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2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Saturday, July 28, 1962 GOOD EVENING By JACK GEARIN COUNCIL'S TEMPO SLOWS TO SNAIL'S PACE The big vacation exodus is on and the big question cur- rently around City Hall runs something like this: "What will we do if an emergency meeting of Council is necessary in the next few weeks -- will there be enough (Oshawa) aldermen left in all of Canada, let alone the City, to make up a quorum?" the question is Slightly exaggerated, but there is more truth than fiction in it -- some of our elected representatives are spreading things out too thin insofar as late Sum- mer vacation schedules are concerned. It is not a heal- thy situation. The chances are now that there won't be an open meeting of Council' until late August or early Sept- ember -- this may be an adequate arrangement for some small city down in one of the Banana Repub- lics, but it is not nearly good enough for a_ fast-growing community the size of Osh- awa (62,415), with pressing major problems that need urgent attention, with a $10,000,000 municipal machinery that needs constant admin- istering. The City Council in Peterborough (population 46,803) follows no such a slow-down schedule in Summertime, but continues to meet weekly in the open as it does the rest of the year; this is true of most Councils. Acting-Mayor Gordon Attersley left today for a three- week visit to Western Canada -- Alderman John Brady will replace him. Mayor Christine Thomas is not scheduled to return until August 16 from her Aberdeen, Scotland, trip, when Alderman Albert V. Walker will be back from his European jaunt; ut other aldermen will be going away intermittently and things will be in a general state of flux, as far as Council is con cerned for several weeks. Perhaps ALDERMAN BRADY ROLE OF THE CROWN IS NOT EASY A Crown Attorney's job can be painful Ask Crown Attorney Bruce Affleck of Oshawa. Appointed by the Attorney-General's Department to con- duct an inquest into the recent Port Rowan drownings, it was his duty this week to cross-examine some of the grief stricken parents,in- volved, including Arthur Ellis (found guilty of paren- tal neglect by a coroner's jury in the drowning of his son, Robert, 9) and Clifford Williams (father of three of the victims, ages 11 to 8, who were his only children.) Mr. Affleck said that the parents did not display any bitterness towards himself, court officials or the ju: despite their grief -- as u matter of fact, Mr. Ellis shook hands with Mr, Af- fleck after the hearing and said he was happy that the probe had been so "'pene- trating." LL a en , i a ee If this probe will help BRUCE AFFLECK to save one life," said Mr. Ellis, "it is all worthwhile. of the coroner's jury." I say this despite the findings COUNCIL TOO LAX IN LAND DEALS The City's land deal with Sklar Furniture Ltd. is still away up in the air, far from settlement, thanks to the firm's failure to live up to the terms of their agreement and build a factory on the site during a two-year term. It is also a subject of grave concern to many taxpayers who fear that the City will lose the property altogether be- cause of the indecisiveness, laxity of some of our elected representatives where such matters are concerned. The voting record of some of our current aldermen on this and similar land deals represents more than a serious deviation from good business principles -- it is downright disturbing to those who want high efficiency in the munici- pality's business transactions. The Sklar transaction thus far has a familiar ring to some other City land deals, of modern vintage, that cost the taxpayers a pretty penny in return for which little or nothing was received; in one of these transactions, the Frastacky land deal, the City was so lax it didn't discover that Mr. Frastacky's mortgage had expired until seven or eight months after expiry date. Council was so lax in the Coulter Mfg. Co. land deal in 1958, it failed to stipulate that the firm must build by a certain date or sell back the property -- as a result, Coulter's still holds the five-acre site bought from the City although they have not yet built on it. A' matters now stand, Vice-President Lou Sklar has agreed to extend the City's re-purchase deadline to November 5 next -- Council will likely be. asked to act on the matter ih August (under the previous deadline, if the City doesn't