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Oshawa Times (1958-), 25 Apr 1966, p. 13

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REV. E. K. NORMAN of Bridgenorth, left and Rev. R. C, Plant of Deep River community church look on as Mrs. Eileen Smith, man- IT'S ALL IN the way ou hold the cue, says ike Wilson of 14 Almond st., Whitby, as he shows 15- ear-old Wendy Bain of Whitby how to play pool. Bowmanville's Betsy Slap- Billeting Matter Of Cramming, Too Hi-C Conference billeting was|but other than that they pretty, one of the major undertakings|well looked after themselves." in Oshawa on the weekend. Mrs. G. Smith of 302 Rose- dale a Whitby, conference ma-| nager, played host to eight/¢njoyed having them and that! The conference theme was young delegates attending the|they really seem to be enjoy-|'Rebelling Creatively" and was Hi-C conference in Oshawa. The teen - agers 533 in num- ber arrived in Oshawa from as| far away as Deep River in) the Bay of Quinte area and) were billeted in Oshawa and} Whitby homes diring their} three - day stay in the city.| Besides her guests Mrs. Smith has three children of her own but some how managed to find room for all of them. "We bedded them down in our basement rec room," she | Ontario. said,' and some on air mat- tresses and sleeping bags ui- mtnire '? "The night was quiet, she said, "but they were Six o'clock Saturday morning." Union Decides To Keep Mum On Details Of K - Details of a mecting of mem- bers of the K-Mari unit of lo-' fits cal 414, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union being kept confidential, a union official said today Cecil Dehmer, a Toronto based union representative, said that the possibility of strike at the store or Highway 2 was discussed during thel meeting. He said that he could! give no further information. | Members of the unit met at the Unitel Auto Workers Hall on Bond st., in an emergency general membership meeting. A strike at the K-Mart, a subsidiary of the S. S, Kresge Company, could legally have been called last Tuesday The union represents some 50 full-time employees at the store. Also employed there are 37 part - time employees who are not organized Norbert Robichard unit chair- man, said last week that union security: is the main stumb ling block in the way of a settlement. Other clauses still to be settled include wages, FORMULA MEANS SAFETY When leaning a_ ladder against a wall, the fool shoud he a quarter of the 'adders length from'the wall up at the 533 delegates had DELEGATES FORMED discussion groups, Sat- urday, as part of the Hi-C conference program held at St. Andrew's church. The groups expressed their journey from Deep River, was conference speaker. There were 533 delegates from the Bay of Quinte Con- ference area in attendance. ager of the Hi-C conference held in Oshawa over the weekend, reviews part of the day's program. Rev. Plant, who madc the long 'CRAMMING' TARGET... . for the three-day event, Seen from the right, Jan- ice Pound, Cannington, Karen Sonley, Trenton, Kathy Smithrim, Trenton, Shan Christoffsen, Trenton, views on the conference's theme "Rebelling Creative- ly." Most of the delegates arrived in Oshawa Friday night and were billeted in Oshawa and Whitby homes We ane Be Ree cdi Apt. we Bie Be ime Mi NG Ao et Is i en pea HI-C CONVENTION Wendy Tighe, Glenburnie, Eric Bowman, Enfield, Bob Crawford, Kingston, Roger Hladki, Lindsay, Charles White, Millbrook, Ricky Henwood, Ajax and Alex Sinclair, Oshawa. | ... TEEN -AGERS CHEER Hi-C delegates cheered a United Church minister Sat- urday when he told them to stage a creative rebellion ag- ainst the Ontario high school C. Plant of the Deep River Communi- ty Church criticised the school system when he spoke to some 530 t een delegates ts the annual Quinte Hi-C Conference, held at North- minster United Church. The conference theme was Creative Rebellion against Authority, the Education Sy- stem and the Social System. Mr. Plant's call for action and rebellion came after he read some of the criticisms written by the delegates dur- ing workshop _ discuss- jon groups. ed them at the Hi-C confer- ence held this weekend. The Boys' Club also provided free swimming in the pool for the teenagers. --Oshawa Times Photo pendale, 17, studies the sit- uation carefully as her turn to shoot comes next. The trio were taking part in the game's room activities at the Simcoe Hall Boys' Club during the free period allot- Of Teen-agers City assessment commission- er Gerry Meredith will step down as chairman of district 12, jation of i offi- cers, at a meeting Wednesday. More than 100 assessors from the four-county district are ex- pected to attend the