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2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, March 29, 1962 GOOD EVENING By JACK GEARIN EVEN A FACTORY MUST HAVE A MANAGER (This is the second in a series of articles on the City Manager Plan of municipal government in reply to a letter- to-the-editor last March 17 signed by Keith Ross of Oshawa, asking 10 questions about the system.) QUESTION NO, 2 -- IS THERE DEFINITE PROOF OF THE SQUANDERING OF MONEY AND INEFFICIENCY AT CITY HALL DEPARTMENTS (OUTSIDE OF THE SWIM- MING POOL EXAMPLE, FOR WHICH THERE HAS BEEN NO PROOF OF BLAME, ONLY YOUR JUDGMENT OF THE PROBLEM?) The best proof of departmental "inefficiency" at City Hall was the decision of City Council last March 5 (by 9 to 4) to spend $10,000 for a municipal survey. Would this majority agree to such an expenditure if they were convinced that o" there was not "'inefficiency? This vote was not intend- ed as a censure of depart- mental heads, by any stretch of the imagination, and the Council went out of its way to emphasize that point. Department heads as a group pretty well have the re- spect of Council, and why not? They are mostly men of proven ability and wide experience in the municipal field, an asset to the City-- the great difficulty is that they operate under a big handicap in an obsolete gov- ernmental system that allows service, confusion and lack of FRED CROME for much duplication of over-all direction. There is no such thing at Oshawa City Hall as a regular weekly get-together for department heads. One head may meet with one or two other heads, but there is rarely a gen- eral assembly for them. The best estimate is that they haven't been together-since last December 20 when a Civil Defence pow-wow was held. Could GM operate this way? Could a factory with a $10,000,000-a-year business operate with such faulty inter-departmental communications Is there definite proof of squandering? This question will draw hearty chuckles from many tax- payers, especially the hundreds who use the Board of Works labor crews as a 12-month target -- they are the taxpayers who get infuriated when they see municipal waste in an ex- tensive (and expensive) form before their very eyes. Several volumes could be written alone on the short- coming of this department that often sends nine men to do a job that could be handled by four, that is guilty of faulty planning or no planning at all. In all fairness to these labor crews -- many of them also are hard-working, conscientious civic workers with good records of departmental employment, but, like the depart- mental heads, they are the victims of a system that creaks with age, that makes "'squandering'"' necessary. Would Mr. Ross believe that the Board of Works doesn't even use a time-clock in its yard for its considerable labor force that fluctuates in size seasonally from 150 to 200? MORE EFFICIENCY IS NEEDED The potential for savings in the Board of Works alone is considerable, as some of the following press clippings from recent issues of The Oshawa Times strongly indicates: "NIGHTMARE SIDEWALKS ON HARMONY" -- P 2, October 16, 1961 "35 PERCENT OF 1953 SIDEWALKS NEED REPAIRS" -- P 2, November 28, 1961 "DEAD-END WALK STIRS PROTESTS" -- P 2, October 27 "THE UP-IN-THE-AIR SIDEWALK -- October 23, 1961 The first and fourth items deal with the "Sidewalk-in the Sky" on Harmony road north (between King and Beau- ford). The grotesque walk extended for five or six homes, was actually four feet higher than the lawn in front of Otto Bauer's home, It was also one foot higher than the highest peak on the irregular unpaved road in front of his house, It was more than a menace to children -- it had a deteriorating effect on real estate. Strong protests were made to the City Kngineer's Department to halt construction on this "mons- trosity,"" unless it was done in the proper way, but the pro- tests were ignored. Council discussed the matter for more than one hour in the open after the Board of Works kicked it around for two hours -- then Council abided by the wishes of the resident and ordered the sidewalk rebuilt. Said Alder- man Walker in summary: 'This is an amazing situation. The people didn't want the sidewalk -- then why did we insist? Why did the Board of Works insist? We should take a longer look at these things." This is not a rare instance. It happens frequently. It will continue to happen until more efficiency is instituted in our municipal operation. Would Mr. Ross call this depart- mental "squandering"? Item 2 deals with sections of sidewalk on Wilson road south where taxpayers have been treated to a disturbing spectacle -- City work crews doing an extensive (and ex- pensive) repair job on a comparatively new stretch of side- walk, built in the 1952-55 era. This was no patch-work job, but a full slab, almost one-inch thick. Great patches of Wilson road south 1952-55 sidewalk is also in need of similar repair. The City Engineer's Dept. blames this on '"'spalling and sealing'. Why do the newer sidewalks break up when the 30-year-old ones stand up. i Item 3 deals with the dead-end sidewalk on Bond street east (behind the King st. PS) recently built as a Winter Works project