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Oshawa Times (1958-), 16 May 1967, p. 9

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walking Rusty nally to get at homer capped a in the ninth for have won seven eight starts. Wil- three singles in is homer for a its in his last 10 extended its win- . four games as pris ignited two ing rallies with okie Tony Pierce | relief over the nings, preserving yon) Odom's first a bird has great- motion than that the tiny neck of a are 14 verte- swan's 2°, while giraffe has only ais gS i, aT: HUNDREDS WATCH AS METAL STORAGE BUILDING GUTTED BY FIRE .»» Warehouse Located Near King, Wilson Corner Woods First Inspector For Secondary Schools The appointment of A. B. Woods as Oshawa's first secon- dary school inspector was an- nounced last night at a meeting of the board of education. Since moving to Oshawa nine years ago he has been vice- principal and then, for the last five years, principal at Donevan Collegiate. He will assume his' new posi- tion Aug. 1. SPECIAL SCHOOL The first two staff appoint- ments to the new special voca- tion! school scheduled to be built on Gibb Street by September 1968 were also announced. Casey K. Piekary will become principal on Sept. 1 of this year. He will move from Danforth Technical school in Toronto school to become technical director of the new Oshawa school. He is a -specialist in machine shop practice and gui- dance. Mr. London will start in Sep- tember and will divide his time in the first year between work at Eastdale Collegiate and selecting and ordering equip- ment for the new school. PUBLIC SCHOOLS Other appointments announced were: Gordon MacLean to become vice-principal at Dr. C. F. Can- non public school. He moves from E. A. Lovell school. Mrs. Carol Atkinson moves from Woodcrest to become as- sistant supervisor Of special where he has headed the music department as well as being a mathematician. Mr. Piekary will spend his first year organizing the courses which will be available in over 20 occupational fields. Bernard London will also duration Mrs. Margaret Patterson will move from Albert Street school to take the same position as principal at' Queen Elizabeth public school. ~ Bruce Church has been ap- pointed principal of Lake Vista move from Danforth Technical Trustee Objects To Fee Driver Training Course Trustee J..C. Larmond ob- jected last night, at a board of education meeting to students having to pay fees for driver training courses. i He said the fees were fairly high and it seemed unfair that only the ones who could afford them could take advantage of the course. The ones who can't afford it are being penalized, he said. Trustee T. D. Thomas noted that "there is a degree of dis- crimination'. He pointed out that the families of stucents who couldn't afford the course were helping to subsidize the course (through their taxes) for more wealthy students. Trustee R. H. Stroud argued that students appreciated the course more if they paid for it. He said there were 50 per cent fewer accidents and 85 per cent less traffic convictions among students who took the course. Students got 10 per cent off on their insurance which, if they Grandview School Space Will Double A contract for a $200,000 addi- tion to Grandview public school has been awarded to Goulding Oshawa. Brothers Construction Limited, The announcement was made last night at a meeting of the board of education. The nine-room addition will double the size of the school and make room for another 250 chil- dren in the fall, A new library will be® added which. will make Grandview the only _ public senior public school. own their own car, is enough to pay for the course, he said. Total expenses for the three courses offered' last year was $4,000. The board of education had budgeted $7,000. Trustee S. G. Saywell said he had heard reports that the On-) tario Department of Transport was discussing offering sub- sidies for the driver training course. The report on last year's courses was approved with the understanding that a commit- tee would be set up to study next year's program. Swim Class Idea 'Sunk' Children in city public scho- ols will not receive swimming lessons next year. That is the decision arrived at last night at a regular meet- ing of the board of .education. The decision was based on the recommendations of a commit- tee headed by trustee F. R. Britten. Mrs. Britten reported that only one pool was available and it could be used only four days a week from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. ' This would mean that in one grade with 40 classes each child would receive one hour of swim- ming instruction