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ýWHItBY 'FREE PRESS, WEDNESD)AY, DECEMBER 29, 1976, PAGE 9! ALOOBACON 1976 1JAN Blaze Mayor does not prediet doom& gloom While a numiber of town 1976, Monday. In his 1976 inaugural ad- k l scouneillors have been predict- "There* will be some un- dress, delivered before about kilts ~ ~~igliard ties for Whtby in popular decisions th~e cfuncil '0pol i u w om an has stated tlîat lie is îlot a the people will co-operate chaibers Saturday, Mayor Careless smnoking is lIsted proponant ot the "dooîui and when tl-ey bear the brunt of Grsoe elr 1"TiswI as the cauiseof Whtby's fistgi oorn" outlook. o..îr decisions". fobeacrekr ounei,11 il fire death of 1976. "I don't particularly want Mayor Gartshore said the will be' an aetion-oriented Mrs. Fay Hogarth, 41,a. ,.. to preach the therne of doomi town lias an opportunity to counci tenant n the honte of r and gloomn", lie said at the assss tspr125 yearnsitca DundasI St.E, dfeU iliian Chamiber of Commierce for about lits problemns, or do ThseateWhtyFr whici guted o aprtinntsDepartment is celehrating is earl moringblaz Saurda, ~125th anniversary by acting, at theý back of the George VYLt~'er l n x ad a coventons. aorOtai home. cnetos Deputy Fire Chief Ron An $8.5 million expansion reluctant to give final The 24th annual conven- Hawkins said the tire was cf' Whitby's waîer supply approval because of financial tion of the Ontario Associa- discovered .by 74-year-old ptlnt received regional considerations. tion of Fire Chiefs will be- Mrs. Helen Snarr, a tenant ponh iryllatwe oead triacn held May 2 to 5 at the Holiday who lived above Mrs. cutca poa ater fi ren poyred.bycthe Inn in Oshawa, with the atrnearly two years of sulting frneilydb h Hogarth's apartment, who dcbatc. regfion, stated the expansion Whitby Fire Department as was awakened by the sniell The projecti 26-million was necessary to accomimodate host, and the 7Sth annual, of smoke. gallon a day expansion cf the anticipated growth in the convention of the Ontario, ',rs. Snarr wakened Mr. existing facuîîty, was orguiaîly Whitby- Oshawa - Courtice Fire Fighters Association wiII and Mrs. George who lived approved in the iegîon's 1974 area, and if not constructed, be held at the Brookhin in the front part of the capital %vorks budget, hut Whiùtby's development poten- Memnorial Arena July 30 to house, and Mr. George turnedsoi oci letbr ve ilwudbvruayhle. Ag 2 in the alarm at 4:50 a.m. sm onî eîbr vr ilwudb ital atd u.2 Cadhury strike ends iiroduction..a-t Cadbury company offer Saturday. Schweppes Po>well îmited is 'The agreement brings to - expected to return to normal an end the three-month-old - w&tin wekaftr tnkng strike by 105 members of le i productioni and.'miaintenance Local 647 of the Teamsters workers ratified the latest Union. A recent tragedy involving a police chase drew the con- cern of numnerous readers in the form of letters (somne are No lcaltax ncrase leow) and telephone cls N o, ocâltax ncre seMost comments indicated a common feeling that police Whiitby Coun(,îl, on Mon- for recreation and cultural shouldn't chase offenders, especially in town. for minor day, gave final approval for a services, $845,600 for protec- violations and have an innocent bystander, or motorist, $4.6 mnillion operatîng budget tion to persons and property, pay the price. *fo loal urpseswhih wll $635,400 for general govern- Nobody. especîally us, wants to see innocent people kee olpuhe 197 mi h i lrt lt m n, $ 598 5 fr cii urAbt, elth l m ns e plc d i h ih 1 9 7 4 a n d 1 9 7 5 l v aerls . m n t y p l n n in, a n d d veo p o - h r ,bpl a c e .t e b l r e m s t b la e n t h i h The readownof he mnt,$238700for nvion-The offenders who nobody spots. and iîobody chases, curretbudet is $1 ,788,83e mental$28,ervi res ndvron-2 wind up being listed as -'hit and runs",..Many of whoîn forrn pu tiork,78$871 men72 lfo rvsocal and $iysevi,5 are