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9 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tusedey, February 9, 1960 GOOD EVENIN By JACK GEARIN 3 - BOARD SHOULD CURB LONG TRIPS The Board of Education may not care to admit it, but it is having trouble setting up a convention policy for its members--a red-hot, controversial subject last year when board members visited such far-away points as Saskatoon, Miami and Atlantic City in the quest for higher learning. There is one hopeful aspect to the situation -- the majority on the board appear to be giving the matter much serious consideration. Little purpose can be served here by repeating the specific merits of the trustee convention as a worth- while institution; the simple fact is that too' many On- tario trustees have gone convention-crazy with long gir trips and large delegations the rule rather than the enception--the budget just can't allow such frills. For instance, last year Oshawa trustees visited such far away points as Saskatoon (six in number), Atlantic City, Miami and Port Arthur. The suggestion has been heard from some mem- bers that last year's convention just happened to be in distant cities and that there would be less distant travelling this year. This would be a welcome innova- tion, especially by those taxpayers who are concerned by the fact that Oshawa has the highest per capita debt of any city in its population group in Ontario. The fact that at least three trustees and two board administration officials will attend the annual conven- tion of the American Association of School Administra=- tors in Atlantic City, Feb. 13-17, meanwhile, does little to ease the situation and seems to represent a continua- tion of last year's extravagant policy, despite the efforts of some trustees to get the board back on the right track. LITTLE NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE Mr. M. McIntyre Hood, former managing editor of The Oshawa Times and now a special overseas corres- pondent for the Thomson Newspapers, will return here for a visit May 16 to June 7 .. . Oshawa Little Theatre will present an evening of three one-act plays at Me- Laughlin Public Library February 10, 11, 12, and 13 at 8:30 p.m . Remember Orville Kennie who was manager of the 8S. S. Kresge store on Simcoe street south for four years? He's leaving February 13 on a five-week business trip to Hawaii and Japan to do market research and to byy. He was promoted from his Oshawa post to import manager for Canada one vear ago. Mr. Kennie, incidentally, has been with the S. S Kresge firm for 30 years and has served as manager in such points as Winnipeg, Montreal, Victoria, Sarnia. Timmins and Toronto, He was a member of the Oshawa Kiwanis Club . . . Olive Howe of Whitby returned re- cently from three weeks in Japan where she represented Southern Ontario interests seeking to obtain Japanese money for commercial investment here . . . The Oshawa Builders Association has presented each member of City Council with a year's subscription to a building magazine so councillers can keep up to date on national events in the industry. ONE-WAY TRAFFIC PLAN STUDIED The city is pondering a one-way street plan to al- leviate the heavy traffic flow' east and west downtown. Alderman Albert Walk- er, trafic committee chairman said the plan would cover King street in an easterly direction, from Park to Rit- son road, and Bond street in a westerly direction, cov- ering the same area. Athol street would not be consid- § ered -- its west ending is | too abrupt, g He said one of the prob- Jems would be intersection difficulties at either end of the suggester routes where all vehicles would finally be funnelled back into the King street traffic flow. Other problems are the matter of intersecting north-south streets; parking meter locations; and bus routes, Said Mr. Walker: "Most cities have similar problems to ours. 1 think Oshawa has one of the highest ratio of motor vehicles in Ontario. Our traffic counts substantiate this suggestion, with hourly traffic counts of over 1,400 vehicles having been registered on some of our major streets. "A one-way street program' is the cheapest method of handling traffic and the most effective, especially where narrow streets laid out in horse-and-buggy days are prevalent. "Motor vehicles are an important part of our everyday living and we are becoming increasingly aware that living with them is an expensive procedure from a municipal standpoint." ALD. WALKER CORVAIRS ROLL OFF ASSEMBLY LINE There was a reason for the large Oshawa delegation last week at the opening of the posh new supper club in the Frontenac Arms Hotel, Toronto. The manager of the Frontenac Hotel is none other than Fred Funnell, former manager of the Hotel Genosha here. Seen rub- bing shoulders with such Toronto celebrities as Con- troller Jean. wman were