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

Second Section: City and district features, social and classified advertis- Emergency Numbers Hospital 723-2211 Police 725-1133 Fire 725-6574 She Oshawa Limes OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1965 City Hospital Waiting List Getting Longer: Holland Over 1,000 Waiting For Beds, He Reports Despite the opening of a 220- bed addition to the Oshawa General Hospital in 1963 the waiting list has gone up. So said William Holland in his re- port given Thursday at the OGH 54th annual general meeting. "While we had hoped that the increased number of beds would have done away with waiting lists we found the. opposite sit- uation developing," he said. "We now have more _ people waiting than we had before the addition was opened'. Mr. Holland said that more than 1,100 people are waiting Hospital Expansion Announced A pl d major expansion of the Oshawa General Hospital was announced Tuesday at the annual general meeting by E. G. Storie, OGH board chairman. Mr. Storie said that pre- liminary plans have been made for an extension which will in- clude 60 additional chronic pa- tient beds; a 24-bed psychiatric unit, complete with outpatient mental health clinics; 12 con- valescent beds and a few active NEW RAIL SIGN DANDY, BUT NEW DEPOT BETTER © liams, Industrial Commis- sioner told commission members last night. The commission, at its last meeting, decided to ask city council to ask the CNR what plans it has for the station. One member called the station 'pathetic'. Council subsequently pass- ed a motion that a letter be written to the CNR asking for news on its plans for the station. No reply has yet A new City of Ohawa sign now greets train-travel- ling visitors to Oshawa and gives those passing through the city something to look at. But, city officials -would probably swap the sign at the Canadian National Rail- ways depot for a new or renovated station. The new sign was install- ed yesterday at no cost to the city through an agree- ment with a- billboard ad- Take a tip from the wise old owl -- "Safety Sam" -- and STAY ALIVE IN '65, advise the Oshawa Jay- cees who are in the midst organizers Jim responsibility death off the Jaycees have organized a variety of Club spotters will soon be d % \T i] "SAFETY SAM'S" MESSAGE of a four-month road safety campaign in the city. Here campaign Shaw (left) and Don Netley shoulder their share of the for roads. safety keeping events. out in the city looking for courteous drivers. Winners will receive a free tank of gas. --Oshawa Times Photo Trustee Joins In March Then Jumps Into Debate Trustee Mrs. Clayton Lee joined in a protest march Mon-|we should do the day with parents and children of the Sunset Heights school district -- and jumped into the that evening. "I have proof now that Taun- ton road is a dangerous walk," said Mrs. Lee. "It is time that something was done, and we are losing ground. .."' The debate was sparked by a letter from Mrs. Jacqueline port the children along the two- cuss the issue. Trustee William Werry: "As a board I feel we could have done something before all this happened. . ." of the board then." until we meet with council, to but 'no-jdiscuss the question of. safety. one seems to be doing anything|No one is deliberately delaying the question." }talked with teachers and par- like tojents," she said. 'The parents felt it was too big a responsi- bility for them to watch the children after school minutes without aid or super- vision. They would be respon- sible for any breakage or dam- pro-|age done to the school. They felt that if there weren't any supervisors, it would be just too much of a responsibility. If you were misled on_ this would be my fault and I'm Trustee Stroud: know, Mrs. Lee, if you're blam- Woodcock, spokesman for the|ing 11 members or 12 members nt's group, asking that the|of the board--are you blaming td hire a rural bus to trans-| yourself?" Trustee Thomas: "'In all fair- and-a-half mile long stretch of|ness to the board members -- road. The board and city coun-|transportation was to be cil will meet Thursday to dis-|vided by the Public Commission. The parents gave assurances at that time that it was satisfactory, but now they have changed their minds be- cause the times were inconveni- Gertrude Coplus school and felt,ent. In all same for|members, I must say we did others. Mrs. Lee, it