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Pickering Lay-offs Affect 200 Strike By 85 Riggers Sparks Walkout At Hydro PICKERING (Staff) -- The working week ends today at On- tario Hydro's nuclear power project -- with a total of about 200 lay offs in effect as a result of a strike by about 85 iron riggers. At the end of yesterday, about 150 to 160 men were laid off and another 35 to 40 lay offs were to become effective by the close of today, a Hydro spokes- man reports from the site. It means about 450 men will return to work next Tuesday after the holiday weekend and that more lay offs may be in store. Meanwhile, a hearing before the Ontario Labor Relations Board into a Hydro charge that the strike is illegal was ad- Wednesday. Iron workers are protesting against safety procedure at the plant and the suspension of a union steward Dec. 7 when they staged a sitdown and followed it up with a walkout Dec. 9 that has been continuous except for a few hours last week. CITY HALL REPORTS City Population 77,556 Growth 4.5 (Following is the third of a series of year-end reviews from City Hail Departments. Others will follow.) G. H. MEREDITH Commissioner City of Oshawa The City of Oshawa continu- es to be one of the most rapid growing communities in the Province of Ontario. The 1966 total taxable assessment as revised is $296,055,890. This represents a taxable increase % Ai Assessment Exempt from Taxation 6,994,590 26,487,195 203,954,170 Lend Buildings . ve ewdenser Business .....00+- Estimated Additional Assessment TOTALS tage | 1966 the staff made additional assessments wie produced $11,141,970. supplementary assessment. This assessment consisted of 392 new dwellings, 12 apart- ment buildings, 216 commer- cial and industrial buildings and 139 new businesses. It is estimated that an. additional Single Family Dwellings 1. Owner Occupied ... 2. Tenant Occupied .. 3. Vacant or Unfinished . Total Single Fomily Dwellings The total number of resi- dential suites including single family dwellings, apartment buildings and all other self contained living units is Classification Single Family Dwellings Subtenonts of S.F.D. .... Semi-detached Units Triplex Suites .. Multi-Family Suites Apartment House Suites ...... ° Commercial Suites Summer Cottages TOTALS This Department is respon- sible for the preparation of the annual census report and the total population recorded for 1966 is 77,556. This repres- ents an increase over 1965 of 4.5 per cent of 3,362 persons. Per- centage Increase 3.61% 6 5.93% 6 5.25% 7 9.22% 7 6.32% 7 Toxable Year 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 Assessment 230,982,770 244,681,920 257,528,740 281,276,315 299,055,890 I would like to take this opportunity to express my ap- preciation to Mayor Lyman _Gifford, _ members of the 1966 Music Festival Set For May 5 Separate school board pupils will participate in a music fes- tival Friday, May 5 to mark the celebration of the country's 100th birthday, in 1967. "Salute to Canada" will in- volve between 500 - 1,000 pupils of all grades and will feature} 33,481,785 299,055,890 Popula- tion Percent of $14,779,575. and it is estim- ated that a further assess- ment of $3,000,000. will be added to the rolls by Decem- ber 31, 1966. The total esti- mated taxable assessment in- crease is therefore $17,779,- 575. or 6.32 per cent and will produce approximately $850,- 000. additonal tax revenue for 1967. The total 1966 assess- ment as revised by the Court of Revision. (including the ad- ditional estimated amount) is as follows: Assessment Liable to Taxation 47,582,250 Total Assessment 54,576,840 230,441,365 44,519,470 3,000,000 332,537,675 86 homes will be assessed on the 1966 rolis by the time this report is in print. It is inter- esting to note that the City of Oshawa has a very high per- centage of owner occupied single family homes. This may be shown follows: 44,519,470 3,000,000 as | | Number 14,622 1,795 363 16,780 Percentage | 87.14 10.70 2.16 100% journed yesterday until next! - Donald B. Dodds, city lawyer who was recently appointed magistrate, said Tuesday that he will take over his new post Jan. 15. Mr. Dodds, recovering from an attack of the mumps which confined him to the Oshawa General Hospital for several days, said that he and his law partner, former City Councillor Richard Donald, would dissolve their partnership before Jan. 1. "I shall be making an ap- |pointment with the Chief Mag- istrate sometime in the first week of January," he said Tuesday. "It is then that I shall find "I am anticipating, and this is pure speculation, that I shall be sitting with magistrates in Toronto for a while so that I can get oriented to the other are iaceat 2 Board Reaches Accord With Clerical Workers units or 9 percent, The follow- ing as a statement of the classification and number of residential units. Number Percentage 16,780 70.70 1,484 