Mayor not predicti by BRIAN WINTER Staff Writer While z< number of town councillors have been predict- ing hard times for Whitby in 1976, Mayor Jiim Çartshore has stated that he is not a proponant of the "doom and gloom" outlook. "I don't particularly want to preach the theme of doom and gloom", he said at the first meeting of the Whitby Chamber of Commerce for 1976, Monday. "There will be some un- popular decisions the council will have to make but I hope the people will co-operate when they bear the brunt of our decisions". Mayor Gartshore .said the town lias an opportunity to assess its priorities, and it can either sit down and moan about its problems, or do something about them. In his 1976 inaugural ad- dress, delivered before about 100 people in the council chambers Saturday, Mayor Gartshore declared "This will not be a caretaker council; it will be an action-oriented council". In both his c'anber of, Commerce speech and in- augural address, Mayor Gart- shore stated that the town council recognized the econ- omic problems facing the town a year ago and came in with a no-mill increase in the local municipal budget. i 19ao-oî "We imust muake some very cicar and decisive choices on what prjects to put forth or Io put forth any at all",.he said. "We will have some very unpopular and' distasteful decisions to make in our budget discussions. If we do not cut our cloth according to our needs, it will be done for us". \"I hope the regional govern- ment has realized it has gone too far, to fast", he added in his inaugural address. "You m and gloom cannot build the services for the year 2000 on the backs of the people of 1976". In his Chamber of Com- merce address Mayor Gart- shore outlined some of the priorities whieh will concern council in 1976. Besides the tight budget constraints, and the need to reassess its values, the council should also look at making the town and regional official plans more flexible, said Mayor Gartshore. "They tend to lock you in too tightly and that creates injustice to individuals. We must find a solution to thal problem", he said. Mayor Gartshore also spok of expanding Whitby's "almos non-existent transportation fa cilities", and urged a greatei use of the town's recreation facilities, so the town cani make . them pay for them selves more than in the past. SEE PG. 2 Blaze kills woman Careless smoking is listed as the cause of Whitby's first fire death of 1976. Mrs. Fay Hogarth, 42, a tenant in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Norman George, 601 Dundas St. E., died in an early morning blaze Saturday, which gutted two apartments at the back of the George home. Deputy Fire Chief Rbn Hawkins said the fire was discovered by 74-year-old Mrs. Helen Snarr, a tenant who lived above * Mrs. Hogarth's apartment, who was awakened by the smell of smoke. M.rs. -Snarr wakened Mr. and Mrs. George who lived in the front part of the house, and Mr. George turned in the alarm at 4:50 a.m. Mr. George tried to rescue Mrs. Hogarth from her down- stairs apartment, whe.re the fire orginated, but was driven back by flames, heat and smoke, said Deputy Chief Hawkins. The deputy chief said the fire had been burniî)g for two hours-before it was noticed, and had spread through the walls to the upstairs bedroom of Mrs. Snarr. Twenty-five fire fighters attended the fire,and had it under control within 30 minutes. Damage is estima- ted at $30,000, confined to the two apartments at the rear of the 125-year-old building.. Mrs. Snarr was admitted to the Dr. 3. O. Ruddy General -Hospital, suffering from smoke inhalation, and was later released to the care of relatives. The last fire death in Whitby was a patient who was burned in a grass fire at Whitby harbour early in 1975, said Deputy Chief Hawkins. Two people died in a house fire on Maple Street in 1972, and a man died in a motel fire in 1974. All three deaths, and Saturday's death were the result of careless smoking, said Deputy Chief Hawkins. "No" Ed Badgley, Captain of the Whitby Fire Department, gives instructions to firefighters Kent M cCarl (bottom of ladder) and Lloyd Leveque during a fatal fire which began at 4:50 a.m., shortly before this photo was taken. Mrs. Fay Hogarth, a tenant in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Norman George of 601 Dundas Street East, died in the blaze. Careless smking is believed to be the cause of the fire which resulted in $30,000 damage. Free Press Photo by Mike Burgess to Port Hope Whitby Council recently refused to endorse a resolution fron the town of Port Hope proposing that municipal councils be given the author- ity to veto a requisition for education costs that exceed the school budget over 10 percent. Whitby Treasurer Forbes McEwen recommçnded against endorsing the resolution, say- ing "the request for this authority disregards the fact that the school board is also an elected body and that they are subject to the same political responses as the local council". SEE PG. 2 1975 was success A total of 472,266 square feet of new industrial build- ings with building permits valued at S4,266,920 were constructed in Whitby in 1975, according to Co-ordi- nator of Development Forbes McEwen. Mr. McEwen, in a recent report to council, termed 1975, "a very successful year, especially in light of -the downtown in the economy in 1975". "Our Whitby Industrial Park experienced the construction of three nelv industrial build- ings with additions to one other building, while we pre- sently have 250,000 square feet of industrial buildings either finished or under con- struction in the Thickson Road South Industrial Park", he reported. Councillor Gerry Emm commended Mr. McEwen's success, saying "he has gone out and worked very liard. It's a hard job. •He has done what we've asked him to do. We should be able to benefit from it through the whole town". L -