act before September 5 and buy back the-property, it remain- ed in Sklars hands), Mr. Sklar has made a great to-do about his re-purchase extension offer. He says he was told that his offer was passed along to Mayor Christine Thomas, but that Her Worship never presented it to Council July 16, (as was his wish.) Her Worship will more than likely present her side of the story on her return from overseas in August; anyone who visited Council July 16 knows that she expressed a willingness to hear the Sklar's side of the story from every angle. She was anxious for the City to buy the land back, as instructed by the Oshawa Industrial Commission, but she instructed the City solicitor to find out what the firms plans were for the site, She talked like a mayor who wanted to abide by the wishes of the Sklars so long as they lived up to their terms of the agreement. She didn't sound like a mayor who would deli- berately discard any reasonable offer of settlement without ap- proval of the majority in Council. Mr. Sklar must have his own good business reasons for delaying his November 5 re-purchase proposal until the after- noon of July 16 -- about five hours before Council was to con- sider the matter -- but he must admit that such last-minute decisions give little time to Council to consider such an. im- provement matter. Why did Mr. Sklar delay so long with this offer and why did he not: submit it in writing instead of verbally (which is frowned upon by executives who fear verbal mes- sages leave the door open for too much misunderstanding and confusion)? Mr. Sklar, a lawyer, must realize this. Why did Mr. Sklar not deal with Council direct after the Industrial Commission recommended that the City re-purchase the land? Would he deny that he was invited July 16 to state his case personally before Council? If not, why didn't he show up? j '}Company, }jone source bluntly. 3 ithe government to take a posi- ' Calvin M of Ottawa talks to reporters today after being expelled from the Communist Party He said he was undercover UNDERCOVER AGENT MacDonald, 39, | | Petroleum Stock Market Burst. Cancels Summer Lull By GREG MacDONALD The usual mid-summer lull on Canadian stock markets was abruptly cut short this week as takeover bids, formal and rumored, brought on a burst of activity unseen in recent ses- sions, : An offer by Shell Oil Company of Canada for Canadian Oil Companies Ltd., the last Cana- dian - owned wellhead-to-con- sumer oil company, for $114,- 000,000 hit the markets Monday morning. On Tuesday, British-American Oil offered to purchase Superior Propane Ltd. at $18 a share or about $8,000,000. Superior mar- kets propane gas in Quebec and Ontario. The following day the British controlled Triad -Oil announced it had offered io purchase the assets Company agent for the RCMP and that he penetrated higher in the Communist heirarchy than any rumor-buffeted U.S. dollar got|learned that in June other undercover agent, --(CP Wirephoto) Cabinet Reticent | 'On Quebec Powe | By GERRY McNEIL QUEBEC (CP) -- The Quebec cabinet which has the final 'word is among the few major bodies in Quebec. province not to have stated its position on state ownership of private power companies. | Resources Minister Rene Le- vesque is reported impatient with the delay. Mr. Levesque's |consistent theme for two years |has been state control of elec- ; |tricity However, rigid opposition has apparently come from other government members, who feel such investment. would cramp Quebec's borrowing power and dilute its other services Shawinigan Water and Power which owns 17 per cent of Quebec's power-produc- ing facilities, has been rallying ;|support against nationalization. Informed sources say an. all- ou' campaign to force a govern- ment decision will begin when Mr. Levesque returns from va cation in mid-August. aE OF DELAY | "Levesque is tired of having jthis thing hang on a limb," says "He wants Ition, He's afraid the issue will {be confused by Shawinigan." In the Gaspe and Abitibi re-) gions, municipalities and even some Chambers of Commerce have urged nationalism Abitibi, supplied by Northern Quebec Power, is on a 25-cycle system and modern appliances, geared to 60 cycles, require costly changeovers, Most Gaspe farmers and fish- ermen get electricity through co - on long-term government loans. ape i ie 5 ¥ The opposition Union Na- tionale's last word on the sub-| ject was to ask Mr. Levesque} las: April 