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Emergency Numbers Hospital 723-2211 Police 725-1138 Fire 725-6574 The Oshawa Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1965 - Second Section City. and district features, social and -classified .advertis- ing. a BRIDGES FROM AUTOS Grannys Bed WHITBY (Staff) -- Would you believe that granny's cast- iron bed or the engine from your old hupmobile could now be part of a bridge or some other major construction. Lake Ontario Steel Company, located on a 400-acre site in in Whitby Township overlooking Lake Ontario, converts scrap iron--which comprises about 98 per cent of the ¢ontent of scrap steel--into bars of finished steel. On a recent tour of the LASCO plant, Gordon Boles,, per- sonnel manager, explained that scrap iron. and other raw material which go into steel making, are married in the electric are furance in a chemical end thermal reaction to produce steel of the finest quality. Each furnace holds up to 50 tons of molten metal. Look- ing into the furnace with a pair of blue glasses, the steel looks like a pot of bubbling pea soup. Temperature in the furnace varies between 2,960 and 3,010 degrees fahrenheit. As the huge furnace tilted and the liquid steel poured into a pre-heated ladle for transport to the casting machine, Mr. Boles said: "That's liquid gold to us." The molten metal is poured into water-cooled moulds. A form of "freezing" takes place. in a 2,600 to 2,750 degree temperature range. In the first six feet of downward travel a one-inch thick shell solidifies and contains the liquid core in the next two minutes of passage through cooling chambers. A SHAFT of light illuminates the furnace room of the Lake Ontario Steel Com- pany, above, as a workman tests the temperature of a furnace before 50 tons of molten steel is tapped from the furnace. A fireworks dis- play of sparks is shown be- low as the 3,000 degree "Under Fire' At the bottom of the machine while the strands are still pliable, they are bent from a vertical to a horizontal plane, straightened and then automatically cut to desired lengths by oxygen torches, Mr. Boles said it takes about 17 hours for slabs to cool off completely. The slabs are theh reheated to approximately 2,250 de- grees and fed through an automatic conveyor. A surprise to many steel experts is the lack of personnel on the rolling floor. In most mills the samie size where much of the steel is manually handled, 10 to 12 men are re- quired to keep the steel flowing. At LASCO the floor is practically bare. The whole rolling operation is run from a control pulpit by one man while one or two others on the floor primarily supervise the rolling machines, The bars when rolled to the proper thickness are auto- matically cut to the desired length without interrupting the speed at which they travel over the conveyer beds. The conveyer process reduced the size and increased the length of the bars. The half-inch bars travel at a speed of 2,100 feet per minute A government inspected scale weighs all shipments in and out of the plant. formed bars: go into a steel cutting machine, at a cool 2,650 degrees --Oshawa Times Photos by Bruce Jones Fahrenheit metal is poured into a_ transporting ladle The metal is then moved to cooling moulds and is shown, right, as the newly- EYES PEELED Sam the wise old Safety Owl will be on the lookout for Oshawa's good auto driv- ers during the next few weeks, The observant owl is the symbol of the safety cam- paign currently being spon- sored in the city by the Oshawa Jaycees. Don Netley, club presi- dent, said that in April and May a "Safe Driver of the Week" will be chosen in the city and will be rewarded with a tank of gas from a local service station. Sam will keep his big brown eyes peeled for the driver who sticks to cour- teous driving habits and safe driving practices, The lucky winner will be announced once each week. The first "Safe Driver of the Week" will be an- nounced in the first week of April. The campaign is ene of eight safety projects SAFETY OWL "SAM" KEEPS FOR SAFETY which the local Jaycee club is sponsoring in its current traffic safety program, Two members of the club will each week take the li- cence plate numbers of un- suspecting motorists who are driving safely and ob- serving all the relevant road rules, The Jaycees will nar- row down the hunt for the most deserving driver and will then check the name and address of the lucky person with the Department of Transport. "We really take this ser- iously," said Mr. Netley, "I am sure that we will not have too much trouble find- ing a safe driver in Osh- awa,"' The Jaycees are also taking drastic steps to bring the dangers