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\ b ( b | P premiums will go up by 37.5 per cent which means an extra $87, out of the revenue of Durham Region. . : Regional council last Wednesday voted in favour @f a motion asking that the increases come out of gen- eral revenues of the prov- ince, and not as an addition- al charge on individual premiums, While the motion eventu- ally carried, there was some objection among councillors. Scugog Mayor Nawrence Malcolm said that burying the costs in the Two years probation An' 18-year-old Oshawa #ian was given a suspended sentence and placed on pro- bation for two years after pleading guilty last week in Whitby court to a charge of breaking and entering the Brewer's Retail Store in Port Perry. Fred Lauchlan of 1140 Mary Street North was also ordered by court to pay $500. damage he caused to the store during the break- Qin. gengnal-provincial revenues could actually make the sit- uation worse because it is" the abuses of the system that are pushing the costs - skyward. He suggested that the council should inform the province that tightening up the rules might be a --better way to cut the costs. "There are people who can legally abuse the system because the rules are so lax," he said. Pickering councillor Ken Matheson also spoke about the abuses of the health care system, but he sug- "Not yet, Fido" Pickering dog owners had better get out the paper bags and shovels. The local council last week passed a 'stoop and scoop' by-law which means that any dog owner will have to remove the evi- dence should his pet heed the call of nature on park or community centre property. Accidents Two thousand Canadian children die annually from accidents, and hundreds of thousands are injured, reports the Industrial Accid- ent Prevention Association. For example, to protect 'children from suffocation, never use air-light thin plastic in cribs or carriages. It can suffocate a child in less than a minute. 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The private property of the dog owner will be ex- RE FTO I gested that if the province is required to pick up the additional cost of these abuses (from general re- venues) then it may force the provincial government to look seriously into ways of curtailing the abuses. Councillor John Howden of Oshawa was one of the councillors who suggested the motion and he cited a newspaper article quoting a Toren doctor which said that a patient recently arrived at hospital via am- bulance in the middle of the night "for treatment of a toothache and cost the system more than $60. While the motion speaks of the increased cost to Dur- ham Region of $87,000, it also refers to families and individuals who pay their premiums direct, and Sl uno gp . ¢ Ao¥d. vussadiinisalostaismmih td endian domiaeriee PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Apr. 12, 1978 -- 3 OHIP increase sparks lively Region d ---..ps.of May I-the- cost of "off ebate by suggests that they are often those who are least able to meet these premium costs. The $87,000. is only a part of what Durham taxpayers will have to come up with this year. Local municipali- ties that pay the OHIP premiums of their employ- ees are also faced with the increased premiums and this will have to come out of general revenues. Education Bd. passes $78.6 million budget Continued future, which means that local taxes will have to pay cluded from the terms of the by-law. Violators of the by-law will be subject to fines up to $1,000 for each offence. It was not made clear, how- ever, just who would be responsible for collecting evidence should a case come to court. 4 for more and more of the costs of education. While the impact on local taxpayers this year is es- timated at just 4.7 per cent, the actual increase in the local tax share is $3.1 mill- ion or just over nine per cent. However, a 1977 over- levy and increased -assess- ment growth will make up the difference. The $78.6 million budget breaks down into $40.7 mill- ion for elementary educat- ion and $37.9 million for secondary. In both elementary and secondary budgets, salaries, wages and employee bene- fits is by far and away the largest single expenditure, totalling 90 per cent of the operating costs, million. 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