25 when. government policy would be clarified. Mr. of Devon-Palmer Oils Ltd., which has interests in Alberta and Saskatchewan, for about $7,991,000, FORM HELIUM COMPANY Another piece of news adding activity to oil markets was an- nouncement of the formation of Canadian Helium Ltd.toextract activity to oil markets was an- nouncement of the formation of Canadian Helium Ltd. to extract helium from British-American's holdings in Saskatchewan .The company is owned equally by British-American, British Oxy- gen Company of London and l'Air Liquide of Paris. Central Del Rio Oils Lid., producer in Saskatchewan, Al- berta and North Dakota, was the subject of rumors all week that an offer for it will be made by a large foreign company. chese Atlas Steel would be made were borne out after the) market close Friday when Rio} { | Kennedy Boosts Dollar Prestige NEW YORK (AP) --The Americans it wouldn't) on another front. Rumors that an offer to PUur-| gold find-on one of the com- |pany's many properties, |Algom announced it expects to make a bid for approximately / $45,000,000, A statement from Atlas said discussions between the two companies were con- tinuing. Among motor issues, Ford of Canada registered a $16 gain on news of a record in its six months earnings figures, These were up to a new high of $12.15 a share against $4.95 in the same period last year. Distillers-Seagrams was active Friday after an announcement that the company had purchased a minority interest in a United Kingdom wine firm, J. R. Phillips and Company, International Nickel was the favorite on the base metals market, gaining about $6 to the jaccompaniment of rumors of a Golds suffered a setback and many issues lost $1 or more following President Kennedy's statement earlier in the week that the U.S. does not cno- leneinte devaluation of its dol- ar. The speculative market, comparison with the weeks, was quiet. Volume this week at Toronto} was 11,256,000 shares compared) with 11,579,000 last week. Dollar} value was $28,297,133 compared) in| last two) a reassuring pat on the back|go as far in covering the cost with $31,944,919. this week. lof living as it did in May. Mainly because of higher} On index 'at Toronto, indus- trials gained 7.58 to 531.58, base President Kennedy, speaking) at a press conference televised food prices, the consumers|metals 1.31 to 182.94 and west- live to Europe via Telstar sat-|price index advanced one-tenthiern oils 6.03 to 100.58. Golds PRINCESS AT PLAY ellite, pledged that the dollar will not be devaluated. "Those who speculate against the dollar are going to lose," he said, Speculators who had set on rumors that the dollar would be The dollar was in the news Browne Intends jof one per cent to a record/dropped 6.47 to 103.50. Wearing a rubber suit and 105.3 per cent of the 1957-59) A total of 742,867 industrial) a flowered French bathing base period. shares and 2,162,552 mining, cap, Britain's Princess Mar- The index _ has increased|/shares were traded at Montreal! garet practices water. skiing eight - tenths of one per cent|this week compared with 575,446) on a small, secluded lake near | |this year, rising to records in|and 1,253,224 last week. London. The Princess took ifour of the six months. 2 The possibility of an income tax cut remained up in the air| with Kennedy saying he wanted) to see the July economic statis- tics before, making a decision. e e Levesque replied, 'In due} = _. MARKING TIME? h ( : time,"' | To Have Cashin The stock market, moving Wit Drastic Meanwhile, at least one cab- |within a moderate trading! inet minister has said in priv- S V id d |range, was considered by some ate he opposes nationalization eat Ol e brokers to be marking time) MILWAUKEE (AP)--A strike|week for a married man with and a prominent Liberal has pending a decision. on the tax that left Milwaukee without ajthree children. been quoted as saying state) OTTAWA (CP) -- Solicitor-| matter. 