semen 0 ar a st TRUSTEE 8S. LOVELL TRUSTEE 8. SAYWELL TRUSTEE W. WERRY TRUSTEES T. D. THOMAS AND a C. LARMOND ii ell TRUSTEE R. MURPH TRUSTEE MRS. C. C. LEE Waitin ta TRUSTEE E. A. BASSETT Emergency Numbers Hospital 723-2211 Police 725-1133 Fire 725-6574 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1965 Second Section City and district social and classified features, advertis- One-Way Street System Soon, Says Ald. Brady Oshawa's one-way street sys- tem will go into effect before the end of June, says Ald. John Brady, traffic committee chair- man: Portions of Bond and King streets are now one-way to traffic i Ald. Brady said Bond street east, from Riverside drive to Wilson road, must be paved this spring and signs must be erect- ed at several locations on both streets. "The balance of the one-way system will be open as soon as we can get it into shape," he! said. Before the complete one-way pattern on Bond and King streets becomes effective, the traffic chairman said council will have to approve a resolu- tion stating the starting date. | Other city connecting link} road plans for this year, in-| clude the widening of King! ie west, fgom Stevenson road, to the city limits and the extension of Bond street west, from Stev- Waverly road. Tuberculosis To Blanket County The need to stamp out tu-Stiles, training chairman; Clif- berculosis has spurred a TB/ford Pilkey, labor; Canon F. G. Mass Survey which will be held/Ongley, in nine Ontario County muni-/Hall, public relations, M. Mc- Intyre Hood, publicity; Kenneth The Ontario County TB and|Smyth, Cancer Society liaison; Health Association. has set May|George Martin, Heart Founda-| 11 as the date for the survey/tion liaison. cipalities. which will run to June 19 -- the first held in the district since|six districts with a chairman re- 1960, states a newsletter releas-|sponsible for-.each as follows: ed by the survey committee.jdistrict No. 1, Mrs. D. E. Net The survey will attempt tojley; district No. 2. Mrs. F. S.J) cover at least 75 per cent of|/Wotton; district No. 3, Mrs. D.|7 the population of Oshawa, Whit-/E. McLaurin; district No. 4, Er- by, East Whitby Township,|nest Whiting; ; Whitby Township, Ajax, Pick- Mrs. Frederick Ball and dis-|' ering Village, Pickering Town-|trict No. 6, Mrs. R. F. Beckett.| / ship, Uxbridge and Uxbridge) Township. The 1955 survey reached. 38 per cent of the population and the 1960 survey saw participa- tion leap to 64.5 per cent. In the two previous surveys conducted by the association re- sults showed that there are still undiscovered cases of active TB in the eity and county. The mass campaign has been plann-} ed to spot any undiscovered ac- tive case. , The first full executive meet- ing was held recently with Dr. H. A, Richmond as general chairman. Col. R. S. McLaugh- lin was named as the honorary chairman. Mrs. E. A. Collins (Mrs. Christmas Seal), will act as executive-secretary and other officers are: Jules Ethier, vice- chairman, Oshawa; J. K. San- ders, vice-chairman, couhty; Drs. ©. C. Stewart, M. R. Braund and John Chmara, medi- cal advisors; Mrs. Donald apne | enson road, io King street, near| | | Survey professions, Nicholas Oshawa has, been divided into district No, 5,): Subdivisio 10n Oshawa board of education will ask city planning board]; this week to disapprove a pro- posed subdivision that would face the northern limits of the Harmony road_ public school site. Trustee Thomas D. Thomas said original plans for the school called for Adelaide street to run by the playfground, but recent investigations showed 26 houses planned in a strip between the road and the school. We've received complaints in the past when schools have been fronted by rows of houses and we've usually ended up having to pay for fences to be erected," he said. "Such a move would also spoil the beauty of this very expensive school." OSHAWA FLYING CLUB LESSON Flying Not Quite Like B Flying is as easy as riding a bicycle, claim the experts, also on hairdoes.' two pooches are "good friends" of the Osh- awa dog pound. They drop around almost every day to see 'he dog control officers --but after March 15 they sons she spends on clothes and But, as every expert is apt to add, in the case of an accident the fall out of the sky is much longer than the fall from a bi- cycle seat. Thus, the accent in flying is very much on safety, says George Slocombe, secretary- manager of the Oshawa Flying Club Right from the beginning the trainee pilot is ordered to "get to know your plane'. Before every flight the pilot makes a thorough inspection of his air- craft Although