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WL Campbell unveils $1 billion plan fo create 500,000 new jobs Durham Northumber- land Liberal candidate Darce Campbell has an- nounced a $1 billion job creation plan that could mean 500,000 new jobs for displaced Canadians. Just days before 'Prime Minister John "Turner unveiled a similar strategy, Mr. Campbell's election team released details of the plan, nicknamed the 3&2And2 & 3 program, to the media across the riding. The program is targeted at unemployed men and women between 30 and 60 who have been permanently laid off and for the unemployed youth and college graduates who cannot find work. "This retraining pro- gram is not a band-aid approach, but a two year plan that is in direct step with Prime Minister John Turner's pledge to retrain unemployed Canadians and restore dignity to our neighbours who seek work," Mr. Campbell said in a news release. Although a copy of Mr. Campbell's plan was sent to the Prime Minister last week, the 53 year old Port Hope realtor said his plan had no direct connection with Mr. Turner's. "I'm hoping Mr. Turner's own plan will coincide with my own," he told the Star last Friday. : He dropped into the Star office while door- knocking Friday throughout Scugog Township, conducting what he calls a "personal campaign.' He says he hopes to have knocked on 10,000 doors before the September 4 election. At the top of his priorities at this point is his job creation plan, which he has been ex- plaining to people within his riding as he continues his door-to-door campaign. The main thrust of the program is principally, not but exclusively, directed at small and medium size business, which he says responds fastest to innovative changes because the decision making process is simpler. The plan is designed to train or retrain one or more workers who have been displaced from previous jobs and/or to provide apprenticeship training for a graduate with an academic degree but no work experience. - With implementation directed at the 775,000 small and medium size businesses in Canada, '""as the potential engine for this employment train," Mr. Campbell says the results should be instantaneous. According to the plan outline, all types of business would be eligi- ble including trades, sales, manufacturing, retail, banking, finance, marketing, insurance, high technology and small start-up businesses. Basically, any business with up to 25 employees, new or established, may hire one unemployed person, Scugog House Restaurant LOCATED AT Seven Mile Island Resort BREAKFAST - 8 to 10:30 LUNCH -12 to 2:30 DINNER - 5:30 to 9:00 - OPEN EVERY DAY - Fully Licenced under L.L.B.O. 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Any larger established business, 100 employees and up, could hire two unemployed individuals for the first 100 employees and one new trainee for every addi- tional 50 employees on the payroll. "It is important to en- Helper gets hit by car A 19 year old Mount Albert man suffered minor injuries Sunday evening after he was struck by a car after he had stopped on Highway 12 to give assistance to another motorist whose car was on fire. An OPP spokesman said Ronald Kirkton was hit just before 10:00 P.M. His injuries were described as not serious, and according to police he was later released from hospital. The inci- dent took place on Highway 12 about half a mile south of Manchester. Kirkton apprently had stopped to lend assistance to Raymond Pettifer of Oshawa after a fire started in the engine of his 1968 Pontiac Firebird. Police estimate damage to the Pettifer car at about $3000. There were no other in- juries and no charges were laid. ' ICE CREAM CONES (Choice of up to 20 Flavours) and receive 1 FREE TANK TOP (While Quantities & Sizes Last) PORT PERRY DAIRY BAR 158 WATER ST. (Across from the Park) sure the hiring is for the long-term unemployed and not temporarily laid- off previous employees," Mr. Campbell stressed. In the second yeear of the program, the 2 & 3 portivn, any small medium or large business that extends the training period for their employee or employees could switch immediate- ly at year end to a pay- ment of $2 per hour bas- ed on a 35 hour continued training work week. The Feds would pay an additional $3 per hour based on the same 35 hour training week. Mr. Campbell estimates the plan would cost taxpayers a max- imum of $1.58 billion in the first year and $2.37 billion in the second. "More importantly, to create 500,000 jobs and restore dignity to half a million Canadians, can not be measured in dollars and cents,"' Mr. Campbell said. He points out that the program makes no allowance for the addi- tional spin-off of job creation which could oc- cur due to the total addi- tional net income of $3 billion flowing back through the economy, since all 9,000 of earned dollars would probably be spent on goods and services by those employed. er QE ~_SN Lo. RS PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed. August 8, 1904 -- 3 Acid rain - (From page 1) something", said Mr. Neare. Acid rain is the name given to pollutants from sulfuric and nitric acid which originate mainly from the burning of fossile fuels such as coal and oil, and ore and petroleum plants. Acid rain has been pin-pointed as the cause of death of many lakes in Ontario and the north- eastern United States which do not have suf- ficient lime-stone characteristics to neutralize the acid. But it has been only in the last year or two where concern has been raised about the possible impact of acid rain on trees. In fact, a provincial government publication in 1980 said that studies in' Ontario have not established that tree growth has been impaired by acid rain. However, Mr. Neare said that reports of dying sugar maples began to reach the "Ministry of Environ- ment about a year ago, with the first ones coming from Dundas and Prescott. Although lakes in the Kawartha Region have not suffered from acid refining rain because of their neutralizing limestone qualities, the Kawartha area is receiving acid rain. In fact, Mr. Neare said the acid rain in this area is as much as 20-25 times higher that the natureal levels in the atmosphere. -Graduates- J. Jay A. Musselman; son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Musselman of Seagrave, graduated with Honours in the Aviation Technology (Flight) Program from Sault College, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Recipient of the Air Canada Award as Out- standing Student. Jay has accepted a position with Sault College as In- structor in the Aviation Program. Linda D. Warriner, daughter of Garret and Carol Warriner of Port Perry, recently from Sir Sand- ford Fleming College, in Peterborough with a diploma in Correctional Practices. Linda is now working for St. John's Training School in Uxbridge, Ont- ario. graduated - FINAL SUMMER CLEARANCE CALE all summer merchandise GREATLY REDUCED! We're making room in our stores for our Fabulous Fall and Winter Fashion Lines. - _ ANY -- Nw SRNR SS EE ---- Ne. 80 BROCK ST. - 852-3683 UXBRIDGE 229 QUEEN ST. - 985-8551 PORT PERRY Yiax