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Sf hsunaingasi dd, { = & (J 4 0% &; $35: 4 Shades chino dint son ab Adds pee tansnhibins bid anh fi Tina Ruhl daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Ruhl of Epsom was winner of the contest for the bus tour to United Nations sponsored by the Oddfellows and Rebekah Lodges of Port Perry. The definite date for the trip to New York and other places of interest will not be known until later. Tina is seen in the above picture with Earl Geer, chairman of the committee representing Oddfellows and Rebekah. - Durham requests province to reconsider Police policy by Ashok Chandwani Durham Region will re- quest the province to re- consider its position regard- ing the composition of Regional Boards of--Police Commissioners which cur- rently have a majority of non-elected members. Council voted 26 - 3 in favour of a motion Wednes- day by Councillor - Allan Dewar, which called for such a reconsideration and expressed concern that a large chunk of the Regional budget which goes towards policing costs, remains out- side the control of the Region. Councillor Potticary, the mayor of Oshawa, was one of the tliree opponents to the motion. He was strongly against mixing politics and polic- ing. He invited councillors to "take a look across the border." He wanted the Board of commissioners of police kept away the hands police kept away from the hands of politicians. "Where do you stop?" he asked, "We'll be in the operating rooms next. Canada is known for its law enforcement, the present system has served this country well, let's keep it that way," he stressed. Councillor Dewar who moved the resolution said it was "incredible" that a large chunk of the budget - Hospital Report Week Ending April 11th Admissions ............. .38 Births .............. ...... 1 Deaths ............ .. .. .. Nil Emergencies . ...... . _. 124 Operations | IRE-- Discharges .... .. .. 39 the police budget has been estimated at $5.4 million -_ "should _ vitrually be re- moved from our control." The Region has so many responsibilities to dis- charge, said Coun. Dewar which include child care, community planning and fire protection. Yet the pro- vince does not consider the Region capable enough of handling its policing. "Fire yes, police no" was the way Coun. Dewar summed it up. Councillor Des New- man, Mayor of Whitby, sup- ported the motion on the ground that regional gov- ernment is totally capable of assuming full responsi- bility. He reminded Coun. Potticary that the man at the top of policing - the attorney general - is a pol- itician. ly Coun. Gordon Attersley of Oshawa, wanted to retain a "middle of ". the . road approach" - midway be- tween the system in the U.S. and the total control in the socialist countries. Councillor John Goodwin of Whitby, a member of the Durham police commission also supported the motion "because the principle in- volved here is of the highest issue." Coun. Goodwin is one of two council representatives on the police commission. The present set up is of five police commissioners. - two from the council and three provincial appointees which consist of a judge and- two' citigens. Chi finally voted over- whelnNngly in favour of the motion which also has a clause that would have it circulated to other regions for their support. Will receive increased provincial grants Regional and area mun- icipalities will receive in- creased provincial grants this year. This was an- nounced in last week's pro- vincial budget. Durham Region will re- ceive an additional $2 mil- lion over what it would have received under last year's system. According to preliminary figures presented by Coun. George Ashe, Region Finance committee chair- man, this year's total will be about $7,329,000. The new system of Regio- nal municipal grants re- places the Unconditional per capita grant. The basic per capita grant has increa- sed by one dollar from $8 to $9. The police per capita grant has been hiked by $2. to $7. An increased police grant will help Scugog a great deal to offset the payments to be made for the Durham Regional Police. Scugog will get about $201,000 in grants under the new system. "Home Show ' Junel3, 14, 15 Booth space is selling quickly since the announce-. ment by the Chamber of Commerce two weeks ago that they would hold the (continued on page 17) 15¢ per copy 24 Pages Volume 108 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO. Wednesday. Apr. 17.1974 - No. 25 Region will charge $300 fee for application to amend Official Plan by Ashok Chandwani Durham Region will charge a $300 fee for appli- cations for Official Plan amendments. Regional Council approved a plann- ing committee recommend- ation to this effect at last Wednesday's The accepted recom- mendation also provides for - limited assistance to local muncipalities who request it. This assistance will be provided by the Commiss- ioner of Planning and De- velopment to help local muncipalities to process off- icial plan amendment appli- cations. The recommendation also provides for the Region to undertake the function if the local muncipality does not wish to involve itself in the meeting. Ice is out The ice disappea- red from Lake Scugog early Saturday morn- ing, April 13. This is about average during the spand of 100 years this event has been recorded. Last year the ice went out on April 1 and the year before on April 28. The latest date recorded was in 1965 when the ice went out on April 29. To find the earliest date it becomes nec- essary to turn back to the last century when the ice disappeared on March 20, 1878. processing of applications. The Planning Commiss- ioner has drawn up an intricate schedule which ex- plains how the aplication will have to be made. The process begins with the ap plicant and reaches the Minister at the provincial level alter passing through the Regional clerk, local and regional councils, planning and development committees, and local and regional staff at several levels and on several occa- sions. It is the Minister who gives final approval. Scugog Mayor Lawrence Malcolm posed this question to the Chairman of the planning and development committee at Wednesday's council meeting: 'How long will it take to dispose of an application under this pro- cedure - on an average?" Councillor Mason, the chairman, had no specific answer. Maybe 2 months maybe a few more, depend- ing on the nature of the application. A shopping cen- tre application may even take four years if not eight as in the case of Etobicoke. The kind of limited assit- ance available to local mun- icipalities from the region will cover duplicating and copying facilities and a pro- fessional planning commen- tary on locally significant projects. There was some discus- sion about the amount of the fee but most councillors agreed that the fee was tremendously insigni- ficant to the value the change in the official plan might make. Some consid- eration will be given to reduce the fee in the case of deserving applicants. A sec- ond reason offered for the apparently high fee was to keep frivilous applications at a minimum. Questions from council- lors about the actual cost of processing an application revealed the interesting in- formation that a small amendment might cost about a thousand dollars. A major one would likely be nearer $15,000. involving staff on the job for several months, advertisements and publicity. 200 pints at blood clinic The people of Port Perry and area have donated over 1000 pints of blood to the Red Cross since the Kins- men and Kinettes initiated the Blood Donor Clinics three years ago. On April 3, 200 of those pints were received at the clinic held in Church Auditorium. Although there were over two hundred volunteered to donate, 22 persons had to be turned down. Pictured below, Jane Parry is seen giving her "Gift of Life," while a nurse checks to make sure every- thing is functioning prop- erly. To the left two of the Red Cross Nurses seal and pack the bags away, later to be transported to Red Cross headquarters in Toronto. The Kinsmen, are plann- ing another "Blitz"' some- time in July. the United ,