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Oshawa Times (1958-), 6 Jan 1967, p. 10

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some of the ome restless rry out acts irb their re- the RCMP id man who wn choice as h American is in fact a 0 had been for Canada, BEST IN CITY HISTORY MAY BE TOPS IN CANADA Blood Clinic Sets Record For Donations |: A record in Ontario and pos- sibly in all of Canada was set yesterday as 606 pints og blood were donated at the regular one-day January blood donor clinic. "It was the most successful ever held in the nine-year his- tory of the Red Cross clinit'" said chairman Robert Stroud today. are certain that it is a record for a one-day clinic in all of Canada but decline to confirm it until they have checked the records in Toronto. "This doesn't count the mar- athons, they usually go all day and up until midnight,"' he said. ALMOST CERTAIN "We thought that we had set pints but we found out that we fell short of that but we are almost certain of a record this time," he said. It was first estimated that O'Neill Collegiate's Medical Club would send 25. donors, however, 60 students from the club showed up to donate. "With these and the 120 from General Motors, the monthly Mr. Stroud. 'Without them we would have. had only _ better than. 400 pints of blood." All workers at "the clinic, held at St. Gregory's Adfditor- ium, were so busy that they did not have time to stop for a full supper hour. EXTRA HELP "We were so busy that we had to send to Toronto for more beds and extra help as well as get more volunteer help," said Mr. Stroud. "Everyone was very tired -- they were putting three donors through the clinic every two minutes," he said. "We were all very proud and happy in spite of being very tired. When it was all over, five members of the Kiwanis Club loaded the truck for the Red Cross team. "Officials from the Red Cross a record once before with 540 average was brought up," said . dumping of oil and similar mat- IT WAS A DAY of giving in the city yesterday--par- ticularly at the Red Cross Blood Donor clinic. One of BLOOD WAS NOT only thing donated yester- day to the Red Cross. J. A. Yanch, left, Oshawa Red Cross president, chats with the the 120 General Motors em- ployees, Lloyd G. Grose, who donated blood for a fellow employee's wife who Matt Leydon, Ontarie Hockey Association presi- dent and George Hitle, trea- surer of the Get - Together Club following the presen- A sonic boom which crashed through the area waking Osh awa people at 5 a.m. today seems to have disappeared in the vapors of mystery. Cause of 'the tremendous boom may have been a jet air- craft breaking the sound bar- rier, but neither Toronto air- port nor Trenton have any knowledge of such an aircraft in the area. is-in -hespital,.chats with nurse Laura Turpin. The O'Neill Collegiate Medical Club also sent 60 blood donors to the clinic. -|Folk Festival will present plans! * \for Will Outline '67 Week Plans The executive of the Oshawa! the festival's centennial week of June 25 to July 1 at an open meeting, Jan. 11 at Sim- coe Hall. Some 200 organizations have been invited to send represen- tatives to the meeting and to complete a questionnaire ask- ing for active participation, an executive spokesman said to- day. "The executive extends the invitation to all groups, local or otherwise and individuals who may not have been reached by mail,"" says Mrs. J. A. Ald- winckle, president of the Osh- Mystery Boom Jolts District: Plane Blamed » \did t k y what used the Folk Festival "2 2urt" & A spokesman from Trenton, a military air transport com- mand, said that it definitely was not caused by any aircraft from that base. A check with Air Defence Command in Ottawa revealed they did not know of any jet aircraft in this area early to- day, the spokesman said. H. M. Wilson, regional con-| troller of. civil aviation, said in Toronto today that his office it could only have been a fight- er aircraft. "If it was a civilian or com- mercial jet, which made the noise, then it was in trouble," he said. Mr. Wilson speculated it was an aircraft, from a_ military, base near Detrojt, which pass- ed over the area breaking the sound barrier. He said thé sound travels up to 160. miles crashing through the air over the entire route. As it passed over any specific point it sounded like an explo- sion but would not linger and would in effect cause a continu- ous series of explosions over the 100 miles. Residents of Whitby and Osh- were wakened at about 5 a.m. by the sound. One person said it sounded like the rumble of a OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRI DAY, JANUARY 6, 1966 She Oshawa Cines Alcohol, Selfishness Blamed For Accidents The Camaro offered by the Downtown Merchants Asso- ciation, in a Win - A - Prize contest has been claimed by a city woman. The winning number, 934376, was held by Mrs. Jo- sephine Westlake of 12 Thom- as St., Oshawa. "I didn't even know that I held the winning number until I read-it-in-The- Times on Wednesday," said Mrs. Westlake. "It was in the picture with Mayor Ernest Marks pulling the. stub." "I was so excited about it | that I just couldn't believe CITY WOMAN CLAIMS CAR IN WIN-A-PRIZE CONTEST I'd won -- in fact it's still a little hard to believe. "My husband and I haven't decided what we will do with the new car, we already have in 1963 Pontiac, but I'm sure that we will figure some- thing out," said Mrs. West- lake. "I don't know how many tickets I had in the drum, I.did all of my_ shopping downtown and put aii of them in for the draw,"' she said. Mr. Westlake is employed at Fittings Ltd. The car will be turned over to Mrs. Westlake, Tuesday. 