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as EAD 4 iy LARRY Russe disieiun wtivh ore sh sobhid oy a toh idpoid tba dues Part of the crowd that lined Guzen Street for last 'Saturday for the annual Santa Claus Parade. Is $10,000 too much? Scugog ratepayers not happy with councillors The meeting called by Cart- wright, Port Perry, Reach anc Scugog Ratepayers Association was small in attendance, but made up for it in content and spirit. The first item on the sub- stantial agenda was a unan- imous decision of changing the present name of the organization to Scugog Rate- payer's Association. The name will come into effect January first, when the four municipalities are amalga- mated and will be known as Township of Scugog in the Region of Durham. Given priority and quite a lengthy discussion was the $10,000 salary the members of Durham Region had voted themselves at one of the first meetings. The general opinion of members speaking about the subject was one of objection and considerably more than had been expected, even by those elected to the Region council. As one of the speakers put it; "How can they justify giving themselves an annual salary of $10,000, before they even know what work is involved." A member from the Town- ship of Cartwright suggested that the total salary amount of $300,000 per year for the 30 council members would practically "eat up' the total tax receipts in Cartwright Township. A lady from Reach Town- ship suggested that $10,000 dollars would not be unrea- sonable if the position of a councillor would demand sufficient work to make it a full time job. Although salaries are yet to be decided on as far as the local councils are concerned, the opinion seems .to gener- ally be that $5,000 could quite conceivably be the amount. It was felt that the combin- ation of the two salaries, plus a councillor's income from his employment or business Large crowd watches Santa An estimated three thou- sand people lined Queen Street Saturday as Santa Claus came to Port Perry. More than two dozen floats Hospital Report Week Ending Nov. 29 Admissions ............ 46 Discharges ............ 46 Deaths .............. Nil Births .................... 3 Emegencies ............ 105 Operations .............. 15 Remaining .............. 45 were entered in the parade. The Chamber of Commerce presented prizes for the best three floats. Prizes this year went to the Students at Port Perry High School for their Indian village float, to the Kinette Club for a scene from Dr. Doolittle and to the family of Dr. Wm. Cohoon for their Big Bird. With half a dozen bands, about a dozen clowns and, of course, Santa Claus this was one of the biggest parades in Port Perry's history. could become quite substan- tial and possibly a bit out of line. One speaker felt that the total salaries would come closer to those of salaried employees responsible for the administrative duties of (conunued on page 16) P2RT § PERRY 15¢ per copy 24 Pages Volume 108 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, Wednesday Dec. 5, 1973 -- No. 7 Regional headquarters established at Whitby by bruce arnold After a second round of what Oshawa councillor Mike Breaugh called, "musical chairs," and a two hour session of Regional council's favorite past time, playing word games, it was finally decided to" do what everyone knew would be done all along - make the Ontario County building in Whitby regional head- quarters. Councillor Breaugh's "musical chairs," charge came when Chairman Walter Beath vacated the chair and asked Oshawa Mayor James Potticary to take it for him. Mr. Beath explained that he wanted to be part of the discussion and he could do that better if he was not in the chair. Mr. Breaugh suggested that Mayor Potticary might want to say something too, and wondered why, if someone had to be thrust into the chair, it had to be an Oshawa voice. Once the musical chairs game ended (Mr. Beath won) the word games began in earnest. Mayor-elect Garnet Rick- ard (Newcastle) moved that the Whitby building be used as headquarters. The motion did not specify whether the decision would be '"'tempo- rary," or, 'permanent," so council decided to play with that for a couple of hours. Oshawa council Breaugh FIRE completely gutted this barn on Scugog Island last week, and destroyed a car and boat which were inside. Firemen were called to the fire at about 9:15 p.m. objected to making a, "permanent," decision. Mayor Rickard pointed out that the motion did not use any such word and com- mented that the only thing temporary about the region was the names of 'council members. Oshawa councillor . Alan Dewar introduced an amend- ment to add the word, "temporary," to which Whitby councillor G. Emm people," said Mr.Lyall in the first relevant comment have two choices - here or someplace else?" No one knew, but Oshawa's Alan Pilkey asked why the word, "temporary," was objectionable. John Goodwin of Whitby said because it had no meaning since every decision made by a council is temporary until a later motion changes it, to which Mr. Pilkey replied that Mr. Goodwin not only did not make any sense but he was .. not telling the Finally Councillor Lyall (Newcastle) had a solution "The words tem- porary and permanent seem to be constipating you people," said Mr. Lyall in the first relevant comment of the debate, "if you have trouble with English then let us switch to Latin and declare the Whitby building our headquarters,'pro tem" (for the time needed). Mr. Lyall must have won the game, because that is what council did. truth. Ken Region works report forgets Cartwright-Malcolm complains "What is this solid waste," questioned Newcastle coun- cillor Ken Lyall at the November 28 meeting of Regional council in Whitby, "Is that garbage?" Laughter. "Okay, so we are talking about garbage." And talk they did, for more than half an hour. It seems that seven town- ships in the new region do not have "solid waste disposal sites," of their own, so they rent dump land. The seven include Clarke, Cartwright and the village of Orono. Public Works Committee Chairman Alan Dewar of Oshawa presented a motion authorizing his committee to honour the existing lease agreements in six of the areas, and the motion was agreed to. Cartwright Reeve Law- rence Malcolm made quite a thing out of the fact that his areas dump lease, which still " (continued on-page 24) The barn was on property which was previously owned by Gordon Collins. The name of the present owner has not yet been made public. ahALe fdonth Adi 36 of ET fA if