The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Lc RE A PP For eighty minutes last night, charges, denials and comments flew through the air in Osh- awa's council chamber. City council's discussion was prompted by the post-resigna- tion statements of Kevin Cahill, the city's former director of operations. At 12.20 a.m., after state- ments by Mayor Lyman Gifford and all aldermen except Ald. Alice Reardon, chairman of the discussion, it was over. "Mr. Cahill's daughter, con- tacted in Toronto today, said her father, employed by a Cana- dian firm, is travelling in the United States and not expected back for about three weeks. He resigned his $14,000 a year post Jan. 20, effective Jan. 30, charging "'lack of co-operation" and "deliberate opposition". Mr. Cahill was more specific in a subsequent radio broadcast and Ald. Clifford Pilkey said jast night he was "repudiating" these statements. Ald. Pilkey called two of Mr. Cahill's © statements '"'cruel, vicious lies", another a "down- right lie', and said much of KEVIN CAHILL «+» Charged obstruction what the former director said was "hearsay". Ald. Pilkey said he was named 11 times by Mr. Cahill during the broadcast while other members, -at most, were mentioned only once or twice. "It appeared that I was the one on trial," said Ald. Pilkey. Mr. Cahill said during the broadcast that at a traffic com-, mittee meeting he asked to have an item entailing the hiring of new staff ($5,000 per annum) for the engineering department de- ferred for a week in order that he might study the matter. He said Ald. Pilkey replied: '"'When we want your advice we will ask for it." Ald. Pilkey last night denied making the statement and said Mr. Cahill was telling a "cruel, vicious lie". ny He used the same phrase to describe another statement made by the former director concerning a meeting which Ald. Pilkey said Mr. Cahill did not attend. ORGANIZE OBSTRUCTION Mr. Cahill said last December at a meeting of union officials with Ald. Cecil Bint, Ald, John Brady and Ald. Pilkey, "... it was suggested to the union offi- cials that they should organize a program of obstruction in the public works department -- to obstruct myself and the works superintendent -- and that such program would have the support of Ald. Pilkey and the other aldermen present." Ald. Pilkey also said it was "a downright lie' that at the same meeting Ald. Bint told union officials that 'he saw no particular harm in workers from the city yard taking home city material and equipment for their own use, provided they didn't sell it'. Another charge by Mr. Cahill centred on the June, 1964, dis- charge by the director of two city employee's "on grave charges involving drunkenness and immorality on city prop- erty, interference with a city employee in the course of his work, attempting to make this employee drunk while on duty-- all necessitating police action to terminate the situation'. REINSTATED Mr. Cahill said prior to the dismissal, council's labor rela- tions committee gave him its blessing on the proposed action but that three weeks later "both - the delinquents" were reinstated in the city service. Ald, Pilkey said the union pre- sented its case to the labor rela- tions committee after the em- ployees were discharged and that the committee felt the pen- alty should be reduced to two or three weeks. "I think the committee took the correct position," said Ald. Pilkey. "The committee couldn't have justified the dis- charges in front of any arbitra- tor in the Dominion." NO CHARGES LAID . He added that the two men were on their own time and that the police laid no charges. Ald, Christine Thomas, later in the discussion, said the two men were trespassing on city property. She said it was "de- plorable" that city employees 'would do such a thing and that council was "negligent" in not investigating further. "At no time did I say: 'What about it; they are entitled to it'," as he was quoted by Mr. Cahill, who said Ald. Pilkey made the remark after being shown figures that the cost of sick pay for two departments (public works and parks) to be something in the region of $50,- 000 yearly and entailing a daily average absence rate of some 10 per cent with the suggestion that a change in policy was re- quired. 