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EAN Good fishing at Lake Sougog ? Council outlines policy on gifts How, when, and where to go about giving gifts. and awards to retiring township employees, community ath- letic personalitites, groups, and other deserving citizens was discussed at length at the Monday meeting of council. Some members favoured a mass effort, once a year, complete with a hall, dinner, and the presenting of awards. Others wanted to separate athletic awards from the presentation of gifts to retiring employees. What gifts? Suggestions includes rings, plaques, scrolls, watches, reclining chairs, cuff links, $50.00 in cash, and more. Council finally agreed on a formula of $5.00 per year of service to be spent on the retiring employee, leaving it up to the clerk and an awards committee to pick Seniors to review plan Scugog "Township Council will forward the parks board plans for the renovation of Blackstock Town Hall to the Blackstock Senior Citizens for their approval, along with a letter from the board outlining why "a senior citizens' plan for renovations wouldn't work. The letter, submitted to council by the parks board, Monday, points out that the senior citizens' plans do not conform with the needs of the community because there is no stage, that the kitchen is larger than is necessary for the needs of the hall, and that their suggested - moving of the stairs and washrooms would be a major undertaking, involving high costs. the present. For the next half hour, the discussion involved where the presentation should take place. Council seemed ready to host the gatherings at the town hall, but changed their mind with visions of a ball team, parents, councillors, and wives, retiring employ- ees and friends crammed ©0000 (turn to page 2) into the small chamber. The first such event will take place at the Latcham Centre to honour the retire- ment of Frank Gibson and Syd Chandler, bylaw officer and clerk for over 15 years, and the championship Bantam ball team, winners of the All-Ontario champion- ships. New truck for township It will cost the township $2,897 to trade in their old 1971 half-ton truck on a new, heavier model. Council awarded the trade- in to Frank Hoskin, R.R. 1, Nestleton, who submitted the lowest tender of $2,794 on a lighter model of a similar truck. Road superintendent Ron MacDonald told council the additional money gave the township a truck with heavier suspension, no gas guzzling anti-pollution devices, and an engine that required regular fuel, and not the unleaded gasoling required by the lighter trucks. He said that since the township buys regular Port Perry to get day care centre Port Perry will get their regional Day Care Centre one way or the other. According to regional Day Care Services spokesmen, if an application for a 100 per cent grant from the province falls through under, the pro- vince's Project Day Care program, the region has said it will pick up the'50 per cent cost of the centre under the regular grant structure. The province would pay the other 50 per cent. Day Nursery and Day Care Services co-ordinator Mrs. Mary E. Brown told a gas at bargain prices, a truck demanding the un- leaded gas would mean get- ting gas from outside, at higher prices. He said the other dealers who submitted tenders had no comparable equipment at comparable prices. Also purchased for evalu- ation purposes for the roads department was a one-way snow plow. Mr. MacDonald said the two-way plows now on township trucks demand twice as many passes to clear a road than does the one-way plow. Another _ad- vantage is the ability to pile snow on one side of the road, leaving the other level to avoid drifting. The plow costs $2,241. Meeting of the Scugog Social Planning Council Thursday meeting of theScugog Social Planning Council Thursday night that Scugog Township Council has already approv- ed the establishment of such a centre here. She said being looked at now, are older large homes that could be renovated to facilitate a day care centre. She said that as well as council's letter of approval, ~ many letters have been for- warded from the Port Perry areca by parents who are waiting for such a service. a A ea Bl SEE 3 ARR I S00 THA . NAL A (STAN ais" z TX IPE ' Rl A . AN a a 4 AA . v stile id MRIS RS a habia dies eS ESR 2 UATE SNA) RYE, JH SH 24 Pages Vol. 109 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, Wednesday, January 22, 1975 -- No. 11 20c per copy Two men rescued from It will be quite a while before David Hughes of Oshawa goes ice fishing again. In fact, he figures he'll never fish Lake Scugog again. Had it not been for the quick action of some other ice fishermen who were luck- ity on the lake at that spot at the time, the lake would probably have claimed the lives of David and his brother-in-law, Murray Clodd of Pefferlaw, on Lake Scugog. Out for an afternoon's ice fishing, the two men had left their truck at Caesarea and hitched their ice hut to their snowmobile by a length of rope. With Mr. Clodd inside the hut, David slid the hut across the ice, heading for Scugog Point when he stopped to talk to some fishermen. His brother-in-law came out of the hut, and