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CITY HALL ADDITION BIDS NEAR $2,500,000 ESTIMATE Construction May Start In June ' Construction of Oshawa"s new city hall complex could start the. middle of next month. W. T. Pentland, one of the architects of the project was on hand at city hall yesterday as the tender bids from various construction companies were opened and read. "T am very pleased with them," said Mr. Pentland. "They are in range of my §$2,- 500,000 estimate." If everything goes on due course, said Mr. Pentland, con- Tender bids submitted yes- terday were: --Pigott Construction Ltd. -- $2,665,857; --H M. 000; --H. J. Gascoigne Lid. -- $2,602,821; --Canadian Engineering and Contracting Co Ltd. -- $2,550,- Brooks Ltd. -- $2,662,- 000; --Ball Brothers Ltd.-- $2,474,- $2,474,900; and --Milne and Nicholls Ltd. -- $2,465,000, Mr. Pentland will now con- ted and make'his choice of firms. His choice will be sub- mitted to board of control at next Wednesday's meeting and if it meets board of control ap- proval, it will then be broyght before city council for final rat- ification. Mr. Pentland said once Coun- cil has given its approval, he will sit down with the contract- or and work out the arrange- ments to begin construction. FAVORABLE Con. Robert Nicol said yes- terday, "my reaction to the bids were within the archi- tect's estimation." Frank Markson, city treasur- er said, "they are within the ball park on the tender prices." He said the budget laid down a certain amount that could go toward the civic square com- plex and that the tender bids fall within this limit. Mayor Ernest Marks said, "'T am gratified to see the tenders came in at such a low figure and I hope they are in line for the construction of the buildings Mr. Pentland has in mind for struction should begin the sec- ond week of June. sider the various bids submit- tenders is very favorable. The us." Bell Rings To Mark The End Of School's 90-Year History . When the school bell rings at Albert Street school on June 29 and 200 children come running out singing, "no more pencils no more books, no more teach- ers' dirty looks', the 90-year- history of one of Oshawa's old- est schools will end. Albert Street school is destined to become a ware- house when the school year ends. Miss Margaret principal, explained, Patterson, "at the Sas moment it seems more feasible | to accommodate the children somewhere else rather than make the necessary repairs". Since the school is in a down- town area where industrializa- tion is occurring there will be an increasing tendency for pop- ulation in the area to decrease rather than increase. ENROLMENT Enrolment at the school is presently about 220, compared to a high of 309 in 1940. William Wendt, from 1936 to 1945, remembers as many as 55 pupils being crowded into a classroom. The school was built in 1877 as part of a four school con- struction program, The four buildings were known as "ward" schools, Each had four rooms and-similar design. They were intended to take the over- flow from Centre Street school which had sufficed alone since 1856. OLDEST UNKNOWN principal " Construction on Albert Street | and Mary Street schools start- « ed at roughtly the same time. Which was completed first, and 'thus which is the oldest is un- certain -- but one or the other is the oldest functioning school in Oshawa. From the front, the school appears much the same today as it did when built in 1877. The only major alterations in the 90 years was the addition of a second four-room unit to the back of the original four rooms in 1909. Although Albert Street school has achieved a certain fame for its old age it is more often noticed. for the number of prom- inent Oshawa citizens who have attended. RAILWAY LINE BORDERS ALBERT STREET SCHOOL PROPERTY «+. Industrialization Decreases Population In Area Searching Continues For Bodies Police say-they expect scuba divers to recover the bodies to- day of two Oshawa men believ- a fishing trip last Sunday. Hope that the two men would be found alive all but ended yesterday when divers found a sock, an outboard motor and fishing gear near Virginia Beach on Lake Simcoe. Believed dead are Cecil Pearn, 37 of 751 Ritson Rd. S., and Hugh Corin, 40, of 445 Athol St. E. Both were employed by the city in the works department, Mr. Pearn as a road foreman and Mr. Gorin as a truck dri- ver. Equipment discovered yester- day was found in a_ straight line with the canoe, paddles, cushions and a boot previously found. The line extends out a mile from Virginia Beach and police say the articles were swept out by a current. By fol- lowing the line further, police} Say they expect to find the} bodies. The two men left the city) Sunday on a one-day fishing| ed to have drowned while on|i ALL EYES ON ENVELOPES .CONTAINING BIDS FOR CITY HALL WORK . +. Architect W. T. Pentland, Ma yor Marks, City Clerk Roy Barrand The Oshawa Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1967 Regional Government trip. They told no one of their | destination. | Weather officials reported up to 30 m.hip. winds on Lake Simcoe last Sunday, making canoeing dangerous. UAW Elects Negotiators Canadian UAW director, George Burt will be in Oshawa Monday to meet with the new- ly elected council of negotiat- ing committees. One city resident says