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VERE er @ SE PLE 0K v ; :} CH FERED ARR TE REA DI a a, Debbie Ireland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Ireland, Rosa Street won top honours at a speaking contest held in the R. H. Cornish Public School, Wednesday last week. Debbie competed against pupils from the Blackstock, Sunderland, Thorah and Uxbridge schools as well as one of her school chums, Sharon Smith. Wednesday, (tonight) at 7:30 the Durham Region finals take place at R. H. Cornish Public School and Debbie Ireland will be representing the schools from Durham Central Region competing against pupils from 11 schools. Rose votes for $2000 "council pay increase Reginal Council Reg Rose was among those voting in favour of giving each coun- cillor a 20 percent pay in- crease last week. The in- crease will add $40. a week to _ the $200. council members already get, retroactive to January 1. At a previous meeting council had voted to give themselves each $2,500. out of start up funds, for work' done before January. 1. However, a check with the region's lawyer S.K. Jain indicated that would have been illegal, so the Finance Committee recommended the 20 percent increase in 1974 salaries instead. Whitby Mayor Des Newman moved to "strike," the pay increase recom- mendation from the report. Reg Rose and Brock council- lor Rynard voted to pay themselves the extra money, which amounts to $2,000 .a year. Later, when the report Malcolm's thrift note "I like to save as much as anybody," commented Mayor Malcolm at the February 6 meeting of " Regional Council in Whitby. "Maybe more," interrup- ted Oshawa councillor Allan Pilkey. The Mayor:had been about to object to a suggestion by Whitby Mayor Des Newman that, "simple" letters to council not be reproduced for each council member, when he was interrupted good naturedly. Mr. Malcolm has agreed to be the lowest paid Mayor in the region. came back for final approval, Mayor Malcolm, Mayor Newman and Oshawa councillor Margaret Shaw asked that their opposition be recorded in the minutes. They were the only three still opposed at that time. Fire departments 1974 budget increase of 50% Scugog Council approved an interim Fire Department' budget of $61,262. Monday night. In 1973 fire protection inthe area cost only $40,830. so the cost is up almost 50 percent. Council spent two hours discussing the budget with chiefs Jack Cook and Len Scott. The final budget figure is six thousand dollars less that the chiefs had asked for. Chief Cook heads the 18 man volunteer unit Number '1 in Port Perry and Chief Scott leads the 35 volunteer unit Number. 2 of Ceasarea. Each unit head presented his own budget estimates. The only major increase in the unit 2 estimates was a $7.000. request for volunteers pay. Chief Scott explained that, as Cartwright firemen, his men got less than their counterparts in Port Perry. Now that amalgamation has taken place the chief felt all men should have equal opportunity, and after some debate council agreed. Cartwright volunteers had received a total of only $3,000. last year. Ceasarea"s share of the 1974 budget comes to $18,378. a ten thousand dollar in- crease over last year: Pay in Port Perry will be up also. The total goes to $18.000. from 1973's $14,000. However, Councillor Jerry [Taylor pointed out that the increase in the total does not necessarily mean any man will be getting a raise. Every time a volunteer fireman goes on duty he is awarded points for his service. At the - end of the year the total points earned are divided into the money available to determine what each point is worth. Port Perry has added two new men this year. The Unit 1 budget also includes $8,000. for a new panel truck fully equipped for emergency service. The old Port Perry van, which is three years old and valued at two thousand dollars, will be turned over to Ceasarea. The cost of sending chief Cook to a fire chief's con- vention was $190. in 1973. In 1974 it will cost $1,000. The \_hief explained that the con- vention is in Calgary this vear, which requires more travelling cost, and he has added an extra convention to his schedule. Unit 2 chief (continued on page 11) Hospital Report Week Ending February 7th Admissions .............. 31 Births .................... 3 Deaths .............. ...: 1 Emergencies .......... 100 Operations .............. 5 Discharges .............. 33 Remaining ........... ... 36 a a. PORT § PERRY TAR 15¢ per copy 24 Pages Volume 108 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO. Wednesday. Feb. 13. 1974 - No. 16 Council will not restore old town hall - cost too high Council decided Monday night that the 100 year old town hall at Lilla and Queen Streets will not be restored. Tenders for the work had been opened a few weeks ago. They showed a EW about $45,000 to restore building. - At Monday's meeling Councillor Bob Kenny, a former Reeve of Port Perry, repeated his opinion that the building is not worth restor- ing. Mr. Kenny has often advocated tearing the build- ing down and using the land it sits on as a park. He suggests that the bell, and possibly part of the bell tower, could remain in the park as a historic monu- ment marking the spot where the building had sat. The town hall was built in 1873 and served as the first municipal office for Port Perry. It has not been used as a public-building in seve- ral years. "We are going to have a lot of extra expenses with this new form of government," Councillor Kenny told the Monday night meeting. "There is no way we are going to justify spending $45,000 to restore an old building this year." He said even if the town hall was restored so it could be used for public purposes the area would still have a parking problem. Lilla and Queen is Port 'Perry' s bus- iesl corner. Council member Don Frew agreed with Mr. Kenny. "1 can't see spending $45,000 on that." he said. "The money could be better spent." "That money would go a long way toward an new Held in custody The two Port Perry teen- agers charged with the break in of a local tire store are being held in a Durham Regional jail waiting for sentence to be set on March Jeffrey Brian Freer 16 and Steven Arnold Williams 18 appeared in court at Whitby 'last week charged with break, enter and theft. Both pleaded guilty to the charges. They were ordered held in custody for one month while a probation officer prepares a '"'pre sentence report." The court was told that part of the estimated $1,072.25 worth of money and merchandise reported miss- ing following the theft was, recovered when Provincial Police raided the Perry Street home of one of the youths January 29. The break in and theft occurred on January 28, and the youths were arrested the following day. arena," commented Coun- cillor Jerry Taylor. Mr. Kenny presented a motion that the building not be restored. and it carried unanimously. "*Sihee we are not going to fix it," said Mayor Mal- colm." at the next meeting we will have to decide what 'o do with it." The next Monday. p.m. New name Whether name of the Port meeting is. February 18, at 8 to change the Perry Chamber of Commerce to: "The Scugog Chamber of Commerce", will be one of the main topics at the Cham- ber"s annual meeting to be held at Conway Gardens tonight (Wednesday). The directors have acted on a motion to change the name and have drawn up a new constitution, which will be presénted at the meeting. All present members are urged to attend to franchise their vote on this subject. Mr. Fred Speth, of the Ontario Chamber of Com- merce will be present as guest speaker, and Emile Kroonenburg will entertain with a film he has produced on the C of C events of the past year. Tickets are still available and all interested persons are invited to attend. FIRE CHIEFS Jack Cook of Unit 1 (left) and Len Scott of Unit 2 adjust the no smoking sign outside of the council chamber Monday night while council was inside discussina the fire department's 1974 budaet. PRE ;