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Ai an I fa milking . The main feature at the Blackstock Fair August 24 will undoubtedly be a milking contest between mayors within Durham Region. Scugog Mayor Lawrence Malcolm recently issued a challenge to his colleagues in the Region which has already been accepted by Mayors James Potticary, Oshawa; George Ashe, Pickering; Allan McPhail, Brock and perhaps not a mayor, but a personality of some note, Bill Deegan of the C.F.R.B. Hand milking is something of the past, so Mayor Malcolm is putting in quite a few hours milking, preparing himself for the contest. Town Hall under lengthy discussion Council wants to keep closer control by Ashok Chandwani Scugog Council spent over 45 minutes Monday discus- . sing the terms of the rental lease on the old town hall. Some weeks ago Council had approved a lease of 99 years to lease to Town Hall 1873 a charitable company formed by citizens to pre- serve and restore the old town hall and convert it into a recreational cultural center. That decision had been subject to the Township Sol- icitor's approval. Monday night Council reviewed their Solicitor's comments with Dr. John Hammet a director of Town Hall 1873, present. Having tentatively approved a 99 year lease councillors suddenly rea- lized that they had perhaps been a bit hasty. 'A 99 year lease is far too long" said Coun, Bob Kenny, who had been absent when council originally approved the lease. Coun. Kenny felt 20 years was more than adequate. "I just want to make sure the thing goes" he told Dr. Hammett. : Later Coun. Kenny said he was in favour of selling the building for a nominal sum to the corporation to absolve the municipality of all res- ponsibility on an issue which has been hanging fire for the past 15 months. Dr. Hammett responded by saying the board of directors of town_hall 1873 had no desire to buy the building. "That would defeat our very purpose. This is a town project and I have no desire to become a 1-12th Week Ending Aug. $th Admissions ........ 27 Births ........... 2 Deaths .... Nil Emergencies .... 197 Operations... ....6 Discharges ...... . .. .. 33 Remaining . . 32 owner of something that belongs to all the people in Port Perry and Scugog." Dr. Hammett also insisted council approve a 99 year lease. There are elements of security in a 99 year lease that will help us raise our funds." "If you reduce the term to 20 years" he told councillors "people will wonder at your cautious approach." Dr. Hammett said he was willing to write in a clause ensuring a revision of the lease after 5 years, when council would be given the option to cancel it, if things were not working out well. "I'd like to review it every 5 years" said Coun. Brink- man. "I want to leave council an out." Coun. Brinkman was con- cerned about the building becoming structurally sound. So were Mayor Mal- colm, and Councillors Taylor, Hunter and Frew. Coun. Reg Rose was absent. Dr. Hammett said a regu- lar 5 year review would be agreeable to him if it also gave the company an option Council Briefs Scugog councillors will undertake a road inspection in the municipality some- time in the middle of Sept- ember. The inspection will last 2 weeks. Council has not done a complete inspection of the municipality's roads since Durham Region came into being. Council approved a sum of $500 Monday to be spent on building a new washroom facility in Palmer Park. The facility will be located in the old booth building in the old ball park at the bottom of Queen Street. The construction of the washrooms is subject to Health Dept. approval. to back out. This did not find favour with councillors. "What if a new board of directors comes in that is way out?" asked Coun. Taylor. Dr. Hammett pointed out that in 5 or 10 years maybe new councillors would come in. "It works both ways' he said. oontinued on page 10) PORT ({ PERRY 15¢ per copy 24 Pages Volume 108 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, Wednesday, Aug. 14th, 1974 -- No. 41 More people than ever before enjoy Western Weekend events Over 5,000 people sang, danced, yelled, screamed, played games, rode mid- ways, helicopters and flying coasters among other things during Port Perry's annual fun event - the western weekend which concluded Sunday. Weekend committee chair- man Richard Drew said the events proved to be a "tre- mendous success and we had no trouble whatsoever. Everything went off smooth- lv without any incident." There was something for everyone during the four days of festivities. For children there was kiddies parade, a scavenger hunt, a bicycle rodeo and several games. For teenagers there was the Scott Carpenter's Graffi- tti dance, a rock dance with Jaysell Harvest, and a dance featuring Diane Leigh. Then there was the 50's Graffitti dance, a million- aire's night, horse racing, water skiing, helicopter rides, midway rides, and a hilarious new event - Donkey Baseball. Chamber of Commerce No Stars took on the Visitors who included Scugog Mayor Lawrence Malcolm and Councillors Jerry Taylor and Don Frew. The visitors won the match 3-2. The fun in the game lay in the fact that fielders had to ride donkeys instead of. running on their own. The donkeys true to their reputation, insisted on doing exactly the opposite of what their riders wished them to do, providing endless merri- ment for a large crowd. Members of both teams found themselves with sore backs after the match and some are still recovering. A judo and karate demon- stration in Palmer Park Regionto host meeting Durham Region will play host to an inter-regional planning seminar sometime towards the end of Sept- ember this year. Chairman Walter Beath received regional council's approval last Wednesday for his proposal to hold the ay drew appreciative gasps from a large crowd as boys and girls demonstrated the different methods of self de- fence. There was also a demon- stration of breaking wooden boards into two with a single hand or foot movement, karate style. During the judo and karate demonstrations, two sky divers parachuted to a per- fect landing near the helicop- ter pad much to the admira- tion of the people in the park. Later on Saturday the Oddfellows Lodge sponsored a prairie chicken barbeque. Several service clubs (continued on page 3) seminar in Durham. A sum of $1,200 was approved as expenses for the seminar which will be atten- ded by planning committee members and planning staff from the 12 regional govern- ments in Ontario. Twokilled i Ilisi bile. driven by Susan Parkin, 28, of Otawa Street, Port Perry, followed by a second crash, a 1972 Buick driven by Two young persons from Whitby were killed and an Oshawa man was seriously injured in a three-car colli- sion Thursday night. The tragic accident occu- red on regional Road 2, (Oshawa Road), north of the third concession in Scugog Township (Reach). Involved and killed in the crash were Carlo Novakov- ski. 24 the driver of a Datsun car and his cousin, Michele Mottola, 26, both of Whitby, when their northbound car collided with a 1972 Oldsmo- Peter Hohol of Central Street, Oshawa. Mrs. Parkin was not hurt, but Mr. Hohol was taken to Oshawa General Hospital with multiple injuries. Damage to Mrs. Parkin's car was light, but to the Datsun, it appears to be a complete write off (see top picture) and damage to the Buick was estimated to be about $3.000 a C&C Arr Aes MEE EL SASSY i LT, A