might havejapproach the PUC and their been wrong to set the precedent,| offer was accepted by Mrs. but it was done by a previous} Woodcock." issue again at a board meeting|board, and you were a member| At this point Mrs. Woodcock, jwho was a spectator at the Trustee Stanley Lovell:|meeting stood up and asked to "There's nothing we can dojbe allowed to explain why the offer was refused. The board agreed to hear her. "After we had agreed we "rd Utilities sorry." farness to board for 45 OSHAWA PLANS FLAG-WAVING Information about Oshawa is spreading far and wide. Oshawa's Industrial Com- mission decided last night to invest $250 in a series of advertisements this spring in a Dusseldorf, Ger- many industrial and com- mercial publication. James Williams, Indus- trial Commissioner, said indications are that Euro- pean firms are quite in- terested in locatihg in Can- ada and that a trade fair is being held in Dusseldorf the same time the ads will Movie "Wows" City Critics It was "Tuesday Night at the} it}Movies" for Oshawa's Indus- trial Commission last night. A 14-minute industrial promo- Trustee Mrs. Lee: "I do feel we've been neglecting the prob- lem..." Trustee T. D. Thomas: "I ob- ject to that Mrs. Lee, you were here at the last meeting, and were in complete agreement with our actions at that time." Trustee Lee: "I know, but I thought there'd be something else done on the matter," Trustee Robert Stroud: 'I'd like to ask Mrs. Lee what she means when 'she says she thought there'd be something else done on the matter--was|deadline for i she expecting someone else to|their customers to obtain a $500/builder or first bonus for home construction|house "built substantially dur- the board carry out all they|carried on during the winter|ing the winter,"' according to a |Canadian Press release outlin- "Quite a few needed the ex-|ing the extension. tension, due to bad weather de- lays and a shortage of skilled) vantage of the plan: it keeps qualified (skilled) men around jall year. "You don't have to lay These were the reasons cited|them off in the winter and take! yy do it, or do it herself? Did not said they'd do, by sending a letter fo the police requesting| safety guards for the road and by asking for a meeting with council? How about yourself on this, issue?"' Trustee Mrs. Lee: just feel we've been neglecting City builders get a break to- day in the form of a two-week|participation in the. plan here extension on the bonus dead-|lately," said Mr. Tonno, "with line for homes: built during the} some winter. months. tradesmet)," Tonno, president of the Oshawa| "Well, 1|Builders Association. the builders or said William) decrease in |(building) volume and delay in Today would ordinarily be the|the spring start." The bonus Builders Get Extension On Winter Bonus Date "There has been is paid to owner. Mr. Tonno listed another ad- increased summer the tion' film "Land on the Move", was shown to members of the Industrial Commission, the Har- bor. Commission and the city's planning department. | Everyone generally agreed |the film, produced by Westmin- jster Films Ltd., for Toronto | Township, was excellent. Maurice Hart, commission chairman, said there are no plans at present to have a simi- lar film produced for Oshawa but that the production of such a film would be given consid- eration inthe future. The color film, with sound track (narrated by television newsman Brucé Marsh) cost $12,000, and took about one year to "shoot", said Donald Hal- dane, president of the film com- pany. He also said the film won awards last year in »romo- tional-type film competitions. Toronto Township, said Mr. aldane, has had the film shown beds. "In addition, most of our med- vertising firm, James Wil- been received. ical service areas will be en- larged to handle more patients and also to care for increasing number of outpatients who are now covered under the hospital- ization plan for minor surgery, physiotherapy and_ treatment following any accident," Mr. Storie stated. He said that an enlarged school of nursing and residence accommodation is also under study. wing has been referred to the finance committee for study," said Mr. Storie, "and to date no definite policy has been estab- lished." Mr. Storie also reported that the patient waiting list had con- tinued to grow during 1964. "Al-jusual though we have enough beds per|said Mr. I } thousand of