10 Killed, 476 Injured "In 2,091 City Mishaps | The drinking motorist .. . the selfish one who says 'to heck with the other guy'... the motorist who 'cheats on the speed limits . . . this type of person is to blame for many of the 2,091 accidents in Oshawa last year. Ten people died and 476 were injured on city roads in 1966. Aleshal w factin 80 per cent of the fatal accidents, says City police Traffic Inspector Norman Smyth. Accident figures of all kinds have jumped up since 1965. Ironically the good intersec- awa Folk Festival. "huge log rolling down the hill! and hitting the house." tation of cheques totalling $300. The hockey associa- tion presented a $100 cheque and the teen-age club a cheque for $200. --Oshawa Times Photos Garbage Control Law Requested For Lakes OTTAWA (Special) --- The lederal government is being pressed fo enact legislation controlli the discharge of garbage and human wastes from commercial and pleasure craft on the Great Lakes. Donald Tolmie, Liberal MP for Welland, has placed a order paper asking if such leg- Oil Dumping Law Noted By City Harbor Manager Oshawa harbor is _ not equipped to. receive garbage and human waste from ocean- going vessels, manager Wilfred Gillberry said today. He was commenting on at- tempts by Donald Tomlie, Lib-) eral MP for Welland, to enact) legislation governing disposal of such waste in the Great Lakes. There are regulations curbing ter in the water, but none con- cerning human and other waste. | Mr, Gillberry said that be- cause there was no such legis- lation, the harbor was not equipped to handle such waste. Normally, he said, vessels contain waste in huge tanks and discharge it far out to sea. He said should siteh regula- tions come into effect it would, nevertheless, be unlikely the harbor would set up costly dis- posal receiving and treatment facilities, unless corresponding legislation required harbor com- missions to establish them. He suggested that rather than | require harbors to comply with such legislation, it would be more likely that craft would have their own treatment plants on board. At any rate, he said, the problemi does not exist so much on lake vessels which have islation is being considered. He plans to press the issue with the Department of Transport in an effort to make it an offence for any vessel on the Great Lakes to discharge garbage and sewage into the water. Regulations already exist concerning the dumping of oil and similar wastes into the On larger, passenger, ships, accumulation of waste would be more of a problem and harbors would likely have to confront it by setting up reception facili- ties, but freighters generally manage until far out to sea. If a situation arose where the harbor would have to provide facilities for treatment, the Pub- lic Utilities Commission should |be prepared to provide chemi- leals to treat sewage directly, he | |said. Such a case could arise when, for instance, a sdestroyer came into the harbor. But such would be a rare case. PLEASURE CRAFT Norman Courtney, operator of the Oshawa Yachthaveny said disposal equipment but noted that pleasure craft do not have to install toilet facilities until June, 1968. The regulation by the Ontario Water Resources Commission comes into effect on that date. He said he would provide treatment stations for his clients after regulations are en- forced. Mr. Courtney said regu- lations do not require him to set up such units, but he would do it as a service and would charge for it. At present, pleasure craft that he has no dockside garbage! lakes but until recently there has been little thought given to other potential pollution from ships. "Granted, the bulk of the pol- lution entering the lakes and the St. Lawrence comes from the land through industrial wastes and untreated commu- nity sewage," Mr. Tolmie ad- mits. "But I feel we should not ignore other sources of pollu- tion, even if they are not as serious." The Welland MP -points out that with the steady increase in the number of pleasure craft and the rise in the number of come steadily worse. The Ontario Water Resources Commission is the body pre- sponsible for formulating regu- lations --_ governing pleasure craft. It has been formulating |regulations and dockside dis- charge of sewage is felt to be the answer. But the big job is to sell the idea of control of discharge from Great Lakes' ships. Fed- eral officials are apparently thinking in terms of treated sewage and making the regula- tions applicable only to new vessels or those which go through a major refit. Mr. Tolmie says this is not good enough and that all ves-! sels using the lakes should be reed to utilize dockside dis- charge facilities and improve incinerators which efficiently consume garbage. Greatly im- proved units for both functions have been designed and tested and are now available in Can- ada. CEMETARIES A suggestion by Reeve C. W. Laycox that a board be set up to administer the func- tion of township cemeteries has been referred by Pickering Township Council to the com- mittee of the whole council for comparatively small