6.26 1.91 .66 3.12 14.11 2.67 16 100% 37 23,729 la side of the bench. out what my immediate duties) jwill be. "I imagine that I shall be doing the same thing down here in Oshawa. "I don't know yet, but per- haps I shall be sitting in my own court after a month. "There is a lot to learn. I have received great batches of information from the Attorney General's Department which I have to go through. "T have a lot of work at the minute with the dissolving of the law partnership. But 1! shall be at the disposal of the Chief Magistrate on Jan. 15." Mr. Dodds did not know how he would be sworn in for his new. position. "I understand that it is either the crown attorney or the county court judge who does the swearing in,'"' he said. "But in my case I don't know yet. This is something I shall have to discuss with the Chief Magistrate." settlement has of Education and about clerical workers who threatened| to go on strike over new con-| tract demands. | The board has ratified an| jagr t drawn up between The population per h h is 3.26 persons. A good indication of the ec- onomic growth of the City of Oshawa over the past five year period may be shown by the following -table of stat- istics. Per- centage Increase 2.76% 3.85% 6.64% 5.93% 4.53% Per- Family centage Homes 14,795 15,492 15,770 16,302 16,780 Increase 3,243 1.06% 5,677 0,038 4,194 7,556- 1.79% 3.37% 2.93% Council and all the members of the Assessment staff for their excellent _ during 1966. said F. inspector {the ten provinces, Humphrey, | schools. | Booked at the Civic Auditor- }ium for a fee of $400, the group |will be directed by Allen Morris, | music consultant of the separ- jate school board. "Financial details have not been worked out and rehearsals jhave not begun yet,"' said Mr. Humphrey. "It's still early Ww. of selections pertaining to each of| yet." NEW REVISIONS SCHEDULED City Hall Caucus On Jan. 4 4.71% | co-operation | {the disputing parties last week, a board administration official} reports. He said approval came at a special board meeting Wednes- day and that details of the 'DON'T REMOVE YULE LIGHTS! WHITBY (Staff) -- Please don't take your outside Christmas lights down after New Year's. That is the request of Councillor Vernon MacCarl, chairman of the town's Cen- tennial Celebrations Commit- tee. He hopes residents will leave their lights up all this year so that they can be switched on when special occasions during birthday year occur. Dominion Day and _ the birthdays of prominent peo- ple in Canada's history would be the kind of occasions when the lights could go on, said Councillor MacCarl. He thought the town looked | very attractive lighted up as it is now. Canada's | been|agreement will be disclosed in! lesa between Oshawa ye a press release some time in| 30| the next few days. | The clerical workers, mem- bers of Local 251, Canadian |Union of Public Employees, ratified the new contract pro- posals on Dec. 21, the day after |the board and union reached |the compromise. One union official says 11 contract points are involved. gd last contract expired July "The clerical workers, about 120 in the city's five high schools jand 10 at the administration offices, voted Dec. 16 to go on | strike but did not set a date. Cruel Dawn Film Presented Here In two months of showings, the Oshawa Ukrainian Film Club's movie "The Cruel Dawn" has been seen by large jaudiences in Toronto, Hamilton and Oshawa. For the present, the movie is back in Oshawa. It is being shown at the St. John's Ukrain- ian Hall atthe corner of Bloor and Simcoe. Showings will con- tinue nightly until demand lets | up | es Toronto, people were |turned away, the hall was so | crowded. | The movie will be presented \in Buffalo and Chicago in 1967. COMMITTEES TO BE NAMED A caucus meeting of the new city council will be held Wed- nesday, Jan. 4, at 7.30 p.m. to determine members of appoint- ed boards, commissions and standing committees. Mayor-elect Ernest Marks said today, that the new coun- cil will have to decide on the number of standing committees they will have for 1967-68. The procedure for selecting mem- bers will also have to be de- cided, he said With the introduction of a board of control the number of standing committees may change. The control board re- places the finance committee In past years there have been four standing committees of council. They included the finance; parks, property and recreation, traffic and _ public safety and the public works When the committees have been organized a chairman will probably be selected from the committee membership. A con- troller usually sits on a stand- ing committee but is seldom elected chairman. Special com- mittees may also be decided at the caucus. The 1967-68 Oshawa city coun- > will have 13 new faces on t. They will include Ernest Marks, (mayor); Ralph Jones, Frank McCallum and Robert Nicol (controllers); William