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Hospital workersprotest layoffs About 200 members of vince-w Locals 331 and 332 of the calledf Ontario Public Servants The Employees Union held an in- the pe formation picket today at the Whitby entrances to the Whitby are m Psychiatric Hospital to pro- offs b test government cutbacks and more layoffs in the hospital service. psychi . A spokesman for the commi union locals, which represent up for1 employees of the .Whitby Lasi Psychiatric Hospital and the employ Durham Centre for the Devel- food s opmentally Handicapped, the W said the picket was not a pital w strike, but an information the ~ protest. It is part of a pro- moves Accident Brooklin A 17-year-old Brooklin youth was killed and two passengers were injured in a single car accident Friday night near Conlin and Steven- son Roads in Oshawa. Durham Regional Police report William Aubrey Crouter of 18 Heber Down Cres. was killed when his car struck a tree. He was east- bound on Conlin Road at the time of the accident, Police Nide information picket for today. union spokesman said eople of the Town of y will suffer if there ore cutbacks and lay- because there will be retarded people and atric patients in the unity with no follow- thern. t week, 14 part time yees in the nursing and. service departments at hitby Psychiatric Hos- vere laid off as part of government austerity S. kils youth said. James Mason, 16, of Brooklin is listed in satisfac- tory condition in the Oshawa General Hospital, and Chester Down, 18, also of Brooklin was treated and released. William Crouter was the son of Sylvia and the late Roger Crouter. Funeral services were held at the Carson Funeral home Mon- day. Jail and pool criticized Hospital improvements Approval of projects tor week across the province are are received, priority pr Oshawa General Hospital, expected to cost nearly $90 wi9l be approved for fu Dr. Joseph O. Ruddy General million between now and in 1980/81 or later,' Hospital in WhitbyPort Perry 1980. They include a variety Minister said. "The Community Memorial of construction and renova- capital budget for hosl Hospital, and for Durham tion projects, ranging from wil remain substantiae District Health Council, was major expansions to safety same for this fiscal yea announced last week by improvements. Last week's the next two fiscal year Health Minister Dennis announcement does not in- cause of spending restra Timbrell. clude construction grants to AUi proposed pr Oshawa General Hospital teaching hospitals, to be an- subritted will be assess is to proceed with an energy nounced later. priority against clearl conservation progran (power "The current necessity for fined criteria, which in factor correction) expected spending restraints makes it correcting hazards; nai to cost more than $200,000 imperative that we get the ing or improving quali in the 1977/78 fiscal year. highest possible value tor care while reducing ope Whitby's Dr. Jospeh 0. every dollar spent," the cost; meeting bed de Ruddy General Hospital is to Minister said. "To do this, or correcting obsoles proceed with revisions to its we will be relying more and meeting growing workl heating system after next more on local consideration new technology require April 1. Cost of these re- in allocating future funds, so wîth little or no incre viions will be determined we can meet real needs at the in budget; and meetings following completion of .a community level. In this needs, but with increa consultant study. approach to long-term prior- operating costs. Port Perry Hospital is to planning, we will be making The Ministry's total proceed with a roof replace- extensive use of the 20 budget tis year wi ment in the 1978/79 fiscal District Health Councils, and $106.8 million, with year at a cost of about similar bodies, across the amounts proected for $15,000. province. Where no such 79 and 1979/80. The Durham District Health bodies exist, the Ministry figuret each year smcl Council is to proceed with a will consult directly with the tmiient of some pathological waste-disposal hospitals concerned& million for teaching hos system for regional hospitals "We will be asking District and another $33 milli is 1978/79. Health Councils, such as the servicing debt incurre Regional projects deffered Durham Region District hospital construction i until 1980/81 or later ared Health Council, to provide us past. expansion of out-patent, by May 1, 1979 with a list of The Ministry of E treatment and diaostic their local priorities for capi- provides two-thirds o departmnts for Uxsidge a funding, 'the Minister said. approved cost of mos Cottage Hospita l and a re Those will include all new struction and renovatio placement wing for Bow an- proposals as well as any that jects at community hos ville Memorial Hw ta. have been deferred. In Northern Ontario Projects announced - last "After recommendations munities of- 12,000 or app roved ppethiityprov es ,jects nding the total pitals y the ar and rs, be- ints." rojects ed for y de- clude: intain- ity of rating ficits cence; oad or ments, ase in similar ses in capital ill be similar 1978/ total udes a $30 spitals on for Bd by in the Health f the t con- n pro- pitals. com- fewer five-sixths of therapproved cost. Local hospitals and their communities are responsible for funding the remainder. The Ministry also pays 100 per cent of the cost of pro- jects that will pay for them- selves in five years or less, such as amalgamating obstet- ric untis or converting boilers to reduce operating costs. Mail service is extended Postal service in new deve- lopments in Whitby will be improved during the next few months. Oshawa-Whitby MP Ed Broadbent announced Mon- day that the Otter Creek sub- division will be receiving green box service this week, and the residents of White Oaks Court (Sorichettiý apartments) will receive a postal walk sometime in March 1978. Residents of these areas Whitby's Jail and the Iro- quois Park recreation complex came under criticism in a 41 - page report released Thursday by a PublicInstitutions In- spection Panel. The seven-person panel, which presented its report to Judge J.P. Kelly, said the Whitby jail was a building designed for less than 60 in- mates, which contained more than 100. Although the panel was impressed with the security measures at the jail and said it was a "well-run facility," it was "shocked" at the over- crowded conditions in the jail's administrative office. No violations of rights were discovered following in terviews with prisoners, and the panel reported that pri- soners-staff relations were good. At the Iroquois Park swimming pool, the panel- ists, criticized the lack of a door to an electrical room and said some of the ceilings had been damaged by water. There were comments also about badly rusted parti- tions in the mens' change- room, and heating pipes in the arena not being insulated. However, the report puised» the Iroquois Park staff for their cooperation during the inspection. Registrar retires Albert Walker, who has been registrar of deeds for Ontario County and Durham Region since November 1970 will be retiring at the end of this month. Mr. Walker was appointed Registrar Nov. 1, 1970, suc- ceeding John Roblin of Whitby,who had held the post for 20 years. Mr. Walker is a former Oshawa City Councillor,and was a member of the Ontario Leislature for Oshawa Riding from 1963 to 1967. have had to go to the post office to pick up mail since the developments became in- habited. Postmaster Hadden and Mr. Broadbent have .been working for several months to bring about these improve- ments in the Whitby postal service. ýR -IE E PR E SS,