CIRCLE TAXI 128 BROCK ST. N. WHITBY, ONT. 668-666 24 HRS. Vol. 4, No. 19 WEDNESDAY, MAY 15th, 1974 Cost of Living Ma'or Issue Stop Gougingl Says David Lewis Expropriati Caused by Attorney General Robert Welch announced that a study is about to begin to examine expropriation pro- cedures. Speaking to a gathering of some 200 people at the Annual Meeting and Dinner of the Ontario South Pro- gressive Conservative Assoc- iation at the Legion Hall, Whitby Wednesday high t, Mr. Welch said that the need for the study "became ap- parent" as a result of the Pickering Airport project. "The North Pickering Project presented a unique situation in which public ownership was felt to be necessary to allow an app- ropriate plan to be developed in the first olace. with everv Region From W Close to one million dol- lars has been chopped off the regional works depart- ment budget. The original works .dept. request of $4,299,000 wiIl on Study AirportI_ ROBERT WELCH expectation that most of the land would subsequently re- turn to private ownership DL l'a$ once the ultimate plans were approved and put into force", Mr. Welch, M.P.P. for Lincoln and Provincial Sec- retary for Justice, explained that the study will examine "all aspects of expropriation procedures in Ontario today". He added "the terms of reference of this study in- clude ascertaining whether or not existing procedures and institutions provide a proper balance between the broader public need for ex- propriation and the protec- tion of the rights and reason- able expectations of persons affected by these procedures". The study will also investi- gate whether the present public and private costs of expropriation are warranted. The names of the group' members, Mr. Welch said, would be announced "within the next few days." Chops $1 Mil. orks Budget! be reduced by $955,000. for Oshawa - Whitby ($205, A large portion of the 000), instead an Oshawa site deleted million was to have will be leased for three years been spent on transporta- at $45,000 per; scales for tion and work equipment the region land fill sites ($320,000). The remaining ($120,000); and $60,000 all- money was to go to: a ocated to professional and central works depot location technical services. Tennis? Coun. Gerry Emn says that Brooklin may have tennis courts this year and its own swimming pool next year. The subject came up at a recent operations committee meeting when the recreation department said that it has requested a study into the feasability of installing a pool and tennis courts in the park adjacent to the Brooklin arena on the east side. Deputy recreation director Fred Beckette said that he hopes the tennis courts are ready this year, but the com- nittee recommended that the recreation department report further in two weeks. Walkout 250 Consolidated Bathurst! employees in Whitby walked out last weekend along with employees at Bathurst plants in Hamilton and St. Thomas. The reason given is a neg- otiations breakdown last Thursday. Members of Local 2-242 International Woodworkers Association (IWA) started picketing the Whitby plant on Sunday. The workers contract ex- pired last November. David Lewis, leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP), said Sunday that the major issue in the-upcoming federal election will be the cost of living. Mr. Lewis said "all three major parties will have to deal with the cost of living issue in detail, in specifics because the voters of the country know what the pro- blems are." Speaking to a "standing- room-only" crowd in Oshawa at the NDP Oshawa/Whitby nomination meeting, Mr. Lewis said "the cost of buy- ing or renting a home has become a nightmare for millions." He said that "a wage and price freeze may have worked in the ice age but someone should wake up the Rip VanWinkles of the Conservative party and tell thern that this is 1974, and that their slogan solu- tion lias been tried, tested and failed in both the United Sfates and Great Britain as well as in other countries." Mr. Lewis said that too nany elections in the past have been choices of person- alities rather than issues, but "this tirne the people of Canada will have an oppor- tunity to deal with the issue that worries themu most." He gave examples of basic items on the average shop- ping list comparing prices in October 1972 with March 1974, a rise of 25 - 35%". Two rolls of toilet paper were 33 cents; now they are 41 cents; a pound of hamburger was 82 cents; in March it was $1.16: a 14 ounce can of beans was 26 cents; last March it was 36 cents; a 7 3/4 ounce tin of salmon was 74 cents; in March it was SI.16; five pounds of flour cost 62 cents; in March 1974 it was 84 cents; finally a standard loaf of store bread 34 cents. out that not now but they gathered1 ada. Mr. Lewis said "in the 18 months Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Stanfield had to deal with this problem only the NDP attenpted to force Parliament to come to grips with these rising prices. When we forc- ed the Liberal minority gov- ernment to introduce sub- sidies for milk and bread in August 1973, and God for- give us for it, but we accept- ed Mrs. Plumtree's Food Prices Review Board as a necessary compromise in the hope that we might streng- then this toothless mouse in conimittee and that even without all the necessary powers it just might do some good." He added that-the figures quoted "show clearly that it has failed as we said it would and no amount of Cont'd P. 2 New 42 Acre Reynolds St. Subd IVision A new 42 acre subdivi- sion planned for the area south of the Ontario Ladies College between Reynolds St. and Blair will be unveiled May 30. Three Band R. Develop- ments Ltd. will reveal plans for I18 single famijy units, and 88 semi-detached units at a public meeting to be called for this date. This subdivision would house an estimated 783 people based on 3.8 people per unit. The area is zoned insti- tutional and industrial, and Mr. Lewis pointed .these prices may be exact prices, are average prices by Statistics Can- had gone from 27 cents to is presently vacant. RýE E P R E 10 CENTS PIONEER INTERIORS The ultimate in distinctive colonial furnishings. 111 Dunlop Street West, Whitby 668-4231.