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Soys Hobbs hos Cadillactaste WHITBY FREE PRESS, Thursday, April 27, 1972, Page 7 Deputy Reev Spearing the 1300's section of the newly-publ icized Town of Whitby 1972 b u d g e t , deputy reeve John Goodw in I aunched a verbal attack on $50, 000 w or th of expenditures shown for the promot ion of 'Indus tr i al Developmen t1', and asked for an amendment to have the expenditures struck from the budget Monday night. "We s e em to be reluctant to save dollars in the industrial department, " the deputy reeve chafed fellow coun- cillors, suggestingthatwhile $32, 000 hadbeenbudgeted for 1971 land sales, that objection had not been reached. He was c o u n tered by Counc i Ilor D o c tor Kenneth Hobbs who referred t o the gesture as a 1iking on the dep- uty reeve's part for "slapping people on the fingers once in a while. " "But let's stand up and show the press and thosepresenthere tonight that we are behind our development commissioner. For once and for all, let's stand be- hindhim for the difficult job he has to do; he'schastizedevery time he turns around.1" Perhaps Doctor Hobbs ha s cadi1- lac-tastes, but on my Chevrolet-bud- g e t , 1 f i n d fault with these kinds of expenditures, " retaliated the deputy- r e eve. " f a i 1îto see why the same k i n d of controls cannot be applied to that department as they are in any ot- her. " The deputy reeve based his object- i o n s to the $ 48, 000 expenditure be- cause of the town's "unfeasibility in going into competition in an industrial s phe re w i t h federal and provincial governments. He also criticicized the operation of the development dep- artment because of those expendi tures created by the way in which the depart- ....And All Because of a Little Trip! Whilesettingup a heat flow exper- iment on the moon last Friday, astro- naut Jo hn Young got his foot caught and tripped over a cable thus ruining an experiment that cost $1. 2 million. Bi Illed as 'one of the most impor tant experiments of the missiont, the pur- p ose was to send back information to e ar th t hat would tell scientists how much heat was coming from the centre of the moon. When Young tripped over the cable it broke off at the connector and could not be repaired. A nother problem arose dur ing the docking ofOr:ion, the lunar l ander and C asper, the command ship. Two thin aluminum panels came loose and were h an g ing from Orion after i t took off f r om the moon to join Casper. After v i s i b l e inspection by Mattingly, the Blasts Development ment is being run, and suggested in- steadabending of staff and telephone i n e s w i t h other municipal depart- men ts. "We cannot afford this ex- p end i ture, " said Mr. Goodwin, "we have al ready spent one third of the price of our indoor swimming pool." A sec on d counter attack made by f i nance chairman Councillor Robert A ttersley developed the battle into a three way debate. "Il notice that while 14% of the tax h i ke can be attributed to the tax rate f orced upon us by the county and that w h i I e the deputy reeve is one of the two members of this council1 represen- ted at the c o un ty, that no mention of th at 14% levy was made by him in his speech to the press, "chaillenged Coun- cillor Attersley. "Andl1 notice that this 14% was also not mentioned in the press release that you y ou r se I f prepared, " contes ted Mr. Goodwin. "The whole operation (industrial development) is a complete amazement t o me, " he said, making reference to the absence of vouchers from the dep- a r t ment. "I am completel y amazed at the lack of control that we as council exercise in this regard, and amazed as w e I I at the utter disregard to the taxpayer's dollar. " An end to the d e b a te was c al I ed when the deputy reeve failed to get a s e c o n d e r for his suggested amend- m e nt to have the expenditures struck from the budget. A I a t er attempt to have the Indus- trial developer's $212 membership fee to Cherrywood Golf Club struck from the accounts failed to succeed when he once again could not find a seconder. two ships continued with their docking maneuvre without any mishap. The Apollo 16 mission has brought back a record amount of film of the lunar surface takenby Mattingly in the command ship while orbi ting the moon. D u k e and Young al1 s o collected 245 pou nds of rock samples, which were brought back to scientists eagerly a w a i ting del ivery of the largest am- o u n t of r o c k s amples ever brought back to earth by the Apollo team. Budget I In a tel ephone conversation on Tuesday night, the deputy reeve told the Whi tby Free Press he had no quar- r e l w it h i n d ustrial developer Wes W inters as a person. Il do oppose whatappears to be an impossible task h e i s a t tempting to carry on, which the town is promoting, while give- away grants from senior levels of government offset anything we attempt to do. I" "Besides these grants, our indus- trail credits bylaw compells develop- ers such as Canadian Building Cor- poration to build industrial buildings a 1 ong with their residential develop- ments, and Consumers Gas with their f ifty acres of industrial land, has its own real estate division actively try- ing toretail or sell their fifty acres," he explained. "I have no doubt that the develop- men t c ommissioner is a capable and able man, but I can no longer bel ieve th a t we are able to force major ind- ustry to relocate to Whitby, while the government is making it possible for i n dus try to relocate to slow-growth a r e as - a type of grant for which we do not quai ify ourselves." 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