Paynter, Russell McNeil, Mrs. Ruth Bestwick, Dr. James Rundle, John DeHart, Ernest Whiting, Bruce Mackey, Dr. Charles Mcllveen, and Gilbert Murdoch. Ald. Margaret Shaw will be back but this time as a con- troller instead of an alderman, Ald. Gordon Attersley, Ald. Alice Reardon and Ald. Nor- man Down will he the only familiar faces at the alder manic level. a I ata IN ore Mare Three Oshawa clergymen will participate in the 1967-68 city council inaugral ceremony Jan. 9. It is believed to be a first, at least in modern times, that three members of the clergy will officiate at a city of Osh- awa inaugral. Rabbi M. Kutziner of the Beth Zion Congregation will start the ceremony at 11 a.m. with an opening prayer; Rev. Pas. Mellow of Northminster United Church will say a closing prayer. Monsignor Paul M. Dwyer of St. Gregory The Great Roman Catholic Church will give a talk appropriate for the occasion. Swearing in of the new coun- cil 'will be performed by Judge Alex C. Hall, county court judge for the County of Ontario. The declaration of office reads as follows: "1. ... do solemnly promise and declare that 1 will truly, faithfully and impartially, to the best of my knowledge and abil- ity, execute the office of . . . to which I have been . . . in the municipality of the... of . and that I' have not received, and will not receive, any pay- ment or reward, or promise thereof, for the exercise of any partiality or malversation, or other unique execution of the COUNCIL INAUGURAL J ANUARY 9 said office and that I have not, by myself, or partner, either directly or ay woe any in- terest in 7 with, or the said conpora- on behalf of tion. Judge Hall will witness and sign the declarations. With the addition of a board of coniroi to the 1967-68 council there will be 17 declarations this year -- four more than at the last in- augral. Immediately following the in- augral the new council along with a number of prominent civic dignitaries will attend a Civic Day Luncheon at the Gen- osha Hotel sponsored by the Oshawa Rotary Club. Ta SCENE OF > EARLY-MORN HARMONY RD. FIRE TODAY . . . Unidentified Children Inspect Premises Dodds Set To Take Over As Magistrate On Jan. 15 _ Oshawa Times Photo Yule Trees Collection Starts Soon By now some Christmas trees in Oshawa are looking like fore the holiday dinner. ened pace and bare patches are appearing. Oshawa's Christmas tree! can be placed on the front lawn collected on regular garbage days throughout the week. Jack Johnstone, public works yard superintendent, says week to pick up the trees. cial enterprises. | At the city dump the trees will be chopped into fine shav- ings by a chipper, then buried city air pollution bylaw pre- vents burning the trees as is done in other centres in the province, says the tendent. Mr. Johnstone says Christmas: tree shavings make to loosen the soil. While some cities bag and sell the shav- ings they can be obtained free at the dump here, he adds. City Fire Leaves Eight Homeless a partially-plucked goose be- pick-up starts Jan. 9 but trees before this time. They will be} there will be five or six open trucks employed during the About 11,000 trees will be col-| lected by the week's end, he adds. There will be no collec- tion of trees used by commer- | with the rest of the garbage. A superin- that good fertilizer and can be used New Year's Eve Service In Chamber WHITBY (Staff) --All citi- zens of the town are invited to a special New Year's Eve serv- jice in the council chamber at \the municipal building, to mark the beginning of Canada's cen- jtennial year. The service will begin at 11.30 p.m. with the singing of "God Save the Queen', after which the call to worship will be made by Rabbi M. Kutziner. A hymn of thanksgiving will be sung, followed by a scripture read- ing and address by Rev. S. J. Armstrong. After another hymn, Mayor Desmond Newman will read messages to the Governor-Gen- eral of Canada and the Lieut. iGovernor of Ontario. At mid- Needles are falling at a quick-| night the gathering will sing "O Canada', and Rev. B. Varcoe | will pronounce the benediction. |Mrs, Helen Spratt will be the |pianist at the service. At about 12.10 a.m. Mayor Newman and Councillor Vernon MacCarl, chairman of the Cen- \tennial Celebrations Committee, will sound the 100-gun salute outside the Fire Hall. It is hoped that as many councillors and members of the boards as possible will attend \the service. Fall Injures City Man, 65 A 65-year-old Oshawa man is in critical condition today at Toronto General Hospital after falling down a flight of stairs while sweeping snow last night. Nature of injuries to Frank Lem, owner of Grand Restau- rant, King St. E., is not known. He fell down 10 steps while show cleaning at 144% King St. He was taken to Toronto Gen- eral shortly after the fall at about 10 p.m. Ghe Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1966 Big