The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

eee SEE AER > nL oivs / EE Ee A Norman Cafik responds to stariding applause as his nomination is announced at the Liberal nomination meeting at Sandford Thursday. Riding Liberals acclaim Cafik « Will begin third election campaign in six years " v 4 by Ashok Chandwani Over 300 cheering Liberals unanimously acclaimed Norman Cafik as their fede- ral candidate for Ontario Riding at the Sandford Elementary School hall Thursday night. This will be Norman Cafik's-third election battle. He was first elected M.P. in 1968 and again in 1972 though with a margin of only 4 votes on a recount. As expected there was no opposition to Cafik's nom- ination. The school hall was "packed with his supporters each sporting a Cafik badge or placard. In his nomination speech {ik struck the note which (kely to become the major Fection platform of the Liberals, the theme that the election has been forced on Canadians by the Conserva- tives and NDP. "Stanfield's desire to become P.M. is so great that he put his personal ambition ahead of the interests of the nation, while the NDP were forced to defeat the Govern- ment because they couldn't stand the heat and had to leave the kitchen' was the way Cafik phrased it. He claimed that minority government Week Ending May 16th the had Admission................ 10 Births .......connenicasy. 3 Deaths... ov isvine oven Nil Emegencies Operations .............. 13 Discharges ..............30 Remaining been.an outstanding success in the past 18 months, " inspite of the fact we face an election." However, he continued, David Lewis has proved at the last moment that minor- ity governments don't work which is why the Liberals must work for an outright majority. Cafik blamed the opposi- tion parties for-depriving the Canadian people of several benefits in the budget over which the government was defeated" -- a budget they had not seen when they decided to vote against it." He listed some of the lost benefits as the 12 percent federal tax on clothing and shoes which would not be 'dropped now; tariff reduc- tion of 5 percent on imported goods which will not take place now; measures to cut housing costs, which died with the budget, measures including tax concessions on $1,000 a year for ten years in a lifetime as savings towards purchase of a house; and a $50 tax credit which would have removed 300,000 low and middle income Cana- dians off the tax rolls alto- gether. Canadians will lose half a billion dollars income in levies of the profits of oil companies, Cafik said "thanks to the NDP and the Conservatives'. Discussing welfare issues Cafik said the federal government has no say in the (continued on page 15) Region hard hit without additional assistance Fears were expressea Wednesday at a meeting of - Regional Council that area municipalities would be hard hit if an appeal for increased provincial financial assist- ance, did not bear fruit. The Region has requested an additional $4.2 million in start up costs for the region. Coun. George Ashe, chair- man of the finance commit- tee of the Region, said it could be October before any answer was made to the appeal by the province. "We have to go on the assumption that there's nothing there" he said "and if anything comes, feed it, back in next year." "We can't afford to wait till late summer or fall to form a budget" he added. Coun. Newman warned that if start up funds were not increased it would mean higher levies for all" area municipalities. "I don't see how we can pass a budget without some indication of provincial assistance" he said. Coun. Ashe assured him that his concern was mis- placed and part of what he said would be taken care of by the transitional formula. The budget will be discussed today (Wednes- day). PORT PERRY re Volume 108 - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO Wednesday. May 22.1974 - No.30 Request for additional staff of 11 meets strong opposition by council Social Services Committee' recommendations for .in- creased staff met with strong opposition at Regional Council Wednesday resulting intheir referral to this week's budget meeting. The committee come up with a recommendation to increase staff by 11 persons to help bear the increased load on social services now that they are integrated into one region. "We are covering a great deal larger area now' said Coun. Ruth Bestwick, chair- man of the committee," and we need these 11 people. There is no padding in our structure." Coun. Goodwin moved the recommendation be referred to Finance committee saying because council had been generous in granting staff increases to other commit- tees there was no reason why they should do the same for social services. This brought an immedi- ate protest from Coun. Best- wick. "You saw fit to staff the works department" she said "but here we are deal- ing with human beings and you decide to give us a whack." Other councillors protes- ted that Coun. Goodwin was wrong in saying Council had been generous in staffing other departments. "Every- thing had to go through tooth and nail" said Coun. Breaugh. He added: "We can do without a road, but not without services for human beings". Coun. Breaugh's argument was that Council- Mrs. Betty Deethreceives the $50. prize from P. Hvidsten, publisher of the Star 5 for winning the recent writing contest sponsored by the paper. Her submission will} roads so people could drive their cards but when it came to approving staff increases for essential family and social services that would benefit people, they began to balk at it. The matter was finally committee and meeting this week. Other recommendation to buy three vans for transpor- ting + senior citizens in wheelchairs from Homes for the Aged was finally passed. (continued on page 20) budget Region against private sanitary landfill site Regional Council firmly voted Wednesday against a proposed private sanitary landfill site on the border of what were formerly Cart- wright and Darlington town- ships. : The landfill site had been given provisional approval by 'the provincial 'environ- ment board but final appro- val was conditional on the Region saying yes. Wednesday the Region said no on a recommenda- tion by the works and plann- ing and development com- mittees. The main reasoning behind the recommendation was that the Region should explore alternate waste disposal methods in co- operation with the province. The Region is also opposed to all owing any private operation in waste disposal. It would like to assume the responsibility itself. This recommendation not to approve is a first step in, implementing a regional waste disposal system. The proposal to operate a 'private site was put forward by Harvey Ambrose. Ecological and environ- mental concerns coupled with the possibility of using the open space for recreation in the future were other reasons, why the committee recommended against approval. Killed in collision The holiday week-end claimed at least one life in Port Perry when 50 year old Vernon Cameron Claus died in a two car collision on the Durham Regional Road 3 (Oshawa Road) two tenths of a mile from the Scugog- Oshawa townline, on Victoria Day. Claus lived on Shirley Road, R.R. No. 2, Port Perry. His 1973 Toyota collided with a 1968 GMC Pickup driven by Edward John Zavitsky who suffered lacerations. Two passengers in Zavitsky's pick-up suffered minor injuries. The accident occurred. around 8:20 p.m. now be entered in a national contest sponsored by the Canadian Community Newspapers Association. Mrs. Deeth will be competing against entries from all over Canada, but has a chance to win $400. and a gold medal. v SI ST SA i LAP Ths Sa "- REE att Sh ar" Era Na: A " 4 $1 SC a ETT a aT ne ~ Sa 2 SETH