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Vol. 117 No.9 Tuesday, February 1, 1983 32 Pages in Port Perry. Local residents win $100,000 jackpot Two Scugog Township residents hit the Wintario jack-pot last Thurs- day night and will share $100,000. Mrs. Angie Grainger of Port Perry and Fred McMann of Prince Albert held a winning ticket in the Wintario "bonus" draw. They both work for Simcoe Transit in Oshawa and decided to buy tickets together to take advantage of the bonus draws. It sure paid off as they were at the Wintario office Monday morning to collect their winnings. Mrs. Grainger and her husband Tom, have two kids. Fred McMann and his wife Marlene also have two children. They say they plan to put their earnings in the bank. Mr. McMann told the Star Monday morning this is the first time he has ever won a major prize playing the lotteries. The winning ticket was purchased at Barry's Variety on Water Street fel, Fo Just skidding around The Oshawa Competition Motorcycle Club held their a variety of different classes for $1000 in prize money annual ice race last Sunday afternoon at Kent's Bay on and Championship points. Above, the riders round the Lake Scugog. For about four hours cyclists competed in first-carner in one of the heats. Durham Tory MP Al Lawrence believes Joe Clark made right decision Durham-Northumber- land MP Allan Lawrence says he feels the decision by Con- "'servative Joe Clark to step down and ask for a leadershp convention was the right thing to do. "It was inevitable, the situation was intoler- able and we have to get on with a leadership convention," said Mr. Lawrence in a telephone interview with the Star late Sunday night. He attended the four day Conservative meet- ing held in Winnipeg and said he was among those who voted in favour of a leadership review. In that voting by some 2500 delegates Friday evening, Mr. Clark received 66 per cent of the votes in support of his leadership. Mr. Lawrence told the Star this figure of 66 per cent did not really come as as to him. In fact, he felt that Mr. Clark would get 65 per cent of the votes in favour of his leadership. Mr. Lawrence said Sunday night there is some confusion about whether Mr. Clark will step down as leader of the Party and leader of the Oppdsition in Parlia- -- ment. Following the vote Friday night, he had indicated he would be stepping down and asking for a leadership convention in the near future. But by the end of the weekend, Mr. Clark was hinting he would not take any steps until one of the reported challengers officially announced an intention + to seek the party leader- ship. ' Asked when he thought a Conservative leadership convention might be held, Mr. Lawrence said it is not something the party should rush right into. "We must do this right. We must be able to attract the best possible candidates,' he said. While saying that he had voted for the leader- ship review, Lawrence addéd that many of the MP's from Ontario had voted the same way. Also attending the Conservative meeting in Winnipeg was Scugog Township resident Joel Aldred who made an president of the party. Mr. Aldred, a former and owns a general store there, was among unsuccessful bid to be broadcaster who now five hopefuls for the elected national" 'farms on Scugog Island (Turn to page 2) Durham Bd. will step Up enquiry In an effort to come up with what Durham Board of Education chairman Ruth Lafarga calls "some specific answers", an engineer- ing consultant has been hired to carry out an investigation of con- struction projects com- pleted for the Board over the last few years. Hiring the consultant is part of the Board's investigation into the circumstances sur- rounding the conviction in December of George Stanford, a former man- ager of construction and maintenance with the Durham Board. Stanford pleaded guilty to charges of income tax evasion on $140,000 he received from contractors over a three year period from 1977 to 1980. Stanford was fined $30,000 and ordered to pay the same amount in taxes owing to the National Revenue Department. He has since been fired from . his job, but. the entire.. incident has sent shock waves through the Durham Board of Education offices in Oshawa. The Board has also ordered a systems audit of purchasing and tendering procedures, and a review of con- struction and main- tenance contracts from 1977 to 1982 "to deter- mine whether any supplier received pre- ferential treatment'. A report on these find- ings is expected by the end of February. According to a state- ment released by Board chairman Ruth La- farga, the consulting engineer hired by the Board to inspect con- struction projects, "has extensive experience in evaluating alleged building deficiencies in contract disputes." The charge of income tax evasion was laid against Stanford when the federal Revenue Department found he channeled the $140,000 in payments from con- tractors through a com- pany set up in his wife's name. Mr. A 24 year old Township man lost his life in a tractor accident last Thursday afternoon near Utica. Richard Geer, an employee of Utica Farm Equipment had delivered a rented tractor to a farm on Sideline 10 and accident. was starting to back it off a flat-bed truck when the trac- tor slipped off the truck and rolled over. The accident occurred shortly after 4:00 p.m. The coroner at the scene has ruled that an inquest will not be held into the