] A Ph ET ., Ln 57 - > 4 £0 Say 5 hi 22 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, March 21,1973 United counties brief Queens Park has received two proposals from North- umberland-Durham counties which argue in favour ofa two region plan, instead of the one region now proposed by the provincial govern- ment, The first submission is from the united counties council and suggests a two tier system along the lines of "the existing county struc- ture. Ontario county would Ontario county approve grants Fifteen agricultural or- ganizations in Ontario County have received a total of $4,766.75 in grants from Ontario County. The organizations receiv- ing grants are the Brooklin Spring Fair Association, Ontario County Soil and Crop Improvement Association, Ontario Department of Agri- culture Junior Farmers and 4-H extension, Ontario De- partment of Agriculture statutory grant, North Ontario Plowmen's Associ- ation, South Ontario Plow- men's Association, Beaver- ton Agricultural Society, South Ontario Agricultural Society, North Ontario Women's Institute, South Ontario Women's Institute, Port Perry Agricultural Society, Sunderland Agri- cultural Society, Ontario County 4-H Championship Show and Scott Agricultural Society. form one region. North- umberland - Durham would expand to the east and form a second. '. p The second submission 'was prepared by INPUT, a citizens group in Port Hope. It suggests that the united counties form a one tier government. Under this plan all townships, villages and towns. would disappear and the whole area would be one big city with only one council. Both proposals make it quite clear that the united counties want nothing to do with Oshawa. Cartwright's representa- tives on county council voted against the first plan which would form a 5 town region in which Cobourg, Port Hope and Campbellford would control the majority of votes. This plan would amalgamate Cartwright with Manvers, Cavan and South Monaghan. "If we have to go anywhere it makes more sense for us to go with Port Perry," Cartwright Reeve Lawrence Malcom explained. The county proposal im- plies that people who live between Oshawa and Bow- manville have more in common with Cobourg than with Oshawa. Mr. Malcolm disagrees. The INPUT proposal is titled 2073 and tries to project 100 years into the future. Its basic premise is that if we need regionaliza- tion at all why not go all the way and do away with local councils altogether. One wonders if it was prepared as a joke. Annual meeting in Port Perry May 29 At the board meeting of the Ontario County Tuberculosis and Respiratory . Disease Association held recently at Adelaide House, Mrs. M.B. Dymond announced that. plans to hold the annual meeting at Port Perry High School May 29th are com- pleted. The three-day seminar on health education in con- junction with the Oshawa, MELT ICE and snow with SALT-FREE CD Winer Provides excellent tire traction and winter walking safety! Ideal for sidewalks, steps, driveways! Contains no salt-- will not corrode or damage concrete or lawns! Keep a bag handy in trunk or garage! 10 ibs. $1.89 20 1bs. 2.99 40 15. 4.99 While Supply Lasts 207 OFF Prices Shown KE SCUGOG LUMBER 235 WAITIR SL - 9B5.73M PORT PERRY Ajax and Pickering Hospital involving, nursing, para- medical and medical per- sonnel will be held at Durham College May 3-4-5. Mrs. R. W. Shier, presi- dent and Mrs. E.A. Collins, executive director attended the semi-annual meeting of the Ontario TB and RD Association held at Mec- Master University in Hamil- ton. Mrs. Shier reported that the American Association will be changing it's name to the American Lung Associa- - tion and the Canadian Association will be asked to consider a change of name at the National Annual Meeting. A supplementary course for graduates of the Baby Sitting Training Course is being planned. This course would qualify a young person, 15 years of age and over, to sit with a handi- capped child - crippled, retarded - of suffering from celerbral palsy. The course will also be offered to any adult interested in caring for one of the children for a week-end. The next meeting of the Ontario Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association will be held at the Ajax Hospital, April 9th, 1972. ' Port Perry Star VD on Reported cases of venereal disease in Ontario for 1972 increased by 57 per cent over 1971, according to statistics released today by the Ontario Ministry of Health. While there has been an increase in disease, a significant percentage of the rise is attributed to changes in the Venereal Diseases Prevention Act. These new regulations allow physicians to report all cases of VD directly to local medical officers of health instead of the Health Ministry in Toronto. treatment the '"'Special centres, funded by Repeats County levy down popular evening The success of the Fellow- ship Night initiated by Warriner Lodge last year has encouraged the local Oddfellows Lodge to repeat the evening. Invitations to participate have been sent to all organizations in the com- munity and a large at- tendance is expected again this year. A speakér of some note, Mr. Frazer Earle represent- ing the Council of Christians and Jews will no doubt have an important and interesting message to present. Founded in 1947, 'The Canadian Council of Chris- tian and Jews is a civic organization of religiously motivated men and women dedicated to promote good will, co-operation and under- standing through education among all Canadians. The Fellowship Night will be held at Port Tavern on Wednesday, April 4 and will again this year be hosted by Warriner Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd- fellows. All municipalities in Ontario County will see a decrease in their levy for county purposes. At a recent meeting of county eouncil, all rates were decreased when council decided to apply all surpluses on hand to this year's revenue, and cause decrease of about 17 percent to all municipalities in the county. Rates for 1973, followed by amount of the decrease are as follows: ) Towns: Ajax, $263,134.96, decrease, $48,850.42; Ux- bridge, $66,182.87, decrease $14,434.37; Whitby, $529,911, decrease $106,966.17. Villages: Beaverton $25,452.53 decrease, $5,983.57 Cannington $17,380.13, de- crease $3,365.80; Pickering, $51,412.94, decrease $11,424; Port Perry; $50,524.38, decrease $10,647.59. Townships: Brock, $79,731 decrease, $17,143.96; East Whitby, $73,977.64, decrease, $15,590.50; Mara, $100,106.62, decrease, $23,162.19; Picker- ing, $685,079.85, decrease $153,633.21; Rama, $43,422 St. John Ambulance warns that before entering a gas-filled room, open (or break) doors and windows so that crossdraft will disperse the dangerous fumes. decrease $10,014.77; Reach, $92,556.58 decrease, $19,660 Scott, $61,468.36, decrease $13,311.69; Scugog, $26,576. decrease $6,033,74: .Thorah, $50,445.68, decrease $11,448 Uxbridge, $113,139.29, de- crease $25.298.13. Topic is drug problem The answer to excessive use of drugs is education and participation Dr. John Dia- mond, suggested at the Lions Club dinner meeting Monday evening. Dr. Diamond, a resident of Port Pery for many years, and now on the medical staff of Whitby Psychiatric Hos- pital was guest speaker at the Lions Club and made the use of drugs his topic. Although drugs are still much in use by young people, the Doctor believed the consumption lately had declined to some extent. He felt however, the greater danger now was the exces- sive use of alcohol among Canadians which definiely shows a marked increase. Also attending the meeting were guests from Peter- borough and Bowmanville, sons and daughters of Lions Club members. Durham school budget cut by *% million The trustees for the Northumberland-Durham Board of Education learned at a special board meeting last week that they are faced with cutting close to $3 million from thier estimated expenditures for 1973 in order to met spending ceilings imposed by the provincial government. The estimated ordinary expenditures for elementary schools will have to be trimmed by $475,000 while $274,000 will have to be cut from the estimated ordinary expenditures for the sec- ondary schools. The trustees discussed several areas where the cutbacks could be made, including the number of teachers, special education consultants, outdoor paint- ing and groundswork, and interior decorations, furni- ture and equipment. The longest discussion centred around the possi- _ bility of reducing the number of teachers employed by the board but no definite decisions were reached. Schools in the eastern areas of the United Counties will probably be more affected by teaching staff cutbacks than will schools in Bow- increase in province Ministry, have always re- ported all of their cases," said Dr. Richard T. Potter, Minister of Health. "I'm glad to see that changes in the Act have brought an increase in cases reported by physicians." During the period under review, reporting by family physicians rose by 62.8 per cent for infectious syphilis, 205.1 per cent for latent syphilis and 107.6 per cent for gonorrhea. "These figures reveal what we could only suspect previously; there is a significant, true increase of VD in the Province," Dr. manville and area. Bowmanville High School, in fact, is expected to require several additional teachers in order to accommodate a projected increase in en- rolment next year. BHS presently has 840 students. That number is expected to top the 1,000 student mark next fall. Ken Lyall, board trustee for Clarke and Newcastle, suggested that since the board administration is more familiar with budget details and the areas of expenditure which are most amendable to cutbacks, they should come up with rec- ommendations for spending cuts and present them to the board. Director of Education, Frank Thom commented that administration is in a good position to compare the experience of other boards in making cutbacks. He also said that the administration . would like feedback from the trustees indicating where staff to work out cutback area. However, the recom- mendation was defeated and the original motion to let administration come up with suggestions for cutbacks was passed. Surplus comes as a surprise A $15,000 surplus occurred in calculation of the Ontario County portion of the Children's Aid Society bud- get, at a meeting of county council last week. The county had appro- priated $160,000 as its share of the proposed Children's Aid budget last month, but when the budget came in, it recorded only $145,625 as the county's share. The total Children's Aid budget is $1,034,404, of which $708,414 is paid by the province, $145,625 by Ontario County, $159,790 by Oshawa, cutbacks should be made. «and $20,575 trom the 1972 Several board members felt that an ad hock committee, including at least three trustees, should sit in with the administrative Potter said. Gonorrhea, the most pre- valent venereal disease, showed an overall increase of 53 per cent. Among men, the peak rate was reached at ages 20 to 24 with 1,008.3 reported cases per 100,000 of population. The peak rate for women occurred in the 17 to 19 year age group -- 652 reported cases per 100,000 of population. Reported cases of syphilis rose 107 per cent, with the largest increase discovered in the latent, non-infectious stage. Ministry of Health officials suspect this is due to previously unreported cases coming to light for the first surplus. Last year, the county con- tributed $146,747 to Child- ren's Aid and the total cost of operation was $924,684. time. Accordingly, latent stage syphilis figures could reasonably be expected to decrease in the future. "Failure to identify and treat contacts causes me a great deal of concern," said' Dr. Potter. 'Consequently, during last year, 150 health unit staff were given special workshops in interview tech- niques and contact tracing. This training is continuing and the impact should soon become apparent." In addition, Ministry pub- ic education efforts continue to stress the responsibility of every VD patient to ensure that partners also receive treatment. tin ee. ES AT Si iw. RES re --