each two and one - half months. According to Mr. Britten experts said the this would be virtually useless. ost, although not the decid- ing factor, would have come to school with a full sized library. over $1,100 per grade. counsel for Elizabeth Pidgeon, Elizabeth Pidgeon) lived with rangement following the death of her husband. the '"'fantastic sum of $596'. students will walk from Ajax to the Oshawa Shopping Centre to- morrow in order to raise money for the Retarded Children's As- sociation. nessmen and citizens, $1 will be donated towards the fund for every student who finishes the walk. at 4 p.m. and buses will trans- port them home from the shop- ping centre. ARTHUR WOODS Donevan Principal Hospital Expansion Outlined An outline of the plans being studied by the board for the ex- pansion of the Oshawa General Hospital was given members of the Rotary Club of Oshawa, at their Monday meeting, by Wil- liam A. Holland, hospital admin- Four Major City Fires Battled In Three Days She Oshawa Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1967 A freshman alderman last night criticized a city hall ad- visory committee on the pro- posed Centennial Parkway for reporting back to city council 3 |week after week empty-handed. Ald. Ernest Whiting said the committee's job was to decide one way or the other on the ma (proposed creek valley express- way. -- but keeps bringing new information to council. He told councillors they "came in on an anti-express- way vote" in the city's munici- pal election last Dec. 5. "'Some darn good men went down to defeat because they took a stand on this expressway." He said election candidates who backed the parkway were defeated and those who won at the polls campaigned against it. The aldérman made his re- marks after Ald. Gordon Atters- ley asked committee chairman, Ald. James Rundle, 'are we getting close to the point where we'll get a report?" RECREATION Ald. Rundle replied by press- ing for a go-ahead from council istrator. Plans, he said, call for greater expansion of the emergency and admitting departments than was first contemplated. In addition, plans for a new x-ray depart- ment, enlarged laboratory facili- ties, a small psychiatric unit, a new pedaetric department, a new intensive care department, new coronary department, operating rooms and more bed accommodation are under study. Mr. Holland said under new legislation the provincial govern- ment will make grants up to two-thirds of the cost of con- struction, which leaves one-third. Court Orders s (Loans Repaid WHITBY (Staff) -- After her husband died in 1965, Mrs. Eli- zabeth Pidgeon, 1294 Minden St., Oshawa, loaned her father - in- law and his wife $550 over a four month period. It was never repaid, but in Ontario County Court, Monday, Judge Alan M. Campbell ruled that the money she advance® to her relatives were in fact loans and must be repaid. Joseph C. Victor of Oshawa pointed out the conflicting evi- dence of the senior Pidgeon fa- mily, now living in Niagara Falls, the various in their testi- mony and summed up by saying that their statement of accounts was "puffed up'. Judge Alan M. Campbell con- curred with his summation. "T find', said Judge Camp- bell, 'that the plaintiff (Mrs. her children at the home of her father-in-law, under a causal ar- "IT can see no reason", said the Judge, "why a grandfather should charge room and board for his. grandchildren to reach 200 Will March Ajax To Oshawa About 200 Ajax high school Sponsored by teachers, busi- The walkers will leave Ajax raise. However, during the past two and a half years construc- t on a proposed meeting between the advisory committee, city council. members and a con- sulting firm that has done a study on how recreational de- velopment could affect Oshawa Creek Valley. Before the motion (carried 8 to 5) to request Michael Pro- chaska of Project Planning As- sociates Ltd. to appear before the special meeting, Ald. Rundle mentioned a committee decision that may result in a new expressway study. The decision, last Wednesday, was that commissioner of works inary indivi i térms of reference to allow the for individual hospital boards to comnittes t Aetermind Wieth. er it should do another study/culous to pass over Oshawa stu- red Crome draft | parative for council to look at. If the committee decides to recommend a re-study to coun- cil, it would be for the Warne Creek area. Council did not adopt Ald. Rundle's motion for the spe- cial committee - council meet- ing to hear Mr. Prochaska until after more debate. Ald. John DeHart, an advis- ory committee member him- self, questioned the sense of bringing "more people down" to a meeting "when we don't know where we are going". IMPLEMENT REPORT The 60-page Creek Valley re- port from Project Planning As- sociates has been before the city hall planning board, Ald. Gilbert Murdoch noted. In fact, the board has recommended that part of the report be im- plemented and it now is before Central Lake Ontario Conserva- Council Con. Margaret Shaw's "em- ploy Oshawa" sympathizers squeaked out a narrow victory at city council last night. Council was faced with ap- proving a recommendation by board of control that the city students. situation in Oshawa it was ridi: ion costs have almost doubled|a@nd that the creek valley bejdents for out-of-city students. from $20 per square foot. This means, he said, the facili- ties needed by the local hospital to meet the demands being made by the public will cost ap- proximately $11,000,000. This means that about $4,000,000 will have to be raised by public subscription. The last two wings constructed by the hospital cost approximately $2,500,000 each. 14th LARGEST The speaker explained the Oshawa hospital now has 540 beds and is the 14th largest in the province. The hospital, he said, is trying to provide top service and facilities for patients and medical staff; but the hospital is severely hamper- ed by lack of space in its service departments. The volume of diagnostic work had also great- ly increased. Walk Request To Be Studied The construction of a side- walk, considered unnecessary recently by city council, was re- opened for consideration at last night's council meeting. Council heard a delegation re- questing a sidewalk be built on Regent Drive to increase the safety factor for children attend- ing various schools in the area. Ald. Bruce Mackey, chairman of the public works committee, said last night the city did not approve the original request by the citizens for a sidewalk be- cause of a counter petition filed by residents on Regent Street who did not want to see a side- walk constructed close to their property. He also said that a traffic count was taken in this area at the time of the original request and it wes not con- sidered heavy enough to war- rant the construction of the side- walk. Council referred the request to Albert Street area have peti- eliminated in this consideration. Ald. Norman Down register- ed surprise. '"This- -re-study muar mean something. I thought the issue was, 'do we have the Centennial Parkway/the hiring, said, in the old route, or not?' I don't|can we get. We hire students want to be 100 years old when/one day and fire them the next. we find out." But Ald. Rundle explained the committee thinks the re-study)year if you want to employ might provide something com-!Oshawa students." Fence Around Junkyard Requested By Residents About 100 residents in the tioned city council to have a high wooden fence erected around a junkyard that has be- come a_ ihazard-heavy play- ground for children -- and an eyesore, The petition, submitted to council last night, says children are "playing among the wrecks and if they ever fell on one of these smashed cars they could 'be seriously injured". Ald. Gordon Attersley sug- gested an obsolete city junkyard bylaw should be revised. The junkyard is on Wilkinson Ave- nue and is reported to be en- closed by a four-foot-high wire fence. Con. Margaret Shaw said the junkyard problem was a proj- ect of hers a few months ago when she brought it to the at- tention of Mayor Ernest Marks. thought it might come under the junkyard bylaw." She says more than 100 cars are in the scrapyard and Con. Robert Nicol said the yard is a ditching place for stolen, aban- doned or wrecked vehicles that city police come by. "People won't pick them up," said Con. Nicol. "No wonder," said Controller Shaw. "There are some that have no motors, no wheels, no the committee for further study. She said she had a list of 16 Oshawa students who applied at the city hall for summer work and were turned down. Con. Ralph Jones supporting "how small These people have already been hired -- wait until next year Council referred the matter to the social services commit- tee for study. Vouchers Sent For Medicine Whitby Twonship welfare de- partment delivered medicine bouchers to the home of Mirs. Virginia Graham, on Highway 2, just outside Oshawa, yester- day afternoon. Neighbor Richard Scott and his siter are presently looking after Mrs. Graham's four children, who needed medicine while she is in hospital, recov- ering from an ulcer attack Sun- day. She was rushed to Osh- awa General Hospital by Whit- by detachment of the OPP. "Everything seems to be go- ing fairly well now,' said Mr. Scott. "The children are