population, accord-|things like this happening all over the province but when we dojthey are centred in one area I not seem to meet the needs of|would say they are abnormal and the work of a sadist." ing to Ontario Hospital Services Commission standards, our people. Board's Role Conciliation boards in labor/thing," said Mr. Selby, noting negotiationsjas an. example, and are a detriment in manyjleave animals out in the cold cases, says Clifford G. Pilkey,|without food. disputes prolong president of the Oshawa and District Labor Council. barts in Toronto last week. amended to provide for the con- ciliation process to cease at the|/DOG completion of the conciliation officer stage (this now precedes|of year get tired of dogs that the appointment of a board) un-|have been bugging dog's throat or burn a cat "is "si "ee la sadistic type of person," says The method of financing this Tom Hughes, general manager of the Ontario Humane Society. treme cruelty to animals have been reported within the past few months in Oshawa. of cruelty to animals but re- 7 ] cently there has been nothing l ey ams quite so fantastic," said Wil- liam Selby, vice-president of the Oshawa and District Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, | ,..{ment reports it has not heard Mr. Pilkey was commenting|of any cases of extreme cruelty on a submission in the Ontario|t9 animals recently, but about Federation of Labor brief pre-|a year ago it was reported that sented to Premier John Ro-\q dog arrived home with his throat partly slit and a note The brief suggested the On-jattached warning the owner to tario Labor Relations Act be|keep the dog tied up. Animal Murders Deemed Work Of Cruel Sadist Patrick Ken-|partments worked at peak capa- Anyone who would slit a These two examples of ex- "This seems a little bit un- in the Oshawa area," Hughes. "We have "We continually hear of cases "Plain neglect is. the worst} persons who The city's dog control depart- "BUGS" "A lot of people at this time winter," says for beds, with elective cases booked three or four months in advance. '"'Urgent cases require two to three weeks wait." The daily rate for patients was not increased during the year in spite of cost increases. We managed to maintain pa- tient cost at 1963 rates, $1.11 average net cost per patient hour." Mr. Holland said that all de- nedy, city parks, property and/city during the year and did not recreation commissioner. He said startling tomorrow, fall below demand. The hospital was run by 1,104 employees, stu- under a city bylaw, all dogs|dent nurses and technicians dur- in the city are prohibited from|ing 1964. running at large unless restrain- "Qur average day's stay has ed by a leash, The bylaw is in|not increased appreciably over effect until Oct, 1. the year. No doubt due to the Mr. Selby said the Oshawa|Pressure for beds and remains society merged last week withjfairly constant at 9.1 days per the Ontario Humane Society,|patient. This is a low figure which will result in expanded|for this size of hospital." services. He said tomorrow night in Brougham, a. meeting of On- tario County reeves and mayors will be held to discuss possible joint participation in animal control. new equipment, said, "to try and keep pace with the dynamic changes in medical treatment." More than $58,000 was spent on Mr. Holland An all time high of $5,000,000 in expenditures was reached by the hospital last year. "Over Mr. Hughes said the last time $3,500,000 of this amount went there was a proven case of cruelty to animals in Oshawa,|penefits," for employees salaries and-or the administrator it cost a man $400 for neglect-| tateg, ing his cattle. $500 FINE The maximum fine under the Criminal pital's had been given ---- = # publicity last year. "Our mai Code of Canada for/yohlem seems to. stem from He also noted that the hos- emergency department cruelty to animals is $500 or six/the fact that people turn to the months in jail or both a fine and hospital to tind vm doctor for imprisonment. "'Poisonings happen every day them in time of need. "There are many cases where WILLIAM HOLLAND' gency treatment for an iliness which has gone on for three or four days. Emergency depart- ments are not set up or staffed for this type of care," he said. Mr. Holland asked that any people who feel that they were kept waiting unduly, or had emergency system, should con- tact his department. "We may then