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Council Monday afternoon voted in favour of two rec- ommendations from the Roads Committee the first of which calls for a sidewalk on the south side of 7A from Simcoe to Ash Streets at an . estimated cost of $2100. The second recommend- Continued on page 6 With the provinc2 picking up $42.9 million of the total, the taxpayers of Durham will be asked for $34.4 mill- ion which works out to an average increase in the mill rates of 4.7 per cent. With the exception of a few minor comments, trust- ees passed the budget with no debate and Board chair- man Yvonne Christie noted that the trustees had been kept well informed during the preparation by the bud- get committee. In handing down his bud- get to the full Board for approval, budget-audit com- mittee chairman D.A. French said that all -acc- * ounts 'had 'been 'carefully scrutinized, and that ess- entially it was a 'stand-pat' budget with no change in programs. The province's per cent share of the total budget at 54.5 per cent this year is the lowest in several years, and figures show that there has been a gradual decline since 1972 when Ontario picked up 62.2 per cent of the budget. Mr. French noted that this trend of decreased cost sharing by the province is likely to continue in the Continued on page 3 Vol. 112. No. 23 Wednesday, April 12, 1978 32 Pages Emergency helicopter service for hospital The Community Memorial Hospital in Port Perry will be included in an emer- gency patient helicopter transfer system. The system, which is presently under study by the provincial Ministry of Health, uses a twin engine helicopter based at Downs- "view to fransfer patients from hospitals within 80 miles of Toronto in situations which doctors consider are of extreme emergency. Hospital administrator Dave Brown and Grant Mac- Donald of the hospital board asked Scugog Township Monday afternoon for per- mission to establish a land- ing site on the southwest corner of the hospital prop- erty, and this was granted unanimously by members of council. In making the request, Mr. Brown said that the emer- géney air transfer system was set up on a trial basis in October last year and will continue until October, 1978 when a decision will be made by the province whether to make the service perman- ent. He stressed that while it would only be used in situ- ations of extreme emer- gency the hospital feels it should be prepared to handle such a case if the need arises. The helicopter has special equipment which allows it to fly in almost all Kinds of weather systems, and can carry two patient stretchers and a team of medical specialists from either Sunnybrook Hospital or the Hospital for Sick Children. Any decision to use the service can only be made by the local physician and doctors at the two Toronto > hospitals. When dispatched from Downsview, the helicopter would carry a team of medical specialists from either Sunnybrook or Sick Nestleton Man Charged Children's depending on the nature of the case. The hours of operation are from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and there is an air ambu- lance fee to the patient if the service is used. The proposed landing and take-off site on the Port Perry Hospital property is about six acres in size and several hundred feet from Continued on page 2 $1.2 million drug bust A 34-year old Nestleton man is among ten persons charged following a $1.2 mill- ion seizure of methampheta- mine (speed) April .3 at Toronto International Air- port. Police forces from Toronto and Vancouver were involy- ed in the drug arrests, and a police official said last week that the ring was probably capable of producing $15 million worth of speed each month for distribution across North America. The Nestleton man, David John Boland is charged along with a Toronto man with possession of a controll- ed drug for the purpose of trafficking, and along with nine other persons with con- spiracy to traffic in a con- trolled substance. The arrest at the airport in Toronto April 3 netted 4.5 pounds of speed in a man's suitcase. An inspector with the drug squad in Toronto said that a further investigation is underway and that the ring had a complex system of carriers who purchased in- gredients for the manu- facture of speed in Toronto and then flew them to a lab on the West coast. The police spokesman said the lab has not been located, but police realized the size of the operation when an under- cover officer posing a buyer paid for 30 pounds of the substance every two weeks. TNC K. Jout: dh "iA BY "GAIL ETALEY "Pretty Little Book Worms Meagan Robins [left] and Dana Beauchamp are already discovering the joy of books and reading. The Scugog Public Library in Port Perry has enjoyed a steady increase in the number of books and registered members over the past few years. [See story on page 13]. gamba -- iA I~ VS 'R aR Bra JOSEY be sie A t PN RA bAZ RAR A --_-- RR Aa ey TR a wd Ry Em ow NEA Ye wh ha { oor a A 3 EP Ge 0 A Ar a re Nay a's wn RR