the following Oshawa resi- dents: The McNabs and the Don Sandfords (of GM's public relations department); the Reginald and Charley Lancasters; the Douglas Harts; the "Bud" Hen- dersons; the Gordon Raes; to name a few. There was also an added Oshawa touch to the opening proceed- ings when Mr, Funnell was presented with a' "good Juck" letter signed by members of the Oshawa Kinsmen Club . . . At least four Oshawa and district men are in Toronto attending the Canadian Hardware Show. They are Alan F. Smith, Don Ellison, Amos Rubin apd John C. Howson . .. The new two-door, five- pa genger Chevrolet Corvair coupe has been in productio at the south GM plant here since early January, £ urbs are monotonous, Checking in for their flight to the Middle East, this group from the army's Fort Garry Horse will take over UNEF OFF TO duties in the Gaza Strip, They will relieve a squadron from the Royal Canadian Dragoons. They are left to right, Tpr. EGYPT DUTY J. R. A. Forget, St. Jerome. Que., Cpl. T. A, Grenon, Sud- bury; Cpl. G. P. Cochrane, To- ronto; and Tpr. Westwood, Ux- Planning Body Urged In Montreal : MONTREAL (CP) -- Multi-mil. ion dollar construetion projects n downtown Montreal have re- rived demands for co-ordination)? 'f planning. Within the space of a few|f locks on midtown Dorchester 't., three new skyscrapers are to 'ise. They are: A 1. The Ville-Marie project, eon- sisting of a 42-storey office build- ng. 2. The Windsor Plaza, another 42.storey structure, mainly to be 'illed by offices, 3. The C.1.L. Tower, a 34-storey office building. "What we need are top busi nessmen uniting to take the in itiative_ on co - ordinated plan- ning," said Romeo Mondello, Montreal city planner. "My-de- partment has neither the resour. ces nor the financial power to in. ning" Architect Henry E: Greenspoon sald most downtown areas have grown up in a haphazard fashion Srshiout regard for the automo. e. David Owen and Robert Cum- mings, associated with the Ville- Marie and Windsor Plaza pro- jects, are convinced of the need fora b 's They look for an association along the lines of one in Pitts- INTERPRETING THE NEWS By HAROLD MORRISON Canadian Press Staff Writer The Democratic party, which dominates Congress in this presi- dential election year apparently plans to pay closer heed to the generals than to President Eisen- hower in its efforts to arrange the deployment of United States de- fences. Sources on both sides of the political fence anticipate that more funds will be voted to keep part of the Strategic Alr Com- mand's bombers in the air on a round-the-clock basis. Democrats Still Favor Bombers Those favoring such a plan ar- gue that, under such a system, it would be impossible for an enemy to knock out the United States' retaliatory power with one mas- sive missile attack. PAROCHIAL VIEWS The Democrats are also sym- pathetic to pushing development of the projected 2,000-mile-an- hour B-70 bomber, which the president has almost dropped. All this comes at a time when Eisenhower has cried out against listening to generals with '"'par- ochial" views and has stated that Suburb Areas Look Dreary OTTAWA (CP)--Canada's sub- says a committee of architects after a 15,000-mile survey. Members of a committee of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, after an investigation sponsored by Central Mortgage| and Housing Corporation, told a press conference Monday they were struck by the dreary aspect of life in suburbia. But on the average residents seemed happy in their single-unit homes, even though "you can set a man down blindfolded in any given suburb and he won't be able even to approximate his lo-| cation in Canada." The three-man committee won't make any recommendations until June when it submits its report to the architectural institute and to the federal government's hous- ing corporation, They found housing supply is keeping up with demand, if you include sub-standard housing and over-crowded quarters. REASONS ASCRIBED As for the monotony of row upon row of houses all of similar design and each with its bit of a Jawn, its laneway and television aerial, this was attributable to: 1. A desire to keep up with the Joneses. Public opini d to require that the average man live in a private, one-family unit in the suburbs. ' 2, The uniforming effect of the national building code, of easy-to- The committee deplored the amount of arable land being eaten up by suburban develop- ment, citing Montreal Island and the Niagara Peninsula, Building costs had not in- creased disproportionately affring the last six years, but the cost of land tion." Peter Dobush of Montreal, com- mittee chairman, said there should be a steady flow of fed- present stop-and-go amounts. PREFERENCE FOR QUALITY He said briefs from builders across Canada suggested prefer- ence in mortgage privileges be given persons erecting quality