7 'At no time did I want to stir up trouble or did I stir up trouble," said Ald. Pilkey. "At no time did I put any opposition to Mr. Cahill. "T don't think any alderman-- for or against-- really conscien- tiously makes decisions that will be detrimental to the city. There was only one fellow (Cahill) that was right in everything and unfortunately he came to a bit- ter end," said Ald. Pilkey. Ald. Thomas referred to Mr. Cahill's report on the city yard in which he said men were tak- ing up to 40 minutes for coffee breaks, two hours for lunch, drinking on duty and using city vehicles for personal use. "The important thing to do now is examine some of the charges and correct them," said Ald, Thomas, "I charge council to see what we can do about it this year." "Mr. Cahill didn't get it (support of council) altogether,"' said Ald. Norman Down. "I think that's a fair statement," ALD. PILKEY ", . . A downright lie" adding that the former director was '"'a good friend of mine," and a "gentleman." Ald, Richard Donald said Mr. Cahill's resignation was '"'the most shabby type of tion that I have Cahill Statements Spark 80-Minute Council Session She complimented Mr. De- Hart for "keeping a vigilance bo inner workings of this va i Mayor Lyman Gifford said he had a "most. cordial" relation- ship with Mr. Cahill although 'we A ae if he had to again he wouldn't have followed the Woods, Gordon ad- ministration report and hired a director of operations. Cahill. led that Mr. Cahill' report on the works yard was not made public because it was based on "hearsay" and Mr. Cahill did not have any evi- dence. f Emergency Numbers Hospital 723-2211 Police 725-1133 Fire 725-6574 She Oshawa Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1965 Second Section City and district social and classified ing. features, advertis- PY irseii OR.PI MIDK PROVED popular last night and so did this exhibit. Oshawa Dairy's Raymond Boulet pours a jugful of milk for Ontario id} 3 te % Soe Disctidnda' Jaycee vice-president Zde- nek Kvarda at the winning exhibit as local Jaycees hosted their annual Bosses and Products Night at Hotel Genosha. Flanking the pair are (left) Desmond Newman, Cametoid Limited director in Ajax and guest speaker, and (right) Donald Netley,- president of the Osh- Next Best Thing For City Jaycees Marrying the boss' daughter may still be a good way to climb the corporate ladder but giving your boss a forum for his products is pretty good, too. Hotel Genosha's Piccadilly Room looked like a community supermarket last night as Jun- jor Chamber of Commerce members celebrated their an- nual Bosses and Products Night "It results in a closer rela- tionship between bosses and Jaycees and gives the bosses a tnowledge of what the organ-| ization. means,' says Donald) Netley, president of the Osh-| awa unit of the Jaycees | More than a dozen exhibits) were set up, with Oshawa Dairy! Company Limited taking first} prize on originality and the work) put into the exhibit. Ice Fans Get People Heaters Remember the little purple} people eater who rode to pop-| wlarity a few years ago on a hit tune? Change that to people heaters. You can find 160 of them--the largest installation in Canada-- in Oshawa's Civic Auditorium They're not purple. They're a newly-designed unit using aluminum extrusions. Two rows of the infra-red. radiant-heat units are suspended above the seats around the are na, with a third row above the ice surface for functions other than hockey. 'Each one can be controlled ahd adjusted separately. The units are of a '"'Calrod'" type which burns no oxygen from the atmosphere; ner does it put back any undesirable by-prod- ucts of combustion. About 150 .persons attended the banquet and dance and heard Desmond Newman, a director of Cametoid Limited in Ajax, speak on '"'Business and the Jaycees."' He discussed tLusiness and management, the responsibility and philosophy of management, and took a look at the Jaycee unit. Mr Newman relatea the ac- tivities of the 10 commissions 'committees) in the Jaycee unit to leadership training. While the programs are well- oriented generally some lack |depth. he said. Mr. Newman suggested the Jaycees get in the habit of not being bound by convention -- that they be pre- pared to look for new and bet- ter ways of carrying out their programs. Mr. Newman praised the Jay- eees for their work on the an- nual town-hall forum at civic election time. But he said he felt 'you join the rest of the voters in being interested in municipal politics for a short jfime * He suggested they send la permanent observor to city council meetings Safety At Rubber Plant 'Burning Issue': Hooper Plant safety at Goodyear Tire land Rubber Company of Can- ada Limited in Bowmanville is a "burning issue' with union men, The Times learned