one-day spring meeting at the Hotel Genosha. Mr. Meredith has been chair- man for two years. P, G, Gillis, director of the municipal assessment branch, department of municipal affairs, and members of his staff, will give lectures during the meet- ing. Mayor Lyman Gifford and members of council have been invited to the 10 a.m. opening ceremonies and a noon lunch- eon. District 12 covers the counties of Ontario; York, Halton and 'Transportation to the billets was no problem," she said, "be- cause Don McMurtry had sup- plied a volunteer fleet of auto- mobiles for the delegates." Mrs. Tony Deboo of 357 Rossland road, who hosted four teen-age boys, said she really} ing themselves here. handled in three phases by the Mr. D, Redpath of 610 Mary|conference's speaker Rev. R. street had nothing but words|c, plant of Deep River. of praise for the four young; He spoke on "Creative rebel- men who stayed at his house. ition against the Authority Sys-| pee I think a- lot of people give|tem", The Education System" ost teenagers the wrong slant --|and 'The Social System". | a few step over the mark --| After each address the de-| but the majority of them are jegates assembled themselves| at the mal Health Nurses ee a ieintally be ppd discussions groups| er: = ° C "|of about 12 members each and | Visit 1,643 Here gan Friday night when the de-jexpressed their own views on legates started arriving at Nor-|these pertinent topics. | thminster church from all over) Free time was allotted Sat-| Oshawa public health nurses urday afternoon and the teen-;made 1,999 visits to 1,643 fam- Hogle of Columbus, |agers took advantage of it tojilies during the first in charge of regis-|yisit the Automotive Museum,|months of this year. said everything went!go swimming at the Simcoe| Of these, 319 visits were made as planned and within two hours/Hall Boy's Club or bowling. [to assist new mothers in ihe : 5 been However, some were content|care of their new born babies registered and assigned to bill-'to tour the city guided by maps|and for health teaching pur- __ | Supplied by the Chamber of! poses, Commerce. The majority of visits were A fellowship dinner was held|made to oter infants, in the at St. Andrew's Church asd | ptreckon! and school category. the Y.W.C.A, later in the day | Expectant mothers _ received and a dance was programmed |55 visits and 307 visits were at Oshawa Central Collegiate| made to mothers following con for Saturday evening. finement. Sunday morning the delegates) Pre - natal classes continue attended the 11 a.m. service|to be well attended this year ' in Simcoe Street United Church) and the first series had a regi- Negotiations for the first con-|which took the form of a folk/stration of 70 persons with to- Mrs. R. who was tration Mart Meeting working hours and fringe bene- are tract between union and mana- service with Larry Marshall in| tal attendance reaching the 700 gement began last September.|charge. i mark, FUND RAISING TO START MAY 14... Grand Parade To Open Centennial Drive © facilities. He cited the TOPS club, the Dog Obedience club, a local Judo club, swimming group and many others. The building is expected to cost $1 million, of which $500,- 000 will be raised in the six. week long campaign. The re- mainder is given in grants. Mr. Doswell said that signs bearing the committee's slogan for the campaign 'We need it, let's build: it" are being made for use in the parade. Marchers and floats will also carry the symbol specially cre- ated for Centennial Year. For the youngsters Batman and Robin will make a special appearance in the parade. They will ride in an Oshawa made Batmobile Other riders in the parade will include the finalisis in the Bands, floats, marching groups and Batman and Robin will be among the highlights of the grand parade of May 14 to mark the start of the fund raising campaign of Osh- awa"s centennial project: James Doswell, parade org- anizer, said today that he ex- pects' more than 100 local or- ganizations to enter floats in the parade. Each float will be decorated in line with the pa- rade theme -- the Civic Audi- torlum swimming pool and re- creation complex addition. Each group will emphasize an aspect of the various uses of the building Mr. Doswell said that many organizations in Oshawa have ndicated that they will be. able to make use of the addition's test. straight the the fund This has Douglas the Oshawa essmen's When Memorial the Doswell. Hold Confab three Miss Oshawa Green Gaels con- The route of the parade is south from Alexander Park to Mem- orial Park. More than 20 bands brass, flute and pipe are ex- pected to lend some noise and color to the spectacle As the parade passes through downtown area windows will bear special de- corations marking the start of raising been Wilson, Downtown Busin- Association parade Park pep-talks will be McLaughlin, bandshell er sermons and make them about something which ap- plies to us. "You know why he can't do it for the 11 o'clock ser- vice? Because old Mrs. Grun- dy in the front row won't let him. So get your own ser- vices." Mr. Plant said that some of the delegates told him that their parents never listen to what they have to say. He told them to go back to the Christian Education Centres in their home churches and ask them to form committees so teen-agers can talk as a group with their parents. 