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Al Fay AL Ge 1 7 H : tA SR y i J »'s . >it 2 o : LI ( ' ALEC ay ey ON TEA ' LES Gyr WEI vs y th tks 4 3 ' 4 i did adudmtiahstiriadar sab ivtos sivas idvoittucsasuveltitrtardodiwot wend pada canls TIE. " Ssh dain . a idan aie td EE bilmad . - av a nn ' | Cafik wins Riding with big majority victory in Ontario riding Monday with a sound lead of 4,558 votes over his nearest rival Joyce Bowerman of the Progressive Conservatives., ne P2RT § PERRY i; ' Cafik's victory coincided with a nationwide mandate for the Liberals who recovered from their shaky position of 1972 to register a complete majority this A year. OF The Liberals made significant gains in Ontario, held their own in Quebec and Kia gained some new seats in the Atlantic provinces. Both the Conservatives and we NDP suffered major lpsses including David Lewis in the latter's case. ' The sixty five year old socialist leader lost his riding in York South to Liberal BE Ursula Appolloni. He had held the riding, with one brief interruption, for the past & ¥ 15¢ per copy 24 Pages decade. \ Volume 108 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, Wednesday, July 10th, 1974 -- No. 37 Elsewhere in the area NDP incumbent Ed Broadbent was returned with a iY large majority in the Oshawa - Whitby riding defeating four others, his nearest pM riding for the Liberals. Drowns near Caesarea. Thirty six year old John Fowler of Belleville is be- lieved to have drowned in Lake Scugog a few hundred yards north of the Govt. Works in Caesarea last Sat- urday. Drivers injured in motorcycle- car collision David Habermehl of R. R. No. 3, Port Perry is in Scar- borough General Hospital with serious injuries follow- ing a head on collision be- tween his motorcycle and another car on Thickson Road, Saturday afternoon. The driver of the car John Trivett is in hospital too, at the Oshawa General, with serious injuries. Durham Regional police described the condition of twenty year old David Hab- The O.P.P. at Newcastle said dragging operations by the Whitby detachment boat and the Cartwright volun- teer fire force continued till 9:30 p.m. on Saturday and resumed on Sunday. There was no trace of the body till late Sunday. Apparently Fowler was in a small sailing boat when he disappeared. Police have a missing person report on him. Corporal L.R. James and Constable J.A. Legate are investigating. Capt. McDonald of the Scugog Fire Dept. Hall 2 reports Mr. Fowler's body was finally discovered float- ing near William's Point on l.ake Scugog, near some cottages. The cottagers pulled it on their dock for it to he removed by police. The search for the hody had continued through the week- * gy £443) 11m Vike « WW Norman Cafik grins with delight as he walks through crowds of his supporters at the Ajax Community Centre early Tuesday morning just after he won Ontario rival being Margaret Shaw from the Liberals. PC Allan Lawrence retained his riding in Northumberland - Durham with a clear lead over Liberal Allan Beckett. SIGNIFICANTLY ENOUGH PORT PERRY VOTED LIBERAL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 35 YEARS reflect- ing a nation wide trend to usher in a majority govern- ment and do away with the nonsense of a minority par- liament and the danger of new elections before they are normally due. Cafik established a good lead as early as 8:30 p.m. barely 30 minutes after the close of voting. He main- tained the lead constantly after. Given below are the timings and figures. 8:30 p.m. Cafik 679 Bowerman 555 Lishman 232 Polls counted -- 10 out of 240 8:50 p.m. Cafik 5,613 Bowerman 3,962 Lishman 1.912 Polls counted -- 70 out of 240 9:10 pom. Calik 9571 Bowerman 7111 Lishman _ 3243 Polls counted 120 4:30 pom. Cafik 11,737 Bowerman 8995 Lishman 3942 Polls counted 150 (continued on page 3) Hospital Report Week Ending July 4th Admissions ............ .. 42 11; 1; 4 Deaths . ............ .. .. Nil Emergencies ............ 195 Operations .............. 8 Discharges .............. 44 Remaining . ............ 36 > STE TTT RAD XS f AL Jb '3 ! = p \ f= ~~) -------- ¢ \ er \ E44 A VR In Ontario Riding the final figures for the three candidates were: Norman Cafik (L) Joyce Bowerman (PC) Bill Lishman (NDP) The voting figures in the Northumberland-- Durham riding were: PC Allan Lawrence: Liberal Allan Beckett: NDP Rus Walker Voting figures in the Oshawa-Whitby riding were: NDP Ed Broadbent 25,112 Liberal Margaret Shaw: 14,839 PC Martin Weatherall: 11,463 Communist Party Rus Rak: 126 Communist Party Marxist-Leninist; Deveau: 62 20109 15551 6725 16,829 14,895 7,136 Unexpected majority victory by Liberal Party of Canada Tuesday morning saw the Liberal Party of Canada firmly in the saddle for the next four years with a solid 141 seats in 264 member House of Commons. The other parties fared as follows: Prog. Conservatives 95 NDP 16 Social Credits 11 Independent 1 The sole independent can- didate is the former Mayor of Moncton, Leonard Jones who was denied the status of an official PC candidate by Stanfield even though he had won the nomination. The following figures present a comparison with the seat distribution in the last parliament. Before Now Liberals 109 141 Conservatives 106 95 NDP 31 16 Socreds 18 11 Others 0 1 4 a: \ . «¥ Port Perry supporters of Cafik surround him to pose for this picture for the STAR photographer. From top left Charlie Labanovich, Teresa Hall, Norman Cafik, Jerry Breen. In front are Bill Brock ermehl as 'very serious'. end with the help of Hall 2 of - A < Mrs. Cecil Fralick and Clara Warren. Investigations are contin- the Scugog Fire Depart- ming ment.