today. "Accidents are getting worse at the plant every day and the company is making no effort to rectify this situation," says Ken- neth Hooper, president of Local 189, United Rubber, Cork, Lino- leum and Plastic Workers of America H. G. MacNeill, Goodyear's Industrial Products Division general manager in Bowman- ville, today refused to confirm or deny Mr. Hooper's charge The 500-member local voted Feb. 28 to strike to back up their contract demands A conciliation board has been named. W. H. Dickie of Toronto is chairman. R. V. Hicks, also of Toronto, will represent the company; Harry Waisglass, re- search director for the. United Steelworkers of America, will represent the Local Mr. Dickie said today the board's first meeting is sched- uled for April 1. Union President Hooper said today unrest among the work- ers may result in a wildcat strike. "The men are fed up with the company stalling on contract ne- gotiations. The whole issue will blow up and we will have a wild- cat. We almost had one _ last Friday." Mr. Hooper quoted company officials as saying they have "'no authority" to settle ne- gotiations, just to discuss them He said the company's-inac- tion" on improving. plant safety has led the Local to withdraw union representatives from the joint safety committee. This committee is due to meet to- morrow Contract negotiations began last November. The union con- tract expired Feb. 19. The men cannot go on strike legally unti! seven days after the conciliation jnight she didn't Yl sCONVENTION board hands down its report, awa Jaycees. Mr. Newman urged the Jaycees not to be bound by convention but to look for new and better ways of carrying out their programs. He praised them for their town-hall forum at civic election time and sug- gested they send a perma- nent observor to city council meetings. --Oshawa Times Photo Education Trustees Vote Not To Pay Themselves Board of Education Trustee Mrs. C. C, Lee complained last know "why everyone is so hush-hush all of a sudden..." Perhaps the answer lay in the motion before the board: Whether to pay themselves honorariums of up to a possible $90 a month. The motion was defeated. After a long debate four trust- ees supported the move: Mrs. Lee, D. J. Powless, William Werry and T. D. Thomas. The question of honorariums was raised by Mrs, Lee who said she wanted it cleared up before the 1965 budget was sent to city council. "All I want to do is to open} it up to discussion so we'll know where we stand," she said. "Personally I am not interested in the money." ' Trustee Robert Stroud said Mrs. Lee had a right to put up a motion calling for an honor- arium in the form of an amend- ment to the budget. Trustee Lee: "I don't want to put in a motion, all 1 want is a discussion on the matter . . «NO one seems to back me up in this." Trustee Stephen Saywell sug- gested the board "leave the matter for this year, and dis- cuss it in the fall as part of the 1966 budget". "We will then have a more rational. time to discuss it," he said. EXPENSES" Trustee William Werry made the first move, with a motion that $5,000 be placed in the budget for "convention ex- penses" to be re-allocated 'to provide honorariums Trustee Dr, Claude Vipond ob- jected, claiming the practice of 'attending conventions to study new educational techniques was "time-honored, well established, and shouldn't be disturbed' Trustee Werry: "We're faced here with an inequality of par- ticipation. Not all trustees have the same chance to attend con- ventions. We talk a lot about inequality of education on this board but we're faced with one right here. Many trustees just can't afford time off from work to attend conventions." Trustee Vipond: 'I don't un- derstand what you mean by in- equality -- everyone can get time off for something like this." Russell Murphy, separate school board representative, said: 'Trustees should come out bold-faced and decide yes or not whether they're going to vote themselves an honorarium --not in this way." Trustee Lee: "I agree, why do we have to beat around. the bush on this. Let's vote yes or no." The motion was defeated, and trustees returned to the debate. Trustee D. J. Powless finally made the motion that "the board authorize the finance com- mittee to pay honorariums to Trustees .°.