begin- ning to pick up." "There is a shortage of food but I think we will be able to manage the problem," he said. Mrs. Graham was moved to her present address by the Met- ro Toronto welfare department. She discovered that her Toron- to medicine voucher was not redeemable in Oshawa. For five days, her three sick children steering wheels." had to go without medicine. BIDS MAY BE WITHDRAWN Coniractors Protest Employment Clause W. T. Pentland, one of the architects for Oshawa's square complex told city council last night contractors may draw their bids for the project because of a restrictive city em- ployment clause. Article 47: Oshawa Residents, states contractors must hire people who are residents of Oshawa and have lived in the city for at least lar contracts prefering the use 12 months. It also gives the of home labor, but they don't city's personnel officer the right go as far as giving the personnel Employment civic the contractor regardin, ing of workers. with- Mr. Pentland of be able to use their and advisory personnel employed through the of that to obtain any information from Baker and Polson, said because of the clause "contractors are concerned that they might not He said other cities have simi- g the hir- PROTEST Pentland, executive who they years."' anticipated. the past, "when officer a definite yes or no in the hiring of workers. He said one cofitract firm has already filed a protest with On- tario General Contractors Asso- ciation and an official objection from the association could be Daniel Fleming, of the city's personnel department, said in down with the personnel officer people in a supervisory capacity are usually town when Mr. Pentla contractors sit may receivé clause."' He said problems arise when contractors hire people such as bricklayers from out of could satisfactorily be employed. contractors feel the clause puts the city's personnel officer° in the role of sole arbitrator in the hiring of workers. He said his personal fear was that the city square complex FOR CITY HALL ADDITION exempt from the _ for the Oshawa _ workers ings. nd said some of the only one of two arise, bids from contractors and as a result the cit with paying an unrealistic price Council Mr. Fleming write a letter stat- ing city policy in the past on such matters, including the ex- emption of supervisory person- nel from the clause, so that it could be presented to the con- tractors' association if questions may be faced construction of the build- recommended that with the present unemployment Alderman Criticizes Parkway Committee tion Authority for further con- sideration. Con. Ralph. Jones. said the idea of the meting, tentative ly set for May 31, is to see how parks and the roadway "would look side by side". But Con. Shaw said, "I be- lieve we've done everything. It's going to cost $12,000 for a plebiscite. It's going to be cheaper that way." Ald. Rundle told council it would cost $80 to bring Mr. Prochaska before the special gathering, The price does not include mileage. Ald. Bruce Mackey said the committee feels the landscape architect could throw light on the recre- ational impact on the Creek Valley. Acting Mayor, Con. Frank McCallum said, "we should at least give people a chance to hear Prochaska'. Favors Hiring In City In voting on the question council tied 10-10. This auto- matically means the board of control recommendation was rejected and the matter held in abeyance. The board will hire five students for summer'| meet again and present to coun- work, four of whom live outside|ci] the names of other students the city. Letters of acceptance] recommended by the city's per- had already been sent to the|sonnel officer. Council paar cogs board Con. Shaw, who recently has|of control consider paying one 0 objected strongly to the hiring|month's salary to those stu-|Who faced judgment before Mag- of 'out of town; students, saidjdents dismissed last night. A metal storage building was last three days to four. The double fire brought men city stations into action. The call to the Mackie Van and Storage warehouse near the corner of King Street East and Wilson Road was put in at 7:24 p.m. but before the building, valued at $5,000, was destroyed a second fire was reported at 439 Howard St. The house fire was reported at 8:15 p.m. with one of the trucks from the storage fire used to fight it. However, another truck had to be called away from the first fire to fight the second before Hoey were brought under con- rol. SCHOOL BLAZE King Street public school was the first of the Oshawa fires late Saturday morning but it was quickly followed by ancther fire that night when a General Printers