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- increase will - effect in September 1975. BARE 28 Pages Volume 108 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 1974 -- No. 52 15¢ per copy Flamingo strike over Teamsters Local 647 members will be returning to work at Flamingo Pastries this week with a $1.00 an hour increase over a two vear contract. Atentative agreement was reached last Saturday in the fifteen week strike and the agreement was ratified by the employees Monday night. Eighty-nine per cent of those attending the ratifi- cation meeting voted in favour of the agreement. Production employees will receive a forty-cent an hour increase retroactive to the expiry of the old contract on April 22, A ten-cent an hour increase will take place when employees return to work. Production employees will be making $2.70 an hour upon their return to work. Another, forty-cent an hour increase will take place April Ist next year and another ten-cent an. hour Bill Overy, Teamsters business agent, told the STAR that improvements were also made in scheduled work week. The company will now post a work schedule for the next week 'on the preceeding Thursday and will give employees 24-hour notificat--- ion if there is-any change in this schedule. ' {We wanted 48-hour Noti- . fication," Mr. Overy said, "But we tried to be as flexible as possible in bar- gaining." ; come into. Employees will get one additional holiday, bringing the total to 10. It will be taken on either December 31 or January 2. Flamingo Pastries will now pay 66 per cent of the cost of OHIP. and group insurance. Before the strike, Flamingo paid one-half the cost. Mr. Overy said there was no change in the wording of _ the agreement with regard to employee access to -company- premises. Flamingo Pastries: had maintained that the union representative was seeking virtually unrestricted access to the plant at any time of the day or night. Mr. Overy said the union did not gain any concessions in this area. Employees will get two years vacation after one year, three weeks after three years and four weeks after fourteen years. The last category was added during' negotations. Mr. Overy said that when employees went on strike on July 15, the company had an offer of a forty-cent an hour increase on the table and hadn't made the concessions about the work week. The agreement gives the company seven days to call its employees back to work and gives the employees seven days to report to work. Citizens oppose plan to widen Lilla Street ~ Although Scugog council did nothing about regional plans to widen Lilla Street, opposition to the project is organizing in Port Perry. Council voted to receive and ~ file a report from Durham stating that approval had been given for Lilla Street to be made into a three lane road with one lane for parking. But Mrs. Bev Muir of Lilla Street told the STAR that a group of citizens is actively® considering the problem and will have more to say public- Four former. feeves of the municipalities which combined to make up Scugog township were on hand Monday night to present Mayor Lawrence Malcolm with his new chain of office. Coun. Bob Kenny, They are (left to right) former reeve of Port Perry, Art lv next week. . Anybody interested in dis- cussing the situation can contact Dr. Ralph Price. Fleming Galberg, Gary Carter or herself, Mrs. Muir said. She said that although the Scugog Ratepayers' Associ-- ation is opposed to the plan, itis more of a neighbourhood committee that is consider- ing what to do next. Several residents have expressed fears that if Lilla Street becomes a main regional road, Queen Street - might become a stop street. Catton, former reeve of Reach Township) Malcolm, Merrill VanCamp, omorrow night is Hallowe'en and you better watch out or all the spooks will be after you. If you are generous with your treats, will be less generous with their tricks. ER THIN: LA WN a phe Pe pas ET GSE perhaps the youngsters Motorists should, 'also, be on the lookout for the young costumed characters who may be more interested in their haul of loot than in the traffic on the road. New apartments Senior Citizens moving in Many of the thirty apart- ments in the new Ontario Housing Corporation build- ing on Kellet Street are now occupied and senior citizens will soon be moving into the rest. ' 'Mrs. Maebelle* Sevick, manager of this district's OHC office, said she expect- ed the apartments to be fully occupied by the beginning of December. Mayor former reeve of Cart- wright Township and Clifton Crowell, former reeve of Scugog Island. For more details on the chain of office an front page of the second section of this week's . ' The new building, located off of Lilla Street, is designed to provide housekeeping apartments for seniors at a rent they can afford. Each apartment is self- contained with a bedroom, living room, kitchen and bathroom. "We have learned through experience with other build- ings how to design a building specifically for seniors," Mrs. Sevick said. "For example, all electrical out- lets are raised half-way up the wall so they do not have to bend over." "Also, all cupboards are located so a person doesn't have to reach for them. But just because all the apartments are now occup- ied, it doesn't mean a person shouldn't make application (continued on page 2) Council hears plan for cable television A Port Perry business man is applying for a licence to operate a cable television system in Port Perry and Prince Albert and would like the support of township council. i William Lock, proprietor of Porto Pizza, told council thal copies of his application to the Canadian Radio Tele- vision Commission would soon be available. Mr. Lock said the CRTC is likely to licence an appli- cation in Port Perry soon. Council said it would con- sider the matter in due course. The operator of the cable television system in Uxbridge has an application on file with the CRTC to extend his service to Port Perry, Mr. Lock said. The town water tower would make a suitable site for a TV antenna installation and if it could be used, it would offer a substantial saving in construction cost, Mr. Lock said. Mr. Lock said pole rental rates would have to be worked out with the P.U.C.: Although cable systems with under 3000 subscribers don't have to provide com- munity originated programs, Mr. Lock said he would like to implement local service from the start. "Perhaps there would be little in quantity and it would lack sophistication," Mr. Lock said. "But I deem it of high priority "to provide a service that is vital and of (continued on page 3) Hospital Report Week Ending October 21th Admissions ..................... 31 Births............cooon. wd Deaths. ............................ 1 Emergencies .................. 149 Operations....,.................... 8 Discharges....................... 31 Remaining. .................... 10