crews. dump their waste overboard. study, A hearing into the legality of a strike by iron workers at the Pickering nuclear power pro- ject is expected to wind up to- day with summations by the union nd Ontario Hydro, a spokesman for Local 721, Inter- national Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers said today. William Taylor, business agent for the loval, said from Toronto the union is awaiting the decision of the labor rela- tions board and action will be taken based upon that decision. He said a meeting is sched- uled Monday morning for the iron workers to discuss the re- sults of the hearing and a course of action will be planned whether or not the decision favors the union. The men walked off their jobs in the middle of December pro- testing safety at the site and Ontario Hydro shortly asked the strike be declared: illegal. The hearing was adjourned Dec. 28 after three days and re- sumed yesterday. LAID OFF Meanwhile, about 200 boiler makers, carpenters @nd labor- rs, were laid off as a result of the strike. A company spokesman said the laid-off workers were the most closely affected by the strike and there was not enough work for them. The spokesman said today that there were no: further lay- until the hearing concludes. Protesting the layoffs and also safety procedures which caused the iron workers to strike, sev- eral construction workers dem- onstrated yesterday and today for about one and one-half hours in front of Ontario Hydro of- fices in Toronto. The demon- strations were peaceful and there were no incidents. | Two Injured, 40] Accident PICKERING (Staff) -- An elderly Peterborough couple re- ceived fractured skulls and oth- er injuries when their car went into a ditch and struck a 'ce- ment culvert, Thursday morn- ing. The accident occurred on Highway 401, west of Church An economic opportunity pro-! gram that has become a new-| born characteristic of Canadian Chamber of Com-| merce is going into effect in| Oshawa. Nature of the scheme -- to} be worked primarily through a long-term survey -- will be to prepare for greater problems in education and _ industrial plant expansions. Oshawa Chamber of Com- merce manager Jack Mann said today the local plan will be largely based on the oper- ation of the project at St. Catharines. The St. Kits scheme was in Canada, as a pilot project Commerce and was successful enough that the head body programming last October. The Oshawa scheme will start with a Jan. 11 meeting at Genosha Hotel when' J. L. Reid, QC, president of the St. Street, Pickering, on an road. The driver, George Herbert Roper, 79, of 76 Maple Cres- cent, Peterborough, suffered a fractured skull, broken ribs, and facial lacerations. His wife, skull, nose, and cuts. Whitby OPP Constable Kirk Dupre was the investigating of- ficer. A spokesman at Toronto Gen- eral Hospital described Mrs. Roper's condition as 'fair' and her husband's as "'a little better than her's', this morn- offs and they are sitting pat' ing. OTTAWA (CP)--Expo 67 may confer hidden benefit on every hajor port city in Can- ada--a tested program to eradi- cate air and water pollution and other serious health hazards such as rats. The costly program to pre- pare the Montreal harbor area for the world's fair, which opens April 28, already shows signs of spreading environmen- tal health benefits to surround- ing municipalities. Representatives of the entire region surorunding Montreal are to meet with provincial and federal health officials next week to discuss applying some! of the lessons learned in Mont- real harbor to their communi- ties, a federal official said Thursday. And interest in applying the| Montreal harbor environmental health program elsewhere is. be- ing shown by other Canadian port cities and the national) harbors board. | WORKED FOR MONTHS | Federal, provincial, munici-| pal and port authorities have | been working for months on a step-by-step plan to clean up Montreal harbor. One noticable SaaS Ly harbor rats, the essential hosts Expo '67 Harbor Program iran oe pemiea ante, May Assist Other Ports of flea-born bubonic and plneu- monic plague. Defence was rat-killing month on the miles of docks and ware- houses opposite the island site of Expo 67. An estimated 300,- 000 visitors will pass through the dock area daily en route to the fair. Every inch of wharf and stor- age space was surveyed and by February will have been visited by rubbish collectors and rat exterminators. The latter keep records of kills which have been in the order of 150 rats to a nest. There are thousands of rat nests. Dr. J. B. Nundock, chief of the federal health department's special projects division, ' has co-ordinated the work in the harbor and figures they'll have the rat problem licked by Feb- ruary. WILL DIVERT WASTES Work started this month on) the three-month, $400,000 pro-| ject to plug and divert a major| sewer outlet which has been dumping 9,000,000 gallons daily of polluted water into the har- Martha, 78, had a fractured] ; ch) Meals-On-Wheels Serves 15 Weekly Meals-On-Wheels, a Red Cross project in Oshawa that delivers prepared meals to those unable to make their own, now serves 5 persons weekly. "We're very satisfied with the service," said Mrs. William Baldwin, chairman of Meals- On-Wheels. She said three volunteers de- livered meals to five persons at its onset six weeks ago. Now the service extends