homes. The Ontario Association of Mu- nicipal Electrical Utilities sub- nouncing Ontario community planning officials for "fre quently" changing their minds on zoning regulations. "This, of course, has a very detrimental effect upon the plan. ning of a utility system and re sults in very considerably in- creased costs," said the associa- tion. The association is a grouping of managers and engineers rep- resenting some 275 municipally- owned utilities, The brief also accused commu- obtain stock housing plans, and of wide distribution of housing literature, particularly publica- tions from the United States. nity subdividers of frequently ig- |noring proper procedures in lay- ling out subdivisions, Daylight Chaos Bl OTTAWA (CP)--A British Co- lumbia MP who said his con- stituency operates on at least four different times urged Mon- day that federal and provincial government representatives sit down together and '*'epd this ludicrous, self-imposed inconveni- ence" of standard and daylight times- The suggestion came from H. W. Herridge (CCF -- Kootenay West) who noted that his interior B.C. constituency includes areas erating on Pacific Standard, Mountain Standard, Pacific Day- Church Editor In Hot Water TORONTO (CP)--Rev. A. C. Forrest said Monday his remark last week about a United Church of Canada study which appeared to advocate the import of rum by Canada was "a humorous refer- ence that got too serious a treat- ment." Mr, Forrest, at a convention of weekly newspaper editors in Hamilton, said a confidential between Canada and the West Indies Federation had seemed to suggest more rum be bought from the federation. The minister, editor of the monthly United Church Observer, told how a reporter found the mention of rum "buried" in the confidential report and inquired about it. Mr. Forrest sald today the word "rum" was deleted from the pub- lished version of the report and its original inclusion had obvi- ously been an oversight. The in- cident occurred four years ago, light and Mountain Daylight times. He spoke on a resolution intro- duced by Eric Winkler (PC-- Grey-Bruce) calling on the fed- eral government to initiate a policy of standardising the dates for starting and ending daylight time in the six time zones in Canada. Debate on the private motion was adjourned by John Smith (PC~Lincoln) without a deci- sion. Mr. Winkler said his proposal would not entail any compulsion to observe the one-hour clock ad- vance and municipalities wishing church report advocating tradelbe said. to keep to standard time the year Saving asted round could do so. But standard dates across the country for the daylight time period would end "costly confusion" in many fields such as transport and broadcast- ing. . Hubert Badanai (L--Fort Wil- liam) said the Lakehead does not want daylight time. It was on Eastern Standard time and, be- cause it is 1,000 miles west of Toronto and Ottawa, the sun set about an hour later anyway. During the war the area was compelled to adopt fast time. It was of benefit only to "golfers and baseball fans." Approval of a federal bill would be "an in- vasion of the regional rights of the people." Murdo Martin (CCF---Timmins) approved the move. Good or bad, it would be a good thing for day- light time to start and end at the same time in those centres that wanted i. TALLY-HO ROOM HOTEL LANCASTER A RENDEZVOUS FOR DISCERNING PEOPLE and household appliances 4 had risen "well out of propor-| | eral government money available | for mortgage loans, rather the mitted a brief to the institute de-| ? he knows more about defence than probably anyone else in the country. The government wants to pro- vide the Strategic Air Command with roughly $90,000,000 a year burgh, where six industrialists formed' a committee to co-ordi- nate between builders and civic officials. A similar commiitee in Philadelphia, formed four years ago, is already reported to be showing results, for two years for the purchase of | spare parts to prepare for an air alert if one is ever ordered. General Thomas Powers, the) S.A.C'S commander, says this | isn't enough. He told a congress- jonal committee that the Russian missile threat is too great. Congressional sources indicate] that instead of $90,000,000 a year| for spare parts, power may get| $300,000,000 or even $400,000,000. But even if Congress does try| to upset Eisenhower's views--and cut into his projected budget sur- plus of $4,200,000,000--the presi- dent could have the last word. Congress may vote funds but the government doesn't necessar- ily have to spend them. The bur- eau of the budget can freeze cer-| tain expenditures--as it has done in the past. R. B. Lawson, Ladner, B.C. ~CP Wirephoto Testim ted TORONTO (CP) -- A county| court jury was told Monday that| ™ Toronto football star Dave Mann, T 11 3 charged with illegal possession of 0 Il ge putt = two" of