Centennial A centennial New Year's eve party and midnight folk serv- ice will be held at the North- minster United Church coffee house on Simcoe St. N., "to sing out the old and 'sing in the new". All Oshawa and area youths are invited to dance to the horns, Chest Clinic Mobile Unit Ontario County clinic and mobile unit. Health. Mrs. Collins said they will appeal to the government for a loan to obtain the mobile unit. Earlier endeavors to acquire ment did not feel there was a rant the unit, she said. warrant it." Mrs. Collins said she recently visited Windsor and discussed operating costs of similar units with the sanitarium superinten- dent and the medical health officer. music of two visiting bands for a fee of 50 cents. The eve- ning's celebration includes streamers and a mid- night dedication to the centen- is trying to get its first Tuberculosis chest C. C. Stewart, Oshawa medi- cal health officer and Mrs. E. A. Collins, executive secretary of Ontario County Tuberculosis and Health Association met this week in Toronto with the direc- tor of tuberculosis prevention for the Ontario Department of one failed because the govern- large enough population to war- "But, now there are enough people in Ontario County to used in that area. She spoke Eve Ceremony Set For Northminster Church nial New Year. National foods of several countries will be represented on the smorgasbord dinner after midnight.. Money raised will be sent to a world organization to feed the hungry. Open at eight o'clock, the cof- fee house will be active all eve- ning with a candles and check- ered tablecloth atmosphere. Around midnight.the coffee house atmosphere will change to one of "'youthful reverence", said a spokesman for to help us look at the past, as a guide to the future," added. Warning Given To Children lurk at the bottom. Club manager, that children sliding down course hills and across the Osh- awa creek are in danger. He said ice on the creek's surface has only been frozen a few days while underneath the current is running rapidly. "Creek ice never gets thick because of a current," said Mr. Lent. "There's a good cur- rent running through Oshawa Golf course." He advised youngsters who want to slide on the golf course hills to use slopes on the west side near Park Road (Holes 13, 14 and 15 for parents who know the course.) Children can also use the hill on the east side of the course near hole "one," adds Mr. Lent. They can. reach this hill from Alandra Street. the ch. "We will hold a folk service Group Seeks. he Although slopes at the Osh- awa Golf Club provide a good testing ground for new sleighs and toboggans -- danger may James Lent, Oshawa Golf warned today Fire Units Fight Blaze Two Hours A family of eight were left homeless early this morning when fire, raging uncontrolled for two hours, destroyed their Harmony Road south frame house. George H. May 'suffered burns to his feet as he led his six children to safety. The children were reported te range in ages from two to nine, including twins. Mrs. May was not injured. Oshawa fire fighters from two city stations answered the.call at 1:40 a.m. It took almost two hours before the blaze could be brought under control. Platoon Chief 0. C. son said he could not the amount of damage. Cause of the blaze is unknown but is believed to have started in the kitchen. Neighbors of the May family gave five of the children refuge for the remainder of the morn- ing while Mrs. May and. her youngest child went to her mother's home, "They lost everything," said Percy Allman, 23 Harmony Rd. §. who cared for the two eldest daughters and the -- second youngest boy. Mrs. C. S. Adams of 49 Har- mony Rd. S., who sheltered two other boys, told The Times that the children left her home about mid-morning. Mr. May is an employee of the city park's department, Centennial Ball For Credit Union The Auto Workers Credit Union today announced their plans to hold a mammoth céen- tennial ball at Oshawa's. Civie Auditorium on Saturday, June 3. Pete Schofield and the Cana- dian College All-Star Orchestra have been for the eve- ning. Square dancing will also be featured. Senior citizens of Osh- awa's Hillsdale Manor pose for the camera Thursday night before embarking by bus on their annual tour of the City to see the Christ- mas and New Year's lights. More than 140 made the journey, sponsored by. the Oshawa Recreation Centre, the Kinsmen Club of Osh- awa and the Woodview Park Association. The guests stopped off at Kinsmen Civic Centre for refresh- ments and some carol sing- ing before returning to Hillsdale. The one-and-a- half hour drive was made in four PUC buses. Said Hillsdale Manor Superinten- dent Douglas Johns today: SENIOR CITIZENS SEE BRIGHT LIGHTS OF OSHAWA When you're over 60 this - annual bus. outing can be a most happy occasion for the . folks. They thoroughly. en- joyed it. --OQshawa Times Photo rs