of unsafe drivers home to motorists. A wreck- ed car has been dumped up- side. down, by the club at Bloor and Simcoe streets. - a s |police car, to observe the walk, The efforts of a former Osh-jbe established to assist individu- jawa couple to provide a bi-jals who incur expense in the lingual education for their two|course of trying to get educa- children are to be made knownjtion in French or English for jto the Royal Commission on Bi-|themselves or their children. lingualism and Biculturalism. Interest in such a system, the Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Find-|Findlays add, is evident by the lay, now living in Don Mills,/large number of language thave presented a brief to the|schools that. have sprung up in commission, now sitting in Ot-!Toronto and Montreal during the }tawa last few years. | It is believed that the brief is} For three years the Findlays' jthe only one of its kind present-|daughter Helen was one of very jed by an individual Canadian| few children from English | family It will be. tabled at the!speaking families being edu- |commission on March 30 cated entirely in French in the The Findlays are asking for) public school system of Quebec an encouragement of gov-| Province Jernmental and group support) Coming from a Protestant jfor individual effort to achieve| home she was an even rarer ex- bilingual education ception. Montreal, the parents "We believe,' Findlays|thought, provided. a wonderful state in their brief, "that such] opportunity to learn two. lan- j;education is fundamental to ben | guages efiting from this national chal Helen first attended a French lenge." <indergarten school. There were The Fi nend that}no preblems here. The trouble a sy of federal bursaries,)came the following September Ischolarships or grants of aid to|when the Findlays tried to start the ila recon tem Former City Couple Fight 'For Bilingual Education their daughter in Grade 1 of a Montreal Catholic school. After a three-day fight and the threat of a lawyer's letter Helen was finally accepted by the school. The principal, however, had grave doubts as to whether the scheme would work. | As it turned out the plan was! a roaring success. Helen's| French improved rapidly, The| Findlay's younger son Gordon! followed into the kindergarten, | The Findlays go on to describe in their brief their move to To- ronto and the even bigger fight to continue their children's bi-| lingual education, Through not being Roman Catholics the Findlays were dis- allowed from sending their chil- dren to a Catholic school on| Sherborne street. The school] was not able to collect their! taxes through. law Gordon is now being educa- ted in a special French school while Helen is at public school. 4 @|marshal support from the labor + |wasn't a single person in the en- Taunton road will be the scene of a protest march Mon- day when parents of Sunset Heights. Public School pupils will escort the children to morn- ing classes. In closed ranks, parents will form "a defensive perimeter around the children as they march along the two-mile long route, The move is the latest in the series of attempts to dramatize the case of the 'Parents and Pupils of Sunset Heights School" organization, which requests school transportation until the road can be made safe for. the 40 children. Mrs, Jacqueline Woodcock, mother of two, and group or- ganizer, said that the great ma- jority of parents involved will take part in the "'walk" -- which ewill continue at least until the school boycott planned for April 1 "This isn't a parade, all we are trying to do is to ensure that the children get to school safely," she maintains, Parade or not, the walk is expected to tie up traffic -- as the group will walk on the pavement. Taunton road has stretches with neither sidewalk nor shoulders. POLICE TO OBSERVE Police Chief Herbert Flintoff said today that he did not an- ticipate any trouble with the march. 'We will send along a he said, '"'but I don't think that it will interfere with traffic." The organization has begun to front: Alderman Clifford Pilkey and Keith Ross, representative of the United Steel Workers, and president and secretary. of the Oshawa and District Labor Council respectively, have both come out in support of the par- ents and will take the case be- FORE THE ODLC "It appears that labor coun- cil will come out in 100 per cent support of the parents," Mr. Ross said today. "I am going to recommend that we do all we possibly can to clear up the matter." He said there are plans for USW local members to join the Taunton road marchers. "TI feel either city council or the Board of Education should] Protest March Planned To Show Road