* ," Trustee T. D. Thomas: "I want to make it perfectly clear, I'm not at all interested in hon- orariums,"' Trustee Stroud: 'I came on the board to serve, not to col- lect an honorarium -- but I would feel badly if I stopped another trustee from 'collecting one," Trustee Lee: "I think we all came on the board to_ serve, Mr. Stroud, and not to collect money -- but we must make a decision on this now." Then followed a move to make the vote secret. Trustees Werry and Stroud objected: Trustee Werry: 'I'm absolute- ly opposed to any secret ballot on this matter." Trustee Stroud: "So am T,; and if we have one I'll cast an empty ballot." The vote remained open Trustee Saywell "Once again, I urge we not force this issue now, The time isn't. right {meet regularly this month. DO's Job To Be Studied Council will discuss the future of the director of operations position later this month, Mayor Lyman Gifford said after last night's council meeting. The mayor told The Times the discussion may be_ held during one of council's budget rommittee discussions. During the meeting, Ald. Christine Thomas suggested that when the special committee studying the 1962 Woods, Gordon administration report comes to eouncil in committee, some of the charges made by Kevin Cahill in his resignation and his report on the city yard, be discussed. The mayor replied that some committee recommendations may be made in open council. "Don't look for a report too early," he added, noting that budget meetings will not make it possible for the committee. to Warehouse BUSINESS WITH STRUCK PLANT ANNOYS ALDERMAN The city has spent $5,000 with General Printers. Ltd., since last July, Ald Mar- garet Shaw told members of city council last night, "J think this should be looked into, definitely," she said. Members of the Inter- national Typographical Un- ion have been on e at General Printers since last summer, "Some péople have ex- pressed concern and regret that the city is still doing business with General Printers," said Ald. John Brady, who touched off the discussion by noting a $1,535 stationary purchase in the list of accounts. Mayor Lyman __ Gifford said he has had_ several meetings with management and the printers and that he would "be glad to carry it on through and. see what can be done." "The situation is disturb- ing to a number of people," said Ald. Brady He asked if it would not be possible for the city's purchasing department to ALD. SHAW . «+ Should be looked into" make sure iit does not buy from strike-bound plants. Mayor Gifford said he would talk to the purchas- ing agent and the city treasurer. For Harbor? A feasibility study will be begun almost immediately on Harbor. The study will be conducted by Fred C. Malloy, chairman of the Oshawa Harbor Commis- sion, and James P. Williams, Oshawa _ Industrial Commis- sioner. Mr. Malloy said plans for the study were made at an Ottawa meeting of the commission, at- tended by representatives of the federal departments of Trans- port and Public Works. The study is expected to take three months to complete. If built, the warehouse would go east of the $500,000 open-face berth on the harbor's east side. Mr, Malloy said a bylaw was prepared for submission to the Privy Council for ratification of new rates and tariffs to be charged at the harbor, Is Oshawa A Toonerville? Is Oshawa a "'Toonerville type of city?" Ald. Clifford Pilkey suggested last night that anyone passing through the city and seeing the Canadian National Railways' station might think just that. Council passed a motion that the CNR be asked te "'investi- gate and give serious consider- ation to improving its Oshawa station and advise council as to future improvements it plans to make." Ald. Christine Thomas. said several years ago the CNR gave her a "firm promise" verbally that it would demolish the old station and erect a new one. Mayor Lyman Gifford said he too received a similar verbal promise but that the CNR offi- cial who made the promise has now to vote for an honorarium." since 'passed away", DeHart Repudiates A publicity seeking charge was levelled last night by Ald. Norman Down at John DeHart. During council's discussion of statements made by Kevin Cahill, the former director of operations, Ald. Down said Mr DeHart '"'fooled 'a lot of people" in south Oshawa with his petition to the Department of Municipal Affairs requesting an inquiry into Oshawa's civic administra- tion. "I think he (DeHart) wanted some pubiicity for himself," said Ald. Down. Mr DeHart said today he was surprised at Ald. Down's re- marks. "T don't need the publicity as indicated but I believe Ald. Down has advocated that tax- payers have no right to take up +] ie unas oh oasane Alderman's Charge a petition at the municipal level."' said Mr. DeHart. "Perhaps Ald. Down's model is: 'Let sleeping dogs lay.' " "T would like to remind Ald. Down that as a_ taxpayer I have some rights," said Mr. iDeHart. 