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ee ey Ores POPS SS et 'She Oshawa Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1966 MRS. CONANT UNVEILS HISTORICAL PLAQUE Mr: Goin » Supreme Gir tee howd Casati" | Will Keep Fair Jumping | e: Frost, Mayor Pay Tribute To Former Ontario "We can realize today that the inspiration for today came through the endurance of the work of great men such as Gor- Tribute was paid to Ontario's\tario and Oshawa to a very, 12th prime minister -- the latejimportant degree. During Gor- Gordon D. Conant -- at Lake-/don's time as Prime Minister, view Park Wednesday he was responsible for two A plaque -- commemorating|Pieces of important legislation," |don his life work in the community|said Mr. Frost | "He knew what he wanted and province, was unveiled by; 'One was the Ottawa. Riverjand stuck to it until he got it. his wife, Mrs. G. D. Conant. agreement with Quebec 25|He was a patriot and lover of "He was a_ gentiemanly,/years ago jhis province and country learned individual," said Leslie} "Proper credit has never| "Gordon Conant lived to see Frost, former prime minister of/peen given Gordon for the/many of the things that he ad- Ontario and guest speaker at/iabor Relations Act. I can re- vocated, be enacted. He was the ceremony. jmember one of the opposition|aggressive and full of energy, It is @ great pleasure to pay isaying at the time -- 'give the which he always put to good) tribute to such a man," he said./qeyil his dues, he has done alyse" said Mr. Oliver. "He| PM inational impact. He was truly ple," said Mr. Walker "The historical past is linked |with the present," said Michaed "q| Starr, Ontario riding MP followed Mr. Conant's career with interest, but more particu- larly with awe "History of a municipality is often linked with a family. In Oshawa, it will always be link- ed with the name Gordon D. |Conant and the Conant family. "Those that follow us in the future will know what has -been done in the past, from the words on this plaque," said Mr, Starr. UNVEILING Mrs. Conant was introduced for the unveiling of the plaque by Dr. M. P. Townsend, chair- man of the Oshawa Historical Society's sites committee and master of ceremonies "T would like to thank those who have been kind enough to come on this special occasion to onlatet Laman Cited sal wonderful Jo "Albert V. Walker, Oshawa man of integrity in both private | INSPIRATION riding MPP, said the history of and public life. He was a man| Long-time Liberal member of|this city and the name Conant with the public". jhar Oliver, said it was a pleas-| 'Gordon definitely had the "I don't know if the generaljure to pay tribute to such ajcourage.of his conviction, re- public is aware of it, but he was|man as Mr: Conant was 'gardless of political or denom- responsible for the eg of at least 80 per cent of these e ited o'r tine ome" EXLVOro Substation "He was also a great lover| of the outdoors and every sum- mer he looked forward to his e trip to Algonquin Park | "I can remember when ve Will Cost $200 000 ' kenzie King -- he always had) 4 999.990 permanent hydro; Until the new system was his wire - haired terrier withisupstation will be built at the|started in 1965 with the erection him. Gordon Conant was a man) southwest corner of Wentworth|of two temporary substations, among men, a real advocate of| st and Wilson Rd. to eventually | the city operated on a 4,165 volt | those he served," said the) supply power to the southeast |system WIFE PRAISED Bruce Annan, Public Utilities|tribution lines in the outer Mr. Frost paid tribute to Mrs.|Commission manager, says con- fringe of the city is stepped up Conant for her years as a de-'struction of the substation is/|to 13,000 volts voted and helpful wife. part of a plan to increase the| Substations will be added in "The Conants have con-|voltage in distribution lines in|future to various points in the| --|System, said Mr, Annand | SPRING START Preliminary work on the new substation is expected to start next spring, the PUC manager phases of the building. Na The transformer (main part 43 of the substation) will be order- ed this fall because of the year long delivery time. A switch =| will also be ordered. Mr. Annand said the sub- Station will near completion to Bicarry the winter peak-load of 1967 jsale of approximately an' acre of city-owned land to the com-| mission as a site for the sub- Station, The price was $2,500 an = jacre that was genuinely concerned|the Ontario Legislature, Farqu-|are closely related. trees," said the mayor. went for a walk -- like Mac-| mayor jsection of Oshawa. Now the line potential of dis-| tributed to the growth of On-'the outer ring of the city jcity to accommodate the new/| }said, with construction of early ysear, another essential part, Council recently approved the RECREATION DAY the Conant family and those who have told so much about the past," said Mrs. Conant. "T feel as if I could write a book about it and may be I will -- if I have the time," she said Mrs. Conant then proceeded to unveil the 'plaque erected by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board, sponsored by the Oshawa and District