at a cost of $2,400, despite much opposition that it be placed there. Said Tom Russell, co-owner of a nearby property at 26 Ritson road north: "This walk is an illuminating example of municipal waste and _ extra- vagance -- it will be one of the most unused walks in North America' This walk was built over protests, yet side- walks are urgently needed in some areas that can't get them. BOARD'S WASTE MORE IRRITATING The Board's waste is more irritating than other municipal waste because it is more glaring than that of other depart- ments. Has Mr, Ross ever watched a Board labor crew of eight or nine wait idly by the side of the road on Wilson road south for five or six hours because City Hall failed to send along some grade stakes (no work could be started without them)? These crews are constantly over-staffed,; are frequently forced to waste time because their work isn't laid out proper- ly; thus, they will start out on a sewer job in one place and leave it before it is finished because they have been ordered to another spot. The superintendent of the Board's marshalling yard has a back-breaking job, is loaded down with too much detail (such as the keeping of time-cards and the handing out of pay cheques). One of his big jobs is to assign crews to jobs, which could almost be a full-time occupation alone. Let's take one item -- the installation of sewer connec- tions on private lots which is done by the City. This costs approximately $3.75 per foot. A. 30-foot set- back, which is minimum, would total $112.50. From seven to nine men are used on the job which could be done as economically, as quickly, by about half that num- ber, (if we are to believe non-City Hall personnel intimately acquainted with the building trade.) If 400 homes are built this year, this represents approxi- 'mately $45,000 minimum taken in at City Hall, a good per- centage of which is passed along unnecessarily to new home- owners to bear. COOLER WEATHER WEATHER FORECAST Foreseen Friday COMING | Cooler Weather | | Tp Red China Forecasts issued by the Tor-'ecast winds 10 to 25, becoming onto weather office at 5 a.m.:\light Friday afternoon. Synopsis: One more warm, Forecast temperatures: day can be expected in southern; Low tonight, High Tomor: | Ontario before cooler air settles) Windsor .......... 35 over the lower lakes tonight. |St. Thomas. 3 Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie,| London Lake Huron regions, Windsor,|Kitchener .... |London: Fair and warm but/Mount Forest . |windy today, clouding over this| Wingham ...... veo jafternoon. Chance of a few/Hamilton .. ° llight showers late today and|St. Catharines early tonight. Mostly cloudy and) Toronto jmuch cooler Friday. Southerly| Peterborough winds near 25, becoming north-|Trenton .... erly 15 this afternoon. Killaloe .. Niagara, Lake Ontario, south-| Muskoka .. : jern Georgian Bay, Haliburton|North Bay........ jregions, Hamilton, To ro nt o:|Sudbury Pre Fair and warm but becoming) Earlton windy today. Cloudy with|Kapuskasing . chance of a few light showers White River.. |tonight. Mostly cloudy and much| Moosonee 5 'cooler Friday. Southerly wiids,|Sault Ste. Marie... 28 }increasing to near 25 today and} Observed temperatures |becoming northwest 15 tonight.|Low overnight, High Wed. Northern Georgian Bay, Ti-| Dawson 3 magami, Algoma, southern) Victoria .... |White River regions, Sudbury,|Edmonton . |North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie:| Regina | Variable cloudiness today, over-| Winnipeg cast tonight and Friday; show-|Fort William ers and periods of wet snow to-|S. S. Marie. night and early Friday. Cooler|White River tonight. Light winds, becoming| Kapuskasing westerly 10 to 20 this afternoon|North Bay and northeast 15 to 25 Friday.|Sudbury Northern White River, Coch-|Muskoka . rane, regions: Overcast with| Windsor .. wet snow today. Cloudy and cool|London ... with a few snowflurries Friday,/Toronto .. | clearing in the afternoon. North-|Ottawa INTERPRETING THE NEWS | Canada Useful | At Conference \ By ALAN HARVEY | Canadian Press Staff Writer It can be reported without |undue parochialism that Canada lis playing a useful and vigorous jrole at the Geneva conference on disarmament. Though there are probably \times when the big powers wish that External Affairs Minister Green had kept his delegation at home, the general impression 40 jreact, On nuclear suggestions tests, may sistently trying to with the test-ban talks, restricted to the U.S., ing the 17-nation talks at the/the neutrals |Palais des Nations. It should be realized, |course, that Canada's influence'a reporter they perhaps tends to be exerted|"echoes" of occasional |most frequently at Hess than top level. jinitiatives. row 45 45 45 45 42 42 48 48 48 40 50 45 40 40 40 35 35 } Berlin bell, the Americans will/among the public that in order Hope Ab In Lakes OTTAWA (CP) -- Two of the three members of a federal con- ciliation board have abandoned 4\any hope of resolving a major maritime dispute between the Seafarers International Union of Canada (Ind.) and Upper Lakes Biipping Limited. | he two board members--! chairman G. D. LaViolette of Montreal and company nominee Norman MacLeod Rogers of Toronto--have informed Labor Minister Starr that no useful purpose can be served in con- tinuing their conciliation efforts. In an unusual step, Mr. Starr announced Wednesday. that he has accepted their terse state- jments as the majority report of the board. ; | { His action opens the way for) a strike or lockout involving} some 416 unlicensed seamen on) ----'ships of the Upper Lakes line.