marijuana the] » a ay he was arrested. E d Mann, 27 - year - old halfback | Vi ence with Toronto Argonauts of the| Big Four Football Union, has] MONTREAL (CP)---The RCMP been charged jointly with Jack has renewed its investigation into Kane, 26, of Toronto. They have alleged toll collection irregulari- both pleaded not guilty. ties on Montreal's Jacques Car- Geraldine Chipman, 25, called tier bridge. of the two men, said that she, |RCMP officers raided the homes her roommate, Gail D'Arcy,|of 25 Jacques Cartier bridge col- Mann and Kane were at a party|lectors and former collectors dur- at the men's west-central Bath-|ing the weekend in search of was raided by police Aug. 11. collections. _ Asked who was smoking mari-| The raids, it was learned did juana, she said "I know that Iinot involve homes of collectors or was and that Gail was . , ." | former collectors on Victoria asked the Crown. The raids came as a House of "They may have had a puff or| Commons committee in Ottawa two," Miss Chipman finally ad-|prepared to launch today an in- mitted but added she was 'high' |quiry into toll collections on the bridge. Checking them is Sgt. marijuana, may have taken "a as a Crown witness in the trial] It was learned Monday that urst Street apartment when it evidence of theft or fraud in toll "But what of the others?" bridge. at the time and was not sure.lbridges. itiate detailed downtown plan. Blackie the Crow is a favorite visitor of pupils attending Ke- nollie Public Schoo! in Port Credit. Here he rests on the head of Terry Pippy. Blackie has been dropping in at the school ever since children be- 4 FINE-FEATHERED FRIEND gan feeding him. Now each class keeps a stock of corn on hand. A favorite pastime is perching on oars as they back up. ~CP Wirephote OTTAWA (CP)--The chefs mix- ing Canada's 100th birthday cake hope to top it off with a six- month world fair near Montreal. A provisional committee of fed- eral and provincial government represnetatives decided Monday to back the suggestion of Mont- real and Quebec province for a $40,000,000 fair. Canada will make its bid to the International Bureau of Exhibi- tions in Paris next month, Vienna alte has hopes of a 1967 world air. Timothy Cooke, 10, and his friends in two grade five classes at Ottawa's Fairfield School were 15 minutes late for an appointment with the prime minister today. The meeting PRIME MINISTER WAITS was arranged some weeks ago, | ment buildings. And The ittee r it be given permanent status with representation to include four federal cabinet ministers, one minister from each of the provinces and one other delegate from each province to be named by the provincial governments: PICK MINISTERS Meanwhile, working commit. tees of four main aspects of the celebrations were proposed with Canada Hopes For World Fair Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton in charge of historical projects, Solicitor-General Balcer responsible for ceremonial af fairs, Citizenship Minister Fair clough, cultural aspects and Fish. eries Minister MacLean, adminis- tration. At the moment the plan is for the federal government to put up $20,000,000 with Montreal and the provincial government provi an equal sum, perhaps on a i To qualify as a world fair exhibition as Tun six pre Prime Minister Diefenbaker came out in opening the meeting of the provisional committee against 'bands, fireworks and speeches" in birthday celebra- ons. He urged they be national in scope and include a stocktaking of past achievements, future as- pirations and recognition of the many races making up the Cana- dian people. LF #all all a WA Thisservice will provide yon with plenty of hot water for-all household needs. your \ HYDRO'S NEW HOT WATER SERVICE A low monthly charge covers: %* installation of a modern autos matic electric water heater. service and main including replacement, if necessary. * cost of electricity. Our staff will be glad to tell ut this all-inclusive HOT R SERVICE. AREA OFFICE 100 SIMCOE ST, §. OSHAWA, ONT. Geo. F. Shreve, Area Mgr. when Timothy had written to --CP Wirephoto the prime minister to say he would like to know about par- liament and Mr. Diefenbaker invited him to visit the parlia- / THE 0 YOUNG WOMEN'S SHAWA CHRISTIAN ASSOC. announces its FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING at ADELAIDE HOUSE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11th 1960 8:00 P.M. GUEST SPEAKER -- Mrs. Ronald Standen, Vice- President YWCA of Canada and Vice-President for North America of the World YWCA. Friends of the YWCA are cordially. invited to be present and to remain for the coffee hour at the close of the meeting. Staff X) Ne Lol Party . Meeting ™ h | Wedding Reception Whether your group is 5 or 500 you will find the facilities of our Corvair ond Piccadilly Rooms are unexcelled. Phone RA 3-4641 for Reservations . GENO \ Sha HOTE L