neyer apprehended. for ublc wrks $87,17 fo soialand amiy srvies.A good part of police work is based on the law of averages, and a large numnber of ""wantecl" people are Se i r 'centre apn d runn stop lights, stop signs and travelling at a dangerous Senior~ ope ed rsed ithrogh outn ea hes An oicerspoi ca It took only a few seconds More than 100 senior the driver is just le for breakfast nor obviously can he - for Mayor Jim Gartshore and ctstrnd out for the work on that assumption and look the other way. The ReginalCharrna Waterofficer MUST consider the possibility that the speeding car Beath to eut the ribbon to underway shortly after 11la.m. may contain one oforagtesoceinterukn open the Whitby Senior "It's nice to see 50 many her way to a grisly end-..after ail if the offence was only MAYOR CUTS RIBBON Citizens Centre Saturday, but here. 1 hope this is'a sîgn of a minor one who would try to mii and risk facing a jail Rgoa himnWle et n ao months of work went into things to corne", said Coun-. term instead of stopping and getting a $20 ticket? im a Rtsoe perorm the cttng'Wacer eo nd fMcaly the planningim andtsbuildingorofhcillorinJoyrThompsonoffichair- Don Vipond, President of the Brooklin and District Kinsmen Club, presents the gong and gavel to Ann Carson, oresident 'of the New, Kinette Club of Brooklin and I)istriet at the club's formation night Friday. Free Press Photo The Whliby Psycliatric Hospitai v i,:havc tb cnt hack ils servie, ,)\ 200 lieds and 55 staff h, A nI -il.according to Min ist ofIý-ý4'leal tiiguide- linesano:d last week. I lspiti,11Adomiistrat or Milton J. Islier fias emipla- sized that ilie tffcnbe cut thk lrougli it r,* t on--by îlot replacing eliil)l()yec2s who retire or ceave voltititairily-- and there will be nio Iayoffs. 1 lowever. lie said, the reduction in* staff will ptta straimi on flic hospital's progranimîing. The Ministry of Health, Store-front police offlice Ajax will get to keep its police station but Whitby wil have to settie for some form of "store-front or office type"i of operation, the Durham Regional Council declded MWednesday. as part of its hospital cutback programi, lias ordered the psychiatric hospital to reduce its 704 beds to 504, and its staff fromn 840 to 785. Also, the hospital's operat- îîg budget has been trinmmed b)y $13,100 to $13.059,400 for 1 976. A provificial order to cut back service at the Dr. J. 0. Ruddy Gencral Hlospital by 25 hcds will resuît ini sonie stafr layoffs, says Hospitbal Adminiistrai orJi liii Kuie tsky. Thec lospital leariied Friday iliýai 25 cf the hospital's 89 beds are to be put out (of service and there will be a niine per cent eut in its 1976 budget. The resulting saving in costs will amoùnt f0 $233,850, says the Ministry of Health. ]Brooklin residents are withount water Brooklin residents were without water for 16 hours last weekend when a Hydro malfuniction put the com- munity's water pumping station out of service. North Ward councillors Bob Carson said he under- stood the trouble began when two wires touched and blew out a transformer on the Heber Down farm during the high winds about 9:45 p.m., Saturdày. The fiailure of the trans- former knocked out the transformers in the pumnping station behind the library and residents began to notice a lack of water pressure by 11:30 p.m. Councillor Carson said the regional works depart- ment replaced the trans- formers in the pumrping station but they coritinued to blow out, because of the tack otf Power. 1It was not until, somne residents notlced that flourescent lights were not working properly either, that the officials realized that the problem was related to the Hiydro system, said Councillor Gerry Emm. Councillors Carson and Emm said they were surprised to find that the regional works officiais did flot know that a backup pumping station .existed on Way Street and the scventh concession, and showed them whcre It was at 10 a.m Sunday.