30 candidatesseeking election to councils and school boards Thirty candidates will be participating in the Dec. 6 municipal election in Whitby. There are two contendors for the office of mayor, the incumbent, Jim Gartshore, a sales manager; and Dr. Ken Hobbs, a medical doctor. Three are contending for the two regional council seats: egg merchant Gerry Emm, housewife Joy Thompson, and tool and die maer John Goodwin. For the North Ward local council seat there are two contenders, funeral director Bob Carson, and traffic manager Jack Woodward. For the Centre Ward there are three contenders, union rèpresentative Tom Edwards, Legion manager Vernon MacCarl, and construction shop worker Roger Fannon. For the West Ward, there are also three contenders, Robert Cawker, semi retired; Joe Bugelli, a general manager; and Bob Attersley, a company president. In the East Ward there are three contenders, Joe Drumm, a storeman; Bob White, a supervisor at General Motors; and Ron Treleaven, president of a local company. 1 Eight candidates are con- tending for the two seats from Whitby on the Durham Region Board of Education. They are: Melvin Pelt, a secondary school teacher in North York; Kenneth C. Brown, a horticulturalist; James E. Speers, retired; Aline Currier, housewife; Frank Sugden, service mana- ger; Beverly A. Bicknell, teacher; David Sims, a lawyer; and John Buchanan, a police officer. A chance to get to know the candidates The Whitby Chamber of Commerce and a number of local community groups have arranged a series of forums this month to acquaint residents in all wards with the issues of the municipal election campaign. The first forum, for the West Ward, will be held at the municipal building, Nov. 23, in co-operation with the West Lynde Community Association. The second forum, for the East Ward, will be held at Dr. Robert Thornton School, Nov. 25, in conjunction with the Corridor Area Ratepayers' Association. The third forum, for the Centre Ward, will be held at the Centennial Building, Nov. 30, in conjunction with the Downtown Business and Professional Association. The fourth forum, for the North Ward, will be held at the Brooklin Community Centre, Dec. 2, in co-opera- tion with the North Ward Community Association. . All forums being at 8 p.m. and will feature the candidates for school boards, local council, regional council and the mayoralty. It is expected that the candidates for the Durham Board of Education will not be attending the Centre Ward forum Nov. 30 as there is a school board forum on the same night at Henry Street High School. An election forum for mayoralty candidates only, will be held at the Centennial Building at 10 a.m. Nov. 24, under the sponsorship of the YMCA Ladies Take A Break program. Three candidates are seeking the two seats for Whitby, Brock and Scugog on'the Durham Region Romar Catholic Separate School Board. They are Lou Goverde, an engineer; Chuck Roche, a teacher in York County; and Andy Miller, a sales representative. There are also three con- tenders for theseparateschool representative on the Durham Board of Education; John D'Costa, a teacher; James P.. Brady, an industrial relations manager; and Gerry Noonan, a school principal. Nominations closed Monday, leaving the candi- dates three weeks for campaigning. More stories Pages 2,4,9,10,1 L Vol. 6, No. 46 Chamber of Commerce elects a new executive Gord Hanna, a real estate agent who served as the first reeve of the new Town of Whitby in 1968, was elected 'president of the Whitby Chamber of Commerce for 1977, Monday. Mr. Hanna paid tribute to outgoing president Jim Caiger, and said he looked forward to a closer relation- ship with the Town of Whitby and Region of Durham now that they are represented on the Chamber of Commerce by Durham Development officer Richard Spence and Town Clerk Bill Wallace. "There is a great spirit in this town that can be pro- moted", he said. First Vice President of the Chamber is Jack Woodward, a former Chamber president; second vice-president is Mike Burgess, publisher and managing editor of the Free Press; and secretary-treasurer is Frank Bennett of the Royal Bank. Directors for 1977 are Garnet Juby,. George Loft- house, Richard Spence, Andy Paterson, Charles Rycroft, Warren Turnham, Bill Wallace, Rick Raczkowski, Ralph Ritchie, Marguerite Kulik, Dan Duerden, Jim Fagan, Gerry Ball, Clare Hewson, and Gord Wick. Humane Society may be charged A Whitby woman who had A report from a veterinar- 28 cats and dogs seized from ian at the Ajax Animai Hospital her farm on August 23 is says some of the dogs were attempting to lay charges iii when Mrs. Williams picked against the Ontario Humane them upbut ahumane society Society for not providing inspector, Don Hepworth,says adequate care to at least 10 they may not be the same of the animals at its Belleville animals that were housed at shelter. Belleville. Camilla Williams' animals were seized by the Ontario Humane Society because she had been charged with a breach of probation from an earlier court decision which said she could keep only four dogs and four cats. After the recent seizure, Mrs. Williams obtained a Supreme Court of Ontario writ to have the dogs returned from Belleville and she picked them up October 20. Mr. Hepworth also stated that the writ ordering the return of ' Mrs. Williams' animals was wrongly issued through an error by the registrar, and the humane society intends to take action to overturn this writ. John Nixon, a justice of the peace, whom Mrs. Williams contacted to lay charges against the humane society, said the charges have not yet been laid. Wednesday, November 17, 1976 20 Pages INSIDE EDITORIALS..... ........ COLUMNS....................;.............. SCHOOL BOARD RACES........... COMING EVENTS...................... SPORTS,........................ BUSINESS.................................. ENTERTAINMENT................... REAL ESTATE...................... PAGE 4 PAGE 5 TO 7 PAGE 9 TO' 11 PAGE 12 PAGE -13 PAGE 15 PAGE 18 PAGE 19 N A SOLEMN MOMENTI The Rt. Rev. Allan A. Read, Anglican Bishop of Bryan Wihiston, of Ail Saints' Anglican Church. Bishop Toronto, (second from left) leads the closing prayers at Read was in'Whitby on Remembrance Day in connection the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph November with the 11lOth anniversary celebrations of AU. Saints' 11. Accompanying Bishop Read are Legion Padre Rev. Church. Robert Mansfield, Poppy Chairman Thelma Olford, and Free Press Photo by Brian Winter 16-year-old charged with assault A 16-year-old Whitby youth has been sentenced to 18 months definite and 18 months indeterminate in a reformatory for assaulting a 12-year-old boy in West Lynde October 5. Crown Attorney Bruce Affleck called the assault "straight out of Hitler's Mein Kampf', and said he "had never seen a more fiendish and diabolical assault", in all his yearsas Crown prosecutor. David Stanley Archer, of 507 Dundas St. W. pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm, before. Provin- cial Judge Norman Edmon- son October 19, and was sentenced Friday. He also pleaded guifty to another charge of assault causing bodily harm against a 16-year- old youth, obstructing police, and theft under $200. The court was told that on October 5, Archer and a companion accosted a 16-year- old youth at West Lynde Public School, kicked him in the head several- times, and slammed his head against the school wall. Çontinueà Page 2 M e - - 'i ! 1