Manipled after.h ighspeed chase *One Whitbyrman is > in fair condition in a Toronto hos- pital and another» received minor injuries'in an accident which occurred in Pickering Thursday night. S In fair condition in Scar- borough Centennary Hospital is Donald Couture, 18 of 905 'Byron Street North. Police said hewas, impaled on a guardrail which came through the grill of the car in which he was riding and out the glove comfpartment. Camneron. Cyr, 20, of 41.5 Fairvie-w Drive was treated at the ernergency departmnent of the Ajax.-Pickering -Hospital and released Friday.' Police said officers in an unmnarked cruiser noticed a car with three occupants, a- bout 11:15 p.m. speeding through the intersection -of Dundas Street and Garrard Road in Whitby, and gave chase., The cruiser could flot catch up with the speeding car, and assistance was called. Police said the car fish ta iled several times, nearly hitting Qflcoming vehicles and ran two roadblocks and several' Stop 'signs. Accordinig to police, the carý reached a to'p speedof 160,km. P. h.. (about 100 m. p. h.). It finally ran out qf con- trol at Bayly Street near Liverpool Road in Pickering, struck a number of guard rails and plunged into a ravine. the driver of the car, Bradley G. Biack, 18, of Blackstock., is charged with criminal negligence. T ax increase pre dicted to maintai There will be a tax increase in 1 978,Mayor Jim Gartshore said in an a ddtess, to the Rotary Club- last week, but he expe cts it ýwill -be minimal. The mayor, in his trad- itional message to the club at its opening meeting of 1978, said unless, there is a tax increase, the town will have to cut back onits services, "and we can't cut back any more." Mayor Gartshore said the town is well off for capital funds, but the problemn with using themn to build new fa cilities, is the operational costs after thse faciities have been built. He said that many people want, an ice rink at thse municipal building, but its yearly operational costs would le $30,000 to W3,000 (jifT a mill on the tax rate). "We have to balance our needs to what we would ike," he said. -Durham West MPP George Ashe wisbed iss Annie Scott Stewart, of Fairview Lodge a happy .1OSth, birthday Sun- dey. Mas Stewart,who ivted at her own borne iOsawa. umtil she was 103, is the oldest resident i Fairiew Lodge. She was borniJan. 1S, 1873 in Uxbridge Townsbip, and"did everythîng on thse farm except tihe plowing," until she moved to Oshiawa and becam a dressmaker. 0f Scottish descent, Miss Stewart attributes- her age to "good plain living and bard work," Mrt. Asbe presented ber with a plaque from the province signed by Premier William Davis. Free Pres Photo by Brian Winter nservices <Mayor Gartshore said 'the public library addition should be completed in 1978, and there will in future be needs of more library expansion. Also, the fire department wil have to be enlarged in three to four years, he said. "No one- year can be," isolated fromf the previous year or the year that cornes after it," he said. "There'is continual involvement and evolvement." In 1977 the t.own had a projected growth rate of 4% to five per cent, but this does not keep up with inflation, lie said. Mayor Gartshore said he 'hopes for a 6% to seven per cent growth rate ini 1978, especially ini industrial a.nd commercial development. Although there are many forecasts of doomn apd gloom, Mayor Gartshore said lie feels "the ýair is rîch withi promise, and the difficulties will' be' beaten back." Land swap is approved R"egional council agreed last week to swap the original 1903 Whîtby water plant and some adjacent parkland for the land on which the new water plant stanids. The town has claimned ownership of the land on Henryý High students try for third championship On Feb. 1 at the Genosha Hotel i Oshawa a team of four students frors 1Henry Street Higli school will try for its third consecutive re- gional championship in the Industrial Accident Preventioni Association's Safety Aware- land (Grade 10), Mark Hoog- kamp (Grade 11), and Robert Hupfield (Grade 10), will miet thse teamn fromn East- date Coilegiate i Oshawa to decide the Durhamn Region flnalists, which wiil go on to compete witb otiier teamns from across thse province. Cleveland for the second time. The team members were chosen from amnong 250 students in tihe auto mnechan- ics course. Ini the semni finals, Henry defeated Dunbarton Higis Sehool 41-13 at Dunharton Jan. 6, and on Jan. 13 at Last year Henry won the Durham Region firals and placed 1 Sth în Ontario, said thse tearn's coachs, Brian Graham, a machine shop teacher. This year 43,000 students from 140 scisools across thse province are corn- peting ithse lAPA contest. fli contest consista of 48 To p" format. Each student bas four questions directed at him, and there are 16 toss-up questions. The ques- tions are on ail aspects of safety. Thse students on escli corn- peting scbool's team are a- mong thse top students i tie scisool and are a good choice which the new viant stands. and mnade an offer to the region late laut year to trade it for sorne extra parkland the town may already own. As to who actually owns what land is uncleà r stili,' but Mayor Jim Gartshore sai d the arrangement agreed to by the region is "better than slugging it, out in court," and spending more money in legal coats than the land îs worth. Pùmps for providing raw water for industrial develop- mnents wilI be ,noved out of the oid water plant wîthin the next tWo years, but council lias flot dccided whether to keep tm A d water plant standing or tear it down. Mayor Gartshore says lie feels the lands aie close to being of equal value although there la till a qiestionof 105 YEARS YOUNG