's morning paper for eight weeks| All Sentinel employees, in- ownership of all private com-|general Browne says he intends}; A development regarded. as|has ended and once again morn-|cluding guild members, re- panies "would cost $800,000,000/to issue a petition through the/indicating rising confidence in ing and évening editions are on|ceived severence pay. and wouldn't win us a single/Newfoundland Supreme Court|the market was the excellent|/the street. But things aren't the' At the time of the-striioe The vote." to have the election of Liberal/reception given a 1,580, 680 -|<ame. Sentinel listed its circulation at The natural resources depart-,Richard Cashin declared null/share secondary offering of The plant of the 125-year-old 192,000 daily and 218,000 on Sun- ment replies that Quebec-jand void or to have Mr, Cashin|General Motors Corp. Common SP Sentinel scene of thelddy, The Journal's evening een Hydro, not the government, unseated. stock at $49.62 a share. strkie ty the American News-|tions have a daily circulation of would make the investment.| Mr. Browne said the petition The Chase Manhattan Bank| 250. Guild, is still deserted. /393,000 while the Sunday Jour- It argues that a power grid un- der Quebec - Hydro would al- low orderly development throughout Quebec Although rates might increase in some urban areas, now; among the lowest in central Canada, they could be lowered in industry - starved areas such as Gaspe and Abitibi, the de- partment says. DELAYED BY PRESSURE Financial pressure both inter- nal and external, seems to be the dominant reason for any delay. "There is increasing evidence that investors are becoming very concerned with the pres-|clare the election void would re- tention ent "climate" in Quebec, not! only because the threat of na- tionalization hangs over the in- vestor-owned utilities, but be-) cause it also threatens other| natural resources says a recent Shawinigan book- let entitled The Facts "A good investment climate London and Johannesburg ex-|try, where General Motors, is of particular importance to capital sums."' s CHARLESTON ae MOSTLY CLOUDY WEATHER _ WEATHER FORECAST Showers To End Early Sunday | Official forecasts issued by the weather office at 5 am EDT: Synopsis: It was a clear, cool night over southern and central Ontario with temperatures gen- erally in the range 50 to 60 A broad band of cloud and showers moved into northern Ontario and will spread south- eastward over the southern por- tions of the province during the day. Showers will likely hold off until evening. By early. Sun- day most of the' shower activ- ity should be clear of the proy- ince Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Windsor, London, |Hamilton Toranto: Sunny be- coming cloudy this - afternoon. A little warmer. Scattered showers and thundershowers ending early Sunday. Becom- ing partly cloudy Sunday. Winds southwesterly 15 today light to: night and Sunday. Niagara, Lake Ontario, Hali- burton, Southern Georgian Bay: Sunny; a little warmer; scat- tered showers. and 'thundershow- ers beginning this evening and ending early Sunday. Becoming partly clowdy Sunday. Winds southwesterly 15; light tonight and Sunday Algoma, Northern Georgian Bay, Timagami, Cochrane, North Bay, Sudbury:Scattered showers or thundershowers end- ing overnight. Little change in would be based on allegations of irregularities in the June 18 federal election in St. John's West. Mr. Browne, after a re- count, lost by 24 votes to his 25-year-old opponent. In an interview Friday, Mr. Browne said he will resign shortly but specified no date, Of five defeated cabinet ministers, he is the only one who has not yet resigned. Asked whether he would base his supreme court petition on allegations of irregularities, he said: "Yes, there were lots of those." A successful petition to de. quire a byelection. » The third candidate in St. John's west--representing the New Democratic Party -- got only a handful of votes, industries," devaluated rushed to sell their brightened the business picture. gold mining shares. Prices of shares tumbled on New York, changes. The price of actual operatives, which depend| Quebec which needs substantial gold declined on the London/Motors bullion market. *ilan has added a new name toiills once it gets into full swing.| temperature. Partly cloudy Sun- day, Forecast Temperatures Low tonight, High Sunday .... Windsor .. 62 75 St, Thomas.... 26 72 London ..... 60 2 Kitchener .. o» 60 72 Wingham 58 68 Hamilton ... o & 72 St. Catharines.... 60 72 Toronto ss «60 722 Peterborough .... 55 70 Trenton ..... 55 70 Killaloe 50 68 Muskoka 55 70 North Bas 48 68 Sudbury .. 48 68 Earlton ..... 45 65 Kapuskasing 45 65 White River. 40 65 Moosonee . 45 60 Timmins ..... 45 65 Mount Forest. 58 68 48 65 Sault Ste. Marie... CHINESE FIRST Paper is said to have been invented in China in the 2nd century AD, thence spreading to Egypt and Europe '|the guiding light, then Neddy.