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No A eR ENN HE CHECKING-THE VOTERS' LIST is the responsibility of every Canadian qualified to cast a ballot in the July 8th general election. If your name is not on the preliminary posted list, get in touch with the returning officer for the electoral district in which you live. You have until June 19th to get on the list. Do you have vote? Be sure your name is on the voters'list Do you know for sure if you have a ballot waiting for you in the July 8th general election. Unless you check, vou could be deprived of the - right to vote. The time to check is now -- either on the publicly posted list of voters in your neigh- borhood. or on the printed copy of the list mailed to each urban elector enumera- ted last month. If your name is on the list, you are assured of a vote. If it is not on the list, or if - there is an error in the listing of your name, address or occupation, it is up to you to do something about it to ~ avoid the risk of losing your vote. Procedures differ between polling divisions in urban areas and rural centres. Those with a population of less than 5,000 are rural. In rural regions, eligible voters missing from prelim- inary list of electors should contact the enumerator who prepared the posted list. In urban areas, omissions and corrections can be taken care of by calling the return- ing officer for the electoral district in which you live. The telephone information operator will help you obtain the number of your returning officer. This must be done before June 19th, when the period of public sittings begins for the revision of preliminary lists of electors. The urban lists are revised by a revising officer, who is usually the senior district judge, or representative appointed by that judge. If you are an unregistered elector entitled to vote, you may appear before the re- vising officer (June 19th, 20, or 2ist) and apply to have your name put on the official list of voters. The hours and address' where the sittings for revisi- on are held may be obtained from your returning officer.' It is also at the top of the printed preliminary list of volers. Ifit is inconvenient to appear before the revising officer. vou may ask the returning officer to send the two revising agents to your home to obtain the necessary information. The preliminary list assembled following enum- eration and the statement of changes and additions fol- lowing revision comprise the official list of electors. Ur- ban residents whose name does not appear on that official list will not be allowed to vote. In rural polling divisions, each enumerator revises his Miss Oshawa Fair Pageant ~or her preliminary list. Applications for changes to that list may be made up to June 19th. Unlike urban voters. the unlisted rural voter is able to vote July 8th by being vouched for by a registered elector. However, if you wish to take advantage of the June 29th or July 1st advance poll for this election, you must be on the official list, whether you are an urban or a rural voter. The advance poll is for any qualified voter, who for any reason, cannot cast their ballot on July 8th. ready to receive entries Plans for the Miss Oshawa Fair Pageant, one of the features of the South Ontario Agricultural Fair to be held July 18 through 21 in Alex- andra Park, have been com- pleted and all indications point to an outstanding con- test. Application forms are available from Mrs. G. Brown, 62 Park Road South, Oshawa, whose telephone number of 723-4580. The deadline for the receipt of applications is June 29. A preliminary elimination con- test, to name the 10 finalists to compete at the fair, will be held July 2. The finalists will be guests at a dinner on July 9 at which the fair board will be hosts. Contestants, who must come from the Oshawa dis- trict extending from Bow- manville to Bay Ridges and as-far north as Port Perry and Blackstock; have to be single and between the ages of 16 and 21 years. The winner will receive a trophy, $200 in cash and merchandise. She will also have the opportunity to enter the Sweetheart of the Fair contest at the Canadian Na- tional Exhibition. Each of the two runners-up will re- ceive a silver tray as well as merchandise prizes. The three winners also receive a bouquet of flowers and each of the other finalists will receive an award. Karen Green of Ajax, last year's winner, also won the Ontario County contest and took part in the Miss Canada Pageant. April forest fires destroy 3,000 acres Despite a wet spring, 337 forest fires were recorded in April by the Canadian Fores- try Sérvice in its first report of the 1974 fire season. The fires affected some 3,000 acres of the country's forest land. The number was, however, less than half that for the corresponding period last year (694 fires) and the acreage affected was less than one-third last year's (10,000 acres). These statistics are com- piled monthly by the Fire Research Institute of the Canadian Forestry Service. TAR Second Section Volume 108 - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO. Wednesday. June 12. 1974 No. 33 Works Committee to change original Durham Region public works committee reconfirm- ed ils opposition to the proposed Blackstock areca private landfill site last week following a public hearing on the matter. The hearing - which pitted site owner Harvey Ambrose against people who live near the proposed site - took place in Durham Region council chambers with public works committee members and staff as the only audience. Following the hearing the committee returned to its own committee room and voted to inform cuncil that it won't change its original decision. Durham Council itself had voted against the site last month, joining the Town of Newcastle and the township of Scugog in opposition. The only group that isn't against the proposed 3.7 acre landfill on the old Darlington - Cartwright township line is. the provincial environment department. Ken Wilk of that department, told works com- mittee members that 'from a technical point of view the site can operate as designed without risk to the environ- ment.' But the arguments of near- by residents against the proposed 90 tons of refuse a day that would be frucked into their area seemed to carry more weight. "There's no need for a site in an area with no planning and development laws," said Ron Worboy, one of the spokesmen for the area res- idents. He seemed to articulate the concern of local residents that once the site was filled with 90 tons of refuse a day, new land fill property would be needed. Works Commissioner Rob- ert Richardson mentioned that the refuse requirements of General Motors in Oshawa just happens to be 90 tons a day. Mr. Ambrose had mention- ed that he had had some preliminary discussions but had no firm offer from any firm to supply the refuse. Another concern of the residents was water pollu- tion. Resident Bernie London pointed out that should pollu-~ tion seep from the landfill into the area's water table, the area's wells would be affected and 'we're out of business.' 'THere's no other place to drill wells there,' he added. However, Mr. Ambrose's consultant, Frank Rovers, insisted that there would 'certainly be no pollution problem in the area.' Later, Public Works Com- mittee Chairman Alan Dewar seemed to bring the discussion to a head when he refuse decision asked Mr. Wilk of environ- ment who was responsible if pollution from the landfill affected the adjoining pro- perty. He was informed that the only avenue open to resi- dents in this case was court action, and that few sites were actually stopped for polluting by the department. Mrs. James Andrews (nee Carol Scott, daugher of Mr. and Mrs. Bev. Scott, 159 Harmony Road, North Oshawa, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Scott, Sea- grave, graduated recently from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in fine art. She is a former student of Eastdale Collegiate and plans to attend Toronto Teacher's College in September. Eleven year old Glen MacDonald, a young Judo champion from Port Perry, will be competing in this year's North American Judo Championships at San Bruno, California on July 25. (See story in last week's STAR page 15). ion a . TGP SE xT Cored A A RL SE ER PAE age » (5 ee ey, Eas AlN ry ra PP, FAD Sie A Lr RTs > ey EF Her. LINCS