re-valuate the system and try to make the necessary ad- justments." "The provision of medical care is not an hospital ser- vice," he stated, "and because of this we are sometimes criti- cized for situations which do not really have anything to do with the hospital's operation." A two-and-a-half per cent in- crease in the number of pa- tients at the hospital over 1963 figures was revealed by Mr. Holland.. He said that 20,166 pa- tients were treated and they Stayed for 195,648 days, a four per cent increase, "On the average day we had 444 adults and children in the hospital, as well as 50 babies and 41 chronic patients. The emergency, or other outpatient departments, also treated 25,416 people." Mecial and surgical beds were occupied 93.4 per cent of the time; obstetrical beds were -oc- cupied 81 per/cent of the time: paediatric beds had an 81.7 per cent occupancy rate; bassin- ettes had a 66 per cent occu- pancy rate and chronic beds and are usually just unfortunate/the patient turns up for emer- accidents," said Mr. Hughes. "A person will put out poison to control vermin and a dog or cat will come along and eat the poisoned food." He said the only way to stop these types of accidents is to them all stop the dogs or cats from run- ning at large. less a board or mediator is jointly requested by manage- ment and labor. "A long wait for a_ report avoided," said Mr. Pilkey. A union may not legally strike until seven days after a concil- iation board report is handed down. In the Legislature this week Oshawa Riding MLA Albert Walker said the conciliation board procedure achieve little or nothing when management disputes. "Last December in Oshawa neither the union nor the com- ed, and the board hearing last- ed exactly 10 minutes," Mr. Walker was quoted as saying. The OFL brief noted that com- pulsory conciliation originated as a wartime measure and the a has become the Oshawa and appears t0/ district hospital, Storie, hospital board chairman convened for the larger labor-|at 'Tyesday's meeting. pany was particularly interest- ee which showed that of the hospital in 1964 only 67.9 per cent Although patients made up the bulk of admissions Whitby Town .chip- More District Patients Treated At City Hospital The Oshawa General Hospital said E. G. annual general He made the comment on a 7,419 patients treated at the came from Oshawa. the 11,801 Oshawa ped in with a hefty 1,903, or| # function of boards has changed 10.9 per cent of the total. ship, 417; and Ajax came next with 231. Other townships patient total came from other townships in counties. or two per cent of the total. A mere .1 per cent, or 19/R. C. Ross, president of the patients, came from outside the|medical staff; Dr. R. S. Irwin, vice-president of the medical province. of the Oshawa General Hospital was made Thursday at the an- nual general meeting. board whose terms of office had expired were returned without opposition. E. G. Storie, presi- dent and chairman for 1964, con- tinues in office for this year. vice-president and Gordon Miles as treasurer. The directors are in Ontariojas follows: J. G. Brady, T. K. County accounted for 249 of the/Creighton, QC, S. F. Everson, and 264 people|/H. L. Gay, H. B. James, Ernest Marks, QC, Judge T. M. Moore, Durham and Northumberland|QC, H. E. Pierson, Keith Ross, Patients from other|H. M. Smith, T. D. Thomas, H. Ontario counties numbered 348,|A. Washington and T. L. Wilson. averaged a 97.6 per cent rate. Directors Returned Without Opposition No change in the directorship) Directors of the 16-member S. E. Lovell also continues as Ex-officio members are: Dr. staff; Deputy - reeve Fred Sturch, Ontario County repre- sentative; Councillor Robert At- tersley, Whitby representative; Alderman G. B. Attersley, Osh- awa representative; and Mrs. James McCansh, Women's Aux- iliary representative. Honorary officers were _re- turned to office as follows: hon- orary president, Col. R. S. Mc- Laughlin; honorary vice-presi- dent, J. H. Beaton, A. E. Me- Gilvray, J. A. Morphy, H. P. Schell, A. G. Storie, C. Waite, E. H. Walker and W. A. Wecker, OBE. Mrs. T. H. Everson was returned as honorary secretary. The board chairman present- ed certificates of appreciation to the honorary members, two of whom, A. G. Storie and A. E. McGilvray, were at the meet- ing. the problem.' __ |for the Canada-wide extension.