to 15 per- sons. Mrs. Baldwin says the com- mittee is waiting for additional names of persons requiring the Red Cross service which the welfare department and board of health provide. Flowers Painted For Centennial Prints of. the official flowers of Canada's 10 provinces and two territories 'in their natural habitat" will be shown official- ly for the first time at the Simcoe Street office of the Na- tional Trust Ltd. The paintings were commissioned as a cen- tennial project. d A viewing of the reproduc- tions will be staged Jan. 11 at 4.30 p.m. for press representa- tives and then one print will be on display monthly at the office for the general public begin- ning Jan. 30. i The original centennial paint- ings, 12 inches by 36 inches, will be shown in the head office at National. Trust, Toronto. Smaller prints will be sold to school children for one half the regular price. COUNCIL OBJECTS In receipt of a letter from the CNR advising of the possibi- lity of the removal of the siding servicing Station Road, between bor right where visitors will pass. b | Highway 2 and 401, Pickering Township Council has passed Chamber Planning Survey : : : 'On Economic Opportunit Pickering Strike | PP Y Talks Winding Up Catharines Chamber of Com- merce, will review his city's the |plan. DETERMINE NEEDS "The purpose of the econom- ic opportunity program is to determine the needs in the community over the next five years," says Mr. Mann, "and the steps that should be taken to meet these needs." Invited to the Jan. 11 lunch- eon-briefing are members of the education committee and board of directors, plus others, of the Oshawa chamber. Mr. Mann said he expects the industrial commission in the survey picture and the pro- special council. He does not know what the but that St. Catharines should be able to provide a rough idea. jtions with traffic lights or |"stop" signs are the most un- Safe spots in any city --and Oshawa in no exception, judg- ing by a list of the 20 highest accident locations for 1966. |DANGEROUS SPOT | The reason: over-confidence. {People trust traffic lights too much, says Inspector Smyth. If a light is green, they relax and drive on instead of remain- ing alert and treating all lights |with caution. "We have had people killed last year because of that," he says. The most dangerous location of all --topping the list with 73 {accidents --is Oshawa Shop- jping Center. Inspector Smyth thinks this is partly because it is private property and police have no direct control. "People don't worry about |their driving, just their shop- lping. They pull up with their |mind on other things and ignore parking rules. Often people get created, along with two others|Oshawa will be entering into|knocked down coming 'out from between parked cars," explains by the- Canadian Chamber of|gram will function through a|Inspector Smyth. There has been a marked in- crease in the number of rear- made it a part of Chamber|program's cost will amount to,|end collisions. Inspector Smyth blames motorists who don't ad- who follow too closely on the tail of other vehicles. He adds: 'It seems people must cheat the speed limits at least a little. If it's 30 mph, they go at 33 --they know they won't be charged for going a couple of miles over the limit." Second highest accident loca- tion in the city was Park Road South from Bloor Street to Wentworth, roughly a half-mile stretch of straight road with four lanes. The culprits -- there were people in a hurry during rush - hours, says Inspector Smyth. 20 ACCIDENTS Similarly, the people deter- mined to get out first caused most of the 20 accidents at dan- ger spot number three, the Gen- eral Motors South Plant Park- ing Lot, he says. 'They want to get home, and they jump in their cars and drive off without taking any safety precautions. Their attitude is "to heck with the other guy," declares the in- spector. The number of charges laid for drunk or impaired driving was 156 last year, almost double the 1965 figure. This is partly because police are tightening up, partly because of the rise in population, and -partly because people are spending more on social activities ifvolving alco- just their speed in accordance with road conditions, and those hol, he thinks, The biggest single offence in 1966 was speeding, with no fewer than 7,095 people sum- monsed, a jump of about 2,000 on the previous year. "'I'd like to see stiffer penalties imposed for speeding and a heavier point assessment for offences getting more prevalent,' says the in- spector. He points out that speed is a very significant factor in per- sonal - injury accidents. The number of damage -- only acci-s dents in 1966 was 836. Giovanni laniri's barber- The sewage will be carried |a resolution strongly opposing} shop. business is making across the city and enter the St. Lawrence River well down- stream from the Expo site. | the removal of the Pickering) Station or any of the adjacent connecting sidings. good. However, every SO often comes a slack period and when there are no curls to be snipped this Italian fellow takes time out for a little fun. He's a_ terrific guitar-strummer and even leads his own group. Here. ! STRUMMING BARBER PLAYS DOWNTOWN MUSIC he's run out of customers and standing before his downtown shop practises one of the latest ballads. --Oshawa Times Photo

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