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A single car accident causcd a power blackout for most Whitby- homes Friday night. A wcstbound vehicle on Rossland Road apparently faihed to make the corner at Coronation Road, struck a guywire for a hydro pole which snapped, and wrapped around the high tension wircs causing themn to short out. The resulting fifty minute blackout causcd most of Wbitby to be without power until nearly 10 p.m. A two car collision at Tbickson and Taunton occurî'cd during Police E PRE$4 strike, rejection, mediation Labour unrest strikes again... Striking carpenters halt<:-d work on two major Durham Region construction projects hast Wednesday when they set up picket lines at the work sites. Fourteen pickets showed Up at the expansion of the Corbctt Creek Water Pollu- tion Control.Centre in Whitby and about 12 piekets arrived at the site of the region's new works depot on Conlin Road in, Oshawa. Pat Corrigan, secretary of Local 397, Uited Bi\other- hood of ,CarpcnterE\ and Joiners said picketin,ý, will continue until a settlen ýent is reachcd in the six-week-old province-wide strike.. Mr. Corrigan said the two D3urham Region projects C ontract rejected Production workcrs at Plastic Surface Finishers in the Whitby Industrial Park rejected a company contract offer last week and have given their bargaining cornmittee authorization to caîl a strike. ,The members of Lhited Auto Workers Uiion Local 1090 voted unanimoushy against the tcrms of what would have. been their second contract. Wages and fringe benefits appear to be the matters of issue for the 43 employccs. When the union local was certificd in August 1977, it represented about 110 empoyesbut with promo- ions of many to supervisory positions, the loca's repre- sentation has dropped to 43. The union wants the promoted employees returned to thc bargaining unit and bas applied for concilliation to settie tie dispute. mediator appointed A provincial concillition offers bas been appointed to mediate tlsbetween ihe Region of Durham and its 330 inside workers. Talks are expected to resume in September on a contract to replace Uic latest contract which expired June 30. Talks broke off in late June when the two sides coud not corne to ternis on wages, vacations andi fringe benefits. were sele&bted for- picketing because the' carpentry work was being donc by outside laborers. Workers in various other trades at the two sites sus- pended their work when the surprise picket limes wcre set Up. Whitby, setties The Town of Whitby and Canadian U-iion of Public Employees, Local No. 53, negotiated the settienient of a new Collectilve Agreement, Which .was -ratified at ",a meeting held Aug. '15. by Local No. 53 of the Canadian Ihion of Public Employecs, and confirmed by the Whitby Council. The settlement provides for a one year Agreement ending March 31, 1979 with mopetary items only negotiable during the term of April 1, 1979 to March 31, 1980. The 1978 wage settlement provides for an increase of 5 percent, improved Life Insurance coverage. Other changes include a revised grievance clause, improvcd Drug Plan and changes in summer hours for inside employees. The Agreement cover 79 full time inside and outside employees. more mediation A series of mediation meetings to attempt to settle a new contract for 500 Dayton Tire production workers will begin on Aug. 25, and will continue on Aug. 28 and 29. The workers have been without a contract since June 1, and Bill Love, preident of Local 494 of the Uiited- Rubber Workers Ijiion which reperesents the workers, says there bas been no progress made in 17 meetings with the company since April. Mr. Love says that changes in contract anguage proposed' by the company are a major issue, but will flot say what the proposais are. lne workers early ini June authorized their union te cati a strike if necessary, but no deadline da te bas been set. Over the past 18 nionths Dayton Tire bas conducted a rnulti-rniliIon dollar CPR workmen installed Ia,,new' bridge Monday m orning on -the mainline just east of'Garden St. The. 61' ft. 6" steel bridge span, made with pre- stretched concrete and rock I for ballast, was retooling to convert, its pro- duction to radial tires. Union officials have indicated that the new equipmcnt has causcd problems because not aIl of it conforms to traditional production quotas, and the union alleges that' the company bas re-cvaluatcd work standards for its employees outside proce- dures contained in the former threc-ycar contract. Dayton Tire had one strike in 1965 which lasted two weeks. This is the only strike tic company bas had since it settlcd in Whitby as Dunlop Rubber Company in 1955. In' 1974 the- company was purchased by the Firestone Corporation in tUic Uiited States. mail box broken intoseeiife in Brooklin A possible theft of mail f rom Uic Brooklin Post Office was investigated by Durham Regional Police last week. Police report that on the night of Aug. 14-15, somneone rexnoved a panel from the hobby box area which îs open 24 hours a day. It is ont known if any mail was stehen, but police said it was possible for a smal person te crawl tbrougb or reacb into the receptacle wlcb catches the droppeti hetters. Four rifles and $W5.45 in cash hidden in two cookie containers werc seizcd by Durham Regional Police in a Brooklin barn Aug. 15. Police, who were investigating a break and cnter of a Kinsale home, said Uic rifles had been hîdden at thc end of a road before being found in thc barri. Two persons were arrested in connection with thc case, one of them a juvenihe. Gordon Joseph Cailadine, 16, of R.R. 1 Brooldin was charged wlth break enter and theit andi will appoar i Ajax Provincial Court Sept. put, in, place, by. a 300 ton crane broughtý in specifically for this job. Traffic on the line was e routed during the 12 hours that- the bridge' was out of, service. The oldhridge was originally installed in 19 10._ _ Free Press Photo by Mike Burgçess this time when the traffic signals were not working. Kevin Hardy Grant,, 19, of 108 Guelph St., Osha wa bas been charged by Durham Regional Police, (following the Rossland/Coronation incident.) with driving with exccss of .08 alcohol in bis system. Whi*tby Chase Durham Regional Police charged an Oshawa man with dangerous driving following a high speed chase in the rural part of Whitby hast Wednesday. Police report that two constables noticed a car weaving on Anderson Street about 10 p.m. and whcn they attcmpted to stop it, Uhc car spcd off . Police chased Uic car north on Anderson Street at speeds in excess of 140 km.p.h. The chase continued through a stop sign at Rossland Road where the flceing car narrowly misscd another car. The car then skidded through a stop sign at Taunton Road and into a ditch, police said. The driver was not injured. Charged with cangerous driving and drîving with an alcohol content over Uic legal limit, is Robert Mayo, 27, of 631 Devon Street, Oshawa. Wrist wrestlg wresthing al bis Ide, and bas been a contestant in thc annual world cbampionships at Tixninis, Ontario for Uic past 10 years. The contestants, from al over the province, wil compete in four divisions for tbc men: flyweight (up to 150 pounds), lightweight (150 to 175 pounda), rniddleweight (175 to 20W pounds) andi heavywelght (200 pounài andi over) . Tbse are a&W Accident-causes'blacekout A unique sporting experi- ence is available te Whitby area residents Saturday as the first AU-Ontario Wrist Wresthing Cbampionships are behd at Iroquois Park Arena. The cbampionships begin at nmon and are expected te draw about 120 te 150 contes- tants, says AI Mesiard, wbo la ln charge of the event. Mr. Metiard, who lives i Oshawa andi wheSe sons lve i Whlty, bas 'been wrlst