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Big Lakeside Development Up Again A Toronto firm has asked city|cost of constructing and main- council to reconsider its deci-|taining a pumping station. sion not to rezone lakefront) On Dec. 20 council adopted a jand to permit a 110-acre resi-|planning board recommendation dential and commercial de-|that no change be made in the velopment. zoning. - The request, by F and T) The firm told council Jan. 3 Developments, was referred last|it was prepared to proceed with night by city council to planning/a residential development on the oard. |property but asked for a meet- Harold Fleischman, represent-jing to discuss the perpetual ing the Toronto firm, outlined|maintenance of the pumping the original proposal (requiring | station. " rezoning of certain land) for an| Council's public works com- apartment, shopping centre,|mittee met with F and T repre- housing and marina develop- /sentatives last week and recom- tment on land east and west of}mended last night that no Ritson rd. 5. jchange be made in the perpetual He said the firm was pre-|maintenance' condition. pared to work with planning} Mr. Fleischman said because board in modifying plans tojof the cost involved in the sta-| 7 reach an acceptable develop-jtion, a higher density -- re-| * merit, zoning to permit apartment) When the original rezoning) buildings -- was required. Thus, application was submitted,jthe firm last night requested council decided the developer |reconsideration of the original would have to pay the entire'proposal and rezoning. Swimming Making Splash, | Archery Hits Dead Centre Archery is hitting the bulls- eye with some 130 city children now signed up for the cuurse|structors, goes into its third at Simcoe Hall Boys' Club. jweek today. The course is of And swimming is making a!four weeks duration and is held big splash as some 405 tad-|several times a year. «| poles and 150 adults are en CLASS A WEEK 's hour-long | rolled for the club's hour-long Tn the. bow and arrow depart- ment, boys and girls get one classes. The current Red Cross swim- class a week to try out marks- manship. The class is held from L and Fill Site \7 to 9 p.m. each Thursday. ming instruction course, under supervision by 25 volunteer in- It's a tense moment as Terry Mann takes a swing at Rex Williams -- but the action is on during rehears- als of 'The Pleasure of His Company' by Samuel Tay- lor, by the Oshawa Little Theatre. Marilyn Hall, who plays Jessica, restrains Terry (as Jim), while Rex 'Tax Collection (Biddeford Poole), shelters behind Katherine, played by Judith Edmondson, The play is under the direction of 'D'Arcy Smith, foreground. 'The Pleasure' will be pre- TENSE MOMENT DURING REHEARSAL sented by the company Feb, 16 to 19 at Ridgeway Public School, Rehearsals are now underway at Rotary Hall, Centre st shawa Times Photo CRIPPLED TOTS' CENTRE | Basketball, drawing a major For Play Area share of enthusiasm, swings in- to action at the club Saturday A 10-acre parcel of land west of Ritson rd. n., a former sani- mornings when there are ball matches for "'biddy" and minor players from 9 to 12 noon. sitieaesiiatiiesiinsimaiialiattiise sina _---- NO BIKE Bicycles should not be sold to the public without lights as standard equipment -- in the opinion of Traffic oor Norman Smyth of the Osha Police Department. Insp. Smyth was comment- ing on a similar recommen. dation discussed at a three- day safety conference spon- sored recently by the Ontario transport department. Bicycles, the inspector said, should be equipped with some kind of light that doesn't need regular battery' changes. Dynamo lights, he sug- gested, might be one answer although these lights were bad in one respect -- when the bicycle was stationary the lights went out. "We have an awful lot of trouble with the children rid- ing around after dark without lights. The parents are main- ly to blame. "They seem to think it is a EH a Lie Ohe Oshawa Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1966 TS BLASTED police responsibility to en- sure their children have lights on their bicycles, It is not at all. The parents should rake very sure that if their child has a bike, that it has lights. "If we were to charge every child without lights on his hike we would completely clog the juvenile, courts. We have periodic campaigns on this but it doesn't seem to do any~ good, The children just ignore blll MILL RATE DAY SET AT MAR. 21 Oshawa 1966 mill rate will be struck Mar. 21. Members of city council, Particularly the finance and assessment committee, have started budget reviews which, | along with regular