vacant supply store caught fire and received $100 damage. Damage to the school was estimated at $10,000. During the weekend rush an- other fire added to the confusion gutted and a house destroyed last night bringing the number of major fires in Oshawa in the and equipment from all three Storage Building, House, Additions To Damage List it was only a small house re. Value of the house on Howard Street, owned by George Mol- nar, 471 Ritson Rd. S.,; was set at between $3,700 and $4,000 by Fire Chief Ray Hobbs. A fire department spokesman would not attribute the fire to arson but neither did he rule it out, saying, 'We have to check all possibilities." An official from the Fire Mar- shall's office was scheduled to- day to start investigating the school blaze. When asked if he would at. tribute the fires to firecrackers the spokesman replied, "not necessarily" but went on to say "that's one of the things you consider . . . we are checking into every possibility. All of the recent fires are now under investigation." The Mackie Van and Storage Company would not release any information pertaining to Mon- day's fire. Wind presented another prob- lem in the storage building blaze as firemen had to protect neigh- borhing houses from heat and Sparks. It was the truck protect- ing these surrounding houses that had to be called to the Howard Street fire. The union leader who set the stage for a labor dispute here earlier this year said today his junion may seek an appeal on the convictions of four trade union- ists in Oshawa Magistrate's court yesterday. Albert Taylor, president of Local 222, United Auto Workers Union, said in an interview the on the matter." istrate-_Donald. B. Dodds, Buttars Nam 43rd President police and two pleaded no guilty to individual charges of. assaulting obstructing and police. All had answered a_ general call by Mr. Taylor to augment Of the four union members two pleaded guilty to obstructing UAW Considers Appeal, Four Court Convictions the clashing between police and picketers. The union also used the pro- test as an attempt to block a company bid to get non-union workers into the firm under police escort. Mr. Taylor says if the union does not go ahead with an peal it will foot the $800 cost of Detroit - based international|fines imposed yesterday. The parent body of the union will|magistrate levied fines of $200 consult "with higher legal coun-|on each unionist and an alterna- sel in Toronto with a view in|tive of 40 days in jail (each) if mind to getting a further opinion|fines are not paid within 30 days. Robinette Retained The city will hire Toronte lawyer J. J. Robinette to rep- t Bay of Quinte Conference of|the picket line in front of strike-|resent Oshawa in amalgama- today appointed Rev. B. M. J. Buttars of Pickering as its 43rd president. Mr. Buttars was the unani- mous choice of the 300 dele- gates meeting at Kingston. In his acceptance speech, Mr. Buttars said he considered the appointment as an honor con- ferred on the ministers who never make the headlines .. . "the ministers in the multiple charge of the rural pastorals". Welding Co. Ltd. between Feb. 27 and March 1. Three assault charges against Inspector Ernest Barker were dismissed as were three other charges of obstructing police, laid against unionists. The company pad been on strike since Sept. 7 and was not bargaining in good faith, accord- ing to Mr. Taylor, whose call for added demonstrations at the Albert Street plant resulted in the United Church of Canada,|bound Oshawa Engineering and|tion dealings of Whitby and Whitby Township that may af- fect the city. Council gave third reading to a bylaw last night that will re- sult in Mr. Robinette receiving a $1,000 retainer. Council is awaiting a report from a Toronto firm of consul- tants, Proctor, Redfern, Bous- field and Bacon, which could indicate that the city may have an interest in the corridor area between Whitby and Oshawa. 38 aie BOR Be : sake HOME SALE City Con. Ralph Jones and Retarded Children's Asso- ciation President Donald Sweet turned the first sod yesterday as Oshawa and District Building -Associa- estan tion President Cal Potter PROCEEDS i> 0 shows a drawing of the as- sociation's centennial model home. All material for the home was donated, includ- ing the building permit from the city. It is expected to be completed in August and will be open to the pub- AID RETARDED CHILDREN lic for four to six weeks, When the model home is sold, profits will be donated to the Retarded Children's Association. The home will be located at King and Mel- rose Streets. --Oshawa Times Photo

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