|a@ chance of losing them," helon television and has distribut-|"greatly" in that most boards Trustee Thomas: "Mr. Chair-|Starting date for the bonus| explained. led it to industrialists in North}now do not make recommenda- man, I'd like to make my own| scheme was Noy. 15, two! In the House of Commons last} America and Europe. tions. : stand perfectly clear on this--|weeks earlier than last year nck Ontacio Ridine's 'Micheel| "It's pretty well geared for|: 'In the experience of organ- when we debated it I made a} With the extension, the feder Wet » Unrario. Ging § ANChAe! the executive who is thinking ofjized jabor (boards) in many in- frank Statement that we'd spentlally-administered plan runs a|Starr claimed the bonus plan|rejocating his company," said|stances have been a hindrance money taking children to thefull five months this year. has not been successful. iMr. Haldane. Ito sound collective bargaining," GM PLANT LINK a Darlington Township came} § next with 837 patients; Whitby Township, 770; East Whitby Township, 580; Pickering Town- Chamber Week Quebec Official Visits City The mayor of Rosemere, Que- bec, and'a group of his con- Stituents, paid a visit to the Oshawa Kiwanis Club. With Mayor Michel Cote, who was guest speaker at the city club's weekly luncheon meeting, were members of the Rosemere Kiwanis Club, making an inter- club visit, and members of the Rosemere Town Council. Rosemere is a town of slightly. more than 6,000 population, lo- cated 'near Ste. Therese, site of the new General Motors of Canada plant. "The people of our new Que- bec. are solving their own prob- lems, seeking a better life and new activities,' said Mayor Cote. "This will not widen the gap which has existed, this will not make Quebec more differ- ent, but 'rather, more like the rest of our country, our Can- ada." He said Oshawa and Rose- Mere have much in common and with the construction of the new GM plant, there will be a more definite and valuable link between the two communities. Some of the Oshawa residents being transferred to the new GM plant are expected to re- side in Rosemere. "Whether we are English speaking or French speaking, we are all citizens of this coun- try, straining to make this a better place in which to live; to give our children the best we can in the way of education; to improve our own standards of living; and to enjoy our lei- sure time,"' said Mayor Cote. "Rosemere is o_ bilingual community but we do not mere- ly live with each other together in the mony. we live utmost "Of har- 'We are not strangers to each other in Rosemere. We play golf together, we sit on our town council together, our children play on the same hockey and ball teams," he said. 'Socially, as well as in business, we live together.'"' GM TOUR Following the luncheon, Ki- wanians Murray Maidlow and Ian McNabb, conducted the visitors on a tour of the Gen- eral Motors' 'south plant and the Canadian Automotive Mu- seum. Robert Broadbent, Oshawa Kiwanis president and Kiwan- ian Ald. Hayward Murdoch, wel- comed the visitors. At the conclusion of Mayor Cote's address, Kiwanian Rene Theibaud, speaking "en Fran- caise", expressed the thanks and appreciation of the Osh- awa club, MICHEL COTE *, » « we live together." Upcoming Here Plans are nearing completion for a Chamber of Commerce Week in Oshawa. Along with 850 other Boards of Trade and Chambers of Com- merce throughout Canada Osh- awa will hold its week from April 4 to April 10, Chamber President Russell Humphreys announced today. During the week special em- phasis will be placed on the work of the chamber in the community. Vice-president Gor- don Garrison will be in charge of the publicity and advertising for the week. The chamber will be conduct- ing a membership campaign in conjunction with the promotion for the week. Next Thursday the chamber is holding a banquet at the Gen- osha Hotel. After the meal a | panel will discuss the activi-| ties of the chamber, THE PAST-CHAIRMAN of the Oshawa General Hospi- tal board, T. L, Wilson, was presented with a certificate of appreciation Thursday at the OGH annual general meeting, for his services. Mr. Wilson is shown above, second from right, as he is congratulated by board chairman E. G. Storie. Two of the honorary vice-presi- dents were 'present to re- ceive certificates commem- orating their years. of serv- ice to the hospital, A. G. Storie, left, and A. E. Me- Gilvray, right. --Oshawa Times Photo '