council and committee meetings, will | see them at city hall an aver- age of almost four nights a week until Mar. 21, The city's 1966 capital (de- | benture) budget will be, pass- ~ | ed by council at its regular meeting Feb. 7. The finance | committee, chaired by Ald. | Gordon Attersley, started re- | viewing capital budget estt- | mates last night. Nineteen meetings, includ- Sixth Ballot WHITBY (Staff)-- Reeve Wil- frid H. Gould of the town of Uxbridge was elected the 113th warden of Ontario County at the inaugural meeting of county} council yesterday. He defeated Reeve Neil Smith of East Whit- by Township by a vote of 25 to 15 on the sixth ballot. County Clerk William Mann- ing conducted the election with Deputy Reeve Robert Nesbitt of Uxbridge Township and Reeve Victor Aldred of Scugog Town- ship as scrutineers. Reeve Gould's election main- tains a family tradition. His great-grandfather served as pro- tary land fill site, svill be "made| Cooking classes for girls rate available' to the board of edu-|smaller interests, with an aver- cation, city council decided. jage turnout of 10 to 15 junior The board asked the city for\cooks at lessons, several of the land to use it as a playing which are conducted a week. field in conjunction with a pro-|The young lassies are learning | ed secondary school on/basic kitchen theory so they Biover's rd. can help out at home. The board and the separate) school board both plan in future|sion, some 15 girls have taken to construct elementary schools/to toiling in carpentry, making in the same area. spice racks, bookends and the A request from the South/likes at one two-hour woodwork- Ontario Agricultural Society|/ing session held each Monday that the city not convey any/at 7 p.m. land on the west side of Ritson| And if that seems unusual, rd., until the costes an|try, "'synchronied swimming" ee. to inv the|out for size. That class--to pro- city's suggestion that the fair| mote "dancing" in water by va- board move its holdings to the|rious swimming strokes--is to area, was referred to the parks, In the arts and crafts divi- | | | | | Tax collections in Oshawa hit jan all-time high during 1965 | Clarence Cox, tax collector, jsays $11,599,000 in realty and business taxes (current and ar- rears of prior years) was col- lected.. This represents 97.73 percent of the total amount | collectible. $1 MILLION MORE The amount collected, to Dec. 31, was more than $1 million more than the amount collected during the same period last year. Mr. Cox says $11,397,000 of the Hits New High collected during the year. This represents 98.11 percent collect- ed compared with 98.01 percent collected during 1964. He adds that of the $252,000 in arrears collectible (1964 and prior years) 80.16 percent of $202,000 was collected. Total unpaid taxes at the end of 1965 amounted to $269,000 compared with $261,000 unpaid at the end of 1964, "T was very pleased with the collections,"' says Mr. Cox. He also reports that poll-tax collections last year aounted to | $14,018 -- an increase over the start at the club a week from/|1965 tax levy ($11,616,000) was/$11,507 collected during 1964. City council has been asked | to consider providing an an- nual capital grant over the next three years to assist in the erection of a new crippled children's centre. The request, made by Ian F. Biggar, finance commit- tee chairman for the proposed $200,000 centre, was referred to a budget committee. Several other grant requests were referred to budget com- REQUEST UP AT COUNCIL mittee. The Regimental Band requested its annual $2,000 grant; the Oshawa Horticul- tural Society, $500; and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, $100. The Mus- cular Dystrophy Association also requested a grant. The Children's Aid Society notified-council that the esti- mated amount chargeable to the city is $61,521. The in- formation was teferred to budget committee. | ing one Saturday morning session, have been scheduled for current budget estimates. UK. Jaunt For City Officials? Will an appointed or elected city official join a local. govern- ment study tour of England ~ several European countries September? visional warden of the county and three of his sons later serv- ed as wardens. Reeve Gould is the fifthe member of the family to hold the office. BANK MANAGER A retired bank manager, Mr. Gould has been a member of county council for seven years, and has served on many coun- cil committees. 