he will poison cats that come on to his property if the city doesn't do anything about them. "TI don't want to do it," says Herman Goldstein, 485 Sim- coe St. N., "but the problem has reached the point where it is so funny it is pathetic. "I washed my car one night and there were cat's paws all Delegates Friday re-elected G. Lambert of St. Catharine's Loc- al 199 as chairman of the com- mittee. Mr, Lambert has held the position since 1953 and is also chairman of his own local bargaining committee. Ron (Sparky) Adair of Local over it the next morning -- they jump onto the window sills and scare my wife all of the time," he said. "If it just happened once or twice -- okay, but all of the time, no. The ridiculous part of it is that the owners of the cats are not respon- sible for any damage that the cats may cause. "T checked with the city dog pound and officials told me they do not look after cats. I checked with the city and there is no bylaw about cats. I even checked with the mayor and he expressed sur- prise that nothing could be done, "The mayor told me to write a letter to city council and I plan on doing just that --if I don't get any satisfac- tion from them, I'm going cat hunting," said Mr. Goldstein. BROOKLIN (Staff) -- Former Whitby Township Reeve John Goodwin last night criticized the town and township of Whitby for failing to examine alternatives to amalgamation. Speaking at an amalgamation information meeting in the Brooklin Community Hall (less than 50 people attended) Mr. Goodwin proposed regional gov- ernment and said it had all the advantages and none of the dis- 199 was elected secretary-treas- urer and the'new committee is meeting in Oshawa this weekend to discuss upcoming negotia- tions. The committee represents the ' 25,000 Canadian G.M. workers in Canada in contract negotia- tions and will chose the nego- tiating teams from the seven GM locals. One member will be chosen from each local along with the local chairman on the bargaining committee. Mr. Burt said today his pri- «|mary aim in coming to Oshawa y was to meet with GM manage-|Creamer, past president. ment regarding the transfer of i |some female employees at the Oshawa plant to the Windsor eiGM plant. ENROLMENT DOWN TO 220 FROM A HIGH OF 300 As Many As 55 Pupils Once Crowded Classroom Among the first students was Col. R. S. McLaughlin. Others have been John Naylor, former Oshawa mayor, Fire Chief Ray Hobbs, Clifford Pilkey, presi- dent of 'the Oshawa and Dis- trict Labor Council, Albert Tay- lor, president of Local 222, UAW, Con. Margaret Shaw, Albert Walker, MPP, Oshawa riding and S. G. Saywell, board of education trustee. SENTIMENTAL Mrs. Agnes Boyd is one of many who has a strong senti-| mental attachment to the! school. The reason is obvious. She startéd at the school in 1940, her mother attended in 1908 and her children have been attending since 1961. When the school closes the students will be distributed be- tween Ritson, Centre and Sim- coe schools. A reunion of past students and teachers is planned for June 17. PENSION BOOSTED NEW YORK (AP) -- Club owners in the National Football League increased their contri- butions Friday to the players' pension fund to $1,200,000 for the next three years. Of the new amount, up from $1,000,000 during the last few years, $900,- 000 will go directly into the pension fund and $300,000 will be used to purchase life and health insurance. Catto Will Speak To End War Group Rev. Charles Catto of Hamp- ton will be the speaker Sunday at a meeting of the Oshawa Committee to End War in Viet Nam at St. Andrews Church, Simcoe Street South starting at 2:30 p.m. Douglas Wilson, committee chairman, says plans are bein, made to have Rabbi Abraham Feinberg of Toronto speak to the committee this summer. FOLK FESTIVAL The Oshawa Folk Festival Committee has called a public meeting for May 31, 7.30 p.m, at Simcoe Hall, 387 Simcoe St. §. Reports from all committees and sub - committees will be presented. Local citizens ar- invited to attend. The meeting will cover all events planned for the week of June 25. to July 1; borne St. E., is the new presi- dent of the Oshawa and District Council of Home and School As- sociations. nounced this week by Mrs. Carl Roe, four vice - presidents, Mrs. Mrs. Richard Donald, 454 Col- The new executive was an- They include Mrs. Norman executive vice-president; Archie Campbell, Mrs. Thomas Davidson, Mrs. Walter Kuch and Mrs. Fred Smith. Mrs. Elton Stephenson will be recording secretary with Mrs. Roy Phayre as corresponding secretary. Mrs. Charles Hazzard will be treasurer. The new officers begin their term July 1. In stepping down from the presidency after two years Mrs. Creamer said, in her annual re- port, "I am especially con- scious of the associations which, despite vigorous efforts, have failed to re-vitalize; also I ques- tion whether or not more leader- ship training for association people should have been offered by our council, and whether or not we have been successful in NO INSPECTION A house at 213 Verbena Court in the Beau Valley subdivision is not open for public inspec- inn as stated in a story in the home building section of Fri- day's Oshawa Times. The house EMMIGRANT TRAIN HIT FROM BEHIND 1867 Railway Crash In Whitby Killed Five the semaphore on May 24, 1867 A railway