istorical Society. Contract Dispute To Conciliation LONDON, Ont. (CP) -- The contract dispute between Cana- dian Linen Supply Ltd. of Lon- don and Kitchener and 27 mem- bers of Local 141, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (Ind.) has been turned over to a conciliation board, it was an- nounced Wednesday The company and the union were advised to appoint nomi- nees for the board Wednesday The drivers, 21, in London and six in Kitchener, are seeking a wage increase from the average of $82.50 a week and a reduc- tion in the work week CAMP Ambulance Driver Labor Leaders Will Discuss Face Two Charges injunctions Speeders Main Target In Driving Campaign Police Lay 800 Charges Over Two-Week Period -- The city police crack-down on| 'King and Bond streets are a man that cared for the peo-| Bowmanville ambulance driv- er Beverley Harris, 24, of RRit 6, Bowmanville, will face charges of dangerous driving and careless driving in Oshawa! © magistrates court. The charges have been. laid by city police following an acci- dent at the corner of Bond St. and Wilson Rd. on June 27. The Bowmanville ambulance, driven by Harris, was in colli- sion with a David E. Logan, 27, of Lans- The ambulance at the time of the accident was carrying motorcycyle acvident Lynda Louise Lake, of Lindsay, died this week from injuries. The other injured person, Roy Henry, 23, of Alma St., Osh- awa, is still in Toronto General Hospital car driven by|juries received. downe Dr., Oshawa. court within weeks, from a to the he Oshawa General Hospital. One of the two injured people, wo injured people recovering from in- Harris will appear in Oshawa the next two | "Jumping" the way Oshawa ithis year. | The Alexandra from Aug. 4 to highlight modern 'ing Friday, Aug. leallers will be on hand to kee dancers going. Callers include of Oshawa Circle iserving as master monies; Glen Dowson, Park event Aug. 6 will! square danc- 5, and four)! Squares, also) member of of Oshawa Allemanders. The dance is expected to a icular attraction p| dance will be held at O'Neill IC Bill Murray park on Simcoe St. N Ridge Prominaders and also a| young * Bowmanville|Knight and the Midnights and| council - in - committee meet- Swingin' Bows; Bill Robinson,|Shawn Jackson and the Majes-| ings but is prohibited from re- Brooklin Squares and Jim Allen|tics will share the evening pro-| porting matters discussed until |\gram. be | dance to| Collegiate. | Modern Square Dancing © bad driving is taking a heavy toll of speeders. K Speeding has been one of the major targets of the crack- down. Police radar traps. have have been out on city streets at every available opportunity. Last week police caught and charged 398 speeders, Most were doing around the 45-mile an hour mark, One was caught touching on 80 miles an hour, The week before 408 speeders were caught by the radar traps. "The crack-down," fic Sgt. . William Tane this morning,"' will continue. If necessary we will increase the pressure a little, "Believe me, we don't enjoy But The Oshawa and District Labor council executive meets tonight to discuss the 36-day old strike at Ontario Malleable ron. One of the main topics to be discussed will be injunctions. An application for an injunc- tion to limit the number of picketers outside Malleable's Pront St, plant was adjourned indefinitely in Supreme court Tuesday. The sine die adjournment was made with the agreement of company and union lawyers. | Local 1500, United Steel- workers of America are strik-| ing to back up demands for aj} new contract. with increased) wages and a company-pald|laying all these charges said Traf- is the word for|modern square dancers but all Fair will be | people attending the fair are invited to take part. Spot prizes will be awarded jand it looks like a full evening. n the event of bad weather the Jollegiate, just south of the On Saturday, two well known of cere-|bands will be on hand to pro-|was discussed, last night, by Pine| vide continuous dancing for the! city council-in committee. modern set Ritchie In case it rains, the will move to O'Neill | LAWYERS SAY: Grounds For Divorce | Should Be Broadened | Grounds for divorce should|desertion as primary grounds \be broadened to ileast desertion, mental cruelty and imprisonment for criminal|t behavior, say several Oshawa | lawyers. These three grounds as well as four others, drug addiction, alcoholism, adultry and perver- sion, are part of the proposed changes in the present divorce laws being submitted in nine MP's bills at an inquiry in Ottawa. "There is a continual public pressure for additional divorce grounds such as hopeless men- tal illness and desertion for a period of two or three years, |says Thomas H. Greer. | But, he said the big hurdle is Ito get it through parliament which might prove a difficult task, t | 'Phe change won't come eas- lily or quickly because there lare too many members opposed Ito the idea because of religious and social reasons," said Mr. include atifor divorce He said from his experience, he general public is sick and ired of commissions that don't solve the problem. CRUELTY "Mental cruelty can be too easily alledged or disproved welfare plan it has to be done."' The company's three-year) ONE-WAY contract with the 550-member| Radar has been concentrated junion ran out April 30. 