Page 4, Thursday, June 29, 1972t WHITBY FREE PRESS Town Fig hts To Keep Pos t Of fiïce After a 2" hour long debate in Ot- tawa, Whitby still could not convince postalI authonities of its need for in- de pen dent mail services in the County Town. "The post office does no t consider municipal boundaries but thinks instead in terms of areas, IlReeve Tom Edwards said in summing up the situation. And so as Deputy Reeve John Good- win points out, IlWhitby is still the largest town in Canada without a post- ,master. il B ot h the reeve and deputy reeve, along with Mayor Newman and Oshawa Whitby M. P. Ed Broadbent spent sev- er al hour s debating the new postal ch an ge which means that Whi tby now has a station master rather than a post- master, wi th m ail1 sorting being carri ed out in Oshawa. During the sometimes heated debate i n w h i c h Postmaster-General John- Pierre Cote was said by Reeve Ed- war ds to have been "ltaken aback by some of the rather strong comments,"I the Whi tby delegates explained that service has been diminished in Whitby al though council1 had been toild by postal representatives that there would be no change in service. "Our concern is not just the post- of fice b u t CP express and Bell1 Tel e- phone,"I said the reeve. He als o t ol1d o fmaking examples to theminister of Toronto letters which had arrived in Whi tby 4 or 5 days af ter being postmarked. "lWe understood three people would m ove to Oshawa for sorting and that there woul d be no other 'devel opment for ten years, Il he said. 'lit turns out the p os tmaster-general was talking about s on ting only and there would be other devel opment in postal services in other areaS. il There was also concern expressed abouta new postal station to be bulit in Oshawa which council was unaware of at the time of the discussions on mail sorting. Reeve Edwards pointed out that Whitby is denied basic postal services which are present in smal ler municipal- ities. The minister explained further consolidations in other areas will be completed by 1975. ý Although the Whitby delegation was unable to sway Mr. Cote to change the new f ac ilities at Whitby post office, t h e m i n i ster promised them he would investigate examples of changes under Consideration and that he will reCeive r e P or t s on the subject f rom the town staff. RESTORATION SCHEME SCRAPPED After months of discussion, laymen the core shceuld receive consideration a nd citizen members of the Downtown h thedevelopment approach because of Action Committee have resolved to meet thehighpercentageof local owvnershiP. with developers regarding the redevet- Th e developrrent scheme succeeds petoftetwncr.t h e r es tor a tion ý,crhî-me. \whi ch was opmet ofthe own ore.scrapped when architect Peter Stokes A . -' L-r-n-e-m -e ii ," , rîekin i > ri - 'Y 1 1c--uî-1 4 -n - 9o r f à -. r r%1 ,kii Q A té-nc 5 a t 7 : 3 0 p. m. , the action comm îttee tion to the project. r wv iII discuss with developers, a dev- el1op m en t solution for the south east bl1oc k. 1 t was al so fel tbycommittee m e mb ers that the northwest block of To show you how much CONFIDENCE we have in our expert body repair WE GIVE A WRITTEN GUARANTEE First time in the area... 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