collision in Whitby és 5 'ight ecause he saw a green light. in 1867 killed five people includ- Times. were found on the "The other two bodies other side attending The porter's duties by day of signals were the REPORTED IN is now occupied. THE VINDICATOR New Executive Announced For Home, School Council giving our associations what they really needed. "On the other hand I am en- couraged by the groups who have re-vitalized, by those who have increased their member- ship substantially, and by the many vgeports of interesting, well-planned programs that. are being offered." advantages of amalgamation. "It is possible that Oshawa might favor coming into a smaller county system,' said Mr. Goodwin, adding that the consultants hired by the town and township had not even been asked to study the regional government possibility. 'You've been aiming only at amalgama- tion," he said. Township Deputy Reeve Gor- don Hanna answered saying a regional. government study would take two or three years followed by the large problem of implementation. "How do you overcome the obstacles? The county would never support the loss of its industrial waterfront and Oshawa would not come into the present county system," he said. Planning consultant Dr. E. G. Faludi said Municipal Affairs Obstacles Mentioned CITY RESIDENT THREATENS POISON TRESPASSING CATS Town, Township Rapped Not Studying Alternative been prepared to instigate a regional government study if all the municipalities joined in re- questing the study. He said all the municipalities were not pre- pared to consider the study and that regional government had not yet proven itself. WARD SYSTEM The Township ratepayers were told that the four ward system with two councillors each would last for three years when a plebiscite is proposed to see if the system should be con- tinued. Whitby Mayor Desmond New- man said the rural ratepayeg north of Taunton Road in ward four would have a more than equal representation on counci] with 1,889 voters compared with 2,500 voters in the west ward, 3,400 in the centre and 2,800 in the east ward. "All the reports and work to- wards this step have been done in good faith and we have taken what we believe is a reasonable solution,"' said Mayor Newman, When asked if there would be any vote and when amalgama- tion would be a fact, Deputy Reeve Hanna said the vote question would be up to the On- tario Municiap! Board at its hearing on July 10. Jan. 1, 1968 Minister Wilfred Spooner had is the proposed date of amalga- mation. : station light I saw was not on the station door but on the train ing one 12-month-old infant and injured six others. About 200. emigrants bound for the western states of the U.S.A. were on board the Mer- chants' Express Freight train when, 'stationed in Whitby to load wood onto the cars and to drop off cargo, it was struck from behind by a special freight train. "The bodies of a man and a woman were found in one olace with the child on top of them," says the Oshawa Vindicator, predecessor of the Oshawa of the car." An inquest revealed the cause of the accident -- failure to switch on the red'light of the semaphore when the first train arrived in the Whitby station. INVESTIGATION Investigation showed a sta- tion porter was temporarily re- placing a suspended switch- man. He said he did not know the special train was expected in the station. He said he thought the emigrant train would be the last one to come into Whitby that gag same as the night chores. When a train passed, it was his duty to hoist the semaphore as soon as the train had passed. "He could have easily seen from the white light on the emigrant train that another was following,"- said The Vin- dicator. "He neglected to turn on the signal and the specitl train, seeing nothing to prevent it, came on." BLEW WHISTLE The engine driver of the spe- eial i train, said his train passed . "T blew the usual long whistle which is blown on approaching stations," he said, "The whistle on the train is a good one." He said the train was travel- ling at about six miles per hour as it came into the station in Whitby -- the usual speed when approaching a station. "T did not intend to stop at the Whitby station but could have easily even without brakes if the semaphore had shown a red light," said the driver. 'I was pretty close to the express train when I realized the red ahead of me." He said he applied his brakes and reversed the engine but col- lided with the emigrant train despite his efforts. The rails were wet, lessening the effectiveness of the brakes. The driver said he was sure he could have stopped the train before reaching the other if the rails had been dry The porter was arrested by officials of the Grand Trunk Railways, for neglecting to switch on the red light of the semaphore, Alexander Moulton (right) illustrates the fundamentals of his hydrolastic suspen- sion system for Brian E. James, vice-president, mar- pketing, Dunlop Canada Lim- } SUSPENSION SYSTEM DESCRIBED ited. Mr. Moulton, inventor of the hydrolastic suspen- sion as used on cars made by the British Motor Cor- poration, addressed the On- tario Society yg Engineers at the Hotel Gen- osha last night. He -is an dependent consultant to the Dunlop Company and he is also consultant to the British Motor Corporation. --Oshawa Times Phota