'on the city's one-way system. Council Reviews Board Of Control Board of control government there must be a minimum of 10 alderman elected. If only eight alderman are elected then the maximum number on board of control will be two, the Act reads. CITY-WIDE VOTE Members of board of control will be elected by the city at large if the new governmental system is enacted. Aldermen will continue to be elected on the same basis, unless this is changed by council, said Mr. Lundy At present there are six wards in Oshawa from which 12 aldermen are elected by the general public. If council changes the number of alder- men -- which it has the right to do -- then the number of wards will change, said the deputy-clerk. Heat Causing Drink Problem A serious problem of exces- The press is allowed to attend |they are dealt with at a regular council meeting. | Cecil Lundy, deputy-city clerk, says the board of control form of government will be debated at a regular council meeting, early in September. A report from the committee set up to study the board of jcontrol government was made jto council, The Oshawa and | District Labor council, in Feb- ruary, asked council to con- sider changes in municipal | government. | TWO-THIRDS If a board of control is ap- proved by council it will need a two-thirds. majority (nine members) and approval of the Ontario Municipal Board, said Mr. Lundy. Its main function will be to perform most of the city's still the worst areas," said Sgt. Tane. Police attention has also been focussed on those people who squeal their tires and drive around in noisy cars, "We have been laying a lot of charges," said Sgt. Tane. ""Un- necessary noise is quite a prob- lem. "There is no need to squeal tires or rev the engine un- necessarily. These are the peo- ple we are concentrating on." MOTORCYCLES Motorcycles are also being watched carefully by city police. "A lot of people say these machines are noisy when they come off the assembly lines and there is nothing that can be done about the noise, "I don't think that 1s so," said Sgt. Tane. "It is all a mat- ter of how one drives these macines, If they are driven with common sense they don't make too much noise, "Our own police motorcycles are capable of making a lot of noise if they were driven bad- ly. They are big machines, But if they are driven well, as our police drivers do, there is no excess of noise." Chief Coroner Takes Inquest An inquest into the death of an 8-year-old Toronto boy who died of a broken neck at a Pick. ering swimming pool will be held toward the end of August, Crown Attorney Bruce Affleck said today. The body of George Piodo- mani was found beside the Swimming pool at Paulynne Park, Greenwood Rd., Picker, ing, on June 12, "The inquest," said Mr, Affleck, "will be conducted by Dr, H, B. Cotnam, supervising coroner for the province. No definite date has been set yet rn Dr. Cotnam is still on vaca. ion," The inquest will be held at the Ontario County Building in Whitby. It was first believed that the and therefore is not a strong ground for divorce," said Mr. Mackey. Mr. Mackey criticized the en- tire court procedure for divorce cases and said special tribunals with a chairman and a council of social workers would be bet- ter equipped to handle divorces. administrative work now done by council and special com- mittees. Council will still retain veto powers on all actions taken by the board of control when and if it is implementated, the deputy clerk said. In order for Oshawa to have brough, city welfare adminis- boy had drowned in the pri. vately operated pool owned by George Hodgson, A later autopsy revealed that sive drinking spurred by On- tario's heat wave has added a 12 cases to the city's welfare file. "In warm weather, people holga had dled of a broken drink more and we have had 5 : several cases of alcholism and desertion," said H. G. Chese- opposition jchurchmen in agreement not even the committee study- ing the bills," he said. He said there would be no "from enlightened" A Whitby lawyer, Hugh M. O'Connell, said church opposi- tion against divorce is similar 0 its stand against liquor. "We'll never have everybody to the issue Greer |STRONG GROUNDS | T. Kelso Creighton, QC, said idesertion for a specified time, ("because it seems to termi- nate the marriage relation"), conviction of criminal and consequent long-term prisonment and incurable in-|p sanity are strong grounds for|s divorce offense | Cadillac im-/treated at Oshawa Car Turns Over Whitby Accident | released Wednesday by the Na- Mrs, Marion Giles, 33, 333 Ave., Oshawa, was General Hos- Skin abra- after the shawa ital last night for ions to the elbow car she was travelling in hit al cause He added that mental cruel-/barricade and turned over on|rate," P. G. McLaren, league ty is 'a very vague" ground for|its roof a divorce case, Mr, Creighton) said the grounds for divorce|George, 34, are open to question but some|The accident occurred on Dun-|in that age group, almost twice have 'a very strong case." id "IT