a few females are interested in flying, says Mr. Slocombe, they dén't have the same interest as males. "The girl or woman who takes flying interest after a while," money she would spend on les- lessons loses he said The MINIMUM 35 HOURS To earn a private licence, the government requires a student to train for a minimum 35 hours and flying courses cost between $500 and $550 to com- plete said the club manager. "When taking lessons you pay as you go and it would cost $11.50 for the plane and $3 for the instrucfor,"' he said. '"'When the studem flys solo it only costs him the $11.50 "If the student doesn't com- plete the course in 12 months because of financial or other reasons, then he must do 45 hours of instruction instead of 35," said Mr.. Slocombe. He said there is a $100 grant from the federal government for anyone getting their private pi- lot's licence. "IT shouldn't say anyone," he added, '"'there are two condi- tions. He must pass, what is lt Right now they properly tagged operates on a called an A-l medical and be between thé ages of 17 and 32." Mr Slocombe said the stu- dent must also pass a_ two- month ground school course where the student learns air regulations, airmanship, navi- gation and meteorology Down the runway with the throttle open at what seems like 200 miles an hour -- but is only 110 mph -- and the plane is airborne. At 2.000 feet the student pilot is handed the controls -- and starts shaking! "WATCH YOUR NOSE" 24 "Watch your nose," warns a voice that brings the student back to reality. He is heading toward the ground 'at a speed of 105 mph so he closes his eyes and pulls back on the stick A miracle -- he is no longer pointed at the ground but up at the clear blue sky. will become inmates if they are caught on the loose. be picked up because they are Oshawa six-month POACHING POOCH PROBLEM AT POUND freedom, six-month with his constant visitors. iking Before he knows what is hap- pening, the plane is winging over. Bay Ridges and heading out to Lake Ontario. "Okay," says instructor George, "put the plane into a turn and head back inland." "Well," he says, 'how do you go about doing that?" "Turn the stick,' he is told, "in the direction you want to go and that's all there is to it." He tries it. It works. And back he comes. After flying for about 45 min- ules, the student is told it is time to land. Wind direction is checked, the planes loses alti- tude, the landing procedure is explained. "Don't get nervous," the stu- dent is told. "Keep it straight, nose down, flaps down . . . now pull back on the stick." Amazing -- he is down, And in one piece, tie-up basis, Ian Costello, a city dog control officer, is shown --Oshawa Times Photo Whitby Rate WHITBY (Staff) -- Whitby Town Council last night set its mill rate and a taxpayer with $4,000 assessment will have to pay an additional $32.80 (See story on page. 5). The Whitby residential rate is up 8.2 mills to 81 mills and the commercial rate is up by 9 mills to 88.7 mills. The final budget meeting of the Bowmanville Town Council will be held Wednesday, Town- Clerk Jack Reid said today. He said that budget recommenda- tions of the Bowmanville Pub- lic School Board and the Dur- ham County High School Board had been received by council. "We will strike the mill rate at the regular council meeting Monday," Mr. Reid stated. The deputy town clerk of Ajax, Mondeau Beauchamp, said: "We haven't put our bud- get together yet, several de- partments have not submitted their estimates for the year. The whole thing should be set- tled in a couple ef weeks." Officials of the Ajax Public School Board and the Pickering District High School Board said that final details of. the budgets for both bodies would be hammered out within the coming week. Safety Sam Hoots For City Jaycees The cry of Safety Sam, the Wise Old Owl -- "Stay Alive in '65" ~-- is being hooted around the town by the Osh- awa Jaycees as part of their current safety campaign. The campaign moved into its second month this week with officials noting that the public is taking heed of the safety Jowl's cry, The Jaycees are boosting traf- fic safety to make the public aware of dangers on the roads, Jaycee president Don Netley said today that a safety parade is planned in which all aspects of safety, traffic, fire, water etc., will be stressed. Warming up their musical instruments are three mem- bers of the band of the Ontario Regiment which will hold 'its first "Pop" vy Board T Sweat Out 65 Budget | *°| DARING $1,400 CIGARETTE Up 8.2 Mills THEFT OUTSIDE CITY HOTEL An estimated $1,400 in cigarettes were stolen