|agement officials will go a long :jnamed "Nicky." of New York reported that busi- jness indicators appeared to be acting much Six blocks away the presses of/nal's circulation is 564,000. The Journal are working over-| The Milwaukee Newspaper "very as they|". i : usually do' six months or so in time. Guild, wit h300 members and a ladvance of a business down-| The Journal, always an collective bargaining agreement turn." evening paper, on July 19 pur- when it went on strike May 27, It added that 'the question is|chased its long-time rival--lock, now finds itself without a con- |being raised as to whether the|stock and barrel. The trans-|tract and many of its members economy may not be nearing| action put the city's only dailies out of work, But its officers say lthe end of the period of expan-|under the same ownership. it will function as long as any sion which has now run for 17\ The Sentinel is to continue as|Members remain, though the months." a separate morning paper with Uutlook is bleak. In the railroadsindustry, oper-|its own staff and its own city) A new paper in the morning ating unions sued to prevent/room, but under the roof of The/field is planned, however. the carriers from changing) Journal and using its production Jerome Borkoski, publisher of work rules Aug. 16 andland distribution facilities. the weekly Milwaukee Reporter, ms has announced that his paper So far there has been NO Vi) become a morning daily estimate of the cost of the dis- beginning in mid-August pute. Neither the Hearst Corpo- "© 8 mee ration, previous-owner of The CONTRACT EXPIRED Sentinel, nor the strikmg Amer-| The strike that closed The ican Newspaper Guild have dis-/Sentinel started nearly _ five closed figures. Nor has the weeks after the guild's old con- Sentinel's sale price been an-'tract with the paper had ex- nounced. pired. As soon as pickets ap- GOT BENEFITS peared, bargaining was broken The 350 non-striking Sentinel Ol ang - otner employees: were Fak notified that publication had employees were eligible for un- been. suspended \Ford, Chrysler and Americaniemployment compensation for yy eats Peres : A The notice, over the signature announced substantial|/seven weeks of the dispute, and sp apo Bi aac ; : , * *),,, of publisher Wallace M. Hughes, increases over a year guild members received strike ; said that when '"'normal opera- bnefits, reported to be $65 a tions can be resumed and there is work for you to perform, you will be notified," The strike marked the first time The Sentinel, Wisconsin's | joldest newspaper, had missed | ' 4 ° ' lan edition. | ac Ss 1C | It was the second strike in bgp koe in less than a year. Mailers went on strike at The threatened to strike unless the plans are called off. The rail- jroads had announced their in- to enforce economy jchanges in operating methods recommended by a presidential commission. Generally good six month corporate earnings reports This was particularly true in jthe booming automobile indus- | profit earlier. "INTERPRETING THE NEWS e e Journal Nov. 15 last in a dispute dl OO ish over work rights and proced- ures. The paper, manned by non-union news and editorial By ROD CURRIE successor, Reginald Maudling, Staff, continued to publish for up the outdoor pastime cently and has been receiving instruction from her husband, the Earl of Snowdon. --(AP Wirephoio) re- Newspaper Strike End hanges contract and $3.25 to $4.75 for the. second. Under the old con- tract editorial employees started at $79.60 and advanced to $141.10 after five years, Several bargaining sessions were arranged by the federal mediation and conciliation serv- ice, but there was no progress. In announcing the sale of the paper, Hearst officials said: "The paper has suffered sub- Stantial losses over a_ long period, Prohibitive operating costs and labor demands have forced us to leave the Mil- waukee newspaper field where we have been privileged to serve for 38 years. We greatly regret this move is necessary, but we have 'no alternative." The Hearst company noted later that some of its losses were offset by strike insurance. The guild said in a statement: "The Milwaukee Newspaper Guild naturally regrets the sale of The Sentinel. However, guild members in no way feel respon- sible . . . in no way feel guilty for Hearst's decision to abandon the paper." The Journal's decision to pur- chase The Sentinel, which ap- peared under its old format, also meant the return to work