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y HI Ba re i 1 a dR, SRT SE aaa ie tia ------------------ A ---- Op ---------- pul lar] Vol. 126 No. 8 PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - TUESDAY, JAN UARY 14, 1992 Copy 65¢ @1¢+4¢GsD 40 Pages Rev. Charles Clarke of Prince Al many friends and relatives Sunday afternoon in the church hall. Rev. Clarke, who is celebrating his 90th birthday, still enjoys conducting the occasional service and addressed the congregation at Prince Albert United Church Sunday morning. (see story on Church Pages) bert was honored by his Notice of alert for summer election By Scott Anderson Federal political parties are preparing for the possibility of an election later this year, the Star has learned. According to Ken Carruthers, a director for the provincial Durham Liberal Association, the federal Progressive Conser- vative Party in Durham has "been given a notice of alert" to prepare for a summer election, possibly in June. Mr. Carruthers said the pro- vincial Durham Liberals met last week, and were taking the likelihood of an election quite seriously. Mr. Carruthers says there are two possible scenarios which the PC's are planning to operate under. : One has Brian Mulroney call ing an election and "fighting it out" before a referendum on the. unity issue is called. Another scenario is that Mr. Mulroney will resign in the next few weeks and a "snap" leader- ship convention and election will be called. "A snap election would really do the PC's more good than harm," says Mr. Carruthers, adding none of the other parties would be ready. But Mr. Carruthers says "un- fortunately the last thing we need is an election or a referen- dum" at this time. He says a lot of other issues need to be ad- dressed at this point including the state of the economy. "I don't think an election would be good for us at this point," he said. Despite this speculation, Joe Oosterholt, president of the Teachers work-to-rule Durham Catholic high school teachers began a work-to-rule campaign Monday, after con- tract negotiations broke down. The high school teachers have been without a contract since the start of the school year. Under work-to-rule, the teachers are required to be present on the grounds 15 min- utes before the start of class, and remain there until 15 min- utes after the classes end. All extra-curricular activities are cancelled including clubs, sports and otherevents. The teachers rejected an offer from the school board offering a Federal Durham Liberal Asso- ciation, says he has not received any directive from the Liberal Association. He says a meeting will be held on Jan. 27 in Black- stock and they "will know better after that date" if they should prepare for an election. The Durham Liberals are un- prepared for a federal election as they do not have a delegate to Turn to Page 2 4.5 per cent increase retroactive to Sept. 1, and another one per cent in February, 1992. This would raise the salaries to $54,153 from $51,330. The max- imum salary would raise to $62,634 from $59,344. The teachers' union says this isn't enough, however. The teachers are seeking parity with the region's public high school teachers. They are seek- ing a 4.4 per cent raise retroac- tive to Sept. 1, 1991 and an addi- tional 3.32 per cent next month. The two sides are to meet lat- er this week. Trucks fall through th The public continues to ignor warnings from numerous agen- clog about the conditions of ice onlakes in Ontario this winter, and Sunday.the owners of two vehicles experienced just how unsafe ice conditions are on Lake Scugog. Fortunately no one was in- jured in either incident, al- though damage to the vehicles engines and interiors will be ex- tensive. Thanks to the joint efforts of a number of Scugog residents the two half-ton trucks were suc- cessfully pulled from the icy wa- ter of Lake Scugog about eight o'clock Sunday night. The incidents occured Sunday afternoon when the two trucks, in separate incidents, slipped through the ice to the bottom of the lake near the boat launch. A witness at the scene told the Star one truck was locked and parked without a driver when in began to sink, and the other had a driver and two passengers In the cab when the rear end broke through and the truck began to sink. Lake Scugog still unsafe for vehicles The occupants scrambled out, and according to one of the pas- sengers, it took only about five minutes for the entire truck to slip below the surface of the wa- ter, leaving only a pair of emer- gency lights sticking out of the water. The truck was owned by Bra- sier's Truck Service of Lindsay. He told the Star that they had been out on the ice watching the motorcycle races during the af- ternoon and when they decided to leave the accident occurred about 20 feet from shore. Sunday night, under the di- rection of Brian's Towing, the two vehicles were pulled from the ice with the help of a back- hoe operated by Robert Carr. Also helping get the trucks free of the ice and water was lo- cal contractor Norm Tripp, who dressed in a "dry suit", slipped into the cold water to attach cables to the the trucks. Before pulling the first truck free, the backhoe was used to crush and remove ice, making a path towards shore. (Turnto page 2) In ice ov * No one was injured Sunday afternoon when these two half-ton trucks plunged through about five inches of ice into Lake Scugog. Both trucks were later recovered. (See story) i { u 4 4 § a Po --