'He is the first vice-president of the Associa- tion of Ontario Counties, Ontario Auto Insurance The Ontario Municipal Asso- elation notifiel council this week of the tour, which starts Sept. 5 and. ends Sept. 25. The letter prompted Mayor |Lyman Gifford to comment: | I'm not looking for any trips." Gould Named New Warden 29-19 Win Over Reeve Smith Six nominations for the office' of warden were placed before council. They were: Reeve Char- les J, Healy of Mara Township, Reeve Neil Smith of East Whit- by Township, Reeve rancis Hockley of Scott Township, Reeve Gould, Deputy Reeve George Brooks of Whitby and Reeve Ross Murison of Picker- ing Village. Reeve Murison de- clined to stand. BROOKS OUT IN THIRD Deputy Reeve Brooks was el- iminated after a speceal vote following the third ballot. Reeve Hockley and Reeve Healy were eliminated after fourth and fifth ballots, respectively. A large group of former war- dens addressed the session after Rev. T. Pryce, rector of St. Thomas Anglican Chruch, Broo lin, conducted the devotional. Amont those who spoke were John A, McDonald, W. H. West- ney, Ferguson Munro, Duncan B. McIntyre, Heber Down, Pat Duffy, Morley Bain, Cyril E. Morley and Walter Beath, Area Assessment, Taxes Planning, Warden Urges this Thursday and be held from | property and recreation com-| p.m. mittee. 14 to 5.15 i's The city also owns a large} Several sideline interests are) Vi parcel of land, which has been|chess, checkers, billiards and| used as a rhage dump, on| assorted es for the' young-| pond's Campaign Tab the east side of Ritson rd. n. sters. Twice That Of Starr's WHITBY (Staff) -- Ontario County's new warden, Wilfrid H. Gould, yesterday advocated regional assessment, taxation, planning and development. In his address to the in- Mr. Gould said he believed the provincial government will allow Ontario County to "re- main" but that there will be changes in the method of elect- ing the council. 'Just Dandy, Says Rotarian | | "Are you looking for volun- | teers?" chuckled Ald. Clifford ' | Pilkey. money on the scheme in Sas-)" Coynci] decided to refer the katchewan," Mr. Snowden said.| matter to the finance commit- He pointed to the fact that the| tee. The basic fee per person, "History shows that no gov- | ernment is sufficiently capable |of operating a private auto in- including return air flight and No Recommendations Made In Conciliation A conciliation board report without recommendation for the settlement of contract between The Oshawa Times and the local unit of the Toronto News- paper Guild was released today by the Ontario Department of Labor. The report reads that "intensive negotiations came established that the parties could not agree at the board level. The board there- fore makes no recommendations on the matter referred to it" Chairman of the board was RichardG. The awa newspaper was represent- ed by K. Sims and the guild by Cliff Pilkey. A new processes clause in sisted upon by the international guild organizations, not money was responsible for the break- down of negotiations between The Oshawa Times and the local unit of the Toronto News paper. Guild, R. C. Rooke, gen- eral manager of the Oshawa newspaper said today. Mr. Rooke outlined the posi- tion held by The Times in the efforts to reach contract agree- ment, He said he felt the full story had not been told to the other unions in the city. He said he had refrained from comment Health Fund Is Scheduled. OTTAWA (CP) -- Legislation to set up the previously-an- nounced $500,000,000 health re sources fund will beplaced be- fore Parliament, which opened Tuesday. The speech from the throne gavenotice of the government's intention to provide the money to expand facilities in anticipa- tion of expanding health sery- al after be- t oe ee fer WeaGes Osti ederal offer of the fund v, made last September and prov inces since have been deciding among themselves how to di- } election, spent twice as much Board Report until now because he felt there jwas still hope of settlement and returns show. did Mot wish to do or say any-| Dr. Vipond collected $21,608:19 thing which might jeopardize it.|from 27 persons and spent $18,- 519.91, as shown. in his publish- ed report Mr. Starr, according to- his statement, had only one con- told the guild committee a ttibutor (in fact, himself) for money package is available." | his $8,014.25 in receipts. His per However, in its insistence on sonal campaign expenses were e s ie listed at an additional $1,000 having a new processes clause in the contract, the inter-/ SEVENTH VICTORY national organization of the guild has refused to budge, Mr.