| ' ; The SIU took court action to Canada's Sale | prevent the board from continu-| ing its proceedings. | CITE UNION ACTION Mr. LaViolette and Mr. Rog- ers said the union action pre-| |vented the board from carrying] Irks Senator out its statutory duties and) WASHINGTON (CP) -- Sena- making a report. tor Kenneth B. Keating, New) "No useful purpose can "It is incomprehensible to me why Canada persists in pursu- ing such a course,' the member crisis, Canada would stand with|Four bearded Capuchin friars) us. But history has shown that|failed to appear in court Wed-| if you continue to build up a/nesday for the first time since gain--to put that ahead of prin-'court that the oldest of the ciples in which we all believe."|friars, Padre Carmelo, 83, was A state department official|suffering "a slight indisposi- prison cells. Before adjourning until today after hearing minor witnesses) TORONTO (CP)--The_ chair- man of Ontario's Liquor Licence) Board stated emphatically Wed-| Special Weekly Message To Members Of CHAMBERS FOOD CLU York Republican, said Wednes-|served from continuing the pro- day he hopes the U.S. govern- ree ment. will protest strongly} « * against Canada's new sale of 4 F F ] wheat to Communist China. rlars al To Appear of the Senv'e internal security) ' jsubcommittee said in an inter. | ony For Hearing "There is no doubt in my mind that if it came ot a real! MESSINA, Italy (Reuters)-- potential enemy, eventually. you|/they went on trial two weeks are not able to appease it. ago on charges of threats, ex- "It breaks down the strength| tortion and unintentional homi-| of the free world when certain} cide. allies are willing -- for dollar) A defence lawyer told the said the department has no tion," comment on the wheat sale Another of the friars, Father Venanzio, 48, had asked to see rh . a doctor and the other two; Politics Said friars were remaining in their| . No Aid For Ps a and examining documents, the} Li or Licence court decided that the friars qu must be present in court when) the injured civil parties give evidence. | The friars, together with three) nesday that politics has nothing| Sicilian peasants, are accused to do with the granting of li- of being involved in an extor-| cences to sell alcoholic bever.| tion racket at Mazzarino in cen-) ages, |tral Sicily, which culminated in| Judge W. T. Robb made the|the shooting of a local land- statement after a form of chal-|owner said to have been asked lenge from Elmer Sopha (L--|for large sums on pain of death. Sudbury) in the standing legis-\quaaamm sas RR lative committee on government! commissions, | Mr. Sopha said that, although} there has never been the "'slight-/| est suggestion" of political pa-| tronage against Judge Robb in| his 15 years as chairman, "yet! the rumor or the belief persists to get a licence you have first! Canadian| to approach a Conservative law- sometimes| yer." | have irritated Britain and the Unietd States. Green is per-a° lawyer, said it is generally] associate/pelieved among those seeking) some of the neutral countries) licences that it is "'wise" to hire) The Liberal member, himself/ andoned Dispute | ceedings of the board, if and when we are so permitted," they said in individual letters to Mr. Starr. i In releasing the statements, Mr. Starr said a minority sub mission is expected from SIU nominee Jean G. Lariviere of Montreal, "'in due course." Generally, the labor minister holds back a majority report un- til the minority report is avail- able for simultaneous release. Release of the majority re- port may bring to a head a long-brewing dispute on the Great Lakes involving the inde- pendent SIU, the newly-formed Canadian Maritime Union (CLC), and Upper Lakes Ship- ping. While the dispute centres round Upper Lakes Shipping, it also involves two related com- panies, Leitch Transport Lim ited and Norris Grain Company | Limited (Steamship Division). If the contract dispute erupts into a strike or a lockout, the way may be opened for the new CMU to move in on the' SIU and seek to organize crews on Upper Lakes vessels. No details of the contract dis- pute under conciliation were dis- closed in Mr. Starr's announce- 'ment. Blind Man Robbed, Left In Alleyway PORT ARTHUR (CP)--'This is one of the most despicable cases that has been in this court," Magistrate P. T. Hake said Wednesday in the trial of a man charged with the robbery of a blind man. Alphonse Morriseau, 28, of Macdiarmid, Ont., pleade d| guilty to the charge of robbery] with violence and was sentenced| to four years in the Manitoba penitentiary. Inspector Onni Harty told the court that Eino Kaine, 67, a resi-| dent at the Port Arthur Cana-| dian National Institute for the Blind, was beaten, robbed of $5 and left in an alley. 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