'One of the criticisms read out by Mr. Plant was: 'We young people have to condemn the social system which criti- He said that students ought to rebel against the "cram- ming, grade - grubbing and regimentation of the high school system. Too much of it seems to be set up purely for achievement." CHURCH "BORING" About one third of the 35 group leaders at the con- ference were school teach- ers, The delegates ranged in age from 14 to 17. Mr. Plant noted that many delegates complained that church services bored them. "Why don't you go back home to your minister and say 'Hey, Preact, how about having some services for us, with our music, guitars and folk songs, not organs, short- Creative Rebellion Advocated cizes marriages between members of different races, We think that the church should take a stand and say that marriages between races is good for society." ANSWER "YES" Mr, Plant said that the note also held a question for him: "You have two daughters, would you be willing for one of them to marry a negro?" His answer was "Yes. To me a Negro is a human being, the color of his skin has no- thing to do with the question. But I would tell the young couple one thing, that they will have lots of trouble in society. "This is why I would en- courage you young people to (iliisilede PRETTY JUDY DO 19 and Ruth Gallant, 16, of Picton, Ontario, were thrilled Saturday when \they and several delegates from the Hi-C @onference toured Oshagva's Automotive Mu- seum. The girls expressed wonder at the amazing res- toration werk performed on the cars. Oshawa Cimes OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1966 go out and change society so that they won't face this kind of trouble," said Mr. Plant. TU BLITZ HELPS KEEP IT Eight hundred well-drilled canvassers go into action to- night on behalf of the Cancer Society. The one-night, city- wide blitz will start in the early evening. 'Target this year is in excess of $18,000, a $2,000 rise on last year. Canvassers will wear the familiar yellow daffodil as identification. Headquarters for the night will be the Can- cer Society building at 84 Athol st, e. Right now the campaign is still in need of a few canvas- sers. Campaign pubiicity chair- man Ken Smyth told the Osh- awa Times this morning that the flu had hit some areas rather badly. iene gt _.. ADDITION TO CIVIC CENTRE | | | | uu UL Anata aE Wendell Brewster, director of Oshawa's recreation services, and Roy Cornishare in charge of all organizations in the pa- rade which use the facilities of the Oshawa Recreation Com- mittee. Last year the ORC building on Gibb st., was destroyed by fire. The Centennial addition will house the facilities lost in the. blaze. Included will be a squash court, exercise rooms:with con- ditioning equipment and sauna baths; a judo area; a weight- lifting area; arts and crafts rooms; general purpose rooms; Stage and concert hall; a. bill- iard room; a lounge and wait- ing room; lobby with and §in- formation booth and offices; a board room and a canteen. of Simcoe st., all. store campaign, by of organised president halts .at speeches. and made at the said Mr, HONED "Basically we have not too much to worry about. But there are some places which need a little bolstering," he said, Mr. Smyth said that anyone who wished to participate in the canvassing at the last minute should ring the Cancer Talked An anti-litter campaign to be organized in the city this year may lead to a general "beautify Oshawa" campaign in 1967. The Chamber of Commerce board of directors has agreed to help organize the anti-litter campaign in conjunction with city service clubs, says Jack Mann, secretary - manager of the Chamber. said Mr. Mann. MAJOR POINT P. J. Kennedy, Centennial co-ordinating com- mittee and Mr. Mann attended a nation-wide seminar in Ot- tawa Friday on community im- provement and _ beautification programs. "One of the major points stressed was that if a program is going to be successful it will require the participation of "Tf it's successful I'm sure an expanded beautification cam- paign can be launched in the city for Canada's centennial," Beautification Campaign For 67 everyone, especially individual citizens," said Mr. Mann. Mr. Kennedy said the empha- sis was on what could and should be done by private prop erty owners to improve building exteriors. He said speakers told those in attendance no federal funds would be available for this type of program. Mr. Lundy said films present- ed during the seminar showed what could be done in downtown areas. 