| getters in Rooke said Mr. Rooke "commented that/ 2 there are three unions at The| here Times and that the new pro-| Independent candidate Dr. cesses conditions requested by|James E, Rundle, who finished the Guild have no application to|last and lost his deposit, got that union. $4,910 from' three persons, his Also, "The Times does not see|Summary shows any possibility of automation| *4,786.70. affecting its clerical staff," Mr.|_ Oliver Hodges, Winona fruit money as Conservative winner Michael Starr, election expense "Basically, money has at no time been discussed," the gen- eral manager sajd. "From the outset of negotiations I have the election which saw Mr. Starr take his seventh cutive victory in 13.vears fodges' campaign manager iT. D. Thomas said today the }account will be published in the party's monthly newspaper, the New Democrat Main expense in all three pub- lished summaries was adver- | tising The Liberals, -- with $7,273.62, spent the most. The Conservatives ad bill was $5,394.03 and Dr $2,787 on ads According to the Canada Elections Act, candidates' offi- cial agents have 60 days from the official declaration .(of the winner) date to file expense re- These two were the top vote-| ports with the Riding Returning |q | Officer EXTRA 10.DAYS An additional 10 days is aliow- }ed in which to have the results published, "at the candidate's expense", says the Act. The Act also says the results Payments hit}must be published in a news-/| paper whié¢h is either published jor circulated in the where the election is held. Rooke emphasized. farmer and New Democratic 3ecause of the inability to negotiate regarding the new processes clause, management | has felt it was not in a position to make a money offer," said] Mr. Rooke. "Tt is most unfortunate that} the local members seem to have) been caught in.a situation which appears to have no solution be-| A letter objecting to "unjust fore the company was able to|ciriticism" of Oshawa's sewage outline its money proposal. treatment facilities will be sent "It is felt* by management by city council to the Ontario that the money pac il-| : ta able is a fair nah " -- eval') Water Resources Commission, said "They make you believe they What had appeared a major|?.< tin Gods, said Mayor stumbling block in earlier negoti| LYman Gifford at Monday ations the matter of union |mght's city council meeting. security, has been settled con-| "The commission was very, tingent upon the signing of a| Very unfair with its report and ontract they put us in a bad light," said Fred Jones, international rep-| the mayor, resentative of the American} Council gave the mayor and Newspaner Guild and Orval Mc-\the . public WOES... COE ee Guire, executive secretary of|power to act in drafting and the Toronto Newspaper Guild/sending a jetter to the issued a joint statement 'from| mission telephone in com-| farlier this month the com- ment on the report _ |mission released a report on he report did not give the| water pollution and warned 13 complete story of what tookitake Ontario municipalities to place during the three concilia-| remove sources of industrial and Toronto b com- | "Tin Gods' Miff Mayor, Sewage Report Dated ,the mayor. "It's a pretty hard jreport to accept." | Ald jintroduced the letter writing jmotion, said the ciriticism may jbe "unjust." But, she said in- dustrial waste is entering the j\lake without being treated. "That's their (the commis- jyor Gifford. Robarts Sees Lengthy Session TORONTO (CP) -- Premier {Robarts said Tuesday ex- pects the next session of the leg | | he islature, whic day, to be al last, which sion) responsibility," sald Ma- jsurance plan which is either Dr. Claude H. Vipond, Liberal Party candidate, has not yet|cheaper or more efficient than lioser in the November federal|Published his election expenses. |that in operation in Ontario,"| in Ontario it is 33 per cent. He} |Dick Snowden told members of the Rotary Club of Monday In the course of a classifica: tion address he commentel on |the criticism being levelled by the New Democratic Party at the Ontario insurance plan, He said-that----in Rundle spent which the NDP holds up as an|cost of: repairs rise. lexample of how such schemes should operate, private insur- ance companies are being allowed back into the field "The government is losing John Howard need in the John There is a today great |Canada for district |j1oward Society and the need) 2} will increase as improvements lin penal institutions are in- creased and more inmates are released, said J. Alex Edmison, QC, of the National Parole |Board, at the Hotel Genosha jlast night. Mr. Edmison, guest speaker jat the annual meeting of, the \John Howard Society of Osh- 'awa and District, commended the Oshawa society for the pro- five years ago. |HEA DTABLE | Head table guests included Donald Dodds, president