'I would also like to remind him that the petition was not conceived by me alone. I had several phone calls even after I had the required num- ber of signatures who wished to sign. Perhaps only two or three names were people in the south end." , Mr. DeHart said he was not surprised at the outcome of the discussion. He said the time element was a "big factor" because it started so late that no one asked any . questions following individual statements. City Council Over South E South Oshawa residnts again "shook" members of city coun- cil last night with reports of vibrations they claim are caused by presses at Houdaille Industries Ltd Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fitz- gerald, 964 Ritson road south, sent a letter and a five-name petition to council, 'enquiring as to whether anything can (and should) be done about the fact that our houses tremble 24 hours a day". R. J. Heard, 41 Sandra -street west, presented a 34-name peti- tion and spoke to council about the "very weird situation". The petition noted the "physi- cal, emotional and _ material damage" caused by the vibra- "Shaken Up" nd Vibrations what it could to stop the vibra- tions and also make allowances in their assessment. Mayor Lyman Gifford assured Mr. Heard that 'the president of Houdaille Industries is aware of the situation". He said Ald. Hayward Mur- doch, property committee chair- man, received a letter from the president saying that the com- pany is "investigating and mak- ing tests". The mayor said Houdaille haven't denied that they are not causing the vibrations "'but they haven't admitted it either". The property owners, suggest- ed the mayor, if they feel they are being over-assessed, have the right to appeal at the court tions and asked the city to do of revision. $4,325,000 Education Budget OK'd By Board | Up $383,000 Over '64 Tab Educating Oshawa's young this year will cost $4,325,000-- an increase of $38%,000 over its 1964 budge, Board of Educa- tion announced last night. The budget, finally ratified at a special meeting of the board, will be submitted to city xe for approval. ' $20 over the 1963 budget. As a result the increase in the mill rate will be kept down to .82 for residential and 92 for commercial. In practical terms, consider- ing a rate of 60 per cent on actual values of residential property, the assessed value will increase taxes by $4.92 for homes costing $10,000; $7.38 for $15,000 homes; and $9.84 for homes cosing $20,000. Ross Backus, business admin- istrator, said the main reasons for the jump were increased en- rolment of students, and in- creases in. salaries. SALARIES UP Salaries, he said, were up $544,000 in public and second- ary schoois for teachers and staff, which represented 82 per cent of the total increase. Payment of debentures ac- counted for seven per cent; while instructional supplies and equipment amounted to nine per cent. Student enrolment, Mr, Back- us, said, was expected to in- crease by nearly 1,000 in public and secondary schools. There are 4,050 students in Oshawa's high schools now, and this will increase by 500 stu- dents, or 12.3 per cent, to 4,500 in September. At the same time, public school enrolment, at 10,530 now, will increase by 450, or 4.3 per cent, in the fall. To, meet this increased atten- dance, an estimated 50 addition- al teachers will have to be em- ployed by the system. TEXTBOOK LOAD An unexpected increase is the load which must be carried by the board to supply free text- books for Grades 11 and 12 stu- dents. Part of the cost for free text books for Grades 9 and 10 students was paid by the board last year, but recent announce- ments by the Department of Education that boards would have to pay a part of the cost of books for Grades 11 and 12, generally caught school boards by surprise. Cost for the free text books in Oshawa will amount to an esti- mated $85,600, of which $37,685 will be paid by government grants, while the board will have to pick up a tab for $47,915 --or nearly one fifth of a mill. When the budget was ratified, Trustee T. D. Thomas praised Trustee Stanley Lovell and school officials for their work in preparing the budget, which, he said, had been "pared down to the bone". PUBLICATION DELAYED Mechanical difficulty de- layed publication of The Oshawa Times Monday. The newspaper apologizes for amy __ inconvenience which resulted to its read- ers,