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by bruce arnold A full house of invited guests managed to make it through the barrage of uniformed police officers who busily checked every car in the vicinity of the G.L. Roberts high school in Oshawa, Monday night and packed the school auditor- ium to witness what regional chairman Walter Beath re- L 4 ferred to as, '"'the birth of a ie new municipality." Ontario's Lieutenant gov- enor Honourable W. Ross Macdonald commented on the number of reporters present and said, "this must be a very important event." No one mentioned the army of police or the tight security. And despite the Fort Knox atmosphere three demonstrators did make "into the building, protest signs and all. Rev. Robert Brawn of Port Perry United church read a prayer to start things off as the 30 members of Durham Regional Council were sworn into office and, just to make it legal, passed ® their first two by-laws unanimously. The by-laws adopted a set of rules for council meetings and a corporate seal for the new region. Regional Chairman Walter Beath drew a standing ovation for his speach in which he promised to give the region, 'three qualities only. My humility, deeply conscious as I am of the trust placed in me, my sincerity to carry out those tasks, pleasant and unple- sant, which this council and its electors, will expect of Regional Council meets at Whitby The first meeting of the new Durham Regional council will be held this afternoon at the Ontario County council building in Whitby. » The meeting begins at 1 p.m. _School me, and my integrity to faithfully discharge, to the best of my ability, those responsibilities calculated by this council to promote, encourage and foster the interests. of this new region and its people for so long as they may require my service." Also on hand for the one hour ceremony were all Progressive - conservative M.P.P.s from the region with the exception of Dr. Matthew Dymond who sent regrets that he could not make it, members of the INAUGURATION Lieutenant "Governor Honourable W. Ross Macdonald shares an informal moment with Scugog Mayor Lawrence Malcolm (right) and Regional Councillor Reginald Rose (far left) following Monday night's inauguration ceremony in Oshawa. Inauguration ceremony of Regional Council new Township of Scugog council and a number of defeated council candidates, Minister of the Treasury, Economics and Inter Governmental Affairs John White- and - his. -assistant- Donald Irvine and the chairmen of several other regions. Defeated mayorality can- didate Jerry Jackman did not attend. Following the ceremony the taxpayers generously provided free booze and food at the Holiday Inn for the invited guests. Addition planned for Prince Albert school An addition to Prince Albert Public School which may add a gymnasium- auditorium room with con- necting change rooms, a li- brary resource centre and a health room which could be used for guidance or rem- edial reading classes could be started next summer, Trustee Gord Goode told the -STAR this week. Mr. Goode. was dis- cussing the Ontario Public Boards "Capital Forecasts," which he said are just that, forecasts, and subject to change. For ex- ample, he explained, the forecasts did not consider the needs of Blackstock because schools there are not yet the business of this board. If, when Cartwright becomes part of 'the new regional board system, it is proven that the Cartwright schools, which are all in Blackstock, are in real need' of improvements money could be redesignated at that time. ' The schools in Blackstock come under control of the new regional board, which will be called the Durham Public School Board, on January 1. At the moment a num- ber of portables are in use at Blackstock, and Mr.goode says that is a situation which will be looked into early in January. GROWTH NOT EXPECTED No increase in atten- dance is anticipated over the next four years. In fact he says, 'there might be a slight decrease." For this reason it is considered feas- ible to change one class- room into a library centre and use any money avail- able for improvements to build the gymnasium- General purpose area. Mr. Goode did not mention the proposed budget for the work at Prince Albert. He said present plans call for the work to start in June of 1974 with completion planned for February, 1975. Hospital Report Week Ending Oct. 11 Admissions .............. 50 BINS viii si edhe 2 Deaths: ............c0..:0 1 Emergencies .......... 143 Operations .............. 14 Discharges ..............35 Remaining ............ .. 41 P2RT { PERRY TAR 15¢ per copy 24 Pages Volume 107 -- PORT PERRY. ONTARIO. Wednesday, Oct. 17th, 1973 No. 51 Norm Cafik, Robert Nixon to attend Blackstock dinner Local Liberals will turn out at a dinner and dance in Blackstock this Saturday at 7 p.m. to meet the candi- dates for the leadership of the provincial Liberal Party. Four candidates have- declared themselves in the race for leadership of Ontario's official opposition when the party elects a leader october 29 in Toronto. Three of those four have already agreed to be in Blackstock for the local, '""meet the candidates," dinner October 20. The three who have promised to come are; present leader Robert Nixon, former Deputy Leader Vernon Singer and local M.P. Norman Cafik. The fourth candidate, Walter Deacon, has been invited but had not replied by the time we went to press. The dinner-dance meeting will be held at the Cart- wright Recreation Centre in Blackstock. Tickets are available from any official of the Liberal party. Socred under attack John Bilan of Toronto, a member of the Social Credit Party and one of the del- egates at the party's recent convention in Port Perry, has claimed the convention "unconstitutional," and threatened to demand a new one to be held before the 'end of the year. Mr. Bilan claims that there was not a quorum at the convention and the election of officers which took place was not legal. Local party spokesman described Mr.Bilan as, "the last remaining member of an extreme right wing group which used to specialize in » disrupting party affairs." The official said all other members of the group, which has been compared to the waffle within the N.D.P. have left long ago. Nancy Arnold of Sea- grave, the party's Secre- tary-treasurer, said that under the constitution a new general meeting must be called and new elections held if any twenty five members demand it in writing. She said she doubts that Mr. Bilan will be able to obtain 24 more signatures on his petition. 'He seems to be a one man protest group," she said. WIND, RAIN AND HAIL, on Saturday and Sunday last week caused small amounts of damage around town. In a number of spots, branches were broken off trees, but no reports of any serious damage were reported. This branch from an old dead elm straddled a hydro pole on Union Avenue and two young boys were busy cleaning the branches off the road before the photo was taken. a Lh Se Wy ) RNA REY SN ----? Sx oN