Hazard Sunset Heights Pupils To Get Parent Escort ' JACQUELINE WOODCOCK ". .. this isn't a parade" spent more time getting down to solving the problem than try- ing to put it off on someone else," said Mr. Ross, (The question of a solution to the dispute now. lies between the board and council. The board has decided that road safety is a matter for council and the police commission and has requesed action from them.) "These people in elected posi- tions will have to answer for anything that happens up there," Mr. Ross stated. Board officials said that a statement concerning the Sun- set Heights Schol problem will be released by Monday. Several board . trustees feel that their, hands have been tied during the debate and that the board's position has not been fully explained, The statement will outline the board's stand on the parents' request. In the past school officials have warned repeatedly that to provide transportation for the Sunset Heights area would take the board into the field of transportation. In the end, they maintain, the board and the peo- ple of Oshawa, would end up paying large amounts in fu- ture for a service which could have been avoided. BLOOD PANIC It happened in Toronto recent- ly. A man was rushed to hospi- tal for an urgent heart opera- tion, After tests it was found that he was of an unusual blood variety. An immediate call was sent out to the Red Cross for blood donors. After investigation it was discovered that there Hire city with matching blood. The call, the area units. " Here in Oshawa local Red Cross workers immediately got to work, They were lucky. With- in minutes seven donors with a been found. Four were contacted and brought into Oshawa General immediately dispatched to col- lect the blood. The result of the operation is not known. The case history, however, graphically illustrates the constant need for blood and the invaluable work Cross. does in maintaining a ready supply. Cross boasts a fine record. age of some 400 bottles of blood. In the city there are 5,000 ac- tive donors. In addition, there are a. further 1,500 donors who are inactive for various reasons.jeven have professional 2,000 BOTTLES matching blood variety had/joff the list for various g the Red/America," Toronto Emergency Call Answered By City Donors The need is obviously great and in Oshawa the public re- spond well to the 12 monthly blood clinics held at the St, Gregory's Auditorium. 18-65 ELIGIBLE Anyone between the ages of 18 and 65 is eligible to donate blood, provided they are in good health and have not had any diseases. "We are constantly encoure now more urgent/aged by the wonderful public re- ,|than ever before, went vut tojsponse in Oshawa," blood donor chairman of the local Red Cross, Bob Stroud explains, "But the need is always great. We need every bottle we can get. People are always epee rea- sons. "It may be that they are over the age limit, or suffering from Hospital to give the much need-|an illness or just unavailable ed blood. In the meantime ajwhen the blood clinic comes Red Cross station wagon wasjalong. "Thus the need for new donors is big," Canada should feel proud of its Red Cross workers and its abso- lutely free blood service. "Down in some states in Mr. Stroud adds, "blood is a business. It is run by some people on a profit-mak- Here in Oshawa the local Redjing basis. "Blood in some states can cost Every month it collects an aver-jas much as $75 a bottle. You just add the cost up if a patient needs some 20 or 25 pints in . transfusion, "It would be fantastic. You blood donors in the States, people who make money out of giving If a sudden tragedy was to|blood." strike, either here in the city or. elsewhere in Canada, Osh-jlutely Here in Canada blood is abso- free. The professional awa could supply some 2,000/donor too, is non-existent, bottles at very short notice. Donating blood is a service of. the highest vaiue. Just a half-hour' away from work or the television can mean the difference between life andj want death to a road accident victiin. Minutes, even 'seconds count when an accident victim is brought into hospital. Vast supplies of blood have tojory's, be on-hand at all times. Every year throughout Canada somejand from 6. unt'l 9 All that the dono. gets for puolic)giving his blood is a cup of cof- fee and a cookie and the heart- felt thanks of the Red Cross. "People give because they to," Mr, Stroud = said. "They know the need and want to help. The next Oshawa' Blood Clinic will be held, again at St. Greg- this coming Thursday Hours are from 1.30 to 4.30 p.m. People are 800,000 bottles are used in trans-jurged to turn out and support fusions, * the clinic, z A NRPS MONA 7