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or | _Volume 105 -- Port Perry, Ontario, Thursday, Sept. 10th, 1970 -- Number 45 After 36 years of serving Port Perry, John Raines is being led out to pasture. And the 67-year-old clerk- treasurer isn't at all happy about the forced retirement. The "bombshell" was drop- ped on Mr. Raines at a coun- cil meeting last Monday at which Village fathers pro- moted John Dobie clerk- treasurer from assistant clerk- treasurer and boosted Mr. }Raines to the position of clerk-treasurer emeritus. SWITCHING ROLES The switch in roles is "4 Fair Miss At The, Fair Riding her horse at the Port Perry Fair Monday is two-year-old Carrie Anne Reis of | Caleb St. who is accompanied on the ride by her grandfather! Geoff Taylor of 404 Seugog St. Fair officials estimate more than 8,000 turned out for the one-day event. Complete page of pictures on the fair on Page 4. --Photo by Bob McDougall the reins and Mr. Raines will Back-To-School Enrolment Increase ism nd Ran Summer ended just about|swapping stories of- things| a lot more when you consider Capacity" for the next two as quickly as it began Tuesday|done over the summer and| five Grade 8 classes have been' years at his present salary. as Port Perry youngsters|Tenewing friendships that had| transferred to the high school.; What Mr. Raines is object- returned to school. been temporarily set aside.| William Bradford, principal,!ing to is a "promise" given Before the morning bell At R.H. Cornish School|reports there are extra buses|to him by council in 1969, rang signalling the start of|/614 pupils were enrolled on|on this year to accommodate|when they hired Mr. Doble classes the children romped|the first day, almost the same | additional students and thathe | as his assistant, that he would about the school grounds/®umber as last year but quite | has five new teachers. be kept on the job until he a . One of the innovations at}reached his 70th birthday -- the school this year is the two years from now. Junior Opportunity Class | A copy of the minutes sponsored by the Ontario. County Board of Education. : The aim of the class is to! help children with learning disabilities. i Principal Grant MacDonald | at the Port Perry High School! says his enrolment has jumped to 1,077 students from 801 last year. He said the main reason for the increase is the addition take place Jan. 1, 1971. At tha time, Mr. Doble will take over Continued on page 16 German Visitor Dies In Crash A young German citizen visiting Canada was killed a- bout noon Monday in a two- car crash on the Oshawa Road at the northerly en- trance to Raglan. Dead is Theo Goldhan, 21, of Toronto. Police said the man was heading onto County Road 2 from Raglan when the mis- hap occurred Driver of the second ve- hicle, a southbound 1962 Chevrolet, was Lawrence Shaw, 19, of 43 Greylawn Cres Scarborough He was not hurt in the crash but his vehicle was dam- First day beck at school gives Cindy Drew, 6, (she's | aged to the extent of $1, not sure of where she lives) @ chance to renew her friend. | The investigating officer was ' , Constable Kirk Dupre of the ship again with Carol Dancer, 6, of R.R. 2, Port Perry Whitby detachment of the The Pale to are attending the public school in Prince Albert. | Ontario Provincial Police Dedicate Cenotaph To Fallen Comrades The reason for a relatively{in two World Wars from this|Ceremony and kept the pro- small attendance at the dedic:| area gram moving at « dignified ation service of the new Led by the Caledonian Pipe | Pace. Cenotaph in front of the Leg-| Band from Oshawa, a-colour| Representing the Ontario jon Hall, Saturday, must be| party and other members of |Command was Donald Wilson partly due to the long week-|the Legion marched from the | first vice president who spoke end with a great many people | High Schoo! and lined up on | briefly and extended greetings away from home Bay Street in front of the|from the Command to the However, in spite of this,| Cenotaph. Port Perry Branch an impressive and well con- John Maw, former presi- Other speakers were Eric ducted ceremony was held! dent of the Port Perry Branch |Hogg, district commander; im honour of fallen comrades! seted as chairman during the Continued on page 11 from that 1969 meeting backs up Mr. Raines claim. It reads in part Mr. John Doble appeared at Council meeting as request- ed and he was informed by 4\Clerk Charges Village ,|Broke Promise To Him of the flu even though he has been crippled for a num ber of years with arthritis WORD OF HONOUR "I was shocked because Council that they are look+!I had their (council's) word ing for an assistant Clerk- Treasurer to eventually take the place of the present Clerk- 'Treasurer, when he attains the age of 70 years. "The subject came up like a flash of lightning," said Mr. Raines, who has only missed one council meeting in the past 34 years because of honor." Mr. Raines said he didn't get the promise in writing be cause he felt he was dealing with men who when they gave their word would keep it What also jolted Mr. Raines was the. way the change-in Continued on page 5 Cartwright Clerk Resigns Victor Malcolm's resign- ation as clerk-treasurer ot Cartwright Township to assume a similar postion with Reach Township has been Prompted mainly by finan- cial reasons. He said his relations with Cartwright ratepayers and council had been very ami- ble but the pecuniary ad vantages of the Reach position could not be overlooked Mr. Malcolm has been clerk-treasurer of Cartwright since 1958 and will replace Alex Johns of Reach who is retiring Oct. 5. Mr. Malcolm anid' he is looking forward to broading his municipal experience in Reach position and making y new friends in town- Mrs. P. Mulligan is carefully placing about 70 poppies on the white cross held by Mrs. L. Leaby, while Rev. A.C. Ros aalled the names of the fallen commades in two Woh Wars