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Scugog plane prosh kills Ajax teen-ager Investigators with the Aviation Branch of the Federal Transport department will attempt to determine what caused the Saturday morning crash of a light plane which took the life of the 17-year old pilot. The single engine Piper Tomahawk owned by the Oshawa Flying Club, came down nose first in a farmer's field in Scugog Township near the intersec- tion of Highway 12 and Concession Road 8. Hospital. the crash. The pilot, Thomas Raymond John- ston of 125 Exeter Road in Ajax, suffered massive injuries and was pro- nounced dead on arrival at Port Perry The accident occurred in almost perfect weather conditions shortly after 11 o'clock Saturday morning. A spokesman for Durham Region Police said eyewitnesses noticed the plane '"'appeared to be doing some funny things" shortly before the crash occurred, but the spokesman said it is not possible to tell at this time if the pilot was having troubles just prior to One person who witnessed the crash said the plane came down "like a cork-screw." (Turnto page2) Vol. 116 No. 20 Wednesday, April 14, 1982 32 Pages Scugog council raps Board of Education's 1982 budget Scugog Township council is not happy with the propos- ed Durham Board of Educa- tion budget, and council ag- reed late Monday evening to a motion expressing this dis- pleasure, After listening to Scugog School Board trustee Rev. Stuart McEntyre defend the education budgét Monday evening, Township council agreed to a somewhat water- ed down motion from the one Bill collector may which originally had been proposed. Noting that the 1982 ed- ucation budget in Durham will increase by 15.9 per cent, the Township council motion called this budget "atrocious." The motion went on to say "that there is a real oppor- tunity to produce an accept- able budget by holding sal- ary increases at a sensible level, leaving teacher-pupil pay you a visit If you don't pay your water bill; you can expect a call from Durham Region's "collector." The "collector" was hired by the Region six months ago on a temporary basis to go after over. due water accounts and generally try to speed up payment by customers who are always late with their bills. According to a report from the Region's finance depart- ment, the collector was ~ involved in almost 60 final bills amounting to $11,000. The report estimates that the collector has saved the Region more than $3000 which might have been paid in commissions to a collection agency. And according to the report, further dividends are expected when it becomes more widely known that a collector is on the prowl. "This. will act as a deterrent to customers who purposely delay payment or are generally slow payers," says the report, Durha m Region has about 60,000 residential water and sewer users under its jurisdiction. ratios as they are, taking on no new programs, and keep- ing the book budget on a par with last year." - However, the original mot- ion by councillors Lawrence Malcom and Neil Hunter contained the sentence that the proposed education bud- get was "a complete derelic- tion of the responsibilities of the elected members of the Board." Council had second thoughts about such strong wording, and councillor Malcolm agreed to delete this reference from his motion. The amended motion was approved by all members of council except Robert Espey who earlier in the meeting had expressed very strong reservations about the word- ing and the reference to "dereliction of responsibil ities." And it was councillor Espey who had persuaded council not to approve the - original motion until coun- . cillors could have the chance to discuss the education bud- get with trustee McEntyre. In an unusual move, coun- cillor McEntyre was phoned at home at 7:00 PM Monday evening and asked if he 'would appear before council in one hour's time to discuss the budget. He agreed, and spent over an hour defending the Board of Education's 1982 budget which will see total spending increase by 15.9 per cent to $125,190,000 this year. Referring to the council _ motion criticizing the bud- get, Rev. McEntyre said 'I don't think the Board of Education has been irres- ponsible." Several times he told coun- cil that trustees trimmed as much as possible from the budget, and he said that in relation to other school boards, Durham is among the best when: it comes to fiscal responsibility. He told council that the Board was to meet Tuesday to approve the proposed ed- ucation budget. And there is a bit of good news for propety tax payers in Scugog and Durham Reg- ion. The actual tax increase for education will be about 12.6 per cent, not the 13.5 per cent which had been originally forecast. This will mean about $36 more in taxes for the aver- age property owner in Scu- gog Township. Although the tax increase (Turntopage7) Hospital Board will discuss expansion plans The topic of hospital expansion will likely be on the agenda when the Board of Directors of Community Memorial in Port Perry holds its regular monthly meeting April 21. Board chairman Jim Mar- low said he is pleased with the announcement last week that the provincial Health Ministry will provide a grant of up to $200,000 for ex- pansion of emergency department and out-patient facilities at the hospital. The announcement came officially last Thursday by Durham-York MPP Ross Stevenson who stated "grants for both Port Perry and Uxbridge Hospitals were not originally expected until at least 1985". "Working with the Boards of both hospitals, the past Health Minister Dennis Timbrell and the present Minister Larry Grossman, we have been able to move the funding up to 1982", said Mr. Stevenson. The plans for Port Perry include an expanded emergency treatment de- partment, larger out-patient areas for such things as physiotherapy, and more space for medical records storage. Mr. Marlow said Monday that it is now not unrealistic for actual construction to get underway in the spring of 1983 with the project com- pleted by the late fall of that (Turntopage2) The Lake Scugog Story Pages 8,9 Inside the Star "Lefty" Receives His Award Page 10