200 ATTEND He said about 200 persons from across Canada attended city . parks, property and recreation com- missioner, Cecil Lundy, deputy city clerk and secretary of the the seminar. The country - wide improve- ment and beautification pro gram is being sponsored joint- ly by the Centennial Commis- sion and provincial govern ments. The program is intended to create an awareness of the po- tential for betterment of urban and rural surroundings and to make Canada more attractive to both residents and visitors during centennial year. headquarters at 725-9941. utd ivectin OT Tilco Strikers Collect $3,000 | Strikers from the Tilco Plas- tics Ltd. plant in Peterborough netted more than $3,000 in Osh- awa Friday. The striking members of the tinh Textile Workers Union of Am- erica got the money collections at north and south plant gates -atarasiog Motors of Canada itd, ' Mrs. William Downer, of the TWUA, said today that spe- cial permission was given by Local 222, United Auto Work- ers, before the collections were| made. Local 222 members at GM have contributed to strike funds of other unions in the past through plant gate dona- ions. The strikers have been aided by similar collections in Peter- borough and at the Oakville plant of the Ford Motor Com- 'Ipany of Canada. The strike be- gan Dec. 14, Branch 43 of the Royal Can- adian Legion will go along with a resolution adopted last week by its national governing body to replace the Red Ensign on top of the legion headquarters with the new maple leaf flag, but -- When the branch's new headquarters is built, two flag- poles. mey.be constructed and the Ensign retained as a sec- ondary flag. Source of this information was Alfred Brisebois, manager of the local branch, who along with Branch 43 President Alex Walker Jr., First Vice - Presi- dent Albert Turner and Alyn Elliott, an executive member, returned home this weekend after attending the week-long Canadian Legion conference in Montreal. The 2ist annual convention, following an hour - long debate, resolved that "the maple leaf flag shall be honored and flown by legion branches and com- of our country." Tyvo years ago in Winnipeg, the convention delegates ap- proved a resolution calling for the Red Ensign to continue to be flown over legion branches. However, this year's convent- ion did not abandor the Union Jack, legion standard to identi- Legion To Fly Maple Leaf But Will Retain Red Ensign fy branches and commands, or other national and provincial flags. which will still be used "on appropriate occasions." Mr. Brisebois said the Braneh 43 executive is expected to meet soon to order a new-Ca- dadian flag for the legion head- quarters in Oshawa. He said the Dominion Com- mand of the Legion wiii issue a new constitution to all bran- ches across the country on flag etiquette, listing the flags it is proper to fly on various occa- sions. Grant Approved For Conservation Approval of a provincial grant of $3,000 to the Central Lake Ontario Conservation Au- thority has been announced by Health Minister Matthew B. Dy- mond, MPP for Ontario. The grant is for flood plain mapping of Lynde and Pringle creeks. The mapping will include cal- culation of flooding as a res- ult of a design storm and the preparation of flood plain maps for the creeks within the town of Whitby. : 'Ont. Municipal Board To He Land Compensation Claim The compensation claim of David Lennox and Arenia H. M. Lennox for land expropria- ted by the Ontaric highways department will be heard by the Ontario Municipal Board in the Ontario county administra- tion building on June 27. The land concerned is about a third of an acres in Lot 20, Concession 1, Pickering Town- ship. On Aug, 15, in the Whitby court house, the OMB will hear the appeal of Weston Develop- ments Limited, Jack Friedman and Eric Exton from the de- cision made last year by Judge Alex Hall on the assessment of 101 Dundas street west in Whit- by. The township of Pickering's application for approval of the enlargment of the garbage area in the township will be heard by the OMB in the town- ship council chambers at Brou- gham on Sept. 16.

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