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| He Shoots - He Scores Ten year old Clair Cornish of Port Perry reached an elusive plateau last week when he notched his 100th goal of this season. The Atom player took just 37 games to get 100 and has captain- ed the team to 33 wins so far. Clair and his team-mates have got their sights set on playoffs now, but they celebrated the 100th goal -with a cake. (See sports page for story) Gas prices - how low can they go? Motorists in Port Perry are getting a bit of a pleasant surprise when they pull up at the pumps for a tank of gas. ....Service.....station- operators have been cutting prices in the last week or so to the point _ where regular gas is selling for 32.7 and 32.8 cents per litre, the low- est it has been in the past couple of years. While operators in the area surveyed by the Star last week all said the price cuts are not hurting their own profits good for business as prices in Oshawa and Whitby are "higher, none of them would hazard a guess at how low the prices may go or where they may be next week at this time. Wintario draw here March 24 Wintario is coming to town. The weekly lottery draw will be held March 24 at Port Perry High School, with the pro- gram sponsored by the Scugog Chamber of Commerce. Plans by the Chamber to bring Wintario to Port Perry have been under- way for some time, and Chamber president Bill Barr said the Lottery Corporation finalized the arrangements on Monday morning. Ironically, the official announcement that the Wintario draw will be held in Port Perry comes just one week after two local people split a $100,000 grand prize. The March 24 pro- . gram will get underway about 7:30 p.m. with an hour of local entertain- ment followed by the draw which will be tele- vised live on the Global network. Mr. Barr said 600 tickets will be sold for the evening at the high school at $4 each, and this price includes one free Wintario ticket. All net proceeds from the Wintario evening (Turn to page 3) nearby '"The oil companies just tell us to meet the competition's price. It's like the companies are eckers and we (the service station oper- ators) are the checkers in the game," was the Welfare woes continue to nag Durham Region The record number of people on welfare is causing serious pro- blems for the staff of Durham Region's Social Services department. Last week, in an effort to relieve some of the pressure, Regional coun- cil authorized the hiring of three temporary case workers and the re- deployment of the Region's emergency Vol. 117 No. 10 housing officer to case worker duties. The latest figures for December 1982 show there were 7198 people in Durham receiving welfare, compared with 5581 in the previous December. Along with the pro- blems staff has in pro- cessing the number of new applicants and doing the follow-up reports, the record number of people on welfare is causing a major financial problem for the Region as the deficit for 1982 is estimated in the $250,000 range. That figure is just the Region's portion. The total deficit is well over $1 million, but the provin- cial government pays 80 per cent of the welfare costs. Tuesday, February 8, 1983 Regional council last week spent a long time thrashing about the recommendation from the Social Services department to increase the number of case workers. The committee wanted the extra help hired for as long as the current in- creased demand for welfare continues. But (Turn to page 3) laying a game of way Paul Flieler of the. . BP station on Lilla Street described the sit- uation. "I don't know where the price is going. The company may turn around and tell me to put it right back up tom- orrow, " he said. Walter Waugh, man- ager of the DX station on Highway 7A conced- ed that he and the com- peting XL station next door are usually the first ones to cut prices in this area. "I don't know what starts it, I really have no -idea," he said Monday morning. His price for regular gas was 32.8 per litre Monday morning, and he noted that in Whitby a DX station was selling the same gas for 39.8 and in Peterborough, the price was 42.9 cents per litre. (For those who are still fumbling with the metric system, 32.8 (Turn to page 3) Where Will It Stop? Len Franssen, who works at the Turbo station on Water Street doesn't know exact- ly why gasoline prices in Port Perry fell last week, and area service station operators don't really know either. And they don't know where the prices will be next week. In the meantime, motorists here are enjoying the dip in prices. (See story) RN I SR RY ow .Ya a FALE AER, - - ak Pe a iy " a NE 2 vA rs Se