of many former members of the Sentinel news staff. How- ever, top positions were filled by Journal editors. The Journal is in the process of completing a $12,500,000 ex- pansion which 'gave the firm an entire city block in a downtown area known as the Civic Centre. The Sentinel newsroom was hastily moved into a large fourth-floor annex area that will become even larger. A few production, scheduling and distribution bugs remain, but the: first edition of The Sentinel under Journal Company ownership came out on sched- ule. The initial press run pro- duced about 200,000 copies of a 44-page paper. Canadian Press Staff Writer |shares its creator's belief that|the 27-day duration of the strike First came the pause. Then|this board of 20 labor and man- but some editions were limited. In Minneapolis the morning {Tribune and the evening Star, owned by the same company, the list of wage schemes, the} But, in view of the govern-|have not publishel since a) National Incomes Commission|ment's recent drop in popular-|Sttike of five unions began aoe | which immediately was nick-|ity, something more immediate|!2. Three of the unions have lwas needed, The érouble with|teached agreement and negotia~ But in some quarters they al-|the new scheme is that the un-/tions continue with the others. Now Prime Minister Macmil-|way towards righting economic _|ready have found other namesjions do not want Nicky; the em: pigpyTED BENEFITS to call it., The labor opposition|ployers do. And it is felt that The guild went on strike at ,|dubbed it a "gimmick" and un-|no central body on incomes ¢an pe Sentinel in a dispute over, ion officials said it was "child-|possibly work without the co-|,.: Wie nennony, When. oe 1 [operation of both sides of in-|tfone, poo anopines 'and the| thar tar as (age Gir ec wscre aaa hospital insurance plan. The loeuvre of the first order, an at-/NOT BINDING paper took the -- edb ltempt to put much of the re- Macmillan sees the National employees wanted imj : | ibili itain' . al issi 5 in.;ments in these areas, they sponsibiliy for Britain's poor Incomes Commission as an ee ld b a tor thom: the leconomic performance on the|dependent body to which parties|« Veta end t cisendy "an trade unions. jfrom either side of awage ged phe agreement already ap The so-called pay pause, the/Pute can appeal for a ruling on) oe is 4 guiding light and Neddy -- the|Wwhether a demand is fair, too, The wage package. provided National Economic Devel-\low or too high to be compati-|for Peon Hie fi A ocae oF ihe opment Council--were the ideas|ble with the national interest.|week for the first yee e of Selwyn Lloyd, the sacked|It would have. no power to en: x chancellor of the exchequer who|force its findings and could not for more than a year had borne|interfere with existing machin-| Beau Valley lthe brunt of public disapprovaljery for negotiations, It would) 1S GROWING ! " Come and see our 1962 "Dream lover his efforts to mould these|rely on arousing public opinion, A | Homes" now under construction. SHORGAS | i] lschemes into a national in-|on putting the party it felt to be) DRIVE UP TONIGHT HEATING & |comes policy, at fault in an embarrassing po-) Location APPLIANCES The wage freeze, designed to) last until productivity and ex-) |ports come more into line with} incomes, cracked under the) iweight of several powerful un-/ lions who defied the government! | sition. UNIONS CRACKED IT : Daily Salesmen Gn 7-9. P 'A PLEASANT PLACE TO LIVE' BOLAHOOD WILL TURN YOUR PROPERTY INTO CASH! - Spot Cash -- or Terms PRICE Salable- listings alone can over- come sales resistance, any 'pro- perty well listed is half sold. Why list high and lose a sale? The market price must be met, or no sale. Only a realistic price sells readily under todays real estate market conditions. PHONE US NOW and won increases. A | 725-6544 When the balance of pay- Industrial and | oes sg ha ig JOHN A. J jments improved a_ bit and Commercial baa oie eat : ' became obvious he couldn't hold | The established, reliable Ges ON ROSSLAND BO L AHOO0D the line anyway, Lloyd relente: ere and offered his "guiding light"|] eslern your eres | SCHOFIELD-AKER iphoy plan for holding increases tof 3] CELINA ST. LIMITED INSURANCE |2% per. cent. This too has just! (Co § Athol) REALTOR -- about collapsed. ae aaa 360 KING WEST MORTGAGES ARRANGED Neddy is made of tougher 728-9441 723-2265, -- BOUGHT -- SOLD stuff and apparently Lloyd's ee ME een eit eked