think the majority of the grounds for divorce need to be broadened because adultry is too narrow," said Bruce Mac- jkey who rated criminal be- 'havior, incurable insanity and Boys Turn Pioneers Boys in Oshawa are captur- ing the spirit of the early) pioneer days in the~first of a! Series of three day camps or- e ganized by the recreation de- partment About 30 boys have made s their camping grounds on the Oshawa Oreek: Valley at Taun- ton Rd The five-day with carefree activities. Fea- ture revivals of early pioneer times are two forts constructed from cedar trees and branches The utilized the young and set up the frame of the made a roof of event filled is fortsmen trees branches for fort cedar and then boughs said Southwell, director of the boys' camps Mr, Southwell said the forts are to be used as sleeping| quarters for the fort groups this evening at the camp sleep. out Grant PAUL DUFFIELD, 11, shows that crossing a creek by a pulley bridge is as exciting as it is fast. About 30 Oshawa boys are camp ing on the Oshawa Creek Valley, Taunton Rd. West, this week as part of a rec reation department summer program. The boys swim build forts and bridges and explore like the pioneers of old Canada : --Oshawa Times Photos MELON HUNT chery axe and knife instruction. fire|/grounds some day and to oper. during a scavenger hunt for a ripe .watermelon. The melon was found tied to a high branch and hidden beneath several boughs The northern portion of the creek makes an ideal swim- ming place and walking dis- tance is greatly reduced by the footbridge the boys have built from logs," said the director An unusual sport at the «amp grounds is the pulley bridge used to transport the boys from one side of the creek to the other There open let as they plenty of wide spaces for the bo te fun they Southwell go and have as much want long as safe,"' said Mr Organized activity part of the program camp craft as are is with -ar instruction building and extinguishing knotting and hiking A burlar as a milk and lined hole and serves cooler plastic The boys showed forest' and| containers preserve the water|being held for tracking knowledge yesterday'supply. | also aj been The concrete fireplace was buill a week previously to camp opening. It has "'a special magic, device." At the release a chemical which passes through a pipe, the fire wood is ignited in- stantaneously Vhe boys like to make be- lieve it is the act of the great spirit of the wood," said Mr. Southwell This evening the boys will play to their parents and demonstrate a number of the skills they have learned Such an obstacle course a contest, a Sing-song have programed and rehearsed the parents' entertainment. We hope to have our own host things as pancake campfire and for This is kids," ate a camp for girls the greatest thing for siad Mr. Southwel Registration at Rotary Hall is the second day camp, July 25-29 inclusive, The driver was her husband not las St. E., Whitby 'WATERMELON is great,'"' is what this group of day campers would injured. | a four-man board of control the! 'trator. Fifty Plaques "These men, (the majority of cases are male), loose their jobs, are admitted to hospital for treatment or referred to AA," said Mr. Chesebrough. He said at least four Oshawa men have voluntarily admitted themselves to the Ontario Hos- pital for treatment this sum- mer. Ontario Municipal Act states | Mishaps Kill Young People | | OTTAWA (CP) -- You are twice as likely to die in a traffic accident between the ages of 15 and 24 than if you are between 35 and 44 A report on accidents in 1965 Crown Expecting To Return Soon Crown Attorney Bruce W. {tional Safety League of Canada Affledk expects to be out of shows traffic accidents killed | more young people between 15|hospital soon. |and 24 years than any other age; 'I am doing just fine", Mr. | group. |Affleck said from his hospital "That's why they are a major|bed this morning, "I expect to of the high accident/be out soon. I will have. to! rest up for a while but it won't be long before I am back on the job." Mr, Affleck was Oshawa General | general said in the | report. Traffic accidents killed 1,326 manager, taken to Hospital for Not Claimed Less than 50 "forgotten" plaques of appreciation given by the city to World War Two veterans remain to be dis- tributed. Several weeks ago a list of the 150 undelivered plaques was given to the Legion and other service branches anwdpa-b us lished in the Times. "The response has been far more successful than I had ane ticipated," said Cecil Lundy, deputy city clerk. "The last four weeks have very slow and I don't think that many more of the plaques will be picked up," said Mr. Lundy, "Those that have not been picked up may be people who no longer reside in Oshawa or are devteased," he said. Plaques that are not picked up within the next month will Seen the 719 in the 25-to-34 age group.'an intestinal operation. be put away and stored. SS" probably say -- if they weren't too busy. The boys, during @ scavenger hunt. found the melon tied to a high branch and hidden be- neath several boughs, After = a they divided the spoils in a huddle (Page 1) they attacked the melon.