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WHITBY FREE PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1974, PAGE 5 1974 In Retrospeet Fairvie w Residents Married at Lodge Councillors Get Raise Whitby coupeil have app- roved giving themselves a $1,000 raise and a S3,000 raise for Mayorb'es Newman. Councillors' salaries wil increase to $1 5,000 up fromn SI12,000. Despite the raise in sal- aries, the total cost -wiIl be S7,000 less than in 1973 due to fousr.Iess councillors. 1I !ýýARY1 William Jordan and Bar-. bara Lambert were married recently. "So what", you say. Well, the groom is 85 and the bride is 73 and they are both residents of Ontario County's Fairview Lodge in Whîtby. ________ While the concept didn't seem too bad the actual working of regional goverrnent in Whitby and surround- ing area is beginning to acquire the proverbial rotten smell from Denmark. Anybody tiot directly working for the munficipality might not realize that ail is not bliss these days but just Às any policeman how things are going in the regionàiI shuffle. Not only have we lost our chief. Williamn Pilkington but our inspector, Fred Baker has been demoted to sargçant and what was a very efficient police department seems to be plagued wit~h a smaill morale problem. Aîiother problem of regional government in this area is the name. We don't know who suggested the name Dù'rham but it looks like the legal ramnifications of using such a name were flot fully explored. Citizens living in the town have objected to the name and it now appears thev have Whitby mayor man is back at, nearly two montl due to a spinal hIe Mayor toc at a recent coun, And Looking 'C the first official business me- rDes Newv- eting of the year, and appear- work after ed- tobe quite happy to be» hs' absence back to work. operation. Mayor Newman thanked ok the reins the council and town staff for cil meeting their help during bis absence, Rotten SmeII good reason to complain. Lab reports intended for the region of Durham are wi nding up ini the town of Durham and the people of the town of Durham feel, si 'nce their community has had the name officially incorporated, the region has no legal right to use it. So flot'only does the region of Durham have problems right off the bat as far as operating but it appears there is a chance the namie will have to be changed if the Town of Durham wins their day in court. Add to the above the United Nations like noises that are heard in the regional council meetings along with the fact that Whitby is losing the Industrial Commissioner, Wes 1 Winters and you have to sit back and ask yoursef if regional government was better on paper than in realtiy. Like a marriage. for better or for worse, welI find out 50011 enough. M výiru im i s à in-%J 700d and to rhie news media, for respecting bis privacy. He also tlanked the public for their "kind gestures"'and.sa- id that he is feeling. mucýi better, "but by no mieans perfect physically." $8e86o Two Whitby projeets have been awarded a total of $18,220. in LIPgrants. The Whitby Thieatre Co- mpany has been awarded $8,860. under the Local Initatives Projeet (LIi') for the project calléd 'The- atre Improvement M7.' The other projeet, 'A Helping Hand,' received $9,36. ofgantonçy. LZBRARY Nurse Palmer Supported About 60 relatives, friends, and sympathizers of different religious groups staged a dem- onstration fast Monday mnor- ning outside the J.O. Ruddy Hospital to express their con- cern for the nurse who won't do abortions. Anna Marie Palmer, 24, an Ajax nikrse wno lias worlç- ed at -the hospital for three years has been transferred to a post-operative unit from the operating room she' was working in because she refus- es to help with abortion op- erations. Mrs. Palmer, a Roman Catholuc, says that wnen bite started working in the O.R. fast September, head nurse Gladys Oatway told her that she would be "scheduled a- <ro.nd" ahiort ion operations. "Whîtby is Proud 0f Sandy Hawley San,.Y Hawley. the jockey whu calis Whîtby ~hm was honoured at a civic dinner Friday night at ley- dcnshor*e Pavilion. Mr. Hawley won 5 1 5 races last year and is only 12 away from a total of 2,000 wins.al in less than flive years. John Mooney, president of the Ontario Jockey Club, spoke about Hawley saying "he is a real champion." Mayor Des Newman wel- comred Sandy Hawley's par- ents and aUnts to the -dinner. Quoting Abraham Lincoln Mayor Newman said I love to sec a man live to be proud of lus community, and lîve to sce that his cornmunity is proud of him." Newman - proud of Sandy Hawley." Councillor Jîm Gartshore mnentioned "the tremnendous feeling of the people of this community for his tremen- dous achievement§' and spoke of "the pride wlth which he has carried hirmseli while De- coming the best jockey in the world.", He said that the Town of - Whitby had commissioried a local artist, Dorothy Hachie, to paint a picture of Sandy Hawley and "Charlie Jr." to be hung in the new lroquois Arena. A smaller duplicate of thje samne painting was presented to Sandy Hawley to keep. Mr.* Hawley thanked ahl the owners and trainers he had worked for with "a spe- cial thariks to Mr. Camipbell who'gave nme such a great I ~ I L2RCi But instead, Mrs-. Palmer was recently told that she would -have to help with abortions or ask for a transfer or resign. Last Wednesday she was transferred to a post- operative surgical ward which wil entail working shift work. week-ends, and no more "on- oel". Workers in the operat- ing room are '*on-call" every so often allowîng them, if they are called in, to earn about another $70. Mrs. Palmer says that ",Do- ctor-s who don't want to per- form abortions are not pr- surred into it" and feels that she is being discriminated against. Head nurse, Gladys Oat- way. indicated to the Press that abortions in the hospital are on the rise. Councill Removes Tax Exemptions To Area Farmers Whitby council bas decid- A 'em onremove thetax police and fire costs. At a recent council meet-. ing it was pointed out in the treasurer's report "tlhat farm lands benefit to as great ana extent as any other land and shouild be subject to f ull taxation." The treasurer's report con- tiiued e"farmn crops can burn at certain periods and caîls have been received where Sandy Hawley and his wife Sherrie examine the painting lightning has started -fires ad- of him depicting his winning ride by local artist Dorothy jacent to crops. With the Hachie. The paintifig, unveiled at a civie dinner Friday 'Province paying a grant vir- nigh hoourngawI~~il b ~rg.i thnewIrou.oa..tually equivalent to al niun- -Photo by Mike Burgess 'land including education costs then it should flot make any difference to the farrn-ers,"' With regards to polict costs, the treijsurer's report said that farmers wbo meet the criterion o f $2,000 an- nual income from farming can get Provincial tax relief equivalent to -50% of the total property taxes. The Report continued &6under Regional Gove rnmentý fains i North Pickening and East Whitby, will now be assessed Police costs, thereby eliîminatingthe argument that Ànièfhbôuînrng - farmg - u -ot pay police costs."' Mayor Newman Back Fire Dept.e The Whitby, Fire Oepart- ment won out in the 1973 National Fire Protection Ass- ociation's fire prevention con- test in the 10.000 to 25.000 population categury. Desjite the increased num- .ber of alarms in 1973, the total fire loss was down from *Wîns The Anderson Collegiate band has won its class at The Kiwanis Music Festival. Last Saturday the band competed in the Grade 10 and under class to win out over other school bands pleased to be back in Canada. ---L. r-J