was picking up some blocks to put under the hut when Mr. Hughes decided to move the hut again. "The first thing I knew," he said, the snowmobile started to sink, front first, then the back." In the water now, David was gripping the rope that hung from the floating ice hut. "I can't swim," he said, "but I knew the ice hut would float, so I just held on." Mr. Clodd, alerted by the cries for help, ran toward the open water. "I saw Murray coming, and then he fell in on the other side of the hut." All the commotion by that time had alerted another two Oshawa men, also on a fishing trip. John Blecha and Karel Rohacek still cringes a little when they think of the Jan. 15 fishing trip at Lake Scu- gog. If the two men hadn't been in the place where they were, when they were, that day at around noon, two men may have died. Both saw two men with a snowmobile attempting to move an ice hut by means of "There is 'a definite need here," she said. The Port Perry centre is the second in priority of five regional centres planned. Approval for the first prior- _ity centre, to be located in Newcastle or Bowmanville, has already been received by the region. - Also, included in the meet- ing was an outline of the Day Care program, its advant- ages, costs, and other infor- mation. The centre would be of special benefit to younsters of working parents, single two ropes attached to the hut. Said Mr. Blecha, "They stopped to talk to some other fishermen." One man kept on pulling the ice hut, and the other kept talking to the fisher- men. The next Blecha recalls thing John is hearing icy Lake Scugog waters someone screaming for help. He looked up and saw an ice hut floating in some open water. One man was in the water, calling for help, and the other man was running toward the spot. Attempting to help his friend, the man slipped and fell in as well. Now at the scene, Mr. (continued on page 9) Road subsidy $334,000 Scugog Township's sub- sidy allocation for road con-. struction and maintenance was set at a whopping $334,000. maximum, a $73,000. increase over the $261,000 awarded last year. The subsidy allocation, forwarded to the township by the Ministry of Transport- ation and Communications, was reviewed at the Monday night meeting of council. While more money is made available by the province to be spent on township roads, there's a catch. To become eligible for the maximum subsidy. the township has to spend a proportionate increase of its own funds. Last year, for example, the $491,000 spent on roads was shared between the province and the municipal- ity to the tune of $261,000 to the province and $230,000 to Scugog. If Scugog chooses to use the maximum provincial monies available, their own spending would have to increase proportionately. Roads superintendent Ron MacDonald was instructed to return a report to the next meeting on what an increase to get maximum provincial funds would mean to the mill rate in the township. Also, considered in the calculations will be a town- ship expenditure needed to get an additiona $50,000 in supplementary funds on top of the allocation. The province asks that such supplementary requests be submitted no later that March 31. Course starts Thur. Remembering a list of 22 items is no longer a problem for Jim Marlow, Blackstock, and at least another. 50 people who attended a Pre- view Meeting of the Dale Carnegie Course, last Thurs- day. At the meeting chaired by Dave Mather, course instructor, a simple demon- stration on memory was given with everyone learning how easy it really is to memorize if the proper way is known. Approximately 40 people parent families, youngsters from under privileged envir- onments, and others. '"Pre- school programs are a bene- fit to any child," said Mrs. Brown. She said the pro- gram provides an opportun- ity for physicial, mental, and emotional growth. Regional staffs for such centres are made up of qualified people, she said. With the average centre able to handlé about 45 Youngsters, six of the eight-member staff are pro- fessionally trained, while two would provide the assis- (continued on page 9) have now registered for the Port Perry Dale Carnegie Course, which will start this Thursday at the Latcham Centre and continue for 14 consecutive weeks. Mr. Mather told those present what anyone taking the course would stand to achieve and gave an insight into the teaching methods and the content of the course. The Dale Carnegie course is being sponsored by the Port Perry Star in an effort to give area residents an opportunity to take this very worthwhile course. There are only a few openings left sc anyone wishing more information should call 985-7383 today. No registrat- ions will be allowed after classes begin Thursday night. The door prize at the preview meeting was won by Mr. Jim Wood of Uxbridge. who registered for the course during the meeting. Hospital Report Week Ending January 16th, Admissions ...................... 46 Births............................... 4 Deaths .......................... -Nil Operations ....................... 14 Emergencies.................. 129 Discharges...................... 49 Remaining... 41 AS i a mi mmr a. CI Ar Sr SS Fe TS a EN NET oe