Mon- day morning from a parked station wagon on Mary street north, beside the east entrance to the Hotel Genosha. Abie Schwartz, of 1549 Kingston road, Scarboro, said he had left his automo- bile beside the hotel as he went in to service a cigar- ette machine. When he re- turned he found 10 to 14 half full cases of cartons of cigarettes had been taken. Entrance had been forced through the no draft window on the left front door, Po- lice are following a lead, but made no arrests yet. rustees Mill Rate Before Month-End Lights burned late last night at Oshawa's Board of Education building as weary trustees ham- mered out the 1965 budget. The seven-hour meeting of the finance committee ended at 2 a.m today after trustees, school administrators and the four secondary school principals had ploughed through a' 93-page fi- Sunset Heights Battle Over For School Bus The battle for the bus has ended About 50 students attending Sunset Heights public school will be riding to school on a Public Utilities Commission- operated bus in a "'day or two," Bruce Annand, commission manager, told The Times today after a meeting of commission and Board of Education offi- cials. Parents of the pupils had threatened to boycott the school if transportation was not pro- vided. : The officials agreed to route one of the five city buses, now transporting students to school, to the Taunton road area to pick up the students for de- livery at Sunset Heights. The bus will be 10 minutes late arriving at the school and the bus taking them home will not leave the school until three- quarters of an hour after school closes Mrs, Jacqueline Woodcock, leader of the parents' group, said the mothers will have to supervise students at the school until the bus arrives to take them home. The Commission also stipu- lated that if the number of stu- dents riding the bus drops below 25 then the Commission at the arrangement," said Mr Annand. He said the arrangemen mission. who must cross meeting 'she told the officials: "I can't educate a dead child," in reference to the traffic hazards for children walking to the school. on Taunton road. The students travelling by bus will pay 25 cents for three tickets, said Mr. Annard. At.a similar meeting two weeks ago, when the bus serv- ice question was first discussed by the board and the commis- sion, it was revealed that the city bus system last year oper- ated at about a $44,000 deficit. It was also revealed that the five buses now used only to transport school children oper- ated at a $17,000 deficit last year. The press was permitted to ial estimate concerning both elementary and secondary schools, Mr.. Annand said board and commission officials felt there is a definite hazard for children the narrow bridge on Taunton road. He said buses will avoid the bridge. Mrs Woodcock said after the Ross Backus, business admin- |istrator, said the final budget |should be ratified by the board Thursday and then presented to city council for approval. Last year the board submitted _|@ $3,942,000 budget to council, an increase of $434,320 over the t| 1963 budget. The city's .budget last» year must still be confirmed by the board of education and the com-|"t $12,000,000 'with a record levy of $9,712,000. Three expen- ditures took 74 cents. of the tax dollar; education, 40.6 cents; debt charges, 19.4 cents; fire and police, 14 cents. Council committees are now meeting with city . treasurer Frank Markson and city dee partment heads to iron out bud- gets. Once these meetings have been completed all of council will meet to go over the whole budget point by point. Ald. Gordon Attersley, finance chairman, says the mill rate will: probably be. set before the end of this month. Books Needed By Ghana Man J. H Rapsey, former princi- pal of the Ajax High School, has written to the Rotary Club. of Oshawa asking that. old copies of the Readers'. Digest, pocket books and classic comic books be sent to him to assist in the teaching of English in attend and report proceeding at the meeting two weeks ago but was barred from today's will "have to. take another look meeting. Ghana. Mr. Rapsey is working under the Colombo Plan at the Accra Training College, Accra, Ghana. ™ te > ee a this Friday night at McLaughlin Collegiate and Vocational Institute auditorium. Soloists for the concert are William Whit- concert A STORM sitt, euphonium; his 14-year- old son Jan Whitsitt, E-flat horn; and Allan Cooper, / trombone, The band. will be under the direction of Bandmaster Capt. George W. Quick... Baritone Ross Cotton will be one of the featured soloists --Oshawa Times Photo