of the |Oshawa society and his wife; |Alderman Alex Shestowsky and 'Mrs. Shestowsky; Rev. Harry |Mellow of Northminster United | Church; and Rev. Norbert Gig- inac, pastor of St. Mary's-of-the- People Roman Catholic Church. |Chief. Walter Johnston, of. the {Oshawa Police Dept., was also resent, "The John Howard Society is)tecalled that it was founded by| Mr. On- work," "and in rewarding said, a Edmison expense ratio of the plan in Sas- katchewan is 34.8 per cent while |said also that the Ontario plan Oshawa| is operated more efficiently and| charges that repair bills are be- ing padded are not true. | 'We think the insurance com- |tinue to rise as people become Saskatchewan,|more claim conscious and the} its Christmas Statistics |show Canalians are poor driv- | ers. The Canadian driver is two- |thirds more likely to kill than |his United States counterpart," 'Mr. Snowden said. Your Work Is invaluable.' Society Hears from a home that is "'most un- satisfactory," said the speaker,|Seal dollars to operate monthly "where there is a high degree|chest X-ray clinics; tuberculin of intoxication and |ness." Mr. Edmison |National Parole unhappi- | said that the Board granted |230 paroles last year and that} "we only had to send back 10 percent of these." "We have success stories," said Mr, Edmison, "but alco- holism is the big problem today in the reestablishment of the jex-convict, Habitual drunkards jneed specialized treatment and | Christine Thomas, wh0|,ress made since its inception|special attention is being given| jto this grave problem." | The John Howard Society jestablishes a "friendship link" for many -ex-convicts, he said |and added: | "Ex-convicts had no reput- jable contacts in the community until they came into contact jwith the John Howard Society |-- I can see an increased need for the society in the days | ahead," : i | Rev. Harry. Mellow gave a \brief history of the society and |John Howard in 1790 At a press conference follow- opens next Tues-|tario today there are 216 lead-jing the meeting, Mr. Edmison st as long as the |ing citizens of Ontario doing/said that penal authorities were s\t a record six|the work of the society." The|making "serious efforts" to cor- panies should be allowed their} 'The choice of clients. Rates will con-|culosis and Health Association vide the money. A. federal-provincial confer- ence of health ministers is to) be held here Jan. 31 to Feb. 1) to detérmine the final division of the money. mula during the talks. The offer was limited to capi The employees have tal expansion of medical, dental overwhelmingly' n favor and nursing training and ie-;siiit i seafch facilities in the next 15\d years, Arist out ate has been set for 'an they seid. $ |tion board sessions," they said. The guild spokesmen said the employees had pared their 're- quests down to 10 points and had sought to find a settlement for- voted of "4 no; Wil y strike, civic pollution. months, Mayor Gifford said last night|' Many bills tof be introduced the information in the report [Will lend themglves to broad was gathered from 1962 to 1964) discussion, hg tgld a press con- but was only released this year.| ference. . They may, 'he said, include 'NO CREDIT' electoral redistribution, changes "We have been spending and jig-the attorney-general's depart- be spending. monkey oa ic; mentand the previncial plan for sewage treatment plant but we|Metropolitan Toronto govern- don't get any credit for it,'* sald|ment. isubject of his address was,|rect the problem of idleness in "The Parole System." {Federal penal institutions. He Mr. Edmison said that parole| said that. an affiliate institution lis not probation--parole is only|0f St. Vincent De Paul Peniten- \granted from an institution, |tiary in Quebec -- at Ledere -- | "Parole is not clemency orjhad installed an_ eight-hour ileniency inmates are re-|work day |leased to serve their sentences; '"'This is a start," he added, lunder supervision," said Mr.\"'and we can hope for some |Edmison. greater improvement steps in The average inmate comes!the near future." hotel accommodation, is $750. Anti-TB Drive Short $1,470 lis waging a campaign to send | over the top. ; Mrs. Madeline Collins, execu- tive secretary of the associa- |tion, said today that the $32,000 | goal is short by some $1,470. | SEND LETTERS 'We hope to raise the money | by sending out reminder letters }to former contributors we haven't héard from this year," | she said. "The $1,470 doesn't sound like | much in comparison to the $32,- | 000 but it would help us greatly \in our work to wipe out tb." sociation uses the Christmas testing; mass tb surveys; healt education; assistance to tients both in the sponsorship of a rehabilita- tion council baby sitters' course. 