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In the first seven months of the year the number of MLS sales was almost exactly the same as in the corresponding period last year but the dollar total was up 25 per cent. In seven months this year 10,241 MLS tranâ€" sactions amounted _ to $426,367,732. A year earlier 10,242 MLS sales amounted to $341,747,647. Unprecedented demand is continuing to create dollarâ€" volume records in the Metropolitan Toronto real estate market, despite price levels and despite the prospect that rising interest rates could soon slow the Sales â€" through _ the Multiple Listing Service of the Toronto Real Estate Board were 52 per cent higher in dollar terms in July than in July of last year. A total of 1,532 MLS tranâ€" sactions _ were worth $67,004,279 compared with $44,180,251 on 1,327 tranâ€" sactions in July 1972. WESTON DENTURE CLINIC 1913 Weston Road, c Wesien‘ FULL and PARTIAL DENTURES DIRECT TO :HE PUBLIC DENTURE REPAIRS & RELINES. 244â€"0705 Member of the Denturist Society of Ontario Demand creates records MLS sales for the first seven months of this year were within $4â€"million of MLS sales for the entire 12 months of 1968. In that year houses sold through MLS averaged $26,726. In the first seven months of this year they averaged $37,944. During the year, said Mr. Gathercole, the third 540,000â€" kilowatt ‘unit was comâ€" missioned at Pickering, raising total system capacity to 14.4 million kilowatts and making the Pickering station the world‘s largest producer of electrical power from the atom. The first 500,000â€" kilowatt unit at the coalâ€"fired Nanticoke station also began operation. _ Construction The continuing excellent performance of Pickering nuclear station highlighted a year ‘‘of notable acâ€" complishment‘"‘ for Ontario Hydro, the utility states in its 1972 annual report. Deliveries of primary energy totalled 73.5 billion kilowattâ€"hours in 1972 â€" more than in any previous year and a 7.9 per cent inâ€" crease over the 1971 total. In a foreword, Hydro Chairman . George Gathercole said that supplies of secondary energy inâ€" creased sharply by 59 per cent to 6.5 billion kilowattâ€" hours, due mainly to exports to the U.S. Ontario Hydro‘s revenue rose 11.5 per cent to $702.2 million, and assets increased nine per cent to $5.5 billion. The major portion ($394 million) of the nine per cent increase was for thermalâ€" electric generating facilities. Pickering helps hydro set record Toronto Real Estate Board president William Allan noted that interest rates moving to 10 percent â€" or even higher â€" could cool the booming real estate market, but the rate of recent inâ€" creases in prices can only be slowed down by a great proceeded on additional capacity of 9.6 million kilowatts, all to be brought into operation progressively between now and 1978. Of hydro‘s nuclear future, Mr. Gathercole noted: ‘"For the moment our nuclear program is being inhibited by a shortage of heavy water, which has occasioned some temporary inâ€" terruptions in the operation of _ Canadian nuclear stations. Once the shortage has been overcome â€" in part by Atomic Energy of Canada‘s Bruce heavy water plant and eventually by the development of additional heavy water production capacity â€" our nuclear program will move ahead on a large scale." Mr. Gathercole reported that the utility‘s planned bulk transmission corridor between Nanticoke and Pickering had met with "some of the difficulties and delay encountered by many other public and private enterprises in locating their facilities.‘‘ However, the matter had been referred to In 1972 nuclear stations produced nearly nine per cent of the electrical energy generated by hydro. By 1990 between 60 and 70 per cent will probably be generated by nuclear fission. If direct lending to builders should be unâ€" increase in new housing production. Spokesmen for the builders believe it is highly unlikely that the federal government will permit the annual volume of starts to decline. "It is hoped," said Mr. Gathercole, "that greater public participation will increase acceptance of facilities and that decisions will be reached in time to avoid critical delays. If we fail to provide in time for future needs, the conâ€" sequences in consumer distress, industrial dislocation, and failure to support industrial expansion and the creation of jobs could be extremely serious." Ontario Hydro‘s success in maintaining electrical service throughout the province during a fourâ€" month strike in 1972 has been viewed by some, he said, as evidence that Hydro must be overstaffed. But these people ‘""overlooked the long hours worked by those who Hydro, he said, is now developing and imâ€" plementing a system of open planning to give citizens a greater say in the location of hydro facilities. Not only the property owners involved, but . environmentalists, ecologists and conâ€" servationists will now be able to participate in the analysis of alternatives. the Solandt Commission for review and an independent consultant was subsequently appointed to conduct a further study. . dertaken by the government later this year to make sure that starts and production keep rising next year, this money would probably go out at a rate below that of the mortgage market as a whole, perhaps helping to ease the upward pressure on Relative to its growth in production capacity, hydro‘s staff has been steadily decreasing. In 1961, Mr. Gathercole pointed out, there was one staff member per 600 kilowatts of capacity. Today the ratio is one for every 900 kilowatts and the trend is expected to conâ€" tinue. Inflation, he said, tinued to be a serious remained on the job, the vacations sacrificed, the family life disrupted and the fact that many essential tasks were deferred as engineering and service personnel were diverted to the critical job of keeping the system operating." Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Parton, 23 Dalner Avenue, Downsview are celebrating their 50th wedding anâ€" niversary. The couple were married at Toronto August 1, 1923. They resided in Weston until their move to Downâ€" sview three years ago. Mr. Parton retired from Southam Murray Printing approximately 10 years ago. anniversary Happy 50th conâ€" conâ€" rates generally. Optimism exists about the likelihood that, although interest rates generally could go as high as in 1970, the supply of money for housing won‘t be as tight as three years ago. . cern. Despite efforts to offset rising costs of fuel, equipâ€" ment, property and labor costs and higher interest rates, annual rate increases appear unavoidable for the next few years. ‘"‘We _ are _ confident, however, that our rates will remain fully competitive with _ those in _ other jurisdictions and to other forms of energy. All inâ€" dications are that electricity will continue to be called upon to play an expanding role in meeting Ontario‘s energy requirements and in contributing to the health of the economy and the enâ€" vironmental quality that most people desire." Municipal Act do not give council the power to vote a retroactive raise. And they also object to the section of the consultants‘ report that compared the role of council members with that of executives in private business. He charges this is not a valid comparison, maintaining that people in private sector are hired to do certain jobs with specific qualifications. Mr. Wagman maintains this is not necessarily the case with elected representatives. Council voted itself a salary increase last February but the Ontario Supreme Court ruled that the increase approved was illegal because the bylaw was not passed with a necessary twoâ€"thirds majority. The couple have tw daughters, Mrs. Helen Stucklees and Mrs. Dorothy Baker. They have five grandchildren and four greatâ€"grandchildren. A reception and open house will be held in honor of the occasion at 20 Auralea Boulevard, Weston, Sunday, August 12, from 1 to 5 p.m. Family, friends and neigh bors are cordially invited. In April, council decided to appeal the court decision and the hearing is scheduled for September. Mr. Wagman said if council adopted the consultant‘s recommendâ€" ations before the court case was settled his group might seek an injunction to prevent the pay increases becoming effective. 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