12,670 CONTRIBUTIONS Christmas Seals were sent ou' to 33,683 homes in Ontario County, said Mrs. Collins. More than 12,670 answers were re- ceived with contributions. "There is so much work to be done to rid us of this scourge of TB,"' she said. "We hope our former contributors will heed the appeal and ald our drive for funds." Recreation 'Report In A report on recreation needs in the city has been adopted in principle by city council. P, J. Kennedy, city parks, property and recreation com- missioner, prepared the report in which needs now, and over the next 10 years, were forecast. parks, property committee re- commendation that the report be adopted in principle and auth- orized Mr, Kennedy to provide sufficient funds in the budget jestimates-for the most essential jexpenditures mentioned in the report. The estimates will be poor nag by council during jst dget discussions, The Ontario County Tuber- Seals fund. drive} Mrs. Collins said that the as- pa- sanatoria and when discharged; rehabilitation of tb patients; th research; and Council this week approved a, augural meeting of County Council, Warden Gould said education, health and welfare should be handled on a county- wide basis. He said fire and police pro- county level. Mr. Gould, who is reeve of the town of Uxbridge, was named county warden on the sixth ballot yesterday. 'SOON A FACT' He suggested regional govern- ment will become fact in a few years and said he could see! |many services being provided jon this basis. While this would "be more costly, the services would be of a higher standard and more uniform throughout the county. The warden said an executive committee of county council would be needed to supervise regional government operations. tection could also be on the} | He said such a change would bring representation much clos- er to population. He foresaw election of county councillors and the warden for three-year periods, ROAD NEED STUDY Pointing to the progress made by the county during the past year, Warden Gould said a road need study -had- been completed. More than 100 miles of township road would become part of the county road system in the next 10 years. He said the establishment of a new home for the aged at Beaverton had been delayed but it is hoped to start construc- tion in the spring. A second family court was established at Beaverton which opened this month, A start had been made by a graduate student on the preparation of a history of the A county manager would also be a possibility, he said. county. It is not expected to be completed before 1968 or 1969. NO POLICY CHANGE Still Paid B One hundred percent of the} cost of any sidewalk reconstruc-| jtion in the downtown area will) be paid by abutting property| owners. : City council this gyeek ap- proved a public works commit- tee recommendation that no change be made in the city's policy of having property own- ers petition for and pay 100 per- cent of the replacement cost. ~ 'CITY SHOULD HELP' 'Bruce Bradley; 29 Simcoe st.| s., wrote council suggesting that the city should contribute Sidewalk Repair Tab y Owners could be cleaned up and painted afterwards." NOTHING PLANNED Ald. Cecil Bint, works com- 3|mittee chairman, in reply to a question, said the committee is not thinking of initiating any sidewalk rehabilitation. Ald. Richard Donald asked if the city's policy was reasonably standard procedure in other municipalities. Ald. Bint said he did not know, He said the committee has never made a study of other municipalities' policies. of sidewalks since much of the damage to present sidewalks has been caused by the city] and city commissions. "You will note that the build- ings on the west side of Simcoe} st. s., between Athol and King have had some improvements and a similar program is plan- ned for the east side,"' said Mr. Bradley. "The property owners feel however, that in, order to get full value out of a_ renovation scheme and to eliminate dust and dirt that's stirred up by a sidewalk rebuilding job, the sidewalks should be renewed first and then the buildings { Arctic Adventurer At Canadian Club Douglas Wilkinson, an author, film director, Arctic adventurer and expert on the Eskimo, will be guest speaker Tuesday at the Ontario County Canadian Club's monthly: dinner meeting. The speaker has lived in the Arctic. for most of 'the last 15 years. One year he lived as an adopted son of an Eskimo fam- ily and learned the languare and how to be an Eskimo hunt- garg meeting will be eld at the Harmony Road Church hall,